#I mean that literally

[royaltea000]

Every letter addressed to Jonah Magnus just sounds like several men of good high standing who he’s tricked into giving him their knowledge money and affections realizing that they’ve fallen for a succubus but they can’t find it in them to hate him too hard- like do you know what I mean??? I know it’s just the old timey way of speaking but every statement just sounds like “please my evil twink, I beseech you!” Like this is why I can only imagine him as like very Dorian Gray-esque in my head. Please someone tell me I’m not crazy for thinking this that’s literally their evil bbg that’s sucked them for all they’re worth and thrown em away

#I may only be thinking about a select few but these are all the ones that I remember #bear with me it’s been a while since I’ve finished tma #I’m thinking about Jonathan Fanshawe going I hate you never speak to me again I’m filing a restraining order #all the best and your loyal loving servant I miss you already bbg Jonathan 😔 #Peter there is a long line of bodies before you #I mean that literally #boi really sucked the life outta em #and watched #thought about this real hard while brushing my teeth #tma podcast #tma #tma shitpost #the magnus archives #jonah magnus #elias bouchard

[clairebearsparkles]

I haven’t drawn him in awhile and could use some updating from me, so here’s Michael!

#I adore him and his vibe #he is the gender #I mean that literally #he is all of the gender #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus pod #distortion michael #michael distortion #michael shelley #clairebear art

[lauramkaye]

today in "Things That Made Me Laugh So Much I Needed My Inhaler"

So for ADHD-related reasons, I listen to music A Lot throughout the day, and sometimes I get in a mood and I want something that has a Certain Vibe but it's not exactly any of my existing playlists, so I'll go on spotify and search for a ship name in the playlist search and see what people have put together.

The other day I did this for "bagginshield" (aka Bilbo Baggins/Thorin fic LOOK I KNOW WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE IN THE CARTOON BUT MOVIE THORIN IS A STONE HOTTIE OKAY DON'T JUDGE ME).

I was listening to this playlist, and it was very much A Vibe, you know, like there was a whole Hozier/Mitski/indie-folk/Vaguely-Celtic Mood going on, lots of minor keys and string arrangements and plaintive melodies about blood on the fresh-fallen snow and following your lover even unto death and the like, and that one Phoebe Bridger cover of the song about the gold mine changing someone that I THINK is actually about somebody's dad but the lyrics just work too well for That One Incident With The Choking so everyone still uses it, so far so good. I'm vibing. And then from out of nowhere I hear something that sounds like... a warped vinyl record playing some kind of out of tune calliope over tuba blorps... and I was like... no. Surely not. Surely this isn't...

Friends, it was. In the Tragic Doomed Love Playlist, about 2/3 of the way through, sandwiched between two plaintive Tragic Doomed Love Ballads like an unexpected clown nose in a slice of cherry pie, was Leonard Nimoy's 1968 novelty song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins."

I do not judge anyone for enjoying this song. But I cannot help but wonder whether its inclusion was a cheeky, deliberate move on the part of the playlist maker, or if they had included it based on the name alone, being unfamiliar with the song. And if it was the latter, I could not help imagining the absolute vibe-obliterating moment when the transition occurred.

Anyway I laughed so hard I gave myself an asthma and had to take my inhaler but it was WORTH IT.

For reference, if anyone is unfamiliar, the song in question:

#bagginshield #i love fandom #i mean that literally #also there is an absolutely wild music video for this song that must be seen to be believed #Youtube

[the-monkey-ruler]

So immortals can be stronger than some gods and vice versa, but what about demons? Besides Sun Wukong, are there demons that gods or immortals could not defeat or represented a real threat?

There are a good amount of demons that are threats to gods or immortals. But because that is such a wide question I would have to say that it depends on what novel or what mythos you are talking about.

