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Very short rant on college referencing

Why? Why for the love of god and everything holy does referencing exist in college???????????

Uuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoever invented it deserves a pillow that is just a little too warm for them so that it's just annoying enough to flip over just for them to find that the other side is just as annoyingly warm.

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System by MXTX spoilers (for all 4 novels)

Something that never fails to make me cry or at least tear up a little about SVSSS is the knowledge of just how loved Luo Binghe was and is.

In the beginning when Shen Yuan first reads the novel Proud Immortal Demon Way, Luo Binghe is one of the reasons for Shen Yuan's continued desire to finish the novel, despite his loud criticisms of the writing.

Luo Binghe's adoptive mother - the unnamed washerwoman had taken Binghe in and cared for and loved him as her son until her untimely death.

In SVSSS, Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu is able to look out for and care for the young Luo Binghe for the majority of his time on Qing Jing Peak.

After the events of the Immortal Alliance Conference and the Eternal Abyss, Luo Binghe had darkened and now he believed that because of his heritage, he will never be loved for who he is due to what he is - a half demon. This informs many of his later actions in the series. He had probably also had thoughts of who his parents had been and the circumstances of his birth. He had probably come to some awful conclusions back then and I definitely believe that this also added a layer to his self hatred.

Now, when it is finally revealed what the Old Huan Hua Palace Master had orchestrated, it is finally revealed just how much Su Xiyan had sacrificed to keep Luo Binghe alive. Yes, Tianlang-Jun did not know of the existence of his son until years and years later but the moment that he learned what had befallen his lover, he had stopped his plans to cause havoc in the human realm. Su Xiyan had loved her lover and their son so fucking much and every time that I think about her story I feel like crying.

Once this reveal happens it truly felt like every time someone had assumed that Luo Binghe was unloved or unwanted or unlovable, they were fooling themselves. It was like I was immediately reminded of all of the ways and people that had looked out for, cared about and loved Binghe.

Of course, the love story between Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe is nothing to sneeze about. If you've read the novels, you know. Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe love each other so ardently and deserve to be happy together.

Finally, I always come back to one of the last lines in the novels that our beloved author, Shang Qinghua says, "It's only... It's only he really, very much likes this story he wrote." I think that he speaks of how he's happy about how Shen Yuan derailed the plot, how other people have reacted to these changes and became more nuanced. I think he also speaks of the fact that he had loved his story when it had resembled PIDW too. It had been his creation despite all of the details and nuances that had been lost to the rabbed fan base.

Luo Binghe may never fully comprehend or know how much he is loved by all of these people and many more that I had not mentioned. In this way, SVSSS reminds me that we each have so many people in our lives that love and have loved us, that care and have cared for us and that continue to do so. Just like we paint our love on this earth so do our loved ones reciprocate.

Two-two-one-Bee Baker Street

It's iconic ✨

I have read some truly incredible fanfics in my life. There are some that really stand out! I swear allegiance to my favourite fanfic authors! Thank you for your service! Now please go drink water, have a biscuit and have a nice day!

crazy how fanfic authors drop the most beautiful and gorgeous pieces of work ever, leaving you speechless and sobbing at three in the morning as you quietly contemplate the masterpiece you just read

and they don’t get paid for it they just do it because they’re having fun and they want to share their joy with you

like I would literally die for all of you fanfic authors out there reblog to swear your allegiance to fanfic authors

Word of Honour spoilers up to and including episode 12

This is a continuation of my previous post where I set out some of the things I noticed while watching this show a second time.

Here's goes:

Just how involved in the Jianghu Tian Chuang was from the very beginning. I had completely forgotten about that!

I was once again reminded of how much an impulsive idiot Shen Shen is. Like how did this guy succeed in being sect leader????? You'd think that the previous guy would have picked someone with at least a little bit more political savviness. Or at the very least that he would have been taught it.

We get our 1st "my soulmate" a lot earlier than I had remembered xD.

Gao Chong is a lot more of a careful leader than I had seen during my first watch with how he interacts with his sworn brothers.

