buried-in-stardust:

Painting plum blossoms

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chalkrevelations:

heavymetalchemist:

I think a lot of people who don’t like Jiang Cheng forget about how Wei Wuxian actively and deliberately lied to him about his actions, repeatedly, and feel that somehow Jiang Cheng was supposed to be more “understanding” or put more blind faith and trust in his brother, even though he was being actively lied to. And even so! He kept trying to help him behind the scenes (wedding clothes? courtesy name for nephew? invited to 1 month party?).

I think people want him to be like Lan Xichen, with his complete unwavering trust in his brother/sworn brothers. “I’m sure he had his reasons!”

But I mean, we all saw how that worked out for Lan Xichen, didn’t we?

#I’m just tired of this oh jc was so unfair #was he? was he really? #he kept trying to reach out to wwx in so many ways #and yes his love language is salt #and yes he’s rough with his words #but he even tried to have a Real Feelings Talk at that banquet in qinghe #and wwx just goes meh you tell me to do something it makes me just not wanna do it #sorry that jc didn’t have access to open communication methods after responsibly going to therapy #sorry he didn’t have a bunch of self-help books to help him sort through his trauma so he could support his brother more #you know the one constantly pushing away said support and also refusing to communicate openly #interesting to think about how lxc would have handled it if lwj started pulling that shit tho (tags via @heavymetalchemist)

HONESTLY.

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coolalicious:

chibird:

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beardedmrbean:

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

w-what if potato is actually lucky

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demoiselledefortune:

iri-vail:

lansplaining:

@iri-vail i hope you don’t mind me pulling out these tags from this post: 

#mdzs meta#meta#why i think wwx has to be a little mean to jc in fic to be characterized correctly#like that whole monologue ‘ohhh jc is just too weaaak~’#i know thats borne mainly of his own insecurities/attempt to distract himself from his tough decisions#but maaan it goes on for so long its so mean spirited it turns around into funny

bc damn you know

i’ve really never thought about it, but you are so so right. fic is so fixated on jiang cheng being mean to wei wuxian, with good and obvious reason, but wei wuxian is really quite unkind to him in the second life as well? he truly refuses to actually listen to what he’s saying at almost any point, and as you point out, his fundamental perspective on who jiang cheng is and what he’s capable of is not kind! this is not to say i don’t think he loves jiang cheng, but especially by the time you get to the temple confrontation, there is a fundamental dismissiveness and lack of willingness to hear or see him that is self-protective, but also shades into meanness for sure 

Don’t worry I don’t mind! I like interacting on here even if I’m mostly a coward and keep to the tags lol

I also think he loves Jiang Cheng, he’s just, as you say, very dismissive of what he has to say /and/ of his capabilities, almost comically so. It’s wanting to coddle him to the point of forgetting that Jiang Cheng is a full person, who has wishes beyond ‘need to be a good sect heir’, who cares about Wei Wuxian beyond his usefulness. Which granted neither Jiang Cheng nor his parents did a good job conveying to Wei Wuxian lol. But it’s the lack of any real interiority given to Jiang Cheng (beyond his role as cultivator) to justify such an immense act of love that’s just…. fun to me, it’s so cruel, not necessarily even of Wei Wuxian, just their situation in general. I hope Jiang Cheng never hears him say any of this cause I bet he’d never stop crying again ever in his life, I know I wouldn’t. Fun! They’re a mess I’m so fond of them!

