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[haoyando]

Unsolicited Advice

Image by ShonEjai from Pixabay She really didn’t want my advice, which was unsolicited in her unexpressed opinion towards me. However her mother insisted that I talk to her about how to improve her English and how to incorporate new methods of learning. So I was obliged to share with her methods like “comprehensive input”, listening, dual subtitles. Whenever I paused, she would insert her…

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#family #girl&039;s education #immigrant #income level #marrital problem

[llamahearted]

listen. all I wanted to do was learn to draw the otp kissing, but the problem here is,,, they keep cracking each other up

#bonus vmmw comic featuring the whole polycule incoming to the reblogs #I wanted to git gud at kissings image like crabplatinum's beautiful vashwoofs but #these two are just SO silly and SO goofy together #I'm on my '98 Wolfwood Being Held By His Huge Wife agenda don't mind me #get dipped idiot #trigun 1998 #millywood #milly thompson #nicholas d. wolfwood #it's kissings image MONTH and I couldn't even do it right pfffff. level 9000 art challenge right there: get yer blorbos to TOUCH. MOUTHS. #trilovenotwar

[z0mbiefrank]

you GUYS i am officially enrolled in my degree i am so unbelievably happy!!!!! i have been fighting for my life to get here. i had to turn down all my uni offers when i was a teen (had to move out independantly bc of domestic violence and disability/health complications). i've always known exactly what i want to do with my life but everything got put on hold whilst i desperately tried to sort my shit out. BUT IM DOING IT NOW!!!!!

#u guys dont even know 😭 #i dropped out of school when i was 14/15 #taught myself all my GCSEs at home #tried to go back to school 3 times but had to leave bc of my abuser finding me + disabilities/pain made my attendance scores impossible #taught myself my A levels and GOT INTO MY DREAM UNI #had to TURN DOWN the offer so i could move out alone somewhere safe on my own income where he could not find me #then had to take a few years to sort my shit out because hello what the FUCK was that first 20 years of my life #plus hey ive been AUTISTIC and adhd this whole time ontop of the cptsd and psychosis and whatever the FUCK else #but im here now :)) #lets get a fUCKING DEGREE!!!!!!!!!!

[il-predestinato]

#charles leclerc #* #interview #f1 #ugh #so another year of disappointment incoming but hey at least the car isn't total understeer trash #i know he's going to be wdc one day but dear lord these painful years are too long #bahrain testing 2024 #also the music collab with lewis question is hilarious #that man is so toxic whenever a teammate is remotely near his level #when charles destroys him you can bet your house that any collab ain't gonna happen 🤣 #charles you better ask him before y'all even get in a car 🤭

[supernova-skywalker]

*sigh* He's very handsome isn't he?

#ezra bridger #eman esfandi #ahsoka #star wars #send help #next level crush incoming #the perfect ezra

[squeakadeeks]

moodboard for this past week ❤️

#they should invent a grad school thats not fucking insane #i'm hanging in there but im the most unwell i've been in AWhile #this week was just horrible #there was already the freezer food incident but it also started off with a very severe pain episode thats putting me in constant woe #even mundane motion has been agonizing which is McAwesome bc we had a lab inspection which involved moving hundreds of pounds of equipment #during which we found a blackwidow and rats which we had to deal with and was a whole thing psychologically on top of the physical toll #the new class fiasco is still popping off and i had to respond to at this point over 400 emails in the fleeting moments outside of lab #AND A STUDENT TRIED TO FINANCIALLY BRIBE THEIR WAY INTO THE CLASS ? ?? ?? ????? #then the instructor wanted to use me as a guinea pig and i had to test new circuit boards but I wasnt given any time to do so properly #i had to test them plus get them operational and deal with my incoming students all in a frantic 10 minute window #im in charge of running our meetings too but the instructor was interrupting and having side conversations that made it really hard- #to train the other people on the new equipment in a smooth manner #which meant that a bunch of people had to keep me after to ask questions which made me late for my drs appointment #where i found out i cant get the new covid vaccine bc my heart and blood levels arnt stable enough #and joanns lost an expensive+critical fabric order of mine+i had to give a big presentation this week on my research that was stressful #and my inbox is still blowing up from being needed all over the place between teaching lab and classes and yall i am. so so tired. #im in so much pain and so stressed out #debating the ethics of turning into a pile of lint to escape my responsibilities and mortal frame

[philippeauguste]

One of the things I actually loved about Stede and Ed’s relationship in season 1 is how soft and kind they are to each other (when others are not, see the crew and Izzy). Very quietly protective.

