Ominous and Luminous

oh to be a fat little seal on a rock enjoying life at my own pace

serene

The Untamed Characters and Can They Parallel Park

Jiang Wanyin: is absolutely convinced he can, results vary. Reliably bumps into the front of the car behind him. The car will get parked but he has to complain a minimum of seventeen times. Somehow gets a ticket literally Every Time there is street cleaning

Wei Wuxian: another bitch who is convinced they can parallel park. Does not have his drivers license but drives anyway. Refuses to even try if the space isn’t two car lengths long and then is like :) I did it did everyone see my parallel park :)

Lan Wangji: there is no catch, Lan Wangji can absolutely Parallel Park. Is weirdly aggressive about shoehorning his stupid little Prius into spots he can only Just fit into. It can take up to ten minutes but no one is allowed to say anything about it.

Jiang Yanli: she Can ABSOLUTELY parallel park. Does not brag about it, has never accidentally hit the car in front of or behind her even once.

Wen Chao: private parking garage ass bitch

Nie Huaisang: Can secretly parallel park but lets everyone believe he doesn’t know how to drive so he never has to be the designated driver or get asked to pick people up from the airport

Jin Ling: Tried once, failed, cried about it. Again I do not blame him for this, this is also how it went when I tried to learn how to drive stick

Wen Qing: Going to use ‘Can’ very liberally here. Yes Wen Qing ‘can’ parallel park but she will only correct twice. If god wanted the car to fit perfectly into the spot maybe she should have made parallel parking easier

Wen Ning: Definitely doesn’t know how to parallel park but doesn’t have a complex about it. This is a boy who takes the bus and always thanks the bus driver

Lan Sizhui: Jin Ling makes him park his car whenever they go anywhere. To be clear it takes Lan Sizhui 6 mortifying white knuckle minutes to complete this task but it’s better than the alternative

Lan Jingyi: Can parallel park with varying success, makes Sizhui crazy by playing it fast and loose with how close the car needs to be to the curb to be considered ‘parked’

Meng Yao: spent two weeks learning how to perfectly parallel park after someone vaguely insinuated that he didn’t seem like the type of bitch who could.

Nie Mingjue: Finally! A man who can parallel park in under a ten minutes without being a fucking weirdo about it.

Jin Zixuan: you’re extremely mistaken if you think this bitch doesn’t just uber everywhere

Lan Xichen: walks and takes the train because it’s environmentally conscientious. Has never parallel parked but would probably be able to do it on his first try.

Xue Yang: failed his drivers taste seven times before passing on this eighth on a technicality. Parks by reversing until he hits the car behind him, corrects until he hits the car in front of him, and then continues until he is somewhere approximating parked. His drivers side mirror is hanging on by duct tape and a wire. Where he’s going he doesn’t need mirrors. He has a bumper sticker that says “honk if you’re nasty” and seventeen empty McDonald’s bags in the back of his car.

Song Lan & Xiao Xingchen: these boys Can both parallel park like Normal People and at this point after all I’ve seen I’m willing to reward that behavior.

Yuzuru Hanyu's breathtaking hydroblades in slow motion

1,2: Haru yo Koi ∥ 2019 NHK EX/ 2019 WC EX

3,4: Notte Stellata ∥ 2016 NHK EX/ 2019 GPF EX

5,6: Ten to Chi to (Heaven And Earth) ∥ 2021 WTT FS/ 2021 WC FS

just saw a wild new iteration of "women and femmes" on an event flyer that said "currently or formerly identifies as female" i hate university

are you or have you ever been identified as female

you may be entitled to financial compensation

please please ohhhh my god please please please please please please please please please please

my 12 year old brother is carrying the lgbt community on his back

I have absolutely no idea what this is from or any context whatsoever, but I cannot stop laughing

This is from Taskmaster, a British gameshow of absolute, wonderful nonsense. Big recommend.

These ‘Beach Animals’ were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.

fuck it, straandbeast saturday

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Kitty ear spectrum

No thoughts, head empty

Kabul has fallen, Afghanistan is almost completely under Taliban rule now, and President Ashraf Ghani has fled. I wasn't alive during the Vietnam war, but having seen the images of Saigon at the end of it, it's impossible not to think of them when seeing the footage of Chinooks airlifting US embassy workers to Kabul airport. l cannot tell you how surreal it is to be watching the news from neighboring Pakistan, sitting next to my grandfather who has been alive for every change of government since the Brits left after the war.

History repeats and repeats and repeats, nobody learns a damn thing, and innocent civilians are the ones that suffer.

250 000 Afghans have left their homes. Many more are going to do so. And that's just the ones who flee. Those who don't will live under a conservative rule that is going to commit crimes against humanity on a daily basis, that is going to ruin the lives of generations to come.

The worst part is, I don't know what else there is to be done at this point. I can only pray that my country will accommodate the incoming refugees, though I fear they won't.

All I ask is that international community keep Afghanistan in their thoughts, and that everyone raises their voice against what is happening, both in terms of what the Taliban is doing, and how the actions of foreign powers led us to this point. The US, the UK, Pakistan, are all at fault, and must be held accountable