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just saw tbosas edit to the black dog where "the starting line" was changed to "the hanging tree" and my jaw literally fell open. life changing.

#OP DO YOU HAVE A LINK #<prev #it's by tiktok user @mirrxrball_ !! fairly recent so it should be somewhere at the top #sorry i can't send a link for convenience :(( tiktok includes the username of the person who copies links and i want to keep my account anon

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#one of the best literary analyses i've read in my life #acknowledges the subtleties and depth of the work while also entertaining the possibility that it might not be that deep #critical thinking at its peak

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AoS + text posts pt. 4/?

#the first photo: at the end of the show one is the destroyer of worlds one is a robot and one is technically the past version of himself

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from personal experience i think percy jackson fans would like agents of shield and vice versa because of the following:

generally has a similar vibe that's quite lighthearted while still packing an emotional punch

imo percy jackson and phil coulson have a very similar sense of humor

best friends to lovers slow burn (percabeth, fitzsimmons)

connected to a wider cinematic universe (idc if they say aos isn't canon to the mcu, it is to me)

intelligent characters who will info dump about their interests at any given moment

(spoilers for both below — read at your own risk)

traitor plot twist at the end of the first installment

#to me the venn diagram of pjo and aos is a circle #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #agents of shield #aos

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Listen. this show? is so funny. “it’s time to face the music, even if it is the hydra theme song” “‘Phil, this is me being honest’ ‘No, John, this is you being a psychopath’” ??? Coulson standing in a dark corner for who knows how long so he could have a dramatic reveal in the pilot???? throwing a file cabinet out a window after saying get ready for a large file transfer???????? anyway phil coulson my beloved u are so funny and i’m sorry no one laughs at ur jokes

#rip percy jackson you would've loved phil coulson

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midnights.......

take me to bed. by. cozier

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i just saw video where some girl organized watching of new season of bridgerton in old mansion for her friends and i think secret shanghai series fandom also truly needs something like this

#kowloon road trip

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I don’t claim to be an expert on the historical prevalence of pegging in any time period or geographic location but how the fuck did Juliette find what is implied to be MULTIPLE random ass men in rural China in the early 1930s who told her that they were into getting pegged?? Like I guess the conversation could have happened in a different location and idk how relevant the location would be but like WHO is casually telling random ass women that they’re into getting pegged in the early 1930s? In a rural area?? Like does Juliette just have that effect on men? Do random men just come up to Juliette to let her know they’re into getting pegged??? How long has this been happening?? What men who are or might be attracted to women do we know Juliette interacted with while living in Zhouzhuang prior to that scene??? Jiemin?????

#what a rollercoaster of a post #i started out not expecting the sentence to go #“I don’t claim to be an expert on the historical prevalence of pegging in any time period or geographic location” #and then i was suddenly invested in the middle because these are valid questions WHO is telling ms cai about pegging?? i need answers #and then jiemin at the end #i'm screaming

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nothing beats being into something with a really small fandom because you'll get like 7 notes on a post and it's like WOAHHH THE GANG'S ALL HERE ‼️‼️

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i think it's a tragedy that, as someone who generally tries to embrace new technological advancements, i once believed artificial intelligence had the potential to be an incredibly useful tool that could fill in the gaps that are commonly hard to do by ordinary humans, but now with how it's commonly being used, i see red every time someone even mentions using it

#even worse when my dad (who knows how i feel about ai in creative spaces) suggests to my face #that i should use ai for things i can do on my own as a human person who is capable of creative activities #(in fact i'm dependent on being creative and the arts/english/etc. since i'm terrible at maths and sciences)

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who told my mother about life360 i just want to talk (that was a lie, i'm throwing hands)

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the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

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i just realized almost every secret shanghai character has faked their own death at some point

