Everyday is Everyday

20s, She/Her, currently obsessed with the untamed and mdzs, working on endless wips

[zoe-porphyrogenete]

Bing an ben/Case file compendium Vol 7 cover

It’s gorgeous 😭😭

[ai-the-broccoli]

everyone go read BAB but take a shot every time He Yu or Xie Qingcheng stresses that he or the other guy is a very, really straight man and in fact the straightest Straight Man Mr. McHeterosexual to have straighted on this earth, who likes women and dislikes being with men. bonus point if you also do it every time they express their distaste for homosexuality or self-identify as a homophobe. extra bonus point if you take another shot when they are calling themselves straight while fucking or flirting or experiencing romantic jealousy over the other person. extra extra bonus if— actually no don’t do any of this, you will get too drunk

[stupidsexyshizun]

Gonna have a shot every time He Yu claims he's not gay / men's bodies disgust him / homosexuals disgust him / etc I will probably be dead of alcohol poisoning before morning

[hello-my-name-is-aves]

What Do These Three Have In Common?

It's pretty obvious. Sanemi Shinazugawa hates each of them terribly.

Now, I can already hear your protests, because...

Obviously, Sanemi doesn't hate Genya. That's his beloved baby brother! The only reason he does anything, the thing that gets him up each day, the last face he sees before he goes to sleep, his precious!

And Obviously, Sanemi doesn't hate Masachika. That's his (dead) best friend! The one who saved him from living the life of a feral vagabond, catching demons and stringing them up by their toes to burn in the sun. The one who introduced him to a trainer, brought him into the Demon Slayer Corps, and eventually died to save his life!

But Giyuu, yeah, he most definitely hates that guy.

Or does he?

I know many people like to pretend that it is that straightforward, but to do so requires ignoring the complexity of Sanemi's character, because here's the thing: Sanemi has got his wires all kinds of crossed when it comes to love, platonic or otherwise.

All you have to do is look at his canon interactions with Genya (right up until his imminent departure from this mortal coil) to see that Love is not straightforward for Sanemi. It goes without question that Sanemi loves Genya (do you see the love in his eyes in this picture?)

And yet he abandoned him for appr. eight years, rejected him when he eventually came looking and found him, disavowed their relationship entirely, told him he would break him beyond recovery if he didn't back off, and tried to literally blind him. He flat out says he would do anything short of MURDER to stop him. (Don't worry, guys. He did it all out of love.)

Now if you're thinking, Aves, that's a special case. He had his reasons. Genya was an exception. He was treating him with so much apparent hatred because he was trying to protect him! Okay...?

Well, fine. So let's look at Masachika then. We all know that Sanemi cares about Masachika, and loves him like a brother. Yet in the Light Novel story, Signs from the Wind, we see a lot of Sanemi's introspection and interactions with Masachika - his best friend. And it doesn't look like love at a glance.

In just a couple of pages, we see ALL this: He tells him to "Shut up"; says: "Seriously, what is with you? You keep babbling on and on."; He feels 'ready to explode' because Masachika is annoying him; he's visibly irritated; he calls him a "Piece of Garbage" and a "Brainless dolt"; asks "What's his problem?"; he's Sick to death of him, and wonders "what, exactly, he had to do to get Masachika to understand precisely how unwelcome he was."

Can you feel the love, friends?

But we know it's there for Genya. We know it's there for Masachika. Sanemi is just absolute shit at showing the people he cares about that he actually cares about them. Why? Because, in Sanemi's own words: "He was determined to walk this bloody path alone."

It's because he cares that he pretends not to. Sanemi directs anger towards those he loves. He intentionally tries to push them away. The more he cares about them, the worse treatment they get. It's pretty clear why, I think. The first (but less important) reason is self-preservation, even subconsciously. He's lost people he loves before, and he knows how bad it hurts. If he "doesn't love them", then losing them won't hurt so much. The second (and far bigger) is to protect them from that same pain.

