#idk where i am going with this

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF AU of the Day

This started as PX ramblings in the original vs the revision but between my want for some kind of SWD & PX relationship and a certain realization about PX’s revised backstory…

Pei Xiu vs the Black Water Arc

Pei Xiu’s revised backstory is pretty tragic. A bright shining star and kind happy person, Pei Xiu’s life is ruined when he joins a martial arts tournament and shows up a general’s son that was favored to win the thing. His family is convicted on false charges, his parents and younger siblings are exiled somewhere and PX himself is pressed into the army, the only one of them the right age for it.

He then spends the rest of his life doing whatever it takes to move up the ranks so he can get save his family culminating in his massacre of the Banyue kingdom… and his reward is finding out they’d all died years ago :D

(and also Banyue’s death)

I imagine canonically he gets some semblance of healing in the form of a good mentor and CO in Pei Ming (not enough to maybe not murder innocents in an incredibly convoluted plot to save his girlfriend but well…) but with a backstory like that I feel like there’s a certain scholar from Fugu he might also feel some kinship with

So he does his homework. Pei Xiu is smart-ish and puts together some pieces about the scholar from Fugu and a certain low key ghost king and hatches a plan.

Rather than the convoluted murder plot, he’ll get the ghost king to save Banyue. And in exchange he’ll be the ghost king’s eyes and ears in heaven and help him with whatever evil plots he’s plotting

he_xuan.exe promptly stops working.

On the one hand this is the most absurd thing he’s had to deal with in centuries and he has half a mind to kill Pei Ming’s idiot descendant on the spot. PX only figured out that he’s the scholar from Fugu, nothing about the fate swap or the earth master, and he’d prefer to keep it that way.

On the other hand, He Xuan does, in fact, feel bad for Banyue, and PX has three things going for him:

1. As Pei Ming’s protege, he has an easier in with Shi Wudu

2. He’s a better (read: less of a dick about it) source of funds than Hua Cheng

3. He’s good with the bone fish

#(this is absolutely a segue for pei xiu’s murdery menagerie) #random tgcf thoughts #pei xiu #banyue #he Xuan #Shi Wudu #idk where I am going with this #I just think hx and revised!px should talk #and something something throwing another variable into the mix can make things even more tragic #or hilarious in the worst of ways #for this AU swd would have a closer relationship with px #either naturally or through px’s machinations #unlike hx px also has absolutely no scruples about using sqx #he’s an older brother too #he knows exactly how to break one

[backroadboy]

I firmly believe that cal and dean would have bonded so fast after maybe like...fighting each other first

#like in the way he and claire don't get along at first (they do but you know what i mean) #or jo (because yes i see her as a dean mirror and not as a love interest) #like it's the way you see yourself in someone else and you don't know what to do about it right away but you still have a connection etc #idk where i am going with this #I've just been thinking about this after rewatching east of eden again #txt.

[samtallchester]

"I have a bit of a job for you."

Hearing those words, Nick raised his brow, in a rather cocky manner, but still he couldn’t help himself. His lip quirked for a split moment.

"Right, so you're taking me on a roadtrip or something? And if I rightfully refuse?"

"You'll stay dead."

Nick hummed softly as he listened to Death speak, as though any of that even made sense.

"And how would that benefit you? You're asking for my help which we both know you need. And not only, you do know I'd rather just stay dead. Especially after what you did to myself, Lori and Janet at the café."

There was a short, pregnant pause as Death glared right in the young visionary's eyes.

"You're pretentious."

"Right. As I have been told on several occasions."

#supernatural #harry potter #the final destination #final destination #final destination 4 #death #nick o'bannon #alternate universe #hp au #supernatural au #supernatural and hp are in the same universe for this #idk where i am going with this #alex browning might make an appearance too #we know death likes to play with their food. #i am sleep deprived #fanfic #probably should hide and never show my face ever again #also the following are in this: #neville longbottom #hannah abbott #ernie macmillan #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #hermione granger #seamus finnigan #oliver wood #probably many others #what am i doing with my life

[wyrdle]

Lol I was initially meh about Hunson X Simon as a ship, but oogh. I do enjoy it's proximity to post-apocalypse Simon and kid Marcy! I think I much prefer gen stuff, ideally exploring them acting like hissy cats at each other, only Simon chokes and is generally having too terrible a time to fight proper... Hunson sympathises in some ways. Ugh. So good.

