#As far as I can tell

[rose-tinted-vision]

Yuan Lu's longevity braids:

Something that stood out to me about Yuan Lu's character styling in A journey to love is his hair, mainly because the other leads don't have small braids like his.

But it didn't really occur to me that they might be longevity braids until i came across this Weibo post:

OP: "a journey to love has killed me once again, I've only just noticed that nearing the end Yuan Lu's longevity braids have come loose. Longevity braids coming loose represent Yuan Lu's ending. Save me, a journey to love really knows how to knife someone."

from these shots (ep 8), there's at least three braids on his right and one on his left

and yet in these shots (ep 35), as op pointed out, there are no braids in his hair

And then I came across this Douyin about Yuan Lu:

Douyin caption: "actually Yuan Lu has a few more braids called "longevity braids" than the others, something that elders would usually tie for frail children."

So I went to double check the cultural meanings behind longevity braids (it's a sort of platform like Quora/Reddit, so the answers are not 100% accurate, take with a grain of salt):

Question: Why do some boys keep a small braid at the back of their head?

Community answer: if boys in the village have braids, it's largely for this reason: if the child is frail since young they will start tying a "life braid" once the child starts growing hair. They will only cut the braid after the child is five weeks, six weeks, or twelve weeks old.

Community answer: The practice on our side is for the "more cherished"/younger son to keep a braid, there is no such thing as to keep it if the kid is sickly. But in the North there is such a thing as "longevity braids", to hope that kids can grow up healthy.

translations by me, apologies for any inaccuracies (I may have passed Chinese back in school but I won't claim to be fluent in it).

[onenicebugperday]

@megabee4tw submitted: Hi, was smoking out my bathroom window and saw this lovely lil guy and wanted to share (got a new phone recently so I can now take nice pics). I don't need an ID but I'm in Scotland if you're wanting more info.

WHAT a precious little angel. If you see her again please tell her I love her :)

[tusken-apologist]

Baffling. How does this happen

[fruitsyrups]

the worst thing about fionna and cake that nobody talks about is when they say "holy shmow zow". like what the fuck are you talking about. that isn't a thing. i hate it so much, like, inexplicably. actually no it is explicable because its fucking stupid. sorry. im really normal and i have very normal and reasonable feelings about normal things.

[himbeaux-on-ice]

the vegas golden knights, a team with like five people on it

[climatecalling]

"The biggest problem we need to address in society’s relationship with the car is the “fast fashion” sales culture that has been the commercial template of the car industry for decades. Currently, on average we keep our new cars for only three years before selling them on, driven mainly by the ubiquitous three-year leasing model. This seems an outrageously profligate use of the world’s natural resources when you consider what great condition a three-year-old car is in. ... You can now make a car for £15,000 that, with tender loving care, will last for 30 years. ...

"We need also to acknowledge what a great asset we have in the cars that currently exist (there are nearly 1.5bn of them worldwide). In terms of manufacture, these cars have paid their environmental dues and, although it is sensible to reduce our reliance on them, it would seem right to look carefully at ways of retaining them while lowering their polluting effect. Fairly obviously, we could use them less. As an environmentalist once said to me, if you really need a car, buy an old one and use it as little as possible. ...

"Increasingly, I’m feeling that our honeymoon with electric cars is coming to an end, and that’s no bad thing: we’re realising that a wider range of options need to be explored if we’re going to properly address the very serious environmental problems that our use of the motor car has created. We should keep developing hydrogen, as well as synthetic fuels to save the scrapping of older cars which still have so much to give, while simultaneously promoting a quite different business model for the car industry, in which we keep our new vehicles for longer, acknowledging their amazing but overlooked longevity."

[t4tails]

oh my god and now when i go back i get a fucking pop up with the go back symbol like NO SHIT!!!! THIS IS MY PHONE!!!!!! I KNOW WHAT IM DOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reborn--maggot]

A second attempted Goncharov has hit the internet. Anything u see about Zepotha (1987) is made up, it's not real. Have a good day

[cepheusgalaxy]

So, hm, I was watching that new netflix anime (my happy marriage) about japanese cinderella and i came up with a whump idea

Whumpee, maybe noble whumpee, is living with their family, which is super abusive

And then one day, the whumpers (whumpee's family, in the case) decide they're going to marry whumpee with someone powerful, because of well, politics

Whumpee has no choice so they are dress up and everything, and then marry with the person

Which would be our Caretaker

[lesbiandardevil]

im a different person now (< guy who's finished reading old dd comics)

[taxonomist]

16, 19, 28!!

16) BOOK RANT: DID YOU KNOW THAT....In 1980, grad student Aaron Lansky founded The Yiddish Book Center, which saves Yiddish books and writing. Over 11,000 stories, memoirs, poems, plays, cookbooks and science manuals are digitized and preserved for future generations. You can read them online (for free!), download them (for free!) or even order printed copies/reprints (for an astonishingly reasonable price)!

19) BOOK THAT YOU CALL YOUR CHILD: It's Gaudy Night and if you don't clap when she enters the room I will blow this entire place up.

28) AN ENDING YOU WISH YOU COULD CHANGE: Why would I want to change the ending of Villette, where M. Paul Emanuel barely makes it home after a dramatic shipwreck and staggers to Lucy's door and through incipient hypothermia still manages to make an unnecessarily convoluted speech in condemnation of Protestant attitudes towards drink, which prevent Lucy from offering him a restorative nip of brandy to stave off his impending death of cold.

(original meme)

[cold--carnage]

me and Ben just rotting in bed dreading a dinner that's supposed to be in my honor

[gender-trash]

it is so goddamn funny how ceo is the standard like. fanfiction modern au rich guy job?? and yet nobody who writes that kind of thing has ANY conception of what ceos actually DO all day. granted, i also have very little idea of what ceos of companies that are not startups do all day, but at the very least my first step would be googling like “what does a ceo do” “ceo daily routine” etc and reading whatever the fuck they say abt themselves in forbes or businessinsider or wherever, which is not likely to be Literally True but is at least a START

but no. authors r out here just completely bullshitting it like yeah ceos we all know what they do. business stuff. meetings with… other business dudes, or something. i’ve only read i think one fic ever in my life that admits to the existence of mergers & acquisitions, much less such things as shareholder meetings and quarterly planning. can you imagine if robotics engineer was the standard fanfic rich guy office job instead i’d never stop screaming

[of-fear-and-love]

Outfits from In a Lonely Place (1950)

Art Direction by Robert Peterson Set Decoration by William Kiernan Costume Design by Jean Louis (gowns) Makeup artist Clay Campbell Hair stylist Helen Hunt

[pwhl-mybeloved]

I would LIKE to see Meghan Duggan get a shot - she has coaching experience with Clarkson back when they were the ECAC bogeyman, and she lives at least part-time in NJ thanks to her job with the Devils.

Realistically, it's going to be John Wroblewski and I'm going to be Ben-Affleck-smoking.png about it

ooh thanks for the info

[mothman-can-write]

Ive officially broken 200k on this punk AU!!!

….and theyre still pining…. im wondering if im going to creep up to 250k here