i have hualian disease and it's fatal i'm afraid

as someone who read the unwound series a while back and the uglies pretty recently; they were surprisingly dark books from what i remember (but in like a good way)

!!! they are!!! my roommate and I were both describing the books to each other like “it’s fucked up and really messes with you” because like the fear and like idk despair, hopelessness, etc of the characters in each book is so real and there. Like they live in these ideal utopian worlds, this is all they’ve ever known and what they’ve been taught us okay and good and should be celebrated but then they start to question it and like ofc you the reader are already aware of the horrors but once the characters realize it too it sets in more (imo). I’m gonna be real I haven’t read a book book in A Long Time but unwound is now on my list of books to read and I also wanna try and get all the books for the uglies series again because I enjoyed them a lot.

Hello i'm back after 3000 years to rant about cynonari bc cyno's second story quest had me FEELING THINGS and i need an outlet. Not that they haven't been rotting my brain consistently for almost two years but this quest... it's just. So much

The way cyrus tells cyno to invite tighnari along for dinner out of nowhere like he's just part of the family, the camping trip with 4 people (not counting paimon since she's basically one of the traveler's limbs) and only 3 tents (i thought tighnari and collei might share a tent but tighnari was alone in his tent when he woke up after cyno had already left so.....), tighnari's one track mind about catching up with cyno the moment he realizes the situation, not even hesitating about following him to the desert which is the bane of his existence, and then glueing himself to his side, cyno saying he's more than just the general mahamatra or a vessel for a god and tighnari smiling so proudly and saying "exactly", the story of hermanubis confirming that he was a tighnarian which makes their lives historicaly intertwined and gives off big soulmate energy, and then cyno looking at tighnari with a little smile after hearing it and saying "i like this story", their little hideout at the akademiya where they used to go to to chat and watch the sunset..... and then there's this

A fam. Family. Ttadition. A family tradition. Family. I'm foaming at the mouth this is too much

Also.

Look at this face of pure fond exhasperation he keeps giving cyno and tell me this isn't love.

Ah, the way mxtx writes devotion is leagues beyond most romance novels I've read! As I've been reading Heaven Official's Blessing recently so spoilers for books 1-5:

The loyalty, unadulterated affection, and determination of every man towards his love makes it full of jaw-droppingly wonderful heartthrobs. The ever faithful Feng Xin, Hua Cheng whose love is at once his salvation and his reason for bring, Bai Jing who had endless blind love, unrelenting Pei Xiu, and poor pure-hearted Shi Qingxuan...and then there's Pei Ming.

That accursed man that is the perfect foil for them all, and an unexpected cheerleader voyeur for Xie Lian's love towards Hua Cheng! (Diveristy win, the infamous playboy god is a fundanshi.)

All pages are from Book 5:

Obviously I love and support all of Destruction's creative endeavors but I just think he deserves to at least once have Hob Gadling drag him bodily to a Break Room so he can see people getting the catharsis and release of destruction in a safe and appropriate space until the feelings dissolve away and what's left is some people crying with relief and others laughing with glee as they start to find joy and fun in the contained chaos and they all leave feeling so much better when they arrived and then the room gets swept up and no harm was done.

Just. Destruction seeing a space where his nature isn't war, or bloodshed, or abuse. It's just humans getting their feelings out and having fun with it too.

and now!!! all mitsukous together!!! to make the scene!!!! (it ended right here.) (nothing happened after this scene)

thinking,,,,,,,, darling who has a cryptic pregnancy....... [insert twst character here] reacting to it,,, maybe you and floyd and you're both a little dense because neither of you could have ever guessed. T_T

"what do you mean you were pregnant this whole time???? i thought shrimpy just got softer. :D" - floyb mindset.

in floyd's defense, he has no idea how human pregnancies work. he slept through that part of land boot camp!!! fell asleep the minute the professor started droning on about how humans don't lay eggs like mers do. jade can only chuckle (maybe he knew, but in classic jade fashion he won't tell because it's much more entertaining to sit back and watch everyone slowly figure it out) and azul is shaking his head in disbelief. had he known, he would have prepared well in advance to lend a helping hand. and you're just so amazed because maybe you were told you're unable to get pregnant, but somehow it happened and you had no idea all this time.

thank you to floyd and his mer virility for doing what was thought to be the impossible!!!!!! <3

kinktober day 7: swapping clothes

yippee yay xie lian in red! follow 4 more hua cheng bait 🚩

Taking spiriual power MY ASS HE JUST WANTED TO KISS HIM AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm hyperventilatng

Eddie and Robin floating around Steve’s pool with hangovers while Steve, also hungover, tries to throw cereal in their mouths. Margaritaville by Jimmy buffet plays on loop on the ‘hangover from hell cure’ tape that Eddie swears by.

Eventually Steve swaps to a water gun filled with apple juice when Eddie and Robin complain they are thirsty

[takes a deep breath]

AND A PERSONAL "FUCK YOU" TO THE VIVID NIGHTMARE ABOUT NOT GETTING A MATCH EMAIL AT ALL THAT WOKE ME UP 20 MINUTES AGO!!!

I MATCHED!!!!

GONNA BE A DOCTOR!!!!

[Day 15]

Yknow how I said I didn't do transporter Scott cause I didnt have orange ink. yeah about that. (i do not like this orange but that's okay!! I had fun :D)

No offense to Rob and Ruth for cropping them out but GOD DAMN!

You asked for interaction so here I am interactioning

What do you think Nico and Will's favorite ice cream flavors would be?

oooooou okay thank you for asking.

will, i think, just likes ice cream and is down for pretty much anything (you live in texas and you take whatever heat relief you can get) but he’s fond of vanilla i think.

whenever he’s teased about it he goes on a twenty minute long rant about just how not basic vanilla is (you have to HAND PICK the pods INDIVIDUALLY from CULTURED ORCHIDS in ONE PLACE IN THE WORLD and LEAVE THEM IN BRANDY for like a whole ass YEAR to make vanilla extract and you wanna call that shit BASIC???????) until people are sorry they asked.

he’s also partial to sorbet. especially watermelon.

nico, on the other hand, is a Snob. he scoffs when people call american ice milk “ice cream”. he will literally only eat gelato or granita.

his fave gelato flavour is hazelnut, literally entirely because it makes him think of hazel. it is p good tho. when the seven were in rome he quietly bought her a cup of it (from an old italian lady who gave him a massive discount bc he smiled at her and talked in italian lol) and told her it was his favourite. she thinks about it whenever she gets insecure about being bianca’s replacement.

his fave granita flavour is lemon tho bc everyone’s fave granita flavour is lemon.

when he and will go on a date for the first time will takes him to a regular ice cream parlour bc he thinks he’s funny. nico, bc he is whipped, eats some even tho he complains the whole time.