#or just the side couple

[yue-muffin]

Chapter 5! Another reason why this story is great and realistic: The characters are a little older (late 20s to early 30s) and they've been in other relationships before falling for each other. The realism is actually sort of refreshing. I end up reading a lot of danmei where the MC and ML are each other's one and only true love, they never are in a relationship with anyone else even in the past, and that can be a fun fantasy in its own way, but if you like a little more realism, this one is for you.

Here's a little author's note from the side story:

Big respect. Also, Descent was labeled a switch/reversible relationship on NovelUpdates. I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate, but it is true of the side story at least.

As for the rest of the chapter...

Alright, personally, I would never have energy to do such a stressful job and then go out drinking on my day off haha. You can forget driving an hour to go see someone right after my shift ends, no matter who it is lol. Actually, my current job is nowhere near as stressful as Fang Hao's and I still don't have the energy to do more than chores and grocery shopping on the weekends...

Anyways, back to poor Fang Hao whose ex cheated on him. Fang Hao does seem to be a very serious guy, so for him to actually develop feelings for this person who then tries to blame the relationship not working out all on HIM is...

Surprisingly, though, Fang Hao is very assertive at work (well, it's a requirement of the job), but he's not as assertive in his personal life/relationships. He "had always been unable to argue with Lu Jiawei, so he could only leave in haste".

And this last line is kind of painful. "Maybe he was just a rather boring person, as Lu Jiawei always said."

No!! You two were just incompatible, but that jerk decided to string him along instead of just ending it, then tries to emotionally manipulate Fang Hao when he gets caught. Also, "always"? What kind of partner always calls you boring...

There's an interesting part embedded in all that, though. His ex uses this as an excuse for not breaking up with him: "Every time I tried, you would become upset, and you would start to fall apart if things were out of your control".

Now, this is a guy who juggles airplanes in the sky as a job, and one wrong direction, a delayed reaction, or even mishearing a single digit can cause a catastrophic accident and loss of life. Yes, he's always in control - in fact it's essential at work that he's 100% in control when he's "on" the air. It makes sense that this bleeds into his personal life to some degree. But it makes you wonder how he acts when he does lose control. We don't see it, we only get Lu Jiawei saying he starts to "fall apart", but we can't really trust this guy's word too much. He spent the whole time explaining his infidelity blaming it on his boyfriend for being too "boring".

Overall, interesting developments in a chapter where nothing actually happens...

[askfordoodles]

"Young man, you cut that tsundere bullshit, I know what you're doing, I wasn't born yesterday." - Secret Brat Tamer Volkarin

[turtletoria]

one downside to digital mediums of art is that you cant see the tear stains (they just slide down the screen)

[meidui]

aragorn and legolas at each other's sides at helm's deep ♡

[saintaviator]

moar hl scraps…. does a pose

[st-hedge]

MGSV sketch dump. The brainrot is thriving

[eyeofthebrainstorm]

Caleb, sitting on a cozy chair, having a snack with fresh tea and pastries while cuddling a cute cat: Essek, we're still spies, undercover agent working together for different sides of a war and dangerous powerful magicians, right?

Essek, knitting a scarf, laying on the bed, with a quilt on his legs: of course, dear.

[gurggggleburgle]

As a former horse girl I love the Binghorses drawn by @meltedmush because every weird and cryptid suggestion and art of them just existing makes me stop and go: no wait horses will just do that. Horses are so weird. Horse behavior is so much

Horses will just stare at you through a window and if they're smart they can figure out certain doors. There is a specific kind of surreal of watching a horse walk into your house that is both very cute and cursed. SQQ could totally wake up to a Binghorse having broken into his house and staring at him

Horses also are weird and poorly designed biologically so if they sit for too long they can actually crush their organs and won't be able to stand up again. So I can see SQQ fretting over a bingfoal and asking if they're okay. Also they don't have the ability to sense being full. It is completely possible for a horse to eat too much and die. So again fretting mother hen SQQ planning special Binghorse diet only for Binghorse to come back and drop a dead bird in front of him.

It is completely plausible that SQQ can look up one day and see a binghorse sitting in a tree. Both cows and horses will climb trees. Goats too. I don't know why. They just will. The horse loose in a hospital bit is funny because horses on their own will just do that. They do just end up in places. It feels absurd but it's true. Getting jumped scared by a Binghorse totally believable.

