Asexual Enjolras

We're having our turn in the heat wave and reports from the National Mall are brutal already this week. That screenshot is today's forecast (courtesy of the Capital Weather Gang) and tomorrow and Saturday are confidently going to be worse than this is.

The national Mall has no shade on the grass and you will be exposed to the sun constantly while also experiencing extremely high humidity. You will not be allowed a bag over a certain size to enter the mall and it has to be clear. You cannot have an insulated water bottle, it has to be clear. Reports are that there are two entrances to the area so you'll have to wait in line to even get in. I cannot find a number on how many cooling stations there are, except that it's "few" to "none" depending on what accounts I read online. Vendors are allegedly charging more than the posted prices and seem to be unprepared for actual crowds - these are the official vendors not the scam food trucks that park all around the edges of the mall. And that's the extent of the planning done because it was not a priority to make sure attendees don't pass out.

My local friends and I have reached a consensus that tourists are going to get extremely sick and none of us know what the EMT response or planning is on the mall this year. People are going to die.

There is historically an assumption that attendees will have access to planned amenities. It's not in place this year of all years. There is a very real risk here and I'm trying to warn people, because people simply don't know how awful this is about to be.

and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.

Jin Guangyao: Chaos is a ladder. *cute dimpled smile* But don’t worry, because I’ve got my thumb on all the ordered structures now, too, so everything will be okay. *even cuter dimpled smile*

Nie Huaisang: Hmm…

After the terrible loss of our second best dressed cultivator and fashion icon Nie Mingjue, the cultivation world now lacks one of it’s pillars. But little did they know, our fashion king had a disciple, someone capable of honoring his legacy in many ways.

While we all grief, a new icon rises.

And I’m here to prove that Nie Huaisang deserves his late brother’s title not only because Mingjue’s no longer serving looks -may his fashionable soul rest in peace-, but because Huaisang has always been a stylish icon on his own.

I mean, this look right here is enough proof:

 Huaisang has quite a lot of robes, and they are all so different, I decided to compile them chronologically:

1. the “assigned fashionable at birth”one

Look at this small bean with his cream-colored robes. Whoever chose this color for him did a great job, though it’s a bit weird that they looked at baby Mingjue and went “all you’ll wear is dark gray from now on” and then Huaisang was born and “cream it is!” And we don’t really see anybody else from the Nie sect wearing this color, I wonder if it has anything to do with Huaisang’s mom, or if it’s just for the dark\light color contrast,  the two young masters can’t possibly wear the same colors, it would ruin the aesthetic.

 It looks just like his main-possibly-stay-at-home-robes, like he just really loved this especific set and had a lot of other robes that looked just the same growing up.

Really small, really cute, makes you want to carry him around saying: look at my baby, he’s so stylish!

Cruelty

Unfairness

Inflexibility

Indifference

Dumbassery

Bad Circumstances

Being a Terrible Person Outside of Parenting

Jin Guangshan, 9.89

Wen Ruohan, 8.44 (Note this is CQL Wen Ruohan, where he was effectively WQ and WN’s foster father; novel Wen Ruohan we don’t have enough data on, really)

Qingheng-Jun, 8.17 (Note this is even with giving him no score for ‘Being a Terrible Person’, because we don’t actually KNOW that for CERTAIN; he scores very high in inflexibility, indifference, and dumbassery, and was missing several scores that might have pulled his average down if he’d shown up for them)

Madam and Master Mo, 7.78

Yu Ziyuan, 5.67

Jiang Fengmian, 5.56

Madam Jin, 5.56 (She’s harder to rank because her relationship to JGS’s bastards is hard to define; she certainly doesn’t want anything to do with them, but socially speaking she is granted maternal authority over any acknowledged bastard, so…)

Lan Qiren, 5.33

Nie Parents, 4.33 (Very little data here)

Madam Lan, 2.00 (Numerous blank fields)

Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze, 1.17 (Almost entirely due to inadequate contingency plans for their kid if they get killed in their dangerous profession)

Feel free to disagree! Let me see if I can get the full assessment table in…