Let’s talk about the fabulous aromantics out there

@klavierpanda <3 /p

I present you kurohitsuji aka Black Baa-tler! 🐑 🤣  Yes, I have been laughing at this joke for months now and you don’t know how happy I’m that it works in english too (kinda) Anyway, I promised @amiyade some stupid sketches, if she finishes her sebagni fic and well… she did. XD So, Sebaastian is here and you’ll never see a sexier black sheep, ever.

yes Ciel and Sebastians’ relationship is completely transactional yes they’re like siblings whose parents decided to get another child 30 years after the first one so now these brothers have zero common ground but get along oddly well because sebastian has money and a car and ciel has evil plans

And here I feel I must share this comment on the above:

sebastian is a dad a brother a demon a cunt a silly rabbit etc etc ciel is just 12

I've honestly never heard anyone sum Sebastian up so succinctly--and that's pretty succinct for a thousands-of-years-old demon, IMO. , so BRAVO whoever you were. But also dayum, but that boy is doing pretty well for being just 12, I must say!

What to do when you need some happy NiF/LYB things...

I know, we all love the pain this show brings.

But maybe sometimes, you reach that emotional nadir where you just can’t feel anymore. Or maybe you need a bit of balm for your heart so that it can withstand even more emotional filleting.

Or maybe not lol but anyway, this is a compilation of funny NiF-related things for when you need a break from all that dehydration. Most of it consists of the cast goofing off (because this list is also an excuse to compile links for that and also because they are adorable) and some fanworks.

UN-AIRED ENDING

+ starts at 4:25 - Probably the best balm after the soul-crushing ending.

CUT SCENES / BLOOPERS

There are a lot of these on yt but I don’t think there is any one playlist or channel that compiles them all. Usually I just start watching one and then browse through the related video recs.

Here are some of my favourites.

+ MCS & Lin Chen, MCS & Meng Zhi - Highlights include the arm(?)-wrestling at 2:55, MCS showing them who’s boss at 7:36 (here’s a gifset with translation).

+ Foya - In the novel, Jingyan has a pet wolf named Foya. Presumably they couldn’t get an actual wolf for the filming so they substituted it with a Tibetan mastiff. Which still didn’t work because it was very uncooperative haha.

+ Cut scenes - This is a compilation of some cut scenes and my favourite is the MCS & Fei Liu scene from 5:00. It’s just so heart-warming <3 (Also, at 1:02, I’m guessing that’s a glimpse of the Jiangzuo Alliance’s hq at Langzhou?)

BEHIND THE SCENES

I just love seeing photos of the cast having fun on set or photos where they’re in costume but the setting is very definitely not ancient (I really love the photo of Jingyan and Xia Dong on the prison steps, and the one of the emperor with a fluffy pink handwarmer). Most of these are probably reposts from weibo.

+ Video - A small selection of BTS photos to give you an idea of what you can expect.

+ Facebook - This fb page posts a lot of BTS videos, photos and anecdotes. I still haven’t finish going through them.

+ Twitter - This twitter posts a lot of BTS videos and photos.

PHOTOSHOOTS

+ This is a very serious show, yeap

+ BTS videos of the above shoot: MCS, Meng Zhi & Fei Liu, MCS & Fei Liu, MCS & Jingyan

+ idek what this is?? - at the bottom of the post there are some pictures that looks like it’s a modern AU photoshoot. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the photos were used for Christmas greetings? Also I’m pretty sure I’ve seen more pictures from the same shoot but I don’t have them on hand.

SCENE RE-ENACTMENTS

Pivotal scenes from the show re-enacted by different cast members! These are all crack. The keyword to search is 琅琊榜 反转小剧场 and here are some of my favourites.

+ “Are you married yet? You need to hurry.” - feat. Hu Ge, Liu Tao and Wang Kai (aka MCS, Jingyan and Nihuang) (gifset with translation here).

+ MCS and Li Gang talk about the weather while Jingrui’s world crumbles around him - feat. Gao Xin, Wang Ou, Liu Mintao and Liu Yijun (aka Crown Prince, Banruo, Consort Jing and Xie Yu).

