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I just realized at the time wwx attended the cloud recesses lectures, he had lived over half his life alone on the streets. He'd only been at lotus pier six years, after being found and taken in by jfm at the age of nine.

#mdzs #yeah i feel like a lot of people don't realize that. he wasn't taken in when he was 4-5 only recently orphaned #he purposely doesn't talk about it almost certainly out of trauma but #he was on the streets a LONG fucking time

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the way wwx is always filled with so much excitement and joy in just living his life ! he's always running around, exploring, hunting pheasants, playing in the lakes... wherever he goes he is full of so much liveliness and sunshine and everyone who knows him can't help but adore him !!!! all his little shidi back at lotus pier and all his friends he made at the cloud recesses... they all tag along after him, hang on to his every word. they look up to him so much — he is so kind-hearted and such a delightful person !!! getting little gifts for all his classmates and teaching all his shidi new tricks. he's so wonderful and i love him <3

#mdzs

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"theres no such thing as stupid questions"

-go back in time

-find the person who said that

-ask them what the dog doin

-return to the present

-vtubers no longer exist (butterfly effect, hard to explain)

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I love wei wuxian and lan wangji end game relationships so much because lan wangji didn’t have to change. he doesn’t have to talk more or “come out” of his shell more, Wei wuxian didn’t have to open him up or whatever that a lot of other love stories do because wei wuxian understands lan wangji how lan wangji already is.

wi wuxian and lan wangji didn’t have to change to love eachother they just had to understand eachother. that’s why they work so well, idk I wanna see more in love stories I’m tired of people changing for people.

#wangxian #mdzs

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Madam Yu admonishes Jiang Yanli for peeling lotus seeds out of their pods for Wei Wuxian to eat, insulting her for the act by telling her she’s “not somebody’s servant!” Jiang Yanli ignores her and passes the fruits of her labor to Wei Wuxian, who eats them happily.

Madam Yu admonishes Jiang Cheng for practicing his archery skills with Wei Wuxian (and the other disciples), insulting him by calling him an “ignorant child, fooling around with others all the time” who are “splashing in sewers.” Jiang Cheng tells Wei Wuxian to shut up when Wei Wuxian attempts to speak in his own defense, while Jiang Cheng speaks only to defend himself.

Who’s braver?

#mdzs #jiang yanli orphaned and at the jin sect's organized hunt on THEIR territory with THEM still wanting her to marry in #knowing she has virtually no other prospects #and STILL choosing to outright say no exceptions that wei wuxian is her BROTHER #and that she considers him to be like a blood brother #i love her so bad ;_;

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#danganronpa

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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open post to anyone who knows more about Chinese names, but especially within MDZS:

do courtesy names have to be two syllables?

do birth names have to be one syllable?

do upper class/main family cultivation clan members have to have both?

I ask this because I was thinking about how everyone in the books refers to the Qishan Wen heirs as Wen Xu and Wen Chao, which sound like their birth names. Since they're sons of and heirs to Wen Ruohan, the most powerful gentry clan head, wouldn't that be massively disrespectful if 'Xu' and 'Chao' aren't courtesy names?

Even Wen Ning has the courtesy name Wen Qionglin. He and Wen Qing are the children of Wen Ruohan’s cousin, not nearly as close a degree as his sons. So what gives?

Jin Rulan has the name 'Jin Ling', so I assumed in Jin Zixuan's case we just never learned his given birth name. And I know that the story doesn't necessarily follow all of what would've historically been socially proper - far too many people call Jiang Wanyin "Jiang Cheng" even though he's an equal to them.

on the flip side, Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang aren't ever referred to by single-syllable birth names. Normally I'd assume they have them and we just don't learn what they are, but even amongst themselves they don't really use diminutives (e.x. Yanli calling Jiang Wanyin "A-Cheng"), which made me wonder if Mingjue and Huaisang are the only names they have. Sure they're all upper class, but would clans in different regions so far apart use different naming conventions...?

Let me know in reblog comments/replies!

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wen xu #wen chao #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #keri chats #this is for worldbuilding. i need an explanation that isn’t ''idk mxtx just kinda did whatever''

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I noticed the coffee poll was skewed surprisingly heavily towards 0 cups a day. knowing how many people need caffeine this struck me as odd until I realized what might be the reason, so I wanted to make a different poll to compare.

