#this shit is gonna be lit

[hollowaluminumvessel]

i just had a dream about Bolas Rojas. guys im gonna be the first to admit, i might not be as normal as I think I am

#qsmp #help please #i beg i plead #qsmp team red #qsmp team bolas #im gonna show up to school tomorrow completely naked with a gas mask on #yall have no idea #this shit is gonna be lit #can I say this is a nerdy prudes must die reference if I have that one Peter song stuck in my head #as strong as I think I am 💪 #whooaaoaa oh

[in-danmei-hell-send-help]

I think what kills me about Jiang Cheng antis is that a lot of their talking points reek of anti survivor rhetoric. As someone who is a survivor and has done a lot of advocacy for victims and survivors of power based personal violence, I want to be the first to inform you that the narrative of the “pretty survivor” (which is steeped in cishet normative, white supremacist, and ableist ideas) is an extremely rare case. Trauma survivors are rarely pretty. The Wei Wuxian’s of the world are incredibly uncommon. 

Trauma--especially intense, horrific trauma like what Jiang Cheng went through--often leads to intense issues of anger and hatred. It makes you deeply emotional and can often lead to you becoming unstable. Jiang Cheng lost his entire family and community in the span of a few years. He didn’t have access to therapy (something that literally anyone would need to heal from that), he had to rebuild his entire sect, likely had to fight an uphill battle in order to be a significant part of Jin Ling’s life, all while cleaning up the mess that Wei Wuxian left behind.

This is not to hate on Wei Wuxian, he’s my third favorite character (after Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji) and I love him deeply, but he left behind a legacy that Jiang Cheng had to clean up. Whether or not he realized this would happen, Wei Wuxian created a cultivation path (gui dao/ghost cultivation) that is extremely dangerous and horrific. While I still don’t know if I believe that Jiang Cheng killed every demonic cultivator he came across, I don’t know that it was necessarily a bad thing that he did kill them. We’ve talked a lot in the cxc server about gui dao and demonic cultivation and just how much it harms the mind and body. Wei Wuxian is the exception to the rule in having such control over it and even he eventually succumbed to it. If demonic cultivators are causing great harm, then a cultivators job is to stop that harm and the source of it. That may mean killing the demonic cultivator. I think people get mixed up when (I think it was Jingyi) said that Jiang Cheng kills the wrong person. I believe it was @twilightarc-gm who said that “wrong” doesn’t imply innocent but rather the fact that the person isn’t Wei Wuxian. We know that Jiang Cheng spent thirteen years trying to find Wei Wuxian and when he does find him, he doesn’t kill him despite having literally every reason to.

Like idk y’all, if the guy that got my entire clan wiped out, my sect burned down, and caused the deaths of my sister and her husband died and came back from dead, I wouldn’t just threaten him with a dog and yell at him. I would kill him. But he doesn’t he has every opportunity to in multiple instances after confirming that it’s Wei Wuxian, but he never does. He seems more interested in dragging Wei Wuxian home (literally stating that he’s going to bring Wei Wuxian home to Lotus Pier to kneel before his parents’ graves). Like that doesn’t imply that he’s going to kill Wei Wuxian, but rather make him repent. 

I think it’s telling that despite a lot of Jiang Cheng’s hurt and pain, he still chooses to not severely hurt or kill Wei Wuxian, it would be within his right to do so, but in the end after it’s all over, he let’s Wei Wuxian go. He doesn’t tell Wei Wuxian that he sacrificed himself for him, because he knew that Wei Wuxian would feel guilty and obligated to him, just like Wei Wuxian knew Jiang Cheng would feel guilty and obligated. That to me shows a survivor choosing to break the cycle of hurt and pain and I have to question why Jiang Cheng antis so often choose to ignore the side of him that does love Wei Wuxian (it’s up to the viewer whether they see that love as romantic or platonic), enough so to let him go and not burden him with pain.

Jiang Cheng’s story and character arc is at it’s core about trauma, survival, and rising above dire circumstances despite the odds. He attempts the impossible and manages to succeed in it. And to ignore that is a disservice to his character, survivors of trauma, and the effort MXTX put into creating such a complex and interesting character.

