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A Modern Faery's Tale by Holly Black - Favorite Quotes
"And he wondered in that moment what he might have accomplished if he'd done more than just endure. Whom he might have saved."
"He had known only two rulers, both great and neither good. He did not know how to be any kind of King nor how to win, other than to be even more ruthless than they."
"And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it."
"He imagined the chaos that would ensue. It very nearly pleased him."
"She wouldn't have died tonight. "One day is much like another.""
"And in that moment it seemed that the whole world had gone cold and that she would never be warm again."
""The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and through those you hate; they will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and makes you yield.""
""So there's no way t be safer?" "Be invisible, perhabs. Be worthless." Corny shook his head. "Doesn't work." "make them yield first," Roiben said, and the half smile on his lips wasn't quite enough to render the suggestion frivolous. "Or be dead. No one can yet master the dead.""
"Kaye wondered if everyone felt like there was a monster underneath their skin."
""You know us humans. We talk an enormous amount of shit.""
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“You look better without the hat.”
XianYao prompt from the lovey @limitbreaker23 (you’re enabling me so badly, I swear)
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well what if i want to bite the hand that feeds me but fondly. gently. what then
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time for some more assorted observations and ideas from my twitter that were too small to get their own posts.
- All his life, Jin Ling has never given a thought about Nie Huaisang beyond “that guy who annoys shushu and shenshen and gives me stupid cute names,” but the first time Nie Huaisang greets him with a blank-faced bow and a polite “Jin-zongzhu” instead of a cheery “Hello, Beastie!” or “Good morning, Monster!”, he finds it aches in his chest a little.
- Lan “I say it to their faces all the time so it’s fine” Jingyi finally mouthing off to someone/something his status can’t protect him from, like an exceptionally powerful and easily-annoyed yao, and paying for it.
- Wei Wuxian vs. Xue Yang with the iconic line from Scream 4: “You forgot the first rule of remakes. Don’t fuck with the original.”
- It’s probably better for Nie Mingjue’s blood pressure that Nie Huaisang’s birdkeeping habits aren’t that well known outside of the sect, ‘cause he’d otherwise be burning a lot more proposals from affection-starved people who saw baby bro with his birds and thought “Gods, I wish he’d pet and praise me like that.”
- Meta I will never get around to writing comparing the necromancy in Mo Dao Zu Shi and Fullmetal Alchemist and how Wei Wuxian’s brand of fighting is very much like Father’s and perhaps people would have been less inclined to think the worst if he had fought more like Hohenheim instead?
- One Braincell Trio as the Sanderson Sisters. Ostensibly Wei Wuxian would be the leader, but God if Jiang Ching doesn’t radiate Winifred’s “I’m surrounded by idiots” aura so well. Singing required.
- IDK how many MDZS fans would have also watched Frasier, but Martin and Daphne’s mutual love of screwing with people is exactly the kind of friend/mentorship I want for Huaisang and Zizhen.
- Because I am still stuck on the donghua making Meng Shi and Nie Huaisang look like each other, imagine the social chaos if Jin Guangshan were to notice.
- Yunmeng Reconciliation version of that scene in Practical Magic with the exorcism broom circle where everyone is exhausted as fuck and the sisters are lying on their stomachs talking out their issues but it’s possessed by resentment ghosts!Wei Wuxian in the circle, Jiang Cheng on the other side.
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Time again for "Things I Will Probably Never Write!"
Short Version: "Jin Guangyao is reincarnated in a position that would give him power over Nie Huaisang, but finds he can't go through with getting him back because A) Huaisang doesn't remember their past lives, and B) Huaisang's current life already sucks."
More Detailed Version: After being freed from the get-along coffin, Jin Guangyao is reborn into a slightly-to-the-left version of the world where there's still cultivation and still gentry-clan sects, but different ones from those he remembers.
And he does remember. He remembers everything.
Zhan Haoyu originally decides that he is going to stay as far away from the cultivation world as possible, but the allure of the better parts proves too strong. So he, as a teenager, takes up a job as an apprentice bookkeeper for an orphanage that a local sect frequently draws recruits from. It's a close enough position that he can get away with reusing some cultivation techniques to improve his health and such without drawing suspicion, but (mostly) disconnected from all the political bullshit.
