Behind every code, there's an enigma.

My hyperfixations flip on a dime | Name: Ace | Pronouns: They/Them | Gender Queer, Demisexual, Panromantic, and Polyamorous | Art Insta: @artteawithace | Professional Activist, Artist, and Writer | This blog is literally just a sliver of the internet I carved for myself to scream into the void. It's reassurance and evidence of a life I once lived--brainrot and all.

[the-guilded-jade]

Danmei has COMPLETELY wrecked my perception of slow burn because what do you mean characters in western novels get together at the end of book 1, babes they shouldn’t even be holding hands until AT LEAST book 3.

[friedwizardwhispers]

"Some of you are just there for the romance in the Danmei community and I don't like that"

This is a romance genre ??? What are you talking about ? Don't get me wrong I love the politics and the fantasy and everything else but I'm not gonna mad someone like danmeis because they enjoy the romance, when romance is the main plot most of the time.

[crowned-crimson-flower]

Danmei is a very unique genre of queer literature which both centers and de-centers queerness. None of the Danmei I’ve read have been essentially “about” being gay. They’re just stories of life, of magic, of fantasy, of love, in which the main characters happen to be gay. Which is a kind of representation I have often seeked from western media and related intermediaries because why is every gay story, a coming out story? Is there not more to queer people than that?

However, while capturing the personhood of queer people; Danmei also captures the queerness of people because none of these stories would work if the characters weren’t gay/queer

Wei Wuxian’s absolute buffoonery of misunderstanding Lan Zhan’s feelings in a decade long telephone game in which neither of them open their damn mouth would never work in a non-queer story because between a man and a woman romance would be the natural assumption of everyone around them and therefore wouldn’t leave space for confusion. The misunderstanding of their romance is so closely tied to the plot succession that the plot would be… non existent without it

In TGCF Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s absolute aspirational love is literally in the backseat and front seat of the story. Not too different from a classic hero’s journey but instead of the hero being one person, it’s two people. They are so intertwined with eo that they become one character and witness a lot of the story together. Witness being a very interesting word choice. Their queerness doesn’t drive the story but replacing one of them with a woman would dampen the effect— it’d remove the uncertainty, the confusion from everyone around them, the genuine slow burn of the romance. There’s also this idea of Hua Cheng falling in love with Xie Lian so far separated from concepts such as gender or whatever which wouldn’t have been hammered home in a straight romance where those conversations aren’t always had between the audience and the story

And Erha.. well obviously. Half of Chu Wanning’s “this is so inappropriate” spiral wouldn’t exist if he was a woman. And, the idea of Mo Ran being a “cut sleeve” builds up the under current of his character being so far dismissed by society because he’s seen as immoral. Which just wouldn’t serve to the same effect if he was into exclusively women because so was every other character.

Not in a single one of these stories is queerness and homosexuality the central theme of the story yet without them, the romance wouldn’t be the same. Liking the same gender as you comes with baggage in our society which is so heteronormative and that effect has to exist in the person characters become for them to be authentic but at the same time, limiting that effect only to produce coming out stories/falling in love stories is unfair. Danmei mends this through a middle ground where the plot is the focus but it doesn’t exist in a vaccum, it exists in queerness itself

[ragsy]

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or

[ragsy]

How to "get it":

Ask yourself, how does this piece make you feel? (No wrong answers)

Look for an artist statement nearby. What does it say about the artist and their relationship to their work? What does the artist say that they are trying to convey with their art? What contextual clues can you pick up from what they say about their background, or what they omit?

Look at the title of the piece. What is the artist saying about their work by naming it that, either explicitly or implicitly?

Look at the medium. Is there anything about the piece that stands out to you, knowing what it's made of?

Look at the year it was made. What cultural events might have been happening around this time? Was this piece part of a particular art movement? What was the purpose of that art movement, and what was it trying to say?

Accept that sometimes, you still might not get it. This is perfectly okay.

[starlight-tiger]

POV you started reading a book without realizing the rest of the series wasn’t out, has a total of like 7 posts on tumblr, and isn’t even on ao3 yet

[danmei-enthusiast]

Mo Tianliao: “I’m Shizun’s everything. I’m his scratching post, his rocking horse, his silly little rabbit.”

Menghu: “Does he call you that?”

Mo Tianliao: “No.” ☺️

[thebunniprince]

That one mini extra as a comic :3c

[talk-danmei-to-me]

I found Mo Ran’s favourite book:

It features a cat and a divine tree man. All his favourite things 💗

[weebshit-sideblog]

Me too, jc. Me too.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[shamebats]

[remanence-of-love]

[cannibalchicken]

[mini-godzilla]

I do think the fandom has the unfortunate habit of babifying Shang Qinghua, due to both shipping and crocodile tears. I personally like the fact he’s a stone cold shark.

This guy set up an event so deadly it killed a significant number of teenagers— some from his own peak that he trained personally— without any visible trace of remorse. SQQ spent years wallowing in the guilt of throwing his little sheep into the abyss, which he knew he would survive. Meanwhile SQH did that and an unknown amount of other shit without batting an eyelid. That man would sell you out for pocket change.

No wonder Mobei Jun thinks he’s hot. Murdering someone in cold blood must be the demonic equivalent of a sexy hair flip.

[supertaliart]

Kings of communication: Mobei-Jun and Lan Wangji; and kings of misinterpretation: Shang Qinghua and Wei Wuxian.

[herssian]

people who don't use or spend time on tumblr don't really understand how solid this place is for creatives and how we could be living in artist utopia if they fully undid the nsfw ban. the tag system? the dashboard? the silly anons who will send you the most insane sentences known to mankind? having your very old, shitty art make the rounds again because somebody finds value from it and wants to show their friends? no other place even comes close

[lastoneout]

When they say figuring out if you're trans or not is more about chasing joy than hyper-analyzing your misery they aren't kidding. When I think "do I hate my boobs? am I really a trans man or am I bigender like I thought?" I get a lot of weird and complicated feelings my brain is not ready to break down, but when I think "hypothetically, what would my life be like without boobs" I can't stop smiling thinking about wearing all my favorite shirts and walking around shirtless and swim shirtless and never having to buy another bra or feel like my boobs are holding me back from doing things I want to do and it's like oh.

Oh.

[paincest]

imagine you're a classmate of jeremy knox and you're not caught up with the Moreau Lore and you meet his boyfriend and said boyfriend is literally straight out of a wattpad dark romance book. like what do you mean jean is a hot 6'2 french muscular talented jock with an accent that makes jeremy weak and likes only wearing black and rides a motorcycle and beats the shit out of anyone mean to jeremy. how cliché. what, you gonna tell me he's in the mafia too? hahah- wait what