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in the prison under the castle allaze, in the dark, moldy cells where the greatest criminals in mellinor spent the remainder of their lives counting rocks to stave off madness, eli monpress was trying to wake up a door.

the legend of eli monpress by rachel aaron [x]

When someone asks why I’m so invested in the Crows in Shadow and Bone even though they didn’t do anything plot related the entire season:

I know its late but I needed to express my love still <3

(Edit: poem by Shel Silverstein)

It is DONE. I am SAD but fulfilled. If this doesn’t make anyone but me cry I’m going to yeet myself into the void.

TMA has kept me company through the entirety of lockdown and I couldn’t be more thankful for it. Please enjoy my collection of sad faces as a tribute to episode 200. :’^)

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A: The human body is 70% water. We’re all basically cucumbers with anxiety.

B: With the amount of salt and alcohol I consume, I’m more like an anxiety pickle.

I needed this. So Much. It's perfect

I know so many people are disappointed that Dean didn’t get to experience free will before he died, but I am here to offer a positive perspective.

Before Jack and Cas rebuilt Heaven, with Dean in mind, it was not a place that Dean would have enjoyed.  The individual spaces where people lived out their happiest memories for eternity sounds nice on the surface, but under that facade it’s really just a prison, and Dean saw that horror very clearly.  But by the time he died his last, permanent death, he had come to peace with that fate.  I mean, no matter what, he was going to die someday, and that was going to be waiting for him, right?  Might as well accept it for what it is.

When he saw Bobby sitting on the Roadhouse porch, his first question was “what memory is this?”

He expected a prison.  A very nice, upscale one, but a prison nonetheless.

But that’s not what it was.  Jack and Cas, out of love for Dean (and Sam; TFW 5ever), used what he taught them, and reformed the whole thing.  Something they couldn’t have, wouldn’t have done without his influence.  He changed Castiel from an Angel of the Lord, to an Angel of the Winchester, who loved and understood Humanity in a way that no other angel ever could.  He showed Jack how to enjoy the little things in life, and the importance of experiencing those things with loved ones.

And what did they do with that knowledge?  They broke down the walls.  They destroyed the prison complex.  Everyone can walk freely through the fields of Heaven.  And from the looks of Harvelle’s it appears they can still have the things they loved most from Earth.

Dean can go for joyrides in his Baby.  He can visit his family and his friends any time he wants.  When he’s ready, and he has all of eternity to become ready, he can choose to pray to Castiel to get his feathered ass over here so they can work out their relationship.  (And as a celestial being who has experienced eons of existence, Castiel has the patience to wait for him, trust me.  Growing older makes your perspective on time change, and Castiel is Very Old, after all.  And he’s had his midlife crisis, so he’s probably chill again with waiting.  Anyway, that’s a side rant lol)

Dean chooses to wait to do all of those things until Sammy is able to join him.  Because Heaven, all of Heaven, has been rebuilt to be HIS.  And Dean Winchester’s Heaven looks a lot like Freedom.

Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your husband (from Jin Guangyao)–3zun’s gonna run this town, tonight. ✌

let’s talk about racism in the danmei fandom

alright so originally i wrote this for twitter, but i felt like tumblr could benefit from it too. today we’re finally getting the long awaited “deconstruction of racism in the danmei fandom” post. and lemme preface this by saying- i’m chinese-american. i’m nblm. i do, in fact, have the cultural and historical background to know what i am talking about. so let’s get into it. 

this is gonna be a long post, because we have a lot to talk about. first, racism doesn’t have to be as blatant as calling me a chink, or saying all asians look the same, or not wanting to consume asian media, or making ching chong jokes.racism can be as subtle towards asians as it can towards any other race. if you think i shouldn’t have to say that, join the club, bc same. 

