#erza155hasleftthebuilding

[porcupine-girl]

Guess what!

Remember how I said back here that I'm in the middle of a project to edit down Our Song episodes, fix the subtitles, and add annotations?

Well, I'm starting to post them! I've got Ep 1 up now and Ep 2 I need to adjust a few translations but then it's ready. Ep 3 and 4 I've got rough drafts of. The rest of the season (12 episodes in total) will take a while, since I haven't started editing them yet.

I also have help with translation now!! @artknifeandglue offered translation from Chinese in @fandomtrumpshate and will be doing song translations for me - since I'm mostly done with the first few episodes he'll just be doing some spot-checking of things I wasn't sure on, but beyond that he'll be doing full translations of many of the songs!

I'm hosting the videos on GDrive, because they'd probably get taken down from YouTube for copyright violation, and I also have copies of the annotations in docs in the same drive.

But! I am also posting the annotations - with links to the videos - on AO3!

So if you're actually interested, you can subscribe so you're notified when I post a new episode!

I'll post here, too, of course.

Below the cut I'm tagging everyone who expressed interest before - please let me know here if you'd like me to keep tagging you when I post future episodes (even if you're not tagged here, let me know if you want to be added!)

@json-derulo @poetry-protest-pornography @emmajanereading @percy-persephone @nuttysaladtree @thelima-aka-chickwriter @writergamermom @oneringtorulethem @trickybonmot @lovebird17 @erza155hasleftthebuilding

#our song #我们的歌 #da zhangwei #joker xue #liu yuning #wang sulong #chuina lisha #penny tai #george lam #hu xia #cpop

[megalodont]

For the trope subversion meme, can I please ask #1 for Xicheng ship?

No. 1: shovel talk

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Lan Huan was nervous. 

Though he had met most of Jiang Cheng’s family by this point in their relationship, his parents had always been off limits. Every time Wei Ying asked him when he’d bring his boyfriend to a Family Dinner Jiang Cheng would mutter “hopefully never”. Lan Huan tried not to take it personally—he knew it was a big step—but Jiang Cheng was good at reading him, and eventually he realised that his boyfriend was hurt by this. He’d huffed and immediately called to tell his mother to expect an extra guest next time. It had warmed Lan Huan’s heart, and he had ridden that high all through the week. 

But now it was Sunday and he was nervous.

When Jiang Cheng had introduced him as his boyfriend to Jiang Yanli Lan Huan had received a perfumed hug and a heartfelt welcome to the family. Wei Ying had received the news with mixed amusement and delight that Lan Huan would be his brother-in-law twice over. Both times he had expected to be warned not to hurt Jiang Cheng ‘or else’, and both times such threats had failed to materialise. Based on Wei Ying’s fear of his adoptive mother Lan Huan expected that this was because they were leaving such things up to Yu Ziyuan.

Jiang Cheng’s demeanor wasn’t helping his anxiety either. He had been silent on the car trip over, not even rousing himself to swear at other drivers, like usual. Now they were sitting in silence, apparently psyching themselves up to go inside. Jiang Cheng’s jaw was clenched so hard Lan Huan swore he could hear his boyfriend’s teeth protesting.

“Fuck, okay,” Jiang Cheng said under his breath just as Lan Huan was about to ask if he was alright. He threw open the door to the car and stalked out, squaring his shoulders like he was about to walk into court. Lan Huan hurried after him, taking his hand as much to support Jiang Cheng as soothe himself. 

Jiang Fengmian answered the door. “Oh, you must be Lan Huan!” He greeted warmly. “It’s lovely to finally meet Wei Ying’s brother-in-law! We’ve heard a lot about you. Come in!” The amiable man turned to lead them into the house. He had not looked at his son once. Lan Huan frowned. “Wei Ying’s brother-in-law?” He turned to Jiang Cheng, who was glaring at the welcome mat like it had personally offended him. “Did you not tell them…?” 

“They know,” he said gruffly, and pushed his way inside. 

Lan Huan had forgotten some of his nerves in the face of that pleasant but confusing interaction, but they came back full force when Yu Ziyuan met them in the dining room. She gave Lan Huan an assessing once over that made him want to straighten his clothes. Her laser sharp eyes lingered judgmentally on their clasped hands.

