#the beloved twink era

[unhinged-nymph]

Hmmmm

[ashleyeveerson]

Haven't been able to think about anything other than the victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink and his 80's punk almost-boyfriend for a week, send help

[nyan-koii]

Jenson and mark watching seb using his biggest plushie in his collection to get off, their hands guiding his hips slowly and letting it fell into a rhythm.

Seb shuts his eyes tightly, not sure whether its because of the that pleasure he's trying to focus or the eyes of his plushies and his two boyfriends staring at him. It's embarassing but he can feel himself becoming more sensitive with every second.

Jenson traces his back, making shapes and leaving feathery touches to seb's body while mark forces and eye contact with the german boy. "Beautiful," he whispered, his eyes growing dark and seb quickens his pace.

Seb whines, begging for more, its not enough mark please do something and his hips stutters when jenson pushed him, face planted, down to his bed. His sweater, mark's sweater, revealed his boxer. Dark patch formed and they cooed at seb when a sniffle came out from him.

"You made a mess sebby. Poor mr.whale all dirty because of you," mark mocked and provoked him, making seb bites his bottom lip in embarassment. His hand tries to cover his lower half but mark caught it before he could do so.

"Oh no seb. You dont have to be embarassed. We've already seen all of you," he reminded and seb moan when jenson palms his clothed cock.

He's grinding now. Seb used jenson's hand to reach his climax and mark brushed the hair covering his face. His eyes glazed with tears and he looked at jenson with his doe eyes, lips parted as he lets out small noises, one that can only be heard by them, and jenson has never been so hard before.

[joe-bidens-alt-account]

Bumping that

[blackparadedean]

is there anything worse in fandom than a ship featuring a character that you hate becoming canon out of nowhere, and the fans immediately bandwagoning because it’s gay

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Leatrice Joy (You Can't Fool Your Wife)—she's got this boyish air about her. a slight manner of the twink shall we say. a genderbent je ne sais quoi. enjoy these photos of her in king mode and the ones with silly hats [photos below the cut]

Pola Negri (The Wildcat, Men, A Woman Commands)—Legally obliged to submit her as she's from Poland, but also it is one of the greatest stars of silent film, both in Hollywood and Europe, so she has to be here. The og femme fatale and a fenomenal dramatic actress. And just so hot in this 1920s vamp style. Obviously her career slowed down in America with the introduction of sound movies, because of her accent and low voice. I'd say her voice is so much hotter thanks to that, but I'm just a simple simp. But then she made movies in Germany, and after the war she was even offered Gloria Swanson's role in "Sunset Boulevard'' but she declined. She was probably bisexual as after romances with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino in the 20s, since the 1940s she lived with her 'female friend'.

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman. (remember that our poll era starts in 1910, so please don't use propaganda from before that date.)

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Leatrice Joy:

Pola Negri:

A tempestuous green-eyed vamp of the silent screen, she tantalized with both her onscreen and offscreen romances. Rocked a Polish accent - well, once there was sound! A true proficient at promoting herself and using all possible tools to do so - from a dead Rudolf Valentino to a cheetah named Teddy, the latter of which she brought to a press conference.

First European actress to be contracted by Hollywood! She survived poverty and illness to become The Queen of Tragedy, she divorced a count to date stars like Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino, then spent the rest of her life living with Margaret West in what could have been a romantic relationship.

I don't have much to say about her actual career, personal life, etc. but I just need everyone to see how hauntingly beautiful her face is. I haven't been able to stop thinking about her since the first time I saw her LOL like its pretty clear why she was such a star

[phanfictioncatalogue]

2024 Era Masterlist

After the birthday stream (ao3) - trashcanfromgallifrey

Summary: The events that may have occured after Dan's birthday charity stream;) Starts of with fluff but ends up in a steamy hot shower

another day (ao3) - wearealldoomed

Summary: “It’s another day in the forever house. It’s been a day since uploading ‘We’re All Doomed’ to the channel that started it all. Dan Howell gets to live another day.”

Backyard Bliss (ao3) - milfbilvy

Summary: Dan and Phil spend some time in the backyard of the phouse, enjoying some quality time together under the shade of their beloved cherry tree.

bragging rights (ao3) - wednesday_ukiru

Summary: A hot doctor sits down next to Phil as he’s coming off anesthesia.

from emo to angel(ao3) - starlightphil (adreaminthedark)

Summary: “Oh my god you did it. Crisis twink era.” “Isn’t it my crisis twunk era at this point? You did a whole thing where you claimed I went through twink death, remember?”

