#beef and leaf

[veliseraptor]

Idk if you feel like expanding on it but i read your book review on the recent tgcf book and how you liked the ‘do it yourself’ scene. Do you have any thoughts on that? I think it can and does mean so many things id love to get into black waters head

black water arc and everything about it is probably my favorite part of tgcf except possibly the entirety of book 4 (though I really do love the whole thing, or I wouldn't have read it four times) so sure I can try to marshal my thoughts to something more coherent than "HNHGHGHGHHGHHGHHFHGHH"

okay so first thing is that we know ghosts are, most often, a result of some unfinished business/something from life that a person is hanging onto hard enough that they don't let go with death. hua cheng's reason is explicitly his devotion to xie lian; he xuan's is to get revenge for his family's deaths (and, to a lesser extent, his own). the idea is that once that unfinished business is resolved, ghosts are free to move on.

but he xuan doesn't. ostensibly his purpose is fulfilled. he's killed shi wudu, he's avenged his family. and yet he's still sticking around. available to have a favor called in by hua cheng. and he knows shi qingxuan is there (probably dropped him off there), and brings the (repaired!!!) wind master fan, and then when things are looking really bad and shi qingxuan is begging him for help...

it's just such a move that's so very in line with what I can imagine happening when they were friends. not moving to save shi qingxuan but giving shi qingxuan the tools to do it yourself. granting them back not full divinity (he xuan doesn't have the power to do that) but power nonetheless. after the last time we saw them, with shi qingxuan asking to die and he xuan saying dream on, this is the next time we see them interact, and it's so very different and also so very sideways and indirect. I think that's what drives me insane about it, and probably also what drives shi qingxuan insane about it. what does it mean? good question. it's not forgiveness, and it's not like he xuan sticks around to talk after revealing his identity. but there it is, just the same.

the thing that drives me probably the most insane about he xuan and shi qingxuan is how unfinished their story is. he xuan is just kind of...lurking around, not gone but not quite present. shi qingxuan seems to be resigned to their new life (and indeed, at least trying to thrive in it) but is aware that he xuan is Out There Somewhere and at least circling in their vicinity, which has to be a weird piece of knowledge. they're not done and it haunts me.

[solacestea]

one inch of love is one inch of ashes

[emry-stars-art]

I live for your JellyFish!Neil AU.

They are so cute, and I just want to protect them forever! Thank you for bringing these into the world! 🧡💜

THANK U FOR ENJOYING THEM 💕

[lunnitavaldez]

the official ru sketchbook tgcf has very funny inscriptions 😄 (I love this sketchbook very much and I draw in it all the time)

Bon appetit He Xuan, you've been hungry for so long

[tiny-pun]

Jealousy prompt

My fav type of fics that is somehow STILL underrated

Persona A KNOWS B is nice to everyone. Yes maybe it’s a little too nice and even a little too flirty (or actual has one night stands) but they KNOW that about them since the day they met. B is a flirt, intentionally or not. That’s just a fact. So why are they still jealous after all these years ? So they throw themselves into their work/friendship with their bestie to get over them. Or at least numb the feeling.

Person B KNOWS that A and their bestie are just friends. Yes, maybe a bit too close for their taste but there have been multiple times where other people have thought them to be a couple and they very clearly deny it. Or have they been a bit too defensive? Either way, seeing them become spending so how MORE time with one another is probably not a good sign. So they throw themselves at every person they can to at least have some kind of gratification.

Who snaps first ? (I vote B but you decide ! Comment why!)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

diversity win! your doomed greek tragedy ship is genderfluid!

[significant-narratives]

some day, when the hockey gods deem fit, they will crown this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. but tonight he is alive and in the north field with his team. it is a perfect winter evening: the moon rising over the stadium, the wind in the trees. and as he stares up at the scoreboard, there are thrice as many goals as usual.

[morethansalad]

Vegan Beef Bourguignon with Seitan

[abilai]

wangxian pinsies !!!

[leafwateraddict]

i have two hands and they're used to hold Sans and Dust's

Couldn’t stop thinking of this picture from a different angle xD

[saucetrnak]

leafs vs lightning in the playoffs has me genuinely fearing for the state of florida because the chance of matthew knies dropping a bomb on amalie arena is not zero

[solacestea]

[lindholmline]

okay leafs blr…i’m rooting for you

[cordaged]

[best-thing]

*... (black, oolong, white, green--whatever makes your heart sing)

[smashmeleeganondorfsno1fan]

One of the main issues I'd have being in a relationship (or even a friendship) with Ganondorf is how much of a stinky peasant I'd feel like, going around with a literal God-King.

Even if he'd shower me in gifts, call me his queen, marry me, I'd still feel unworthy of being so close with someone of his title. Like I'm some gold digger who worked her way up to the position as opposed to him genuinely liking me for me.