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lazaruspiss · 6 months

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so many people just hear "dick was a cop" and go "eww im gonna pretend i didnt see that" and like. if its just bc you cant handle the subject matter thats one thing, but often times its just. performative. especially because the actually storyline is so much about dick trying (and as far as ive gotten to reading so far, failing) to make a change in the system and be a "good cop". it's an extremely heavy but genuinely very interesting storyline. dick does find other "good cops", but they're very much the minority and usually keep their heads down, because cops are bastards and will ruin the lives of "fellow officers" who try and do things right. they try to frame dick for murder at one point and everything.

#its such a long and significant thing that happened and im like. youre explicitly mentioning it just to say you're ignoring it? alright.#sure. so proud of you. im sure that makes a huge difference in the world. very cool.#not trying to shade at any one person but ive just seen that attitude from people have definitely never read nw96 lol #at most they read 93 so they can bitch about how 'terrible' they think it is and use it as an excuse to wish terrible things #onto like. one of Very Few women who were in the comic book industry at the time #but im sure theres nothing internalized going on there. sure its just coincidence that they never bitch about male authors #using the excuse of social justice #love me some social justice but fuckin hate people who try to do it in fictional space instead of like. reality #literally helping no one by harassing Problematic Woman Author #dont even wanna name her bc her haters are some of the worst people ive ever seen on the internet lol #ANYWAYS. im done ranting #woke up at 03:30 and chose violence i guess

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hephaestuscrew · 10 months

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Appreciation post for the Hephaestus crew using the word 'boat' to refer to spaceships

Ep9 The Empty Man Cometh

EIFFEL: Unfortunately the good folks at Goddard Futuristics spared every expense when they put together this boat. [referring to the Hephaestus]

Ep23 No Pressure

EIFFEL: The power and the support systems on this boat do kinda have a rocky relationship… [referring to Lovelace's shuttle]

Ep27 Knock, Knock

MINKOWSKI: I don't trust anyone on this boat right now. [referring to the Hephaestus]

Ep29 Pan-Pan

LOVELACE: Believe me, kids, right now I'm up for killing everything and everyone on this boat. But I promise the grid is down. [referring to the Hephaestus]

Ep30 Mayday

EIFFEL: Eiffel's Action Plan #1: turn this boat around, get back to the Hephaestus. [referring to Lovelace's shuttle]

Ep42 Time to Kill

EIFFEL: And we're sure our little lifeboat can survive the three hour tour? [referring to the experimental module]

Ep61 Brave New World

MINKOWSKI: Miss Young, you're going to go up to the bridge, you're going to get me flight capabilities, and then you and Kepler are going to get the hell off my boat. [referring to the Sol]

#Pretty sure this is all of the uses of 'boat' to actually refer to a spaceship or space station #There's something in the fact that it's only the protagonists who do this #Yes it's partly that we spend more time with them and hear more of their quips #but also there's something about the attitude it reflects towards these high tech (if run down) spacecraft #'Yes we're 8 lightyears from Earth but this is basically a fucked up boat'#They use this phrasing in moments of anger and frustration #Sometimes it's a way of disparaging the station/ship #Sometimes it's a way of asserting ownership over it #Sometimes it's a way of emphasising the sense of confinement and risk #They are sailors trapped together on a boat among the stars at the mercy of the storm…#Also it fits with the retro-futuristic vibe of the Hephaestus #It's a space station but spiritually it's a boat with a patchwork of repairs that's just sprung another leak #I do kinda want to give a honorary mention to Hera's 'speaking as the ship we're going down'#because that's also a nautical way of talking about the Hephaestus #and also because I feel bad when I write a 'Hephaestus Crew' post that doesn't include her #wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #renee minkowski #isabel lovelace #the empty man posteth

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magical-xirl-4 · 8 months

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Shugo Chara is SO GOOD at doing slice of life. The kids hang out by going to the beach, they go shopping or go to a concert, they organise parties and events, Amu spends a day out with her family at the park, she helps her mum at the market, or she goes shopping by herself (though still accompanied by her chara’s), and it feels SO GOOD to watch them do stuff like this because it reminds you of when you were a kid, OR, when you were reading/watching it as a kid, it somewhat reflected your life and made you feel really connected with all the characters and think “hey, I’ve done this”.

Even if you didn’t do most of the things they did, it felt like you could, like you were really hanging out with kids your age and going out and being all mature. They do all of this while magical beings are hanging out with them too, but they are also individual characters with personalities that at the same time, are personally connected to you.

This is why I’ve always wanted an episode where Amu just does mundane things like going to the hairdresser. Or heck even a chapter or episode where she celebrates her birthday with all her friends.

