Turtling along

In reality, Luo Binghe read a book in his own universe that was about a demon named Mobei Jun, who died in his sleep thanks to his uncle's assassination and then awoke in another body, in a fantastical universe of many strange contraptions, where humans ruled supreme and cultivation/magic like his was unheard of. With his powers brought over from that other world, and with the help of a native strategist who would become his eternal companion, Mobei Jun was able to conquer that world and unlock its hidden potential through demonic cultivation.

The stock phrase which Shen Qingqiu threw at him was also in the novel, but said novel was an extremely rare volume, allegedly only one copy exists and that copy is in Luo Binghe's possession. It soon becomes clear to Binghe that Shen Qingqiu, like Mobei Jun, is a transmigrator, except he has somehow come to Binghe's world instead of the reverse. Unlike Mobei Jun, this new Shen Qingqiu has also read the story of Luo Binghe's rule, his future, and his Bad Ending after he is successfully assassinated and supplanted.

Shen Qingqiu: ah, I'm glad I'm not alone in this! although it is a bit of a shame...

Luo Binghe: ?

Shen Qingqiu: well you wouldn't know since you didn't read the book, but the best part of the story was your character! even though he could be tyrannical and terrifying and was a total chuuni, Bingge was really admirable in his own way.

Luo Binghe: ...well um. but what if. I mean, what if I really was him? would you like that?

Shen Qingqiu: of course not! I'd be doomed if you were him! no, it's better this way. I just wish I could have actually met him, even once. oh but it's fine, you seem nice too! and at least this way I get to look at Bingge's beautiful face without it being weird. no homo, of course. I'm straight I just read this book because it was a top listing on zhongdian.

Emperor Luo Binghe, aura farming on his throne and glaring down his entire court: am I surrounded by n00bs?!

#Luo binghe getting full masks off modern shen yuan treatment#Amazing#Straight to the heart#He'd be all#I need to find who wrote that book#To help keep my cover#Tell me more about what your favorite things about me are (@linya333)

Luo Binghe: to help keep my cover you should tell me everything you know about my apparently very awesome character. (～￣▽￣)～

Shen Yuan: huh yeah that makes sense, okay. *lays down an absolutely brutal no-holds-barred deconstruction of everything wrong with him, yet with such naked adoration that it is impossible to doubt his affection*

No one likes or hates luo binghe the best. He was abandoned at birth because someone had issues with his birth parents. He was abused and thrown into hell because of a dude's own issues that he was projecting and there's nothing lbh could have done about it. His wives all have various motives for marrying him and the author, and possibly original!lbh himself, know they don't love him. In the divergent story, where tlj tries to merge the realms, even that isn't about lbh, it's about the memory of sxy and what happened to her.

And then into the story comes shen yuan, with the baseline, bedrock assumption that literally everything is about luo binghe. He is The Protagonist and sy never for a second takes his eyes off of that fact: even when he's in the abyss, lbh is the center of the universe, because to shen yuan, it always has been and always will be his story. Of course lbh loses his mind about him.

Zuko, freshly scarred: I had a dream that Uncle and I were clinging to a piece of driftwood for weeks before we ended up at a lovely spa and tended to and all my injuries were healed up

#I think there are explanations other than prophetic dreams but this is funnier#like for example him looking in the mirror and seeing air nomad tattoos is probably#just a manifestation of his anxiety around helping aang and what that means about him#but considering Zuko's grandfather is a former avatar and he later joins aang#that is a very funny dream for him to have#I vote Zuko has been having prophetic dreams this whole time but they involve a lot of symbolism#and he Does NOT do symbolism#so he's just like hm. yeah that was weird#and then when life poetically mirrors his prophetic dreams he doesn't even notice#This never comes up during his life time but some historian eventually uncovers his dream journal and finds it pretty blatantly#predicts every major event from his lifetime and beyond#and it ignites massive debate about how this foreknowledge was affecting his decisions as a head of state#hint: it wasn't (@an-android-in-a-tutu)

#listen not to read too much into the one line about love among the dragons#but zuko definitely knows about poetic symbolism but he doesn't believe in prophetic dreams due to thinking it's old man stuff for his uncle (@rogha)

#zuko thinks the curtains are blue and nothing else#prince ‘…which could mean nothing’ zuko (@averagemrfox)

#apollo throws the dodgeball and it just bounces off zuko @noccolibroccoli)

#Zuko being the spirit’s favored Normal Human (along w Sokka)#and him doing absolutely nothing with it#bc it never strikes him as relevant#(as opposed to Sokka who knows about the spirits but actively chooses to ignore them)#(out of spite and non-belief) (@seaglassdinosaur)

