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Still never gonna be over the fact that it took Maes Hughes one night to figure out the truth about Amestris when it took the rest of the cast half the series
these tags lmfao
Something I have been thinking about lately is. So I like whump. I am one of many people who enjoys reading about bad things happening to my favorite fictional characters, as the long and storied history of fandom will attest. We love it when people get hurt.
But one thing I also love, that I feel like I don't see very often in whump fic, is people writing about the recovery process, the unglamorous, difficult, after-the-fact details of having sustained serious injuries and living to tell the tale. Sometimes there will be a brief scene at the end of the fic where we are assured that, yes, the character made it to the hospital and survived, and is now surrounded by concerned friends-- particularly when the story veers more into hurt/comfort territory--but that's not really what I'm talking about. What I want is stories where the treatment and recovery are front and center, the medical details are realistic and the injuries are treated with the appropriate gravity, where the process is long and hard and has pitfalls and obstacles and above all takes time.
I think a large part of my desire for fics where the recovery is more centered than the actual moment of "hurt" stems from being aromantic and asexual and preferring gen stories, but still craving moments of intimacy in fiction and thus looking for it in less conventional places. Caretaking--or being taken care of--can be great sources of intimacy in stories where sex is off the table, for one reason or another. Needless to say, it's been an obvious lacuna. People do still write it, but not as often as I'd like to see, and that's always struck me as strange.
On the other hand, my wife has never been as into whump as me. She never hated it, but didn't seek it out or write it very often and had to be in the right mood for it (and to some degree still does). But lately she's been getting much more into exploring it in her writing because it offers her an opportunity to write characters experiencing similar things to her as she's dealt with the challenges of becoming disabled and largely housebound and reliant on me for certain caretaking tasks. And as a result we've sort of gravitated towards some similar kinds of stories, where recovery and caretaking are just as if not more important than fucking that character up in the first place.
Anyway. It's lead me to think more actively about that gap I've noticed as a life-long whump reader, where the recovery doesn't really matter and the stories are mostly just about the moment of "hurt" and maybe a dramatic rescue at the end. And I won't pretend it's all ableism, but I really do think that some of the reason fandom is allergic to writing true, messy, real caretaking and recovery is rooted in liking the aesthetics of disability (the angst! the drama!) without really caring much about the reality of it. It's the same reason action heroes get knocked unconscious all the time without concussions, why sci-fi and fantasy prosthetics so often seamlessly replace lost limbs, and why everyone in fiction eventually recovers from injuries and illness (except for when they die). There's no room for the unglamorous in-between, where someone ends up permanently affected by what happened to them and where "hurt" has life-long consequences.
I guess that's all to say--I wish fandom were as enthusiastic about the disability narrative potential in whump. Even in instances where people do make incredible recoveries from horrible injuries (which I've seen firsthand with friends!), a brush with serious injury is at the very least a brush with short-term disability, and more likely than not will have effects for the rest of someone's life. That can be interesting, and even intimate if you want it to be, too.
So yes, please do fuck that character up--it's a cornerstone of fandom for a reason. But consider, maybe, telling the sort of story where what happens afterwards matters, too.
[ID: Scum Villain doodle. Shen Qingqiu walks with a flat expression, while Luo Binghe lays face down on the floor clutching at the hems of his robes. /end ID]

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Painfully sad to see stuff with Yue Qingyuan as willfully refusing or even purposefully lying to Shen Jiu about why he didn't return, thus having the entire miscommunication be his fault alone and that he's aware on some level that he's misleading SJ, which bums me out. Mainly cause I don't think it lets him work as well in the bigger picture of Bingqiu, especially in regards to Shen Yuan's own growth.
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Wait sorry but I also can't believe I forgot the cave scene so I'm tacking it on:
SENTINEL
since @theuntamedzine has now been sent out i can finally post the art i made for it! didn't i say i had some fun secret works to share :)))
sometimes i just start thinking about the long long post-xxc stasis time in yi city, and then i have to stop. i was originally going to make another song lan-focused version that's been in my head since i got into this story, but since i ended up doing another piece featuring song lan, a-qing gets a turn instead :')
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a few details that i want to point out because i like Details:
qql’s shadow is a drooling wolf!
the bed eye decorations are staring at sj!
sj is the only person that’s uncolored in both frames!
the background mural depicts a beaten older sheep wearing a wolf’s skin intimidating a similarly beaten up lamb. one of the sheep’s horns are broken
the carpet is decorated with the chinese numbers 49: the typical number of days a family spends mourning a lost loved one
the mirror is covered with cloth, which is also a funeral practice
AND !!!! the orange lilies scattered around the piece has meaning, too :]
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fair maiden sheds tears of jade (hold me close)

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some tlt girlies i never posted!
“Let’s see who’s available- Hey, are you free?”
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MXTX readers: is the MXTX novel you are most obsessed with, the first of her novels you read?
First Read SVSSS, Most Obsessed with SVSSS
First Read SVSSS, Most Obsessed with MDZS
First Read SVSSS, Most Obsessed with TGCF
First Read MDZS, Most Obsessed with SVSSS
First Read MDZS, Most Obsessed with MDZS
First Read MDZS, Most Obsessed with TGCF
First Read TGCF, Most Obsessed with SVSSS
First Read TGCF, Most Obsessed with MDZS
First Read TGCF, Most Obsessed with TGCF
Obsessed with Multiple Equally
Not really Obsessed with Any
Other
For me, no; I first read MDZS, then TGCF, then SVSSS … and at least currently, I think I am most obsessed with SVSSS
Also, I’m including any value of “read” here whether you read the novel, read the comics, watched one of the versions of any shows …
what I've learnt from watching Columbo recently is that there is a prison in California somewhere with like. Almost every Columbo murderer and they're probably hanging around in their prison overalls, sighing and bitching like jaded exes who compare notes about their singular lover. Sort of like an Arkham asylum type thing. When a new guy shows up they all chorus "Did he tell you you'd make a great detective, that you were a genius, that he wanted you to help him with the case?" From their cells, pressed against the bars, hardened lifers making their own physical threats against the new fish, while the self-important most recently sentenced murderer visibly wilts at having his Columbo related individuality crushed by a wall of men who apparently once came to know Columbo in almost exactly the same ways he did