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I turn 20 tomorrow and it doesnt feel real
#idk i feel like the lockdown is a whole blur#so it doesnt feel like i lived those years#so i feel like idk im turning 18 not 20#but at the same time life feels weird#im in college. im working as a intern. ive been in a relationship for almost 5 years#btw i completed one year at my job and my bosses made a little coffee party for me <3#its a small business so its basically us three#it was nice#my mom has the same birthday as me so we are having cake tomorrow
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Noticed a pattern of Crowley reaching out to Aziraphale and Aziraphale rejecting him and now I'm sad
Bonus (Spoilers for Season 2!)
In the face of all that, Crowley is so brave for this
#tfw the demon crowley is the one who is honest about how much aziraphale means to him#and the angel aziraphale is the one still unwilling to admit it#im going to scream#this isnt a zira hate post i love my boy and he has his reasons#but oh my god crowley is so completely gone on him#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#aziracrow#ineffable husbands#good omens 2#good omens season 1#good omens season 2#good omens lockdown special#michael sheen#david tennant#good omens spoilers#good omens 2 spoilers#go2#I can't make gifsets but I can do this
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did you see the new letter that came out? nothing much, he thanked her for writing to him and apparently she said something along the lines of becoming penpals and he said it was impossible to have steady correspondence because of the delays but invited her to write if she felt like it
YEAH I DID!!! i didn't make a post about it again because i already said he's not getting his letters on time and he SHOULD get his letters!!! MDC Brooklyn really needs to figure out a way to make sure he gets his mail
#also the almost shitpost post i'd made on this got reblogged today too so i was like yeah people have noticed he's not getting his letters#and he doesn't like it#so i just let go#this letter felt almost sad and kinda frustrated#and i understand where that feeling is coming from#it's completely valid#that's basically his and other inmates' only mode of communication with the outside world#they should get their mail without delays and other problems#hoping things get better soon#it must suck to be stuck in lockdown like that with only a handful of letters and nothing much to do#luigi mangione#free luigi#asks
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🗣️🗣️ pov dan and phil base their pizza selection in part 2 of their iconic mukbang video on their hatred for the detroit pizza company that almost ruined your life
#validating my trauma???#yessir#no but actually when i tell you i went into shock when they showed the picture#i recognized it immediately#of ALL the pizza places in the world tho#lmao rlly just dumping in the tags#that fucking company#was the reason i was forced to move halfway across the country during covid lockdown at the start of high school#from a big city to a small conservative snobby suburb#like completely isolated from everyone and everything i knew#stuck w my only resource being my shitty toxic ass family#that’s in nice terms lmao#bc my dad got a job w them#that he DIDNT EVEN KEEP#already wasn’t the most mentally stable#so when i say it spiraled into complete mental health crisis like#nearly hospitalized (or maybe i technically was briefly idk??) almost didn’t finish high school etc etc#has taken years to try to come back from it#still barely even there yet#i mean obvi there were several factors but one of the biggest instigators was the move#and the reason for it?#that fucking pizza company#and yeah can confirm it’s greasy as shit and kind of nasty#dnp#dan and phil#phan#dapg#dan and phil games#dnpgames#pizza
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im not kidding anymore i need to write fanfiction. NOW.
#trying desperately to wrangle this insane energy into completing my to-do list as long as my arm so i can ACTUALLY write the fic#hysterically like an hour b4 i saw this i ended up back in my fic drafts for (redacted not buddie) and was like hm should i...#like NEVER MIND it's buddie lockdown from here on out
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How would a female Jishi be? Is it a cursed concept?
This is an interesting question, because I think, in order to have a female Jinshi with the same general characterization choices, the entire premise of The Apothecary Diaries would have to change.
