I think the only thing worse than Roy being more accepted as a love interest for Jason than for Dick is Sl*de being more accepted as a love interest for Dick than Roy.Like.Like.You guys are kidding right????They were literally best friends for almost 40 years in irl time and for about a bit over a decade in-universe,their relathionship has so much romantic and to a lesser extent sexual subtext that i'm unironically convinced that they're in love with eachother as they are/were with Jade and Kory,Dick has infinitely more chemistry with Roy than he does with Babs and you'd barely have to change anything in their dynamic to make them a couple.And yet y'all would rather see Roy with someone who was FOURTEEN when he had an entire daughter and that he got his entire character erased to prop up,including making said daughter not canon anymore,and Dick with the guy who's such a misogynist that he's abused literally every woman he's had significant interactions with,was old enough to have kids Dick's age when Dick wasn't even done being Robin AND who literally looks like a racist grandpa(which he is)???????WHERE IS Y'ALL'S TASTE WHERE IS ITTTTTTTT

My rendition of @tempo-takoyaki's DTIYS!

Congrats on the milestones! And to everyone else, please go check out their 'Drawing TGCF (except I haven't read the books)' series!

Mad respect for MXTX for making a point to mention in every beginning, middle, and end in every tgcf extra that the main pairing are fucking all the time. Like, allllllll the time. Im so sorry you were censored queen, you would have written the most unhinged sex scenes😞💐👑

He's making soup

i want to blame shi wu du, but i would do the same, i might hate my sister but i would do the same, but it wasnt he xuans fault, but it wasnt shi qing xuan fault either, goD WHY WHY WHY WHY

Shi Qingxuan~ <3

i’m just curious, is there anyone else who shares my opinion that lian should never have died?? i know it can be viewed as lore or character development or one of those canon aspects you accept and shift to make sense, but i genuinely can’t think of a single good thing to come out of this decision. needless brutal child death, complete deterioration and shut down of roy’s character and his identity as a father and the bond he’d built with his daughter over decades, horrid treatment for jade (as usual), outstanding grief and guilt for mia, like i just don’t see a single positive that came from it. and then lian was GONE and disappeared from the story for so many years afterwards, only brought back in rebirth.

Jason's characterization towards Roy is actually insane because if i was best friends with a single dilf who's goofy and horny as shit but also respects women and every other minority and extends his fatherly traits to all kids in need rather than just his bio one which includes taking direct action against at least one ped0phile,i wouldn't be whining about how stupid and annoying he is for existing as himself,i'd be treating his daughter as my own and sucking his dick every chance i got both in the slang sense and the literal sense

Thinking about Feng Xin meeting the love of his life for the very first time

Sad thought of the day:

Because of DC's retcons and aging her up Lian has spent more time without her parents than she has with them

Fuck you DC!

I just watched s2 episode 10 in the english dub and I have to say. Nothing could have prepared me for Howard's delivery of that final scene where Xie Lian gets worked up about the truth coming out.

The just...sincerely agonized delivery of "That my words were the empty ramblings of a sad child!!" shook me to the core. The absolute self-loathing in that line, the raw emotion. The way concealing the truth was done to spare Lang Qianqiu but also at its heart was about Xie Lian's unresolved feelings of humiliation and shame, the way [redacted] did everything in his power to make Xie Lian lose faith in himself and the possibility of good prevailing in the world.

The way TGCF keeps me up at night, man...

DC should capitalize on the internet and make wild ways for characters to have known each other for years. Like I can say that Jason Todd, Cassie Sandsmark, and Kyle Rayner are all childhood friends who met on the internet on a Wonder Girl forum and it’d be both in character, not contradicting canon, and absolutely hilarious.

Shilling my fanfic!

The Harper Campfire Tales: The Old Man's House - albion_witch - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

As much as I enjoy "[Character] did nothing wrong" jokes, I really do enjoy the fact that the MXTX main characters and their love interests very much did some wrong things, actually. Like, yeah, some of their horrific crimes or even just mild wrongdoings are down to impossible circumstances and personal damage that was caused by someone else, but they all have agency and guilt and have to deal with the sort of interpersonal conflicts where no one is the winner. It is so, SO humanizing to have them be imperfect and rude and petty and selfish sometimes! They have hurt people unintentionally and intentionally! It makes their good qualities and efforts to improve shine all the brighter!

