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dangermousie · 19 days

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A danmei lover's biased and incomplete het web novel rec list

@mercipourleslivres thanks for inspiring me!

When it comes to Chinese web novels, I mainly read danmei. I tend not to care too much for OP heroine with a hero who dotes on her for no reason as she fights with 14 year olds narratives, nor inner courtyard fights. BUT!!! There are some het web novels I like and so here is my biased and incomplete rec list. Most of these don't have OP heroines, and very little to none courtyard fights.

Before I start, my favorite het web novel authors are: Gong Xinwen, Mo Shu Bai, Peng Lai Ke, and Jiu Lu Fei Xiang. I have yet to read anything bad by them.

Anyway, rec list:

1000 Miles of Bright Moonlight - one of my ultimate favorites, this would make such an epic drama! A smart as hell heroine, a hero who is a monk and a warrior (but also terminally?) ill and such a vivid world and amazing secondary characters (heroine’s brother is possibly my favorite supporting character of all time) and so much angst and happy ending. This has an amazing romance but it’s not romance-centric if it makes sense - ML doesn’t appear for a while. But once he does, it’s worth it!

Accompanying the Phoenix - the one that just got adapted into The Legend of Shen Li, this is high adventure and cottage core and funny and tragic and powerful ML being putty in the hands of capable FL and just EVERYTHING.

Apocalypse Arrival - Gong Xinwen’s novels are made just for me. Her heroines are always powerful as fuck and rescue abused MLs. In this novel, our heroine who lives in the post-apocalyptic world, wakes up right before that apocalypse happens. She forms a survival crew and also rescues ML who has miraculous blood and has been drained of it and is now hunted after the rescue for it. SO GOOD!!!

Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script - so fucked up, so good, with monster hero who learns to love and be human and heroine who learns to love and be human (but from the other side, her tower of perfection.) Much better than the drama which I did enjoy.

The Blue Whisper - the drama was so-so, but the novel is a bona fide angst masterpiece, which really delves into what it feels like to be imprisoned or to love.

Counterattack of the Cannon Fodder Chambermaid - I remember starting this and loving the realistic feel and the heroine and wanting to stab the hero and @mercipourleslivres telling me to be patient. She was right, by the end I was on board with both the hero (who was abused and is rather autistic-coded) and the OTP. Anyway, heroine is a servant who was a concubine in the last life and got killed as part of a rich family’s harem intrigues. In this life, she just wants to keep her head down but her life gets derailed anyway. She gets sold away and eventually made a servant in the household of an exiled prince who takes a fancy to her and she endures it because what choice does she have? All she wanted was to serve out her term and become a small time merchant. This is quite realistic about lack of options for women, especially lower class women or upper class male attitudes (ML is never vicious or mean to FL but it does not initially occur to him to wonder if she fancies him or enjoys being his concubine or w/e.) It is a DELIGHTFUL slow burn tho as they grow to love each other and grow together and become one of the most wholesome cnovel couples out there.

Dandere General and His Lord - hi there, Gong Xinwen! God, I love this one. Heroine transmigrates from modern world into a brutal slave-holding world at war (think something like Warring States era.) Our heroine transmigrates into the body of a noblewoman who just hung herself. When she comes to, she discovers that woman’s twin brother was the ruler of a city poisoned by a rival claimant and the besieging army of said claimant is about to take the city and original occupant of the body and the rest of the family chose suicide as a way to avoid dishonor. Our heroine refuses, schemes with advisors to pass as the brother and rally the troops. Once the invaders are defeated, she keeps on the masquerade and rides off to one of the never-ending wars “she” is summoned to. Our hero couldn’t be farther from this. A slave and a son of a slave, he’s escaped a horrific, starving childhood during which he narrowly avoided being murdered or raped, and ended up in the army. When the story opens, he distinguished himself in battle and as a reward, he and a few of his fellow slave warriors are invited to a banquet, where they are given some alcohol and to be playthings of any nobles who want them. One of them does not survive this but ML is lucky - heroine feels terrible and so “claims” him for herself. Instead she just tends to his wounds and sends him back. She does not fancy him or anything, she is just a human being with a conscience. And the story goes from there.

Demon King's Repayment - another delicious Gong Xinwen tale with a powerful ML dedicated to capable FL. This one is a great fantasy plot (I keep imagining it as an animated series) and a sprawling cast of amazing secondaries (and secondary OTPs - there is, I swear, an OTP that is Dong Hua x Feng Jiu done thru GXW lens) to boot.

