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I really do adore the kind of character who would rather make everything worse than even try to fix the problem. Yeah man, fuck communicating with your friends, blow the place to hell!!!
#i make words real good tag#hm do I could solve every problem in my life right now#if I just trust my friends#OR#skskskskskskskskkskss god love when that happens
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thinking about how akio sees his younger self in utena and wondering if there's any fondness there. doesn't change the horror of what he does to her obviously but i do wonder
#akio and utena#m#long ramble in the tags sorry:#the thing about akio is that he's so evil bit he's also so human#he has feelings. i just don't know what they are (if anything) toward his victims#he loves anthy at the very least i'm sure of that. even if he hates her too. just like she loves and hates him. the lines are blurry.#and i just. i have to wonder whether any of that extends to utena at all. we know anthy at times feels similarly about utena and dios#(and akio by extension.) the simultanious love and resentment. so it's not too unlikely i think.#like. even though he never had anything but bad intentions in getting close to her#i'm not sure it's possible to do everything he did and feel nothing#not that he has any meaningful amount of guilt or remorse for it. i don't think that.#and i obviously don't think he “loved” her in any of the ways she might have thought he did#but did he not care at all? did he not feel any kind of fondness or sympathy or just. idk. pity? for her?#whatever the case it wasn't enough to reconsider having her killed so you know. how much does that actually matter anyway#idk. i think about it a lot. how abusers are rarely entirely indifferent toward their victims#the role he's playing in her life is so fucked up but it IS a role he's playing and i wonder how much he you know... internalizes it?#how much does he believe the illusion of family that he invites her into? because akio DOES often buy into his own illusions.#(similarly i think it's possible that akio is fond of touga too. their mentor-protégé relationship is horrible and abusive#but that doesn't make it less real. you know? maybe real is the wrong word.)#when he talks in episode 25 about wanting utena and anthy closer that's obviously so he can continue to groom her#but is there something genuine there too? i don't know.#again. it obviously does not make anything he does better or even different. but it is interesting to think about to me.#on the other side of that coin does seeing his own past youth and naivete and desire to do good that he (maybe) once had#reflected back at him through her mean anything?#is there resentment there? that she is what he couldn't be? or more likely he just thinks that idealism is stupid.#either way it's something he wants to take from her. anyway ramble over.#i talk a lot about utena's feelings toward akio (familial vs romantic love and the way the two are intertwined in fucked up ways)#but not much the other way around. probably because utena is actually a sympathetic character whose feelings the show very clearly#wants you to analyze and think about.#which is... less true for akio i think. though he's still a complex character with complex motives. he's just harder to get a grasp on.
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DISCLAIMER: i have my own opinions but mainly i just enjoy stirring up chaos. Tell me in the tags what you all think!!✨
Reblog for sample size etc etc you know it
ps. Yeah thats not a walrus emoji but its the closest i had cmooon cut me some slack guys
pps. bts as in BEHIND THE SCENES dont come @ me talking about BTS the group yall (<-actual mistake i have done. multiple times. yay.)
