May 14, 2024
Something I noticed in the dunmeshi fandom
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Something I noticed in the dunmeshi fandom
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Hello. There is a cat AGAIN. CW for animal death I guess, because it's a ghost cat, but it is being loved and cherished and there's no details.
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Hua Cheng could never begrudge Xie Lian’s kindness. It was one of the things he adored about him, that he found so special. Among all the gods in the realm of heaven, in Hua Cheng’s opinion, only Xie Lian was good enough to deserve to watch over the prayers of the common people.
But lately, and he’d never admit this to Xie Lian, lest the other man think he’d done something wrong, which he hadn't, Xie Lian’s kindness had come at a disadvantage.
It had only been a couple weeks since Xie Lian had come back to Paradise Manor with the tiny black and white cat in his arms. It wasn’t a normal cat, but a ghost cat that had wandered to the entrance of Ghost City. Xie Lian had found him on the way back from a meeting with the heavenly court. Hua Cheng did not know what had befallen a friendly domestic cat that would cause it to return as a wandering soul, nor was he sure he wanted to know, but Xie Lian had not been able to resist its plaintive mews.
And so now the cat, a little girl Xie Lian had named Jiahao, had free reign of Paradise Manor. The truth was, Hua Cheng was actually very happy Xie Lian had felt comfortable enough to bring the cat home without even asking beforehand. It showed he viewed Hua Cheng’s home as just as much his home, and that he fully understood, believed, and accepted that everything that belonged to Hua Cheng also belonged to him. He knew the Xie Lian he had met again years before would not have been able to do that.
Xie Lian doted on the creature. She was a ghost cat, he reasoned, so she could eat whatever she wanted and it wouldn’t matter. This meant that if the cat asked for it, she got it. This was also fine. Hua Cheng wanted him to be happy. He would just get more food if they ran out.
The bigger problem was that the cat clung to him like a particularly stubborn shadow. There was no time at which the cat wasn’t by Xie Lian’s side. He couldn’t even take a bath without Jiahao coming in and reaching in to playfully splash the surface. She slept with him, she ate with him, she bathed with him, she relaxed with him, and she even went out with him, walking alongside him dutifully. He imagined if E-ming had been a cat, it might act a little bit like Jiahao (though Jiahao, to her credit, was much quieter and mellower).
In short, Hua Cheng missed Xie Lian. He missed having his full attention and cuddling with him and Xie Lian only having eyes for him, and he also missed sex, because it was hard to have sex when there was a cat in bed with you. And he was trying to be patient, because the cat made him happy, and Xie Lian’s happiness was tantamount to everything, but it was becoming difficult.
Was he jealous of a cat? Yes. A ghost cat, even, but as he himself was a ghost, he supposed that was irrelevant.
hello this might be a dumb question but i just finished yuri on ice for the first time and started looking through fandom stuff and i was wondering why people spell yuri with two u’s? is it just to distinguish from yuri plisetsky or should it actually be spelled like that?? i’m sorry this is such a dumb question but i figured it was worth an ask!
Hello! Yuuri’s name has a long U, so if you were romanizing his name in an exact manner, it would be Yuuri or Yūri. Combine that with the fact that Yuri Plisetsky is also there, and I think as fans many of us just decided it would be easier to use Yuuri Katsuki and Yuri Plisetsky.
The thing is in Japanese they don’t have that problem at all, because Yuuri (勇利) and Yuri’s ( ユーリ ) names are written differently in merchandise and in the show. Yuuri’s name is written in kanji because he is Japanese and Yuri’s is written in katakana because he is foreign, so Yuuri/Yuri is Western fandom’s way of having that distinction.
However, it’s not ‘wrong’ for you to spell his name as Yuri, nor were the YOI creators wrong to choose that spelling. Sometimes when Japanese people romanize Japanese names into the Latin alphabet, they do just choose to leave the long vowels out.
This is the greatest blog that ever existed, bless you for all the gewd content uwu
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Just curious, at what point should we be worried about not receiving a zine? I got an email a while back saying it should be there on the 21st at the latest but haven't received it and without a tracking number there's no knowing if something happened or not.
