Unmute !

brow: furrowed

jaw: set

fist: clenched

i am forcibly removed from matchmaking consideration

just got a second official warning for my use of "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" on the OTW volunteer slack

people are also currently asking board to ban saying that the founding of israel was colonialism—equating this to saying racial slurs—and were complaining about my status back when it was "palestine will be free", too

suffice to say, fuck that place, don't give the OTW your money, and don't fucking volunteer there

(the second screenshot is from the warning I got a few days ago)

This is so funny, the closer we get to canon fair game the more salty non-fg qrow shippers get their jimmies rustled and post nonsense arguments about why it can’t and shouldn’t happen. Sit y'all’s asses down, you’re embarrassing yourselves by being so against Qrow falling in love with the first man he’s had an entirely positive relationship with. The volume’s already been written and animated no amount of your bitching is gonna change the direction they’re clearly going in.

*Jin Guangyao walks into the room*

Lan Xichen: Mingjue, I'm going to ask you not to doing anything violent.

Nie Mingjue: What? What are you talking about?? I only use violence as an appropriate response.

I just rewatched that scene in ep. 22 during the sunshot campaign when Nie Huisang stands on the ramparts of the Nie fortress enthusiastically waving goodbye to Wei Wuxian and telling him to take care as he’s heading off w/ Lan Wangji for the final battle in Nightless City.

I’ve seen posts debating what inscrutable logic took place in Huaisang’s complex genius brain that he chose resurrecting The Yiling Patriarch as his method of resolving his brother’s murder.

But, dude. Wei Wuxian was like his only friend. The guy who thought his bird was cool, and showed him how to fish, and got him drunk on a school night, and admired his porn collection.

I know we love to think of masterminds as coldly objective and detatched but I like to think it came down to a gentle, lonely, artistic, grieving Huaisang thinking, “If only my brilliant friend were here, everything could be okay again.” 

I keep thinking about this moment. About how Jiang Cheng must’ve felt when Zidian - the weapon that had served him for so many years, the weapon he inherited after his mother - suddenly stopped listening to him. The moment when he no longer felt its power.

His expression here just breaks my heart. The way he looks at Zidian, trying to understand what happened, trying to process this emptiness that he suddenly feels.

Because back then, Jiang Cheng doesn’t know yet that others also have been affected. He can as well be the only one - what he does know though is this feeling. This lack of power, the sudden emptiness, he knows it. Because he’d experienced it before. He’d felt what is it like when your golden core is gone. And he’s never forgotten.

In that moment, in the midst of battle, he lost his spiritual power and his very first thought when he realizes that is simply: Again?

How often do you think this haunted his nightmares? This awful feeling of hopelessness, the fear of it repeating itself and rendering him useless? The very fact that he got a second chance was a miracle, something probably not supposed to happen. Maybe he already had wondered if he was living on borrowed time, because how could there not be a price?

There was, but he wasn’t the one to pay it. He just didn’t know that.

So right there, in that very moment he gets taken back to all those years ago, to the days when he lost everything and could only lay and look up at the ceiling, to a different time that yet is now so vivid in his mind - does he think that his fear has caught up with him at last?

And then he hears shouts along the battlefield - cultivator after cultivator stating that they cannot use their qi - and only then does he realize that although there is an emptiness, it is not as profound, not that bone-deep void that made him collapse in on himself.

It turns out right when they’re in the cave and medics state that everyone has lost their qi only temporarily - and of course their situation is still bad, because they are surrounded and stuck and the only people able to fight are Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Wen Ning and a bunch of children - but Jiang Cheng is relieved. Because he’s been through worse.

we've done it again folks