Acid

he/they/it || 18+ || writer, cosplayer || mxtx, league lore, hermitcraft, life series

[acidistyping]

So, i may have been the anon who a while back said they were making a cosplay of @lunarcrown 's hels to pay/dm tango design. It's not perfect, obviously, but I'm very proud of it and had fun wearing it while I was at a con this weekend. I got to met a bunch of cool hermitcraft people while i was running around in it so definitely worth it ^-^

And then the Bdubs and I decided to recreate this picture lol

[squaredbean]

I have so many thoughts about WL!Renchanting.

The way their Third Life base was named exclusively after Ren (Renchanting, Dogwarts), and now it includes Martyn (RenWood (literally getting their own ship name wrong smh), InTheLittleLake).

How it’s like Ren has grown so attached to Martyn since Third Life that his life has to incorporate him in as many ways as possible. (“What can I do to make you happy?” Ough.) How before Martyn served HIM, and now the roles are not explicitly reversed, but fuck, Ren is out providing, doing everything he can to please his partner. Because he wants him to stay with him so badly

Not that Martyn could ever leave (“I was going to betray Ren” MY ASS! Aren’t you the motherfucker who went so insane without him that you betrayed your only ally and won the season with nothing but bloodlust? Scar on your cheek from when you cried so hard when he died??? It’s in your LORE sir????????)

How Ren wanted to invite BigB to to join them. FIRST OF ALL, he was your SOULMATE who CHEATED ON YOU in the season YOU DONT REMEMBER BEING IN. WOW. Being cheated on didn’t even hold a candle to what you and Martyn had going on I guess

Second, BIGB WAS AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF DOGWARTS. Carried the dang shield and everything. Are you trying to recreate the home Martyn helped you build in order to keep YOU safe, because you want to do the same for HIM??? WITH KNIGHTS AND A WALL AND EVERYTHING????? Just kiss already. Damn.

[acidistyping]

Why Jiang Cheng is more like Shen Jiu than Liu Qingge: An Essay

1. Anger

All three characters are almost completely defined by their anger or aggressive natures. Both jc and lqg have similar expressions of their anger: they attack and lash out with their weapons and shout and yell. Their anger is loud. Sj's anger is quieter, more passive aggressive than explosive. He won't unsheathe Xiu Ya but will rather lash out with scathing words and insults. However, despite the difference in outward expression, sj and jc's anger serves the same purpose: a shield/mask to hide behind and protect their true emotions with. Lqg's anger doesn't serve a purpose like jc and sj's. His anger simply is.

Both jc and sj have, notably chosen, older brother figures that broke a promise to them and that they feel betrayed by, giving both deep abandonment and trust issues. For jc, it is Wei Wuxian and him leaving the Jiang Sect in order to protect the Wen remnants in the Burial Grounds. For sj, that's Yue Qingyuan and him not coming back in time to rescue sj from the Qiu household. It can be argued that Yue Qingyuan didn't break his promise as he did try, but sj didn't know that. In contrast, lqg is the older brother in his family and seems to have a good relationship with his younger sibling.

2. Older Brother Figures

3. Fire

Both jc and sj have fire and their "homes" being burned down as significant features in their backstories. For jc, that's the Wen's burning down Lotus Pier. For sj, that's him burning down the Qiu estate. Different circumstances, yes, but significant nonetheless. While we know little of lqg's backstory, fire is likely not a significant factor.

4. Villain

At least in the English speaking side of mdzs and svsss, both jc and sj are not widely liked or held in high regard. If you only take the protagonists' at their word and don't consider how the narrators may be unreliable, biased, or have missing information, you will likely see both of them as villains or at least antagonists within their respective stories. They're characters that, if you like them, you tend to sympathize with them and look at story events from their perspectives rather than from the perspective of our protagonists.

5. Rumours

Both jc and sj are the subjects of horrible rumours within their respective stories. While jc's, regarding him torturing demonic cultivators, are unknown if they're true or false, we have nothing to confirm they are and sj's rumours were proven false once Shen Yuan learned more about him. Regardless of the truth of the rumours, neither contested the rumours themselves and instead let them fester, possibly for strategetic reasons. Neither seems to mind ruining their own reputations if it will benefit something or someone else.

6. Cats

In fandom content, both are often compared to cats and portrayed with a hot/cold personality. They both are fairly prickly, deeply distrust other people, and tend to keep to themselves.

7. Ships

Both have fairly popular ships pairing them with one of the most powerful cultivators of their generations who wears a lot of white, are sect leaders, and whose sects are located on mountains. Yes, this is a silly reason but why not.

8. Demonic Cultivation

Both have ties to notable demonic cultivators of their worlds, though their situations are different. Sj with his time "studying" under Wu Yanzi and jc with Wei Wuxian. They also are notably said to have killed these demonic cultivators, though jc didn't actually do so while sj did.