#polls#ao3#fanfiction#fic#word count#how do i tag thissssss i dont want to tag specific fandoms ahhhhhhhhh#uhmmmmm maybe ill do it anyways ho ho here i go#hp#naruto#mdzs#tgcf#bnha#atla#orv#tbf im tagging orv just cause i think itd be funny to get into a fandom war with kdj over ways of survival lol#hmmmm now that ive thought that i gotta tag alsp#svsss#for the same reason tbh#pidw fanboy shen yuan ftw#oooooooh you know what#lotr#asoiaf#yeah that tracks#i think thats it#cant think of other fandoms with that many super duper long fics that im also into lol#btw i may have not mentioned it until now but i just know that stwwx is with us in spirit. if not in tags. akhsksjsls#if you have no idea what stwwx is well. good for you. you dodged a bullet there lol.#cql#for real tho has anyone ever counted cql as separate from mdzs in the history of ever lol#the art of making polls to poll
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me: yeah i didn't project too badly onto taob haha *sees a quote from taob randomly on a tiktok webweave about girlhood*
#HELLO?????? yeah zuko they girlhooded you. yeah no they transed your gender#idk if this makes sense but ur coping mechanisms are just sooo she/her#like do you have any idea how baffling this was like no tags no search no nothing it was just there by sheer luck#i saw it was a webweave about girlhood and i was like ohoughhee this will be good#got a few slides in. hello i recognise thAT FUCKING QUOTE WHAT IS HAPPENING#like it's such a niche quote and out of context like it was it could have been from ANYTHING#AND it wasn't credited which i'll get to in a second#but honestly i felt like a mother identifying her child through something incredibly niche like a single freckle or some shit#bc i was like 'this is such a nondescript quote and isnt a big enough moment for me to remember vividly and yet somehow i Just Know'#and low and behold i double checked with a cheeky ctrl+f on taob AND I WAS FUCKING RIGHT#WHAT THE FUCK#im a tad fuming there was no credit like the person used like 12 images and only 3 of them are Non-Tumblr Writing Quotes#and NONE got credited#like i get it's hard enough to get art credited but i feel with artists there's still a general conensus that you're SUPPOSED to tag them#but with writing people honestly just treat it like it's free real estate and the thing is it kinda IS especially if it's fanfic#but also..... why would you not just say who wrote that? like you clearly like it enough to put in ur little slideshow#so why not give credit where credit is due. annoying. bc now im like if this happened by pure fucking chance#then how many times has this happened when ive literally been totally unaware of it?#how many times have MY WORDS just been flung about tiktok without any acknowledgement that i wrote them?#idkkkk just how writing especially amongst tiktokers is treated as a lesser or watered down artform#that doesn't require the decency given to 'actual' art. i might just be being cynical bc i dont like tiktok tho lol#like girl (taob) what the hell are you doing at the devil's sacrament#taob
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one of the worst feelings ever is wanting to write but your hands hurt too much or the words just don’t want to work so you just sit there staring at a half finished doc with tears in your eyes bc you want to write and you need to write but everything is telling you that you can’t
#and that you’re a terrible writer and that no one cares aaaaaaand imposter syndrome kicks in and you just feel like crap#bc all your friends have been wriying recejtky so why can’t you??? cause they’re bETTER THAN YOU#lol idk why my head is so bad today#the feelings of inferiority and emptiness and idk worthlessness are strong and i hate it but i can’t stop it#i just wanna write!!! and like what i write!!!#but i Can’t and i haven’t liked anything i’ve written in Months and ugh i hate not being able to d something i wanna do#oh and now i’m crying??? why the frick am i cRYING litetally why is typing this making me Worse#sorry guys needed to rant#the inadequacy was strong today#something something students keep telling me how much they dislike me or how i’m whiny for asking them to be respectful and like#i Know i shouldn’t compare myself to my friends but gosh it’s hard when they’re all like. so much better than me.#and i don’t have a lot of time to be on tumblr bc of work so i just feel like i’m watching everything from afar and it’s no one’s fault but#my brain’s like no one is Doing anything it’s just my brain being dumb and i can’t stand it and I want to stop feeling empty and like i’m#missing a part of myself and like the words i write don’t matter gOD why can’t i just feel happy with where i am and not care what the kids#who hate me say or realize that no one cares that i’m not on much like i’m still Here and trying to interact it’s not like everyone hates me#for being busy or for liking side characters more than the main characters and just—#sorry#that felt good actually#idk what came over me#imma just. imma shower. then maybe delete my tags#sorry if anyone got this far aT ALL grace is either asleep or trying to sleep so i don’t wanna bother them since they slept poorly last nigh#okay done now for real sorry delete tags later sorry if you saw this and how freaking messed up ky freaking brain is