This is also likely because Betty and Marceline have never interacted before in canon lmao fjbssjw

#rambles #idk where i am going with this #just want more fic about hjs summoning

[queenmeriadoc]

After finding out that Merry is half-elven, but without the characteristic pointy ears, for whatever reason, Celebrimbor makes Merry a pair out of gold that sits on top of their ears, making the cry as well,

Celebrimbor, concerned as he has never seen them cry before: What's wrong? Merry, tears streaming down their face: It's nothing - I just - I Merry leaving a very confused and concerned Celebrimbor along in his workshop.

I have this idea in my mind that Merry had their ears reshaped into human ears, because one, bullying, and two, because when her father, Glorfindel tried to tell them that they were actually elves from Middle Earth they did not believe him.

#merryverse #merry x celebrimbor #idk where I am going with this

[bisexualstruggles]

the post about german academics using german words in english papers instead of trying to come up with an english word to express their feelings is funny, but i do hope that people are aware that this is not so much "laziness" or "disinterested" and that a lot of words also come from a time period in which german was a dominating academic language.

#gedankengespinste #maybe i am wrong #but idk gesamtk*nstwerk is a term from the 19th century #i know it is in jest and like a funny observation #and i bet people still do it today #but i assume a lot of german terms in english papers are due to the fact that english was not always the lingua franka of academia #in a similar vein we also do not translate der*ida's terms #we use the french versions a lot #idk where i am going with this #i just remembered that my father would have been able to ride his phd thesis in german or latin #not in english although it was the spoken by everyone back then

[bloodsoaked-gown]

like god knows if i will never not give someone my everything if they treat me right? if they love me right?? I would ruin my everything to decorate them if they would promise to keep my pieces, even useless ones, safe. I am too tired of being lost and thrown around only for "best" parts.

#idk where i am going with this #gonna study bye

[stoopidstapler]

SO IVE BEEN GOIN INSANE SINCE THIS TRAILER DROPPED. JUST. SIMON. SIMON. SIMON.

#simon petrikov #fionna and cake #adventure time #goin insane over him #thers no words to describe how im feelin #i wish i could draw somehtin better but i am goin INSANE #FINALLY. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. we are being FED. #ALSO?? HOW THEY SHOWED HIM EXACTLY WHEN THE LYRICS GO ''WHATS WRONG WITH ME'. LIKE HELLO??????? #ive seen so many good theories PLEASE GOD WRITE FICS I AM BEGGIN I LL DRAW U FANART BLS HEL P #IDK WOT IM GONNA DO FOR A WHOLE MONTH #SOMEONE KNOCK ME OUT TIL THE 31ST. HIBERNATE ME. HELP. #also i need to put it out there the first thing i thought when i saw this trailer was simon is tryina rewrite fionna and cake #which is why their world keeps changin so much? idk idk #ive seen so many different ideas and they are all so good please help #ALSO GOD. THIS MAN IS JUST GOIN THRU IT. AND ITS ONLY BEEN A QUICK TRAILER. #im sorry for so many tags idk where to put these help #maybe i should make an actual blog for like. whatever. n reblogs. help.

[peachiiwren]

had to draw them as that one meme going around on twitter

Original:

#spy x family #yor forger #loid forger #twiyor #my art #idk who i drew but that man is NOT loid. but also this is the best i could do #also can you tell ive been practising my colouringggg #anyway its almost 3 am where i live lol im going to bed

[egophiliac]

Wait, did you put a photo of Vil and Neige as kids in Eric’s office??

oh good, I was afraid that wasn't going to read properly and people would just be like "what is this supposed to be". :') but yeah! I like to think Eric was pretty fond of Neige as a kid! single dad sees orphan child approximately the same age as his own son and goes "hmm. okay, you guys are going to be friends now." (this did not go as well as he'd hoped.)

(also I do love how it's kind of a running joke that everyone loves Neige except for Vil, who's standing over in the corner and just seething with furious irrational hatred. someday maybe he'll find someone who doesn't think Neige is the best thing since cinnamon rolls.)