In most cases, demons are never as strong as immortals or gods because of their lack of formal training. It is very hard to cultivate without training and thus most demons just eat humans to gain cultivation, and while still powerful, far sloppier skills than compared to a trained immortal. You would see in a lot more modern literature that demons have communities or clans while in ancient literature that is rarely the case as because demons are all abnormalities and cultivated individually it is hard for them to form clans and create communities.

I asked around and I was nicely told that the Four Perils are considered like progenitors to yaoguai. While they are not quite the same as yaoguai as they are considered either natural disasters or just malicious creatures depending on the context. They are considered the antithesis of the four benevolent creatures that are the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise. But in either case they are to be considered the embodiment of chaos and thus directly oppose heaven which is to symbolize the embodiment of order.

There are other creatures that toe the line between god and yaoguai just depending on different regions, similar to that is Shuimu niang niang who is a water deity but in Suzhou, Anhui she may be a yaoguai, while in Taiyuan, Shanxi it is believed that she was a woman who was gifted a magical whip by an old man. I was also informed that even the Four Perils, the taotie in particular, can be connected with ding due to the idea that taotie collected the offerings in ding for the ancestors and shen, and offered protection to the people. 

Wukong in the demon world is very much an outlier when it comes to power scaling, he is like the Sailor Moon to anime of the demon world. There are plenty of strong demons in Xiyouji but there is always a catch, so to speak. Scorpion Demon has a poison strong enough to hurt even the Buddha, but she was taken down by Maori Xingguan who turned into a rooster her natural enemy. That is more like a glass cannon where she can do a lot of damage but not take a lot in return. Demon Bull King was pretty strong, Nezha had to cut his head off like 50 times or something for him to falter and eventually be cornered but he fell as well. Single Horned Rhino King was also super strong in that he was able to take on so many celestial warriors but that was because he had the help of his magic item. Also when they found out his origins he was able to be captured fairly quickly by his owner.

In other works like FSYY we have Daji who is more known for her cunning and manipulation than power itself but she is still considered one of the most dangerous demons to have ever lived just by how much damage she caused an entire dynasty. It is noted that in Xiyouji the more powerful demons are from heaven as they were able to get some kind of information or training while up there, but they also have the great weakness that they are still submissive to their owners when they are found out. This is the usual chip in the stronger demons armor as while more earth-demons like Red Boy or Demon Bull King must be overtaken with force.

There have been PLENTY of powerful demons that have given the gods trouble, but in most if not all mythos, they were able to be defeated by the end through some kind of chip in their armor or loophole in their magic. While there are legendary demons of great feats and fight other legendary heroes like Nezha, Jiang Ziya, Erlang Shen, there aren't any demons that like... defeated them. At least not enough that cannot come back with stronger forces and eventually overrun the demon in question. Demons can be very powerful but they always have some kind of weakness whether in their cultivation, or in their origins as depending on the demon's original species helps in determining how to stop them a lot.

Wukong doesn't have that.

Wukong is the strongest, smartest, most powerful, most skilled, most clever, most cunning demon to have ever lived and is the only one I can think of that has gone to the heavens, defeated everyone, almost defeated the Jade Emporer and just before about to kill him needed Buddha ALL THE WAY from Eastern Heaven, a completely DIFFERENT heaven, needed to step in to stop him. He is to be considered an outlier of demon kind really. And I think that is because of his creation as the Monkey Mind. He isn't a being of havoc and destruction and that is what makes him separate from more demons at the start, rather he is intelligent, can learn, can adapt, and thus we see that he can bring order to the world. The whole point of the journey is how Wukong is able to overcome his own base desires and learn how to discipline himself to be more in control of his actions. Wukong is able to be seen as a person that provides and protects, very different from most yaoguai that reek chaos, and it could be that because of this Wukong was able to match to the gods just because it is so similar to them from the start.