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#yeah! and prev tags also#in order to really understand the core transfer you gotta understand that great sacrifice or no it is Not A Normal Thing To Do At All#it’s fundamentally incorrect to view it as an act of obligation. it is very much an act of love!#but even as an act of LOVE it is Not A Normal Thing To Do At All#like I find it astonishingly unlikely that WWX would do something like that with LWJ#not for lack of love! but because his relationship with LWJ is SO different#he views him fully as a peer and someone who he trusts to take care of himself#his equal and his partner#which is something he very much denies JC#and I think the core transfer actually makes it worse for the yunmeng bros#bc having done it WWX *has* to justify both the sacrifice and the secrecy to himself as Absolutely Necessary#in order to live with the increasingly unpleasant consequences of his decision#he can’t allow himself to consider the possibility that it might have been a mistake#which means he can’t allow himself to consider the possibility that JC would have been able to cope with the loss of his cultivation#or that JC could get over the core transfer itself if WWX told him#which is I think why it’s vitally important that JC find out!#not just so he understands why his relationship with WWX broke down the way that it did. why WWX made all those inexplicable choices#and why he left them#but also because only by having the core transfer revealed and JC learning to live with that knowledge#is WWX likely to ever reconsider and reevaluate the choices he made on JC’s behalf based on a flawed assessment of his capabilities#yunmeng bros#the untamed#they’re a mess and I love that for them

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lansplaining:

lansplaining:

the extent to which every single interpretation Wei Wuxian/the narrator offers for Jiang Cheng’s actions is wrong is honestly incredible

@anotheraffair​ YES this is so well put 

#this is possibly one of the major things that fuels the jc brainrot#like the way it works as a narrative tool is that it requires the audience to engage with the material#in a way that triggers your imagination bc you’re trying to solve these apparent conflicts#and then you have these oh! i see! moments#that are not shared by the characters#so it becomes this special thing YOU hatched in your own mind#a special important thing you realized and which is important and which you cannot share with fictional characters#and so cannot change the narrative – it only changes your experience of it#there are other characters who get a bit of that#but for jc its like the sole entire way his character is handled#and its framed so that it’s like. HUgely important but it’s always in like littler reveals#like he doesn’t make a speech NO ONE ever seems to get him ever#so the receptive audience is just gnawing on their arms screaming yelling at wwx to stop being like that

evakant:

evakant:

evakant:

wei wuxian scolding jiang cheng in the burial mounds about not remembering what the wen siblings did for them vs jiang cheng earlier on standing up for him in front of all the sect leaders saying “you all might not know this but the person wei wuxian saved and his sister helped us a lot during the war” and getting promptly shut down by nie mingjue (the wen clan that massacred lotus pier? is literally what he says, out loud, to everyone)

#anyway something about how Jiang cheng never defends himself when people assume the worst of him #i think it’s because he doesn’t see a point #what’s the point of saying hey I know that and I spoke up in their defense! when it ultimately made no difference to their fate #if his defense of them had no impact than to him it’s the same as if he hadn’t defended them at all. like I think he feels the same guilt #something about how you can draw a straight line from this to his silence when everyone says he killed wei wuxian — via @micamicster

#I feel like this jives with my theory that JC (like LWJ) is very much someone who believes in consequences #when you choose an action you choose the consequences of that action; #when you desire a consequence you had better choose the action that will create it #JC judges action by their outcomes not their intentions. #and he chooses his actions for the outcome he needs to reach not for abstract principles #He doesn’t reach for the impossible but the things he does reach for he damn well gets done #And he applies the idea that “whether you meant to kill him or not he’s still dead” #just as much to himself vis a vis WWX as to WWX vis a vis JZX #(or possibly more) — via @fairandfatalasfair

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symphonyofsilence:

Sass master Jiang Cheng & his unparalleled “3 times divorced, single parent of a teenager” energy since age 15 appreciation:

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agendratum:

niehuaisangsfan:

thinks abt how jin ling acts a lot like a mini!jiang cheng except when hes genuinely upset he knows he can immediately run to his uncle for comfort which is something jiang cheng could never do with either of his parents and even if he couldnt give jin ling everything he needed emotionally he still always did his best to give him what he never had

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mannimarcos:

hoenn starters! been practicing creature design and this is a fun way to experiment with my style

tip me?

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theman:

beardedmrbean:

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

I would enjoy some good luck from the potato.

