I'M CAPTAIN KIRK

...apparently those are my two genders

 

'so how are we feeling today, cowboy or ancient chinese fantasy ghostbusting monk?'

unrelated: the clan juniors making friends with each other is so sweet

 

i can't believe bby wwx accidentally sexually assaulted bby lwj

 

would give quite a lot to know which of the apparently multitudinous words for 'brother' jin guanyu used to greet lan xichen just then in the og chinese. is there a special one for sworn brothers, i wonder? or is it gege again

 

wei wuxian is certified Bisexual Disaster

 

me, sipping a glass of wine: ah, i see this man who i am shipping with another man has a wife whomst he loves very much.
me: Jeeves! you know what to do!
my menacing butler: indeed sir
my menacing butler: [adds her to the polycule diagram]

 

ah well that's fucked up, boy howdy etcetera. disappointed in you, fella. very disappointed. rude of you to become evil.

 

well that was a fascinating little flashback
gently pets meng yao's head and whispers in his ear
you're a fucked up little man and i like you. your wife didn't deserve any of this shit though. gonna hold a grudge for that one

 

nie huaisang also hasn't deserved a damn thing that's happened to him, poor boy. he might be kind of a lazy spoiled little brat at heart but he's also a good boy who's doing his best, kind of, sorta, please stop crying

 

mxy really did kind of uhhhh fall in with the wrong guy huh
slowly wraps him up and takes him away

 

now shit has well and truly hit the fan and we're in another flashback, i should probably stop reading and seek out uhhh something less uhhh stressful
whether i will or not remains to be seen

also i have no idea how i keep managing to read these novels despite them being full of stuff i don't usually enjoy? coughlookatallthatbetrayalcough
if anyone had actually like given me plot synopses of either HOB or GDC in any detail I never would have embarked on either of them
it almost makes me bold and stupid enough to try SVSSS, even though the very core principle of that story gives me the screaming mimis (i hate bodyswaps)

 

oh yes, i almost forgot. Jeeves! amend the diagram!
my menacing butler: of course, sir [writes FUCKED UP across it in marker pen]

 

one fanfic rejected for being god-damn skyrim isekai. i can't fucking deal with skyrim isekai. my fault for skimreading the tags when i first opened it

another is. just clumsily written enough that it grates on me and will probably also have to be closed

 

perfectly average railway engineer, please do not look twice
calling him Mal for the moment because my brain made a joke about Njor Mal Mann
he's related to a dream i had about spirit powered trains

 

Oh I can answer this one actually! They're referred to in order of age/I think also somewhat seniority? But also given their relative ranks sort of equivalent. Anyway! It's First Brother/Big Brother (I've seen both) for NMJ, da-ge; Second Brother/er-ge for LXC; and Third Brother/San-ge for JGY. (i know this solely bc I looked up a guide for why this for a different show, but it's apparently standard among sworn brother things in fiction at least and also somewhat among family ditto)

 

ah, excellent! thank you muchly for saving me the trouble of looking it up my own self lmao

 

if this is written with the character I think it is, it would literally translate to Big Brother but without the respective-age connotations the phrase has in english (that's gege); so the translators using First Brother might be keeping more in tone with erge and sange while sidestepping the Eldest tripping hazard entirely

 

please do not harbour any beliefs that this man, Ava Ridge, is anything other than a mechanic who does maintenance on trains, because that is what he is

(i'm still calling him Mal, i just also have fun coming up with really awful punny aliases)

 

having slept on it, ava ridge is probably a better name for him actually because it actually sounds like a real one.

 

"Has anybody ever told you your name sounds exactly like 'average'?"
"Only everybody I've ever met, yes."
"What were your parents thinking?"
"My parents had very low expectations."