ordinary human life

Reiko - medical resident trying to drown her worries in writing

[dieofthatroar]

nowhere game

They had this routine down for months. Months of instant noodles and convenience store bento under the incessant fluorescent lights. The entirety of their friendship had taken place in the confines of those walls, sitting in metal chairs and leaning on the plastic table in the far corner of the store. There was something about the time of night, the feeling of the lonely street, and the routine of it all that made it hard for Jisung to lie to Minho. It was like all the pretense didn’t matter, or never mattered. Here they were, two souls crossing paths, seeing each other in the dark.

Until Minho disappeared.

Or, the one where it’s a meet-cute at a convenience store but also a mafia romance

Rating: E

Word Count: 65K (chapters 1 and 2 out now)

Tags: Han Jisung / Lee Minho, mystery/thriller, hurt/comfort, angst, graphic depictions of violence, organized crime

Read on AO3

[bananonbinary]

“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.

which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”

[bananonbinary]

actually people should address this in fanfic more because “i know we could half-ass it, but i would never fake mistreat my fake husband, how dare you” is absolutely delightful

[thekijs]

New trope: fake dating for spite.

“Look, my only goal here is for our pretend relationship to be demonstrably healthier than Aunt Rita and Uncle Carl’s fifteen year, three child marriage - which means the bar is so low we probably can’t fuck this up”

[lancrewizzard]

Can’t properly explain it, but “I like this character”, “I like how this character is written” and “I care about this character” are 3 very different things which may or may not overlap.

[lemeute]

David Attenborough fought to put transgender people on TV 45 years ago, secret BBC memo reveals

aka "some cool trans women got airtime in 1973 to tell their own stories, and I sure have feelings about it"

anything that contains the phrase “secret BBC memo reveals” intrigues me automatically ngl but I want you all to know that as far as I can gather, the facts are even better than this headline

which is to say, this was part of an initiative in the early 1970s that not only featured marginalized groups on BBC programming, but made moves towards handing them editorial control – the BBC had to approve proposals, but after that, the station’s role was primarily to provide technical resources, facilities, and copyright handling. (another notable program under this initiative featured Black teachers discussing racism in the school system, and a link to that – plus discussion of the hurdles it faced – can be found here).

the program on trans experience was aired in 1973.

The programme, featuring trans women, began: “Jokes about ‘the operation’ are all that most people know about transexualism [sic]. Tonight’s group discuss their situation in a more serious and comprehensive way, and draw attention to the many difficulties they endure”.

you can watch Open Door: Transex Liberation Group here (as well as other archived LGBTQ programming from BBC). 

[do-you-have-a-flag]

1: hell yeah

2: David Attenborough was a childhood hero of mine and i’m glad to see he was always a champ

3: look at these related articles

[lee-minhoe]

linotonin to brighten your day <3

[feefal]

Help I forgot how many legs deers are supposed to have

[archatlas]

Artist Builds Exquisite Miniature Buildings From a Single Sheet of Paper

Paper artists continue to find new ways to transform the two-dimensional medium into captivating creations. Danish artist and architect Peter Callesen uses ordinary sheets of white A4 paper to build miniature buildings and structures that look like replicas of the real thing.

“By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time, the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with a different meaning,” Callesen explains to My Modern Met. “The thin white paper and the small scale of the paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works.”

[dwarvishring]

ian mckellen directed these movies actually

[changan-moon]

traditional chinese handicraft, ink making 制墨 by 彭传明pcm

[greatgodempresspan]

He’s no Li Ziqi, but there’s some gorgeous camera work. @beetlemancy

[gglilyallin-deactivated20250618]

Factory Fan Bass: By attaching a disk with holes to the fan, it converts blinks of lights to electric signals and generates sound from a bass amplifier. Different numbers of holes can generate a musical scale, and turning on/off of the power makes it roar.

Created by Ei Wada + Teruo Takahashi(from the iron factory) + Nicos Orchest-Lab

Played by Ei Wada

from Electronicos Fantasticos

[cipheramnesia]

This is what I have in mind when I refer to Industrial Music.

[qifreynothing]

bitches be like "these are my comfort characters!" and it's a group of murderers

[qifreynothing]

SOMEONE TAGGED THIS AS BTS????????????

[qifreynothing]

???????????????????

