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Happy June 17th! This is my star trek reverse big bang 2018 entry! @onedamnminuteadmiral was my lovely author for this event <3! Check out the freaking gorgeous fic she wrote for it here! It was a blast to collaborate with you, liss! ily and i couldn’t have asked for anyone better!!! 😢and of course thank you to all the @startrekreversebang mods for organising this event! i had so much fun!!!!! 💖💖💖💖
— Why do you think he never used his sword again?
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Finally did it guys! BL Drama recommendations flowchart catered to me. Me only. ME people who might have the same taste as me. Enjoy
Hilarious. Thank you for doing this crazy idea.
Always Light My Way by cqlorphan
Always Light My Way
by cqlorphan
E, 27k, wangxian
Summary: Lan Wangji looks down at his own hands, steadying himself. It is easier to think clearly when he is not looking into Wei Wuxian’s eyes. He takes the scroll from his pouch.
“Research has uncovered a method,” he says. He does not mention the forbidden nature of said research, nor does he elaborate on the method itself. He will not venture to speak it aloud. He hands the scroll over.
Wei Wuxian looks at him for a long moment as he takes it, and Lan Wangji holds his breath, waiting for him to decide. Waiting to see if he is at least interested enough in the possibility of a new core to read it.
He is. He does. Lan Wangji might be relieved, if not for what comes next.
Lan Wangji offers to help Wei Wuxian develop a new golden core via dual cultivation. He struggles to keep his feelings in check.
My comments: Ah, lwj is gonna shred my heart with all his grief and guilt and shame. He only wants to help wwx rebuild his golden core, but knows he mustn’t burden wwx with his own unimportant feelings. Oh, the angst. Oh, the grief. Oh, the sex and pining and misunderstandings…
Post canon, still dealing with 16 years of grief/mourning, POV Lan Wangji, pining, dual cultivation, oblivious wei wuxian, friends with benefits, pining while fucking, first time, awkward first times, angst, guild and shame, top lan wangji, bottom wei wuxian, DID I SAY ANGST AND SHAME AND PINING???, grief/mourning, because lwj keeps forgetting wwx is alive and back, jealous wei wuxian, possessive wei wuxian, feels, archer wei wuxian, smart wei wuxian, porn with feelings, uncertain lan wangji, insecure lan wangji, dom/sub, getting together, jealous wei wuxian, misunderstandings, top wei wuxian, bottom lan wangji, confessions, happy ending, @jingyismom
(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)
Excellent fic.
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Wonderful idea. Beautiful colours. Fab digital art work
“If he catches me, I’ll…”
Beautiful digital art. Love the moonlight.
So You Want to Tumbl?
There are lots of newcomers here these days, and I thought I’d spell out how to begin and what it means to ‘curate your own dash’ for folks who haven’t grown along with Tumblr for the past decade.
If you’re coming from a platform where content is fed to you, Tumblr can seem barren and intimidating in the beginning. But that’s actually a good thing! What it means is that you will see what you want to. If you’re in a fighting mood, go find political discourse. If you’re feeling fragile, make your dash nothing but art and nature.
How to begin?
You’ve made your blog and picked out your icon (seriously, choose an icon: otherwise you’re indistinguishable from bots). Feel free to be anonymous. Most of us are, and it’s wonderful to have a place that’s not tied to your Real Life. Here you can be a fandom freak (like me!) and no one judges you and your boss will never find out.
Now seek out tags that interest you. For example, I was just looking through #moss because I like peace and green things and old-growth forests. (And, apparently, beautifully naked fae-men, heh.)
Now you follow that tag (if it’s a popular tag, it’ll say how many followers the tag has, which is beneficial to know if you’re making a post that you want to reach all its interested audience) and posts with that tag automatically fill your dash. Voila, you have begun to curate your experience!
Do Follow: tags; blogs in that tag that you like; people who comment on posts in the blog/tag you follow that seem like they’re up your alley. The more people you follow, the more varied and nuanced your dash is.