Shugo Chara has always made the mundane seem special and fun, which is why I used to think about it A LOT when I was a child and going out with family or friends. “Amu would do this, she would speak like these to her chara’s, etc.”

I still think about it sometimes like that. It’s basically why it’s my favourite story of all time; because it feels so down to earth.

#shugo chara #here’s a little thing about me: sometimes I look up at the sky and imagine amulet heart flying through it #like. it feels like SHE COULD YKNOW?? it feels like these kids protecting dreams and fighting x-eggs could happen in my backyard #that’s another thing that makes SC so unique compared to other mg shows. it doesn’t hide any of the magic #it’s probably happening in the next street or neighbourhood over #and you wouldn’t know #amu falls into a hole of a contruction sight then flies up and lands on telephone lines/scaffolding #she jumps down from her school roof and the entire school sees her and thinks she’s doing some cheerleader act #GOD I DIDNT EVEN MENTION HOW IN EPISODE 5 AMU CHARA CHANGES AND DOES A SICK FLIP 5 METERS INTO THE AIR #AND NO ONE QUESTIONS IT #I LOVE IT. NONE OF THE KIDS THINK ITS WEIRD. IT JUST HAPPENS. NOTHING QUESTIONED #a lot of the attitude that nearly everyone has in shugo chara towards magic is just ‘welp. this may as well happen’

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anthromimicry · 8 days

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alright, but an important thing to note here... although misao might very much seem to be just this hedonistic, as well as utterly selfish but seemingly smart person, she is also a girl's girl. so i think that is kind of funky fresh of her when you look past all of the atrocities she has committed? and is still?? committing??? idk, i'm just trying to get in the groove of posting on here, so feel free to ignore this y'all 💀 i just imagine her being the kind of person that will say ' slay ' to another woman she sees while walking to work because she absolutely LOVED their outfit but then turn around and plot a patient's or pretty much anyone's downfall because they dared to 'look at her wrong.' like, her and barton may or may not be competing for first place for the worlds most petty character LOL but i love her anyway despite her having some very... interesting ways of navigating the world and her relationships with people, i guess you could say.

#ALL POWER DEMANDS SACRIFICE AND PAIN: musings.#i promise i'll get serious and start posting headcanons on here soon y'all but this was just something that was on my mind for a bit JSJSJ #like we love women supporting women but also... she definitely has some 'attitude problems' as some people might call it LOL #because she can be SO prideful of herself at times.#and so anyone who tries to challenge her view that she is actually not ' all that and a bag of chips? '#yeah they may or may not be getting eaten xxx / hj alright LOL i'm just joking about that... well kind of #she may not be planning on doing something as EXTREME as eating them buttt they would probably be on her shitlist from then on #tw: mentions of cannibalism.

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spiderwarden · 15 days

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Minthara of Menzobarranzans Most Ancient and Powerful House, Daughter of High Priestess Sos'umptu Baenre, of the Matron Baenre Line of Yvonnel Baenre, the first House Matron, Cleric of Lolth Graduated, Leader of the Order of Paladin's of Lolth Service and Enforcer of Menzobarranzan Law, (insert number) in Line to the Baenre Throne - later Heir to the Baenre Throne were not for the exile. me: so a Princess, because she is LEGIT Drow Royalty.

#[ 🕷️ ] —— musings #[ 🕷️ ] —— headcanons #[ not to mention her attitude toward .... common place living that she's mentioned or made off hand comments toward ]#[ me - in woody's voice: IF THE BOOT FITS!!!! ]#[ no but i have many thoughts and people forget she's ... well.. this ]#[ gosh now im thinking of her life before canon and iM BITING M FUCKING FIST CAUSE SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED SHE DESERVES HER OWN BOOKS ]#[ OKAY I HAVE TO WALK MY DOG! ILL DASH BRB ]

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yergink · 1 year

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so i was thinking about the anniversary flashback and there’s something interesting about the way stede and mary’s gifts are really just them misguidedly presenting each other with what they think will be the solution to the problem that is their marriage.

mary gifts stede the lighthouse painting and specifically calls back to what they were told at their wedding. she’s saying “let’s remember what is expected of us.” she’s sort of. tethered, i suppose, to complacency here, and i feel like that’s reflected in what she says later, too. “we’ve only got this one life. we have to try, don’t we?” in this context, it’s kind of admittance that she doesn’t expect to ever have anything more.

then stede attempts to gift mary the revenge--by extension, a life away from society--and he’s really just begging her for an escape. like, he doesn’t know what the problem really is, but it’s like he knows it’s here on land and maybe, just maybe, if they got away, things would be better.

