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Jules of Nature
Misplaced Lens Cap
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield Shu Lang's Only by Fan Xiao
Part 2 See Part 1
You Shu Lang, I am your one and only
Accept that I'm your one and only
I'll be Shu Lang's only
You Shu Lang, don't you understand that?
Shu Lang's only
I'm supposed to be Shu Lang's only
I'll be, I'll be Shu Lang's only
Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield Shu Lang's Only by Fan Xiao
Part 1
Shu Lang's not a friend
No, he's never been any friend of mine
But lately something's changed that ain't hard to define
Shu Lang's got himself a boy
Now I'm forced to stand in line
Shu Lang's watching him with those eyes
And he's lovin' him with that body, I just know it!
And he's holding him in the arms late, late at night
Shu Lang, who are you really?
Shouldn't I be your only?
Shu Lang, what don't you understand about that?
I start my little charade
I know I can make Lu Zhen change
Shu Lang, I seethe with disgust when you start talking cute
I wanna bite you into oblivion, destroy that ugly suit
It's time to watch me with those eyes
And love me with that body, you're made for it
And hold me in your arms, save me with your light
You Shu Lang, I will be your only
I know, I should be your only
Bodhisattva, can you understand that?
Just Shu Lang's only
I need to be Shu Lang's only
Bodhisattva, why can't you accept...
You Shu Lang, what's so wrong about that?
And I'm hearin' the crash of the waves all the time
Wonderin' why you ran away from me
I've been cunning; I've been smooth with the lies
Led you to where you're supposed to be
Tell me, why must I force you to understand that?
Part 2
"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:
ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.
Protests are happening every day.
Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger
Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
There is something feral in the air. (Part 1/?)
Revenged Love
Reset
Top Form
The Wicked Game
KinnPorsche
Fourever You
My Golden Blood
Thundercloud Rainstorm
Secret Crush On You
Revenged Love
Part of my favorite bl-tropes collection in no particular order.
To My Shore costume choices
Wolf in sheep's clothing vs. Vengeance mode unlocked
But also, yin yang in clothes form.
Daily gratitude
I don’t have kids
I don’t spend money on nicotine
I don’t gamble my money away on sports
I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions
My books/CDs/DVDs collection is plentiful
My To My Shore Headcanon
I am 100% convinced Fan Xiao will bottom for You Shu Lang at some point in their relationship.
You cannot tell me that this man...
...would ever allow Lu Zhen (or any other exes) to have fulfilled a need for You Shu Lang that Fan Xiao hasn't.
I don't think Fan Xiao would bottom often--You Shu Lang and Fan Xiao are both clearly more inclined to the other way together--but I cannot see Fan Xiao accepting that Lu Zhen/other exes have experienced this part of You Shu Lang and Fan Xiao hasn't; it would be like these other men still possessed a piece of You Shu Lang and that is just not tolerable, obviously.
To My Shore ep 5 Spoilers Below
Kudos to Fan Xiao for losing his virginity bathed in rainbow light!
BBC Merlin + fine literature (x)(x)
I can't not see it
spoilers for To My Shore ep 5 below
I love the confession scene between Fan Xiao and You Shu Lang
I love that You Shu Lang starts with disparaging every aspect of Fan Xiao's looks and physical appeal and then once he is done with his little rant about how Fan Xiao does not meet his standards the wall behind him immediately calls him a liar 🤣
I love that I have read enough of @respectthepetty 's posts to notice all the pink surrounding You Shu Lang and Fan Xiao, from the lighting to the graffiti, from the hearts to the giant pink flower Fan Xiao steps on after his "I love you" makes You Shu Lang's world stop
I love the emotion and tension between these two men, throughout the whole series and especially in this scene. I love how we see You Shu Lang clinging to the walls he has built around himself and how he will not lower them for Fan Xiao just for sex despite the obvious physical attraction they have. I love how those walls disintegrate when Fan Xiao admits to not just wanting a fling but a future with You Shu Lang.
I love all of this but during every wide shot I see this...
