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[fadedlovemp3]

rb to relieve the back pain of the person u reblogged this from

[sevildea]

My thoughts about Mu Qing

Mu Qing is someone who tries to always see the bigger picture. He thinks of the future instead of being stuck in the present. This is kind of the result of being able to emotionally detach himself from the situation and rationally evaluate his surroundings. He sees the problem and has his own ideas about how to solve it, yet he lacks the communication to actually voice it, so he is stuck in a situation where he sees the light at the end of the tunnel but they are currently stuck in the mud in the middle of it. He wants to go after the light, because he sees a bit more than the other two, while Xie Lian and Feng Xin only focus on the current task: get out of the mud. Since Mu Qing doesn’t say anything about the light, that he sees the end of it all, they just see him run off on his own with cheap excuses and when he brings back something that can help them get out, they push him away for that very reason.

His communication is likely the result of his lack of trust in people: he grew up in a poor household and with peasants, noone knew who would betray them the next moment, who would rob them; so he keeps to himself. He thinks that XL only extended a hand to him (to become his personal attendant) because he pitied him/wanted to show off how holy he is, not knowing, not believing that XL didn’t have any ulterior motives. He truly does feel inferior to people and that kinda became a complex for him. (Always just nodding to Xie Lian, accepting what he wants to do; and notice how in any of his arguments with Feng Xin, he can never get the last word, even 800 years later.)

He doubts not only himself, but everyone around him. He makes decisions that even he himself regrets. Walking away from Xie Lian, he regretted it later. Letting Xie Lian walk away, he regretted. He tried to reach out both times, but he was already too late. People keep judging him for who he really is without giving him a chance to explain anything and he feels like they either wouldn’t listen to wouldn’t understand or that they already know but are mocking him.

He left truly with the intention of taking care of his mother. But there could have been two things that happened. 1, His mother died and he had no more reason to stay back there, but was afraid of what would happen, should he go back to Xie Lian and Feng Xin, so he accepted to be a Lower Court official and decided to watch over them from afar. 2, He had the intention of trying to take care of both his friends and his mother at the same time, while trying to not be found out to be helping out mortals. As soon as he left, he instantly accepted the position of a Lower Court official and has been watching them for long. Him giving supplies to them is what Xie Lian did back in Xian Le, the exact thing that he got banished for, yet Mu Qing still risked going back to them and giving them food and medicine. He knew he was wrong, and - as the book also stressed on it - apologizes for the first time.

“Why when it comes to me, you can’t accept it?”

He really feels like it’s only him, being inferior, that they can’t accept and they can’t understand his motives. While Feng Xin feels like Mu Qing betrayed them, he really just didn’t communicate it and he truly believes that he did what is right for them all, but doesn’t bother explaining it to the other two who are still stuck in the mud and not bothering to look up and ahead.

Also there is the case of the clashing personalities: In MBTI personality tests, it shows us that our Nature can be of two types. Nature represents how we make decisions and decide to cope with our emotions. The two large types are Thinking and Feeling. Thinking is observant mindset, who are able to detach themselves from the situation and perceive it before making a decision; they don’t keep their words soft just in case they hurt someone’s feelings: they always say what is on their mind, because for them it seems logical. Feeling is the more emotional mindset. People like this don’t want to see a big picture sometimes and are prone to mostly focus on finding a solution that keeps everyone in a good mood. They usually soften their words and take into consideration how people would react if they said anything harsh. 

Both Xie Lian and Feng Xin belong to Feeling while Mu Qing is Thinking, and this is also one of the reasons why they might find it so hard to understand each other.

[keyade]

Accidental Fengqing confessions 😂

[keyade]

Some FengQing character designs because I love this 800y/o single braincell duo <3 Feel free to use them as refs!

[wei-qr]

画 𓂃 FENGQING match icons and header.

布 𓄹 like or reblog if you save/use pls.

花 𓄹 @yingvoir on twitter.

[enby-life]

🟥 and 🟧⬛️ are now apparently being used by TERFs, as well as this horseshit. Supergay/superstraight/superlesbian/superbi just means “transphobe”, heads up

[edenwolfie]

also it is, unsurprisingly, originally far-right fuckery [TW for transphobia] close ups under cut

Keep reading

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

Reblogging with further information because those colours were bugging me and I couldn’t figure out their meaning. A friend pointed out they are the colours for some sects of Anti-Communist Action, a fascist group for fascists that was made to counter Anti-Fascist Action and is also the colours used by the American Fascist Movement.

[fuwaprince]

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Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453

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[uie-deactivated20230402]

ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

[kitten--aesthetics-blog]

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

[thescientificviolist]

last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:

so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.

