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Image ID 1: A screenshot of a tweet from Matt Kramer (@kramerposts) at 11:23PM on 7/1/25 reading "people are always saying 'this won't fix you, that won't fix you' and I'm like respectfully, I have to disagree. a really good sandwich has fixed me. a glass of cold water has fixed me. making a stranger laugh has fixed me. you can find salvation in the unlikeliest of places." As of the screenshot, the tweet had 86K views.

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yesornopolls

Any plans for the weekend?

Yes

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

#hidey mahjong sounds so fun in person! I've only ever played the solitaire computer version 👀#this Sunday some of my extended family is having a potluck bc they want to see me while I'm in the state & my fave cousin will be there #Saturday I'll probably lay about and maybe read a book

theballadofmars

I love how mqf's oficial description is something like: a good heart who wants to help others but then you read the novel and his reaction to lqg trapping ten infected men who are crying in panic is "great now I can start to work in my experiments with decomposed people to find a cure" and gets out a lot of needles, which makes the man cry even harder.

Even if we only get bits of the other Cang Qiong sect leader's we can reach the conclusion that no one there is normal, sqq is just biased.

skeren

I just... need to immortalize your tags don't mind me. (Via @sunderwight) #shen qingqiu meow meow-ifying all of the peak lords is actually a great take#he's just like wow yue qingyuan is such a nice man I wonder why half of cultivation society pisses their pants any time he sneezes #liu qingge is a bit rude sometimes but he's a good sort the most reliable shidi what do you MEAN he's one of the most feared men alive #shang qinghua is just a silly airplane bro those merchants who are sweating bullets at the prospect of a meeting with him sure are oddballs #mu qingfang is a sensitive fellow with a good heart who likes helping people the medical experiments are just part of how he helps! duh! #qi qingqi might be a bit of a girlboss sometimes but if she's hunting anyone for sport then he probably had it coming #wei qingwei is cool likes to break the ice with bad jokes a silly fun man all the cursed artifacts he owns are just his special interest

#svsss

sarakipin

🔹🔷 cat and mouse 🔷🔹

snowstories

[Image: art of a knight being stalked by a person in white. They are in a castle hall, large and ornate. It is night time; one end of the hallway catches moonlight from the window, checkered as it’s broken up by a pattern from the windows. In the middle of the hallway a large, ornate painting sits, depicting a hunt. Two greyhounds hunt a white deer with antlers; the deer rears on its hind legs as the dogs snap at it. There are ragged red curtains around the painting, and it is flanked on either side by golden chandeliers that resemble antlers. The deer, with its pure white, catches the moonlight. On the left side of the painting, in shadow, a knight is hunched over, leaning against the wall, dragging their bloodied hand along the wall. Their armor is in a traditional medieval style, full-body and predominantly grey. Their scabbard is empty. On the right side of the painting, in the moonlight, a figure follows the blood trail, walking up right with a hungry smile. Their skin and long hair are pale, almost pure white, and they are naked, save for a white cloth draped around them. They hold a sword in their hand, casually, pointed downwards, and they trail the blood stain with their other hand. End description.]

dankxsinatra

silky-selkie

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#bigs its eyes at you

saltedsan

so there’s polish translation of TGCF (finally!) and it’s also the revised one 🥹

#tgcf #!!

bbcsherlock

when a mutual reblogs something ive already liked i unlike it and then like it again. its my way of kissing them on the forehead

daisywords

"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

#a trope I'd love to inflict on zhao yunlan #the way he handles his dark energy gun early on makes me think there'd be precedent for that kind of PTSD #and he would not shoulder it particularly well

psqqa

okay yeah it’s the untamed vorkosigan au hours again:

wei wuxian comes back and jiang cheng only has 19 armsmen. has only ever had 19 armsmen. continues to have only 19 armsmen. “huh that’s weird. that’s weird right, lan zhan? oh you know what, i bet it’s because he’s got this secret guy always trailing jin ling and he wants to be absolutely sure impsec doesn’t get antsy about that. that’s jiang cheng for you!” “wei ying….”

yeah you know what, jiang cheng does name wei wuxian as his heir. the council of counts is not a huge fan of this development. “he’s not even related to you!” “well, i presume lord midnight bore no relation to the fifth count vortala either, but feel free to correct me on that point if i’m mistaken”

mianmian married a merchant, which absolutely means mianmian moved to komarr and married a komarran

the burial mounds are a relic of the cetagandan occupation similar to the vashnoi exclusion zone. it’s not radioactive though. probably.

that bit about jin guangyao insisting he would never hurt lan xichen was definitely phrased as “my word as a vorjin”. have fun rolling that one over in your head for the rest of your life, xichen <3

ohhh did wei wuxian give his word as a wei to jiang cheng about the whole future count & armsman thing? yes. yes i think that is the level of agony we’re looking at

was nie huaisang ever on impsec’s payroll? “that sounds like so much work wei wuxian. i barely made it through the academy. and aren’t impsec people supposed to be discreet? fast-penta? i mean, you could try, but i’ve got this allergy. had it my whole life you can look it up.”

