So you’re saying there’s a chance
Huēhuehcoyōtl, god of music, dance, mischief and song, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
I think that the count from Sesame Street probably drinks blood but he only bites muppets so there’s no visual blood but he still gets something out of it because muppets sort of work on playground power rangers rules given that they have no stomachs.
I like that nobody tried to disagree with me. Just like yup as we all know
Well yeah it’s implied
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Luo Binghe has been on Qing Jing Peak for five hours and he knows one thing.
Shen Yuan is a beautiful, kind, smart, and perfect. And one day Luo Binghe is going to marry him.
Ok so that's two things.
Three things if you count his increasing certainty that Peak Lord Shen Qingqiu doesn't like him.
Like right now, Shizun is glaring at them from across the clearing as Shen Yuan leads him to the dormitory at the end of the day.
He ducks behind Shen Yuan a little, and Shen Yuan turns to see what he's looking at.
He laughs.
"Don't let Didi scare you." Shen Yuan told him. "I'll look after you."
Binghe frowned. "Didi?"
Shen Yuan gestured at the glowering, ethereal Peak Lord. "We're twins, I'm technically older than him. I got stuck in a magic crystal for twenty years though, so I'm still little."
Binghe looks from Shen Yuan's bright smile to his new Shizun. "Twins?"
"Uh huh, identical! So eventually I'll look like Didi. Maybe not quite as fancy though. Didi dresses so fancy!"
Shen Yuan led Binghe inside and helped him find his bed in the dorm, brushing off Ming Fan when the older boy tried to take over.
Binghe was a little distracted imagining his beautiful but distant Shizun smiling like Shen Yuan did.
"I'll see you tomorrow Binghe."
"Tomorrow?"
"Oh I stay in the Bamboo House with my brother," Shen Yuan explained. "But I'm in classes with everyone else."
"Oh."
Shen Yuan squeezed his hand. "Good night!"
Luo Binghe stared after him, dazed and blushing.
"Yeah he's always like that," Ming Fan said as he arrived with Luo Binghe's bedding. "You need to be very careful," he added.
"I do?"
Ming Fan nodded. "Or Shizun will kill you and hide your body in the forest."
"Ah."
Concept: in a setting where vampires exist and can only be harmed by symbols of faith (crucifixes, etc.), a James Randi-style skeptic/supernatural debunker witnesses his family murdered by vampires, and dedicated his life to hunting down what he believes are a cabal of ordinary serial killers with a blood fetish and some cheap plastic fangs. They die when he shoots them with an ordinary gun, granted holy status by the sheer force of his belief that they are actually just ordinary humans who will die when shot.
The reason the sun burns vampires is that all the plants worship it.
That is the single most insane addition possible and I love it.
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Anonymous asked:
Here's a fun idea: Transfem Yuan who proceeds to freak out upon realizing she's straight and beautiful, and thus qualifies for the harem.
Another one: Transfem Jiu who's egg was cracked by the brothel jiejies. This improves her reputation.
*gently kisses both of these excellent ideas on the forehead*
Unrelated but I hate that on mobile there's no way to see if you have asks unless you go into the settings menu on your blog.
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Anonymous asked:
I have another fun idea: Shen Twins, except Shen Yuan accidentally went into secluded cultivation for Binghe's entire disciple arc and returns to society just after the Immortal Alliance Conference.
I have a multiple choice answer for you I like this idea so much:
A. Shen Yuan convinces Shen Qingqiu to take a turn in seclusion and takes over Qing Jing Peak pretending to be him. YQY and LBH are the only two who notice, YQY backs SY up in his charade and LBH gets obsessed with prying SQQ's location out of Not-Shizun. By the time SQQ emerges from seclusion SY has wife -beamed LBH enough that he's willing to let SQQ live to make SY happy.
B. SY, in an effort to distract LBH, teams up with Airplane and unleashed Tianlang Jun. LBH gets picked up from the Abyss early by his cousin and gets taken home to meet his dad, who got the full rundown on his mom out of the Old Palace Master before he burned HHP to the ground. This successfully distracts LBH for a very long time.
C. Luo Binghe emerges from the Abyss and passes out. He wakes up being tended to by... Shen Qingqiu??? But no, this isn't his old Shizun. SY apologizes on his brother's behalf and his own and explains he was so mad at SQQ when he found out what had happened he's been out looking for LBH ever since. By the next morning LBH is planning the wedding.