It looks like he'll be able to build himself a comfortable, quiet, safe life, until a new child is brought to the orphanage.
It's Huaisang.
His appearance might be different, but he knows this is Huaisang.
His first immediate thought is to do something to get the kid kicked out. Whether Huaisang remembers or not, he doesn't want the boy anywhere in his general vicinity. There are two other orphanages in the town, or the brat can live on the street for all he cares.
But then he finds himself eavesdropping as the adult who brought the child in explains the situation to the matron.
Little Xie Ying had been born to a woman whose husband abandoned her during the pregnancy. She'd been lucky enough to eventually get remarried to a rich man, but when she got pregnant with his kid, he insisted on getting rid of Ying in favor of his incoming heir, and she hadn't argued with him on it. The person bringing him in is a neighbor of theirs who disapproved of the decision, but doesn't have the means to raise him.
The irony is thick enough to choke on.
The incoming half-brother has to be Mingjue, because that sounds exactly like the kind of sick punchline fate would write to their joke of a situation.
Xiao-Ying is six years old (heavens damn it, even the age difference is the same), old enough that he understands he wasn't wanted. Also, most of the orphanage's residents arrive as infants or very small toddlers, so he's immediately singled out as Other.
Watching how small and quiet and miserable he is, Zhan Haoyu finds he can't go through with any revenge ideas. He'll just avoid the kid and that's that.
Except he keeps finding xiao-Ying hiding from the other kids in the library or his office. Not only that, but little scrap paper doodles and halves of the rare treats the kids are given and shiny rocks and other "small child" gifts keep showing up on his desk.
He eventually clues in as to why xiao-Ying insists on always showing up in his shadow, remembering his previous childhood in the brothel and how a lot of the time, being ignored was a lot safer than being noticed. The boy apparently adores him just for not picking on him.
Again, the irony is almost sickening.
But... if he's being honest with himself... this is the side of Huaisang he'd missed.
He's not going to encourage it. He's not going to be this child's friend.
He's not.
The cheap little calligraphy set he leaves on the boy's pillow the day after his realization is just a practical replacement for the brushes one of the older boys had ripped all the hair out of two days ago. Nothing more.
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Okay, this never happens. I just sat down for a solid 3 and a half hours and wrote a fic from start to end in a draft format that closely resembles mid-draft as opposed to first draft. My concentration never wavered.
I’m afraid
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While diving in a remote French lake, two YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in deep waters. Their dive turns into a nightmare when they discover the house was the scene of atrocious crimes.
The Deep House (2021) dir. Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
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A postcanon Lan Xichen concept/minific (cw suicide attempt)
The last time anyone in the Cloud Recesses sees Lan Xichen alive is when he comes stumbling out of seclusion, robes in disarray, hair white as snow—and Shuoyue driven straight through his gut and out the other side. "I can't—" he says. "I already—"
It's Wei Wuxian who first realizes that they're not seeing Lan Xichen at all. "...Shuoyue?"
"Don't ask me to do this again," pleads the being who is not Lan Xichen.
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"Shuoyue has grown tired of killing," explains Wei Wuxian. "And Shuoyue is a very powerful sword."
Right now, Shuoyue is all that is keeping Lan Xichen's body alive, but as for the state of Lan Xichen's soul, nobody can say. "Fix this," says Lan Wangji, and Wei Wuxian says, "I don't know if I can."
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"It's not that I'm tired of killing," Shuoyue explains earnestly, still impaled on its own blade. "It's that a sword should not be asked to harm those whom it has sworn to protect. If this body were Nie Huaisang's, for example, everything would be fine."
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"He's in the sword," Wei Wuxian realizes. "Shuoyue is the man and Xichen is the sword."
Lan Wangji looks into his brother's eyes. "Give him back," he says.
"I'm not the one who made him a weapon," says Shuoyue.
"But at any rate," says Wei Wuxian, "it should be perfectly safe to draw it out.”
The blade comes out clean. Shuoyue sheathes it, and hands the scabbard to Lan Wangji. “I have given him back,” he says.
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Lan Wangji cannot draw him.
Wei Wuxian cannot draw him.
Shuoyue cannot draw him.