Imagine that SQQ sees a Binghorse with a broken leg! The death knell of any normal horse. He can frett over those beautiful terribly designed legs as Binghorse is kept suspended in a swing thing.

And then the moment you combine omnivore snatch hunter it gets even funnier because I'm certain a real horse would if it could. The fact that people are in any way convinced horses are just cute and sweet and not weird terrifying little horrors of biology will never not be funny.

[andorerso]

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

[lazylittledragon]

ok this is not my market at all yet but would ANYONE be interested in a print that's one of those 'hang in there' cat posters but it's guenhwyvar

[hello-eeveev]

you wanna know what’s so funny is that we’re all like “omg Essek could NOT shut up about Caleb 🥺💕” but like. he absolutely can.

the only times Essek brought up Caleb unprompted/without relevance to the discussion at hand were gesundheit and nighttime sendings lol. of the four uses of the phrase “my partner,” one is an off-handed mention as part of a clarification (“I have not been following the Assembly’s threads; that was more my partner’s purview.”) and the last three all happen in the span of four minutes before Essek exits the episode.

the problem is that within those last four minutes, Essek hit us with

1) showing off a zemnian phrase he learned from Caleb,

2) “he is kind. and he is smart. and he is so strong,” said with such conviction and pride and love that I don’t think I’ll ever recover, and

3) leaving the crafting party to chat with Caleb before bed

which was just. a lot. it was so much and it was so good. so much concentrated shadowgast in those four minutes

this whole ship is built on layered conversations and implications and skirting the obvious (with the exception of the last two minutes of m9 reunited) so to give us four whole minutes of Essek boasting about Caleb, praising Caleb, wanting to go talk to Caleb was particularly potent

thank you Matt Mercer for my life 💕

[jayjay-thejet-plane]

Coloured piercer Bradley! (and added a few more tats😗)

[still need to figure out this au’s jake… 😬]

[airoarts]

Leader and deputy

[Image description: a digital painting of Squirrelstar and Ivypool from Warriors. Squirrelstar is a small dark red cat with green eyes, standing in front of the much taller Ivypool, a gray tabby-and-white cat with blue eyes and many battle scars. The background is dark blue. end ID]

[canisalbus]

My mother saw me scrolling through Machete posts and asked me "why does the white beast always look like he dropped his bagel cream cheese side down?" and I didn't know what to tell her.

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[wonderb0n]

Do you guys think that if Shi Qingxuan had called the right name, things would have ended differently? Even the slightest possibility?

I remember thinking when I first read the novel that SQ's plea, so raw and desperate, had managed to reach HX. I felt it in my stomach. A spark of mercy that shattered the instant they called the wrong name.

That's also something that catches my attention. HX said you called the wrong name instead of saying idk anything else to refute SQ's pleas (everything would have been valid, honestly). I felt like, in itself everything that happened was worthy of his fury, not being called his real name was just the last straw. But why would it be if it's not because he cared?

[kacievvbbbb]

You know what? the best supernatural spin off would have nothing to do with the Winchesters and instead would be about Samuel motherfucking Colt because dude absolutely had something going on. And was tripping absolute balls all the fucking time

Dude not only builds a literal kills almost all gun (that no one knows how it works exactly), he also built a fucking devil’s gate and the series of railroad tracks that formed a giant devils trap in the middle of fucking nowhere Wyoming that was somehow also a great fucking hotspot to talk with Lucifer in the cage. Why the fuck would he build a devil’s gate and then the devil trap protecting it? Why could this dude not be normal? Not to mention He also fought a Phoenix!!! A Phoenix! The only Phoenix that has ever been reported to exist and whose ashes are the only thing that can kill the literal mother of all monsters. Which he somehow mails to Sam and Dean in the future using a phone from several years in the future that he literally just got earlier that afternoon.

Dude was on some serious shit. Man was definitely receiving the most violently random prophetic visions from god. Dude literally went, it came to me in a dream and built a weapon that’s literally still confounding people generations later and would function as a key to a fucking devils gate that would literally be the first step in so much shit going down in so little time generations later . Wouldn’t have even surprised me if they also said he was responsible for Ruby’s knife.

He also, most importantly, is from the wild wild fucking west!!! How cool would a show about that be? A fucking genius inventor hunts monsters in the Wild West while some being he knows nothing about but deeply suspects is giving him blueprints for big, wild things and weapons for how to stop them, or at least slow them down.