Unsurprisingly, people are already being fucking weird about Mizu's gender.
Headcanons are all well and good, but maybe we shouldn't be so eager to apply modern Western gender politics and terms to a character whose identity is so tied to the time, place, and circumstances in which she exists.
Please remember that Mizu was forced to present as male for her own safety and agency. Please remember that allowing others to see her as a man and call her he/him is not a choice; it's protection; it's a means to an end. Until we see Mizu talk about her gender in further detail, that's all the context we have.
Don't project what you want to see onto her and then treat it as fact.
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Well, I'm back and the shop's re-opened! All stickers are up, all keychains are for sale again, and the watercolor prints are available for sale again!
This blog's certainly gone way past just my artwork and i certainly advertise more for my shop now than I post art, but running my shop leaves me with the same feeling of satisfaction now that posting art does, so I'm having fun with it.
Per usual, everything is up for pre-order in my shop here!
Btw, my manufacturer did accidentally send me three extra Sun keychains on accident so if you manage to snag one of them your order should be sent out this month rather than next!
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double date vibes
because the alt text has a character limit, heres the quotes:
For the Faraway Wanderers one:
(Wen KeXing) “What...do you think makes a good person? Why do people have to be good?”
(Zhou Zishu) “Think about it. If you only rely on yourself your whole life, always being on guard against everyone else, having no relationships or anyone to care for you, wouldn’t that be too pitiful? It’s too miserable, being a bad person.”
For the Lord Seventh one:
(Wu Xi) “Beiyuan.”
(Jing Beiyuan) “Hmmm?”
(WX) “In this life, you will be the only one in my heart. In the next life, and the life after. I will frever remember you, so long as my soul hasn’t scattered.”
(JBY) “I don’t know who I’ll be in the next life.”
“The head won’t remember, but the heart will. I must have said something like this is a past life.”
“I don’t...remember you saying anything like this in my past life.”
“Even If I didn’t say it for you to hear, I have recited it a million times as I watched your back.”
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I hate when people dismiss the Phoebe thing as Scully simply having been jealous. She was his best friend first, and she did what any good friend would have
yeah it's pretty reductive, honestly. scully has been very protective of mulder since the pilot; the first 3 episodes of the show are literally her committing to him, holding a man hostage at gunpoint to find him, and cutting ties with her friends who make fun of him.
this was largely her arc in squeeze, after only having known him for a couple of weeks, as she defends him to colton multiple times
and, in the end, concludes that she would rather be “on the side of the victim” with mulder than climb the ladder with her classmates, and tells colton to fuck off the next time he’s rude about her partner
in ghost in the machine, she's disapproving of jerry from the moment they meet, knowing literally nothing about him except that he used to work with mulder
and she instantly recognizes the profile that jerry presents as mulder's work, whispering to him to ask if that's his, to which he replies "forget it, no" and then later fibs and says that jerry apologized for stealing it (once you tell your best friend you can't go back lol)
all of these examples pre-date her behavior in fire, and are episodes where she's put in situations navigating mulder around other men
y'all remember the first time she met krycek and just flat out refused to shake his hand lmao
i touched on this a little bit in my post on fire, but scully really was just so enthralled by him from the very beginning. she grew up on a military base with her navy captain father and two brothers, and her only relationships have been with older men in power.
she instantly is so aligned with mulder and that there's something different in him than she's used to, but she's aware that the openness and softness that she's so drawn to in him makes him more vulnerable, and she's desperate to protect it
in beyond the sea, the very next episode after fire, she screams at boggs that if mulder dies she'll gas him into hell herself, and boggs tells her that he's tasted the afterlife.
that it's a cold and dark place, and mulder's looking in on it now. she replies, "it might be a cold dark place for you, but it's not for mulder"
she knows him, and she's so moved by him and what he wants to do in the world. these are the values that she left medicine to follow.
"jealousy" honestly doesn't even compare to the kind of ferocious protectiveness that she feels towards him from the very start, she really doesn't trust anyone around him for anything. they can't possibly get it like she does, if they treat him that way.
he may not care if people call him names or steal from him or try to make him walk through fire, but he really is just her best friend. and she can't stand it.
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Byler Fanfic Recommendation‼️
Quick warning:
⚠️ Do not pursue reading this fanfiction if you have issues, or are uncomfortable with Lonnie calling Will "certain slurs", or are not an enjoyer of fanfiction that dives into the trauma of Will and his father's relationship. ⚠️
i don't usually go back to reread fanfic because i feel like it can never hit me as hard the second time, but lord KNOWS i'm coming back to reread this MASTERPIECE. like jesus christ i was sobbing along with them, my heart was pounding along with them, i was giggling along with them IM GOING INSANE OVER THIS STORY. i genuinely dont think i can find any words in the dictionary to describe how i feel about it, or emojis, so i'll try my best with describing my favorite bits.
the pacing was my absolute favorite aspect of this story. a very big part of making any plot is the progression, obviously. there are many stories i've read where i wished they'd revealed it just a bit sooner, or kept certain things a secret for a bit longer, but i had absolutely no issues with the way things progressed. if i had to rank fanfic based off the pacing, i would put this at the top. everything felt like it was happening at the exact time it should.
i think a lot of fanfic writers (including myself) have issues with attempting to address relationships (romantic, platonic, or familial) which include characters we feel anger, or disgust towards. when this happens, we either don't include these characters at all, or they're written in ways where you can tell the writer didn't feel as enthusiastic about advancing their plot. but the way Lonnie and Will's relationship was addressed was genuinely one of, if not the best representation of their relationship i've seen. the way Will describes his confusion on why he feels certain things about his father, to me at least, is an accurate portrayal of how i see it being canonically.
and lastly, their RELATIONSHIP. i'm only saying this because i don't think it counts as a spoiler, and it happens in literally every ship fanfic ever, but their LOVE FOR EACH OTHER. their FLIRTING. THEIR EVERYTHING MADE ME JEALOUS. the giggles i was giggling were louder and happier than my average reading fanfic giggles. Mike's genuine want to fix things so Will could be happy, and him fumbling so many times had me spiraling but also feeling optimistic 'cause, i mean, it's them.
they always fix things in the end... right?
may i present to you, the ao3 fanfic that drove me as crazy as Crazy Together:
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