“Who do you think he trusts to wield him now?” Shuoyue asks.
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If you are a fan fic writer and you're alright with people making fan art of your fic, reblog this 💚
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please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please
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3Zun’s canon relationship is a relentless series of tragedies, but here are some of the extra sads as far as I can tell. (Correct me if I’m wrong, send alternate headcanons, anything).
1. Neither JGY nor NMJ are going to be joining LXC for reincarnation, that was literally the last life they could spend together, and it blew up spectacularly.
2. Every time NHS visits the Guanyin temple, and kneels to his brother’s remains, he’s kneeling to his murderer, too. Ditto about NHS having to reincarnate without his brother.
3. Jin Guangyao used Lan Xichen’s love and his music to kill Nie Mingjue. Nie Huaisang used his distrust and his sword to kill Jin Guangyao.
4. Lan Xichen must have loved Jin Rusong. And when he died, he sat with a grieving Jin Guangyao, he consoled him, his heart broke for him. And then he learns it’s all a lie.
5. It doesn’t matter how long he spends in seclusion, or how quickly he heals. Lan Xichen will carry the guilt of his sworn brothers’ deaths for the rest of his life. Huaisang at least gets vengeance, which is at least some sort of cold-comfort. Lan XIchen ends up with nothing. They both died and were immediately beyond his reach. He’s a Lan, they’re close to the spirits, and if it was anyone else, he could have played Inquiry, he could try to find some kind of closure for their tragedy. Instead, Lan Xichen gets eternal silence, a karmic knot of guilt that will never be undone.
6. In spite of swearing to himself that he would never curtail another person’s freedom, because of his mother, Lan Xichen ends up with both his sworn brothers locked away from him, and the whole world forever.
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things people do after having a nightmare that isn’t crying
struggle to catch their breath
grab onto whatever’s close enough to ground themselves in reality
become nauseous / vomit
shake uncontrollably
sweat buckets
get a headache
things people do to combat having nightmares if they occur commonly
sleep near other people so they can hear the idle sounds of them completing tasks
move to a different sleeping spot than where they had the nightmare
leave tvs / radios / phones on with noise
just not sleep (if you want to go the insomnia route)
sleep during the day in bright rooms
things people with insomnia do
first, obviously, their ability to remember things and their coordination will go out the window
its likely they’ll become irritable or overly emotional
their body will start to ache, shake, and weaken
hallucinate if it’s been long enough
it becomes incredibly easy for them to get sick (and they probably will)
add your own in reblogs/comments!
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Sooo... "Servant to a Different King" has turned out to be the second-longest SVSSS fic that I've ever written... (PINTWILF is the first, obviously, especially if you include all of the companions and extras. After that are "Catch a Falling Star" and "A Child Once".)
Posting is going to start on October 25th!
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SangYao Fluff and Stuff Ideas, Part Two
Endgame sangyao that starts off pretty bad. Huaisang has a crush on Meng Yao, his tutor, but his confession gets shot down. (Meng Yao tries to be gentle about it, but a series of related miscommunications result in Huaisang being pretty crushed and he stops going to the extra lessons at all.)
They end up avoiding each other long enough that Meng Yao graduates and moves on (I have no idea what time period this is in, but it has, like, actual school classes whenever it is).
They lose touch for years and when they cross paths again, Huaisang is in really bad shape (either his health has taken a turn for the worse or he ran away from home... or both... or something else. Whatever it is, Mingjue is still alive and trying to sort out the mess but having a hard time with it).
Immediately concerned by Huaisang's condition, Meng Yao coaxes him into accepting care.
And he starts finding that the more this broken, exhausted, miserable Huaisang depends on him, the more he... kind of likes it.
So he has to deal with what kind of person it makes him that he wasn't interested in a relationship at all when they were both on somewhat even footing, but he's interested now that Huaisang needs him.
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Reincarnated Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao keep gravitating to immortal Nie Huaisang. Lifetime after lifetime, they always find him eventually, and no matter how it starts out, it always ends horribly. Eventually Nie Huaisang decides the problem isn't them, it's him. So in an attempt to give them happy lives, he leaves.
It's incredibly lonely halfway around the world, but he tells himself it's for the best.
For approx three more lifetimes, nothing happens.
