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I posted 1,040 times in 2022

223 posts created (21%)

817 posts reblogged (79%)

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I tagged 947 of my posts in 2022

Only 9% of my posts had no tags

#tgcf - 261 posts

#cql - 119 posts

#hualian - 111 posts

#hua cheng - 104 posts

#art stuff - 99 posts

#xie lian - 83 posts

#meta stuff - 81 posts

#funnies - 59 posts

#tgcf meta - 58 posts

#faves - 55 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#the story of tgcf then is showing xie lian the results of his goodness. hua cheng is the living proof that xie lian’s kindness did something

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

thinking about the rationale behind anti-revenge plots. there’s a universal message about grief in there— the silent understanding that the pain is huge, it is endless and it is hungry, because the hole left in your heart will never be full again. it wants to rage and rage and destroy the thing that caused this pain. it’s painfully human.

the counterpoint is this: revenge will not bring an end to the grief. you will destroy the thing that caused you pain, only to be left with pain still —and yourself, now someone who is capable of destruction. and so you shouldn’t give in. you shouldn’t let yourself be controlled by your grief, only to bring more grief upon yourself. it’s not worth it.

but the best revenge stories take all of the above and answer: the revenge should be done anyway.

it may not be worth the emotional price for the person who suffered the most to carry it out themselves, but great evil should not go unpunished. the grieving person might not be the right person to pull the trigger, but they’ll damn well sleep better knowing that the person responsible is lying cold in the ground. (and an enormous, wondrous act that someone can do for another is to say, “i see you are hurting, i can’t erase your grief, but the least that i can do is to strike down the person who did it. the least i can do is this, because i hate to see you in pain.” because what is love if not feeling their pain as if it’s your own?)

479 notes - Posted March 8, 2022

#4

I’m fine I’m just crying over how Xie Lian makes Hua Cheng laugh

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631 notes - Posted February 18, 2022

#3

ok but mdzs really is SUCH a novel. it’s a tome of a book, the title is essentially “The First Necromancer”. the prologue is ominous — people celebrating and gossiping in turn about the mysterious death of the world’s greatest villain. and then you are immediately thrown into the POV of this exhausted post-depressed bisexual in the body of a gay twink. who proceeds to poorly fake insanity, control a bunch of corpses, argue with teenagers, and then loudly act as gay and cringe as humanly possible to avoid his problems. and then he gets kidnapped by THEE most respected person in the entire community. for gay reasons. as a BL reader you know what to expect going in but just contextually mdzs is truly SUCH a novel

1,735 notes - Posted March 9, 2022

#2

important to note is that the reason hua cheng enjoying xie lian's awful food and not telling him it's bad works is because he's playing along with xie lian's act. xie lian's KNOWS his food is shitty, he is doing it on purpose, because all of it – the chaotic cooking, the inventive names, the godawful taste – reminds him of his mother and he does not want to talk about it, so he just plays carefully oblivious whenever people try to discourage him from cooking and keeps doing it. lying to your partner if their cooking is awful is bad practice, but hua cheng praising xie lian's cooking (not excessively but just enough to be encouraging) is perfect for them, because it lets xie lian just enjoy this moment of feeling close to his mother without needing to be defensive about it. once AGAIN an example of how tgcf takes unhealthy codependent romance tropes and flips them on it's head to make it the most profound shit ever. height of romance. what in the fuck

2,637 notes - Posted June 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

something something infinite glory vs fallen from grace, how tgcf’s whole point is its range. how the whole point is to show extreme contrasts: xie lian floating through the sky as a hero vs lying drunk and filthy at the bottom of a grave pit. shi qingxuan the vibrant privileged god vs the disfigured beggar. pei ming the great warrior vs the easily humiliated coward. hua cheng the too-brave solider boy vs the fearsome ghost king vs the playful and sometimes vicious san lang. it’s still just you.

it’s you when you’re glorious and worshipped and loved and beautiful, it’s you when you’re vulnerable and pathetic and desperate and ugly. it’s you when you are dressed up in finery, it’s you when you are filthy and covered in mud. its you when you’re kind and benevolent, it’s you when you’re petty and angry. it’s you when you are dying for a noble cause, it’s you when you wield a sword for twisted vengeance. it’s all you, in all that it is possible for a human to be. and all that is worth loving. because it is you.

2,726 notes - Posted March 7, 2022