just like everybody else does

tell me why this budgetless gay youtube series made for fun by a group of friends has the best editing and writing of anything i’ve watched in a year.

Soupçon actually means “suspicion” and the reason nobody called me out on this is because I would use the word to imply the idea of something sprinkled on top of something else ala croutons. If someone said, “A soupçon of homoeroticism,” I thought it meant “Someone sprinkled homoeroticism on this story like croutons on a delightful Caesar salad.”

I wrote multiple essays that used soupçon as a noun with this translation in mind and I got a degree and this haunts me.

APY Lands Art: The Living Story of the Seven Sisters

Across the vast deserts of South Australia, the APY Lands have become home to one of the most dynamic and internationally celebrated movements in contemporary Aboriginal art. Rich in colour, cultural authority, and spiritual depth, APY paintings often draw upon the great ancestral narratives of the Western Desert, especially the epic Seven Sisters Dreaming that stretches across Australia through an immense network of songlines.

Artists from communities such as Amata, Ernabella, Fregon, Indulkana, and Mimili transform ancient cultural knowledge into powerful contemporary works filled with sweeping landscapes, sacred sites, ancestral journeys, and vibrant fields of colour. Their paintings are not simply images of the desert but expressions of Country itself—recording relationships between people, place, ceremony, and law that have endured for countless generations.

Masochism by @primtheamazing / Prim_the_Amazing

“I’ll do it.” Shen Qingqiu stares at him blankly for a long moment. “You’ll… do what?” Yue Qingyuan feels the same way. What did he just suggest? But despite himself, he continues. “If you-- if you feel the need to visit a brothel, then-- just come find me instead. I won’t expect anything from you, including gratitude, and I won’t tell anyone about it either. That way it’ll be… it won’t cause you any trouble.” - Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu start an arrangement.

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85,630 words | 222 pages

I am fairly obsessed with this fic! I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since it was first published and i knew i had to bind it! I love how prim writes very distinct POVs and yue qingyuan's POV in this fic is GORGEOUS because he is so so biased haha. This fic is single-handedly responsible for making me obsessed with yue qingyuan and shen qingqiu's background, WOW.

For design notes, i looked up a lot of reference photos for chinese lattice windows, doors and furniture designs as i found that really interesting as an analogy for the way shen qingqiu (and in turn yue qingyuan) hide their emotions/motivations from one another. Also they just look lovely haha. I was inspired by the design process that @celestial-sphere-press went through for her "To Conquer An Emperor" bind and the fan window cut out was inspired by @clovenhoofbindery's cutout for her "Away Childish Things" bind, because they look sexy. However mine was not cut out (!!!) by hand (!!!) as i got my silhouette to do the hard work.