Jinshi's major point of characterization is that he's in a position of power and political significance that he has to take part in, but that he doesn't actually want at all. The line of rule/inheritance is through the sons, and women are afforded very few actual career opportunities outside of being a courtesan. Maomao is an exception, not the norm--very few girls and women are allowed to be on retainer as doctors or detectives. They can be servants/court ladies, they can be ladies-in-waiting, they can be courtesans or, if they gain enough standing and attract the attention of the right people, concubines, but they aren't often allowed to be anything else. Not in the miliary, not in serious medicine, and certainly not in politics.
If Jinshi is suddenly female, then...well the only way for this character to be in a position of political power in this universe is to have gotten astronomically lucky in the process of actively working for it. The world of The Apothecary Diaries isn't going to plop a random woman into a political position for grins, and the only justification anyone would find to install a female official is...if someone had an exceptional amount of skill that was recognized by the right people, like in Maomao's case (and Maomao isn't even an official, nor does she want to be one). But how WOULD this version of Jinshi have gotten that skill, if Jinshi hadn't worked to develop it? Jinshi-as-a-girl would not have been afforded the level of education needed for that to happen, and if female-Jinshi had pursued that education on her own time...then that would suggest that she wanted to be in politics, something completely antithetical to the version of Jinshi that we know. (And even if we suspend disbelief past the point of reason and say that she magically ended up with this training she doesn't want, the only way that skill would ever come to light is if she were consistently using it in front of people, which...I don't think she would do if she wanted to avoid politics that much.)
If Jinshi doesn't have this disinterest, we have a completely different character. Which is completely fine, there's nothing wrong with that at all, plenty of character traits and archetypes can be interesting or entertaining. But I don't think a version of Jinshi that remotely resembles the canon version of this character is possible if Jinshi is now a young woman.
I think having a politically-savvy female character to contrast with Maomao would be very interesting (and given a few things I've heard, I'm hoping we might see some of that in season 2), in the sense that any power a woman has in this setting has to be carefully managed and, often, fought tirelessly and intensely for. Except for Maomao, who is...pretty much just living her life. Don't get me wrong, she does still have to be careful, and there is still a significant amount of danger she faces, but there's a surprising amount of leeway she's given, courtesy of her unique position and the fact that she has Jinshi (and. sort of? Lakan? maybe?) in her corner. And she gains a degree of relative peace in spite of her circumstances, without having to become a courtesan or concubine or politician. So for a young woman who is in a political or politically-adjacent situation to look at Maomao and go, "Well why do YOU get this degree of freedom but not ME, why do YOU get to be yourself, but I have to curate every aspect of my being?" would provide a complex and highly gripping dynamic. But I don't think a female version of Jinshi can provide that dynamic.
The only potential way female-Jinshi ends up anywhere close to the character we have in canon is if the entire gender landscape of this story is flipped--if women were the ones with social and political power, and men were the ones who had comparatively few choices afforded to them. (And this, of course, means that pretty much all of the characters have to be genderbent, which I do always find to be a really fascinating thought exercise.) But while a Reverse-Gender-Landscape version of this story isn't...a horrible idea, necessarily, I think there are very few writers out there with a deep and nuanced enough understanding of misogyny and gender politics to pull off a "What If Matriarchy Instead" story without having it fall completely flat.
But if the question becomes, "Would a female character with Jinshi's qualities still be compelling, or would she just be annoying," then. Well my answer is the same as it always is: any type of character with any combination of qualities can be compelling in the hands of a skilled enough writer.
#mel on anime lockdown#actually. maybe I DO put this in the show and character tags#(because I want. people to talk to me. about this show...........)#the apothecary diaries#jinshi#multi t(ASK)ing#I hope everyone knows that when season 2 of this comes out I will be COMPLETELY insufferable
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actually really thinking about how many shows ive seen every episode of there really are probably between 10-15 but lets count them
eureka, psych, haikyuu, utena, natsuyuu, fruits basket, sarazanmai, yyh, cql, guardian, lingjian mountain, tgcf donghua ig but i dont want to talk about it, disjointed, that 70's show*, parks and rec*, friends, how i met your mother**, bojack horseman, sweet home.... perhaps others i have forgotten?
