#lightningparadox

[whetstonefires]

Okay first of all I want to say that you are doing the most incredibly mdzs meta and I love all of it. You do SUCH a great job of remembering themes and everyone actual characterizations. Like, I think you're the only person doing yzy metas (that I enjoy, at least).

Also that wei wuxian as naruto meta? beautiful, wonderful, I wheezed at the thought of wei wuxian doing a sailor moon friendship beam attack.

Awww thank you! Lmao it's very pleasant to have a scream hole for my thoughts that contains other people who can scream back, especially because most of them are nice about it.

Oh man, Yu Ziyuan meta, I definitely feel like the audience is not there but I have so many thoughts. She has like four entire scenes and she's shaped like a cliche but she's got so much psychological depth and is handled with a compassion that doesn't imo attempt to excuse her bullshit, just make it coherent. That's pretty rare.

Which, I guess I can see why that doesn't get a lot of fandom reverb but.

Anyway, thank you for validating! Excellent way to increase the odds I will make more.

All that said: oh my god the Naruto post. I'm. This all happened because I compared Zewu-jun to Jane Bennet one time. Help.

Was getting challenged to frame those mashups akin to being trapped in a hell of my own creation? Yes. Was it also super fun? Yes? Am I mad that tumblr's indexing is so bad I can't go and look at that abomination of a meta post now you've reminded me it exists? Extremely!

[tossawary]

I'm sorry this feels real weird, but I love PINTWILF a lot, and the fact that you really expanded on SQH's role and everything. And I really loved that you added the other unnamed peaks and melded them in, everything that you wrote about the peaks actually really fleshed them out and their roles. So what did you name the three other peaks, and what are their roles? I think I only really understand that Xi Jiao is an animal/beast peak?

It’s not weird! I’m quite pleased with the sect logistics I’ve been writing in PINTWILF (from a humor angle, not a realism angle) and so I’m happy to talk about it. This is the order of peaks I’ve been using in PINTWILF: 

(1) Qiong Ding Peak - Peak Lord: Yue Qingyuan (Canon) 

Apparently they’re responsible for general affairs. I’ve always assumed they’re also responsible for dealing with other sects and politics, outside of peak-specific specialties where another peak lord has the authority to represent the sect. 

(2) Qing Jing Peak - Peak Lord: Shen Qingqiu (Canon) 

Peak of scholars and strategists. I assumed from there that they would also be responsible for a lot of library and archive-related duties, and that they would have some talisman and seal experts, etc., and that QJ and QD would be closely tied in many matters. 

(3) Wan Jian Peak - Peak Lord: Wei Qingwei (Canon) 

Peak of sword masters. I assumed that this meant both martial weapon specialists and sword smiths. I also assumed that this could be expanded to many kinds of metal work. Where WJ and AD meet is probably where a lot of non-weapon-related fabrication happens. 

(4) An Ding Peak - Peak Lord: Shang Qinghua (Canon, minus #?)

I’ve seen people put An Ding anywhere from 4th to 12th. I’m not sure that An Ding has a canonical number. I prefer An Ding being 4th because of 1) how closely Qiong Ding and An Ding’s work would be tied and the importance of logistics, but 2) mainly how funny I think it is if SQH is only three murders away from being the sect leader. 

SQH: “Wei Qingwei, you cannot die. The chances of Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan offing each other is too high for you to die on me. YOU’RE MY LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. DON’T MAKE ME BE SECT LEADER.” 

(5) Xian Shu Peak - Peak Lord: Qi Qingqi (Canon)

It’s unclear what specialties XS has, probably because it only existed in PIDW as the “hot lady peak” (and MXTX never actually expanded it post-transmigration). It’s never come up, but I kind of dig the idea of XS doing some textiles work, anything from weaving fine fabrics to rope-making. (Who makes stuff like Immortal Binding Cables? It could be Xian Shu.) 

(6) Xi Jiao Peak - Peak Lord: Tang Qingling (Non-Canon) 

Yes, this is an animal/beast peak, because I’ve seen it brought up in a few fics, and I thought it would be funny for SY to be entranced by the idea, only for SQH to go, “Bro, I hope you have the stomach for blood and literal shit, because that’s where they butcher monsters for parts and collect crap for fertilizer.” 