Phil surprises Dan with a new hair color.

look how (the stars) shine for you (ao3) - howell_slide

Summary: Two boys looking at the night sky together, 14 years apart.

Lost In Thought (ao3) - microwaveoven

Summary: Based on that one part in pizza mukbang 2 where DNP talk about why the hiatus started and how Phil felt lost for a while

northern lights (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Dan and Phil watch the northern lights together.

oh, baby, seasons change (ao3) - antiadvil

Summary: anon prompt: dnp sharing a bed in 2010 x them sharing a bed now :3

there is bedsharing in this fic, but more of the fic is spent discussing dan's laundry than spent in bed

[orange heart emoji] (ao3) - natigail

Summary: WE'RE ALL DOOMED finds its home on YouTube and Dan breaks the whole phandom with one single emoji. It's okay. If Phil can be earnest, then so can Dan.

Phlonde (ao3) - greyskysss

Summary: Phil gets his hair dyed. Thats the fic

phlondes do it better (ao3) - wearealldoomed

Summary: The day has come around quicker than Phil had anticipated.

The day where Phil dips his toes back into the waters of dyeing his hair after months of letting his natural hair colour grow back through.

The day where Phil goes platinum blonde without confronting Dan about it first.

phlondes have more fun (ao3) - howell_slide

Summary: The morning after the Phlondening of 2024.

rat and relaxation time (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Dan and Phil wake up on the first day of their holiday.

routine (ao3) - qrovers

Summary: The scene is as follows: The dining room is empty except for Dan, who sits in front of his computer about to upload We’re All Doomed. There is the lingering smell of fries and dips. Dan is in his pajamas, the Minecraft ones Phil always manages to hog. By the side of his desk, a full cup of cocoa has since lost its steam. It’s also from Phil. “To relax you,” he said.

Dan knows he just made two by accident.

slumber party (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Dan never has been able to resist Phil’s spontaneous ideas, like having a slumber party in their lounge after filming a gaming video. Especially since it means getting to appreciate Phil in those red silk pyjamas.

(Set right after filming the DAPG video, “Getting Deep at the Slumber Party.")

Stir Fry (ao3) - ottertrashpalace

Summary: Dan never cooks unless he's feeling guilty. Phil waits.

two wolves (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: They're in the middle of a meeting, and Phil seems to be trying to tell him something. But what?

(or, Dan accidentally wears a certain novelty wolf t-shirt to an online meeting with their tour team.)

We’re All Gay (ao3) - howell_slide

Summary: On some fuckass Tuesday in April 2024, Dan Howell dropped “gay” on the phandom.

you and me (that's all we need it to be) (ao3) - bunnyslipper

Summary: 🧡

[lyceana]

I felt true, visceral fear today after I returned from work and discovered that my Huion monitor tablet wouldn't connect to my laptop. I knew that bitch was all powered up and screaming but blue-balling me with only pitch-black darkness.

I shut off and restarted my laptop 5 fucking times, rammed the usb cables in and out of my laptop's usb ports, in and out... I never thought that an expensive device - wasted for just watching funny cat videos and enabling me to draw the shapely but scaly butt of Voldemort - could be violated. Learned a life lesson here: any hole can be stuffed, you just need some imagination y'all.

Fuck tentacles, ugly men & weird-ass creatures with gigantic horse dicks - give me sub laptops/pcs getting dominated by their puny usb cable daddies!

I digress. So, I turned on my 2nd laptop which is on life-support - it never asked to be an accessory to producing hardcore incest material between Tom and his hot daddy Riddle sr, btw. But, like come on! What's better than one hot, mentally maladjusted Tom Riddle? Two of course! Think about the delicious angst, the hurt/comfort, the abandonment issues, the forbidden attraction, uugh...

Why are there so few tomcest (sr) fics? It's unfair, I'm fucking starving, eh. I mean, Riddle sr is the goddamn blueprint for gratuitously hot Voldemort! Where's pathetic, blushy, snot-nosed and puffy-eyed Tom Riddle sr??? The internet lied to me! I thought you only needed two hot dudes who didn't even have to meet each other to make sweet, sweet looove to each other... there's even incest and murder for extra seasoning!

