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I cycle through hyper fixations rapidly They/Them 24 y/o

[king-cinamon]

About Tulas name

Ok so I've been thinking about this nonstop since I heard Brenans character name for Burrows End. I'm South African and in South Africa, we have a language called Zulu and in that language there is a lullaby called Thula Sana or Thula Baba wich translates to "hush baby" or "don't cry child". It's a lullaby about a mother luling her baby to sleep and assuring the child that their father will be home in the morning, how the stars at night will brighten his way and how her life has changed.

I knew this song from when I was a kid and I started Burrows end and I was like "huh her name is like that lullaby" and I started associating the song with her but I haven't heard this in many years and am not fluent in Zulu so I had no idea about the meaning behind the lyrics till I looked them up like now. I just want to share a small part of my culture with more Dropout fans, I hope atleast a few people find this as interesting as I do.

@quiddie

[king-cinamon]

I dont know why but The Dying Swan (the ballet dance that is weirdly not related to Swan lake) is very Lan Wangji coded.

Tell me he wasn't feeling like this inside, when he got drunk, then beaten, then branded himself and then isolated for years.

Also Wei Wuxian feels very Odile variation coded to me, not the popular, the original one Tchaikovsky wanted to use (not a ballet person, dont know how to differentiate these things).

But WWX reminds me of this particular section, not really how Odile is in the rest of the Ballet.

Idk flame me if im wrong

[king-cinamon]

Eridian Zhongli

[king-cinamon]

TLJ: I love you so much. You're like the son I always wanted ☺️

ZZL: 🥺 I love you too uncle.

SQQ(SY): YOU LITERALLY HAVE A SON!!!

TLJ: The keyword is "want" 🙄

LBH: *does not give a single flying fuck*

[king-cinamon]

Grace obviously has a bunch of Earth media stored on his laptop.

What Earth media do you think Rocky or the Eridians would become obsessed with?

[king-cinamon]

You know what? Fuck you!

*Unkudos all your the fics you read*

[king-cinamon]

I cant even begin to imagine how Rocky could even being to understand that humans have sight.

Some Eridian biologist somewhere: What do you mean that humans have specialised light sensing organs that adapted to perceive a section of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum? And they can do "see" to the changes speed and direction of the radiation, after it hits an object? And they have 2 on them so they can use echolocation to percive depth, shape and texture with the radiation?

Honestly trying to understand echolocation as a human would be weird but not impossible because we can tell distance and direction of sound, but to a creature that doesn't even have a basic "light yes/ light no" light sensing organ, this must sound insane.

Wait! No it's worse than insane! I just remembered that they know nothing about radiation! That's so much worse!

[muffinlance]

"Light" and "seeing" become popular tropes in Eridian fiction, being used for increasingly more improbable things

Grace, after wiping off his tears of laughter: Oh man, you're using it just like we'd use "magic"

Eridian authors everywhere, vibrating Grace's skeleton with the sudden intense force of their echolocation: What is "magic". Question.

[wileycap]

Imagine the self insert OCs who, upon hitting Eridian puberty, discover that they can See. And are also related to Earth Royalty somehow, information that they receive from the lap-top they find buried under 60 tons of rock by accident.

[king-cinamon]

So would the equivalent of an unforgivable curse be like shining a laser at them 😂

[king-cinamon]

Why are dragon eggs always depicted as having hard shells? Don't all reptiles lay soft shells?

[ineffectualdemon]

Shen Qingqiu goes to the Demon realm and finds out that, naming conventions aside, your average demon is super fucking normal. They just exist but are basically actually just people. The ones who raid the human realm tend to be the abrasive assholes just like the humans who raid the demon realm tend to be abrasive assholes.

Most demons are just some guy but with horns or a tail or something.

Shen Qingqiu is so confused and disappointed because all the wives and demon antagonists were super weird and had weird quirks and oddities and Shang Qinghua is like "Yea? I based the wives and other demon nobles off of the rich kids at my school. Of course they're freaks. Rich kids are weird. Even my King got that treatment! There was this cold, emotionally constipated, beauty in my creative writing class who barely spoke to anyone and glared at everyone who came near. I think his name was Shen something. I based Shen Qingqiu on him a little too."

