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A/N: For the Lunarescent Dan Heng JieJie zine. Ngl, the two pieces I made for this are one of my favourites, I was trying so hard with mood and setting and I think I killed it. For the SFW piece, I thought the Dan Heng/Blade/Jing Yuan trio fit so perfectly into a western, with the tropes of revenge and loss and emptiness. Of course, it’s not Dan Heng without March and Stelle somewhere. I also ended up going two different ways with the theme of the zine for each piece, since I love the different ways you can play with gender and character depending. Also, it’s a crime there’s no splash art with these three. Excuse me. You can’t have such lore between them and then not have anything canon to see.
Other fun part was trying to figure out how to do Dan Heng vs Dan Feng for both pieces. XD In a world without dragon reincarnation…gotta be creative.
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The desert seemed soft in the morning light. While the sun hadn’t risen yet, the hard sands took on a rosy hue, the cacti appearing smooth at a distance. A foreigner would be forgiven for forgetting the scorpions in the shadows, the thorns on the plants, the harsh midday sun.
Dan Heng was no foreigner; her boots were permanently caked with clay, her clothes covered in a layer of sand. She’d spent too many years on the well-worn paths crisscrossing the West to be anything but a local.
As she adjusted the straps for her saddle, she double-checked her saddlebags. There was just enough food for her to reach Xianzhou Luofu. After that…well, there was no use for supplies if things went sideways.
“I don’t like this,” March 7th protested, hugging Dan Heng’s bedroll tightly in a last-ditch attempt to get her to stay. “We should just keep going to Penacony.”
Dan Heng sighed, patting her horse’s snout once before turning to face her irate friend. They’d travelled together for nearly a decade now, arguing for most of those years, but this was different. “I have to go.”
“It’s dangerous!” March 7th argued, glaring. Her fingers dug into the bedroll. “At least let us go with you. Blade’s attacked us too; it’s not just your problem!”
“It is. She’s not interested in you,” Dan Heng corrected, rubbing her neck as she tried to find the right way to explain. They wouldn’t have been attacked if it weren’t for her. They wouldn’t have faced any danger at all if it weren’t for her.
Blade wasn’t after them, after all.
For: Guppy for the Letters through the Tides Minibites event hosted by @soruiru! Thanks for running this!
Prompt: Experiencing snow or the first time. Neuvi hates snow but doesn’t mind. Or practical joke by Sigewinnne and the other isn't involved.
A/N: I am not good with jokes so I almost defaulted with the first prompt, but no! I wanted to challenge myself! And then came this absolutely terrible idea. It was a challenge to keep this at around 1k but I just managed!
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There were few things better than relaxing in either Wriothesley’s or Neuvillette’s office with a cup of tea. Well, there may be a few things, things best left away from prying eyes, but all of those were off the table until Neuvillette had finished his duties for the day. While Wriothesley was no slacker, his lover took ‘married to work’ to a whole new level.
This left Wriothesley with no other option than to arrange tea time in order to even catch a glimpse of Neuvillette’s face during the day.
Today, they were in Neuvillette’s office. Wriothesley took a mental note to update his stash of loose-leaf tea later; they were starting to run dangerously low. As usual, there were two cups of tea on the table, all carefully brewed by Neuvillette. As usual, there were plates of cookies and cake; despite them not being to Neuvillette’s taste, his time with the former Archon left him with the habit of ordering sweets for every occasion.
Oddly, Neuvillette had sat across from him before Wriothesley could cajole him into sitting on the couch next to him
Unusually, instead of drinking his tea, his paramour kept staring at him intently.
I’m fairly certain that the people who make the “batman could make himself obsolete by using his money to solve the economic strain that drives many people to crime” posts are only familiar with Batman through Will Arnett’s spoof performance in the Lego movie, since that’s the only version of Batman I know where he isn’t hiring so many ex-convicts at his company so they have a legitimate source of income and using so much money to fund social programs that all the other bigwigs at Wayne Enterprises hate him and want him gone
Literally every version of his origin story I can remember involves him realizing that he can’t just treat the symptoms as Batman, he has to treat the root cause as Bruce Wayne. A huge part of the plot of “The Dark Knight Rises” is that his company is on the verge of bankruptcy because Bruce keeps spending all their profits on things like “clean energy” and “food and shelter for orphans.”
The opening of “Arkham City” shows him campaigning against mass incarceration because the majority of the inmates in Arkham City are not public menaces like the Joker, they’re desperate people with no other options, and Gotham should be providing them with legitimate means of stability rather than punishing them for having none.