I'm begging the ao3 wordsmith gods who kin Tom Riddle/Voldemort to open their hearts to Tomcest sr T_T) We all love pathetic men in tears and Voldemort would never allow himself to show such vulnerability but that's what we have his da for... Voldy could vicariously experience such a display of helplessness through Riddle sr! And tbh, I seriously need more beautiful works of art featuring my favourite basket case twink (dub-) non-con-ing his papa into some father/son bonding. I'm going cold turkey here!

I digress again. So, I plugged my Huion into my 2nd laptop and behold! That fucker finally connected and mirrored the laptop display, thank fucking god! Little shit was playing hard to get but it still lives! Whoop, whoop!

Thank Voldy's perky ass, I wasn't forced to make a human connection with an underpaid yet bored employee at the Huion support centre. I had that tablet for 4 years and we experienced the deepest depths of human depravity together - I cried bitter tears, cursed it for reflecting my shitty art skills - my inability to draw hot men bedtime wrestling. But, we also experienced joy together when I succeeded. That fucker made me feel like an art god when it reflected how I envisioned the smut to be. I'm not ready to end this toxic relationship, I thought I'd be.

I was all 'yeah, I'm sooo stage 4 already! I only need the Huion employee to gaslight me into buying their newest, shiny model to reach stage 5!' I'm 30, a grandma according to annoying (affectionate) internet youngsters. My body can't handle eating only instant ramen for 4 months anymore. My roaring 20s are a bygone era and for once I choose to practice some self-care, to love myself even!

For once, I was about to make an adult decision and... wait. To save up the money - to accept that I'll be a temporary full-time traditional wannabe weird-ass hentai artist with a shitty phone camera... but thank god I don't have to! My beloved tablet still works and I can be a part-time traditional but mainly digital wannabe weird-ass hentai artist with a shitty phone camera! Yeah, this is how my day went. Love y'all ~ mwaaah

Shameless self-promo plug but I think you should at least look at the smut scenes to see the appeal of tomcest (sr)~ I also need some validation for providing my tears as lube for their narcissistic coupling You can read Philautia here: AO3

[wordsmithic]

why are people sleeping on the Greek animated series Ουκ αν λάβεις παρά του μη έχοντος?? It is a continuation of the story of Λουκιανός (Lucian) "Νεκρικοί Διάλογοι" (Dialogues of the Dead) and shows broke Menippos and two VERY tired deities in modern Athens.

The general premise is that the old government (aka the ancient gods) want to retire but there is ooone little detail. The case of cynic philosopher Menippos isn't closed and that stops Charon and Hermes from finally retiring! Their mission? Make stubborn and chaotic Menippos earn just one euro so he can pay Charon and close the financial case. But the dedication of Menippos to being a hippie and strange circumstances will get in the way of their eternal vacation.

Do not think for a second this is a serious show, and that's why it's one of the most beloved shows for Greeks. I mean what else perfectly pairs Greek bureaucracy and the ✨Dimosio✨, Frappe-zombies, Edward Cullen, Snow White and Angel Gabriel together??

Charon (or Kharis ☺️) is a hopeful and romantic character while Hermes is a neurotic twink on the bring of a mental breakdown, and his only option of letting off some steam is killing Menippos again and again.

In 20:20 starts a montage of Hermes' blasting Menippos' head off through different eras:

That's Hades and other gods:

Here they are looking for Seer Teiresias' council:

I have a ton more to say about this κάφρικο gem honestly

"AND DON'T CALL ME KHARI!"

"Never underestimate the power of men's immaturity." (Dracula for Edward Cullen)

[kairos-polaris]

For the choose violence ask game, maybe 8 and 11?

ask game

8. common fandom opinion everyone is wrong about

Jonah's fashion sense. I understand the appeal of eye paraphernalia in terms of character design and how it's more fun that way but. he would never. he loves being a boring bureaucrat, I just can't imagine him wearing something as fun as eye earrings/rings. the max he gets is green suit lining

(also Elias is not a twink, he is in his late 40s minimum. give that old man his wrinkles and crow's feet pleeeease 😭 regency era Jonah was a twink tho, no argument here)

this one is more of a fic thing but Jonah doesn't tend to overreact. Gertrude and Leitner were exceptions. Getrude was going to destroy the Archives and kill him and Leitner almost ruined his plan for Jon (which he does admit was an overreaction). but he doesn't yell! he isn't emotional or hysterical. sorry if I am not making sense, I just get easily irritated by people not putting any effort into writing him. my beloved bastard is the worst, but please hate him accurately

11. number of fandom related words you've filtered

somewhere around 40 in general and 4 or 5 for tma specifically

[psychoticwillgraham]

posting bc i got a request to, the very beginning of john noir's backstory :3 theres not a whole lot yet tho :(

If you had a chance to make a deal with the devil in exchange for immense fame and fortune, would you? 