I also like the idea of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect having actual pipelines based on the specialties, which make it a very profitable and efficient sect. (Also, where are they getting their food? Do they have livestock? Do they buy it all from the surrounding towns and cities? Xi Jiao is me deciding that, yes, they have livestock.) Liu Qingge brings in a monster, it goes to Xi Jiao, then the parts go out again to Wan Jian, Qian Cao, Zui Xian, and others. to become armor, medicine, potions, etc.. Or maybe just to An Ding to sell. 

(7) Bai Zhan Peak - Peak Lord: Liu Qingge (Canon) 

They make people who fight good. 

(8) Qian Cao Peak - Peak Lord: Mu Qingfang (Canon) 

Trains healers and makes medicine. I assumed that they would grow as many of their own plants as they could and do a lot of plant breeding. Medicine could also be a great source of income for the sect (another reason why QC is one of Shang Qinghua’s favorite peaks). 

(9) Ku Xing Peak - Peak Lord: Wang Qingjie (Canon, minus # and peak lord) 

The peak name is canon, but I can’t remember if they have a canonical number and they don’t have a canonical peak lord. They’re all all-male peak with an ascetic lifestyle, living akin to monks. 

I think I decided that they specialized in talismans and the creation of other spiritual tools, including and as well as ceramics. So, they work closely with many of the other peaks, but especially An Ding in supplying other peaks. I can’t remember why I decided this. I think maybe I decided that Ku Xing might have a philosophy that “to create purifying objects, the maker must also be free from impurities”? Hence the ascetic lifestyle. 

I also thought it would be funny if Ku Xing and Qing Jing had a little bit of a rivalry going on. Shen Qingqiu makes very good talismans and Wang Qingjie is NOT angry about it (in the way of someone trying not to be angry). 

(10) Zui Xian Peak - Peak Lord: Zhang Qingyan (Canon, minus # and peak lord) 

Again, the peak name is canon, but I can’t remember if they have a canonical number and they don’t have a canonical peak lord. This is the peak that apparently specializes in alcohol. 

So, I decided that they might as well be responsible for brewing other potions and solutions. Maybe they have people who specialize in alchemy. Qian Cao and Wan Jian and Xi Jiao (and nearly every other peak) probably do their own brewing of certain things, but it probably helps to have someone else dedicated to brewing on a large scale. Qian Cao grows the plants for a common medicine, then ships them to Zui Xian for mass-production, and the An Ding takes the result and sells it to all the nearby towns and cities. 

Zui Xian probably saves and makes Cang Qiong so much money. 

(11) Long Sheng Peak - Peak Lord: ??? (Non-Canon) 

This is a newer invention and I haven’t come up with a peak lord yet, but they’re named after “The Dragon’s Backbone” and they specialize in plants and agriculture. This is my “this is how the sect gets fed” peak, alongside Xi Jiao. 

Maybe they don’t grow all the sect’s food themselves, but they support and work with the surrounding towns and cities to make sure that the local harvests survive all of PIDW’s horrible plants and monsters. Sometimes you need cultivators who can tell you why this year’s harvest is haunted and what to do about it! Maybe Airplane invented the equivalent of magical locust swarms and didn’t think twice about it, so someone has to deal with that! Maybe they grow the materials for Xian Shu’s textiles work! 

They work closely with Xi Jiao, Qian Cao, Zui Xian, and An Ding. 

(12) ??? 

I haven’t actually named the last peak. I haven’t really seen a need to invent one yet and it’s kind of been a in-joke with myself. It’s fun to imagine people being like, “Cang Qiong has twelve peaks, right? What’s that last one called again? I can never remember what that last peak is called.” 

Notes: 

I imagine that most of the peaks’ specialties overlap in one way or another. An Ding, Zui Xian, Qian Cao, and Long Sheng each do some agricultural stuff, but Qian Cao and Long Sheng (especially LS) do most of it. And so on. 

Cang Qiong Mountain Sect also doesn’t have to do everything in-house. Shang Qinghua also has to make orders from other sects and merchants for stuff that Cang Qiong either can’t make or don’t have the space/time to make. I just like the idea that CQ is so powerful partly because they’re so independent. 

If I keep the details loose, I can get a lot of fun humor out of it. 

[dameferre]

i hope nobody minds that i do this in one swoop i didn’t wanna spam people’s dashes with the same thing a bunch of times but i very much appreciate everyone taking the time to answer me! 

thank you for letting me know!! seems especially poignant atm which i assume is why it was on my dash, i’ll see if i can find it to give it a watch sometime soon! 