The clue about who the main antagonist truly is is sprinkled into the story really well and sometimes the off hand things the characters say really foreshadow what will happen. As someone who had already watched the show and is rewatching it, it was delightful to pick up on those hints.

Speaking of foreshadowing, the deaths of the 4 soulmates (I forgot what the story called them) really does a good job foreshadowing the bleakness of the fight for the Glazed Armour.

That's it so far!

Word of Honour spoilers up to and including episode 6 (rewatch)

I am finally rewatching Word of Honour. In recent times this has been my favourite show. I have yet to read the book or Qi Ye, so please - no spoilers for those.

These are some things that I have noticed on my rewatch so far (6 episodes in):

Shen Shen is an idiot. An impulsive idiot. This is much more noticeable during a rewatch. So much mistrust could have been avoided if he had just calmed down a little bit and held his horses before jumping to fighting but hey, that is pretty on point for his character.

Wen Kexing IS a mother hen. I had gotten used to how the fandom memes on him for it and had forgotten just how cannon this is.

Cheng Ling has every right to be distrustful of his uncles. On my first rewatch this had really annoyed me but after noticing just how much the sworn brothers of the 5 Lake Alliance didn't trust each other, it makes a lot more sense.

This had shocked me on my first watch but just being reminded of how many times this show gave the figure to censorship was great! XD

Han Ying shows up in the Jianghu a lot earlier then I had remembered so that was cool.

Also just the first scene with the Scorpion King. Now, I have been his fan from his first appearance. However, after I got to know him and his motivations - he became one of my favourite antagonists (very morally grey, that one is).

I think that those are all of my observations so far. I can't wait to continue the show and continue sharing my thoughts here. This show very much is my current favourite C-Drama and has been my favourite for almost a year now.

its 1:25 am

I've always wanted to write a sleep deprived post. And now I did it!

This is a terrible achievement.

Fuuuuuuuck.

ao3 down

its probably down for maintenance since it will be a long weekend.....

But dam, I was in the middle of a great fic!

Anyway, ao3 volunteers - may you have a good day and may your pillow always be cold.

Everyone else - hang on! We can survive this! We survived July 10th!

Hazbin Hotel spoilers

I absolutely loved this season!!!

Maybe I'm biased because I love musicals and well... literally every episode had like 2 songs each at least. Either way, I really liked this show!

I loved the character designs and their personalities and their struggles. I loved how the foreshadowing worked and also I really can't wait to see what they do with a second season if that is in the cards.

Alastor was as intriguing as always. Angel Dust surprised me and Poison was stuck in my head for a good few days. Husk made me very curious for his backstory. I was not expecting to like Sir Pentious but by the end, he was one of my favourites. Lucifer was definitely shorter than I imagined him to be but he was delight! Charlie deserves all the good in the world. I also loved her demon-form design and I really hope we see more of it! Vaggie was brilliant!!! She is probably my favourite.

The way that they finished this season was clever with a bunch of hints as to what can happen next and also with a few great hooks.

I can't wait to see where this show can go!

This is brilliant!!! 😭 I'm getting emotional over this.

burn (hamilton) x good omens

Hi. Good omens mascot here. I'm doing fine. It's fine. Here's burn, from aziraphale to god and heaven. I kind of imagine it during the apocalypse in season 1, when Heaven/the Metatron denied him help.

BURN

I saved every prayer you taught me From the moment I read them, I knew you were mine I thought you were mine You said you were mine Do you know what Crowley said When he saw your first order arrive? He said, be careful with Heaven, love They'll believe what it takes to survive You and your words flooded my senses Your sentences left me defenceless You built a religion out of paragraphs You built cathedrals I'm rereading the prayers you taught me I'm searching and scanning for answers in every line For some kind of sign And when you were mine The world seemed to burn... You published the prayers they wrote you You told the whole world How you brought peace into our lands But in spreading your name, You've ruined lives... Do you know what Crowley said? When she read what you'd done She said, they call it ineffable But they know what it is they've become You and your words, obsessed with your great plan Your sentences border on senseless And you are paranoid in every paragraph How they worship you... You, you, you I'm erasing myself from the narrative Let future theologians wonder How Aziraphale reacted when you let him Fall You have ruined all I'm watching it burn I'm watching it burn Heaven has no right to my heart Heaven has no place in my head They don't get to know what I said I'm burning the prayers, burning the stories That might have redeemed you You forfeit the place in my heart You forfeit all right to my faith You're as real as a fairytale With only the memories of when you were mine I hope that you burn.

