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Twenty years ago, February 15th, 2004, I got married for the first time.

It was twenty years earlier than I ever expected to.

To celebrate/comemorate the date, I'm sitting down to write out everything I remember as I remember it. No checking all the pictures I took or all the times I've written about this before. I'm not going to turn to my husband (of twenty years, how the f'ing hell) to remember a detail for me.

This is not a 100% accurate recounting of that first wild weekend in San Francisco. But it -is- a 100% accurate recounting of how I remember it today, twenty years after the fact.

Join me below, if you would.

hello im alive again !! a lot of. crazy things happened recently but i stayed strong and produced more fenhawke ‼️ fenhawke as pirates to be specific !!! i can not believe I haven't connected my two biggest interests (dragon age and pirates) before but. better late than never ig so! hope you guys like it

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Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

I didn't even care about the result, the questions here are just delightful

I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

i feel like this one clip fully sums up this specific group of people

"You're a Failure, and your family died knowing it."

I finally finished it!

I got majorly distracted with only 2 sections of this left, and it gathered dust for a bit. But here it is! All the angst!

My Emmit Hawke, purple and unromanced. He's just very tired and never given a break, so might as well strand him in the Fade, right? (I love my Hawke, promise)

There was originally a part 2 that has a bit more of a hopeful tune to leaving him behind, but I dunno if I'll get to that. We'll see.

Okay, concept:

Luo Binghe grew up very poor prior to arriving to QJP. And when he first got to QJP, he was ostracized and neglected. So there are probably a lot of phrases, terms, and ideas that he didn't know were things until SY arrived and started actually teaching him. Right? So the bulk of what he did learn, he learned directly from Shen Yuan's own slightly messy attempts to fake ancient scholarly credentials.

Plus, QJP is supposed to be the peak of scholars and well-read, fancy intellectuals, and YQY probably also doesn't know shit about most of that stuff (having also been a former illiterate street child) and of course is incredibly predisposed to take Shen Qingqiu's side on virtually anything. Especially something frivolous or linked to their shared past, such as someone, say Qi Qingqi, accusing Shen Qingqiu of making up a literary reference or "gibberish" word. If something Shen Qingqiu says is something no one else seems to know, that just proves he's more worldly and well-read than the rest of his peers. Also, Shang Qinghua will probably know it, and despite his many (many) character flaws, Shang Qinghua reads a lot too. There's really very little to convince a former street child turned Demon Emperor whose former education began and ended with Shen Qingqiu specifically and Meng Mo (wildly out-of-touch with human culture anyway) to suspect that some of the difficult-to-source references his master makes really have no worldly source (in this world).

So Luo Binghe, in his quest to become as knowledgeable of all things about his shizun and keep up with him as well as possible, and maybe also put down some arguments he's overheard once and for all, eventually gets annoyed because CLEARLY there is a wealth of cultural knowledge contemporary to Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua that didn't survive to his own generation. His efforts at hunting down all the sources being referenced and origins of certain philosophical ideas or terminology keep coming up empty in certain departments. He's been over the entire QJP library with a fine-tooth comb, but QJP focuses on things pertaining to cultivation, history, and knowledge. Obviously, there are gaps. The archives are unlikely to keep pop cultural references and lowbrow literature, and Luo Binghe begins to suspect (from what tastes his master seems to share with his shishu) that that is that actual source he's missing.

The trashy yellow books and romance literature of their generation! Bawdy poems and lewd artworks so on! Heck, that's probably even where the shared "code" (bad English) comes into play -- disciples are always trying to sneak forbidden material past their teachers and smuggle naughty books into the dormitories. Knowing Shizun and Shang Qinghua, Luo Binghe honestly wouldn't be surprised if the two of them were racketeering that shit in their own disciple days. Shang Qinghua acquiring materials, Shen Qingqiu acquiring buyers, both of them making their extra spending money off of secretly supplying Cang Qiong's population with contraband fiction and art.

Also, that would explain why both Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua get flustered and refuse to elaborate if someone asks them what this or that strange turn of phrase refers to. Shen Qingqiu has a very thin face for actually discussing erotica, and Shang Qinghua doesn't like being caught doing illegal shit.

Luo Binghe desperately needs access to trash lit that's older than he is. However, most of that stuff is not printed to last, and turning it up is like trying to find old Spirk zines without the internet.

Shang Qinghua, the obvious go-to source, also seems to not really have anything that old anymore (intimidating him is laughably easy, if he had anything he would have coughed it up by the second or third time Luo Binghe asked and frowned at the same time), and if Shen Qingqiu did have anything he wouldn't want to be questioned about it. Asking too much might even get it destroyed in an act of excessive embarrassment.

Which means there is just one other person Luo Binghe knows who might be able to lead him to some sources. One other person he is absolutely, 100% certain was extensively reading trashy literature around the same time that Shizun was a young man. Someone who would know where to go to even begin looking for it.

Luo Binghe is going to have to ask Tianlang Jun for help with something.

Additional Thought:

When they figure out what's going on, Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua have to desperately forge some dated erotica for Luo Binghe and Tianlang Jun to actually find, both to cover their asses and also to keep this weird as fuck father-son quest going for as long as possible in hopes that it helps both of them sort out their issues.

Well. Some of their issues. Maybe?

Hope springs eternal etc etc.

So! Now there's also these two clowns frantically trying to figure out what modern shit they've referenced with each over the years, and shoehorning as much of it as possible into semi-plausible yellow books, artwork, etc, with Shang Qinghua putting his trash novelist skills to the test whilst Shen Qingqiu diligently ages and antiques the results of his efforts to look several decades old. Both of them running around to shady booksellers and collectors along Luo Binghe and Tianlang Jun's route and bribing them to claim they've had this shit in their back rooms collecting dust for ages. Conscripting An Ding disciples to do the actual writing/drawing/etc because Binghe knows both of their styles too well for them to successfully disguise it. Accidentally gaslighting some of their peers into wondering how they missed the apparent epidemic of incredibly weird cursed porn that was apparently flooding the peaks during their youth (listen, Shang Qinghua can fit memes into sex booklets, and he can churn them out really fast, but quality? coherence? not making it weird? those concepts belong to distant lands far beyond the borders of his skills).

So. Y'know. Everyone's getting some enrichment out of this!

#tlj pretty much figures out that something is up early on#because he doesn't actually recollect any of this stuff#and if it had existed he's pretty sure he would because it is kooky and very entertaining#but he doesn't say anything because he's having fun#he's getting out he's spending some quality time with his cringefail son he's seeing some sights#taking in a few shows and finding new and inventive erotica in various places like he's on some kind of naughty easter egg hunt#there were courtiers in the demon realms who'd try to manufacture events to entertain him that weren't even half so diverting!#man's having his best day out since he got crushed under a mountain

an alternative to the Vallaslin scene:

I think I'd prefer if Solas attempted to remove Lavellan's vallaslin and finds that he simply is unable to.

Because the Dalish are different, they're not slaves, and removing a Dalish's rite of adulthood is not granting them their freedom. Maybe it's because the ink formula changed over the eons. Maybe the rite is just inherently different.

This not only narratively validifies the Dalish in who they are now, but also drives home the point to Solas that the world is completely different. He's not freeing Lavellan, he's shackling himself.

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" Kristen, we are, I am afraid, star-crossed" *ੈ✩

my most self indulgent drawing yet - hick Lae'zel + human ver

inspired by this post

I got the chance to road trip out to the path of totality! My phone camera didn’t do it justice, so I painted what I saw instead 🌞🌚