#i love it so muchhhhhhhhhhh

[danhoemei]

i had liu yao on my list to read forever, never got around it and recommended it to a friend and now she asked what it's about. Could i ask you for a summary, pls? :)

ANON YES BUT I'M NOT SURE I CAN GIVE A SHORT ONE

I rambled about liu yao here and here, so you can check if it's enough for you. The description on liu yao's carrd is also quite good:

What does it mean to seek immortality? Those who have ascended were human once, but do they ever stop yearning for the world they once roamed?

In the age of immortals and would-be immortals, ten-year-old Cheng Qian leaves his family to apprentice under the Sect Leader of the obscure Fuyao Mountain Sect. What follows next is a hundred-year-long tale of blood and sweat, tears and heartbreak, but also love and laughter, joy and triumph, and most importantly, a journey of finding that sometimes, a home isn’t always a place, but the beloved family that you make for yourself along the way.

And here I'll give/repeat a few points that I liked (tried to keep the info vague or as minor spoilers for the beginning of the novel):

the reader is closely taken through the character's cultivation progress (basically what I wrote here)

we meet the characters when they're small children and get to see their development, what exactly shaped them, why they had inclinations to some choices, or how their relationships with each other were built gradually and naturally

the characters aren't high and mighty from the start, which made them more real and relatable

typical for Priest's works subversion of some tropes, e.g. the spoiled and lazy peacock young master walks one of the toughest paths in Dao (which also usually produces aggressive and crude people, opposite to our niangniang), the cold-faced and snarky MC who is obsessed with getting stronger entered Dao through his heart, their shimei is quite unruly and powerful and there isn't fawning over her looks (which is what I usually see in danmei if a girlTM exists among the main characters); AND MORE, but i can't say much without more spoilers

cultivation and sects are kinda dissed instead of praised and fawned over, especially at the beginning, which was very fun and refreshing to read

I love how the pursuit of immortality is presented in liu yao. What even is immortality? If we shed all care about the world and ascend to merge with Dao... what's the difference between that and dying?

FOUND FAMILY AT ITS FINEST, LIKE LITERALLY THE DEFINITION OF THE TROPE

very slow burn, and the story pulled me in so much that I didn't even feel impatient for the romance

very funny, I laughed SO MUCH

but also cried :') I cry very rarely, so when a story manages to make me cry I gain additional respect for its ability to raise such emotions in a reader. And liu yao made me cry a few times :')

so yeah, it's a very interesting story with great world-building and a variety of distinct characters. It has some flaws ofc, sometimes the pacing got a bit slow and I had to harden myself to keep going, and the ending has a few open threads that could've been resolved but weren't. But I still love this novel so much 💚💚 one of my favs fr

[celestialalpacaron]

(PG. 3-5) Lol they’re both so inlove with eachother and they don’t even know it yet, they even fight about it guys they’re both so pathetically smitten askjfaghsaj- 💀

[lampochkaart]

Oumota my beloved💜💫

[royalarchivist]

Jaiden: Do you trust me 100% as a person on the Island? Cellbit: Oh for sure, yeah, I mean– there are like, really few people that I can say I actually trust, you are one of them. And you know why? Jaiden: Why? Cellbit: I got like a mail in the Festa Junina that I think it was from you, that kinda like... was really aggressive and kind of sorta like a menace, and was like– Jaiden: I don't know who– it could've been anyone, I don't know.

A late-night conversation about trust. I really love Jaiden and Cellbit's friendship :') Also for context, this is the letter Jaiden wrote to Cellbit:

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Jaiden: And I– I do want to ask– like, I know that, you know... People have opinions, and people are doing things, but I don't... Do you trust me 100% as a person on the Island?

Cellbit: Oh for sure, yeah, I mean– there are like, really few people that I can say I actually trust, you are one of them. And you know why?

Jaiden: Why?

Cellbit: Because you anta– uhhh. I got like a mail in the Festa Junina that I think it was from you, that kinda like... was really aggressive and kind of sorta like a menace, and was like–

Jaiden: I don't know who– it could've been anyone, I don't know [Laughs]

Cellbit: [Laughs] And then I was like, "Oh sh*t, ok yeah, so she actually– she actually, like you actually care for people that you love, you know? And like, you wanna protect who you care for.

Jaiden: Of course.

Cellbit: And that made me realize that I trust someone like that, because if someone is always like, so nice, and like so, "whoaa cute" with everyone, there's probably something going on there, right?

Jaiden: Yeah...

Cellbit: But when you go out of your way to protect who you love, that's when you're trustworthy.

Jaiden: Yeah of course.

Cellbit: And that's why I trust you, because you tried to fight ME because of Roier!

Jaiden: [Laughs] Well yeah, you pulled a couple moves that were not that cool in my eyes.

Cellbit: Yeah, yeah I know, I fcked up, I fcked up, yes I agree with you.

Jaiden: Yeah, I know. All water under the bridge.

Cellbit: So yeah, that's what made me trust you even more, because you actually came and like, put me on my place, you know? And that made me like you even more.

Jaiden: I'm glad, I'm glad. I was like– I was like, "This might be mean, but I don't really care." [Laughs]

Cellbit: Yeah, but sometimes you need to be mean to people, you know? That's–

Jaiden: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cellbit: That's– that's needed sometimes.