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i feel like bertrand is the kind of guy who would delightedly drive a station wagon, but beatrice refuses to let him. a station wagon is too basic. this is how bertrand winds up with a 1960 chevy nomad wagon, sky blue. meanwhile, beatrice drives a red 1960 ford starliner
additionally kit drives a black 1950 cadillac series 62 coupe deville
#i love station wagons.......but i also feel like. station wagons are so.........specific. like. god it's such a specific dad family car#beatrice 1) wants a good family car but also 2) refuses a regular station wagon.#the chevy nomad wagon had style.#once again lulu vandelay googles cars instead of making words but no regerts. have you seen these cars?? gorgeous.#HERE'S THE THING. I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN CARS. I'M NOT A CAR PERSON. AT ALL.#but i like looking at old cars and picking out what i think characters would drive.#best friend: OLD CARS DON'T HAVE CRUMPLE ZONES#me thinking as best friend keeps talking about crumple zones: .........but they have such personality.............so boxy........ :(#anyway last week was how i learned about crumple zones!!#i mean i knew about like the idea of them but not like. the term for them. the real concept of it#lulu talks about the sad lemon man#I KEEP FORGETTING TO USE MY TAG. I HAVE MISSED PUTTING SUCH JOYOUS NUGGETS IN MY LEMON MAN TAG PROBABLY. MY APOLOGIES
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Okay i have yet to see a post about this that isnt filled with ppl being Annoying as Fuck on it, but,
theyve found wreckage of the submersible, it imploded (thank god, thats better than a drawn out suffocation over the course of several days, implosion means it was pretty much instantaneous) and the us navy have revealed they heard a weird sound on sunday from about where communication with the sub was lost, that was probably the sound of the implosion, [implied that they didnt say anything cos they didnt want to jump to conclusions without evidence of a wreckage, if there was a chance they were still alive.] no idea what the banging sounds were.
I do hope rescue efforts are extended to the migrants off the coast of greece, and am angry and horrified at their mistreatment, and that the media clearly cares less for their fates than that of the billionaires on the sub.
also, while i have you here,
The difference between a submersible and a submarine is not that one is safer. The titan was a submersible that was unsafe, but that is not because it was a submersible.
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
A submersible is a watercraft designed to operate underwater, usually supported by a nearby surface vessel, platform, shore team or sometimes a larger submarine.
submarines generally dont go as deep as our deepest submersibles, but some can be down there for months at a time bc it is like. a self sufficient Ship. not all submersibles can go crazy deep, but to my knowledge, the only crewed vessels that can go that deep, are submersibles. (Alvin, deepsea challenger, limiting factor, trieste, fendouzhe or "striver").
#toy txt post#titan submersible#if ppl start being annoying on this post. ill turn off reblogs and block all of you. make your own post.#reblog the other ones where people are already being annoying#yes i hate billionaires. but im glad it was a quick death. it was a horrific situation. hope those migrants are given support and help.#i hope oceangate is fined to hell and back and bankrupted and never gets to put anyone in any sort of vehicle ever again#especially not in the ocean. im a little glad that ceo is dead in his own stupid sub im just frustrated he was able to take other ppl with#him. the fact that he was able to operate that unregulated non safety standard meeting ass vehicle and charge people money to ride in it is#fucking insane and unconcioable however you spell that#and now i need to go shower real quick and try to get like. a little over 3hrs of sleep. which will suck but i did accidentally nap for#like? 2 hrs already so it doesnt suck as bad as it could. goodnight please dont be stupid on this post please please please#if you have a hot take on the situation im begging you to hot take it Some Where Else! thank you! good bye#im not gonna bother linking shit feel free to fact check just fuckin. google titan submersible. James Cameron is tossing his 2 cents in now#saw 2 separate articles on that already. thats fine i guess he has been down there in safer vehicles so i guess he can shit talk how unsafe#it is. anyway. saw someone in the comments of a post say it was a submersible bc it was too unsafe to be a submarine and i wanted to start#screaming. thats not what those fucking words mean! at all! god!#irl death#idk what else to tag#behave. bye
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ok so i was sorting through my binder from eighth grade and i found something very important
(yakkos world style narratoon) and now, the reasons why homework sucks, presented to you by me!
(written by my group and yours truly, sing this to the tune of old macdonald)
Homework all day is the worst,
Free me from this curse!
It always messes with my sleep,
Every night it hurts!
A question here
a question there
Here a question
there a question
Everywhere a question!
I wish homework dissappeared,
Every year its worse!
I'm sleep deprived and not okay,
free me from this curse!
