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lovewanxian

Lan Wangji: I cut my finger.

Wei Wuxian: Oh no! Do you want me to kiss it better?

Lan Wangji: Does that work?

Wei Wuxian: Well, Shijie do it for me and it always makes me feel better

Lan Wangji: And you will do that for any other injuries I might acquire?

Wei Wuxian: Uh, sure!

*later*

Lan Wangji: I need you to punch me in the mouth

Jiang Cheng, immediately getting up: Finally

sandushengshou

the untamed + text posts

dramaism

Don't you find it strange that I have feelings for you, yet I won't agree to be with you and I made you keep courting me? Didn't you say you only have some feelings for me? You probably don't like me enough to want to date me.

Hidden Love 偷偷藏不住 (2023)

timotey

#45: Ancient Love Poetry

✨Spoilers!✨

This drama completely took over my life. This hasn't happened to me since... since Word of Honor, I guess? And as much as I adored WoH, not even that drama moved me so deeply.

I wouldn't be able to tell you why exactly ALP touched me so much. I guess it was the theme of self-sacrifice? Of duty and honor and love? And of friendship that lasts hundreds of thousands of years and isn't treated as something, well, less?

Because one of the things that fascinated me was the bond among the three True Gods: Zhi Yang, Tian Qi and Bai Jue. They have known each other for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of years, they protected the three realms together and they died and were reborn in their service to the gods, the immortals and the mortals, and they did it with grace and dignity - and not a little mischief. They bickered and poked fun at each other and sometimes they didn't see each other for thousands of years but the warmth they felt for each other never lessened. And that was simply beautiful.

The main draw for me was Xu Kai as Bai Jue/Bo Xuan/Qing Mu - and he did an absolutely incredible job playing these characters who were one and the same person and not at the same time and at no point had I trouble telling the three of them apart. Even when Qing Mu and Bai Jue stood side by side, I knew who was who. Xu Kai is a truly gifted actor and this drama let him showcase that.

Many, many times was I moved to tears. The last two eps I pretty much bawled through. I stayed up way past midnight to finish the drama and I cried so hard that my heart is still aching this morning and my eyes are all swollen. It was so beautiful.

What I must mention and praise is the CGI. The scenery, the fights, all of them looked so amazing and so real that at no point was I torn out of what was happening, thinking "Looks fake." Especially the fights looked truly epic, like fights between gods should.

Thinking back, there were several moments that truly stood out for me:

When Bai Jue was forced to kill Tian Qi

When the True Gods imprisoned Xuan Yi - and when they later on defeated Wu Huan with the same method

When Qing Mu received Bai Jue's spear

When Qing Mu received the 81 lighting strikes and elevated his position to a demi-god

When Bai Jue and Tian Qi battled together at Bai Jue's second wedding

When Gu Jun died for Hou Chi/Shang Gu

When Tian Qi learned about Bai Jue's plan - and then the moment before the battle with Wu Huan, when he realized that Bai Jue was going to die soon

When Bai Jue talked to his son about the meaning of death

When Bai Jue gave himself over to the Doom of Chaos, dying for Shang Gu with a smile on his face because he managed to save her, after all

When Shang Gu came to the Swamp of Netherill and realized what Bai Jue had done...

So many wonderful moments, and that's just off the top of my head.

Also, the score. LAP's songs not only had a beautiful melody, their text was downright heartbreaking, "when she turns to ash, he guards the three realms for her."

This drama was... it was everything I could've wanted and more. I don't think I've ever rated a drama so high but, yeah, it's a 10.

Rating: 10/10

c4tr0nac7

Ancient Love Poetry ep 48

thunderousmemes

“If love turns to ashes in the end

I’ll change be the light and shadow in your eyes”

bittergloss

😭 even his last thoughts were for bai jue to treat hou chi well

silviakundera

deokmis

Love Between Fairy and Devil + random tweets

vegawriters

I woke up and checked things and started to spiral.

And then I took a deep breath.

Okay kids. It's time to listen to your organizer elders.

I don't care if every call is reversed and she wins by 30 electoral points.

Get involved. Do one thing to make the world better: mutual aid, volunteer, join your local political groups, read to kids, go to community groups.

Survival on this blue spinning ball means coalition building. It means accepting you save the world by doing what you are good at and sharing it with others.

It means to stop looking for saviors in your political choices, and also not crucifying them. It means getting away from political purity and ideology and fucking working toward the next one and the next one.

Political change is different than political theater. It takes work. So much work. And if you are tired, tap out, but don't leave the game.

Guess what happened tonight?

The first openly Trans woman was elected to congress.

2 black women are serving together in the senate.

It is ugly and it sucks and we need to take a breath, take a nap, and then get up off the mat.

We can do better.

But we gotta do it together.

fixomnia-scribble

Wallow as you need but turn that emotion into fuel. Canada, too.

somewhatstacey

I’m not in the US, but we also recently had a shit of an election. I needed this post.

Come together. The more of us there are, the more we can tap someone else in when we need a break.

brown-aes-sedai

A psychological trick my therapist taught me, that I in turn have taught my kids, is time gating.

Sometimes, the unbounded infinity of the future is too overwhelming to deal with without spiraling into anxiety/depression/etc. So, bind it. Tie that sucker down and don't let it drown you.

If 2028 is too far away to know you'll be okay, how about next year? Still too far? Next month? Next week? Tomorrow? How about an hour from now? Five minutes, or even one, isn't too short to make a difference.

Once you've got your gate endpoint decided, you're set, and you're not allowed to worry about anything that happens or needs to happen past the end of your gate. Nothing past the end of the gate exists until the clock gets you to the gate, so go find something to occupy you.

When you arrive at the gate, re-evaluate how you're doing. Do you need to set a new gate? Do that. For how long? Up to you! Could be the same amount of time, more, or less. Whatever suits your needs.

Repeat as necessary until you don't feel like you're in crisis anymore.

sixmonthsandgone

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry

aiweirdness

The next line of her speech is also great: “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”

melorasmushrooms

Game Changer editors I love you and I FULLY understand why you needed more time

diane-nguyen-watches-cartoons-d

traveling-madness

based firemen

the-real-seebs

you sign up for the job because you want to save lives, and sometimes you get a chance to just be really, really, clear about "yes it is my job to save lives, there is an obstacle, and i am paid to use an axe to solve this problem"

lesbiandatekaname

I wonder how much Oisín's grandma knew. Like, was she also overtaken by the corrupted rage? Or was she uncorrupted and Oisín just called in a favor. Even then, how much did he tell her? Did he tell her a lie about what the Bad Kids were doing, or a version of the truth that be believed? Did he even tell her anything or did she just get a desperate call from her grandson who has been becoming angrier and angrier and wanted to do something that might ease that pain?

sixweekcure4dreams

She was friends with/a follower of Kalvaxis... Typically the GMs on d20 work pretty hard to give people bad guys they can fight without feeling guilty about it.