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out of all the great finnish sayings ’anyway, onto new disappointments’ is my favorite. in constant use in my household of one

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Rereading Sunshine by Robin McKinley (one of my favourite vampire books). All I remember from reading it 10 years ago is the amount of page-time dedicated to baking cinnamon rolls. But I've realised, this time round, that the baking of cinnamon rolls is the symptom of a much larger theme in characterisation - Rae's ride-or-die commitment to the 'I'm just some guy' bit.

Every single chapter, another thing is revealed about Rae that puts her closer to being a special snowflake Chosen One: her name is Raven Blase but her nickname is Sunshine, she has sunlight powers, she's not just an innocent bystander but the daughter of a powerful warlock, she can help a vampire walk in sunlight, she's performing powerful magic. And every single time Rae just turns round and says to the reader, "but that's not important :) I'm just some guy :) I really like baking :) ignore that gothic heroine coding :) it's time to get up at 4am to make bread :)"

Her commitment to being Just Some Guy is genuinely carrying the novel. Every single day she becomes more of a Chosen One, but there's cinnamon rolls to make. Fucking D&D-ass characterisation. High art.

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wine for idiots

WHITE WINE

if you want to make a wine person very unhappy, say that a white wine they like "is giving me a little green bell pepper?"

RED WINE

honestly the only two questions you need to start credibly talking about red wine are "does it taste like red fruits (strawberry/cherry/raspberry) or black fruits (blackberry/plum)?" and "does it taste oaky (i.e. gently sweet and earthy in a way youd associate with coffee or chocolate or warming spices)

if its a fancy dry wine (not a dessert wine, not port, manischewitz or markovic) dont say "sweet," say "juicy"

FIZZY WINE

if its red and fizzy its probably a lambrusco

if youre drinking champagne talk about the "minerality," even chalk notes if youre feeling gutsy. you dont have to taste it just say it

ORANGE WINE

this is very trendy. youre gonna want to talk about its "funkiness." if you use the term "gym socks" at the right time you will get a round of laughs or at least knowing nods. if you see shmutz in the bottom dont worry about it.

MISC

if you want a wine person to talk for a while and not ask you any questions just ask them how they feel about natural wine. theyll go on for a little and you can decide to agree or disagree based on how hot they are

#wine #long post #I cackled #my dad is a Wine Person so I unfortunately understood some of this but I have never understood wine myself and disappoint him on the regula #By only drinking very sweet white dessert wines. I'm not sorry I like my drinks to taste good!!

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Li Lianhua x Hulijing

*boop*

*boop boop boop boop boop*

Bestest girl

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I needed two more characters but since I already had wangxian and bingqiu I decided to just add hualian.

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A letter for shizun, I wonder what it’s about? 👀👀

#svsss #fanart #HE'S BABY

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Transphobes often say gender is like a coin, either heads or tails. They're more right than they realize.

Gender is a coin. Everybody is given one at birth, and they're given it either heads or tails. You can flip it over. You can flip it back. You can keep flipping it all you want. You can balance it on its side. You can throw it away. You can get a new one. You can take it to the zoo or museum to one of thise penny press machines. You can melt it and reform it. You can keep it melted. You could even take someone else's. You can glue fun things to it. You can paint it. You can take the paint off. You can trade them for cool shit.

Transphobes often say gender is a coin. They say this not realizing how easily coins can be changed.

#gender #I like this! #I lost my gender coin in the couch cushions years ago and replaced it with intense opinions about hair dye

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Cuddling. don’t mind the claws of the beast

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YQY should get to kill more

#LET 👏 YQY 👏 BE 👏 UNHINGED #i maintain someone needs to take him on a murder roadtrip post canon. probably lqg. it wouldn't fix them probably but it would be very funny

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sangcheng week 2020 // day 3 - yearning / “lotus and birds” - badashanren

colours by @dapacchicode 🌿

the poem here’s from “the song of bamboo twigs” by liu yuxi, translation here

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@fandom-trash-goblin tumblr ate your ask but here's Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu for you in palette 14! 💕

#still trying to figure out my shen qingqiu honestly. i think he might need to be more angular #i don't have a solid image for him it makes it tricky! #svsss #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #next day reblog

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Your SQQ is so pretty! 🥹

Oh my goodness thank you! I'm definitely still figuring him out so this is such a nice thing to hear 💕

#asks

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Painting camellias in ink

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@fandom-trash-goblin tumblr ate your ask but here's Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu for you in palette 14! 💕

#still trying to figure out my shen qingqiu honestly. i think he might need to be more angular #i don't have a solid image for him it makes it tricky! #svsss #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #next day reblog

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This post instantly gave me Griddlehark vibes, so I had to.

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