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Might i humbly request a drawing of her as a human

The Most Public Private Meet-Cute [Episode 4]

NHS: hello everyone my name is nie huaisang

Background Person: hiii huaisaaang

NHS: and fun fact about me is that i grew up around lan xichen and i know exactly what his type is

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Oh yeah firm headcanon Jiang Cheng gets up at seven o'clock every morning, thereby allowing him to consider Lan Wangji's 5 hideously early and Wei Wuxian's 9 disgustingly late.

Because he's Jiang Cheng, he gets up at seven even if he stayed up until one with wwx. The suffering gives him a sense of virtue.

Mdzs is fucking incredible because Wei Wuxian himself, the Yiling Patriarch, is the most beautifully and perfectly constructed tragedy you've ever seen. He falls apart at the seams and sews himself back together again and again until he no longer can, and even if you want to beg him to stop you can't. You can't! Because he is doing this for a reason, for what is right, and you cannot ask him to abandon the protection of the innocent even if it is killing him. And it does kill him.

And then he wakes up over a decade later in a gay mystery romcom, Miss Moxiang Tongxiu your fucking MIND I want to study you like Diana Wynne Jones studied Tolkien--

More medieval dyes for y'all!

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we've done it again folks

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

no one tell him

Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.

March 15 again and here we go…

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*historical giggling*

i’m re-reading animorphs, a series i loved when i was a closeted young child, as a queer adult and feeling a little insane over it actually. like ok so. imagine you are just a normal regular kid until one day, a chance encounter with an adult unlike any adult you've ever met before abruptly changes who you are as a person, and suddenly you are not like other kids at all. and now you have to fight a secret battle for survival, but you cannot tell anyone around you about it, because many of the people around you harbor a secret violent hatred for who you are, and if you tell someone without realizing the person you're talking to is one of the people who hates you, that person will either put you through horrific harm to make you like them or just outright kill you. this is true of every single person around you—your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teachers—except for a few other kids who you know share your same secret.

and now you have to try to maintain close relationships with the people you love even though you cannot tell them who you really are, who you spend your time with, who you go to when you're not with them. when you see your secret companions in public, you have to try to pretend you barely know them, because being seen together too often could lead to suspicion. you are enduring consistent ongoing trauma that you cannot talk to anyone about because anyone whose job is to help people through trauma may also be one of the people who wants to kill you. also you're a shapeshifter. like yeah ok i wonder why so many people who were obsessed with animorphs as a kid turned out to be queer

that moment when you cross the point of no return with a character should be accompanied by a specific chime i think. like 🔔 congratulations! this one has been installed in the Permanent Collection and you will never stop thinking about them as long as you live

Apparently they're selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.

im terrible at sexting because people will be like “ive been a bad girl/boy” and ill be there like “morality is subjective anyway… and as immanuel kant said, im in awe of the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me”

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okay here's the random question of the day. what specific word or phrase in your vocabulary is a dead giveaway for the local or regional dialect from where you grew up? like for me it's saying "chonies" instead of underpants. that's just very southern san joaquin valley/maybe southern california in general, but like, VERY southern valley

goncharov fanfiction isnt even fanfiction you are just writing fiction you have been tricked into writing stories

Academic workers from four different bargaining units at the University of California are taking part in the largest strike in the U.S. since 2019 and the largest strike in U.S. higher education ever! On day 2 of the strike, the UCs have continued to refuse to bargain in good faith–TAs have not bargained since last Wednesday.

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