Sanemi knows that this life of Demon Slaying ends in an early grave. He can't stomach the guilt of hurting the people he cares about by subjecting them to his own death. He figures that if he treats them like shit, then they'll hate him as much as he pretends to hate them. He can go on fighting, protecting them from a distance. And then, when he inevitably dies, they won't have to mourn him the way they would if they had been friends, brothers, (or some secret third thing.)

Which brings us back to Giyuu Tomioka, Sanemi's beloathed.

Sanemi hates Giyuu. He says so himself in his own words. He only agrees to even try to spend time with Giyuu, begrudgingly, at the request of Master Ubuyashiki. He gets pissed about Giyuu's chilly attitude, and annoyed by his stand-off-ish-ness. When they spar, he suggests that they try to kill one another with their bare hands. It all sounds like hatred to me. Except, for Sanemi, when he hates someone, it often canonically means precisely the opposite is true.

Babes, I won't even try to convince you that Sanemi and Giyuu are actually head-over-heels-in-love with each other, okay? (I mean. They are. But I won't try to convince you) I'm just saying that Sanemi canonically treats the people he cares about most with the least amount of love and affection. So maybe, just maybe, the obvious hatred that he has for Giyuu isn't actually hatred at all.

[nyx-the-reader]

My favourite angst couple dynamics (Unsaid thoughts)

"Am I even worthy of your Love?"

"Is my Love enough for you to stay for?"

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"Ask me to stay for you"

"Please tell me you want to stay"

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"You had to have realized by now, How can you not know?"

"I just couldn't let myself hope, it would have been my destruction"

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"My existence is not worth anything"

"I would have no purpose in this world had you not existed"

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"There is nothing for me in this world"

"Take me, my blood, my bones, my everything, until I have nothing else to give"

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"My Love is more of a curse than a blessing"

"If you can't bless me with your love, atleast curse me till the end of time"

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"Let me go, I have nothing left to live for"

"All this pain I have endured, just to watch you wither away"

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"What about you, who are you in love with, it couldn't possibly be me"

"Love me, even if I know I am asking for the impossible"

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"You will never acknowledge our connection, I watch you follow everyone else with your eyes"

"If only I had the courage to tell you, you live in my heart"

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"You will break my heart I know, then why can't I let you go"

"Don't forgive me, I don't deserve it"

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"I wish I could be what you deserved"

"Ofc, you wouldn't have wanted me, nobody has ever wanted me"

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"I was a selfish person once, now look, i made myself better for you"

"Did I do this to you, did my existence destroy you too?"

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"No one can love me, even I can't love myself"

"Let me love you, I would love you enough for the both of us"

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"I will destroy you, I corrupt everything I touch"

"I am drowning in my darkness, your touch is my salvation not destruction"

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"I always thought the worst of you, turns out all this time I was the one hurting you"

"You, even filled with hatred for me, are my lifejacket in this sea of oblivion"

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"I am nothing but an object, a toy, a weapon. No one even sees me as a person"

"Had I been powerful enough, you wouldn't have had to be anything other than yourself"

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"Don't let me destroy you, push me away first"

"If you are my end, let me greet destruction like an old friend"

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"I would take being born in this world again and again if it means meeting you, even just for the possibility of you, I'd take that chance"

"I would take living in this cruel world forever if it means having you, even for a second, i'd take that chance"

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"You are the reason of all this pain, not just mine but everybody's. So why, why can't I just hate you"

"Hate me, curse me, destroy me but for all the negativity there is.... don't be indifferent to me"

[imjusttryintogetsomesleep-deact]

they got married post-canon trust.

[just-a-random-bakugo-stan]

“Eww don’t ship them ! They’re just friends/ they hate each other/ they barely have any interaction/they never even met/they’re not from the same series !”

Pussy. Back in my days, we shipped Elsa and Jack Frost to hell and back because they were both ice themed.

[cynderrfall]

all my work for sanegiyuu week on twt <3

[professionalfanatic]

Moodboards for a few MDZS characters✨️

[wangxianficrecs]

Another Fandom Event Dropped!

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The Nielan Gotcha for Gaza is accepting prompts from today through March 10! The prompt forms/all other information can be found in the pinned post at @nielan-action.