And also, I really love it as an aspect of queer romances specifically. If Wei Wuxian or Shen Qingqiu or Xie Lian had never done anything wrong in their lives, then the fact that they fall in love with men might carry an unintentional "look at these poor, innocent gay people who are being mistreated for no reason" message, which could carry the unintentional suggestion that queerness can be "earned" with good behavior. No, these characters have fucked up and have fucked up BADLY. There are such fascinating themes in these books about loving people who are seen as monsters or have done monstrous things, about having done unforgivable things yourself, about questioning what exactly is "sinful" and what you do with your life after your good reputation in "good society" has been utterly ruined.

This also brings up themes about "deserving". None of the characters are loved because they necessarily "deserve" to be loved, but because someone chose to love them. They get happy endings not because they "deserve" them - lots of characters in these stories "deserved" better and died anyway - but because they fought for them and were lucky. And I personally find that more interesting and touching than "[Character] did nothing wrong".

Keep the "[Character] did nothing wrong" jokes coming, though. They're often very funny. I especially love it when they're about characters who very obviously did many things wrong on purpose and aren't sorry about it in the slightest.

Xie Lian discovering sexual desire, going into despair without knowing what to do with himself, after all, when it came to promiscuity, he was taught to be chaste and had never cared about sexual things.

But he wasn't taught how to deal with sexual desire towards a man, he wasn't taught how to resist Hua Cheng.

How could Xie Lian not desire Hua Cheng? Just looking at him made him disconcerted, just thinking about him made his heart speed. Xie Lian didn't know what to do.

However, he never needed to do anything himself, because Hua Cheng does it for him.

Hua Cheng touches and kisses him until he breaks down and cries, induces him to eroticism and pleasure that Xie Lian is too sensitive to bear for long.

This is completely opposite to what Hua Cheng is.

Hua Cheng has always known that he desires and loves Xie Lian, that he wants to marry him and take him to his bed.

But he couldn't declare his love for Xie Lian, he was too insecure and hated himself for being such a coward, and he always thought that his god deserved someone much better, even though he knew that there was no one worthy of Xie Lian.

However, he never needed to declare himself, because Xie Lian did it for him.

The fascination to make the likes of Shen Jiu, Jiang Cheng, and Mu Qing everything they aren't while claiming to understand everything about their character will forever amaze me. No, you don't actually understand them as they are, especially because what's wanted is your own sense of redemption and what they deserve as way of a reward for their realizations.

Yet their acceptance of their horrid behaviors is their redemption. The bare minimum of acknowledging the cruelty they inflicted and put on to others as well is it. You do not get rewarded, nor should expect to be, for that realization that you have deliberately let others be hurt because of your own jealousy and hate. Realizing is just one part of betterment. The only one that does actively try to make amends and shows some sort of understanding to maintain an actual semblance of friendship that is now with boundaries and understanding of expectations from that, is Mu Qing. He is the only one that reaches out with his apologies to say he wants Xie Lian as a friend despite his jealousy and behavior of the past.

Shen Jiu and Jiang Cheng have no such regrets since their cynicism and self-absorption stays the principal feeling of their regrets. It is not for the sympathy and regret for what others did for them that they're upset, it's the way they know they have no right to disregard the selflessness that Wei Wuxian and Yue Qingyuan showed for them. The reality of having squandered and belittled that because of their own hate, self grandeur, and egoism convinced them it was appropriate and reasonable. Only one amongst these three did have the maturity to admit and willingly want to place the effort into maintaining the friendship he still wanted when saying he was actively wrong and jealous of who Xie Lian was. Shen Jiu still was forever bitter about Yue Qingyuan while also not wanting to think that perhaps Yue Qingyuan was suffering as well. Jiang Cheng still spoke in terms of debts and repayment as if Wei Wuxian was settling to buy off his own life to freedom. They did not want to actively change because they didn't see anything wrong in their own selves.

That is where at least Mu Qing has the opening to do and be better, to be a friend finally to Xie Lian. Redemption isn't meant to be satisfying for anyone but the one who seeks it in their own way. Sometimes it's also disappointing as an outside party that they don't want to change for the better with that realization of identity and still are hateful to the core.