second, racism towards asians, especially in the west, has a long history of being overlooked and accepted. now, let’s talk about how racism dictates some of the takes you see in the fandom. firstly, what originally inspired this thread- the mxtx rumors and the jokes being made about her and censorship. now, obvs some ppl are gonna say that they were just jokes made in poor taste. and, sure. but they were jokes made in poor taste, steeped in racism. the jokes being made about mxtx going to jail happen bc ppl do not view her as a real person. not rlly. she’s an author, sure, the author of one of their favorite novels, but she’s not, like. a person with thoughts and feelings and a life. and that sort of casual lack of humanhood and agency given to danmei authors is rooted in the severely racist dehumanization of asians that’s prevalent in the west. this is something that can be seen other places, too- a good example being when parasite was notably nominated for every oscar category *except* the acting ones. 

it’s this lack of personhood, this lack of agency, that allows ppl to have takes like “censorship isn’t actually bad, and here’s why”. yes, this is a real take that i saw. this take argues that the cql is better than mdzs, bc it is “softer and less graphic”. in general, a lot of ppl have the take that mxtx’s works in particular are too graphic, with problematic sexual elements. now, i’ve talked before about how that’s a homophobic take bc gay relationships should also be allowed to be messy. but it’s also deeply entrenched in racism. it’s why white gays can have the take “this is Problematique and here’s why” and claim it’s not homophobic. 

racism against asians has long since created a trend of sexualizing them- thinking asian men are sexy while also removing their sexual agency. asian men can be sexy, but they can’t actually *have sex*. not explicitly. there’s a historical, real world element to this. “not fats no femmes no asians” could definitely be seen on ppls grindr profiles, back in the day. asians can be sexy, sure. look at kpop boys. but they can’t be sexual. they’re infantilized. they have to remain pure and wholesome, or they’re dragged as problematic and homophobic and fetishizing, a word that’s thrown around so often it’s practically lost meaning. fetishizing is my ex-bf telling me i’m sexy bc* i’m asian, it’s bl/yaoi fans approaching a gay couple on the bus and gushing over how “cute and yaoi they are.” fetishizing is *not* showing your 2 male main charas having explicit sex. if it is, then every white fan in danmei is fetishizing asians. 

but i digress- back to the point about racism. the fact that ppl can argue about censorship shows that they, as a whole, aren’t considering the ramifications of censorship on the literal country it exists in, and it’s citizens. i, obvs, do not live in china. but i’ve got relatives who do, and who did. i’ve got relatives who fled china. not everything is about you and the media you want to consume. and then, of course, there’s the casual racism. the everyday racism. the racism that lies in things like saying all the names are too similar and it’s hard to keep track of them. the racism in saying things like “i’m just here to have fun,,,like sure, i’d persevere through dostoevsky, but this is danmei”, as if danmei is somehow inferior, as if danmei isn’t meant to be critically engaged with, as if danmei doesn’t tackle and critically explore some of the deepest and darkest issues. 

asian media is often presented that way, from kung fu movies to danmei. there is a type of racism, of eurocentrism, that exists in the belief that western media has deeper, more engaging morals. asian media is more “fun”. asian media is almost entirely based on morals and deep thought, it’s just not based in western ones. for example, two of my favorite authors are haruki murakami and kazuo ishiguro. both are japanese authors, who’s works i’ve heard westerners describe as weird and without a point, when in fact they are simply telling stories with innately eastern asian morals and teachings. it’s the same type of racism that causes ppl to make jokes about asian food, to not view it as a craft the same way they do french food. it’s asian- it must be “less than”, be inferior, be inherently not worth as much. 

casual racism about asians is normalized, which isn’t a word i use often. it’s normalized to the point where ppl don’t even realize they have that sort of implicit bias, and we know ppl don’t rlly come on the internet to think critically. but unintentional racism is still racism. it still has an impact, still does damage. ppl need to think intentionally and critically in how they consume and interact with media not made for them, but they don’t, instead choosing to come in with their preexisting biases, and bc of that, it’s easy for fandom members to dismiss the cultural concerns of chinese ppl within the fandom. it’s easy, for example, to say “calling them martial brothers is incest apologism”, ignoring the inherent cultural roots of martial brothers. 

