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The funniest part about the zukka stuff is that we never expected anything to be canon. It’s basically been like 20 years since the original show. They killed Sokka in Korra, so like we’ve all just been playing with our dolls, having fun, with no worries about the canon material, and then boom, here’s free cake, you weird little guys, because there was a leak. That leak just came with free yaoi subtext that you didn’t even want or need. Truly it’s great but also we’re all freaking out cause no one expected them to give us anything never mind free cake.

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People act like being canon nowadays is the be all end all of ships meanwhile everyone writing Destiel in its prime were like this is never happening because the writers are cowards so I’m going to make them kiss and there was like 20000 fanfics a year with that principle. Like I’m sorry you got into fandom post 2020 but you don’t need the creator’s go ahead to ship things you can just ship things and have fun is that not why we are all here?

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Hua Cheng getting the equivalent of a PhD every 7 years while looking for Xie Lian sounds fucking insane, because it’s been 800 years, but it also is very real.

Like he fr stress farmed all his stats because what do you mean he runs a city, knows how to make beautiful architecture, made thousands of statues, made a temple, learnt every weapon he has, made teleportation easier —something even the Gods haven’t figured out how to do, learnt multiple forms of magic, trained a butterfly army, unearthed an ancient civilisation and taught himself the language with no Rosetta stone to work with, figured out blackmail for literally every heavenly official ever, Learnt enough about everything to challenge 33 Gods in both combat and debate.

And that’s not even counting the stuff he sped ran, like making arguably the most powerful spiritual weapon in the series, and the stuff we aren’t explicitly told, like truly he must have only calligraphy left to learn because he for sure was close to running out of everything else.

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Maomao would be the craziest AO3 author. She’s writing inner court romances with information she shouldn’t know or share. She’s got one of the most popular works in the beautiful eunuch/the emperor tag. She’s a reluctant defender of Jinshi on stan twitter. She post updates and her notes are like sorry this is late I was kidnapped and then has to say it again a few years later. Queen shit all around.

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Not over it. Will never be over it. This moment haunts me. Never felt my brain lock into a ship so much in one singular instant. Like yeah. Freak 4 Freak indeed.

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He’s his chew toy

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Absolutely adore post-admission Hua Cheng. Who is so happy his crush likes him back he immediately loses any sense of shame. Like it gets to the point that it becomes clear the only reason he wasn’t acting like this from the very start was that he didn’t want to make Xie Lian uncomfortable. Literally the second he knows Xie Lian loves him, he’s out here like:

“Gege! If I don’t get a kiss, I will die for a fourth time.”

“Gege, I am already wilting away. How will I cope for another hour without seeing your face?”

“Gege is too kind to this humble believer, truly a just and gentle husband.”

Like thanks Hua Cheng, it’s good to know E Ming was in fact like that because it’s your true personality. He just hides it better because he doesn’t feel like being dramatic with anyone else. He has two personas and it’s just super cold indifferent (or worse hates you for breathing) Ghost King who could kill you with a wave of his hand or San Lang ✨

(Yes when Xie Lian says it you can somehow hear the sparkles it’s a phenomena only Hualian are capable of I fear)

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Forgot for a second that Sokka is truly the character of all time because he truly just did all that with no powers, no money and no responsible adults around. Like he organised a schedule that made it possible for the avatar to learn everything in a year, freed nations, learnt a dozen different types of weapons and art forms planned multiple prison breaks, revolutions and actual invasions with nothing but a flying bison, the worlds most powerful children and a boomerang. Coffee was invented for him and for him alone.