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When asking why you are the chosen one of prophecy you must ask yourself “Am I likely to just go with whatever?” and if the answer is yes, that’s why. The gods thought you seemed least likely to be traumatized by the experience. Your mindset is flexible. Just run with it.

If the answer is no, there’s probably some sort of blood curse at play. See if your mother forgot to mention that when she was telling you about what diseases run in the family.

Things that don't make sense in the SVSSS/PIDW world number 209342: treatment of sex workers.

Because, seriously, with that many fuck-or-die plants around, how the heck are prudish irl attitudes towards sex work so ingrained in that world?

Like, if people were going "oh those horribly selfish people how dare they put a life-saving service behind a paywall" ...well, they would be awful people but awful people exist, so it would at least make sense.

Are people without love interests who run into those flowers just supposed to die or something, if visiting prostitutes is considered shameful???

Likewise: if I lived in that world an a highly regardess scholar/researcher from the specialist school for scholars was regularly visiting a brothel, I'd be thinking "man he needs better protective equipment for when he's handling those flowers" not whatever the heck is going through Liu Qingge's head.

Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.

#yeah. this is actually the worst#because if someone likes something for the wrong reasons and you like it too you can just sort of shrug off their opinion#but if they dislike it in a way that's unfair it's actually infuriating because now you've been put in the position#of defending this absolute dogshit piece of media - even if only in your own head - against their unreasonable complaints#it's the exact opposite of catharsis

One of the things I resent most about being Animal Brain Apex Predator trapped in Maximum Productivity Society is that I have to work when the weather is gross, instead of following my natural instinct to burrow myself into something dry and soft and sleep until Optimal Foraging Conditions

It is dark and cold and wet and miserable and I have a warm dark quiet hideaway full of food and drinking water that is safe from interlopers and for some ungodly reason instead of holing up there to conserve my energy, I am standing up in a brightly lit beige room for several hours. A possum wouldn't put up with this shit. I'm going to bite someone

We’ve heard about the seeming contrast of creators that make these super happy saccharine pieces of art being bitter people whose lives seem to be filled with agony whereas horror creators that thrive in the grotesque all seem to be super happy and positive people, the usual “Miyazaki Hayao vs Itou Junji” kinda beat.

There’s a similar, slightly overlapping dynamic between cuisine and blacksmithing. Chefs are the single angriest existences in the world and would piss on your grave seconds after stuffing your freshly gutted corpse in it. Blacksmiths are jovial, usually quiet dudes that work machinery and think your dagger is still very cool even if it’s got some balance issues.

Now, of course this is making reference to the Ramsay style of food shows, which is not the universal experience when it comes to the genre – I’m more of a Cutthroat Kitchen kind of guy, because I like Mario Party – but it’s always fun to me to go through an episode of Hell’s Kitchen where Ramsay annihilates his own vocal chords screaming “FUCKING DONKEY” and “IT’S RAW”, then right after, watch some old Forged In Fire and see the Filipino weapon master, Marcaida, test a short sword one of the contestants made and it fucking explodes into shards without nary a scratch on the pig’s carcass, obviously the shittiest weapon you could possibly make, damascus steel shards flying embedded in his arm, and he’ll calmly, with his signature friendly smile, lovable demeanor, and charismatic gait, face the contestant and be like

“Well, you see, Bob, your blade unfortunately suffered a catastrophic malfunction, and it can’t be tested any further. However, the handle on your weapon allowed for some very good balance and ease of swing, it fits my palm perfectly and it swings very easy. Despite the blade fracturing in 7 uneven fragments, we can see that the blade didn’t chip or roll at all. Good work, Bob” then they’ll shake on it and Bob is eliminated, and all he’ll say is “I’m sorry to have punctured 4 blood vessels on Marcaida, but end of the day, the other smiths were simply better, and I’m proud of them. I just gotta go and work on my fundamentals back at home now :)” meanwhile Hell’s Kitchen’s contestants are having a shootout with Glocks in their dorm because someone made fun of someone else’s raw scallops. 

The more I think about it, the cultivation world and academia are similar. High drop out rates? Reverence towards the people who 'make it to the end'? Meritocracy but not really? Age old 'talent' vs 'hard work' vs 'privilege'? Possibly just side effects of being learning institutions but yeah. Anyway, headcanons for peak lords as professors.

SQQ (SY) The chill professor everyone loves. Is often absent for months at a time doing field studies but comes back with loads of cool stories. Has a tendency to veer off course and everyone's grades may suffer because of how little time is actually spent on examinable material, but at least you'll enjoy yourself. He says he's only there for the fun and doesn't do much research, but you've spied a number of very big names going to him for advice. If you manage to make him drunk, his personality does a 180 and he complains extensively about everything, including his latest webnovel obsession.

og!SQQ (SJ) The salty professor everyone hates. Obsessed with rankings and citation counts, has a constant rivalry with LQG, and does the absolute minimum when it comes to undergrad teaching because he thinks it's a waste of time. He's convinced there's an agenda against him because he didn't get funding for the third time in a row and takes it out on the students. But damn does he know what he's talking about, and you've heard he's actually a genius, albeit one with complicated background. The few phd students he has are utterly enamored with him.

