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20/ editor/ ao3 writer for Qing Ye random Qing Ye & YRZX thoughts tbh he/him

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/79715061

Me finally posting a new actual series of Qing Ye. Hope this fandom isn’t dead yet. (It’s just very teenie tiny)

Lmfao I’m pretty excited for this one bc it’s a silly short plot imo, just kind of whimsical and… mild angst!

Here’s an added official art for the New Year! Adorable little guys sob 🫶🏽

[angel-bazethiel]

It's dangerous to go alone! Take this...

What if some YRZX Characters were in a D&D Party?

Icons were made with Crowesn's Tiefling Maker Picrew

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ngl, it would've probably been easier if I just wrote a goddamn fic instead of building five characters.

Late fill for @yrzx-archive's Yiren Disco 2026! Day 3: Co-Op Games

Text version of the Character Cards + elaboration on them + some headcanons of how the characters are as players under the cut!

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Feng Baobao 

Lv. 17 Barbarian (Path of Wild Magic): For this “campaign” I’m considering the Eight Supremes as some kind of Feywild magic. FBB, having been resurrected by the Supremes, is imbued with Wild Magic that powers her Rage. She’s Level 17—meaning, she’s almost a god. But she came back “wrong” and couldn’t really tap into the memories of her cultivation, so her powers come in bursts of Wild Magic.  

Weapon of Choice (WOC): Ruyi or Spade with either Hoopak or Mace stats LOL 

Aasimar: Since she got resurrected, she’s technically undead. But. I didn’t want her to be undead so she’s an angel instead—well, half-angel... well! If we’re being pedantic, Aasimars are half-Celestials, not necessarily an angel, but you get it... 

Soldier: After wandering for decades without a purpose, she was taken in by a nice family that ended up as noble family of a small fiefdom. With a great blood debt owed, she has trained to be the Xu family’s soldier and has been its protector since. 

High STR + CON: She’s the strongest of the party and could possibly endure all kinds of poisoning and illnesses. 

Low CHA: Zero ego. She has the clarity of a high-level monk/cleric/paladin and has long since shed all desires and ties from the physical world.  

Miscellaneous Feats: Alert—she can’t be surprised due to her keen perception; Crusher—she’s a monster with her spade, what else can I tell ya? 

As a player: FBB probably plays a lot of fighter/tank characters that need zero bookkeeping. She just likes to hack and slash or hulk smash stuff. 

Zhang Chulan 

Lv. 5 Rogue (Mastermind): He’s a good fighter, but he excels a lot more in a support role. He’s the schemer of the party and can take the tactician role while in combat. Mastermind is more of a roleplay role, but it’s still a base rogue, so he can pack a punch. Also, I don’t remember where he got the Proficiency in INT Saves, but I’m assuming it’s from Mastermind? He has mid base INT stat but he can outsmart anyone who’s trying to outsmart him. 

Lv. 4 Warlock (Hexblade Patron): After the death of his grandfather, his only family left, he meets FBB and they do that mindmeld thing where the final teachings from his grandfather was passed onto FBB then passed onto him. During the mindmeld, he also learns of the ways that FBB has protected him throughout the years and so, he makes a pact to protect FBB in return. They have the whole dynamic of FBB is the blade and ZCL is the swordmaster, hence, the Hexblade subclass. 

WOC: Daggers with Booming Blade Spell (deals thunder damage) 

Human: He’s just a guy 

Aberrant Heir: He is the Heir of one of Eight Supremes, and to keep him “pure,” his grandpa gave him an aberrant dragonmark (the tortoise celibacy mark LOL). He has lived all his life in hiding and has become proficient in disguises. 

Middling Stats: He’s just a guy. 

Misc. Feats: Lucky—flavored as something that’s due to FBB’s secret interference; Speedy—he has a low AC for a rogue, so I wanted to give him more survivability, but also, he is very speedy—lightning-speed, shall we say LOL 

As a player: ZCL is very good at using spells in creative ways. So. He’s usually banned from doing full caster characters (cleric, wizard, druid) in a lot of tables LOL He can still be a little shit with fighter roles though, especially when he multiclasses. 