I cannot take it anymore,
every night it hurts!
A minute's passed
ten minute's passed,
How long will this homework last?
I wish homework dissappeared,
EVERY YEAR ITS WORSE!
(yiu need to scream that last part its very important emphasis matteres)
#homework#school#i made this with like eightish othr peooe although only like five of us actually helped#we had to write an original song about something (i think it had to be school relates?) in like an hour#we tried to make an actual song with an orginial beat and everything but found that that wiuld take too long#so we opted for good ol reliable#extremely simple amd comedic parody but im quite proud of our work#we collaborated excellently#thats a core value of my school actually#i should show this to them and show the real power of collaboration and hatred#somemothr kids made like poems about their chosen thing#but i think ours was the superior one#sadly we didnt win glory#some toher story not even a song about a chicken written in spanish won#alas#yknow poe was also not recognized for hsi work in his time#a lto of tags i know lol#we were initally gonna use a different school innaproporate word in the sing#i think it was hell#but iur teacher said no#so#alas part two#again veyr proud of this especially stanzas four and fice#anyway sorry for the egregious amount of tags lol#have a great morning slash afternoon slash evening slash night :DDDD
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Guess what I found on the internet today
#I don’t think this needs to go on the flf tag but yes it was flf#if you are seeing this I’m so so sorry you do not want to know#fanfiction about real people is. A Choice.#that was just something else entirely#I don’t know why I read that I felt obligated to though#I would never want to make fun of someone for something that they put a lot of effort into and I’m not trying to do that#however I also saw that at around 5:30 am and I did not sleep last night#also the amount of psychic damage that has caused me is truly unparalleled#I have so many questions and I want absolutely none of them answered#it wasn’t even smut or close to smut it was just a whole experience#I am absolutely terrified that the person who wrote that is going to find this somehow#if they do. hi.#how are you. I’m going to think about you for the rest of my life#not good thoughts not bad thoughts I just have a lot of questions but please don’t answer any of them#4555 words split into 3 chapters published in may 2023#I think I texted my friend a whole book of me losing my mind after I saw it on ao3 and they haven’t responded yet 💀#welp#please send help i genuinely have no idea what to do with my life now#i feel like i have seen everything
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Okay I’m gonna go work on my fic!!
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these lines hit different when you read utena as transmasc
#i mean the first one is really awful regardless.#pretty sure i read somewhere that the words akio uses means something along the lines of 'you really should remain a child'#as opposed to 'you really should remain the gender that you are.' which speaks to his whole thing about keeping these kids from growing up#and there's So Much in anthy's line even without hypothetical misgendering#anyway the au where utena has already transitioned by the time he gets to ohtori is really good#and i of course have lots of headcanons about post-ohtori utena and gender#but i've been thinking about one where he's actively questioning while he's there and is not out to anyone.#and i guess not a lot would really change but akio's attempt at making utena more feminine would have a whole other layer of awful to it#and unfortunately i think in this scenario the first person he would come out to would be akio. which is so sad#like maybe it could be anthy but idk. i think it would be something he'd be apprehensive to be open about with her#(in the show utena does tend to be more vulnerable with akio than with anthy. at least the vulnerability with him comes first.#he's her go-to person for advice in the black rose arc and utena doesn't really begin opening up to anthy like that until the third arc)#maybe i should write something for this au. i can see it so clearly.#utena talking about his confusing gender feelings in one of those black rose scenes in the planetarium#and akio doing that thing where he sounds supportive and helpful but absolutely isn't.#that fake sympathy that's actually really patronizing and condescending and dismissive but subtly enough that utena doesn't realize it#and THEN the contrast when utena finally talks to anthy about it and she empathises by talking about her own confusing gender feelings#(transfem anthy realness !!!!!)#oh wow i did not mean to write so much in the tags#revolutionary girl utena#utena tenjou#my posts
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Hogwarts Founders Era OC Profile: Edward the Valiant
“He did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
Name: Edward
Nicknames: The Valiant (due to his accomplishments as a warrior)
Birthdate: April 13th, approximately mid 980s
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Blood Status: Half-blood
Nationality: Anglo-Saxon
Sexuality: Bisexual
Physical Appearance
Hair: Light brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5ft 8 ½ (174 cm)
Faceclaim: Dean Charles Chapman
Background
PSA: Just like Elfreda, Edward's timeline isn't really set in stone yet.