“So. You’re the boyfriend,” she said.

“Yes, Ms Yu. I am Lan Huan, Jiang Cheng’s boyfriend and Lan Zhan’s brother.”  

“You’re older.”

“A couple of years, yes.”

“Other family?”

“Only my uncle.”

“Hmph. And you do what?”

“I’m a paediatrician.”

“A doctor,” she said. It appeared to be rhetorical, but he nodded anyway, swallowing. 

She turned to Jiang Cheng. “You better not fuck this up.” Lan Huan stiffened in shock. Jiang Cheng didn’t. “God knows why the heir to the Lan fortune, a doctor of all things, would want to settle for you, but you had better not ruin the one thing you’ve done right in your life. Your father was ecstatic when he heard Lan Huan might join the family, as though he hasn’t adopted enough orphans. If you do anything to upset this man, if I hear he has so much as frowned in your presence, they’ll never find your body, am I clear?” 

Jiang Cheng was staring straight at his mother, but he didn’t speak. Jiang Fengmian drifted in to place a bottle of wine on the table and smile at Lan Huan as if he was not aware of the dressing-down his wife was giving his son. 

“Ex...cuse me,” Lan Huan said, fingers tightening on Jiang Cheng’s when Yu Ziyuan’s glare turned on him. He hated confrontation, but he hated listening to this more. “But, um, there’s no mystery as to why I fell in love with your son. He’s incredibly hardworking, it’s really inspiring. He has a kind heart, a strong moral compass, and he makes me smile every day. He treats me better than anyone I’ve been with before. There is no need for you to—to threaten him over it. In fact, I—” He broke off. He knew what he wanted to say to her, but he couldn’t bring himself to say the words. It was too much, entirely out of character for him. Lan Huan finally glanced over at his boyfriend to find Jiang Cheng watching him in shock. His jaw was finally unclenched—in fact, he was almost gaping, as though Lan Huan defending him was something unbelievable. His eyes were soft and vulnerable as they hadn’t been the entire visit, and they shone over-bright. 

Lan Huan wasn’t nervous anymore.

He turned back to Yu Ziyuan and met her shocked glare. “In fact, if you speak about him like that again, they will never find your body.”

#xicheng #mdzs #the untamed #jiang cheng #lan xichen #mdzs fic #paris writes #asks #erza155hasleftthebuilding

[princeofvelvet]

☠ ☮ for Shang Quinghua

☠ - angry/violent headcanon

OG SQH: He got into a lot of trouble when he was young for being very violent, which is why he learned to be a strategic snake instead

Airplane: Never got into too many fights as a kid. But he was very resentful, so his school bullies most likely ended up as canon fodder in his stories

☮ - friendship headcanon

OG SQH: i like to think he was on.. mildly good terms with SJ. Not to the point of being friends, but he once saw SJ flipping off Sect Leader Yue and SQH was 👀 intrigued

airplane: cucumberplane brotp is great but i also like to think he got along well with TLJ. TLJ loves hearing about his stories, SQH likes talking to him because, since he'd mostly scrapped him out of the novel, his convos with him are very pleasant and unexpected

#BLESS Scum Villain in mY ASK BOX #the marvelous askventure #erza155hasleftthebuilding #keep me company #did you know i have ZERO SV prompts?? preposterous #shang qinghua #scum villain's self saving system

[villainanders]

Semi-cursed concept: Raven Cycle Stylized as a Wes Anderson Piece 1. 300 fox way looks like a smaller version of the grand Budapest hotel 2. The pig is nearly unrecognizable. It's still orange, but it's also a character? 3. Mr. Gray is played by Owen Wilson 4. Blue Sargent is the manic pixie demon 5. Gansey is Mr. Fox 6. Declan is Sam from Moonrise Kingdom

i’ll be real i’ve never seen any of these movies lol! but i do love Concepts

#erza155hasleftthebuilding

[dangcommaannie]

😧

😧 - Senpai, notice me????

