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nie huaisang is a parallel to shi qingxuan but in a tragic way. i don’t have a question i just wanted to know ur opinion on this 😭

It goes deeper than that anon

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Ice Cube: *melting because someone's aimed a hair dryer at it*

Ant standing near the ice cube: if the Hot Air Phenomenon is real, then why am I suddenly drowning in cold water???

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

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if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

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Survival During Turmoil

This semester I've been teaching an Ancient Civilizations class for college freshmen—that's how it's listen in the course catalog: Ancient Civilization. But that's not how I've personally been referring to the class.

I've been calling it Ancestral Civilizations and stressing at every turn that, while these civilizations no longer exist, they are not entirely gone. To call them dead or extinct or lost negates the fact that through every time of turmoil and collapse, people have lived.

People lived through the Bronze Age Collapse or the fall of the Mayan Empire or the dissolution of a Chinese dynasty. They got up in the morning and combed their hair and tended their crops and nurtured their children. They were uncertain then just as we are now, and nevertheless, they persisted. So will we.

The archaeological record is full of evidence of that day to day persistence, just like it will be full of ours. Everything you do is important—every moment of joy you snatch or quotidian defiance matters. Your life and your history matters.

Talk to your friends and loved ones. Make something. Come up with plans for the future. Keep living during tumultuous times. Persist.

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Reading articles about MrBeast's dominance of YouTube is fucking bizarre because, from my perspective, the dude isn't even on YouTube. I've never watched one of his videos. YouTube has, to the best of my knowledge, never recommended one of his videos to me. Every thumbnail screenshot of his looks like something you could tell me was a photoshopped parody of YouTube culture, and I'd believe you. No one I follow on YouTube ever mentions him, even negatively or in passing. The first time I ever heard his name was in regards to the quality of his ghost kitchens. The only way I know he isn't a mass, shared hallucination is that I've witnessed the thoroughly mid-looking chocolate bars he sells at Walmart for some reason

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TIP:

This holiday season, if you know someone who likes house plants,

DON'T

get them a houseplant. DO NOT.

instead, get them a NICE, MEDIUM-LARGE, AESTHETIC, BOTTOM-DRAINING, INDOOR

POT.

that is what they want. that is what they dream of. ok? thats what will be most useful and appreciated. in fact, if you can, get them a CUTE MATCHING SET. OF POTS!!!! NOT PLANTS, POTS!!!!!!!!

they may be more excited initially about the plant. that is true. but a pot is a gift that they will go home and use to upsize one of their already beloved houseplants, and every time they look at it they will remember how much they appreciate you.

HOUSEPLANT:

- they already have so many

- needs to be watered

- takes up window space

- comes in a pot thats already too small, needs to be upsized, costing money

- can die

AESTHETIC POT

- lets them care for an existing plant they own

- they will be grateful every time they see it in their home

- does not take up window space not already occupied by a plant

- can be wrapped without dying or spilling dirt everywhere

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Listen. Steven Moffat listen to me. I need you to tweet "actually johnlock was always intended to be endgame" on the day after the 2024 presidential election and then turn your phone off. I don't care if it's true or not I just need you to do it, please, it would be so funny.

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pre-transmigration SY has economics student vibes, can’t explain it, he just feels like it

No way that man doesn't have a single idea of how money works. He was a rich neet and then a rich peak lord, I refuse to believe he's ever wondered the cost of rent in either life. I know he's Shang qinghuas BIGGEST headache.

Shen yuan: yeah I tipped the escort at that brothel [two months of airplanes salary as the an Ding peak lord] why? If I run out of money sect leader Yue just gives me more.

Shang Qinghua: YOU. YOURE WHY WE CAN NEVER BALANCE OUR LEDGERS

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I love how mqf's oficial description is something like: a good heart who wants to help others but then you read the novel and his reaction to lqg trapping ten infected men who are crying in panic is "great now I can start to work in my experiments with decomposed people to find a cure" and gets out a lot of needles, which makes the man cry even harder.

Even if we only get bits of the other Cang Qiong sect leader's we can reach the conclusion that no one there is normal, sqq is just biased.

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merch.

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I hear you play Dwarf Fortress (or Dorf Forge, as I call it with my wife). I need to tell someone about the time my wife was about to tank a save so I invited them to fuck it up as much as possible beforehand. We locked all the dwarfs in a room and there was a were-creature that killed them all until one of them was left.

We let her out and she went straight to the beer, took a drink, and just - uh - walked off map. Like through an opening that led to nothing and disappeared. She just noped out of reality. It was harrowing.

It's what I'd do.

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The temptation, when adapting a really iconic detective, is to delve into his personal backstory. That's the devil talking.

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"you can't forcefem cis women, that doesn't make sense" i can forcefem anything.

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Sketch > Final

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I really would love an AU where Shen Yuan transmigrated as one of the young masters in the rich household where Luo Binghe’s mother worked.

Since we know so little about them, there is room for all sorts of familial drama:

Shen Yuan could be the only di-son, with older shu brothers that hope he dies.

He could be a shu-son whose common born concubine mother is favored more by the lord of the house than his legal wife, causing much bitterness and strife.

He could also be an orphaned nephew or cousin, brought into the household but considered a burden by everyone.

Any number of angsty CDrama plotlines could be going on!

Now while the original goods redirected his angst into bullying little Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan would do no such thing. He would do his best to help his favorite protagonist instead!

As I’m imagining him only being a year or two older than Binghe, his options for helping would unfortunately be very limited. He could tutor him in basic characters, ‘make’ Binghe eat his leftovers, give away his allowance, ‘declare’ Binghe his personal assistant, and other little things, but between his age and his family’s drama, he’d be frustratingly incapable of protecting Binghe from all his PIDW suffering.

As an added twist on the common fanfic formula, perhaps after Binghe heads off to Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, Shen Yuan tries to follow him, but his family interferes and he ends up shipped off to Huan Hua Palace (or perhaps some other minor sect) instead.

His poor little sheep is suffering, and Shen Yuan is stuck in the wrong sect! If he’s at Huan Hua, then at least Gongyi Xiao is nice enough…

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imagining Byleth in FE3H silently building a shelf while their students are just like "oh hey professor I didn't know you liked woodworking"

and Byleth is like, it's not really their usual hobby, but they needed a shelf. what's the shelf for? holding things, obviously. well okay then

Byleth finishes the shelf within a day (despite numerous distractions) and then installs it in the classroom. still not a big deal but most were expecting it to go in Byleth's room, obviously, so there are some curious looks

Byleth then carefully sets the first trophy that one of their students has won in a tournament on top of it

they have heard that trophies are to be displayed, after all

Byleth is subsequently confused but not displeased when suddenly most of their class is pouring over the tournament schedules and signing up for all of them

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sexy qipao shizun please release me i need to finish my fic chapterrr