Doomed to Be Cannon Fodder - I hesitated to put this one on the list because by the end I was not keen on how misogynistic novel got to original female lead but it was one of my earliest novels and I loved it for 90% and it’s fucking hilarious at times. Heroine transmigrates as bit villainess into a novel, all she wants is not to die, but her new attitude of “pls stay away” catches the attention of her terrifying general husband. Honestly, imo still worth it.

Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir - my n1 novel on this list, smart and fierce and don’t really read this for romance because it does not start until really late, but ice cold heroine x ice cold hero both of equal brains and ruthlessness is everything. I went from loathing the ML to finding him fascinating to adoring him (and yet he softened around the edges only for FL, he never became “nice”) and loved FL throughout; secondaries are epic. If you read only one non-danmei web novel, make it this one.

The Emperor’s Beloved Ugly Girl - my n2 novel on this list. Our heroine is the unlucky laundry maid A’Chou. She is a di daughter of an upperclass family but her family got destroyed in one of the political upheavals of the time and A’Chou, only a small child at the time, was the only survivor and was made an enslaved laundry maid. Due to various events, at the start of the novel she is a laundry maid in a minister’s household and the minister’s beloved daughter is having a fit because she’s supposed to marry the former Crown Prince which may have been great a few years back but Crown Prince had since been deposed, tortured, imprisoned and now is living in the middle of nowhere under conditions that are too meager to be called house arrest. And he’s seriously crippled too. Understandably, the young lady doesn’t want to marry him! She’d rather kill herself and so she does. And so, a desperate plan is hatched - why don’t we pretend the laundry maid is the di daughter of the minister’s household and send her off? And so A’Chu is sent as the bride. She arrives to discover a broke, seriously injured man on the verge of death…and we go from there. This is so gorgeous and tender and slow in just the right way and like AAAAAA! Secondary OTPs (one of which is MM) are also epic.

Futu Tower - the drama (Unchained Love) was a mess but the novel is such a lovely, dark exploration of coming back to life, for the ML from his dark revenge-strewn path and for heroine from not being allowed wishes of her own. She is a tribute bride, he’s a (fake) eunuch, they are both servants who use themselves to achieve goals and find peace and happiness together.

The Grand Princess - a tale where both members of the OTP reincarnate as their younger selves after killing each other in their 50s, and get a new start, this is smart and slow and so good in portraying old souls in young bodies. Their rediscovery of not just each other but themselves and their passion for living is just AAAAAA!

Heroine Saves Gentleman - Gong Xinwen novel so we have a tough martial artist lady saving a very upper class scholar and it goes from there. If elegant gorgeous ML being saved and protected (and lovingly dommed) by awesome FL is your bag, pls come right in.

Husband Be a Gentleman - schemer meet schemer. He’s an idle prince she’s perfect daughter, in reality both are wolves out for blood. Mmmm. Very OTP gets together early and is us against the world.

I’ll Be the Male Lead’s Sister in Law - one of my all time favorite novels. Heroine is made to marry a disabled nephew of the emperor. He used to be a victorious god of war but went mad and now is basically locked away and kept as a beast. GOD I LOVE THIS NOVEL SO MUCHHHHH! So much hurt/comfort and awesome OTP and after he eventually recovers, all he wants to do is to fight and murder things and dote on wifey. MMM. He’s honestly one of my fave MLs.

I Married a Disabled Tyrant After Transmigrating - if you have a Florence Nightingale complex, this is for you. Heroine wakes up as tribute bride to an almost dead dragon lord and slowly nurses him back to life as his rivals try to murder him. They are both utter adorable babies!

Let the Villain Go - another Gong Xinwen novel, this and Apocalypse Arrivals are AUs of each other. Heroine is surviving in the apocalypse, ML is the “bugbear” of the world but in reality just reacting to all abuse and torture and after she accidentally saves him, devotes himself. Fun fun fun!

Long Wind Crossing - Amazing ML and FL who grow together, clever plot, arranged marriage to love etc etc. Oh, and one point he feeds her his blood to keep her alive, what’s not to love? (Adapted into Chang Feng Du/Destined)

Lost You Forever - this is a short but delicately wistful tale of trauma and loss and love, wrapped in a high fantasy setting but so relatable despite it.

Love In Another Life: My Gentle Tyrant - so so fucked up in the best way! ML cannot live with OR without heroine. It opens on them banging in jail night before her execution (ordered by him) with corpses of men he killed for trying to defile her cooling nearby. If you want healthy relationships with respectful boundaries, gentle and considerate male leads who are modern men in period clothes, OP heroines who have everyone help them and are OP to the max, fluff and wholesomeness, that is about the worst book for you.If you want complexity, dysfunction, darkness, pain and an absolutely lyrical even if fucked up story, come right IN!!!!I am so fucking in love with the melancholy heroine, with ruthless psycho hero and the endless regret and devotion and paaaaain!