Nielan Gotcha for Gaza

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[jiangwanyinscatmom]

Wei Wuxian is arrogantly proud of himself. But he is also very readily able to back up that claim. He is unfazed when people call him as such because he is talented, he is smart, he is strong, and he is very sure of his own self in the world and knows how he is seen by the world. He is unapologetic about himself and this is what is looked down on within the jianghu gentry he is a part of.

Despite his own wits and talent, it is still to taken at the gratitude of the gentry; Madam Yu and Jiang Cheng mask this by claiming he is indebted and with that debt he is not allowed to just be talented and competent, it was they that gave him that chance to use it to begin with.

Lan Qiren, with a bias against Wei Wuxian's mother, refuses to give merit to Wei Wuxian's theories and dismisses him as lesser based on his decades old grudge despite the depth and reason of Wei Wuxian's own arguments at the age of fifteen.

Jin Guanshan and Jin Guangyao rely on the widespread classism of the clans themselves (and Jiang Cheng's own entitlement and jealousy) to besmirch Wei Wuxian's honor and loyalty to claim he is actually power hungry and looking to disrupt the chain of traditions for cultivators.

Lan Xichen despite his supposed altruism chooses to follow the words of his fellow clan leaders and outright states he thinks Wei Wuxian has become something he is not, much to the obvious distress of Lan Wangji who vocally tried to just support Wei Wuxian's character and honor with Mianmian.

Nie Mingjue doesn't even take into account Wei Wuxian's protection of the Wens due to his blood libel for any remaining named Wens.

In each of these interactions while Wei Wuxian is very clear in intent and purpose it is others that choose to take his words and actions as lesser and morph them into a threat it is not, and then bring up his status of a servant with arrogance. Arrogance granted by his supposed favored position instead of the necessary armor for his own worth that is denied and made less.

[lavender-phoenix-flames]

Never trust a person who defends madame yu or think she was in any ways the victim in the situation and not the abuser, no people she isn't the girlboss milf you want her to be, she is just a narcissist bitter woman who is perpetually jealous, entitled and a classist.

[allpiesforourown]

All I want is a modern au where bingge is shen yuans best friend/roommate and also the worst person to ever exist. He worships the ground shen yuan walks on and even though he always has a hot girlfriend, they last like a month tops before they realize he's weirdly obsessed with shen yuan.

Being binghes girlfriend means waiting at the restaurant, ordering alone because it's been an hour he hasn't shown up, eating and going home because he won't reply to your texts, then getting a reply several days later saying "couldn't text you back, yuan-ge got sick" and it's completely unapologetic

Hands down the worst thing binghe does is get jealous of any girl shen yuan gets close to and hit on her so she won't date shen yuan

Binghe: I'm dating that girl you were talking to last night at the party!

Shen yuan: oh I'm glad! I was hoping you two would get together. She's so smart and you need a girlfriend that's not blah blah blah

Binghe: oh.... he didn't like her... okay I'll dump her later today. I just wanted to make sure she's not a threat to me being most important to shen yuan.

Everytime someone is smart enough to figure out what's happening and curses binghe out for using them, binghe sniffles and tells shen yuan he got dumped. Shen yuan (who has only seen the sweet submissive side of binghe) cuddles him and pats his head and says there's plenty of fish in the sea.

Getting dumped is binghes favourite thing in the world, because shen yuan will immediately cancel any plans he might have with qingge or airplane and insist on "comforting" Binghe at home.

Its basically this meme

[mikkeneko]

In various places -- here, the bird app, even YouTube comments -- I keep running into people with some variation of the same question:

"Does Scum Villain have a teacher/student romance?" And every time I want to answer with: No, But Also Yes, But Also Not Really, It's Complicated (And That's On Purpose.)

Which is an answer that's too long to fit in a tweet or a YT comment, but fortunately tumblr has no (effective) post limit! So here I go.

1 - No

In the very straight forward porn cliche sense of "oh but professor, I really ~need~ to pass this class or my life will be ruined, can't I do ~anything~ to get you to change my grade?" *bats lashes* and "Hoho, my pretty young teen student, I've got your good grade right here in my pants, if you ~apply~ yourself..." then no.

