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[lhaewiel]

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[sepublic]

“A sToRy iS OnLy aS GoOd aS ItS viLLaIn!!!”

[kingdomvel]

Okay but professor Obi-Wan having to give online lectures from home (bc of the covid quarantine or whatever) and he uses Anakin's streaming set up and the students who don't know Anakin are like "wait... why does he have such a good camera and mic, why is this so professional" and the ones that know Anakin are obviously fangirling very hard

[vorbarrsultana]

* also included the cordeliers, who split from the jacobines in 1791

absolutely self-indulgent poll. but. anne rice had lestat turned into vampire and out of france by 1793 (he turned louis in 1791). however, the tv series will have to do lestat in the heart of revolutionary events in paris.

so, based on what we've seen in two seasons and the books, where would you place the brat prince?

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

So I had my dad talking to me about cars today, telling me how I should basically avoid getting any cars except those made by Japanese companies because of how shitty other countries manufacture their cars (mileage and life span)

Do you have any thoughts on this? I don’t know much about cars and I thought of this blog while I was having this conversation so that’s why I send here

Do I have thoughts on this. Do I have thoughts on this. Babygirl (gender neutral) I have thoughts on aspects of cars you wouldn't even conceive of. I have thoughts on aspects of cars that aren't even real. Up the ante, folks! Ask me which cars are most bisexual!

That aside, for my opinion: Italian food is good. But of course, when I eat out in Italy, I don't go to any random place because "this country does this well", because I'm not ordering from a country, or a region, or a city, but from a specific joint - and some of them suck, some dropped or rose in quality, some are exceptionally good/bad with certain things, hell, some serve foreign food and then what's the adage matter now! That's why Yelp doesn't have country reviews.

Much the same, Japanese cars are usually pretty reliable, but Nissan spent the last two decades making a case against that claim (especially with their CVT transmission, a known ticking time bomb they've done fuck all about for years) with the help of whatever's left of the shell of Mitsubishi, and Infiniti is just the luxury brand of Nissan so ditto for it... indeed, another point to make, some cars are just based on, or outright are, cars from other brands. Infinitis are built by Nissan, and usually based on the equivalent Nissans. Except the QX30, which is just a Mercedes GLA - which probably was part of the same deal through which Mercedes got to sell the Nissan Navara as the X Class.

And there's a lot of cross-nationality brand partnerships like that, past and present, like the four-decade-long Mazda/Ford one, or the time Saturn had such a crappy engine they had to get Honda to give them a proper one. And by the way, the guy who posted that? He owns a different Saturn which took 360k miles of bare minimum care like a champ, because reliability can vary wildly within a lineup, and also a Volkswagen that's been a thorn in his side, which definitely wasn't the experience I had with mine, because mine is over twice as old, and a brand can completely change over time too! (You'd think they were run by people or something.)

In fact, reliability changing over time and models is the norm - not as drastically as, say, "older German cars were unstoppable tanks and now they're overly fit-prone electronics messes where everything is costly to buy and dastardly to replace" (which, however, is actually a notable trend), but usually in terms of "in this model, through these production years, this component was overly keen on failing" (as per my Accord post). Part of how Toyota (and by extension its luxury brand Lexus) rightfully earned its reputation of King Reliability is such cases in their production being especially few and far between, and none notable enough to become an automotive meme like Subaru head gasket failures (and no, the Camry dent doesn't count). So, say, Hondas may not be less reliable, just a bit less consistently so (but even there, Honda interiors tend to hold up much better than Toyotas', yadda yadda yay for nuance).

So if you are buying a used car (as you should) it's always important to research for potential common problems (for instance, pre-90s Toyota frames are to rust what the letter X is to Elon Musk) and thoroughly inspect the car, to check that nothing is broken and that it's been properly serviced.

That last part is very important, because reliability is not a tickbox, it's a spectrum, and a function of how a car was built and how it was maintained. Carelessness will kill any car sooner or later. Every car has fluids that will at some point need changing, wear items that will at some point need replacing, and the occasional part failure. Even yours. So even when it comes to your car, keep up with that stuff, or it will eventually catch up to you. (And if regular services would tax your finances, look into how to perform them yourself - you'll find it's a lot easier than you thought, you'll give it a shot and it will be very rewarding and save you a lot of money!)