(There are a lot of re-enactments of the scene where Nihuang confronts MCS over his identity but my favourites, which are the ones featuring Hu Ge and Wang Kai - separately, with them playing both roles lol - seem to have been taken down :/)

INTERVIEWS

+ LYB cast are guests on a variety show, translated and subbed by @incessantcomposition - They talk a lot about stuff that happened during the filming, it’s super fun to watch.

FANWORKS

+ Amazing and hilarious fancomics translated by @qi-lang: Mr. Su Goes to the Zoo, Langya Hall Diaries, Jingsu Petit Fours (I believe the first and the third are still on-going?)

+ I love these girl!LS comics by @psych0-olll3city, especially goober dad Lin Xie.

+ The Legend of Xia Xia by @smiting-finger. Truly a legend that will live on in our hearts /wipes tear.

+ Seasons of Love, a MCS/JY arranged marriage AU visual novel by @brisedete. There is like a teeny bit of angst here but oh my god I think I cracked a rib laughing while playing this.

So, this is it! This list is definitely not exhaustive, especially for the fanworks part but this is primarily what I can recall + things that aren’t easily searchable. Let me know if there is anything else that should go on this list and I’ll update it!

I think we all know that sooner or later, I’m going to need this.

Thank you for putting this together, I’mma take my time with this one! <3

Chinese LYB ficrecs

So I said I’d pull up some recs for @sarah-yyy and then realized, in the course of paging through my pinboard, that Chinese fandom is a) terrible about consent and b) has weird priorities about warnings. I’m going to try to pre-filter where possible but it’s been a while for me with most of these so please, please, please be careful when you get to the sex scenes. >.<

Gen and slash/genderbend fics (all MCS/JY or LS/JY) below the cut.

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Blame @walburgablack for this. 

https://twitter.com/wilderswans/status/1259728957915553792

Untamed Memes (26/?) // Lan Xichen as Tumblr Posts edition

The estranged anarchist daughter of the Republican gerrymandering mastermind inherited and dumped all his files

Thomas Hofeller was the mastermind behind REDMAP, the took used by Republican dirty-tricksters to redraw state electoral maps after the 2010 census in order to deliver state and federal legislative seats to Republicans even when the majority of people voted Democrats.

Hofeller was a secretive sociopath and had long been estranged from his daughter, Stephanie, a self-described anarchist who only discovered her father had died in 2018 when she read the obit pages of the New York Times. When Stephanie recovered her father’s possessions from his home, she came into possession of files detailing the REDMAP plans, files of the sort that he had long exhorted his co-conspirators not to create or retain.

Stephanie turned some of her father’s files over to the government watchdog Common Cause for use in a lawsuit over North Carolina’s redistricting; thanks to the frank admission of racially motivated voter suppression in Thomas’s files, the court found that NC’s redistricting was illegal.

Now, Stephanie has licensed all her father’s files under an unspecified Creative Commons license and dumped them on Google Drive for anyone to use, exhorting others to “download and distribute this material, at will. It’s yours (be nice).”

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/gops-worst-nightmare.html

If you are outside India, I am practically begging you to reblog this

A PSA 💖💜💙

(Last image via @fuckyeahbiguys)

TERFs are mad about this. Of course. 🙄

Sorry, can’t hear you over how much this blog supports bisexual guys. 💖💜💙

Please reblog if you're part of the queer community

kweer people deserve better than to have radfems and other queerphobes turn the word they use to identify themselves + connect into a slur against people who identify as queer.

For those of you who don’t know, kweer is an actual identity and has been misappropriated by REGs etc.

Mod Bethany

It’s actually a term used by Asian communities. But you know go off I guess.

it’s used by multiple groups Mod Bethany because it’s literally just an alternative spelling of “queer” don’t be dense

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/9567/Sapinoso_umd_0117E_10599.pdf

Anywho, the spelling “kweer” is specific to Asian communities

For anyone still confused, you can quickly read through this and find stuff like this

@ the anon in my inbox who wanted a source for kweer being a term used by poc, here you go. also if you’re willing to wade through some radfem bullshit you can also just check the #kweer tag and see the way the term is (properly) used + who is using it.

I did not know this, but it says A LOT that the way people on tumblr use it made me think it was made up as a slur against queer folk. And for all intens and purposes they’re using it as a slur ignorant of this.

Fucking disgusting.

Good post OP.