No sex or romance between a teacher and their student in the bounds of a teacher-student relationship happens in this book. No deliberate grooming of an underage student on the part of a teacher occurs in this book. No sex or a romance between an adult character and an underage character occurs in this book, nor is the adult 'waiting' for the minor to reach adulthood to initiate one.

2 - But Also Yes

No sex or romance between a teacher and their student in the bounds of that relationship happens in this book. Two people who were formerly in a teacher and student relationship do enter into a sexual and romantic relationship by the end of the book. Also the nature of the society they're in further means that even though they are no longer in the schooling environment, it is socially assumed that the deference owed by a student to their teacher lasts forever, even after the student leaves that environment, and they continue to regard themselves and refer to themselves in those roles even though the teacher no longer strictly speaking has authority over the student.

Also, the student was really hot for his teacher even when he was still a student. (The teacher was oblivious to this fact.)

3 - But Also Not Really

By the time sex and romance is even on the horizon for these characters, their relationship has so drastically changed from that of a "teacher and student" that it is barely recognizeable as such. The power/authority dynamic between a teacher and their student is subsumed pretty much entirely by the facts that:

A. The 'student' has become a medeival fantasy warlord of such unsurpassable magic and might that literally no other person in this world can stand up against him, 'teacher' included, and the 'teacher' is well aware of that.

B. Also, the 'student' is metaphysically endowed (heh) with the Protagonist Halo, a literally active force within the setting they're part of, which means that not only can he not be defeated, he ontologically cannot be denied anything that he desires; what he wants, he gets, and what he doesn't want, cannot be forced on him.

C. ...But also, the teacher in this setting is a metaphysical outsider to the world order the student is part of, which means that he is aware of all of the above, and can and does manipulate it to suit his own agenda, which may or may not align with giving the student what he wants at any point in time. Assuming that the teacher has the correct understanding of what the student wants. (He doesn't.)

D. ........But also also, for all his power, one harsh word from him can destroy him. For all his knowledge, one tear can devastate him. (Which one? Both.)

4 - It's Complicated (On Purpose)

*throws the chalk against the wall*

Between a teacher and their student, who has the power? Between an emperor and a scholar, who has the power? Between a hero and the villain he is predestined to destroy, who has the power? Between a character and the reader who's read ahead to the end of the story, who has the power? Do we find some of these power imbalances more acceptable than others? And if so, why do we?

Trying to track Who Has The Power or Who Has An Unfair Advantage socially, physically, and metaphysically between this particular pair of characters is damn near impossible and that's on purpose.

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System is a lot of things, but one thing that absolutely defines it is that it is a parody. It's a parody and a deconstruction of a lot of things -- the 'stallion' genre, the 'isekai' genre, the 'pay-per-chapter webnovel' genre, the 'gay drama' genre and, most relevant to this conversation, it is a deconstruction of teacher-student romance.

What kind of a teacher-student romance has a clueless, fish-out-of water NEET in the role of the Wise Old Mentor? What kind of a teacher-student romance has a black-hearted, demonic, domineering feudal warlord in the role of the Blushing Virginal Student? What kind of a teacher-student romance has the two principals so close in age -- by the end of the book, they may be as little as a year apart -- that they're more like peers than teacher and student? What kind of audience are we, going into a story like this one and finding ourselves cheering for the teacher to fall in love and lust with his student, only to be disappointed when that doesn't happen because the teacher fails for three books straight to recognize love and lust when it's literally looking him in the face and crying?

Asking "does Scum Villain have a teacher-student romance?" is sort of like asking "does Galaxy Quest have a lot of high science fiction concepts?" No, but also yes, but also not really. It's complicated, and that's on purpose.

[edwardcreel]

reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

[hanguangjunn]

WANGXIAN + PASH! magazine, january edition (2025) 💛💛

[fixielixie]

one day people will realise that the subversive part of wangxians dynamic is that lan wangji is the top, like the precious righteous pure jade who gets flustered by the big bad evil demonic cultivator. turns out the pampered princess is a sadistic dom top who cnc’s his male wife … it’s so perfect