Edward is the bastard son of Æthelred II, King of the English, and Elfreda, a pure-blood witch. He grows up mostly at Hogwarts, surrounded by magic and shaped by the events surrounding its founders.
Home: Hogwarts
Family
Mother: Elfreda
Edward doesn't remember his mother, having only known her for under a year. A friend of Rowena Ravenclaw's, Elfreda is an advisor at the muggle court at the time of Edward's birth. She disappeared when Edward was very young, reappearing only when her son was seventeen.
Edward and Elfreda have a complicated relationship after her return. Edward barely remembers anything about her and views The Ravenclaws more as his family. Elfreda struggles to adjust to life back in the realm of humans and feels guilt about leaving her son for such a long time. Eventually they do reconcile and have a good relationship.
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Father: Æthelred II, King of the English
Known as The Unready, King Æthelred had a brief affair with Edward's mother, which resulted in his birth. When his mother noticed Edward showing signs of magic very early on, she took the boy and ran. Æthelred would stop at nothing to find them.
Half-siblings: Kings of the English Edmund Ironside and Edward The Confessor, among others
Foster-mother: Rowena Ravenclaw
Rowena is a good friend of Edward's mother so she took Edward in and raised him along with her own daughter Helena.
Foster-sister: Helena Ravenclaw
Helena was a few years older than Edward and he saw her as an older sister. The two were close and her death was horrific for Edward.
Hogwarts
House: Foster-son of Rowena Ravenclaw but joined Gryffindor.
Favourite subject: Defence Against the Dark Arts
Career
11-17: Student at Hogwarts
17->: Ally of Godric Gryffindor
22->?: Duelling Instructor at Hogwarts
Future: tbd
Personality & Attitude
Edward is not one to sit around and let others do the fighting for him. He's brave and has a strong sense for what is right and what is wrong.
Despite his outward boldness, he has underlying fears that he must conquer. He rarely shows his fear to anyone and prefers to lock it away somewhere deep inside.
Priorities: Helena, Akelda, protecting Hogwarts
Strengths: Brave, compassionate, loyal, chivalrous, a talented sorcerer, interested in the world around him (learns muggle combat and muggle history too), Can keep his head cold in stressful situations
Weaknesses: Stubborn, Afraid of abandonment, Restless for action, Has trouble focusing on his studies
Stressed: When his loved ones are in danger, when he feels helpless
Calm/Comforted: At Hogwarts and with Helena or Akelda
Favorites
Colours: gold, blue, red
Weather: Cloudy but warm
Hobbies: Sword-fighting, duelling, horse-riding
Fashion: Often found wearing armour, likes deep red and blue tones in his clothing, dresses in furs to keep warm
Relationships
Significant Other/Love Interest: OPEN
Betrothed: Akelda The Tragic (deceased) @endlessly-cursed
Akelda and Edward's mothers were both involved in the events surroundng Hogwarts's founding and thus knew of each other. Rowena Ravneclaw and Helga Hufflepuff arranged an engagement between the children. At first, they were shy around each other but eventually bonded over shared interests. Both Akelda and Edward loved horse-riding and nature, and often talked amongst themselves for hours.
Akelda's health had been fluctuating, but when it took a turn for the worse, it was feared she was not going to make it. When she recovered against all odds, Edward was delighted and relieved. The marriage plans were put back in motion, but one day during a family picnic, Akelda suddenly fell ill again, though this time the culprit was poison, and she didn't recover.
Edward was inconsolable after both Akelda and his foster-sister Helena passed away within such a short period of time.
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Friends: OPEN
OPEN FOR INTERACTION!
