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fuck it, yurifies your huntrix

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i luv him so much

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HUNTR/X 💥

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This is going to be the state of the Arknights meta in 6 months.

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I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

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I've lost the exact post but someone on here talked about how mdzs has a distinct lack of significant shizun-disciple relationships despite those being present in other mdzs works and a genre staple, and anyway I think this is my preferred dynamic for Sizhui and Lan Wangji.

My feelings on the fanon of A-Yuan as wangxian's son consistently swing between "aww not canon but so cute" to "ok but you guys do KNOW it's not canon right?" and back to "it's so cute though"

But while "like a father and older brother to me" does not equal "literally my adopted dad" it also clearly isn't just any regular relationship between two sect members. Lan Wangji gave him his courtey name, clearly he has some privileges with Sizhui that other Lan of his generation do not.

And looking at that, it kind of does paint the picture of the close mentor-mentee relationship that both xianxia and wuxia stories are so fond of. (Which inherently also has a ton of found family vibes baked into it) combine that with how Sizhui, during his afformentioned comments on how he sees lwj, specifically mentions lwj teaching him to play the guqin, and I think we've got the strongest contender for a proper shizun-disciple dynamic in mdzs.

In conclusion #letsizhuisayshizun

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logging back onto tumblr after [redacted horrific life event] and i then had to finish 4 exhausting cons in 3 different states and it's to people stalking my old text posts so they can be wrong about jiang cheng at me in the most annoying way possible. alright. not today, satan

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"i can't believe people really ship-" anything. people will ship anything. and no one needs a single reason to

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odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I firmly believe that Jin Guangyao and Jiang Cheng have no beef with each other for the majority of the timeskip. They both have traits that the other values in allies, if not necessarily in friends:

Jin Guangyao is extremely appropriate, considerate, hardworking, and never makes social situations worse than they have to be. I don't think Jiang Cheng would care that he has schemes or a fake smile because that's just everyone in the political world; it's not as if he has any delusions that the other high-ranking gentry are being fully honest and sincere with him either. On the contrary, he would pretty much respect the work ethic and understand that sometimes you have to do shit to get your dad to like you even when you know it won't work. In short, Jin Guangyao is unlikely to do anything to piss Jiang Cheng off, and at least is very kind to Jin Ling.

On the other side, Jiang Cheng is a man who is just not very dangerous if you understand him. You can say he's a man with a predictable temper, or you can call him easy to manipulate; either way, this works in Jin Guangyao's favour. Jiang Cheng is aware of Jin Guangyao's various social disadvantages, but is too pragmatic to try and exploit them, and is too single-issue to be a significant political opponent. While he does come from privilege, his personal life is so tragic that I don't think Jin Guangyao would feel moved to envy or resent him for his social standing, and at the same time he's a sect leader who actually does work instead of foisting it off on his servants or onto Jin Guangyao himself. In short, Jiang Cheng does not pose a threat to Jin Guangyao, and at least is very kind to Jin Ling.

Does this make them besties? That depends on how deep I am in the Chengyao sauce on any given day, but for sure they are not enemies up until the shit has hit the fan post-timeskip. They are essentially each other's least hated coworker

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we've heard of ming fan taking psych damage from having a crush on binghe but I propose ming fan having a crush on tlj, awfully awkward for both of them

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— requested by manbunjon

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Discussing character flaws and complexities with svsss fans vs with mdzs fans

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Imagine I posted "many characters in the story acknowledged that JGY was good-looking; in fact, his appearance even helped him gain favour" and someone replied "so just because he had pretty privilege you're saying that he didn't suffer? Are you trying to claim that the cultivation gentry weren't shallow and materialistic because they approved of how a-Yao looked?"

This is the energy that some WWX fans in my mentions are giving off

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look, jc haters, i don't respect them but i get it. lxc haters though. girl WHAT