#Enthusiastic Nonsense

[gendrie]

i just know grrm was giggling like a school girl as he threw blonde haired purple eyed edric in between arya looking like lil lyanna and gendry with his baratheon af genes. a single glimpse of this scene wouldve sent ned stark off the deep end.

also

Ned was trying to apologize for upsetting her, but she did not want to hear it. She pressed her heels into her horse and left them both.

arya choosing to ride off from them both is def a reference to the lyanna, rhaegar, bobby b situation. tbh i really cant see arya risking it all for some nerd with a harp.....

[amazingferret]

"That disaster centuries ago virtually wiped them out, Gozaburo. As much as one would want to reconstruct, you can't do so with so few survivors. And at this point their descendants quite likely married into whatever population their joined."

"And how many survived, exactly? The records say it was not more than a handful of families, but both you and I know records are just as truthful as the people who write them!"

"Pray forgive the discourtesy of my words, but I can't help calling you paranoid. And I believe this little girl knows nothing about it."

"I am the one who's been the guardian of those boys for the last 8 years, Pegasus. I know what I'm talking about. For all I care, she was drilled on how to cover it up."

"If you won't relent, may I suggest another approach, then? You get more flies with honey than with vinegar, and children tend not to be great secret-keepers if the company is right..."

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"Young Master-boy!"

Mokuba shuddered at the sound of the familiar mannerism as its owner entered his private sitting room. It was at times like these where he turned off his brain and let the etiquette lessons take over. "Lord Pegasus, how wonderful of you to visit me. We haven't seen each other for a while," he said through a forced smile as he turned around to face the man.

The little girl in a neat dress beside the councillor caught Mokuba off-guard. Pegasus had no living relatives that he knew of, both the death of his parents and fiancée being of a well-know tale among the court.

"My lord-boy, this is Serenity, and she will be living in the palace with us for a while. She is related to the unfortunate disappearance of your brother, but seems to be quite overcome with shock. I'd like to ask you to watch over her and provide a friendly presence for her. She might be crucial in finding him." Pegasus informed, as he pulled the girl closer.

Not a relative, not a noble, not even the daughter of a good family, a reluctance to speak, and the resistance on her step - Ah, was this a hostage, perhaps? It wouldn't be the first time the rats in the court tried mindgames with the princes.

Was Pegasus trying to get information out of her? Information could come in many forms - it could be important, useful... even falsified, if you managed to convince a messenger well enough. Not to mention his own unavoidable curiosity about Seto's whereabouts. Pegasus might just have given him his best card without knowing...

[layzeal]

What are some of the things that are ace codesd abt wwx? I don’t hear much abt and and am curious!

HIII, okay so as always, "coded" isn't really the right word since it implies authorial intent, but i often use it anyway bc who cares it's my blog. just know i don't think wwx is actually canonically supposed to be demi, it's just a headcanon from silly ol' me!

i do have a #demi-wwx tag you can check if u'd like too hehe

now, what makes wwx come off as SO incredibly acespec/demisexual for me is his approach to... well, relationships in his first life. he's a flirt! he likes teasing people! he likes watching them blush! he likes getting a reaction! but as lwj questions him in the xuanwu cave about, it all seems like very much a game to him, something he does without actual intention, unaware of the torment he might be putting others (lwj) through

i often see people say that wwx didn't date or that wangxian didnt get together in his first life because "they had other things going on" and "there was no time", but that's not only innacurate to post-sunshot, it genuinely comes off to me as if wwx simply has no romantic or sexual interest in anyone at all. granted, he has an eye for pretty things and people, and is VERY vocal about whenever he finds others beautiful. lwj is a common target, but far from the only one!

basically, for as loud as flirty as he can be, we know that's never really genuine. there's no second-intentions or desire in his words (hell, he had even been saving first first kiss for twenty years!!), even when it comes to lwj. and the way we know it is by comparing it all to how he acts, thinks and feels after he's ACTUALLY experiencing attraction for the first time!

