sqq thinking liu mingyan is a lesbian bc he married binghe is so funny he's like well if you can't have binghe what's the point of having a man at all sqq, lying: well EYE would be married to a woman if i hadn't married binghe so it just makes SENSE,

extremely funny to think about sqq coming clean about his past and then accidentally giving everyone in PIDW an insane idea about people from the modern world binghe: shizun insists he's perfectly normal there and everyone acts just like him
nyy: chilling....

hello i'm making a new dads au thread bc i am stressed about the other one breaking!!!! dinner is a subdued affair, with shen yuan spaced out and shen binghe only half-awake and made cranky by it. sqh sympathizes. he too is often made cranky by things that are entirely his own fault.

thinking about this take... i think this is true to a degree but i also think the people who ARE imagining a utopian future are doing it in a way that doesn't mesh with star trek's inherent neoliberal/american exceptionalist politics like some trek pushes back on this (ds9) but it is at heart a show that imagines we a) easily solve all of our bigotries on earth in a way that gives rise to a united exploratory military arm based in the US and b) the "discovery" of "new species" in a colonialist model lol

:') ok, so, interestingly, Holmes refers to "Palmer and Pritchard" in this section of the speckled band, and their names are linked in the email, but instead of leading to their wikipedia pages the links lead to their (empty) entries on fandom dot wiki??

liu mingyan 🤝 lan wangji
getting a reputation for being stoic and aloof when really they're just walking around in a constant horny gay daydream she's not even mad 15 y/o binghe ditched her to go moon over his shizun bc it gave her more time to think about girls

i was like "oh yeah fengqing month let me check" but the prompt today is "book 4" so actually i have to go lie down the problem is i could write about feng xin in book 4 but it would mostly be about xie lian and jian lan. and i could write about mu qing in book 4 but it would mostly be about his mom

tgcf side pairings: incomprehensible. mdzs side pairings: doomed. svsss side pairings: all secretly just the one pairing well, two. the boys and the girls

every romantic pair in tgcf is incomprehensible to every other romantic pair in tgcf Just a circle of people looking at each other like "what a bunch of freaks"

I do love him... Holmes referring to this huge threatening dude as "this beauty".... fruit

do you think when hua cheng challenged the 35 gods to combat and/or battles of wits fengqing like. talked about how they were going to say no, or just separately peaced out ok I agree w the consensus. partially bc I think if they talked about it they would end up arguing their way into doing it bc they're idiots lmao

viral sculptor hua cheng who never shows his face only his hands & makes these gorgeous statues, beautifully detailed in everything except the face, which he either stops filming before he sculpts or carefully leaves out of frame they're clearly all of the same person but in a hundred different poses and moods and activities... some in historical costume some in sweatpants some tastefully but deeply erotically nude

wwx: and even if i did i wouldn't date HIM
lwj: who would you date
wwx: huh?
lwj: is it wen ning
wwx: HUH?
lwj: you kiss him. on the head
wwx: yeah but—no, he's an absolute sweetheart, but I don't see him like that. besides, his sister would kill me lwj: hm. she should be proud of him
wwx: proud of him for what
lwj: for "pulling" you
wwx: did you just use air quotes?? lan zhan, how did we get here. what are you saying. what's going on right now.
lwj: [sullenly sipping his mocktail]

happy snuggly Queequeg day Ishmael is SO right about this

Ishmael making up a guy like "oh yeah he's sooo famous but I own the only copy of his works. anyway look how right he is" I am fond of this passage tho. these eyes are windows, and this body of mine the house...

sqh who cannot shut up about how funny it is that it took sqq so long to realize binghe's in love with him & mobei-jun who reads this as unsubtle but relatively kind rejection... sqh is telling him he knows, of course he knows, but clearly doing nothing about it sqh: imagine not realizing someone has feelings for you until they doubt their whole tongue down your throat like please
mbj: [I understand. he wishes to head this off before I even kiss him :(]

thinks about mu qing. lies down when the. when you *gestures furiously*

a good wangxian au flavor is lwj doing everything he can do keep his crush wwx from meeting his brother bc in his head lxc is everything he is (physically attractive) and also like, more pleasant/easier to interact with, and he usually sees his own unpleasantness as a perk but!!! meanwhile wwx meets lxc and is like, "...anyway, lan zhan--" like he doesn't DISLIKE him but there is absolutely no appeal

Dracula: written in the hopes that Stoker's gay crush Henry Irving would notice him
Moby Dick: written in the hopes that Melville's gay crush Nathaniel Hawthorne would notice him
Frankenstein: written in a desperate attempt to not hang out with Lord Byron Mary Shelley goat for this

forums au was all a trick to get you to care abt my lesbian ocs (🎀 is bi but as a group noun)

i just really like it when characters dislike each other. i know a fandom thing is often making everybody friends but i think it's really funny one like one pair of characters i think should just dislike each other forever