Hua Cheng essentially cockblocking himself for possibly all of eternity will literally never not be the funniest thing MXTX ever wrote.
Xie Lian was pretty much completely in love with him the second he saw those lanterns (and completely oblivious about it) and then we get the wonderful first kiss underwater moment and Xie Lian is basically drawing hearts around Hua Cheng every time he sees him. While like quietly dying cause he literally has no idea what to do with it. Like at this point he doesn’t even really understand that he is head over heels totally gone for this man.
Until Hua Cheng is like I have a beloved I just haven’t won them over yet. Which he thinks is perfectly reasonable because his self esteem is the worst and he doesn’t understand how he could have won Xie Lian over yet. (He’s only on step 22 of his Marrying Dianxia 3000 step Master Plan ((that he debates throwing out on a regular basis because he doesn’t deserve to even dream about wanting Xie Lian)). So course he’s like yeah I have this wonderful noble beautiful beloved I just haven’t won them over yet wink wink nudge nudge.
But Xie Lian is like oh of course obviously I don’t deserve nice things and fuck I actually wanted him so badly I’m actually in love with him and now I will resign myself to never being happy for his sake. (Their combined self esteem is truly a so low it’s a hole in the ground which is hilarious because they think the other person is to good for them and unattainable forever because they literally have the same neurosis.) So he starts boxing up his feelings forever constantly wanting Hua Cheng and feeling guilty about it and literally dying inside because he wants Hua Cheng like he’s never wanted anyone.
Like essentially books 3 and 5 only happen because Hua Cheng has now cursed them both by saying he has a beloved because Xie Lian believes he isn’t wanted and therefore any nice thing Hua Cheng does is just him being nice and not Hua Cheng pulling out steps 23-34 of his plan thinking he still hasn’t won Xie Lian over. (He has he so has but he shot himself in the foot so badly it’s painful to read).
Like thank the Gods Hua Cheng is so unhinged and created the cave of 10000 Gods cause Xie Lian would literally be at his own wedding to Hua Cheng still convinced he wanted someone else and this was in fact a thing they were doing to solve a case together otherwise.
Like he needed something that unhinged to put 2 and 2 together otherwise he never would have caught on he’s Hua Cheng’s beloved. Meanwhile Hua cheng is like 🥺 he’s going to think I’m a weirdo now and I’m only on step 50 of the plan 🥺 like the two of them wouldn’t have been fucking nasty 2 books ago if he just kept his mouth shut and didn’t cockblock himself so violently.
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majoraji ep 50
lynn about the s2 vol 4 bd cover: "i was honestly expecting epilogue sulemio"
lynn about the staff book cover: "we don't know what the hands behind the flowers look like!" (kana: "i want to see")
not to project onto the vas but i think this person likes sulemio
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Context: my rabbi was telling a story in our judaism and hebrew class about going to israel and a funny thing that happened with transliterating english into hebrew (we were learning alef)
Rabbi: So I was in front of this store reading the sign and spelling it out to myself *points to ס ו פּ on our alef chart* and I couldn't figure out what-
Me, obliviously interrupting: oh it was a supermarket???
Rabbi, amused: ........yeah, it was a supermarket, you'd do well in israel
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@wife-beam I didn’t want to add on to that post because apparently OP doesn’t like being told that sj was never meant to be redeemed in the original outline… but on to your tags!
Airplane did predict that sj would become a popular character to readers if he added in the backstory. This is the exchange:
Shen Qingqiu rested his forehead on his hand and sucked in a deep breath. “Towards the Sky-bro, ‘Great Master,’ ‘Great Master’ Airplane—were you not held enough as a child or something, huh? Huh? The original backstory for ‘Shen Qingqiu’ that you mentioned was a sicko abusing him in his childhood? Do you really love writing miserable and tragic pasts that much?”
“Tragic characters are more popular,” said Shang Qinghua.
“Bullshit! He got two comment floods yelling for his castration, and you’re telling me that’s being popular?”
“Wasn’t that because I axed the backstory?” Shang Qinghua presented his logical counterargument. “Wasn’t Bing-ge tragic? Wasn’t he popular?”
He even uses Bingge’s popularity amongst his readers as an example. The reason why he took the backstory out was because he had already shown the original sqq to be so awful that by the time he got around to inserting hints of his backstory and moments where he wasn’t just needlessly cruel, fans were unhappy because it came across as attempting to make them sympathize with the child abuser. So he scrapped it and just committed to the scum villain trope of one-dimensional villain who is evil just because. This is his explanation:
Shang Qinghua embarked on an impassioned explanation of his artistic concept. “I had a lot of ideas for the character of Shen Qingqiu. I had hoped to portray him as a well-rounded, three-dimensional character; he’s scum, he’s wretched, but he has reason to be scum, as well as a not-scummy side. But the readers didn’t really buy it. As soon as I inserted signs of his development, they started griping in the reviews. So, I saw the winds weren’t blowing the right way and immediately turned him into a tropey and wretched asshole.
So while his intent wasn’t ever that sj would be a good guy in the narrative or eventually redeemed, he accurately predicted the way fandom tends to react to well-rounded villains: by either woobifying them and erasing their flaws as all a quirk of their “tragic backstory” or by attacking the writer as attempting to redeem a deplorable character by making them feel bad for him.
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5-year-old Gohan driving a jet plane before Goku and Piccolo knew how to start a car
Funnily enough, it still makes sense that he doesn't know how to cross the street despite the fact, because:
He has never lived in the city before.
He's always with adults when they go to the city (unless he's flying with ki to get there).
Knowing how to cross the street is not a requirement in driving aircrafts or in fighting world-ending threats.
He can literally fly. What would he need street signs for?!
Which then got me asking, WHY does he need to drive an aircraft?!
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