tea by the sea

Q: Shu, you said that Haixia smells like magnolia flowers (white sandalwood). What does Haiyan smells like then? It can't be cigarrettes, right?

A: To Haixia, Haiyan's scent is like Disneyland.

and then here's haixia's

Q: Shu, if you could describe Zhang Haixia with a scent, what scent would it be?

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. This smile was not ended when the report resounded.

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

THIS IS NOT JUST CHROME!!!

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Lord Morgan Branwen is a recluse who only ventures into society for the express intention of expanding his art collection. The only other thing that interests him is news of his missing friend.

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Samantha Church is an investigative journalist forced into writing gossip columns for a tabloid. She can’t say it out loud, but she misses the days when she hid her identity and acted as a war correspondent.

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Aran is an actor who entered the industry for everything but acting six years ago, when an accident left them estranged from both their memories and family. When they’re not on a movie set, Aran can be found at the biggest parties– socialising, but not making any connections.

An era of postwar restoration and the bright young things of society.  In Soho, a receptionist working after hours in a newsroom obscured by smoke stubs out her cigarette on an envelope. Voices of men and their staccato typewriters sound in the next room.  The envelope catches fire, and she lights a fresh stick from the flame. Someone steps into a jazz club in Piccadilly.  Amidst the intoxication and ceaseless crowds, hands and bodies meld into each other. They kiss the latest poisons from the mouths of others. It is still not enough.  An antiquarian sits in his manor in the suburbs, surrounded by the shadows of macabre paintings and the cawing of crows at high windowsills. A pen scratches against a diary… and writes… and writes…

The Faceless One glances at London. 

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).