#so many corpses

[absolutebl]

In Which ABL reads MDZS

IRL Responses as I read:

I did not anticipate the newspaper headline/town cryers opening narrative device. Interesting.

I am enjoying the translator notes.

I am not interested in someone else’s life. Why back story of a host body? Fun opening premise tho.

Ooo, head hopping from our omniscient narrator. Now THAT I did expect. Been a while since I read this style last (Dickens maybe?)

So far I am finding the translation legible but not pretty or enjoyable to read. Just kinda there. A bit brutal... or something?

Also I’m glad i watched some of The Untamed its much easier to follow this story having watched bits of that one. 

The use of American colloquialisms from like the 1980s, “flipping out” for example, is both amusing and highly distracting.

Too many names and sects. (But I knew that going in.) 

I admit it as soon as the romance element hits and our leads are on page together I’m interested. But there isn’t enough of that. 

Ooo the whip marks bathing scene!

Chapter 13 and now the history of the relationship?

I’m really not interested in dismembered bodies, zombies, ghost hunting, ghost raising, exorcism, bodies inside walls, ancestral tombs, or anything along these lines. And I am really really not interested in any parts of the story where the two leads are not together. So I’m skipping a lot.

This book is what 600k, I suspect I am moving rather rapidly through about 500k of that. 

I love the bit in the city where WuXian is just all “well he can take care of himself I’m going to look after the kids.” And WangJi makes his instrument do a non-verbal murmur of acknowledgment. Very funny.

The dark humor is funnier than I expected too. A lot of dismemberment bits remind me of...

I find the side stories of other people’s lives extremely boring and distracting. Like I am being forced to read a short story in the middle of a novel. 

Honestly this book is like having a conversation with a drunk person. NO it’s like having a conversation with a STONED person. Ramble ramble ramble, eats something bad, says soemthing insightful, recites something poetic, talks about past lives, parents, history, rambles some more. Except there’s all the blood and gore. So maybe it’s like having a conversations with stoned Hannibal. Either Hannibal. 

Coul we just STAY ON TARGET. (The Target being WangJi “manly member” inside WuXian.) 

I love the way WuXian’s magic adores WangJi even as he refuses to notice his own affection for the boy.

Look they don’t need to kill the walking dead, just make them try to follow the fucking names in this book. 

I am finding the homeric jumping about on the timeline absolutely maddening.  At least use the different names at different times. Give me some kind of clue. I wonder of the official translation into English will have some kind of time stamping/framing device. 

Still, if marketed properly, I can actually see this being hugely successful in the North American market.

Oh great another chunk of backstory for a character who is already dead or about to be.

80% into this and it’s the infamous bath scene at last. I heard about this. 

It’s an interesting first sex scene. Not well written. Not as bad as I was expecting either.

Wow a full on confession scene. I was really not expecting that. I also wasn’t expecting how public they are about everything. 

I did enjoy the culmination sex scene. Quite kinky. And I like that it’s consistently WuXian who always starts everything. Was in worth 570k to get here? 

Eh... no?

Good ending. Much better than the series. 

And that’s it. 

Thoughts? 

Look it read like fanfic, and I don’t really go for that style (I struggle to ID the narrative structure, story arc, or authorial intent). The romance was very much standard beats, tropes, and pretty unsophisticated. It’s fine I don’t mind that actually. Romance should be somewhat predictable, that’s why it’s comforting. I liked the characters fine, the plot was complex to the point of confusion (but that’s probubly my fault) and the horror was... well there was a lot of slashy slashy body body dead DEAD, wasn’t there? 

I’m glad I read it because of this corner of fandom I exist in, but I’m not sure I would necessarily recommend it as a book. Don’t listen to me, though, I intensely dislike most epic fantasy (Game of Thrones can bite my arse) and always have, this may be very Chinese and very cultivation but it’s still also very much epic. I also strongly dislike horror too so, yay now, naught but the gay bits were really for me. 

Honestly making me suffer through 500,000 words and 500,000 corpses for those few moments of gay feels very Chinese BL of it. 

Final summation: 

I liked it when they were kissing but there were too many non-kissing people wafting about, not to mention non-sexy body parts piling up. 

Sorry I can’t share your love @renafire and @percida18​ but my taste in literature is very much as questionable as my taste in television. 

