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Yes, it's funny that Hua Cheng calls his house Paradise Manor, which sounds like a brothel.

But consider, Xie Lian's notable phrase was "body in abyss, heart in paradise"

He's literally built a house for his love

#ahha i was just thinking about this the other day too #glad to see others make the same connection

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#unless you're my cousin #who snorted his adhd meds instead #that was years ago though #I think he's stopped that now lol

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“why’s he always covered in blood” he needs enrichment. What’s not clicking

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Who’s “twitch” is the best?

#Kili Loves #the Correct Answer is: #Hiei #because that scene was hilarious #and he so rarely makes goofy faces like this #making his the most novel #but they all have such good twitches #yu yu hakusho #yyh

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controversial opinion, but characters are so much more interesting when you are able to forget about shipping them for a moment and actually appreciate their unrelated personal plot/arc. if the most interesting thing you can think of about a character is the ship you like them with, then I don't think you actually like that character very much

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YU YU HAKUSHO TIME

#yu yu hakusho #keiko #yusuke urameshi #love these two so freaking much

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i’m going to say something that might make me seem ungrateful, but i think it’s true of many fic writers:

we want you to leave comments ON ao3.

we’re not angry or disappointed or anything like that when you leave qrts or lots of tags on our fic posts, not at all. we don’t NOT want you to message us to tell us how a fic touched you. but in addition to that, please consider just copying those words and posting them on ao3 as a comment.

why?

the reason is simple: leaving commentary in other places is ephemeral. story posts get pushed down. chats get pushed down in the list of chats, or worse, pushed up in lists of messages as the conversation continues. but comments on ao3 are easily accessible. and this is important because writers read and reread these comments regularly.

writing, especially writing longfics, is exhausting and drains your confidence over time. having a collection of people who enjoyed your past work at your fingertips is an excellent way to build yourself up when you’re feeling down. fic writers need this a lot.

i know over the past few years there’s this trend to be very descriptive with what is an “acceptable” comment. that’s all nonsense, as long as you’re not being an asshole, just say what’s on your heart.

but post it on ao3. please.

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Lan wangji, stoically: what now, my dear 💕

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For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

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Since I got into Heaven Official's Blessing, I ended up getting the books on kindle (and am working on getting their physical copies still) as well. But just like any rabbit hole goes. I have now ALSO, finally, watched Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and just started the live Action (The Untamed). I was interested in trying it out back in 2019 and only JUST got around to it. .... and yes, I'll be getting my hands on it's books too. How far down this Rabbit Hole am I going to go?

#kili talks #straight into the third series by MXTX i bet #Heaven Official's Blessing #TGCF #The Untamed #Mo Dao Zu Shi #Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #MXTX #Wangxian #and #Hualian #my beloveds #;.;

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#The audacity of this callout

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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

#important #very important #so very fucking important #regardless of what I #or you #believe to be disgusting and horrific #censorship is never the correct answer with it

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Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people you no longer want in your life.

#this is so important

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Imagine being some random god that ascended during Xie Lian’s second banishment and for years being told about how much this guy sucks and how much everyone hates him and then he ascends for the third time and everyone from the two martial gods that are always fighting, to the wind master, to the literal heavenly emperor are all staring at him with hearts in their eyes

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Goncharov broke containment.

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if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light