yeah. 29, genderweird. idk whats happening

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Other performers have literally said since, “Freddy basically changed live performance forever and left us NOTHING.” (affectionate)

I am convinced he was blessed by the gods. He was a fucking herald for said gods or something. Hell, there’s that vid of the Green Day fans waiting for the concert to begin and fucking singing in perfect fucking harmony to Bohemian Rhapsody! Freddy isn’t even alive and he still fucking commands a crowd!

Full performance:

The richness of an adult who has gone through hell and made it to a place where they love who they are, and then is writing someone who is going through hell! The realistic, non-simplistic hope. The sense of perspective, even when dealing with ridiculous, exaggerated situations.

- LMY and JC friendship where the two of them rescue LQG from the qi deviation cave (dual cultivation? What a backwards fucking world. Here. Have a clarity bell and sit down).

- NYY refusing to be left behind on the crusade to save Binghe from the Abyss (assuming JC didn't fall in too.) Cue roadtrip with Shishu (LQG kind of owes JC a life debt). Everyone has a terrible time in the Abyss but Binghe gets saved and relearns that he's loved.

- JC not actually being oblivious nor stupid about Binghe's obvious feelings because he's used to his erstwhile shixiong's cutsleeve behaviour. Binghe is just too young for him.

- He also clocks LQG. And YQY. He mentions this offhand to LMY. She may subtly be trying to get them together (this does not work).

- Binghe infiltrates JC's dreams and sees him wielding a whip. During his trials in the Abyss he skins a Double-Hearted Swamp Snake and turns it into a whip for JC.

- See also JC fucking mowing through Abyss creatures out of sheer spite and rage setting the world logic out of balance such that he literally encounters a heavenly tribulation (he survives - Zidian is reborn).

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

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And this isn't even me being amatonormative about it, because it doesn't even have to be romantic or sexual to be an intensity that is beyond what is typical of siblings or best friends or sworn confidantes. I posted once about how Jiang Cheng embodies Jo March's reaction to John Brooke asking to court Meg in Little Women:

“Of course not. It would be idiotic! I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it, and now it’s worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.“

IF ONLY HE COULD MARRY WEI WUXIAN HIMSELF AND KEEP HIM SAFE IN THE FAMILY!!

#i think this is one of the differences in interpretation that make bad jiang cheng opinions so enraging to me lol#so many people read jcs intense emotional reaction to wwx leaving as entitlement and classism#idk man i think the level of attachment op describes here is way more compelling#also lets face it jc basically acts as wwx's jealous ex all through the novel#and wwx equally acts like they had a bad break up!! - by @iri-vail

#the story makes NO FUCKING SENSE if they are not codependently obsessed with one another#the whole fucking plot HINGES ON IT - by @godswallowing

like. that guy did not care what anyone thought. he had a whole system for ignoring yu ziyuan's opinions when he felt she was wrong. he's intense about duty. wei wuxian was very much his favorite student.

if that favorite student had in fact secretly been his own son, he'd have processed the paperwork at the first opportunity. and by the time the boys were teens, have given serious consideration to passing jiang cheng over for the inheritance, if wwx showed any willingness to take the job. because he had serious concerns about jiang cheng's psychological fitness for the role.

acknowledging a bastard with an existing legal father and adoption are afaik the same exact legal process; he wouldn't have had to lie or openly admit anything to do it.

(which is exactly why if he had adopted the kid everyone would have considered that an admission, regardless of the facts. which pretty plainly would not have stopped him. because if jiang fengmian cared enough about that sort of thing to make his decisions on that basis, he wouldn't have handled the entire wwx situation with the deliberate shamelessness he in fact did.)

and which is why, while this logic probably is very identity-affirming for wei wuxian, it only makes jiang cheng feel worse. 'no see, he's not actually a threat to your position, because if he was you'd have lost already.'

jiang cheng is not how wei wuxian finds out.

equal rights, baby! wei wuxian has to contend with jiang cheng losing his core for him and jiang cheng fully planning to never ever mention this to anyone!

to make it extra, jiang cheng at first denies everything, then inists the wens caught him by chance, and then ultimately decides that it doesn't matter because it didn't change anything and it's a past life, wei wuxian don't concern yourself with this.

This could work as any of the following:

1) both of them are just Like That, and were before they'd even met each other; or

2) Grace was Like That already, and even though Rocky was at least somewhat aware of Grace's self-perception issues, Rocky still managed to catch this trait off of Grace somehow, like a pesky flu bug; or

3) both of them had at least a little seed of Being Like That to start, and spending years at a time stuck together in the Hail Mary watered and fertilized those seeds out of control, because each of them got convinced of "Yeah that other guy over there thinks I hung the moons and stars, but that's ONLY because he's my bestest friend in the whole universe. As a [man/Eridian, choose whichever applies] of science, I have a responsibility to keep myself grounded in reality, which means no getting so drunk on my own ego that I over-inflate my own importance". And then they overcompensate way the hell over in the other direction.

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