#sensicalabsurdities

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12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

so at this point dawn is no longer really unpopular on tumblr and i've talked enough about why people should like connor that i'd rather not repeat myself so instead i will say kate lockley. i admire that she is a female character on ats who was introduced to be a clear love interest and then actually grew away from that role and became something very different. and didn't die that part's nice too. yes she can be a dick but she is a very important parallel to both angel himself and to his little sister kathy (< same name, not a coincidence). good character 👍

18. it’s absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on…

the Implications of ats s4...look i know s4 bad, i actually think the middle of s4 is worse than most people say b/c i don't think the faith episodes do the show any favors, but the jasmine story Is good and cordelia's possession and what happens to her and connor is bad but interesting and i wish more people other than me and @all-seeing-ifer wanted to talk about it. won't someone think of the impies...

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

hmmm how about the fact that angel from 5x12 to 5x21 is on a secret suicide mission that only he and cordelia know about......feel like more ppl should factor that into their analysis of his character in those episodes! also so juicy for us cangel understanders.

23. ship you’ve unwillingly come around to

Hoo boy.

Threshold Day is the anniversary of the airing of Threshold, one of the, if not THE, most batshit episodes of Star Trek Voyager, and Star Trek in its entirety. (Spoilers for Threshold below.)

In it, Lt. Tom Paris decides that, due to his enormous daddy issues, he will only be redeemed if he lives up to his potential by making it into the history books. In this case, it’s by breaking the transwarp barrier, which does not mean being trans and going into warp, a barrier which I’m sure was broken way before this, but going Warp 10 (in the new scale). Because apparently exploring basically a new section of the galaxy at the helm of the only Starfleet starship to be there is just garbage in terms of history-making, I guess.

So they find out there’s a 2% chance his personal brain will explode if he does this, and they’re going to let Harry Kim do it instead, but Tom is like, “no, Captain. You don’t understand. I have MASSIVE daddy issues. Also, you’d probably have to promote Harry if he succeeded, and nobody wants that.” 

And Janeway is like, “Oh shit, I really don’t want to promote Harry. Also, I have some pretty big daddy issues of my own, so I getchu; have at it. Hope your brains stay unexploded.”

So he successfully does his thing, and he’s like, EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, MAN. He sees everything. Past, present, Harry in the shower - I mean, future - in all places at once. Which is why it’s odd that he’s so surprised when he collapses in the Mess Hall after drinking one of Neelix’s truly noxious brews. He should have known how gross it was going to be. 

Anyway, the next twenty minutes or so are the EMH trying to stop Tom from turning into a weird gross scaly creature, with limited success. He stops being able to breathe oxygen. He gets super paranoid and rants a lot. He yells about pepperoni (I am not kidding). He asks for a dying kiss from Kes, which leads to a truly marvelous turn-down line: “I’m sorry, Tom. If we let down the forcefield, you’ll suffocate,” which I will now use for any unwanted come-ons. He legit DIES, then comes back to life a pretty long time later. He yells at Janeway, and then, like anyone who dares yell at Janeway would expect, his tongue literally falls out of his mouth. 

Finally, he’s getting pretty close to salamander territory, when the last 15 minutes give up on making ANY sense. He busts out of Medbay, kidnaps Janeway, goes to Warp 10 again, turns them both into complete salamanders (I guess the EMH literally did nothing to help Tom, because apparently Janeway makes it through the transformation just fine without medical attention), and then HAS LIZARD BABIES with her.

Which we know, because the Voyager crew manages to find them three days later, and in that time apparently Janeway has changed over and already had the babies. Also, they were able to find a shuttle that literally could have gone anywhere in the entire universe. Chakotay then shoots the salamanders and they take them back, leaving the babies to…I don’t know, sala-meander around or something. Why is Chakotay’s first reaction to phaser the largely-sedentary salamanders? I have no idea.

