#fandom blessings lol

[mmollymercury]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ENCANTO‼️‼️‼️🥳🥳🥳

One year ago, on November 24th, Encanto was released in cinemas. I never would've known how much this film would change my life for the better; how many people I'd meet because of it. To all my fellow fandom friends, thank you; I'm so grateful for you, you've all secured yourselves a special place in my heart 💕💖

Heres a little amv I made in honour of the occasion🥰

#encanto #encanto edit #amv #fandom blessings lol #family madrigal #my amv #my fanwork #💖💖💖💖

[artingstarvist]

TGCF Vol 3 (eng), Chp. 43 - 44 (First "Kiss") Part 1 / 5 (next >)

First part of the comic is finally done! I chose this scene because I know the donghua/manhua will almost certainly censor it and also I feel like there's a lot of beautiful but also inaccurate depictions of this kiss and I just wanna do the full scene justice, including Xie Lian's reaction on the beach. I'm trying to stay as close to the novel as possible but some dialogue will be slightly altered to fit the flow of the comic. I should have planned it to be more vertically oriented to fit tumblr better but hell I don't actually know anything about making comics.

CW for those who don't know where this is going: The next part of this comic includes relatively non-consensual kissing. The purpose is the exchange of air & to keep the smoke spirit from entering, but Xie Lian does struggle against it in the beginning. If this might trigger or upset you, don't read any further.

A direct novel excerpt of this scene is under the cut.

[comic panel numbers] [1] It didn't take long before his throat itched, and that cloud of black smoke was retched back out! [2] Xie Lian covered his mouth with his sleeve, coughing nonstop and choked by tears. [3] His mind raced to find another countermeasure. Even after the cloud of black smoke was forcibly vomited out, it still swirled about and relentlessly clung to his body. [4] Xie Lian pushed himself onto the windowsill, raised himself up, and leapt into the lake outside. [5, 6] With a splash, Xie Lian plunged deep into the heart of the lake. [7] He held his breath, crossed his arms and legs, and assumed a meditative position, letting his body slowly sink to the bottom of that freezing lake. Once his heartbeat returned to normal, he looked up and could somewhat make out the black fog swirling above, blocking off the surface of the water. [8] Once he emerged, he'd have to gasp in a deep breath, and in doing so, he would surely suck the child spirit into his stomach. [9] A grown man with a fulsome baby bump wasn't the least bit funny to imagine. [10] However, his leap into the water had only been meant to give himself some time to think. It didn't take long for Xie Lian to come up with a counterattack. [11] So what if I swallow it? I'll just swallow Fangxin right after. [12] He'd learned that trick when performing on the streets. [13] Although it might hurt, whatever -- as long as the child spirit could be captured. [14] With his mind thus made up, Xie Lian released his arms and started swimming upward. [15, 16] A muffled sound of sloshing water came from above, and suddenly a vast expanse of burning, vivid crimson red flooded his vision. [17] A tangle of winding raven-black locks obscured his sight, though nothing could be seen through the splashing water and schools of air bubbles.

#tgcf #heaven official's blessing #hualian #tian guan ci fu #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian first kiss comic #my art #this is one of those pieces that im very frustrated with #i dont hate the art itself really but i hate how I laid it all out #I REALLY don't know how to do paneling well #prayer circle no fandom drama amen #hhhh im weirdly nervous posting this lol

[crazydaymycrazyway]

The crown prince if Xianle Xie Lian, the first time he ascended: I'm learning, I'm young and I have amazing friends

Jun Wu, externally: *smiles*

Bai Wuxiang, internally: *in a mocking tone* I'm learning, I'm young amd I have amazing friends. WELL OBVIOUSLY THAT AIN'T GONNA BE HELPING YOU! I WAS RAISED BY WOLVES BITCH, BETRAYED BY THE PEOPLE WHO I TRUSTED, LOST MY GODHOOD, DIGNITY AND LIFE, GOT TUMORS ON MY FACE, KILLED AND STOMPED OVER THE CORPSES OF THE GODS WHO DARED BETRAY ME! I WAS BETRAYED AND I BETRAYED AND I'M WASHED ALL OVER BY SINS AND I'M STILL SURVIVING WITH MY SHIT TOGETHER ON TOP OF ALL! AND YOU THINK YOU CAN WALK AWAY UNSCRATCHED?! BE ALL PURE?! WATCH ME BITCH! LETS SEE IF YOU CAN FOLLOW YOUR SHITTY "BODY IN ABYSS HEART IN PARADISE"!

#heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #xie lian #his highness crown prince #crown prince of xianle #just when he ascended #jun wu #the emperor of heavens #bai wuxiang #a man who is over a thousand years old has beef with a seventeen year old kid #he got offended at a kid making a cool dialogue after doing something cool #he's petty #very petty #i think he was 1200 at that time? #i remember reading xie lian say he was 1500 years old or something #but that was before he knew the truth #so he must be something like 2000 or more rn? #his profile says it is 2000+ in wiki fandom #so if xie lian roamed earth for 800 years #he'd be something like 1200? #2000-800=1200 #lol #that's embarrassing #he took pettiness to the next level #i understands the pain he went through #that doesn't justify his actions #incorrect quotes

[kaladinkholins]

i know I've mentioned my interpretation of mizu's gender a million times on here but i don't think i ever fully elaborated on it.

so on that note i just wanna ramble about that for a bit. basically, it's my reading of the show that mizu is nonbinary, so let me dig into that.

putting the rest under the cut because it ended being pretty long lol. also here have a cute mizu pic of her being happy and most at ease with herself, symbolised by her letting her hair down. <3 ok let's proceed.

okay note that nonbinary is an umbrella term, and applies to a vast range of gender identities, but it's my personal preference to use it as is, simply because i'm not a fan of microlabels. more power to you if you are though, but anyway.

essentially when i refer to mizu as nonbinary it means that i interpret mizu as a woman, but not ONLY a woman. not strictly a woman. she is also a man. she is also neither of these things, she is something in between, while at the same time she is none of these at all. i've said as much many times, but i just don't want people to think that by nonbinary it inherently means a "third androgynous gender" that essentially turns the gender binary into a gender trinary. not only is that going against what the term nonbinary was crafted for (to go against rigid boxes and categorisation of gender identities), but also, not all nonbinary people fall under that category or definition, and that's definitely not the way i interpret mizu.

also, before anyone fights me on this, let me clarify further that gender means something different to everyone. it's not your biological sex or physical characteristics. but at the same time, gender is not mere presentation. you can be a trans woman and still present masculine—either because you're closeted and forced to, or because you just want to—and either way, that doesn't take away from your identity as a woman. same goes for trans men. if you're a trans man but you wear skirts and don't bind or don't get top surgery, that doesn't make you any less of a man. because gender non-conformity exists, and does not only apply to cis people! some lesbians are nonbinary and prefer using he/him pronouns while dressing masculinely, but that doesn't mean they're a man, or that they're any less of a lesbian. neither does this mean that they're a cis woman.

the thing about queer identities in general is that, like i said, they mean something different to everyone, because how you identify—regardless of your biological attributes and fashion or pronouns—is an extremely personal experience. so a nonbinary person and a gnc cis woman's experiences might have plenty of overlap, but what distinguishes between the two is up to the individual. there's no set requirements to distinguish you as one or the other, but it's up to you to decide what you identify as, based on what you feel. either way, by simply identifying yourself as anything under the LGBTQ+ umbrella, you are already communicating to the world that you are not what a conservative, cisheteronormative society wants you to be.

which is why i find all this queer infighting on labels to be so ridiculous. because we're all fighting the same fight; the common enemy is a societal structure that divides us into set roles and expectations purely based on our biological parts. that's why biological essentialism in the queer community is a fucking disease. because by arguing that women are inherently weak and fragile and soft and gentle and must be protected from evil ugly men, while men are inherently strong and angry and violent and exploitative of women, these people are advocating for the same fucked up system that marginalises and abuses women as well as effeminate and/or gay men.

anyway. i'm going on a tangent. this was meant to be a blue eye samurai post. so yeah back to that— the point i'm trying to make is that there's no one way to identify as anything, and everyone views gender in a specific way.