and... neither of them are right in these solutions. on mary’s end--it’s never going to matter how much they try to be together, they’re never going to love each other, they’re never going to be happy in the life they have.

and for stede, he’s never going to have room for his self discovery if his family join him at sea. he needs to disconnect entirely from the societal pressures that have traumatized him.

and it hurts so much more because they are both offering solutions. you could consider that they’re simply in denial about how broken their relationship is, but mary seems genuine when she says she doesn’t hate their lives enough to so completely upend them, and stede does seem excited at the prospect of his family joining him at sea. but at the same time they’re both just so horribly wrong here, and it’s because neither of them understand what the other really needs. staying on land and trying to make their marriage work will only drive stede further into his depression, and them going to sea would sever mary’s chance at getting what she needs (support, community, freedom).

this is all what makes their conversation in ep 10 so much more meaningful. them sitting down together, finally and for once having an actual honest discussion is like a sigh of relief. they finally get the chance to see each other clearly for the first time and it’s. just so wonderful in comparison.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #mary bonnet #marine blogs #and something i sort of wanted to mention but wasnt sure where to fit here #is that mary's attitude before stede leaves makes what we see of her in ep 10 feel so much more triumphant #and speaks wonders to her growth and how free she actually feels as she's finally willing to take action in forming the life she wants #rather than just doing what is expected of her #and honestly this entire piece came about mostly because i was thinking about mary #i pulled this together from my 3am discord ramblings i hope it makes at least some sense lmao

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admirableadmiranda · 2 years

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*annoys you so you're motivated to write meta about the Jiang sect's restrictive 'freedom'*

Okay, okay I’ll get to it. Apparently this was a lot more popular a thing needed than I realized. I was thinking I’d have to see some more posts on how Yu Ziyuan is the only problem in the sect first before we got there!

But very well, let’s talk about Yunmeng Jiang and how the rot was always there at the core even before Yu Ziyuan showed up. I could say I was confused at how people came around to the idea that it was fine or the best sect before Yu Ziyuan married in and ruined everything and made it into this toxic, classist place where Wei Wuxian struggled and if only he’d lived in his father’s Yunmeng Jiang he would have been perfectly happy and never wanted to move to Gusu, but honestly it’s kinda subtle and especially for us westerners for whom freedom and a lack of restrictions is portrayed as ideal, it can be hard to see.

So here, let’s start off this meta with a bang, let us rip aside the facade of supposed freedom and clever mottos and examine what the book shows us about Lotus Pier and the people within.

Given what we know in story, Yunmeng Jiang was likely never a sect of true freedom and if it once was, it hasn’t been for a long time.

In order to explain what I mean, let’s talk about the founder of the sect and then the scraps of information we get from the sect before Jiang Fengmian’s leadership. There’s not a lot, but what we get is damning to the whole image of Yunmeng Jiang in my opinion.

I will preface this with saying we never find out much about any of the sect leaders who either founded or transformed their sects into clans in universe. It happened at least five hundred years ago when Wen Mao proposed elevating the family above the sect and in some sort of order, everyone followed suit.

The founder of the YunmengJiang Sect, Jiang Chi, was born a rogue cultivator. The ways of the sect were honest and unrestrained.

That is all we get of who they were and the sect’s attitude. Honest and unrestrained we do see in equal measures in the Yunmeng Jiang of today. But there is nothing of equality or of a lack of class boundaries that people ascribe to it.

Jiang Chi is the founder of Yunmeng Jiang, we don’t know exactly when but given that the name is inextricably tied to the clan, it would likely be close to the same time as Wen Mao’s reform. What we know of them is that they were a rogue cultivator who settled in Yunmeng and gave the clan its difficult to translate motto that basically comes to “Know what is impossible to do, then do it anyway.” After that what else we know of the sect is that it keeps its gates open so that the commoners can come in and watch the boys training, it was in some sort of decline even before Yu Ziyuan married in and that Jiang Fengmian was pressured into marrying her. But the cracks are there if you look for them, so let me show you a few examples.

Lotus Pier wasn’t as other-worldly as the other sects’ residences, shutting their doors and refusing to let commoners come within a boundary miles away. The docks right in front of Lotus Pier’s entrance often bustled with vendors selling seed pods, water chestnuts and all kinds of pastries. Runny-nosed children from households nearby could also sneak into Lotus Pier’s fields to watch the cultivators practice their swords. They wouldn’t be scolded even if they got caught, either. They could sometimes even play around with the Jiang Sect’s disciples.

Here is our first description of Lotus Pier itself, which on the surface looks pretty good. They let people come in much closer and the children can even come within the sect to watch the cultivators training without being scolded.