now, we’re gonna get in to the current “drama”. i do not ship chengxian. i think that even bears repeating. i Do Not ship chengxian. i have written them, in a modern au, as adopted brothers. but there is a real historical and culture relevance to the idea of martial brothers, of community, that westerners willfully refuse to hear, claiming instead that “you’re disregarding adopted families!” no. that’s not what’s happening at all. what’s happening is ppl are refusing to look at their own, western bias, and placing western values on an eastern idea. community raising of children, community family bonds without being adopted families, is important in east asian culture. there is a long history of community being whats important, and ppl don’t get that you can be a “communal/community family” without being considered familial. jyl choosing to view wwx as her brother, bc he is a martial brother, and chengxian being in love, are things that can technically coexist. whether or not you choose to perceive them as such, refusing to acknowledge the real history of martial brothers, and scremaing “incest apologism” whenever someone tries to explain it, is inherently racist. it’s you assuming you know my culture better than me. it’s you assuming your western ideas are the only ones that exist. which is, at its core, the basis for most racism in the danmei fandom. 

most racism in the danmei fandom comes from this idea that casual racism against asians isn’t *really* racism, and therefore asians don’t *really* get to have a say, and it shouldn’t matter anyway bc we’re lucky you’re even engaging with danmei, with asian content, since it’s shallow and inferior anyway. the racism comes from a place of moral superiority, of ownership, of this assumption that westerners are entitled to not just consume danmei but also bring their western lens and apply it to something that was never written for them in the first place.

random aged-up!haikyuu!! au thoughts, where they’re all older but most of them are still playing professional volleyball: social media double dating kuroken wedding

hinata: we’re NOT getting together until you admit that IM A GOOD SPIKER

kageyama: well then i guess we’re NEVER GETTING TOGETHER!!

everyone else is torn between letting this play out because the betting pool is worth truly colossal amounts of money by now, and dying, because the demon duo needs a better outlet for all that sexual tension…bang it out somewhere other than the volleyball courts pls…the refs are watching……..

on the other hand, the news reporters are at the point where they’re willing to pay oikawa to stop talking about his sex life

on an unrelated note, iwaizumi is willing to pay anything to not hear about his sex life in volleyball news

oikawa is torn between letting the world think he’s some kind of sex god and being very lost, because he doesnt know that sex term and at this point its WAY too late to ask

(not pictured: iwaizumi trying to channel the stone for which he was named)

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Mom: Why can't you just trust me?

Me: trust isn't the issue one the table here.

Mom:then why can't we watch tv together?

Me: cuz you're as straight as a pencil and I'm too gay to function.

Mom: I thought you were ace!

Me: I still think girls are cuter than guys!

Reblog if you remember Huntik: Secrets & Seekers and their super awesome theme song

The Batfamily as funny T-shirts

Bruce

Dick

Barbara

Jason

Cassandra

Stephanie

Tim

Duke

Damian

Alfred

If we get enough people on board with this, can we make CW do it?

I really want CW to do a BatFam live-action TV series. Like, I have this five-season structure all worked out in my head:

Start with Batman working with Dick Grayson. You probably want to have their partnership be a few years old because Dick’s canonically the longest running and closest to Batman of the Robins, but you can throw in cute flashback episodes showing his recruitment

Have Catwoman be a recurring antagonist/neutral figure throughout the series, with copious amounts of flirting.

Establish the character of Barbara Gordon early season 1, and give all these little hints at what she’ll become, then have her take up Batgirl season 2- sort of like what the Flash did with Cisco.

Bring in Bat Woman around Season 2-ish, give her a nice LGBT plotline, and have some fun with her and Batman’s mutual secret identities.

Have a plotline about Dick’s desire to go his own way that culminates in him taking up the identity of Nightwing. Maybe give him a spin-off if he’s popular enough?