19 if you count the ones that are debatable 16 if you dont count them.... this feels normal thats a normal amount of tv shows to have completed
*sitcoms that technically i completed on netflix but whose last couple seasons i did kind of sleep through most of because i watched during my college depression so they kind of dont count
**i did not see the final episode
#so many unnamed noteworthy shows i have seen most episodes of but did not finish and am a poser about#whats funny is most of these i either watched with my mom or in lockdown. or with my mom in lockdown#the others are from my college depression bingewatch era#only outliers are rgu and sarazanmai. and yyh kind of but that was one of the first shows i ever watched with my mom so#oh and disjointed. i dont know why i watched that. or why i rewatched it#its short though so thats why ive completed it#NARUTO. ive seen all of that not shippuden though#that was also a depression bingewatch
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Thinking about the type of kid/early teen I used to be. The kind, caring, sociable, helpful, empathetic to a fault hard-worker.
And thinking about how she was emotionally beaten out of me by force.
And thinking about how she’s probably that odd ache in my chest that refuses to go away no matter how hard I try to make myself jaded to protect both her and myself.
#i found some old documents from my primary school when I had JUST moved to england and its brought back a whole lot of memories#i feel more#complete#in a way?#like i finally have the full picture of my life#or atleast mostly#for a good long while all those years between me moving to england and the covid lockdown kinda just got blocked out#god damn the lockdown fucked me up more than i thought#whole what#4 or so years of my life I just regained?#wtf#deep thoughts#thinking thoughts#thoughts#emotional abuse#childhood#childhood trauma#tw lockdown#tw covid#lockdown#asher's ramblings
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Idk it’s hard. Not to feel like you’re losing your shit knowing. Things could’ve been prevented. Or at least slowed down had they not been set up beforehand to begin with. And then you watch people talk about how nice it was before, how it was “peaceful”, how they weren’t constantly dreading the news, and you’re wondering if you lived in the same reality as them because for you, you were already watching immigrants be treated horribly, you were listening to peoole talk about how the support against the border camps had dwindled during that four years, you’re watching your rights to your healthcare and legal recognition get stripped away in different states across the country, you’re waking up every single day to videos and images of burnt and dismembered bodies from a genocide that your country is providing both the weapons and the consent for, you’re watching another ceasefire deal get vetoed by your country, you’re watching all this happen and you’re in fucking despair about it. Only to watch your fellow citizens talk about this time period like it was uneventful for them, enjoyable even, while you’ve felt like you’ve been losing your mind, you’re watching people parrot the same exact “we’ll make America great again” rhetoric because they think this one guy is the sole problem and not the entire history supported by both parties of genocide and racism and bigotry.