Lu Linglong 

Lv. 10 Paladin (Oath of the Watchers): The Watchers for this setting is the group of LLL’s friends who work under Lu Jin. They “protect mortal realms from the predations of extraplanar creatures” (source: Tasha’s), and since the Eight Supremes are from Feywild, that implies that the Quan Xing is Fey and extraplanar. 

WOC: Lance because for a short woman, she absolutely loves the reach of it. 

Shadowmoor Elf: This kind of elves kinda looks like Linglong during Nasen Island Arc, so I couldn’t help myself. Shadowmoor elves protect beauty and who they consider beautiful is someone who’s heroic and self-sacrificing—perfect ideation for paladins imo. 

Noble: The House of Lu, with Lu Jin as its patriarch, is one of the most prominent noble families in the land. 

High CHA: She is good with people, especially with people that she leads. She has a very strong sense of self and bad actors will have a very hard time possessing or charming her.  

Misc. Feats: Great Weapon Fighting—she’s a beast with her lance as she should be; Inspiring Leader—She was the leader of the Watchers up until QT kills a majority of them, and now she leads this group to avenge her brethren. 

As a player: I feel like LLL would be a versatile kind of player and would be group-oriented. Need a caster? She’ll play sorcerer. Need a healer? Cleric, no problem. Tank? BARB SMASH!! 

Wang Ye 

Lv. 9 Monk (Warrior of Elements): WY is a Daoist Monk idk what to tell you 

Lv. 6 Wizard (School of Chronurgy): I actually was so torn between Chronurgy (manipulation of time) and Graviturgy (manipulation of space) because both encompasses WY’s FHQM arghh I wish you can have multiple subclasses! D&D why can’t you be more like your better cousin, PF2e??? 

WOC: Taiji, sometimes with a quarterstaff, which doubly acts as his arcane focus. 

Tabaxi: CAT WANG YE 

Sage: He has read all the volumes of the Yijing and other scriptures in the Daoist canon. 

High INT: He is very smart and can learn new things with little to no hardships. 

Low CON + CHA: -1 CON is just too funny, okay? He’s too sickly to be anything else. He gets sick after a particularly spells-heavy fight. Low CHA too because like FBB, he has zero ego—no desires and is unbound by the material world. Also, he can’t get anyone to listen to him—his Persuasion should probably be –2 LMAOOO 

Misc. Feats: Fey-Touched—again, Feywild Eight Supremes, and Zhou Sheng is particularly invested in him; Observant—he is good at gaining Insight from other people by observing. 

As a player: WY is the Forever DM (Dungeon Master) of his friend group because he’s a little control freak who likes to be god and have the world in his hands LMAO More seriously though, everyone just thinks that he’s the most capable with regards to DM-ing so they ask him. When he gets the chance to play though, he prefers to play characters with little to no bookkeeping but somehow, he almost always ends up either needing to change Classes or needing to multiclass because they need a caster. 

Zhuge Qing 

Lv. 14 Cleric (Knowledge Domain): Rounding up the party with a full caster healer. As a Shuist, ZGQ’s main goal in life is to acquire the Truth of the world—to obtain all knowledge there is to seek and gain. 

WOC: Double-headed Rope Dart, which is a finesse weapon (uses DEX for its attack rolls), even though his main stat isn’t DEX. He misses about ¾ of the time he uses it, and everyone gives him shit for it LOL 

Abyssal Tiefling: He has the blood of a demon coursing through his veins. Also also—a tiefling cleric is such an oxymoron, I love it. 

Spellfire Initiate: He bears his family’s most brilliant legacy—True Fire of Samadhi—that channels the raw power of the Weave. It takes a heavy toll on the body, so he has trained both mind and body to efficiently wield its sacred power. 

High WIS + CHA: ngl I wanted ZGQ to be a Paladin at first with the subclass, Oath of Devotion (for his wife LMAO) and that’s why he has high CHA, but also it makes sense for his character to have a strong sense of self even though it got shaken when he first meets WY. Clerics are WIS-based and even so, I didn’t give him the max stat of 20 because I don’t think he has earned like enlightenment-level of WIS. 