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I think lqg and jc get compared because people see them both as tsunderes, but i don't think there's anything tsundere about lqg at all actually. Lqg doesn't necessarily deny his feelings, he just doesn't always confess them in words either

[enemywithinzine]

ENEMY WITHIN ZINE PREVIEW

Next up for zine previews, we have this snippet from @acidistyping!

[acidistyping]

Suffering isn't special. It's not holy. It doesn’t mean anything.

But

Maybe it feels right, right now

[origin-of-symmetryy]

(head-over-heels in love) why are you such a stupid fucking idiot

[couldaromanticismsavethem]

LIU QINGGE FROM THE SCUM VILLAIN'S SELF-SAVING SYSTEM

Justification: “He's so devoted to the main character, who is head over heels in love with someone else and he even marries that someone. Headcanoning LQG as aro would save him so much heartache.”

Could Aromanticism Save Them?

Yes

No

It would make them worse

It would make them worse (affectionate)

Voting ended onJul 22, 2024

[polycule-playoff]

Feng Xin & Mu Qing

What Is Their Relationship?

Married

Romantic

Queerplatonic

Friends with benefits

Platonic

Something else

Voting ended onJul 19, 2024

Submission:

"Mu Qing and Feng Xin are childhood friends"

"Feng Xin and Mu Qing are weird rivals/friends/i don't think even they know"

[qiu-yan]

what does jiang cheng think of jin guangyao (13 year timeskip)

he seems like a decent person :)

he's whatever but jin ling likes him

he runs a tight ship over at jinlintai

wtf is going on with his sworn brothers

is he cheating on his wife with his sworn brother(s)???

don't trust this slimy little bastard

[253-page list of every mistake jiggy made in coparenting jin ling]

the yunmeng populace likes him more >:(

if only wei wuxian was this image-conscious

he's kind of...pleasing on the eyes...

more than one (elaborate in the notes)

something else (elaborate in the notes)

Voting ended onJul 18, 2024

[tahto]

Headcanon that once Jin Ling hears about Lan Sizhui starving in the Burial Mounds as a child, he’s like fuck that you’re never going hungry again, and feeds him any opportunity he gets.

Like, if he knows the Lan disciples are coming, there is a lavish spread of food (all suspiciously Sizhui’s favourites) which the Lan juniors love, especially Jingyi, who constantly asks Sizhui if they can go back to Carp Tower soon.

Of course the unintended effect of this being that in a few years, Lan Sizhui has a late growth spurt, making him taller than Jin Ling. Which Jin Ling grumbles about but secretly doesn’t mind, especially when it makes him the perfect height to give forehead kisses to Jin Ling’s vermillion mark.

[acidistyping]

I hate what i write sometimes

[acidistyping]

Alright, I finished just finished watching mdzs and got to thinking. Both Nie Huaisang and He Xuan are considered to be extremely good actors in their respective series. But who's better?

who's the best actor of the mxtx universe

He Xuan

Nie Huaisang

Voting ended onJul 8, 2024

[acidistyping]

I find this so fascinating. I did vote for my man he xuan, my favouritest boy of all time, but the nhs defenders are successfully swaying me

[web-novel-polls]

WN Women Bonus Polls #2: MXTX

Who's your favorite woman?

A-Qing from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Jiang Yanli from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Jian Lan from Heaven Official's Blessing

Ling Wen from Heaven Official's Blessing

Liu Mingyan from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Luo Qingyang / Mianmian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Ning Yingying from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Sha Hualing from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Su Xiyan from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Wen Qing from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Yushi Huang from Heaven Official's Blessing

See Results

Voting ended onJul 11, 2024

[Propaganda below] - Spoilers Warning!

A-Qing from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / MDZS

Submission: Incredibly clever. Fakes blindness to survive as a street orphan and pickpocket people. Successfully deceives a magnificent liar into believing she's really blind for years. Tries to hinder said liar's schemes and save people from him even after she's dead and actually blind and unable to speak. 

Jiang Yanli from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

 “Madam, A-Xian is my younger brother. Him being humiliated by others, to me, isn’t just a small matter.”

Submission: She is the sweetest person to ever exist. She's a wonderful big sister to her brother Jiang Cheng and her shidi/adoptive brother Wei Wuxian. She is not just a sister but also very maternal to them, as her parents are not the best. She is also the mother of Jin Ling, but sadly died before she could raise him. Her husband, Jin Zixuan, died in a confrontation with Wei Wuxian, but she did not blame him and even sacrificed herself for him. She would've made the best mother to Jin Ling, just as she was the best sister to Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian. She also makes the best soup ever. I would die to taste her soup. Then I would come back to life because that's how much the soup nurtures you. 

Jian Lan from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

Submission: She has unconditional love for her very disgusting and disturbing undead fetus child. That's a mother right there. 

