ANCIENT, VICIOUS

kiss off, adversary.

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[chineseredcarpet]

Yamy for Tencent Video All Star Night 2023

[chineseredcarpet]

Yamy for ELLEMEN Fresh

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu by 洪椿晓雨传统服饰

[mothmiso]

2021 CNY (2) (3) by Xuanian Wu

[zhugeliangs]

“I saw a woman braced against the wind like an admiral shouldering ashore, sea foam bullish.”

—

Ange Mlinko, from “Dentro de la Tormenta”, Distant Mandate

(via zhugeliangs)

[lauramakabresku]

Shelter

[antigonick]

Understand that there is a beast within you that can drink till it is sick, but cannot drink till it is satisfied. Understand that it will use the conventions of the visible world to turn your tongue to stone. It alone knows you. It does not wish you well. 

—Frank Bidart, excerpt of "The Third Hour of the Night", in Half Light

[sweetoothgirl]

Hi-Hat Oreo Cupcakes

[vamptits]

when you censor yourself like this -> *** on my dash i respect your right to privacy but I AM trying to decipher it like we're playing hangman or something. is there an o in there give me something to work with

[mooncustafer]

[fata-vocant]

@elucubrare please

[rocketgirls]

Visit Original Link

rocket girls ♡ milky way disco

[heymeowmao]

Yamy x Heaven Gaia Collection | Tiger in Bamboo

[dressesofchina]

KFC ad w/ Chinese embroidery

[aropride]

the "new normal" couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people.........

[forestofsprites]

i think that sometimes the best thing that you can do is remind yourself that there are beaches. lakes, rivers, and ponds. there are forests. little woods and meadows. there are canyons. gullies and mountain cliffs. there are rainy days. dry spells and scorching blue skies. that the world turns. changes as much as it repeats. that feeling slow today won't stop tomorrow's high tide. won't make july's blackberries any less ripe

[thecollectibles]

Art by Justine Thibault

[mswyrr]

Critiquing Regency Romance for historical accuracy is like going to Medieval Times and whining about how the special "elixir" is actually Dr Pepper and they didn't drink that in the real medieval times

[mswyrr]

It's a genre of alternate history or fantasy, not historical novels. It follows the template of 20th c. writer Georgette Heyer having fun with fancy people in the past, not Jane Austen writing about her own time period or someone modern going for a historical novel with fidelity to the past.

Some romance writers aim for more Austen-esque books and do a lot of research and that's great - but the baseline of the genre is fantasy au/alternate history

[mswyrr]

Good comment here with more info