Cut immediately to the EMH having been able to just roll back their DNA or something and make them entirely human again as if nothing had happened (If this were possible, why didn’t they just Warp 10 home to Earth and then fix everyone while they evolved? It sounds like it would suck, but so would being lost for 70 years). Janeway insinuates she may have initiated the salamating. (Tom should have said salami instead of pepperoni, in salamander solidarity). They laugh off something that should require about 50 years of counseling. Tom says, “cool, I think I have slightly less daddy issues now.”

YOU KNOW WHO HAS MORE DADDY ISSUES NOW? MAYBE YOUR ABANDONED SALAMANDER BABIES.

AND NONE OF THIS IS EVER MENTIONED AGAIN. OR HAS ANY IMPACT ON THE SERIES. EVER.

Headcanon: Yanli has her unspecified chronic illness, which means that whilst most of the time she is able to perform the duties of a very involved mother and sect-leader-wife, she also has days where she can barely get out of bed due to pain/fatigue. these days make Zixuan super anxious at first, until it really clicks in his brain that Yanli has had to deal with this her entire life and it’s never really going to go away and you worrying about it isn’t going to change that, and then he makes it his absolute mission to figure out how best to help her on her bad days. do you want the doctor? or to be left alone? or to be held? or tea? or a hot bath? he’s not good at putting his emotions into words, but when he solemnly tells her that if she is always always looking after everyone else, that makes it his job to look after her, she does cry a bit.

Heartcanon: it’s Jin clan tradition that all “menfolk” are sent away as soon as the labour begins, but when Yanli has her first contraction with Jin Ling she grabs Zixuan’s hand, and even as Madam Jin tries to usher him away, she doesn’t let go - and, well, Zixuan’s entire life philosophy that that point essentially boils down to “A-Li gets what A-Li wants”, so for the first time ever he properly stands up to his mother and tells her in no uncertain times that tradition and propriety can get fucked, he will be staying at Yanli’s side until she tells him to go. he’s with her holding her hand for every single birth :) 

Gutcanon: for their kids, they are those very very embarrassing lovey-dovey parents who do disgusting things like treat each other with respect and hold hands on walks, like, kiss each other at breakfast. early on in their marriage Zixuan actually gets down on his knees and swears an oath that he will never, ever treat her the way his father has treated his mother - that even if they fall out of love, he will never be unfaithful to her, and will always give her the honour and respect that she deserves. he keeps that oath.

Junkcanon: ...do I even need to say? I think the entire fandom has entirely agreed that Yanli is in charge in bed. A-Li gets what A-Li wants, after all, and Zixuan is a-okay with that. (Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are so incredibly fucking lucky that, due to dad-related-trauma, Zixuan prefers to keep his sex life completely private, because the POWER he holds over them... the psychic damage he could deal to them in, like, three words......)

Hi! I mentioned this early on, but it’s worth repeating going into winter - for all intents and purposes this is a Covid-free fictional universe, for the sake of my own mental health. The pandemic is a terrible, tragic situation - I don’t want to trivialize it by introducing some magical handwave cure, and neither do I want to turn an escapist creative project that has helped me keep my head above water through this into yet another campus with a body count.

I hope you don’t mind I’m answering this publicly because a lot of people ask the same question. Unfortunately the answer is RYC is a large sprawling post-canon universe that exists mostly INSIDE MY HEAD. I have a shit ton of notes for myself planning out the whole story but mostly I just draw the parts I’m feeling, and if I manage to write a little bit that I feel okay about I’ll tack that onto the art. Ideally, I’d draw the whole thing as a comic, but I know myself and I do not have the time or energy for that. Sorry, it’s mostly just a random collection of bits and pieces. This twitter thread is where I generally throw things first and is probably the most complete and this thread is where I answered questions and has a bit more info on the universe (tho some things have been Updated since. Maybe I should do another one of those? hahaha).

I do wish I could write, it would be a lot more convenient for everyone. But I have bribed some friends/been gifted scenes which are all linked in that thread above! 

Hi friend, this one is easy. Daughters never inherit. They marry out. Pretty much 99% of the time.