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The concepts of NSFW is being cleared of the Internet under the false pretense of children's safety when it's really about the people in power sanitising for advertisers and pushing evangelical narratives AND that not enough is done to keep legitimately harmful content off of spaces that minors have access to are ideas that can coexist

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jasmine flower emoji when? pomegranate emoji when? fig leaf representation WHEN?

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It’s really difficult to imagine how the language you speak sounds to people who don’t understand it.

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That feeling when you’re smart enough to know how awkward you are, but not smart enough to know how not to be awkward.

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*multiplies you by 1*

Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred

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The stages of hunger while nd are

Hm I'm hungry

Forgets about it

Everything Is Bad. I'm gonna attack someone. Shut up. Die

Hm I'm hungry

[Eats something] oh shit I'm cured

Multiple times every day

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i actually really enjoy mxtx’s portrayals of impossibly cool women characters everyone is in awe of who have nothing whatsoever to do with the story because they quite simply have better things to do. the stories may centre around men but these women are not accessories in their stories… on the contrary, they’re off tending to their crops or cultivating in their mountain hideouts or writing rpf smut of international renown, and generally being delightfully capable while the MCs blunder around in the foreground.

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every person has their old people game of choice, I play mahjong, my sister plays solitaire, and my bf plays sudoku, what’s y’all’s old people game of choice

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caramel arrow cookie...🥺💘

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Caramel arrow is the girlboss and Affogato is the manipulate of malewife mansplain manipulate sorry i won’t elaborate

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"caramel arrow cookie is a ranger who can split their bow into two blades for close combat"

ah yes. childe genshin impact

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What is something specific about cql that you love/ are fascinated by that is not discussed very much in popular fandom? Could be a small scene or moment or a theme or character quirk! Love this blog thank you sm for your thoughtful, intelligent insights !

oooooooo here’s a theme that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately that applies to both CQL and TGCF (less so MDZS?), and if we want to get spicy, we can also throw 《千秋》 into the mix

so there’s this (very broad, oversimplified) dichotomy called 出世 / 入世 in Chinese. Literally, they are:

出 chu - (v.) to exit    /    入 ru - (v.) to enter

世 shi - (n.) the world, the mortal realm, human society

and it comes from a very long, hm, philosophical dilemma? that might not be the right way of putting it, in the Chinese literary tradition. Historically-speaking, you had the choice of either 

actively participating in society, taking the imperial exams, and becoming a bureaucrat and ascending in the government, step by corrupting step; or 

renouncing your worldly tethers, exiting society, and living out in the mountains as a mysterious hermit and writing poetry about chrysanthemums or whatever (look I can’t talk about this without at least gesturing at Tao Yuanming, who’s like, the trope codifier of this)

of course, this is like, a quick and dirty and vastly oversimplified way of putting it, but part of what I really love about CQL (and TGCF) is that we have a hero who does so much, who gives so much of himself away in the name of a good greater than his individual self, and both Wei Wuxian and Xie Lian find their happy endings in the arms of someone who will take care of them. Though Wei Wuxian’s post-canon roadtrip of self-discovery–which, crucially, he takes alone! he needs time!–happens offscreen, it is so important to me that it happens. He gets to take time for himself. He gets to learn how to just be in the world, without a thousand demands and world-ending stakes laying claim to his life.

broadly writ, both Wei Wuxian and Xie Lian find their happy endings 出世 exiting the world

(not necessarily permanently! but like. the fact that the narrative rewards them for their immense sacrifices by letting them take a break, letting them know that they themselves are enough, that they are worthy beyond their sacrifices, really just gets me, y’feel)

meanwhile, with CQL!Lan Wangji as well as Shen Qiao of 《千秋》, both of them take the opposite journey: Shen Qiao begins his journey as the isolationist sect leader of Xuandu Shan, and, well, after being unceremoniously yeeted off a cliff and forced to fight his way back to his former position, learns how to navigate murky political waters in a world of gray and grayer morality. He sees the world beyond the sanctuary where he grew up; he comes to understand that turning a blind eye to the maelstrom of the world’s affairs is not, in fact, the better thing to do. Meanwhile, Lan Wangji spends much of his life disconnected from the politics and responsibilities that Lan Xichen takes care of for him; Lan Wangji can 逢乱必出 go wherever the chaos is precisely because Lan Xichen is at home, keeping the Lan Sect running, holding down the fort.

and in keeping with the repeated pattern we see of younger siblings stepping up to take leadership roles in the wake of the elder siblings’… indispositions, CQL!Lan Wangji steps up to take on the role of Chief Cultivator by the end of the show. He chooses to 入世 enter society, to wade into the dreary bureaucracy and corruption of management and governance that feels like the fulfillment of a character arc long in coming

I think the questions of “what it means to participate in society” and “what is the personal cost of doing good” are central themes for all of these texts, and the fact that there are a multiplicity of valid answers means a lot to me

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This Guy Won’t Stop Photoshopping Himself Into Kendall Jenner’s Photos And It Makes Them 10 Times Better

Credit: Kirby Jenner / IG

via: boredpanda.com

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[hands you the smallest, tiniest, littlest Quran you've ever seen]

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I am not all shining light and love as you think,

I am also a warrior just more patient then others show.

With golden arrows I killed many, my wrath is not to be ignored

Just because I am portrayed as pretty face and not snappy attitude does not mean I can't beat you in game you play.

Haven't you heard? It's never nice to underestimate opponent

Wonder why? At sight I'm sun with most shining light riding in my chariot across the sky

But once you cross me and step on my bad side, you shall meet the darkness inside of me. Advise you I would not to gossip of what's not true,

I can warm you up or set you to burn what you will get is based on your behavior.

Once we got that settled it is no need for me to say who I am as my name everyone knows.

Apollo god of healing sun.

Written by me.

Hey witchlings! If you would like you can put down name of your deities, guides, patrons/matrons etc. you want me to write poem of or dm me and I'll be happy to do so. For example I write poems to Apollo and Loki as offerings so if you'd like me to write some about your guides I'll be more than happy to.

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is this what yoojin’s phone looks like

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I’m really into Genshin Impact lately, so why not try to make an au, “Voltron Impact”, right? The problem is, I am the least creative person when it comes to fantasy costumes, so… yeah, it was a bad idea. 

 Anyway, I’ll try to draw the others too but no promises