#zee is here

[aashiqeddiediaz]

you know what boils my blood.

over the last 2 weeks, i've seen countless patients walk into my urgent care center, symptomatic for so many things, refusing to get tested for covid and flu, citing that they don't want to knowingly bring it to their holiday tables. i had a patient tell me, verbatim, "i don't want to test for covid, because i don't want to be the asshole who brings it on a plane."

i understand that - i understand that holidays are times where people look forward to meeting loved ones that they might only see once a year, or where they get a break from the hectic back and forth of their lives.

but here's the thing - whether they get tested or not, they will bring whatever they have to their holiday tables. it's pure recklessness to know that you're sick, and walk into someone else's house spreading the disease.

today, january 2, i saw 91 patients, many of them who have tested positive for covid and flu. many of these patients are the same ones who didn't want testing 3 days ago, until their events were over, and now, they will have to reach out to everyone they know to let them know that they were positive because they were showing symptoms well before their event.

the next week or two? we're going to see many, many more, all people with symptoms that started around christmas. these are the only two viruses we test for rapidly in our office, but they are potent and can be fatal in many people.

so here's why i wrote this post, and maybe it's a little late, but - if you care about your loved ones, please get tested if you know you're sick. it doesn't have to be at a clinic if you don't want it to, because the over-the-counter tests work just fine too (if you test within 5-7 days of symptom onset). just...please don't try to run from the knowledge that you might have covid, because immunocompromised people, elderly people, people with co-morbidities like asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, etc...many of them may not recover. and they may not be sitting at your holiday table in the future because of it.

[biboomerangboi]

Thinking about Katara and Sokka seething over Aang and Zuko gallivanting around the South Pole penguin sledding and dancing in like nice light weight clothing because both their bending keeps them warm.

Like yes, they are probably also perceiving and lusting on spec but I would be so mad if I couldn’t wear a silly little outfit in my own home but these two dudes are like running around having acrobat time and I am in a huddle in the worlds thickest coat. I’d want those twinks dead.

[jesncin]

Ma'al and Zatanna should hang out, share monsterboinker/constantineboinker (the Venn diagram is nearly a circle, but still) anecdotes and notes

For purely scientific purposes

There might, however, be some drinking... And/or be a sleepover because that would be fun

I am freeing Zatanna from being chained to Johnstantine as his love interest! They are just friends in my AU, let her monsterboink Etrigan!! Ma'al and Zee would have fun together though, lots of good gossip sessions especially when Zee canonically knows ASL.

[livzees]

Another sona comic part just droppeddd

Part 2!

Part 1 here!

[totaltrauma-island]

Woah guys, totally real not fake leaks for season three?? 🤯🤯🤯

[mysterygrl20]

The Next Prince | ZeeNunew | Q23

In which ZNN get caught in the changing tent.

[moonlightflower-queen]

Listener bf with his info dumping gf and info dumping bf

[pharawee]

Source: poppylhh @ ig

[citrusacidic]

ill admit it. chazee is one of my fave reboot ships. there i said it ☝️ i heart chazee!!!

[itsallaboutbl]

[officialcombaticons]

me: it's the Fruits of the Zee Festival in Fallen London! friends: oh cool, what's that event like? me: [wondering how to explain that it involves diving into depths so dark that the word "black" isn't enough to describe the lack of light and color, and that when you dive deep enough you come face to face with a giant eye so large that you can't tell if can even see you in its field of vision, and then the eye imparts memories on you that aren't yours and are so alien that you can't make sense of them and you somehow find yourself waking back up on the beach, and later after you watch the ritual drowning of an effigy of an underzee king you spent a week helping put together you meet the actual Fathomking himself, and when you ask him what was up with the giant eye you met he says that's his wife and that this whole event was in her honor because he wants her to be able to experience joy and happiness again because she's been bound an existence of only grief and anger because of a deal made with the Bazaar and the Masters which is a WHOLE OTHER STORY to get into] me: uh you like find treasure and get cool items

[aashiqeddiediaz]

mhmmm. comes down to oliver alright.

