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Practical Mythology
After the Wen Qing time travel fic, I spent some time trying to decide whether I believed Wei Wuxian was actually capable of doing time travel without causing more problems than he solved. I decided maybe! ...But only by accident.
Listen, he tries.
Summary: The Yiling Patriarch is a living legend—a terrifying, ancient force of nature, dispensing punishment or reward with implacable, indifferent fairness.
Wei Wuxian, on the other hand, is a weird but oddly charming guy who wanders around the cultivation world making fun of people’s art and mooching food from sect leaders.
It really upsets people to find out that they’re the same person.
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#fic#my fic#the untamed#time travel disasters#i need to stop telling you guys about fics i'm working on#because invariably the next thing i finish has nothing to do with that#the guilt
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Misdirection, let’s try that. “I would have either disposed of the body so it was never found, or made it look like an accident.”
been rereading murderbot n have a bunch of scenes i wanna draw!! so here’s a small one from fugitive telemetry to start off :’D
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#tgcf#hua cheng#xie lian#mu qing#feng xin#and yet they keep lurking around#knowing very well what they'll see#XD
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Shen Jiu’s problem is that he decided to go all in on the “If you are so convinced that I am a monster, then I will BE one! >:O”
and then OG Luo Binghe popped all “Oh? We’re Being M̴̮͋ȯ̶̺ņ̸͒s̴͔͘t̵͖̆e̴̠̽ŗ̶̒s̶͕̀? Is That What We’re Doing??? :)”
and he was so much better at being a monster that shen jiu had no recourse except to go Well Shit. Guess I’ll Die
#svsss#luo binghe#shen jiu#facts#shen jiu out here pretending to be a monster when he was really just a bitch#rip buddy#know your strengths next time
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book recs request ❤🖤❤🖤 🙏🙏🙏 in this case, book recs that you feel have inspired your writing style, or inspired your fics somehow?
Hmmm...this is a fun one but a tough one, because I'm not sure I'm really self-aware enough to know the true answer here. But I'll try! A lot of books/authors I believe shaped my writing style did it when I was pretty young, so we're getting some YA over here.
Robin McKinley
I must have read The Outlaws of Sherwood a dozen times between ages 10 and 15. I love me a hero who literally doesn't want to be here and got conned into this by pushy, well-meaning friends. Marian was the most badass Marian I'd ever encountered. Random, complicated, weird side-characters, my beloved. Cecily somehow speaking directly to whatever was unhinged about my own childhood feelings about my gender. Flawless, 10/10, should really re-read to see if it holds up.
This is not to minimize the ridiculous number of times I read The Hero and The Crown, The Blue Sword, Beauty, and Deerskin, because I also read them So Many Times that they've probably become a part of my psyche. Literally none of her heroes want to be heroes. But they've been informed that they are. Apparently. Ugh. Love to hate that for them.
Lloyd Alexander
I also re-read The Chronicles of Prydain at least once a year for many years. It has almost certainly messed with my mind. I was especially unhinged about The Castle of Llyr, because Princess Eilonwy. The best, the worst, the angriest princess. Love and respect. Taran I could take or leave, particularly during his Taran Wanderer phase (I was less sympathetic to his growing pains than I was to Eilonwy's), but The High King was a fantastic payoff, loved everything, no notes.
...Damn, I need to reread this series, also.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I didn't read The Vorkosigan Saga until college, but it immediately hit my brain hard. Fantastic characterization. The way she writes trauma and recovery from trauma, amazing.
Miles. What a character. What a mess. What a problem. He is only a little guy, literally and figuratively, and he's going to do his best to convince you that he didn't mean to offend that guy, set that building on fire, or end that empire. You know. Like a liar.
Sarah Rees Brennan
My number one fanfic influence--her style of writing is so delightful that, particularly when writing Harry Potter fic, I'd sometimes find myself paraphrasing her. I had to Sarah Rees Brennan-proof my fic to make sure I wasn't being an accidentally plagiarist, because her turns of phrase would just go subliminal in my brain. This honestly may still be happening, and if it is, I'm so sorry, Sarah, it's not on purpose.
My favorite of her books is In Other Lands, the story of a boy who is whisked away to magic school in magic land and is extremely annoyed to find himself there. Like why. Why is the plumbing medieval. Why don't phones work. Why is this magical Sparta.
...He's not wrong, is the thing. But he won't bend and he won't break and he won't leave, so apparently he's just going to have to fix the world himself. God help everyone! Love him. Love his friends. Love the entire world and setup and every single side character.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
I have been informed that you can see the Pratchett and Gaiman influences in my writing. I think this is a lie people have told me to make me feel better, but you know, I Want To Believe. So I'll include them.
Pratchett: Love for virtually the entire Discworld series, with an especially fondness for the Watch books and Susan. Still obsessed with Vetinari after all these years. What if Machiavelli but chill, though.
Gaiman: Lost track of how many times I've reread Sandman. The characters, the coolness, the weirdness, the meta! Especially obsessed with Death. Just someone being very calm and collected in the face of all kinds of horrifying nonsense. I admire that. Love nearly all of his books, but my favorite is probably Anansi Boys. Bet your stupid family drama doesn't involve gods. Or at least. I hope it doesn't.
Erin Morgenstern
I'm cheating by including her, because she didn't actually influence my writing, I just WISH SHE HAD. She can't, sadly, because my outline game will never be that strong. I know my limits. But DAMN. ENVY.
