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This is utterly random, but you know what is something I really appreciate about the way LWJ relates to the trope of the Cold Love Interest?

So much of the way Cold Love Interests work in most love stories when they are paired with an Outgoing Protagonist is that the protagonist is obviously in love with the love interest, but the love interest is (whether or not he’s in love too) very rude and impatient towards the protagonist, usually by ignoring them. Which I get from a writing standpoint - it very neatly makes the protagonist have A Clearly Defined Goal to work towards (ie Being Liked) while the love interest can be the antagonist (ie get in the way of the Goal)

But this is so not what happens in CQL, and even less so in the novel. LWJ is the one Pining, and WWX is the one persistently friendzoning him (when he doesn’t do worse than that), and the main way LWJ shows his love is by being as patient as he can possibly be, and paying so much attention to WWX it honestly gives me second-hand embarrassment

On surface it looks like you should be able to predict what will happen to their arcs - of course outgoing WWX will spend the rest of the story begging cold LWJ to look at him, but actually it’s the exact opposite, and the whole ignorer-ignored dynamic is complicated by the fact LWJ has no idea how to ask for attention, while WWX assumes any attention he’s given is because he makes himself impossible to ignore rather than because LWJ is clearly into him.

I’m not going anywhere with this, I just find it pretty interesting how LWJ looks like he should be boringly predictable, but he’s actually doing the opposite of what his trope dictates almost from the instant we meet him (again, especially in the novel)

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it's rotten work. especially to me especially if it's you. I'll fucking do it but christ alive.

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its like the two least healthy people you know decide to start dating and you know they're both gonna end up in jail for attempted manslaughter and life insurance fraud but you're just excited to see it unfold

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I hate that thing some people do where it's like. "I left my wallet on the table to see if you'd say anything" or "I wanted to see if you'd wash the car if I stopped doing it"

Cause like

I dont know about anyone else

But I am perpetually hovering three inches above the strong subconscious belief that everyone knows what they're doing at all times except me, so if you change your normal patterns and I notice, then I will assume it is an intentional choice with a thought-out plan behind it and I will avoid interfering

And if I don't notice, because I won't, because why would I, because not much bothers me and if you don't say anything to indicate you are bothered then how would I KNOW

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Tell him... I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong. ~Andor

Fang Duobing & Li Lianhua | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

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Genuinely what was the point of quoting this

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URGH. Emmerich Holyblade and I just went to The Ceremony to receive our RPG Job Titles, and he OBVIOUSLY got Chosen Hero Sword Saint. So now he's gonna set out to kill the Demon Lord of Darkness.

Me? I just got Dark Mage. Honestly, it's pretty rare, but the job opportunities are also limited. You either get into covert assassination or dungeon raiding.

God, just because we're the only two kids in The Village, Emmerich Holyblade automatically assumes this makes us friends. He doesn't even realize I hate him and his stupid smug swordsman ass.

URGGHHHH he just asked me to join his Grand Hero's Party. fuck. I can't just say no if the Grand Holy King himself is gonna payroll us to do this shit. Whatever man. Let's rock till the Demon Lord of Darkness is dead, and then I can retire and never see Emmerich Holyblade again.

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This pathetic disciple begs shizun for kiss! Shizun, have mercy! 🥺

Bluesky Commission info

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The truth is more important than my reputation.

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Look, guys, you need to know something really important about Batman.

The whole traditional English butler thing? Yeah, “master ____” is a form of address used for children. Alfred has been lowkey calling Bruce a manchild for decades.

And I think that’s beautiful.

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📢📢📢

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i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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A group of curious preschoolers visits some beehives in Stockholm

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Have you ever finished a book that was over 800 pages?

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congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it