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Holy shit guardian sprites!

#dirk's looks annoying and unpleasant (as it should) #and tz's is dope as hell #tho I do wonder about her being so thin #art style or artistic choice? hm. #liveblog #upd8 #upd8 spoilers #homestuckposting #beyond canon tag #homestuck: beyond canon

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Ultimately I think my biggest endorsement of Tai Sui as a series is the fact that it's genuinely really hard to talk about. This is something I feel, something mutuals who've read the series have told me, and something I've seen reflected in reviews by strangers. The emotions Tai Sui evokes in people are So Big that it's genuinely hard to express anything about it in words.

I'm a meta writer. Putting my thoughts on fiction into words is my entire thing. But Tai Sui fills up my chest with this huge, sweeping well of emotion that doesn't feel quite like anything else, and it's difficult to pluck out any one part of that sense of overwhelm to analyze.

Across the board, people who read Tai Sui are fucking floored by it in a way that I rarely see.

#it feels like you have to fit 20 words into one word to even begin to encapsulate the way the series feels #tai sui #tai sui priest #taisuiposting

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The desolation killed my cat

#young gertrude. god #tma #art #tma art #rebagel #gertrude robinson my beloved #animal death

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Hello there !

#Homestuck #art #homestuck art #rebagel #jade harley my beloved

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ignorance is bliss

#homestuck #art #Homestuck art #rebagel #johndavekat tag

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Hunted, Haunted

#tma #art #tma art #rebagel #hunted tag

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haven’t posted any art in a bit sooo

FEAR WHEEL

(btw yes the dice is purposefully all snake eyes, just clarifying)

#tma #art #tma art #rebagel #entities tag

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Absolutely losing my shit

#this is iconic of them honestly #10/10 everyone should listen #the Magnus Protocol #tmagp #tmagpposting #audio #jokes #Spotify

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👁️

#tma #art #tma art #rebagel #jonathan sims my beloved

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I'm guessing a lot of y'all probably aren't that familiar with Xi Ping and Tai Sui, so if that's the case, please let me tell you about him!

Xi Ping is the most annoying man in the entire world (affectionate). I realize that label is something you could apply to several other Priest characters, but Shiyong takes it to another level.

Xi Ping is the protagonist of Tai Sui—the wealthy son of a minor noble who is dragged into a cultivation world he has absolutely no interest in joining. He is chaos incarnate. He is a menace. He is absolutely heartbreaking.

Tai Sui opens with Xi Ping playing the qin in bad drag because his "courtesan" friend needed a musician to perform with her, and when he gets caught at the brothel by his father, he just sprints out the door and away to hide out with his cousin across the city. He once tries to shield himself in a dangerous situation by turning himself into a chunk of decorative floor tile. He needs to sneak a specific type of tree into someone's yard without their notice to spy on them once, so he painstakingly cuts every new leaf on the tree into a different shape for years so that his enemies won't notice the tree's species. He spends more money than most people make in years on an elaborate homemade fireworks show to wish his teacher happy New Year when he thinks he might be sad. He cons his best friend into thinking he's decades older than he is and makes her call him uncle.

Xi Ping wakes up every day and decides that he is going to cause problems.

And the thing is, it's all narratively justified problem-causing! Xi Ping's whole thing is that he follows "the ungovernable way." Even his cultivation power comes from refusing to be tied down and follow any one code of conduct or worldview. He has the power of "I can do whatever I want forever." He is the element of chaos introduced to topple an oppressive system. He learns about the injustice inherent in his society over the course novel's early arcs and weaponizes his problem-causing to right those wrongs.

Furthermore, Xi Ping is constantly trying to fight with people unfathomably more powerful than him. He's going up against centuries-old demigods on the regular, and in several story arcs, he doesn't even have a body to fight them with physically. All he ever has are his wits, his friends, a qin, and his talent for fucking with people, and he makes use of those things beautifully.

I can't even get into the more emotional or serious aspects of his character without giving major spoilers for Tai Sui, which I'm not going to do. (You should all read Tai Sui and experience that for yourselves). But just from the sheer chaos alone, Xi Ping is one of the characters of all time. He's annoying he's loving he's calculating he's impulsive he's losing his humanity and he's his murderous cousin's only anchor to the human world. He's the world's wisest dumbass. He's a mask of his own face. He's the love of my life. Read Tai Sui and he'll be the love of your life too.

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*Xi Ping fanart volunteered by @stellarish / used with permission

[“Anti-propaganda” is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character, and please be courteous in the notes.]

