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It is very exhausting being in western fandom spaces sometimes. Tell me why I just wanted to enjoy a cute oubing ship vid on tiktok, and half the comments section was about people saying you can't ship them???

I wanna complain into the void, so here's a comprehensive of why Oubing/藕饼/Lotus Root Cake is fine (and even if it wasn't, why I don't give a shit):

(Spoiler warning for Nezha 2)

1. "You can't ship them cause they're brothers'": No, they are not brothers. Not by any definition of the word. Not by blood - not even sworn brothers technically, because they only refer to each other as best friends. They each have their own parents - those parents are not related to each other in any way, shape, or form. One of them is a freaking dragon, an entirely different species. Also, they're technically made of lotuses now. They weren't raised together either. Clarifying this point feels ridiculous.

2. "But they used to be part of the chaos pearl": If you wanted to define them by any type of relationship, they are soulmates. This is not me trying to spin them romantically, I mean they are literally soulmates. Their spirits are each half of a single Chaos Pearl, and they each represent opposite halves. They are literally soulmates and yin and yang.

3. "But they're children!": No, they are not three years old. If you wanna be pedantic they are technically six. But in actuality, they are thousands of years old. They've lived for centuries as a chaos pearl. I need you to understand that the original entity we saw at the beginning of Nezha 1, IS a creature that has been alive for thousands of years. They had personality too while they were fighting Taiyi. They were made into the pearls by the cauldron. Now, their mortal bodies as we understand it is 6. But because they're not really human, and their developmental stages therefore don't mirror a human, the movie shows them maturing into an adult form in the span of about 3 years. How do we know this? Ao Bing is the same age as Nezha, and he went from a baby to his adult form in those 3 years. The only reason Nezha is still in a child form is because he has the qiankun circle suppressing him. This is also the reason that putting the circle on his wrist releases his adult form. Also it's sort of maybe implied by the end of Nezha 2 that he may stay permanently in his adult form, since he reformed his body into it while he was in The Soup™. I dunno how accurate this part is so I suppose we'll see by Nezha 3. I would like to point out further that no three or six year old talks or acts like they do. Ao Bing and Nezha have very complete vocabularies, and are able to understand the complexities of their circumstances. They're both new to the world in this form, but they're not at the mental capacity of a 6 year old. It's like if you were dropped into a new form of existence with an adult brain.

4. "Nooo, why are you shipping them now": This ship is NOT NEW. It's been around since at least 2019. It is WILDLY popular in China. Back when Nezha 1 first came out, oubing literally won an award for best couple. I want you to understand the scale - from my understanding, they beat wangxian in cql. Y'all can correct me if I got this part wrong because I can't find the source of where I read this information, but if it's true, that's wild. I know the award part is correct. There was an official shampoo ad that reads like a shipping comic. Now that Nezha 2 came out, it is still one of the most popular ships. Every other post on my social media has been about Nezha 2 and at least half of that has been Oubing. There are over 2000 chinese fics on ao3 currently. Stop with this "why are you shipping them now", WE'VE BEEN SHIPPING THEM.

5. "It's not canon.": Not that I give a shit what's canon or even what the original creator thinks about shipping usually, but Jiaozi, aka the director of the movie, has stated that while he wrote Nezha and Ao Bing to just be a friendship that he thinks it is fine if people ship them. I'm pretty sure he also said something along the lines of 'people can interpret things how they want' or something.

6. Even if all of the points I made were not the case, I cannot stress enough how little I care about what someone should or should not ship. If you don't like it, just block the fanart/fic/video and move on. I promise society will not crumble because someone decides to ship two fictional characters from a mythology movie. We will be fine.

(Also if you see anyone in the chinese fandom write 藕饼cp, the cp stands for "couple". Just to clarify. They use different terms for shipping in chinese fandoms, they'll say they "ke CP" aka ship a couple)

Some of the comments I've seen make me wonder if people have even watched the movies. 'You can't ship them cause they're brothers', god don't make me laugh.

Don't let them find out that the chinese fandom is also shipping Ao Bing and Nezha from the 1979 cartoon, they'd lose their minds.

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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if you make an OC that you are genuinely insane over, like you are obsessed with this freak and can't stop thinking about them, then it will rub off on other people. the virus spreads

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Bai Su Zhen and Xu Xian

The Lady White Snake, Bai Su Zhen, and the Scholar, Xu Xian loved each other deeply. All was well until the monk, Fa Hai, tried to separate them.