#Jiang Cheng #canon jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #yunmeng shuangjie #the untamed #cql #this sounds like a fucking essay #tell me u were a lit major without telling me u were a lit major #mdzs meta #jiang cheng meta #stop being shitty to characters that are ugly victims #it's fucking telling to a lot of survivors that u aren't a safe person #and that u don't care about survivors if they aren't a 'good' victim #news flash #the way abusers isolate their victims is by acting like pretty survivors #if ur gonna pull the the shit u do #and say with ur whole chest that characters like jc are irredeemable #then maybe don't say ur a safe person for people with trauma

[francy-sketches]

'umm ackchually team green and team black is about which side you support politically not which characters you like more 🙄' oh my god shut the fuck up they're not real political parties none of this is real touch grass PLEASE

#.txt #hotd #at the end of the day for most people its gonna be which characters they like more #so ofc when you say shit like 'all people who are team green are sexist' theyre gonna be mad at you lol #you shouldnt support either side politically anyway what are you a monarchist??? #anyway im team the dragons and boy am i losing 😍 #why do they all have to die horribly T_T #ok not all but still T_T #also theyre not sparkly enought hbo you wil answer for your dimly lit muded color palette crimes

[space--hobbit]

hey crew, I'm alive!

it's been OVER A YEAR since I started this piece, and it's finally done.

Our Flag Means Classics: The Redemption of the Kraken Rebelle 5 and Photoshop 100+hrs

This is all painted - not edited into the original!

#ofmd #gay pirates #our flag means fanart #our flag means death #that trailer really lit a fire under my goddamn arse to get all my WIPs done #like daaaamn bitch you really have like 6 WIPS and a list to do and there's gonna be new content in a MONTH? get your shit together

[petrichormeraki]

WAS ANYBODY GONNA TELL ME THAT JOEL AND SKIZZ ARE HERMITS NOW???

#OH MY FUCKING GOD HELLO?????? #THIS SEASON IS GONNA BE SO LIT OMG #hermitcraft #HOLY SHIT #meraki post

[send-me-a-puffalope]

why did my teachers think it was okay to give us like one single weekend to finish all of our midterm projects and study for our tests.

#slight vent #i have 3 projects and 3 tests #i’m halfway through my lit/history project and halfway through my psych project #and maybe a quarter done with my programming project #which is fucking insane btw cause how tf am i supposed to code a whole video game in like 3 days on top of everything else 😭😭😭 #and some things he hasn’t taught us and just thinks that we should just be able to figure out like HELLO???/?/// #I DONT HAVE TIME TO TEACH MYSELF NEW CODE #ITS THE MIDTERM/FINAL FOR THE CLASS?????? #and once the weekend starts i’ll have no one to trouble shoot my stuff and fix my bugs so literally i’ll be hopeless so 😭😭😭 #my calc teacher JUST finished teaching us everything we need for the midterm TODAY. THE MIDTERM IS ON WEDNESDAY. BRO. #my physics teacher doesn’t let us copy down any of our idk test questions or take our old assessments home to study #*old #so we get to look em over for like 20 mins and hand em back. which doesn’t exact fucking help me when i’m studying for the midterm. #WITH NO STUDY GUIDE. #my teachers even said that this years midterms are worse than previous years cause they’re all in a row instead of split by a weekend #we’ve had 2 delayed openings and 1 early dismissal this week which means we have less time to work on our midterm projects in class 😭😭😭😭 #i’m so overwhelmed i’m gonna explode #by the time i finish these projects i’m not gonna have anymore energy/time to study for my tests. WHICH IS THE HARD SHIT BTW.