but what does have to do with him being demi? and what makes, in my mind, wwx so much more demi coded than lwj for example, whose entire romantic arc is only falling in love with one person?

well, that would be that despite the way it's been romanticized, demisexuality has nothing to do with "only falling in love once". devotion isn't acespec exclusive, choosing to love a single person in your life isn't acespec exclusive. demisexuality is simply a term to describe the specific conditions a relationship might need for an asexual person to experience attraction. those conditions? a strong emotional bond (which is why so many demi ppl are described as "only being able to fall in love with your best friend")

and to me, that's what sells wwx as demisexual the most. he's had so many friends, classmates, xiongdi, and all sorts of companions in his life, but none of them were particularly... emotionally fulfilling. other than perhaps shijie, who he saw more like a mother and sister, there was no one else who he could truly lean on and trust, open up, and be vulnerable with. for many people, that's not a barrier that gets in the way of developing romantic or sexual interest in someone at all, and that's great!! (we see it with lwj himself, who spent so many of his teenage years frustrated for liking wwx and had to slowly realize why that wasn't shameful or a bad thing. lwj's attraction not only came before there was any significant bond between them, it directly blocked it from forming earlier due to lwj's constant avoidance of wwx!)

but for demi people, and for wei wuxian, it is a barrier. it's almost comical just how fast and deeply wwx fell in love with lwj once he opened up to him. it is the most visible in wwx's second life, but i do find there are inklings here and there to it in his first, especially after wwx and lwj get to spend some pleasant time together (ie. post-phoenix mountain and post-yiling date with a-yuan)

but it really does become the most obvious after the yi city arc (drunkji 2 my belovedddd). by that point, their friendship and closeness was already solid, and wwx is already crushing HARD, but isn't quite aware of it yet. it isn't until post-jinlitai stab (and his flashback to his and lwj's youth, how they fell apart and how lwj was only ever worried for him) that he starts pondering if these feelings might be... more than just fondness. and boy do i eat it UUUUUP

it wasn't until wei wuxian got that reassurance of trust and closeness that his feelings truly started to develop. i genuinely cannot imagine a wei wuxian who falls in love with someone who he genuinely believes hates him, and it's actually something i believe stopped wwx from developing deep feelings for lwj in his first life. we know how much all his rejections and their disagreements hurt wwx, and in the back of his mind, he always thought lwj disapproved of him, maybe even disliked him. there was no trust, and it smothered any small, warm little inkling of romantic love from sparking into a flame

so when wwx finds himself with a lwj who is indulgent, who wants to be close, who protects him, comforts him, listens to him, and won't ever let him fall... well, you can't blame him for daydreaming about a calm farm life by his side, or being embarrassed for acting so shameless while still pretending to be mxy, or wishing from the bottom of his heart that even if lwj doesn't love him back, he'll still stay next to him

he only ever wanted lwj to be his friend, and now he's the closest and most intimate one he's ever had. and he treats him so well... all the barriers have fallen, how could wei wuxian not fall too?

(and i didnt rly get into it but this all applies to physical attraction as well! wwx behaves and sees lwj's beauty through two different lenses in his first and second life, and wwx himself noticed the difference from when he could see lwj's nakedness back then without batting an eye VS now. it's hilarious, endearing, and EXTREMELY relatable!!)

[laufire]

me, at any given time, reading comics: the writers should've killed that child.

me, a hypocrite, (re)reading "a death in the family": but not that one 😢

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

I think she deserves big muscles, maybe… 💪✨

[smimon]

edit: English version will follow, but do you have the patience?

[curiosity-killed]

🐱

….ahem

🐱 = moderately intimidating

How am intimidating am I?

[tennispilled]

why is pete wentz in paris!!!! at the tennis!!!!

[changeling-rin]

Gen's curiosities that have not appeared yet?