Rest of the Stats: He has fairly good stats ngl. While rolling for his base stats, he got so lucky that I didn’t have to reroll after the first try, which is very him. He’s lucky and a good all-rounder with even stats. 

Misc. Feats: Actor—duh; Sentinel—usually used for WY because WY’s Max HP is half of ZGQ’s lmaooo (again, WY and his low CON lolol) so whenever someone wants to chase down and attack their squishy warlock, ZGQ whips out his rope dart or Wind Rope to keep them in place; Symbiotic Being—he doesn’t only have blood of a demon in his veins, there is a physical embodiment of his poisonous envy and greed and wrath in his heart (it’s the heart demon) 

As a player: He doesn’t play a lot, but he loves playing high CHA characters (bard, sorcerer, warlock) and just flirting with every NPC that he can. This is because WY is usually the one DM-ing and he’s all the NPCs, so. It’s just a roundabout way of courtship for QingYe HAHAHAHAH 

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Cosplay (A Wang Ye-centric Oneshot)

Out at night, he was him. But also, her and them and all the possibilities he knew were unreachable except for this short moment out of time.

🏷️: Genderqueer!WY ; Hints at QingYe ; fluff without plot

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Well... I say oneshot, but this is actually a part of a longer fic about trans!Wang Ye that'll never see the light of day lolololol

Written for @yrzx-archive's Yiren Disco 2026! Day 1: Night Life

Jin Yuanyuan had become a famous fashion designer, known for her street-style hanfu clothing lines. She had amassed 6.6 million followers on Weibo and 8.8 million followers on Douyin over the years and had built her own empire of clothing shops around the world.

It all started back in 2016, when Jin Yuanyuan was only seventeen, armed with her phone and her dreams. She could count on two hands the number of followers she had when she started posting pictures of her designs online—one of which was her private account, and three were her close friends who would sometimes do some modeling for her.

Unfortunately, all of her ‘models’ were male, so one of them had to model some of the more feminine pieces with her to make it more balanced. Of course, the person who drew the shortest stick was Wang Ye.

Wang Ye didn’t mind it as much as he thought he should. Their weekly night photoshoots were good distractions from cram school and the reason why he was enrolled in so many of them. His grades had been slipping away, sure, but it wasn’t because he needed extra help. It was just that—his grades, the gaokao? It all felt meaningless.

But dressing up as a Qing-Dynasty princess whose robes were cut a little too short and tight to be accurate? He could at least derive some meaning from that—some purpose—even if it was as simple as helping his friend.

Besides, having a night out with his friends as someone who wasn’t entirely him—the boy who was wasting his time and his parents’ money—felt… freeing.

Out at night, under the warm lighting of the restaurants in the hutongs they frequent, she was a demure noble lady always hiding behind fans. Or if the outfits were more urbanized, they were some mysterious person, skateboarding through the streets of Sanlitun with a face mask and a cap.

Out at night, he was him. But also, her and them and all the possibilities he knew were unreachable except for this short moment out of time.

That was nine years ago. Jin Yuanyuan had eventually realized her dreams, and Wang Ye could stop dressing up for her. But it felt as if Wang Ye still wore a costume even after hiding away the box of robes Jin Yuanyuan gave him as a token of gratitude before going their separate ways—her to Paris and him to Wudang.

The very same box lay on his bed, very dusty, and the cardboard was already disintegrating. Surprisingly, the hanfu inside was untouched by time—the colors were as vibrant as he remembered: oranges and golds and green accents. Though perhaps that shouldn’t be a surprise at all, for it had never seen the sun all these years.

Wang Ye was back in Beijing, and he was without purpose once more. Zhang Chulan and the others came by to check on him, and Zhuge Qing was adamant that he showed Beijing’s nightlife, which he supposedly ‘had hidden from him the first time he visited.’

It would be a good distraction. He didn’t have a lot of that after they finally had quelled the burgeoning calamity due to the resurgence of the Eight Supremes.

He could don the robes and be everything all at once again. Size wouldn’t even be an issue. He could just shapeshift into a person who could fit in such old robes. He was more powerful now. He could be out of time and out of space.

