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Just thinking about how, even though the main characters/couples are all men, mxtx gives some of the most intense and praiseworthy moments to the women in her novels:

Three separate times in mdzs do we see women stand up to a crowd of cultivators who do not respect them in order to protect Wei Wuxian, the most powerful cultivator of their time: Jiang Yanli at Phoenix Mountain, Mianmian at the conference to discuss wwx’s liberation of the labor camps, and Wen Qing in the aftermath of the Qiongqi Path ambush. A-Qing doing the same within the Grasses arc for Xiao Xingchen, then for the juniors as a ghost, both times against Xue Yang. Mianmian even chooses, in front of those high and mighty powerful men, to turn her back on them and follow her own path, marking their status and power as tainted. And how many of the people in that room got to live as long and fulfilling a life as hers after that?

In svsss, you can’t tell me shit about how Ning Yingying, who Shen Qingqiu noted they had all pampered but not really taught to fight, stood up to both the Little Palace Mistress and Luo Binghe, and it is with her words that we end out Shen Qingqiu’s first life (before he comes back in the plant body).

And in tgcf? Banyue sacrificing all of her people for greater peace but still allowing the resentment-filled corpses of her former companions to hang her every day to give them some appeasement in hopes they will eventually be able to move on. Ling Wen being the one who keeps all of heaven functioning practically alone and being the mastermind behind the creation of the brocade immortal, giving her the martial powers she lacked on top of her civil ones and making her an irreplaceable asset. Yushi Huang—a 16th princess that nobody in her family took notice of—taking the throne, after her siblings had struck down their father, so that she could slit her own throat in front of the enemy when nobody else would in order to assure her kingdom’s survival, then immediately ascending into one of the most powerful, irreplaceable gods in the book, known for always protecting her people (god I love her).

Some of these women have more screen time, so to speak, than others, but all of these events are integral parts of the books they are in, given specifically to female characters. And I just really love that no matter how much or little time the narrative spends on these characters, their presences are always impactful.

cookiescr

Yknow the thing where red pandas just lay down on a branch and let their legs hang and they’re just like vibing

cookiescr

they’re just vibing yknow?

dimpledgucci

porcupines do this too :)

callingallcars

i have excellent news about the manul cat

radwolf76

Manul cat is an automatic reblog from me.

lokeanrampant

I am porcupine.

krakensdottir

Pretty much most cats that spend any time in trees, tbh

Honestly tho, in terms of lazy chill I don’t think anyone’s gonna beat this bear:

devinellekurtz

Loosely implying a cat 5

Pleasee

Please

Quirkless Midoriya Izuku Recommendation Fic List

Guess who finally caved and decided to do a rec list for BNHA fics. This girl! Expect more.

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theinturnetexplorer

Homosexuality explained in a German Children’s Book

angiethewitch

foxybluejazz

memory-thought

Its my personal belief that the “but how do you explain it to the kids?” crowd, has never explained anything to a child in their lives.

bad-comic-art

how many liner pens died for this….

Cable #75 (2000) art by Rob Liefeld

hyyteli

I just had to see how tiny his eyes really are under all that mess

actuallyadyke

Decided to keep editing the rest of the face lines out

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#marvel #wolverine

bad-comic-art

how many liner pens died for this….

Cable #75 (2000) art by Rob Liefeld

hyyteli

I just had to see how tiny his eyes really are under all that mess

actuallyadyke

Decided to keep editing the rest of the face lines out

fixing-bad-comic-art

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bendyworksatstarbucks

*sips tea* Let this spread all over Tumblr.

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Please Reblog…

peacefulr4in

Reblog it–

the-autobots

Reblog this right now

noah-of-the-dragons

Where’s the signal boost multipliers?!

tiryomasu

Reblogging because its important

your-polyamorous-friend

@panipurigang

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SuperM ✧ ELLE Korea Magazine October 2020 Issue - covers

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(based on this image)

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@blackkatmagic

imposterogers

wade wilson kidnaps hugh jackman in deadpool 3 bc he’s convinced he’s actually wolverine. he spends the whole movie lugging him around but he’s literally just hugh jackman

creme-meme

hugh jackman does everything to prove that he’s hugh jackman. he sings, he tap dances, and he has an australian accent.

the reveal at the end of the movie is that hugh jackman isn’t wolverine, but wolverine is hugh jackman. logan went into witness protection in order to retire from being a superhero and having an alternate identity as an australian actor who started his career in musicals was basically fool proof until wade blew his cover story

artissijamm

I can't get over that Perry could easily just humiliate him in front of the crowd, but instead, he help him

Also the fact that Perry can only control Doof's arms and legs. Doofenschmirtz freestyled the whole song.

