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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

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(rough drawn first, because drawing on webpages is hard... )

Anyway I just like to draw a wedding duo image!! This was for the AoAke event :)

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hope is a skill

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One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it's the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.

For context here is a picture

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"we need less sanitized queer stories" yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories

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queerbaiting is whenever a character textually expresses and acts upon queer desire but at no point do they turn to camera and say 'by the way, this is the 21st century-legible label i identify as'

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I need to be taken to the seaside for hysteria

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An important further distinction too is that there are two forms of cultivation at work in the MDZS setting - the cultivation of the self and the cultivation through the other. Both require energy, but in practice they are two different things.

Both sword and music cultivation are two forms of the former, combined with meditation, you cultivate your spirit and your power inward into a golden core that you continue to grow with discipline for the rest of your life. There are other forms of cultivation that utilize a different method, TGCF contains one based on chastity as the form that cultivation and a golden core can be built on, and MisVII has multiple forms of cultivation contained within it, as well as the eternal joke about dual cultivation through sex, but all of these are a form of cultivating through the self.

Guidao on the other hand is cultivating through the other, the outside. It specifically relies on working with an outside force of energy, something that Wei Wuxian does not produce himself and must obtain from an alternate source, and using the self as the conduit for the energy instead of the other way around. We see within the story both the benefits of such a form of cultivation - in that Wei Wuxian as long as he has an outside source to draw from, he can keep going long past the point that most other cultivators would have exhausted themselves - and the drawbacks, such as when Jin Zixun cleared out every corpse and possible source of resentful energy from Qiongqi Path before confronting him, leaving Wei Wuxian with very few tools left and, if he hadn’t brought Wen Ning, utterly defenseless. He can’t cultivate without an outside source.

I do think there’s some interesting overlap between the Lan philosophy of handling gui and Wei Wuxian’s guidao, but that mostly boils down to the Lan is the one clan we know that states they aim for the health of the ghost as well. Where they can, they are seeking to try and remove the resentful energy from the world instead of letting it stagnate. Wei Wuxian simply takes it to a much greater level than they do, partially out of being more willing to transgress against orthodoxy and partially out of having a much greater understanding of resentment and resentful energy as a whole.

They compliment each other well, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are a force to be reckoned with, but they are not the same at all.

Is it just me, or does the Lan Clan also practice a form of ghost cultivation?

Evocation summons spirits.

Inquiry, when practiced by someone of sufficient skill, can both force ghosts to answer and force them to be honest.

Rest pacifies resentful energy.

This all really seems like ghost cultivation to me, just with a spiritual buffer and without the “stirring up resentment” part needed for getting fierce corpses to fight on your behalf.

It’s not terribly surprising cultivation genius Wei Wuxian figured out how to manipulate ghosts and resentment directly via music after leaning from the Lan... or that after his return he can just play things like Rest and Evocation alongside Lan Wangji and get results.

What the Lan do is not ghost cultivation because they are not cultivating with ghosts. They are merely interacting with them. The Nie cultivate with the resentment of dead animals. Wei Wuxian cultivates with the resentment from the spirits of dead people. The Lan cultivate with music.

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I love love love the moment in Gideon the Ninth where the Third challenges the Sixth in a clearly unfair move, and Gideon, half-on-instinct, still faking a vow of silence, simply unsheathes her sword, at which Harrow doesn't miss a beat and says her "The Ninth House will represent the Sixth House" line, while Gideon just smiles.

In Gideon's head this is "I am not standing for this shit anymore. For the love of God, Harrow, please understand what I'm doing and back me up here. Oh thank fuck you've got it. I'm so happy I could kiss you."

In Harrow's head this appears to be "For fuck's sakes, Nav, what do you think you're doing. Ok, think. Can't give anything away. Have to project unity, but fuck you, Griddle, for making me do this."

But for everyone else this is the legendary, mysterious, terrifying, bone magicians of the Ninth House, with no warning, stepping between the Sixth and the Third. The skull-faced cavalier who hasn't said a single word simply drawing her sword. The shockingly powerful and inscrutable necromancer matter-of-factly declaring an alliance that no-one, even the supposed allies, knew about. The sinister smirk on the cavalier's face. And the line from Harrowhark: "Death first to vultures and scavengers."

I love it so much and I love additionally the moment that this sets up in the climax, which is essentially the same emotional beat, the key changes being 1) both Harrow and Gideon have become open and vocal with each other; 2) both Harrow and Gideon are working together consciously as well as instinctively; 3) their opponents don't back down so they follow through. "Nav, show them what the Ninth House does." "We do bones, motherfucker."

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Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

FT my cat. His name is Mischief

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this is a genesis slander post

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if I say "I have to Austin Powers my car out of a parking space," do you understand what i mean

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POV you disturb the god of death chaos while he’s reading his stories. 🫠

I think he’d get around Loveless.

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I think the long hair tucked behind the ears with a bit of undercut (i think?) is such a good look 🤭🤭🤭🤭

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I want emo versions of idioms

Like, instead of ““you’re barking up the wrong tree” it’s “you’re panicking at the wrong disco”

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i need a face to trust to feel to lust