The problem was his friends. His old ones would understand—Jin Yuanyuan had already understood, way before he even did. But he didn’t know what he would do if his new friends laughed at him or grimaced in disgust.

Ultimately, he decided that living in the uncertainty of whether or not he’d be accepted was far worse than being rejected. Besides, the robes weren’t too feminine anyway—that is, if you ignore the blatant inspirations from a ruqun. It would be fine.

He first met with Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Zhang Lingyu, who just raised an eyebrow at him but didn’t say anything.

“Wah, Lao-Wang,” he braced himself for whatever shameless nonsense that came out of Zhang Chulan’s mouth, but was surprised when the other only said, “You should’ve said that we’re dressing up! I didn’t know you liked hanfu street fashion. Are there rentals nearby?” Then Zhang Chulan gave him a coy look, saying, “Are you sponsoring us to have the full tourist package? I’ve always wanted to try a hanfu photoshoot! After you show us all there is in Beijing... We should go to Xi’an next~~”

He rolled his eyes, and whatever reply he had died on his lips when Feng Baobao left without saying anything. Out of everyone, he expected Feng Baobao to have a negative reaction the least. He shifted his weight from one foot to another, not knowing what to say or how to say it without choking.

“Aiyoh, Bao’er-jie! Wait up!” Zhang Chulan called out for her before turning to him, “She’s probably hungry already. Let’s go. Lao-Qing said he’s saving us a seat in that nai lao place you brought him to before. He said it was so packed that you had to sit on the sidewalk!”

He swallowed the lump in his throat. “It’s because we came there at midday on a weekend. Nanluoguxiang is usually packed with people at that time. Tonight… we should be okay.”

He wasn’t lying when he said that, but they still lost one another in the crowds. Trusting that the others would eventually find their way, he went to find Zhuge Qing.

The man was on his phone when Wang Ye sat beside him. Five cups of frozen yogurt were already on the table, ready for them, kept cold by a small talisman underneath them. “Did you really do a divination to get our orders? Such an unnecessary risk. Tsk, tsk, tsk.”

Zhuge Qing finally looked up from his phone, almost dropping it when he saw him. “A-ah... Meimei, sorry but I’m reserving this table for my friends.”

“Lao-Qing, ah. Didn’t you hear what I just said? Don’t you recognize me?” He didn’t change much about his face. He had always liked it, to be honest—the roundness and sharpness of it were all in balance. He just made himself a little shorter and had his body fill out the parts of the robes that were meant for the curves of a woman.

“Lao-Wang?”

“There you guys are!” Zhang Chulan excused himself through the crowd. He was now wearing some cheap hanfu rental and was followed by the others in similar clothing. “Lao-Qing, go find some robes too!”

“Ah?”

“Ai, just do it; ask later.” Zhang Chulan hauled the other up from his seat.

“But my nai lao...”

“Eat it later. Go, go, go! We’ll wait for you here.” He pushed the poor man out the door and then turned to him. “Lao-Wang, Lao-Wang! Bao’er-jie has something for you.” He gestured for the woman to come closer.

With all the seriousness and true sincerity, Feng Baobao declared, “Someone once told me: a pretty lady should have pretty things.” Then she presented what looked like a simple hairpin at first, but it had such exquisite, engraved patterns along the stick.

“Ah-hah... But Lao-Wang, that’s part of the rental package, okay? So, it’s yours only for tonight...”

That didn’t matter. He’d probably just buy it from the rental place. “Thank you,” he said to Feng Baobao. “This is very lovely.”

“Mn. Can I eat that?”

“Sure, go ahead,” he replied, chuckling. If some of the fullness of his heart spilled out, nobody commented on it. But he kept smiling as he put the pin in his hair, and they started their eating spree with the yogurts.

Later, Zhuge Qing rejoined them. They texted him that they were already at the fifth store down the river, sampling some stinky tofu this time. The robes that he chose—they were of the same shade as the green accents of Wang Ye’s robes, and the accents, while not entirely the same shade, were gold and a light brown that was almost orange.

