#The Ultimate Note

[bean-in-dice]

P's Top 5 Favorite DMBJ Edits to Make

This is my baby. The timing and the clips and everything matched so beautifully with the lyrics and the thumbnail came out nicely too. Only gripe is that back then I didn't know how to make the lyrics fade so they appear bit too bluntly.

2. This one is slow and not very... uh interesting at first but I feel like it's hilarious in a very unassuming way. I had fun matching similar scenes from Ultimate Note and Grave in the Abyss, and I think the lyrics font and the size is very fitting for its overall vibe too.

3. I conceived this idea since D1 I saw the first trailer for ZHH, though this song actually has a completely different meaning, on a literal level it's so fitting for PIngxie in this era. I barely could wait for the show to start airing and when it finally did, I made the edit as the show went on, collecting material as I go. I just knew it will work even without having finished the show.

4. This one uh... it didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to BUT it was very difficult to make, the track wasn't easy to time to nor was sourcing all the bell and bell-adjacent Zanghaihua scenes. Plus it's an improvement from the TLT2 and TLT 2.5 Lighting Effects edit I made months ago.

5. The newest baby!! Making this made me realise just how SOFT Reboot Pingxie are, I didn't realise it for a long time and thought Xiaoge appeared too sparsely in it and had other complaints. Now I've seen the light! Credit goes to my shifu @missfangirll for her numerous lovely and inspiring Reboot edits, shoutout to Where Do Lovers Go? 💕

[runawaymarbles]

The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

[good-to-drive]

Well this is what I would assume, but who really knows

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Maybe we never had a chance.

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[stars-obsession-pit]

Not Quite his Twin

Danny Fenton is not Danyal al Ghul. They’d wanted him to be, but he wasn’t.

He still remembers when he first woke up, his whole body feeling raw and ill-fitted. Even his mind felt wrong, his memories not quite his own.

Which, he supposes, they weren’t.

Because Danyal is still dead. Executed on the orders of the Demon’s Head for failing to live up to his twin.

But the spurned heir would make a perfect figurehead to build legitimacy for a coup, so a splinter sect of the League stole away some of his remains before they could be disposed of. They may not have had permission to access the Lazarus Pits, but they could still turn to some more unorthodox methods of attempting resurrection. A combination of cloning, a few stolen and processed samples of Lazarus Water, and pieces of necromantic rituals.

And it almost worked.

Almost.

The body they constructed did indeed come to life, and clearly possessed at least some of Danyal’s memories, but it wasn’t him. The memories were locked behind a barrier, present in abstract but not felt. This thing they created could never pass for the deceased heir, and thus could never be the figurehead they wanted. So they decided to dispose of him.

But the clone’s memories had shown him this sort of betrayal before, and he did still have some of the original’s skills. He struck first, killing several of their agents and managing to escape the lab.

He had no idea what to do next, but at least he was free. Free to form his own life, to become someone unique rather than just not-quite-Danyal.

[ohitslen]

Average university experience

[philosophybits]

You believe in a crystal palace, eternally indestructible; a palace, that is, at which you could never stick out your tongue furtively, or gesture rudely from inside your pocket. Well, maybe I am afraid of this building exactly because it is crystal and eternally indestructible and that it will be impossible to stick out my tongue at it, even furtively... Laugh as you will. I can take any amount of mockery but still I won’t say that I am satiated when I am hungry; still I know that I won’t settle for a compromise, for a persistent, recurring zero, just because it exists according to the laws of nature and exists in reality.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[thatsolacegirl]

We need to give it up for Mr Kang Yeong-u because what do you mean he sent a cringy video message to his wife in a bus full of co-workers while sitting beside his boss and didn't even hesitate?

[royalarchivist]

Tallulah: tio pac and fit are so Perfecta by Miranda coded 🥹💕

Phil: This is Pac and Fit? [Dramatically zooms-in on the fanart and makes them "sing" along to the music]

Chat: he's LITERALLY making a ship amv right now

Tallulah: How things got weird 😞

Make sure to show love to the artist who drew this fanart!

[ Full clip ]

[kaidenchii]

Zhang Qiling doodle

[bananaproved]

After passing peer review here is my drama recommendation tool

Maybe I will update it in the future but for now I am happy to have watched enough good dramas to make it.

[bean-in-dice]

Storytime!

Tian Xiwei: The Matchmaker 😌

Once upon a time, there were two boys who were not quite seeing eye to eye. 😠

There came The Top Matchmaker of the whole world, Ms. Cupid Tian Xiwei. 😇

She saw the potential of these two bois and worked really hard to talk to them. 🥺

All the way across the time, to the Song dynasty. 😔

The final result! 🥳

Bonus-

The God of Marriage, Wu Xie of the Conjuring Curse, swears by her abilities! 👨‍🏫

[Except she may take her sweet time (centuries!) and also may pair up with the future couple herself on the way before delivering the result! 🥰]

[mirthfulmoonshine]

‼️ Poland plight

[jamtamart]

hesitant whisper

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this isn't finished but i know that im not gonna be able to bring myself to complete it so, you can have it in this form lol

[thatlittlemouse]

"[...] I let him become the protagonist of the story and let him experience the most terrifying journey, which is probably the most special part of the story. When everyone can back down, he just can’t; when everyone can escape, he can’t." -- Volume 8 Postscript

05.03. Happy Birthday Wu Xie!

[hexlar]

they got a bad case of da eep