Have Bruce recruit Jason Todd as the new Robin early Season 3 because he misses Dick, but make it clear Jason is much more angry/impulsive.

The villain of Season 3 is the Joker. Mid-season, Barbara is paralyzed from the waist down. Give her an good, respectful plot arc recovering physically and mentally that culminates in taking up the mantle of Oracle in the finale and being vital in defeating the Joker.

Have the Joker brutally murder Jason  a few episodes before the finale. This culminates in a harrowing conclusion where Batman must decide whether to kill the Joker or imprison him.

Season 3 or 4, depending on how episode spacing works out, introduce an mysterious assassin figure. At first she seems like an antagonist, but later she saves the life of a main character and introduces herself as Cassandra Cain. She’s adopted into the Bat Family and becomes the new Batgirl with Oracle’s blessing.

Season 4, bring in Tim Drake, and have a long plot arc where Batman doesn’t want to put anyone else at risk, until Tim manages to become Robin mid-season.

Give Tim have a love interest named Stephanie who’s secretive about her own family, later revealing her father’s the Cluemaster. She takes over for either Robin or Batgirl for an episode before creating her own identity as Spoiler.

The theme of Season 4? Parents. Parallel the shitty parenting of Steph and Cass, and have them bond over it. Put in some episodes of Batwoman and her strained relationship with her own father. Use the opportunity to emphasize the parental role Bruce has found himself in, and that after Season 3 he doesn’t want to fail his kids again.

Season 5′s main villains are the League of Assassins. Establish Talia Al’Ghul as an old flame of Bruce’s, and at the end of her first episode have a cliffhanger with her ten-year-old son Damian.

Introduce the recurring villain Red Hood, and later reveal he’s Jason Todd, resurrected by Ra’s Al Ghul via the Lazarus Pit.

Have Damian join the Bat Family mid season. Have Batman disappear/be killed for a bit, and Nightwing come back and take over as Batman for a few eps, with Damian taking over as Robin. Have his run as Batman contested by Jason, who views his morals as constraining and antiquated.

Eventually bring Bruce back, have him succeed at bringing Jason into the fold, have Catwoman finally come down on his side, and give it all an epic finale with the entire Bat Family.

Bonus points for race-blind casting (especially for all those black-haired Robins!) and copious amounts of crossovers between BatFam members and the other superhero shows.

My God-Mother: So what kind of books do you read?

Me, happy to talk about books: That depends! I'm currently reading Harry Potter.

My God-Mother, who I just remembered is extremely religious: You are not allowed to read those books! The bible states that it is a sin to do witchcraft! People like that go to hell!

Me, thinking in my head about all of the gay lemon fanfics I've read, Shadowhunter series, Percy Jackson series that follow different religons, and all of the supernatural type TV shows that I secretly watch and love:

Like, guess I'll go to hell then

Reading fan fiction simultaneously is the only thing that makes me happy and reminds me that I’m gonna be alone forever

My ships do it better??

Me, every time I go on ao3:

When you read something so perfect in AO3 and you have to give kudos and you know you can only give once but you keep smashing the button.

and i’ll fucking do it again

right, so. 

regardless of the merits of this particular story, there is a larger point to be made.

this? this is a cisgender man and a nonbinary alien in a sexual/romantic relationship.

a queer relationship. a relationship that is queer and canon. 

there is, quite simply, no other interpretation on the table. they fuck. they’re fucking. other questions are still up in the air but they are definitely, 150% fucking.

so when (not if, sadly) some smug fanboy rolls his dead, soulless little eyes at all the stupid womenfolk and queers on tumblr who want Eddie Brock and the symbiote to be a couple lol those sad horny freaks

that fanboy is wrong.

he’s just wrong. he’s as wrong as a guy telling you that Dr Doom is white or that Batwoman isn’t a lesbian. he’s wrong. that’s all. that’s it. he’s a wrong guy being wrong. know this and, in the wake of all Cates-like entities to come, draw comfort from it my friends.

