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mei changsu

[ALT ID: A digital painting of Mei Changsu from Nirvana in Fire looking directly at the camera with a small smile while bandages unravel from around his face. The bandages are somewhat bloody and hold the young face of Lin Shu as they peel away.]

#nirvana in fire #mei changsu #lang ya bang

ralfstrashcan

Bonus:

Four years and I nearly forgot what an icon Jingyan is

#nirvana in fire #jingyan

melodious-tear

Fang Yilun as Bai Yutang in 雨霖铃 Zhan Zhao Adventures

#zhan zhao adventures #雨霖铃 #bai yutang #cdrama

guzhuangheaven

zhan zhao adventures: zhan zhao

#zhan zhao adventures #雨霖铃 #cdrama

guzhuangheaven

zhan zhao adventures: zhan zhao

#zhan zhao adventures #雨霖铃 #cdrama

thememedaddy

bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

tuesdayisfordancing

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

professorsparklepants

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

siesiegirl

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

crumbvulet

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

thranduilland

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

candiikismet

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

orriculum

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

liberalsarecool

Stay engaged.

posttexasstressdisorder

Even though it's hard...stay engaged.

ultrareginarules

Keep fighting, keep resisting. It's only over when you give up.

danielkanhai

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

ayellowbirds

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

erkhyan

And now, a lesson in biases:

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

Oh, buddy, you better go and make a bunch of anthropologists and archeologists really happy RIGHT NOW instead of feeling bad about missing everyone else’s pet Major Event.

ayellowbirds

It’s been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyone’s left to it.

notoisstrange

Episode 1 (part 2)

#word of honor

rederiswrites

Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.

creekfiend

until you go looking for them, you have no idea how many very kind and friendly middle aged or older hobbyspace weirdos would love to have many pleasant interpersonal interactions with you about, for example, fishing lures.

creekfiend

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think