#VS So Obsessed

[paintsandquests]

Occupying all my thoughts

#scollace #scott pilgram vs the world #scott pilgram takes off #spto #fanart #digital art #my art #literally screaming crying throwing up #idk why I’m so obsessed with them #wallace wells #scott pilgrim #Wallace is such a vibe I’m so obsessed with him

[intermundia]

i just read about the "narcissism of small differences," aka the idea that the more a community has in common, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other, and i knew there was a reason my time in academia and fandom felt oddly similar lmao

#you guys!!! this was freud's term from 1917. not mine #i understand people concerned about the colloquial usage but again. this is freud's term for the phenomenon in psychoanalysis #where the term 'narcissism' has a specific meaning #again. not my term. just a specific concept i found when i was reading about psychoanalysis and found relatable #ANYWAY. original tags -> #fandom stuff #like with people shipping the same ship #they have so much in common #love of and knowledge about the same characters #but then things like #top vs bottom characterization of one character #such a slight difference between people obsessed w the same character #makes sense it's so vicious lmao

[estrella-etoile]

Hua Cheng's Very Different Loves

There is often a fundamental misunderstanding of Hua Cheng's love for Xie Lian. The biggest of them was Mu Qing and Feng Xin's assumption at seeing the Cave of Ten Thousand Gods.

They see Hua Cheng as obsessive, dangerous. And given the history with Bai Wuxian, yeah, not entirely in the wrong for that assumption.

It's hard to understand that Hua Cheng is one who has truly separated his devotion from his romantic love for Xie Lian. Because devotion/worship of a god and love of a person are different.

At least until now, the devout and obsessive level of worship that Hua Cheng exhibits is the first type. The type of a religious devotee. And that cave, that's what we see. Hua Cheng did not make the sculptures and the paintings for Xie Lian exactly, he didn't do it with a plan to bring Xie Lian there and ask for praise, he did it because Xie Lian was his totem, the very thing that could center him even at times of extreme suffering to pull through. Religious love is not something that expects reciprocation, it's not something that requires anything of the subject of worship except their existence. And the Hua Cheng of the past 800 years poured his obsessive love into this type of love, the love that he does not have any expectations for.

We know that Hua Cheng also felt the other type of love. His sexual awakening was downright traumatic. Seriously, imagine being fourteen, and having to defend your beloved god from sex demons who are forcing you to realize that your devotion to your god has an edge of desire, all while said god is stabbing himself to keep from acting on the extreme discomfort of sexual urges forced on him by those same damn sex demons. No wonder Hua Cheng is so absolutely freaked out and a little disgusted about harboring that type of love for Xie Lian.

When Hua Cheng finally finds Xie Lian again after 800 years, I fundamentally believe that Hua Cheng would have been content with an existence of watching over and protecting his god from the sidelines. His devotion mattering more than that sliver of self-loathing desire that would never be erased.

The story we got to read though, the one that makes TGCF so special is the way that the other love grows between Xie Lian and Hua Cheng. They enjoy each other's company, enjoy teasing and talking, enjoy the little touches that they share. When Hua Cheng talks about his beloved, he speaks of his romantic love and winning over that person. He speaks of it shyly, because he knows it is something that has to be shared and has to grow naturally. It's what makes their love story so very human, because Hua Cheng treated his religious love and his desirous love as completely separate from each other. And the best part? Xie Lian knows this, understands this, has no doubt about this.

It means that the scene in the cave, where both Feng Xin and Mu Qing mistook Hua Cheng's obsessive devotion for obsessive desire, Xie Lian recognizes correctly.

And Xie Lian reciprocates those romantic feelings.

I like to picture those days that Xie Lian wakes up and finds the other side of his bed empty, then wanders to the Thousand Lights Temple to see Hua Cheng there changing the single white flower in his god's hands, then bowing his head and saying a prayer. Xie Lian rolls his eyes, because well, he's right there, but it's Hua Cheng's ritual, and whether they are husbands, whether they had rough and enjoyable sex the night before, Hua Cheng won't slack on his religious love just because he gets to share romantic love with his husband and god.