[seereonwrites]

Leon’s Initial Visit Fund, organized by Leon Tynan

Hi. I’m Leon, and I’ve decided that forty years of settling for what works is enough and I’m read… Leon Tynan needs your support for Leon’s

I’m finally going to transition. I’ve had enough of this body I hate. If you can spare some change for my first visit to the clinic, I’d be very grateful.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[im-extremely-scottish]

^^^this is what the start of the ad looks like

if anyone could rb with a photo ID thatd be great

[transgender-mp3]

[Photo ID for first image: a tweet from @/milkblocks, saying:

apparently youtube has another jumpscare ad!!! wow exciting!!! /s it starts off with an image of a woman like a couple feet away from the camera, looking at the direction of the camera. it stays like that for 2 seconds and then the jumpscare happens. it's not skippable-

if you're sensitive to jumpscares/horror imagery please be careful or get adblock. /end ID]

[Photo ID for second image: a woman looking at the camera in a crowded room with purple lights. She has shoulder length hair and has an unhappy look on her face /end ID]

[Photo ID for last image: a reply to the first tweet from @/schlatt_2020, saying:

!!!! THERE IS A WAY YOU CAN SKIP IT!!!!

pause the ad and click the information icon, and click stop seeing this ad. When it asks why, say its insensitive. The ad will immediately disappear and put you back on your video. /end ID]

[crazyclarabr]

I just wanted to

There’s no reason

[resumespeak]

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

[xeno-lalia]

I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.

A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.

“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.

A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.

There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.

[fivewrites]

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

Writer:

Published short fiction stories for anthology collection

Able to write short fiction within a designated word count for layout purposes (900-1500 words, 1500-2000, 3000-5000)

Wrote short articles for independent publication

Assisted with editing short stories for publication

Able to reduce or expand written content based on layout needs

Able to check for basic spelling, grammar and syntax

Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google docs

Able to convert text styles such as bold and italics across platforms, including rich text and HTML

Able to communicate with project members over multiple platforms such as email, twitter, Discord chat and Google docs

Artist:

Produced full-colour digital illustration for independent magazine

Able to produce digital illustrations optimized for both online and print display

Produced full-colour 2-page spread for art anthology

Published 4-page short comic in anthology collection for charity

Able to transfer traditional art to digital illustration

Illustrated the cover (always brag if you’re on the cover) of an independent art publication

Familiar with professional illustration tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and stylus tablet

Able to communicate with project members over multiple platforms such as email, twitter, Discord chat and Google docs

Merch artist / graphic designer:

Designed 2″ clear decorative double-sided keychain charm as bonus sale item

Designed 5″ x 6″ sheet of graphic stickers included in art anthology

Able to design bold graphics that are measured for laser cutting production

Designed layouts for 65-page art and writing magazine, focusing on (art placement, text layout, etc)

Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme

Created promotional art, icons and banners tailored for social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc

Familiar with professional layout and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Able to communicate with project members over multiple platforms such as email, twitter, Discord chat and Google docs

Running a zine

Produced an independent art and writing collection for sale / for charity

Managed (10, 20, 30) independent artists and writers out of over 500 applicants to create a short-run independent magazine

Worked in online sales and social media promotion selling an independent comics anthology

If it’s really spectacular you can brag about specific numbers

Our book raised over $4,000 for charity in under six months of production

We sold over 750 copies in two weeks of online sales

Produced a digital PDF and printed version of anthology, mailing to recipients all over the world

Communicated with printers and manufacturers of plastic accessories and paper goods, assembling professional packages of our merchandise for mailing.

Built a custom digital storefront and navigated professional market and payment systems including Paypal and Tictail / Bigcartel / Wix etc

Created promotional events to boost sales, including raffles and giveaways over social media

Organized participants through mass emails and use of social media posts on tumblr and twitter

Created private Discord chat channels to keep participants up to date on production

Familiar with organizational software such as Microsoft Excel, Google spreadsheets, Trello and Discord

[a-ratt]

Hey, kids! Just remember, your hobbies are also your skillsets!

[thegetawaywriter-deactivated202]

SIGNAL BOOST!!!

[captainkirkk]

Ok but Zuko using the knowledge he acquired during his banishment to help him as the Fire Lord. Like making small talk with Earth Kingdom dignitaries about their local foods that he enjoyed and even misses. Like having in-depth conversations with his captains about sea currents and navigation. Like, in the middle of a meeting with several high-ranking naval officials, pointing out flails in security, like how a person can cling to a Fire Nation ship for hours at a time, or climb aboard using hatches on the upper decks, or disguise themselves as a lower ranking guard with easily accessible spare armour….

Though none of his experiences can prepare Zuko for the long, awkward silence that comes after he admits to doing or at least knowing something illegal and/or completely buck wild

[cinthi-lante]

fire lord zuko: you should maybe revisit the security measures around the water ducts that the sealturtles use

northern water tribe leader: that’s not necessary, no one can survive submerged in the artic ocean for so many minutes

zuko:

zuko: remember that time the fire nation attacked you

[chucktaylorupset]

Zuko: okay first you have to promise not to get mad

[kamen-rider-zed]

Earth King: Tell me about your first visit to Ba Sing Se.

