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XP/98 Remix
https://youtu.be/dsU3B0W3TMs
Shen Jiu died. His life was taken due to a random qi diviation. Nothing grand or violent, just a quiet death caused by his own mistakes
In death he finds ghost city, and more specifically, its gambling den
Life has never given him anything, he had to fight tooth and nail just to live, and even that didn't work out in the long run. He was owed something
He wants. He wants so much. His life back. His position that he fought and bled for. A taste of happiness that he has long given up on. He wants, and this is his only chance, but what could-
"I want the Cang Qiong Sect Leader, Yue Qingyuan." The words spill from his mouth without thinking, yet it's not quite right. "No, I don't want him. I want Yue Qi, my Qi-ge. A runaway slave." Someone he had lost hope in ever seeing again. "If I lose, you can have my tongue; the tongue of a scholar."
And with that, he rolls the dice.
Moments before kissing?! š«£
This is a redraw of my old fanart for the fanfic; āA Voice You Hear With Your Heartā by sacred_chord on AO3!
I posted the old art way back on Ao3, but it kept accidentally getting deleted, so I decided I post on here, but I got rlly embarrassed by how old the art is and decided to redraw it haha! The characters are Shen Yuan (in red) and Shen Qingqiu/Jiu (in green)! Itās a really interesting fic that I had the pleasure of reading since with first chapter updated!
The old art and a little extra:
more concubingge from today's stream
We need more Liu Qingge using his horrible little guys for evil good.
SQQ: That awful delegation from Shitty Little Sect No One Likes is still talking to YQY. Zhangmen-shixiong hasn't had a break in hours!
LQG: Hm.
LQG: *whistles*
*a hoard of horrible little gremlins, aka Bai Zhan disciples, appears*
LQG: *points* get 'em.
Bai Zhan Disciples: Yes Shizun!
SQQ: ... I was just going to send Ming Fan in with an urgent message.
*shattering glass and shouting in the distance*
LQG: My way is better.
Just thinking about AU/fic prompt where SY transmigrates into a random Huan Hua disciple he's planning on just laying low and hoping he lives long enough to maybe see Binghe.
Trying to fly under the radar.
Until, he finds out about what OPM did to SXY and Binghe's fmaily and he if furious. That was never in the novel AIRPLANE YOU HACK!
OPM should have suffered! How dare he hurt Binghe! He's the reason he suffered so much!
SY is in full riotous fury mode and doesn't think things though... it's only after he's arranged OPM death (along with his cronies and anyone who knew and supported what he did) that SY realizes this may have messed up plot...FUCK!
He thinks it should be fine and not affect to much, Binghe will be out of abyss and come to the palace, it's not like OPM was a major character things shouldn't change to much.
SY ends up in charge, he's not sure how. (He doesn't realize he has wife/Shizun beamed the entire palace, they love him he's surrounded by Shidi's most of the time. LPM is hinting that as he's in charge now he should marry her. GYX also is smitten...the two are engaged and hoping SY will join them)
SY is oblivious.
He ends up actually getting Huan Hua running properly become an actually powerful sect, using wealthy to do good and not coasting on reputation.
Bingge ends up at palace ready to start revenge using the sect and meets SY... he falls hard and fast and
New goals: Becoming palace mistress then revenge.
SY is wondering why Bingge hasn't taken power yet? Hes also wondering why he's still here like shouldn't you be on revenge journey sir? At least he's pending time with wives.
(Bingge is fighting with would be wives over who will be SY wife and only spouse Bingge is NOT sharing, he'' convince SY not to either even though SY keeps talking about harems)
Meanwhile SQH is at sect so confused why the timeline is off why has his son not taken over the demon lands yet also why is Huan Hua running well? What is happening??
Shen Yuan transmigrates in Shen Qingqiu a long time before the start of the plot. The original goods has just accepted Ning Yingying as a disciple and she is such an ADORABLE LITTLE GIRL and so spoiled. Anyway, Shen Qingqiu had a sister in his past life, he knows how to handle that. Besides!! He can educate his disciples with a gentler hand, with care and affection, and ensure that when Luo Binghe arrives at the sect, he is treated with the love and affection he deserves!
Except that, year after year, Luo Binghe doesn't appear in any of the disciple selections. Shen Qingqiu is on the lookout: he searches among the scrawny, starving, suffering children. But perhaps sending that bunch of Qian Cao practitioners to work in villages near the Luo river saved the life of the old washerwoman, preventing Luo Binghe from becoming so interested in joining a cultivation sect� It makes sense, but it's not logical! The old washerwoman would obviously have wanted Binghe to be a cultivator!
