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Through the Halls of Splendor
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Jiang Yanli/Luo "Mian Mian" Qingyang, Jiang Yanli/Wen Xu, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Jiang Yanli Characters: Jiang Yanli, Luo "Mian Mian" Qingyang, Wen Xu (Modao Zushi) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Explicit Sex, Not Friendly to Qishan Wen, Identity Issues, Adultery, Arranged Marriage, Background Relationships, Some angst, Minor Character Death, Jiang Yanli Lives
Summary
A decade after the fall of Lotus Pier, Jiang Yanli undertakes a high-stakes espionage mission in Nightless City. She is prepared to deflect, or kill and replace, Wen Xu's arranged marriage bride - but she is not prepared to encounter an old childhood friend...
About
This fic is written for @mdzsrarepair24 MDZS Rarepair Week 2024 and will have seven chapters total. Here is the link to chapter one again - hope you enjoy!
Gasp for Air Like a Soul to Save
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Additional Tags: Time Travel, Reincarnation, Temporary Character Death, Yílíng Lǎozǔ Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Grief/Mourning, Domestic Fluff, Established Relationship, Top Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Bottom Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Light Dom/sub, Additional Warnings In Author's Note
Summary
When the Yiling Laozu dies from the backlash of destroying the Yin Tiger Tally, the last thing he sees is Jiang Cheng...and the first thing he sees when he opens his eyes again is also Jiang Cheng.
Transported for thirteen days into the body of his own modern reincarnation — a physics professor happily married to his childhood sweetheart — Wei Wuxian comes to terms with his unresolved feelings about Jiang Cheng and his grief for those he has lost. His sojourn in the modern world is cut short when a chance incident sends him into the sacrificial array at Mo Manor, ready for a second try with the Jiang Cheng of his own timeline.
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This fic is written for the @cxminibang Chengxian Mini Bang, with art collaboration by the talented @lijau. Here's the fic link again - hope you enjoy!
Back in Jetko hell + in my feelings about Azula + having Bole Chudiyan stuck in my head = Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham AU. Zuko is the firstborn son who is disowned after marrying someone unsuitable. (I am currently in Jetko hell but honestly many other options could make sense.) Azula goes in disguise to bring him back to the family. Ozai and Ursa are Yash and Nandini, the strict father and the mother who loves her first child more. Mai is the intended acceptable fiancee who wants her beloved to be happy. Iroh is the caretaker who goes with Zuko when he leaves home. Ba Sing Se is London, Azula gets close without being recognized by dressing up as a Kyoshi warrior. Who is Pooja. Who is Krish. If Jet is Anjali then why would he want to go back to the Fire Nation. The shoelace scene is instead Azula attempting to make tea. Some options for the grandmothers: the dragons; Lo and Li; Roku and Sozin (just skip over Azulon’s generation I guess). The sibling dynamics don’t quite work out since Ozai never gives a damn about Zuko. Also the entire emotional arc of the story is carried by the father being ultimately a redeemable and sympathetic character and that’s. Not quite true of the Fire Nation royals. But anyways imagine Ozai in Say Shava Shava.
For anyone who was interested, I ended up writing this and finally posted it last year: Sometimes Sorrow, Sometimes Joy, 40k, complete.
And yes, imagining Ozai in Say Shava Shava helped get me through grad school.
Made my day.
“The Varieties of Religious Experience” is a generous and endlessly insightful book about human nature.
It’s a cliché for people unswayed by religion to still believe in William James, to allow him access to their souls because of the way he sneaks in through their brains. A psychologist and philosopher (and oldest brother of the novelist Henry), James was not a follower of any church, and had little academic interest in institutional religion, but he was obsessively curious about the inner experiences of believers […]
The British philosopher A. J. Ayer once wrote that James “was in frequent, if friendly, dispute” with certain peers. The notion of friendly dispute is increasingly alien to us, and this might be the thing that feels most poignantly lost about James’s temperament. Even as he quarreled with someone on the page, including himself, he exuded generosity. His voice is instructive but not didactic; opinionated but not at all polemical — in fact, anti-polemical. James originated a brand of American thinking that can feel on the verge of extinction, but it lives and thrives in the preserve of his books. [full article]
Happy 117th birthday to William James!