But there is still a thread of exclusion in it. They let people come up to sell just outside of the sect, but there’s no mention about them crossing in. The children can sneak in to watch the cultivators practice and sometimes play with the disciples, but there’s no hint of them being taken in or trained.

Lotus Pier lets the common people see them, but there’s little true interaction or crossing over.

There were only five people within the large hall. In front of everyone was a small, square table, on top of which were a few dishes of food. Head lowered, Wei WuXian only had a few mouthfuls as somebody tugged at the corner of his sleeve. Turning around, he saw Jiang YanLi pass over a small dish. Inside the dish was a dozen peeled lotus seeds, soft and white, fresh and succulent.

Even within the halls itself, there is still a great divide between classes that is more subtly noted. Wei Wuxian is allowed to eat with them, but for a sect that is supposedly more relaxed and not classist aside , why do they have a great hall with only five people eating in it?

Madam Yu scolded, “Of course you’ll go! Or else would your sister go? Look at her, still happily peeling lotus seeds. A-Li, stop peeling them. Who are you peeling them for? You’re the mistress, not somebody’s servant!”

Hearing the word ‘servant’, Wei WuXian didn’t mind much. He had finished all of the lotus seeds in the dish all at once, chewing as the soft, refreshing sweetness filled his mouth. Jiang FengMian, on the other hand, raised his head slightly, “My lady.”

Madam Yu, “What, something I said? Servant? You don’t want to hear the word? Jiang FengMian, let me ask you—this time, do you intend to let him go?”

A lot of other people have gone over all the other text that proves that Wei Wuxian is a servant of the Yunmeng Jiang, but here it is again. Jiang Yanli and Wei Wuxian are close, but it is emphasized that she is the mistress and he is the servant. He is permitted to eat with them, but Jiang Yanli making him some lotus seeds is crossing the line.

Now we could assume that this is all Yu Ziyuan’s influence, but I don’t think so. While she is fierce and assertive, her influence on Yunmeng Jiang is surprisingly minimal for all the noise she makes. She lives in a house alone with other members of her family that she brought from Meishan Yu and her two trusted servants, spends nearly all her time out night hunting and mostly shows up to scream at everyone and leave. What she mostly does is make it louder. It was always there.

Her influence certainly exists in the sect, but she didn’t exactly bring the classism with her. It already existed there with Wei Changze and his reputation, and Jiang Fengmian’s father being interested in arranging a marriage with an old, reputable sect regardless of how his son felt about it. A sect that didn’t care wouldn’t have these details given to us.

“Now, hold on Sangsang,” I can hear you say as you read this, “what about the event with Wang Lingjiao and Madam Yu? Doesn’t that show that it’s her influence that made this happen?” To which I say, no! Not at all. It’s just that the way that servants work in the Jiang sect are a little different from the Wen sect. They are bodyguards and companions to the members of the main family, hence why Wei Wuxian is allowed to eat at the table with them, but it does not equality make.

“After they had finished the tour, Wang LingJiao finally arrived at the main hall. Without anyone’s invitation, she presumed her seat at the head table. She sat for a while. Seeing that nobody was going to serve her, she slammed the table with a frown, demanding, “Where’s the tea?”

Although she was enveloped in lustre, her mannerisms showed no courtesy at all. She acted like a complete buffoon. Having spent the journey with her, everyone was used to seeing this. Madam Yu sat down one seat lower. The wide hems of her robe and sleeves spread out, making her figure appear to be even more slender, her posture even more graceful. JinZhu and YinZhu stood behind her, both wearing light smirks on their faces.

YinZhu replied, “There is no tea. Get it yourself if you want any.”

Wang LingJiao widened her eyes, shocked, “Don’t the Jiang Sect’s servants ever do anything?”

JinZhu, “The Jiang Sect’s servants have more important things to do. Nobody ever needs others to do things like pouring tea. They’re not crippled.”

Wang LingJiao examined them, “Who are you?”

Madam Yu, “My personal maids.”

Wang LingJiao spoke with disdain, “Madam Yu, your Jiang Sect really is outrageous. This can’t be the case. Even maids dare interrupt a conversation in the main hall. Servants like this have their faces slapped in the Wen Sect.”

If this were specifically a trait brought over from Meishan Yu and not something that were baked into the sect to begin with, it would stand out. The scene is two arrogant women taking their preconceived notion of statuses against each other, but there is no doubt in the position of servants and where they stand in Yunmeng Jiang, only what their responsibility is.

The most damning evidence however is most apparent not in Wei Wuxian’s descriptions, but his father’s. And this is consistent throughout the story long before they start calling Wei Wuxian a servant as well.

