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the concept of being academic rivals so ardently obsessed with each others weaknesses and flaws that as soon as you’re tossed into real life you realize there is no one you can trust like each other because no one else in the world is so enamoured with you send tweet
Rin and Nezha>>>> Romeo and Juliet.
🚨 spoilers 🚨
Yeah, she stabs herself for him and he’d die for her if he could, but for all her flame she can never bring herself to burn him when it matter most and to him she’s the divine Phoenix that kills him in all his loviest dreams.
rf kuang really looked at the whole "main characters cant die and mostly everyone has to get a happy ending" thing and said you know what? fuck that
i just want to say whoever told me that poppy war had a happy ending i hope your pillow is always warm
Wdym the seal scene isn’t how the series ends with everyone happy and alive? wdym they die lmao?
thinking about that scene in the dragon republic when rin enters daji’s seal and it shows her what she wants the most, memories she can barely remember and people she’ll never have again, even if she didn’t know it at the time. she saw Masters Irjah and Jima, the two masters whose praise she’d craved her first year at Sinegard, whose classes she’d excelled at the most, Linguistics and Strategy. She saw Kesegi, who she would later sacrifice to rot in a cell, and Tutor Feyrik, whose fate would forever be left unknown, lost to her. Kitay, Altan, Ramsa, all of whom sacrificed their lives for her. And the heavy, heavy implication that they were all gathered for her wedding to Nezha. Because Nezha was the last person Rin loved who hadn’t yet appeared in her vision and his absence was too conspicuous. Because Altan had told her in that vision that he’d “never been too fond of [her fiancé] either,” and Nezha had been the only friend of Rin’s who Altan had never liked, had been paranoid and suspicious of, had told Rin to stop talking to, and had prevented her from dragging out of the fog. Daji’s seal had shown Rin what her subconscious had known and what she had refused to acknowledge (that she loved nezha even then), and what might have been possible in another life if history, the gods, and the whims of humans had not been so cruel.
I am the force of creation, I am the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I am a god.
Rinkitay really doing the most out there, it is truly the best platonic friendship ever written
still making playlists for fictional characters in the year 2025
The Poppy War artwork to cope (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
This was too many hands（−＿−；）i require rest.
alt rinvenka inspired by @sweeetsh ‘s amazing emo rin
they came to poland for a sedes koncert frfr
this is my way of retaliating for the sampan scene.
Based on this picture
she’s the only devine thing he’s ever believed in
can you tell who my favorite characters are
RIGHT?!?? except hold your horses because actually GYU AS NEZHA (...or vaisra..... or venka), jun as altan excuse me, blond han as chaghan ofc, curly shua as kitay, super hao as daji (wait I'm seriously painting that now), and woozi as rin for obvious reasons 🤭
introducing 2han
or SEVENTEEN Jeonghan as TPW Chaghan because my brain says so
or the questionably sane gay shaman prince meets equally unhinged kpop idol crossover you didn't know you needed
ALRIGHT LISTEN UP FOLKS JUST LET ME EXPLAIN. Backstory first because I realize this might be confusing to anyone living outside my brain. Basically I fell in love with TPW (and especially my boy Chaghan as you all know) before I got into Seventeen but I could never put a face to Chaghan, even though I was drawing him like literally every day, nothing felt entirely right. Other artists had lots of amazing Chaghan fanart too but nothing felt like exactly the mysterious, sharp, gorgeous, heavenly angel, perfectly androgynous vibe I envisioned for him. I literally spent hours on those face blender thingys or watching various dramas trying to find him but to no avail. Then everything changed when I got into Seventeen and the very first time I saw Jeonghan my brain just went THAT'S IT THAT'S HIM IT'S CHAGHAN THAT'S MY BOY THERE HE IS. And then you can imagine how I screamed when I saw debut pictures with the long blond hair I mean you guys. I FREAKING FOUND HIM AT LAST. And then it only got better because I really got into Seventeen and look, they are actually the same man. I mean, cheating at everything for fun, fighting with everyone when he's bored, causing general havoc wherever he goes and being a menace to society, and yet still thinking he's the most normal one in the friend group. YOU GUYS. Find the difference between these two pictures. HAH you can't! Anyway if JK is Princess Diana's reincarnation then Jeonghan is Chaghan's and thank you for coming to my ted talk, have a nice day.