“Do you like it?” He asked, sidling up to Wang Ye, who didn’t follow the others and just stayed outside.

“Yeah...”

“Aiyoh, but Lao-Wang~ I didn’t have enough money to get some accessories too…” This fox pouted at him. As if he wanted for money. Regardless, Wang Ye took one of his other hairpins—careful not to pull out the one that Feng Baobao gave him—and offered it to the man.

“Put it on me?” Zhuge Qing was already tilting his head down without waiting for his answer.

He sighed at this guy’s antics but still untied Zhuge Qing’s hair. He finger-combed it a few times before rolling it into a bun and sticking the pin to hold it up. His hands lingered. “Thank you. For not making this weird.” He said because he needed to say it to someone, and it felt like it would be easier if it were to Zhuge Qing. A lot of things felt easier with Zhuge Qing.

“Now why would anybody make it weird?” Zhuge Qing straightened up, catching his hands as they slid. “You’re just being you.”

“Woah, woah, woah, Lao-Qing! How come your robes look like they’re better quality? Where did you get that?”

“A-Lian, this is your karma for forcing me away from my yogurt.”

“You could’ve eaten it while waiting for us, you know.”

“I can’t start eating without you guys, can I? But the opposite is clearly not the case!”

The group continued down the road along the river, lined with lanterns and willow trees whose leaves dance and sway to the song of the wind.

Wang Ye was right all along. Everything ended up all right.

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Community, no matter how small and tight-knit, is very important for us to have 🏳️‍⚧️Pride in ourselves.

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Things are going so normal on AT-5.

[yrzx-archive]

Calling all YRZX fans! 🗣️ Yiren Disco will be returning this year~

Illustrations by @goblinkingsart

Don’t know what Yiren Disco is? Full event info under the cut! 

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 ☯️ What is Yiren Disco? 

It is a YRZX event that goes for nine days leading up to the donghua’s anniversary on July 09. There will be prompts for each day and three substitute prompts with a theme of Community that you can create for! It’s to celebrate all things YRZX—not just the donghua. So, whether you’re a dongman-only or a cdrama-only YRZX enjoyer, this event is for you~! 

 ☯️ Who can participate? 

ANYONE! From artists and writers to video editors and GIF makers! Not in a creative mood during the event? You can participate by commenting on the fanworks or making rec lists for the given prompts! 

 ☯️ How can you participate? 

The event will be hosted on both tumblr and twitter/X. You can post your work on either platform with the tag #yirendisco2026! Feel free to mention @yrzx-archive (@yrzx_archive on twitter/X) in your posts~ If you’re hosting your work on AO3, you can also add it to the AO3 Collection~ 

 ☯️ Are there any fill requirements? 

NONE! Create as much as you’re able to. If you can only write 100 words or make a rough sketch, feel free to post them as your fill! 

 ☯️ Are there any other rules for the fills? 

Genfics, Slashfics, and reader-inserts are all welcome!  

18+ works are also welcome, just remember to tag them accordingly. This is a judgement-free space, so taboo and dead dove content are okay, as long as they are tagged and other people can easily avoid them if they want to. 

This is an anti-genAI event. We understand that it will be hard to know for sure whether a specific work is not created by a human, so we will not be doing any witch hunts. That being said, fanworks must be human-made, and the use of gen-AI is prohibited.

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Backrooms theories (The movie)

Warning of movie spoilers:

These are just for fun, I’m not very serious, but these thoughts give a new creepy undertone for the movie for me and make it interesting to think about the “what if” theories 🫶🏽

Mary’s mother:

I know we didn’t get a lot of bg on Mary’s life as a child, and we only saw a glimpse of what her life was like.

It was traumatic and therefore why she probably became a therapist.

But what happened to her mom?

Why was her mom the way that she was.

I really believe that her mother was also apart of the Backrooms victims. In fact, I think Mary was too. I think possibly when she was way younger, maybe a toddler, her mother somehow accidentally entered the Backrooms with her (or by herself) and experienced a similar thing to what Mary went through.

The scene of them playing with the cement implies the mother must have once been “sane” and they were allowed to be “normal” and go outside. Then it shifts into more and more unsettling moments with her mom acting controlling and paranoid.