 I’ve always noticed you!! It makes me so happy when I see you show up in my notifications!!! :D

Intimidation meme :]

#erza155hasleftthebuilding #You ask? I answer

[sdeeys]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This is the work I created for you! Hope you enjoy it! 

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13228572

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Thank you so much friend!!It’s beautiful!!!! QAQ!!!

#erza155hasleftthebuilding #Justice Lords #superbat #ouch my feels #gift #submission

[coldtomyflash]

Not to be rude, first off the bat, but how do you do it? How do you have time to analyze and think about the media you consume like that? And second off, why? I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just genuinely amazed that you can engage with something so much, and give such long and thoughtful answers to the questions that people ask you! And third, thank you. I'm really grateful for your blog and I genuinely love everything you post

Not rude at all :)

As for how... I mean, I definitely can’t/don’t do it for all media. I go way more in depth with The Flash and related content than I do with anything else I consume. So part of it is just parcelling down to this one thing and focusing a lot on it.

And part of it is practice - everything gets easier the more you do it. You notice more, pay attention more, your brain finds the analysis routine and starts to do it automatically.

Some of it is just... something I’ve always done. As a function of maladaptive daydreaming, whenever I consume media I’m enjoying, my brain is looking for angles to poke at them for holes or launching points for other ways the story could go (or could have gone). As an early teen, I used to set books aside mid-chapter so I could imagine what might happen next or decide on my own preferred version of it. I got... alarmingly good at picking up on foreshadowing or else predicting some things that were going to happen, sometimes several books ahead when I was reading a series. 

And it definitely does take up time. This is one of my main hobbies though. Work, the pseudo-work that is maintaining life and bills and cleaning etc, spending time with my spouse, spending times with friends and family, and ... “this” (which includes writing, blogging, and arguably daydreaming). I mean, I do other stuff, but it’s one of the few things outside of work that I explicitly build in time for as ‘play’. 

I also have a lot of guilt over how much time I spend when I “should” be working and am engaging with fandom, in part because I use it as a way to avoid work when I’m feeling anxious, so that’s something I’m trying to navigate. But my work schedule is ridiculously flexible and almost entirely self-motivated right now, so that balance is hard and I try to create my own structure around it. 

Aaaand, sometimes I go a while without responding? It can take a few hours to write a half-decent meta post, and sometimes I’ll sit for a few days on the ideas and let them come together in the back of my mind before putting them on the page. And then I’ll try to do a lot of responding and work on clearing out my inbox in a short time frame (like yesterday and today).

But... honestly I should probably let more questions slide, sometimes. Blogging eats into writing time. 

But, well, that brings me to : why? Simply put: because I love it. 

Like I said, this is something I’ve sort of always done. And maybe not with such formal analysis, but it comes natural to me anyway. And as a grad student, I’ve learned to communicate my ideas, so that part doesn’t take too much effort (though I’m sure stuff would be more clear if I took more time to edit my posts, but then I’d spend all day on them). And all of this lends itself to why I write fic as well, though that’s also just... if I have stories in my head 24/7, why not communicate them with the world?

And I love teaching. I love sharing ideas and helping people understand things or helping them make connections they might otherwise not. And I love the validation that comes from people enjoying my posts and wanting my opinion - I’m definitely not above the affirmation :D And I enjoy the discussions and debates? I end up learning a lot as well. It all makes me a better storyteller and a better media consumer too.

It also helps that I’m chatty. If I tried to make this answer shorter, it would take 2x as long. Being long-winded makes things easier. My brain works fast, my mouth some days works even faster.

#thank you for the nice words :) #blog post #personal post #phyn rambles #erza155hasleftthebuilding #replies

[subskywalker]

My version of mhib is called in good company and it's a naruto fic, and I honestly love the characters and their growth/stagnation. Another thing that just makes this fic perfect for me is that there's this one chapter and it always brings me to tears. Like full on sobbing. Any time I need emotional catharsis, I literally just go back and read that chapter and I'm good. Like, I get it fam!!! It's so good when you have a great fic like that!

