wwx is the worst and I love him so much

MDZS, Fire Emblem, Homestuck, and others. Random hyperbolic feels about Naruto/Sasuke/Sakura.

[runespoor7]

Sympathetic-characters-centered morality + idk, insane royal fetishism???

Story:

*shows the hiding place of characters planning what the fandom modestly calls "a heist" with machine guns and rocket launchers laying around and has the characters in it saying things like "we will reclaim our birthright" while being the descendant of a fallen dynasty and also while not saying ONE SINGLE WORD about other ideological differences she way have with the current regime - not a word about freedom, not a word about equality*

People in the fandom:

"she had valid reasons for not liking the [current monarchy] and she was a thief not a terrorist*"

yeah, the reason is that she wants her family to still be the one on the throne.

*to be clear I really dgaf about the "terrorist" tag which is always more telling of the legality of the act and doesn't say anything about the morality/violence of the act, but I DO think people use it as a shortcut to mean "violent/non-violent" and can we please recognize that the machine guns and rocket launchers do indicate something re: violence

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[runespoor7]

why is our biggest newspaper reporting on Platner's extramarital sexts and not on the nazi tattoo that my knowledge he's never decided to erase. (I know: it's because our biggest newspaper thinks the extramarital sexts are a bigger deal in the US than the nazi tattoo. I nevertheless wish our biggest newspaper didn't simply play at being gobsmacked at USian puritanism but also informed us about the dangers the people the US is tempted to vote for represent.)

I can but hope the nazi tattoo is mentioned in the paywalled parts of the two articles that mention Platner.

[qiu-yan]

imagine the following:

postcanon, for various reasons, chengxian get together.

then, wei wuxian and jiang cheng find out that wei wuxian is actually the illegitimate son of jiang fengmian and cangse sanren.

this makes wei wuxian and jiang cheng biological half-brothers.

how do cheng and xian feel about this

WWX is troubled, JC is troubled

WWX is troubled, JC doesn't care

WWX is troubled, JC is into it

WWX doesn't care, JC is troubled

WWX doesn't care, JC doesn't care

WWX doesn't care, JC is into it

WWX is into it, JC is troubled

WWX is into it, JC doesn't care

WWX is into it, JC is into it

Remaining time: 1 day 16 hours

[runespoor7]

JC's major feeling would be being very angry at his dad for that. Mostly for not recognizing WWX but also partly for lying to JC's mom.

WWX can be troubled while JC walls all of his feelings behind This Could All Have Been Avoided If WWX Had Been My Brother From The Start. JC bluescreening with rage because everything after the war would have been different if WWX had been recognized as JFM's son. (but JC - the Jin sect leader hated having to recognize his bastard son, don't you think he would have been even MORE opposed to your sect and WWX if the Jiang had set that precedent? - I don't think JC is up to thinking very rationally but also it would have been LOADS easier for him to go to bat for WWX had WWX been his legally recognized brother.)

(it would not have ended well for the Jiang. But JC is not dealing well with the reveal that his... that the social expectation of caring for WWX, that being entitled to WWX belonging, the safety of WWX's place in YMJ, was stolen from them by JC's own father hiding it from them.)

(ALSO also. JC once sacrificed himself for WWX and he had no right to it and WWX proceeded to make himself a diplomatic problem for the Jiang and also orphaned JC's nephew. But if WWX is JC's brother, then JC saving him is in fact normal and familial and not JC's most selfish choice ever and also JYL wouldn't be dead and JC would have had ZERO reasons to hate himself for that one choice.)

JC is determinedly Not Thinking about WWX being the heir and the sect leader instead of him but it brings back wet nightmares he's had a few times over the years; previously they were based on "what if I'd never got my core back". Now they're based on being blood brothers.

[runespoor7]

This could be snappier but you get the idea:

Travant: so you... killed these girls' parents and brought them home and raised them and call them daughters?

Madoc: yep.

Travant: and they... let you? They don't resent you for making them orphans?

Madoc: sure they do, but they are still my daughters.

Travant: ...

Madoc: they always knew what I was. Maybe your problem was the lack of communication.

Travant: are YOU seriously--

Madoc: you took the coward's way out.

Travant: takes one to know one, doesn't it.

[katofvalentia]

The murdered do haunt their murderers.

[runespoor7]

For reference, first chapter of A Deadly Education

[runespoor7]

I'm curious whether there's been a/several studies on the whether there's any difference in temperature between city center schools (primary, middle, general high schools were often built during the late XIXth century with bricks/stones) and more recent, more often suburban schools (though of course you can also find recent builds in city centers - where I think they're more likely than the older buildings to be professional high schools), and whether the more or less 2°C difference between the inner city and not the city (I don't know where the difference hits exactly, I don't assume Pantin or Issy les Moulineaux are 2°C colder than Paris) change anything to the heat inside classrooms.

During a heat wave I mean. Cold classrooms are also definitely a thing (shout-out to les préfabriqués where you t'es gelé le cul pendant 4/3/7 ans) but the heat is more concerning.

[geostatonary]

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[runespoor7]

Hopeless like an ot3 from a manga/anime whose fandom knew its heyday before the ao3 and thus there so little. sooooo little. so little fic about the ot3 on the ao3.

[cowboydeanwinchester]

is he … you know … open to interpretation?

[cowboydeanwinchester]

nobody on this webbed site can read

[wormcoded]

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

*takes the hand of a period drama writer gently* A queen consort is not a queen regnant. A dowager queen is not a queen regnant either.

There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.

I know this is a bit of a bummer. I'm sorry.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

For clarity:

Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.

Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.

Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.

Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.

Queen mother: Woman who is the mother of the monarch. Usually the dowager queen, though there are exceptions if there isn't a straight line of succession.

[runespoor7]

Not to say that queens are never regents. For instance, France (a country which ruled that the throne cannot be passed through the female line) traditionally favored queen mothers for regent (see Anne d'Autriche).

[hanakogames]

The Russian government has declared that Night Cascades is too gay and demanded that it be removed from sale (in Russia)

And, well, it IS pretty gay.

[leahstuff]

A new Ouran AMV with a song from The Greatest Showman?  Please and thank you.

[yutaan]

Whenever I mail out papercraft, I draw a little doodle on the outside of the envelope. I thought this envelope doodle of JC and WWX turned out extra cute, so I decided to color it! Yunmeng Shuangjie!!

[runespoor7]

Is it too much to ask for you people not to tag your character hate with the name of the character?

"she totally deserved--" "she's the real villain in the series, I don't care--" whatever you say, get this shit out of the tag with her name, and then you can keep on doing whatever it is that you think you're doing.

there's grass in your neighborhood in desperate need of touching. you should tend to that.