about as subtle as an earthquake

Grace, 29, @kisats2 on twitter and kisatsel on AO3. 

[kisatsel]

my boyfriend made french onion soup and a beautiful chocolate torte but we cannot eat the cake because he's too busy pickling gherkins 😔 he's so good at cooking but he has no sense of the passage of time

[innerchildabortionclinic]

If you have not yet heard, starvation in Gaza is worsening and people are still risking their lives just to access aid--nearly 100 people were killed seeking aid on Sunday. A UNWRA worker stated: “Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.”

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Journalists covering the hunger crisis are also struggling to access food.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I want to take the time to share Nader's family's campaign. Nader is a boy in Gaza who has been tirelessly advocating for his family's survival, as they struggle to access food.

Donate to Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overcome this war in Gaza, organized by Nader Alanqar

I am a young man who loves my studies very much and I drea… Nader Alanqar needs your support for Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overc

[abdalsalam2000]

Guys, we are dying of hunger in the shadow of this genocide and ethnic cleansing carried out by the Zionist occupation. As for the entire world, we are not asking you to stop the war on Gaza or even to bring us food so that we do not die of hunger. I know that you cannot do that, but I know that you can help us and donate to us, wherever you are. I only ask you, guys, to provide us with support and donate to us so that we remain well and do not die of hunger.

[kisatsel]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 墨雨云间 | The Double (TV 2024) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Xiao Heng | Duke Su/Xue Fangfei | Jiang Li Characters: Xue Fangfei | Jiang Li, Xiao Heng | Duke Su Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Fluff, First Time, Cunnilingus Summary:

They let some of their biggest truths sit unspoken between them. It was a kind of a game or an act of trust. I know who you are. And every time he came through for her, each leap of faith that paid off with interest, each time she raised her eyes to his and found them watching her -- assessing, caressing, surprised, knowing, wanting -- she found it harder and harder to wait the few short weeks to their wedding night.

[afieldinengland]

Man who stole 325 Creme Eggs banned from Cambridgeshire for three months

Deon De Groot, 26, was spotted stuffing eggs worth £220.50 into a duffel bag at a Tesco Express in Peterborough

[nso-csi]

240705 BeerRock Festival in Kaohsiung 'Guilty'

[ddesole]

Due South 3x13 “Mountie on the Bounty (Part 2)”

[flownwrong]

you know what is actually the best part of this whole thing? the script draft vs what aired

script:

RAY: What was that you did down there?

FRASER: Intimate buddy breathing. You seemed to be in trouble and I have excess lung capacity so —

RAY: Buddy breathing? OK, that sounds alright. And thanks.

FRASER: You’re thanking me? RAY: Yeah, but don’t get all excited. I’m just thanking you for saving my life. The jury’s still out on this whole partnership thing.

FRASER: Understood.

show:

RAY: What was that, Fraser? 

FRASER: What was what? 

RAY: That thing you were doing with your mouth. 

FRASER: Oh, that. That’s buddy breathing. You seemed to be in a bit of a, well, having a problem. I have excess lung capacity, so… 

RAY: Buddy breathing. 

FRASER: Standard procedure. 

RAY: Good. Okay. All right. Nothing’s, like, changed or anything, right? 

FRASER: No. 

RAY: Okay. 

FRASER: Yeah. 

RAY: Thanks. 

FRASER: You’re thanking me? 

RAY: Look, don’t get too excited, Fraser. The jury’s still out on this partnership thing, okay? 

FRASER: Oh, well, don’t worry, Mr. Instinct, I’m not excited.

do i even have to say anything? no, but i will

“intimate buddy breathing” doesn’t have a fighting chance because the “nothing’s changed” iconic stuff? not in there! plus all the pointed ignoring on fraser’s part (what was what—oh, that, he says, you know, like a liar). plus, the insane fucking married bickering in place of “understood”. plus, the general tone shifting further towards awkward. i can’t guess what series of decisions led to the changes, whose those were and at what stage they happened (and someone older and wiser than me in this fandom probably knows), but this is enough for me to forever think about it.

[flownwrong]

my past ramblings reblogged for @ds30below canon week because i am still very excited every time i remember this hehe

[audioeidolon]

So you’ve written rare pair fic on AO3- how rare are we talking? Select how many fics are tagged for your rarest written pairing on AO3, and let’s see how rare your ship REALLY is.

