Too Many Rabbit Holes

wwx & jc: shared one braincell, with the braincell frequently in transit. wwx had it while cooking up demonic cultivation. jc had it while rebuilding his sect to stand as one of the great 4. neither of them had it while they sacrificed organs for each other or when wwx went to the wen remnants and jc led a siege against him

jyl: had one, but was worn down by the lack of braincells around her. at jzx's coffin, she finally said goodbye to it and headed to an active battlefield #yolo

jzx: nothing. nada. bless jl's dad but openly demeaning ur betrothed infront of ur entire generation and her younger siblings does not a braincell make

lwj: had one, but it flew off with the wind that stirred wwx and lwj's hair during their rooftop confrontation

lxc: had one, but it was stolen by jgy when (by lan standards) they made out sloppy style, got married then consummated the marriage infront of everyone present. (ive nvr watched untamed, but im referring to that one scene where their hands touch. scandalous)

jgy: obtained one watching the world tumble around him as he went down jinlintai's stairs for the first time. nothing quite like a shock like that to change your perspective. obtained lxc's braincell, which made him evil for Reasons.

nmj: also had one, he did have to run a sect, but it was tied up in that and the war and didnt contribute much to anything else. upon his death, the braincell returned to nhs, who promptly broke down as the braincell gave him brainpower to uncover dage's murder plot

nhs: inherited nmj's, but did have one, only it was solely for birds and sneaking porn around lqr. (he never needed to use it before, bc dage would always help him out). using the newfound power of 2 braincells, he orchestrated playing 5d chess with jgy

jgy didnt think/didnt want to think that nmj's braincell went to nhs. bc that would mean that dage!nmj who loved nhs still existed, dage!nmj who yelled and shouted at nhs but never quite forced him to do anything he didnt want. dage!nmj who wrote jgy a recommendation letter for his father. dage!nmj who swore brotherhood with him. dage!nmj who didnt care jgy's mum was a whore and elevated him to his right hand. dage!nmj, who i believe jgy, once upon a time, loved. dage!nmj, who jgy killed.

it was easier to think of a nmj who didnt forgive his crimes or accept his apologies. who distrusted him and sought to discredit him. nmj, who in a fit of rage, threw jgy down jlt's stairs like his father had done. nmj, who was the reason, must have been the reason that their relationship deteriorated so badly jgy didnt protest against killing nmj.

otherwise, it meant that jgy killed a dage!nmj, only nmj was no longer his dage. and for jgy who grew up with basically nothing, i think that wld have been worse

Megalodon fossil lost for decades confirms the monster’s terrifying size

A long-lost fossil once thought destroyed has resurfaced, confirming just how enormous megalodon may have been — and offering fresh clues about the giant shark’s life.

ETA: Also adding this image that dates back to 2023, and which I just rerendered in the new version of Daz to see how the lighting behaves. Large version at this YW.com URL.

Jane Austen did things with stories and characters that had simply never been done before. Do you like flawed characters who grow over the course of the story? Jane Austen pioneered the art of doing that in novels. Do you like it when a story is filtered through a character’s perspective, so you can hear their voice in the narration? Say thank you to Jane Austen.

I’m going to very, very generally summarise what novels looked like when Austen started writing. The first important thing is: they were an incredibly young genre. The first English book that everyone agrees ‘this is definitely a novel, not a collection of short stories, or an allegorical fable, or a political commentary’ is Robinson Crusoe, published 1719. Austen’s first book was published in 1811. That’s less than a hundred years!

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because I’m a nerd who majored in ancient China and still can’t let it go

okay so we all know that wangxian invented romance, but let’s talk a bit more about the iconic dialogue in episode 25:

Lan Wangji: 你把我當成什麼人? / What kind of person do you take me for?

Wei Wuxian: 我曾經把你當做我畢生知己 / I had once thought that, in my lifetime, you would be the one who knew me.

Lan Wangji: 現在仍是 / I still am.

I’ve seen various translations of the phrase “畢生知己” as “lifelong confidante” or “soulmate,” and I’m always so torn because these are both fine translations but like, not quite there

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?