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One of two binds done this year for @renegadepublishing's 2023 Bound Book Exchange. One of my favorite fics, and one that had already been on my to-bind list (actually, both had been. Excellent taste on my Giftee's part, Lou) More info under the cut
i think one of the most wonderful traits of wei wuxian is how socially competent he is, which is why it always annoys me if he is mischaracterized as someone who is unaware about how those around him feel, just because of the way his relationship with lan wangji pans out in the books. the dynamic between them was extremely multifaceted and what seemed obvious to us was very rightfully NOT obvious to wei wuxian and he hardly had time to sort those feelings out, given the kind of harrowing ordeals he was going through. but that aside–the way wei wuxian’s “social competence” manifests isn’t just social courage–in that, the risk of embarassment or self-consciousness doesn’t stop his self expression–or just his general forwardness and social butterfly tendencies but also–and imo, most importantly–his perceptiveness and astute reading of people around him which comes from a deep understanding of the human social element, at the individual and the societal level.
he has full awareness of how his station is looked down upon in the cultivation world and so while others in his situation may bend or break–wei wuxian cleverly toes the line between the two until taking a stance becomes necessary. he deeply understands the ugly dynamics running within the jiang family and clan and acts accordingly–be it his prompt efforts to placate jiang cheng or his conscious silence when madame yu is in a mood or even his acceptance of the whipping in lieu of restoring stability for the clan. despite his personal biases against jin zixuan, he can recognise his bravery. even his scandalous move to begin undressing in the cave shows that he knows exactly what would make lan wangji tick.
hell, i’d say even his initial thought about how the resentment of the dead can be redirected towards a target shows his striking comprehension of how emotions work in general. what’s more, he’s able to recognise the machinations nie huaisang had employed and he was also aware of the bigger picture associated with how fickle and easily swayed mob mentality was when everyone took part in bashing jin guangyao when certain truths came to light. when he was first brought back to life, he quickly and correctly deduced what kind of life mo xuanyu must have led and how he could act in order to easily humiliate the mo family. he empathised with jin ling and yet realised how he was brought up left something to be desired and so, tried to inculcate some of his own highly regarded values to him.
the deft manner in which he handled the juniors speaks for itself–a good teacher will always have good communication skills and wei wuxian went above and beyond just “good”. his people skills on nighthunts are extremely helpful–his ability to make tongues loose simply by charming people is highlighted more than once. just off the top of my head–him politely appealing to jin guangshan about the wen remnants and apologising for “intruding”, him readily handing in his sword at the indoctrination camps, him suggesting to jiang cheng that he should leave the clan once he was at the burial mounds–all of this (and much much more) demonstrates wei wuxian’s competence at guaging complex social dynamics, which is why, when he goes against the current and stands firm, it is a deliberate, well thought out decision, one made after considering the risks and repercussions, and that makes wei wuxian’s stance at the end that much more powerful. he is not stumbling his way through life, is not unheeding of his social status, is not a “mad genius with poor social skills”. hell, i would say wei wuxian’s ability to see straight through people is more impressive than even his insane intellect and to reduce that aspect of him feels like a disservice to his character. because when it comes down to it, the fact of the matter is that the murky social world through wei wuxian’s lens is actually astonishingly clear.
Hey so. Can we all agree that Jimin's Bilbo Baggins hair era is objectively his worst one??
Yoongi's hair, on the other end, with the glasses is absolutely doing it for me. Thought I was out of my heavy kpop obsession, turns out i was wrooooooooong.
I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person
#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life
Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.
i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era
#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate
Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.
So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.
So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.
This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.
Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”
This (studying in Chile for a year) is more or less how I realized my two PhD-having, tenured professor expat parents raised me to speak the most disrespectful and swearword-riddled version of Spanish possible (with plenty of ancient slang I didn't know was slang thrown in). It was like:
I have a whole post about how body shame leads to worse medical outcomes and death but work is a misery today so i implore you all to think on that while the rolling wheels of capitalism crush me.
Will get back around to it at a later point though, because its true.
There’s something so grotesquely cruel about pushing someone to desperate acts and then pointing to those desperate acts as proof of who they “actually” were all along. Bonus points if you use that to retroactively justify having treated them badly – “see, they were just a bad seed; I was right to try and beat it out of them”.
For people who tell us voting democrat is Useless and we shouldn’t even bother voting. I want to tell you this, Voters actually VOTE who the candidate is for the presidential and senate and whoever is the candidate for the election in the primaries. I looked it up. We vote who the candidate is. There are open voting where everyone is eligible to vote who the candidate is and closed voting where only the political party votes who the candidate is. So to everyone complaining voting is useless and why bother voting democratJust remember people actually can choose by their vote who the candidate is. You just choose not to vote. I’m actually registered to vote in the primary elections. Remember there are democrats who are socialist. Seattle voted a socialist mayor. We can choose who the candidate is. That is why voting regularly is important. Not just voting every four years or voting every two years. But voting when ever there is a voting system. You choose who the candidates are in the voting system.
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Ok I think this might be funnier with context actually. This is a review for a strip club in Toronto.
sometimes my students like to freestyle towards the end of class during their free time. it's usually unremarkable, or related to something that just happened: [you know i be gettin the answers / cuz im payin attention in school] after getting a question right, for example. but, last year, one of my teenage boys dropped a bar so iconic I have not stopped thinking about it since: "keep it strapped like a dyke". his slur to reclaim? absolutely not. but you can't deny its magnetism.
DID YOU KNOW that sometimes characters lie. out loud to others and internally to themselves, and it'll happen right there on the page. other times they are just flat out wrong and don't know it. oftentimes they don't ever find that out. a sizable portion of any story is decidedly not cold hard fact.
Its been forever since ive been on this app. Why the fuck did they change the swipe direction for quick reblog??? WAS THAT WHAT WAS BROKEN, TUMBLR?
Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".
They want to control our elections.
I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.
They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.
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How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.
Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?
Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?
Boosting signal. AGAIN.