If your name is John Noir, that's exactly what you already did.

But man, is it taking forever to manifest.

He'd been working at this for years now, but turns out the music industry is nearly impossible to break into. Even with his deal with the devil, it seemed like this was taking way too damn long. 

John had fully expected that the change would be overnight, a complete 180 from his current situation. But it seems like infernal deals have their own time table of effectiveness if his current situation was anything to go by. 

John couldn't wait for the era of couch surfing, the cheapest beer money could buy, and underground alternative shows in slimy, questionable bars to be over. He was sick of his 'working bitch' era, of having to play to overly intoxicated and downright bigoted audiences. He was sick of having to constantly deal with the slurs, the physical altercations, the death threats, and increasingly common (for some damn reason) stabbing attempts. Hopefully, it would all pay off, preferably sooner rather than later.

Tonight was one of the rare nights where he actually enjoyed the venue and crowd, since tonight was a drag performance night. It started off as it usually did with him arriving two hours early and still hungover from the previous night's adventures. It was a familiar and very beloved venue that John rarely got a chance to do a show at since his schedule was so goddamn full every waking hour. Luckily tonight, his favorite bartender and number one twink of his heart Jasper, was on main bar duty. God the baby blues on that man and the things they made his long ago closed off heart do. All it took to get his attention was John slinging the heaviest duffel bag known to mankind right over his dainty little shoulder, followed by a gaggle of barely twenty one year old baby gays, and shooting a cheeky wink to the bar boy of the hour as he made his way to the frankly 'too fancy for a bar like this' dressing room. John looked back towards Jasper, seeing the man blushing profusely and fake a tiny cough, turning away from him and getting back to preparing the bar for the night. John smirked to himself, hoping that tonight would be the night he'd finally score with that shy little twink. After John's done with him, the poor guy was gonna need therapy. All in a night's work.

The dressing room was just as fancy and gaudy as it always was, with polaroids of the queens, kings, and things that came before him, as was customary to do here after every show. As his entourage started unpacking his suitcases, John went to the farthest wall, to look at the cluster of photos that he immediately recognized as being of his old drag friends, who were now unfortunately all deceased, with John being the only one left alive. He rarely ever got sentimental anymore or had tears in his eyes because of the things he'd been through, but as he lifted a hand to run over the faded photos, he felt something well up in his eyes. Tears, for the first time in who knows how long. It seemed like it'd only been a short time since those photos were taken, back when they were all starting their journeys through the worlds of music and drag, and the other seven of them standing in this very room with John. Now, they were all dead. Two from addiction, two from hate crimes, and three from suicide. John was the last one standing, much to his own disappointment. He truly thought that he would've been dead years ago, either from his own mind or the bottle, or as of recently, at the hands of a drunken redneck with a pistol. He thought it was almost cruel of God to have things happen this way, to strike down the others who were just trying to live their lives authentically and make a semblance of a living in this godforsaken shithole of a world.

Which is partially why John, in a fit of drunken stupor and frustration, had made a deal with the big man downstairs, the Devil.

He knew of the whole song and dance about infernal deals, hearing of other performers deals that either didn't quite live up to the terms they'd agreed on, or the various and very gruesome ways that He would collect his due. That was always John's favorite part. Knew how He'd come to collect his due when you were at your most successful and famous, to rip down everything you'd sold your soul for, only for none of it to matter in the end. The Devil was a cruel man, of course, and John was honestly a big fan of his work.

