#phoenix talks

[cant-think-of-anything-creative]

I can see the training questions being all about emergency protocols and action plans, things that they'd need to know if they got to this point of physical exertion, so that the memories are tied to their lungs burning and their hearts beating out of their chests

nobody really listens to Dick when he warns new Robins about "quiz days" until Bruce takes out the monitor leads and starts heading to the stair climber

oh my god so in the DC gacha app there's a section where your characters go to farm material and it's set up like a training gym. Diana's already on a treadmill. Batman starts to go over. aw, I think, exercise buddies! :) and then he proceeds to run in the Opposite Direction so they're facing each other the whole time, and it flashed me back to your fic where Bruce and Hal don't stop arguing in the shower 🤣 I can absolutely see him setting it up on purpose so he can argue while running, casually matching pace, meanwhile Ollie keeps upping the speed trying to make him too winded to speak. Have mercy, Bruce, it's leg day, isn't that torture enough?? 🤣🤣

Love this 🤣 especially since the guidance for “easy” runs is “you can talk while maintaining the pace” which means they haven’t even scraped at Bruce’s VO2 max yet. He probably trains his Robins this way by upping the speed and then asking them specific questions they want to immediately answer. What a dick (this is v effective lol)

[phoenix-is-here]

Hello humans, animals and creatures from all across the universes !

I'm just popping in today to tell everyone that, today, the 12th of February, is Sun Wukong's birthday ! So wish him a really happy one ! That traumatized monkey went through so much, I think he definitely deserves it.

Anyway, have a great morning/day/evening/night, you silly and smart beings !

[azulas-daddy-kink]

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[emodennis]

ok so glenn said dennis would be a russian blue cat

also hi here’s me i met him

[phoenixtakaramono]

I believe Cheating Men must die is a great story

It adds wonderful twists in existing tropes and genres. The protag isn't perfect but she's great, she likes eliminating assholes, which is valid

It's also interesting how Su Luxia doesn't have an identity issue since she lives under so many identities but I guess she's hardened for the job

For everyone who hasn't read Cheating Men Must Die (comic "Wan Zha Chao Huang" (万渣朝凰) by Shi Dai Man Wang (时代漫王)), this is an open invitation for y'all to read it. Genre: quick transmigration, revenge story. Basically your ex-cannon fodder MC, Su Luxia, is a System agent who transmigrates (isekais/ world hops) into the bodies of women of each world who are wronged by the Male Lead, Female Lead, another canon fodder, author, etc and changes their fate. I forgot how many chapters of the manhua there are presently fan-translated but I believe the current season finale in Mandarin Chinese ends at over 800+ chapters of art. (The link has the MTL English translation, but if you don’t like MTL y'all can also peep at other sites for ENG fan-translations.)

There are a couple of different summaries but I love this summary the best:

Don't you think that all cheating sc*m need to die? Su Luxia, an intern pro working in a transmigration agency, doesn't believe in that. For her, all cheating bastards need to rot in hell before they die. Or else they won't suffer the taste of their own medicine! Using elaborate means, she beats up countless cheating bastards and b*tches. Su Luxia sneers... "People take everything they get for granted. The more they get, the more they don't strive for it. An unrequited love is an example. There is always a sc*m who takes advantage. Since they brought this upon themselves..." She studies her face in the mirror and smirks, "... let them have a taste of their own medicine." System: "You're making that scary face again!" Follow our female main lead, Su Lüxia, who is bound to the Female Lead Counterattack System and transmigrates to several small worlds beating up countless sc*m.