Rivals: tbd
Enemies: His father and Salazar Slytherin
Trivia
After Akelda's untimely death, Edward inherits her horse
Through modern lens, would probably be considered dyslexic
Showed signs of magical talent at a very young age and always had a strong connection to magic
#hogwarts founders era#oc: edward the valiant#oc profile#he is open for friendships!#and even a 2nd love interest but i will probably make a separate post about that if people are interested!#maybe i should fancast good old aethelred?#i set out to invent my own muggle king oc so as not to involve any real historical figures but then the timeline kinda matched with him so#here we are#and maybe i should as well have an older fc for edward? i'm not sure#i might also some day look into what kind of relationship (if any) edward would have with his half siblings#ok tag word dump over#thank you for reading!
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on a whim just opened some half-finished oc writings I made earlier this year, and like--
d-damn, maybe I ought to try and finish some of these... if nothing else just to fully realize the fucked up chronically ill ink-monstergirl tf/degradation potential of cuttle here...
#i do not consider myself particularly practiced in writing but ouououhg the oc brainrot is real...#i'm not good with words nor making things succinct#it takes so much brain power to write this stuff#man i also ought to come up with a proper oc tag for the cuttleverse#because “cuttleverse” is such a dumb term i simply cannot#oc#gub
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Would you guys like a photo of my cat?
Shut up of course yiu do
#liz rambles#mole interest#shawn is good boy#my other cat is inside screaming like she is dying because she wanted inside but then outside and I don’t play that game#ordered chicken from a place but they don’t make chicken this early so I had to cancel with no refund but it’s ok cause I may be broke#but I spent my whoke oaycheck on food and ordered taco bell#im so tired yall like I can hardly function for real#is it forreal#one word? ill never know#don’t read my tags trust me
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Holy cow.
TIL the word for how a word or a name is pronounced is written as "pronunciation". I really thought it was "pronounciation".
Pro-Nun. Well I love Arknights Specter.
That reminds me some years ago I was absolutely bamboozled by "similar" & "available", I thought those were written as "similiar" & "avaible" .
My life is a lie.. all this from being curious on how to pronounce "Berrien County Jail".
#English struggle#i'm in shock#This is so unreal#It can't be real#Idk man#Til#Tbf I very rarely use those words#Trying to justify the ignorance lol#What is grammar btw I try to not use “but” in front of a sentence but actually I don't care that much#And I keep using abbreviation on is am are despite the formal sentences because of muscle memory#I also can't stick to one term between “human race” and “humanity” despite it's the same word in JP because idk#I'm sincerely sorry for the translation quality in this blog but you know what I like doing this for no good reason#The good ol' tag rambles that I never experienced b4 because this is my first Tumblr account actually#I'm suffering from something that I want to know too but psychiatrists don't exist in my country#But it's most likely laziness#I'm not making masterlists immediately and prev all next links are also due to laziness#I forgot to say that I'm not planning to ruin Fennesz reputation believe me he's still the whole cinnamon roll bakery & sweet guy & like to#Wow so only 140 characters for a tag
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No but even beyond the heathcliffean air of his story as a kid, Nelly scene and revenge fantasies included, and even beyond the identification of the self with the craft, the entire concept of Yingxing is so good.
The glimpse we get of the relationship he has with his master has so much potential. What it says about him, what it says about everyone around them, what it says about the kid.
The fact that already as a child Yingxing was vindictive, as he will be as Blade.
His self-consciousness about being a short life species, and how he is right to be self-conscious about it. How in such a short time, being so young, he's had to deal with enormous tragedy, so that he can even as a kid look the truth in the eye and admit it. Admit that he has to work harder, longer, more obsessively, and that still nonetheless there's little chance to get ever at the level of the long life species that look down on him and take him for granted. How he is able to overcome it.
It's incredible also in the context of Dan Feng. How both struggle with their identities and how they get new ones, but in totally opposite ways. Dan Feng is weighted down by what he is and what he can do, and wants to escape that fate, and dreams of a new life in which he can be something else; and Dan Heng is born. Yingxing takes pride in that which he can do, something he wasn't born into, something he had to work very hard to achieve, and that was the path to overcome the prejudices and undermining gazes he had to bear as a short life species. He crafts his place into the Xianzhou society and becomes the legendary Furnace Master. Even on a more personal level, one could argue this is his way of maneuvering his life, of expressing himself, this is how he deals with things; like his relationship with Jing Yuan having a turning point after giving him his weapon, or how he crafted that jade flask. And then he loses his ability to create and loses himself; he becomes Blade.