Let’s check how many of you’ve read “Raising Steam” and know about the Stoker Blake ;}
just crying over how romantic Freddie & Jim were nbd
So I read the book, and almost everytime Jim gave/made Freddie a gift, Freddie would always show it off and say “My husband got me those!” or “My husband made that for me!” It’s so sweet, especially for this one part when they first started dating:
‘am i Having A Brain Problem or Being a Shithead’: a short procrastination checklist
aka why tf am i procrastinating on The Thing (more like a flowchart, actually)
lots of people who have executive function difficulties worry about whether they’re procrastinating on a task out of laziness/simply wanting to be a jerk or mental struggles. this checklist might help you figure out which it is at any given time! (hint: it’s almost never laziness or being a jerk.) (obligatory disclaimer: this is just what works for me! something different might work better for you.)
1) do I honestly intend to start the task despite my lack of success?
yes: it’s a Brain Problem. next question
no: it’s shitty to say one thing & do another. better be honest with myself & anyone expecting me to do the task.
2) am I fed, watered, well-rested, medicated properly, etc?
yes: next question
no: guess what? this is the real next task
3) does the idea of starting the task make me feel scared or anxious?
yes: Anxiety Brain. identify what’s scaring me first.
no: next question
4) do I know how to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain. time to make an order of operations list.
5) do I have everything I need to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain lying to me about the steps again, dangit. first task is ‘gather the materials’.
6) why am i having a hard time switching from my current task to this new task?
i’m having fun doing what i’m doing: it’s okay to have fun doing a thing! if task is time-sensitive, go to next question.
i have to finish doing what i’m doing: might be ADHD brain. can I actually finish the current task or will I get trapped in a cycle? does this task really need to be finished?
the next task will be boring/boring-er than the current task: ADHD brain. re-think the next task. what would make it exciting? what am I looking forward to?
I might not have enough time to complete the task: ADHD brain wants to finish everything it starts. (if task is time-sensitive, go to next question)
i just want to make the person who asked me to do it angry: sounds like anxiety brain trying to punish itself, because I know I’ll be miserable if someone is angry at me. why do i think I deserve punishment?
no, I seriously want to piss them off: okay, i’m being a shithead
7) have I already procrastinated so badly that I now cannot finish the task in time?
yes: ADHD brain is probably caught in a guilt-perfection cycle. since I can’t have the task done on time, i don’t even want to start.
reality check: having part of a thing done is almost always better than none of a thing done. if I can get an extension, having part of it done will help me keep from stalling out until the extension deadline. i’ll feel better if I at least try to finish it.
no, there’s still a chance to finish on time: ADHD brain thinks that I have all the time in the world, but the truth is I don’t.
reality check: if i’m having fun doing what I’m doing, I can keep doing it, but I should probably set a timer & ask someone to check on me to make sure I start doing the task later today.
8) I’ve completed the checklist and still don’t know what’s wrong!
probably wasn’t honest enough with myself. take one more look.
if I’m still mystified, ask a friend to help me talk it out.
hope this helps some of you! YOU’RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE DON’T GIVE UP ON YOU
Ooh, this is a really lovely (and kind-hearted) guide for ADHD, executive dysfunction issues, or just plain ol’ brain fog! Should help with misplaced guilt, too.
this is the sweetes, purest, most adorable thing i’ve ever seen
I played this while my cats were sitting next to me and they both immediately snuggled in harder and it was so pure
This has the same energy of that video of that woman yodeling an old traditional herding yodel to make the cows come to her
I remember tearing up at this.
(fyi, I'm cleaning out my drafts because I'm probably going to archive this blog soon. not actually coming back.)
“…It was said to be the only thing in the entire world he truly cared about.”
(”Sourcery”)
Lord Vetinari, despite his education, had a mind like an engineer. If you wished to open something, you found the appropriate spot and applied the minimum amount of force necessary to achieve your end. Possibly the spot was between a couple of ribs and the force was applied via a dagger, or between two warring countries and applied via an army, but the important thing was to find that one weak spot which would be key to everything.
Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero
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vetinari and drumknott taking a walk in the city!
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Titanic but I’m Jack.
In fact, as soon as Dryden’s note had arrived requesting a meeting, several investors had been invited to a presentation on Zemeni oil futures that had nothing to do with the fictional Johannus Rietveld. Of course, Van Eck and Dryden didn’t know that. The important thing was they believed they might lose their opportunity to invest. Nina was almost sorry she wouldn’t get a chance to hear Jesper hold forth on the resources market for an hour.
‘Radmakker,’ said Van Eck. ‘You were there. You met with Rietveld.’ Radmakker’s nostrils flared. ‘I know nothing of this Mister Rietveld.’ ‘But I saw you. We both saw you at the Geldrunner-’ ‘I was there for a presentation on Zemeni oil futures. It was most peculiar, but what of it?’
hello yes I am still obsessed with imagining Jesper giving this presentation in Crooked Kingdom, had to draw it.