The Marquis Is Innocent - our heroine is a beautiful woman married to a warlord who hates her family. (Yes, this was gonna be The Prisoner of Beauty until SZE tax scandal.) Except she's a transmigrator from the future who knows how it ended last time around and has no interest to end up this tragically. This is in my top 5 - FL is smart but believably so (and doesn't have super battle powers) and ML is a believable period warlord. The way their relationship develops so gradually and the way his character changes so gradually as well (and the way they slowly fall in love, her slower than him) is just amazing. It is such a smart, nuanced, gorgeous slow burn. With some gonzo sex scenes :P

Mulberry Song - you like tragic endings? Come right IN! This is short and heartbreaking and wistful and very what-if.

Nightfall (Ever Night) - so long but also so smart and unusual and bloody and tho it’s not primarily a romance, you will never see another ML who loves his FL as much as Ning Que does his Sang Sang.

Offering Salted Fish to Master - in some ways, this novel is a mess, but I am recommending it because this is a rare example of "nope he's 100% a villain and murderdude and odd, but he does love the heroine" that the author commits to.

Pihanjin - yet another awesome PLK novel, this is once again, like with Marquis, a ruthless man and a beautiful woman getting a second chance on a second go-around. FL is a lot more wounded this time around though. If you LOVE watching ML grovel and slowly, gradually win FL over, this one is for you.

Princess Agents - a dark tale with an incredibly competent and militarily powerful/ruthless heroine and two terrifying men who love her (but neither is as terrifying as she is.) There is an OTP switch halfway through that shockingly makes sense and it's just SO SO GOOOOOOOD

Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage - this is probably the one “typical” novel on this list, heroine is reborn as her youngest self and gets revenge on those who wronged her last time around. It is really really well-written and heroine is competent, hero is doting and powerful etc. It’s not a trope I tend to love but I do when it’s done THIS well.

Rebirth of the Tyrant’s Pet: Regent Prince is Too Fierce: Borgias cnovel style! Our heroine was empress in last life and put her husband on the throne tho he did not love her. However, he had her executed and had his half-brother carry out the orders and heroine died horrifically. She opens her eyes and she’s a little girl again. The OTP this time around is heroine and half-brother executioner. Why do I love it? Heroine is smart and tough but also this is a rare rebirth novel where heroine does NOT decide to seek revenge for past life wrongs because they haven’t happened yet! In fact, she sees ML abused and stands up for him because he’s a kid and no kid should be mistreated and this go around he hasn’t done anything wrong. She also gets and likes her former life husband. Anyway, this is fakecest galore because she’s supposed to be their half-sister and while she knows (from past life) she is not, they do not and fall for her anyway. ML is especially gonzo, at one point carving chunks of his flesh to save her. He’s feral and unhinged and she’s the one person he worships because she protected him and like - it’s all awesome. (I love secondary ML too.)

Reborn to Love Lord Qiansui - yes, this is a eunuch novel! If you like gender tropes reversals, this one is for you. Heroine is a tough martial artist, hero is a smart as hell and powerful eunuch. A real eunuch. Heroine finds out she owes him her life and decides to protect him. This is a total delight and an awesome love story between two really scarred people. And yes, there is sex - heroine literally reads manuals on pegging :P

Return of the Swallow - so freaking long! But really good. Heroine is neither transmigrator nor reincarnator, just a smart period woman. She is a lost family daughter taken back in. Her father is a minister in a dying empire (father-daughter relationship is one of the best things in this novel), her OTP is enemy general, and the smartness and the awesomeness of this all knows no bounds.

Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes - probably the wackiest JLFX novel I read, this is quite different from Love You Seven Times drama that was adapted from it. Our deity protagonists go through a bunch of lives figuring out they fancy each other. It's light like a souffle but just as delicious.

To Be a Virtuous Wife - some people prefer 8 treasures trousseau but I never warmed up to that one. This one is so good, with smart people (who actually enjoy sex, a ratity) and a perfect mix of plot and romance.

Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator - my very first web novel. A lot lighter than a lot of the ones on this list but a total delight. Heroine transmigrates into a novel as the heroine; she has no interest in drama or chasing true love, she just wants to live a nice life with her nice husband. Too bad for her, her husband has reincarnated into his younger self and remembers how she betrayed him, so is not interested. This one is funny and light and romance doesn’t start till late on but a total delight!

