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【The System was successfully activated! Role bound: Luo Binghe’s master, ‘Shen Qingqiu.’ Special challenge mode enabled: Alternate Universe #517, 'Eternal Youth'!】 Shen Yuan woke up in a new body, in a new world, smug with the knowledge that he was ready for whatever transmigration might throw at him. This lasted exactly as long as it took for the System to boot up, and for Shen Yuan to realise that his fellow humans, in this twisted AU of his favourite-least-favourite web novel, were strangely... aquatic. Oddly baby-faced, as if they'd just stepped out of a donghua. And there were other changes, too, which scared him in particular more than they would most of the characters in Proud Immortal Demon Way.

“Ah.” Wei Ying frowns. “Lan Zhan, I—I hope it’s okay with you that they’ve teamed us up? I thought … someone said you’d asked for a co-commentator, so I thought the ISU ran it by you first, but if you’re … well, you know …” he trails off, seeming at a loss for words. “They did not ask me,” Lan Zhan says. “If they had, I would have told them that I work better alone. However”—he holds up a hand to forestall what appears to be another torrent of words from Wei Ying—“I have been informed that a co-commentator is a requirement for the Olympic commentary job, and so I will make this situation work.” Lan Zhan, popular figure skating commentator, reluctantly gains a co-commentator.

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Review: 将进酒 Qiang Jin Jiu by 唐酒卿 Tang Jiuqing

The hilarious part about Faith and how incredibly gay she comes across is that it's all a natural side-effect of her intended narrative role. According to Whedon she wasn't intentionally written to be a queer or even queer-coded character, but the way she is written and her metaphorical function necessarily meant she came across as queer-coded. I'll explain what I mean: --- 3) The Faith arc of S3 is a recreation of the Angel arc of S2. It is structured in the exact same way, with the two having a push-and-pull in the early parts of the season, a setback in their relationship in episode 7, getting closest again mid-season before a night of passion that ends in sudden tragedy. Angel/Faith then turn to the dark side, become the Big Bad, and show that they are beyond saving in episode 17. The season ends with Buffy having to fight and the kill them in order to save others. This is all an intentional recycling, as part of the show building up the Trolley Problem and the idea of Buffy being a killer, repeatedly escalating it to get us to The Gift. What this means is that Faith steps into the role that Buffy's love interest played in the previous season. This is the story that we have just had told to us as a tragic love story. We see it again, and guess what? It's still a tragic love story. Only now Faith is in the role of the love interest.

Since their first meeting, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have always known they’ll one day marry one another. Wei Wuxian’s mother, a romantic at heart, especially encourages him in this pursuit. Everything changes when he finds out Lan Wangji is not only one of the Lan sect heirs, but the nephew of Lan Qiren. A wandering cultivator, the son of Cangse sanren at that, cannot possibly seek a proper courtship with him. He doesn’t have the heart to tell her he’s broken their understanding. Two years later, this failure to speak the truth comes back to haunt him.

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“You—!” Jin Guangshan bit off whatever might come next, staring at him in confusion. “What are you doing here?” He looked nervously through the open doors towards the gathered dead. “Mo Xuanyu?” Jin Guangshan finally gasped out. “No. Your bastard son is dead. Decided to skip the queue.” He wondered how this sweet new face of his looked when twisted with a cruel smile. In face of the abuse he has suffered at the hands of his family, Mo Xuanyu sacrifices his soul to summon a demonic cultivator to take revenge in his name. ...no, no that one.

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Wei Wuxian stabs somebody with his flute. Nie Mingjue tries to fix things with his dick. Lan Wangji pines in a non-communicative fashion. Or: in the fourth month of the Sunshot Campaign, Nie Mingjue notices that Wei Wuxian is showing symptoms of imminent qi deviation. He takes steps to try to mitigate the fallout—and the course of the war changes, first slowly, then much less slowly...

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains. Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does. Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be. Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does. This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

Wei Wuxian tastes him, open-mouthed at first, because that feels right, too, but not right enough. So he bites down, and that feels even more right, tasting him closed-mouthed, and it must be right because Lan Wangji pants and keens like Wei Wuxian once would have. Fingers curl in his hair and pull and pull until he’s made to choose: bite harder or submit. Fight or flee. — Or: Wei Wuxian begins his second life nose first, teeth second.

Hanguang-jun can take Wei Ying to the edge like no one else can, like no one else has. Despite them starting off as virtual strangers — this is where Wei Ying would wink, get it — Wei Ying trusts him. Feels safe with him. Hanguang-jun is amazing. He’s the absolute best. Wei Ying’s maybe got a bit of a crush. Except Wei Ying’s heart belongs to another, and always has. Lan Zhan has been gone for years though; Hanguang-jun is here, and every night they put on a show for their viewers, and every night Wei Ying’s debt to the Jins becomes slightly smaller. Not by much — not enough that Wei Ying can ever see a way out of here, not in this lifetime, not with the life expectancy most dreamers of his profession have — but enough to feel as though he’s working towards something. And ever since Wei Ying met Hanguang-jun, he doesn’t mind it as much, being trapped in one place, being isolated. * Wei Ying, formerly the Yiling Patriarch, now prisoner, and the mysterious Hanguang-jun perform sex shows in VR, until one night everything changes.

