Gay, and Apparently Does Write

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I think that I'm not as obsessed about Hua Cheng as everyone is? LET ME EXPLAIN.

I agree that he's amazing, cool, funny, a simp/10 and he's what Xie Lian deserves.

But like, I think that I prefer 100% Xie Lian to Hua Cheng in a way Hua Cheng would approve.. LET ME EXPLAIN.

Like to me the goat of tgcf is Xie Lian and no matter how cool Hua Cheng is, to me the way he reacts to Xie Lian and everything he did for him IS A NORMAL WAY TO ACT AROUND XIE LIAN CUZ XIE LIAN DESERVES NOTHING ELSE? LIKE HELL YEAH I TOO, WOULD DO ALL THESE THINGS FOR XIE LIAN CUZ HE DESERVES THEM ALL.

Like I get everyone wants their Hua Cheng in life and all, but to me that's beside the point kzjsjzbd WE NEED TO WORSHIP XIE LIAN ON A HUA CHENG STANDARD KZBDJZBD

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You’re not supposed to be able to get there

Humans putting these tiny lethal pseudo-moons (candles, lightbulbs) all over the place is, in some contexts, a relatively recent development. Life finds a way, and such, but that process takes time, and death, and the filtering process is still underway. Nobody is trying to die here. The world is just more dangerous than it used to be.

Eventually, all who blindly Chase The Moon will perish, and only those who have learned caution will remain.

Paralegal (8wk cert helpful but usually not required). Industry is desperate for employees. In my experience, you’ll often make as much as the junior attorneys. Excellent job security as long as your firm exists. And if it folds, there are more firms desperate to hire.

Public Relations, Communications, and Marketing. No you do not need a specific degree in those areas to apply for jobs in them. Most of the communications people at my current place were English majors (many graduating in the last five years)

Yes, you can teach English with just an English BA, at least in the US. Most K-12 private schools do not require a teaching certificate and you can start immediately. And if you want to teach public K-12, most states have a fast-track 8wk (one summer) teaching certificate program

Grant writer. Look for universities and nonprofits. Not a traditional job route but one you CAN do - volunteer to write grants for nonprofits in your area to build your portfolio, then apply to jobs with your experience supporting you. Your English degree is incredibly good training for this field.

Copy editing and publishing. Jobs are limited but if it’s your passion, you can find something. Work at it and self-advocate.

Executive Assistants with a heavy writing responsibilities often get paid relatively well and can have fascinating jobs.

Creative writing. Take a year and write your sci-fi novel, or scripts for YouTube videos, or whatever else you’re called to write. The world will be waiting on the other side.

Also: get creative in looking for positions!! English is an incredibly powerful degree in that it’s trained you how to quickly and analytically process a large amount of information and communicate it back with critical analysis. The only reason it gets trashed is that the career paths from are rarely traditional or straightforward: it’s not an engineering degree that pipelines into one of three industries (that you’ll probably be fired from within five years), it’s a degree that you use to find your own way in the world.

My English major friends went on to become (with zero additional schooling): a hospital administrator making six figures, a translator living in Belgium, a report writer for McKinsey & Co, a state representative and political organizer, a nonprofit vice president, a bank manager, and a script supervisor for Hollywood.

He’s looking for the kind soul that made him eat so he wouldn’t die. He’s looking for the older soldier he protected during a hard fight, who told him he wanted this kid to train under him. He’s looking for the man who got drunk and spilt his sorrows to a ghost fire and talked to him like he was a person. He’s looking for his fellow war orphan, who was self-destructive and suicidal when he last saw him. He’s looking for his general, whom he followed into a ghost rage. Xie Lian is all of these things to Hua Cheng, and more importantly, Hua Cheng is all these things to Xie Lian.

He never forgot that kid he wanted to protect, that young soldier he wanted to train. He remembers the devoted ghost fire fondly, and Wu Ming is the wound on Xie Lian’s soul that never healed. They were always thinking about each other. They always cared for each other to some capacity. They like each other. They are friends. Like, yes, greatest love story ever told, he looked for him forever, but Xie Lian had no idea!! Like, if Xie Lian had known Wu Ming lived, he would have looked for him, too.

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

Reminder: A poor little meow meow is a person who is like a sad wet cat and evokes sympathy despite being a little bit evil.

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