SQH Everyone forgets that he's not a student, including himself. When he teaches, it feels like he's giving a presentation and waiting for feedback. He answers questions with questions. Nobody knows what research he's doing, including the other members of department. Both Shens and LQG alike think he's a waste of space. But he seems to have some mysterious connections to a very fancy research facility up north.

LQG Absent professor. Literally cannot teach. Reads off last year's notes (written by other people) and calls it a lecture. But he's got many fancy awards under his belt for his research and the rest of the department talk about him with awe in their voice. If you take work to him, he will undoubtedly rip it to shreds, but not in a mean way. Half the students hate him. Half the students make him a meme. A few of them worship him like a god.

YQY The nice one. He teaches amazingly, heads a healthy research team, and has some banging papers under his name. The students know him as the best teacher, but behind the scenes he is literally keeping the department together. Wrangles with management and does a lot of outreach stuff on top of all of this. The students are convinced he literally lives on site because they keep seeing him at weird hours of the day. This is half true.

MQF The Professor. When you say 'professor', MQF is the person who comes to mind. The students think he is actually a robot, because they've never seen him do anything other than his job. His teaching is adequate but without personality, and he is extremely mild mannered. Unbeknownst to them, he is known as the 'mad scientist' of the department - he has a bizarre attitude to safety and often goes utterly crazy with experiments which are only just toeing regulations. A pioneer of his (somewhat niche) field.

QQQ Social justice warrior. The one who actually strikes when there's a strike on, and organises all of the diversity events. The student have mixed views on her. She struggled against a very sexist department back in her day and still gets a lot of hateful feedback, so she's learnt to take zero fucks. Which is cool but also means a lot of valid criticism gets taken as personal attacks. With all the drama, everyone seems to forget that she's actually a really big name in the field, receiving some fancy awards around the same time as LQG. Her phd group is surprisingly chill.

I like fics with Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu both having moments of just pure sibling vibes. Like they are running away from danger and Sen Yuan is about to make a really bad decision and all you can hear is Shen Jiu yelling at him about being an absolute idiot that it makes snails look smart. Or or something with Qi-ge about to do something and you just turn to Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu just looking at each other and raise their brow at everyone like smug yet unimpressed cats. I just need them causing shit with eachother or someone else.

I have a feeling that Liu Qingge would be caught in the cross fire of these two siblings, especially with Shen Jiu chasing Shen Yuan down and is actively trying to stop him from lying to himself over something so obvious as feelings. And Liu Qingge is just there, used as meat shield between these two refined looking immortal brothers.

I love this dynamic so much omg

The Spring Fairy, 1902 by Segundo de Chomón

The earliest color films, from the mid-1890s, were colored by hand, frame by frame, using tiny brushes—sometimes only a single camel hair. The work was extraordinarily labor intensive. One film-coloring workshop, run by Elisabeth Thuillier in Paris, employed approximately 200 female colorists. “I spent my nights selecting and sampling the colors, and during the day, the workers applied the color according to my instructions,” Thuillier recalled in a 1929 interview. “Each specialized worker applied only one color, and we often exceeded 20 colors on a film.”

I actually gasped at this. The color is so shocking against the grey, in the best possible way!

Inspired by this meme

Body sharing au? idk but you got the idea

Would they actually have kids: SVSSS

(and would they be good parents)

Bingqiu: wouldn't have a kid but in the unlikely event that they did have a kid it would be on accident and it would be left with Yue Qingyuan to "look after for a bit" so much that the kid would think Yue Qingyuan was their dad. They would love it in a vague way but also be too involved in each other. Kid would be happy with Yue Qingyuan though

Moshang: probably does have a kid at some point for succession reasons. They would probably be fairly decent parents but it would be a struggle at times. They love the kid but both would have problems expressing it. The kid would adapt well however because they would try the best they could. Hypocritically Shen Qingqiu would spoil the shit out of the kid. He adores playing Cool Uncle

Liushen: again wouldn't have kids but then they also wouldn't have sex. It would never occur to them to. If a kid did happen they wouldn't know what to do with it

Bingliushen: absolutely not

Qijiu: are you fucking kidding me!?!!

LiuJiu: this is an even worse idea somehow

BingJiu: this would go so horribly it would some how end the world. Dear god

Liu Mingyan and Sha Hualing: they have like 6 kids and they are excellent mums to a gaggle of unruly children. They often bite Liu Qingge

Cumplane: no because they can't take care of themselves much less a baby. If they did have a baby they would lose it within an hour

Mobing: yes. Again to secure dynasty and all that. They would be emotionally unavailable but not actively abusive fathers. There would have been a lot of nanny's involved

Liu Qingge and Shang Qinghua: paradoxically I think they would adopt a child and actually make really good parents weirdly. It would be challenging but I think they would do a good job

the funniest thing about Airplane-bro's career as a spy being portrayed as him ending up doing all his peak's paperwork and all the northern desert's paperwork and giving his king all this information on dmeon realm schemes and mythical objects that his protagonist won't miss is that that's... not what spies do? especially not deep cover agents?

