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[rolandkocsmar]

Vienna - Wotruba Church (1974-1976, Fritz Wotruba)

[bublinko]

NEW IN SHOP: Abstract painting

[badarchitectrecords]

Listen to this new track by Traumvagabunden - Bist Du noch (instrumental)

[bruciemilf]

Matt Reeves has the potential to give us the funniest comedic duo with Martinez and Bruce.

Martinez, bored out of his mind, sipping on his Barbie ice coffee: Gun to your head, would you rather kiss Joker or Riddler?

Bruce, who wanted a barbie drink too but was too awkward to order: Gun to my head? Pull the trigger

Martinez: wh E E Z E

[simbarb]

SIMS 4 - Modern Pietra Bathroom

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Sink 29 New Recolors

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[soeasilyswayed]

WIP Wednesday

I got tagged by @dragonagegayz for WIP Wednesday (it's Friday BUT I WAS WORKING ON THIS ON WEDNESDAY)

I have so many projects running laps in my mind but now I have been plagued by a modern AU, where Rook and esteemed professor Volkarin hook up before orientation and of course Rook is one of the research assistants assigned for the department. It's all flirting and push-and-pull and slow burn (cause I lose interest when people get together happily lmao) and feelings of unworthiness and pining. On brand as always.

Aaaand I am tagging @officialnostradamus @andthekitchensinkao3 @redheadsramblings @starfleetteddybear @85blackcat @genocidalfetus @lavender-tea-fling @thosegayoldmen

"You owe me breakfast, Rook", broke the silence that had settled in Emmrich's office. The clacking of keyboards had become a dull background noise to the storm that was brewing in Emmrich's mind.

Rook felt a flush of heat run through his veins as he was typing the reference information of Emmrich's latest article into the correct format. The professor's comment caused the last slivers of his restraint to vanish in the air.

"I'm sorry?" "For sneaking out of my bed in the middle of the night without a word." "Ah, that."

Rook attempted to lift his eyes to the man sitting opposite of him, surrounded by bookshelves filled with thick folders, books, and loose papers. Rook should get to archiving them next. It was the only thing he could focus on in that moment when Emmrich's inquisitive eyes were staring into his very soul.

Rook swallowed and stared somewhere right of Emmrich's shoulder. "Well, I mean - I just -" "Use your words. As I recall, your oral skills were more than adequate." Rook cleared his throat and took a sip of his coffee. The hot cup burned his hands less than the knot in his throat.

"I just figured I'd save you the trouble of kicking me out in the morning. I hate those morning commutes when everyone can guess where I'm coming from, y'know?" His attempt at a grin was closer to a grimace as he continued to type on the keyboard. He wasn't even looking at what he was typing, so his reference must have looked something like: Volkarin. E. (2025) The Ethical Weight and Consequences of Continued Bone Procurement from India, International Journal of Studies on Clinfdfhdjfhdfjd. "Rook, please. I fell asleep with you in my arms. If I wanted you gone, I would have called you an Uber." Rook shifted uncomfortable in his seat. Emmrich had his hands, joined, in front of him. "Just figured it'd be easier like that. Not like it was gonna be, like, a thing." Emmrich's hands were still joined at the palms. Praying for the moment to make sense. Rook felt heat creeping up under his collar. He shifted in his seat, again, under Emmrich's watchful gaze. "And you didn't think I wanted to have a say in what kind of 'thing' it could have been, if any?" "Wh - what? What are you - look, I just wanted to save both of us time and awkwardness. It's easier that way." "Ah. Right. Easy." Emmrich lowered his hand and Rook flinched.

"You have a fucking Klimt painting on your wall." Rook muttered as he cleared up the typo he had made in the journal name. Emmrich was taken aback. "I'm sorry, is my taste in art a problem for you? You could have voiced this when your mouth wasn't busy doing something else." "No, it's the - it's the fact that you fucking have it on you wall, and then you fucked me the next room over. Like it makes some sense that you have a shit-ass expensive piece of art on your wall and me in your bed. Like what were you gonna do? Wake me up with coffee then make me breakfast?" Rook scowled and swallowed. The weight in his throat was suffocating him.

If you have something so expensive and coveted in your home, how would I fit in there?

"My taste is particular. In art and… other thing. I like good wine, good coffee, and good company. So if you're trying to make a comparison to yourself being something cheap and unworthy. I won't indulge. Because I think you are delightful."