Wishing You Eternal Happiness - this is tied with Dreamer as my favorite het web novel ever though it couldn’t be more different from Dreamer, with its hard-edged and hard-souled protagonists ruthlessly cleaving their way to the world and, eventually, each other, its smart cynical air. Except in one thing - the world of Wishing is just as bloody and dark. Its two protagonists are gentle, deeply wounded souls who may find salvation in each other but even something as basic as safety almost seems out of reach.

Jliafu, our heroine, is neither a modern-day transmigrator, nor some exotic princess or demoness. She is very much a period woman of her time, from a weathy merchant clan, whose beauty is her curse. You can tell the novel’s tone from that utterly bleak opening chapter where she, a favorite concubine of a capricious dying emperor, is ordered to be buried alive with him and is not even given the “grace” of white silk but slowly suffocates in the coffin, scrabbling at the lid. There is no grand threats of vengeance on her part, not dramatic opera events. Just despair and death. The whole introductory chapter is haunted by emotional ghosts - the empress’ unrequited love for the monster on the imperial bed (turning into desire for Jiafu’s suffering after he dies), the emperor slowly dying in his prime after waging too many wars, and his fear of being haunted by Pei Youan, a brilliant if sickly minister who died of illness long ago on one of imperial campaigns. There is no triumph for anyone, only loss.

When she wakes up as still a young woman, all she wants is to escape the same fate. There are no plans for power or revenge, only a desire for survival. And so she latches on asking for help from Pei Youan, the only man in her past go-around who showed any consideration and desire and ability to protect her, though he barely knew her. Pei Youan is probably my favorite het web novel ML. Despite his brains and ability, he drifts through life. In modern terms, he clearly has depression. One of the biggest, best joys of the novel is watching these two very good, very quiet, very wounded people discover happiness and love with each other. I sort of want to cry just thinking about it, tbh.

The Yandere Came During the Night - a bit of fluff that’s oddly delightful. Heroine is reborn as a (fake) sister of ML, she hurts her legs saving him and the “siblings” form a bond that ends up in fakecest delight. They are both smart and efficient and he becomes a sexy marquis etc.

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mj220991 · 1 year

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I really love the Poster! And the shadows behind them!! Show how they started until they became the best version of themselves.

I know many people feel icky with the trailer. But the novel is not a romcom. The director is Yin Tao (LaR, Listening snow tower) and the scriptwriter (Cang lanjue). I really really can't wait for this one 😭😭😭.

#长风渡 #Destined #Long Wind Crossing #Bai Jing Ting #Song Yi #i can feel this is going to be good

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raraavisalterego · 10 months

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Starting Chang feng du and alright, alright... i can see it Its a bit different than the novel but i like how they have tied some of the scenes, and it may be a small thing but i love mister Gu (the father)`s little garden omg i am using it as inspo hahah

#destined #long wind crossing #chang feng du

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pikapup131 · 17 days

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guys I have an idea. timekeeper, sugar sawn, abyss monarch, longan dragon, and millennial tree as this. one singular friend group in a larger friend group of all legendary (and dragon/ancient) cookies. they often go on picnics or play games or. do whatever in various places picked by longan or millennial, rarely sugar swan,, and. they chose the kingdom this time (millennial) kingdom is overrun with jelly walker virus. how fun. they didn't actually KNOW what this is (except teeky and millenial, but millennial did not know it came back and teeky completely forgot about it.) so their basically. in an apolocolypse au. 3 outcomes 1) timekeeper(in this au) doesn't do her job for once, and messes up the timeline to save them. dangerous for her and tbd but saves EVERYBODY else, so she rings them up and gets majority confirmation. (string gummy is furious.), does this, ends up trapped in that timeline. 1a) she doesn't get trapped happy ever after guys. they have their picnic. 2) they just wipe out all the cookies reluctantly, and return to their jobs. they do not speak of this. they all feel awful and millennial tree/sugar swan work together to try and bring them back after, but longan stops them due to being closer to their goal of a new world from what I understand. please correct me if I am wrong, i'd like to properly write this au. 2a) they just don't try and revive them and live with the stress. OB place has like 50(??)% less cookies now and gingerbraves missing. gingerbright and dozer r scared. 3) Sugar Swan tries to undo this, since in this au jellywalkers r zombies essentially (kill host and use body) so she. uses her feathers to bring them back. bad plan, the cookies r essentially suffering for however long the feathers stick to them, before dying again. some just die from the feather itself. 3a) timekeeper stops this in fear, as she saw this timeline happen; not good. sugar swan reluctantly stops her plans so they enact either 1 or 2. 3b) millennial tree helps her, teeky tries fighting them off and. almost dies in the process due to seeing space doughnut as a jellywalker, which broke her down somewhat, almost to tears. abyss monarch saves them,, and then just?? goes back to hiding???? she keeps fighting as they eventually revive them all 4) they just fucking leave lmao. please give thoughts and ideas. this has sincerely been a pikapost131 oh right @ivorydragondaily bcz I forgot to post this and I think you'd be interested.