[toomuchracket]

flatmate!matty would probably be so anxious the entire pregnancy tbh

tbf matty in general throughout the pregnancy - to quote best tv show of all time derry girls, the man would be a walking cack attack. but flatmate!matty vibes - yeah like fair enough you guys have been together for like ten years by the time the baby arrives and you're married and so in love... but there's a part of matty that is just constantly like "shit. she loves me back? i can't believe it. total dream" like he was after you decided to make the transition from flatmates to lovers, even after all this time. so he's always in the flatmate!matty mindset to that degree, and i think he does regress into acting a bit like he did in his beloved twink era (lol) when you're pregnant, especially on the early days during your pregnancy where you're like clearly deeply uncomfortable and pained - he'll hover around the entrance to the room you're in, desperate to help you and take care of you and show his affection, but not wanting to overwhelm your space too much in case you get upset with him (mood swings and all). i think matty's whole vibe through pregnancy - like i said, especially in the early days - is him being the tentatively sweet way he was back when you guys first lived together. like, he's so much more tender in his affection towards you (well until he sees you naked with the bump that is LOL), just so loving and grateful and in awe of you for having his baby. and i think he loves to just talk excitedly about what the baby might be like when you guys are lying in bed at night, and when you giggle sweetly at his total enthusiasm and adoration matty's like "i know i'm rambling but i've literally wanted this for us since you moved into my flat all those years ago. thank you for just constantly making my dreams come true, sweetheart" aww <3

[approximately-174-gremlins]

Wistfully staring off into the distance because my gender can't be a mixture of Alastor from hazbin, John mulaney, Johnny Depp, dorean gray, moth man, the lead singer in a grunge band, a sopping wet morally gray character, kaz brekker from soc, any person who can swirl a cane around, the most pathetic meow meow, feral creature covered in blood, dracula, both of the adams family parents, a little cabin boy on a pirates ship, a gay sailor who spends long nights at sea pining over another sailor who surely doesnt recipricate his feelings, crowley (good omens), a spooky entity that can crawl on the ceilings, an aging pirate caption who knows thier days with the sea are at an end and reflects on the bitter sweet relationship they have had with the sea and all that it gives and takes, hozier, a goth twink drapped across the hood of a car that they dont own soon to be yelled at by its owner but right now taking in the view of the sky, the inexplicable feeling of loss that comes when two homoeroctic rivals final end their games with one dying and now the object of thier obsession and passion is gone and this is what they wanted but why do they feel so empty, art forgers, smudged makeup paired with bloody knuckles, the act of longing for what is explicitly forbidden, boys wearing skirts and eyeliner and quickly rubbing it off and changing before anyone can find out, the feeling of sinking your teeth into somthing and ripping it free while scurrying on all fours, a goblin who tells riddles three, david bowe, a washed up diva sitting in an expensive dress in the rain in the black and while era of Hollywood, ect ect

Anyway what pronouns does that give me because I can't figure this shit out on my own so I am out sourcing it to my beloved mutuals and the gay people in my phone

[kirarinlovesidols]

Mornings with genshin men as fathers part 2.

Liyue

Zhongli

‌Has to wake up early to work but before that he enjoys being the one making breakfast and taking care of usual morning chores.

‌Can you tell he loves you so much he refuses to let you do anything.

‌Wakes his daughter up in the unfortunately meanest way possible...he gently lowers her blankets and waits for a few seconds before she gets up all confused missing the warmth. Dragons are sensitive to temperatures it seems.

‌You and your baby kiss his cheeks goodbye and wave at him by the door wishing another good day at work.

Xiao

‌We already stablished he's the distant type of dad and with his duty of protecting Liyue to also take care of he isn't home often.

‌However the Yaksha makes an effort to at least go home every night to check up on you and your daughter.

‌In very very rare occasions where the nation seems to be having a peaceful streak Xiao feels more at ease to be with you, after all he can't really do much since it's the era of humans now, he respects their wishes of not depending on adepti.

‌He loves saying he doesn't need sleep but we all know that's bullshit, right? As an adeptus he doesn't need to sleep as often as humans do but his body can still very much crash since it needs "shut down" periods every now and then. If there's nothing going on Xiao will rest, cuddling with you in his sleep.

‌You are aware of his nightmares and so is your baby. Bless her heart, she seems to be very understanding of why Xiao isn't very present. She doesn't understand it completely but she's determined to spend more time with him when he's here.

"The voices, the memories...oh how he despises them and how much he blames himself as well, letting guilt eat him alive for the rest of his days."

"He WOULD atone for his sins, it doesn't matter how long it takes, how much demon blood he has to spill."

The Yaksha wakes up in cold sweat. His lungs gasping for air.

It seems like Xiao slept without meaning to, again. This night was a fairly ok one, no traces of demonic activity could be felt so he decided to come back home. What he didn't expect was to end up cuddling you to sleep, he couldn't really bring himself to say no and felt guilty about not spending enough time with his family as he wanted or felt like he should.

