the place where it rained

and i don't necessarily believe any of this i'm just saying words recreationally

Luo Binghe is actually pretty lucky that Liu Mingyan shipped Bingqiu as hard as she did. Can you imagine what could have happened if she had wanted to make Liushen happen? Liu Qingge might have actually realized he had feelings. Liu Mingyan would have invented powerpoints just to walk her oblivious older brother through her plan to get him a husband. There would be a whole network of Cang Qiong fujoshis trying to engineer wife plots like the damn CIA. Forget the System, forget the old palace master, forget Xin Mo, Liu Mingyan would be the final boss for Binghe to get to Shen Qingqiu, and she would have had a whole Jedi council of his would-have-been wives. But because Binghe is Airplane’s favorite, instead he gets bad sex advice from her smut books.

fandoms always underestimate the gut-wrenching emotional potential of platonic betrayal. ship what you want of course, but sometimes the less-traveled road of platonic betrayal hits so much harder and more uniquely than the romantic version. and there's no level of intense emotion, or former dependency replaced with a gaping emotional wound, that platonic betrayals cap out at! there is no threshold of intimacy turned bitter hurt that catapults it into romance; platonic betrayals can be devastating in their own right!

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls