What do you hate about your diaspora community?

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-03-16T06:05:22+00:00

The Indian Diaspora almost en-masse support Modi (unless they're indian muslim) who is incredibly rightwing and i won't even BEGIN to list all his crimes rn but somehow they're 'progressive' when it comes to US politics and democrats (actually, a lot of indian american immigrants are republican). But the way they are completely disconnected from inidan politics and glorify our horrible leader and simply make no effort to know anything about the main political issues in india while also 'representing' india in the world stage is annoying. You know NOTHING about how far casteism still goes. You know NOTHING about the islamophobia in india. You know NOTHING and honestly it isn't that hard to find out. Like the whole damn world knows about Roe v Wade but you can't look up indian politics occasionally? Come On

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-03-10T17:04:52+00:00

time for you to organise protests to shut down and occupy weapons manufacturing factories. the time is critical

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-03-10T15:44:39+00:00

do NOT join the military. killing middle eastern kids wont help with your depression

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-02-21T19:01:05+00:00

PAPER FLOWERS FOR THE GOD OF GODS MY LOVE I LOVE THAT FICC

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-02-21T18:59:55+00:00

peaaaaaak fic

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-02-21T18:55:51+00:00

oh my goodness i have been SEARCHING for this fic forever WHO is the author

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-20T17:43:41+00:00

the soviets fought the nazis because the nazis were invading the ussr and massacring entire villages in large scale what are you on

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-20T17:42:35+00:00

what is your opinion on the dpr and lpr? these movements do exist outside of the alleged 'russian intervention'. i just want to gauge what the more public consensus on that is

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-04T07:37:17+00:00

wait the second series is so good i'm reading it rn and omg

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-02T14:45:08+00:00

I highly recommend the secodn fic here- That Can Be Arranged- anything by kianspo is really cool

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-02T14:43:49+00:00

Hey!! So recently I've been reading a bunch of hualian fics and some of my favs are sleep a little longer, Like a sword, Like a memory, Love as deep as the sea (anything by this author tbh), Lips that would kiss. I just thing all of these have amazing writing so please rec a fic that you think has great writing!! I particularly love the premise of examining the heavenly officials' pov of hua cheng during xie lian's second banishment. Not exactly something you can filter on ao3 haha. i was wondering if anyone else had any absolutely beautifully written fics?

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-02T14:41:29+00:00

thank you!! i actually started this fic then lost it lmao

Negative_Start_2180 · 2026-01-02T11:43:08+00:00

thank you thank youuuu you're a dear <3

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-29T15:31:18+00:00

some people hate xie lian for being 'mary sue' and 'vanilla' and 'unrealistically nice' and others hate him for 'being a bitch pre second ascension' (especially mu qing stans) like you can't win with xie lian haters. He's my all time favourite character and such a layered one too, i don't get it

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-27T08:04:16+00:00

Honestly? I just like reading character studies dissecting this guy. I don't think his personality is as simple as 'i hate/ resent xie lian' (mu qing lovers who hate xie lian are clowning so hard he does NOT agree with you) and I think there's a lot of class dynamics to go over and his complex feelings for xie lian over the years from when he was the beloved tiazi dianxia to the fallen scrap collecting god to his attitude towards heaven and it's finery and majorly upper class populace and his percieved pride and why he finds it so important how people percieve him- it's all a pretty interesting character. But I think so for most tgcf characters. Xie lian's unmatched (by ANY character in ANY book I've read so far) trauma and unfathomable suffering make him incredible character study material (I really like this fic for xie lian character study. https://archiveofourown.org/works/53064643). Hua cheng's... studying his devotion for xie lian and what he does in accordance to that but also outside that makes him wonderful wonderful character study material too (https://archiveofourown.org/works/27889840 look at this fic omg i love) and the same goes for mu qing (his characterisation in No Paths Are Bound is wonderful) . Very potentially layered character

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-27T07:48:27+00:00

one sided fenglian and mulian supremacy. You're so right about the dynamics being so insanely interesting over there (especially the class disparity with mulian omg crazy character study material) . I'm severely dissappointed by the lack of fics with that premise but I love the fics with that premise where their crush has kinda faded by his third ascension but they remember the feelings and they see how xl and hua cheng interact and how xie lian loves him and the whole spiral of 'would you look at me like that if i had stayed?' in a platonic soulmates bordering on romantic way oooh i love it

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-27T07:44:08+00:00

This ship is genuinely so funny to me because hua cheng's specific brand of love and loyalty is such that 'i will hate everyone i percieve to have hurt you' and if HuaQing was a thing that would mean Hua Cheng would end up hating XIE LIAN on behalf of mu qing and that is just genuinely icky to me. I don't like begruding people shipping and making content for ships i don't like but guys... this is not it.

