a singsong and a scrap

~ space whale enthusiast ~ han ying enthusiast ~ old enough ~ (they/them)

[rainsfalling]

A small potato blog but not always a blog of small potatoes.

ao3 is: rainisfallingdown

I write stuff. I attempt to make books. I enjoy moss and unruly small birds. I made my own avatar. It's Han Ying. As is proper.

[park-seobang]

Something about how simple and stripped down "Yan Zheng" is in comparison to Xie Zheng's real name(s) and titles - The Marquis of Wu'an, etc.

言正. No radicals - his name cannot be split apart anymore. He cannot be "broken down" anymore than to Yan Zheng.

Thinking about how Changyu found him and treated him like just a man on the brink of death. Just a man. When was the last time when he was treated like just a person and not a weapon of war, a sword of the state to be wielded? When his parents were alive.

When given the choice to introduce himself to a stranger who knows none of his backstory (the good, bad, scary) that's what he chose. He chose to start from as close to zero as he could get.

Was it out of survival initially? Yes! But after things changed where it would have objectively benefitted him to be the Marquis (money, the politics with the Magistrate) he still maintained the identity of Yan Zheng - just a man, just a matrilocal husband.

It hurts when Changyu calls him by his titles (one because it's Changyu doing it) because there's no one else that he can feel human with except her. It feels like she's rejecting not just Xie Zheng the marquis but Yan Zheng the human.

Changyu says that he got married under a false name but, did he really?

[notoisstrange]

It must have felt like such a short time together in the end. But for her it was a whole lifetime (20 minute practice)

[notoisstrange]

He said he wouldn't leave. He said every year he would return to this little garden when winter ended. He would take him to roam Jianghu. (30 minute practice)

[bootiejigae]

monocle man 👍

[stella-draws-things]

[spector]

a deer is like a forest horse if you think about it

[spector]

(nodding sagely and correcting the whiteboard with a very squeaky marker) a deer is like a forest whale if you think about it

[valtsv]

the reason sex scenes exist in fiction is because sometimes people have sex but also to find out what the characters are lying to everyone including themselves about by wrapping that agonising vulnerability in a treat like giving medicine to a dog

[crabussy]

I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS

[prokopetz]

"You can't ship those characters because they have a problematic height gap" well, strictly speaking we can't ship one of them. The other is well within the size and weight limits of most domestic parcel couriers.

[shelbyblueeyes]

[eatthekidsfirst]

I will never understand why people upload cropped, low-res, uncredited art. Here's the full piece, originally created for a collaboration with watchmaker Ulysse Nardin:

Milo Manara, 2019, Ulysse Nardin, 2, mixed technique on paper

[tofixtheshadows]

Do you think Naomi Novik ever looks at AO3

sees some incest mpreg

and whispers to herself “I never wanted this.”

[astolat]

No. :)

[aoya]

[dionysiaproductions]

[viriv]

Fellas, is it gay to keep the decapitated head of your ex sworn brother in your secret man cave?

[prokopetz]

Concept: a mermaid who collects human artifacts, but, like, exclusively objects that humans have dramatically cast into the sea in moments of high emotion, catharsis, or personal revelation. Each item is carefully mounted above a little index card that outlines the circumstances of its hurling in terse, clinical prose.

[burnt-kloverfield]

How many outdated cellphones does she have from businessmen who realize that Family is more important?

[prokopetz]

Fewer than you’d think. For a variety of fascinating demographic and cultural reasons, importance-of-family cell phones are considerably more likely to be hurled into lakes than oceans. She’s co-authored a paper on the subject that’s due to be published next month.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I hope it’s been pier reviewed

[stlamb]