Cold sweat seemed to have formed on his forehead. It was hard to breathe and everything reminded himself of his bloodhound era.

He could feel his sanity slipping through the cracks of his mind, bit by bit. Until a little presence made itself known.

"Hmmm...? Papa are you ok? Your face looks...weird...did you have a nightmare?"

He could feel himself wheeze, he needed to calm down, he was panicking. It's ok, his beloved was here and so were his daughter, he was going to be fine.

His brain repeated these words like a mantra but to no avail.

Suddenly everything came to a halt as something soft and warm touched his forehead.

Oh.

"Do you feel better now? Mama does this to me when I have nightmares so...."

Right.

This wasn't the past, it's the present. He's safe now, he's with people who love him.

"Thank you...."

Xiao says as he engulfs his daughter into a hug and lies down again. His hand caressing her hair smoothing any stray locks.

Archons, he was so grateful to have you two.

In the morning you wonder if you missed something. Xiao and your daughter seem to be very "clingy" with each other today.

You weren't complaining though, it was good to know there were moments he stopped worrying about hurting her or not.

A smile graced your lips as you watched the little green haired girl feed her father almond tofu.

A light pink seemed to dust his cheeks but you could see in his eyes this moment meant a lot to him.

Xingqiu

‌Good luck trying to get his twink ass out of bed every morning.

‌He still reads until late as that is his way of "de-stressing" from all the work he has to do for his family.

‌You feel bad for him though...you really wish you didn't have to wake him up, you wish you could let him sleep since he probably needs it but it's either you, your son or a servant does it.

‌luckily your child is a bit too smart for his own good already as he inherited a lot of his father's teasing tendencies. Things such as:

"Father if you don't wake up I'm afraid i won't be able to share this new book i got with you..."

‌Mans is literally jolting out of bed immediately.

‌Listen, he appreciates the time he spends with his baby a LOT since they don't get to do much together usually.

‌You just roll your eyes and shake your head as a smile forms in your lips, watching their antics.

‌His handwriting still sucks major ass and you can be sure that's a reason for his own fucking son to tease him.

Chongyun

‌Wakes and goes to sleep early, he can't really stay up late at all. It's a childhood habit he was never able to change and doesn't really think he has to.

‌As stated before Chongyun is a very awkward dad and your son is very shy. So as much as they see each other everyday they have trouble interacting properly.

‌The exorcist still has no idea how to handle children but it's desperately trying to learn, he loves his son so much!!

‌Your little boy knows that, it's easy to know as his father kinda wears his emotions on his sleeves. However he thinks his dad is really cool and gets overwhelmed before he actually utters any words.

‌You kinda have to pitch in so both will feel comfortable and realize they were just overthinking.

‌Everyday before training starts Chongyun shares one of his special popsicles with the kid. They kinda sit there in comfortable silence before the older one rests his hand on the little one's head. Very cute ♥.

‌Shenhe visits you every now and then, she loves playing with your son and he loves her just as much!

[ilgaksu]

Can you recommend a good entry point to the grave robber's chronicles? Some of the stuff you posted back on twitter intrigued me but I'm not sure where to start! Glad to see you here on tumblr btw

Thank you!

so I know I got this ask literally about 10,000 years ago @ehyde and when I was really unwell so I didn't get around to it, but I ran across it today and wanted to answer, so here we go:

I can tell you the order I went into it in, but I'm not sure I can recommend a definitive way, since there's novels and side-novels and a game and just. There's a lot. So, let's go with the assumption we're just looking at movies/series? I would honestly recommend watching all of the series with a friend, because it's a very I Didn't Say This Was A Good Franchise, I Said I'm Having A Good Time kind of deal.

The order I went through with it was:

Ultimate Note - needs some contextual detail still and assumes a familiarity with the franchise, but is chronologically relatively early on and was a pretty fun intro for me and does a lot of belated work to make the rest of the TV universe, as it were, make sense. You definitely notice that on a rewatch. It also has a lot of interaction between my two favourite side-characters, Bitchy Pink Twink (Xiao Hua) and Disaster Bisexual Immortal (Hei Xiazi). This is on YouTube and IQIYI. When I was Twitter, this was the era I was primarily obsessed with, if that helps?

Sand Sea/Tomb of the Sea - I know for a fact this is on YouTube since that's where I rewatch it all the time. This is overall my favourite in terms of narrative. It also has my very favourite Hei Xiazi. Xiao Hua is pretty absent, but you know, still my favourite series overall. It also has Xue Yang's actor pre-CQL as one of the characters.