Wei Changze left the Jiang sect of his own accord before Wei Wuxian was ever born and died as a rogue cultivator who had married the disciple of Baoshan-sanren. By all means that should have been how he was remembered if Yunmeng Jiang really hadn’t had the classism problem before Madam Yu moved in and Wei Wuxian shouldn’t have been equally raised as a servant to Jiang Cheng because Jiang Fengmian had the power to give him status even as a full disciple. In addition, we know from interviews that Jiang Fengmian owes Cangse-sanren a life debt. To take in their son into his family or raise him as a full disciple would be the closest he could get to fulfilling that obligation. Wei Wuxian could have escaped it if Jiang Fengmian were the sort of man I sometimes see him presented as, a perfect man aside from Yu Ziyuan’s changes in the sect who doesn’t

However, even Jiang Fengmian, who does get uncomfortable when Yu Ziyuan shouts servant too much around him, automatically makes him a servant from the beginning, a special playmate for Jiang Cheng. Jiang Fengmian had a personal servant who was close to him as he grew up, someone who he could rely on, and he immediately elects to repeat that. He has a life debt, he supposedly has these morals. But instead he reinforces it and locks Wei Wuxian down into servitude to the Jiang sect and obliges him even at the end of his life to do his duty.

As a wrap up on perspectives, let’s look at this block of text from Poisons.

However, soon afterward, the MeishanYu Sect proposed an alliance through marriage to the YunmengJiang Sect. The leader of the Jiang Sect back then was quite interested, but Jiang FengMian had no such intentions. He didn’t like Yu ZiYuan’s conduct and felt that the two wouldn’t be an appropriate match. He had politely refused the offer a handful of times. However, the MeishanYu Sect set about multiple factors, putting pressure on Jiang FengMian, who was at the time still fairly young and had nothing to lean on. Along with the fact that, not long later, ZangSe SanRen had become cultivation partners with the most loyal servant at Jiang FengMian’s side, Wei ChangZe, and rode off into the sunset, roaming around the world, Jiang FengMian finally gave up.

Although Jiang and Yu were married, they had ever since been a grudging couple. They had always been living apart and held the most disagreeable of conversations. Aside from the strengthening of their sect’s powers, nobody knew what other benefits they had attained.

What we get out of this is that Jiang Fengmian’s father was all for a politically advantageous marriage to a wealthy, old sect, something incongruent with the supposed image of them not caring about status. Nothing actually changes aside from them being married yet not in agreement. But the servants still exist as they did before she married in. Additionally, any claims that Wei Changze might have had status of his own as head disciple or anything like that is roundly defeated by the fact that he is clearly listed as a servant here and will never escape that title even in death.

Yunmeng Jiang is not just a sect in general, it is listed as one of the Five Great Sects. The things they say and the power they wield are accepted and the things they say of the people within or formally of their sect have merit. Jin Guangyao once adopted into Lanling Jin is recognized as a son of the sect for all of the classism surrounding him. Jin Guangyao points out that if Jiang Cheng had stood beside Wei Wuxian, the other sects would have dulled to grumbling and not stood up against them, hence why the division between the two had to be solidified. It stands to reason that were Wei Changze acknowledged as a full fledged, free cultivator, especially before he left the Jiang sect, that would be known. But he is forever a servant in the world’s eyes and that includes the Jiang sect before Yu Ziyuan ever married in. The same thing that damns Wei Wuxian as everyone sees him as rising above his status in a sect that supposedly is supposed to be unrestrained and honest.

They are, they are unrestrained in attitude and honest in their classism.

Wei Wuxian himself never complains about his treatment in Yunmeng Jiang aside from being displeased with the whipping and the only one attacked whenever all the boys are getting into trouble. No matter where he goes, it does act as a barrier, even in Cloud Recesses once the other boys realize that his status prevents them from getting in trouble with him. It’s part of why Lan Wangji accepting punishment alongside him absolutely stuns him and his first reaction is to try and say that Lan Wangji doesn’t deserve it. He knows the narrative, even if he doesn’t actually like it that much.

He has no problem stating that he is a servant, challenging Jiang Cheng on what’s so wrong with it, but it is consistently used to put him down by the world around him, even when he is in that supposed bastion of freedom, Lotus Pier. Just because it has a looser attitude at the seams does not mean that he ever escapes that stranglehold of status no matter where he is and what he does. If it really mattered so little in Yunmeng Jiang, then why is it so well known that he and his father were servants to the sect? It is only once he marries Lan Wangji and their marriage is acknowledged by Gusu Lan that he seems to shake those shackles at last, there is a freedom in his actions post canon only matched by when everyone thought he was Mo Xuanyu and he finally had the ability to breathe.