I wonder if somehow in between that moment and the rest, her mom was accidentally exposed to the Backrooms and escaped— but her mind never returned to her.

We see scenes of her mom keeping Mary locked up in their apartment, closing off the doors and windows. Which is implying that the mother is afraid of something. It could be someone, but she’s afraid of it getting into her home and finding them.

She may not realized she’s LEFT the Backrooms and lives in constant fear that the entities will come back, and does all of this to protect Mary.

And then we see the scene of her mother being put away into a psych ward most likely.

I also think Mary at the end when she’s talking to Phil, she looks very similar to how her mothers psych state was— very out of touch, angry, confused. She’s definitely going to fall into the same fate as her mother and be taken in by the government 💔

Corrupt government:

This is more based on what my friend said to me

“I didn’t like how they showed Clark watching the TV and then it cut to footage of the Backrooms! That doesn’t make any sense!”

Well I say… it was the government people.

I have a feeling that the government knows more than what they tell Mary… and they know when new doors open elsewhere.

It’s kind of a stretch but I feel like they’re the only ones who had cameras installed in the Backrooms… they’re the only ones who can see it. It’s not crazy to say they connected to Clark’s tv and showed it for a second as a sublime message.

I really think the government is actually purposely luring people into the Backrooms so they can observe them. They don’t care if it kills them… they want to watch as new people come and go, exploring deeper and deeper each time a new door opens.

I mean when Mary was interviewing with Phil… he gave off incredibly shady vibes, and the fact that he didn’t ask how she was, what she saw, or anything emotionally regulating… I suspect they see her as an experiment.

I think their test subject was Clark… they saw him in the camera, they knew he was there. They didn’t offer to help him, or seek him out—they simply watched him.

When he died, which I’m certain they knew… they took in Mary because she was the last one who saw and talked with him— and she survived an entity by herself! She’s now important to them.

I also think the those same men took her mother in for questioning and to silence her about what she saw…

Captain clark and his wife(?):

I’m not sure if I saw wrong or not, but I’m pretty sure that strange red haired lady was Clark’s ex-wife? Was she not? If I’m wrong, ignore this thought: it’s not even a real theory just an observation!!

But the fact that she only started panicking when Captain Clark came, tells me that she’s terrified of him. Since the Backroom are an implied “copy of our world… just mutated a million times) I feel that this is an interesting idea of pointing out that IRL Barbra was scared of Clark during their marriage and especially when they fought. I feel as if Clark never fully tells us his story and he’s an incredibly unreliable narrator!! He could have been abusive for all we know.

And to think if she was his ex-wife… it explains why he took her hair and made Mary wear it… he must know deep down it’s his wife but just an entity of one…

So since these entities are similar to reflections of the real world… then Barbra was most likely scared of him IRL too.

Anyway, that’s just a theory, a stupid theory!! Bye bye

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Spoilers of Project Hail Mary past the cut! Talking about the last memory reveal for Grace! (All good things xx)

I think one of my favorite parts about this movie is that with the last memory; where it reveals how he got on the ship.

I was actually really shocked that they didn’t do the typical “talk them into doing smth heroic” trope like most “inspiring movies” do.

They just straight up violated his human rights and forced him to go on… it was blatantly attempted murder imo bc if he had died. He never consented to going… it 100% would be on the US space force? Government?

But I guess, 10/10 for plot twist and morally gray behavior because ykw it’s sort of special knowing that he did all of this regardless of his own thoughts.

He started the movie off having a negative mindset and zero confidence. And yet he still tried and tried to do everything for the human race because he knew deep down, it was the right thing.

He loved his kids, he loves teaching, and he loves science clearly. So, regardless of how he was brutally disregarded, the bravest thing he did was staying strong even when he knew he wasn’t.

I love that about his character, he wasn’t an actual heroic person. He was raw and human.

But the sad part is that no one even knows. He risked his life unwilling playing the guinea pig and yet the gov gets to reap the benefits.

Idk, me personally this doesn’t sit right with me at all. I hate that they basically kidnapped him and he’s forced to survive on a mission for a planet and humanity that doesn’t really care about him.

