let's talk abt hua cheng and the way his entire *almost* existence relates back to xie lian cuz it's been my current roman empire, his name having the word 'hua' which means 'flower' can be seen as relating to xie lian's god name (the flower crowned martial god), also he's called crimson rain sought flower cuz he was shielding a lone white flower (also represents xie lian) from the blood rain (he can be the said 'flower' in that rain too actually), that red coral pearl on his hair braid ? it belongs to xie lian, that red string tied around his finger, xie lian tied strands of his hair around that finger which represents marriage and ofc the red-string-of-fate soulmate trope, he has xie lian's name tattooed on him in his terrible writing, made an entire city just so his love can come there and rest and build a temple there so he can worship him and remained his only devotee when xl lost everything (that thing abt gods being in existence as long as there is someone to worship them) he gave up on becoming a god cuz then who will be worshipping his god ?? isn't afraid to show his true form to xl which he never did to anyone, destroyed those thirty three gods cuz they ridiculed his gege, took lqq along with him to qi rong's den so he can clear the false accusations even if xl didn't want him to CUZ YOU WILL NAWT BE HATING HIS DIANXIA OVER THINGS HE NEVER DID i mean his entire existence is because xie lian said 'if you can't find any reason to live, make me your reason to live' and oh isn't that level of devotion and love so devastating ?
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the way the webnovel will have lloyd feeling like a tiny dog caged with a lion when he's with alicia, make him get goosebumps and chills the entire time they're talking, an ominous feeling as he realizes what his future looks like and then have him make a half-hearted remark about her looking nice in the right light,,,, only to immediately after in the very next chapter have javier walk with him late at night, falling into step with him naturally, the way they have done for years, and have lloyd confess to javier his true feelings, how scared he is, how thankful he feels for having javier, how he wouldn't have come so far without him and then telling him to be careful in the battle to come, to not go too far and to not get hurt. effectively making his last true conversation before going to his 'death' be with javier.
like. one of these is supposed to be the canon love interest at the closest they've ever been to each other and the other just his very good buddy that he wanted to grow old with and is planning on sacrificing his life for
three guesses on which one is which and the first two don't count
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What exactly were the chances of 2021 me randomly buying this one book one day, starting then dropping it almost immediately, only to remember it a few years later and decide to read it from the start to then find out it's CANONICALLY GAY AND IT WAS NOT SPECIFIED ANYWHERE THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME RECENTLY
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i was talking to my therapist last week about how i'm kinda excited but also equally apprehensive about starting grad school this fall because yes, i so so desperately needed a gap year otherwise i think i literally would have killed myself and/or had a breakdown big enough to land me in the hospital, and even beyond that i just needed to figure out a more concrete plan of what i'm going to do with my life in general -- while all of that is true, and i'm glad i took the gap year for it, i'm also apprehensive because i genuinely feel like an entirely different person than i was even at this exact point in time last year, nevermind anything earlier than that. it's only been a single year of me being out of school but my life has changed so dramatically, mostly for the better, and my whole personality has flipped on its head, it's just going to be so fucking weird going back to the same school, the same campus, potentially seeing my old friends around. augh
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😮😮😮😮😮 A new Behind the Scenes episode dropped on Patreon featuring Jackie Andrews/RJ McCabe???
is it Christmas??? Oh, maybe it's a belated Ferin present (shhh don't @ me with "not a gift-giving occasion")
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