Yunmeng Jiang is probably the Florida of the Jianghu
Like, they canonically fought water ghouls with their bare hands, regularly get into brawls with each other, have no concept of appropriate volume, hell they have a town down close to the worldly people with no height separation or massive stone walls or a comical amount of gold plating, if you didn’t know that they was a cult of martial sorcerers in that town you might just think “wow, wealthy trading family. The docks are nice!” and then just leave.
The sect leader has no spine and a vaguely homoerotic relationship with his dead best friend slash manservant, he adopted one is fucking insane and also a radical genius, and you’d expect him to be the outlier but no, the sister is just as fucking weird, she’s probably gone around in soaking wet clothes carry a child like a football because “he fell in, I couldn’t just leave him there!”
The son likes to pretend he’s sane but he’s such a chronic gossip that he probably needed an intervention, his sword was named after the three poisons, and he also spent 13 years thinking that his dead adopted brother would find a way to resurrect himself.
Even Madam Yu isn’t safe because she lashed a teenager with a lightning whip like 36 times in the middle of the fucking Spanish Inquisition. She has such an irrational hatred of this one guy that she starts shitting on anyone even remotely kind to him. Girl. Go to therapy, or go to jail.
There must be at least someone in the south that think of them as lovers, build a temple based on that idea. There is no way no one ships them
I’m gonna call it. Xie Lian started this. Maybe unintentionally (like, offhandedly mentioning stories of the generals in his travels over 800+ years and people started shipping them), maybe intentionally (like, he built a temple himself to get the two idiots to just confess already and people liked his stories of the generals dancing around each other enough that they started worshipping them as lovers). Either way Hua Cheng is probably laughing his ass off and probably encouraging their believers to believe this. One of them would probably end up being genderbent like Shi Qingxuan (because societal norms) and as much as I’d like it to be Mu Qing, it’d probably be Feng Xin because he keeps less track of what happens in his temples.
xianle quartet polycule is so peak but especially if they (aka fengqing) don't know they're in a polycule.
xie lian is under the assumption that they used to be in a polycule/trio that got. well. mildly broken up, but by the end of the series is possibly healing. maybe they're just friends or maybe they're heading back to somewhere more, but there's still that history.
hua cheng also thinks this, because he's very perceptive and can tell that they all like each other, but he's also very dense and does not realize that they're also very dense. he and xie lian talk and basically the conversation results in: hualian like each other, are dating, and xie lian will talk with fengqing about it (communication is important)
xie lian does talk with fengqing about it. except he phrases it in a way that goes something like "i'm in love with san lang and id like to be with him as well, i hope that is okay with you two?" and fengqing heard "san lang" and immediately clocked out mentally and pretty much just shrug and say whatever with no other consideration except that they just don't want to hear about hua cheng.
it takes maybe another century (in which obviously fengqing and hua cheng start growing past their differences, because hua cheng isn't going to hate on his beloved's beloveds) before fengqing realize.
The Xianle quartet in the begining of TGCF is literally so funny to me as a concept.
Because it's literally these 3 guys who have disguised themselves from this 1 guy to go hang out with him. 2 of them know who each other is and also immediately recognised who the third guy is but don't have any proof to back it up. And the third guy also knows exactly who they are but he doesn't care and doesn't even wanna interact with them because he got beef with them.
Meanwhile the 1 guy they are disguising themselves from actually recognised them on sight because they absolutely suck at disguising themselves, but they're trying so hard and he doesn't want them to feel bad and they're also hanging out now so that's fun, he doesn't wanna ruin that.
Obsessed with the idea of people just adding 1 + 1 and getting 3 when it comes to Dick as a child, hanging out with Clark and Bruce. Because let's be honest, Dick is a carbon copy of Bruce and Clark.
But what if it was true?
batsandbirdbrains had a post about Dick being an early test clone of Bruce and Superman and Bruce has no reason to do a DNA test that early in the timeline.
a couple doodles of the events in the first chapter of the worlds not perfect (but its not that bad) by @shutupkayle2
i love young nightwing fanboy tim and jason’s attempts to look out for this boy it’s so funny
Hey. Do you ever think about Bruce's love language being acts of service. I just did. You're gonna listen to me now.
Bruce making things for his loved ones and leaving those things around so they can find them and take them. Bruce refusing to ever give it to them by hand because the last time he did that it was with Alfred and Alfred never ever accepted one of his gifts without the reminder that they were not family. Bruce with his silent acts of service that are thoughtful and sweet and something you'd probably not expect from him but that's only because he makes you think that.