(source)

#ABL reads The Untamed #but not because like the characters inside this story also has too many names #and corpses #so many corpses

[tetsuooooooooooo]

WAIT

HUNTER THE OWL HOUSE SONG

#COUNTING GRIMWALKERS #GO BACK TO SLEEP - KILL HIS ASS MAKE A NEW ONE #toh #hunter #the owl house #caleb #belos #hunter the owl house #god that animatic would be bitchin #SO many corpses #Youtube #*sob* im so good at this

[reegis]

May we see what would happen if Jon archivist and Jonny switched places for a day?

what one more kidnapping, eh Jon?

meanwhile….

#do Not ask me what season of tma this is supposed to be bc i have no idea #the mechanisms #tma #lord theres so many characters to tag augh #jonathan sims #jonny d'ville #ashes o'reilly #gunpowder tim #drumbot brian #ivy alexandria #raphaella la cognizi #toy soldier #timothy stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #jonny solves every magnus archives problem in one day by simply burning it to the ground & vaporizing magnus’ dusty ol corpse #& jon gets even more mannequin trauma #asks #my art

[soppymilkgin]

oni

#i have so many ideas but instead of executing any of them i will paint corpse baby for the 12491582935th time #this time its pov ur dying on the battlefield #sakata gintoki #gintama #art tag

[pyre-the-ren]

I love you, media and music based on folklore, mythology, and old stories passed on from generation to generation. I love you, people who take these sorts of things “too seriously” and begin genuinely analysing what’s generally overlooked as a silly story. I love you, people who both romanticise these stories and point out the very real horror that lies in a lot of them. I love you, people who refuse to let the stories and folklore important to their culture fade away, even when for hundreds or even thousands of years people have attempted to erase their history and culture. I love you, people who reclaim their people’s stories and tell them from the mouths of those it originally belonged to. I love yo

#fairytale #fairy tale retelling #d20 neverafter #Irish folklore trilogy #hades game #corpse bride #princess kaguya #kirikou and the sorceress #into the woods #hadestown #percy jackon and the olympians #crow the legend #the black cauldron #and so many more

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Names revealed and returned. (context)

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #red vs green saga #ouyang zizhen #jin ling #lan sizhui #lan jingyi #Nameless red disciple #*Tin can crumpling sounds* #[The Nameless Red Disciple] has forfeited their name. Ouyang Zizhen is green now. #Thank you to everyone who participated in the poll! Everyone campaigned very hard! I am glad to see the final result was rather close B'*) #Nameless red disciple is sticking around still but to a lesser extent. They need to go on a gender quest now #I hope most people saw the red vs green poll. Or else this is even more wild and wacky than intended #This comic changed so many times and I'm still not sure it's as funny as I hoped it would be...oh well. #Jin Ling may one day need to go on his own gender quest but thats many years in the future #for now JL is so out of the loop on everything. He is aware gay people exist and thats it #I was looking back at old comics and noticed that LSZ and LJY were frequently standing drawn very small in the bg reacting to things #so heres a little throwback to that era B*) #This fills in for the part where the juniors fight the living corpse hoard. So there's at least a sliver of canon timeline going on #We're getting so close to the end of season 1! In retrospect I have spent too much time on this arc *even with* cutting out several comics #it's all a learning process!

[silver-horse]

Merrill during The Last Straw ...  

#🤣🤣 #actually the templar corpses are lovely to see so yeah you know what I do agree! #Merrill #freedom is coming! everyone rise up on this beautiful evening! the revolution is here #the last straw #jokes aside this is just one of the many things that show how rushed the ending was #this is the final quest of the game the big climax and they didn't give them unique lines to say when we click on them #just generic night time dialogue #dragon age exodus #dragon age 2 #Dragon Age II #Dragon Age #da2 #hilarious #funny #my post #my posts #daedit #da mine

[nelkcats]

The mysterious murder of D. Phantom

Batman faced multiple cold cases. Some in which he got involved. They were never pretty, neither the ways of death nor the age of the victims. But when he entered a building and looked at Jason's corpse (it wasn't Jason, it couldn't be) his mind went blank.

He tried to investigate as much as possible. But his path was always empty, with virtually no clue as to who was to blame. Bruce began to despair when he saw his son's corpse on the pavement.

A week after his fruitless investigation, the body disappeared, and an identical one washed up on the docks. His death seemed recent, but that couldn't be possible, maybe the corpse was moved, but why?

Jason even got involved when his father started pestering the whole cave with his increasingly crazy theories about the case. All they got together was a couple of letters: DP, Dick nicknamed him Phantasma, because his body always turned up in supposedly haunted places.