[lollytea]

How do I say, without coming across as a jaded miserable little bitch who likes raining on everybody's parade, that the PJO Disney plus adaption is nostalgia bait, in the same way that their live action remakes are

#it'll probably be good #it sounds like its gonna be a pretty faithful adaption #im not denying that #but #20-30 something year old you ARE being pandered to by the Walt Disney Corporation #its fine to be excited for it. just so long as we are all aware of whats happening #also we gotta stop acting like mr riordan is some underdog in this situation #hes written one of the most successful teen lit series of all time #and in disney's current quirky girl phase of grasping hold of anything that already has a following #of COURSE they snatched this shit up #''Percy Jackson. A Disneyplus original.'' #do you have any idea just how much theyre salivating to have their name attached to this series? #(tbf the books were owned by disney too. but a streaming service makes their link to the franchise all the more evident) #anyway. maybe i sometimes get a little bitter when i think about all the original projects in production that were abruptly cancelled #usually because of the current fear to take risks and put something new into the world #and then i remember adaptions like are going ahead #there is no risk associated the pjo series. the first few books are relatively squeaky clean for a teenage audience #this is a comfortable direction for them to go in #''but but but theres gay people in it'' hush. disney is not afraid of captilizing on the gay experience #also im pretty sure the gay people dont show up until like. 8 books in #thats 8 seasons #can you imagine #''guys we need to keep giving this show our support so we can eventually get solanjello (or whatever its called)'' #ooooh theyre quite evil. very interesting #even tho like. dont worry you'll get your gay people eventually. you'll get all your book adaptions. you'll get all those seasons. #this franchise is disneys new pet #you can smell it #the hype. the cast announcements. the promotion #LIN MANUEL MIRANDA??? #theyre going to squeeze every last drop of engagement they can get out of it

[deadthehype]

Frank Ocean is performing at Coachella tonight, and I feel like I’m the only person excited to see his set. The nigga came out of hiding for the first time in 87 years, about to perform new music and possibly nostalgia, ultra cuts based on the BMW promo leading up to today, and not one peep so far.

#this shit gonna be lit

[astranauticus]

A thrilling and horrific tale of 5 strangers caught up in a mysterious supernatural conspiracy, will they uncover the secrets of the peculiar artefact bestowed upon them or will they fall to what lurks in the shadows? Find out in Curse of the Amulet, coming to a theatre (heh) near you this Halloween season!

#rolling with difficulty #how the fuck do i tag this #rwd curse of the amulet #?????????? #for the full effect please imagine sophia's voice reading that caption #and disregard the fact that i wrote 'this halloween season' in the dead of july #this took me like a full month to draw and like yeah i was busy with other shit in the meantime but i just feel the need to point that out #bc this wasnt even as high effort as my last piece THAT was me running at 120% #this was just a very 'some things are gonna take all week no matter how half you ass them' kinda project #also in case youre wondering yeah alistair's was the one i thought up first and it was 100% inspired by the original cats musical poster #that and red's joke at the end of the episode about jay gatsby surviving all the glowing green lights #im still mad about that btw. cuz the great gatsby was my favourite alevel lit text and jay gatsby is my pathetic little meow meow #so the fact that someone in this one shot set in 1920s america is playing just Jay Gatsby But Worse is just #KJSDHFKJSDHFKJHDKH #/pos i love alistair so much #art i made

[weaselle]

to be truly californian is to hear your californian friend say

"the bed was against a wall with shelves, and they had glass and metal sculptures on the shelves"

and instinctively gasp in horror "over their heads?"

#we have no idea what to do in a hurricane tho #also if i see you ash your cigarette out your window i'm judging you harshly and if you drop the lit end out the window we're gonna fight #we light on fire every year and some years it gets downright hellish so i better not catch you at that shit #california #ca #my life #oh and now that you're down here deeper in the tags #the answer to the post is: earthquakes

[boyjoan]

ACCIDENTALLY WENT INSANE IN MY LOCAL BOOKSHOP

#its an independent that focuses on queer lit and feminist lit and all sorts of other things #but i spent way too much omg.... #i got; #black and british #a series of essays on food (!!!!) #a book on prison abolition #susan sontag on illness #and a book on disability! #i just. want to learn more about so many THINHS #im rlly focused on israel/palestine atm for obvious reasons but i want to include lots of varied learning in 2024 #but holy shit in 2024 i need to stop buying physical books where am i gonna PUT THEM

