tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.
a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you
sometimes the reason is this
reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy
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me: *clicks on the button to see which post* I must know which of my humble offerings have pleased my dearest.
Anti-revenge narrative this, anti-revenge narrative that, I personally think that Inigo Montoya had the right idea when he stabbed Count Rugen in the gut and said "I want my father back, you son of a bitch"
A lot of revenge arcs end with the hero saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so me seeking revenge is pointless." The Princess Bride's revenge arc ends with Inigo Montoya saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you."
I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
oh shit i almost missed it!
Fantasy setting where there is an enforced upper limit on how much wealth and power someone can attain because if they get too much, a dragon will eat them and steal all their stuff.
Dragons like treasure hoards absolutely but they also looove to eat the rich. Trying to hide your wealth in various smaller deposits and behind false identities and the like doesn't work because it's magic, the magic still knows you have wealth/power, and the dragon smells it on you and decides you are tasty.
Being magical themselves, dragons don't actually need to eat. If nothing arouses their hunger they will just sleep for however long in their lairs, with their previously accumulated treasures all heaped up around them, maybe coming out once every few hundred years to breed or move house. Brave adventurers can try and steal treasures from sleeping dragons, but it's a risky move not because it's hard to steal from the sleeping dragon, but because if you succeed too well you will immediately start to smell tasty in their vicinity and they will wake up. How tasty you smell depends on how good of a thief you are, so it's a major catch, and there is a lot of speculation on what the max upper limit of wealth you can take from a dragon is before they'll wake up.
Rational approaches often don't work, however, because treasure that's been exposed to dragons for any significant length of time usually gets cursed. You might embark on the quest thinking you'll only take one or two golden goblets and be able to retire comfortably off of the resale, but then you get into the dragon's lair and your brain fries at the mountains of treasure and the next thing you know you're trying to escape with a trunk load of rubies and strings of pearls all wrapped around you and golden coin pouches weighing down your pack, and the dragon's eyes are opening, and, well. That's you done for.
Anyway, every now and again there's some aspiring emperor or proto fantasy capitalist who gets the idea of hiring dragon slayers to go kill all the sleeping dragons and rid the world of this menace, etc etc, but the only thing that wakes a dragon up faster than the smell of a tasty morsel is someone actually attacking them. So, it's never gone well.
Wait, have you ever drawn Qijiu before :0?
I haven’t! But tbh it’s mostly it’s because I don’t like drawing yqy’s pushed-straight-back hairstyle lol
We call him mister 8-ball on account of his shiny and smooth black head
OH MY god no that’s terrible. But true.
Unfortunately unlike a real 8-ball it doesn’t matter how hard you shake him. He still won’t give you answers 😔
I think we just need to shake him harder. SJ needs to put him in like, an industrial mixer.
Came up with a PIDW harem member OC because I've been in here too long.
I don't have a name but she's a filter arc wife - one of the blatantly kink based ones.
Airplane found a translation of one of the older versions of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale online and just stole all the basics for this wife. So she's cursed when she gets a splinter in her finger and doesn't wake up until one of the children she birthed in her sleep sucks it out while trying to nurse. (Cucumber Bro hated that Binghe missed the cursed splinter for some reason. Unrealistic!!!)
She's actually cool with all of the above for kink reasons but her one defining character trait is that she desperately misses all her long dead loved ones and wishes Binghe never woke her up.
Airplane got in the bad habit of using her to end harem scenes that went on too long, can't resolve this petty argument quickly? Sleeping Beauty bursts into tears because her family is dead and all the other wives comfort her.
What that looks like in real life is that she's genuinely really nice and kind and supportive of all the other wives but like, suuuuuper depressed so when she gets really upset/overwhelmed all the other wives jump to trying to calm her down. They're legit pretty worried about her but Binghe can't dual cultivate her problems better so there's not a lot they can do except be there for her.
I'm kinda surprised at the utter lack of og Mu Tianchi content in the fandom. There's pretty much nothing I could find for him besides your one post about him switching places with Li Yu's husband.
Have you considered that he's sad though anon? He's a sad man and his implied existence is a bummer.
Maybe if he's polite pet fish Tianchi will let og Tianchi borrow his husband for a bit? Just to add a single temporary shred of joy to his life?
... probably not actually.