#the lies they sold

[insanityisdivine]

16 Magazine presents: Rockline! Summer 1980

[shyflops]

[robinsceramics]

The magnificent catbeast thrives in snowy conditions; its gorilla-like arms are theorized to help compensate for the weight of its neck.

image description: a big, sturdy creature made of porcelain. It has a catlike head, thick limbs, and a leopard-like tail. The white clay is covered with a translucent pale-golden glaze that has crackled, leaving little lines all over the sculpture.

[keii4ii]

스쳐가는 이들/ The Warmth of Strangers P goes to the Country of the Morning, many years after the ending.

[self-spaghettification]

the black part on aaravos’s chest is suspiciously shaped like a certain sword

the more i look at it

the more i hmmmm

and the nova-blade is a double edged sword (albeit tapered)

btw, I also recently accidentally cut myself, so I was researching which open wounds need stitches and which don’t. It looks like how a deep open wound does—if it were a black void

images of wounds under the cut

fyi open wounds don’t heal correctly without stitches so this is very likely the physical or magical manifestation of the scar after—

“White as the star's heart it pierced, ivory draconic brought death's bite known ever forth as Novablade..

and though undying, took last breath, immortal Laurelion was no more”

if not the open wound itself, eternally unable to heal

take that as you will :)

[whomst-doth-art]

Hear me out: Link Click Tron au where Lu Guang is a user that keeps resetting the game every time Cheng Xiaoshi dies (he wants the good ending). Maybe he had a save point that he keeps going back to— like in more “modern” video games.

But like also imagine Cheng Xiaoshi, who is largely unaware of the outside world, seeing Lu Guang get derezzed at the end of season 1. For all he knows Lu Guang is gone forever. Or I imagine it’d be like when Quora lost her arm in tron legacy (that is a thing that happened right? It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie).

[deiaiko]

I made KhunBam charms. It was mainly for my own fun, but there was a minimum order that I had to place, so I printed more than what I needed. So right now I have some charms lying around, and I'm thinking of selling it.

There are only 4 charms left. Printed two sides on 3mm acrylic. The quality isn't too great so I'll sell them for $4 each.

PS: those prices didn't include shipment and fees, so there might be an additional $5 more or less.

I will only receive payment via kofi donation. Please message me first before doing any payment, because I need to check if your country is available for shipping and just in case I'm out of stock. Update: it's now sold out <3

[unforth]

@esper-aroon has enabled me, so here let me scream at y'all about The Imperial Uncle.

Okay, so I recently read The Imperial Uncle (Huang Shu) by Da Feng Gua Guo from Peach Flower House and I really loved it??? It's first person pov, mlm, about the Emperor's uncle Jing Chengjun, who is mistrusted by everyone simply because of who his parents were and his position, and so he's basically given up on trying to convince people that he's actually a nice, decent person without ulterior motives. He's super trapped by his position, and there's so much he can't say and do, and he's also a hopeless romantic, like, from his own mouth all he really wants is to sleep beside and wake up next to someone who actually gives a shit about him, and even that is basically out of reach in his life. Like, the book starts with his wife (who he has never once had sex with) storming into a meeting he's having and announcing he's a cuckold and she's pregnant.

But also, this poor bastard really thinks he knows what's going on and his very smart. Very unreliable narrator. He's actually kinda a hilarious, impulsive himbo. But the TL:DR is that his loneliness and isolation and the extent to which he's politically trapped routinely lead him to make absolutely terrible decisions.

E. Danglar's translation is absolutely gorgeous, too, and... idk, if you love political plots, melodramatic idiot main characters, a dose of pining, and a slow burn that eventually pays off, come take a look??? (some people think it's a love triangle??? idk, I never really got that vibe, I never felt it was really in doubt which of the two potential dudes he'd end up with, but maybe I only feel that way because I got it right, lmao).

