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Big fan of romances that revolve around two very strange individuals weirdo maxxing together

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i think saying "you just don't understand this!!" in defence of the favourite book/song/character/whatever is the laziest argument a person could use

if you can't just block and move on and need to say something then use arguments. use text. use imho or whatever

i know that some ppl like to feel that they are the smartest person in the room and everyone else is just stupid for not liking what you like but. some ppl can understand and still not like something. they can list the reasons for not liking sth or just not vibe w/it without the definite reason. but if i give my reasons and you just say "well you just don't get it" then don't mind if i block you for doubting my intelligence and coming to my post in bad faith

i think it is actually good if there are ppl who aren't afraid to express the opinion which doesn't align with the majority if they can support it by using relevant sources. i know how lonely it can get when you don't like something that many ppl love — just as i know how lonely it can get when you love something that other ppl hate; i was in the trenches fighting for bingqiu in 2019-2021 when ppl were slandering luo binghe and like 80% of posts about svsss were full of crap and blatant falsehood

so. if you are not ready to have a peaceful talk, don't start it, is what i'm trying to say

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yall have to stop insulting your own art in the caption and preemptively pointing out mistakes 90% of people probably won't notice. allow things to not be perfect. allow yourself some grace

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i'm a little bit scared looking at the number of notifications...... so I'll leave them until tomorrow. or later. when i feel like checking them.

i'm back 😞

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i remember when mdzs first came out and i didn't know shit about the genre yet, so my friend and i found it in a bookstore and she went "grandmaster of demonic cultivation???? what is 'cultivation'. google says it's practicing agriculture. how can you do that demonically." and i was like "farming evilly and deviously......"

anyways this exchange became ten times funnier when i read mdzs years later and got to the part where everyone thinks wei wuxian is establishing a horrible evil demonic sect with the wen remnants but he's actually just trying to farm so they don't starve. doing some straight up evil and demonic and devious farming.

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don't really vibe with the "always flirting with girls and performing heterosexuality" wei wuxian bc i don't see him like that

every time we see him flirting with girls and women he does it not bc he feels like it or bc that is what is expected of men, but specifically bc he needs something: he flirts with women in caiyi during the abyss incident bc he wants free food, he flirts with mianmian bc he needs the herbs that she has in her pouch. i don't really even remember anyone berating him for always flirting with any girl or woman he sees

so, i don't think flirting for wwx is something he does genuinely with intent if this intent isn't to get something he wants/needs — unless he's flirting with lwj lmao

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i'm back 😞

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so tired and busy..... hate moving and changing jobs

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They’ve been rebuilding the Tower of Babel, but this time they have a team of linguists on site. Every time God smites the builders and invents a dozen new languages, the linguists have a dozen decently sized translations in about a month and work can start up again.

The linguists have been really into it. They say the new phonemes are fascinating. As for God, I assume that at this point he’s just curious to see how far this goes.

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the fact that madam lan was 软禁 (placed under house arrest) rather than "imprisoned" is such a minor but important detail.

软禁 implies that madam lan could've left. it's reasonable to assume she could've just broken out since her crime was killing a lan elder; she probably had the power to do so. instead, madam lan voluntarily stayed locked in the gentian house and bore qingheng-jun's heirs out of gratitude.

meanwhile, lan wangji's turmoil through the present-day events of mdzs is heavily tied to the idea that wei wuxian is only staying close and being intimate out of gratitude for nightless city -- which lan wangji does not know that wei wuxian doesn't actually remember.

lan wangji's complex feelings about "gratitude" with loved ones absolutely is tied back to his own parents' relationship, which madam lan's circumstances give us a clearer insight into.

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i'm so confused every time when a person who used to write fanfics starts to insult other fanfic authors for... writing fanfiction...... bc now that that person is a published author, it apparently gives them free rein to say how "cringe" or "uncouth" it is to write fanfiction

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"evelyn is gay for astra" i say into the mic. the people boo. i begin to walk off in shame as a voice speaks and commands silence from the room. "she's right" they say. i look for the owner of the voice. there she stands. its astra yao.

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never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"