[stirringwinds]

I think one of the coolest Dirt Children™ headcanons I ever read was that because a Nation is indeed every single one of their citizens, that if they focused on a particular person, they knew everything about them, because, in a sense, the Nation /was/ that person.

damn this concept is fascinating: I’ve seen it used in the past in several fics where Human Meets Nation. I’ve also read fics where like, nations can subtly sort of…Jedi Mind Trick their own citizens :^) so their citizens ignore them (or their strange inhumanness) at times too.

the magic and mechanics of their existence are just really intriguing to think about. their soul is effectively tied to millions. millions and millions of horcruxes. 

[lysical]

In terms of grounding, a few times as a kid/teen my mom would get mad and I would /ground myself/, and come up with my own terms. Within 24 hours my mom would capitulate, give me back whatever I was grounded from and praise me for being such a good child. It was a pretty great system.

That is a very good system, A+

[xocorinthia]

lightningparadox replied to your post: lightningparadox replied to your post: ...

you literally cannot do worse than rogue one in this regard

i,,, 

u have a point

[batfamship]

Artist/Writer Pair-Up Event

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@comicsandrock @lightningparadox Here's the thing:

1. I don't think making up a fun phrase is that much more difficult than saying your name. I guess it depends on what impression you want to give your soulmate. Are you flawlessly logical or eccentric and creative?

2. How old do you want to be when you meet them? Cuz if you give your name and address to everyone you meet it's a matter of time before your parents locate your AU soulmate for you and then you meet them when you're like 6 and it's basically an arranged marriage. Some people are fine with that but to me it's like 😬

3. If it's just your name you say, there are plenty of people with identical names (31,000 James Smiths in the US alone) and unique names seem the same or possibly worse than unique greetings. Imagine if your name was Plonarb2.

4. If you are suggesting for people to give out their names and addresses, then I'm begging you: Don't give out your name and address to every stranger you meet the first time you meet them. That's a tremendously bad idea. Yikes

You know what bugs me about soulmate aus? So, I’m assuming that this whole “the first thing your soulmate says to you blahblahblah” is a worldwide thing. So many of the aus I’ve read have a quote at some point that addresses how tragic it is when people have soul words that say something like “hi” or “‘sup” which makes NO SENSE! In a world where the first thing you say to people is THAT important, WHY GOD WHY would the culture still use standard greetings? Who the fuck is still saying hello at this point? Everyone in these worlds would surely develop a personalized greeting different from everybody else’s to prevent confusion. Like how no 2 racehorses can have the same racing name? The best part is that every time people met someone new for the first time, they would try to say something that no one else had said. You’d have people meeting eachother at a job intetview, they’d shake hands, smile politely, then one of them would be like “Every Tuesday, I hard even grape purple farm house sunsets too” and this would be perfectly normal. Or you’d go up to the cash register at Starbucks and instead of saying “Hello, what can i get for you today?” She’d look you right in the eye and say “I don’t know what Space Jam is” THEN ask you what you want and she’d repeat that to every customer in the line for the rest of her career. And because they live in the AU, nobody would think it was weird.

[lightningparadox]

locallygrownavocado replied to your post: ok my fave thing about ep 10 of yoi is the fact...

@lightningparadox​ Well I mean you’re completely right. Phichit is absolutely willing to believe it and is completely convinced for a second that his best friend got married. That in and of itself is hilarious. I just like over analyzing. :)

over-analyzing is the BEST. Besides, yoi can always use more love!

[oh-mother-of-darkness]

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@lightningparadox said: I think about “Yes, that’s Jason [grits teeth] [sets aside newspaper titled ‘Red Hood Levels Mayoral Office’] We miss him every day” just about every day and I don't know why but it's like the fucking funniest thing I have ever read

[reference]

Lmao thanks :) It’s the age old question isn’t it? How do I pretend to mourn my dead son when he is both alive and a giant pain in my ass

Anonymous said: I definitely accidentally switched between Richard and Dick midword and said Rick Grayson and it was a new low point in my life.

Richard Grayson: upstanding son of Bruce Wayne, heir to Wayne Enterprises

Dick Grayson: fun older brother that owns a circus

Rick Grayson: Your unpopular step-father, carries a briefcase 

Anonymous said: I'm not really sure how I started following you since I don't really feel any particular way towards the batfam, but you care a lot and I find that endearing. I usually unfollow people when they post stuff I'm not interested in, but I've followed you for a while and I'm always like, "oh hey there goes that batfam person talking about the batfam again hope they're having a good day"

That’s really sweet! I’d be willing to bet it was the ace post that brought you here. I get a ton of traffic from that one

Anonymous said: Do you have a list of other people's batfam fics that you love? I just finished all of yours (sadly) and they were AMAZING but now I'm on a batfam high and need more.