And also, if a hinge starts squeaking, if something starts sagging, if some trim breaks, if you get a dent or scratch, take care of those too. Not because they make your car work less or worth less, but because they foster an indifference that snowballs into neglect. Working on those little things will keep you feeling like your car is nice and your loving effort is going to keep it nice, dammit - in much the same way as it's important to take care of yourself and your environment for your mental health, to keep yourself feeling like you are making it and with your loving effort you are going to keep making it, dammit.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[dhyanshiva]

LIF 4 (DUOLOGY)

P1: gone long enough (Yusuf)

Category: M

Word Count: 2386

Date: 19.02.24

I am deliberately not putting this under the cut.

Firstly, and most importantly, to darling Tim:

This song will always and forevermore belong to Isla, you and Sam. I promise you, I haven't (and quite honestly) could not listen to the song as I wrote. You are so loved and cherished and we miss and love you endlessly.

Fly high, dear boy <3

Alright, so, what I mean by this is I have written this piece from a place of incandescent fury, grief and an unfathomable level of disbelief. Did I mention rage? Well, yes.

As it so happens, all the Manzoors' LIF pieces are connected. Similarly, Suhani and Veer's will be connected, as they're blood family.

There are many vigorous nods, as it were to the brilliant @zeesqueere 's equally (obviously) incredible series installment for Yusuf. It has also been linked in my piece. My endless gratitude remains.

So, I'll try to keep this brief. I wrote Faruq's on the date my friend and I got tickets to see Hozier back in March of 2023. I wrote Saba's piece with the core integration of Anoushka Shankar's "Land of Gold". Faruq's "Foreigner's God" and this album are intrinsically linked.

I'd in fact chosen "ATE" as Afroz's song in April of last year - there are memos for this series everywhere you can think of - but as things go, the execution has changed. Her companion installment will be the second chapter of this piece - I have no wish to further isolate these characters.

Incidentally and beautifully so, I had the privilege of seeing Anoushka Shankar in concert last month and her set had a Land Of Gold sweep (naturally) so my mind went to Saba's piece. And then, as you'll see in this playlist:

"Ishq" and "Secret Heart" were played in succession with an incredible transition/ bridge. Yet, it all slammed into place today morning, devastatingly so. I apologise for any incoherence in this piece but I cannot remedy it.

My parting message for this is:

Protect Trans Kids. Protect Trans Lives. Protect Queer Lives.

Much Love,

Dhyan x

[jewfrogs]

i want to work on a translation of senecas phaedra that pairs with my medea translation but its a very specific poetic voice because i wrote it piece by piece during a class on medea and its hard to mimic that intentionally

[how-to-be-a-tree]

Faruq Manzoor and A Midsummer Night's dream

I noticed Chayan Chopra's resemblance to young Robert Sean Leonard and this thought kept bothering me. I realised that the characters they portrayed (Dhruv and Neil) had a lot to do with this thought growing on me, more than mere looks.

This is about Dhruv Sanghvi ( Cla$$) and Neil Perry (Dead Poets society). Just a few parallels I found really interesting!!

Neil and Dhruv both seem to have a perfect life, from outside; only child in a perfect family, who are given everything more than they ask for, even a dream to work on; as a swimmer to enter asian games for dhruv and to be a doctor for Neil. They are said to just follow their father's orders, crudely. We see them striving hard to not to disappoint their parents; with no life in whatever they are doing. They have none in the family to let their heart out as well and both knew that they are never gonna be understood in their so called Home and had coped up to live along with it.

Dhruv goes to Hampton, Neil goes to Welton. Haha!!! In school, we see them get along with a diverse group of friends, black, white, grey and each with their own battles; but Dhruv and Neil stand out, somehow.

Neil befriending Todd and Dhruv befriending balli, with their own subtle ways, despite their friends being hostile about it; gives off same energy too.

They relish the beauty in ruins; Ismail's tomb and Dead Poets Society and it is where they discover themselves; Neil and his passion for acting, dhruv and his passion for love.

Neil says " I found it. This is it. What I want to do right now. What's really, really inside of me. I'm gonna act. For the first time in my whole life, I know what I want to do. And for the first time, I'm gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not. Carpe diem!". The same goes inside dhruv as well and we get to know it from " You".

We see them pursue their passion with so much joy and love, with a drive they have never felt before and this gives them the recognition they have longed for. Neil and Dhruv, now know where they belong.

On Confronting their fathers, dhruv goes in for all while neil says "nothing"; both implying the same, a final plea to be understood. However once again they are made to realise that their parents can never understand them.