Zuko:

[elidyce]

Okay, but before all this:

Advisors: Princess Azula did perform the astounding feat of infiltrating Ba Sing Se…

Zuko: Huh? Oh, that’s not hard. It’s pretty nice, if you don’t mind the brainwashing, but you can’t get a spicy octopus for love or money. We ate so much jook. *shudders*

Advisors:… you got in too…. interesting.

*

Advisors: The mysterious Water Tribe city at the North Pole

Zuko: It’s a pretty place, if you like ice.  Lots of sealturtles. They have a really nice little sort of sacred grove thing there, too, I kidnapped the Avatar from it once.

Advisors: …. we have some questions….

*

Advisors: We still have not found the Fire Lord’s secret supplier of new weapons - 

Zuko: He’s at the Northern Air Temple. (Realizing they’re all staring at him) Oh, no, I haven’t met him personally, but I have friends who have. He sounds like a very interesting guy.

Advisors: SO MANY QUESTIONS

*

Zuko: (while directing post-war reparation efforts) Oh, and we need to send a lot of people to work on replanting the forest around this obscure village.

Advisors:…. may we ask why?

Zuko: Apparently the local panda spirit is pretty mad about having its forest burned down. 

Advisors, now afraid to ask: ….Yes, Fire Lord. 

*

Every now and then, the curiosity gets too much and they’ll bring up something like ‘legendary sand benders’ or ‘Southern Islands’ and Zuko invariably produces some tidbit of local knowledge (either his own or gleaned from the Gaang’s stories) and six Foreign Ministers have resigned in fear and the seventh one only barely held it together when Zuko greeted an envoy from a tiny, insignificant Earth Kingdom island with ‘Listen, I am really sorry about what happened last time, I hope the supplies I sent helped with the rebuilding, do you still have that giant eel thing?” IS THERE ANYTHING HE DOESN’T KNOW.

[bogleech]

I can verify this because I like, live out here and stuff, it’s pretty weird to watch the news call it a burning warzone every day

[furbearingbrick]

this is how propaganda works

[cliff-snowpeak]

Ah yes, because everyone knows, absolutely no ones’ lives or property are in danger until the entire city has been reduced to rubble.

[bogleech]

It’s literally like one block of downtown.

Few things have sustained more than a broken window or some graffiti.

Photos and videos of completely trashed buildings are including those that have been that way for years.

Stats on closures and financial losses are being confused with those related to covid-19.

The news keeps mentioning the same two or three little “family owned” businesses that got hurt in outbreaks of panic but can’t seem to come up with any more than that.

That’s because the full list of our current downtown businesses and the full list of places that have been hit consist primarily of: Starbuck’s, Rite-Aid, Target, Apple, Microsoft, Nordstrom Rack, Whole Foods, Men’s Warehouse, Payless, AT&T, Sprint, Doc Marten’s and a bunch of jewelry stores.

These businesses themselves cost hundreds of people their livelihoods or homes when they came here, which people were already angry about before any of this happened.

That said, only a couple of them have been truly targeted and ransacked, such as the Apple Store, an eyesore that destroyed a chunk of historic architecture to sell planned obsolescence to hipster tourists.

Oops, I forgot the scientology building got vandalized too. Poor babies.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/01/28/new-lents-businesses-were-accused-of-contributing-to-gentrification-last-week/

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/coronavirus-closures-inflated-23-million-reported-in-downtown-portland-protest-damages.html

https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2017/02/portland_gentrification_4_real.html

Anyway this isn’t a downtown location but just as an aside here’s a photo of a dumpy but beloved bowling alley locals really wanted to save from closure:

Here it is as of last year or so:

[bauliya]

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

[darkshrimpemotions]

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

[tzikeh]

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

[may-shepard]

This is why women in horror are so important. Good horror should always make someone uncomfortable, and here is a giant frontier of easy pickins that probably isn’t going to be written by men. 

[deafmic]

sports festivals are an actual common occurances at most japanese schools but they involve like, actual sports. but i guess the adults in the bnha universe went “fuck actual sports. you know what’s entertaining? seeing kids beat the shit out of each other” and then also decided to fucking televise it. 

[deafmic]

i also want to point out that as far as i know we do not have any evidence of actual sports existing in this technically post apocalyptic world so i can only assume that all sports have been replaced by children beating each other up.

[deafmic]

being a pro hero is just……

being a…….

pro athlete…………………….

with how romanticized it is………………….

and that’s why kids don’t realize they could easily die……….

post cancelled it’s not funny anymore

[angeloincarnato]

Teaching you the essentials