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some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

(hope this helps some ppl)

snoddie

jackabbot

BOB'S BURGERS 16.01 • Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening

nagarnia

Cat Durin🐱🐉

mo49ko

(fengqing 🏹⚔️)

fx wanted to surprise mq for their 3 months anniversary !! 💐🌼🌷

saisaixchan

If I were to give a general estimation as to when i think Maomao gained romantic feelings for Jinshi, it would have been at the end of LN4

Jinshi saves Maomao from her kidnapping, and she returns to working as the Verdigris House's Apothecary. With Jinshi's true status revealed, Maomao assumes she's never going to see him again

She thinks about this a lot, about how she's too low born for someone of his status to ever see her, and how he doesn't even need her help with his injury anyway, because Luoman is at the rear palace now. There's no logical reason for them to ever see each other again. And it itches at her

And so she starts her experiments again, harming herself. There doesn't seem to be a purpose for the concoctions she's making either, as if she's trying to treat something with no obvious cause. Something too deep for the failed medicines to reach

So she goes to cut off her finger. Specifically, her left pinky finger.

Again, there doesn't seem to be a purpose for this behavior at all- until you remember that her mother cut off the tip of her left pinky, out of anguish and rage at Lakan for abandoning her. Fengxian's love for Lakan is the reason her mother harmed her.

Maomao relates that particular finger of her's to romantic love, because of her parent's tragic love story and the trauma it caused her

Maomao knows how stupid love can make even the most intelligent of people, and has consciously and subconsciously avoided it, because she doesn't want to experience that same sort of attachment and hurt. She's heard her parent's story, heard stories of those seeking love at the Verdigris House, how courtesan's speak about love in hushed tones, and how it always ended in pain for everyone involved

But when she thinks she's never going to see Jinshi again, she goes to cut off her left pinky finger, as if on instinct. The finger she associates with romantic love. The same action Fengxian did, when she thought she'd been abandoned by Lakan.

Maomao is doing the exact same thing as her mother, for the exact same reasons.

It's only when Jinshi walks in through the door that Maomao unties her pinky and puts away the knife, and returns to her normal self.

It's one of those things where - I don't think even Maomao understands the reasons behind her actions here. Something was bothering her, something deep, and she went to the only solution she could think of to fix it- cutting off the piece of her that she associates with romantic love- but she stops feeling that subconscious itch as soon as Jinshi comes to see her. As soon as he's back in her life, things are right again, and she stops hurting herself

it's a moment i think about a lot, and it's one of my favorites in the series, because of what it represents for Maomao specifically. it says a lot about her character and how she feels about Jinshi, even if it takes years for those feelings to fully bloom

ghost-kings-court-jester

Truly nothing is funnier than Xie Lian just losing his goody two shoes facade when Qi Rong is involved like when everyone else is an asshole or doing evil things Xie Lian just smiles patiently and thinks it’s none of his business but the second Qi Rong is around he is being force fed Xie Lians food and made fun of for being a wrath and getting served straight hands the second he says anything about Hua Cheng like truly some things are just for the family.

mandrakethecat

One of my favorite things to do is make a bookmark for the book I’m reading. I’ve been reading a lot of books digitally tho, so it’s been a hot minute since I have. Normally I’d wait till after the book or in the middle when I get a feeling, so they don’t usually look this close to the cover and I may make a second one for it, but today was different. The dedication of it was to the author’s stepdad.

I have two stepdads, as of very recently in the laws eyes. One was in my life from age 5 and still is. The other came into my life when I was 18. I wasn’t happy about the change at first. I was angry at my mom cause it felt like she was picking some guy over helping me thru my depression in high school. I even cut her out of my life for a while, but it didn’t last tho and with her back in it so was her bf. They’ve dated since then. Over 10 years. With him, my family grew, I gained a step sister and step brother, a new cat, a doting grandma, and a mother by association.

Both my step dads and my step mom by my dad’s marriage mean so much to me. Seeing the dedications, I reached out with a thank you, I love you, mushy long message. I tried to focus on the book, but was distracted by the conversations with these parents I’ve found in different parts of my life. I couldn’t focus on the book. So instead I did a bookmark.

The first attempt was bad! The colors weren’t blending on the paper, the composition was all wrong, proportions off. So I started over, planned on out in my head a bit more first and used a different paper. The marker still doesn’t blend, but it layers better and my shapes were better. I don’t draw people, so I copped out with the boxes. But even so,

I like it. I like it a lot, I like the way the alcoholic markers soak thru the pain marker, but the water based don’t. I like the trees, the bright blue sky. And even my lazy little boxes. I like that I made something and now I can my first physical library book as an adult, despite the many digital!! Yes it’s a YA book, sue me, it was pretty! (I may decide to attempt the little leave floating on the cover art later, but I’m not brave lol)

mandrakethecat

I signed it lol

One of my favorite things to do is make a bookmark for the book I’m reading. I’ve been reading a lot of books digitally tho, so it’s been a hot minute since I have. Normally I’d wait till after the book or in the middle when I get a feeling, so they don’t usually look this close to the cover and I may make a second one for it, but today was different. The dedication of it was to the author’s stepdad.

I have two stepdads, as of very recently in the laws eyes. One was in my life from age 5 and still is. The other came into my life when I was 18. I wasn’t happy about the change at first. I was angry at my mom cause it felt like she was picking some guy over helping me thru my depression in high school. I even cut her out of my life for a while, but it didn’t last tho and with her back in it so was her bf. They’ve dated since then. Over 10 years. With him, my family grew, I gained a step sister and step brother, a new cat, a doting grandma, and a mother by association.

Both my step dads and my step mom by my dad’s marriage mean so much to me. Seeing the dedications, I reached out with a thank you, I love you, mushy long message. I tried to focus on the book, but was distracted by the conversations with these parents I’ve found in different parts of my life. I couldn’t focus on the book. So instead I did a bookmark.

The first attempt was bad! The colors weren’t blending on the paper, the composition was all wrong, proportions off. So I started over, planned on out in my head a bit more first and used a different paper. The marker still doesn’t blend, but it layers better and my shapes were better. I don’t draw people, so I copped out with the boxes. But even so,

I like it. I like it a lot, I like the way the alcoholic markers soak thru the pain marker, but the water based don’t. I like the trees, the bright blue sky. And even my lazy little boxes. I like that I made something and now I can my first physical library book as an adult, despite the many digital!! Yes it’s a YA book, sue me, it was pretty! (I may decide to attempt the little leave floating on the cover art later, but I’m not brave lol)