Ed makes Stede feels special and interesting, all his little quirks being charming instead of lame.

Stede listens and values Ed and his feelings. He validates him wanting to better himself or wanting to find who he can be outside of the Blackbeard persona.

All those little kind gestures for each other, like the treasure hunt where Stede tries to give adventure to Ed. And Ed, thanks to a little push from Lucius, sees it for the loving outreach that it is.

I’m not ready for them to be at odds in season 2, but they both have a huuuuge potential for pettiness and bitchiness so it will be hilarious.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede #edward teach #ofmd season 2 #ofmd 2 #gentlebeard #blakcbeard #cat fight incoming #those bitches will reach unseen levels of pettiness

[fridayvelvet]

Beyond evil will be getting a Japanese remake!

#Japanese bl level beyond evil incoming #beyond evil #jwds

[orchideae]

My apologies for the absence! I feel like a broken record saying this, but I keep entering different phases of 'settling into life' (went through a massive change in my personal life last year), and then every time I get to 'Ah, all is calm now', something else happens. But I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, as one huge weight has now finally been lifted off my shoulders. Phew. /munches on my camembert and baguette.

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. #[ i'm gonna chill in the sims /just a tiny bit/; and then i want to do a bit of a graphic overhaul of aesthetics/graphics here. ] #[ there's also a dual promo that's incoming (i'm sure nobody could guess with who whatsoever) sometime soon... ] #[ once i manage to decide on clips and transitions. ah; different kinds of creative juices! ] #[ and drafts. /drafts/. i feel so rusty. so incredibly rusty. my writing isn't what it used to be and that's perfectly normal and okay. ] #[ and it hurts me on a soul-level. but i also know that the only way back to it is to write. so that's what i'll do. i'll try to put my... #[ own scrutiny to the side and just write. ultimately i want to write all of these ideas in my head out onto here. ] #[ and progress them with you guys. and so if i let my own mind withhold me then nothing gets done at all. no writing. ] #[ i just need to remember that. ] #[ bear with me; i'm working on it. this. myself. and yelan. ]

[devilishlydumb]

mclaren fucked up lando on that first stint.

whether intentional or not, i don’t care, the end result is the same: he ended up behind charles and oscar after his pit stop.

lando was also faster during his second stint.

mclaren asked to let lando through because his on track position was, again, fucked up by the strategy and he was faster.

lando ended 30 seconds ahead.

because, again, he was faster this weekend.

no one robbed oscar of the podium, seeing their times, lando would’ve eventually gotten him on his own. but team orders prevent them from losing time in the battle and therefore giving them a chance to end closer to charles + furthering the gap from alonso.

i understand being disappointed because it’s oscar’s home race and it would’ve been sweet seeing him on the podium and, correct me if i’m wrong, making him the first australian to get a podium on home soil.

but saying lando was gifted the podium completely dismisses his work this weekend when he’s simply been ahead through the entirety of it.

#even oscar said it was the right decision to make #so just #stop trying to make the one stable leveled partnership of the grid into another shitshow 🫵🏻 #anyways #mclaren 1-2 in japan incoming exactly #lando norris #oscar piastri

[cowboysmp3]

i’m really deeply attached to the idea of getting a little sausage dog once i’m settled into an apartment,,, a little beast who is my best friend and also the same size as my current cat

#i’ve been considering getting a second cat once i’m settled #which would be far more reasonable #but i think id really enjoy a little dog #i love sausage dogs so so so much #my kitty has been around dogs her whole life too and never around other cats #so i think she’s cope with that better #it hugely depends on my apartment / income level #but god do i want a little sausage dog

[metamatar]

i think the new way western leftists are gonna ignore discourse about imperialism is pretending that extreme poverty in the global south is not real.

