Wei Wuxian inherited many things from his mother, but he got his father's hair, thick, long, lustrous and silky. His hair has always been longer than most and darker than midnight. He doesn't want to cut it, but hates it coming onto his face, on his hands on his sword while he's doing anything, THUS, ✨he braids it✨.
It's a long thick braid, reaching below his thighs and sitting on his shoulders without his permission. Whenever he turns around or is sword drilling, it swishes behind him like it has a life of it's own.
Bonus: wwx in braid is many people's gay / straight awakening. Jc and yzh has to keep away suiters (and creeps) behind wwx , cuz he's oblivious to other's crush on him. As he's busy looking at lwj 🙃
“Lan-xiong,” Nie Huaisang says one afternoon, while Lan Wangji is trying to meditate in the courtyard behind the Yashi. “There’s something you ought to know before the guest disciples get here.”
Lan Wangji squints at him.
“What is it?” he says flatly. Knowing Nie Huaisang as he does, he guesses that Huaisang intends to relay some piece of gossip; but as telling tales about others is strictly forbidden in the Cloud Recesses, Nie Huaisang ought to know better than to attempt such a thing before the clan’s Head of Discipline.
“It’s about Yunmeng Jiang,” Nie Huaisang says.
“What about Yunmeng Jiang?” Lan Wangji has had little to do with the cultivators of Yunmeng Jiang, but he doubts that a class of their most talented disciples could cause much trouble at the lectures. “Have Jiang-zongzhu’s daughter and her shidimei decided not to come?”
Nie Huaisang waves his fan in dismissal. “Oh, nothing so serious as that. It’s only—well, have you heard of Wei Wuxian?”
“Briefly. He is Jiang-zongzhu’s head disciple, is he not?”
do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets
her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.
remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.
With the latest crap of someone making an unofficial ao3 app and actually charging people to use it… why do you want an ao3 app so badly? Why are you willing to pay for an otherwise free website that works fine in mobile browsers? I’m so confused. Like, y’all are willing to have that as a security risk? And pay for it? I don’t understand at all. I saw people on the OTW’s recent post about it arguing for the existence of this app instead of against it.
Also, the whole thing is just so shady. There’s someone out there making money off of tons of people’s free work. Not cool, guys. Not cool. Don’t support the app.
What really did my head in - most of the people on the OTW’s post arguing for the existence of the app were saying that the app has features that AO3 doesn’t have, and then naming features that AO3 already fucking has.
The two main ones: downloading fics for offline reading and having fics read to you like an audiobook.
I don’t have personal experience with either of these features, these are not things I use - but I have known for years that you can download fics for offline reading. It’s easy. If you have a long commute or a one time trip, or even if you’re worried that AO3 is gonna go down in the middle of you reading a long fic - download it. (But please, make sure to go back to the online version and leave the author a comment telling them that their fic was enjoyable and worth downloading.)
As for the audiobook thing - many browsers have ‘text to speech’ screenreaders that are meant as a disability accessibility tool, and I can’t imagine that the app is paying people to actually read out fics - they’re just using one of these. Other than that - do the kids not know about Podfics???
People make 'audiobooks’ of fics and post them on AO3. Actual, live readings of fics that they post on AO3. And sometimes it’s just a fic they admire and wanna make a reading of, not even their own fic that they wrote. If you have a favourite pairing or a favourite tag, go onto that tag and search up 'podfic’. You will find the audiobook style that you are looking for.
You don’t need any AO3 app. All it will bring is paywalling and censorship. If you want to give AO3 money, and you have extra money to give- donate to a real donation drive. (And you can actually get benefits from it). Authors don’t post their fics on AO3 for them to be paywalled by a scamming 3rd party.