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #cookie run ovenbreak #cr kingdom #timekeeper cookie #timekeeper au #sugar swan cookie #millennial tree cookie #millennial tree #timekeeper #sugar swan #longan dragon cookie #longan dragon #abyss monarch cookie #abyss monarch #jellywalker #zombie apocolypse au #zombie au #pikaposting131 #ummmm in this au crossaint already became timekeeper and so a cross ain't from a different timeline came to help. because they cant #do this alone and almost broke down again #timekeepers the founder and director of tbd in this au still though its just she was crossaint before tbd #timeswan #sugarkeeper #sugar swan wants every cookie to have a happy and wonderful life for as long as they can but she knows that some things happen bcz they hav #millennial tree was in a fucking coma. for like. the entire duration that wind archer started protecting the tree until their story release #in ob #so he's behind on new technology and such #longan is too but they just did not care about it enough to learn abt it

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viciousewe · 10 months

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Me: Oh I’m so TIRED of dark red why don’t I shake things up by spinning some bright red!

#In my defense there is also some sizable chunks of purple in this #also this has been in my stash for so long I straight up forgot I had it #I don’t even know where it came from or when I ordered or any of that #I’m relatively certain it’s malabrigo nube in the cereza color way #it needs so much fluffing before spinning I don’t think it could be anything else #I’ve been really getting into dealgans thoooo #I appreciate that they force me to slow down when winding on #much like cross arm spindles #I love a pretty cop but don’t often take the time to wind nicely while spinning on whorl spindles #the dealgan also forces me to spin a bit thicker so I get a light dk weight which I feel would be good for my future sock spinning desires #spinning #spinning wool #hand spinning #hand spun #yarn #handmade #handspinning #wool #wip #work in progress #handspun #hand made

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mathysphere · 1 year

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Winter Sampler, part 1/16: Bare Trees and Winter Plumage

This photo is from last year, actually, and I meant to post it then, but it's been a hell of a time recently (for all of us, I think). Ah well. At least the seasons keep wrapping around-- if I missed last winter, I can catch another now. :)

#cross stitch #embroidery #winter sampler #made by me #now the photo is from last winter #but the stitching is from even before then #and the pattern was drawn before that--#two winters ago I think #but I still remember the hawk this guy was based off of #he was a very fluffy and round fellow #perched on a branch at a hiking-trail parking lot #the wind was high #and he sat very still for a very long time #with his feathers rustling magnificently

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badfanfix · 2 months

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100 hits on A Crossing of Stars! Thank you to all who took a chance on it!

#loz a crossing of stars #legend of zelda #space AU #tagging the games to try to reach the fandom #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #ocarina of time #majoras mask #twilight princess #wind waker #minish cap #four swords #a link to the past #a link between worlds #even though this is a completely unique story #this is my first fic I have posted in a long while so I’m excited for 100 people reading it

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ehlnofay · 3 months

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working on my long project again. pray for me

#dude it's so long and it's so bad and nobody will want to read it #but! I'm going to finish it! for the feeling of accomplishment! because finishing something this fucking long will be a splendid achievemen #I'm not going to have written this much for it to come to nothing #augh. I'm crossing my fingers that I'm just in that phase of writing something and it is actually fine #but I don't know man #it's truly so long I think I've conceptualised this in a way that is absolutely fucking insane. but whatever #surely there are dozens of fay writing enthusiasts who desperately want to read approaching a hundred thousand words #of long winded character studies #see that's the problem!! normally when I do long winded character studies #it's only one character. so it's fine #(and it's also vignettes. my darling vignettes)#but this is not a series of related scenes. and it's several characters. so it's the same thing a few times. and it's SO LONG.#augh.#the length is my primary concern tbh #but I'll finish the draft!#and I'll let it lie for a while!#and if it needs to be trimmed down then I'll do it!#or I won't. who's going to make me. it's not like I'm forcing anyone to read my bad character studies #this is my house #what am I even talking about #whatever #bye

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humming-pokemon-helpers · 9 months

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(@wingsofachampion) Hiya! I'm super glad you're ok! Though I'm kinda confused what happened. I heard you got kidnapped or something? -Tropius

o-oh arc. that’s a pretty long answer but… oh vanilla’s rambling already. pzzt. they say…

“okay so basically there’s this fuckin. internet explouder ass looking hair dude. or uh. there was. is it still ‘is’ if he’s in a different fuckin universe? anyways uhhh he knew about me. for reasons. normal ones. and he’s been tracking me down for the last ummm two weeks?”