Good. Great. He's fine with this. Really.
And then one day two all-too-familiar faces enter his shop, one tugging a surprisingly familiar little brother behind him.
That's... he didn't see that coming.
Maybe...
No. He can't let himself hope.
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Not-Quite-Isekai where Nie Huaisang gets stuck in a cursed novel, but he's lucky enough to be a character who only shows up for one scene, giving him almost total freedom of movement.
Unfortunately, acting on said freedom attracts the attention of the story's yandere villain who looks oddly like JGY. NHS is understandably really creeped out by this at first, but wait, if the villain's focused on him instead of the main couple, that means neither of them will die. They wouldn't have to wait for reincarnation to get their happy ending. So he figures he can just endure until either the story is changed or he's rescued, whichever comes first.
But then the happy ending is achieved and he's still trapped. Realizing that no one will ever come for him and he's just going to have to live out his life in this new world, he breaks down and tells the villain everything in the self-destructive hope that he'll abandon him too.
But it doesn't work out that way.
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Due to mutations in cultivation style, the sects literally cannot communicate with each other, because even outer disciples become too entrenched within a few weeks and lose their ability to understand common language.
For some reason related to his mother's heritage, Nie Huaisang is the only one who can speak/read/write all of the sect languages, and thus has had the important but frustrating job of acting as the universal translator. to keep down accusations of bias, he's had to give up his position in his home sect and continually travels as a neutral party.
It's a bitterly lonely position, until he happens to cross paths with a recently-rejected Jin bastard. Who, interestingly, shares his ability.
"If you have any sense, you won't let anyone know you can read that."
Meng Yao manages to keep himself from jumping in surprise, then very carefully closes the -stolen- text and looks over at his temporary travel companion. "And why would that be?" he asks, keeping his tone neutral enough to admit to nothing.
The stranger looks unimpressed by his acting. "I know you're of Jin blood, and that's a Jiang book."
Meng Yao frowns. "Why is that a problem? Is it illegal to learn even the most basic tenets of another sect?"
The stranger blinks. "You… Wow. You really weren't raised in the cultivation world at all, were you?"
Meng Yao bristles, but before he can snap back, his travel companion reaches out and taps the book in his lap.
"Major or Minor, none of the sects speak or write in the same language. It's tied to the very core of each sect's cultivation style. This should be nothing but useless scratches to you, but evidently, it's not."
"And you? Can you read it?"
"I can read anything," the stranger says. "And if people find out you're like me, you'll end up like me."
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(Macross AU) Meng Yao's mother was a famous idol singer for the war effort against the Zentradi until her career was ruined when she got pregnant. She never blamed him for it, but he could always tell how much she missed the stage and resolved to one day do her proud by launching a career of his own.
There's just one problem. While he can handle audiences and cameras just fine while speaking, singing is another matter.
Eventually he has to grudgingly admit he'd be much better at managing and PR for another singer's career, and he gets an extremely weird chance to showcase those talents when he's hired as the manager/assistant for the world's first fully-AI idol, Sang.
He's extremely uncomfortable with it at first, because while Sang is sweet and cuddly and a little spoiled, he was programmed to be that way, and it's bizarre.
But, gradually, he finds himself being drawn in by the AI's charm, and they bond.
They become close enough that one night Sang lets him in on a horrifying secret: he's not a program created from scratch, he's an uploaded mind.
And he's been using the data streams of his concerts to search for a missing brother right under the noses of his owners, who may have been the ones to make his brother go missing.
[Will you help me, Yao-ge?]
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Meng Shi was a huli jing, but never got beyond her first tail because of a curse.
After her death, little fox child Meng Yao sets off in search of his father using what clues she left behind.
Thanks to some severe bad luck, he instead winds up getting caught by a hunting party led by not-yet-dead Papa Nie.
Fully expecting to be killed, because he's heard about the Nie Sect's animosity to monsters, he's more than a little surprised when Papa Nie is like "Hm, you're a sharp kid and you can sprout fur. You'll make an excellent companion for my younger son who almost gets killed by the cold every winter."
Nie Mingue is understandably suspicious of dear old dad bringing home a fox child, but Nie Huaisang, already falling under the weather as the temperature drops, loves him on sight.
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