Fancy That

Whatever strikes my fancy.  Nary on AO3 for my fic.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Chinese dancer performs bellydance(Raqs Sharqi) in his oc assassin style (cr 舞贝勒）

[dabblingreturns]

Harrow the ninth features 3 foods, John's Tea, Ianthe's apple and harrows bone soup.

Which makes this a Bone•Apple•Tea situation

What the fuck Tamsyn?

[resismedievalmenagerie]

Medieval bats! I love these guys. They're in the bird section, but clearly even the medieval monks are a little confused about this, writing the bat "uses its teeth, which you may not be accustomed to finding in other birds." Translation comes from Willene B Clark, and you can find the bestiary these are featured in here.

[bishy437]

that one scene in the mpreg fish danmei immediately made me think of this

[zhouszishu]

word of honor 山河令 » favorite relationships → zhou zishu, wen kexing & zhang chengling

At first, Zhang Chengling still excitedly ran over to watch them, thinking he could learn something, but afterwards he realised their fights were too fierce. Aside from learning specialties like “black tiger pulls out heart”, “monkey stealing peaches”, or something like “upending skies”, there was no value-added experience to be learnt. He then immediately lamented that no wonder they were martial arts masters, even their techniques are trimmed down to the basics. Hence, he went back to study his own martial arts orthodoxly step-by-step. 

Yet in the young man’s heart, he still held some annoyance. His shifu kept criticising that his movements were ugly, but does he himself not frequently roll around on the ground in such improper style with senior Wen?

The two top masters had completely fallen to become two top street rats, all the while unintentionally misleading a young man’s growth path.

– 天涯客 Tian Ya Ke, Extra 1

[discoursedrome]

When people say things like "Behold the Accursed One!" that doesn't imply any ill intent on their part -- quite often it's meant as a neutral or even helpful statement. But the problem with this sort of language is that, however well-intentioned it may be, it foregrounds the curse at the expense of the person behind it; auguries have shown that this can have a priming effect that subtly reduces empathy. For that reason, experts today encourage people to use one-first language, such as "Behold the One who Bears the Curse," to better emphasize the dignity of the individual.

[rylandgracie]

nothing better than receiving a comment like this

[clementine-kesh]

i’ve seen people counter the idea of polyamory as a solution to conflicting ships by saying that sometimes the characters in question would not work as a poly ship which is fair and often true but as an avid enjoyer of both polyamory and toxic relationships i think it’s kind of awesome when a particular poly configuration mostly exists to drive everyone involved to madness

[renthony]

The fastest way to shut down my "freelance life means I have to constantly be working" thoughts is to remind myself that if I was a boss holding a worker to the standards I hold myself to, their union would hunt me for sport and nobody would blame them.

[vaspider]

Not me immediately screenshotting this and posting it to the OPP freelance writers chat I'm in

[clpolk]

I tell myself: "I'm the owner of the company. But more importantly, I'm also the head of Scriveners Local 23, and I have some demands."

So what that means is that I have a four day work week. I work monday-tuesday and then Thursday-Friday. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.

I have a workplace wellness program that means I can take breaks for yoga, meditation, exercise, and naps.

I have unlimited paid personal days thanks to my project oriented work structure--I get to decide what's the best balance between production and restoration. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.

I have five days each quarter for vacation. attending a convention, conference, expo, bookstore event tour, or a writing workshop *is not a vacation.* that's business-related travel. taking a day or two for a weekend jaunt *is not a vacation.* that's unlimited paid personal days. Five working days. Each Quarter. Vacation. and since I always have wednesdays off, it doesn't count.

I know there's a piece of your brain saying "I have to hustle, I have to hustle"

I know

My brain does that too

And without the union boss in my head, I'll just work until I drop. That's what I did for years. And then I burnt out so bad that this is the first time I have actually made real, noticable progress(1.) similar to my pre-burnout rates in years.

Because the union boss went on strike, and the boss' bottom line was *destroyed.* If I have to crunch now, the union boss enforces recovery time. that's all overtime. but since I don't get paid a wage, I get all that back in time.

The boss never wants to see a strike like that again.

There is power in a union, even if it's only the union in your head.

(1.) only it's not similar. it's half the "speed" of pre-burnout. It's probably my actual true real speed and not my sweatshop labour hustle culture speed. FUCK THE BOSS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.

[s-leary]

This is outstanding advice for all forms of freelancing.

[jaegrackrmn]

the soft look on her face while thinking "that's the Jinshi i remember", oh Maomao you missed him so much

[oyasumiaow]

i'm forever haunted that mdzs wiki says jin rusong died when he was "at most seven"

seven

SEVEN

seven is a whole first grader!

and given that! I desire more things which characterize everyone who experienced his brief life with more of the absolute fucking devastation that comes with losing a child out of your life that way. I'm not even talking about strictly his parents (although obviously I'd be into this as well), I'm talking about Jin Ling, who would've been growing up alongside him. Give me Nie Huaisang's crunchy feelings about this child who was described as sweet and well loved. Lan Xichen????? Jiang Cheng???

no I don't think this is a farfetched concept, I have multiple grade-school children in my life by both literal blood relation and adopted relation and I would both be a wreck and forever changed if one of them died, let alone by murder!

anyway. just had to get that thought out of my noggin.

[pyroteknich]

You just know that Jin Rusong was at the right age to copy Jin Ling. If Jin Ling had a Jiujiu, so did Jin Rusong. For a while, Jiang Cheng had two nephews (Jin Ling had to have been taught about sharing somehow). Maybe before this, yes Fairy did go everywhere with Jin Ling, but after, NO ONE ever suggested Fairy stay behind. Because if Jin Rusong was 7 when he died, and there was a 4 year difference, that means Jin Ling was 11. And if the Dafan Mountain night hunt happens when he's 13, that means Jin Rusong was only dead 2 years!! before WWX came back.

You also have to wonder, was Nie Mingjue still alive when Rusong was born? Did he hold his sworn brother's child?

[romanceyourdemons]

rip to the guy who posted his very expensive yixing teapot to r/tea, only for the comments to be not compliments on his taste as he expected, but instead GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY and I SHOULD CALL HER. he then crossposted it to r/gongfutea, which is ordinarily more dignified and self-serious, but was it? was it?? of course not, because this is reddit, and this was the teapot

[vividciggy]

That was definitely Pyrrha's last cigarette

Bonus:

[itstimetodrew]

Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

[four-get-me-not]

Stained glass ao3 logo :P

[lunnitavaldez]

It's almost hard to believe, but the amazing and gorgeous @moonnogginn and I have collaborated! 💥🦊🐲 The fusion of our styles was so smooth that you might not even notice that I was drawing Foxxian's lineart and then rendering it on Lu's Dragonji lineart, just like she rendered mine one 😸

[transformativeworks]

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