#anon ask #anonymous #anon #jttw #journey to the west #sun wukong #xiyouji #ask #monkey king #he just built different #I mean that literally

[cart00ni]

Drew this immediately when coming home from watching the movie

#hes so fun to draw that guys got great shapes #i mean that literally #cart00niart #art #across the spiderverse #miguel o'hara

[bunnygirl678]

BRB gonna go reread the scales of the heart series for the 7th time

#i mean that literally #it's 300k of amazing reguri writing #like i could only wish my writing was that good #ughhhh #i'm feeling that feeling where i don't feel like writing #it's nice that it coincides with the week princess is here #since i can't really write much anyway

[chiralchaotic]

A slightly spicier take on the Cutting Room series. Go on, treat yourself - you know you want to.

#ffvii fic #the turks #Reno/Rude/Tseng for now #but watch this space #Tseng/Vincent #tsengru #AGS #all to come #and yes #yes reader #i mean that literally

[redbleedingrose]

@whisperingmidnights is a hidden gem in terms of her writing (and vibe and personality) and I’m mad about it 😩😩😭😭

#she’s a top tier author YALL #Istg it’s the best writing #she is my FAVORITE author #I mean that literally #all of her fics are sooo goood #like threads of fate? #a rewrite of acotar???? #genius #and chasing starlight!!! #don’t even get me started #and omggggg #her smut is soo 😮‍💨🤭 #and then her angst is so 😭😭😔😔🥲🥲 #but like in such a good way #Spain without the S frl type writing #I sob #but in a good way #in the way writing should make u sob #so many emotions occur #and idk how to handle #someone please read her stuff #so I can rant to u about how brilliant she is #I AM SCREAMING INTO A FOREST BEGGING #Eris vanserra would love her writings #Nesta archeron would love her writings

[d0llqueen]

Actual footage of how i play mario kart

#i mean that literally #but also mood #wiggler is so cute #wiggler

[elirluna]

anyone else feeling paralyzed when they thinking about the future or is it just me

#i mean that literally #like i can't get up and im sinking into quicksand #im gonna die so fucking young

[invinciblerodent]

I love how the game seems to want you to be surprised by the revelation that Astarion is a vampire

Oh good heavens, whatEVER could a deathly pale man with red eyes, vaguely Victorian-style, floppy clothes, a British accent, formal and affected speech, and clearly visible puncture scars that are perfectly exposed by his wide open shirt collar BE

I wish there had been a dialogue option like "oh, wait, that was supposed to be a secret?"

(also high time for a warning; the "squirrel plays bg3” tag WILL contain spoilers!!! Please filter with that in mind!!!)

#squirrel plays bg3 #i mean that literally #saw them in that introductory scene #my first words about him were “oh cool; a vampire--ey #he's an elf too that's neat“ #(being nibbled on was also An ExperienceTM for my boy) #(I think he has some very confusing feelings now) #(“i was controlled by the Szzar family” well “szar” is Hungarian for “shit”) #(so yeah I agree)

[ankhlesbian]

Cant pick ryuki back up itll just end with me in the woods killing an animal w my bare hands

#posts that make sende to approx 2 prople on the planet #ask to tag #i mean that literally #it watches kr: ryuki

[quynhorlose]

#square up zar #i mean that literally #u and me #one on one #let’s take it outside

[emberdune]

i keep having nightmares but they're like really good narratively

#had the most lynchian dream this morning #i mean that literally #there was kyle maclachlan in it

[mthevlamister]

I want to slow dance to a fast paced song in the field with my shoes off and the grass damp with morning dew.

I want to have a picnic as the sun settles between the trees and shines on us as we tell each other stories that make us laugh so hard we can’t breathe.

I want to carve our names in stone and make flower crowns and climb trees until our hands hurt and the sun begins to set.

I want to spend a lifetime in a single day, and I want to experience it again and again.

#non romantic #I mean that literally #like #idk who this about #maybe it’s about myself #but I want this #I want it so bad

[vexing-imogen]

I hope Imogen sent Otohan to the fucking moon

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #c3e33 #i mean that literally #let them be the badass moon villain 50+ episodes from now