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The scene where Wen Qing pretends to pick a fight with Jiang Cheng at the tavern so she can covertly warn him that the others are in danger has me like 🥺, because Wen Qing was probably expecting Jiang Cheng to get angry and physically aggressive—after all, the whole point is to get close to him without appearing friendly or seeking him out. Instead, he just goes from confused to hurt, and rather than get into her physical space as she escalates, he ducks his head and TRIES TO LEAVE. She has to jump up and physically restrain him to get the needed proximity. She ultimately succeeds in warning him, he understands immediately what she was doing, and all is well, but still… man. When Qing went in figuring it’d be easy to get Jiang Cheng riled up and instead he sits there distraught that his crush is being mean to him.

#the untamed #wen qing #jiang cheng #there's a light on queue

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convert a closet into a reading nook

#i used to live in a room that had a little entry way #that contained the only window not fully blocked by an a/c unit #and opposite that like a closet rail #anyway i had both my desk and my closet there and 10/10 i miss that entry way #very little else about that house worth missing tho besides the neighbors

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Time to check in at the No-Tell Motel

My new single-player TTRPG, No-Tell Motel, is now available! Come on over and grab a PDF, or throw in $5 more to pre-order your physical copy.

In No-Tell Motel, you play the overnight clerk at a sleazy motel. One of your guests murders another one, and no one much seems to care who did it or why. No one but you, that is.

Playing the game only requires a standard deck of playing cards and a six-sided die. You use the face cards to identify your motel's regular guests (yes, the book comes ready with 16), and the numbers cards to randomly generate things that happen between them.

And unlike most build-as-you-go mystery games, you can make your best guess and still get it very, very wrong.

The nightly spread of the game looks a bit like a hand of Solitaire, and that's on purpose. I wanted playing the game to feel a little bit like something you'd do to pass the time in the small hours of the morning.

Here's how it works.

The rules generate different murder victims and methods, a highly randomized yet still coherent matrix of guest gossip, actions and conflict, and most importantly: a way to find out if your accusation was correct, and what the consequences are for pointing the finger.

If you like pulp crime, The Conversation, or Errol Morris's Tabloid, you should check out No-Tell Motel.

#ttrpg

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Doctor Who Season 1 Trailer

#doctor who #this just looks so fun

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

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SUN ZHENNI as PIAN RAN Till the End of the Moon 长月烬明 (2023) | Episode 6

#pian ran #tteotm #beloved!!!

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Tampa Bay Super Mario style

by Sir_Lazz

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NEW LIFE BEGINS 卿卿日常 (2022) TIAN XI WEI as LI WEI

#new life begins #li wei

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Untitled from the Formulation: Articulation, Volume I portfolio, Josef Albers, 1972

Color screenprint 11.31 x 11.69 in. (28.7 x 29.7 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

#there's a light on queue

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Pian Ran Portrait

View On WordPress

#tteotm #pian ran

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How did you make everyone like you? People might think you like me too. It's not impossible.

New Life Begins (2022)

#new life begins #the colors are so pretty #there's a light on queue

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Entering my Cassian Andor era apparently

#cassian andor #star wars

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she’s cute. she’s tall(er than you, which if we are really being honest is not saying much). she’s got genuinely massive biceps. she has made more “your mom” jokes in her one tragically short lifetime than everyone else who has ever lived on your shitty home planet put together. she is the previous owner of your mysterious sword with terrible vibes that you try very hard not to think too much about lest you pass out and hit your head on one of god’s hardwood floors again. i didn’t say her name, but ORTUS NIGENAD popped into your head, didn’t he? also you probably have passed out on the floor now so sorry about that

#tlt #dying

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T. Kingfisher's romantic subplot dynamics are almost always "middle aged practical woman with a major failed relationship in her past meets buff polite guilt-riddled hunk of a man", and ya know what I respect that

#this really is the kingfisher special #and i enjoy it so

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The Miette pronunciation post remind me of a repeat situation I've had to deal with my entire life: assholes refusing to pronounce my name correctly.

I had a teacher who decided that my first name being a French name meant my last name is as well. They would pronounce my last name as though it's French, and would threaten detention anytime I refused to respond. Took my parents having a hard talk either them about this to correct her about it.

As often as not, I have to deal with assholes pronouncing my name like it's spelled, so now it has a long E (like in we) rather than sounding like a long A (like in yay). These people get angry when I correct them.

One uni instructor I had didn't like my name, so she called me Wren. She threatened to fail me if i kept refusing to reply to her or kept correcting her. I had to speak to a school official to correct her behavior. Apparently, she did this with any name that ends on a long A.

If you have a difficult time pronouncing someone's name, ask then to repeat it until you do get it right. I had a Chinese flatmate whose name was pronounced Roo-hway. I can't remember the spelling, but she said if I can't pronounce her name Ruth is acceptable. She was shocked when I practiced a couple times and got it right. My Japanese flatmate (I lived with several international students) introduced herself as Kiki, which us an easy name to pronounce, but stated my name is impossible to pronounce because of the R, and refused to learn it. She brought over several Japanese classmates for a study group once and I introduced myself. She said, again, that none of them could say my name...until one of them said she's full of shit and proceeded to pronounce my name correctly...along with the test of the other eight or nine classmates. She never brought them over again (I later learned she's just a spoiled brat), likely due to being called out in her bullshit.

So, anyway, names aren't that difficult. Some sounds I cannot say, like the inverted K for tl, so I just use a K sound instead. Some sounds are unique to specific languages, making them an impossible challenge for some. Still, do try, and stop being pissy about it.

#minna people are 50/50 whether they pronounce it where the start rhymes with minnow or meena #the first is correct but i don't begrudge the 2nd esp bc this is a chosen name i use only in fandom #my rl name is never pronounced incorrectly unless the person can't pronounce an English th which is fine

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#art