2000+ (You are on a luxury cruise.)

1500-1999 (You’ve chartered a trip and drank margaritas on the deck.)

1000-1499 (You are fishing off the back hoping desperately for more.)

500-999 (Storms may pass but you are unsinkable.)

100-499 (There is no bond like that of you and the five others manning the ship)

50-99 (The ship left the dock without everyone on board and you cannot drive.)

10-49 (The only reason you’re alone on board is you’re the only one with taste.)

Less than 10 (I am the captain now.)

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2024

Reblog and put your rare pair in the tags/comments! I want to see the depths people will go to create, for the most random two characters in the most obscure media.

[ashstfu]

2024!

SMILE MORE.

READ A FUCKED UP BOOK.

SEE A FUCKED UP MOVIE

WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN

LOVE YOUR OWN COMPANY

EAT FRUIT

LAUGH HARD

HOLD HANDS

LOOK UP AT THE SKY

THROW YOUR PHONE IN THE RIVER

GO OUTSIDE IN THE RAIN

DONT WORRY ABOUT FALLING IN LOVE

START DOING WHAT YOU WANT. ONLY

FOLLOW JOY

[ashstfu]

GO TO BED ON TIME!!

[sawasawako-archived]

the way i was just talking about this in class like why does a work of literature have to ‘transcend time and culture.’ is it not enough to meet it where it’s at as a specific piece of art belonging to a specific context from a particulare time

[sawasawako-archived]

[ladysisyphus]

Okay! Now that we have finished it, I would like to take this moment to recommend the Chinese drama The Disguiser.

It is a must-watch if you liked Nirvana in Fire, because of course it's the same director and a significant chunk of that same cast, except all playing significantly different roles with different dynamics.

For normal people, you should give it a go if you like:

spies

suits

spies in suits

the amazing east-meets-west aesthetic of late 1930s Shanghai

international incidents

acknowledgements that non-marriage-trajectory relationships can still be important and intimate

minimal unfounded valorization of heterosexuality (like, I can't really explain this one without spoilers, but trust me)

but when the heterosexuality happens, it's cute? so you can't really begrudge it for happening

pretty men getting tortured horrifically

some amazing female villains, like seriously, most of the main bad guys are ladies and they're powerhouses

transparently hilarious try-hard patriotic shit

the inherent eroticism of having someone who loves you shoot you with a sniper rifle

did I mention the suits? because damn

an ending that is satisfying and not relentlessly, senselessly tragic

For perverts, let me sell the show to you like this:

大姐. Elegant and terrifying. Will make you kneel and hit you with a flogger, but only because she loves you. Mommy? Sorry. (Not sorry.)

大哥. Executive homosexual. Will bend you over a bench and paddle you in the foyer, but only because da jie told him to.

弟弟. Should not, from what I understand of the book (and the musical???), be the main character, except he's Hu Ge, so of course he's the main character. Spoiled little gremlin. Everybody's baby. Has a real weird daddy thing going with a very bad man, if you're into that. Bisexual slut powers activated, but only patriotically.

弟弟 #2. Adopted when he was ten. Just like a member of the family except when he's not. Faithful right hand and subordinate of da ge, whom he tops so hard. (But seriously, they're in love.) (No, really. They're basically married.) (I sense the source material has him a little saltier about his station in life, but in the show, he never shows an inkling of being anything but perfectly content doing what he does.) Sultry baritone. Will hold you down so da ge can spank you.

And I'm going to say that pervert shit runs strong throughout what little fandom there is, at least as AO3 would have it:

Which is what happens if you include everything tagged for the Disguiser. If you filter it by English-language works only...

And some of those that say they're in English aren't even in English! They're just pretending to be in English! What I'm saying is, if you feel like making kinky things for a bitty little fandom, this is the place.

Now! If I've sold you on it, here is how to watch it:

Option 1: KissAsian. Upside: Subtitled by the same Viki team that did the Nirvana in Fire subtitles, so they're absolutely readable and like 98% comprehensible. Downside: Slightly sketchy site.

