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#reblogging myself #the tags from earlier when i was on my lunch break #i was like i'll just take a short nap after work #that was the devil whispering in my ear #i "napped from like 5:45 until 10:30pm #i ate dinner at 11pm #i am now wide awake (12:10am)#thankfully i don't work until 12pm #so i can stay up for a few more hours before i need to go to bed

kosmogrl

#literally me last night staying up until 4 hours before my alarm goes off #then my asshole brain deciding i need to just speedrun all of my anxieties instead sleeping

elwenyere

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

#fuck ai

harkamal

I like finding out what people my age and older had as their first cell phone. Anybody younger and their answer is a generic Android or iPhone. Phones from the 2000s were some wacky device like the sidekick or samsung x83 or lg env2

My first phone was a nokia 1112 in 2008

#i had one of the nextel with the walkie-talkie function #it was my mom's first #then my brothers #then i got it like sophmore year of hs #about 2006 i think #then i had a katana my junior/senior years #i got an lg ally in my first college year which was my first with a touch screen & it slid open for the keyboard #my first buttonless phone as the galaxy note 2 #we joke about our younger staff at work not knowing what cell phones used to be like #we realized that people in their early 20s never used instant messagers like AIM because text messaging has always been free for them #make us sound a million years old to them #they can't even fathom it

zoozki

#michigan #lmao #the 'shows where they live on their hand' stereotype of michiganders is true #tho #obviously not like that

alphacrone

can't believe the plot of leverage is literally 'man gets hired to be a project manager for Crime and then is forcefully adopted by the employees he doesn't want'

alphacrone

and it fucks

#leverage #comfort food of shows #forever fave

wangxianficrecs

💙 Talisman by Witch_Nova221

💙 Talisman

by Witch_Nova221

M, 192k, Wangxian

Summary: Lan Wangji runs Cloud Recesses, a classical theatre that was once his mother's pride and joy but is slowly falling into disrepair with dwindling audiences and profits. With Jinlintai Entertainments holding the majority shares, they force him to host Stygian Tiger, a rock band with a reputation for rowdy behaviour and a lead singer with a past. Little does he know that the band he is so reluctant to host will bring him into contact with the best friend he lost touch with sixteen years before and together they begin the fight to save Cloud Recesses from the developers who want to bulldoze it and build houses on the only home Lan Wangji has ever loved. Kay's comments: Talisman is one of those stories I re-read again and again, it's got a special place in my heart. Nova's love for theater really shines through in this story and the Cloud Recesses theater became alive in this story. It's a modern setting where Lan Wangji lives with his mother, the theater manager, for a while, until she dies. Then, he's sent to live with his uncle and brother and things are fraught. Wei Wuxian, meanwhile, spends most of his childhood in a children's home and Lan Wangji becomes his dearest friend. They get torn apart when Wei Wuxian gets adopted by the Jiangs and years later, they meet again. Now, Wei Wuxian is a famous rockstar and Lan Wangji has taken over as the theater manager, though the Cloud Recesses are struggling. There's lots of heartbreak and angst in this story, but in the end, everything gets resolved beautifully, no matter how dire it seems from time-to-time. Many cast members work in the Cloud Recesses as well and I grew very fond of them in this world and despite the angst, this is a comfort story for me, maybe because of the happy ending that felt so well-earned. Excerpt: 'I'll be with you in a minute,' he called up, 'Technically the bar is closed but I can always put it on the rider.' 'Not the rider as I really should be buying you a drink at the very least as it appears I owe you an apology,' said a soft voice above him, 'You see, I found out today that my best friend has been looking for me for years and hasn't had a response. So could you please reopen the bar so I can buy you a drink, Lan Zhan.' Lan Wangji froze at the sound of the name spoken. The name no one had called him for sixteen long years. He got to his feet, meeting the familiar haunting eyes that had stared at him from the Yiling Laozu's image for weeks. Eyes that had made something inside him twist and now, alive and bright with unshed tears before him, he knew why. His friend had left him a boy but he could still see him in the man standing before him. 'Wei Ying?'

pov lan wangji, modern setting, modern no powers, past wei wuxian/xue yang, past lan xichen/jin guangyao, past lan wangji/others, lan xichen/nie mingjue, nielan, theatre, rock band, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, childhood friends, friends to lovers, implied/referenced child abuse, implied/referenced drug abuse, implied/referenced rape/non-con, fluff and angst, stalking, minor character death, orphans, reunions, found family, lan family feels, jiang family dynamics, good brother jiang cheng, chronic illness, chronic pain, mutual pining, @witchnova221

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wangxianficrecs

Throwback Rec

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Original rec by Kay. Posted on June 14, 2023.

Kay's comments: A little different Throwback Rec today since I'm digging up my own rec from a few years ago, but I've recently started re-reading this old favourite of mine and it still hits all the right places, so I wanted to share it again. I really love this exploration of a modern Lan Wangji who spent his formative years with his mothers and grew up differently than what we might have expected and I love his tight-knit circle of friends. The drama is also epic, I can barely stop reading whenever I pick this story up.

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#mdzs #the untamed #fic rec #cannot recommend this one enough #i've read it twice #so good

spin-the-wheel-polls

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

#control time #but no one believes you #hell yeah man #i'd be pausing time so much to just read and sleep #speed up my work day

fennecshandgf

hi i made a uquiz

what are your chances of surviving the end of the world?

smowkie

Hey.

novemberhush

cupcakeslam23

#literally no idea how i got this result

stoptheantisemitism

Israel passed a death penalty law that will allow them to execute Palestinian detainees many of which have been detained without due process and many of which were kids when they were detained.

This is the equivalent to camp executions the Nazis did. It's exactly the same thing

This death penalty law doesn't apply to Israelis of course because Israel is a violent apartheid

queersatanic

The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It

Israel's Knesset passed a bill on Monday mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism. The bill stipulates that the death penalty will be imposed on a terrorist who killed a person "with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel."

In doing so, the bill's wording creates a distinction designating it almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make its application to Jewish nationalist terror nearly impossible.

Sixty-two lawmakers voted in favor of the contentious bill, including several opposition members; 48 voted against it, and one abstained. The law is now applicable in any territory that Israel functionally controls, including the West Bank and 53 percent of the Gaza Strip.

#israel #genocide

northirish

I would like a large sword, for mental health reasons

cupcakeslam23

#opla #one piece #zoro coded esp S2E1

magicalrocketships

Okay, enough of "what are the best/worst books you've read", I want to know what your favourite comfort books to reread are. What are the books you turn to and turn to again because they scratch a particular itch and make you feel a particular kind of joy? No justification required, no "I know it's bad but" or "I know the plot is stupid but", just the ones that you keep coming back to because they make you happy?