#south african blogger is getting shit for saying usa problems are not so bad on a global level but bad compared to high income countries #which is such an anodyne statement i would not expect any pushback for it #imperialism

[aha-chuu]

Kaveh's Odd Desert Connections

Kaveh... Is weird. I hadn't thought that much about it until I very recently caught up with the Dirge of Bilqis quest (the new desert one with Jeht) and watched Ashikai's latest theory video. This post is just meant to gather my thoughts and share what I've learned.

So first what sent me down this rabbit hole was finding this during the desert quest:

In case you missed it in that wall of text, this record is addressed to "Mehrak". We know due to leaks that Kaveh's very cute briefcase is called Mehrak also.

Unfortunately,,, desert lore is like that and is pretty hard to untangle. These records recount the fall of Gurabad and the story of Liloupar - basically, they tell a story of a ruined civilisation from thousands of years in the past. Knowing the actual contents of them isn't really necessary to follow this post, because Mehrak (and by extension Kaveh) is only namedropped this one time out of all the records.

But we can theorise a lot just from this single mention. To me, there are two possible explanations for why "Mehrak" comes up in these records whilst also being Kaveh's present day briefcase. The first is mildly boring but kind of funny: there is no true connection between Kaveh's Mehrak and the Mehrak mentioned, Kaveh simply named his cute techno briefcase after a historical figure because he thought it would be cool. Kaveh is smart and does work on projects in the desert, so it is not outside the realm of possibility that he might learn of Mehrak and use the name. It makes him look a whole lot more nerdy, which I find amusing.

The second possible explanation (and pls do provide your thoughts if you have any other ideas) was provided to me by a redditer (PinkPrimrose05). Their theory is that Mehrak is in a similar situation to Ferigees, who I will remind you is the Jinni near the end of the Dirge of Bilqis questline. They were a person at a certain point in history, but has since been trapped in a mechanical construct. They cannot die until we release them.

(I apologise for the poor quality, Ferigees is inside that yellow mechanism.)

This has many more implications, since (if this is the case) Mehrak's current form does not really match the other ancient desert technology. Well, perhaps it has some similar patterning, but it definitely looks significantly more modern than other technology from that time -

(I could not for the life of me find a good model image for this, so sorry Kaveh's arm is in the way.)

Perhaps I should have mentioned this earlier - we know from leaks that Mehrak has some level of sentience, in that it has expressions (little pixelated anime eye reactions) and responds to Kaveh's instructions without necessitating verbal or physical inputs. This makes the Jinni idea seem more likely, since they also have sentience.

Okay, so maybe the briefcase has a rich history from the time of King Deshret. So what? Kaveh probably found it in the desert and repurposed it for his own needs - perhaps due to errosion Mehrak has no memory of its past life. Since the technology does not quite match, or at least not totally, perhaps Kaveh created the briefcase around Mehrak (as well as an architect he is also a student from the technology darshan, after all). Or maybe he just made additions. What does it even matter aside from being an interesting tidbit?

Well, then I watched Ashikai's latest video: https://youtu.be/h5rNMYwWjfA. It's not necessary watching to understand what I'm about to say, so I'll summarise some of her thoughts very broadly: she brings up the idea that rather than Alhaitham being the Deshret parallel as we all thought, it's instead Kaveh. If you would like to hear all her thoughts as to why that could be, I recommend watching the video.

This does not mean that Kaveh IS Deshret, or even that it's a reincarnation situation. Just that he could be a parallel, or have more connections/knowledge than we might realise. Kaveh is an interesting case from a meta perspective also, since he has had a strange amount of unnecessary story presence for an unreleased four star. He is in the archon quest and Alhaitham's story quest and in neither is his presence at all justified by narrative - Alhaitham's quest could easily end fifteen minutes earlier, and Kaveh adds literally nothing to the archon quest aside from some nice levity. Some lore relevant significance might explain this presence past just "oh, well Hoyo wanted fanservice".

Through the lens that their is some sort of Deshret -> Kaveh connection happening (and I say this so so loosely), his connection with Mehrak might have a more sinister implication. Deshret allowed, through his own ignorance, the Jinni he intended to protect on behalf of the Goddess of Flowers to be enslaved. He also lied about the Goddess' death to the Jinni, and it is largely due to their contract with him that their entire civilisation fell apart. An important note about Ferigees and Liloupar is that both crave an existence outside of their prisons - Ferigees purposefully trapped themself inside the mechanism but found the experience torturous, and Liloupar returns to Gurabad. If Mehrak is another trapped Jinni, Kaveh might be accidentally mistreating it.