psqqa

#still#what is the golden core equivalent in this universe?#i just do not know#i feel like it would have to be something like swearing himself into indentured servitude to some jacksonian house in exchange#for them cryoreviving jc or something#……or giving them the tech for wen qing to cryorevive jc or something#oh…….#oh#ohhhhh#yeah#okay so then he’s pulling away from the jiang because of the divisions of loyalty or whatever#he obviously does not want to betray the vorjiang’s trust or commit treason against barrayar or something#but also if he breaks with the jacksonians bad shit will happen? to jc and jyl??#idk#why can’t he just tell jc about it?#because…..fucking let me think about it a bit more okay#oh!#hmmm burial mounds as jacksonian house instead that wei wuxian murders his way to the top of to get himself out of that life debt threat#the question is though#why would barrayar care enough to fuck with jackson’s whole over it?#vorloupoulos’s law?#well that’s why wwx has jc formally break ties with him#although impsec of course is still suspicious

no actually i think this makes more sense than him just holing up in some weird abandoned part of barrayar. and barrayar (or parts of barrayar) are willing to fuck with jackson’s whole because jackson’s whole doesn’t really care if you fuck with part of jackson’s whole, and also because they’re dumb and leave a power vacuum, which jackson’s whole especially loves. the burial mounds survives of course in its own weird way under a new mysterious baron. (this is of course how wei wuxian himself is either cryorevived or clone brain transplanted 16 years later. i haven’t decided yet which brand of awful i want to go with. if we’re doing cryorevival for jc my instinct is clone brain transplant. but man that is such a dick awful move. on the other hand, so was the mxy thing in canon.) their thing is indeed cryorevival. or cryorevival mixed with weird gengineering. idk it’s fucked up but what about jackson’s whole isn’t?

elusivemellifluence

I think it’s gotta be a clone brain transplant to bring back Wei Wuxian because that works so well with the Mo Xuanyu thing. Maybe Mo Xuanyu was raised as a replacement body for the sick or aging Jin Guangshan, but Jin Guangyao doesn’t want his father coming back to life and arranges for the clone to disappear instead. And Nie Huaisang has access to his friend’s preserved brain but nothing useful to do with it until he comes across this homeless, identity-less young man who’s devastated that he was robbed of the chance to fulfill his destiny of having someone else’s brain shoved into his skull …

mikkeneko

This is so nasty. I love it.

Which means that at least one of Wei Wuxian’s mad science inventions has to be that he figured out a way to make the brain transplant work on people who are not your exact genetic clone. Holy shit. Can you just imagine what that development would do to the galaxy. No wonder his reputation is pitch-black.

(Also I think that if we are willing to abandon the one-nation-per-planet setup, we can probably have Jackson’s Whole just be on the same planet as the Barrayaran Empire? The alternative is that Wei Wuxian got jettisoned into space by Wen Chao and picked up by a Jacksonian scavenger, which is also a fun option.)

#prev: laughing because i have the knowledge of the untamed required to understand that half of this post #but not the vorkosigan saga knowledge required to get the other half #VS has been on my to-read list for a while...

raainyydaysswithtwoa

What's your motivation to keep on with writing your fanfictions/books??

#very strong feelings with nowhere else to put them

100493503004422

refusal to participate due to self consciousness is actually more embarrassing than participating. it took me a very long time to figure that out. abject fear of embarrassment is actually causing you to do things that are more embarrassing than what you fear. you are gonna be embarrassed anyway. let go and be free

#me sitting out of the end of year group exercise in grad school #where every student in one of my classes took turns being blindfolded and sitting in the center of the room #while all the other students passed by them and whispered something they liked about them in their ear #everyone was like hey don't you want to? it's your turn!#and i wanted to so badly i actually started shaking and felt sick to my stomach but i absolutely couldn't participate. I couldn't.#nearly crying in class over how badly you want even fleeting and superficial affection that you won't let yourself have?#wanting it too much and being afraid everyone could see?#that's a level of mortifying that goes WAY beyond anything anybody might have said to me #a little bit of embarrassment would have been better than holding that particular revelation up to the mirror of my own self awareness lmao

jullssaa

Just a little fanart, because I think like most people I'm currently fixated on Project Hail Mary.

#project hail mary

rainformation

formative years? aren’t they all?

absolutejamer

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

simpforsix

i think half of being a decent human is just going 'that's not my business'.

someone in a wheelchair stood up? not my business.

someone has a service dog but doesn't visibly need it? not my business.

someone is acting weird? not my business.

someone is participating in a culture i don't understand? not my business.

someone got an abortion? not my business.

someone identifies in a way that doesn't make sense to me? not my business.

someone has a medical issue i don't understand? not my business.

if it doesn't negatively impact me or others, it's not my business. and i will continue to push for legislation that allows people to just live their lives, because why should i or the government have a say in shit that doesn't affect us? it's not our business.

hometoursandotherstuff

I’ve been fascinated with the underground town of Coober Pedy, in Australia, b/c it’s the Opal mining capital of the world, and my birthstone is Opal. Plus, it’s a very interesting place.