Option 2: YouTube. Upside: It's YouTube; different translation that's also perfectly okay; hardcoded Chinese subs. Downside: Whoever formatted the hardcoded English subs did not put anything behind the plain white text, so any time the English text appears over a bright background (which is curiously often), the words disappear.

Also there's a musical??? that came out in 2021????? If I find a link to a full production of that, I'll come back here and update. The clips I've seen of it look great, though.

Look, this is not a show for everyone. It's got some gore and torture and onscreen injury that's pretty disturbing. It portrays the truly awful realities of Japanese occupation of China during this period. The rah-rah communism! bits are at best hokey and at worst distasteful. It can be slow at times and way too condensed at others. If you're not familiar with this period of history, it's tough to keep track of all the various resistance factions. Because of the spycraft and double-agent business, it can be legitimately tricky to remember who's lying to whom about what at any given moment.

Nonetheless, pervert shit aside, it's a solid story about a complicated quartet of siblings who love and also injure one another, and all the people who love/hate them. There are plenty of genuinely tense moments. The hairstyling and costuming are perfectly on point. The actors turn in some stellar performances. As I alluded to in my bullet points, it has an ending that includes some tragic elements, but not so many that it'll sink all your ships and ruin your day. And I tell you what, this show is legitimately horny for everyone in this car:

So if you watch it, let me know what you think!

[welcometothejianghu]

@kisatsel asks: #if I'm extremely horny for hu ge but sadly can't get horny for incest is this the show for me

Oh boy! Clearly I love answering questions about the Disguiser in pursuit of getting more people to watch!

There is no textual incest in the show -- especially no gay textual incest. The show doesn't even joke about it. All the Mings have charged, intense relationships with one another (and are played by very attractive people), but that's as far as the show itself takes it. Basically, if you want it, the raw materials are there; if you don't want it, you don't have to have it.

Of the four Ming siblings, only two are actually related by blood -- big sister Ming Jing (Liu Mintao), and big brother Ming Lou (Jin Dong). Ming Tai (Hu Ge) gets adopted when he's pretty young, young enough that he's basically treated like a full blood relative going forward. Ming Jing dotes on Ming Tai and lets him sleep in her bed a lot, but in a motherly way.

Ah Cheng (Wang Kai) is the complicated one. He's semi-adopted when he's ten, and I say semi- because he's always on the weird border where he's half family and half servant. He went away for a lot of his schooling and only really came back when as an adult, at which point he attached to Ming Lou's side and has never since left. This is obviously The Ship for most of the fandom, myself included. Whether this crosses the Incest Line is entirely up to you. I tend to think it's incest like bac'n bits are bacon, which is to say, it's got the flavor but you can still eat them if you're vegan. This simile got away from me.

If you're horny for Hu Ge, you're in luck! Ming Tai's got at least four very horny romance options (three kinky, one mostly vanilla), none of whom are family members. Enjoy the feast!

[kisatsel]

thank you so much for this!! it sounds HIGHLY compelling, what an abundance of hu ge to watch with Blossoms Shanghai also coming out soon

[ladysisyphus]

Okay! Now that we have finished it, I would like to take this moment to recommend the Chinese drama The Disguiser.

It is a must-watch if you liked Nirvana in Fire, because of course it's the same director and a significant chunk of that same cast, except all playing significantly different roles with different dynamics.

For normal people, you should give it a go if you like:

spies

suits

spies in suits

the amazing east-meets-west aesthetic of late 1930s Shanghai

international incidents

acknowledgements that non-marriage-trajectory relationships can still be important and intimate

minimal unfounded valorization of heterosexuality (like, I can't really explain this one without spoilers, but trust me)

but when the heterosexuality happens, it's cute? so you can't really begrudge it for happening

pretty men getting tortured horrifically

some amazing female villains, like seriously, most of the main bad guys are ladies and they're powerhouses

transparently hilarious try-hard patriotic shit

the inherent eroticism of having someone who loves you shoot you with a sniper rifle

did I mention the suits? because damn

an ending that is satisfying and not relentlessly, senselessly tragic

For perverts, let me sell the show to you like this:

大姐. Elegant and terrifying. Will make you kneel and hit you with a flogger, but only because she loves you. Mommy? Sorry. (Not sorry.)