So apparently this is what happens when I’m supposed to be drawing an ancient civilization for school but get as far as a temple before my TPW brain takes over.
Some quotes that consume my current existence:
- “Chaghan would have commanded like a demon. He would have achieved utter obedience from his underlings, but only because he would have taken away their free will. Chaghan would have shattered minds.”
- “The white-haired Seer tilted his head to the sky, exposing long, jagged scars running down the sides of his pale neck. He uttered a harsh, cackling laugh.”
- “The Seer took his hand. Brought it to his lips and kissed it.”
- “Altan cursed under his breath. ‘Is he hurt? Where is he?’”
- “Chaghan leaned forward. ‘If you ever speak about Altan like that again,’ he said pleasantly, ‘I will have you killed.’”
- “‘Altan is more fragile than you think,’ said Chaghan.”
- “She stood up and slammed her hands on the table. ‘Look, asshole, I don’t need you to tell me what to do.’
‘And yet, as your lieutenant, that is precisely my job.’ Chaghan glanced lazily up at her, and his expression was so smug that Rin trembled from the effort of not smashing his face into the table. ‘Your duty is to obey. My duty is to see that you stop fucking up. So I would suggest you get your shit together, learn to call the damn fire, and give Altan one less thing to worry about. Am I clear?’”
- “‘They say he can do things that Speerlies can’t,’ Nezha said as they pressed on. ‘They say he can read the future. Shatter minds.’”
- “‘But Altan was never allowed to be human,’ Chaghan said, and his voice was uncharacteristically gentle.”
- “‘There are no shamans more powerful than me,’ said Chaghan.”
- “‘Fine,’ he said to his lieutenant. ‘You were right.’
Chaghan hadn’t moved during the entire interrogation.
‘I’m rarely wrong,’ said Chaghan.”
- “Chaghan and Qara may have been linked as anchor twins, but it was Altan whom Chaghan seemed bonded to.”
- “Chaghan navigated the spirit world like he belonged there, as if he were a god himself. The Cike didn’t hesitate to talk back to Altan, but she had never seen any of them dare to so much as contradict Chaghan. Altan commanded their loyalty, but Chaghan enjoyed their fear.”
- “Chaghan grasped Altan by the collar with both hands, pulling him down so that they were face-to-face. Altan was half a foot taller than Chaghan, could have snapped him in half with ease, and yet he did not lift a hand in defense.
Rin stared at them in disbelief. Nobody touched Altan like that.”
- “‘I’m your Seer,’ Chaghan said. ‘I give you counsel, whether you want to hear it or not.’”
- “‘You asked me why I wouldn’t stop him. Now you understand. You can’t stop an avenger. You can’t reason with a madman. You think I am running, and I admit to you that I am afraid. I am afraid of what he might do in his quest for vengeance. And I am afraid he is right.’”
- “‘Fuck,’ Ramsa said quietly. ‘Chaghan’s… someone’s going to have to tell Chaghan.’”
- “Chaghan looked sideways at her. His expression was grim. ‘You are going to paint the world in Altan’s blood, aren’t you?’
‘I’m going to find and kill everyone responsible,’ said Rin. ‘You cannot stop me.’
Chaghan laughed a dry, cutting laugh. ‘Oh, I’m not going to stop you.’”
THE POPPY WAR— by R F Kuang
happy birthday shay [@kkitays] !
STOP making me think about rinezha. i can't do it anymore. enemies to enemies slow burn. enemies to begrudging allies to friends to *almost* lovers. then betrayal, and then they're just enemies who used to be in love. and they both *know* that they were in love, and maybe they are still in love, but they stand on opposite sides of a war because they've both made their decisions and cannot come back from them. there can never be reconciliation for the things they've done to each other, but god, they're still in love. i am literally eating drywall over them
A moment of peace and quiet before everything went looney tunes