Cheng Xiaoshi: There are some things beyond our understanding. We must accept them and learn from them. Because these moments of crisis are also potential moments of faith. A time, when we either come together or fall apart. Nature always has a way of balancing itself. The only question is, what part will we play?
Lu Guang: Did you just make that up?
Cheng Xiaoshi: No. I read it in a fortune cookie once.
Lu Guang:
Cheng Xiaoshi: A really long fortune cookie.
Lu Guang: Hello, my name is Failure, and you're watching my life crumble into pieces.
Lu Guang: *waves his finger and sings like they're in a Disney Channel intro*
Lu Guang after seeing Cheng Xiaoshi die once again:
Cheng Xiaoshi: Why is Qiao Ling making me do the dishes again? You haven’t washed them in a week, Lu Guang!
Lu Guang: It’s because I’m Qiao Ling’s favorite.
Cheng Xiaoshi: I hate you.
Lu Guang, also known as a universe destroyer for his 100% platonic bff: Why would you wanna save the galaxy? It's full of idiots anyway.
Cheng Xiaoshi: Because I'm one of the idiots that lives in it!
Lu Guang: Are you sure
Cheng Xiaoshi: WHOEVER CAUSED THIS MESS IS GOING TO-
Lu Guang: It was me...
Cheng Xiaoshi: ...Is going to be forgiven because everyone deserves a second chance.
This could work either way but I have you know what in mind
Lu Guang: I have an idea.
Qiao Ling: A good idea?
Lu Guang: Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Lu Guang after deciding he's not going to be left hoeless
Lu Guang: How do you tell someone that you wanna have sex with them in a polite way?
Cheng Xiaoshi: Excuse me Mx. Would you give me the honours of indulging in sexual activities with you?
Qiao Ling: What the fuck is wrong with you two?
Cheng Xiaoshi: Now, if I may speak for good-looking people everywhere...
Qiao Ling: Only as their rodeo clown.
In my defense all I'll say is that they are so siblings, your honor
Someone irrelevant, to Qiao Ling: Look at you! All cute and small! I could just eat you up!
Qiao Ling: *proceeds to kick them in the shin and run away*
Lu Guang, walking past: Rule number 1, don't call Qiao Ling cute or small.
I support the feral and armed with medical equipment Qiao Ling Agenda
Qiao Ling: In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
Captain Xiao: Wasn’t Cheng Xiaoshi with you?
Cheng Xiaoshi: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised.
Cheng Xiaoshi: Don't joke about murder. I was murdered once (several times) and it offends me.
Is the following one in character? No did the idea make me laugh? Yes.
Captain Xiao: *double checking supplies in the boat* Compass. CB radio. Sunscreen.
Qiao Ling: Hot dog costumes!
Captain Xiao: I’m sorry, what?
Qiao Ling: You know, in case we get lost at sea, and one of us, probably Lu Guang, goes mad with hunger, we’ll put these on. Lu Guang hates hot dogs, so they probably won’t eat us.
Captain Xiao: Are you saying that Lu Guang would rather eat us than hot dogs?
Lu Guang: I do hate hot dogs.
Qiao Ling: My goal is not to be the best, but to inspire someone enough to one day surpass me.
Cheng Xiaoshi: YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT EVERY TIME YOU BEAT ME AT CONNECT FOUR!
Cheng Xiaoshi: Every zoo is a petting zoo unless you’re a coward.
Lu Guang: I’m worried about you.
Cheng Xiaoshi: If I punch myself and it hurts, am I weak or strong?
Qiao Ling: Strong.
Captain Xiao: Weak.
Lu Guang: An idiot, is what your are.
Lu Guang: And here we see Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi in their natural habitat. Texting eachother variations of the word "garlic bread" to try to make eachother laugh.
Qiao Ling: Gaelic bread.
Cheng Xiaoshi: Grueling brad.
Qiao Ling: Ha ha, glamorous beans.
Sibling behavior
Qiao Ling: Seriously, all you do is bitch.
Lu Guang: I happen to bitch the perfect amount for someone in my situation.
He actually does
In my mind Captain Xiao is actually now their parent
Captain Xiao: Why do you think I don’t like you? I do. I would kill for you.
Captain Xiao: Ask me to kill for you.
Cheng Xiaoshi: ...First of all, calm down-
What I will always love about this man is he didn't even know them for more than a couple times and yet he never hesitated on helping them
Cheng Xiaoshi: A mosquito tried to bite me and I slapped it and killed it.
Cheng Xiaoshi: And I started thinking.
Cheng Xiaoshi: Like, it was just trying to get food.
Cheng Xiaoshi: What if I went to the fridge and it just slammed the door shut and snapped my neck?