Both of her books are without flaw, but I did love The Night Circus just that little bit more, probably because I am weak to a circus. I firmly recommend The Starless Sea also, though, because it features an Unhinged Library. The characters and settings and descriptions--delightful.
But the best part is the WAY the stories are told. They're not chronological--they're like little intricate puzzle-boxes, where you open one panel, and there's a story, and you open another panel, and there's a different story, and by the fifth panel, there's a story that connected to the first panel, but also a little to the third panel, and--
LOOK, I CAN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT. It should be confusing, but it isn't. It's perfect. Just the right amount of information at the perfect time connecting to other pieces of information in a complex, interesting, deeply satisfying way. I would kill to be able to do this. Kill. I actually tried to do this in 'Mirror Image', and I had to give it up, because the level of incoherence was off the charts. ffffffffffff howwwww does she dooooo eeeeeet.
Anyway, I think those are the big ones. Special mentions to: Tom Holt, a deeply weird writer who strongly influenced one fic in particular (Some Confusion, DGM), Patricia C. Wrede, because Dealing with Dragons in general and Cimorene in particular got to me, and Dennis Lehane, because a) his historical fiction is inspiring, and b) I love his handling of The Unhinged Friend in the Patrick and Angie books. The best unhinged friend. He booby traps his own home. Love him. What is wrong with him? We'll never know.
#book recs#robin mckinley#lloyd alexander#lois mcmaster bujold#sarah rees brennan#terry pratchett#neil gaiman#erin morgenstern
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PLSSSSS HC AND MQ BEING BFFS IS SO BIG BRAIN OF U!! they are peak "xie lian said it's your turn to wash the dishes today >:)" and i personally hc that, in a modern au, they have each other saved as 'hua cheng (derogatory)' and 'mu qing (derogatory)' respectively 😌
They're talking shit!!!!!
#tgcf#mu qing#hua cheng#listen they could be the Worst best frienemies#and it would be magical#xie lian would agree
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See, this is why the Tsun Side Character Support Group should exist.
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#svsss#tgcf#mdzs#liu qingge#mu qing#jiang cheng#they are Suffering#though svsss is undeniably special as always
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One thing I like about scum villain is that every time you think a relationship has a weird and unbalanced power dynamic, its revealed that actually the relationship has an even WEIRDER unbalanced power dynamic from the other end . Like sure moshang looks weird because sqh is mbj's servant but also sqh is quite literally god and created mbj to his exact specifications. fucking insane
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the top water, literature, and martial gods of heaven who also happen to be the top three bullies of heaven
#tgcf#the three tumors#some of the worst people you know!#love them adore them they're awful#shi wudu#ling wen#pei ming
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#tgcf#a summary#hua cheng you disaster#(xie lian also a disaster but that goes without saying)#delightful
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Why? Are you annoyed? You just have some egg on you. You can just wash it off. Are you annoyed people are talking about you? This annoys you? You branded an innocent person a criminal. You put a scarlet letter on him forever, but you’re annoyed that you got a little dirty?
#beyond evil#yoo jae yi#han joo won#eggs#he deserved those eggs#deeply beloved character who still deserved those eggs#get him yoo jae yi#he needs egging for character growth purposes
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When will I get a post about how SHE committed atrocities but SHE'S my special little guy and also SHE looked hot while doing it
#jang man wol#hotel del luna#listen those people had it coming#ling wen#tgcf#it's honestly a miracle that more admin people don't commit atrocities#she could kill more people and i would still support her#naoto#dogs: bullets & carnage#sure she sliced up a lot of people#but it's THE LEAST THEY DESERVED#...there are so many more but I'll stop
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Pulling this out of my ask answer because it deserves its own post:
The ACLU Election Protection Hotline is 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)
If you encounter problems at the polls, are disqualified on a technicality, challenged by MAGAts, otherwise intimidated or disenfranchised in any way: CALL THEM. That is what they are there for.
If you are in this list of counties, the Department of Justice has civil rights attorneys/compliance personnel on site. Otherwise, no matter where you are in the country, you can call:
Department of Justice Civil Rights/Election Division is 800-253-3931.
As I said: election suppression works by people being too afraid or uncertain to challenge when told they are ineligible. Know your rights and resources. Insist if nothing else on your right to cast a provisional ballot. Stay in line -- if you are in line when the polls close, you have the right to cast your ballot.
VOTE!
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#kekkaishi#art#fanart#KEKKAISHI FANART#IT IS A MIRACLE#love them miss them#this is amazing#also accurate#sumimura yoshimori#yukimura tokine#damsels in distress
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Love that the stages of Fan Xian are like:
1) Isn’t this all a great joke? I’m taking none of this seriously and neither should you.
2) Okay maybe I’ll take it a little seriously. Like shonen protagonist level seriously, but with more romance, lol.
3) Just kidding. Remember when I was trained as an assassin as a child and I told you it was a joke? It wasn’t a joke.
4) You know, at this point some people might describe me as a villain protagonist. A very likable one, though!
Also until I saw this video I hadn’t registered that so many of his favorite people have held edged weapons to his throat at one point or another. What an icon, what a disaster.
#joy of life#fmv#amv#fan xian#what a mess of a person#it may be time to rewatch this yet again#even though i fly into a psychotic rage over the cliffhanger every time
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