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Z | She/her | over 30 | personal blog for multiple interests | jiujiu and a-ling enthusiast

[zazablah]

MXTX people, specifically Jiang Cheng fans, might know me as @zaza_blah on twitter. Hi!

I’ve actually been on tumblr since 2009, but dropped off in about 2018 or so after I got locked out of my old account and made this new one.

I’ll be reposting some of my art here and trying to be more active on tumblr again :)

You can find my art under the #doodles tag here

[disgustinggf]

[alessandriana]

[anatthema-art]

inspired by a friend misspeaking

[d3monslay3rmemes]

[thetursithan]

[jaaaaaade-jones]

Okay that’s skillz

[porcupine-girl]

Training herding dogs side of tumblr, please explain

[outofcharacterproductions]

[animeshittalk]

imagine getting this review

[theladyregret]

I guarantee that Monica at the front desk has not been able to live this review down and her coworkers absolutely bring it up regularly.

[solvicrafts-deactivated20250215]

If I were Monica I'd print this review out and frame it

[homunculus-argument]

Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?

Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?

Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?

Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.

[zazablah]

Finally started watching Demon Slayer; Rengoku, Mirio, and Bokuto are the same person. To me.

[mikyapixie]

DANDADAN By Gabriel Picolo

[feefal]

Life cycle of our Sun, from beginning to end~

[feefal]

And her sister, the moon! Always going through some sort of phase🌙

[yutaan]

A-Ling and jiujiu in the snow!

Right now I live in a very warm area, but I grew up much further north. I miss snow! I miss ice!! I miss winter!!! So I drew the JL-JC duo getting to enjoy it.

[yutaan]

IT SNOWED!!!

[rendnotmyheart]

Shoutout to A Bit of Ruthlessness and Audience of One for being the Xicheng fics of all time

[kummatty]

The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak's success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows' diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, "If cows didn't like mustard there wouldn't be any movies at all." By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a "transfer of life from animal body to technological media." The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.

—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

[kitkat-245]

Since watering means giving something water but milking means extracting milk from something that must means that water's default is to give but milk's default is to take. So water must be inherently kind while milk is cruel

[feed-the-roses]

[deux-jared]

[allpiesforourown]

Imagine you get kidnapped and your kidnapper keeps going "wow you're so pretty, you and my nephew would make a great match ;)" and his nephew, who helped with the kidnapping, is blushing saying "stoppp you're embarrassing meeee" anyway that's a real thing that happened in scum villain

[depsidase]