And then Shen Qingqiu chases him around the palace with his sword.

[sunderwight]

I can't remember what post it was but somebody once posited that part of the reason why SY!SQQ is like catnip to most of the cast of SVSSS/PIDW is because he's Airplane's type, Airplane sort of created everyone, and so it carries through to the point where all of the characters who have The Hand of God touch their personality inherit being down bad for this one weird internet critic.

Which is a hilarious notion but it occurs to me that this, if true, would have equally funny implications about Mobei Jun. Who is designed by Airplane to be his ideal man (both in the sense of representing the masculine ideal, and also in the sense of Airplane wanting to climb him like a tree).

Because like... is everyone also just kind of lowkey into Mobei Jun, too, then? Are they all having moments where they're doing spit takes mid-battle like, damn that guy's curiously attractive for a demon???

[king-cinamon]

Sometimes I randomly think about this and cackle

[king-cinamon]

Im so glad Hanks sons death had nothing to to with androids.

I was feeling nostalgic for the game and I remember this.

It could have easily been that way but I feel like this added dimension to Hank.

[king-cinamon]

I cant even begin to imagine how Rocky could even being to understand that humans have sight.

Some Eridian biologist somewhere: What do you mean that humans have specialised light sensing organs that adapted to perceive a section of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum? And they can do "see" to the changes speed and direction of the radiation, after it hits an object? And they have 2 on them so they can use echolocation to percive depth, shape and texture with the radiation?

Honestly trying to understand echolocation as a human would be weird but not impossible because we can tell distance and direction of sound, but to a creature that doesn't even have a basic "light yes/ light no" light sensing organ, this must sound insane.

Wait! No it's worse than insane! I just remembered that they know nothing about radiation! That's so much worse!

[king-cinamon]

Why tf did "sad rock noises" make me so sad 😭

[king-cinamon]

Ayo watching Project Hail Mary and suddenly they playing Puta Puta hello??? 😂 🇿🇦 💜

[king-cinamon]

Wattpad has become an uninhabitable hellscape but on thing I'll always miss from there that Ao3 doesn't do is inline comments.

That was godtier and I pity anyone who didn't get use it in its prime.

[whorerific]

wei wuxian is such a lesson in contradiction like he's so nice he's a jerk he's so smart he's very naive he's friends with everyone nobody likes him he's the best cultivator alive he can't use a sword he's a whore he's a virgin he's lazy he'll work for days without sleep he's so calm under pressure his temper is atrocious his ego is massive he has no self worth he's dead he's alive he's a saint he's a monster he's a victim he's a villain he's a great teacher he's a terrible student he's a charmer he's so so annoying he saves everyone's asses he's the reason they're in this mess he's a brother but not really he's a son but not really he's a father but not really he's a sect leader with no sect he's so selfish he puts everyone before himself he made so many choices there was nothing else he could have done like no wonder it's so difficult for people to understand him he's literally everything

[king-cinamon]

He is both dumber and smarter than you think, never estimate him

[whorerific]

wei wuxian is such a lesson in contradiction like he's so nice he's a jerk he's so smart he's very naive he's friends with everyone nobody likes him he's the best cultivator alive he can't use a sword he's a whore he's a virgin he's lazy he'll work for days without sleep he's so calm under pressure his temper is atrocious his ego is massive he has no self worth he's dead he's alive he's a saint he's a monster he's a victim he's a villain he's a great teacher he's a terrible student he's a charmer he's so so annoying he saves everyone's asses he's the reason they're in this mess he's a brother but not really he's a son but not really he's a father but not really he's a sect leader with no sect he's so selfish he puts everyone before himself he made so many choices there was nothing else he could have done like no wonder it's so difficult for people to understand him he's literally everything

[king-cinamon]

He is both dumber and smarter than you think, never estimate him