the betrayal is a landmark in tim & hawk’s relationship and what i think is important to understand before judging hawk and the choices he made in that situation is that at it’s core, it was a sacrificial act. he didn’t only sacrifice tim and his trust, despite what it might've seemed like. he also sacrificed his own happiness, or the closest thing he knew he could’ve had to that— being with tim. he sacrificed their love because, just a little too late (as they’re already intertwined in possibly one of their most intimate, fragile moments, tim pressed up against him, telling him that actually, they’re going to see each other every day) he realized: they go down this path, it will blow up in their faces and hurt more, destroy much more than just the two of them.
still, he didn’t do it to hurt tim. of course he knew it would, the decision to go forward with it was huge and the impact catastrophic, but anyone with sense will understand; a simple conversation about “not seeing each other anymore” would never have sufficed. he knew he had to take extreme measures to keep tim, who literally had to join the army to get away last time, away from him. i’m sure that in hawk’s mind there was no other option than to do something so drastic it would completely throw their worlds off their axes. it was a hasty attempt to shatter something all-consuming. to disrupt their gravitational field so completely that it would stop pulling them towards each other like it had for years.
tim is devastated when he finds out hawk reported him. who wouldn’t be? jackson, who is pivotal to their story, has now been born and in all his symbolic newborn glory he truly changes everything. in the hospital tim sees jackson for the first time and the innocence of new life, i think, helps him understand why hawk chose to do what he did. i’m not sure it allows him to forgive though. not until he meets jackson again at the cabin years later.
from that moment on hawk’s life descends into a chaos that is, atleast in his mind, a controlled one. a tame, familiar chaos. (he grew up in it, after all.) we later on find it spiraling beyond his control and he loses himself in it. this is when tim comes back around to anchor him, as he’s done from the moment they met and will keep on doing until the end and beyond that. tim is the one fixed point in hawk’s life and you understand this as you find out that even after ruining them both, he'd still kept tim close for years. hawk had gone to extreme lengths to keep tim away from himself when all along, he was the one who couldn’t let go.
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kind of starting to believe in the venerated triad meng yao, lan xichen and nie mingjue as the ultimate throuple
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GREYSCALE UPDATED?!!!!!!
i’ve been waiting for two years…. hehe
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i was just reading some MDZS stuff and i got to see the animated clip of JC finally realising (getting it thrown in his face) that WWX gave him his 金丹. and then i remembered when i first read the book and he confronted WWX… man, words cannot convey how pissed i got towards him coz… i mean the whole book is just a series of unfortunate events for wei ying and then jiang cheng comes and makes it even worse. the injustice… the anger i felt for wei ying in that scene was insane.
does anyone notice MXTX has a knack for writing protagonists like this. esp shen qingqiu in 渣反 coz that really was the most delicious angst ever. also honourable mention to Shizun in Erha. mm
ok also on a funnier note i noticed that i always pay more attention, or should you say, am more attached to side characters rather than the main pairing. i got so engrossed in Jiang Cheng’s storyline when i first read MDZS. also the 岳七 and 沈九 storyline in 渣反. and let’s not even talk about my favourite baby Xue Meng (薛萌)in Erha coz i cried when i read it. love it when writers break my heart like that
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i love the world’s finest (aka the best duo ever batman and superman) but.
buuuut has anyone considered swapping them out to my other favourite duo? i mean my best boys barry and hal because i KNOW they’re best friends and i know they would make such a great team together.
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i know that Manacled by senlinyu (one of my favourite authors) is very, very popular and famous and i’d love to read it BUT. the tags scare me away every time.
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matthew de clermont (matthew goode) saying wearh in that voice. that's it that's the post
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i just have thoughts on how jason todd is so unbelievably girl-coded… i’m not gonna write a full length essay on this but he’s like the typical 言情 protagonists and i’ve read like a million of them he’s just kind of made for that role… love you babygirl jason
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Getting really sick of all the "There's No Place Like Chrome" ads on youtube. There's Firefox. Firefox saves your passwords. Firefox autofills things if you want. Firefox also does things that Chrome doesn't like allow adblockers, and it does not mine your data and sell your information for advertising purposes. Google is really trying to push people to use Chrome so they can take as much data from users as possible in order to make as much money as possible and it's borderline sinister.
Anyway, download Firefox.
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