Bai Su Zhen remained defiant; “What right have you, to separate two souls in love?”

To which the monk replied, “By the laws of nature, and heaven’s edict.” So saying, he sealed her away in the Lei Feng Pagoda.

For the Traversing Realms print compliation. I chose to illustrate a folktale which, for obvious reasons, means a lot to me. Prints are available online through the link.

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The Whispering Game!

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god it's been awhile since I've even used this sideblog

I haven't even worked on Soulbound Mechanica in a long time even though I should have realistically been able to do so

I'm not sure where to even start, because I have so many WIPs that it just....clogged my brain

I need to start somewhere, and not...fall off

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Oh sweet mother that’s useful

Here’s just the template

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RIP my art on DeviantArt

I’ve been using my account there for 6 years.It’s only now that I’ve encountered goddamn incels and perverts who thought my OCs are arousing enough to be added to their favorites gallery.I’m working on blocking them one by one and perhaps find a better website to post my art on.I knew DA was a dumpster fire for weird shit like this,but I never bothered because it hadn’t happened to me.

Well it fucking happened,and I am not happy.

Ffs,I made my OCs as individuals to tell the stories I want to tell.I didn’t make them just so some thirsty pricks online in their mother’s basements can fap over them because real women aren’t sucking them off.

Fucking hell,most of my OCs are just teens!What the fuck?!

Oh man,is it paranoid of me to believe they’ll have pornographic fanart from these accounts soon?I’m really scared and disgusted,since my greatest fear is that someone is going to see my characters as sexual fantasies.There is nothing inherently wrong about have sexual fantasies,but it really unsettles me when the people in question doing that are probably dudebros who don’t even know how female anatomy works.

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Capricorn hits close to home for Dovelyn tbh

The Signs and Calamity

Aries: You used to be a lost and fearful thing. Cowering from the burning rain in some miserable hole. You awoke to the fungus consuming your legs. Now your strong, your limbs coursing with hypha. Now you hear your siblings and you are fearful no longer. 

Taurus: You spent so much time hunting, so much time replacing the weakest parts of you with wires and steel. Your shell learned every instinct, every impulse, it memorized you, and while you rotted away the shell kept on moving. 

Gemini:  The king is gone and the great ports are closed, slowly being eaten away by a burning and sterile sea. Yet still you keep watch. You kick the bodies into the roiling waves, and try not to wonder if things could have been different.

Cancer: Why do they fear you? Why do they cower and hide? You are to give them a place in this world. To sort the dead and the living into their proper roles. To harvest the dead to improve the living. Waste not. Waste not.

Leo: You and your siblings fear neither the arrogant things above nor the hungry things below. All must brave the great nest. Flesh or steel, living or dead, your teeth do not discriminate. Your belly welcomes all.

Virgo: Your weapons have felled impossible things. You have slain things that cracked the very sky. As they spiraled to the ground, you couldn’t hide that shadow of doubt, your envy of their wings.

Libra: So many of you, tossed away from the world. Thrown into the deep places alone with so much other trash. You, and so many others like you, have come to know the rot as home, determined to embrace the lost and discarded.

Scorpio: The prison has crumbled and the prisoners are gone. All that remains is empty halls and cells. The ideal place to experiment. Toying with these remnants of life, attempting to build something better. 

Ophiuchus: The pipes and strings on your back. You were made for music. Delicate things for the state the world is in. But you, you are not delicate and now you have all the time in the world. 

Sagittarius: You left home for better things. To find a cause more worthy of your strength. A beacon you have been, a light in the dark, unshakable resolve. You dont pray much anymore. After all this time in the dark, god seems further away.

Capricorn: Damn these tales of old aristocrats, of kings and princes, of new and terrifying gods in the sub-orbital heavens. No more chivalry. No more magic. Life is the whirlwind of gasoline and lead protecting the weak and gentle.

Aquarius: You are an insult. A poor imitation of the brood mothers made by arrogant men. Even a poor copy calamity is hubris. This cage cannot hold you. None can.

Pisces: A rebel and a traitor, banished from the world for doubt, that deepest of poisons. And here so far from the world, in this arc. Here you met the old growth. You accepted the green mantle, accepted her rage at this new and dying world. 

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And in my AU series,Dovelyn and the muggleborn kids are the perpetrator of this meme.

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I hope you don’t mind if I use this as a dialogue in a story,tho.It’s very powerful in just a single sentence.