Interestingly, the solution was more obvious than that. Danny changed forms so many times that he burned his human body, altered and left it on the ground. Clockwork forced him to absorb it to manifest another (Danny thought it was gross, but apparently when he "died" his body was just pure ecto)

And well, maybe he didn't know how to control the ability, and maybe he kept burning himself, leaving an abandoned corpse but it was disgusting, okay? The stalker in the bat suit was also not easy to avoid.

#dpxdc #Danny discovered immortality #but it was gross #he didn't like it #since he changed forms too many times #his body literally burned #he can create another #but he need to absorb the corpse first #dp x dc #dc x dp #Batman is getting desperate #he want to solve the murder of that innocent kid #that look so much like Jason #but there isn't any clue #and he refuses to call JLD #Clockwork is just tired

[insanitysilver]

Need book recs. Post your favorite book in the tags and what you enjoy about it.

#Hard to pick #but I do enjoy Frankenstein #Starts slow so you really have to shotgun it #but it is so funny watching terrible 20-something victor try his absolute hardest to absentee father #and this 9ft tall eloquent corpse man chasing him around about it #and i think it touches so many universal themes w/o hitting you over the head w/ them #so what you ultimately take from the book is as reflective of the reader as the book itself #And a special shoutout to Howl’s Moving Castle #nothing cheers me up faster #probably the book I’ve reread most

[elgrandebonemeal]

made a whole new sideblog just because i dont think people draw this guy fucked up enough

versions without text and also with/without glasses n fuzzy glitches whoop

#slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #qsmp #qsmp slimecicle #qsmp slime #qsmp charlie #qsmp charlie slimecicle #hello slimecicle qsmp watchers. can we please for the love of god agree on a single tag #anyway yea ik he Technically lost the glitches in the prison whatever but i am choosing to ignore that #which is quite easy when he is the only pov i watch #i feel slightly ashamed for making him so twinkish but when his diet consists entirely of avocado toast and rotten flesh i have to bear it #that little bump on his bicep was an act of generosity on my part. at least the grey hairs can slightly make up for it </3 #anyway how many times does he have to explode before yall start drawing him pathetic enough #put that harrowed face with the complexion of a fresh corpse in the playboy outfit. cowards

[hyperfixationtimego]

I love you fucked up tv shows I love you gorey movies I love you traumatized characters who perpetuate the cyclical nature of abuse while still managing to remain sympathetic I love you intentionally morally ambiguous media that exists specifically to pose questions about psychology, ethics, and human nature I love you unflinching examinations of what it means to dance the line between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors I love you I love you I love you

#I’m having a moment. happy sugar life was GOOD man #I’m just gonna. tag this with my favorite psychologically scarring media because MAN. #ode to them and the way they make me feel about life and living and the people around me fr <3 #happy sugar life #danganronpa #squid game #lolita #demon slayer #goddamnit there’s probably so many more that I’m forgetting #six feet under #<- currently watching that one with my mom and I truly cannot recommend it ENOUGH #future diary #<- MY FUCKING BELOVED. GOD IT’S SO FUCKING GOOD #sweet home #(except i’m ignoring the ending because i personally think it sucked and undermined the whole message of the comic) #feel free to add your own here too btw!! I need some good recommendations teehee :3 #your turn to die #FORGOT THAT ONE WHOOPS #saw franchise #corpse party

[martyrbat]

batman #428 / batman: legends of the dark knight #100

It's over. It's begun. The end of the training and the worry that he wouldn't pass the tests and make the grade, the beginning of a life with meaning. Jason smiles. A bright smile. The kind of smile Robin, The Boy Wonder should have. And he is Robin after all. For now and ever more.

‘Part of me recalls him putting on his costume that first time... the look on his face... his smile... as if it were yesterday. That first time, I must keep it alive... the memory of it. Alive in my heart so that the memory of this... here now... doesn't destroy me. We're together at least. One last time together... as it should be.’

#in many ways bruce is still a boy kneeling under a streetlight and holding the corpses of the people that mean the most to him. #in others hes still a man kneeling in the rubble and holding the corpse of the person that meant the most to him. #the only difference is now the corpse is smaller and his grief is altered. he spent so long musing about what if he was the one that was #killed just to learn firsthand the pain a father will have to experience when he outlives his son. #anyways. i think its fun remembering bruce is still currently clinging to an image of his dead son. #an image that that no longer exists. an image that may never have existed. #hes clinging to the memory of his child while jason is now a young man. hes perpetually mourning the living. #c: batman | i: 428 #c: batman: legends of the dark knight | i: 100 #crypt's panels #posts from the crypt #batman #bruce wayne #robin ii #jason todd #bruce & jason

[poetrylesbian]

what's everyone's favourite corpses/mummies/human remains/etc?

