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nowhere game

They had this routine down for months. Months of instant noodles and convenience store bento under the incessant fluorescent lights. The entirety of their friendship had taken place in the confines of those walls, sitting in metal chairs and leaning on the plastic table in the far corner of the store. There was something about the time of night, the feeling of the lonely street, and the routine of it all that made it hard for Jisung to lie to Minho. It was like all the pretense didn’t matter, or never mattered. Here they were, two souls crossing paths, seeing each other in the dark.

Until Minho disappeared.

Or, the one where it’s a meet-cute at a convenience store but also a mafia romance

Rating: E

Word Count: 65K (chapters 1 and 2 out now)

Tags: Han Jisung / Lee Minho, mystery/thriller, hurt/comfort, angst, graphic depictions of violence, organized crime

Read on AO3

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“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.

which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”

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Can’t properly explain it, but “I like this character”, “I like how this character is written” and “I care about this character” are 3 very different things which may or may not overlap.

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anything that contains the phrase “secret BBC memo reveals” intrigues me automatically ngl but I want you all to know that as far as I can gather, the facts are even better than this headline

which is to say, this was part of an initiative in the early 1970s that not only featured marginalized groups on BBC programming, but made moves towards handing them editorial control – the BBC had to approve proposals, but after that, the station’s role was primarily to provide technical resources, facilities, and copyright handling. (another notable program under this initiative featured Black teachers discussing racism in the school system, and a link to that – plus discussion of the hurdles it faced – can be found here).

the program on trans experience was aired in 1973.

The programme, featuring trans women, began: “Jokes about ‘the operation’ are all that most people know about transexualism [sic]. Tonight’s group discuss their situation in a more serious and comprehensive way, and draw attention to the many difficulties they endure”.

you can watch Open Door: Transex Liberation Group here (as well as other archived LGBTQ programming from BBC). 

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linotonin to brighten your day <3

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Help I forgot how many legs deers are supposed to have

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Artist Builds Exquisite Miniature Buildings From a Single Sheet of Paper

Paper artists continue to find new ways to transform the two-dimensional medium into captivating creations. Danish artist and architect Peter Callesen uses ordinary sheets of white A4 paper to build miniature buildings and structures that look like replicas of the real thing.

“By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time, the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with a different meaning,” Callesen explains to My Modern Met. “The thin white paper and the small scale of the paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works.”

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ian mckellen directed these movies actually

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traditional chinese handicraft, ink making 制墨 by 彭传明pcm

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Factory Fan Bass: By attaching a disk with holes to the fan, it converts blinks of lights to electric signals and generates sound from a bass amplifier. Different numbers of holes can generate a musical scale, and turning on/off of the power makes it roar.

Created by Ei Wada + Teruo Takahashi(from the iron factory) + Nicos Orchest-Lab

Played by Ei Wada

from Electronicos Fantasticos

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bitches be like "these are my comfort characters!" and it's a group of murderers

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“my child is fine” your child has the 1985 film Clue memorized

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They really should teach people how to cook in school.

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This man learned so much from Izumi

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that Diana Wynne Jones interview where she’s like “I don’t understand why so many girls are into Howl, it must be because they want the challenge of fixing him” is so optimistic, like DWJ’s out here hoping I at least want to make him a more functional person as if “rogue academic turned melodramatic fashion disaster whose social skills Do Not live up to his own hype” is not a perfectly valid thing to be attracted to 

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BABE WAKE UP LIL NAS X JOLENE COVER JUST DROPPED

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Octavia Butler’s list of concepts that are sexy, via LA Review.