Captain Xiao: Are you ok?
He isn't
Lu Guang: We all have our demons.
Lu Guang, grabbing Cheng Xiaoshi: This one’s mine.
And he isn't letting go
Cheng Xiaoshi: I regret nothing!!!
Lu Guang: I regret everything!!!
*insert the same old joke*
Cheng Xiaoshi: Look at me straight in the eyes and tell me the truth, Lu Guang!
Lu Guang: You can’t expect me to look into your eyes and be straight.
Lu Guang after the 3rd time travel:
Qiao Ling: You need a hobby.
Cheng Xiaoshi: I have a hobby!
Qiao Ling: Fawning over Lu Guang isn’t a hobby.
Cheng Xiaoshi after calling Lu Guang handsome for the 100th time
Qiao Ling: “Ladies and gentlemen” is unnecessarily gendered, overly formal, lengthy, and honestly, I’m falling asleep already. “Cowards” on the other hand, is inclusive to all genders, to the point, and dramatic.
Here I am again with my feral Qiao Ling agenda. I regret nothing
Cheng Xiaoshi: Lu Guang, you’ve tried 37 times and you’ve failed every time. Give it a break.
Lu Guang: DO I HEAR “FIRST TRY PART 38?”
I don't even have to repeat the joke do I?
Cheng Xiaoshi, seeing a banana on the car seat: What the FUCK??
Cheng Xiaoshi, buckling the banana up: Fucking buckle UP, it’s the LAW!
Tbh, I don't think he'd ever get a driving license in the first place, it would be too much of a hazard, but it is nice to dream
Captain Xiao: What's the most efficient way to burn calories?
Qiao Ling: Exercise more!
Cheng Xiaoshi: Set yourself on fire.
Lu Guang: There are two kinds of people.
Captain Xiao: *shatters a window and climbs through it*
Captain Xiao: *turns around and helps Cheng Xiaoshi through it* Breaking and entering is wrong Cheng Xiaoshi.
Cheng Xiaoshi: Okay.
*out grocery shopping*
Lu Guang: *takes a free sample twice*
Lu Guang: Robbery and Fraud. I am a Rebel.
I find that to be a bigger crime than breaking the entire universe tbh. At least in that he hasbhis homosexual tendencies to back him up
Captain Xiao: How do you type so fast?
Cheng Xiaoshi: Anxiety.
Lu Guang: What do I get?
Cheng Xiaoshi: A night of fashion, mischief, mayhem, and possible death.
Lu Guang: Ooh, check, check, and check; not sure about that last one.
Cheng Xiaoshi: It won't be me.
Lu Guang: I'll get my coat.
The joke will never get old will it? (It has, like 4 jokes ago, but I'm so unfunny I can't think of another one)
Qiao Ling: I did it! I memorized everything in the book! I'm gonna ace this test!
Cheng Xiaoshi: Ok, Qiao Ling, I'll give you one more question before you go. What ended in 1918?
Qiao Ling: 1917.
Cheng Xiaoshi: ...You're ready.
I love them a healthy amount
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Autopsy of a gay lie: the Wikipedia trail
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
For starters, sorry for the length and numerous screencaps. It is an investigation, after all and these are sorely needed.
Never underestimate the conjugated power of Internet, a Sunday afternoon and the lightbulb moment that can happen while baking something, because you know, people have also to reward themselves at some point.
I might have fucked up my foolproof Lemon Squares recipe, but I regret nothing. It took me three hours I could have gratefully used to finish that spirits post, but this is too damn good not to share.
Remember Meow Kabob's cross my heart and hope to die pinky swear she found confirmation of Data Lounge's allegations on Wikipedia, out of all places? How she regularly unburies that infamous screenshot listing S under the Wiki "Gay Actors" category? How she told us, filthy and uneducated shipper mob, over and over again, that story about STARZ people scouring the Internet far and wide and scrubbing any gay reference related to S, as soon or shortly after he was cast as JAMMF?
I can confidently prove now Lincoln's perennial truths I quoted above apply to this situation.
I was just pouring my lemon juice, eggs, flour and sugar mix over the hot and nutty shortbread when I stopped in my tracks: 'wait a second, isn't Wikipedia an open source project? BUT OF COURSE IT IS, SILLY COW - yes, I very often talk to myself like that. RUN. NOW. I HAVE TO KNOW.'
Sure enough, like death and taxes, the full edit list of S's Wikipedia page was there for everyone to see:
Even better, since Internet is forever, we have full access to all these edits and can take screenshots.
