I gotta say, I just love stories where destiny is expressed as the universe just bringing people together and then whatever else they do is up to them. Like destiny being just the tether that binds them??? Drives me insane every time
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Read a review for a new BL that was like "it's Not Very Good, And Also Full Of Tropes" and I was like... Yes, and? That's why we're here? To be confused by the plot, and enjoy the mess? That's the point of the pulpy ones?
It also says that "the erotic scene was too long". Like, calm down, pretty people kissing helps make the time travel and the bitchy, poorly characterized women harder to be mad about.
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Thinking about some kind of "sleeping beauty" post-canon fix-it, were we to interpret Li Lianhua to be still dying at the end of the special episode.
About how it is the simplest tragedy of all, that Li Lianhua just needed more time: Ten years, and Fang Duobing could cultivate yangzhouman powerful enough to heal him.
There is no xianxia magic to freeze time present in the drama, there are, however, nods to it - body-preserving herbs and techniques to stop the breath for three days. And how ice can freeze a body, freezes everything it touches, at the moment of death.
So I'm thinking of that, and I'm thinking about this:
How Li Xiangyi and Di Feisheng were once at the peak of the martial world, and that it is always cold at the summit of a mountain. I'm thinking about Di Feisheng (who recognises only one equal in the world) carrying Li Lianhua up a mountain along a path scattered with pine needles.
There Li Lianhua stays, out of time, a body frozen.
Perhaps he stays frozen the whole time, Di Feisheng a silent guard - standing sentry for ten more years in seclusion. His hair starts to grey at the temples. But what is another decade, if it means Li Lianhua at his side? He is willing to be the one to take the meandering path this time, if it means their zhiji can continue by their side.
Or perhaps Li Lianhua gasps awake - a split second, once every three days, to simply fall back into his breathless stupor. The presence of Di Feisheng a constant in those snippets of consciousness - 1,216 of them. As fleeting as a grain of sand in an hourglass, but a steady trickle of time nonetheless.
It's a gamble. 1216 days - 3 years and 4 months, a decade of stretched time - for Fang Duobing to cultivate the strength to save Li Lianhua.
(Yet it realistically is a decade of Fang Duobing's life - of intense training and focus, the survival of Li Lianhua on his shoulders a constant anxiety in the turmoil of the jianghu - within which he now forges a name for himself without Li Lianhua or Di Feisheng, while Di Feisheng himself has almost passed into legend, unseen since the letter on the shores of the East Sea.)
But even that borrowed time may not be enough: Li Lianhua must survive like this for three years, when he is already down to practically zero.
..It's internal power that Di Feisheng willingly gives.
Every three days, he gives another second of his life.
To die three years earlier - decades hence - with the satisfaction of decades more with both Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing at his side, is no gamble at all.
Such a small debt is meaningless, for love.
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Icarus didn't thought about the sun as of his death. He didn't thought about how he would burn and fall and drown in the ocean.
Icarus saw the sun after years of clouds and misery and thought about his childhood and about sunsets and dawns and he smiled, because it was like greeting an old friend after a rough time.
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my hobbies? well, i like reading, cooking, and imagining different heartbreaking scenarios with my otp in which one of the characters dies and the other suffers without them, knowing damn well if such thing happens in canon i'm going to cry like a bitch
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Personally I believe you are doing the Lord’s work and I get super excited when I see your gifs in Nick’s tag. To quote Nick himself “someone spent a lot of time creating something. There is nothing more admirable or beautiful than that” so if these people sending you hate are fans of his I’m really worried about why such hateful people have attached to someone so positive and genuine.
Thank you 💛
It takes a long time and sometimes technical issues to create something and even if I see my gifs and edits on Twitter or Instagram without credit, I don't get mad. Nobody forces us to waste our time. People who are annoyed by my content can scroll.
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I read a very fun supernatural murder mystery today and I just picked the author's second book in the series only to see the Other Novels By Author page and realize they also wrote the She Topples Giants, a book which I've seen twice recently and keep insisting on misreading as The Topless Giants 😂😂
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