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Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

STEP 1: Take a screencap of the video, preferably while it's playing so that the PLAY button isn't blocking the image.

STEP 2: Reverse image search of choice. To my chagrin, I tend to end up resorting to Google's Search by image because Tineye keeps failing me and I haven't gotten around to doing a deep dive into currently available reverse image search services.

If you use the Firefox desktop web browser (untested: other desktop web browsers, Firefox mobile web browser) you can combine STEP 1 & STEP 2: Feel free to repost the video to Tumblr first, preferably as a draft or private post to prevent people from reblogging the uncredited vid, because this method doesn't work as well on Reddit videos.

Right-Click on the video. In the right-click menu, look for "Image Search Options" and hover over it to bring up a list of search options. I'll have to try out some of the other options later, but for this demonstration I used Google.

The search engine should open in another tab.

STEP 3: The Search. This part will be a mix of luck, tenaciousness, and deductive skills.

For Google, I recommend going to the "Exact matches" tab because it presents matches and their information in a much more condensed format than the other tabs. "Exact matches" is a misnomer, as is apparent in the screencap below. This search actually pulled up images from at least two separate videos by the same woman hanging from the same tree: one where she's wearing a slate grey pencil skirt and blazer (as in the video reposted by OP) and one where she's wearing a pale grey long-sleeved dress.

Ideally, a functional search engine would let you sort results by useful variables such as "date posted". Google is not such a search engine, and with its progressive enshittification you may or may not be able to bully Search by image into limiting results to certain date ranges. Luckily, these videos have been less flagrantly reposted than some, so I didn't have to scroll through too many.

When searching for a source, one of the primary things to pay attention to is date. Obviously, the original source has to be older than any of the reports. Unfortunately, not all the Google results have dates, so the earliest dated video isn't guaranteed to be the original.

In this case, the earliest result was of the grey dress video variant posted on Instagram on Jan 17, 2026. However, upon checking the link it became apparently that the Instagram account was not the originator of the video and their repost was unsourced.

If the date check fails you, keep an eye out for any undated results that clearly stand out from the rest. In this case, I picked up on the following:

Which has the following unique traits:

A new outfit! This is the only result that features the woman in a pale brown blazer and pencil skirt.

Dimensions. This result is 1080 x 1920, while the majority of results were smaller in size. Reposts are more likely to be downscaled from the original than upscaled, so if the initial date-check fails you, you're better off checking the largest undated results first.

Specific username (Liang Li (@liangli521)). A lot of the other results just have captions or titles in various languages. Depending on the website, these are usually either captioned reposts or random search terms that don't even link to the actual video. Results with specific usernames are rarer and thus worth checking out, though some of them may turn out to be reposters.

In this case, I hit the jackpot! There they all were: OP's video, the grey dress video, the brown blazer & skirt video, and many, many more!

Legitimately, Liang Li's whole thing seems to be going ham in skirts, dresses, and frequently heels. Possibly for advertising purposes? Very beautiful. Very powerful.

Bonus videos:

Cool lights!

Obstacle courses and playgrounds with friend!

H-hot damn, ma'am...

Except! Inexplicably, someone brought it to JAPAN! Where they grow it still! So what the fuck! The wikipedia page lists all the reasons it's too hard to farm, then immediately says "oh but they farm it in Japan and it's called America-hodoimo." Why! How does this make sense!

So then a Louisiana professor started trying to breed it and improve the tubers, but he retired and abandoned the project.

Why am I crazy for this plant? Oh yeah, it fixes its own nitrogen and it's allegedly shade tolerant, so I wonder if it could grow under solar panels.

I am boggled by the natural heritage of eastern North america that is totally unknown and ignored.

I've heard of this and seen it, but I've never had any success propagating it. I brought some tubers to my meadow and buried them last fall but I don't see anything sprouting. They might just be hidden from my sight though.

I don't know if I've heard of it being cultivated in Japan!

Yes, it was domesticated, and there were lots of efforts to re-domesticate it a while back. I didn't know what had happened to the project though, it's sad that it was abandoned.

My foraging mentor said that some people can randomly develop a severe sensitivity to it and get really sick when they eat it...but I reckon that's the case with a lot of foods.