so with that being said, yes you can definitely interpret mizu as a gnc cis woman and that's a totally valid reading. however, interpreting her as nonbinary or transmasc also doesn't take away from her experiences with misogyny and female oppression, because nonbinary and transmasc folks also experience these things.

me, personally, i view her as nonbinary but not necessarily or always transmasc because i still believe femininity and womanhood is an inherent part of who mizu is. for example, from what we've seen, she does not like binding. it does not give her gender euphoria, but is instead very uncomfortable for her both physically and mentally, and represents her suppressing her true self. which is why when she "invites the whole" of herself, she stands completely bare in front of the fire, breasts unbound and hair untied. when she is on the ship heading to a new land in the ending scene, she is no longer hiding her neck and the lack of an adam's apple. we can thus infer that mizu does not have body dysmorphia. she is, in fact, comfortable in her body, and relies on it extremely, because her body is a weapon. instead, what mizu hates about herself is her face—her blue eyes. she hates herself for her hybridised identity, hates herself for being a racial Other. hates that she has no home in her homeland. these are not queer or feminist themes, but postcolonial ones.*

* and as a tiny aside on this subject, i really do wish more of the fandom discussion would talk about this more. it's just such an essential part to reading her character. like someone who's read homi k bhabha's location of culture and has watched this show, PLEASE talk to me so we can ramble all about how the show is all about home and alienation from community. please. okay anyway—

nevertheless, queer and feminist themes (which are not mutually exclusive by the way!) are still prevalent in her story, though they are not the main issue that she is struggling with. but she does struggle with it to some extent, and we see this especially during her marriage with mikio, where we see her struggle in women's domestic spaces.

on the other hand, though, she finds no trouble or discomfort in being a man or being around other men—even naked ones—and does not seem stifled by living as one, does not seem all that bothered or uncomfortable navigating through men's spaces. contrast this to something like disney's mulan (1998), where we do see mulan struggle in navigating through men's spaces, as she feels uncomfortable being around so many men, always feeling like she doesn't belong and that she's inherently different from them. mizu has no such experiences like this, as her very personality and approach to life is what can be categorised as typically "masculine". she is straightforward and blunt. her first meeting with mikio, she tells him straight to his face that he's old while frowning and raising a brow at him. she approaches problems with her muscles and fists (or swords), rather than with her words or mind. compare this with mulan, who, while well-trained by the end of the movie, still uses her sharp wits rather than brute strength. this is a typically "feminine" approach. it's also the approach akemi relies on throughout the show—through her intelligence and persuasive tongue, she navigates the brothel with ease. mizu, in contrast to someone like mulan and akemi, struggles with womanhood and femininity, and feels detached from it.

thus, in my opinion, mizu is not simply a man, nor is she simply a woman. she is both. man and woman. masculine and feminine. she has to accept both, rather than suppress one or the other. her name means water. fluid.

as a side note, while i do believe mizu is nonbinary, i also primarily use she/her pronouns but this is a personal preference. i find it's easier, plus it's what the creators use, and because, in general, being nonbinary simply doesn't necessitate the use of they/them pronouns. nonbinary is not just a third gender. it's about breaking the binary, in any which way, and that's exactly what mizu does.

also, i'd also like to mention that one of show's head of story even referred to her with the term "nonbinary", rather than simply "androgynous" (see pic below). and it's possible this could be a slip up on his part, in which he believes the terms are interchangeable (they're not btw), but regardless i find it a very interesting word choice, and one that supports my stance.

so anyway yeah that's my incredibly long rambling post.

TL;DR nonbinary mizu rights 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 congrats if you reached the end of this btw. also ily. unless you're a TERF in which case fuck off. ok i'm done.