#current events#us politics#it’s hard not to want to pull your hair out y know#like man. I’m fucking tired#I don’t remember this great and peaceful time y’all talk about#I remember lockdown being ended early and everyone being told it was fine to stop masking#while Covid is still killing and disabling people to this day#I remember people losing abortion access and access to gender affirming care#I remember police brutality going completely unchallenged and unaddressed by those in power#I remember full support for the Palestinian genocide being given by those in power#there is no great and peaceful time we can return to
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heres a rare non hc/life/mcyt related post but there are apparently a number of isat enjoyers in the audience here and i have nowhere else to outlet this. Would anyof you like to listen to the single most siffrin coded song that has literally ever existed
#the ;yrics are just extremely straightforward + the puppet imagery.......#she even has the little hat.....#were i not in the throes of complete life series lockdown id probably try my hand at making a siffy version of this lol
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im never fully dressed without a generous helping of stress xx
#i feel like im going crazy#got IT problems at work that are frankly mortifying and embarrassing and im gonna have to contact the cio tomororw#which i dont want to do but i have to#but tomorrow is my last working day before i take time off. so i have a fair bit to finish on top of sorting that 🫠#and next week im visiting my parents which yay! bc i get to visit my home county! but also no! bc it's always a bit complicated and hard#and also they dont allow our dog upstairs which means he cries at night and i have to stay with him until like 1am#legit have to lie on the floor. every time#but they were like 'no you're absolutely not allowed to book a cottage to stay in. stay here'#like ok fine but it means im gonna get like 4 hours sleep a night on my week off#plus i think my dad is going to be weird and stressful about the house we're buying#and on that note buying a house is stressful and i still have no idea if the solicitors are done with the source of funds check#s#but i dont want to chase because i dont want to know frankly#also im back on a spending lockdown which is totally unnecessary. we have enough money for the move etc.#but im just completely neurotic about savings and im terrified of losing my job#and the IT issues are NOT helping with that because i feel dumb and incompetent#full circle baby#anyway everything will be fine. and these are all not that big of a deal#unfortunately im highly sensitive to any form of stress. like crazy sensitive#tbd
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#i think i was smarter when i was younger thinking that i can respond to loneliness with spending time with myself#altho for sure i am the most isolated i've ever been rn. like for sure the lockdown was pretty bad. and that year of getting hospitalized#over and over. i mean actually it was probably even worse in both those cases.#i just mean this time it feels different bc it is a different kind of isolation. bc things are completely different again. :/#cant wait for things to change for the better. surely i've used all my 'things change for the worse' tickets for the next 5 years. surely
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btw my twitter is locked right now because i had too many tweets blow up in a row and was not enjoying the heightened visibility so we're having Quiet Mode for a little while, but you're still free to follow it if you want to send a follow request!! i am still yapping over there all the time
#you can alsoignore this completely i just want to make it clear that account is not in lockdown and you can still find me there#im just tired of being quote retweeted by randoms and wanted like a five minute break#rookposting#i had a nightmare last night that my boss found my tumblr and started asking me to explain my jokes and it scared me so bad i woke up#mostly because i dont know how to explain my jokes.
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i dont care about canon in my head espio has a croaky awkward teenage boy voice
#sonic#espio the chameleon#also fun fact: because of lockdown all the boys in our year never had an awkard voice phase#so when i first met them in y7 they all sounded like kids#and then in y8/9 when there were no more lock downs they all suddenly had completely different voices
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glass animals released tour dates for their upcoming album which means i simply have to buy tickets. just because lord huron rearranged my psyche in 2021 does NOT mean i forgot how GA rearranged my psyche in 2020
#god 2020 was so much the year of glass animals for me#i listen to dreamland (song) and it takes me right back to april 2020 lockdown laying on the floor of my bedrooms feelin the entire spectru#of human emotion#......i want to make it known. for some reason. that this has nothing to do with heat waves blowing up that year or the dnf fic#i just like coincidentally got my brain glass animals-pilled completely separately to joining the mcyt fandom#like there was zero overlap in those interests for me LOL
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I'm having an extremely weird time with my relationship to my trauma... when I came out of dormancy in 2022, I was stuck in a constant flashback 95% of the time, even when I became a host. it was very much my trauma that happened to me, and it had built my sense of self. but now, it's been completely locked away and I don't understand what happened. I don't remember anything, I can't make myself feel anything about what was done to me. it's just gone, and the absence is so confusing. it's been about a year of this now. I must be an ANP subsystem part that's been frontstuck, it's the only explanation that makes any sense. other alters remember still, it's not like we're still collectively in complete denial again. I still know and believe it happened, it's just... not mine anymore. which is it's own pain, to know and feel so vividly that there was once something there. something that was the basis of my entire fucking existence for the first 20 years of my life. I feel like I've been theseus's ship'd. there's nothing left of the "original" adam, at least nothing left that's capable of fronting.
#I don't. know what the fix is. I don't really want to go back to 24/7 flooding but complete lockdown isn't healthy either.#there has to be some kind of midpoint.#there has to be.
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