#He's a D E L I G H T

[celepom]

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

by Xiran Jay Zhao

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

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A thrilling story with very compelling character dynamics. Especially Zack with all of his 12 year old sass & his ghostly ancestor Qin Shi Huang who's straight-up a supervillain who Won. The world building is intricate and easy to follow, which introduces the audience to an entire library of legends, history & folk tales that may have been out of easy reach from their cultural lexicon. The world isn't black & white, good vs evil, light vs dark, but as complicated as real life tends to be. I'm excited to follow this series into the future to see how Zack & his friends (and his enemies) change and grow.        

#Book rec #novel #middle grade #Zachary Ying #this was such a fun read #and I wanted to hug Zack so many times #He's a D E L I G H T #Also love Qin Shi Huang who just Owns It #Having Wu Zetian and Li Shimin #in this was trippy on my brain at first #after reading Iron Widow #But these versions of them are very different from their counterparts #so I got used to it fairly quick #Rooting for Baby Gay Zack to triumph!

[emotionaldisaster909]

okay why-

Why

Is Xie Lian

So gorgeous

Any time I pause

#i mean #they’re all gorgeous #but xie lian- #i mean- #how do you take a design that seems so average #AND MAKE HIM A G O D #T H E GOD #THE O N L Y TRUE GOD #i’m sorry i’m having an epiphany here #heaven officials blessing #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #tgcf season 2 #tgcf donghua #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #because he is us #and we are fucking dying here

[deus-ex-mona]

questionable sources say that koichiro has been freed and i w a n t in

#apparently it’s out on insta???? like??? lol???? why ig????? streaming services w h e n ? #i saw it once and thought it’s a hoax… then i saw it again from a different account no less and . h m. #ig these are gonna be the next mvs to drop (if true) huh~~~~~~~~~~ #but seriously lol why is it out on ig (of all places) hw is w i l d i n g #i hope the longleg can get a song too lol. i wanna know how he got so long #here’s a joke for you: tamamamamagoro walked into a stable. the horses looked at him and asked ‘why the longleg’— #i want to know if he has any regrets for forcing his expectations upon shortleg and yujiboi and if he regrets it (prolly not but still) #anyways i. won’t be surprised if they randomly drop koichiro’s mv some time this weekend. or this coming week too for the matter #l e t him sing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #染BODY ONCE TOLD ME—

[biitchcakes]

THE SPIDER-WOMAN && THE SHROUD .

(** Fair warning, this is a bit of a long post due to pictures**) To start off, the way they first encounter each other is just so perfect ⸺ Max just flat out VULCAN NERVE PINCHES her while she's at her receptionist job. And the fact it works. It's Spider-Woman's weakness and that's simply just hilarious to me.

Then after meeting each other properly ( he breaks into her house while she's in the shower ), he stays the night on her couch. In the morning, she wakes up to find him cooking her some breakfast. . . 🥺🥺

❝ Ms. Drew ❞ just tickles me coming from him idc.

I Love The Way They FLIRT.

❝ If you're embarrassed to hold hands ⸺ ❞ actually teasing her rn. Can't believe he took her hand after using it to blast someone please.

AND IT !! WORKS !!! This is what she's thinking in that moment.

No comment really this is cute af ❤️

Read this as you will :))) U ask me, it's because he would Blush A Lil. Also I just. . . ❝ Mr. Shroud ❞ ❝ Ms. Spider ❞ 😌🖤

Literally INSISTS on taking her out for steak and wine !!! Could have suggested anything else but that's the first dinner he thinks of. ( truly tragic they didn't draw them out to dinner and there's a time skip instead 😔 ).

While they are waiting for their targets, he listens to her and tries to Ease Her Woes for over an hour. . .

❝ See you in the dark, babe. ❞ GIGGLING !!! Needs someone just as melodramatic as her.

One of those SHIELD agents, for the record, is Jerry LOL.

I MEAN COME ON.

A long time later, when Jessica basically fkin dies, she requests Magnus wipes the memories of those who knew her. They all remember her in some form, though vaguely, distantly. . . But Max just KNOWS. . .

:') 🥹

Look, I gotta include the bit below bc I love the way he gd throws himself off the roof without second thought because he sensed her ghost.

❝ anyway she was gone by the time the lovesick fool saved himself ⸺ ❞

I mean ⸺

After a hellish battle with Morgan Le Fay, he and the rest of the present Avengers are able to help save Jessica Drew's life. And there he is. . . Holding Her Hand. . .

Below is unfortunately the last time they are seen together for a looong time ( fkin 1984 to 2023 !! 😭 ). And it's just so damn adorable.

Her powers are gone at this time, they start to come back at a later date. Yet still such confidence in her !! Love him !!

Dr. Strange is watching this whole thing from afar, and the comment he makes about them, I ⸺

ME TF TOO STEPHEN !!!

The most recent time they've been together was pretty Bare Bones flirtation wise :(((( given the Dire Situation™️.