Especially since the majority of his villains are independently wealthy people (doctors, lawyers, business executives) who are exploiting people’s desperation in order to get themselves henchmen, and the henchmen almost always have jobs with a living wage waiting for them on the other side of their sentence, and Bruce has a standing offer to pay out-of-pocket for the therapy of any of his villains whose crimes are the result of a mental illness (which Bruce is sympathetic to since he is mentally ill himself)
But what’s really damning about these posts is that a lot of them suggest Bruce should use his money to give the police the resources they need to deal with crime on their own, which makes it clear they’ve never actually consumed a piece of Batman media, since the issue with the Gotham Police is not that they’re underfunded. They have a bloated budget, they’re almost militant, and they’re so corrupt that they actually encourage crime, both violent and economic, because they’re on the payroll of the richest criminals.
Also, some of them refer to Batman as a “old rich white man’s wet dream” and I really disagree here. A story that says the only rich dude in the world who’s not a criminal drain on society is the one who spends the majority of his hefty inheritance and all his corporate profits trying to correct the imbalance that allowed him his wealth in the first place, whose staunch belief is that the best crime control policy is building a world where no one feels crime is necessary, as well as refusing to support mass incarceration or police corruption, systems which stand to benefit him financially? Batman is an old rich white man’s worst nightmare.
Bruce Wayne tends to spend so much of his wealth on social reform and funding charities for the needy and helping desperate ex-cons get back on their feet so they don’t have to resort to crime again, that they had to invent ancient curses and shit to explain why Gotham continues to be a shithole because it begins to stretch plausibility that there’s so much call for Batman in a city that has Bruce Wayne in it.
“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now
The “+” in LGBTQ+ is for math.
It’s literally been years since anyone added something slightly clever or original to this post, so I would like to congratulate you and maybe even bestow some kind of award. I don’t have anything to give you though
It was simple addition, really.
How long before we start seeing cases like these for just being queer? Do we have to get to that stage for people to start to mobilize against this loudly? We can't let the fight against internet censorship and puritan outrage against NSFW content be another controlled narrative by the right wing grifters.
Actually this is already bad because porn is good and people who make it deserve to eat
There is a petition about this in the UK which has had 10K signatures thus far
Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwi
omg should we like. tell somebody. should we tell the police. should we tell the reverend
this is a real published article
imagine youre cinderella and youre running away from the ball and your. actually i cant tell which shoe would be funnier to lose
Now crossing the river at its most peaceful spot was an old wooden bridge. It was a familiar spot to Winnie the Pooh, for he would often wander there.
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore ( 1983) dir. Rick Reinert
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Brother Bear was out there deconstructing toxic masculinity long before people online talked about it, and everyone slept on it
Kenai's journey is largely about what it means to be a man
At the beginning of the film, Kenai is trying to prove himself to his older brothers especially Sitka. He thinks to be a man he has to prove his worth by being tough and macho even when it's unhelpful (like riding a mamooth instead of fishing). That is how the whole conflict of the movie comes up
Kenai does a poor job of tying this basket
Why? Because weaving and tying baskets isn't as manly as getting a fierce totem and therefore he isn't interested in stopping and doing a good job of it. He brushes it off
He then gets a totem of love which he hates and even more, is embarassed by (because love is not 'manly') and discovers the salmon laying on the floor were stolen by a bear.
Kenai could (and should) have acknowledged his fuckup and maybe said "my mistake, I'll weave a new basket and catch more" even if it'd take a while
Instead, he decides to go after the bear. Which is stupid (there is zero chance the fish and basket are intact). And sure enough he gets so frustrated when he sees that they are gone that he taunts the bear, which is doubly stupid, but he thinks he's being a man by not letting the bear get away with it.
Then he loses his eldest brother in the ensuing struggle.
And again, Kenai could have acknowledged his mistake and learned from it, but in his grief he only doubles down on 'being a man' by avenging his brother by killing the bear. Which is not gonna fix anything or bring Sitka back, obviously. His living brother even tells him that.
And you know the rest
But here's the cool thing: Kenai was never cowardly as far as the usual meaning of the word goes. If manliness was defined as being macho, he'd have been one from the start! He did have the guts to fight a grizzly bear with nothing but a a spear! But the movie makes it clear that that's not what it is about. Just fighting the bear when nobody is gonna be helped by doing so isn't being responsible, isn't being kind, isn't taking the weight of his actions seriously and THAT makes a man.
Kenai only grows and gets to be regarded as a man by the narrative, when he starts taking responsibility and having more empathy by realizing that his actions have consequences and weight not only for him, but for others.
And I think that's a banger message against toxic masculinity. I think this movie would've gotten a lot more love if more people looked at with care when it was released
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