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have some modern wangxian with aroace wwx I posted to twitter for ace week

I love aspec wwx so much and even though I usually go with demi for him, I’ve been thinking about the idea of wwx being aroace but very romance/sex favorable. He knows this about himself but doesn’t really make a big deal out of labels so he kind of just. forgets to tell lwj. honestly he thinks it’s a little obvious with the way he constantly says he doesn’t need a relationship as long as he can be best friends with lwj for the rest of their lives. IN FACT he kind of just assumes lwj is aroace too. after all, /he’s/ never shown any interest in sex or romance either.

so basically they live together and are best friends and in wwx’s mind they’re already in a qpr of sorts. he knows he loves lwj and that he wants to stay with him forever. he doesn’t really care about anything beyond that. he thinks lwj doesn’t really care about anything beyond that. these things don’t need to be said. they’re in sync, right?

all their friends bother them about the fact that they’re “basically dating” but wwx doesn’t mind. he doesn’t feel the need to explain himself to them. unfortunately this means no one really knows he’s aroace and therefore all think he’s either hiding his relationship with lwj (jc) or stringing him along (lxc).

enter lxc in Protective Gege Mode

and some extra tidbits~

wwx does eventually warm up to kissing even more and starts to initiate more once he realizes he's Obsessed with the pleased little face lwj makes every time.

they do have sex and wwx does enjoy it. besides the physical sensations being nice, he likes being held down bc it "feels like your love is pressing into my whole body that way." lwj is very satisfied with that.

they do get pretty freaky eventually bc sex is already weird for wwx so why not go all out. lwj is always very sweet about checking in to make sure wwx is having fun, to which wwx always responds "I love anything only if it's with you." lwj is canonically possessive. you can take a guess as to how he reacts to this.

a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

story: they're in love :)

me: why?

story: what do you mean? they're in love :)

me: what do they bring to each other's lives? what do they admire about one another? what draws them to each other?

story: love :) :)

me: ok... so what is that going to look like now?

story: like love :) :) :)

me: are their personalities going to clash at all? are they going to have arguments? learn to compromise for each other? will they need to adapt to sharing their life with another person? is it going to be smooth perfect harmony from day one? are they going to be always together? see each other sometimes as their occupations allow? how does this relationship affect their lifes.

story: they're in love :) :) :)

one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, "please don't make fun of me, i'm so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can't stop crying." she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, "i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?" i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again

the wangxian energy of this

ID: A tweet from user lytchell reading: "my autistic coworker is my favorite person on the planet i asked if he would still be friends with me if i got a mullet and without looking up he said 'we are nor friends' like ok bestie !!! END ID

I think that there should be more hybrid AUs that have this misunderstanding specifically...

Bonus!!

trying to figure out how to draw the gang in my style

Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society

Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???

My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah

i need to speak every language. ever. right now

Ok so entertain me for a sec is Jiang Cheng not the original Wei Wuxian monsterfucker. Like from the jump. Lan Wangji standing there big sad eyes like “but Wei YING the righteous path!!!” Who hugs the most actively-smoking cursed shixiong????? Who enfolds him tenderly after tracking him via his trail of creatively killed bodies????? Jiang Cheng like “idk maybe you shouldn’t have provoked him. Maybe that’s on you. I have a shock collar idk what u want me to do”

Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

Don't leave this in the tags.

Reading The Hobbit to my daughter as she tries to get to sleep with a fever. She’s not yet 4 but insisted and is getting a lot out of it.

Her chipping in occasionally from the cosy tent that she sleeps in with ‘uh oh, Bilbo will not like the scratches on his green door!’ or ‘I would also like to ride a fat pony on a adventure’ or ‘I’m not scared of the goblins because I’m very brave, but let’s just not read that bit, ok?’

A thoroughly nice way to re-read this book.

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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.