[mydarlingdahlia]

I’M GOING TO VEGAS FOR MY BIRTHDAY WOOOOOOOOO-

#charlotte rambles #it’s gonna be lit guys #but it’s also gonna be cold as shit 💀 #i’m so excited tho #las vegas

[skibasyndrome]

because my main focus is modern lit I always forget how fun medieval lit is like.... you'd think in times when paper was rare and valuable and only the most important things were written down and religious institutions still had a big monopoly on written creation in general there was no place for like... funny and weird and whacky stories, but let me tell you! humanity hasn't changed, we've always loved poop jokes and sex, we still love poop jokes and sex - people in medieval times were just like us in that regard

#simon.out. #academic shitposting #if I may interest you in so medivel german lit: that shit's so fucking funny #also saw a post the other day about medieval art that depicts anthropomorphized genitals and I wanted to add to it but then lost it again. #anyways yea there are so many short stories about like sex and genitals and ones with toilet humor and some of them are genuinely so funny #idk where I'm going with this and maybe it's not so much a misconception many people have but I sure as shit didn't expect to find all that #in medieval texts until I learnt about it in uni #and now I'm gonna talk about it in my final exam yippee

[todayisafridaynight]

chewing these until i explode and die

#snap chats #sorry i cant describe things normally im sleepy but anyway #NO they made a tweet showing off all the funeral merch and theres some shit here i didnt see last time #the mine one's a part of. a postcard book ?? i think ?? #this the only one that ate from that ... to me anyway.... #i just really like how they chose a similar shot of him esp with how drastic the lighting differs and the camera angles #not even MENTIONING how the top scene is. from the orphanage bulldozing LMAOOOO #its art to me in ways i refuse to elaborate on ...... ok but the AOKI ONE THO LEMME GET INTO IT #what the fuck is an acrylic block i dont know but anyway .... theyre foul for the shots they chose <- screaming kicking my feet #it makes me want to make a proper gif set of aoki using those shots now .... and a mine set with Those Shots ... #im just sayin they def had a tumblr girlie on the team ... it just reminds me of gif sets on here ... im stealing their ideas idc #aoki's scene with his head held high at presumably the highest point of his life #to contrast how dreary masato's shot is. Shot Lol Get It on the worst night of his life with his dead drooped kmsing right now #AND WHEN THEY BOTH POINT THEIR GUNS AT THE CAMERA... SCREAMS ... #like the other merch didnt Give like these did ok ... is it my bias No Im Totally Objective.. i want these as gif sets .... #i was gonna put nishitani's here too since they ALMOST did something cool too #they had the top of his being when hes sittin in the grand with his arms spread out #and i THOUGHT the bottom one would be when he's Getting Lit Up and his arms were spread but no .. #its that scene but ... they didnt show off that part ... just him looking back at majima ... #love how they chose the most bbg still of aoki dying for the egg merch meanwhile mine's is just. Rage #they cant go with the same wet cat shot of him tho i get it ... they used it twice for merch fjerLKVAKVJE #anyways im typing way too much about these i gotta go BYE

[mugentakeda]

there should be a rule that this song has to be on every kidlaw playlist

#this is lit their theme song im gonna cry #IM SORRY THAT I KEEP TALKING ABT THEM IM SO FIXATED ON THEM RN #so typical that i see the ship with the alt name of DeathMetal and immediately lose my shit #one piece #kidlaw #Spotify

[carriagelamp]

really loving the specific genre of Canadian fiction that is specifically "we went to northern ontario and experienced The Most Heinous Shit and/or had our own trauma reflected back at us through the monstrous"

#there is apparently something about cottage country that just makes people lose their shit huh #me: heh heh gonna read this YA novel about a girl who can see ghosts and another who has a ghosthunting podcast #me once they get to northern ontario and the Uh Oh™ vibes start getting stronger and stonger: 😶 #beginning to suspect we're gonna pivot into The House Itself Will Consume You Both Allegorically And Most Likely Literally style #à la haunting of hill house #canlit #can lit #canadian literature #canadia #chatter #delicious monsters #book review