Also of note - spellings of kweer as “kuer” and/or “kuia” are used in various places in East Asia, in languages that use hanzi. It’s pronounced the same way.

I wish there was a form of ABA therapy where the goal isn't to teach the autistic person to act """normal""" but instead embrace their autistic self and learn how to function in a neurotypical world.

You don't want to eat that food? It must taste terrible and have the yuckiest texture. But your vitamins are important. Here's a food similar to the one you liked before but with the same nutrients. We have plenty more. And there's always vitamins and supplements if needed.

You don't like the shower? How about a bath? Too hot? Too cold? Let's adjust the temperature together to your liking. We can use wipes too. There's always different ways to clean yourself.

Nonverbal? That's alright. There are many other ways to communicate. Let's work out a system. Writing, signing, text-to-speech, pictographs, yes/no gestures. Here is a sign or a tag you can carry on you that tells others how you talk. It'll be especially useful for emergencies.

Your stims? They're wonderful. Flap your hands! Hum along! Click your tongue! Jump up and down! Pick your favorite stim toy. Use it during quiet times of your routine, such as meetings.

Do you hurt yourself? I'm sorry. Please don't bang your head against the wall. What stim feeling are you looking for? Is it the pressure against your head that you like? Use this towel instead. Or message your temples. Whatever it is, you need a stim that heals you, not hurt.

Did you have a meltdown? Shutdown? That's okay. Those experiences are valid. I don't believe they're tantrums at all. I know you're going through a lot of pain. I'll make sure you're safe and comfortable. We'll use the communication system we worked on to make sure you can tell me how you feel and what you need.

Lights too bright? Sunglasses or hats. Bad smells? A mask could help, or a different smell. If you need to, we can walk out of the room. If they want excuses, we'll say you're not feeling well and need a place to recover. Bad food? You don't have to eat it. Bad noise? Headphones or an excuse to leave. There's no shame in leaving.

Little eye contact? Excessive eye contact? No eye contact? That's okay. It's not necessary. We'll learn better, more functional social rules that make sense and help you communicate, such as "thank you."

We won't punish you. We know and understand you operate differently. We won't yell at you. We won't suppress your stims. We won't hit you, restrain you (unless you're in immediate danger, I'm sorry if this happens). We won't force you to undergo painful sensory experiences. If we ever make you feel uncomfortable or scared, tell us. We'll listen.

You're not weird. You're different. It's alright. We won't change your routine. We won't change what you love. Your special interests. How you feel. How you think. We appreciate you and accept you. You're autistic and we'll help you learn how to function in a neurotypical world in your autistic ways.

(TL;DR good intervention therapies teach the child how to function while allowing them to be neurodivergent. Teach them skills and teach them to love themselves, dammit! Don't be mean, okay?)

I’ve met occupational therapists who do this and they are amazing.

— Warlock, probably

@meowl00 @personification-of-anxiety @gayvetforlife

Warlock becomes a stand up comedian when he grows up. He becomes the John Mulaney of his time. This is his equivalent of “one black coffee”.

I can totally envision Warlock’s version of the duck story!

One day when I was ten, the gardener comes into the house soaking wet and says, in that voice one usually reserves for toddlers or small animals, “Ah! One feels like a duck splashing around in all this wet! And when one feels like a duck, one is happy!” And then Nanny yelled, “Ooh, ducklings!” To which the gardener replied, “Too old to be a duckling. Quack, quack.” And then walked into the kitchen. I think about that every goddamn day.

I can’t believe I never saw this until now. Headcanon accepted. This is beyond hilarious. Also….

I can’t believe this one was hidden in the replies.

“I love my family, or at the very least people would assume so. People would think that growing up as a politician’s son would be easy, and they are right. I got everything that I ever asked for, spending money the only way Rick People could spend money.

“Dad! I want a Pony” Boom, Pony is at my feet

“Dad! I wanted it black” Boom. Done. Pony now looks like it crawled out of the Black Lagoon.

“Dad! The Pony glared at me!” I get a bottle of glue the next day. I was living the Rickie Rich lifestyle. I can have anything I want.

But the best part of growing up rich, the absolute best part, was that we were able to afford our own nanny.

I love her so much but am goddamn terrified of her to this day. I am a 28 year old man and I live in my own bodyweight of fear towards her.

