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I am very proud of everyone who went there from the post and commented! 

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As another single person household I am finding myselg grateful for things like skype snd the stream team. It makes being stuck at home easier.

Yeah, quarantine or self-isolation is a very different beast than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. It’s so much easier to stay at least somewhat connected. 

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@copperbadge , my region is just starting to go into serious all-events-and-classes-cancelled mode, but when things start to resume and I go back to circus classes, I'll ask around about the forbidden clown car videos. One coach used to perform for Ringling and one of his friends is a nationally touring clown, so they might have some insider info ��

“When the quarantine is over and I can go back to the circus” is such a great sentiment to reflect on! 

Please do ask if they know of any good videos, I would love to share them. 

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You went to circus camp. Three years in a row. Of *course* you did...

I mean, not a lot of things can explain why I am *hand gesture* this way, but the circus camp definitely had an impact.

It was super fun. It was an arts school that ran summer classes for tweens and teens, and they wanted to make it open not just to athletic kids who could do the gymnastic stuff, or extroverts who wanted to perform, but also kids who were interested in the technical aspects of vaudeville-style entertainment. So you could take “physical circus” (tumbling, balance board, stilts, juggling), clowning (makeup, costuming, physical comedy, a little bit of clowning history), and some ancillary classes like storytelling and oratory. But you could also take prop making (including musical instrument making), basic stage magic and specific prop making for that, set design and building, and “circus management” which was essentially stage managing. You could also, for some reason, take “Cartooning” which was a basic course in single-panel and four-panel comic strips. (I loved Cartooning and Storytelling especially, but I did pretty well in clowning and physical circus too.)

The eggs are safe! It took Mochou a while to find them, but they’re good. One is close to hatching, but Mochou isn’t sure of the exact conditions it needs yet. It seems to be waiting for something. But yes, Jiang Cheng has lost a lot. On the other hand, so has Mochou, and they do have each other. They both remember Lotus Pier as it was before, and they’ve both lost most of the rest of their family. They both loved Wei Wuxian. They both watched him leave. They both mourned. And they’re both pretty committed to rebuilding Yunmeng-Jiang as one of the Four Great Sects. Youngest sect leader? A sect dragon who’s barely seen a decade of the world? Doesn’t matter. Stubbornness has always been a Jiang trait.

Mochou isn’t Yingyue, but she has Wei Wuxian’s flash of genius, and Wei Wuxian’s sense of humor, and she knows how to bully Jiang Cheng into a better mood and is not above knocking him into the water when he’s being an ass. (She also gives good hugs, warm and heavy even if they’re usually also pretty damp. That Sect Leaders who show up to make demands of the Jiang Clan are visibly intimidated when said Clan’s leader is wrapped in coils of large purple dragon is something of a bonus.)

Jiang Cheng is not Yingyue, but he loves Lotus Pier the same way, and he can tell Mochou the stories she missed about the river’s history, and the family, and he knows how to play the long game, how to curl around what’s his and protect it from all-comers. (He’s also not bad at xianqi, and he’s willing to bring books to the pier and read them aloud while she swims. Important sect business, the disciples tell each other. Do not interrupt.)

The first time Jin Ling visits Lotus Pier, he comes with a wet nurse and a personal servant and an honor guard of six Jin cultivators, as if the Jiang Clan can’t be trusted to look after their own flesh and blood, and they insist that an infant can have nothing to do with a dragon—heirs of the Jin Clan are traditionally introduced on their eighth birthday, and Jin Ling is, after all, a Jin.

Mochou is not waiting that long, which she makes clear mostly by showing up right outside Jin Ling’s door the moment she hears him crying. There’s a lot more crying when the Jin staff see her, and also some screaming. Apparently a few of them have never seen a mature dragon quite so close before. She’s not even that big though. Not really. She still fits on the pier.

Jiang Cheng takes one look at the resulting chaos, grabs Jin Ling, and sets him on Mochou’s broad head, between her antlers. Traditional Jiang Clan custom, he says, which is a blatant lie, but they’ll never be able to prove it.

Jin Ling stops crying. Eventually, so do his attendants, but Mochou doesn’t care about them. She’s too busy trying to stay as still as possible while Jin Ling pats at her face and grabs at her antlers and kicks her in the eye.

In the morning, she swims out among the lotus flowers with Jin Ling on her forehead and Jiang Cheng on her back, and for the first time in a long, long while they talk about the future instead of the past.

They are a delicious mistake to make all on your own, aren’t they?

Gah. Lovely and heartrending

Thank you! I’m dreading writing some of the more tearjerking scenes, but they have to come. Luckily lots of humor to balance it out and two stupid in love idiots who STILL haven’t figured it out over a century later as the side plot. Of which these two bits of dialogue come from:

Wangji burst into the throne room, the rain outside turning into ice. He walked past the Elders and the Court and bowed to the throne.

"My King. Uncle."

"Brother," Xichen said with a nod.

"I must take my leave from the Winter Court. I am going to the Other Side.

"That damn Necromancer," Uncle muttered.

"Yes," Wangji said. "I am going to find my--to find Wei Wuxian."

He turned and left. The wind faded and the ice outside turned back to rain.

"Well, that was not entirely unexpected," Xichen said.

And

Wen Qing shook her head at him before slapping Wuxian on the arm.

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Thanks! I was thinking about it because i do not have Netflix but wasn’t sure.

I strongly recommend it! I mostly watched it against my will (damn you, @flange5​!) but ended up thoroughly enjoying it. It’s very low-budget, so the special effects are a little silly, but the costuming and sets are gorgeous and the cast did a great job of bringing all these characters and their often complicated relationships to each other and their circumstances to life.

Also Lan Wangji is gorgeous and I could watch him be a badass all day.

Woulf you be willing to say why you loathe this cake?

1) cakes that cannot be cut without falling apart are bullshit

2) why the grapes, who puts grapes on a cake like that?

3) canned peaches, no thank you

 My condolences! My skin is also in the middle of a flare up that I think is a delayed retin-a reaction but it is not fun at all :/ 

Okay, so usual disclaimers re: I’m not an expert, just someone trying to make this whole skincare thing work on my face thing apply but here’s my sense of things:

1) This really has to do with the type of mask--if it’s a sheet mask, the fluid on it is essentially an essence or ampoule and usually goes on at that stage-after cleansing and toning and typically after your water based treatments, before your emollients, like oils,emulsions, moisturizers, etc. If it’s a wash-off, it goes after cleansing, but before toning. If it’s a sleep mask (and is called a sleep mask or a sleep pack or overnight mask) it is typically thicker and goes on as the very last step. 

2) So there’s some disagreement on whether or not different vit C formulations are counter-indicated with niacinamide--they won’t cause a reaction, but in some cases, may lessen each other’s efficacy, so it’s sometimes recommended that if you do one in the day and the other in the night. But I think most suggest not putting them on immediately after each other. Since so many products include niacinamide because it’s such a powerhouse against so many skin issues, it might be difficult to cut it out of morning or night routines. I think you’re probably okay. If you have a niacinamide-focused product, like the ordinary’s niacinamide +zinc, I might put that in your evening rather than right after your Vit C. The really big thing with Vit C (depending on type)is to apply it on a dry face and then wait 20 min before adding anything else, as water will essentially kill its efficacy.