Bruce making the most subtle adjustments to the Robin suit every time something rips in it. Insulation, anti chaffing material, breathable material, more insulation, some bulk padding, the latest tech in their comms and gear, even more armor, pockets, pockets, pockets galore. Bruce making things like scarves and mittens and sweaters by hand because it was something he learnt during his travels and it felt nice to make things for people. Bruce cooking Dick and Damian's favourite traditional food when they miss home. Bruce packing lunches with his own clumsy touch to it, unrefined and loving in a way Alfred’s never quite manage to be. Bruce knitting warm clothes and sweaters for Jason the first winter he spends at the Manor because he hasn't caught up from the malnutrition yet and doing the same for Tim. Bruce immediately making the Manor wheelchair accessible in case Barbara wants to visit, and helping her set up her apartment to her liking. Bruce helping Cass with her speech impediment and being one of the only ones who she never ever has to worry about communicating verbally with. Bruce bonding with Damian over their affinity for the arts, crafting side by side in silence with no obligation to talk. Bruce making sure Duke's parents are unharmed and safe. Bruce offering to help Steph with her bills and the likes and getting rebuffed everytime, and resorting to making small payments wherever he can.
Bruce manufacturing high calorie food specifically for Barry and his family's enhanced metabolism. Bruce discreetly helping out with the Kent farm and spending some time with Martha Kent when Clark is off world. Bruce sending relics he finds to Diana's museum. Bruce making sure Hal isn't completely down in the dumps and struggling when he returns from Lantern business. Bruce making sure Billy is well fed and taken care of when he finds out that Captain Marvel is a kid. Bruce looking out for the JL and its younger members, training them and listening to their complaints and silently acting on them. Bruce keeping tabs on his children and their friends so nobody is actively suffering under his watch.
Bruce doing it all in silence because he knows they won't accept his help straightforwardly without thinking he has an ulterior motive. Bruce looking down at the gifts he made Dick, unable to give them to him because Dick just stormed out of the Manor and is refusing to take his calls, refusing to acknowledge his existence. Bruce making little gifts that end up unused and stashed away because their recipient is dead and buried underground (dead children don't feel cold, dead children don't need new shirts). Bruce cooking some food and accidentally making too much and eating it alone because all his children have left the Manor that day for some reason or the other. Bruce sitting in front of Clark's grave, holding a prototype for a super reinforced everyday object for Clark to use without the fear of breaking it because he refuses to believe Clark is dead.
Bruce making regular visits to Arkham to make sure Harvey is doing okay. Bruce taking Harley shopping on her good days, spending time with her and letting her be herself, spending money on her happily. Bruce offering Pamela opportunities to turn her ecoterrorism into something that helps Gotham, setting up charities and foundations that align with her goals and helping her with her good goals. Bruce offering rehabilitation for his villains, formulating cures for Nora Fries and Mr Freeze and Clayface, because he wants them to be happy and safe most of all. Bruce offering the goons jobs in WE so they don't have to resort to a life of crime. Bruce having a relationship with the working girls and prostitutes, keeping the young ones off the streets and taking care of them along with Selina.
Bruce doing so much for Gotham, bleeding himself dry over and over again for that cesspit of a city because he loves, and loves, and loves. Bruce crying because after so many long years of blood and pain and tears, Gotham is improving, crime is lowering, his crusade wasn't for nothing.
Bruce Wayne and acts of service.
Bruce and Jason, who accidentally fix their relationship in a relative secret and distance from the rest of the family (Alfred excluded, of course), and decide to keep this fact as a secret from the rest of the family, just for fun. Because, let's be honest, Bruce is no less a brat than Jason is, he is just better at hiding it the older he gets.
being an alfred pennyworth fan is so strange because so many of you are wrong. what do you mean he's a saintly father figure there to quip at everyone and be the voice of reason???? you don't even KNOW him.
alfred 'abandoned his daughter to run off to gotham only to not raise bruce as well, who promoted all of bruce's worst habits like the #boymom he is, who chose bruce over the children but still didn't let him forget that he was not his father, who lied to the family about julia's existence and blamed her for their bad relationship' pennyworth?
I love him because he ruins everything he touches and is the world's worst father. you like him because you have fundamentally misunderstood him as a person.
you're saying THEE #1 dc toxic boy mom is a saint? what the fuck are you guys ON about?





