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Hey so S2E9 'Three Stroires' was fucking bonkers

LETS TALK ABOUT IT

The episode is DENSE AS ALL HELL with things to talk about, the three main things being

The titles

The art style and style of storytelling

The dialogue (or lack thereof)

Lets speedrun some analysis notes of our three favourite members of the worst found family ever!!

Storytelling Styles

All three stories are emotionally driven and told in dramatic styles without realism, though all for differing reasons.

QJ mimics the over-the-top Shakespearean reminiscent of his wife, believing himself to be the main character of a tragedy. Though this style of story telling is obviously campy and corny, it's also presented in a way where it's not immediately clear to the viewers that this isn't actually real -- it's a fabrication of the canon within the canon as a reflection of QJ's delusions.

LTC mimics QJ, however, his disposition leads to him seeing everything as a Greek Comedy as opposed to perma-victim QJ's Greek Tragedy. It also reflects LTC ultimately leaning into and revelling in killing other people as part of his hunter ethos and evolution. LTC's style does not need to be realistic because LTC isn't looking for meaning in his story, but for an experience that's enjoyable and satisfying.

QJ and LTC's style complement each other with both being able to come together to tell a more cohesive narrative overall, although each does so by focusing on themselves more than anyone else.

LTX is a silent cartoon telling of her life story, quite literally the story that's gone untold, bar the words of the gossiping crows (people with frivolous and passing interest in her life writing their own stories about the events she goes through). Her story telling style is a reflection of her mindset and being trapped cognitively as a child for all time, and is further indication that her personhood wasn't allowed to independently grow since becoming an orphan.

LTX's story is outside of QJ and LTC's narrative because she cannot speak, and thus her story does not matter. No dramatisation of reality to paint a certain picture is needed, nor is her story seen or understood in either of theirs. Her story is insular and disconnected from theirs because her personhood is disconnected from theirs.

LTX's story is told through the lens of LTC and LX's worldview: that the world is made up of beasts and hunters. There is only ever one human character (likely LX himself rather than QJ, based on how visually loyal everyone else's designs are) while LTX watches LTC straddle the line between animal (his nature) and human (his will).

Story Titles

QJ's part being called the "Inevitable Tragedy" is a reference to how he is the creator of his own misfortune as it was never based in reality but his own unchecked paranoia.

LTC's part is called the Fortuitous Comedy is because it was fortuitous for QJ to find out about the twins' powers before anyone else via Tianchen's confession and subsequent laughter. It could also be due to LTC reaching his perceived hunter-status by the fortuitous case of Deng being Liu Min's first requested kill (for the same reason LTC hates Deng, no less).

LTX's title being the "Sibling's Fairy Tale" is rather self explanatory, much like the character herself if you took the damn time to talk to her. It's childish, stuck in the past (trauma), focused on her brother and the other light of her life: their late-mother. Another piece of insight that I remembered hearing is that fairy tales don't always have happy endings, but they always have a moral to learn from. In this sense, Xixi's story is thematically the most important because no character has put that moral into practice (confronting the worst aspects of those you love, refusing to look away from the secrets they hide while you stay in a peaceful dream with their softness).

Additional Notes

QJ caring for the twins in Part II is a reflection of LTC being gaslit about reality (reinforced by QJ's fatherly love being absent in LTX's story), as well as a reflection of his sense of self and human autonomy only beginning and flourishing due to the circumstances QJ provided

LTX's story suggests that most of the time she spends with LTC involves her napping in some form, or that most of her time in general was slept away as if she was trapped in some strange dream.

The only betrayal even hinted at is LTC's betrayal of LTX's morality, a twist that literally shatters LTX's childlike world and forces her hurdling into reality. This is the only betrayal because the twins are the only two who have trust in one another among the three.

Someone else made a point about how even when the foxboy picks up the bow and arrow, he remains a fox. In LTX's eyes, her brother can act as a hunter but he's still a beast and that's not a bad thing.

The fact that most people are 'beasts' and there's only one human in all of LTX's worldview really is some solid symbolism and messaging, especially considering LTX is socially classified as an undesirable a la her disabilities. It's peak reclamation and pride in Oneself.