Holy shit yes!!!!!!!!!

This is the one redraw of this meme that I was waiting for!!!!!!!!!

Luo Binghe, you have some mighty fine parents! 😍

Strong bride meme was 100% made for TianXi

Oh my god

Oh my god...!!!!!!

Yok misunderstood the assignment 🤣🤣🤣

This is so accurate!!!!!!!

I love this so much!!!!

In all honesty I did like Danyok as a ship. It did make me cry.

Not Me the series in general just has really well written characters and a plot that surprised me multiple times.

It's a show that makes you think. It also reminds us that people working together to stand up for what is right and for what is fair do succeed. It's a nice reminder in the world that we live in.

not me incorrect quotes

Spoilers for the last movie of Harry Potter (also book)

In general, I have a lot of mixed feelings for these movies and books.

I love them because I grew up on them. One of my first ships ever was Dramione in fanon. I could never see it in canon.

I was always in love with the story and how it developed and how it made me feel.

Yesterday, I ended up rewatching the last film with my family because it was showing on the TV. And watching that film as an adult now, it made me realise just how many of the adults in the film did their best to protect the next generation. They weren't always successful. However, Voldemort ultimate died because Harry had been protected by Lily and James's sacrifices; through the efforts of Narcissa Malfoy to keep her son, Draco, alive and through the pact that she and Severus Snape made; through Snape and Dumbledore working together because Snape's love for Lily is everlasting.

There are many more examples of love throughout the entire story of Harry Potter. They remind us that as much as love can be our greatest weakness with people like Voldemort and his deatheaters using loved one's to control a person's actions; love is also what allows rebellion and change to flourish. Love is our greatest strength, no matter which form it takes.

The Battle of Hogwarts is won because people believed that kindness, love and acceptance can overcome hatred, cruelty and bigotry and ignorance.

I guess, that is why it never made sense to me why an author who preached about love, kindness and acceptance in her stories could be so hateful to people who are already hurt by how society is.

Nothing that I have said in this post is new or profound. This is however the first time that I could finally express my feelings on the matter of Harry Potter. It feels good to talk about a fandom that I am sort of a veteran of xD.

I know that nowadays there is even more to explore within this fandom with the Marauders side of the fandom exploding on Ao3 and on here. I just might dip my toes in there for a little while and explore the world of Harry Potter from a different perspective.

But honestly fuck J K Rowling. There's enough bullshit going on in this world already. Stop adding to it.

Holy shit, this is so cute!

Also I called it! Dazai, stop messing in Kunikida's love life (or lack thereof) xD.

[Post-canon AU]

Roses are a fucking mess. Well, I need to practice drawing plants

Oh my god, this would be hilarious 😂😂😂😂

I'd read all the fics!

The possibilities are endless...

It would also be very soft and Dazai would so tease Kunikida about this! XD

Ranpo might too xD.

[Post-canon AU?]

I don't know how to tag this, so whatever

In many movies it's said that Dracula's wife always reincarnates, so that was the inspiration for this (Fem!Kunikida looks like a Barbie, I love her)

Weird but funny coincidence

If I had a dollar for every time that I've watched a Taiwanese BL series featuring a gang, where the secondary couple has someone who picks up his partner and throws him over his shoulder and 'kidnaps' him from where he was standing beside his friend and puts him down on/in a mode of transport - I would have 2 dollars.

Which isn't a lot, it's just weird that it happened twice.

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.