#professional substitute

[silviakundera]

the my stand in/my stand in the series tag is INCREDIBLE 👏👏👏

love this for fandom, thai bl and cn danmei tumblr should unite in live blogging the toxic permutations of this pair.

most pathethic protagonist GOING THRU IT by falling in love with a fascinatingly messy hot man who is plastered in red flags head to toe and screaming neon signs DO NOT ENGAGE W EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE FUCKBOY.

I started reading the novel and it's such an indulgent wallow. ahhhh yes this guy is having the worst time. tell me more. make my heart ache.

[destroy-some-evil]

oh wow, I was told that the show My Stand In follows the novel Professional Substitute very faithfully but I didn't realize. Somehow I was sure the bathroom sex scene was added but nope it's here.

[sscarletvenus]

would i be crucified for saying i DO NOT fw the drama adaptation of professional body double... they woobified my favourite scum gong to such unrecognisable extents, he cannot be the yan mingxiu who terrorized the readers and zhou xiang throughout the events of the novel!

where is his rancidness. MSI counterpart is so digestable mwanwhile I wanted to kill ymx at least fifty times while reading professional body double. where is his terminal codependency. why isn't he domming zhou xiang every scene.

MSI is the lite version meanwhile the actual one needed to be institutionalized in an insane asylum.

[proudnb]

The steps you take in your transition journey can be glacially slow, if you need. Glaciers have carved rivers and ground mountains down, after all.

The only timeline that truly matters is your own.

[acaffieneaddictt]

can't defend him anymore. he can go fuck himself for all i care

[rickyyysaurus]

THE GANG AS HUMANS CONFIRMED?

Grizzlyrojo on Instagram, who worked on Dinotrux. This is their humanization of the gang!!!!

[claratyler]

this is hell

[gudakdalee]

the first few moments after I read that stuart martin wasn't coming back for S5, I was shooooook-ed-th and sad. :(((

I thought william leaving for new york was the shift that was going to help change things up for their dynamic. As william said in his goodbye, 'Something's gotta give' in order for them to figure out how they want to move forward, so I thought that's why the writers wrote in the NY secondment. how wrong I was

I see ScarNash shippers blossoming in the wake, so I've decided to rewatch the series again hehe to see whether I believe if there's romance, not just camaraderie.

And... I don't exactly see romantic intentions between the 2 of them, whether pining, longing, yearning, or flirty sparks.

From Nash to Eliza, I see almost a mentor-mentee dynamic? Like fascination and curiosity to support a seed and see what it grows into. I don't get romantic interest, I get partners-in-crime, on the same wavelength, and a willingness to provide mutual support.

From Eliza to Nash, I see someone she can learn from, fight with, and go to as a sounding board. I don't get 'wow I'm flattered by this man and feel butterflies, and gotta look away bc I be catching feelings', I get 'this guy is amusing and special, and he's a good buddy, giving me resources.' I think they've grown into a solid, dependable friendship and supportive colleagues.

[theembodimentoflust-ozzie]

While we wait, I'd like to ask something. My outlook on lust is a little twisted, but I wanna set the record straight, coming from the King of Lust himself.

1: First rule is always consent, right? Like, true lust/passion isn't one sided?

2: I assume assault is off the table no matter what, right? Like, you don't condone it at all?

Reason I ask, I've had a history of bad relationships, and I just need a little validation.

Listen babes, I’ll tell you what I told the birdy prince.

Lust is an Art! A craft to be perfected and enjoyed. If you’re not having fun, neither should anyone else. I don’t fuck with that artificial bullshit and it’s one of the reasons those Sinners Lucifer is dealing with are on my shit list to begin with.

Don’t let someone’s lack of respect and control ruin your self confidence honey pie. Lust can be a gorgeous thing when done right with the right person.

[musical-chick-13]

*sigh* I think. I think I'm gonna have to find somewhere to Talk About It.

[nyasmodei]

wake up lads, therapy 2 just dropped

[teachablr-moment]

New Gimick Blog!

Two things I've learned recently:

I like making lesson plans

My Do Nows are popular

Thus, I've decided to start a gimick blog for real.

Check out @inspired-lesson-plans to see what I do from here.

This blog will still contain sciencey and quasi-educational content. I will also reblog any new lesson plans here, but they will be composed on the sideblog first. And I'll try to repost the old ones on that blog (whenever I'm next trying to procrastinate)

[chena-h]

Sharing this article just in case (there's a lot of misinformation out there in these circles)

Online wellness content: 3 ways to tell evidence-based health information from pseudoscience

this poor woman ended up in hospital because she ate cayenne + cinnamon coated orange (unpeeled) because there’s a health and wellness influencer with millions of views who recommends it for digestion - she burned her oesophagus

i always saw a few really good other additions of similar things on the comments

please be so, so careful taking advice from these people online, as many of them are not formally trained or educated, brand ambassadors, deep in pseudoscientific rabbit holes and unfortunately, there are many out there who struggle with disordered eating habits

(not mentioned here but another one worth noting: i have personally known people who have burned their oesophagus with viral apple cider vinegar shots and drinks. don’t do that. a burned oesophagus is not fun)

[ardentpoop]

kendall thinks elon musk is a serviceable ideas man roman thinks elon musk is a bag of dicks hope this helps

[the-vi-llain]

TW// suicide

in my personal opinion, the sooner society treats suicidal people as people who are temporarily experiencing a judgement lapse similar to the things listed above, i think the sooner suicide rates drop.

it is so glorified in modern teens’ media and i think a solution to combat the “normalization” would be establishing in everyone that it is a TEMPORARY feeling.

even the most depressed people are not always Actively suicidal. and people who are depressed should THINK OF THEMSELVES as unable to make big or long-term decisions.

the amount of times the thought “let’s see if i still think this is a good decision [in X amount of time]” has saved me from life-ruining choices is immense.

the more permanent the decision, the longer the amount of time needed to deliberate. if you doubt your decision for a SECOND, the timer starts over

examples:

“i want to dye my hair” hmm let’s check if i still want to tomorrow afternoon. if so, then i can go think about buying dye.

“i want to adopt an animal” that animal will live for YEARS. i’ll let myself research, and reevaluate in 6 months.

the more you practice this, the easier it is to practice while actively unstable. it becomes habit. and it can potentially stop your self-destructive tendencies or at least cushion them.

and ideally, over time, you are able to see a pattern. you will realize that certain thoughts ARE. TEMPORARY. they are not 24/7. you didn’t actively hate life when you were eating ice cream in the park. you didn’t want to quit your job once you got a few days off.

things change. life moves on.

a lot of times suicidal people are in a certain situation that they can’t imagine a way out of. but the only way out is to keep going.

99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

[yelloskello]

if anything comes from the hbomberguy video, i hope it's just people learning to like. look stuff up for themselves and take what they hear in videos with a grain of salt.

never forget that the stuff pedaled by moderately-sized-to-big accounts dedicated to specific topics, is probably being fueled by a need for engagement - if it's not straight-up for capital, then it's probably for social capital.

And, on top of that, content that riles their users up and/or is controversial is going to get more clicks, so a lot of this stuff is tailor-made to give only enough information to make you afraid or angry.

You cannot think of these people as randos speaking truth. They are, effectively, professional provocateurs. A lot of what they put out there is misinformation, and they don't care, because to them it's less about the topic and more about the clicks. It's the same phenomenon as what they do over at fox news.

We live in a time where the internet is extremely integrated in our daily lives, but we've never faced something like this before, and learning to navigate that mix of instant and quickly consumable content + some of it being peoples jobs + the buckwild parasocial obstacles it creates. I mean. It's a lot, y'know?