Renuion: Sound of the Providence (2 seasons) - this is the one that was a lot of people's gateway drug, on the grounds that it has Zhu Yilong from Guardian in it. I still have not finished this. I have accepted I may never finish this. I enjoy Baron Chen as an actor generally, though, and while this isn't my favourite role I've seen him in, he's got a great Hei Xiazi intro and energy.

You do need to have seen Sand Sea in particular, imo, for the two spin-off movies that I personally care about, which are:

Reunion: Escape from the Monstrous Snake - this is a little spin-off Hei Xiazi centric action movie with a monster featured in Sand Sea showing up. I feel like you need to have fallen into the Hei Xiazi fan pit for this to really hit for you; otherwise it's a pretty enjoyable but not life-changing action movie. Unfortunately, I am in the pit.

Reunion: Mystery of the Abyss - this one is legit colloquially referred to as the HeiHua movie, because it basically is. They are the main focus of the film, and honestly I think you really need to be in the HeiHua version of the fan pit for this one to land. It's again, a little action web-movie that is elevated by the two leads. There's plans for there to be another movie with these two.

Both of these movies have Ji Chen (the Sand Sea Hei Xiazi) reprising his role and he's pretty beloved as the character at this point.

If you're interested in the novels, I have only read one but I can always talk about that too!! This is the least comprehensive post on this franchise and I am so sorry, I'm sure there's others though and I can always answer more questions because I deeply love this nonsense?

[eldritchmochi]

A N T for that alphabet ask game

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

okay uuuuh i mean, obviously shadowgast i have only written like 300k of it in the past few years. im also quite the fan of ashrym/dashrym and callowmore (tho i like my callowmore on the platonic side personally). i will happily make the dirt wizards kiss ANYONE i do have a widomauk fic in the works and i have an idea for a caleb/yussa fic percolating and theres that one porny art by newt with c3 era caleb paired with ashton and orym that im just :lasereyes: yes i will one day write something for it i stg. also fun fact my First Ship for cr was beauyasha like, ep one. i got like 30 seconds into their first interaction and immediately texted cherry at like two am like PLEASE TELL ME THEYRE A SHIP and lo, they were cannon fucking incredible

outside of cr.... stucky, my beloved, especially with skinny steve because i love that sickly twink; big brother hobie creating Situations for gwen and miles (its hard being wingman to two people when you want them to kiss each other and also theyre idiots); kylux, obvs; rey/finn/poe/rose in basically any combination (i wish i didnt have One Hyperfixation Only type adhd because i would LOVE to write my rey/finn/rose idea where rey and rose are mechanics and finn is having car trouble and then they double team him in the office dont ask me why they have straps in the filing cabinet this is pwp); with hs at one point i would literally randomly generate pwp ideas. i didn't often finish them but it was a good exercise especially in characterization but i was mostly read davekat, daverose, any combo of erisolkat, and davejohn because i fukken pavlov'd myself into liking the ship lmao

shit this is gonna get long here is a read more

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

hhhh i am so sorry if this sounds mean but the bulk of why i dont read a ton of cr fic when i was constantly devouring kylux fic largely boils down to two things

1. the technical stuff is eeh and 2. there is just not a ton of nuance in characterization or plot

both results in me being perpetually frustrated whenever i try to read most of what i open. theres been some gems!! theres also been a lot of stuff with promise where i can tell in a couple years the writer will knock it out of the park!!! but theres also a god awful amount where i'm just like that is not how dicks work lmao

i am sure a lot of that is because the cr fandom skews a lot younger than kylux (where folks are like 20-30 on average instead of 35-50 kinda younger) plus cr has a LOT of esl speakers compared to kylux whereas a TON of kyluxers have degrees in literature or library science, so like, it makes sense that there's a difference, but it still drive me bonkers that i cant just open a fic and read it without closing it halfway through because its too one note :I

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

nope!! i am very ship and let ship in all regards. there are many things i enjoy (like short!essek or the idea that caleb would and probably has made out with all of his friends) that crop up repeatedly across my fic but i'm down for basically any good faith interpretation and i LOVE when someone writes a weird headcannon so well i have to steal it

there are many letters left of this ask meme if anyone else wants to send me a q!! pls enrich the mochi this is fun