Out of all the ways to understand their son even better, their parents come up with Psychiatric counselling for dhruv and Enrollment in Braden Military school for neil, to make them move on from what they love. Dhruv continues to get along with it, for he knew that he can never forget Faruq and he's gonna cherish him as " Isfahan's sky" as long as possible (btw waiting for S2). Neil on the other side, wanna cherish his passion for acting eternally and decides to rest.

" and the human race is filled with passion...Poetry, beauty, romance, love these are what we stay alive for...that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse"

[cangse-sanren]

nothing like desperately chasing the high of a former hyperfixation

[lhaewiel]

So I am planning an original story

It's like thriller/crime in sci-fiesque set

I am giving ALL of my characters really bad pun names to give readers double the whiplash.

[truegodofthearena]

I finally did it! A Veer Ahuja/Saba Manzoor fanfic set in Episode 3 after he tells her to go back home. Except, things aren’t that simple, are they? ;)

Faruq bhai makes a guest appearance :D

[m3tth4ws]

i want to see players no trade lists so bad

[carladuquette]

i can see the end as it begins

Koel/Yashika, feat. angst, gay longing, a little bit of smut and a lot of softness.

I did it- I wrote a Class fic 😅 Didn’t even love the show, but the social content is another matter. Naina Bhan (Koel, the Carla equivalent on this Elite remake) is the captain of the YashKo ship and her posts and interview quotes inspired me, haha. I always thought Lu might have a repressed crush on Carla, here it’s the other way around. Koel has had feelings for her best friend from the word go, but the society they live in has prevented her from ever acting on them. Until now.

Koel got to just look at her. She hardly ever got to take her best friend in like this – Yashika only ever sat still for this long either in class or when they were next to each other going through their phones, and that was different. Koel couldn't just look then, she'd have to read out the occasional cryptic comment, show Yashika at least one embarrassing shot for every three that she showed her, so they could eviscerate whoever had posted the offending photo.

It was never like this.

Koel had to tighten her grip on the coke can so she wouldn't run her fingers through the waves of brown hair that fell over Yashika's bare shoulder. She got to look at Yashika's smooth, pale pink lips without having to divert her gaze after a second for fear of being called out.

She'd known she was in trouble after the first week of high school. Sitting next to the new girl with the silky hair had been great because they'd become friends almost immediately, and it had been torture because Koel hadn't wanted to be friends. She'd wanted to kiss those flawless lips, she'd wanted Yashika's quick fingers to find her bra clasp, to dig into the skin of her thighs under her uniform skirt, she'd wanted… a lot of things.

But Koel had known how the world worked, too, even back then, and she had never been stupid. She liked her life, her social standing in school and within her family and their friends, and she would sure as hell never do anything stupid to throw all of that away. Not to mention that she had already been all but promised to Sharan back then, and Yashika had clearly had her eye on Veer from the start.

So she had gotten used to the attraction to her best friend as something that was humming under her skin, sometimes weaker, sometimes stronger, but never so strong that she couldn't ignore it with enough determination.

[jihnari]

i wish you would write a fic where zhongchi exists and you don't immediately die of out of the sheer unbelievability of it :D

😭

but anyway i have thought about it in the past because it is such a popular ship and being able to enjoy it would literally only benefit me.

the closest i can come up with is a modern AU where childe hasn't reached his unhinged potential and zhongli is his hot divorced/widowed professor and then childe attempts to be sexy and make bad decisions… and zhongli isn't interested because he's a responsible adult. the end.

[autumnalfallingleaves]

have you been working on any writing projects recently? id love to read some more of your work

Not recently, no; I'm only just starting to get on the upswing from a massive bout of burnout that started last year and I, unfortunately, have been having to do summer courses to get everything ready for internship and graduation, so I haven't really had a ton of time and motivation to write 😔

But! That doesn't mean I'm not planning things out! The next installment of let's not make this complicated (i know you) is going to be the immediate aftermath of i will take it all in one breath (and hold it down) in terms of legal stuff in relation to, you know, the kidnapping attempt of a minor, and I've been thinking of writing a Hilda s3 prediction two- or three-shot about the theory that the Bellkeeper is Hilda's bio dad.

[dhyanshiva]

Anyone upto seeing a Diwali drabble or something (posted on here only) for Cla$$? Might as well do another major festival before we bring things to a close - will do something for Christmas too if this one is yes - before my last piece in Jan.