the job of a spy is to get information from a specific target that is not from where their handlers are from and report it back

not analyse it

not strategise for it

not give information about other organisations that the one they've infiltrated

not do the bookkeeping and cabinet business of the people they secretly work for

just get information from specifically the people they've infiltrated and report it back

Mobei-Jun must be so confused.

like. he has a spy! in the biggest cultivation sect! he'll get all sorts of info on what that specific sect is up to- oh, no, instead his spy has given him information on several of the neighbouring demon clan's schemes? and his uncle's? this is a map to the nearest priceless treasure that has nothing to do with his spy's sect and they aparently don't know about?? how is he getting this information?! why is he getting this information?! why is he complaining about how much work he has to do while going through the top secret reports of the northern desert and filing them correctly?!? is he working for someone else? how many people is he working for? wait? is he even from that cultivation sect at all?!? did he join a wagon from that sect and infiltrate them that way? does he even know how spying on people is supposed to work!??!?

Poor Mobei. So Confused.

Mbj thought he was getting a spy but instead he got a spy gunning for spymaster from day negative one thousand.

I bet in PIDW og!sqh was a regular spy who eventually rise to spymaster in mbj's court after LBH destroyed Cang Qiong and the betrayal was something to do with revenge over that since sqh has been promised control of Cang Qiong and there was no Cang Qiong to control.

So in Airplane's mind he's thinking of sqh's role as spy as the full role at the end of his story (and with the death that entails that's not unreasonable from an outsiders pov).

In MBJ'S mind he's thinking he'll get some info on Cang Qiong which is not as great as having info on say Huan Hua but a pretty sweet deal all the same and safer for him to teleport into, as a bonus. But instead he gets the most overachieving spymaster-to-be who then goes on to put himself in charge of MBJs household and court and MBJ has no reason not to think sqh is gunning for eventual head of harem and/or only official spouse

The Different Theories of Shen Qingqiu

The Hop: Shen Jiu/Shen Yuan are different people. Shen Jiu died and Shen Yuan took over his body like normal, polite transmigrators do.

The Swap: As above, but instead of dying, Shen Jiu was dumped into Shen Yuan’s body.

The Squatter: As above, but Shen Jiu never vacated.

The Recycled Soul: Shen Yuan is a reincarnation of Shen Jiu.

The Twins of Fate: Shen Jiu/Shen Yuan are the same people, but in parallel universes.

The Memory Dump: Shen Jiu/Shen Yuan are different people, but Shen Jiu’s memories were replaced with Shen Yuan’s.

The Fever Dream: As above, but Shen Yuan’s past is a fabrication by the system.

The Merge: Shen Qingqiu is both Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan.

BONUS: pancake universes

After death in PIDW, SJ’s soul wonders over to SY’s world where he is reborn as SY. SY transmitigates into SJ on death. SJ’s wonders over into SY (2)’s world ver 2, where he is reborn as SY (2). SY (2) transmitigates into SJ (2) on death…

BONUS: the circle of influence 

Shen Yuan transmitigates into Shen Jiu’s body. The change in timeline is witnessed by Bingge in PIDW. Upset that he didn’t get a nice Shizun, Bingge somehow uses Xin Mo to rip through the fabric of the universe, creating a fissure through which information passes into Shen Yuan’s world. Airplane picks this up and writes PIDW, which Shen Yuan reads before transmitigating into Shen Jiu’s body…

Or for fun, going the other way around, Bingge visits SVSSS world, causing... idk something with portals. Somehow Shen Jiu’s soul ends up in airplane’s past and influences the first draft of his story. But due to pressure by the readers, airplane decides to change the draft and creates PIDW with his godlike powers. Bingge visits SVSSS world…

I maintain that Liu Qingge

1. Doesn't know what gender is.

He knows women exist (his sister told him so it must be true) but he thinks women just means people who wear those kind of robes. he has a lot of trans men on Bai Zhan Peak and he kicks the shit out of anyone who says they aren't men. Because clearly they are if they are wearing the robes and say they are! That's how you tell!

Saying they aren't men would be like saying his sister is his brother! Pure nonsense!

Liu Qingge doesn't have time for nonsense! But he does not think of people in terms of men and women because that makes no sense to him. It's a clothing designation and a thing people say but it's also weird as fuck to him

2. knows what sex is but he doesn't understand why sex is

Fighting is more productive and helps cultivation. Sex has all the annoying parts of fighting and none of the benefits

Somehow he is actually immune to most sex pollens because he just goes and works out like a gym bro until it passes

This only works for him and he has no understanding why everyone doesn't just do push-ups until it goes back down

3. Is an equal opportunity puncher

He does not care your gender as long as long as you will punch him back. He will kick your ass and give you critique on your punching after

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

TODAY

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

I gotta take my chances

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

TODAY

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

I gotta take my chances

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

idea:

shen qingqiu and liu qingge are both asexual but dont know that asexual people exist/that theyre asexual

they just think that luo binghe is some sort of freak weirdo who looks at someone and wants sex