D. All his other plans don't work or aren't ready yet and SY is forced to counter the charges against his brother when LBH brings them forward. In some ways this is easier than others. The Qiu siblings legitimately could never tell the twins apart and Qiu Haitang walks up to SY and calls him SQQ. SY is able to successfully argue that she doesn't know which one of them actually killed her brother (spoiler alert, in this AU I think it was actually SY, though the rest of the men were SJ). SQQ is weird about NYY because the two of them helped her brothel worker mother give birth to her and then brought her to the sect as a toddler so she could have a better life. She is in their hearts their daughter (This revelation prompts NYY to do an about face and start tearily apologizing to her dads), that leaves the disciple abuse allegations... So SQQ gets off with essentially a slap on the wrist when YQY steps up and starts listing abusive things other cultivators in the room have done and points out that while it should likely be illegal it currently isn't. (Maybe he mentions his own Shizun's abuse of him as well) LBH is PISSED... And then SY let's slip something that suggests he knows LBH is a demon but isn't outing him...and LBH's full obsessive focus swings to figuring out SY's deal.
I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?
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- Supernatural
- Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)
- Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)
- Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.
- A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.
- Arguably Game of Thrones.
If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.
In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.
They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.
And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.
It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.
Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.
And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.
#WhereIsRey (initial)
#WhereIsRey (ongoing)
You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh
And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.
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#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)
OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.
The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.
Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”
I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.
Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind
(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)
Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.
Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.
(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)
Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!
I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.
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Anonymous asked:
Oof, sorry about the mobile inbox. Here's another Shen Twins but Yuan misses the White Lotus arc idea: When Jiu joins Cang Qiong, Yuan decides to go off and be a wandering cultivator and explore the world (the beasts). He still meets up with his twin in towns sometimes, but he somehow managed to completely miss the fact that his identical twin is Shen Quinqiu. Until the trial.
He goes to see his brother and the Huan Hua Palace cultivators don't believe he's not Shen Qingqiu trying to escape somehow and drag him back to the Water Prison... only to find the real Shen Qingqiu still imprisoned (also Binghe's there taunting him). LBH and the HHP cultivators are like ???? !!!!???????!? and SY is fussing over his brother like, "You know this means you're officially the one who makes the worst decisions." and SQQ is just like, "No that's still you. Fuck off."
They try to get SY to leave but he refuses unless they also let SQQ go. So SY gets to stay with SQQ and fuss over him. LBH is equal parts intrigued and pissed.
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Anonymous asked:
I have a really funny idea: What if the transmigrators swapped assigned roles? What if Cucumber got stuck being born as Shang Qinghua and Airplane was stuck replacing Shen Quinqiu?
I think they'd just switch husbands.
I think that's the main difference. Airplane Bro, newly SQQ is going to do the exact same thing SY did and baby the protagonist as much as possible. Like l actually think he'd be a little more distant but I don't think that would stop LBH from zeroing in on the positive affection like a love seeking missile.
So SQQ and LBH wind up together, likely with less running away too because Airplane's fear response is freeze/fawn instead of flight. (Not a great start to a relationship but Airplane loves being spoiled and LBH loves to spoil so they'll be ok.)
Meanwhile Cucumber Bro figured out who he was and decided to be the best fucking spy in the world and also to make himself integral to the sect so that if he was ever discovered removing him from his position would be impossible. And what is Mobei Jun to do in the face of such ruthless efficiency and sass but lounge naked in SY's bed until he gets the hint?
Eventually post story LBH and MBJ decide to experiment because their husbands are clearly enamored with 1) each other, they fight all the time, and 2) the other demon lord and they all end up in a polycule.
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Anonymous asked:
I also feel like Airplane would do a better job passing as Shen Jiu having a change of heart than Cucumber did, because he actually knows the real backstory. And now I'm just imagining him have the jiejies at the Red Warm Pavilion help him wrote yellow books under his old penname. Mobei-jun gets subjected to so many rants about what Cucumber SQH is going to do to that hack author when he finds him. I bet he'd feel a little jealous, even, because why can't Cucumber threaten to strangle *him* like that?
👆👆👆👆👆
MBJ: You could strangle me in his stead.
Cucumber Bro: 🤨
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Anonymous asked:
I've found one of my favorite genres of Shen Yuan transmigrating into post-Three Realms Merging PIDW is the genre of Binghe's offspring stumbling onto him and deciding that this is their new dad now.
I actually haven't read any of those, though I hear there's some really good ones.
I have this weird thing where I have trouble reading when I'm actively writing?
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Anonymous asked:
I saw a comment on the one post about SY not realizing SJ was SQQ where SJ called him "too busy mucking around in the dirt with beasts" to know what's going on. And my first thought was Cucumber, zero hesitation or thought, going "well what if I muck around with that beast, huh?" while gesturing at Binghe. SY regrets it immediately, for many reasons.
SY: Please consider, instead of killing my brother gruesomely we could just fuck.
LBH: How is that revenge on him?
SY: Look at his face, he's just imagining it right now and he looks So Upset. Imagine how upset he'll be when we actually do it...and he'll remember every time he looks at me, which will be a lot because clearly I need to supervise him better.
LBH: Hmmmm...