#mizu blue eye samurai #mizu bes #blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai meta #sorry if this is redundant btw i just cant stop thinking thoughts :3 #btw i am a mixed* southeast asian who is also nonbinary. just in case that's important context #by mixed* i mean i'm asian+asian but diff ethnicities lol. i dont have a white bone in my body god bless<3 #my whiteness is purely learned thru cultural osmosis + bcs my parents taught me english as a first language (boooo 🍅🍅🍅) #also i live in the global south so i think EYE know a thing or two about being gnc in a society of rigid awful gender roles‼️ #so likeee i think its ridiculous that its an either-or thing #mizu can be nonbinary while still being a woman of colour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #also ummm as much as i love queer themes and gay people i wish people would talk more about the racial otherness / community aspect #as mentioned in the post above #you don't need to read bhabha's whole book btw but just take a look at some of his ideas and you'll get what im talking about #like the fact that the fandom mostly ignores those themes in the story makes me feel like :( :/ #cuz to me THATS the thing that spoke to me most and its a shame that its just not talked about enough #i mean i know why thats likely the case. but still. #whoops im rambling again 🤪 #fandom.rtf #shut up haydar #meta dissertations.pdf

[yeyayeya]

The new changes to the uncensored TGCF revised version are 👀

#yeyarants #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #damn they be getting freaky #good for them tho #I mean it’s actually in canon for them lol #now I need to read the whole novel all over again with the revised version #I ain’t complaining tho #ok but I know for a fact people gonna get mad about feminime Xie Lian #in my heart they’re both switches #but damn Hua Cheng #I mean he waited for so long I ain’t surprised #now I gotta wait and search for more translations of it #the tgcf fandom is thriving right now #we love that #thank you MXTX #mxtx tgcf #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu

[ghostfoolish]

Sectarianism!!????

#yknow what it’s my birthday and I’m eating Popeyes and cake #that’s legit the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen someone say in the fandom #god bless LOL #sometimes you gotta look at someone and go ‘*sigh* white people’ and just move on

[oliveskylarks]

hey guys i just got my heart broken!! anyone have any ships they wanna see me write really brutal hurt/no comfort fics for

#fics #fanfic #mo dao zu shi #the locked tomb #bokura no shokutaku #our dining table #teen wolf #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #heaven's official blessing #tian ya ke #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #merlin #bbc merlin #criminal minds #trying to think of every fandom ive ever loved lol #yuuri!!! on ice #yuuri on ice #supernatural #destiel #the sleuth of ming dynasty #cheng hua shi si nian #life has put me in situations so ill put my blorbos in situations

[morethanwonderful]

Hey besties, I'm finally gonna put up my "Which MXTX character is/would be most insufferable online?" poll tournament in the next couple weeks. But in order to do so, I need your help!

I need to know which characters are popular picks for this so that I can weight the bracket well. Please let me know in the replies and/or tags which MXTX character(s) you think deserve the title of most annoying hypothetical internet user. It'll help ensure that the actual polls run smoothly.

#I don't need propaganda I just need names #I know my own thoughts on the matter. but unlike w the bugpoll. this isn't a common fandom joke #so it's hard for me to say how the fandom on the whole might vote #getting an idea from the responses here will help BIG TIME with how I arrange the bracket #and save me from screwing over an annoying person's chances by pitting them against another powerhouse too soon #now forgive me while I tag this w all the mxtx fandoms #I wanna try to get a lot of views to maximize input lol #svsss #the scum villain's self-saving system #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #mxtx

[jessamine-rose]

A personal observation:: Over time, I realized that the reason why I like Sub! Reader fics is not for self-insert reasons but bc my tendency is to visualize smut scenes from either third POV or the Character’s POV. The mental image of pretty little Reader crying and being subjected to Character’s touches…….aahhhhh maybe the Character was my self-insert all along (°▽°)

This may also stem from the fact that I usually indulge my Sub! Character needs by shipping them with other canon characters?? Though lately, I started writing more Dom! and Switch! Readers for WHB, and fufufu it’s been quite fun. And let’s not forget what happened between Dottore and Assistant! Darling in Chemistry <3

#me explaining to my friend why my darlings’ kinks are different from mine. mainly in terms of who gives and receives:: #on that note. capitano and dottore getting their hair pulled + receiving love bites was totally self-indulgent on my end lol #assistant gets to rough up dottore in my place :> #catch me smiling when i wrote ‘blessing of aphrodite’ as i imagined pantalone’s tearful shackled darling *evil laugh* #on the other hand. if i ever write for neuvi good luck to him #i WILL tie him up and make him cry >:3 #i hope y’all didn’t mind reading this lol #it’s just an interesting observation i made #i rarely self-insert to begin with and view my darlings as their own characters. so it’s always interesting to see how that perspective #affects my engagement with fandoms and tropes ^o^ #it also answers questions such as ‘why do i like it when cater diamond gets topped by malleus draconia but not by reader’ LMAO #jessamine rambles

[wenellyb]

The Sambucky fandom is such a fun fandom to be in. I've been in several other fandoms and I can say that it's in the Sambucky fandom that I've met some of the nicest people.