So, summoning his courage, he descends the mountain for a couple of "courtesy visits," snooping around all the fishing villages near the Luo River, which is honestly A LOT of villages, hamlets, small towns, trading townsāeverything's along the Luo River, damn it!! He tries to ask questions without asking too many, being subtle, not intrusive but still making his presence known. He murmurs here and there that he's looking for a washerwoman with skillful hands, regardless of age; if she knows how to handle children, even better, since he's obtained so many child disciples these past few yearsā¦
A huge number of washerwomen show up for interviews for a non-existent job, but none of them have an adopted son named Luo Binghe. Some even arrive with their children in tow, and all Shen Qingqiu can do is give them gold coins and write them fake letters of recommendation to get them jobs in big houses in the city! Is it really so difficult to find ONE woman and her child?!
Then he arrives at a village. It is small and poor, and the largest house is the only halfway decent building. He presents himself to the servants, asking for an inn, and they tell him there are no inns in the village, but that Master Luo might be able to offer the distinguished immortal master a roomā
And Shen Qingqiu is like ????? master LUO ??? what ???
He doesn't have much time to ask or even understand what's happening, because abruptly, along the dirt road, he approaches like the cliche knight from a romantic movie, a man dressed in immaculate silks riding a white horse. And another white thing: his hair! All his hair, loose long and curly, is white as a pearl, shimmering in the sun! What the hell?! Whoā?
And when the man dismounted, Shen Qingqiu was speechless. His face. WHY IS HIS FACE THE DAMN FACE OF LUO BINGHE?! WHO THE HELL IS THIS MAN?!
The other surprise comes with a whiplash. From the large family house, a small boy runs out. It is, clearly, the Luo Binghe that Shen Qingqiu had been expecting to see, and he is so precious and perfect in his white lotus aura that it almost brings tears to his eyes. Yet the boy is far from scrawny: he is tall, strong, with neat hair and full cheeks, without a trace of suffering. He runs, calling "A-Die!" and throws himself at the legs of the newly arrived Other-Luo-Binghe
And the white-haired Luo Binghe is carrying the child!! He hugs and tickles him, and Shen Qingqiu is trying to figure out where he is. What the heck? Is he in a canon divergence where the Heavenly Demon wasn't sealed under the mountain? BUT WHAT THE HECK, HE KNOWS THAT TIANLANG JUN WAS INDEED SEALED!! WHAT'S GOING ON!?
Then, finally, the white-haired Luo Binghe looks at him. And Shen Qingqiu feels horrified and frozen, because this white-haired Luo Binghe is far from the dark eyes of the one we've described; instead, his eyes are clear, crystalline, a color that is almost artificial. Almost like polished crystal. And with a look that seems to recognize him, he smiles at him. And, as if he's known him all his life, he greets him by name and invites him in. As simply as if it were something to be expected, he says, "I've been waiting a long time for you. When did you arrive? I thought you'd come sooner."
ā¦Luo Bingzu, after weaving entire universes in which different versions of himself find happiness with the same soul, believes he deserves one too. However, since all the worlds are woven around his own being, he can't tear a Luo Binghe out of his narrative or his story. So, if he can't be replaced, he might as well give a fragment of himself the soul and care he deserves, both waiting for the soul that will complete their lives. After all, Bing-er deserves a mom who will adore him with all his heart, and Bingzu knows that the best husband and mom will of course be the tender soul of Shen Yuan!
ALLRIGHT!!!!! my 1k celebration you guys voted for!!!! a ākiss challengeā but instead, its āeveryone gets a turn with transmigrated SYā challenge hehe. (they might still kiss..)
i would appreciate if youād comment to let me know whether you want him in his original form or if I should make him a new form to cater to all the peaklords(+plus bingge and zzlās) tastes~
Thank you for 1k! I heart this fandom you are all wonderful perverts that I care for dearly <3
first up š a chivalrous Qi Qingqi!
NASA's Mission around the Moon: As Told in GIFs
Over approximately 10 days, our Artemis II crew successfully completed a voyage around the Moon. They gave us stunning photos of the far side of the Moon, Earth, and a solar eclipse, along with inspirational messages, laughs, and even a few tears. Let's recap the Artemis II mission.
First step: fit check.
Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen got suited up and had their spacesuits checked to make sure they were ready to go to space.
The Beast that Bothers
I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.
Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book thatās just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something thatās completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.
Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little personās head. Do it. Itās enrichment in your enclosure.
Do the writerās equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it
Itās the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually donāt worry about it being palatable. Iām serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. Iām demanding that you get weirder right now. Itās not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. Itās your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
A declassified World War II-era government guide to āsimple sabotageā is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called āSimple Sabotage Field Manual,ā was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and ādescribes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.āĀ Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).Ā
Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here
A Wikisource entry can be found here.
Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.
Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.
Whoops my cursor slipped.
