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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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Hey Rook Ingellvars 💀🐦‍⬛

It's so sexy to me when I see a goth name on y'all. I have seen Ophelia, Hugo, Dahlia, Osiris, Ravenna, and other such hot goth names. Do me a favor and tag this post with:

+Ingellvar's name

+What it means

+Why you chose it / how it represents them

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"...You wish to share?"

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This took me like 2 hrs but I miss my baby, also not finished still in sketchie status

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vigil's keep gang 💀💅✨

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Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan are the same person. I have like a very long google doc worth of evidence I may post to my rather empty blog one day, but I wish to scream it into the void right now. I say this based on textual evidence.

Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu (though our knowledge on his is limited) have many similarities. Fans, thought process, view of self, desires in a partner (devotion; someone who listens), etc, overlap. His view on people from Shen Jiu’s pass overlap as well: YQY reminds him of a big brother, and Qiu Haitang is treated very interestingly in the Holy Moleuseum (sp).

Shen Qingqiu shows no sign of possession. When SQQ is summoned back into his body after death, who appears? SQQ has SJ’s memories, albeit they are damaged; though note how he watches Shen Jiu in them. SQQ has SJ’s *red string of fate*.

Existence of parallel worlds is confirmed with Bingge. There are many possibilities of how Shen Yuan is Shen Jiu… reincarnation, alternate version, upon transmigration merging, etc.

Shen Qingqiu’s coping mechanism is heavily denying and ignoring. Any trauma never happened.

How it would fit into the thematic narrative. The difference between SQQ and SQQ is very early on stated to perhaps be the circumstances in which they were raised. Luo Binghe vs Bingge. Even if you disagree with this theme, it’s undeniable to be central to the book.

My head literally empties and becomes full of crickets whenever svsss is mentioned so I am opening this one up to the floor.

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I always remember you

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great news! wei wuxian has died!

(full pics under the cut)

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I know I've only poked around the fandom for like.. A MINUTE but I have a thought as I go through meta and fanfic stuff, I keep bumping into interpretations bouncing between "Shen Yuan is a nasty little gremlin of a man just like the original Shen Qingqiu" to "he's a very nice person deep down unlike the original goods" but for me I'm kinda feeling like...

They're not the same person on a literal level. But they are also kinda the same guy, in a way in which they are running much more parallel than I think is given credit, in ways that makes SY much more fleshed out than The Nice One and SQQ flattened down to The Mean One.

Mostly I'm thinking of someone's video essay that touched briefly on Nature Vs Nurture themes in the show, and while they were talking about in reference to Binghe's arc, it made me sit back and think instead about how SQQ and SY could arguably fall under the same debate despite being more definitively separate entities than PIDW Binghe and SVSSS Binghe are.

Just off the top of my head:

They're both are very academic in their interests/skillsets, but SQQ's issues have twisted his perception so that his interests are instead standards of measurement against his worthiness as a peak lord (or just a person in general) vs SY's interests seem to come more calmly, given that he could binge read novels and more-or-less seamlessly fit into the scholar peak. Both display tendencies to defend their skills/interests from perceived or even imagined criticism...

...But both are ironically also pretty damn critical of others around them! The key difference that Shen Yuan is typically more internal about it once he transmigrates because now he doesn't have a keyboard between him and his targets unless SQH is around vs Shen Qingqiu is has truly just lost his ability to give a fuck, using his words as much as a shield as a weapon against perceived threats aka everyone and everything.

The level of self-deception that these two engage in re: their self-worth and how much they mean to others needs to be studied in a petri dish.

Both have a Specific Person that is critically important to their place in the world that come with complicated feelings of love, anger, self-worth, trust issues, etc. This really clicked for me when SY is taken to the fake bamboo house after being caught by Binghe. Whether or not Binghe's intentions are good, all SY is feeling is anger and tells him to leave him alone. He trusted this person! And what did he get? Captivity. So he lashes out verbally to keep him at arm's length because that trust has been damaged. Wait why does this sound familiar--

Furthermore, they are both pretty good examples of personalities where protectiveness of that Person can bleed into being domineering. SY doesn't realize he's done this to Binghe until nearly the end of the novel, where SQQ learns it early to survive and never unlearns it especially in regards to YQY. Both of them have big ol trust issues, have learned that they have little control over the world around them, enough so that they feel the need to control even their closest allies around them -- because they feel that if they don't, they cannot be safe.

Both tend to get misinterpreted -- and then react to it almost as polar opposites. Shen Qingqiu's more minor misdeeds or even attempted good deeds get taken negatively because of his personality, and he realizes this but gives up. Where Shen Yuan's actions often get received more positively than he originally intends or even wants, especially at the start of the story when he's primarily only thinking about his own hide, and there's lots of times where this goes completely over his head.

All in all, I think I'm finding more that I appreciate things that take this into consideration. That SY and SQQ are very much mirrors of each other's flaws and strengths. It's also just a sort of sad irony that SY starts the story hating SQQ so much but gradually becomes more forgiving of him as he learns more about the man and himself -- especially when you take into the factor that Shen Qingqiu... also hated Shen Qingqiu.

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For scientific purposes, who was your FIRST romance in each DA game.

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books i read in 2024:

scifi: Dune (started end of 2023) Murderbot Diaries 1: All Systems Red Ghost Station We Have Always Been Here

fantasy: DragonLance Destinies 1: Dragons of Deceit The Graveyard Book Witness for the Dead (a re-read!) The Last Unicorn (a re-read!) A Wizard of Earthsea The Tombs of Atuan Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights

horror: The Spite House Horrorstör

danmei: The Husky and his White Cat Shizun 4–7 Heaven Official's Blessing 8 (a re-read!) Thousand Autumns 3–5 Remnants of Filth 2–5 Stars of Chaos 2–4 Ballad of Sword and Wine 1–2 Peerless 1–2

manga: Zelda Twilight Princess 5–11 The Royal Tutor 1 Witch Hat Atelier 2–10

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We’re power scaling the player characters now cause the fandom needs something to argue about that’s funny

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so i did this quiz and-

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I’m so excited with the Spanish edition of svsss I tried to draw a bingqiu to celebrate. Only two more days to go! <3