However, I like the idea that Mehrak and Kaveh are friends much better. Its expressions are often positive ones, so even if it's forced to listen to Kaveh because he has its name, it doesn't seem too upset about it. Also, another part of Ashikai's video posits that Liloupar so quickly accepts the traveller because they have resemblance to Deshret (a whole other rabbit hole, watch the video if you want to know). In this same thread, Ashikai brings up that Kaveh looks very similar to the traveller, so I think that perhaps Mehrak (either knowingly or not) connects Kaveh to its previous master, which could explain why it listens to him so well.

Overall, I find this connection very intriguing and I'm excited to learn more. There is definitely something there, but whether or not it will be imprtant I do not know.

#genshin impact #kaveh #mehrak #kaveh's briefcase #genshin leaks #dirge of bilqis #lore #theory? #long post #also i had unrelated kavetham thoughts about why alhaitham has deshret's eyes #but is not revealed to be connected to him on a story level in any way #if kaveh has the connection instead and then has control of mechanisms #and alhaitham's burst looks exactly like the ASIMON attack which is a desert mechanism #idk there is a fanfiction there i swear to god #also more story esque leaks incoming but not really #kaveh is by leagues the main character in the 3.6 event #so next patch is truly his patch #so hopefully we'll get lots of info

[manawari]

@jdah here are the ideas I have for the human versions of Igris and Bellion:

Igris - tall, has auburn hair (at chest length to be precise since I'm liking the idea of Igris wearing a ponytail 🤩) that is parted in the middle, fair-skinned (since he wears an armor almost all the time, and has an athletic figure with strong biceps due to his skills as a swordsman. And I imagine his eyes being hazel brown 👀

Bellion - taller than Igris by five inches, his dark hair is in a military haircut, tanned skin, and has a buffer physique like Yoon-ho. His eyes might be either green or yellow. Plus, he'd be the type of person who would wear sleeveless turtlenecks.

Bonus:

Tusk - long, curly and unruly brown hair, smaller than Beru, Bellion, and Igris, and has a darker skin with a broader/chubbier figure. His eyes will be dark grey-colored. Two thick tusks would be hanging on each side of his tribal necklace and he also has a big ancient tattoo on his chest.

#incoming human!igris × human!bellion brainrots woot woot #solo leveling

[liyazaki]

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#rare purely gratuitous breakdown incoming #is anyone else suddenly hanging on by their last remaining thread or is it just me? #people are being massacred #every hour brings another unconscionable horror #meanwhile #i’m dealing w/ a human crisis on a much smaller level (but serious) at work #& it involves people who are extremely underserved & out of options #we’re doing our damndest to fill in the gaps where the pathetically dismal social services in this country are failing #but we also have to enforce policies for everyone’s sake #all while we’re running on a skeleton crew & the issues keep mounting #i’m taking on as extra responsibilities as i possibly can b/c my staff are working their asses off as it is #i’m reaching a point where i want to jump ship #join the soulless us corporate landscape for self preservation #which feels selfish as *fuck* #i wanted to do good work- meaningful work #but we’re not equipped to help these people #it’s becoming harder & harder not to lapse into full-on nihilistic resignation #& to feel like it’s all an exercise in futility- drowning people trying to save drowning people #& all this- & all the suffering & uncertainty i see in my country in general #while countless people across the ocean who i’ll never be able to help are dying #& i know tomorrow will come (one way or the other) & this won’t always feel like this b/c it can’t #but this is one of those rare times i feel scraped clean- nothing left to give #i’m tired to my bones- full up w/ grief & guilt #& all i want to do is weep under the covers & wake up to a not-nightmare world #that only seems to take & take & take #personal #mor rambles

[agnesandhilda]

I don't believe high-end makeup is meaningfully better than drugstore makeup (unless you're, like, a drag performer or professional mua) but I do envy the financial status it takes to drop almost four times my hourly pay on a single lipstick

#bolo speaks #makeup #yes I am DECIDEDLY working class yes I like hyperconsumerist influencer content. for the fantasy of having that level of disposable income #and also because I like pretty colors but so does everybody who likes makeup