and there is work to be done in the meantime

mutual 2: england is on a blight on humanity

🎀🩰👼🏽🪷 - the democratic republic of congo's national team arriving to the 2026 fifa world cup in matching leopard print suits made by alvin_jmak.

Carl Strathmann, Damen mit Drachenhelm, 1897

Finally, clearly the most approved use of this skill is messing with Bai Yutang, who never really learns to deal with it, but keeps falling for it. Starting from that first night when he's like, "I might kill you," and ZZ just goes sure, whatever, and of course knows who he is and doesn't let it on just because, until the final scene where ZZ goads him to pass out drunk. Indeed ZZ is going to win all their fights. It just amuses me to no end that BYT who is so smart and resourceful and plenty capable of manipulating others himself has zero defenses against ZZ.

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

local jianghu woman and man are gay for each other

“Inspiration porn” is a disability term, but I’m using it here because it’s appropriately provocative, and because the state of being a child is functionally a disability. A child who fails to be life-affirming and inspirational and to perform heartwarming innocence is breaking a contract, and adults are no longer obligated to uphold their own end and nurture the child. A child is a resource from which inspiration porn can be mined, or it is a kind of brood parasite.

i love chen chen

Woodcut , 14 x 14 cm. 25 x 25 cm. framed Ed. of 29

And what is it that she encounters out in the real world? She finds Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao. She finds love and companionship that make her stronger, that support her while she processes the grief of the past that gets revealed. She finds people who lift her up in every way, at every turn, people who will fight for her the way her own family did not. She grows stronger and more capable. The Huo Linglong of the very first episodes, more carefree and and laughing and teasing more easily, is just as strong and capable and is never scoffed at for being ignorant or a fool in any way. The Huo Linglong of the later episodes, more sober and burdened and carrying so many worries, is not diminished by these burdens but is stronger for all she has learned and loved. It's just such a beautiful character arc!! What is growing up if not learning to love and be loved and growing all the stronger for it!!!

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