some kind of freak

lin, she/her, he/him fandom sideblog || not spoiler free aroace || chinese diaspora 📖📺 the hunger games, svsss, nirvana in fire

[ladyofthemurk]

about me

blorbo of the day: mu qing

my content:

mostly reblogs of fandom art, gifs, meta, etc

(very) occasionally I post fanart under #my art

tags you might want to block are #discourse, #lin talks discourse, #ladyofthemurk bitching, #nsfw

I try to tag common triggers with the respective thing + “cw” at the end, but if I miss a post please feel free to tell me!

#discourse is specifically for reblogs, #lin talks discourse is for my own posts/commentary

please do not reblog any original posts under a readmore cut

fandoms I’m in:

started as a The Untamed (#cql) blog, less so mdzs, which I haven’t read (though I do know most of the stuff that happens)

currently into the Locked Tomb Series, Six of Crows

watching Hannibal

the rest is pretty miscellaneous

my interests flip a lot more than I can remember to update this post so expect this section to be outdated

things I like to avoid:

fandom purity discourse — ship and let ship, live and let live; if it’s tagged/warned properly it’s fine

adaptation discourse. yes this is about the entire mdzs vs cql disaster; you don’t have to like both but if you’re disdainful of one or the other I’m not gonna say don’t follow me but at least don’t let me know about it. for transparency purposes my stance is firmly "cql is nuanced actually and people who prefer it don’t not care about the story" and "the novel and novel fans deserved better than the backlash they got"

in a similar vein: that weird comparison thing people love to do with different media/characters/ships/whatever like "x is way better than y!" it’s the fastest way to turn me off something

blocking policy

idk I’d like to think I have a set of reasonable rules but in truth my “policy” is that I block everyone who is even a little bit annoying. if you’re blocked don’t worry it’s not like you’re missing out

wanna talk?

feel free to message me or drop an ask! new friends are always appreciated

[cyeayt]

Shout out to Characters who are shells of their former selves! You died and you’re not coming back! You don’t recognize yourself and neither does anyone else, and it’s anyone’s guess what the fuck you’re supposed to be now!

[twinktorturer]

the best thing a man can be is gay and suicidal and miserable and utterly unlikable and unpleasant to be around and prone to addiction and abused and traumatized and not breaking the cycle and

[molabuddy]

i Really love when two characters are really quite similar but in such a way that they just hate eachother onsight.. dog barking at a mirror type beef

[metal-autistic-coven]

it is always morally correct to put the character in the evil torture science lab. btw

[tinyshoopuf]

[sadhoc]

first year in fandom: omg i love these characters.... and the story's so well written.... so much cool fanart and fic, i think i'm going to write some of my own

eleventh year in fandom: au where the character is a little jingle bell for sale on ebay for 8.99

[himejoshevik]

key romance ingredients

immediate instinctive D/s dynamic

+ somewhat optional: material power imbalance

the relationship is impossible without the submissive character compromising something integral that pride & external expectation will not permit them to compromise. But simultaneously relationship makes them aware of what they were compromising before. return to the normal world is equally impossible or unsatisfactory

exclusivity--only they can truly understand each other

top: I need to kill myself. I need to kill myself as soon as possible. my dad was right about me. God damn it.

submissive character is the agent at the pivotal moment--taking the first step, forgiving, returning, extending a hand. a leap of faith

[forcewound]

one of the best things you can make a female character is really bad at interpersonal relationships

[neuxue]

cursed thought: modern au wei wuxian absolutely invented the blockchain. no i will not be taking constructive criticism at this time.

[neuxue]

years on, having had the chance to reflect on it, I realise I got this one wrong.

So I want to take this chance to acknowledge, apologise for, and correct my mistake. I was influenced by the conversations going on at the time, and couldn’t see past that. It’s not the precise read of his character I thought it was; in fact it does him something of an injustice.

modern AU Wei Wuxian wouldn’t waste his time on the blockchain.

modern AU Wei Wuxian invented LLMs.

[cannibalchicken]

[homoeroticjunoincident]

the best thing a fictional man can be is having the worst time of his life

[cleobel]

Analyzing a fic to the tune of Legally Blonde’s Gay or European: Is it Jiang Cheng Bashing…….or Lan Wangji POV?

[ineedhjalp]

I love fanfiction because sometimes The Character needs to be held gently and sometimes they need to be beaten to death with a club. and you 🫵 can make both of those happen. for free

[orpheusilver]

just realised that if jin guangyao had in fact let lan xichen stay and die with him then all 3 of those assholes wouldve been in the torture coffin together. imagine being nie mingjue trying to enact 100 years of vengeance upon the lying bastard who murdered you but your mutual boyfriend the conflict mediation pervert is sitting there like "guys stop cant we all just talk about our feelings :("

[mikkeneko]

No Exit (From The Coffin)

[raelemond]

treating your own characters badly is problematic? back in my day if we were mildly inconvenienced on the way to work we'd vivisect them for the stress relief

[rollercoasterwords]

my tumblr mutuals will take characters from media that is not very good & construct such rich & intricate inner worlds for them in their posts that i will go wow that sounds so compelling let me go check this out….& then the canon character will be like. relatively boring with very little interiority. but that’s okay because sometimes the real character is the one my tumblr mutuals hallucinated along the way….