The Only Point Of Contention I Have Is That If Jiggy Ascended, They Wouldn't Need Ling Wen So Very Desperately.

... And the juniors he lured to Yi City. And the cats he killed in order to do that. Making NHS out to be a sort of saint is so odd to me. Most of the characters have done a lot of unnecessary and cruel things. And the margin between them is really, really thin.

Like, look. I don't hate Huaisang. I don't hate anyone.* But thinking that butter wouldn't melt in his mouth just means he hoodwinked you, too. Congratulations.

*Okay. Notable exceptions: Jin Guangshan, whose existence I tend to forget, and Wen Ruohan, who's a turd. I'd like to add Sect Leader Yao, but he doesn't even deserve that much attention, and Wen Chao ... well, neither nature nor nurture worked in his favour so I'm on the fence there.

sorry to be a hater but i gotta say. fics where other characters find out about the full shit nhs pulled in his anti-jgy revenge quest, and then act as if nhs did some Great Moral Good.....are kinda missing the point

pretty sure that one of the Major Points of mdzs is that revenge isnt morally justified and should not be glorified....if jc was wrong to hold a grudge against the wens for literally killing almost everyone he grew up with, then nhs is also wrong to put innocent third parties only tangentially related to jgy into the line of fire in his pursuit of revenge :/

So far, no incidents to speak of. Let's hope our luck holds. (I have been incredibly lucky with my dice so far, I have to say.)

A-Yao, my A-Yao.

I still love him♥

But ... that read is complete inane?? As in ... single-brain-cell level? It says explicitly in the text that while the Jin clan BUILT the watch towers, they are manned by members of several sects EACH?* Exactly BECAUSE Jin Guangyao doesn't want to recreate the supervisory offices? Trust me on re-reading I paid an inordinate amount of attention to everything Jin Guangyao does. This was a good thing for everyone (except people near Yi city, which by total coincidence *cough* had no watchtower near it).

And let's just say that this is a great point to prove how useful they were? Because shit like that didn't go down in other places that did have one.

*Exact words from 7 seas, volume 2, page 183: "These watchtowers were distributed in remote and impoverished lands, and every watch tower was allocated a number of sect disciples from various clans."

gonna be honest here chief a lot of "uhhhh Ackshually the watchtowers are Bad because xyz" does not read like you guys critically analyzing the text or even drawing from irl historical precedent.....but rather you guys seething and coping that jgy (the villain!!!!!! who is Bad!!!!!!!! excuse you!!!!!!!) dared do something that could possibly be described as having a positive impact on the world

Okay I know I reblogged this yesterday BUT IT MISSED THE NIE BRAIDS UNDER A-YAO'S HAT AND NOW I CAN'T.

@little-meowyao They're swords, they tend to be rather literal about this sort of thing u.u

Nothing like a fifteen hundred foot trust exercise between two people who absolutely do not trust each other, one of which has very good reason to fear long falls!!

Avenge the Living, Heal the Dead

New Chapter:

The investigation has been crudely planned, but it leads ... well, somewhere. How to get back from wherever that is is a different question entirely.

If anyone ever wonders why I left the Abramamitic religions behind me in favour of some weird form agnostic omnism with strong pagan leanings, read the answers to that one. So much earnestness for what can't be proven, so much fervour for old story books. Oh boy. With someone who hasn't done this entire Catholic thing any more for almost two decades, this is bizarre.

I mean. I did consider myself Catholic, I even considered joining a convent, but it NEVER occurred to me to call pagans satanic or any such things. This is the kind of attitude that turned me off the whole thing. (Apart from the bits that say 'I am the only god' and 'I am jealous of all the other gods that TOOOOTALLY don't exist' thing that makes ZERO sense and is toxic af. I don't want anything to do with jealous people, human or otherwise, they can stay the hell away from me. I ain't doing this.)

That the person in question is not even Christian doesn't matter. All three are the same thing to me. Same sky daddy, same arbitrary rules that made some sense back in the day and none now, same fervour in the followers that gobble up what they're fed by the higher-ups in their particular brand of the 'I love you but if you step a toe out of line I'll destroy you even beyond death' cult. They were when I liked them and they are when I'm glad to be out.

Boy. I really don't like them any more it seems.

Edit: I mean, it's poetic, in a way. I used to wear a gold chain with a small cross, Star of David, and crescent to signify that they have the same value and worth, and then I started, little by little, to resent all three. That process took many years. And then, one day, my chain broke. I was really sad and decided to have it fixed. I noticed in time and didn't lose any of the pendants. I never had it fixed. I know now I never will. The broken chain is a symbol in itself. I am lost to them and they are to me.

really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

Avenge the Living, Heal the Dead

A ghost is being harassed and a mortal is taken. A god and his ghost king follow the trail.

Someone sneaks into the temple Shi Qingxuan and his beggars use as a shelter, acting like a sneak-thief. Of course, he won’t have that. Hua Cheng and Xie Lian on the other hand just want to spend the morning in bed. Possibly the whole day. An unannounced visitor spoils that plan.

This German native speaker is currently howling with laughter. :D

so this European clothing retailer decided to advertise their jean cuts on youtube and it's unintentionally the funniest shit I've seen today. why? well.

now important context here: in German, die (pronounced 'dee') is just a feminine article, it literally means "the".

but if an ad gets placed in the middle of an English video and doesn't use a single explicitly German word for most of the ad, even a native speaker is gonna think "they want me to die how?" it keeps getting funnier.

I mean, holy shit

i will use these as reaction images until i die

I'm not a fan of fall. Or winter. Or anything that isn't scorching hot summer. Seriously, give me a city at 40°C any day, that's more than fine. The one bright light is figure skating. It makes the whole freezing drab wetness bearable.