When I was 1 to when I was 11, we had a nanny in our house. Her name is Nanny. If you call her anything else you will die. Somedays I think that my parents made a Rumpelstiltskin Deal with her before I was born, where instead of taking baby me she just moved in to our house to raid our fridge and judge the world from lofty windows. This is just the first part of the mystery of my nanny.  

She dresses like she is preparing to go to a funeral. And the difference between preparing to go and actually going is that they hadn’t found the body yet. You know when friends say that they would kill someone for you? Nanny would gut a cat if I wanted to play the violin that’s how hardcore she was. She wore red sunglasses because her glare alone could turn anyone to stone. If you squint hard enough you can actually see lasers coming out of her eyes.

Now you need to remember, I lived with this woman for Ten Years. Since I was a baby. This shit was normalized to me. While my parents were in West Wing I was living in the Addams Family. Nanny loved me and raised me and so what if she told me that I was going to lead Satan’s Army someday. That’s just Nanny. But throughout all of this, I never truly understand how terrifying she could be until I was 8 years old.

Picture this: a little 8 year old me, plump and trimmed with baby fat, standing next to Mary Poppin’s evil twin. One day we were going out for brunch so I can, and I’m quoting here “practice giving out orders when the army of hell arrives”

I’m still waiting for them, just to let you know.

So we get inside Nanny’s car, an old Black 1933 Bently which plays nothing but Queen music on cassettes.

I know this sounds fake, but she is a real person and not some Baba Yaga who decided not to eat me.

As we were about to leave, Brother Francis ran out to us. Francis was out gardener. He worked for us for as long as Nanny has, wears suspenders and a sun hat, and I’m pretty sure he ran away from a monastery. He walks up to Nanny and asks for a ride to the local gardening store for supplies. So he gets in the front seat, I’m in the back, and all three of us get on our way.

At 1000 miles per hour in a 55 zone.

Now I’m 8 years old. And no matter how cool your Nanny is, you just don’t pay attention to boring adult stuff like meetings, or finances, or traffic safety laws. So I’m lost in my own thoughts on how to direct my hell army to build myself a waterpark.

I don’t know how long I zoned out because when I snapped back in Nanny and Francis were arguing. Not in the pleasant passive aggressive way that makes you rethink your life choices, but full on yelling. So we are speeding down the road like death is chasing us. Bohemian Rhapsody is playing on blast. Nanny and Francis screaming at each other. Sulfur filled the air, radiant light pulsed menacing around us. Exactly how I imagined what parents fighting would be like. Things came to a head right as Freddy was about to hit his last “For Me!” because that was when this meek looking gardener snapped. Francis turns to Nanny and screams “YOU’RE DRIVING TOO FAST!” yanks the cassette out and pitches it out the window.

And then time stood still.

Have you ever been on a rollercoaster where at the top of the first hill staring down you regret every decision you’ve ever made that led you to this point? That was where we were all at.

Because there were three rules to Nanny’s Bently. Nanny always drives. Nanny always drives fast. And Nanny always drives fast with Freddy Mercury blaring down like her own personal angel.

This is all new uncharted territory for me. I’ve never seen anyone even dare disrespect her angel and plan to live to tell the tale. I was just watching in fascinated horror as this moment just searing into my mind.

Nanny’s looking directly at Francis, you can feel her eye’s heat laser’s charging up. I was trying to think of reasons to tell my parents why we don’t have a gardener anymore. Because even at 8 years old I know a death marker when I’ve seen one and by the end of the trip I was expecting Francis to be nothing but a smoldering piled of ash and a $15 hat.

She looks at him, and takes one hand off the wheel. Still barreling down the road like a madman mind you. But it alright because time’s frozen so we don’t hit anything. And with one hand, she reaches in front of him to the glove compartment, gently pulls out another cassette tape, and places it in the deck.

[pauses]

[sings] “FOR ME!!!!!”

We pull into the parking lot by the time Bohemian Rhapsody ends and I have never looked at Nanny the same way ever again. Because anyone who can play the exact same song on two different cassettes without missing a beat is their own god and needs to be feared.”

-Warlock in his comedy special

OH MY GOD I’M CACKLING

That’s it. The “Warlock grows up to be John Mulaney” AU is the only AU I’m here for.