#this is for uni im trying to find articles about like. human remains on display and i think i might try to find different perspectives #on famous corpses? #ya know? #but i cant think of many so here i am

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Tails dies during a battle this Tails dies slowly due to radiation poisoning that(both amazing and soul-crushing ideas btw), I present to you; Tails dying in his workshop during a freak accident.

Tails working on something he knows is volatile and dangerous and he is careful, he took every safety precaution he could and yet it still ends up killing him. It explodes and either instantaneously kills him or he ends up trapped beneath the debris of his now destroyed workshop, unable to call for help or free himself.

He is bleeding, he is feeling drowsier and it's getting harder to breathe by the second. His communicator is broken, he can't even move his right hand, he can't call Sonic for help or anyone for that matter (the hedgehog doesn't even know what he was working on today, Tails hadn't told him, he knew Sonic wouldn't allow it. He now wishes he did).

He is far away from any city, which he now sees as a huge oversight on his part, any hospital is out of reach in time. He feared if something went array it might cause harm to others so the best bet was to work away from any dense populous.

Despite the burns on his chest and warm blood pooling beneath him, he starts to feel cold.

He tries to push the wooden beam off him with a shaky hand one last time before his vision goes dark.

He hopes Sonic won't be too mad.

#sonic the hedgehog #Sonic then arrives at the scene #and idk which would hurt more #Tails already cold and unmoving or just barely breathing #dying on the way to a hospital #or already a corpse in Sonic' arms #so many scenarios to think about :) #oh and btw I'm still working on that art thing don't forget #it's just a bit more of an undertaking that I first anticipated #might finish it on the next Wednesday probably #depends on if my motivation will work with me or against me #xoxo #miles tails prower #tails the fox #sonic and tails #unbreakable bond #theyre brothers your honor #brothers constantly dying on each.other your honor #noo I just think it would be so fuck up if sonic found tails dead in a place where he was supoused to be safe #just so so fucked up that he ran by cuz he meant to visit but instead he found the building in dissaray and his brother burried in it #i cant work this into a fic for the life of me cuz it would never see the light of day #but Id enjoy someone turning it into one *wink wink nudge nudge*

[muckyschmuck]

of course u make another creature and of course u put glasses on it

#it doesnt even need glasses like at all #my art #oc art #digital art #traditional art #for like one... #doodlings #ears progressively get bigger and bigger #dumb fops #try to design a vile thing that isnt just johnny 2 challenge fucking impossible #TRY TO DESING A CHARACTER WITHOUT A MIDDLE PART CHALLENGE #FUCKING IMPOSSILED #or glasses #anyway only beast in a 500 mile radius with a cellphone #damn bitch how do u have furry same face syndrome #i think its juts i have no many fucking things theyre bound to start looking samey IDK idc i love him #at least its not another DEAD CORPSE CHARACTER #I MEANT SO MANY NOT NO MANY

[y-rhywbeth2]

Durge: "Have you been watching us while we are together?" Sceleritas: "It is my duty to ensure you are making the right decisions, Master."

I like to imagine that Sceleritas has a filing cabinet back in the Throne of Blood: whenever Durge shows even the slightest bit of interest in somebody (or somebody shows interest in them, maybe) Sceleritas immediately starts following them around with a clip board, psychoanalysing them and taking notes; doing background checks; rough sketches of what the children will look like, and how bloodthirsty proficient at murder these future Bhaalspawn are likely to be; listing pros and cons...

Obviously nobody will ever be good enough for Master, but hey, it's... the thought that... counts?

He also has a list of more acceptable partners who will aid you in your duty unlike that Bhaal-forsaken Banite and give you much better offspring than your current fare of fancylads and/or lasses, Master. I don't know if Bhaal created him with a matchmaking function, or if he developed one himself, but I believe in Bhaalist Matchmaker Fel.

#“Don't fret; there are so many more attractive corpses out there than the vampire Master.” #sillyness #This is so distrurbing #babbling #playthrough shenanigans #/durge #/sceleritas #edgelord hours