Fixations on Fictional Men

I had spurlged, I don't think I will be stopping anytime soon.

[r00ib0s]

happy belated fathers day i guess

[whatelizard]

Romonon POV

[ramen8008]

I do really love how the anime keeps showing us glimpses of Qifrey in a suspicious light. Telling us that "hey there's a lot of shit you don't really know about him and his motives are suspicious as hell. Probably shouldn't trust him"

And then immediately contrast it with just how much these kids trust him.

Richeh, a child who was most definitely abused and does not like adults at all, trusts Qifrey. Yes she gets mad but that's the thing, isn't it? A kid who's scared of adults won't show that they're mad or upset. They wouldn't voice that. But Richeh does and she gives Qifrey an ultimatum when he asks her to give the second test. She voices her feelings, and conditions. It's trust, she trusts him to not push her to do something unless he truly believes it's the best for her, but even more so it's because she feels safe with him. She knows he's safe.

Agott, also a kid who's probably been through way too much, she's closed off and focused. She pushes herself to extremes but never does it seem that she's afraid that Qifrey will be disappointed in her. She's never afraid of Qifrey, in fact she thinks he's too soft on her. He's safe. She trusts him, she did when he held her meters above the ground and she does no matter how much she might disagree with him sometimes

Because maybe he's not trustworthy but he's safe.

These kids trust him. And that means a lot.

[rynsketches]

inspection

[letsdontdie]

Put them in less stressful situations!!

[windblumewishes]

I’ll say it…

Qifrey is ideal husband material. He can cook, he’s good with kids, he’s hot, he can do magic… and he’s hot.

I rest my case, mate.

- Windblume

[meggydolaon]

Happy father's day to these hardworking girldads <3

[justl-12]

Water family photo after they managed to pester urokodaki into taking off his mask

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[violetsandshrikes]

to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

connectedpapers

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

[thefifthtetrahedron]

researchrabbit works similarly. you do need to create an account to use it, but it is completely free (as far as I know), meaning no limits to your collections/graphs.

[edwoodette]

Wait. Don't rush. You think it's an SOS signal. Maybe the person who planted it intended it to be "Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl".

How Dare You

Episode 10

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Obsessed with how desperate Xie Zheng is to marry his wife

[seadrama]

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge

X

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

X

[koremakaria]

In Ancient Time All Men Were Not Created Equal Especially Grandsons.

This was such a beautiful scene between Wei Yan and his maternal grandmother. In order to better understand the gravity of Wei Yan's decision we have to look at their family tree. I made a rough one below. In chinese culture, due to the strict paternal ancestry tracing, different terms exist for your maternal and paternal family members depending on your gender and your place within the family hierarchy. For example, your older uncle on your father side is called something different from your older uncle from your mother side. The same rule applies to how a grandchild would refer to their maternal and paternal grandparents. In addition to this there is a concept of in-family and out-family.

In-family include descendants from your sons and grandsons and so on and so forth. Out-family include your daughters and their descendants. The rational being that your daughters will marry into other families. Although keeping their fathers' surname unlike many western traditions. Children born from daughters belong to the children's fathers' family and while they are all still family they are referred to as out-grandchildren. Wei Yan and Wei Shao are first cousins but they are not equal with Wei Zhao being the in-family and Wei Yan being the out-family.

Lady Xu initially thought that Wei Yan wanted to leave. Like she was heart broken because his father and her clan are technically warring and the fact that his father kidnapped her precious daughter is still an open wound to her. Lady Xu was super honest about her fears and why she never wanted him to have any military control. Like it was brutal. But she's ready to let her grandson go if that was what Wei Yan wanted. This would mean the end of their family relationship. That Wei Yan would embrace his father's (bad guy) legacy. That he might enjoy a more prestigious standing / more power and influence as a young master of his father's family. Like it makes so much sense for this time period. But Wei Yan chose a different path.

He chooses the Wei family that raised him

Like it was hard for Wei Yan to hear that his grandmother didn't fully trust him but he now also understands why. It's not because of what he did but simply part of how he came into world. Then for him to make the decision to stay made things clearer for Lady Xu. Because she gave Wei Yan the opportunity to leave without blaming him and Wei Yan said nope...I think not!!! It was such a beautiful scene. Wei Yan was like I love my grandma!!! 😍 awwww soooo much feelsss

[pinkbiskit]