[ID: three continuous gifs of Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman standing at the platform on Family Fued. Oliver is shifting on his feet as he turns to look at Aisha, Tracie and Bryan off-screen before his gaze slides to Ryan next to him. Ryan is standing with his hands clasped together in a prayer pose, resting on his mouth. Oliver's smile broadens as he whispers something before the video cuts /end ID]

[biboomerangboi]

My friend was watching the show for the first time and they brought up a misconception that I think we see a lot in fandom. So I want to talk about The Gamblers Den and specifically this scene in particular:

My friend genuinely wondered what Hua Cheng would do and then when they heard his explanation they were even more confused:

They basically messaged me saying, wait Hua Cheng would have made the bet. He bets people’s lives and some how Xie Lian is okay with that. How???

And to anyone else who’s thinking the same thing or falling for the Demon King vibe Hua Cheng is trying to sell here I am here to tell you, you have all been duped.

What’s import to understand is that Ghost City actually came from making one of Xie Lian’s ideas work:

Xie Lian is talking about a specialised market here, a place where the common people couldn’t just stumble into without reason and that’s what Ghost City is and The Gambers Den is the foundation of it. While Xie Lian didn’t say hey go gamble, Hua Cheng is taking a risk and playing into his greatest strength and then showing of for his crush is the most dramatic way possible when talking about it.

For Hua Cheng the house always wins! Literally. Or at least what he wants the bet to be will always happen. His luck is just that good. If the gambler wins it’s genuinely because Hua Cheng let him.

In the Den he is acting as Judge and Jury with Xie Lian as his moral code but he can’t just turn down the deals. If he does then these people could go to less safe options (looking at you Qi Rong) to get what they desire which negates the reason he built Ghost City in the first place.

Hua Cheng has to let these people play by his rules if he wants to follow his Gods wishes. So he has to be creative and look at loop holes, phrasing and Xie Lians most important teaching finding the third path.

For this moment specifically giving the options I think Hua Cheng would have taken the 20 years of his daughter’s life. Why you may ask? Well the phrasing is easier to manipulate. While the eradication of his competitors is pretty well laid 20 years of his daughters life is pretty vague.

Option 1) Hua Cheng could take her away from her shit father and put her in an apprenticeship and marry a man of her choosing since her hand is now her own to decide since Hua Cheng doesn’t want it.

Option 2) She has to work in Ghost City for 20 years and is married to Yin Yu in name only (because Hua Cheng can’t have a wife at all or he won’t win Gege) then gets pleasantly divorced and giving a severance payment after 20 years.

Option 3) He could decide life is a vague term and after she dies she has to spend 20 years in Ghost City and matchmake a future marriage between her and another ghost.

Option 4) He could decide what she has to do with the next twenty years of her life which could include an actual good marriage and education. Where she has to worship his shrine and be only his devotee for 20 years.

Option 5) He can literally say I’ll collect when I decide and never cash in.

He can do anything because the wording is so fluent and for Hua Cheng debater and Civil God Killer it’s probably easy. He’s not a demon king, he’s a crafty trickster spirit basically a fae lord.

He’s playing the system and he’s winning that’s what Xie Lian figured out and why he supports it. He knows Hua Cheng well enough even back then to trust that he would make the right decision because he believes in Hua Cheng and he’s right too.

[zeearts]

i NEED to know--does Knives have something on his back like Vash has his gorgeous flower? or is it all just prickly pickies? 👀

a very quick rough sketch where i abuse (gratefully) the knives .abr brush cause if i had to draw all of that out i'll cry. BUT the answer is NOPE, hes got thorns and leaves (that are basically blades) and brambles instead. No flower on this spiky boy :')

[livzees]

Sona reveal hello

And yes, she'll have more lore in due time >:]

Meanwhile, here's an extra page of them

[kiwiplaetzchen]