"What even is that,” in descending order of how likely they are to just be Ainur

Huan

The most hilarious thing about the fact Buckbeak had a trial and lost is that later on JKR resolves the issue by having Hagrid take him in again and renaming him Witherwings. That’s literally all it took. What if in POA, Hagrid simply said, “Sorry, Buckbeak flew away.” 

“There’s a hippogriff right there, Hagrid.”

“A different hipprogriff.”

“I’m… pretty sure that’s the same hipprogriff.”

“Prove it.” 

no dna tests we die like scientifically underdeveloped societies

Prisoner of Azkaban continues to be the most frustrating book

Someone should have just adopted Sirius and started calling him Gerald.

Remus: Erm… this is our new order member, my… cousin Gerald. Gerald White.

“Mr. Lupin that is Sirius Black with glasses!” “Oh come now Minister, Sirius Black doesn’t wear glasses. That wouldn’t make sense.” “Well have Mr. White take off his glasses then!” “He can’t he needs them to see.”

it got better

It’s honestly a miracle to me that wizarding society doesn’t collapse every other week because like

You’ve got this world full of people who can destroy whole buildings or turn people into beetles or make vehicles fly just by waving a stick at them

And there is literally no common sense

Anywhere to be found

Voldemort would never have had anyone find out he was back if he just went around calling himself Steve 

Okay, see, I thought I saved this post to comment on it but I’d like to bring up

The Minister would NEVER EVER disbelieve in Gerald White. He’d buy it hook line and sinker. The wizarding world would buy it hook line and sinker. The GOBLINS wouldn’t but wizards have been shown to be pretty blindingly clueless. Still, Gringotts would grudgingly give Sirius access to the Black fortune.

But, but, but, you know the one person

the one person

who Gerald White would drive AB-SO-LUTELY FUCKING BATSHIT?

Severus Snape.

Snape would do everything, EVERYTHING, to get people to believe that it’s Sirius. But the Order would ignore it (they accepted Sirius as Sirius before anyway) and Remus would just be so… so affronted.

‘Severus, he is my cousin.’

And Sirius would love it. He’d love the fact that Snape just hated it. He’d be the BEST DAMN GERALD WHITE EVER b/c Snape is doing everything from dropping veritaserum into his firewhisky to capturing a dementor in a box and releasing it on Sirius when he least expects it

That one causes problems for a bare minute because SHIT A DEMENTOR ATTEMPTED TO GIVE GERALD THE KISS MAYBE SNAPE IS RIGHT except Harry comes forward and is like ‘excuse me, I’ve never committed a crime and dementors are ALWAYS attacking me, I think they’re attracted to glasses’

and the magical community is like ‘shit, yeah, you’re right’

and just

Spare. Snape goes spare.

Picturing Snape as Mr. Crocker from the Fairly Oddparents now.

Gerald White eventually becomes a fully registered animagus. When he turns into his animagus form right in front of Snape, Snape’s bursting at the seams, just pointing at him and spluttering:

‘HE’S A BIG BLACK DOG! A DOG - THAT IS BLACK. SIRIUS BLACK. BLACK DOG DOG BLACK.’

And Remus calmly says: “That’s absurd, Severus. Sirius Black was never an animagus and besides which, people’s names don’t have any influence over their animagus forms or anything like that. That’s ridiculous.”

And Snape yells: “Shut it WEREWOLF MCWEREWOLF!”

Everyone looks at Remus, who blinks and sighs as Gerald White turns back into his human form.

“Pure coincidence,” Gerald says. “My aunt was into Roman mythology. Has to happen sometimes.” Then he pauses to give Snape an overly concerned look. “Are you alright, Severus? You’re looking a little red.”

^this is my new life

im crying thanks for this

Another point in the direction of Gerald White Not Being Sirius Black is that everyone knows Sirius Black hated Severus Snape. Gerald White bakes the ungrateful dungeon bat cookies and is always polite to him. It so nice that Gerald really wants to be friends.

“The ungrateful dungeon bat” this is perfect and this is how I shall refer to Severus Snape from now on.

Imagine being a human living in Beleriand and you get invited to your Elf-friend’s little niece’s birthday and you make the mistake of bending down to the small child and asking in a really baby-ish tone “And how old are you today?” only to find out that she’s about a decade older than you.