#hualian #tgcf meta #hua cheng loves xie lian in so many ways #and i think we get stuck on obsessive devotion vs obsessive desire #heaven official's blessing #heaven official's blessing meta #tgcf #hualian meta #hua cheng #xie lian

[theriverbeyond]

Waiting for Alecto the Ninth (2023)

#alecto the ninth #the locked tomb #trb.txt #x #tlt #sorry i havent been posting as much tlt i swear i am still as obsessed as always but i think #given the no news #it's shifted to a more internal fic writing focus vs lile posting meta #just bc i feel like ive already posted so many thoughts and idk i might just be repeating at this point u know #😔😔😔 #htn gets pride of place in my arms bc it is my favorite ❤️

[bleh1bleh2]

Having a crush IS a competition, sorry i doubted you keith

I read "is there any better feeling than coming clean" by maveisher (@leenfiend) and ive been thinking about it so much,,,, so i made a little comic based on the beginning :)

#voltron #klance #im literally so obsessed with them #making confessing a competition is genius #also the public vs private reactions #its so fun #everyone should give it a read #my art

[waitineedaname]

me experiencing grad school imposter syndrome: what if linguistics isn't the right field for me, what if I'm not meant to be studying it full time

me within three days of finishing my semester:

#fma posting #I collected the data. btw. #ever since I learned that the manga differentiates between amestrian and xingese based on the orientation of the speech bubbles #I have been obsessed with that fact #so. I went through the manga and tallied up the instances of vertical vs horizontal speech bubbles for these four #I love collecting data!! I love analyzing speech!!!! yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moonlitswimmingpooltv]

i’m obsessed with how phil backed dan into a corner with the dan vs phil, he was straight up like yeah, i wanted to ask for it :/ but i knew you’d say no :/ so i came up with an elaborate scheme but now that i’ve lost it will never happen :/ this is so sad ://// and dan was just like ffs. bring it back i guess!!! give them awards for being the funniest gays to ever exist RIGHT NOW!!!

#i know they probably discussed it beforehand but the way it played out on camera was so funny 😭😭😭 #i’m obsessed with them #comedians fr #dan and phil #danandphilgames #dan vs phil #dan and phil play: google feud

[artandbrimstone]

you believe me like a god

i betray you like a man.

print

#obsessed with how i drew them in this #gill looking etherial vs chip looking so human #i had to double check i didnt make up chip holding the sword to his neck #i only checked after id fully drawn it though #if it was wrong i guess id have to JUST ROLL WITH I- #ok thats it its 2am im putting this in the queue now #art #my art #jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi riptide #artists on tumblr #gillion tidestrider fanart #gillion fanart #just roll with it gillion #jrwi gillion #chip jrwi fanart #chip jrwi #chip bastard #jrwi chip #gillion tidestrider #jrwi art #jrwi 15 #jrwi show #gillion jrwi #just roll with it fanart #jrwi fanart #jrwi podcast #fish and chips #jrwi fnc

[tunapesto]

doomed yuri moment

#deltarune #kralsei #ralsei #etc... Sorry i had a moment #i need to be obsessed with something so fucking baddd i feel my brain rotting #i just kind of missed them #how i draw kris now vs then is so vastly different fjdshfs Sorryy #also. as a note. anything can be yuri if you try hard enough #gender? hardly know her #etc etc #kris dreemurr

[knifebaby3000]

day/night

#artists on tumblr #art #oc #digital art #my art #tz #tian #zhu #more warm ups... outfits they would hate... feat their corny tattoos i haven't gotten to show til now for fairly obv reasons #btw zhu writes his name w the char for red/vermilion vs the tru char for pearl (珠 which includes the jade radical) but they're homophones #so it's a play on ''pearl in the palm'' which is like ''apple of your eye''. gay married and in love and i love them etc etc etc #''so what's the significance of 天 on z's ass'' nothing! he's just obsessed w his man! gay married in love i love them #i would've posted these as a set w will but i perfectly small-brained his 🤙 and then proceeded 2 overthink these 🤙so tz together as usual

[teethntongues]

I think the passenger is a very good film that explores two very vastly different characters and the way they process trauma and how it makes them both incapable of moving on and showing that in the way they both seem stuck in the town the trauma took place in. I also think they should've kissed nasty.

