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✧ ･゜ﾟ･:.｡..｡.:*･゜ﾟ･* ･゜ﾟ𝑰𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 ────────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──────────

[mocsing-yaps]

Some underrated book 3 moments

✴️ Feng Xin suggesting to cure a whole epidemic by getting everyone into weightlifting.

✴️ Shi Wudu seeing his sibling acting up and going "Stop trying to touch a pregnant woman you cretin that is WEIRD and don't even try turning into woman, that wouldn't make it ANY less weird."

✴️ The play called "The Red Demon Torched the Temples of Thirty-Three Gods and the Heavens Could Do Fuck-all About It".

✴️ When Qi Rong got bored and immediately started catcalling women on the street.

✴️ E-ming, Rouye, and Fangxin hanging out at Xie Lian's house like two 6 year olds putting on a show for papa and an emo teenager playing genshin in the corner.

✴️ This particular illustration:

(Book 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

[psycloclo]

~sinsmas

[th0rns]

via

[dgwwm4]

Thinking about rough, possessive, "I fucking own you" sex

[litengal]

And yet, I post nothing.

[gaywaren]

official hd illustrations from the tgcf audio drama pv!

[gaywaren]

new tgcf donghualian art!!

[baiwu-jinji]

This post is just to provide some translation notes and cultural context for Xie Lian’s famous saying “body in abyss, heart in paradise” (身在无间, 心在桃源). The two words that really require some explanation in this saying are “abyss” and “paradise” because much of their cultural implications are lost in translation.

Let’s start with the word “abyss.” The Chinese phrase used here 无间 is a Buddhist term and actually means “hell,” and specifically 无间 is the deepest and most horrific level of hell within the “eight hells” of Buddhism. 无间 literally means “no interval” because those condemned to this level of hell suffer non-stop and without intervals, and the hell itself has “no interval” in the sense that it’s endless both spatially and temporally. In fact 无间 is a fitting term for Jun Wu because Jun Wu’s suffering is agonizing, incessant, and interminable, just like this hell. It’s no wonder that Jun Wu felt personally attacked when Xie Lian said this line in front of him.

As for the word “paradise,” the Chinese phrase is 桃源 which literally means “peach blossom spring.” “Peach blossom spring” is a reference to a famous short story of the same name by Tao Yuanming (365–427 AD) (I’ll link the full text of the story here for people who’re interested). It’s a fantastical story of a guy who, after going through a mysterious cave near a field of blossoming peach trees, stumbled upon a utopian society cut off from the outside world where everyone leads a happy and peaceful life, but where no one is aware of what’s going on in the world outside of their own small community. So 桃源 isn’t so much paradise in the Christian sense as an earthly paradise, or a utopia that people can retreat into to hide from the chaos and strife of the world.

I feel like “body in abyss, heart in paradise” very much reflects the Buddhist view that what really matters and what determines your reality isn’t the world external to yourself, but what happens subjectively within your own mind. As long as your mind is in paradise, body in abyss isn’t so terrible. And I think Jun Wu was so deeply offended by this saying partly because…he vehemently disagrees with this view from his personal experience.  It’s exactly the external world that made Jun Wu’s life and Jun Wu’s reality a living hell – the public who abandoned him, the friends who betrayed him, the ingrates that judged and condemned him, the heaven officials who took advantage of his already desperate situation. When everything in the external world combined to make your life hell, your inner world simply can’t be paradise.

[huaenrose]

I think it's very significant Hua Cheng's power involves rain because the event that started Xie Lian's suffering was a drought, so it's as if when he emerged to protect him, he said: "if it was wrong for gods to answer prayers for rain, a ghost will. And the heavens will bleed for it".

[ballwizard]

every time someone gets invested in another person's oc an angel gets its wings

[anotherdanmeiblog]

"Are you okay?"

No bro I'll never read a love story as beautiful as Hualian's ever again

[pitbolshevik]

mustelids are the best animal because they are fucking brutally efficient predators but they're also just absurdly cute

[pitbolshevik]

me when i fucking get you

[a-shooting-starmie]

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[thepastisaroadmap]

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

[headspace-hotel]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

[rackiera]

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

[a-book-of-creatures]

[squeaksquawks]

Hi! It’s been a minute! I found this prompt sheet and thought it would be fun to do some! Shoot me an ask and some characters and I’ll see what I can do!

[mcflymemes]

a good rp friend:

understands you have a life outside your blog understands you'll ship with other people beside them cares about your well being and checks in on you gives you space when you ask for it never pesters you for replies loves writing with you / loves being friends with you, and shows it communicates with you in private if there's an issue apologizes for their mistakes encourages you, compliments you, and lifts you up reaches out to you in difficult times listens to your problems

a bad rp friend:

demands your undivided attention and instant responses vague-posts about you on the dash (and sometimes denies it's about you when you ask them directly) talks poorly about you behind your back guilt trips you if you don't respond quick enough dislikes seeing you ship with other blogs refuses to own up to their mistakes and/or blames you for everything never gives you the space you need or cares about your irl situations acts passive-aggressively towards you puts far too much emotional value in roleplay gives you panic attacks / anxiety attacks doesn't communicate with you if there's an issue

[emotionaldisaster909]

very scared of coming off as far too fixated on hualian, but they are actually one of the few things keeping me mentally stable rn

[zeldacw]

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