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shame if this got even MORE
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?
if you are currently learning ASL, you need to read Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas K. Holcomb
resources for other Deaf cultures include, but are not limited to:
Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of History (BASL and ASL-centric)
Understanding Deaf Culture by Paddy Ladd (which can also be found on archive.org)
Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities
the British Deaf Association website
directory for Deaf Australiaās āOur Deaf Waysā video podcast (presented in Auslan with audio from an interpreter and accurate closed captioning for all episodes)
The Irish Deaf Community by Patrick A. Matthews
Breaking the Silence: The Education of the Deaf in Ireland, 1816-1996
the Canadian Deaf Culture Center website
History of Hawai'i Sign Language and Hawai'i Deaf People by Barbara Earth, with Linda Lambrecht
āWe did it ourselvesā: The Deaf Social Movement and the Quest for the Legal Recognition of the Libras Sign Language in Brazil
Also, not all entirely for other Deaf cultures, but a few additional resources to check out from a Deaf person:
- The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure by Carolyn McCaskill - Black ASL as told by the pioneering scholars in the field
- A 59 video lecture series from National Technical Institute of the Deaf including lectures from Thomas Holcomb and other notable Deaf researchers. White American centric
- Deaf Mobility Studies: Exploring International Networks, Tourism, and Migration by Erin Moriarty, Sanchayeeta Iyer, and Steven Emery - regards the āinternationalityā of the Deaf identity and the privileges of movement across national borders for Deaf people
- Through Deaf Eyes, a Gallaudet documentary, captioned, 2 hours - also American centric iirc
Japanese is an incredibly fun and rewarding language (if youāve ever wanted to learn it for ANY reason, most importantly including the āsillyā reasons) but the fearmongering and capitalist intervention involved in the language learning process have given it a reputation as an āimpossible taskā for English speakers, leading to confusion and dkn learners and weird pessimist attitudes about the whole thing. In this thread I will explain how to effectively learn and retain Japanese. This is a tried, tested and true method; probably 99% of all people who try to learn Japanese give up, but everyone Iāve met who has tried and stuck with this has been at or above N3-N4 after 6 months or less including me
You can teach yourself Japanese for free if you have a little free time every day and a computer
1. Drill yourself on hiragana and katakana. These are the phonetic building blocks of Japanese, think of them as equivalent to english letters. This site is a good resource in general. Once you have a solid grasp on this, DO NOT LINGER HERE; move to step 2. You will master kana later.
2. Download Anki. This is a flashcard service. They have a paid app if youāre willing to invest for it, but if not, they have a mobile website (create an account and sync it with your computer).
This is the deck youāre going to download. Import it to Anki and do this every day. I have learned the hard way (twice) that skipping this is bad. If you become overwhelmed, you can change the number of new cards and reviews by clicking the cog next to the name of the deck!
3. Cure Dolly (Youtube, grammar) + transcript. She has kind of a posh accent, you might want to turn subtitles on. Watch a few videos when you feel like it but most importantly set up 4 and 5 as soon as possible
4. Yomitan (must have) is a browser extension that functions as a pop-up dictionary. you need to install dictionaries for it to work. here are some dictionaries you can use with yomitan and explanations of what they do
5. READ. DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET STUCK BEFORE THIS STEP. JUST READ!!!! Most people who fail to learn Japanese do so because they are afraid of not being ready to move on, which is counterproductive. Just read. When you were a child did you spend years on vocab and grammar before reading? No I bet you did not. Pick something to read and learn what you donāt already know by reading in Japanese.
Jiten.moe has a list of novels and visual novels that you can read on your computer sorted by difficulty. So does jpdb. Thereās also this document. Thereās also this document. Hey look this website is cool too
For visual novels: download LunaHook. It āhooksā to your VN and allows you to use Yomitan on words you donāt know. Turn off the translation feature, it does nothing to help you learn
For literary texts: ttsu e-reader supports epub and htmlz files.
You can also learn Japanese by watching anime, but itās a little more convoluted and requires a lot more patience.
For manga, utilize Mangatan, but I donāt recommend this right out the gate because when youāre first learning sentence structure youāll want something with complete sentences.
Set your computer up for mining vocab before you start reading. Once you finish your kaishi deck, you can drill your mining cards (I didnāt do mine until after finishing kaishi because it was too much).
Most importantly: reading is going to be hard at first. It is going to piss you off. You need to muscle through with this because this is where the bulk of your learning will happen. After a while you will just feel like reading because you love reading! Try not to pick something too hard for your first read, but if youāre interested in the story you might be able to muscle through something a little tougher.
Remember to consult yomitan and cure dolly where needed, thatās what itās there for. As you can see I am quite normal about the Japanese language, so if you have any other questions or need help with anything else feel free to shoot me an ask and I will get back to you promptly. Japanese is not your enemy and it is not impossible. It is your friend
i really love this genre of image
The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up
I love the death grip after the toy was fixed up. Lessons were learned. Try to steal it this time you fucking bird. I dare you.
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Oh dear god I finally finished some fanart for the new episode!
Itās really scrappy but I just wanted it to exist. š (Iāve been so busy freelancing lately, takes all my energy for fanart drawings).
god but I loved this episode! I am SO HAPPY seeing all the Caine angst, but I just had to draw him getting a hug.ā¤ļøāš©¹