But we do have this. . .

It's just so soft. . .

#LONG POST CW #thank u for coming to my tedtalk #this is just a guide on how to flirt with jess basically #marvel give me what i want #HOOK EM UP FOR VALENTINES DAY FOR ME THANKS #what's the point of this idk #i was Feeling It i needed to Rant About He #consider it a foil to the shitty bf posts hJDGKS #speaking of i still have to finish the one for david anyway #also u ask me #max and jess have that like #cosmic spiritual link or whatever that jerry wanted so bad from her #this is going under her ch study tag #considering like i said this is indeed Flirting With Jessica 101 #( c h . s t u d y . ) #( c o m i c s . ) #( w i s h l i s t . ) #i want a shroud so bad :(( #( m a x c o l e r i d g e . )

[gay-hoe-boy]

Aizawa: I'm thinking clearly

Also Aizawa: Thinking of his daughter smiling

#mha #Season 6 has d o n e t h i n g s t o m e #Aizawa being Aizawa #Dadzawa #This man needs therapy #And a hug #Tbh everyone in this show does #Bnha #bnha spoilers #manga #anime #anime and manga #my hero academia #aizawa shouta #aizawa sensei #MHA season 6 #Or is it 7 #idk man #I can't believe this man had the g a l l to say he was thinking clearly as he CHOPPED HIS LEG OFF and THOUGHT ABT HIS LITTLE GIRL

[shablonkamightcry]

I cannot believe PM Seymour read the "brother dubious" post and included NEITHER of the pictures! Where's the picture of OG brother dubious????? Where's the really cool DRAWING of brother dubious in the robes???? I want to call him an amateur but that word derives from the love of one's work and clearly PM loves NOTHING if he is willing to deny his audience BROTHER DUBIOUS HIMSELF

#pm seymour #IF YOU SEE THIS YOU BITCH GIVE YOUR AUDIENCE THE G O S H D A M N PICTURES OR AT L E A S T THE OG PICTURE KF BRITBER DUBIOUS #i personally think to pay for his crimes he should ask the op for more photos of brother dubious to show #or give me a pound of flesh

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Me as I catch up on the latest chapters of for the nights and days of life writing essay length comments about how Tsantu should have gotten the death penalty actually and cancel culture isn't going far enough and how can he be an ambassador when if he was on Earth after this he wouldn't be allowed within 300 feet of schools.

@mochalottie I now have a bone to pick with u and I've gotten carried away. These are not the notes these are bonus notes of melatonin fueled incredulity.

#maybe #just maybe #the american in me gets mad at attempted child murder #“oh he feels bad” WHO FUCKING CARES #JAIL #E L E C T R I C C H A I R #F I R I N G S Q U A D #this is the kinda man where after he shot up an elementary school the fbi be like “well he was on our radar” #MAN WAS ON EVERYONES RADAR THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS #family annihilators be like #my mate and kid died so ~no one~ gets a mate or a kid #jake and neytiri: make him the president this is the kinda guy i want in charge #i love how he tried to murder our kids #i stg lottie i will never sleep again knowing this character is still out there and possibly happy in this universe #avatar #avatar the way of water #james cameron avatar #fic recs #melissa og #melissa on avatar (cameron)

[spring-lxcked]

@muutos asked: ❝ i don't want to ruin our friendship. that's the main issue i have. ok but what if college willry ❞ ( best friends who don't realize they're in love )

William was no romantic—or, well, that was what he preferred to believe about himself. His frequent trysts had been sparser, what with his fresh focus on wooing his closest friend. It was something he had initially framed as strictly sexual, all while taking Henry on pseudo-dates and savoring his mere presence. Even now he was sitting shoulder to shoulder with Henry against the headboard of his dorm room bed, finger lightly tracing over the palm of Henry's hand. ( Perhaps he was infatuated. )

The words made his stomach sink, the skin between his brows pinching for a moment. "Right." His head tipped forward, cheek resting against Henry's shoulder. He had no real argument to make—what proof did he have to the contrary? William Afton who cut out anyone at the first sign of romantic interest, who had no real experience with romance? At least Henry wasn't denying that their attraction was mutual—that was enough to keep William bold. "What do you want, then? For me to pretend I don't want you?" He highly doubted he could have managed that, even if the question hadn't been so clearly insincere. "Will you even be able to play pretend?"