[gaylilrat]

there's something about jesus being killed by the empire that then made him their symbol and jeanne d'arc being canonised by the church that burnt her. something poignant

[elle-smells]

can i say something-

no one ever talks about taylor swift´s lasting legacy being the merging and popularization of the modern-day popstar/songwriter.

music being diaristic has always been true but the concept of a POPSTAR, POP music, being used as an intimate one to one. She built that bridge in 2006 and never looked backed

[freshwolfhell]

Any time I hear younger people in the fandom complain about how uncensored older fans are.

We fought for that right.

[rotzaprachim]

Good edition! I think this is one of those times when the things people are willing to float due to antisemitism have very harmful ramifications to other communities in particular the literally hundreds of millions of people who’ve had their names taken through processes of genocide, enslavement, and forced assimilation. But as the idea relates to Jews it’s also…. Just wrong, for all the reasons you defined. Many of the conversations about Ashkenazi culture and the ways it shifted and was reformed esp in the fallout of the Shoah and the reasons people changed their surnames are simply too complex for the tumblr peanut gallery but it’s also worth noting that that person perceived the names to be Germanic or Slavic…. Not necessarily that they were.

Many of the names Ashkenazi Jews have had have been Hebrew, Aramaic, or fusional with Germanic and Slavic elements - much like the Yiddish language and Ashkenazi culture itself, which was and is a European and Semitic fusion (both those terms in quotations because they are so contingent and complex) even in diaspora in Europe. Some of those names are related to specifically Jewish professions and variants can be found throughout the diaspora - chazan, rabin/Rabinowitz, schaecter (from shohet), sofer, kasher. Others are from personal names in the patterns of local patronímics or surnames, like yakovitch (from ya’akov), solomonov, sorkin (from sore) rivkin, abramsson, Mendelsohn (from mandel which is a Yiddish version of Menachem), and people who straight up just have Jacobs or Daniel or David as a surname. So while Ashkenazi Jews don’t /need/ to have surnames of Semitic language origin to be connected to the Middle East - the surname’s linguistic origin is not part of this discussion, specifically - it’s worth noting that many of us do. And this isn’t in support of Zionism or a unilateral right to ha’aretz, but it is in support of understanding Ashkenazi culture, even in diaspora, as fusional and partly middle eastern in culture and sentiment, because I’ve been deeply uncomfortably by the need forces on Jews to wash ourselves of these connections and understandings to Hebrew or haaretz yisrael as location or cultural entity or ‘am yisrael to be “appropriately diasporist” or part of the cultural history of Europe or something? I think the fact that the Jewish culture that was so rich and important to European history as a whole was also mixed and complex and tied to its own understandings of the Middle East is important, and I think the idea that Ashkenazi Jews have to strip ourselves of the elements of our culture that are connected to the Middle East is also an ideological line of thinking that has very very bad implications for European ethnonationalism and treatment of other groups from or connected to the Middle East, including modern immigrants

I don’t think that uh “surnames are indicators of indigeneity” and “having (what I perceive to be) a Europeanized Slavic or Germanic surname is an indicator of having (what I perceive to be) solely European ancestry” is a rabbit hole we really want to go down given that one thing that oppressors do to the oppressed has been taking or rearranging and assimilating their names since basically forever

[fall0utmind]

Gonna be toxic for a second but I really don’t think Pecco is as good as people claim. This year shows it perfectly, he’s being crushed by his teammate (granted it’s Marc) but also by Alex, who is on last years bike. I think he’s good, but he has benefitted from having the best bike for a few years now. Oh and last year he fumbled the championship let’s not forget that

Really this is no hate to Pecco, I just can’t agree when anyone says he’ll ever be able to beat Marc in any capacity

Oooopppppp

This is actually kinda hilarious. I try to stay out of who is good/bad discourse because I am a certified non-hater™️ (as much as I can be). Also like I am well aware that these are insane professional athletes and they're all insane.

BUT that being said- Pecco certainly has his flop rat moments and I find it endlessly amusing that he's branding himself as the gentleman and therefore seems to not push as hard??

It is embarrassing for him to be beaten by Alex on a year old bike, Marc less so because let's be real, Marc is insane and ome of the GOATs - also he literally competed against and beat some of the best riders in the mdoern era (Vale, Dovi, Dani, Jorge etc). I really feel that compared to the old crew, a lot of the newer riders would not fare so well - but I guess we will never know and that's the beauty.

Pecco is struggling so far this year - and sometimes people do in competitive sports and that's just how it is

That being said, there is a LOT of talent on the grid and Pecco definitely possesses talent and skill or he wouldn't be world champion 3x over (best bike be damned). Do i think he's as good as Marc? Absolutely not. Do I think he's good? Yes.