#I am going to be so normal about this movie #just benson vs. the obsessive relationship he created inside his head with his younger coworker against the world #the passenger #the passenger 2023

[rayfishandchips]

Dick the thetre kid turned goth vampire king. Just look at that sheer amount of ✨drama✨ in him

I can't believe DC actually gave us a vampire AU (and a LOT of other AUs)

(from DC vs. Vampires)

#on my DC obsession again #so I'll keep throwing panels on tumblr #and make it everyone's problem #dick grayson #nightwing #dc comics #dc vs vampires #batfam #otto schmidt

[ivytea]

guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is living in MY heart.....

#pinocchio #illustration #cottagecore #del toro pinocchio #its tea times #OBSESSED with this movie but especially the first section where both gepetto and pinocchio are kind of unhinged #pinocchio is like a deranged little creature. instills genuine fear in the heart at first encounter. i lovb him #i bothered my friends into watching with me in theatres #explained so many times......we r watching pinocchio (del toro) ((NOT fruity)) #and Yet.......every single one of them came up at sm point after the movie privately to tell me how pleased they were that #it was Normal and good #for the record i will be subjecting them to marathon of all other 2022 pinocchio incarnations over the holidays #where it will be FREE to witness their resignation in well lit environment #getting to this viewing was like unstoppable force (freak snowstorm) vs immovable object (our dedication to half price movie tuesdays) #with special guest appearance of our city flopping belly up whenever we get 0.5cm of snow cover

[bellshazes]

in my heart there's another probably worse universe where instead of the watchers taking off after evo, etho's writers from 404 became the highly misunderstood "i am fictionalizing and poking fun at my relationship with my audience & their perceptions of me and how i am motivated by them but not in a 1:1 cause and effect relationship and they are kind of obnoxious but i also care abt my literal audience liking what i do bc i do make stuff for youtube" fandom staple.

there's something substantial in here abt grian being SUPER particular abt things in a different but parallel way to etho (grian not watching other smp member's POVs and being open abt that bc it allows for genuine surprise, etho's like everything ever? but top of mind his old insistence against modded stuff, comment of the day, etc.) but honestly. can anyone who actually cares abt the watchers or whatever write me a 404 crossover. thats what i want

#haunted by bdubs' contemporary TOO COOL comment abt oh etho's ep 404 was cool go check it out #vs. grian i think (?) only becoming etho obsessed later but like. i wish i could have heard his at-the-time review of 404 #too bad the reviews of 404 were so mixed & the setup so dependent on modded s1 to ever be replicated #bc AGAIN complex stupid consistent goofy mocking loving relationship w audience.whatever. #peter posts #somehow evo was the first ever mc smp i ever watched btw. circa 2019. but.. #404

[reineydraws]

same ship, different font ☠️🔥

#renkaza #grimmichi #bleach #kny #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer #bleach fanart #kny fanart #rengoku kyojuro #akaza #kny akaza #grimmjow jaegerjaquez #grimmjow #ichigo kurosaki #akaren #so i watched mugen train and went looking for rengoku bros content and stumbled onto a renkaza fic heavily centred around senjurou #and as i read it i was like hm. they uh. they remind me of grimmichi. #✅️ meet in a fight to the death; ✅️ undead one obsessed with the other's power and fighting spirit; #✅️ the demonic one still follows a moral code of sorts; ✅️ they dont follow their evil boss 100p of their own consent; #✅️ loose black uniform vs wide open top specifically to show off pecs and abs #lmao isnt there A Lot. and thats just the canon stuff. #oh cant forget ✅️ themes of violence and cannibalism. #anyways i was reading and i was like 'lol no wonder' #fusion au #oh! ✅️ the 'good' one has offensively bright fiery hair hahaha #and also ✅️ sword #i also have a sketch sheet of rengoku hairstyles and im colouring another emotionally angsty renkaza sketch lmao theyve caught me

[nats-uvi]

Grapeduo being silly together

#I'm obsessed with them I'm so sorry #I cant help it they are ao fun to draw #grapeduo #avm #ava #animation vs minecraft #ava ships