“and so i said fuck that and tried to get him to stop by making everyone in the public upset enough about this that maybe the officials would finally do something except i completely messed up and got people hurt… fuck i need to say sorry to aspear he’s okay right? cross he’s okay right?”

h-he’s okay, pzzt.

“oh thank arc well i still need to apologize properly but basically colress tried to zap himself out of there into the dreamyard and i said screw that and jumped after him and then we both went to the dreamyard and i was trying to figure out where he kept all of his data but instead i found his… subordinates? who were all hybrids except wrong and i freaked out and then this guy just put me in a fucking master ball which hurts like hell by the way and then i don’t even know until rune and tula and wyrdo came to save me. and i was in so much pain for half of it i don’t even remember what i did. fuck. apparently i tried to hurt wyrdo. thank arc they’re ok. and now… i’m here.”

…yeah, pzzt. glad you’re here.

#pokeblogging #pkmn irl #ask vanilla #//sorry. this is. a very long and winding version that is not easy to parse.#//i’ll update the master post with a succinct version later!!#a cross of strange colors #tw drugs #//implied from the way he’s talking anyways.

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merchantofwhispers · 3 months

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[ I don't think I can ever put into words how much of a confusing woman Gemina is at the surface level. She is gentle, she craves love and adoration and warmth, but is also actively hostile towards people who try to give it to her -- viewing it often as something that will wind up harming her or themselves. In the same breath she will chase that harm to prove she is stronger than it.

I want her subtly as well as her abrupt decisions to speak for themselves, but I worry that sometimes that comes off as inconsistent writing rather than intentional character motivations. ]

#;ooc #my insecurity as a writer is showing #i think im harshest on Gemina as a muse as well because I rarely feel inadequete when writing nikolai and cinead #but then again their motivations are far simpler than Mina and their personalities are more easily portrayed #Neither Nikolai or Cinead make a point of trying to compartmentalize themselves or pretend to be something they are not #Gemina IS pretending and she IS traumatized and she IS trying to her damndest not to show how out of her depth she is #She struggles SO badly with her self image and her reputation and views herself as a necessary evil but she doesnt WANT to be evil #She never wanted to be evil.#She never wanted to kill..#She never wanted immortality or vampirism but once she had it she felt like she had to do something with it #especially with the power it gave her and coming off the backlash of being in an abusive engagement only to wind up with cinead #and god the abuse just kept repeating and she became more brazen and desperate and hitting back even harder #Gemina is a bad woman -- there is no doubt in that -- and she is brash and violent and horrible #but she is a victim herself; of her past - her own actions - the world #She is feminine rage and justice and toxicity and centuries of generational horror displayed into one single woman #She bleeds herself and those who cross her dry if only to hope that the blood will fertilize the soil beneath her feet in some VAIN attempt #to make the world a better place #but she IS a symptom of the horror she IS a part of the disease and a piece of her knows that #but she cant see the larger picture #in her effort to be good she has lived long enough to become the villain #and i fear... so badly... that I can never properly portray that to anyone who reads -- and im sorry for that

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theoldaeroplane · 10 months

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im fine. im ok. im going to be ok. im also going to get really high and go to sleep.

#light a candle for me or whatever #like for luck #i completed a long winded job application today fingers crossed i guess

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doctor-fancy-pants · 1 year

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Crossed Wires

I started typing this out in Word, and then it got long, so probably that one's going on the Big Blog, but just because this is a crossing of the nerdy streams that absolutely delights me, have the short version here:

I have not been in a band in a long time, and there's stuff I've forgotten.

I found my passive DI box today, which I used for my bass guitar.

I could not remember how this fucking thing worked or what it was supposed to do. Attenuating switches. Filter switches. Input: 1/4" jack. Output: balanced XLR. Line thru: 1/4". what the fuck?!

Before googling it, I allowed myself a sigh of embarrassment, because I did know all this at some point in my life, it's just that when the info goes into long-term storage in my ADHD brain, figuring out where it is and digging it free is like traipsing into the junk yard with a metal detector.

Translation of that metaphor: a lot of things are going to go PING! and I fkn guarantee you that none of those things will be the droids you are looking for

except godfuckingdammit the droids would set off a metal detector, look, don't examine this analogy too closely, okay.

where was I?

oh yeah, that's right.

