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a dumbass with stupid issues but you're here anyway | i'm lo or blank | i use it/he/she pls don't use they | op is a dream stan but it's okay i support my boy in his hobbies | my gender is none of my business actually

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 TAGS: art is #my art, writing is #my snippets, #my aus, #my writing, and occasionally #my wips. personal tag (as well as most og posts) is #lo's stuff. Disco Inquisition / the eye sees not itself (my disco elysium style dragon age fic) is tagged as #disco inquisition. i post/reblog a log of fic recs (mostly heated rivalry) under #fic recs, because i love fic and i think everyone should read the things i like. i'm an unbiased source, you see.

i'm on ao3! go check it out if you like some of my writing! i have. insanities.

i have another blog, @tljsnarutoblog, where i mainly just post as tianlang-jun from my svsss sci-fi fic re: write. there's a sequel with him in mind so keep an eye on that if you want! however it's... mostly naruto. and occassional Vibes.

i'm in so many fandoms that at this point it's easier to assume i'm on it. don't worry about it. also, the queue button is alive and well, i'm just really bad at tagging queue posts, so best of luck figuring out when i'm online.

if you come onto my post to tell me i've gotten a detail from a novel or whatever wrong i am entitled to both financial compensation and a pound of flesh from you. you'd think this would be obvious but some people insist on continually aggravating me. be warned. i'll rip that chunk out myself with my teeth.

that's all!!

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[luulapants]

the underlying message of any ethically sane hockey story should be "abolish the NHL and all existing youth hockey programs" btw which is one of the many things wrong with the gamechangers series

[luulapants]

this is what we all need to be manifesting okay?

[snackmurdock]

Me, not a Heated Rivalry fan, reading this and radically misunderstanding what you mean by Game Changer

[luulapants]

sam reich's silence on hockey abolition is DEAFENING

[loverboy-shane]

god i wish we got more explicit scenes bc i Need gifsets of ilya pov shane gagging on it

[loverboy-shane]

likely thing for tumblr user @shanesmouth to say

[daiiku]

[loontattoo]

see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup

[fujoshane]

evil blue horse at denver airport and pharaoh ilya assembling to discuss my fate

[graceebooks]

[cobaltspartan]

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

[festivalofthe12]

Something that I think is key to Shen Yuan is that he is actually very good at picking out inconsistencies: he's a professional hater, after all, and notices immediately when somebody is acting in a way that contradicts what he's come to expect from them.

The problem is that, due also to being a professional hater, whenever he encounters something he doesn't understand, he has a tendency to simply immediately denounce it as 'absurd' or 'stupid', or simply 'incomprehensible', without updating his mental model or trying to figure out if there's something he's missing.

He's the guy who thinks he already knows better than anyone else - the one who doesn't hesitate for a second to call a character's actions 'OOC' even when the author himself says otherwise. Who doesn't hesitate to declare that he understands a character better than even the author does. And he's not entirely wrong (at least, when it comes to Luo Binghe and PIDW as a whole), but he's also unbelievably stubborn and has shut off his brain to any possibility of new development. He's also the guy who says that a character is acting 'OOC' after an extended period of thematic improvement and growth, because he doesn't like the fact that the story has gone in this direction but only knows how to express his opinions as objective fact.

He's intelligent, and loves to learn when it comes to certain subjects of interest (mainly monsters), but when it comes to other people, he's destructively incurious. If someone acts in a way he didn't expect from them - such as Luo Binghe openly flirting with him, or Liu Qingge acting protective, or either expressing anger when he gets too close to the other - he picks up on it immediately, and remarks on in inwardly, and then... immediately dismisses it. It's just 'strange behaviour', that's all. People behaving 'against their interests'. It's all just part of this ridiculous world Shen Yuan has been unceremoniously shoved into, and he can't possibly be expected to understand it all, right? It was all merely badly-written lowest-common-denominator porn, anyway. It is simply Not That Deep.

(And well: obviously this is all also a very good way to avoid confronting anything he might ever not wish to acknowledge. In the broad sense, that thing is 'I might sometimes be wrong about PIDW'. But more specifically... it is much easier simply to complain that Luo Binghe is messing things up for no reason than to acknowledge that he might be a little less straight than Shen Yuan believes him to be, or that Shen Yuan might not entirely mind when he makes these 'mistakes'.)

This is all why he works so well as an unreliable narrator: the clues to what's going on are all right there in front of him. You simply need to give these 'out of character' actions even five seconds' longer of thought than Shen Yuan himself did.

