Stultiloquentia

One part pretension, two parts squee.

[fauxhollow]

Laundry Day

[jeonjeha]

“In my dreams, we’re always together. And there are no odds stacked against us, there are no wars, no fights, and tragedy doesn’t stand between us. There is only you, knuckles on my cheek, there is only me, palms to your neck. Just us, and we are at peace. And that is all that needs to be said.” (quote insp)

For @creatorsevents gif style exchange event → inspired by @wuyus‘ set

[cannibalchicken]

[prospitianescapee]

This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”

[cryptotheism]

Now this is a fucking post

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[knight--error]

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

[casino-night-zone]

there’s always, ALWAYS a tumblr blog you’re following that turns into a kpop blog without warning and you have absolutely no idea who they were before

[storkmuffin]

wheeeeeeee

[asakurahaos]

[solar-otter]

[solar-otter]

[byeolyoong]

𝜗℘

The lace design is heavily inspired by a regional style of traditional Norwegian rosemaling native to where I grew up.

[tls123]

jiang cheng getting ready to go save everyone's asses and then have a public breakdown: ok... wallet, sword, keys, recently-resurrected brother's dizi, headphones, cunty umbrella.. let's go.

[hacash]

lord of the rings is a fun place to fandom because there's so many options to obsess over no matter what your interests are, but because of that it's also a humbling reminder that different people like different things and that's ok.

like, for me the heart and soul of lotr is the hobbits, and it always bemuses me to see how underrated they can be in fics or fandom like?? you have these funky little fuckers who are really brave and kind and loyal but also have oddball forms of government and eat and party a lot and get into scrapes and have all these hobbit pals and there's all sorts of shipping options and they have interesting nuanced social politics and second breakfast and pipeweed and they give presents on their birthday instead of the other way around so they're always getting presents and they're hilariously weird about their family trees and they led full-scale guerrilla warfare against these bastards who invaded their homeland but also all they want to do is chill and have nice gardens and probably judge vegetable growing competitions and have pretty dances

and instead people are getting super invested in basic-bad-boy-bitch sauron? huh. fair enough. the world is indeed a rich tapestry.

[hacash]

oh god this is how gandalf speaks to saruman isn't it

[asleepinawell]

Nirvana in Fire - Ep 08

[dragon-in-a-fez]

perfect new meme template just dropped

[dragon-in-a-fez]

example usage

[dragon-in-a-fez]

wait I'm not done

[recurring-polynya]

never lose hope. somewhere, a middle-aged, gender ambiguous person with an advanced degree in an esoteric field and a fiber arts hobby could be crashing out and pinning all their remaining mental health on getting obsessed with your otp. any day now, the most elegantly written 100k fanfic you have ever read is going to hit ao3. it could happen. it has happened.

[trickybonmot]

Good morning! I finished my Nie Huaisang fanvid for FTH, why not check it out?

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[supertaliart]

Welcome to the Powerpoint that I started 5 months ago, and then when the party was postponed indefinitely, that I swore to keep working on until someone stopped me.

I spent over 24 hours on the illustrations alone, and I taught myself logarithmic equations and how to use google sheets for this.

[boltlightning]

Shouldn't you be clapping me in irons? / Too much paperwork. MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES (2012–2015) — 1x03 "The Green Mill Murder"

[trilliath]

This is such a critical scene for them and tbh it has so little to do with the flirtation itself and everything to do with gifs 3 and 4.

Phryne, with gallows-humor glibness, is very specifically pointing out that her behavior is not the reckless self-indulgence of the idle rich but very much a deliberate and cogent response to the experience of surviving serving in the front lines of a world war where modern machine guns and chemical warfare gave even more stark clarity to the senselessness and cruelty and exploitativeness of war and nationalism and authoritarianism.

And Jack is going - you're right. We have admittedly chosen to respond to Surviving That Shit slightly differently, but perhaps less differently than outward appearances might first suggest. We each have our own methods and principles, but you are right that we are not very different at all, underneath, and for very good reasons.

And also yes eating out of her hand like that is incredibly hot too, yes there's definite commentary to be had on gender roles and dominance etc. but it's easy to get distracted by how good Nathan looks in that scene with those damned eyes eating off that fork, when the real critical moment is just before when he looks so old and weary as he understands what she's saying and doing... and then visibly realigns and comes alive again because he too survived and by god neither of them are going to let the bastards grind them down.

Basically in this scene Phryne says - I need you to see me, and I need you to remember to see yourself, and Jack does. And I just think that's really neat.