#idr my tags

[pulchral]

might be cooking up a comeback or smth. guess we'll never know

[grapecaseschoices]

[ssaalexblake]

Dracula feeding Jonathan two glasses of Tocai off the bat to get that marinade Just right for the end of summer.

He's a vampire with culinary talent.

[yooka-kazooie]

Hey Hollywood / AMPTP / bigwig execs:

agree to WGA's demands you absolute chucklefucks

I need dumb late night talkshows to get News Updates in a way that doesn't destroy my mental health

(Obviously also they need to agree to all the unions's stuff happening rn including WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and *checks notes* the IATSE is now representing Marvel's VFX workers but I don't know if they've moved to start negotiating anything yet)

[junuve]

gone evil bog witch mode while creating my own ecology for nier's kingdom of night. basically a permanently frozen, magic-storm sundered wasteland populated by horrors that would make a drakengard-setting denizen think midgard was just cheery lmao

dont wanna spoil most things but i can say that im rly happy with how the perma-night strengthens shades, and has made some truly interesting adaptations feel natural to the lore. LIGHT sources are unsettling in this environment, which is much fun to write (deep ocean vibes??)

[gerudospiriit]

[Found out I still have access here and, with Tears of the Kingdom’s release, I’ve been craving Zelda things. So.

Tentatively back? Woo?]

[haddonfled]

hey sorry fell asleep xx

[saphushia]

btw. i made this quick guide of some of the natural size and proportion reference points in the human body. of course this all varies even irl, and you can stylize however you want, so ymmv but thought it might be helpful for some folks.

[emberglowfox]

birds of a feather

[draknkind]

here's a super messy drawing of my draknform

[morgberrystreet]

Day after Thanksgiving. Christmas music begins.

So good to see friends (and this little nugget that got so big!) this was the last time I saw him a year ago

holy shit

[hikaboom]

im almost at 1k so when i get that, i'll do a lil giveaway or somethin : D

[alexanderpearce]

ship ask game 😁1 Who would be first to to bite down anc consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood 2. who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus? 3. who is the dog and who is the master? 4 when the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bulletwound? the phallic blade? strangulation? 5. Cocaine or Heroin? 6. who licks up the other’s cigarette ash? 7 who is julius caesar and who is brutus? 8. who is jesus and who is judas? 9. did jesus want it? did julius caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud? 10. who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans? 11. did they ever kiss and why not? 12 if they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails? 13. and if the coin was the holey dollar? 14. And if the dog bit back? 15 and if the dog bit back? 16 and if the dog bit back? 17 and if the dog bit back? 18 and if the dog bit back? 19 and if the dog bit back? 20. Who buys the other flowers?🥰

[weedgay]

Tagged by:

@sagurus

Last song:

Last Two Dollars - Johnnie Taylor

Last show:

assuming this means the last show i finished idr exactly but probably it was Tomorrow

Currently watching:

OG 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh ✊️😔

Currently reading:

uhhh nothing tbh but i recently camped out at the library for a day and ate through like 3 Margaret Peterson Haddix books and a Deltora Quest book from my childhood cos the adult section was under construction so that was fun

Current Obsession:

Yu-Gi-Oh i reblogged a funny post and it was all over from there. fucking downloaded duel masters and everything 😭😭

Tagging:

oh god idk if u see it consider urself tagged i havent been on here fr fr in so long idk whos who or whats what anymore lol

[hanjlsung]

endless bestie gifs 6/♡

[ingoodjesst]

one thing i really like about the apothecary diaries is how fluidly maomao moves between high- and low-class society, between the rear palace and the pleasure district, allowing us to see the parallels in the power dynamics. in both settings, we see women trying to make the most of their relative stations with whatever tools available to them, which are often shared. much of the politics of the series centers women and the ways they try to navigate the world through seduction, marriage, beauty, fashion, manipulation, etc, because these are the things they're valued for. their appearance, their social graces, their "purity", their marriageability, their ability to bear children, and beyond - these all lend political, economic, and social leverage to themselves and their families regardless of class.

the mystery angle in particular enables the story to closely examine what tools and motives are available to women in the apothecary diaries in a way that's contextualized and humanized. it's also how the series highlights said women operating with a keen awareness of society's expectations and systems. whether that's applying deathly white powder to maintain impractical beauty standards, faking illnesses to deter certain visitors, using parlor tricks to subtly punish callous men, or wearing ostentatious outfits to hide a certain truth, each mystery we encounter reveals more about what it means to navigate the world of the apothecary diaries as a woman in addition to revealing their cleverness (or lack thereof) in doing so.

maomao is no exception to the rule, often weighing similar questions of propriety and power before she acts - although she does engage from a unique position. she's a literate woman from the lower class with special circumstances surrounding her birth, versed as an apothecary, and favored by highly ranked members of the court. this, plus her marked lack of ambition beyond medicine, gives her a lot of mobility between and (relatively) unbiased insight into both the high- and low-ranked parts of society. in turn, we readers are given a fantastic protagonist to explore what i consider a core draw of the series: seeing how maomao chooses to move through the world, highly conscious of her own social positioning as well as that of all the other women around her