I’m afraid I don’t! I don’t actually read other people’s fanfiction. You might try asking Stell? 

[dameferre]

I like to imagine that the amis try to jam together but they all play wildly different instruments and make the weirdest songs (I'm imagining a scenario involving at least one banjo, a bass clarinet, and a french horn, and perhaps depressing death music on pan flutes).

oh MAN you’ve read my fic [eyebrow wiggle]

alright yes i like this like they try so hard to make literally any kind of semi passable music but they’re just, not compatible, the world’s worst tragedy. here we go:

utterly musically incapable: joly, courfeyrac, bahorel, cosette

was forced to take piano lessons as a child, cannot unlearn the lessons but it has never once occurred to them to take advantage of the skill and use it for romancing purposes: enjolras, marius

can play the french horn, no one is really surprised but also what the fuck: bossuet

bass guitar AND bass clarinet: musichetta, she’s better at the clarinet though

inexplicably talented at the flute: eponine

depressing pan flute and shockingly, really fucking good at the saxaphone??? where did you even learn what in heck, also where did you get one of those weird horizontal triangle harp things (they have a name that starts with a d? i think?): jehan 

the cello, so well and so deep you can hear the sound of the strings resonate in your soul: combeferre

the fucking banjo. what the fuck. who are you where did you come from: grantaire

keeps a harmonica on hand in case a situation ever needs to be escalated: gavroche

[xocorinthia]

lightningparadox replied to your post “eu fanclub rant”

is there any way for you to talk to the triumvirate about your feelings? Surely there's some sort of system in place for dealing with people like this. If not, you probably need some rules. Like 'literal semi-selective roleplay' in the description

lol, we have rules, but they were greatly pared down from the previous thread (we open a new thread every few months), and they left out the rules about roleplaying in-thread and they also left out literally everything that talks about the actual purpose of the thread. because i’m an older member at this point and still follow the original rules, i’m pretty salty about it all. also, because all the new members were directly recruited and didn’t find the thread via the subforum it’s in (like i did), they don’t understand that it’s specifically for discussion of the star wars expanded universe and legends sith. they treat the thread like a purely social thread (which it’s not). it’s a fanclub. a club where fans of the eu sith gather and talk about the eu sith. 

we haven’t had an eu-related discussion for weeks. 

i’m gonna talk to stephen, the second in command, on facebook about this at some point. i would put my hip waders on and wreak some havoc on the thread for losing sight of its purpose, but i don’t feel it’s my place to do so. :-(

[stevieraebarnes]

All the love and appreciation to @lightningparadox for bailing me out of an embarrassing tag I posted for yj fan art. Thanks and phew!

[you-sir-are-a-ray-of-sunshine]

Got tagged by @girlsreadcomicsyeah 

The rules are to tag 10 people you want to know more about.

Name/Nickname: Elisha/Lisha

Relationship status: I have a boyfriend

Favourite greeting:  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pets: dachsund/ cockapoo mix named Coco, two german shepherd/ hound mixes named Loki and Calypso, persian named Tittles (not a typo), an orange cat named Nakoma (we thought she was a girl but turns out he’s a guy, we just use both pronouns) 

Last song I listened to: "Hymn for the Weekend” by Coldplay ft. Beyonce

Favourite tv show(s): I have too many favorites 

First fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Hobbies: Netflix 

Books I am currently reading: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer

Worst thing to have graced my tastebuds: my boyfriends cum.... it tastes like poison....

Favourite place: my bedroom

I tag: @el-for-eleven, @socaprxious, @fangirling-film-geek, @kyloreindeer, @lunamay3, @piolhyna, @lightningparadox, @opera-gangster, @memer-s, @rc-gansey

[screamting]

Reblogging for @lightningparadox

yeah it doesn’t get any better

okay you know that thing where a character stands by a wall and jumps out of the way at the last second and the sword gets stuck in the wall? They did that with a very ooc deathstroke, world’s greatest assassin, where he stabbed into glass, while underwatre, in a glass base, under the ocean, UNDERWATER There was beyond no reason to stab

[dameferre]

Psst did you know CS Pacat released one of the Captive Prince short stories? And another one's coming out soon I think

oh shit lol no i didn’t i blacklisted captive prince because i was just. So Tired of hearing about it