Thanks for sending this this!!💛💛💛😊😊😊

!!!!!!!!! COMPLETELY VALID!!!!!!! Everyone should have a mhib in their lives tbh!!! There’s just something about fics that just sending you into full blown sobs bc it just ruins you.💛💛

Like the writing???? The growth and the exploration of their flaws?????? The characterization????? Like honestly it’s the characterization that always leaves me shoOK??? Bc like it’s hard to keep the character close to in character as possible in an au and I love that way the author kept everything that made them them.

Tbh like this fic really did ruin me????? I fucking have the scenes and lines memorized from how often I read that fic and I be like welp I need to have a good cry time to go read MHIB. 🤧✌🏽

Like okay there’s this one scene where one of them is trying to propose right? And it takes a couple of tries but like y’all they finally got it right. SOULMATES!!!! LOVE OF EACHOTHERS LIVES!!!! He fuckngi talk Ed abOUT his dreaM proposal and weddInG AND CHARACTER B WAS LISTENING!!!! HE DIDNT THHINK HE WAS BUT HE WAS!!!! I’m!!!!!! Like pls I still can’t even think about that scene without blacking our from the fucking e m o t i o n of it all!!!!!

Fucking hate that fic!!! I hate them!!!!

Okay y’all new ask game, tell me y’all’s version of MHIB :)

#when i tell y'all i have tears #y'all imma need a second tears are blurring my vision #would you look at the time is gonna read mhib o’clock #i'm a hoe for mhib #inquiries #erza155hasleftthebuilding #i'm so glad you have a fic like that in your life!!!💛

[jarchieriverdale]

One time we had an alchemy lab where we boiled vinegar then put a penny in the vinegar while it was boiling and the penny went from copper to gold

ukulelesxreamo replied to your post

“okay real (and rly dumb) question, but what sort of lab assignments do...”

We don’t do anything extreme. For example, we might put a match to magnesium (it’s sets on fire) or mix two chemicals together in a beaker (which might change color or produce smoke.) I go to a biological conservatory high school so it’s more focused on sciences but I’m pretty sure most of the experiments are like the ones at other schools  

Okay rly sry for hellishly late reply I think, but thanks for the info guys! I’m sure this’ll help somehow, but sounds more like yall doin some magical alchemy shit, yall sure ur not going to hogwarts 👀👀

#ask #reply #ukulelesxreamo #erza155hasleftthebuilding

[notbecauseofvictories]

How do you think Arthur's rule will pan out after what we saw in the film?

Once there was a spot, that for one brief, shining moment—

“Fuck this pissing rain,” Arthur groans, hunching his shoulders. It looks strange, a sulking king, wet as a dog. Smelling a bit like a dog, too; he had been wearing the same tunic for the last fortnight. “Rightful king, and I can’t even keep the weather from going to pot.”

He looks up, squinting into the downpour. Somewhere above, there’s the vague shape of a eagle. “Maybe some help with that?” he shouts. 

The eagle screams in response.

“Careful,” Bedivere warns. He sits like he was born on that horse, riding as instinctual as breathing—Arthur still feels like his bones are being jolted to dust, and when he tried to emulate Bedivere’s posture, Blue asked if he had piles. “She could decide to shit on your head instead.”

This is what the reign of Arthur Pendragon, son of Uther Pendragon, Master of Excalibur, has come to. Being knocked about on the back of a horse that is clearly just as annoyed with him, as wetness trickles down the back of his stiff tunic, and a Mage threatens to shit on his head. Lovely.

“Tell me truly,” Lady Gannes says that night. She had pushed the wooden shutters open and the rain was trickling in, pooling at her feet. “Pendragon’s son, raised by whores—what is he like?”

Bedivere and Wet Stick exchange a glance. The Gannes are their best chance—one step below the Twelve Families, new enough to wealth and power that they are still searching for more. Strong with marriageable daughters and sons about to come of age, even if their fathers lay in the catacombs beneath Fort Terabil. (The fact that Vortigan put most of them there is only added sweetness.)

Lady Gannes is not a lady, but rules as matriarch, which grants the title anyway.

“You are silent, sirs,” she says. “That does not bode well for your king.”

Wet Stick clears his throat. “I’ve—known him since we were young. Followed him, since the moment I met him. He always had this…vision, yeah? We could see the food in front of us and the dream of coin for tomorrow, but he was seeing—maps redrawn. Kingdoms he could build. You end up following the man just to see how bright the next thing shines.”