(yes, I am abusing bullet points, but it turns out that they just let fucken anyone use bullet points these days, there's not even a fucking license or anything, how wild is that?! Anyways, no one can stop me, suffer in ya jocks.)

My memory wasn't helping, so I googled the DI Box, and read the quick summary of what it's meant to do, and that process is more like some sleek futuristic pattern matching magnet technology, because it was like it was summoning the existing knowledge (which I had stashed and which was inaccessible. Bad sectors. Defragmentation needed) back into my brain.

(if you have personal and extensive experience of defragmentation: congratulations. You are old, and welcome on my porch. Rocking chair not provided. BYO shotgun.)

Quick summary: musical instruments (such as bass guitars) put out the kind of signal that is too messy and unbalanced for a mixing desk, which requires a gentler and more standardised touch. So, you run your bass patch lead through a DI box, which filters and (effectively) standardises that signal, and funnels it out to the mixing desk in a more manageable form.

Not only does this wreak less overall havoc, but it means that you can deal with the instruments and the vocal mics (and so on) on an even playing field (or at least, you can try to standardise everything else against the fucking drumkit-- no, do not ask).

The "line thru" jack is to carry out the un-filtered signal directly to your bass amp, because the bass amp can handle it as an independent Gigantic Noise Machine.

So. Why did I start giggling while reading this? Because I'm a diver. More specifically, I'm a professional assistant dive instructor.

(technically. I don't actually instruct. I'm qualified to instruct, assistively (so to speak), but I like guiding just fine, thanks. I get to give newbies handy hints and help them out and point out amazing marine life, but we get veterans as well; they're all qualified divers, though, so I do not have to actively supervise anyone at all times, and I do not usually have to carry anyone's gear, or dive in a pool.)

And I thought... the DI Box is a fucking first stage regulator, isn't it.

Like I'm not even kidding with this analogy, it's fucking perfect. The first stage regulator attaches to your tank valve. It wrangles the pressure of the air coming out of your tank (which is probably about 220 bar or 3200 psi to start with, and drops steadily throughout the dive as you breathe your way through it), wrestling it down to a much more chill 10 bar / 150 psi or something in that neighbourhood, and dumps this more amiably-managed air into the low pressure ports. Those hoses connect to your BC inflator (uh, BC = "floaty jacket"), your dry suit inflator if you have one, and your second stage regulators.

The second stage regulators are the ones you breathe from, but easier to say that they're demand valves. The pressure of that air is pretty much dictated by how hard you breathe in.

Here's the other thing, right: there's even a "Line Thru". Yessiree, you got that high pressure port for hooking up the ol' Submersible Pressure Gauge (SPG), because that thing needs the STRAIGHT SIGNAL, unfiltered, unbalanced, unaltered, because... that's the thing that tells you how much air is left in your tank, in terms of pressure. You... really don't wanna regulate that.

This analogy does suggest that my SPG is basically like my old Behringer quad box (approx 60kg), except a good deal fucking lighter, much easier to get up two flights of stairs to our flat at the time, and much less inclined to get covered in cat hair.

(seriously the guy at the Music Swop Shop took my amp, looked it over, and said, "You have a cat, don't you?" because - for those who don't know - many amps are basically covered in scratchy carpet.)

(for anyone who doesn't know: yes, "Swop" is deliberately spelled with an "O", it's not a typo, don't @ me.)

Anyways, that was my anecdote, split into several anecdotes, and I can hear someone forming a Bullet Point Licensing Committee Advisory Group even as I type this, so I better skedaddle before I can be prosecuted for my crimes against formatting or narrative. Fortunately the sort of people who would be interested in that are not the sort of people who skip straight to "angry mob" -- I mean they get there eventually, but I have some lead time.

(there is a reason I called this thing "Anecdote Machine". You were warned.)

...okay but seriously the analogy is fucking perfect it's like the entirety of engineering as a concept - from maritime and scuba across to audio tech to computer and software - is just pretty much about trying to translate one type of energy into another so that one gadget will talk to another gadget and nobody gets blown up or set on fire.

oh shit. that's actually what engineering is, isn't it? you know there are some course guides that could have been a lot shorter, on reflection.

[edit: forgot to mention that the first stage actually drops the pressure from your tank a whole lot, actually, so anyways I have fixed that now...]

#crossing the streams #crossing the wires #crossing the hoses #diving #music #scuba #audio technology #I am a gigantic nerd across SO MANY DIFFERENT AXES OF NERDERY #one day I will get them all and achieve Nerdvana #this is a very long-winded way to say that I now remember what my fucking DI box does #marine biology not included in this post but only because the saltwater is not good for the guitars

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mj220991 · 1 year

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AAAAHHHHHHH THE TRAILER IS HERE. IT LOOKS GREAT! JUST FOLLOW THE NOVEL AND IT WILL BE GREAT.