The most important thing Lan Wangji ever stole was roughly the equivalent to twenty dollars USD. The second most important thing Lan Wangji ever stole was Wei Ying’s heart.

Wei Ying freezes in the split-second glimpse he gets of the look on Lan Zhan’s face before he leans in, bringing his mouth to Wei Ying’s ear. “If you want to dance,” he says, voice deeper than the bass and twice as heady, “then I’m leading.”

In which Shen Yuan pisses the System off and it sends him straight into the Endless Abyss. Four years later, Shen Qingqiu does the same to Luo Binghe.

homunculi being failed human transmutations was the most baller story change decision the fma03 team made and they milked the hell out of that concept. you got the theme of what makes you human (memories? presence of a soul? what does that even mean?) that ties in with al’s identity crisis (that didn’t really make sense in mangahood but was built up and thematically rich in 03), you got the drama of alchemists having to face a distorted version of the loved one they tried to bring back (the best version of Came Back Wrong ive ever seen), you got the concept that a person is so much more than just your own idea of them and bringing them back through human transmutation really only brings back a one-dimensional version of them (how each homunculus was only really the version of that person the alchemist had in their head, and not a full person themselves, and each reacted to this fact differently), you get the existential crisis all of this gives you when you consider what makes you YOU and how do you prove your own humanity and memories and identity, you get the characters of the homunculi like envy and lust who were given so much more depth than their mangahood counterparts, and AAAAAAA its just so good and if we can give fma 03 ANYTHING that’s objectively better/more interesting than mangahood’s plot (which i normally say is overall objectively a better written and more cohesive story) i 100% believe its this change from the manga

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Wei Wuxian gets caught sneaking into Cloud Recesses. But since he can't tell the truth - that he's just here to deliver his teacher's most recent love letter to her soulmate who's stuck in a cave - he tells a lie instead. He says that he's a Jiang disciple that had arrived late and so had snuck in through the gates. He hadn't expected the lie to work, sure that it would unravel as soon as they found a Jiang to verify it, but instead Jiang Yanli backs up his story, and even adds to it. Which is how he ends up masquerading as the first disciple of Lotus Pier while trying to figure out how to get out of Cloud Recesses without anyone discovering that he's the disciple of Baoshan Sanren.

Wei Ying loves his life. He wouldn't change a thing. Change is like a storm. It comes anyway.

"What if I've forgotten how?" Wei Ying says persistently. "What if I'm not good at it any more? Lan Zhan, you have to help me. You have to." "How would you like me to help you?" Lan Zhan is tired. Maybe it's the heat, but he feels so very tired right now. He pops open his seltzer and takes a long sip. "Kiss me," Wei Ying says promptly. "Show me how."

“Here for your coat?” Wei Ying asks, a little glumly. A pause with no answer. And then the door shuts. There’s the sound of someone breathing near Wei Ying, quick and shallow. She’s not alone anymore. Wei Ying perks up with renewed interest. “Or . . . are you here for me?” — Two times Wei Ying kisses a stranger while blindfolded in a closet, and one time she knows exactly what she wants.

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Shen Yuan never asked questions when customers came seeking her out, even as they increasingly asked for targeted death spells or life-long, horrid curses. It wasn’t any of her business, and she needn’t get involved with the carriage-wreck that was those revenge plots. Even when she had to etch the name words ‘icy river’ again and again into beautifully carved cutlery and plates and vases, as red-faced women reached her shop in swarms as the months passed by, asking for monstrosity inducing curses, for seals that cause the downfall of kingdoms, for targeted attacks against a woman who had a better life than any of those that slithered their way into Shen Yuan’s business. Shen Yuan became experienced in carving ‘Luo Binghe’ into the tiny spots of her work, hidden by a neat handle or painted design. She didn’t ask questions, even as word reached her city that a new demon had risen to power, quickly taking control of the two demonic realms and coming for the final one left untouched. A mysterious cultivator stumbles across Shen Yuan's home, in dire need of nurture and care. Shen Yuan calls BS. Luo Binghe, as things will have it, is not a force to be trifled with.

“Teacher Lan!” Jingyi yelped, suddenly, and Wei Wuxian shifted his attention where the kid was looking. Oh. Suddenly, all of his confidence drained from him, the shock setting in faster than the nervousness that followed. Having heard the kid, the man had stopped and turned his attention to them. Lan Wangji in the flesh. or, wwx meets an old acquaintance

"I like your costume. Lawyer, right?” "No,” he says, “I'm a businessman." "The horror!!" “Your costume?” Lan Zhan politely returns the question, then turns to face Wei Ying. His eyes dip lower to his chest, “babygirl?”

Luo Binghe has it all: the respect of the cultivation world, the home he always wanted, and Shizun's love. There's just one problem: if Shizun ever finds out he's a demon, it's going to ruin everything.