just snails and shrimp @escargoated - Tumblr Blog

Hello. I'm a fanfic writer (previously for Mass Effect and currently for Love and Deepspace) and this is my personal blog. I'm active on my lads blog @littlebommetje. I blog about various fandoms, art, science, and politics/real world events, and love good tumblr shitposts.

#about me

quasi-normalcy

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

batsarebetterthanpeople

He does so to dodge the draft

greseadraws

dungeon meshi but they end up in the back rooms, a cursed idea that was eating away at my brain

nitewrighter

Peer-reviewing @monikoishi's tags because they're banger.

#dungeon meshi #backrooms #aaah #delightful

coldswarkids

what it feels like getting off of work

autumnal-thunder

because i'm too tired to do anything else

#my ass watching indie horror let's plays with my man john wolfe #on the days when i'm just Done

muninnhuginn

can't believe no one told me tgcf has canon group chat shenanigans

muninnhuginn

also the sex pollen

muninnhuginn

oh sure a mecha fight why not

#behehehehe #tgcf

attxlia

The Apothecary Diaries is such a breath of fresh air because this is a story that genuinely seems to love women. From the sex workers of the Verdigris House to the seemingly antagonistic women of the palace (like Suirei and Loulan), the Apothecary Diaries declares that every single one of them deserves grace and dignity even if (or especially if) they come into conflict with its protagonist or societal respectability

escargoated

gold in op and @mayyari tags

#the apothecary diaries

sawtrapp

#bhehe #re9

castformi-deactivated20241025

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

peppylilspitfuck

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.

slightlykylie

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.

darkersolstice

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

yothobro-deactivated20200505

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

rooksandravens

#BECAUSE IT IS

fuckyeahfeminist

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

rodserlingofficial

eyesofeos

Y’all I’m only 1 vol into Heaven Official’s Blessing but my heart hurts for Xie Lian so much. Wdym the nicest guy ever who has only ever wanted to help ppl has been hurt so many times that he doesn’t even feel physical pain anymore. Wdym when others get angry at him for getting hurt he says it’s fine when his hand is swelling up with lethal poison. Wdym he’s so used to others seeing him as nothing that he thinks of himself that way sometimes. And then Hua Cheng with his ‘I won’t put you down, it’s dirty’ treating Xie Lian as too pure and precious to sully his feet by stepping in the blood and corpses of the people he just killed for his sake. I get it I get why you guys are insane abt them

#tgcf #yesss

kerofroggo

Another shrimp painting

#this is fantastic!!!!#shrimply amazing!!!#pure joy

markovchaingang

men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers

hometoursandotherstuff

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

love describing classic lit in booktok terms. like omg there is slow burn enemies to lovers and found family, and so much neurodivergent rep :)) it’ll have you crying at 3am. yeah it’s called the brothers karamazov by fydoor dostoyevsky

mayyari

slow burn boss-employee age gap romance (cw: cheating) and it's jane eyre.

#cackling #mayyari genius

fuckyeahchinesefashion

Cnetizens: Why the thousand-year-old stone statues at the Northern Song Mausoleums aren’t covered with glass enclosures.

The director of the Cultural Relics Bureau replies: "They’ve stood here largely intact for over a millennium. Why add extra barriers?"

Visitors worry wind, rain and sunlight in the farmland will wear them down. The director explains:

Glass covers speed up decay—it’s like locking the statues in a sauna. Trapped heat and moisture create sharp temperature shifts. Salt crystals inside the stone expand and crack the carvings far faster than open-air exposure.

These statues blend naturally with the farmland landscape. Glass barriers would destroy the sense of scale and historical atmosphere.

When first built, the mausoleum complex was a restricted royal compound ringed by walls, palaces and pine trees—no farmland at all. After the Song fell, protection systems collapsed. Wars and weather destroyed buildings. Local residents gradually dismantled the abandoned structures, reusing timber and bricks in nearby villages.

By the Ming and Qing dynasties, villagers turned the empty grounds into farmland, leaving stone figures scattered amid crops.

Few people damaged the statues for three reasons: each weighs several tons and is impossible to move; folk belief held that anyone who damaged the guardian statues would be cursed with misfortune; every later dynasty passed laws punishing those who vandalized former imperial mausoleums.

Once an exclusive imperial burial ground, now ordinary farmland—this shift tells the story of history. Glass covers would only be unnecessary. As an old Chinese poem puts it: 旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家

The swallows that were wont to grace the halls of Wang and Xie, Now seek the humble roofs of common men.

(cr 大鹅呀eyaeyaeya，陈帆fotochen，摄色📸，腾腾兔兔🐰)