#old from Twitter again

[thekeythief]

[vaszametili]

when it's too long to wait for the boss

[rusticfurnace]

🦋🦋🦋

[supportershy]

[wallbang-buzzkill]

old sketch of miller from Metro

[sunshine-zenith]

Understandable reservations (AKA when you aren’t even dating and you already have in-law issues)

[idekwtf-is-happening]

Damien’s currently getting cancelled on Twitter for *checks to make sure I’m reading this shit right* apologizing for a joke he made five years ago where he mentioned the conflict in Gaza

[cfeather]

demon king of salvation

[myriadmythology]

[sunnibits]

oh my fucking god

[losersimonriley]

Seeing a rancid post from an anti and wishing to hell there was a mass block button

[fromtheseventhhell]

The nonbinary!arya takes with Arya’s “i’m not a lady” quote makes no sense to me. I honestly don’t mind a single hc about any of the starklings’ sexuality or gender identity- but then the way Arya’s feminity is constantly brought into question irks me. I mean, the “i’m a girl” everytime Arya’s mistaken for a boy is Right. There. So there you go, Arya’s peak feminine icon because she firmly states, explicitly even, that she is, in fact, a girl at every opportunity. Bye

See my issue with takes like this will always be that this fandom is obsessed with removing Arya from her girlhood. So while I don't see anything inherently wrong with having the headcanon, most of the time it's coming from the perspective that her being a non-conforming girl in a strict patriarchal society makes her less of a girl. People think they're being progressive and "open" by having this opinion but, like you said, Arya is firmly rooted in her identity as a girl and corrects people on multiple occasions. Like...okay? You think a character constantly masculinized and belittled by fandom for not being a conforming female character is non-binary, congratulations? Meanwhile, female characters who actually toe the line with gender aren't getting the same treatment cause they're either considered too "feminine" or they're associated romantically with a man. It's just so forced, and I'm tired of non-conforming female characters being treated like they're lesser women.

[lowpolyshadow]

ok (ft. @/chaoxfix)

[risingsunresistance]

ok AS FAR AS I CAN TELL i've replaced all the pictures i dont like so my lil bot boy is ready to go again

[normalbirb]

the email guy

[chuckduckling]

So what was Yue Qingyuan doing during those five years that Luo Binghe held onto Shen Qingqiu’s body?

Well, I’ve looked at the book for clues.

First off, as far as the original SQQ knew, YQY never went into seclusion (trust me this is relevant):

“Who’s frightened?” [Shen Qingqiu] snapped angrily. “Zhangmen-shixiong never enters the Ling Xi Caves for secluded cultivation, no? So why must you fight me for a spot the moment I do!”

Perhaps that line wasn't meant to signify anything, but if YQY tried to avoid the caves because they triggered traumatic memories, it would make sense. He gets weird about it when Shen Yuan merely mentions that he'll be secluding himself:

If Shen Qingqiu wanted to enter seclusion in the Ling Xi Caves, he was sure Yue Qingyuan wouldn’t refuse. But the smile on Yue Qingyuan’s lips froze a little, his expression changing slightly.

But here, when LBH attacks the sect, Mu Qingfang says that YQY's secluded cultivation was forcefully interrupted.

[Yue Qingyuan had] barely [drawn his sword] when, next to him, Mu Qingfang anxiously said, “Zhangmen-shixiong, you were in secluded cultivation and forcefully interrupted your training, then faced these strong foes. It was already terribly hard on you. By pushing yourself to draw your sword now, I’m afraid your body will really…”

So in my interpretation, this means that SQQ's five years of "death" are what triggered YQY into secluding himself, and it was probably in the Lingxi Caves.

Was YQY worried about qi deviating after SQQ died? Did he seclude himself as a form of self-punishment? Had he given up on himself? Or was he training to make sure he didn't do anything impulsive, so that he'd be strong enough in case total war broke out between all the major sects after Liu Qingge retrieved SQQ's body?

When discussing the conflict between Huanhua Palace and Cangqiong, a nameless side character put it like this:

Those two sects go back and forth, repaying grievance with grievance, growing their feud larger and larger. The way I see it, one day, their ships will capsize together and no one will survive.

Since the fight over SQQ's body was apparently at risk of starting a dangerous and bloody conflict, I also wonder if this triggered YQY's "don't be impulsive, don't do anything reckless, you'll just make everything worse" issues.

So do you think YQY went into seclusion immediately after SQQ died? Or did he wait a while, pretend at normalcy, until he finally couldn't take it?

Do you think he stared at those walls, covered in his own blood, while he trained himself?

What thoughts were going through his head...