I need some luck right now, so all hail the Lucky Potato. Do your magic, Potato. I respect you so much I am capitalizing the “P” in Potato.

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fangrui:

the untamed + fine literature [in/s/p]

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seitanickush:

gqa1:

Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

​this worked last night lets go for round two

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vrabia:

vrabia:

ok but like. space shanties. 

there’s a thing that should definitely be a thing in sci-fi.

my brain went straight to the ‘put him in the airlock ‘till he’s sober’ part of ‘what can you do with a drunken spacer’ and i never want to look back from this. 

THIS IS 100% A THING. It’s usually considered a subset of filk, so naturally a lot of prolific filk artists like Leslie Fish have a selection. Sci-fi filk is possibly my favorite genre of music.

Most of these are actually ballads, not true shanties, but still:

The Senate - Space Shanty

Kristoph Klover - Fire in the Sky

Duane Elms - Dawson’s Christian

Catherine Faber - Providence Skies

Julia Ecklar - Ballad of a Spaceman

Leslie Fish & Ann Prather - Hanrahan’s Bar

Julia Ecklar & Ann Prather - Pushin’ the Speed of Light

Leslie Fish - Ship of Stone

Leslie Fish - Guardians

Leslie Fish - Sam Jones

Vic Tyler - Space Hero

Vic Tyler & Duane Elms - Spacer’s Home

You can probably just google “sci-fi filk” and get a zillion more. It’s a surprisingly rich genre for one so unknown to most people.

I don’t normally reblog this kind of post, but this seems so perfect as background music for a dark matter game, I had to share it with you all. SPACE SHANTIES HO!

For those unaware reblogging this post, “What Shall We Do With A Drunk Space Pirate” was the close out song for the Mechanisms concerts. Their entire discography was taking folk songs and making them sci-fi epic concept albums. 

Some of my favorite songs include:

Matty Groves, now with electric violin, about a lute that controls the dead.

Pump Me Boys, now a shanty about keeping the life support systems running on a dying ship.

Gently Johnny, now about sirens in a neo-noir sci-fi city lulling people into complacency.

Rising of the Moon, now about a doomed manager of a space station that descends into chaos and mutiny, left abandoned.

So I’m married to a person who grew up in Canada’s folk scene, and we often talk about folk music as a genre. I was cranky about the way that people tend to slap an “alt-folk” label on folk because they assume true folk is a dead genre, and I got thinking and went: what is a dead genre, anyway?

T chirped “sea shanties!” and then added “not that you can’t compose a new one, but it’s not in conversation with other songs that are being published at the same time, it’s only in conversation with other songs that have been written long before.” It’s important to know, in this conversation, that Tay grew up around Stan Rogers’ family and therefore knows damn well that you can write a song in the modern era that everyone assumes is a hoary old traditional: Rogers wrote “Barrett’s Privateers” in 1976 because he wanted to sing lead in a sea shanty and there weren’t any in existence that had a baritone singing lead.

No, seriously. And now there are lots and lots of people, less than fifty years later, who think that Barrett’s Privateers is a couple hundred years old and has Always Been Here.

So I started thinking about dead genres, and it occurs to me to ask: why is the sea shanty largely dead? Or rather, actually, why is the work song, which is the larger category of music that sea shanties are a subset of, largely dead? Why don’t we sing work songs anymore when we’re working? Stan Rogers wrote the “White Collar Holler,” of course, and the premise of that song is indeed the notion of making a work song for office work, but I can’t imagine anyone actually signing it at the office as they go about their work. For one thing, I code quite a bit at my day job, and the speed at which I code doesn’t depend at all on what the people around me are doing; indeed, trying to match my speed to theirs would probably make us all less efficient.