Art bait for y'all who are still hesitating (and some of my favorite arcs, and those that'd surprised me like the arc where she transmigrated into the Second Male Lead):

RE: I have to agree! Ty for the Ask, @bernkastel11! I had a response ready for ya the day I saw this in my inbox and literally typed a long essay with links, but lo and behold tumblr ate it. 😭 But finally I have the motivation for a take 2. Honestly the manhua is a guilty pleasure of mine. The art's great (we definitely see the artist improve over time with each arc...even with the obviously borrowed assets and sometimes janky perspective, hahaha) and I love how Su Luxia is a badass femme fatale (white lotus & green tea b*tch), as well as her friendship with her cute talking hamster System. I also love how the artist is giving variety; it's not all just kicking butt, chewing bubble gum, finding romance. She's become an empress, made a friendship with the exorcist Female Lead, become a mother, led revolutions, survived a death game, became a guy, made a Male Lead yandere and obsess over her to the point of trying to hunt her down in whichever world it is, has some...questionable sapphic overtones, transmigrated into a BL novel, revisited some worlds with reoccurring characters, etc. They satirize a lot of preexisting tropes, and I love it when artists and writers have fun with the meta. I also like how they're slowly expanding on the lore of her interest with previous System agent Zero (the whole reason why Su Luxia became a System agent).

"It's also interesting how Su Luxia doesn't have an identity issue since she lives under so many identities but I guess she's hardened for the job"

The thing about QTs in general is the artist or author usually don't put much emphasis on the consequences of transmigrating so many times into other people's bodies. It's just a staple of the genre (because they're usually portrayed as badass, cunning, and OP, what have you with a strong willpower to assume all these identities, overcome challenges, and not experience dysphoria). So far I think the only writer I can think of off the top of my head that addresses it is: The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration (novel / manhwa). I highly rec it. So far it is one of the few works where they explore that concept of how mentally exhausting it is adopting another person's identity as well as the consequences of "the characters" finding out (it's not your usual "oh, you hopped into my dead daughter's body and assumed her identity? Well la de dah, guess you're my daughter now." No, we're talking about the mother suspecting, finding out, being horrified, and having a mental breakdown trying to exorcise "the evil spirit" who's taken possession of her daughter's body). It also touches on the danger of an ordinary woman transmigrating into the body of a Female Lead in an R18+ novel where the Male Lead is a yandere.

Since you'd mentioned CMMD, I can give you several other links:

Cheating Men Must Die animated audio version of the first few arcs (King of the Phoenix), comes with ENG subs

Mission in Parallel 2022 Chinese short drama (it's the late 1910s socialite arc where she transmigrates as the overweight nightclub owner & wife of the abusive husband who gets seduced by a singer who's also a transmigrator), comes with ENG subs

Cheating Men Must Die (2022)(it's the arc where she transmigrates into the world where she's the villainess and the CEO Male Lead is self-aware, and the author has signed with the evil System trying to kill off Su Luxia so that she herself can transmigrate into the body of her own FL), comes with ENG subs

[cant-think-of-anything-creative]

I hated getting stuck on planets. That was the thought that kept cutting into my head between attempts to reconnect to ART’s feed. I hated planets, I hated getting stuck on them, and I especially hated the charged storm that was blocking everything but the colony’s local frequencies. That included ART’s shuttle, by the way, which had returned to it with Karime and Iris safely aboard just before the air got all static-y and was the reason I was trapped here, beneath the charged layer of atmosphere. ----- Due to some really bad weather, Murderbot gets stuck on a colony planet and is unknowingly exposed to a transmissible form of alien remnant contamination. Now it has to deal with stubborn code, weird instincts, and... the mortifying ordeal of being known.

you know what, I might as well

no idea when i'll update this, but the brain bees got me good. thanks again to everybody at the apiary discord for creating the apiary gender system, hopefully i do alright with it 👍💜

[thefiery-phoenix]

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

This is an announcement from @thefieryphoenix, my blog got terminated for no reason and the Tumblr services seem to be of no help on what to do, they're barely replying to my emails and I've emailed them about 3 times till now, I'd really appreciate your help on how to get my account back, I feel empty 🥲🥺

[hanniejji]

If Diluc's bio kid au is nicknamed phoenix then what is the adopted kid au that Diluc saved in the other universe?

Is that one a falcon, ember or what? FALCON PUNCH 🤜

WHAT I DONT REMEMBER THAT ONE I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I WROTE ANOTHER DILUC WITH A CHILD MC WHAT

[phoenixyfriend]

I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

[hellenic-fire]

Since deciding to dedicate a lot of my time to further understand Hellenism I’ve taken up the worship of the Household Gods. One thing that’s struck me was what Lady Hestia told me the first time I properly worshipped her. She said “You are the home, home is where you are.”