Do i think him and Jorge both fucked the championship and if anyone competent had a bike in the same league they would have floored them both? YES

Strongly agree about Pecco being able to beat Marc - probably in some races sure- but not the championship :) but i could be proved wrong, who knows

Also side note- Marc also has his major flop moments cause he's a dumbass - love this sport

[coffeesleep-ooc]

Essay on heartbreak points

Just thinking of LBH pining over SQQ along the novel before he finally gets the man

Pre-abyss LBH wants SQQ, but the thing i see in him is not just wanting him, carnally sexually or otherwise, he wants SQQ’s attention and approval bc he admires him, its as simple as that. Og goods already had his admiration just bc he was a great cultivator, he was elegant and beautiful and worked hard af, it was like…if a polished stone like jade was used to hurt rather than be the soft, warm and flawless concept of beauty - that chinese media usually uses -. But then the cold showed a soft inner core! Yes! Our dear transmigrator took over and confused the hell out of t he poor LBH that still struggled to excuse SJ’s behavior. Then though, SY took care of him with love and with smiles, using mdoern sensibilities to measure things like care and affection…and I think that some of those discrepancies between a hellish setting and a soft oblivious SY must have been quite jarring to LBH. He sees someone that believes in inherent good and is passionate and silly, knowledgeable and kind, and can’t help but want to be close! He admires him so much!!

Still pre-abyss, not only LBH admires the heck out of SY, he is also his shizun, and i don’t forget about his teacher kink but im talking about the dynamics of it instead of anything sexual. LBH knows and firmly believes that his position is way below that of SQQ’s, he is protected and cared for, but he longs to protect and care for as well right? Because he has seen that SQQ is powerful but not above everything, because he is knowledgeable but not all-seeing, because he may be taken advantage of by someone crafty that doesn’t deserve his kindness. LBH pretends to fall and be weak and helpless when it’s convenient for him, but he knows he has to take every advantage he can bc he needs to be strong enough to protect SQQ, because the world has shown him that there are many dangers and that someone not of a peak lord’s status isn’t worth to marry (idk how much about this airplane would have put into his work, but lets remember that ancient chinese marriages were a very foemal and important thing that involved status and wealth, not just love). Let’s remember our bun has also been a street rat and probably saw many things at one point or another! We can only speculate and write fics about that last point, but the street is not a good place to be, especially in a PIDW setting. Also, bc he wasn’t strong enough, quick enough, bc his family had no power or money his mother died, it’s as hurtful and as plain as that for him, even if he knows (does he though?) that it’s not his fault.

Onwards to the abyss! It’s shit. That’s what it is. Shizun who he admires, respects and loves above everything, who told him that nobody was intolerable for the heavens went against every fucking shit he said and coldly forced LBH into the abyss. What the actual fuck SQQ (affectionate), you gave him so many issues fr. I can only imagine how confused the poor LBH must have felt when his Shizun yet again changed tune like this in a way he can’t fully explain this time, even more so, he could try, but it wouldn’t change the fact that LBH is currently in the worst place ever because the person he loves with his whole heart threw him there (and possibly wanted him to stay down there? to become one of its creatures? To die? He has no idea???). LBH has strived to be good, to be worthy in his teacher’s eyes since he entered the sect and he has just gotten proof that he isn’t and will never be even though he had the hope of getting there despite everything. It’s just filled with heartbreak and i think that the system only deducted SQQ’s current total points bc he literally had to die to be deducted any more and LBH can’t have him dead and the system knows that extremely well! It also gave SQQ a scenario push remember? And that was only for LBH’s benefit istg, SQQ had no idea.

and talking about death! Funny thing isn’t it? It’s ridiculous that SQQ dies so many times (srsly bro, wtf - again affectionate) but I believe that the first was the most traumatic for LBH. SQQ doesn’t sneer at him like a disgusting mucus but instead is afraid of him! LBH worked hard to just see SQQ again, to reunite the courage to talk to him and ask him if he regretted what he did, to show him he was a good person and that he had power now, that he could impress him and protect him (he has lost a lot of his own self-esteem base and i do believe that’s part of where heartbreak points come from) the person whom he values the opinion of the most -the only one even- thinks him a beast and an unredeemable demon…and when he tries to peove himself not that, the only thing SQQ does is run away from him, to decide to be silent and refuse even LBH’s (biased) kindness. He wouldn’t even take LBH’s robe! Imagine that you love someone and that someone hates your guts and refuses to even acknowledge that they hurt you, oh, and all this while an evil sword is fighting to take advantage of your negative feelings. Post-abyss is also shit, just a bit better bc LBH has the illusion of control, he thinks he can still control the situation and is slowly losing hope of shizun understanding him. But the illusion shatters when SQQ self-detonates to save him. The one he supposedly hates. LBH is probably just eternally confused in sv now that i think about it lmao *pats consolingly*