“A dreamer, then.”

“With good hands for building it,” Bedivere adds quietly.

Lady Gannes turns back to the window. In the courtyard, King Arthur and his squire are teaching her sons how to fight with their bare fists. The rain is coming down, but the King is laughing like summer has already come. 

“Really?” Arthur says. “That easy?”

The sun is weak above the trees, and the air smells of green and damp. “That easy, boss,” Wet Stick says with a grin. 

Not really. But then, it’s a start. Bors Gannes is all of fourteen, entirely elbows and a vague idea of what knighthood entails, mostly explained to him by Blue. But he kneels without hesitation, and when Arthur asks if he will pledge himself to Camelot, her king, and give mercy when mercy is asked, he says, I will, yes.

Lady Gannes sends them back to Camelot with two chests of coins, and a dozen horses that Bedivere says are of the finest stock. Back taxes, she says. “I hear you have ambition, King Pendragon,” she says. Her hair is silver in the sunlight. “I like a man with ambition. Your sex is not worth much, otherwise.”

“So I’ve heard.”

She smiles slightly, watching as her grandson mounts his horse. “Did any of your knights ever tell you where the Gannes fortunes come from?” At the shake of his head, she scoffed. “Poor showing indeed, your Majesty. My father achieved some renown as an architect. I believe your great-grandfather even commissioned him in the building of Camelot. He designed garderobes and aqueducts, you see.”

There was a long silence.

“He…” Arthur laughs, despite himself.

“So,” Lady Gannes says, already turning on her heel. Her train drags on the grass. “I look forward to witnessing your reign, King Arthur! Let us see if you can build the shining kingdom you dream of on whores and shit.”

The sun shines, all the ride back to Camelot. Arthur keeps laughing to himself, and won’t explain why.

#erza155hasleftthebuilding #king arthur legend of the sword #this is a thing I made

[villainanders]

Ok, so in my humble opinion, and as a person who's "meh." about Luther, I genuinely think that in this instance Declan wins out in terms of superiority. Because, he didn't lock Ronan into a secure hellscape that caused him trauma when Ronan started dreaming nightmare creatures. And not to mention, Declan Lynch while not having been physically to the moon, has emotionally been banished to the moon by Niall Lynch. But that's just my insomniac opinion

oh my god no you are 100% right. there is no competition declan is vastly better than luther and ALL your umbrella academy faves. they could never 

#its barely even a comparison but i HAD to make my pots abt shitty bro dynamics its who i am #erza155hasleftthebuilding

[dangcommaannie]

1 & 49, please!

1. How old were you when you first starting writing fanfiction?I think I started back in middle school, so around 11-13 ish.

49. Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about?Oh god. I have no idea. It was most likely a Naruto fanfic though. It was probably either on Quizilla or FF.net too.

Fanfiction writer asks :]

#erza155hasleftthebuilding #You ask? I answer

[archiveofidentityconstellations]

Haughty antagonist who lives to remind the protagonist why they fail. But secretly a good person at heart just... slightly off😙💕

If my sole reason in life was to be judgmental but still sorta nice then I would call that a good life lol

#thank you!! #erza155hasleftthebuilding #stell replies #ask

[coldtomyflash]

I just watched the new LoT episode and i am screaming about Mick. Like my son is a couple of decades older than me but he was so beautiful and purely mick that it had me smiling the whole time! "I hate your salad" is my new motto. I honestly don't even know what to do with myself after seeing him for such a short amount of time. it's been so long!

Honestly I really enjoyed the season premiere. Mick was great, and his relationships with the team were great. Him and Sara getting along and on the same page at the end of the episode, and her wanting him there and smiling when he teased her about how they’d all be dead without him? It honestly just made me so happy.

Mick hating vegetables (but begrudgingly eating them? Ray has had an effect on him?) is amazing. Has someone giffed Mick’s evolving relationship to healthy food yet?

#mick rory #i love him #sara lance #legends of tomorrow #lot 3x01 #erza155hasleftthebuilding #replies