Don’t Follow: people who make comments or posts that raise your blood pressure. Topics that upset you. Discourse that has you arguing in your head for the rest of the day. PLEASE avoid toxicity. Real Life is hard enough.
How to be Social and Interact
If you want to find your tribe and interact, it’s best to start following individual blogs. (If you follow a blog, they have an opportunity to follow you back. Simply following a tag is a passive, one-way street.) To Tumbl is to be in a vast cocktail party, and you need to mingle and eavesdrop to find the things that galvanize you.
How to be seen and heard
💬Comment on posts (please always stay positive and enthusiastic: we really try to avoid toxicity). You can read other comments (and reblogged comments) by clicking on the notes:
🔁Reblog posts you like, both to show your support and to show other people what kind of things get you excited. Reblogging is essential to the tumblr ecosystem, because it’s the only way posts move around and get seen. You can also “like” posts, but that’s a much more passive way to interact. Also, reblogs and your own original posts show up on your blog and prove that you’re not a bot.
Create your own posts and remember that the first 20 tags you use are essential, because that’s what gets you seen (and followed) by strangers. Tags 21-30 are good for searching and archiving on your own blog, but they don’t count on the dash. Instructions on how to Make A Post.
Participate! Once you find your crowd, you’ll discover that there are always things going on. For example, in fandoms, we’ve got writing events, art events, crafting and cons. The more you try to be involved, the more new friends you’ll discover. Tumblr allows for such an organic community. One person has a thought, and many others build on that thought, creating something far greater than the sum of its parts.
There is no real algorithm beyond using those first 20 tags. This may be discouraging to folks who are used to working an algorithm, but we like it fine here, because it keeps everyone real and keeps obnoxious social climbers/capitalists out of your face.
Be patient! Just like in real life, when you find yourself in a crowd of people you don’t know, it takes a while to form connections. Watch and listen, and learn to read the room. Honestly, the thing that will win you the most friends/followers is honest enthusiasm about your space.
Don’t aim for the big names to become your new buddies. You’re more likely to find a thriving coterie among other fresh faces. Don’t assume that because they’re small or new they have nothing to offer you. Often, this is the fire that keeps any given corner of Tumblr going.
Tumblr Etiquette
NEVER REPOST (without explicit permission). Reposting is when you cut and paste from someone else’s content and then make it into a brand new post under your own blog name. That is stealing and is very condemned. Reblogging is when you use 🔁and the OP (original poster) remains attached to their post and continues to see and be in charge of interactions.
Reblog in addition to Liking. A post that you ‘like’ is static. You are not helping it to get to a broader audience. If the post or poster is something/someone you support, then REBLOG that sucker: it deserves to fly!
Reblog and add your own content. One of the best parts of Tumblr is that you can comment on a post, or even add to it in your reblog (as long as you’re not being a dick, okay? Or changing the topic, which is known as ‘hijacking a post’). Here is a wonderful example of the Tumblr ecosystem at work, where someone had a thought, other people had thoughts about that thought, and then a bunch of artists jumped in. Tumblr posts BUILD COMMUNITY, and you can be a part of that conversation. (Do try to refrain from reblogging with vacuous comments just because you want people to notice you rather than because you actually have something to add, though. That’s just clutter.)
The most important part of “curating your experience” is learning to Block.
You can block individual blogs, Anons, people in the comments that you find upsetting. Here’s a post on How to Block.
Block entire tags or keywords if they are triggers for you. (Here is a post on how to do that.)
Blocking is self-care. It is not a platform to demonstrate to the community how much you hate someone and how they should, too. Usually the blocked person never even knows you’ve blocked them. If they do something egregious (like tell you or someone else to kill themselves), then ‘Report’ them.
You can block something (like #US Politics) if you can’t handle it at the moment, and then unblock it later. Block a friend if they’re spamming something you don’t like and then unblock them later. It’s all good! You are in control of what shows up on your dash.
But doesn’t this mean my dash will be single-topic and boring?
The simultaneous joy and pitfall in following individuals is that MANY blogs are not single-topic. You will be exposed to all kinds of reblogs/ideas/other people from the folks you chose to follow, and can decide for yourself if you (a) want to be involved in that topic, (b) are indifferent to that topic, or © want to run from it screaming.