[deathbycoldopen]

#He's such an interesting case where you can tell he LIKES people #he is notoriously sad when denied the opportunity to be around others! #and Binghe's fear of being abandoned for the friendship offered by CQMS is not unfounded!! #but at the same time he just... does not connect the dots socially a lot of the time? #I think in a lot of these cases of seeing others as acting weird it's almost always in relation to how others perceive HIM or HIS ACTIONS #it's like he sees himself as purely on the outside of interactions #either because he's The Reader or because he's a closeted gay man #so he's being *indulged* not being truly included... because being truly included would mean being truly known #and he finds that so deeply embarrassing (tags by @baixue-temple )

yess exactly, I think Shen Yuan’s biggest issue is that he is actually very smart (particularly with lateral/creative thinking, but analytically too!) and can be very good at reading people! but as soon as the reading has anything to do with himself those skills fall apart. Because this is a deeply closeted man who spent years in parts of the internet where being a real human being and not Ideal Man is cause to be mocked if not outright kicked out. So Shen Yuan, a notoriously adaptable person, has adapted so well to that environment that he becomes allergic to showing or admitting any vulnerability or emotion.

But Shen Yuan is good at reading people! He can tell when Luo Binghe is being manipulative and lying, but often flounders when it’s directed at him because he can’t admit to being weak to the spots Luo Binghe pokes at. He figures out Tianlang-jun almost immediately, and continues to suspect that Tianlang-jun is just heartbroken over Su Xiyan even while Tianlang-jun gives him a pretty good runaround of pretending not to care. He’s able to call out red flags in people’s stories—Qiu Haitang and Wu Chen, specifically—as being suspicious. He even knows almost immediately on meeting Yue Qingyuan that there is something deeper behind his relationship with Shen Jiu that never made it onto the page.

The problem is that Shen Yuan—highly social and adaptable and also a professional hater—is used to treating himself as a non-entity in his interactions. As baixue-temple said, he’s The Reader, or in personal relationships, he’s a chameleon without any sense of personhood of his own. It’s his best and favorite defense mechanism, which of course is utterly disastrous for a reality in which his personhood—both physical and interpersonal— can and does affect other people around him. He can’t do anything about those effects except to dismiss them as OOC, because acknowledging them as changes means acknowledging that he is, in fact, a real human being.

[cringefen]

harbor seals! :)

[aquariumpacific]

art is everywhere :')

[minart-was-taken]

Put that thing back where it came from or so help me

[probuccalfat]

you people will make anybody a daddy dom it’s so scary

[lostincitylight]

[elokitties]

[narcissistcookbook]

If you have seated tickets at a concert. Don't. Stand. Up. 🫵

seated tickets at concerts are not:

- tickets for people who didn't get standing tickets in time

- standing tickets with the option of having a little rest when you're tired of standing

seated tickets at concerts are:

- for people who aren't physically able to stand for a whole show

- for families who don't want to get separated

- for fucking sitting

if you wanted to standing and got sitting, grow up and sit down

swear to god the next person who stands up in front of me in the seated area is getting a tick on the back of their neck

[vaspider]

Fucking thank you. I literally cannot stand up for more than a few minutes at a time bc of nerve damage from having a tumor removed from inside my spine. The number of shows I've gone to and bought seated tickets and not been able to see...

... yeah.

Not quite as annoying as the bouncer at a comedy show who told me "We don't do that for sold-out shows*" about the ADA request for a booth that I'd been told by email months prior was totally fine and going to happen, but very close.

*I only barely kept myself from saying, "Oh, I didn't realize the Americans With Disabilities Act didn't count for sold out shows," and just went to find the house manager instead. That club fucked up so many times after assuring me I could sit in a booth instead of a wobbly chair that we just stopped going, though.

[luxwing]

Whenever I hear someone say "the woke mob" I have to stop myself from laughing because even today all I can think of is this fucking tweet

[luxwing]

Happy Pride to the Woke Mob

[screamting]

in modern day it's very easy to look at batman and be like "WHAT was this guy doing. Insane choice. You do NOT have to fight crime this way" but then you learn literally anything about the US in 1900-1939 and you're like "oh a batman terrifying people would have actually for real improved the situation"

[screamting]

"what did batman do to improve Gotham in ANY WAY that Bruce Wayne couldn't"

Batman is breaking into your landlord's apartment and and saying they would be seeing Batman EVERY NIGHT until they got running water in the apartment building, there are literal plague rats running around

Batman is solving crimes the police ignore due to sexism and racism, finding the perpetrators, and dangling them off a roof, promising if they ever do that again, he will also dangle them off a roof again

Batman is breaking into mafioso bedrooms, tying them up, gluing 500 individual feathers onto them, then taking pictures and sending them to every big newspaper chain in the country to remind people that the ones they're afraid of are still only men

Then he finds police officers on the take and glues feathers to all their uniforms so they can't walk around without everyone knowing they are also associated with the chicken mafia, what a loser.

He is seeing violent crime happen on the streets and swooping in to get in the way as it is happening. Extortion, assault, murders-- get good, assholes, your crime is witnessed and you have been punched in the face, AND he's going to tip off the police commissioner who last year started listening. He is blowing up a mobster weapons depot so they have fewer guns on the street.

Bruce Wayne can help when the system is working. And Batman gets to work when the system does not.