The multiverse and it’s possibilities

So I was recently rereading the Way of Kings, and in the middle of reading one of Kaladin’s flashbacks I had a thought. Deaged Kaladin. LIke they, (probably Navani), would be experimenting with Stormlight or a new fabrial or some new technology in Urithiru, and there’s an accident and suddenly there’s a teenage Kaladin who remembers nothing of the last 7 to 8 years. ‘Cause wouldn’t it be cool if Bridge Four, and Adolin, and Dalinar and all them could meet/interact with teen Kal. Because they would be shocked about how much different he is then compared to now. Like teen Kal has awe for lighteyes, and he hates to hurt people, and he’s torn between being a soldier or a surgeon. He believes in both, and he has to make a choice between them, and then in the middle of all his confusion, bam. He’s in a strange place with people he’s never seen before. If Dalinar or another like “warrior” lighteyes is there, cue the hero worship. Dalinar would want to adopt him on the spot. And Bridge Four would never let him out of their sight because their Captain is insane and always getting in trouble, and they expect the little Captain to be the EXACT SAME WAY. Teen Kal and Lift would be best friends, and she and Syl would enable him in his troublemaking ways, because he would absolutely go around and help all the people who are hurt that he can. And he would constantly be ditching Bridge 4 and Adolin, because you know Adolin would love and be fascinated with this Pure Child who actually likes lighteyes, because whenever Miny Captain leaves their sight he is GOING to get in trouble, and Lift and Syl enable it, because Lift is Lift and Syl finds it simultaneously sweet what Kaladin is doing, and Bridge 4′s attempts to stop him hilarious. 

Here’s another way of putting it since I’m all over the place with this.

Kaladin being deaged in Urithiru and the rest of them dying over this Pure Child. Some sort of accident happened to cause it. He and Lift become best friends. Bridge Four wants to protect this smol Pure Child, and basically stalk him. Or just blatantly never leave him alone. Because their Captain is reckless and insane about his own safety, and they don’t trust him by himself. Dalinar wants to adopt him but Bridge Four keeps thwartng him because the tiny Captain is theirs damn it! Adolin and Shallan love him and join Dalinar in fighting Bridge Four for the small Kal, Renarin is torn between enabling Adolin or Bridge Four. Eventually they set up a rotation over who gets to watch him. Kaladin finds medical supplies and then proceeds to run around all of Urithiru with Lift healing people. It drives everybody crazy. No one but Lift can keep up with him, and she enables him. Syl thinks it’s both sweet and hilarious, so helps Kal. Everyone who he helps loves him. 

Basically, it would be awesome and amazing for Kaladin to get deaged and for all of them to see how he used to be.

“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves”

Stormlight Archive is my life now.

my art programs are dying so i couldn’t color this one how i wanted, whops. EDIT: COLOUR UPDATE. while the lovely @southrobin was visiting form Singapore, she got Photoshop back for me, so now i can colour things not jsut in Manga Studio. So that’s nice!

Missing Kaladin

noah fence but was kaladin planning to just fly straight from urithiru to hearthstone at the end of wor

and does he have enough stormlight to make it there? like how much does it take

because I’m picturing him dropping out of the sky in front of some random villager somewhere like “your spheres. show them to me”

and of course the random villager seeing an extremely tall, extremely muscular, faintly glowing man with a spear is about to piss their pants so they dig out all their spheres like “hey buddy, I got a family, take everything you want just don’t hurt me”

kaladin: *takes deep breath*

kaladin: thanks man *rockets off into the sky*

random villager: what

you will never convince me that Kaladin doesn’t tie his hair up before fighting or training or anything involving a lot of movement, even if it’s never directly mentioned or described. I maintain that he knows how to tie it up securely and will do it frequently. probably knows different hairstyles too! probable gender roles? what are those

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