...and think "Amazing that all of this is taking place in front of a giant ass." 🤣
It is, in fact, a pink advertisement float but every wide shot during this scene...there's a symbolic ass, to my way of thinking.
In this shot, it looks more like a peach standing in for an ass.
Does this ruin the scene for me? No, absolutely not.
Does it make me giggle? Yes.
But, kudos to the actors because even in front of a giant, distracting ass stand-in, they demand attention and focus, drawing me immediately back into the scene.
Found!
Pictures of a perpetual schemer realizing his current scheme has sent his crush his latest amusement into another man's bed
Times are tough; Have a Bat
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For the people who read my little posts about colors in Me and Thee, know that it's taking all of my strength to not write 1,000+ words and use 30 images just of the final red scene in episode six.
But I understand that in order to get to the end, I must start at the beginning where Thee is freaking out thinking he fucked up everything by kissing Peach after Peach pushed him away while watching soap operas about men taking advantage of women (who try to cover themselves up in the predator's red).
Because these women are Blue Beauties who have been misled by these horrible scheming Red Rascals.
Just like our poor Peach?
NO! Peach isn't freaking out because he has been deceived or taken advantage of by Thee, but because he now feels the weight of his feelings for a man. A rich man. A very rich man who may be involved in illegal business dealings. So he needs love advice which comes in the form of his sister's pink phone call.
Which gives me a chance to see all these boys in their natural state in the episode titled "Candid" all thanks to Red Rascal Rome doing the most Red Rascal shit by being dramatic and pouting to get his way knowing Mok can't say no.
Thee and Rome can't celebrate their birthdays because a celebration makes them easier targets to kill in one fell swoop. It sucks, but after an incident when they were kids, the dad is extremely cautious.
So Thee (and Rome) couldn't have friends because more friends means more people who could potentially harm them. But before his dad made him give up all his friends, Thee loved someone whose name began with a "P" at one point.
And he turned blue for him . . . interesting. But that's in the past, right?
Because now Thee is in love with a Blue Boy with blue bags and blue luggage whose name begins with a "P" . . . interesting.
And, maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but it seems like he is trying to combine their two colors into a purple just like his "T" initial was colored in the friendship bracelet he wanted to give his first love.
But rather than me dwelling on the complete and total coincidence that Thee has been in love with two Blue Boys who both just happen to have names that begin with "P," I'm reminded that Thee and Rome are very rich.
Which means they don't know how to cook nor clean.
And their first instinct when the lights go out is that their dad's worst fear is happening and that they are being targeted rather than they are being shown love by the Blue Boys in their life with mini birthday cakes that have red and blue candles.
But Thee recovers quickly by beautifully blowing out his red candle although he does instinctively reach for the gun that Rome brought him even though he intentionally left it at home to make Peach more comfortable.
And now these two Blue Boys with their blue cups can enjoy watching their Red Rascals in their natural state.
Like fighting each other over the cake with the red candle.
And getting drunk off of a red drink.
But this candid moment can't last forever, and Rome has to return to Hong Kong vowing to Mok to come back and love him (right) even with his looming departure to an even further away place to continue the family business looming over his head.
But Mok is tracking him with a little red plane icon, so I'm confident that there is no place on earth that Rome could go that Mok wouldn't follow.
And Red Rascal Thee must get back to being a serious businessman as his father wishes after he drops off Peach.
And once he wakes up from his long sleep in his silky blue pajamas which will help him dream of his Blue Boy before he sees him the next day.
And show up to greet Peach at work with a huge bouquet of flowers from every continent wrapped in red paper with some overly romantic line about how Peach is his entire world.
And go through every emotion possible when he learns that Peach got Mok a souvenir but not him even though he doesn't like spicy squid because a betrayal is a betrayal regardless of logic.
As a Red Rascal, he is taking this all seriously because he is a serious businessman and a serious man . . . in love with a man who apparently isn't taking his feelings seriously and just handing out things he doesn't even like to people who don't deserve it!!!!!
