one thing i enjoy about svsss so far is this huge family-like support shen qingqiu has from his sect, like i just made a post about how i love liu qingge, partly bcs hes ride or die for shen qingqiu, but shen qingqiu has many many people fighting for him and his honor and dignity no matter the cost. it's so different from tgcf where xie lian and hua cheng are so so lonely for most of their lives and while i haven't read mdzs yet, the untamed also has areas where wei wuxian and lan wangji are just such outsiders in their own lives, they might as well be alone even with people around them constantly
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Ya kno shadowgast is Fun bc like... u can always look at them and go
Hurr hurr wizzard bois go brr
And then you can also look at them and go
Holy shit the most emotionally profound declaration of love was spoken at least partially in fear and a need to damage control someone whom you deemed a dangling thread so as to not jeopordize your goal to end a war, and the person damn well knows it but chose to take it to heart anyway, believing himself unlovable, making you realize that your mistrust, while earned, was never going to end any other way bc for once you met someone who wasn't about to make the same mistake twise and values you and your shared found family more than anything or anyone on exandria or any other plane, and wants, in the end, to do right by you.
Holy shit
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07/10/23 | g.r.
[text below the cut]
poem without pronouns
so the devil went down to florida, passed seventeen u-hauls
on the wrong side of the road and kept trucking. store-brand
exodus. DIY rapture. devil made __ to the heart of the everglades
and held council with the gators, with the wrinkled and wrathful.
devil said breaking news: god has resigned. heaven is empty,
on account of prayers no longer being addressed correctly.
no more capital h. no more father art in heaven. the pious
have forgotten __ name to hallow; up to __ to sort out the mess.
(the end of the world has been beginning for a while now)
last week the woman at the school board meeting shouted:
no more pronouns!
and the monkey’s paw didn’t so much curl as spasm: less easy
motion and more rigor mortis, a dead thing still desperate to matter.
an affront to nature, really. probably why the devil showed up.
devil said __ is fucked up, even for __. devil said want to see a spell? say the magic word and watch __
disappear
devil said
how many people will be erased for the sake of tradition?
justification is secondary—cutting out expression just looks
like violence in the end. not saying the word does not strip meaning
nor dignity. politician shouldn��t be a synonym for magician.
bigot is not a synonym for god. __ am done playing devil’s
advocate against the far more monstrous: cold hearts never listen
to hypotheticals. so time for hellfire. time for pride, for the lustful
and angry. ban controversy and the only thing left is clear-cut
and vulgar: the dykes and the fags and the rest of the defilers.
no more polite words to use, but in no world would __ go quietly.
only 5% of __ poem has been redacted and yet the silences scream.
__ are screaming. __ are screaming
a sound big enough to be mistaken for war cry, for angel, for chorus.
home and heaven are empty, but __ are forging a new kind of paradise around the bonfire. singing a new kind of song. listen to the sound of perseverance, __ cowards. the sound of love. the sound of millions
filling in the blank.
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