It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Me, first watching CQL in 2021: I hate Jiang Cheng. Why is he so bad at understanding cause & effect?! Me, first reading MDZS in 2021: I no longer hate Jiang Cheng. I still don't much like him, but he makes a LOT more sense in this context! Me, after fanfic: I love our angriest grape so much.

I turned 40 this autumn, so happy 40yo #zosan💕

whenever i write shen yuan POV i always remind myself that if he's having a feeling no he isn't, and if he is it's probably because he's empathizing with an imaginary woman, and if not that then everyone would feel the same way so it's fine

WangXian AU where the Lan line is under a curse that their soul will be forever bound to that of the first person they kiss, that's where the myth that Lans love only once came from. Lan Wangji doesn't know about the curse because it's not seen as a proper thing to talk about

This is exactly what I bring to the table. The shape of the little guys as constructed people is fun to play with as jigsaw puzzle pieces, and I will defend a claim that doing so is also a form of analysis, but it is ALSO fun to look at why they are that shape to begin with and what it says, etc.

the way people thinking AI is keeping them from looking stupid when it’s in fact the thing actively turning them stupid

seeing sy in a regular modern setting highlights (i think) how funny he is. when he’s in a fantasy world it’s like okay, sure, people are going to do unexpected things. what does you mean he commissioned custom merch of his DOG

Love when my 20 yo son returns from the hospital after a weird 1 day coma and is suddenly acting oddly graceful and serene and then a ultra hot young man shows up at the door during dinner wearing weird robes and they just keep staring into each others eyes with indescribable yearning

insane to show SY having a cute loving family after all this time thus validating all the fridge-horror sadstuck that we had to brute force read into the text past his iron wall of compartmentalization #svsssspoilers

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

New listing on my Ko-fi: Alt text assistance! Make your posts accessible to low-vision fans, and increase clarity and searchability for your art and memes!

Joined a discord and someone gushed that they recognized me from the comments and my soul fully left my body for a second. On the one hand, it was very sweet and flattering. On another hand, I am constitutionally incapable of accepting compliments of that sort and had to resist hermit crabbing.

The thing is, the System is concerned with making a story. It was shaped BY US, in that the System became what modern readers expected to see in order to facilitate the goal. The System is not just Bingzu anymore, but even following his final wish, it is still constrained by pursuit of a story.

because bingzu-system has a new goal: that bitter old man's sentient fragments are gonna seduce shizun and fuck him themself 😎

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Gods, the fact that Bingzu ultimately gave up on being an isolated protagonist to become a COLLECTIVE of story catalysts for less lonely stories is something I am going to be chewing on for YEARS.

Sometimes I am struck by how delightful it is for humans to have evolved to so perfectly fill an ecological niche as The Designated Scritchers. There are so many species which appear to desire scritching, but few natural providers. Then along come humans with our dexterity & determination to love.

Sometimes I remember that there are people who leave no ao3 comments. Like at all? Come on babies you can do it 💪 start simple

If OpenAI can’t exist without our money or our talent then it should die.

I am very serious when I say I truly do love and care about erotic art as a form of exploration and celebration. It’s so important, especially in these times where there’s so much vitriol about adult content. S/o to other adult artists, adult performers, writers, all yall!

#svsssspoilers DEVASTATING realization. shen yuan being at the family house and not the place he primarily lived means he (semi accidentally) dodged the "binghe seeing all his piles of merch" bullet

city of my heart, I love you and all of us.

i love when he shows up to introduce the concept of mountain mama's boyfriend repair shop and then play impromptu uber driver to evacuate an ethically roofied sister from a dubiously consensual larp scenario resulting in experimental wizard surgery

You know a line I've written that always makes me smile? This one, about Elder Yi. And it's in a FOOTNOTE! Admittedly, my amusing footnote game was going full throttle writing this particular fic, and I do regularly drop some of my best material in the margins, but this one hit the exact vibe.

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

How long was Mobei Jun stuck in limbo waiting for Shang Qinghua to get out of the hospital and go buy a new computer then bring it home and set it up? Did Mobei Jun arrive separately from Luo Binghe, timing wise? Did he emerge through the computer on PURPOSE to give SQH a fright as payback?

Unexpected kiss cam at the game 🫢 #zosan

Ugh. WHY did I have to wake up with every joint in my body hurting?? We have so many bones! That's a lot of joints, and they all hurt, and my muscles all hurt, because the super IMPORTANT joints that hurt are the ones in my godsdamn SPINE, and that impacts all the rest of my stupid nervous system.

Someone please compile all the translations. For posterity, and also for me, personally, to print out and then eat.

rolling up a decade later with starbucks to joss your own lore is certainly a move...

Okay, I am going to wait until there is a real translation by a human who understands nuance and context and how to close a referent path when writing a sentence in English, but then I am ABSOLUTELY going to do a thread on the new extra and some of the delicious layers it has to offer.

I have so many thoughts about the System, both its in-story origins and its wider implications, and I am going to take ages digesting them.

Wishing Shen Jiu, wherever he is, a peaceful and fulfilling existence. And crying about Bingzu's soul being willing to offer it to him.

Truly enjoying this very special once in a lifetime opportunity to witness (and participate in) a fandom erupting over getting to enjoy and hyperanalyze new canon a decade later. We've been feeding each other so well with stone soup for ages, and now suddenly there's whole new ingredients?!

"Ordinary person who just got isekai'd to a fantasy world in a video game" x.com/dailyportalz...

Okay, so. Readers paid 2 fen per 1000 words. At the time Airplane was writing, authors got 70% of that. IF PIDW was 20,000,000 words, AND Airplane had "tens of thousands" of readers like Shen Yuan claimed, he made at least 5.6 million yuan in pure publishing money, before any donations or bonuses.

Oopsy! #svsss #moshang

MBJ crowling out of sqh computer 🙏🙏

Booyah! I nailed the OG plan for Luo Binghe in one of my fics. ...also I have a thread about Liu Qingge and Liu Mingyan's relationship and how it would have changed if Liu Qingge were also a transmigrator that I feel is supported by the new text.

Gotta love MXTX's pure self-awareness. 🥰

Fandom isn’t your job. Take a month off. Take 3 years off. Post incomplete fics. Post incomplete art. Never post again. Switch fandoms. Stay loyal to one fandom only. Do whatever tf you want. You literally make all the rules of engagement in this arena.

Sometimes you see a post so scathingly self-righteous and venomous that it takes a full minute just to process that much delusion and point missing existing in one burst of words. It doesn't happen often that I block someone in passing without ever having interacted, but whew. That one had fumes.

20k new words of canon for my starved little fandom has us all bouncing off the walls and tearing apart our red string conspiracy boards only to rebuild them WEIRDER. I cannot wait to read a full translation, I have so many questions, and one very personal concern, about the rumored changes.

While traveling lone level sands I saw just two legs left to stand Saying "Look on my works You sorrowful jerks!" But alas naught remained of his plans.

This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen and I love it