I’d rather you stab me in the heart than have you play with it.

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There had to have been that one muggle born kid that refused to call the teachers professer, just like:

“Excuse me, Mr. Snape?”

“Its professer Snape.”

“Do you have a doctorate degree?”

“…No”

“Okay then, Mr. Snape”

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Draco:-and this is why I think Harry Potter should fuck me till next Sunday.

Pansy: Ok, ok I’m all for this, I love the colors, the whole design is amazing also enjoyed the illustrations-

Draco: Thanks I drew them myself.

Pansy:-but there is only one problem.

Draco: what?

Pansy: What I had initially asked was ‘Hey Draco, want some tea?’ How that lead up to you showing me this will forever confuse me.

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What wait?

Now I want to use a melon baller for seeing that lmao

who in the ever living fuck would pronounce scp as skip

i don’t know my guy. but sometimes in the Foundation’s tales the researchers n staff call them “skips” and i don’t know why, but i hate it

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Oh Harry.Sweet,sweet Harry.

How the others were noticing Draco’s gayness towards Harry through the years

First year

Ron: He attacked me and glared at me all the time when I became friends with Harry

Hermione: He never left us alone, he showed up every time

Snape: Oh… *thinking* I could use the little Malfoy to know what trouble our new “celebrity” is planing

Harry: huh?

Second year

Hermione: Oh come on, he’s so obvious!

Ron: Me and Harry polyjuiced ourselves and when we ended in the Slytherin dorm, he talked about Harry most of the time without knowing it’s us

Ginny: He attacked me in the bookstore when he thought I was with Harry.

Ginny: *after the Valentine’s card incident* He threatened me with a death glare after he made fun of me saying Harry didn’t like it. I won’t give up tho.

Lucius Malfoy: He won’t shut up about Potter.

Harry: huh?

Third year

Hermione: Are you kidding me, Harry!

Ron:

Remus: Lol Harry

Dean and Seamus: he just want his attention, what a desperate guy, to even dress himself as a dementor

Harry: huh?

Fourth year

Hermione: oh for Merlin’s sake, he spend all his time to make badges because of him, he don’t know how to act around him and this is the only way he knows to catch his attention when there are Cho and Cedric

Lucius: Since the first day he talked mostly about him

Rita: He talked only about Harry Potter the first few interviews

Harry: huh?

Fifth year

Hermione: Honestly Harry, how could you not see it…

Ron: why is he staring at Harry most of the time?

Umbrige: He joined me only to catch the Potter boy and stop a kiss. Almost got them, with the help of unpleasant girl’s friend. Honestly I’m dissapointed about Malfoy’s reasons

Cho: He found out about our kiss and was so angry, he tried to catch only me most of the time after DADA meetings.

Harry: huh?

Sixth year

Hermione: Harry, you have to stop stalking him.

Ron: Mate, call down, he’s not planing anything.

Harry: I’m not obsessed, he’s planning smth, I told you gUYs, for Merlin’s hairy balls!

Ginny: Are you serious? He is staring at you as you are at him.

Harry: Huh?

Seventh year(not in Hogwart most of the time)

Hermione: He lied about Harry and protected him, and Harry still don’t get it. I even can’t anymore.

Narcissa: He saved my son, who is gay for him, so I lied the Dark Lord, for their future.

Harry: Huh?

Draco: ARE YOU SERIOUS, POTTER!

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I need this

Excuse ME, but Potter didn’t become a auror, like really? His ass was forced into fighting a battle, HAUNTED BY DAMN VOLDY LORDY, and you are telling me that he wanted to be an auror like James?? Na uh honey. Harry James Potter is the new DADA professor. CHANGE MY MIND BUT HARRY WOULD’VE LOVED TEACHING. Potter, Lovegood and Longbottom would be everyones fav teachers. Like the firsties would be like “Oh? Harry? Like professor Potter? Yeah, he tells good dad jokes, can’t believe he killed the most feared wizard in like forever, dude’s a dork. He’s like Hogwarts dad.” “Luna is such a dork, wearing slippers in the winter.” “Longbottom? Who is that? O YOU MEAN NEV? YeAh MaN, dudes great, hes like 15/10 on comforting scale, he’s like your mom.” And at some point Malfoy starts teaching potions and he and potter start the duelling club thing again and everyone ships them because “They’re idiots, loveable idiots and nothing can change my mind.”

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