Just like with the og coffee poll, I'm not talking about when you're studying so you drink 3x the usual amount or something. This isn't about your record. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many drinks (coffee - caff or decaf - or otherwise caffeinated, like energy drinks or caffeinated tea) do you drink?

#keri chats #polls #might be biased to still include decaf but whatever #0 for me i do Not need or want to need caffeine #now and then i might drink tea for fun but it's not a daily thing

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all your issues with modern anime are this cunt's fault btw

#sword art online #literally. the world if sao ended at s1e12

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My thing about Wen Ning is that like. Yeah, maybe some of his decision-making was based on a kind of hero worship for WWX. I'm not gonna try and discredit that, it's totally plausable.

But assuming that's all Wen Ning was motivated by -- assuming that Wen Ning really is just a lost pathetic puppy following around Wei Wuxian -- isn't just a disservice to Wen Ning but also kind of hugely overlooks a pretty important thing about the MDZS series.

That thing is: Wen Ning is not the only character we see throw away his sect and his complicated-but-relatively-comfortable position among them to do the right thing at extreme personal cost to himself, simply because it was the right thing to do and therefor it never occurred to him not to do it.

MDZS is a series full of parallels. There are so many complex echoes and reflections between characters that deepen the meaning of the story, and in this instance, Wen Ning and WWX are pretty direct copies of each other.

WWX was kind to Wen Ning, but he was also, more than anything, and excuse. An opportunity.

Stand with justice, and live with no regrets.

It wasn't ever really about Wei Wuxian.

#same for wq. she didn't shelter them just bc her didi finally found a friend cmon now #<- prev tags you're so right #mdzs

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The fact that Wei Wuxian gave up an immortal's favor owed to himself to Jiang Cheng (in Jiang Cheng's perspective) and it wasn't enough to quell his hatred to not declare wwx an enemy to the sects.

Like let's ignore his debt to WN and WQ and say he can't help them for certain reason, that's what the plan of Wei Wuxian defecting was for, but then despite having the option to walk away he actively chose to make things worse for them.

#mdzs

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He continued, “He was still too young to understand what ‘gone’ means. No matter how much others comforted him, how much Uncle scolded him, he would continue to come back here every single month, sit down in the hallway, and wait for someone to open the door for him. When he grew older, he understood that Mother would not come back anymore, that nobody would open the door for him, but he kept on coming here.”

Lan XiChen stood up. His dark eyes looked into Wei WuXian’s, “WangJi has been this stubborn ever since he was young.”

I know the main reading people take from this is just that LWJ stubbornly refused to accept his mother's death (and then apply that to WWX's death too), but I don't think this is really accurate to what we are told about it!

LXC tells us shortly before the above passage that LWJ was only six years old when their mother died. He says that LWJ didn't understand that she was dead, he didn't understand what it meant to be dead, he didn't understand why he couldn't see her again.

All young LWJ understood was that he had been told without reason that he was no longer allowed to see his mother. This was what he did not accept, he ignored his uncle's wishes and waited outside her door anyway, and stubbornly kept going back no matter how many times he was scolded.

So, what I take from this is that even at the age of six, when LWJ disagreed with or did not understand his elders' decisions, he would not unquestionably follow them, but rather directly and stubbornly rebel.

#lwj is rather rebellious i like him a lot for it #mdzs

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weird and wild takes coming out of the new dungeon meshi fandom

if you can read all of dungeon meshi and see how it revels in the eroticism of consumption and plays with themes about base instinct, overwhelming desire, loving something so much you want to take it inside you and keep it there forever...if you can read all that and think that the author would be against people sexualizing her characters then I don't know what to tell you. dungeon meshi isn't horny in the way most fantasy animes are horny, but it's a huge fault to think that means it's not horny at all in a more complex and allegorical way. sex is a huge part of human instinct, just like eating, and the wires often get crossed. its that's not a bad thing because sex isn't a bad thing, lol

#dungeon meshi #this exactly

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by gasdust

#aes

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Tahquamenon Falls, Michigan.

#aes

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the firsteth rule of alchemy is to hath fun and beeth thy truest self. the secondeth rule is to think with thine pussy

#ehfdljasjklsd???