It's a bop

7thedisasterdyke

And the song just goes from 0-get rid of the government in .2 seconds

tfw-adhd

not sure if this is totally an ADHD thing but it felt relatable

Oh yes, that’s definitely relatable

quousque

YOU KNOW WHAT BOTHERS ME

when fantasy books describe the cloth of Quant Farmpeople’s clothing as “homespun” or “rough homespun”

“homespun” as opposed to what??? EVERYTHING WAS SPUN AT HOME

they didn’t have fucking spinning factories, your pseudo-medieval farmwife is lucky if she has a fucking spinning wheel, otherwise she’s spinning every single thread her family wears on a drop spindle NO ONE ELSE WAS DOING THE SPINNING unless you go out of your way to establish a certain baseline of industrialization in your fake medieval fantasy land.

and “rough”??? lol just because it’s farm clothes? bitch cloth was valuable as fuck because of the labor involved ain’t no self-respecting woman gonna waste fiber and ALL THAT FUCKING TIME spinning shitty yarn to weave into shitty cloth she’s gonna make GOOD QUALITY SHIT for her family, and considering that women were doing fiber prep/spinning/weaving for like 80% of their waking time up until very recently in world history, literally every woman has the skills necessary to produce some TERRIFYINGLY GOOD QUALITY THREADS

come to think of it i’ve never read a fantasy novel that talks about textile production at all??? like it’s even worse than the “where are all the farms” problem like where are people getting the cloth if no one’s doing the spinning and weaving??? kmart???

systlin

THANK U

rosslynpaladin

pro tip: what do you say instead? I gotcha.

In Ye Olde Medieval Fantasy Dayes, everybody’s layer against skin (shirt tunic or shift) is gonna be linen. it’s almost never wool except stockings or hose (like pant legs). Say “undyed cloth” if you wanna make them sound simple and peasanty. Comment on how you can tell it wasn’t made for them (the fit is off) and has had probably eight owners before.

Outer clothing is gonna be either wool, or a blend called Linsey-woolsey, and again you could say Undyed, but dyes are not only common they are CHEAP and relatively easy. (innerwear is often left undyed or bleached to white because it gets washed to heck- like beaten by a wooden stick on a stone by the river- and dye would just fade out a lot so why bother. Ths is also why innerwear has ties, rarely buttons, unless you are so rich you have people doing your washing delicately because they’re hired to do only that. Buttons would get broken in the washing)

A poorer person is often seen in “russet”, a kind of rusty orange-brown color. Purple was famously reserved for royalty in many times and places, but its also just hard to do. We see a lot more magentas and fuschias for nobles or common middle class folks than we ever see of Purple- and not many of those. Deep blue was more likely on very rich people, but a light blue was common for even poorer folks. Yellow was popular with everyone, and so was green, and many shades of reds, including the color we now call orange (they did not- this is why redheads are called redheads and not orangeheads). Your vision of everyone in very drab brown and mud colors is from Hollywood- most medieval-ren folks have clothing with colors. Sometimes garish colors, to the modern eye. Traffic cone Orange and acid green was a popular combo in the 13th century.

elfwreck

Example medieval dye colors. Lots of yellows and orangey-browns. Woad gave a range of blues that are basically what we think of as “denim colors.” There were purples - royal purple was a specific color from a specific source - but if you mix wine-dye and woad-dye, you get purpleish dye. (Getting the color to stay that way may be more difficult. Everything worn by peasants fades; they couldn’t afford the really good fixatives.)

More examples and explanations here:

Plum, dusty purple, lavender, burgundy, chestnut, blood red

Walnut, chocolate, tan, linen, pale apricot, spice, dark spice

Peasant clothes were often more colorful than the nobility. Nobles could afford bright, clear colors that peasants couldn’t - but one mark of wealth was being able to buy all 4-8 yards of fabric for an outfit at the same time. So nobles would have a full outfit, including hat, stockings, even shoes, of one type of fabric (with ornamentation of a contrasting type, and as many buttons or bits of silver as they could get away with wearing), while peasants would often have a shirt, bodice or jerkin, skirt or pants, stockings, and hat of all different colors.

Dying or re-dying any one piece of clothing was within most of their cost limits - dye itself is cheap; fixatives cost. But boiling your shirt for an hour with onion skins in a copper pot would re-color the fading fabric.