#it's a rite of passage

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i gasped at draculaura and robecca steam because that was so spot on for me?? i'm glad it wasn't an original experience

a (non)comprehensive list of all characters that i as a child decided were asian because representation hardly existed in the early 2010's, with varying degrees of asian-coding and/or canon. it also gets more unhinged

will not be tagging SHIT because i would like to not experience hate but also i feel like my mutuals would somewhat enjoy this. as a kid, my only requirements were that they either 1) had dark hair 2) had dark eyes or 3) had unnatural hair/eye/skin colour in which case i could go nuts

list is under the cut:

you liked these fairies cause you were gay?? i liked them because they were asian to me we are NOT the same (i am also gay). both are asian coded so i wasn't wrong. also shoutout to vidia for being asian and an absolute BITCH. i think her back is sore from carrying the bitchy asian rep. no one's doing it like her

musa from winx. also asian coded so it works

batman. NOT to be confused with bruce wayne. bruce wayne is white af even to me as a child. but when he had the mask on i could project on him and call him chinese

dick grayson's robin in almost all cartoon iterations (pictured above in the batman) but also including:

to be clear, this is NOT to be confused with dick grayson the civilian, or dick grayson as nightwing. by my 9 y/o logic those guys were both white af. but when dick grayson had the robin mask on that gave room for me to project, as such they're asian

zatanna zatara is wasian IN MY HEART. to ME her mum is chinese and obvi her dad is italian so she's almost just like me (chinese/spanish). idc argue with the wall

superman but ONLY the justice league unlimited version

huntress bertinelli, for the same reasons as zatanna, was always wasian to me. but she gave off half korean, half italian vibes. i will not explain myself

now is raven from a different plane than us?? yes. however azarath is home to asians idek

sorry guys jinx is a bad bitch so she's also asian

while we're at it, beast boy is also asian but ONLY in teen titans. unfortunately young justice beast boy is whitewashed (he was never asian to begin with). i asked my sister if she ever asian-washed characters when watching tv she said no (rudeass) but i provided multiple teen titans as an example and my mum was like "wait?? beast boy isn't asian?? i thought he was asian??" so beast boy is actually mum-approved-asian. i don't make the rules

draculaura from monster high was always asian to me idc what the haters say. everyone say thank you to the monster high reboot for giving me asian draculaura because frankly i deserve it

also. robecca steam is south asian in my heart

jackson jekyll was also asian. idk. he just was

now, since the eah reboot made draculaura wasian i'm BEGGING for there to be an eah reboot because they will do my girl raven queen justice. SHE is asian

kitty cheshire is also asian i don't make the rules

sorry guys duchess swan is also asian

while i'm at it, faybelle thorn is also asian talk to the wall

now i need you guys to pinky promise to be nice to me. percy jackson was wasian to me until ethan nakamura was introduced. only after ethan's introduction did my 13 y/o ass let percy be white again

tony stark is asian but ONLY in iron man armoured adventures

now, a plethora of xmen evolution characters are actually asian (source: i made it the fuck up) these include, but are not limited to: wolverine, x23, wanda and pietro

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admittedly ive never been into shakespeare but chloe gong is single-handedly changing that one adaptation at a time

#time to pick up the antony and cleopatra book ive had for so long but never read #chloe gong #secret shanghai #flesh and false gods

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Holy fucking shit I might’ve been right about Taming of the Shrew I’m going to lose my mind

#i knew it she does everything on purpose !!!

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objectively speaking, a certain celebrity saying that "no one wants a 3 hour concert" is dead wrong. if that was true, why were people in southeast asia battling over eras tickets for singapore? why were they spending money and going through the process of getting visas to go to japan or australia (even after fully knowing what to expect from the tour)? or why were european swifties upset they couldn't get tickets because too many americans were allegedly buying tickets to european shows? idc if it might be hyperbole. they're kind of just making a fool of themselves to me

edit: just saw someone mention that thousands of people regularly tune into grainy livestreams because they can't go !! there's clearly a demand wdym no one wants it

#the eras tour #some people said this comment was also directed at beyonce's tour but idk anything about that so i can't speak for it