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[seventh-fantasy]

okay... idk at all if this has been discussed or that I'm just stating the obvious. I'm posting any way to get more feedback.

so. can we be sure that the last boat scene even happened (in the way we saw it at least)

yeah the letter was delivered to the intended recipients. the letter also did say 李相夷绝笔 lit. the final writing by li xiangyi. there's a brief exchange between him and the assumed "boatman" asking him where he was going. and we see he spat blood while writing yeah but:

llh/lxy's eyesight had been failing for some time.

Professional Letter Writers are a thing in the past in service to people who can't write their own letters (idk enough to verify the historical accuracy in this specific context though)

what has been bugging me since forever is the manner of speech of the letter. yeah it's different from their everyday speech, but that's actually perfectly fine since this is A Letter so I'm good with it being more formal. but... there's something I just can't quite pinpoint. especially with the use of the 君 jun pronoun by llh/lxy to refer to dfs when there could be other pronouns with less connotations of intimacy (and scholarly/imperial court system) implied and still conveyed cordiality, marking a shift in their relationship. (I'm not well versed with wuxia as a genre enough to know what are the conventions. someone else who does can say something though.)

whatever these put together means (eg. he may not have written the letter personally, or he wrote it in a different situation from what we saw, etc etc.) alongside:

this scene existed only as part of a visualisation as the letter content is revealed to the audience (or assumed to be fdb reading the letter to dfs & guests of the wedding spectators of the duel)

the boat lxy/llh jumped on is not the same as the one he was writing the letter on - the boatman is also not on it despite the conversation at the beginning, but lxy/llh's dressing and hairpin are the same as the ones before he jumped. (the boatman delivered the letter so he's real though.)

also as @wonderfulnonsense happened to have just pointed out in the tags left in my other post: it's in fact the same boat he took to go fight dfs at donghai 10 years ago. (edit: or maybe it isn't? as pointed out by anon.)

if we viewed whatever we perceived in this scene as imaginary (not what actually happened), then the reading of it being a metaphor for lxy/llh being on his way to enlightenment just makes sense. (the boat being a carrier on his spiritual transformations.) especially when you consider that 彼岸 the other shore is another concept in buddhism to represent enlightenment, alongside the motif of lotuses. (credits to @markiafc for the buddhism reading - edit: mark's meta here) and then, consider the beach ending... yeah.

[difeisheng]

alright, i'm really hoping di feisheng is playing his own internal game with the wansheng clan and shan gudao, and/or that he's actually been in contact with li xiangyi since he started scheming against jiao liqiao and the turncoat jinyuan alliance

[bonguri]

20240429 Kuragari ravine 3 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: いい渓流なので、もう少し古枝の手入れをしたらもっといい感じになると思うんだけどなあ。 @Kuragari ravine, Okazaki city, Aichi pref. （愛知県岡崎市 くらがり渓谷）

[mx-myth]

Came up with a mlc pacific rim au during a conference I had to go to yesterday and... I will definitely post about it later

[1pcii]

actually yknow what, in a better world we'd have people shipping Moria and mihawk so that mihawk could be Perona's step dad instead of just pretending he didnt exist :p

[kirayamidemon]

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[kimberlyannharts]

Autumn is back and so is Dino Fury!  Zayto’s treating Aiyon to his first ever pumpkin spice latte c:

[meanderingpaperboat]

Fourth and Fifth submissions for the Design Fight... Downallysm and Uptrot!!

Downallysm is on the left and Uptrot is on the right! Hope you like them! ^^ For @emperormoth101

[after-witch]

Are you adjusting well after the move?

honestly--

nope, nope, nope, not at all. I'm not doing well in a serious way.

I feel very mentally displaced because I can't unpack anything extra due to my most recent back injury, so my apartment is still just Boxes and A Handful of Essential Things right now. I had to reschedule an appointment for my back issue, so hopefully I can get in soon.

I'm finding it difficult to finish things (commissions, work, anything personal) because my back issue after pulling it on Day 3 of Living Here makes sitting at a computer flare up my back pain.

But because of my feet issues, I can't stand for long periods either. I'm just constantly battling pain, inability to do normal things, while also still trying to work & take care of myself & eat food that is vaguely healthy for me.

I just feel like I'm stuck in metaphorical syrup right now, and I'm struggling to get to a flat surface where I can get balanced again. If that makes sense.

Sorry for the rant 'non, I appreciate you asking, i just wish I was doing better.

good thing:

I really do like my apartment & the area. It's a small town that I used to visit all the time when I'd get dropped off for doctor's appointments, and my apartment is within walking distance to a downtown area with quite a bit to do. (library! movies! an old fashioned arcade! parks & biking trails I can use once I get my bike fixed up!) My neighbors are totally fine and the set-up of where my apartment is in the building gives me more privacy than I thought I'd have.

edit: also I told myself I'd try to unpack one box before I go to sleep because it's on top of a table and I can reach it and BAM, finally found my desk microphone that I use when I can't type because of elbow flare-ups, but now I can use it while standing or walking around to write!! fucking yes. thank you, random box.

[mirrorballmika]

I cannot express enough how trippy having a HDF hyperfixation start up in the middle of 2022. I went in thinking it was a cute wholesome Nickelodeon show with a cute cast then it turns out Ray’s characterisation is fucking whack, the writing honestly misses as much if not more than it hits the DF kids apparently have beef and two of the original HD cast members are Trumpies? 

I read three years of fandom discourse in a week and it aged me. 

[seventh-fantasy]

xrj: the values and teachings of confucianism are bullshit actually

also xrj:

you can actually. sir you're literally the emperor..only just the most powerful man in the land i guess. also a human being with autonomy and the capacity to change...lovely <3

[t4tbedehopmar]

my whole idea for the event when kaname wakes up is it can't be a event w a song right? and a scout wld be too eh so it should be a tour event! BUT in a tour there's two units implied, so to say two 5*s! one of then wld be def himeru but what abt the other one? WELL THIS IS WHEN THE CRAZY:B X DOUBLE FACE TOUR APPEARS!!!!!!

[bonguri]

20240429 Kuragari ravine 2 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: くらがり渓谷駐車場そばの小さな滝。 @Kuragari ravine, Okazaki city, Aichi pref. （愛知県岡崎市 くらがり渓谷）

[phonovice]

Shopping Plaza.

Nikon Df

AF-S NIKKOR 58mm F1.4G

[lemony-snickers]

We're sharing pet pics? ;u; please accept this horse

<3 <3 <3 <3 what a sweetie!

is your little baby a greyhound?? when i was a kid, i wanted to adopt a brindle-coated greyhound with all my little six-year-old might, so if so you are literally living kid!lem's dream life right now!

either way, they look very sweet & cozy with their little bird friend. thank you for sharing this snapshot with me. <3

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

SEVENTEEN FUCK MY LIFE UPPPPP