thinking about future yuhuang where they both stay at blue rain (as a coach or training camp instructor or manager or partial owner, etc). they live together, they work together, they’re in love. life is similar but still different. they step back enough so that the next generation can have their moment in the spotlight but at the same time, they’re still very much entwined with the image of blue rain.
anyway i like the idea that things can change and they can age out of being players but still find a place for themselves in something they love.
the worst part about having a building laundry room isn’t even the hassle of dragging the clothes to the basement. it’s that the commercial machines are so violent that even when I put my clothes in lingerie bags, they get literally ripped apart even though I only use delicate cycle.
[ID: gifs from episode 8 of the series “Mysterious Lotus Casebook.” Fang Duobing, Li Lianhua, and Di Feisheng are speaking in front of the shrine for Li Xiangyi. Fang Duobing is pointing at Li Lianhua when Di Feisheng says off-screen, “He’s not.” Fang Duobing asks, “Not what?” Di Feisheng looks amused and says, “In the great battle at the East Sea, Li Xiangyi lost.” Li Lianhua looks alarmed. Di Feisheng continues, smiling, “He should be second best.” Fang Duobing, outraged, says, “Are you saying Li Xiangyi lost to Di Feisheng? Did you witness it?” Li Xiangyi looks uncomfortable and Di Feisheng remains amused. Fang Duobing continues angrily, “They fought at sea. Where were you? Are you a Fish Spirit or a Turtle Spirit?” Li Lianhua smiles. /end ID]
I’ve officially decided my favorite relationship trope is “at first I was perpetually bothered by your mere existence but somewhere along the way you became my best friend and oh yeah I’m also in love with you.” Nothing else matters.
hi blog it’s friday! I haven’t done one of these posts in a while but here we are. I’m not completely over the jet lag yet but it’s definitely better than it was a week ago.
it’s always weird to come back to normal life after being away and to be honest I don’t like it. it makes me feel like life is one big slog only broken up occasionally by moments of fun new things. which, to be fair, I find to be both true and untrue. there are certainly moments of joy in everyday life but also, traveling to new places is fun and exciting for me in a way that nothing else is, and it’s a bit sad to know it only happens sporadically. I’m dealing with this by planning my next three trips lol.
the other day I signed up for a fandom remix event that I’m very excited about. I’ve never done one before so yay for new things. i can’t wait to see who I get matched with! so far this year, i haven’t done much writing, so this will be a nice kick to get back to that.
no weekend plans yet. I saw on the social media recently someone who walked from the very top of manhattan to the bottom. and of course my brain said that sounds fun. it’s about 13.5 miles, which is doable in a day and might even be good prep for my annual appalachian trail section hike next month. if the weather is nice maybe I’ll consider it if I’m not feeling lazy.
I’m still making my way through parallel world and enjoying it. bai yu looks very very good in this drama, good for him! in not fannidh about it but I’m enjoying myself.
alright that’s all I’ve got for now. I hope everyone has a good weekend!
I’m back on my business etiquette bullshit. if you send me a slack message that just says “hi” first of all you immediately go to the bottom of my to-do list. and then when I reply, if the only thing you say in response “quick chat now??” please know that there is no way in hell I am saying yes.
does it really take so much effort to just put your request in the fucking little text box. it doesn’t have to be a dissertation, pls just let me know the overall topic. “quick chat about xyz topic?” is fine! it lets me know if i can say yes or if i need to go gather additonal info. it will go much better for both of us if you tell me what you want to talk about. otherwise, chances are I’m going to tell you on the call that I need to look it up and we’ll have to set up another call anyway. this isn’t a surprise party, you dont have to keep secrets from me.
I’m so done, why does nobody know any basic business etiquette.
(yes I am aware I am being petty. but also i’m too busy to waste time. that being said, for people who always use good etiquette, on the few occasions they message me out of the blue asking for a call with no context, I will say yes because they have built up good will and I trust them not to be wasting my time.)
silly wotakoi crack fic based on that scene where they’re all talking about their first loves and it’s all fictional characters. and then nao drops the bombshell of “how great that my brother got to date his first love” which no one catches except kabakura who is left so shook with no one to talk about it with lmao.
anyway crack fic where narumi hears what nao says but doesn’t put the pieces together. instead, she embarks on a quest to figure out who hirotaka dated in the years they lost touch so she can solve the mystery of who was his first love. (she tells herself she just wants to know more about hirotaka. she’s definitely not jealous about it. definitely not, that would be so silly.)
poor hirotaka is dying on the inside of mortification while narumi plays detective. but also she’s so cute while she does it that he’s kind of enjoying sitting back and watching her spin her wheels futility searching. she’s adorable when she’s frustrated.
meanwhile, through narumi’s efforts of trying to solve the mystery, she slowly discovers her own romantic feelings for hirotaka. and maybe she should stop asking questions because the deeper she falls the less she wants to know about who hirotaka’s mystery first love is.
things come to a head when narumi abruptly drops her investigation. hirotaka is left wondering if it’s because she’s lost interest in him.
anyway they eventually resolve the misunderstanding with a nifty realization on the side that it doesn’t matter who hirotaka’s first love is. whether or not it was narumi wouldn’t change how hirotaka feels about her now. the subject of hirotaka’s first love becomes a fun little relationship moment for them.
okay but ever since finishing spirealm (spoilers ahead) I am obsessed with the chen fei veterinarian to doctor pipeline. not as the obsidian doctor we see in the original timeline but as the actual practicing physician we see in the epilogue timeline.
seriously. I have such a burning need to know what caused him to become a doctor in this “no murder videogame” au. if we were playing by novel rules, I’d say that getting diagnosed with some kind of fatal progressive disease caused him to reevaluate his life track as a doctor and pursue his passion of veterinary medicine instead.
I’m not too far into the novel because I don’t know if I can handle the character deaths a second time so I don’t know how quickly after getting sick people start going into the doors. I guess I’m assuming there is a period of years as someone gets sicker before the doors trigger. I don’t know. whatever.
but in the drama it seems like you play the murder demo game one day and you very quickly get sucked in. so what about the epilogue au was different enough for chen fei to choose people medicine instead of being a vet.
am I blowing out of a proportion a tiny five second clip that was probably not meant tobe thought about ever again? yes, absolutely. but here we are and I need to know!
(alternate crack theory: chen fei was lying the whole time about being a vet because he was a shitty doctor and didn’t want the obsidian team going after him if he accidentally killed someone.)
I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes
I think a lot of people are forgetting that on tumblr fandom used to be practiced very differently. now everyone fucks off to their discords or tumblr groups to discuss everything with a select few, making tags be nearly only used for posting some finished fanworks or not at all
a decade ago people didn’t have tumblr groups. people didn’t even have dms. if you wanted to talk to anyone about anything you had to make a post, or send an ask (which more often than not would get published and thereby become a post in the end too)
so next time you think “I have a fandom thought but I have to find a small group of hyperspecifically like-minded people to share it with in private” remember all the freaks you could be missing out on meeting by keeping the tags dead. use tags, make friends. fuck discord.