Also, the blogs you follow will move from hobby/theme/passion over time, and you can move with them, appreciate their new topic without vibing with it, or drop them altogether.
And THIS is how you curate your dash, my friends.
***Install New XKit extension. It’ll make your life easier!
***Here’s the Tumblr Help Center, where you can learn more details.
WOO HOO, y'all! I just realized that last year when they started the Beta Post changes that they changed the tag limit. So now it’s the first 20 tags that come up in searches (only from the original post, though, not reblogs). That means you have more leeway to fart around to find the tags that other people happen to be looking for.
Also, the tag limit is 30. this is a little sad, as there used to be no limit at all, but hey, it’s a worthwhile trade. So your tag stories and such will vanish starting at tag 31.
***An etiquette note: do not censor your tags! If you do, then people who filter (block) that tag are going to see your post against their will. You will not get in trouble or shadow-banned for using the tag #suicide or #kill, for example, but if you tag your post #su1cide then some traumatized people are going to be real mad at you.
***Well, Tumblr DOES actually censor SOME tags, most of which have to do with sex. You can see what tags they censor by doing a search for (for example) #nsfw. There will be zero results. That means that if you do a post with this tag, your post will be invisible to all but your followers and will not show up on search results. Some bizarre things seem to get qualified as sex, like #role reversal (seriously, grrr). If you’re unsure, do the search test. It’s random and dumb. Like, #dom/sub is fine, but #BDSM won’t show. *sigh*
Y'all should reblog this new, corrected post!
Very useful info. Thank you. Please reblog too
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He wasn’t scared of falling. All these years, he’d fallen many times. Falling on the ground still hurts, after all. But if someone was there to catch him, it would be more than wonderful. (Chapter 87: Loyalty—Part Nine) ↳ @mdzsnet | mdzs 5th anniversary | favourite quote from the novel
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It’s finally finished!! 😭
THIS TOOK FOUR DRAFTS AND TWO WHOLE MONTHS. I took creative liberty with the east exterior wall (see below), because we never see it, but other than that… I’d say it’s pretty accurate? Although please excuse my poor calligraphy and any bad inking. The sketches are very tiny (we’re talking just a few centimetres) and the paper was bobbling under a few of the smaller sketches from being erased so many times (two-point perspective is hard :( ).
There were sooo many little set details I noticed while obsessing over this. I even made a follow-up post about them.
Anyone else think the screen doors look like guqin strings? I plan(ned) to do the tea pavilion and bridge at some point because they’re right there but never in focus and I need to recreate them!!! but… so… tired…
The complete image:
Happy new year everyone, I’m going to sleep for a week. Main reference shots under the cut.
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What’s in a Name? — A Mini-Breakdown of “Lan Xi Chen” from The Untamed
↳姓 (xìng, surname): 蓝 lán ↳名 (míng, name given by elders/parents at birth): 涣 huàn, “disperse (as with water)” ↳字 (zì, name given upon coming-of-age): 曦臣 xī chén, “subject of dawn sunlight” ↳号 (hào, oftentimes self-chosen honorific/pseudonym): 泽芜君 zé wú jūn, “lord who bestows water upon desolate lands"
Justice for Lan-da 2k20 !!!