#art #twisted wonderland #vil: am i massively projecting my own hangups and insecurities onto someone who i would otherwise find only mildly annoying #vil: no it must be neige who is wrong #idk i just like neige a lot! he's sweet and i find him fascinating honestly #there's ONE offhanded comment about how oh yeah he's been orphaned since a young age and just never talks about it #he lives with a bunch of dwarves and cooks and cleans for them and this has been going on since he was like eight #like. hello?! #there's a whole backstory here that we're never going to get more than this single crumb of and frankly that makes it better #man if i had a nickel for every fandom about fairytale characters in high school #where i instantly fell in love with the snow white character #i'd have two nickels et cetera you know the rest

[little-apple-and-the-rest]

Modern AU where Wei Wuxian uses bots as fierce corpses

#idk where i am going with this

[strawberrysoop]

young justice has taken over my brain and theyre all i can draw lately <3 also i highly recommend clicking to view the middle 2 bc tumblr cropped then bad in the format </3

#young justice #young just us #core four #cassie sandsmark #conner kent #kon el #bart allen #tim drake #cissie king jones #do i tag their vigilante names too idk. i am going with no <3 #dc #soop art #bc of the bit in yj book 2 where conner and cassie take cissie to the mall for a ‘normal girl environment’ #i have decided conner is one of the girls #like they decide to take a girls day and hes always automatically invited #also bart is doing the fuckboy thing bc of conner. he picks up mannerisms too easily is what ive decided #its just a habit now <3 drawing of all of yj doing it for a photo as a joke to come

[the-kipsabian]

saw a take so fucking rancid on twitter i almost deleted the entire app from my phone jesus fucking christ

first of all ao3 is an archive site. this is like going to the library and saying "oh i dont like this" on every piece of media you find that you dislike and thinking they should be stamped with some sort of a marker just cause you didnt like it

you can always click back and leave. fic writers owe you nothing to explain themselves and their creations. if they have mistagged or miscategorized fics, then i understand, however there are report tools for that instead of yelling at the artist tbh

im not saying free works arent necessarily above criticism. but this is just. fucking wild. its common courtesy to just enjoy stuff (or fucking leave if you dont, the back button is free) and if the artist specifically asks for critiques, then give one - constructive that is, shitting all over someones work is not proper criticism, mind you

i just find it fucking wild people are treating art and archive sites as social media these days like this and everything needs to be policed and ~catered to the algorithm~ like. no. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm. you should be able to fucking tell what you like and what you dont like and steer away from that kind of content and let people fucking be with their art. they dont owe you anything (except trigger warnings i'd argue, but i know some people disagree with that as well for some reason), and imagine how much more energy you'd have if you only engaged with things you liked and spent time looking at instead of going to places where you dont enjoy yourself. let alone spending time telling other people you dont enjoy what they enjoy. what a fucking life

#like what the fuck #where is the common courtesy of fandoms these days im just fucking asking. its ridiculous #the back button is free. shutting your fucking mouth is free. constructive criticism when people ask for it is nice but only then #these are fucking basic level fandom engagement things #am i old or are people just this fucking awful now that these guidelines dont exist anymore #im just. ough #sorry i had to get this out. idk as someone who has never left unsolicited advice for anyone and never gotten it back it just #it fucking grinds me that people are like this now. like fucking wow #ive been here for almost two decades soon and i still know how to behave. yall better fucking learn #im gonna go back to video game sorry i really needed to yell for a hot fucking second #if you choose to reblog this dont fucking clown on it okay. god #night is an absolute mess on main

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

if you struggle with mental health, one piece of advice i would genuinely give you is learn to knit.

or crochet: something repetitive to do with your hands, assuming you're capable of it. if you're like me and learnt to knit as a kid but let it lie fallow for a long time, it may be that starting a large, simple project (for me it was a cloak, but a blanket could work too) gets you back into it. or maybe doing something smaller, idk. i personally found socks really hard for a while because they felt smaller than my cloak but weren't getting Done quick enough for me. as i've sped up i find it more interesting to knit socks.

regardless, a repetitive task is great for emotional regulation (also see: autistic stimming), and something that you can look at and go hey i've done something, unlike simply using a fidget toy, can also help to pick your mood up when the brain is being cruel.

it's also useful as a conversation starter or distracter if you don't know what to talk about. if you're wanting to talk to older people also you're more likely to reel them in with knitting (i work better with older people, and 99% of people who ask what i'm knitting are older than me). it also gives you the opportunity to not make eye contact because you're busy knitting, even if you're still carrying on a conversation. if you're absolutely stuck for conversation you can count your stitches and people might stop bothering you.

if you have trouble focusing without doing something with your hands, you can knit! i knit a lot in church, and it helps me to focus on what's being said.

i probably have more reasons you should pick up knitting, but i can't recall them right now, so yeah.