The fact that even as an adult, as an exceedingly arrogant craftsman, something of the shy self-conscious kid remains is both endearing and heartbreaking as well. In some ways we still see that in Blade.
We also see echoes of that personality in Mr. Xiao, who worked under him. And that alongside his craftsmanship, his ability to fix and create auromatons even though they are vanishing in the civilian landscape, live on through Mr. Xiao. And die alongside him, for Mr. Xiao too has become but a relic of another time.
The way the other stories of craftsmen enhance facets of Yingxing's is so good too. Mainly in the story of Master Ryan and Chengjie, with the insight we get of the struggles of short life species in the Xianzhou, especially those dedicated to a craft, and how hard it is for them to reach positions of prestige. It also poses the question of how we can transcend time, if it's possible at all, and how the sharing of knowledge, the passing down of skills, the shared loved, is one of the answers. This was all already significant before, but the information gains weight with the existence of Mr. Xiao. I'd argue there's echoes of Yingxing even in Master Gongshu. His love for his automatons, his sincere fondness for them, his pride on his job, his loyalty to his position and duties, the way he is both hard and stern as well as loving with his apprentices, and how he talks about short life species.
On a sort of ontological way, it's very interesting to see how Yingxing goes from craftsman to tool or weapon, from creator to creation, from subject to object. The potential in the context of Abundance/Destruction is also extremely intriguing, I think. He who created is unmade by a curse of Abundance. He who forged weapons now follows that path of destruction. There's so much going on with Yingxing conceptually around the cycles of death and rebirth, destruction and creation; it's so fitting that now Blade is stuck in such a cycle in the most literal way.
And it's so fitting too that, in all this context, given Yingxing's entire story, Blade's entire being, that which he made unmade him. That which he created and gave him so much pride was the weapon that killed him. And now he wields it himself, his tool of revenge while he follows the path to eternal and irrevocable death.
#Yingxing#Blade#I talk too much#Fragments and scraps#sort of. I think I'll delete that tag when I save these ideas somewhere else#These are only some of the things I can't stop thinking about#Among other things I wondered what it must have been for Mr. Xiao to see his master's face everywhere around the Luofu#Fu Xuan makes a comment about not believing the short life species are necessarily less knowledgeable and that also said a lot I think#Due both to how she worded and the context. How it seemed to be another sign of her superior wisdom that she realises this#but how it's still an extended pov along the Xianzhou#The idea of being/becoming/losing oneself through and/or because of one's own skills and abilities is also applicable to Jing Yuan#I don't know. There's really so much to think about and dissect. It's so juicy#For real Yingxing is so good as a character. I didn't expect something so good and so well crafted#(and so in tune with all my favourite characteristics and stories. I've not talked#about the Orphic elements and the suicidal tendencies here‚ or the play on betrayals‚ but goodness)#I really wasn't expecting something as good and with so much potential (I am so afraid of them ruining the writing)#The way the worldbuilding and the little glimpses at everyday life of NPCs enhance every concept forming the character is amazing#I truly can't stop thinking of Yingxing/Blade in every facet he has. The very way we are told things is telling#I always say form is substance‚ and I mean it. Yingxing's and Blade's story is such a clear case of this#The fragmentary condition of the storytelling as well as the different levels of trust one can give to every fragment works magnificently#with Blade as a mara-struck person dealing with memory loss and the loss of the self#It also works well with Dan Heng and Jingliu going through something similar‚ with Jing Yuan being manipulative and deceptive and silent‚#with Baiheng being dead. Ironically in my opinion it also works very well with how it seems to be hinted that both Dan Heng#and Blade may recall more than they let on or admit. I'm talking a lot and I should stop already but yes. I can't stop thinking about him#He's skyrocketed to the higher positions in the list of my all-time favourite characters in no time at all#Or at least his potential has. Goodness‚ I hope they don't ruin him...#Ugh I've talked way too much. I'm going to have to move the tags
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