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Jayce: I have a new science headcannon!

Viktor: Can't you just say hypothesis like a normal person?

Jayce:

Jayce: So anyways, my science headcannon is...

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Jinx: Vi's my sister, not yours. You will never be her sister!

Caitlyn: ...

Caitlyn: You have severely misread the situation.

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working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay........ being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS.... sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine

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Lan Wangji moodboard | For Anon

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one of my fave Jingyi moments from the novel that didn’t make it into the live-action.

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Question about the untamed. I wanted to watch the show to read your fic, because I feel like I am missing something great by not reading it. So do I have to watch it? Also is it queerbaiting or is it really gay?

Ah...I try not to infodump with my stories, but I also try to give a good bit of information about the characters. With MDZS/The Untamed, there’s a lot of wikis out there that I think you can find out what you need to fill in the blanks.

Generally speaking, Wei Wuxian/Wei Ying was orphaned at a young age and taken in by someone who seemed to have a crush on his mother and was close friends/the clan lord to his father, and whose wife doesn’t like him (the whole ‘my husband liked his mother’ thing). He got along well with his foster siblings, though there was a bit of competition with his younger brother (mostly because of his foster parents). He’s brilliant at basically anything he puts his mind to, self-sacrificing, a huge flirt (but doesn’t see it through), can be brash and arrogant at times (see brilliant), and is a huge believer in justice (which gets him into huge trouble, along w/ the self-sacrificing part).

The other main character is Lan Wangji/Lan Zhan (the courtesy names and nicknames can make things confusing), who is quiet and stoic and on the surface seems Wei Ying’s opposite (other than also being intelligent and very good at almost everything). He lost his mother at a young age and his father was non-existent in his life, leaving him to be raised by a strict uncle and an older brother who adores him. He doesn’t speak or show much emotion (the Lans are WAY into self-restraint), but it’s there. Oh is it there.

I’ll leave it at that due to spoilers.

I know some people complain that the Untamed did away with MDZS’s gay storyline (you can find the novel’s translations online here, they did a great job translating it), but the show aired in China, which does have very strict censorship. They did what they could to keep the relationship intact, and while it’s not explicit, it’s definitely there in a ‘read between the lines’ way and with certain allusions (the chickens!, soulmates!, the ribbon) and the fact that they don’t give the two main characters hetero relationships.

This may have been a bit rambling, but considering how many people get sucked into this fandom, I think it may be worth your time to read the novel (or manga) or watch the show (just... ignore the terrible special effects, in the first couple episodes) or the even the anime. There’s also a ton of great fics out there.

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“Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. 

This is not news to you. But from now until May you are still Neil Josten and I am still the man who said he would keep you alive.”

this scene really stuck with me, and it’s probably been done by everyone by now, but i just had to draw my own rendition

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Netflix: Repeat after me, Shadow

The fandom: shadow

Netflix: and

The fandom: and

Netflix: bone

The fandom: bone

Netflix: Shadow and bone!

The fandom: Six of crows!

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Ne, Ne, by 追川うそ

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رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ

"My God, I am truly in great need of any good that You might send down to me." {Quran - 28:24}

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I call this compilation: everytime Neil’s brain stopped working just a little because of Andrew (this is mostly from TKM, and incomplete!) part 1

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[hands you these] part 68

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So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.

Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.

“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”

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notice how “girls mature faster” is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.

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Someone: hey, is something on your mind?

Me:

y'all just ain't ready for the scary shit I'm thinkin