#knitting #catkin knits #i remember one specific time back in october where i was sitting in Bible class utterly unable to stop the most horrible thoughts going #through my head. i was knitting as fast as i've ever knitted. no exaggeration to say i was knitting to stop myself from attempting to die. #and afterwards i sat there in the corner knitting for all i was worth. just repeating to myself 'not now. i am not killing myself now.' #and someone saw me in the corner frantically knitting and came to ask if i was ok. and asked how my mental health was. #must've been end of oct bc it was the first wednesday after i was out of psych ward. and i was having lots of thoughts about the method #i'd used for what is still my most recent suicide attempt. which was in october. and i had the means with me. #it would have been a horrible thing to do. to kill oneself at Bible class. with children around. but i wasn't in a particularly hinged stat #of mind at the time. that's approximately the only clear memory i have of that time in fact. #anyway idk why im thinking of that rn when im fine

[embraceweird]

In ep 24 "Knock Knock" I found this interaction between Kalaya and Eursulon so fascinating

Kalaya: You're a true friend of a wizard of the citadel?

Eursulon: Yes.

[...]

Kalaya: Is she kind?

Eursulon: She can be.

It felt like such a big sister thing to be cautious of this wizard and have concern for her little brother. A spirit in a world that can be unkind to wild ones such as themselves.

But more interesting than that was Eursulon's answer. "She can be." It could be interpreted as, sometimes she is kind and other times not. Which we have seen both from Suvi (wielding the power, prestige, and station of a wizard vs loving and cherishing her friends).

But it could also be interpreted in a future connotation. Like she COULD be kind but we have yet to see. Will the citadel justification machine take over or will she retain the lessons learned from grandmother wren and hold on to a respect for the world of spirits

Last Eursulon saw Suvi she was caught between her friends and the citadel. And while wizardry is not innately unkind the systems put in place by the citadel can be concerning. Suvi has the potential to go down an alarming path with the brass of the citadel pushing her along. She has the capacity to be "unkind". But the gut reactions we see from her. The Suvi reactions, not Sky or the citadel, but SUVI are always kind. With her friends in her life Suvi can be kind and would continue to be kind. But her friends keep pulling away and the fall out from the last goodbye may be very influential into who Suvi will be.

Eursulon may not have meant much by his response but it feels very ominous in that we are yet to see the type of legacy this interation of the wizard Sky is going to leave.

#this is very rambly and idk where i was going but the implications of “she can be” has been stuck in my head #and i didn't even get to the connection to Ame #the little girl who wrote “be kind” on her wall #ugh this story is so good #wbn pod #wbn: www #wbn spoilers #wbn #worlds beyond number #eursulon #kalaya #suvi #ame #wwwo spoilers #wwwo #and let me be clear I love wizards and am obsessed with the narrative potential of the citadel #no hate on wizards what so ever

[grandwretch]

i do think peak comedy is a steve who is absolutely aware of the effect he has on people, but has never felt that way towards anyone else-- the closest he got was with nancy and robin, because he loved them both in different ways, and sometimes he felt like he was going to go insane if he didn't talk to them or touch them right now, but it was never like he had seen other people act about him. robin and nancy made him a better person. they didn't drive him to ridiculous levels of violence and obsession. maybe people in hawkins were just fucking weird.

and then he meets eddie, falls in love with eddie, and he's like... yeah, okay. alright. no, i get it. if anything happened to this guy i would steal the nuclear launch codes.

#steddie #jgkfldgj separate fic idea where everyone is talking about their best murder ideas as like a joke #nancy has a gun she's been thinking about longingly eddie's is dramatic argyle's is disturbingly competent etc #and steve is just like how many of the government officials that we know do you think i would have to fuck to get access to the nukes #idk steve is the epitome of go big or go home To Me #like he's always the one put in situations and then he commits to the bit a thousand percent and is way more extra about it than everybody #he hit billy with a fucking car . do u get that #nancy was like im gonna shoot at him like a normal person in an action film #and steve was like oh the vehicle im currently in? before airbags were invented? im gonna send it full speed into that guy #as you fucking do #the only one in the upside down mostly naked and shoeless btw #like ???? do u think this is die hard u bitch bc that hasnt come out yet #what was i talking about its 2 am