He’s already a “loser”, outcast, and loner (and my personal HC that he’s autistic) so he makes the perfect sacrifice yea? It’s so evil.

I really thought he would die at the end too… I kinda was hoping for it simply because it would be sort of beautiful in that way. But, but I can’t complain about the ending! I’m very happy he finally joined the Eridians(?) and gained a new family and community with them.

I just can’t stop hating that German lady… and to think Grace even had a minor crush on her 😭⁉️ that is an evil betrayal and just super illegal and unethical behavior. She needs jail time sorry not sorry (I understand her character ofc but at the end of the day… she seriously should be getting arrested for violating ethic codes LMFAOO)

Thank you for reading my TED talk, and pls watch this movie!

Edit: realized Andy Weir wrote the book and is the right winger loser… I’m so sad rn bc I want to buy the book but not support his stupid ideas smh

Sigh we can’t win em all

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Edit featuring spoilers after the cut of Fangs of Fortune

Music: Unethical by Faouzia

Zhuo Yichen x Zhao Yuanzhou 🥲🤲🏽

I blame my friend for this 😋

Very proud and sad…

We do not talk about the ending eps…

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radio static with intermittent screaming (A QingYe Fic Collection)

Send radio waves out into space and call out, “Hello! I’m Here!” That way, you won’t feel so alone. Promise.

Read on AO3

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i think because of the whole "writers write for themselves" notion that's becoming increasingly popularized, people forget that we still thrive off interaction and kindness. i write for myself but kudos and comments and bookmarks and really any sort of interaction with my fics genuinely motivates me to keep writing and keep sharing my works.

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I finally finished ONE monthly challenge! The Drabble November challenge yippee! Very proud (but it was also super easy to begin with cough)

This is one of my fav entry from the series,

Exactly 100 words. ‼️

Now onto hopefully finishing my smutptember series cough

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Nighttime thoughts

Why tf does he look like a creep here

Oh right, new head canon. His anthem is now Creep by Radio Head bc I said so

“BUT IM A CREEPP, IM A WEIRDOOO”

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I gotta start posting again. My badddd, I just wanna post my midnight thoughts of YRZX, specifically Qing Ye sometimes.

Call it my … uhm Midnight thoughts with Elliot 👍🏽😭

Today, I always go back to this thought sometimes but Wang Ye DEFINITELY has the most dangerous 8 supreme skill… considering if he doesn’t restrain or cultivate properly… he could go insane and die like all those before him.

I mean his skill is the hardest to obtain and train in general… he’s just an unfortunate and lucky bastard lmfao ☺️

Yea but I want to write ffs about this concept, Wang Ye going insane? Im not sure really but like a lot inner dialogues, I want to make that for him and how he feels in certain situations. Just kinda exploring his canonical deep fears… I should really work on that ff soon (Im just scared I’ll fuck up).

Good night! (Im not going to sleep)

[arayapendragon]

the beauty of quantum immortality 🦋

“what happens after i die?”, is a question that has been asked by many throughout the course of history. yet, us humans were never able to find the one true answer to what awaits us once our life in this reality comes to an end. unless...? ;)

this brings forth the concept of quantum immortality, which is a theory stating that our consciousness will continue to experience lifetimes where we are alive, after we “die” in this timeline or reality. Hugh Everett was an american physicist, who proposed the very fundamentals of quantum mechanics in his PhD in the 1950’s. he introduced the idea of quantum events leading to the universe branching into several different timelines, where each timeline represents a different outcome. therefore, if we choose to, we can continue to keep experiencing timelines, or realities, where we survive, thus leading us to believe we are “immortal”. this is known as the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI).

circa 1980’s, the physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark delved again into the concept of quantum immortality, suggesting that we actually die many times in our lifetime, however, our consciousness continues to experience timelines where we are alive.

here’s an analogy of quantum immortality to better help you understand: imagine a person playing a game of russian roulette; hence, the gun leads to different quantum outcomes. - basis the MWI, the gun fires (due to an “upward spin” in a subatomic particle) in some timelines/realities, killing the person. - while in other timelines/realities, it doesn’t fire (due to a “downward spin” in a subatomic particle), so the person survives. from the point of view of the person in the experiment, they would only experience the timelines where they survive.