How many people on the streets have you seen hauling everything they own in a shopping cart? How many people do you know who see one coming and cross the road to avoid it? How would they react to this, a beautiful and priceless work of art of the same shape and form but far more precious craftsmanship, carrying prettier possessions in a much more tasteful way? Ignoring that all the features which give it status and respectability are both unnecessary and fragile, stripping it of its original context and purpose?

How many ugly and unsightly everyday objects are made avant-garde by reducing their function for the sake of heightening exclusivity? Marble bathtubs, geode sinks, gold-plated toilets- things made for a function which are forcibly divorced from that function to earn respect and regard

Why does worsening an item in specific ways signal improvement or status? The fragility and impracticality screams, "I don't actually need this" while sneering in derision, "can you imagine if I needed this?"

Like pretending to blow your nose into a bedazzled tissue

Epithalamion? Not too long back I was being ironic about “wives.” It’s very well to say, creation thrives on contradiction, but that’s a fast track shifted precipitately into. Tacky, some might say, and look mildly appalled. On the whole, it’s one I’m likely to be called on. Explain yourself or face the music, Hack. No law books frame terms of this covenant. It’s choice that’s asymptotic to a goal, which means that we must choose, and choose, and choose momently, daily. This moment my whole trajectory’s toward you, and it’s not losing momentum. Call it anything we want.

--'On Marriage,' by Marilyn Hacker

This was the second-last nominee for best novella in this year’s Hugos, and the last without a multi-month hold queue at the library. I find Novik’s work a bit variable, in that I adore Spinning Silver, find the Scholomance trilogy solid fun, and it’s probably best for everyone involved that I never get around to trying Temeraire or Uprooted. I went into this one more or less blind but with optimistic expectations, and found them satisfied several times over. I’m a very easy sell for fairy-tale fantasy with a current of fey tragedy and pleasantly poetic prose, and this delivered all three in spades. Not a book to change your life, but sitting down and devouring it was at least probably the highlight of my week.

The story stars Celia, the youngest child (and only daughter) of her kingdom’s greatest general and (from his king’s perspective) most problematically overmighty vassal. On the cusp of adolescence, she comes into profound magical power, becoming the kingdom’s first sorceress in generations. She discovers this by laying a curse upon her eldest brother, the shining knight and perfect heir who came home to tell their father he hated him and was casting aside his name and inheritance without sparing a thought for how he was in the same breath abandoning the baby sister who worshipped the ground he walked on. In the years that follow, she and her (much-derided and neglected by everyone until then) middle brother begin to scheme about how to rescue Argent from the unending life of heroism and glory she had cursed him to. Until, just as they are ready to move, Celia finds herself entrapped by first royal marriage politics and then the ancient thirst for vengeance which drives the king of Summer who for so long raided and ravaged her kingdom.

All of which is just about half the novel’s plot, which is mostly scene-setting and preamble. It’s a fairly plotty and efficient novella, insofar as it quickly skims over long periods of time while conveying whatever relevant things actually occur during them. Doing so without sounding like the Wikipedia summary of your own book is a skill I wish more authors would develop, honestly. The real meat of the book – and where it really matures into feeling like a fairy tale – follows Celia’s wedding and captivity, and Argent’s endless and gloriously doomed series of duels to try and free her.

I’m a great fan of fantasy told in the idiom of fairy tales generally, and have (mostly accidentally) ended up reading a decent amount of it over the last few months. Novik has without question captured what I find charming and evocative about the style better than basically anyone else, and as a bonus done so while telling (I believe) an entirely original story rather than riffing one of the classics everyone can recite from childhood. Her summerlings (fae/elves, essentially) are psychologically alien in a way that fits the tone well, there is basically exactly enough exposition to make the world feel magical and make the plot cohere, and the story is basically the perfect length and density to fill out a novella.

A large part of the reason it justifies being a novella instead of a cramped short story is that (unlike a lot of both classic fairy tales and modern fantasy aping them) most of the cast are fairly fleshed out and compelling instead of broad archetypes or narrative marionettes. Celia and her brothers and the Summerling king all manage to evoke some real pathos and make you want them to find some sort of happy resolution to the great snarl they’re all entangled in. I’m not sure the ending needed to be quite so relentlessly and uniformly bright (the redemption of the siblings’ father in half a page at the very end felt both needless and out of nowhere), but that aside it’s really rare I get so invested in so many arcs and romances in such a tight pagecount.

The butler has to interview five new maids by the end of the week, and then try to keep the secret from them so they won't quit and leave.