#But for the record

[dotpyenji]

dragalia lost fans when a game is vaguely like dragalia lost

[seijorhi]

I still think daily about that prompt you mentioned you drafted where oyabun Oikawa lets Kyoutani sample his dear wife as a reward for his loyalty…WHEW

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one day i'll finish writing it nonnie, one day :'))

[chipthekeeper]

nothing — and i mean literally nothing — makes me happier than knowing people watch this show and wonder if I’m okay when something hurtful happens to/involving vel and/or cinta

[queenslandsoutherngothic]

[twisted-broth]

heh, hey boy ;) I gotchu some love and affection🤍

-homewrecker anon (/j)

Omg guyssss stopppppp 🤭🤭

There's plenty of me to go around 🥰

[officalgeorgestaniel]

thinking about nonbinary george on this fine morning Thank u

omg what a wonderful way to start the day hehehe

i hope George, in all their fabled enbyness, is enjoying a luscious bubble bath in their hotel room while Charli attends the Paris fashion week YSL autumn winter show ₊‧.°.⋆ •˚₊‧⋆.

[onesmalldreamaskblog]

Hey, Dream! Excluding Nightmare, who is your favorite from the guys?

*Dream holds a hand to his chin and thinks very, very hard.*

"Hmm . . . I don't know. I like all of them very much. I don't want to make anyone sad if I don't say they're my favorite. So, I guess, they're all my favorite!"

[forgthetheaterkid]

I hate to call myself a girl but right now? Im a psycho PETTY bitch

[gotham-response]

What do you do on your days off?

I listen to the scanner. Then when Arkham has another mass breakout, I can lay on my couch and think about how nice days off are

[yueyehua]

might as well throw in some pingxie thoughts while i’m at it

i have. many things to say about pingxie. but on the subject of reducing relationships to one dimensional tropes specifically, it does them just as much of a disservice.

my favorite variation of pingxie is in the books (very shocking i know, although that’s technically the original them and not a variation), and by comparison to what’s shown in the dramas (which are fun and self-indulgent don’t get me wrong), the books are the slowest of slow burns. never forget we see everything in them from wu xie’s pov exclusively (at least the main entries), so we can only infer xiaoge’s own growth and development from what wu xie sees of it, but it very much exists.

wu xie has a complicated opinion of xiaoge in the earlier books, mostly because he doesn’t quite know what to make of this man who looks younger than he is and completely blows him off on their first meeting (blows everyone off in fact) much to his displeasure, which leads to the initially derogatory nickname ‘menyouping’, and yet is also vastly competent and knowledgeable. he’s cold and indifferent, yet wu xie feels safe around him and trusts him more than he likely should from the get go, mostly because wu xie’s good at reading people’s intentions and character on an instinctive level he doesn’t always manage to rationalize early on. he’s fascinated and would like to know him better, but also finds him deeply unfathomable, even incomprehensible.

and then you have xiaoge, who it merits saying, is repeatedly described as largely indifferent to most things (and he genuinely is), doing what he deems necessary but otherwise not bothering to involve himself with other people or social niceties. this is a man who spends his time off to the side sleeping or contemplating the sky, and yet in the space of four books he goes from not giving two shts about wu xie (or more than he would the average person) to voluntarily interacting with him, siding with him in quiet ways, helping him through unspoken little acts all the way up until a turning point wherein he first tries to keep his distance from wu xie en route to tamutuo in an effort to keep him from getting further involved than he already is in dangerous things he has no concept of, except by then he’s shown enough uncharacteristic interest in wu xie that wu xie notices he's being cold and distant. this all culminates in the infamous moment where xiaoge eventually lets himself act on thoughts he’s likely never fully analyzed himself, let alone shared with another person, leading to the “if i disappeared no one would notice” moment. 

and from there all the way until post ten years later and into things like yucun biji, the reality is that pingxie were never the serious immortal and the dorky clumsy mortal boy he adopts, nor are they the vulnerable strong one and the eventual protector, or any other trope variation really. pingxie are two people who at the start stand on opposite sides of a line neither of them were ever meant to cross, and to all intents and purposes should never have met for how very different the worlds they come from are. they’re people that circumstance threw together who chose to stay together, and keep choosing each other. they don’t need each other to exist, and could have gone their separate ways had they wanted to, but the importance of their relationship lies in that they stay together by active choice, and that in doing so, they meet in the middle.

wu xie matures and comes to understand a number of things through hardship while xiaoge is behind the gate that untether him just enough from the world that xiaoge isn’t quite so unfathomable anymore, while xiaoge comes down from his imposed pedestal just enough that he tethers himself to wu xie (and pangzi) and learns to live rather than exist

neither of them became a different person for the other, and the core of their relationship (and the beauty of it) is in the harmony and understanding they eventually achieve. reducing all of that to archetypes is honestly a little tragic

[demigod-shenanigans]

I still cannot be bothered to figure out how to deal with chapter six right now so instead I’m spinning a bunch of Next Gen thoughts around in my head that are based on this same universe and not doing anything with those either

[hollywoodsargeant]

my friend was texting me asking for "the loscar pic where they look really gay" and i'm like. which one???

[the-lonelybarricade]

I think chapter three of a blaze in the dark is my most favorite rn bc the BANTER is top notch, although I expected nothing less coming from such an amazing writer!

(Also every time Eris and Nesta’s arrangement is mentioned I always go “what about Arina?” But she’s not canon. sep apologist has made me forget that Arina isn’t real 😭😭😭)

Nevertheless, I really really look forward to the next chapter!!!

I’m so happy you liked it! 🥰

Haha I like to think Arina is there in spirit, quietly disapproving of everything that Eris is doing.

I didn’t set out to make the Neris subplot so involved 😂 it wasn’t even in my original outline, but Eris had other plans and those plans involve Nesta 👀