Anyway, I can't stop thinking about how these two idiots end up finally finding each other and getting together, and I have an entire AU in my head (a modern corporate one) and part of another (canon divergent from like a decade before the book starts), and I just want people to love this book as much as I did and scream with me about it.

[raaorqtpbpdy]

Okay just watched the first five episode of Gen V and I just wanna say that in addition to Jordan being an amazing character, the actors who play them are phenomenal. There was not a single moment where I didn’t buy that they were the same person. Fucking exceptional there. A++

[viktorgf]

✦ 'EVERY OC LIST GOT THE'— TAG GAME

tagged by @bloodskinandteeth 💛 + @red-nightskies 🖤

pick an image of one of your ocs that best fits each category, you can even have multiple characters on one category, or even repeat a character for multiple categories. here is a link to the blank template.

from top to bottom, left to right—

elvira | mildred | avalon

andie | odette | faustina

nicole | mags | oslo

lottie | sibyl | tai

tagging— @confidentandgood 🫶🏻 @kanos 🫶🏻 @florbelles 🫶🏻 @unholymilf 🫶🏻 @statichvm 🫶🏻

@rosayoro 🍾 @elvves 🍾 @bearsgrove 🍾 @pitchmoss @teamhawkeye 🍾

@kyberinfinitygems 💛 @jendoe 💛 @leviiackrman 💛 @socially-awkward-skeleton 💛 @thedeadthree 💛

@jackiesarch 🍷 @pinkfey 🍷 @shellibisshe 🍷 @scalpelsister 🍷 @ghostfvcker

@a-treides 💎 @elgaravel 💎 @bloodofvalyria 💎 @moonflowcr 💎 @firstaidspray 💎

@tacticalhimbo ☀️ @loriane-elmuerto ☀️ @imogenkol ☀️ @bigbywlf ☀️ @oc-musings ☀️

and you!

[tootsquatch]

🏠📦

a new beginning starts now..

[rosegoldorigins]

Lego Monkie Kid Season 5

(Rant incoming... and guess who it is?

Li Jing. Of course it is)

______

Nezha: Dad these three are not-

Li Jing: Control yourself

Control yourself?!?!? Bro what?!?!

He didn’t say “silence” he said control yourself??!?!

As in “You know better than this”, “You are acting out”, “Don’t let you emotions/morals overcome you”

Nezha doesn’t need to “control himself” He doesn’t need to be a perfect neutral being.

He’s always strived to protect, guard and do the right thing. He meditates and spends years doing his duty.

The threat of his father's disappointment was always whether or not he could "control himself”?!?!

Whether he could look good (like in front of the underworld judges) and swallow his own desires in order to fulfil his duty?

His dad is giving I know this feels wrong and harsh but you need to do hard things for the greater good.

"Control yourself” means get it together this needs to happen (chaining Wukong).

I can’t imagine the effect those words would have on Nezha as he grew up.

(Parents don’t care about age they will put their principles and ideals on a three year old.)

Imagine child Nezha acting as children do and his father saying “control yourself”.

The shame of being a normal kid and then being called “undignified” by your father.

How much was Nezha denied in his self expression?

How often did he need to think about his image and how others would perceive him because his dad said it was more important than anything else?

Li Jing put his job above his son.

“Control yourself” I will not have an unruly child.

“Control yourself” Do not ruin my image.

[bittersweetblasphemy]

UM SO I WAS CHECKING OUT RALPH INESON'S IMDB PAGE for no particular reason AND????

EXCUSE?????

[levforfakes]

the scene when the headmaster goes percy do you have anything to say and then grover goes i have something to say and then percy goes grover and then grover goes percy told me he wanted to get back at nancy and hes not telling you the whole truth and percy goes grover and the headmaster goes are you saying that you saw percy assult nancy and then grover goes yes

[odysseys-blood]

still love the fact that zero (f LI on the left) has a smaller chest than kinglsey (m LI on the right)

[frogmanfae]

Rest in peace David Jacobs, you would have loved The Beatles