#chang feng du #Bai jingting #Song Yi #every actor looks their part #long wind crossing #Destined

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rosie-kairi · 2 years

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Please tell us more about the Infinity Train KHUX AU, I'm VERY curious.

I would be very glad to do this dear anon!!!

First off, for those who don't know what Infinity Train is: Infinity Train is a cartoon anthology series based around solving your problems and growing as a person. The gist of it is if you have any problem that would usually be solved via therapy or something the train just shows up and abducts you basically.

You wake up with a number on your hand that will go up or down depending on your personal growth, and the size of the number is dependent on the severity of your problems. The goal is to get your number down to zero so that you can go back home. while on the train you venture through various train cars filled with random worlds that shouldn't be able to exist in reality.

You, as someone who got on the train and as someone who has a number, are a passenger. The creatures that live on the train are called denizens. Denizens can join you on your journey of self-growth and help you out.

Infinity Train is a great series that deserves a 5th season and if you are interested in watching it you can find the whole thing on HBO Max, or you can pirate it or something. idk. Just be warned it WILL emotionally destroy you, be prepared.

Now onto the actual au

I'm still figuring out the details of how the au will go/the fine details of it, so this is all subject to change lol.

In the au currently Skuld and Ephemer both find themselves stuck in the Infinity Train and decide to team up with each other to try and get off. They are joined by a little stuffed cat denizen named Chirithy! In this au they didn't know each other beforehand, maybe. Still figuring that part out.

Ephemer is really the only character who I've got a solid reasoning for why they're on the train. See, Ephemer's childhood best friend, Player, died recently, and he has not been coping very well. Because of all his built up grief and him blaming himself for not being there for Player, the train shows up for him and he gets on it out of a want to get away from all his grief.

He wakes up in a Car where everything is super large, like he's been shrunk. Think the wonderland world from khux. After panicking he runs into Chirithy, who is NOT supposed to be there. Chirithy isn't quite show how it got there, and after explaining the whole situation to Ephemer asks for his help in getting back to its home. Ephemer, still confused, agrees and they find the exit to the car.

The two meet Skuld in the next car over, which ends up being some creepy abandoned lab type car. (like I said, the cars can be literally anything). Ephemer is wandering around the car looking for an exit when he is all of a sudden attacked by a ghom. A ghom is something in Infinity Train that are a bit like heartless? They're these weird black cockroach-dogs that suck your life force and kill you.

Chirithy panics because "Ghoms aren't supposed to be on the train! They're only supposed to roam the outside wasteland!" and doesn't know what to do, being a foot tall stuffed cat against a dog sized rabid creature. Ephemer is struggling to fight it off when Boom! Skuld comes in with a lead pipe she had pried off the walls! Before Ephemer can process what just happened, Skuld grabs him by the hand and sprints to the exit door, with Chirithy in tow. The three manage to get out relatively unharmed.

Skuld explains that she had woken up in that car and heard Ephemer struggling with the ghom, so without thinking she just attacked the thing. Chirithy explains the whole train deal to Skuld and, despite hesitance from Skuld, they decide to team up and get off the train together.

Now, Skuld's reason for being on the train is still a bit iffy, but I want it to have something to do with her isolating herself from everyone else after someone close to her abused her trust. She's built walls so high that nothing could penetrate them, but unluckily for her Ephemer is willing to climb.

The roles of the other dandelions are still unclear to me, I'll probably decided at some later point so we'll stick a pin in that for later. I'm thinking about having the au being an anthology, just like the actually show. Season one focuses on Ephemer and Skuld, and season two focuses on Lauriam, Ven, Elrena, etc.

Brain is the only one I have an idea for. Brain in this au is pretty morally gray, think his early update personality. Nobody knows why he got on the train, nor how his number got so high (Skuld thinks he murdered a couple people). He shows up now and again with the explanation that he's trying to get to the engine to meet the conductor, though that's where it ends. He's been on the train for years at this point and he's convinced that getting off the train would be a lost cause. He's an anti-hero who likes to mess with the protags.

And that's all for now! feel free to ask me anything else about the au lol. I ramble a lot

#ask rosie a question!#anon ask #long post #kingdom hearts #khux #kingdom hearts union x #infinity train au #infinity cross #kh ephemer #kh skuld #skuld #ephemer #kh brain #brlaine #kh chirithy #chirithy #hoo boy did this get long winded #sorry if some parts don't make sense I am sick

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