[planetquest]

yeah basically a bunch of their music videos starting from i need u (2015) have contained a running story with the members playing different characters. i dont remember much about it because a) im not as big of a bts fan anymore and b) their recent mvs havent referenced it but this article has decent rundowns of each of the characters (uhh tw for mentions of car crashes, family death, hospitalization, abuse, murder, and suicide) https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/heres-brief-explanation-character-bts-universe/

[qifreynothing]

LOONAVERSE?????????

[planetquest]

i have seen man made horrors beyond your comprehension

(diagram credit to u/bragen on reddit)

[qifreynothing]

you try to read this and your brain explodes

[harley-the-pancake]

This is what it feels like to chew 5 gum

[cyber-eris]

this is worse than what inspired redesign your logo

[qifreynothing]

what inspired redesign your logo.

[lilacfeatherss]

the pepsi logo document that included stuff like the gravitational pull of the pepsi logo and compared it to the mona lisa.

[qifreynothing]

GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE PEPSI LOGO????????

[theswampghost]

“my child is fine” your child has the 1985 film Clue memorized

[cornedbeefhashtags]

[self-loving-vampire]

They really should teach people how to cook in school.

[octopuscato]

This was physically painful to watch.

[brennbug]

This man learned so much from Izumi

[lilacblossoms]

#its true and he earned it#mans went and retired at 16#traveled the world#then came home to settle down and be a house husband#while his wife tears up the automail industry#lowkey one of my fave things about the fma finale like#our Anime Protag didnt have to go on to be the President or God or The Greatest of All Time or whatever#Ed just went: ‘as ive been promising for years: fuck this shit. im out.’#and went to go live the most normal and fulfilling civilian life imaginable#Al’s probably a Xingese-Amestrian ambassador working with Ling Mei and Mustang to draft international policy#and Ed is like ‘I baked a pie today. Do not involve me in this.’

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

that Diana Wynne Jones interview where she’s like “I don’t understand why so many girls are into Howl, it must be because they want the challenge of fixing him” is so optimistic, like DWJ’s out here hoping I at least want to make him a more functional person as if “rogue academic turned melodramatic fashion disaster whose social skills Do Not live up to his own hype” is not a perfectly valid thing to be attracted to 

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

@corvidscorpse said: People who aren’t morosexual just don’t understand those of us who WANT a complete dumbass

DWJ, a reasonable woman: behold this undesirable man. look at him, he dresses weird and he keeps emotional support spiders and doesn’t even question people moving into his house without asking and he has to reverse psychology himself into doing anything he’s actually supposed to do. 

every morosexual in a 100 mile radius: oh fuck yeah babey

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

god this isn’t even touching on the fact that Howl is??? apparently??? an ordinary-ass Welshman who was studying spells (????) at the doctoral level and then (somehow???) found a doorway into Actual Magic and promptly moved there to set up shop as a wizard with like five different names and two outfits but still goes home sometimes because he loves his niece and likes to hang out with the rugby lads (still working on processing Howl being a jock but?? okay), because PRESUMABLY all of this is supposed to further illustrate that Howl is an absolutely ridiculous sort of person but all I see is a man who made the exact decision I would make in a millisecond if given the opportunity 

[wind-to-your-sails]

Howl Jenkins is what happens when the overpowered ‘thrust into a fantasy world’ man… is not the main character.

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

Howl Jenkins is what happens when an a normal man gets thrust into a fantasy setting and is mostly excited to dick around and learn some magic to turn his hair different colors, only to realize to his dismay that being a powerful wizard means that people are going to ask you to actually do shit for them

[synebluetoo]

DWJ, professor’s wife, academic’s daughter, Responsible Eldest Sister who only craves stability and mental acumen: okay so an ABD post doc who hogs the bathroom and lives in filth and is generally five leagues away from recognizing his emotions

Us, disaster bag monsterfuckers: HOT

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

I didn’t know DWJ’s background and I have to thank you, this explains everything

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I was reading this and fully nodding along in agreement before I realized it was my own post jesus h

[miniangel]

BABE WAKE UP LIL NAS X JOLENE COVER JUST DROPPED

[miniangel]

SO GOOD… TOO GOOD!!!!

[wakingstarstuff]

This comment pretty much sums it up imo

[letterful]

Octavia Butler’s list of concepts that are sexy, via LA Review.