大哥. Executive homosexual. Will bend you over a bench and paddle you in the foyer, but only because da jie told him to.

弟弟. Should not, from what I understand of the book (and the musical???), be the main character, except he's Hu Ge, so of course he's the main character. Spoiled little gremlin. Everybody's baby. Has a real weird daddy thing going with a very bad man, if you're into that. Bisexual slut powers activated, but only patriotically.

弟弟 #2. Adopted when he was ten. Just like a member of the family except when he's not. Faithful right hand and subordinate of da ge, whom he tops so hard. (But seriously, they're in love.) (No, really. They're basically married.) (I sense the source material has him a little saltier about his station in life, but in the show, he never shows an inkling of being anything but perfectly content doing what he does.) Sultry baritone. Will hold you down so da ge can spank you.

And I'm going to say that pervert shit runs strong throughout what little fandom there is, at least as AO3 would have it:

Which is what happens if you include everything tagged for the Disguiser. If you filter it by English-language works only...

And some of those that say they're in English aren't even in English! They're just pretending to be in English! What I'm saying is, if you feel like making kinky things for a bitty little fandom, this is the place.

Now! If I've sold you on it, here is how to watch it:

Option 1: KissAsian. Upside: Subtitled by the same Viki team that did the Nirvana in Fire subtitles, so they're absolutely readable and like 98% comprehensible. Downside: Slightly sketchy site.

Option 2: YouTube. Upside: It's YouTube; different translation that's also perfectly okay; hardcoded Chinese subs. Downside: Whoever formatted the hardcoded English subs did not put anything behind the plain white text, so any time the English text appears over a bright background (which is curiously often), the words disappear.

Also there's a musical??? that came out in 2021????? If I find a link to a full production of that, I'll come back here and update. The clips I've seen of it look great, though.

Look, this is not a show for everyone. It's got some gore and torture and onscreen injury that's pretty disturbing. It portrays the truly awful realities of Japanese occupation of China during this period. The rah-rah communism! bits are at best hokey and at worst distasteful. It can be slow at times and way too condensed at others. If you're not familiar with this period of history, it's tough to keep track of all the various resistance factions. Because of the spycraft and double-agent business, it can be legitimately tricky to remember who's lying to whom about what at any given moment.

Nonetheless, pervert shit aside, it's a solid story about a complicated quartet of siblings who love and also injure one another, and all the people who love/hate them. There are plenty of genuinely tense moments. The hairstyling and costuming are perfectly on point. The actors turn in some stellar performances. As I alluded to in my bullet points, it has an ending that includes some tragic elements, but not so many that it'll sink all your ships and ruin your day. And I tell you what, this show is legitimately horny for everyone in this car:

So if you watch it, let me know what you think!

[dazzlingkai]

TAEMIN 태민 'Guilty' MV Trailer

[zhanglinghez]

Xiao Zhan as Sheng Yang

EP.01 | Sunshine By My Side 「骄阳伴我」 (2023)

[tibby]

watching red white and royal blue. this movie sucks but it would have been a camp masterpiece if they actually got jesse eisenberg and andrew garfield to play the leads. rpf has zero credibility these days.

[tibby]

i would never lie about the fact that casey mcquiston was a prolific andrew garfield/jesse eisenberg fic writer in the heydays of the social network fandom and while it has not be confirmed, it is quite possible that their book about a british guy and an american man falling in love was inspired by the two leads of the original award winning rpf movie

[yibo-wang]

WANG YIBO as CHEN SHUO ONE AND ONLY

[poetrysmackdown]

FOR 3RD PLACE

"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver

"Meditations in an Emergency" by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Voting ended onAug 20, 2023

Visit "Wild Geese" if you'd like to hear it read by the author!

[inkstaindusk]

knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then

[inkstaindusk]

what if i wasn’t allowed to love you. what if i loved you anyway. what if you knew and i knew but we wouldn’t dare to take that step. what if we made meaningful eye contact as i knelt at your feet and devoted my whole being to you. what if i whispered your name for only you to hear

[inkstaindusk]

“my lord” is actually something that can be so personal

[inkstaindusk]

what if i said “my lord” but i actually meant “my love”