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i know teen wei ying would eat a mango like a feral beast in need to be put down

Artist :  仙都怪谈 (weibo / twitter)

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“If he catches me, I’ll…”

One underrated aspect of MDZS is that usually when you have a love story where one of the lovers die, the lover who is alive is responsible for the dead person to come back to life. Think of princesses whose tears are life-giving, or princes who deliver the true love's kiss, or quests to the underworld seeking one's beloved. MDZS, though? LWJ is all but irrelevant when it comes to WWX's resurrection. So much so that even CQL, which plays up all romance tropes they possibly can, keeps that irrelevance

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, broadly speaking, MDZS is full of people whose "I love you" to someone is answered by the world and fate with "So what?" Love doesn't conquer all in this story, in fact love usually fixes nothing at best and hurts you at worst, no matter what kind of love it is. I don't have any conclusions I can immediately draw from this but I'll be Thinking about it in the foreseeable future and hopefully come to some conclusion because I feel like I'm missing something major here but I don't really know what

I can see this got a lot of notes and I'm really looking forward to reading the discussions but I'm trying not to right now because I feel like I have a thought juuuuust out of reach inside my brain and I want to get to it without external influences. But thanks for playing the overthinking game with me, you're all awesome!

Got it. The thought that was just out of my reach, I mean, not the only possible conclusion, of course. (Do check the notes, there are some awesome thoughts in there!)

In a well-written love story, of course love has to play an important role. It has to do something, it can't be just an afterthought. And I can point to many ways in which love is either useless or destructive in MDZS, but it felt like an oversimplification to stop there. Yes, love, like everything else, is tangled up in the worst aspects of the world the characters live in. But to say there's nothing uniquely good about love in this world feels disingenuous? I never get that sense, I do get the sense that people are right in loving, even if the results of that love can be disastrous sometimes. And then it hit me.

Love remembers.

That's basically it. In a story where truth and lies are so central, love is about remembering. Grievances lead to grudges, thankfulness leads to debts - I'm sorry and thank you, right? Love leads to memories. You remember because you care, because you're paying attention enough to notice things in the first place. It's really that simple.

The sheer amount of mementos in this story should've clued me in tbh, but if it hadn't - I only had to think of how the story begins and ends. The antidote to narratives being spun about you is to have even a single person who will look at you, and see you, and remember you.

LWJ might be powerless to stop WWX's downward spiral, or to bring him back to life, but. He remembers his favorite wine and his sense of humor. He remembers him throwing flowers and playing with a child. On his body, LWJ has scars so he will never forget him. Oh, and he recognizes WWX because even in a new life, he still remembers their song.

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

a lot of people (esp. americans) make fun of british cuisine and most of the time it’s fair, but a lot of the time the food they’re making fun of is poverty food or working-class food… so really the joke’s on them because our terrible terrible peasant food is gonna come in real handy with the current cost of living crisis!!!

Poverty didn’t force you to name your food “spotted dick”

why does god give his juiciest of tits to his most transmasculine soldiers.

babygirl to me is a mens only term, can you imagine calling a girl babygirl that’s so cringe

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Happy 20th Anniversary to Fullmetal Alchemist.

every day star wars fans come on this site and say some version of "star wars would be so good if it was good"

Oh, excuse me... I have a missed call from my beautiful wife, Spam Risk.

so does the uk falling apart meant that johnlock is about to go canon or is that just for american politics

Soft wangxian I did back in December for a zine

My piece for the @whatwouldhappenif-zine !

I love how comically startled small children are when they have something tasty for the first time​

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older brother in a teen movie who has caution tape and a hazardous waste symbol on his door