#*breathes out* #damn that’s good #link click

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What’s on your mind, Allen?

#d.gray man

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Ship dynamics

#honestly #this would be a beautiful stranger interaction #you make a hat #they wear it #you never see each other again #hat friend<3

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art is about spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to get something to look right giving up and then moving on to do it slightly better next time. at some point if you're an exhibitionist you then post it for internet strangers to look at.

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Haruhi fujioka really is the character ever. Going by any pronouns in 2006. Big beautiful brown eyes like a baby cow. Constant deadpan delivery. Getting bitches constantly. Reacts to romantic advances with a thousand-yard goldfish stare. Perfect flawless protagonist 10/10

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#holy shit #wolf’s rain is an option #team wolfs rain baby’s fist anime where y’all at #how are we coping

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« I was waiting for his hit. That he'll get angry as last time. That there'll shine this hatred in his eyes that will justify my guilt. Justify that I don't deserve any of that. I wanted this. I already felt the heat on my cheek and ringing in my head.

But the silence and emptiness in his glance, when he got up to just leave, hit so much stronger. »

confession

#link click #ow.

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redraw of this one photo from the link click musical where lu guang holds his hand out for a high five and cheng xiaoshi puts his face in lg's outstretched hand. because its ACTUALLY been tormenting me for days IM SICK OF THEM!!! (+ bonus aftermath sketch bc i lied. i miss them)

[ref photo comparison under read more]

#I don’t think any of us will ever be over this peak acting choice #thank you shu rongbo and wu yihan #link click

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So. That's it. That's how it was. 36:0 Shu Rongbo & Du Guangyi's outstanding basketball performance 🔥 XD

#let srb shoot balls on zoom XD #nice!!!! #link click

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But cis people are a reason we suffer this much. They made the system.

“Cis people” is a broad and expansive category of individuals with varying levels of power and influence within the system of power that supports an idea of what their experiences “should” be. Cis people suffer under the system too - gnc cis people, intersex cis people, cis people of color even because gender is racialized, are all categories of cis people who suffer alongside us. Even the most stereotypically privileged strawman cis person both benefits from and is regressively harmed by the same systems that target us.

You have more in common with an average cis person than you think you do. By furthering a divide between yourself and cis people all you are doing is reinforcing and upholding the system you are claiming to hate. We’re trying to dismantle systems, not recreate them with ourselves in the positions of power.

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Raise their open filthy palms, Like tiny daggers up to heaven.

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“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

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Link Click Musical update 163

First week of 'Soul of basketball' event 🔥🏀, part 3

(sports anime arc nobody expected)

Let's go!

April 21st, night: Wang Yifei, Guo Hongxu, Deng Xianling

🏀 Match resulted in 16:19 score, ghx won and set a new highest score 🌟 he was very humble about it:

⬆ Deng Xianling was being very cute :>

⬆ Wang Yifei and Deng Xianling leaving the theatre bc I love their style (Dengdeng's fits are usually this cute tbh)

April 22nd: Shu Rongbo, Du Guangyi, Cai Lu

On Monday the theatre's score board got updated an just... look:

'How did this happen?' you may ask... Well, we've established Du Guangyi isn't trying to win. Look, he's proud of his 0 points ⬇

But how does the baby, cast's honorary little brother, Shu 'Shmol' Rongbo Bobi score mf 36 points??

Thanks to our kind twitter correspondents (Bō and Fanny 🙏) we know exactly what went down ☕

So srb told dgy that he had just one performance this month (his only chance to gather points 🥺) so dgy let him win and even helped. How exactly? Apparently Du Guangyi just picked Shu Rongbo up and he slamdunked all the points like:

I had to at least try reconstructing it bc I CAN'T WITH THEM 🥺😭

dream team 😭

👏👏👏

applause for the current leader

#the buildup #the suspense #teamwork makes the dream work #go team smoll! #link click musical #link click

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Terminal Hanaki? Boring. Chronic Hanahaki? Exciting.

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"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....