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~my metas~

tgcf

do he xuan and xie lian parallel each other? (no)

about he xuan and hua cheng's relationship, and ghosts as metaphors of desire

ghosts and desire again!

he xuan is full of hope

yin yu and he xuan: holding on, embracing change, and anger

wu ming is not codependent

wu ming and maybe we don't need to psychologize everything

on "i pray to never rest in peace"

doing a close reading of hualian's underwater kiss and realizing xie lian's sense of and discomfort with his own abnormality and how hua cheng builds trust with him and shows acceptance

hua cheng as an artist: cultivation through frustration and longing

shy dom xie lian and bratty sub hua cheng: power in receptivity and receptivity in power

a response to he xuan and shi qingxuan characterized as abuser/abused

not tgcf

thousand autumns 1

revenge positivity + plants (general, but i was thinking of he xuan from tgcf, dororo, vinland saga)

vikings, death, the afterlife, violence, nature: inaccuracies and distortions in vinland saga (vinland saga)

vinland saga's binary of family/war

some thoughts after having my heart burst open by chakuro and ouni (children of the whales)

frenzied response to the 1995 masterpiece Babe (babe)

why daniel and armand are so delicious together (interview with the vampire)

wangxian, romance, belonging, alienation, wei wuxian is not insecure, why kink is important & necessary for their romance, jiang cheng is annoying ^^ (mo dao zu shi)

arcane is bad 1 2 3

arcane could have been good 1 2 3

the hexcore as a metaphor for AI (if the writers had had brains) (arcane)

~head canons~

yinxuan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

waning moon brides 1 2

ghost city polycule 1

huaxuan 1 2

#ok going to start a pinned post to keep track of my metas #adding to this slowly as i remember/am reminded of metas lost in the deep seas of my blog #tgcf #mdzs #children of the whales #babe 1995 #iwtv #vinland saga #dororo #arcane

pirateprincessjess

“Covid game me narcolepsy” no you fucking pervert it didn’t. You’re just a weirdo with a gross fetish. Covid didn’t make you suddenly want to fuck dead people. Keep that shit to yourself you gods damned weirdo

I have type 2 Narcolepsy. Studies have shown that serious viral infections can cause people to develop Narcolepsy if they are already genetically susceptible to having it. This includes covid. That is what happened to me.

You on the other hand might want to google the difference between Narcolepsy and Necrophilia….

pirateprincessjess

Yall, I can’t believe that I have to do this, but I am going to say this in as clearly as possible

The anon was very confused.

I have Narcolepsy, which is a sleep disorder. Narcolepsy has nothing to do with Necrophilia. I am not into necrophilia.

pirateprincessjess

I didn’t realize that one said “necropolises.” That’s actually so funny. I think that one must have been a joke

fiendir

unyieldingsilence

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all-pacas

i have a lot of feelings and thoughts about coelacanths today

all-pacas

like… they’re blue

you have this mysterious fish that no one really cared about, because everyone assumed they’d gone extinct with the dinosaurs. an interesting footnote, but one of many, many fossil species.

and later the coelacanth gets some fame as a so-called “missing link” species, a theory which is now outdated (and not accurate for coelacanths) but was really influential at the time. because they have some weird biological quirks – bones in fins! – people were like “oh, they must be a missing link.” so the coelacanth was launched into some fame with the theory of evolution. it got brought up a lot. drawn in old textbooks as proof.

and then a fisherman finds a weird fish off the coast of south africa and calls a local fish expert who had let it be known she was interested in weird finds, and he brings her the (unfortunately badly rotted) corpse and she’s like “well, this is sure weird,” and sends off the bones to other experts, who start to quietly freak out, and rush to south africa, and rewards are offered for another one, any other one, and a few years later one is caught and frozen before rotting.

and it’s this incredible discovery, this extinct creature come to life (the prehistoric coelacanth lived in swamps and marshes in south america; these now are deep ocean fish in and around the indian ocean, but it’s still recognizably the same species)!

but it’s also blue.

not like, muddy blue, or tumblr-default-background blue.

proper shimmering sapphire blue and white. almost turquoise in some lights. this like… muddy, fossil creature. always drawn in dinosaur browns and grays. and it’s alive and it’s blue. just imagine being the scientist who opened that crate to this creature for the first time. you’re already excited, you’ve known about this fish for decades, you thought it was a story, you know it’s in this box. you expect to see the weird fins and the strange tail. you know it’s large and odd looking. and you open it up and it’s this beautiful, shining blue, you know?

all-pacas

[img described: a coelacanth. it is blue.]

kyoshi-lesbians

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

kyoshi-lesbians

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

kyoshi-lesbians

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

edgar-allan-possum

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

library-graffiti

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

clearascountryair

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

terriwriting

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

alexseanchai

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

uberguber89

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

erotisizedembalming

In the most grave plot twist of all.

Zuko chose the british approach.

“….rough innit?”

raichett

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

#me and most ships unless its a rarepair #it hurts sometimes to always be correct

mafuyuh

why does he do *that*

#watching the first episodes hard not to imagine him as his author's little pet

#something something unintentional alt lit poetry

everydaylouie

cat game

#I could watch this for hours

fizzfags

how it feels to wash your hair and brush your teeth and have clean clothes on

doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251

ooooo you wanna take a shower so bad

vampireopossum

#addendum to allegory of tbe spoons post

fishing-lesbian-princess

Being in a group chat with a bunch of mentally ill girls who suck at taking care of ourselves is really funny. We’ll constantly be giving each other advice like “hey you should probably eat something” “have you taken your meds today?” “if you’re not feeling well maybe you should get some sleep” and stuff like that and then none of us have the self awareness and self respect to take the advice we give each other until we we hear it from someone else

estrogenesis-evangelion

in heaven, each one feeds the girlie next to her

estrogenesis-evangelion

Allegory of the long spoons - Wikipedia

dogdykeafternoon

this part of the wikipedia page is really important to me

#xD

prokopetz

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

prokopetz

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

buggyhuman

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

woodsfae

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

#Oh My God #literacy

doublxpresso

Workaholic

doublxpresso

Extra: can't focus-ruggio

baiwu-jinji

I think Xie Lian didn't turn into Jun Wu not only because he's truly kind, but more importantly because he doesn't really care about other people's opinions of him, unlike Jun Wu. While Jun Wu does everything perfectly to please everyone in exchange for everyone's love, appreciation, and worship, he invariably starts throwing his toys out of the pram whenever he doesn't receive the 100% approval and appreciation he expects. "I've done everything perfectly and try to be as perfect as possible for everyone to please you all, so why don't you love and worship me wholeheartedly? Without your approval, how would I know I'm good? I will punish anyone who doesn't love me as they should, by god I will punish you all!" is probably what goes on in Jun Wu's mind, and eventually he became a monster filled with resentment. While Xie Lian has reached this very zen state of mind where he's like "people don't like me? Welp, ig that's just how it is. Anyway -" And not hinging his self-worth on other people's approval is how he managed to maintain sanity and follow his inner moral laws.

#i love the image of jun wu throwing toys out of his pram

baiwu-jinji

MXTX's early short stories

Hey Tumblr friends! @alliumms and I are excited to bring you translations of a series of five short stories written by MXTX during her student days. These early stories are equal parts entertaining and thought-provoking, and contain many incipient themes that can later be found in her novels.

So far we have translated two stories: "A Three-Day Chronicle" (translated by @alliumms) and "The Seer" (translated by me). We have posted the stories on AO3 and will be updating our translation of the other three stories in the near future.

Below is the link to the stories, hope you guys enjoy!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

#!#to read