[backtochicago]

[kindheartedgummybears]

okay, a little (a lot) late to Jamies birthday but that's beside the point! I was going to make an edit for her but 1: motivation wasn't motivating. and 2: THE AUDIO I WASS GOING TO USE TO MAKE THE JAMIE EDIT SOMEONE ALREADY USED FOR A BIRTHDAY EDIT OF HER AND I DIDNT WANT TO COME OFF AS COPYING TO IMA HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER AUDIO😭😭

ANYWAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMIEEEE!! had a meme i made instead😌 (before you ask yes this was the meme i was giggling about🤭🤭)

[stabbyfoxandrew]

fucking hell. reading wolfsong has made me love my own wolf boy ocs so much again (leander and jace)(i haven't posted about them yet)

but i have just written like 1200 words of them sniffing each other

[mackmp3]

I always see you posting about missy but I don’t really know who she is, wanna explain? :) /nf

OKAY SO missy is one particular version of a character in doctor who called the master (picked their own name/title) - she's the only (so far) female regeneration of the master on tv and i love her <3 she is. a villain character. and she (& past & future versions of herself) has canonically done some pretty terrible things but! its just a story & she's really cool & her personality is soooooooooooooo ajshangsjagsajsgjanhskajhsm and i really love her victorian clothes & general demeanour & the way she talks she so silly. she & the doctor have a Really complicated relationship, theyre like friend-enimies-ex lovers-situationship-homoerotic-have actively tried to kill eachother-etc AND !! theyre the last two members of their species so they literally only have each other. childhood best friends. who would do anything to spite each other. & also love eachother deeply. & a lot of these element of missy's relationship with the doctor become more of a Actually Adresses Plot Element in s10 which is my favourite also <3 also her face is a really good shape to draw hehe :D

[maepersonal]

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OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

[fantabulisticity]

BATH & BODY WORKS HAS MAHOGANY WOODS SPRAY AGAIN. ON ITS OWN, NOT MIXED WITH ANOTHER SCENT. AND IT'S 75% OFF. *AND* I CAN AFFORD IT RIGHT NOW. NONE OF THESE HAVE EVER LINED UP FOR ME BEFORE AND I HAVE BEEN CHECKING BACK FOR 15 FUCKING YEARS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[sunriseovergotham]

HEARING MIKEYS VOICE... MY BABY <3333333333

[killuaisaprincess]

Happily Ever After

Killua was afraid of this day always. But he thinks it’s finally come. Gon doesn’t love him anymore. Not really, at least. Not for the last two months. Killua plays with the ring on his finger, the silver band still as sparkling as ever, the amethyst gem gleaming in the light.

Back then, it seemed like Gon was so happy.

Now he can’t remember the last time Gon smiled at him.

‘Your heart sounds so troubled.’

Melody was the unexpected kindness and voice he really needed to hear.

Her voice was soothing, and she looked at him with a gaze filled with sympathy.

‘You should speak to him.’

[whatwouldmickeydo]

I AM SO UPSET WHY WHAT HOW COULD YOU ALL DO THIS TO ME?! I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS IM CRAWLING INTO A HOLE

i’ve never felt so betrayed by the world in my life.

My verklempt darling, please believe me when I tell you we did NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT YOU THE ENTIRE TIME!!!

Your beautiful, wonderful, amazing presence was missed SO FREAKING MUCH and we are obviously rescheduling a new date to go look at more statue butts stat so like get on that?

Look at this hand!! I literally went “ooh juju would LOVE this!” and immediately took a picture

[mars-ipan]

^ fucking obsessed with nagito komaeda

[mymitochondriaforpresident]

“What would you do if I were there with you?”

“I would…run my fingers through your hair.”

Gifs by the lovely @books-books-smolderinglooks.

[lansangprincess]

Coming back from the dead for Heartbreak High S2∘—✧₊

Freaking out crying sobbing smiling laughing!!!!!!!!!!

Breakdown of trailer and initial reactions:

Amerie and Malakai are FWBs (strangers-to-friends-to-lovers-to-friends-to-FWBs-to-lovers slow burn i see the vision)

New love interest for Amerie causing a love triangle (I would theorize it ending up as a throuple if only Malakai didn't say he was done with threesomes lol) (i prob wont want them to end up as a throuple tho. we'll see when we meet this guy)

Ant and Harper ???? (kinda into it idk. did yall see that part where she tackled him on the field? Ant will be into being dominated i swear to god. we've already had one love interest that made her feel small we dont need another. also ant would never)

Missy and Spider ???? (so many random pairings this season i love it. if you think about it tho who better to put spider in his fucking place than Missy? it could work it could work) (thank fuck amerie/spider aint happening lmao sorry to yalls stans)

"Amerie's an asshole" again (idk what it is but youll never make me hate her so im not even gonna waste time trying to figure it out)

Malakai and Darren ???? (that feels cursed idk im sorry. they are siblingS. do yall not remember "do u want something gay to wear?" "yes pls" ?? it's giving eldest child and baby bro. But also i think it mightve just been a trailer bait type of thing. we're never giving up on ca$h and the writers should know that)

Darren in their celibacy era (I have no faith in u girlie but i love u dw)

idk what's up with Quinni but im still gonna mention her because I MISS HER SO MUCHHHHHHHHHHH please don't get back together with Sasha

I am very here for Amerie/Malakai, Ant/Harper and generally having a deeper dive into Ant, Missy and Spider. I want to see an out and about Malakai, cutesy dates for all my ships, even more Quinni & Darren, and Harper's friendship dynamics w everyone in the group.

SO EXCITED !!!!