post death 1 (actually 2 for SY): LBH thought he knew shizun, then he realized he couldn’t explain everything shizun did. Then he tried to ask, not even for a full explanation, just to know if shizun really did hate him (bc LBH truly doesn’t care at that point what SQQ does or what SQQ’s reasons and actions were as long as he still loves him, smhw he is so…) and got instead a blow up in his face, coupled with other ppl’s accounts of SQQ mourning him like he was actually truly dead, missing him and finally he sees SQQ sacrificing himself for him. This surely must be enough fpr LBH right? Well…not really, SQQ could have been sacrificing himself to protect the ppl around him - LQG is there and we all know that LBH is mildly sus of him at this point, it will get worse later when LQG is the one coming by every fucking day to retrieve SQQ’s corpse so mhm…its possible LBH thought they had something (not necessarily romantic) at some point, or that LQG and the other ppl were important enough to sacrifice his life for. Not only that, but shizun was not rejoicing when he came back, he never said anything. He killed himself in everyone’s pov -but SQH’s-without explanation, in the most tragic and confusing way of all, saying he would repay LBH…lets also remember that repaying someone can mean completely cutting ties and leaving with a clean slate. And the only actual thing he did was show LBH he didn’t have actual control over the situation and that it was possible to be completely powerful and still lose the ones you love and care about. Idk (or don’t remember haha…) the moment LBH started building the bamboo house in the demonic realm, but it says a lot about what he wants and what he dreams about, the most probable things he is feeling at this point is desperation and melancholy, nostalgia. He longs for the days where he was secure in the knowledge of Shizun’s affection for him, no matter what kind of affection it was, but at the same time is bittersweet because he knows that shizun will never love him foe who he is and that drives him mad with heartbreak that is just building up over time. He will also feel incredibly guilty over SQQ repaying him with his life, because all he ever wanted was basic communication but Shen ‘i am so emotionally repressed i can’t even tell what I’m actually feeling’ Qingqiu obviously thought he was being hunted for revenge. So rip LBH, he wanted an explanation or just a simple ‘i regret it’ but what he gets is confusion, a corpse he has to reanimate asap, and incredible guilt + more damage to his self esteem

Then SQQ comes back and doesn’t even try to search fpr him? And everything becomes a huge mess quite quickly. But. Luo Binghe watches his shizun go back to his martial family and interact with them in a way that he doesn’t interact with LBH anymore. LBH gets his face rubbed with the fact that what he strongly wishes for (going back) is impossible because he made the mistake of being born. Which, would demoralize the strongest of us honestly. And uta been so long since i read sv that I don’t remember much, but im sure that LBH can’t even think that SQQ does care for him, the trauma and insecurity, the abandonment issues have grown so big that they are like a bull in a china shop, ready to shatter everything in short range. Its only when SQQ gives his life (LBH does not know this but he is aware that SQQ would not have used papapa to save the world with just everyone) and gives him something he kept for so long - and that LBH himself thinks is precious despite being worthless - that he understands a bit that shozun may not hate him so much. I’m surprised that heartbreak points weren’t so used or that we didn’t get reminded of them through the story, because it would have given us an inkling of how LBH was feeling, but also spoilers and SQQ’s obliviousness, i imagine that at the end of sv they would have been lower than what they were (in truth) at the IAC but not completely gone

finally, i think that heartbreak points could be used to gauge how traumatized poor LBH was at eaxh point in time, but also to measure the state of his self esteem and the level of hope he had according to the way SQQ acted along the novel. I think that the points were all gone at some point (i eont remember anymore -cries- ) but i fullly believe that post canon Binghe still has heartbreak points and a whole lot of issuws that start to slowly disappear as thwir relationahip progresses. The only thing is that LBH still ties his own worth to SQQ’s opinion of him, and he will have heartbreak points again if he misunderstands SQQ st any point (unlikely but still).

Anyways…

THIS POOR BABY BREAKS MY HEART! He was terrible but he was also very human and truly, he deserves good.

Sorry about the rambling essay! :D

[ikaishere]

Encouraging s.o to achieve a goal

flufftober day 17 and AAAAAAAAAA mdoern au ravioli, pushing the artist legend agenda

[vacelynn]

mdoern ronance??

[ilovemodernmovies]

This is my defense for modern Disney movies including the live action remakes.

Anyone who hates mdoern Disney movies hasn't actually seen them, but I have seen them and they are great YOU haters are stupid!

[nezuscribe]

Nezu the gift that keeps giving 🙂‍↕️

im the mdoern day mother teresa