(Note Anon was here)

Until it just appeared last chapter, I headcanoned that Gen was allergic to shellfish and/or most ocean-based foods altogether, because he's spent the first seventeen years of his life in the sky and has literally never had a shrimp before. This is now, of course, DL-canon, but I wanted to include it here anyways because I feel like it's an excellent bit of character-building

You know that thing that happens when people who live at higher altitudes come down to sea-level and basically get a mild version of being 'high' due to the thicker concentration of oxygen? Yeah, Gen's got that, he's had that the entire time. He's used to it now, but back during his adventure on the very first day he touched the Surface in Faron Woods, he spent about twelve hours just sprinting around and spazzing straight out of his own skin

He's been a vegetarian for the first seventeen years of his life, and he only tried actual meat within the past year. Once again, this coincides directly with him coming down to the Surface

He and Dusk share a favorite food, this being pumpkins

His Loftwing was the first Epona and I will not be accepting criticism on this. She basically said 'Oh no you don't,' when he died and the Hero's Spirit reincarnated, and then she followed him through the afterlife via sheer willpower and stubbornness.

He had no concept of the Three Golden Goddesses until meeting the Chain, because in his society the only Goddess is Hylia. As a result, all his swears and emphatics are Hylia-based, although he will pick up a few of the more common Golden-Trio-based ones the more time he spends with the other Links

He has precisely one (1) aptitude for magic and it happens to lie in the very specific subsection of the Light branch known as sealing. However, he cannot do it himself like Zelda can; he needs a conduit to channel through. Hilariously, he's absolute garbage at literally anything else magic-wise (which is ironic since he'd actually make for a decent weather mage if the Water branch wanted anything to do with him)

His favorite color is yellow

His depth perception and spatial awareness is fantastic. His grasp on the concept of terminal velocity is... not. Oh, he's very aware of distance, vertical or otherwise, and can tell you the measurement with surprising accuracy, but he has no amount of self-preservation attached to it. Why shouldn't he throw himself off this cliff? It'll get him to the bottom so much faster than climbing down. What do you mean, 'fall damage', sounds like an illness?

And finally, he can read clouds in the same way that a fortune teller pretends to read palms, except that when he does it he's accurate. "It's gonna rain in about an hour," he says, squinting up at a few wisps of cirrus scurrying across the upper atmosphere of an otherwise cloudless day. One hour and twelve minutes later, in the middle of a torrential downpour, he says, "Yep, thought so."

[misterradio]

i love seeing fan art for stuff so much like its my favourite thing ever when it comes to Looking Up Specific Things On Tumblr and im so crazy abt the works but only me and dog have really posted abt it i think it makes me go crazy and i could just cry from wanting to see other people draw fanart of it. does this make sense

[bwunnipaws]

fuck seaworld real rollercoaster homies dont go to seaworld

[peanutblowandjobsandwich]

i've realized that bc i dread doing things and only do them bc i hv to i assume that everyone else also is and that's why i hate social norms bc in my head it's like why are we all doing things if we hate them but i guess uh not everyone does lolz

[tacit-semantics]

This is mostly nonsense and I've mentioned it before, but I was thinking about dirk's mechanical splinters as an act of (ironically) outsourced self-regulation brought about by a) a complete mistrust of himself and b) a desire to compartmentalize and understand, in line with his aspect. As in, it's outright mentioned within the context of his interactions with Hal that dirk does not consider himself above his own manipulation, and as such has fostered a split within himself wherein he feels he has to view and process his actions outside of the context he is performing them in so as to be sure that they're not, well. Completely fucked. And see, observation like this would (in theory) be much easier if he could physically separate himself from his actions and as such understand them through the lens of the bystander; to act without assuming the consequences, like a simulation. Of course, this doesn't work in practice for a number of reasons, especially because at its core it's an attempt to do everything all by himself again. It's like baby's first attempt at playing at judge, jury, and executioner, all at once.

[cygnus-is-tired]

Bok choy, broccoli, cilantro, and parsley

All for David who eats it up nicely

Apples, bananas, blueberries, and pears

All things David refuses to share

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Another thing that makes most dating apps a huge fucking headache is that they won't let you actually filter out most results you already know you don't want, or if that is an option then it's something you have to pay for.

[tactfulsaboteur]

i want to make the semiconductor shortage worse i think this would net solve problems actually