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San Sebastián by Aurelio Cabrera y Gallardo (1870-1936).

Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

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One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.

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County roads

Full of holes

On the route

I need to go

Road construction

Lane obstruction

Let me go

County roads

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Saw this on Twitter, where it was posted yesterday.

I love these lists; I find them super interesting and often use them to find new drama recommendations.

So far I've watched only two dramas from this list, but I guess I really need to watch Under the Skin now once season 2 gets released.

Not to mention Joy of Life, although I don't want to start with that one before the 3rd and final season is out.

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Still collecting the full alphabet of the “live, laugh, love” variants if anyone has some good examples.

Bonus if they can fit the “We can’t ___, _____, ____ our way out of this.”

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I love Yan Lin so much. One of the many brilliant choices Kunning Palace made, one of them is making the main characters have no combat experience. Absolute zero. We have not one, but two intelligent, highly competent minsiter/love interests who become fucking useless when facing a sword.

And then there's Yan Lin. This naive, ray of sunshine boy wrapped in purple silk, who just happens to be a weapon of mass destruction as well. We have all these people scheming to protect him from the evilness of the world, making us think of him as a cutie baby that must be protected. Then he gleefully proceeds to fight back entire splatoons.

The contrast.

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Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

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joy of life | fan xian

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joy of life | princess of beiqi

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Also posting this individually because I'm just proud of it.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 庆余年 | Joy of Life (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fan Xian & Emperor of Qing Characters: Fan Xian (Joy of Life), Emperor of Qing (Joy of Life) Additional Tags: Father-Son Relationship, Post-Season/Series 02 Summary:

“I hear you want to enter the Fan ancestral hall,” the emperor says.

(The fallout from Fan Xian’s declaration, once he returns to the capital.)

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A SVSSS fic I want to write one day is Airplane and Shen Yuan being ejected from the System and sent back to the mundane world, but with the difference that Shen Yuan's 'edits' to the story have been retroactively applied to PiDW and as a result it's gone from 'top story in a hyper specific web culture niche' to 'international sensation with a Netflix adaption in the works'.

Keyly, PiDW is still told largely from the PoV of Luo Binghe- so neither he nor the audience is at all aware that it's now Isekai story. Instead it's billed as this heady romantic drama about prejudice, the passage of time, and redemption- where a big part of the appeal is trying to piece together the otherwise enigmatic Shen Qingqiu's motives.

Was he harsh on Binghe initially because of he sensed/knew about Binghe's demon heritage (as it's now possible to find hints that he may have in fact known all along)? Or because he saw Binghe's potential and wanted to do the tough-love training thing? Or was it because he was trying to chase Binghe away from Cultivation because he knew it would lead Binghe to misery one day? Did he throw Binghe into the Abyss because he was genuinely shocked and disgusted by the Demon reveal? Or because he knew Binghe would be killed if he stayed and he was trying to 'protect' him? Or was it because he genuinely wanted Binghe to fulfill his demon Emperor destiny and thought a clean break would do it? The fandom has no idea but lovvvvvves arguing about it.

This all leads to things coming full circle, as Cucumber, sounding like an absolute insane person, is left to rant online about how the obvious answer is that Shen Qingqiu was Isekai'd earlier in the story and replaced by a completely different person- a theory which is mocked to the point of memery, and leads to Cucumber being dunked on endlessly, no matter how much evidence he brings up or how many essays he writes.

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When Fan Xian first sees the words on the monument his mother left behind, his reaction is awe quickly followed by: "I get why she died now." He reflects on how she was a great, brave person who wanted to change the world, and effectively goes, RIP to her but I'm different. I'm not that brave. I just want to be happy and live a good life. I'm not here to transform the world into a better place.

I mentioned how he wasn't taking anything seriously at the start and was feeling like he was outside it all, and his reaction is in line with that. He's like, wow, this vision is so objectively impressive. Good thing it's got nothing to do with me.

The next time he talks about the monument is after Teng Zijing's death. He furiously demands from Zhu Ge if anyone even reads the words written there--the words of how people are equal, and how therefore Teng Zijing's life doesn't matter less than anyone else's. Suddenly, these are not just words too brave for this world to bear; suddenly, he's furious that this world isn't like that--that nobody's even trying to live by these ideals.

He still says he's not ready to become the person who makes this vision into reality. He keeps saying that he's not brave enough. But he keeps coming back to this monument in time of crisis or after a brush with injustice. He gets angrier and angrier, over time, about how few people care; he doesn't want to be the person who cares, but he can't help the outrage that bubbles up in him, either. He wants the world to be better. When an injustice leaps out at him, he's got to fix it. And he oscillates between incandescent rage and the voice in his head which reminds him that, in order to live in this world, he has to play by its rules.

Isn't this why his mother died? Didn't he himself say the world wouldn't tolerate someone wanting to change so much? Doesn't he just want a quiet, happy life?..

He still tries to have that good life, is the thing. He doesn't want to be the one man standing against the crowd, as he says during the examination arc. He doesn't want to challenge the emperor. He spends season two trying to live within the system while it becomes increasingly apparent to him how ill the system fits him--how little it serves anybody except those taking blatant advantage of it. And Fan Xian has immense privilege; he could cruise along easily, if only he could turn off that pesky conscience. It's what most everyone wants him to do. But when push comes to shove, he can't. And it's pretty clear that this will usher in his eventual confrontation with the emperor, however little Fan Xian looks for it.

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It's interesting to see Fan Xian himself clock this, and use this at the end of s2. Fan Xian bets that not even grandmaster Ye Liuyun can kill him--not unless he wants the Ye family to be wiped out. Fan Xian is confident that the Ye family's heads will roll in the event of his death; the only question is whether the grandmaster will care. And the grandmaster does care, but more to the point--everyone knows how important Fan Xian is, now. I wonder how--if at all--this will change his interactions with people once he returns to the capital.

Hearing Lin Gong say confidently:

“I’ll kill Fan Xian! Let him come into my courtyard, and then my guards will ambush him! Don’t worry, I can bear the responsibility!”

… makes it so clear how at this point, none of these people know who Fan Xian is. Can even the Prime Minister’s son bear the responsibility for killing a secret prince and the apple of Chen Pingping’s murderous eye? This is all way above his pay grade. If Lin Gong had succeeded in killing Fan Xian, he would likely have doomed himself and his whole family, and he has absolutely no idea