me when other people tag me in things: this person??? thought about me???? i'm so flattered??????? 🥺💕🥺💕🥺💕🥺💕

me when i consider tagging someone in a post: i am annoying!!!! i am overstepping every single boundary!!!! i am making an absolute fool out of myself!!!!!!

wen kexing is passing through your dash and booping you. happy halloween ❤️

The Unbooped (2019)

so the cliché says, "history repeats itself" well, here we go again //

me when i first started watching cdramas: woah the sets are so beautiful

me watching cdramas now: hey, i know that street. hey, i know that temple. hey, i know that courtyard. hey, i know that gate. hey, i know that tree

Someone pitch a c drama where the plot is just that two producers double booked hengdian studios for their new high budget wuxia dramas and now they're fighting over the sets

There's only one bed set

FANG YILUN as YU SHI SAN A Journey to Love 一念关山 (2023) – Ep. 39

Boop PSA, for Mobile Users:

To Boop - either tap the boop button next to someone's name or go to their blog and tap the cat paw icon

To Super Boop - go to someone's blog and hold the cat paw icon until it spins once, then let go

To Evil Boop - go to someone's blog and hold the cat paw icon until it spins twice, then let go

Can't Boop - either you or the person you're trying to Boop hasn't opted in yet

To Opt In - go to your feed and you'll see the boop-o-meter and the option to opt in

I'll update this when I know how to get certain badges and such.

happy halloween from my favourite losers

please god, take that man’s pain, double it, and put it on ao3

Liu Xue Yi as Murong Jing He Kill Me Love Me 春花焰 (2024) – Ep. 1

Traditional Chinese clothing on Disney Princesses! (Artist: 清风澈）

I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

Analyzing a popular Fanfic Tag: no beta we die like men

Meaning: No Beta We Die Like Men is a phrase commonly used to tag in a fic (typically ao3) as a warning/note that a work didn't have a beta reader to proof-read/edit, which was a longer version of saying "please excuse any typos". It's also a bit of a self-depreciating joke, since the nature of the tag shows that a fic writer knows they probably should have used a beta, but instead are choosing to face the consequences of their actions, therefore "dying like men."

The "Die Like Men" part is most likely from a sense of bravado associated with masculinity, and it reminds me of soldiers bravely facing their fate in war. Therefore, this tag also suggests a sense of courage/recklessness in posting a fic work instead of overthinking things.

Origin: It's from a meme on here from around 2016 which had a bumper sticker saying "No airbags, we die like men." A post reading "No proofreading, we die like men" also followed that first post, and the meaning for it stuck.

Variations: Sometimes a fandom subs in dead characters instead of "men" for the tagging, or something else (will to live, author's sanity, etc.) as well. Generally though, the "no beta we die like" part stays the same throughout.