#—— ✧ ask » #☆ —— verse ↳ b u i l d i n g t h e l i e. #muutos #((cries over this)) #((but college william and his inability to admit that he wants romance is SO funny tho)) #((attaches himself to henry like moss on a tree & is like 'this is platonic. okay maybe it's sexual. okay maybe it's SLIGHTLY romantic—)) #((meanwhile if henry kissed him he'd explode)) #—— ✧ queue »

[littleragondin]

Upcoming horror boys, because we are being spoiled this year =3

#The Whisperer #The Whisperer the series #Fluke Pongsakorn #After Sundown #After Sundown movie #Nunew Chawarin #trying something different and a little more cartoony/quick #I'm just hyped as hell for all the horror we're getting ok??? #my art #(also fluke is so pretty he is a d e l i g h t to draw )

[destinyandcoins]

MARI, RICKY, STEVEN, AND JOYCE?? watcher crew truly spoiling us today

#worth a shot #watcher #mari telling ricky not to fuck it up and him IMMEDIATELY fucking up the measurements of the first fucking step #vs steven going on a long winded rant about measuring from the heart and self expression and making a mess #and then quietly muttering to himself that he should have just measured #d e l i g h t f u l

[deus-ex-mona]

when you’re trying to sleep but the 2 morons living rent free in your mind be like

#g o away moronxmoron l e m m e sleeeeeep #tried listening to the meoto preview with the auto captions on for the funsies and yujiro’s ‘anata no mono ni natteru’ t o o k me out aaaaaa #idk if that’s really what he’s saying for now bc my ears are rubbish bUT IF IT ISSSSSSSS #YUJIRO. WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU BELONG TO AIZO ON MAIN H ELP #auauauauauauauauuauauauauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #crisis be crisising this is not fair i just wanna sleeeeeep #at least the workweek’s 2/5 done… i can’t wait to spend the next week crying over lxl album 24/7 #pls album pspspspslspsps come in a day early again like the sukiitai album pspspspspsps i n e e d meoto full ver #man this is barely coherent i should really try harder to fall asleep ok gn see you when either last stage or white day kiss drops on friday #染BODY ONCE TOLD ME— #LXL MEOTO CRISIS 2K24

[biitchcakes]

these just mean a lot to me and i gotta post them that's all.

#babe are you really helping logan #feels like that's more a hinderance but #it's the thought that counts right😌 #ALSO her and luke 🥺🥺 #underappreciated friend duo you ask me #love when he chucks her at a bad guy ASFKJ #very sera and iron bull coded <3 #( c o m i c s . ) #( v i s a g e . ) #( l o g a n h o w l e t t . ) #( l u k e c a g e . ) #( c h . s t u d y . )

[baiika]

//I imagine this man is utterly obliviated the second anyone tells him they made his wife come

#ooc; kogi rambles #mobile; #adult / #//A N N I H I L A T E D #//like the sheer fact someone can do smth he couldnt even trying #//get him S E E T H I N G

[thegoldenelite]

The number of times I've watched bte 348 is ridiculous, but i can't stop watching it...

#it's like c ocomelon to m e #the part that really kills m e tho is when k enny a pologizes to h angman. wondering if h angman could ever forgive him #because i know for a fact that k enny doesn't forgive himself for what he did. #it's part of the reason why he took so long to make up with h angman. he was anger too but also #the guilt. he did the same thing with i bushi. he couldn't talk about him for very long without wanting to change the subject #but also he couldn't face i bushi (in the hallway) bc of the guilt he felt for betraying him #(as well as other thing of course but i'm focusing on the guilt) #like we know k enny STILL hasn't forgiven himself for that. When h angman betrayed the b uck #(grabbed nick's leg so the b ucks would lose their chance to c hallenge for the tag belts) #k enny was asked what he thought about it and he said something like: this is something h angman will have to #live with for the rest of his l ife. #this implies k enny STILL feels remorse for stopping i bushi from winning the i wgp belt 5 years later(8 now). Even tho i bushi forgave him #well before their reunion at new y ear's d ash #what i'm saying is that he did so much to h angman. i can understand why this reunion took so long. how could k enny face him after that. #probably in that time believing he didn't deserve h angman back in his lifetoo. As well as his forgiveness/etc(again did the same w i bushi #i could see k enny never fully forgiving himself for the things he did to h angman :(. (he did sign a contract in h angman's b lood) #he also didn't forgive h angman which is so v alid too. their tag run is s ad/tough to watch. k enny trying everything to make #their tag t eam work cause he c ares about h angman and tag t eams but h angman just not being there for it. oof #the thing that surprised me tho was that k enny a pologized first. i thought it would be a while till either did but no. #i believe k enny learned from the past. a pologize now. talk it out. and work on the r elationship TOGETHER. that's g rowth :'). #oh man didn't mean to r ant about k enny's guilt and how he's done this all before do you still think im h- #no but i l ove over a nalyzing w restling m en lol. this ep was full of interesting #i nteractions. i know we were all focused on the nod but this ep delivered on so much more than that. #rin posting #i thinks it's why i couldn't be mad at k enny not mentioning h angman throughout this feud. it would just be too p ainful for him to do so #he l oves/c ares about his ex s too much. a ctually #does any of this make sense. shrugs. #anyway lol.

[voidichor]

FAULKNER............WHAT THE FUCK

#he fucking snapped and i am d e l i g h t e d #but also in incredible pain :') #the silt verses #tsv spoilers #xanthe screeches