#jzx

[saaraofthesand]

oh fuck me

[pbtreaty]

happy birthday to the golden boys

[morkva-doing-mdzs]

autistic jin zixuan. you agree

[mengyaosevilpussy]

just got nauseous over jiang yanli and jin zixuan. HE SUCKED FOR SO LONG bc he was stupid and full of himself and then he finally got chill and they fell in love and got married and had a baby and they were soooo set up for a great loving life they were SET!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!! HE BUILT A LOTUS POND FOR HER!!!!!!!! AND THEN THEY BOTH DIED BADLY. AND THEIR SONG SAYS "BUT OUR FLOWERING YEARS TOGETHER WERE AS SHORT AS A SIGH. IN A MERE MOMENT, OUR SONG ENDED." ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[neverstopoutlaw]

[cultivateme]

so embarrassing 🙈

[helpmeimblorboing]

I wonder if there’s a universe out there where Yu Ziyuan and Jiang Fengmian ended up more like Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan.

Where instead of both families pushing for the marriage alliance to go through, one of them recognised the strain it was having on the actual relationship at its core, and broke it off.

Where, instead of marrying with the full knowledge that it was all just politics and strategy and unwilling obedience, they had the chance to properly court each other, to maybe even fall in love.

After all, we get several hints that the two DO love one another, deep down, whatever they show on the surface - Zidian unfurls for Jiang Fengmian, recognising him as a safe place for Ziyuan’s children, Fengmian goes all the way to Qishan to repair one of Madam Yu’s bracelets. Like a lotus, their relationship seems shallow and barely afloat, but the tangled roots extend way, way, down.

Maybe that’s why Jiang Fengmian chose to break off the engagement between Yanli and Zixuan in the first place. Maybe he was trying to be for them the person who never was for him.

And, you know what, I think Madam Yu recognises that. It’s just that, flavoured with decades of accumulated resentment, she sees it as a slight against her, as opposed to the one thing that might have helped their relationship in the early years.

[understeerking]

Pride in your work — that’s what comes to mind when I think of Vertex. Takahiro Ueno founded Vertex (T&E) in the late ’90s, creating aero kits along with suspension and brake components. His philosophy in design has always been simple: never disrupt a car’s natural flow. If a body line exists, the kit should complement it, not fight it.

If you have the time, watch Ueno’s interview in JDM Insider Vol. 2, where he talks about the struggles of starting a company from nothing. I revisit it often whenever I need a bit of motivation. One of the things that stuck with me was his advice on self learning: “Things that get asked get forgotten. Things you took the time to learn, you hold onto forever.”