Very early on, he even has a line that people often seem to forget when talking about how he could act in Yunmeng Jiang, both in people who want to condemn his actions and people who want to say that he was happy in Lotus Pier aside from Madam Yu while he’s gearing up to make a complete mockery of Madam Mo.

“In terms of running wild, Wei Wuxian was definitely a master. In the past, if he wanted to run wild, he would have to keep his status in mind, but now, he was a lunatic anyways, which meant that he could do whatever he wanted to, whichever way he wanted.”

MXTX is big on showing, not telling, but she gives us enough information to be able to make the connections on his status and how ill suited Yunmeng Jiang always was to him. There is a lot of irony, both humorous and dramatic in those early chapters with his statements on how no one would want to marry into Gusu Lan and how he has no need to memorize these rules, but also it’s very clear that he’s having a much better time at the Lectures than he ever was back in Lotus Pier. He is an unrestrained spirit, to be sure, but for all that Yunmeng Jiang professes it in their motto, he and Wei Changze were forever bound by their status even after they both died.

The sect that is initially presented to us as the free sect he should thrive in ties his wings down, the sect built to be honest and unrestrained. But the sect built by an ascetic priest who fell in love is the place where he finally can spread his wings in all their vivid glory, truly free at last.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #yunmeng jiang #jiang sect #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #canon jiang cheng #yu ziyuan #jiang yanli #mdzs meta #the classism in mdzs setting #the meta I threatened to write before #perhaps once it was the sect that people seemed to think it was #but if that was the case it was much longer ago than it sounds #yu ziyuan didn't break the sect she just revealed what was already there #for all of her attitude she is incompetent in impacting anything on the story #including the sect that definitely had servants that were bound to the sect far more deeply than fandom likes to acknowledge that they were #every single sect is mentioned as having servants #yunmeng jiang is no different #and just because they let people look in doesn't mean they LET them in #if anything it's almost crueler to let them see what they will never be allowed to have #it's still just as barred to the children around lotus pier as it is around jinlintai or cloud recesses #just they get to watch the cultivators practice sometimes and even not get chased away for it

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the-owl-tree · 9 months

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Misty deserves to go ape shit. Let her do murder.

I’m a fan of Misty drowning Leopardstar when they get to the lake. After all the shit Leopardstar did and let happen even after Tigerclan disbanded, Misty won’t let it blow a second time, or with a stone for the symbolism (can you tell Bonefall has infected me?)

I refuse to believe she didn’t take at least one of Blackstar’s lives and there’s no quotes in canon saying otherwise so I’m right by default :)

Dueling him wasn’t a request, it was her right in her mind and she dared anyone to deny her rights again.

you 🤝 me

pro misty going murder mode

Also BIG yeah on that last point. He executed her brother, he wouldn’t be able to show his face if he denied her right to retribution. You have nine lives and yet you deserve none of them, nine lives but I’ll take one and may you never forget it.

#deer rambles #giggling and kicking my feet thinking about cat fuels #i mentioned it in my tags but i do love bonefall’s post tpb rc political climate #how the ideology of Tigerstar still lingers and Leopardstar only allows it to fester #and it posits the solution when this happen: rip out the weed #leopardstar wasn’t going to risk losing her community for her attitude #she was the one who was going to make it spread

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engagemythrusters · 10 months

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okay okay okay.

So the truth about Anakin is that everything around him shapes him into who he is. That’s true of every person. His decisions are made based on what he thinks to be true, and what he thinks to be true is heavily influenced by Palpatine. And what isn’t influenced by Palps is directly manipulated into him. And he is likewise influenced by Obi-Wan and Padme and his past.

His choices and decisions, being based on all of these things, could easily have gone wholly different had his sphere of life been changed even in little ways. If he had talked less to Palps. If he had opened more to Obi-Wan. If Padme hadn’t been away for ten whole years. If his mother had been freed. If… well, you get the picture.

And that’s very interesting. Because, again. This is true for all of us. Little things truly do make us.

Anyway all this to say I want some small thing to change the whole story of Star Wars for a fun Anakin Is Not As Fucked Up (But Still Pretty Fucked) AU.