Han Yuan from Liu Yao

“Unlike us that had a vagrant life, domesticated kids are shy; I have to look after him in future.” - Han Yuan about Cheng Qian

Submission: Cringefail loser(most affectionate) dragon boi. Gone edgy but his family loves him anyway.

The “idiot” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

“our fav -1 braincell kiddo”

Xi Ping from Tai Sui

Submission:

He is literally everything to me. Pure chaos condensed into a single person. Everyone loves him, everyone hates him. He does his best, he doesn't try at all, he beats up monsters with a qin, he brought about the destruction of the entire cultivation world…

Han Muchun from Liu Yao

"Only I, your master, would not detest you, my dirty girl. If it were your first senior brother here, he would have stewed you." - Han Muchun to Shuikeng, Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 29

[No propaganda submitted]

Took some disciples for his declining sect and unexpectedly became a father

(Sharing a picture with Tong Ru because zooming in any further makes it almost indistinguishable. Also, pain.)

#I got. a little carried away with this #but you can't ask me to be concise when trying to express my love for Shiyong #you just can't #anyway ooooh you wanna read Tai Sui so bad #and ooh you wanna vote for Xi Ping even if you haven't #polls #rebagel #taisuiposting #xi ping my beloved

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I always get the weirdest sort of secondhand embarrassment when I listen to MAG 141. I can't enjoy Jon going full scary monster the way I otherwise would bc I'm hyperaware of the fact that Basira is right there watching it happen. Noooo Jon don't be evil in front of the least understanding person in your friend group nooo

Also, listening to Jon do his thing is legitimately chilling as hell. The way he gets so worked up at the start. The gentle, almost condescending way he talks to poor Floyd after the statement as he sends him away. Eurgh. (Complimentary)

#the woman in 142 is right. the way he thanks them does make it infinitely worse #also I don't mean least understanding as a dunk on Basira #but like. Martin wants to see the best in Jon #Daisy has experience with doing terrible things to bystanders. she can understand even if she doesn't approve #and even Melanie would probs be a hair more sympathetic given her experience with the slaughter bullet #might not be nice about it. but she'd understand a little bit on some level #Basira? Nah. she can't let herself understand or forgive that stuff #anyway good episode. deeply unsettling #tma #the magnus archives #tmaposting #mag 141 #liveblog

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Had to clip this bc I can't stop thinking about the way Jon says "communicate." Truly the line read of all time.

#I'm obsessed w him #tma #the magnus archives #audio #tmaposting #jonathan sims

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I just finished relistening to MAG 133, and I can't believe I never realized this before, but. this whole episode is about Basira.

The point of Dead Horse is that The Hunt is about the process, not the ending. It stops being a hunt once the hunting ends, which means victory is never as satisfying as you want it to be. Daisy's least favorite part of tracking criminals was arresting them, and the ritual of The Hunt has no ending. The Everchase is an eternal search with no destination.

This is also the episode where we see that Basira is living as a hunter with no satisfying endings. She spent weeks chasing leads from Elias that brought her nothing, and more importantly, this is the episode where we see that she's finally been reunited with the partner she's been longing for, but she isn't satisfied by it. She finally reaches the end of her chase and finds Daisy, but Daisy isn't what she wants her to be when she finds her.

In season 5, Basira's torment after the Change is to chase Daisy eternally, and when she catches her, she has to kill her because she's too far gone to The Hunt. There's nothing at the end of Basira's search but misery. But in season 4, it's the opposite. Basira searches for a Daisy, searches for a strong ally she can trust, but when she finds her partner again, she's no good because she's too human.

Daisy, or at least Basira's idea of Daisy, is Basira's Everchase.

#screaming and crying etc etc #tma #the magnus archives #basira hussain #daisy tonner #daisira #daisira tag #basira hussain my beloved #MAG 133 #english major hours #tmaposting #tma spoilers

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the lovers as rosemary, commissioned by the loovely tyde @hypeswap

where figs are a love born from eden; lilies a love between women and the flower of maryam, mother of isa; skaia a love ordained by the universe, destined to survive differences and retcons, fated to rekindle a species together

#homestuck #art #homestuck art #rebagel #rosemary tag #shen qingqueue

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I only saw the little devil horns after I'd finished 😈

#hannibal #art #hannibal art #rebagel #hannibal lecter my beloved #shen qingqueue

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7:16 pm, baltimore, maryland

#hannibal #art #hannibal art #rebagel #will graham my beloved #shen qingqueue

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Welcome back.

#oooooh #mdzs #art #mdzs art #rebagel #wei wuxian my beloved #shen qingqueue