This is how Sam's Wikipedia odissey started, on November 11th 2007, when he was the complete underdog:
A ' strapping lad with natural dark blonde hair and 6'2'' tall', ideal for the role of Alexander the Great - pious silence and RIP. I grinned, because it sounds well, naïve? It also sounds gay, perhaps? What else does it prove, other than the gay crowd has an acute interest for novelty and a wandering eye?
Nothing. Not even remotely related to S.
Also, note the two classification categories: British TV actor stubs/ British actor stubs. Mark them, they stayed still and alone for a looooong time.
Up until 2009, in fact, when the wikientry was no longer considered a stub and even got several category additions:
Then again, some movin' on up, on that semi-dormant page, in 2013. Totes normal:
By early 2014, even more interest in S commands an expanded webpage and a longer, more detailed, category listing:
Let's quickly peruse 2015...
2016...
The incorrect Irish descent category stayed there for about ten days, until removed by another user. This is how it is done and it is then added to the list:
2017, 2018, 2019, early 2020, no change in the categories, but all hell broke lose content-wise. From Cirdan, the 'estranged brother' acting in a very gay connotated theatre production I have never heard about, in London, September 2016...
...... to a woman named Tiffany Trach who used to dream the impossible dream, in October 2016 (and she was not the only one, far from it)...
...to some halfwit being rightfully slapped for adding brainless Flukenzie Floozy content in March 2017:
By that time, I was getting supremely bored clicking on links and wanted to pack the tent and throw my lemon squares in the trash bin. But, lo and behold, what do I see on January 26th 2020:
With the tag possible vandalism:
Whodunnit?
A very brave person, hiding under a string of random numbers...
... and one single contribution EVER to the Wikipedia juggernaut. This is what I would call a targeted attack:
It stayed like that, unmolested, for five days only, until the user Spiderpig662 decided enough is enough and did something about it...
....categories being then restored to the previous wording:
The last vicious gay reference on Wikipedia dates back to May 28th 2020 (Ha-wa-wee, anyone?), was labeled as 'hate speech' & promptly removed:
Where wuffter is, in British Cockney slang:
Same modus operandi, this time an IP address, pinging in (you simply can't make this shit up, can you?)...
County Durham, FYI.
I then asked myself when exactly did Meow Kabob appear on Tumblr?
Even more exactly, on...
That is, to say the least, a troubling coincidence.
I do not imply anything, I have no wish to attack anyone. All I am saying, is that particular argument, which this user is shouting anytime she is prompted to, had a very short online lifespan. How could an American woman, who appeared in this fandom shortly afterwards, have known about changes operated for five days only, by an unknown user, on the open source webpage of a B-listed British actor?
I have only one question, Your Honor:
WHY?
I rest my case.
[Edit]: To make it maybe more clear, I now know where the person adding that category lives, thanks to Wikipedia's own tracking system:
No surprises here:
Augusta. Georgia. USA.
Now, yes. Now I rest my case.
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WHY YOU SHOULD NOT SUPPORT NEIL DRUCKMANN OR TLOU
israeli military operations are continuing the genocide and destruction on Palestine, and as a fic writer of TLOU, i need to say the following.
I DO NOT SUPPORT NEIL DRUCKMANN OR HIS CURRENT, PREVIOUS, OR FUTURE PROJECTS, AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU.
if you don’t know, neil druckmann, the co-writer of TLOU is a zionist. i’m leaving the following quote from this website, which you should read along! “The game's co-director and co-writer Neil Druckmann, an Israeli who was born and raised in the West Bank before his family moved to the U.S., told the Washington Post that the game's themes of revenge can be traced back to the 2000 killing of two Israeli soldiers by a mob in Ramallah.” (VICE.COM)
if you have already purchased tlou and are unable to refund, there isn’t much more you can do for that specifically. (i am unsure if playing the already bought game gives him money, please inform me in the comments!!) what i will say is for anyone who hasn’t bought it, please refrain from doing so, this includes purchasing the remasters!! giving him more money only supports this ongoing genocide.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
“i wasn’t planning on buying the game, and i don’t have money to donate! how can i help?”
one of the biggest things you can do, for free, is spread awareness: reposting, informing, and sharing links to nonprofit organizations that support Palestine! there are many organizations that will donate with the simple press of a button, including THIS ONE.
another great impact you can make is to stop supporting businesses that support israel, THIS IS a page that lists all of the current establishments that support israel.
people are suffering, people are starving, people are dying.
the following are links of info about the genocide and how you can help:
Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict.
Free Donation with the Click of a Button
Crisis in Palestine: What you need to know
Help families in Gaza now
How to Help Palestine
i do not support the TLOU franchise, my fics will be purely based on the characters and i will link this page on every single one. i hope you read through all of this, and took some time to become educated on the topic. if any of this information is incorrect, please inform me and i will fix it. thank you for reading.
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