the very fundaments of quantum immortality and reality shifting intertwine with each other when inspected at a closer level. both focus on the existence of an infinite amount of realities, and seeing as we shift realities for every decision taken, even the smallest ones, it can be deduced that we permashift to either an alternate version of our CR, or any other DR after we experience death in this reality. meaning, we can experience whatever it is we desire after death, there are no limitations or set rules.

to answer the question at the beginning, there is no definite answer to where we go after death. given that the magic systems for this reality are the law of assumption and the law of attraction, it can be said that we will shift wherever we believe or assume we go after death, thus, in a way, demonstrating quantum immortality.

a few resources you can explore that discuss quantum immortality are:

Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark

Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili

The r/quantumimmortality community on reddit, though note that the users will have differing opinions of the concept, so it is best to conduct your own research.

[solarsdiary]

reminding myself that 7 kudos is 7 different people who have read my story and actually liked it

and idk about you but if 7 people came up to me in real life and said “hey we really liked your writing” i would just cry on the spot

[deverauxwrites-deactivated20251]

Hand-to-Hand Combat: It takes more than just “he punched, she kicked.”

1. Physical Accuracy Leverage & Technique: Real fights aren’t just about strength. A smaller fighter can drop a bigger opponent by using balance, angles, and momentum (think judo throws, joint locks, sweeps).

Range Matters: Fights transition—long range (kicks), mid-range (punches), close-range (elbows, knees, grappling). Switching ranges is realistic.

Breathing & Fatigue: Real fights gas people out in seconds. Characters don’t trade a hundred blows like a Marvel scene. Show them panting, arms heavy, desperate.

Injury Consequences: A single well-landed strike can change everything—broken nose, dislocated shoulder, busted knee. Don’t have your character eat ten hits and shrug it off unless they’re superhuman.

2. Sensory Detail Sound: Flesh on flesh is a dull thwack, not a sharp crack. Bone breaks? Wet snap. Breathing becomes ragged, teeth grit, knuckles scrape concrete.

Pain & Body Feedback: A hit to the ribs feels like fire spreading across the chest. Blood fills the mouth metallic, vision blurs after a head strike.

Environment: Walls, tables, gravel, furniture; fighters use what’s around them. Getting shoved into drywall or a counter is as devastating as a clean punch.

3. Psychological Realism Adrenaline: Tunnel vision, shaky hands, slowed perception, explosive bursts of strength.

Intent: Not every blow is meant to kill. Some fighters try to incapacitate, intimidate, or escape. Make the why of their fighting influence the how.

Fear vs. Training: An untrained brawler swings wild. A trained fighter stays tight, efficient, economical. That contrast alone can tell the reader who they are.

4. Writing Style & Flow Clarity over Chaos: Avoid blow-by-blow play-by-play (“He punched. She blocked. He ducked.”). Instead, group actions into beats that flow. Example: He lunged, fists hammering wildly; she stepped inside the swing, and jammed an elbow into his ribs. The air rush out of him in a brutal wheeze before he could recover.

Pacing: Keep sentences shorter, sharper, when the fight is intense; mimics adrenaline. Then expand after a takedown, when the moment stretches.

Character Voice: A soldier’s internal narration won’t match a street kid’s. One notices openings and guard drops, the other thinks in scrappy desperation (“Hit him before he hits me”).

5. Things Writers Screw Up (Don’t Do This) ❖ Endless choreographed exchanges with no fatigue.

❖ Ignoring injuries until convenient.

❖ Making every move clean and elegant. Real fights are messy, clumsy, brutal.\

❖ Forgetting recovery: sore knuckles, bruises, limps after.

⚔️ Pro Tip: Watch real sparring or self-defense breakdowns (boxing, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, BJJ). You’ll see how fights collapse into chaos fast, and how even trained fighters don’t look like Hollywood superheroes.

Check out 👉 Bad vs Better Fight Scene 🎬🩸 for more!