Can you reply to the email you sent me with this, anon? At this point I’m imagining it’s probably lost in the mail. Luckily we have some copies saved to account for this potentially happening, so we can ship you a new one.
hello, hi!! I'd like to request a DFQC and XLH drabble for the prompt: "please, don't leave"
Hello! Once again, longer than a drabble. Warning for very cutesy fluff. Takes place almost directly post-canon, shortly after Dongfang Qingcang's return.
AO3: Shades of Pink and Red
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In the quiet of late morning, with the sun shining down on the meadows of Xilan, the green grass soft, now dry of morning dew, Xiao Lanhua wished that she could stop time
Dongfang Qingcang rested in her lap, eyes closed, but conscious, and he had a lazy, content smile on his face. It was an expression that was somewhat new to him; he was still getting used to smiling, let alone one as casual as this. He was so warm. He reminded her of a cat. If she could grasp a moment and put it in a pouch, to carry with her everywhere, it would be a moment like this.
It had only been about a week since he’d returned, since he’d come back to life from that tiny piece of his soul she’d nurtured for five centuries, and there was still an ache in her chest every time she looked at him. Was it possible for an ache to be good? Because this was. It was like her heart was pressing against her chest at every moment, overwhelmed, overfull. He was really back, and he was in her arms, and he wasn’t going anywhere.
But she was.
Xiao Lanhua sighed and grumbled under her breath. Dongfang Qingcang had not come back to her one hundred percent healthy. It made sense, considering what he’d put his primordial spirit through, but he was, for lack of a better word, convalescing now.
He got tired and winded easily, ached in places he’d never recalled aching beforehand, and he was hungry all the time. The latter made Xiao Lanhua laugh, considering that in the past, he’d teased her for how much she could eat. She was certain he’d mostly recover in time, that any long term effects would be minimized, but she still spent a shichen or so each day channeling her power into him to expedite the healing.
What's a trope for you that's really vanilla, that no one would ever consider problematic, that you can't handle? Mine is two members of a ship having drastically different lifespans. I can't do it. If I do end up shipping something like that (and I certainly have), I don't read fic about that aspect, and I headcanon a way for them to have matching lifespans.
...At least one time canon did this for me, in a very roundabout way.
It's just too sad for me.
I had two previous ships that didn't have this canonically (there was no word of god on what their lifespans were), but it became so well accepted in fanon that they did have it, that people would agonize over it because they thought it was canon.
And I was like 'you know there's nothing in canon about this, right? You can literally do what you want here, and it won't even be canon divergence.'
But yeah, I can't handle it. In fic, I won't read it. In canon, I will pretend I do not see it. It crosses my sadness threshold. My OTPs live and die together.
i also read that leak about reason why iceado got cancelled, is it only me or does the censorship sounds like some red herring bs?
We know they tried to censor the show and Sayo had to fight HARD against that, and magazines and merch were censored to remove the rings by some of the companies producing them (that's not the fault of Mappa at all, actually. In fact Mappa artists were really angry about this). We also know that Sayo and Kubo were told by the parent company that they were not allowed to answer interview questions about 'lgbtq' issues.
So yes, there's a history of censorship that Sayo and Kubo have had to push against.
Do I think that's the whole reason IceAdo was cancelled? No. I don't, for example believe the thing about Russia and China. While yes, this was slated for an international release, it's still an anime movie and it wasn't going to be some Marvel level blockbuster that they'd censor for specific markets. It's still niche.
But I also do think that 'creative differences' could have been a part of what sent the project to development hell, and if it was like the original anime, the creative differences probably had to do with Sayo and Kubo refusing to relent on some queer aspects of the narrative.
And I also think 'pink money' could be at play here. This is the phenomenon where money spent by (usually cishet) men is considered more valuable to companies than money spent by the girls and the gays.
So I don't think the movie was canceled for one single reason like 'censorship', but I do think the queer aspect may have played into it.