#sokka who had Multiple close encounters with spirits. still thinks they’re total bs#🫱🏽‍🫲🏼#zuko who has prophetic vision and thinks they’re total bs (@aneclecticmoonchild)

#zuko 🤝 sokka#yes I've had encounters with the supernatural no I don't believe in it (@emkini)

#he's that guy#the one who has prophetic visions but also impostor syndrome so he's like 'ugh it's just weird dreams'#'prince zuko have you considered maybe you have a gift--'#'there's only one gifted child in this family and she's a massive pain and also better than me at everything actually' (@aethersea)

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

how do you draw body hair?? i will figure this out at some point and draw a proper yqy...

it is beautiful rolling hills just stuffed to the GILLS with hobbits

including BABY HOBBITS

HOBBITS BUT SOMEHOW IMPOSSIBLY EVEN SMALLER

and yeah the adults might be fairly wary, but we see in the first movie that the kids come running immediately to see gandalf in hopes of seeing something magic

and now??? here is LARGE PERSON??? who can play swords and toSS THEM REAL HIGH UP IN THE AIR AND CATCH THEM???

the idea of a hobbit mama scolding her faunts not to get too rough with "nice mr. boromir" as this man is exactly where he wants to be being dogpiled by giggly bb hobbits who absolutely "defeated" him in "combat"

warrior hands that have seen so much violence SO gently holding a TEENY TINY baby hobbit he was handed to let a papa hobbit track down his wayward toddler

(boromir fighting back tears because THEY COME THIS SMALL??? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE???? THE BABY FITS IN ONE OF HIS HANDS???) (baby yawns and snuggles their lil cheek against his thumb and this man is nearly brought to his knees)

Official Manager Of Lifting Big Things

boromir accidentally joining a hobbit stitch and bitch club because someone's gammer asked him to carry her yarn for her to the meeting and he didn't know how to leave after he was greeted and handed food and tea

the club is actually fun, and the hobbit grannies respond to his tales of politics and battle with the same sympathetic clucking that they do to rivals stealing recipes, including his hand being patted sympathetically

(five of them are holding up boromir's shield and can't see past it) (they will charge headfirst into a tree) (they will learn nothing from this experience)

boromir having to learn how to do the cat owner shuffle because there are always faunts underfoot (usually trying to catch a lift on his feet because he can step SO high :D)

@little---furnace

oh my god cultural misunderstanding of

in gondor: constantly at war, awareness of supply use, the polite thing to do is to ask for more if you want it but to always have finished what's on your plate when you're done.

in the shire: with hobbit appetites, a fully empty plate means a guest needs more. no one wastes a bunch (leavings will be fed to the pigs), but good manners to show you've had enough involves leaving just a bit to show you were well-satisfied and completely full. an empty plate means you need more to fill up the corners.

so boromir is trying to be done, but the hobbits just keep putting more on his plate, and it turns into a feedback loop of politeness that ends with boromir eating more than he ever has and still being stuck at this tea party two hours past when he first tried to leave.

#favorite character meme – 7 scenes – 2. the frame-up job

so let me get this straight. you stole not one, but two paintings, one of which you spent the entire day trying to convince me you did not steal. all because your girlfriend here, an unrepentant inveterate professional liar– well that’s uncalled for. –told you with no evidence whatsoever the ma mystere was a fake. now you’re so sure that she’s right that you not only think that this painting is a fake but every other mettier that was in the house, the entire collection, is also fake? that’s right.

Tiger found caged in abandoned home gets second chance at wildlife sanctuary: ‘He seems to be so happy’

The estimated 350-pound tiger was transported to the facility, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States, on Wednesday afternoon, and is settling in well, Almrud said. There, he will have the chance to roam in enclosures of up to three acres.

Almrud, who estimates him to be about 2 years old, described the moment he first walked onto the grass at the sanctuary as remarkable.

“It was just amazing to see him walk out on grass and to see him explore and have that freedom of movement,” she said. “It was just such a reward and fulfilling to us.”

Now, he spends his days rolling around the grass in glee, Almrud said.

“He comes right up to the fence every time a staff member is present,” she said. “He seems very amenable to our presence.”

The tiger is eating well – a combination of chicken, humanely raised non-processed beef and whole prey complete with organs and bones. It appears that he was being fed chicken, which is what owners of exotic cats often feed them, but chicken alone does not provide the complete nutrition they need to thrive, Almrud said.

In addition, caregivers are tasked with keeping the tiger mentally stimulated by creating “pretend hunting” games and rotating him through different areas so he has access to new smells and environments to explore.

“He seems to happy and content,” Almrud said. “Our staff is just falling in love with him.”

His name is Loki now! In June he celebrated his 7th birthday at the sanctuary where he lives and thrives. Here’s a few pics of the boy:

He escaped his cage

Yes

YES

The tiger is out