But Peach is taking Thee seriously which is why he decides to tell his sister that he is falling in love. With a man. And his sister guesses that man must be amazing and takes really good care of him because when Peach speaks of him, he becomes tiny enough to fit in a person's pocket and carried everywhere.
And now Peach is turning down people before they begin.
And getting calls from exes that he is making sure stay strictly business since he only has one person on his mind now.
Because just like his sister guessed, he is falling in love with an amazing Red Rascal who takes really good care of him and when Peach speaks of him, he becomes tiny enough to fit in his pocket and be carried everywhere.
In fact, Peach is taking Thee so seriously that he finally gives in to Thee and all that Thee wants to give him. His love. His color. His everything.
Oh, and a newly purchased dark room.
Me and Thee continues to surprise me because seeing a Blue Boy break down in a hospital because he feels safe enough with someone rather than him being the one providing the safety and security . . . wow.
Maybe because I live in the colors, but this moment has weight. Blue Boys are loyal. Blue Boys are safe. Blue Boys are calm. Yet here is Thee, a Red Rascal, giving all that to his Blue Boy Peach because he is showing his love in all the ways Peach would show his love.
But I don't think this is just a Thee thing. I think it's a family thing.
So let me look closer at these two Red Rascal brothers and their Blue Boy love interests in the fifth episode titled "Selfie."
Rome loves Mok. He has made that pretty clear as he asks his mom why his family has the "no-love rule" as he looks at Mok with the saddest heart eyes.
But even him pinning Mok down on the bed shows how much he wants Mok.
And that's where the brothers show that they are related not just by blood, but also by thought because Rome is a Red Rascal just like his older brother.
Who shows his love for his Blue Boy in very obvious ways that make sense specifically to his Blue Boy as he wears blue in a very blue room.
Like, normally I would worry that a Red Rascal character is drinking red wine while reading a red covered Anna Karenina, which is about a married rich woman's tragic downfall after her passionate affair, but he stops reading it the second his man sneezes and he shares his wine with him.
Rome ain't trying to have a scandalous affair with a sad ending. He is trying to show his future husband that he can take care of him, which is exactly what Thee is trying to do, and it's why both brothers wear their man's color.
They are passionate and impulsive Red Rascals regardless of what they say.
But that just means that they are working on a crazy level to guarantee their Blue Boys know they are loved even if they don't want any part of it.
There is no barrier they won't break to get to their man. And if their man doesn't see them as having a future together (reflection!!!), they are going to make sure their man sees them, every day, all day.
They are going to do whatever they need to do to make sure their man takes them seriously because they are serious about their man, like learning how to play the handpan.
Or threatening hospital staff.
Or putting little hearts on his man's blue vacation banner.
But, once again, Thee does all of this with the fervor of a Red Rascal no matter how hard he might try to hide it because it will always pop up like it did with the dark red velvet curtains when he spoke to his brother about him loving Mok.
Or the red lining of Thee's all-black suit jacket that was exposed when Peach finally allowed Thee to get comfortable in his house.
Or when his Blue Boy decides to bring up the man who harmed him during their lovely dinner.
While Peach gets calmer (and bluer) because he feels safe with Thee,
Thee gets more upset (and redder) that Peach would even be worried about a man who would try to harm him.
~This is how you get a Colors Award for lighting!~
Just like with Mok, Peach's world may have been completely blue before,
But his Red Rascal's presence is changing him just like it's changing his once tan-colored sheets to a light pink.
And it's changing the way he sees the world as he switches between his blue and red camera strap.
Peach is a Blue Boy.
Who is used to being alone and providing peace and protection for others.
But he is quickly falling in love with a Red Rascal who makes him feel safe.
And that Red Rascal will swim the entire ocean just to remind his Blue Boy that he is loved. Always.
To My Shore--First and Last
This is the first time Fan Xiao appears on screen
And this is the last
There is sooooooo much to say about these two images and this show in general and the use/meaning of light within it, the themes...
But for now, I just want to sit with these two pictures and let them tell the story because WOW, what a fantastically told story!