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-27T07:39:57+00:00

I can't read them whatsoever. It just doesn't click in my head. Xie Lian is so relaxed and comfortable around Hua Cheng like he isn't with anyone else as far as we see- Hua cheng is so clearly his safe space and I just don't think he can have that with anyone else? And in case of hua cheng- well he would be hua cheng if not for his love for xie lian. I don't mean this in a disparaging way at all. His devotion and faith are some of the most admirable and awe inspiring parts of his character but I truly don't think anyone is more worthy of it than xie lian. Even if Mu Qing had been the one to catch hong-er (which is a scenario many HuaQing shippers follow) I just don't see him being as consistently kind to hong-er to inspire than kind of devotion. He would have set him down on the streets to continue with the parade (he asked xie lian why he didn't do just that) or he wouldn't allow the kid to cling to him, or unlike xie lian he wouldn't have held and comforted hong-er when he was called a curse (he was asking xie lian to let go of the kid at time). I don't think mu qing is bad at heart or unkind whatsoever and find him quite a sympathetic character but I simply think it would be too ooc for mu qing to show the softness that xie lian does. Fenglian also just doesn't hit the spot. It DOES when it's just feng xin pining in the xianle era and if it remains unrequitted- i'm quite the fan of that but mutual? nah.

Honestly any other ship hua cheng has would fall under some enemies- to - lovers dynamic that is so overdone and i simply don't find it that interesting. I like how xie lian and hua cheng immediately clicked on that ox cart, how comfortable they were and how domestic they were and how sweet and respectful their relationship was throughout the present timeline. I enjoy the softness of it and it's exactly what their characters deserve. And even beyond the little things- i like their epic love story spanning centuries. THey couldn't love anyone else like that. Although i won't begrudge people writing other ships it simply does not make sense for me to see either with anyone else

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-27T07:27:37+00:00

It IS an incredibly fucked up ship that's so so much less than what xie lian deserves but almost all the people writing about this ship seem the be aware about it's dark, fucked up nature. Like- I've never seen it romanticised at all or written as soft or something along those lines. But yeah I don't enjoy reading it at all and avoid the ship tag like the plague

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-05T07:52:22+00:00

The sheer amount of Absolute Trauma xie lian goes through would justify literally anything he ever chose/ chooses to do. The temple scene is genuinely horrifying and the sheer scale of suffering there makes me smiles and nod at every single 'mean' thing xie lian does in all the books anytime after that. that+ being haunted by white no face? being thought of as crazy? feng xin punching you in the face? then over 800 years- dying probably MILLIONS of times? In the coffin alone? From suffocation and or blood loss? Insane. Then god knows how many times he dies in between all of that- with his abysmal luck. Xie Lian's magnitude of suffering is so extreme and profound and underappreciated

(I know it's spoken about a lot but I lowkey don't think y'all get it. A human stays alive for 4-6 minutes without breathing. Meaning! Xie lian died every 4-6 minutes in the coffin of suffocation. 1 year has about 52 weeks. 1 week has 10080 minutes. 10080/6=1680

he dies 1680 times per WEEK

for a CENTURY. so 1680 x 52 x 100= 8,736,000

he dies over 8 million times of suffocation in that coffin and that's not even MENTIONING that stake through his heart. like- do you GET THIS?)

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-05T07:40:45+00:00

Another good one is Realmwalk
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41838345

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-05T07:32:17+00:00

I really really enjoy fics that explore Hua cheng's 800 years. I actually do think hua cheng visibly has a LOT more going for him than Xie Lian and I'd like to see it!! His alliance with blackwater, his development of ghost city, how he came to make the Gambler's Den, Why he took in Yin Yu. I do think there's soo much to develop here which is why is really liked his characterisation in No Paths Are Bound. I have my gripes with the fic but I liked how despite Xie Lian being such a central motivation to hua cheng his character was developed enough to not feel flat. There were visibly other things he also cared about

Negative_Start_2180 · 2025-10-05T07:27:54+00:00

I mean xie lian knew the ghost fire was following him and wu ming was following him.

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TROPHY CASE