Writing letters addressed to the fire

Until I return from the realms where I took refuge from reality, won't you wait for me my dear? 23. she/her

[withoutzeuzey]

Hualian morning

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[iveoy]

goodnight beloved~

[mxtxfanatic]

Hua Cheng being portrayed as stalking and always sticking to an indifferent Xie Lian in fandom is such an offensively bad portrayal when you read the novel and see Xie Lian sticking to him like glue at every encounter. Xie Lian’s the one who wanted to take Honghong’er along and keep him in the temple. Xie Lian’s the one who wanted to promote the young soldier to working directly under him. Xie Lian’s the one who saves the ghost flame and doesn spurn its presence. Xie Lian’s the one who asks San-lang to stay. Xie Lian’s the one who asks Hua Cheng to come to him. Xie Lian’s the one who confesses. Their entire relationship is Xie Lian looking at Hua Cheng at every stage of life and death and going, “Him. The one I want by my side is him.”

[hagiomoto]

Most popular Jack the Ripper theories from ripperologists just blame immigrants, but personally I think it was British empire soldiers...guys who'd just come back from committing massacres in Africa and Asia and figured, why stop now?

The British army committed tons of mutilations during the massacres they committed in colonial times. Removing breasts and mutilating uteruses has been recorded before. In India, in Kenya etcetera.

It's silly to think Jack the Ripper was just some random blue-collar worker from Poland instead of a soldier who probably just came back from the Xhosa Wars, for example.

And Xhosa Wars happened about a decade before the first Whitechapel murder.

[marichild]

sometimes i think about how much i love xie lian and then think about how much i've loved percy jackson the boy since i was like. nine years old. and then curl up into a slightly humiliated ball because yeah there really was no chance for me ever was there

[radawaycuntt]

(smiling serenely) i’m going to attack you now

[imjunebitch]

anyway if u watch the new Harry Potter show in any way for any reason you're part of the problem. if you pirate it you're part of the problem, if you "watch it critically" you're part of the problem, if you watch it for the purpose of a smug little video essay pointing out some problematic element in it, you're part of the problem. it doesn't matter if some element of the show is problematic, the show existing is problematic. don't give it any revenue or contribute to its cultural relevance. boycott it and let it wither on the fucking vine

[wizardpotions]

If your whole personality is being gay to the point of not being able to engage with stories about women and only scanning media for the most yaoiable white boys you are the problem.

[wizardpotions]

This site is so actively anti woman it's actually embarrassing.

[wizardpotions]

If some of you spent half as much time understanding intersectionality as you did talking about your white man of the month we wouldn't be losing all of our trans women

[wizardpotions]

And no, people in the tags Yuri is not the answer to this problem. There is more to stories than shipping and there is more to women in media than shipping.

[wizardpotions]

For the love of god the solution to misogyny is not "well *I* find this type of woman desirable/want to see them kiss eachother/whatever"

Not defining women entirely by their ability to make you feel horny is maybe step one of feminism

[wizardpotions]

THANK YOU

[marichild]

ohhh the ad team feeds us so well every time omg

they drew simpler versions of previous episode covers!!

im so happy looking at these aaaaaaaa

[typohime]

[thatoldbooksmellsstuff]

the girlies are thirsting over zhang linghe in Pursuit Of Jade but they don't know ball like i do (He was Hua Cheng in Eternal Faith. I'm feeling Hua Cheng levels of yearning for a tgcf adaptation that is as well produced and PoJ with him as Hu Cheng)

[komsomolka]

It seems obvious to me that George Orwell was furious about the fact that the Soviet Union was not defeated in WWII. Animal Farm was published in 1945. Orwell witnessed the tragedy that Nazism brought to the world. In 1945 most people already knew about the Holocaust. People at that point were already informed about the concentration camps. People already knew what the Nazis had done in Poland and at Auschwitz. George Orwell, in this context, wrote an allegory where WWII and Nazism are depicted as nothing, where Soviet self-defense policies are depicted as sinister intrigues unrelated to liberal and fascist siege. There’s no Churchill cheerleading fascism in Italy or Spain. The gravity of this framing needs to be understood. In 1945 the whole world was shocked by Nazi concentration camps, and Orwell was asking “Sure, that was bad, but what about the Soviet Union?” It seems absurd, but this is exactly what this book describes, under cover of literary metaphor. “Sure, Auschwitz was bad, but what about Stalin?” That is this whole book’s vibe. [...] And this book, Animal Farm, is a deeply reactionary book, displaying aristocratic condescension against the people, a book in which the working class appear as imbeciles. It displays all the marks of the bourgeois genre of elite theory. Its historical metaphors for Soviet history whitewash capitalists and imperialists. The USSR is shown as self-sabotaging, while its enemies are completely absolved. This is George Orwell, and this is why he was so successful. [...] This explains all the hype, all the buzz and promotion it receives from the establishment. This book will remain famous and beloved so long as racist and aristocratic liberalism persists, until we put and end to this profoundly unequal society by waging a revolution of our own.

Jones Manoel, A Critical Read of Animal Farm (2022).

[heartinhyacinth]

(1/4) Thinking about Hua Cheng’s feelings upon finding out what happened to Xie Lian’s parents. To find out that, regardless of their intentions and motives, they left Xie Lian all alone. They were right there with Xie Lian, and they left him and moved on from this world, meanwhile Hua Cheng was doing everything in his damn power to return to and remain in this world for him.

Thinking about Hua Cheng’s centuries-long grudge he holds over Feng Xin and Mu Qing for abandoning Xie Lian, and they were only his not-friend friends. To find out his very own parents could’ve stayed with him during the hardest time in his life, but didn’t?

Thinking about how Mu Qing thought it was best to leave and try to ascend on his own or move his way up the ranks as a junior official; how Feng Xin thought it was best to follow Xie Lian’s last orders and leave when told to; how the king and queen thought they were relinquishing Xie Lian of a heavy burden.

Thinking about how impactful and powerful it was that Wu Ming had simply…stayed.

[feamir]

[illuminatedferret]

post-canon fics where hua cheng gets amnesia'd back into wuming, who inevitably finds out His Beloved Is Married always read like the meme "I'll be his second husband." (what happened to the first?) "Nothing you can prove."

jump to xie lian, who knows exactly what mental contortions the love of his life would go to rather than recognize that xie lian loves him, deciding to humor wuming's murder fantasy for shits and giggles. 'you want to murder my husband, wuming? hm, i dont know... he is nice. except for the time he proposed to me and then immediately walked it back as a joke- oh, you'd treat me better than that? you'd never do something so cruel? well... im listening.'

cue hua cheng getting his memories back like "gege i thought we were over this. gege. gege stop laughing. gege please. i said sorry!"

[xianle-quartet-shenanigans]

ah, I love how somehow we all forget how much of a little shit XL is

[moonnogginn]

[dzindzey]

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