*yes I know the himbo jokes are jokes ** yes I know that fandom flanderization into fanon is lowkey inevitable as ppl repeat jokes over and over, and it gets removed from its joke context *** however, like MXTX, my heart hurts for Lan Xichen; hence this exercise
I’ve translated the section from the MDZS post-script (old ver) talking about Lan Xichen! I think looking at the original Chinese and figuring out my own interpretation has cleared up a LOT in terms of authorial intention for me that I didn’t necessarily get reading ExR’s translation of the text. Here’s the text below:
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CN: 蓝大。我不知道为什么有读者觉得他是一个“腹黑而睿智”的人，事实上……我从没表现过他这方面的特质Σ( ° △ °|||)︴能拆穿亲弟弟的小心思并不代表也能拆穿别人的，能成为家主也并不非要心思深沉明察秋毫，也可能仅仅只是因为出身高贵 人品好 成绩好……可能前期不小心把他的好感刷太高，导致后来大家“WTF你居然是个傻白甜？！”，一路掉粉掉得我心疼。摸摸蓝大。
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Lan-da[1]. I don’t know why there are readers who think he’s a “black-bellied[2], farsighted & resourceful” kind of person, in reality… I’ve never expressed this kind of characteristic in him Σ( ° △ °|||)︴Just because he see through his dear(est) younger brother’s little charade [i.e. read his lil brother so well], doesn’t mean he can see through those of other people [i.e. read other people so well]; being able to become a Sect Leader doesn’t necessarily mean he has to have inscrutable intentions or be perceptive to minute details[3]; though it’s also possible that it’s just because of his noble birth, good character[4], high achievement[5] …… perhaps I hyped him up too much in the early stages[6], which caused everyone later to be like “WTF, you’re actually a sweet naive ingenue[7]?!”; losing so many fans along the way, my heart hurts for him. Pets Lan-da.
[1] Eldest Lan! it’s so cute [2] slang for someone who is nice on the outside and “evil” inside - also can be “two-faced,” but I thought black-bellied has more flair :P [3] “have eyes sharp enough to perceive an animal’s autumn down” - marking this out bc I think the idiom tl is super cool. I think the idea overall for this section is “doesn’t mean he’s a crafty calculating individual” [4] it’s like good “character,” but it’s also like “moral standing” or “moral quality”? also kind of related to good fortune bc of complex cultural reasons re: like morality, virtue, filial piety, and like, one’s fate [5] mmm this term is like… good “achievement” but could also mean performance record or grade, so I kind of think it could also mean his, like, character rating if you were to rate characters, that kind of idea? But, as zhang pointed out, could also mean his “cultivation grade” so still with the idea of “academic achievement” :P [6] more lit: perhaps in the early stages, accidentally made his good points painted too high(?). friend told me this latter part is another net-slang, and that they like my usage of “hype” here :P :P reminds them of otome games? [7] internet slang for sweet, naive young woman? My impression of this word is, like, cute and sweet ingenue :P
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Well... we're married now, I guess.
This is by far the most effort I've put into a doodle yet and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out 💜
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曲尽陈情 QUJINCHENQING / A FULL EXPLANATION
INTRODUCTION:
曲尽陈情 Qujinchenqing (spotify link here, YouTube link here) is the fifth track on the CQL companion album, and the first track that is not an iteration of 无羁 Wuji. It is Wei Wuxian’s character song, and performed by Xiao Zhan.
The song’s title involves several layers of wordplay—first, 曲尽 qujin on its own means “to exhaustively detail,” and is part of the chengyu 曲尽其妙 qujinqimiao, which Pleco glosses as “to bring out (a quality, point, etc.) in a subtle and skillful way.” The chengyu has its origins in Lu You’s 《文赋序》 Wenfu Xu / “Preface to the Rhapsody on Language,” where he uses it to describe the ability of the text to both thoroughly describe and brilliantly render the subtle excellence of literary performance. Meanwhile, 陈情 chenqing is a fairly complex binome that I get into in this post. Its literary definition, derived from the 《楚辞》 Chuci, means “to give a full account/to explain oneself fully.” Pieced together, the song’s title then becomes something along the lines of “to give a full account in an exhaustive and detailed manner.”
Alternatively, the characters 曲尽 qujin can be broken down into “song” and “end,” and as such, a plausible alternate song title might be “by song’s end, a full account.” Since this song is functionally Wei Wuxian’s autobiography, this interpretation of the song’s title plays on both the medium and the content. Pushing the language even farther, and taking the 陈情 chenqing of the title to refer to Wei Wuxian’s ghost flute, one might conceivably go so far as to interpret this title as “songs end with Chenqing,” which resonates nicely with the phrase 陈情一曲领天下 Chenqing yiqu ling tianxia / “a song from Chenqing commands all under heaven.”
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