Tay’s theory is that industrialization killed the work song in the West (they pointed out to me very explicitly that the idea isn’t actually dead world-wide), especially as work became more cognitive for many people and less reliant on keeping time with the people you’re working alongside. After all, work songs are most popular when the most efficient way to work is to keep pace with everyone at the same time, so you’re neither too fast nor too slow, and you’re all working at parts of the same tasks that rely on other people’s tasks to keep going without building up too much of a deadlock at any one part of the process. So much of work for so many people today is more like piecework than making things on an assembly line, and like piecework, it’s so much easier for our employers to encourage us to take the work home and keep making as many pieces as we can before we fall over and collapse… or else it’s service work, and you can’t be singing at service work, you won’t be free to quickly respond to clients and adjust your tasks to their needs.

I suspect that’s not entirely it, though, because assembly line manufacturing work isn’t actually dead in the West, not even close, and the work song is still gone from our halls. Tay pointed out that OSHA and hearing protection make it more difficult in many of those jobs to be connected to other workers and keep time on the song, and I think there’s definitely an element of truth to that, too.

But I think the death of the work songs go even deeper than that. See, work songs didn’t completely vanish as work became less dependent on keeping time together. They just turned into songs about the condition of working, and from there they turned into songs about unionization, workers’ rights songs, like the ones the Wobblies used to great effect in the 20s. And that happened in response to managers and bosses who see singing and talking and responded by trying to control workers and make that shit stop. Some of that is about controlling unionization but some of it is about control, full stop: pretending to oneself that workers only really exist while you pay them as cogs that produce labor, and anything else they do is a distraction from the labor you pay for.

Why is it that we don’t have modern work songs for Amazon workers? There are enough of them, after all, their very boring and physically demanding jobs depend on keeping time together, and everyone’s working together in a relatively quiet environment. I’ll tell you: it’s because Amazon views interactions among its workers as a threat and bans workers from talking to one another or listening to music while they execute their shifts.

We lost the work song, I think, because we gained bosses that see the work song as a threat instead of an intrinsic part of keeping the work force from getting bored and stale and tired and making mistakes. In a real way, killing the work song is a decision you make if you don’t understand the value of the work song to the workers themselves: it makes the work less boring, so you stall out less, and it reminds you you’re all doing this together, and it keeps you all in time. The action of singing is valuable. But if you’ve never sung while you worked collectively on a project, you might not know that, and if you think in terms of zero-sum losses, the song becomes a waste of good breath you’re paying for at best and a threat of insurrection at worst.

And it’s very interesting thinking about the labor conditions on a spaceship that might bring such songs back again as useful aids to coordinating the labor of monitoring and running the ship. Or even, for that matter, coordinating the labor of other tasks in a spacefaring economy. Warframe’s “We All Lift Together” is one of these, of course. Surely there have to be others?

Oh I love this grison

Okay but I would be remiss if I

a) didn’t reblog this for it’s own merits because music recs and very very good commentary

b) I definitely really wonder if the work song could be perceived as a threat also because they promote the sense of comraderie and closeness that union busting corps actively discourage (along with the genetics they share with working condition protest songs described above). (Though I also wonder if some of the die-out here is related to how comparatively devoid of public, casual singing/music north american culture is, outside of specific subcultures of course… like singing/music is treated a lot as something that professionals or studied amateurs do, and otherwise it’s relegated to the privacy of your own home or very specific venues such as karaoke)

and

b) also add the Longest John’s cover of We All Lift Together (thank you @dungeonmastersconsortium for introducing me to it) because it’s VERY VERY GOOD (and I may have listened to it on repeat more than a few times over the last while):

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sweetbonbonqueen:

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

I saw this before I left work last night and had a quiet hope, and today I checked my phone at about quarter to two, while I was still on my lunch break, and I’ve just got a job interview with the BBC next week

I’m not a big believer in anything much but I’m so happy holy shit. So like unrelated note but something real good happened to me at 1.42 today lol

Just reblogging bc I had such a bad week

This. I’ll take ‘two bags of potato chip fall instead of one from vending machine” at 1:42 tomorrow, I am that fucking needy right now.

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