One thing that I particularly appreciate here is that this fandom will call out toxic bullsh*t. In other fandoms, other fans would mostly let it slide and thus helping the toxicity to spread out to the point were the fandom would become unbearable. But not here, Sambucky shippers will unionize and will call you out if you f*ck up and I appreciate them for it.

This type of behavior helps keep the fandom enjoyable even when some people try to mess it up.

Very short love letter, but I have a lot of fun here and I also love that to this day, we're still getting regular content even though the show and the movies aired such a long time ago <3.

#sambucky #I'm saying this as someone who has been in smaller fandoms...other mcu fandoms and also the spn fandom lol #blessed fandom

[iobartach]

yooo! finally made it back to the coast from dublin! a long journey, but the comic con was SO worth it!!!

i got to meet will sliney! i got mig and gambit posters signed by him!!!

i know the gambit one is a cover, but i've never seen the mig one before? either way, holy shit, worth it for this encounter alone!!! we talked briefly about what it was like working with peter david and how sliney himself never would have thought he'd see spide.r man 2099 blow up in popularity!!!

and we even got to talk about batma.n beyon.d and how it was similar / inspired by spide.r ma.n 2099!!!

ahhh! i'm thrilled!!!

#ooc #holy shit!!! #sadly tho i didn't see any mig cosplays #literally saw every other itsv & atsv spider person #but no love for the half-iris.h spide.rman booo lol #there were some gr8 cosplays tho #lots of chainsa.w man - dem.on sla.yer and mha #man i'm defo going back next year! i missed it so much! #i'm so getting frames for those posters when i get back home #i also bought some fanart #including a ..... tastefu.l.... mig one... #...bc i was too lame and too tame to buy one showing off his ass lol #literallyyy the first piece i saw when i wandered into the artist hall #bless you fandom

[oddthesungod]

the funniest thing about ppl in the fandom being like "silly stupid villagers falling for a speech from an obvious villain and his cult, I would never fall for it gg ez" is that ppl that think they're too clever or smart for cults or conspiracy theories are usually the ppl that are among the most suscetible to cult and conspiracy rhetoric

#also like............... we as audience have the advantage of literally knowing he's a villain and what's going on lol #text post #crit role watchin' #turning off reblogs on this because i dont want people being weird about this post if it gets out of containment lol #both sides of the fandom in this whole debate have been annoying as fuck bless <333333

[discernible-eyes]

Adelina Corday 🍎

#game; lies of p #(hi. id like to tell you that i love her design and want to draw her QUITE AWFULLY SO) #(god bless this studio for giving us a gallery of the models tho bc it is....smth i desire constantly in all games) #(i can feel myself being dragged into the maw of this fandom as we speak. as if being on ng+5 wasnt a big enough tell LOL) #(dont mind me...just curating my personal reference library as usual)

[chaotic-sweetheart]

i feel so accomplished knowing i was the first one to figure out the Home morse code 😭 i made a reddit account specifically to be able to post it there in the first 20 mins of the site being live again !

#true accomplishment i take pride in my ability to decode morse code #i can thank my keep talking and nobody explodes experience LOL #thank you clown for giving my friends and i a wonderful night of hunting! #i cant wait for all of the secrets to be found and for the theories to be crafted #so blessed to have joined the fandom early on and experience it grow ♡ l #welcome home #wh #wally darling #home welcome home

[daz4i]

favorite trope in skk fics is the one where dazai seems like. ig cool and chill like in canon but then there's a pov switch and you see him panicking or being super cringefail and pathetic in his head and see it's all just a confident facade

#it's so fun >:) also validating lol #speaking of i think i found another fav author in the fandom god bless