Wiki Link

Ling Wen from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

[No Propaganda Submitted] 

One of the Three Tumors - three Heavenly Officials that have some of the worst reputations after Xie Lian (“the laughing stock of the three realms”) - and was accused of, like, killing a dude or smth but was accepted back into Heaven on the sole basis that she’s the only administratively competent god

Liu Mingyan from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System

Submission: Head disciple of Xian Shu Peak. Said to be so beautiful she wears a veil over her face so as to not distract others. Writes popular erotic fanfiction about her older brother's shixiong/her shibo and his male disciple. 

Luo Qingyang (Mianmian) from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Submission: She stood up against a whole bunch of powerful men and dared to speak a different opinion. Then she just up and left the cultivation world because she had no more time for their bullshit. At the end of the novel, she's a rogue cultivator married to a former merchant with her own daughter named Mianmian. We should all be like her. 

Mod Propaganda: 

Highly principled and strong-willed. Immediately left her clan after they mocked her for supposedly having feelings for Wei Wuxian when she literally just mentioned he didn't kill indiscriminately. Now living her best life as a rogue cultivator with her husband and child.

She saw the injustice of her own clan firsthand and decided, “I'm not going to be a part of this. You're not listening to me, so fuck y'all.” And honestly, based. 

Wiki Link

Ning Yingying from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System 

Submission: She goes through great character development. At first, she's dense and kind of annoying, even a little selfish. But she grows up to be a strong, intelligent, and intuitive woman. 

Additional Propaganda

Sha Hualing from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System

Submission 1: I can't stand her and yet I love her. What does that tell you? 

Submission 2: her cringefail losergirl swag <3 girlie constantly in situations and she put herself into most of them 

Mod Propaganda

A fierce demon who attacked the Cang Qiong Mountain sect in SVSSS and became one of Luo Binghe’s wives in Proud Immortal Demon Way who often fought with Liu Mingyan and Qin Wanyue

My fav description of her is something along the lines of, “trying to be the steal-your-man girl who fails about it so badly” 

She’s ambitious, she’s ruthless, she’s intelligent -  If you support women’s rights, you should also support women’s wrongs (/light-hearted) 

Su Xiyan from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System

[No propaganda submitted]

Additional Propaganda #1

Additional Propaganda #2

Wen Qing from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Submission: She is everything! She doesn't get enough screen time in the novel, but that proves just how amazing she is to make such an impression in spite of it. She is a great big sister, to both her brother Wen Ning and the protagonist Wei Wuxian. She is stern but kind. She's a doctor. She throws needles at people. She's everything! 

Previous Propaganda (MXTX Side Characters Tournament):

Submission 1: Doctor, mad scientist, war criminal, protective big sister... she has the range!! Submission 2: Wen Qing my beloved!! She did surgery on a grape. Mad genius for real. Also a loving sister with a very sharp tongue and maybe no sense of how far is too far. Can't wait for them to find her alive in a Koi Tower basement! Submission 3: Justice for my girl!!!!  Submission 4: She's bitchy and pragmatic and cares deeply and did an unprecedented operation (experimental and nonconsensual!), what's not to love? Also she deserved better. 

Yushi Huang from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

Submission: She slit her own throat to save her country. She's very compassionate and always willing to help others. She also gives people vegetables. 

Additional Propaganda: 

Additional propaganda for Yushi Huang:  She's so competent that she's got the womanzier of the series consistently on the back foot, and she doesn't even care to notice.  She's here to dish out rain and that's it.     

[popqorn]

For some reason, you need to chaperone an MXTX couple on all of their dates. Which pairing would you choose?

Hua Cheng/Xie Lian

Feng Xin/Mu Qing/Xie Lian

He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan

Quan Yizhen/Yin Yu

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Lan Wangji/Jiang Cheng

Jin Guangyao/Nie Mingjue

Jin Guangyao/Nie Mingjue/Lan Xichen

Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu

Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua

Liu Qingge/Shen Qingqiu/Luo Binghe

Yue Qingyuan/Shen Jiu

Voting ended onJul 9, 2024

inspired by a conversation with @pockettgcf. sorry, pocket, i couldn't help myself and added a bunch of couples ;-;

It's all here, folks! Whether you want to have a mildly pleasant evening, witness a train wreck in action, watch people making out, experience a silent scowlfest, etc. -- there's an option for you!

[acidistyping]

Alright, I finished just finished watching mdzs and got to thinking. Both Nie Huaisang and He Xuan are considered to be extremely good actors in their respective series. But who's better?

who's the best actor of the mxtx universe

He Xuan

Nie Huaisang

Voting ended onJul 8, 2024

[acidistyping]

What is it with this author man /gen

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

viewers: have you ever wanted to visit canada?

joel, a normal guy: i would love to go visit gem and search for etho

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

joel smallishbeans, machete in hand, snowshoes on, navigating the Canadian wilderness. he approaches a log cabin, the first civilization hes seen in hours, and knocks on the door. a nondescript 30-something man answers the door. "eefo?" he asks. the man looks at him, confused. joel shakes his head and walks away. he mudt be here somewhere, its only a matter of time

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

lizzie tells him this and he just goes silent for like a minute and then goes "im going in winter"