If you needed to hear it: You are enough! And you are your own home!

[phoenix-is-here]

Hello hello, humans, beasts, and other creatures alike !

I come to you to announce that @kyri45 and the community for fans of gay monkies (also know as the LMK community) have come to take over Tumblr tonight ! If you are a part of this community and have read her comic, then please join us in our takeover ! If you are part of the community but haven’t read the comic, go read it ! (I promise, it’s a masterpiece !) If you fit neither of those categories, either go read the comic and get into the fandom, or prepare to be taken over just like the rest of the site !

Happy takeover everyone involved in it, and have a magnificent day !

[azulas-daddy-kink]

Checking my tumblr notifications

"Oh look, a new follower! ....and it's a porn bot."

"Hey, I got an ask! ....and it's someone pretending to be from Gaza trying to scam me out of money I don't have."

-_-

[emodennis]

i had a dream charlie called dennis a faggot and an idiot and dennis replied “i’m not an idiot” and everyone went batshit crazy

[phoenixtakaramono]

Hi I just wanted to say I absolutely love your fic The Untold Tale so far. The way our favorite emperor is already obsessed with our favorite oblivious idiot is just perfection. You’re an incredible writing and all your fics are amazing. I can’t wait to see what you write next!

This is in reference to The Untold Tale (AO3 🔗).

Thank you very much for reading, anon! 🫶 I’m very happy there are still readers who are waiting for the next update and I’m very excited to return after I finish writing Truce ch3. 🥰 Honestly, after reading the Bingge vs Bingmei extra after SVSSS, my heart broke reading the passage where Bingge entreats Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) to come with him and obviously gets rejected because Luo Binghe (Bingmei) won’t have his husband bride-napped even if it’s the PIDW version of himself and wanted to try my hand at writing a bingyuan story where our blackened Luo Binghe does get a version of Shen Yuan that’s tailor-made just for him. It also presented me an excuse to play around with a C-novel style of writing and granted me a small opportunity to write about my culture :) which is very rare for a writer. And I love it 💞 we also get to play with C-novel & C-drama stereotypes that I can playfully poke fun at and hope y’all find as subtly funny as I do . Playing with meta is very much aligned with the spirit of SVSSS, and this story was always intended to be a love letter to the novel series that got me through the pandemic and introduced me to the danmei genre.

I’m very excited when we return! I’ve got a lotta fun things planned. :) For the next chapter, we’re meeting the Jade Emperor. With SY being a celestial fortuneteller, we’re also meeting Shen Yuan’s PIDW equivalent family. After that chapter is the Moshang introduction chapter I’m most excited about because it’s the reveal of ✈️’s identity (and my illustration of him embedded in the chapter itself). It’s technically been foreshadowed already who he might be but you will never be able to guess who Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky transmigrated into in this new setting in PIDW in The Untold Tale. ✈️ can only blame his fellow novelist SY for this. He’s both lucky and unlucky. 😔😂

[cant-think-of-anything-creative]

the boop back feature Does Not work on mobile TT_TT

[thefiery-phoenix]

IN HONOR OF ALL THE VICTIMS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TO THE ISRAEL PALESTINE WAR

The Lost Child

In fields of battle scarred and torn,

Where death and destruction reign supreme,

A young girl weeps for her lost form,

Her innocence forever claimed by fate's extreme.

Her eyes once bright with hope and dreams,

Now dimmed by tears and endless screams,

She wanders through the bloody scene,

Searching for a glimmer of serene.

Her heart once full of laughter and cheer,

Now heavy with grief and fear,

She carries on with steady pace,

Through the chaos of this endless race.

Her body weak from hunger and pain,

Her spirit worn by constant strain,

But still she holds onto life,

With every breath, a will to thrive.

For in her eyes, a fire burns bright,

A flame that flickers with each new light,

And though her world may be undone,

She knows she is not alone.

In this desolate landscape of despair,

She finds solace in her own prayer,

A whispered plea for peace and grace,

That echoes through the empty space