#new life view

[tranquilbecoming]

Love yourself first, for it's the secret to a full heart. From this foundation of self-love, every other love flourishes more beautifully.

[rystiel]

stanford has beef with his 17 year old self (he just got over his 40 year grudge this year)

[howlsofbloodhounds]

this may sound a little strange but when it comes to the utmv fandom and in universe meta aware characters interacting with ones who aren’t aware, I like to approach it more from like a religious or spiritual belief standpoint. so like, to others, characters like killer and ink seem either really religious or spiritual (ink) or really superstitious/religious/indoctrinated (killer). ink believes in creators, but to killer, those creators are actually more like players.

[rottonfishie]

Bai He and Lady Ivory

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Baigujing took the place of the Monkey King in the journey to the west with her Mistress Kaiming Xiezi and fellow Pillgrims, Zhuzhi, Mo niuwang and Ao Bing. Throughout her journey, Baigujing learned to find perfection in imperfection.

Baigujing knows that Bai he is far from perfection. She's clumsy, naive, and stubborn. And yet, Bai he is everything she wants to be, She's compassionate, empathic, and altruistic. Baigujing sees the perfection in Bai he despite all her flaws and understands that this world is better with her.

Baigujing knows that she can never be Bai he, she knows she'll never be the hero that the world needs. She knows that The Lady Bone Demon will never be The Lady Ivory that Bai he knows and adores.

[tenvishund]

F I S S I O N - Why the hell do you hurt yourself for this?

[bywandandsword]

So I was just told something interesting

You know how a lot of these big Victorian houses have seemingly useless railings around windows that are clearly not balconies? Come to find out these sorts of houses were built so that you could close off parts of the house from each other, like if you had guests or were hosting a party or something. But staff still needed to be able to get around so these windows would be large enough that staff could go out one window from one closed off section of the house to the other. It also gave the effect that guests rarely actually saw staff moving around doing day-to-day tasks. And apparently, a lot of these windows had hidden panels that swung out and make it look like the window wasn't there from inside the room When I heard that, I immediately thought about a lot of modern criticism of older novels books that feature wealthier protagonists, who talk about their isolation and loneliness. I've heard people discussing these protagonists say things like "How can you be lonely when you're surrounded by staff? It must be their sense of class that prevents them from seeing the staff as people who they can socialize with". That is absolutely at play, don't get me wrong. But with the windows in mind and the knowledge that one of the marks of a good staff at the time was to be as unseen as possible, I think it's completely possible that these protagonists, and the real people they represented, really DID feel that they were completely alone in their houses. Not only were all these social structures in place to keep them separate from everyone else in the house, but also these physical structures that further limited interaction. Because we no longer build houses like this and a lot of older surviving houses no longer have this feature, it's a bit of context that modern readers aren't aware of

I think it's really interesting, cause it gives a whole new context to these stories and social life in the period, and also makes me wonder about what other context that we're not aware of when looking at history or fiction from previous time periods that would re-frame our understandings of the event of those times

[toyastales]

Hudson Yards, New York

[the-posh-life]

[fadetodvst]

worship

[downfalldestiny]

View of Park Ave from 67th Street 🗽!.

_ New York City

[abearinthewoods]

Randomly thinking about how jk Rowling coded it in to the HP universe that the stairs to the girls dorms had a spell to keep boys out but not the inverse. Even having a character explain to Ron that its because the founders viewed boys as less trustworthy.

In retrospect given that it really shouldn't have been a surprise when she harpooned on about "men in dresses trying to invade women's spaces". She clearly sees sexual deviancy as a distinctly male trait.

[autumncottageattic]

jacobxrossi

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

[howlsofbloodhounds]

need more killer smut/nsfw that actually turns out to be killer angst because oh fuck he’s dissociating or oh fuck triggered stage switch or something like that

[sexy-celestial]

[stickmenyaoi]

about absence; presence. Lover; Warrior

Inspired by.