#I’m thinking it’s got to be RIGHT away when Anakin shows up #like. anything from shmi getting freed to live her own life on tatooine (Anakin no longer afraid for her safety)#or perhaps the issue of Anakin having been a slave mentioned to Obi-Wan more directly (he catches padmes words in passing and his attitude #shifts ever so slightly.)#or maybe obi-wan gets hurt in the duel (Anakin stays at his bedside. palpatine never says he will watch Anakins progress that day)#LITTLE THINGS #maybe disable obiwan. patience for Anakin learned thru necessity.#maybe padme shows up every once and a while. his longing isn’t overwhelming. it’s not rushed lust.#maybe obiwan and Anakin need a trip to Tattooine. he gets to see his mother. even if just across the sands in passing #while she never sees him #LITTLE!!! THINGS!!!#again Anakin makes his own choices but what if. a new universe where he shaped himself into new choices #I’m gonna slice obi-wans throat open maybe #anakin skywalker #Star Wars

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Mothdela: Evelin’s first job! (2003)

DAVE AND EVELIN ORIGIN STORY LET’S GO 🗣️ I LOVE FOUND FAMILY 💥💥

There was only one moth in town who was known for his weird mustache, weird sunglasses, and his extremely large store where you can find literally anything… Dave Lee.

Dave Lee was a moth who owned the biggest shop in town, where you can find anything you need and more. From plants to decorations to a long gone ancient species (not really, but he’d have one there if he could), it was all here. Dave had an interest in… well, everything. Anything that he liked, he’d put up for sale in the shop. Anything that he loved, he’d tuck it away in the back of the store for him to personally admire.

He kind of sounds like a hoarder when you put it that way, and he probably is. Not to mention, he lives inside of his beloved shop. Remember the back of the store? Yeah, that’s his room. There’s a lot of stuff back there, mostly strange contraptions that Ruth found while exploring the human world.

Despite his tendency to obsessively gather various objects, he was actually a pretty nice guy. You would never see him frowning, and the elderly moths of Mandela describe him as a “polite young man”. He also loves to wear accessories, and wears a silly-looking thing on his face called “sunglasses”. He also wears a fake mustache, and never takes it off. Says it makes him look “cool”.

But one day, he realized he couldn’t continue running the shop all on his own. It was getting to be a lot to manage, the organizing, the pricing, making sure everything is clean… he can’t do that all by himself! So he began to advertise that he was hiring. And soon enough, someone came in looking for a job.

The day after he put out the advertisements, Dave was standing behind the register and hoping that someone would take his offer. That’s when a teenage girl walked right through the door. At first, he thought she was a customer. “Welcome to Dave’s, hope ya find everything you need!” The moth put on a friendly smile.

The girl stayed silent, seeming a little nervous. Her mouth was curled into a frown. Dave hated when people looked so sad, especially in normal situations like going to the store. It made his heart ache for them, because they shouldn’t have to be so down while out and about! “Why so sad, kiddo? You should try on a smile for a change! Unless you don’t have a reason to smile. I know I didn’t when I was your age!” The moth said with a cheesy grin, trying to get her to smile or laugh. It definitely comes off as rude and condescending to tell people to smile more, but Dave unfortunately never picked up on that important social rule. He just didn’t want her mood to be sour for the whole day.

The girl sighed, walking up to the register and ignoring his previous comment. “Uh… I’m actually here for the job application.” She sounded a little tired. That’s probably why she looks so sad… she had to get up early in the morning to go to a job interview…

It genuinely surprised Dave that such a young person was able to go out and work. He never did any of that stuff when he was a teenager, just stayed home with his father most of the time. “Oh! Yes, yes… just give me a second…” The moth then went searching for the papers that he made for the job application. There was a lot of stuff behind the register, so it was a bit hard to find them. Luckily, he found the papers and a quill underneath six rocks. “Aha! Just fill out these papers and you’ll be good to go.” He handed them to her, they were hand-written in barely illegible handwriting.

The teenage moth was just as surprised as he was. No job interview? Just these papers? Of course, she wasn’t about to complain. The less she had to do to get this job, the better.

As the girl signed the papers, Dave began to ask some questions. He’s curious as to why such a young person wants to work, and he’s never seen her around town before. Wouldn’t hurt to get to know her if she’s gonna be working here. “Soooo… should probably ask ya some questions. What’s your name, kid? I’m Dave Lee, but you can just call me Dave or even just Lee.”

The teenager looked up from the papers she was filling in, rolling her eyes. She was writing her name down right now on the papers he just gave her, why is he even asking? Whatever… “I’m Evelin.” She quickly responded, hastily getting back to what she was doing before.

Dave nodded, noting that she has a bit of an attitude. But she’s a teenage girl, that sort of attitude is in the blood of every single one of them… But enough about the brutal nature of teenage girls, because he thinks he’s heard that name somewhere. “Evelin, huh? Where have I heard that name before…” He trails off, before a lightbulb seems to flicker in his head. “You from Bythorne, by any chance?”

“Yeah, I am…” Evelin responded with an unamused look, not bothering to look up from the paperwork this time. She wanted to get this over with.

