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“The lion…the sun ☀️”

#oooohhhh pretty #max verstappen #fanart #f1 art

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What if after Xie Lian loses his bad luck shackle, after all the years he spent trying so desperately to be a good cook, he discovers that his cooking is actually really reaaallly fantastic. As if he had cultivated the skill all those years yet couldnt express it till now. Like to the point that it causes chaos in a new way. Food so excellent it ceases Feng Xin and Mu Qing's arguments, convinces Qi Rong to stop being a fucking cannibal, makes Shi Qingxuan ascend again, and lets Ling Wen relax for ONCE. Xie Lian sends the heavens in disarray once more via good soup 👍

#ok that would be really funny can someone write a fic please? #tgcf

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One of the best moments in TGCF is when Xian Lian is lying stabbed in the road in Lang-Er Bay, seriously thinking about committing genocide, and the merchant bumps into him, drops his rice, cusses and yells at him, and then a bit later comes back and apologizes for being angry and gives Xian Lian his bamboo hat. The reason it is the best is that we expect one moment of kindness. This is what happens in a book like this. We know that Xie Lian has to have an epiphany about humanity to draw him back from the brink of utter and complete darkness. We know he has to have a catalyst that makes it so he does not commit genocide and decides to save everyone instead. This is how these stories go. But in these stories, that moment is usually given to us by an innocent child. Or it's given to us by someone who is just a purer soul than all the rest. In the set-up for this scene, you fully expect the one who will give Xie Lian the will to save humanity will be the water merchant who has been wanting to help Xie Lian the whole time he was lying in the road with a sword through him. That water merchant has been shown to be more compassionate than the rest and has been held back by his wife, who fears the God of Misfortune.

And yet, in TGCF, that moment is not given to us by a pure, innocent child. It is not given to us by one person who just happens to be kinder than most. It's not. It's not. It's given to us by just your every day guy having a shitty day who is just as cruel and nasty to Xian Lian as everyone else, but who takes a moment to calm down and sees this pathetic loser in the rain and is like "hey, I lost my temper, sorry, don't be a pathetic loser, here's my hat, stopped getting rained on and looking so sad, go home."

It's not this pure shining moment about the inherent goodness of humanity. It's this pure shining moment about people doing shitty things and people doing kind things and how that's all mixed up within us and we're always both. It's that that gives Xie Lian the will to survive and sacrifice everything to save all humanity. It's not because there is good alongside the bad but because we're always both, and Xie Lian knows that he is both, and he thinks that's worth saving. He thinks it's worth being obliterated for.

When he's not obliterated for it, he lives for it instead.

#tgcf #xie lian #this is kind of like LOTR's 'small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay'

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about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

#this may be an unpopular opinion #but I think it’s exactly this stuff that weirds me out about oyasumi punpun and no longer human #which both deal with alienation from society but in this really weird incel-y way #that kinda blames women for the problems of the protagonist #and generally reeks of misogyny #like as someone who doesn’t have a sense of gender society can get really weird #and I have dealt with alienation (mostly as a child tho it’s not that bad anymore) #and so I thought I would love these works but they just gave me a massive ick #i could probably go on and on about this #anyways #this is kinda tmi but oh well

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from mclaren on instagram

hello are you TRYING to kill me??

#he has orange in his eyes I’m- #oscar piastri

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actually how you dress and present yourself really does matter because nico rosberg, who dresses like the CFO of goop, is largely thought of as narcissistic and self-obsessed, despite the fact that his primary form of social media is linkedin and his two main activities are environmental finance bro and girl dad. meanwhile sebastian vettel is out here regularly posting about his career highlights, commissioning fan art of him and senna to use as merch, and flying 6000 miles to do an insect hotel photo op, but because he dresses exclusively in flannel and hasn't touched a hairbrush in six years people think of him as a humble cabin dwelling hermit

#cfo of goop took me the fuck out #but yeah #nico rosberg #sebastian vettel

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When I’m feeling sad or exhausted I carry him around in my pocket and it makes everything so much better

#spocket #spock #star trek

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oh my god....

#i wanna boop his nose #omg he’s giving adorable little kitty #max verstappen

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"AO3 doesn't need a "dislike" button"

Um, actually, it already has one. Depending on your specs, it might look a little different but over all it looks kinda like this:

You can find it at the corner of your screen, which corner is dependent on your layout.

Anyway, if you dislike a fic, you can hit this Dislike Button until the fic goes away. It really is pretty amazing actually.

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Rarely does anything feel as good as hitting the absolute jackpot when you’re researching something

#found a 200 page dissertation about falconry in Asia #that answers all my questions for my measly 15 page paper about Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia #life is fucking great actually

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pato o'ward for man about town | ss24

#THERE WAS NO NEED!!! #NO NEED TO GO THIS HARD WTF???? #pato o'ward

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sooooo my phone has a stupid software bug that means the alarm doesn't work properly (fuck u google pixel i hate you so much). so i have a third party app called alarmy installed and on said app you can do fun things like set it so that your phone only stops playing the alarm tone if you do maths questions or shake it 15 times or play a memory game or - as i noticed last week when i was setting a different alarm for something - scan a barcode. i thought this was v fun and clever and decided i should set it to the barcode of something in my bathroom bc that would get me out of bed and my exhausted terrible sleeping alarm-snoozing self would suddenly become A Morning Person.

but at the time i discovered this it was about 1am and i was already in bed and tired so to test it out to show D i scanned the nearest thing i could find which was a bottle of lube in my bedside table

anyway. can you guess what happened next? if you said "now i'm 200 miles away for work and my phone is beeping every 5 minutes and i am sending increasingly urgent texts to home like PLS SEND CLEAR PHOTO OF LUBE BOTTLE BARCODE VIA WHATSAPP THANK U :)))))))))))))", you have won a prize

#laugh tag

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Such a catdad! 🥰❤️

#achdbrjfrhdjssm so adorable!!! #i love cat dad max #max verstappen

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Trying out a new medium/technique that I’ve been meaning to try for a while now for the Max China art and turns out it’s hard as shit (unsurprisingly) so this might take a while

#miscellaneous #art #about art

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Finally finished hualian ^^ 🌸🦋

#omg stunning!!! #I love it #so soft with those colours and flowy shapes and the soft shading #hualian #tgcf #fanart

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