[haarute]

[holespoles]

Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

[taylornation]

Bridges that reveal the full painting 🤌

Create your own Rant Bridge Playlist featuring the first tracks that come to mind and watch the full The New York Times interview honoring Taylor as one of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters at nytimes.com/taylorswift

[forgottenbones]

[snoopishane]

boy shut the fuck up

[catchymemes]

[everythingismadeofchaos]

We all do, buddy. We all do

[vancruejovi]

[write-on-world]

[sumersprkl]

I fuckin’ love Maomao. At first you see her nearly work herself to death to save the emperor’s concubine and you’re like “Ah. She’s scared of getting her head chopped off for failing the Emperor’s direct command.” And then you see her do it again for the blue roses challenge, just out of love for the game and a desperation to one-up her shitty bio dad, and you’re like “Ah. It’s a character trait.”

[julietcpulet]

Apothecary Diaries: Maomao’s Story

“Apothecary Diaries is a detective story”, “Apothecary Diaries is a romantic story”…no, it’s Maomao’s story. She is the Apothecary and it is her diary. Hence why we call her the unreliable narrator because she is the one narrating. Does the story switch POV at times? Sure, but the overall arc of the narrative is Maomao. How this world and its challenges, experiences and triumphs shape her as a growing adult.

The mystery solving is only a vehicle to showing us Maomao’s growth in maturity as she learns to develop her medicinal craft, sharpen her deductive skill and stops relying on presumption alone but on that which she can prove without a doubt as well. The romance, on the other hand, shows us her growing emotional maturity. Her willingness to open up her heart over time, to let someone in who she doesn’t always understand, who frustrates her but also pushes her in a good way and is one of the only people she lets into her private world.

Both of these elements are what come together to make Maomao a whole character but they’re not separate from one another. They’re part of a blending narrative that shows the progression of one young woman’s life from isolated, almost purely rational Apothecary to a young adult with more compassionate understanding and an ever-expanding medical knowledge. This is a story of well-rounded growth. You can’t take one and divorce it from the other because then you miss the entirety of the picture in Apothecary Diaries. That it is Maomao’s tale of her life, lived in steps over time as any life would be.

[meowmeowsabortionclinic]

Something else I'll add to the conversation around Jinshi's behavior when he's immediately post-burn is how intense your emotions can get after a major injury.

Acting irrational during a serious healing process is extremely normal. It's around 4 continuous weeks you'd be expected to seek serious mental healthcare. Spikes of guilt, anxiety, emotional neediness, those would be expected even for a well-supported athlede who suffered an expected sports injury.

Jinshi, however, felt emotionally driven to self-inflict a third degree burn.

I think the utter desperation of the act gets overlooked. This is a character who felt SO strongly that no one would listen to him, that he TRULY believed there was no better option than to brand himself like a cow.

Of course he's going to act kind of weird and bratty afterwards...? Yes hello ancient chinese 911 the social ape yearns for social assurance.

BREAKING NEWS! "20-year-old does something wreckless in desperate cry for help. Clings to only source of emotional stability afterwards." Should we update the DSM? Should I oujia Freud? Is this really so hard to understand

[mtf-the-gathering]

"gender is a social construct": fairly easy for leftists to understand

"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable

"mental illness is a social construct": this one gets you hate mail in your inbox

[thebookewyrme]

Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)

[thatsallitchief]

My boys, I love these two, they are my sons. A lot of content I need to make very little time 💔

[donnovien]

Khun after this scene

[rirururu]

I'm so happy they added an extra gay pining Khun scene in the anime

[karagechopstic]

KhunBam Week 2025 Day 7 - Song & Heartbeat [school AU] i don't mind listening to you all day..

.. It's my last entry for khunbam week 2025! This one is extra late because I had exams on the weekend and couldnt finish it in time- but I'm glad I managed to do all 7!! Thank you for the supports!!

[katalean]

family

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3