The lightbulb in Dave’s head finally went off, his face lighting up with recognition. “Oh- Ohhhhh!! I know you! Or, well- I don’t know you, but I’ve heard about ya! You’re that kid who’s dating my friend’s-friend’s-daughter’s-friend!”

“…What?” Evelin finally looked up at him again, a little surprised by… whatever that was.

Dave chuckled, leaning forward. “Well… I know a guy, who knows a gal, who has a daughter, who has a friend named Adam. Ring a bell?”

Evelin’s face immediately flushed. They’ve only been dating for a few months, how did the word get out to another part of the forest and to her employer?? “O-Oh! Yeah, that’s my boyfriend…” This was so embarrassing…

Bingo! “Small world, huh? That daughter I was talking about, her name is Lilith. She’s Adam’s best buddy, or whatever. You know her too, or…?” He didn’t know a lot about Lilith and her personal life. She’s a shy one, he’s only heard her mutter a few words in the time he’s known her.

The teenager’s face lit up in recognition as well, finally knowing who exactly he was talking about. “Not really… Adam says we would get along well, and he wants me to meet her sometime.” Evelin wondered if Lilith lived around this area. Adam described her as a very red Io Moth. Maybe if she saw her, she could stop by and say hello.

After a few minutes, she was finished. There was only like, two papers she needed to fill in. This was actually pretty easy… “Alright. I’m done.” Evelin handed the papers back to him, before stepping back and allowing him to read them.

“Thanks, kiddo!” He exclaimed with glee, reading the papers over. Let’s see… Evelin Miller, 16 years old, lives in Bythorne, never had a job before… Good enough! You don’t need much experience to clean and organize stuff, and that’s really all she needs to do here.

“Well.. Welcome to the job, Evelin! I’ll show ya around, get you familiar with what you’re doing here.” Wow, that was easy. Dave stepped out from behind the register, now leading Evelin across the massive shop full of items galore. As she followed him around, she began to wonder how he even navigates this place. So much stuff…

“These are my plants… and these are my rocks…” The man went through all of the store, showing the girl his collection with pride. Evelin wasn’t really paying attention at this point, considering he took it upon himself to name every single item he had. After he took her around the whole store, he turned around to her with a serious look. “Oh, and one more thing…”

“Hm?” Evelin raised an eyebrow, wondering what he had to tell her now. He already ran his mouth for like, an hour while he was showing her around. What more could he possibly have to say?

Dave took a small breath. “If you ever need anything while you’re here, like food, water, whatever you need… just come to me. Or like, if you need your parents or guardians or whatever, give me a holler and I’ll send you their way.” He gave her an awkward thumbs up. He didn’t really know why or how a 16 year old wants to hold down a job, so he had no idea how to treat her during her time here. He assumed that she’d probably need to get out of work early every once and a while, for… teenager things? God, he had not a single clue what normal teens even did.

“Uhhhh… okay!” Evelin gave a thumbs up back, and shrugged her shoulders. Dave gave her another thumbs up before getting lost in his thoughts. Shouldn’t she be going to school, or something? Or like… hanging out with friends or… watching a movie? Is it normal for teenagers to go out by themselves and get a job like this? He never had a job when he was a teen. He started this business in his early 20’s, after his father finally died and left all of his belongings in his possession. So, like… he kinda had no idea that teens even do this business stuff.

Evelin noticed him zoning out a little, his face resting in a blank stare. “You should try a smile for a change.” She said with a cocky smirk, crossing her arms at him.

The moth’s thoughts were interrupted, though he was immediately happy to see that Evelin was now smiling. “It wouldn’t be much of a change, now would it? I’m smiling like, 89% of the time.” He laughed heartily, placing his hands on his hips.

“Yeah, yeah… anyways, when do I start?” The teenager waved her hand in dismissal, wanting to know when she was actually going to start working here and not just talking to her boss.

“Oh- Uhhhh…” He never actually planned a starting date for any potential employees. Nor did he plan a schedule. He didn’t plan that far… “Is tomorrow good…?” Dave asked after a bit of thinking. Surely, she had the time to start tomorrow. After all, she’s still young, so she probably has a bunch of free time.

After some consideration, Evelin responded. “I don’t have anything to do tomorrow, so… sounds good.” She lightly smiled at him, giving another thumbs up at him.

Dave nodded in confirmation. Tomorrow it is! “See ya tomorrow then, kiddo. Get some rest.” He waved goodbye, hoping she made it home safe. After all, Bythorne to Mandela was such a long fly!

“Gotcha…” Evelin waved goodbye as well, but only left with more questions about this job and the man’s strange behavior…