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Thranduil deleted scenes

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Take one of these breaks any time you want! ╰( ･ ᗜ ･ )╯ I always forget how much stress and tension I hold in my body, so little reminders to take breaks always help me!  

Chibird store | Positive pin club | Webtoon

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Hey guess what? I finally translated the last chapter of The Unwanted

Only took me about a year to figure out how to translate one tiny scene and then butcher it anyway 😑

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While browsing through the jiuyuan tag on ao3 I came upon my lastest obsession that has me by the throat, i can even begin to explain it please PLEASE everyone go read Dance in the Dusk RIGHT NOW!!!!! I never knew i needed Wu Yanzi SY but i did. I needed it so bad. And you need it too!!! Go read (check the tags first doe)!!!!!!

Dance in the Dusk by @sareyen

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ShenJiu fans you are officially invited to the Lewd Jiu Fest 2025!

It's a week dedicated to lewding our favourite Shizun, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu and will take place from the 15th Sep - 21st Sep 2025 🍑🍃

Further information will follow soon!

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JiuYuan doodle for the Secret of NIMH AU.

SJ is a rat and SY is a mouse ;3; <3

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Have you seen the anti shen jiu guy on the SVSSS reddit that got called shen yuan in the comments

I sometimes forget shen yuan hated shen jiu so much at the beginning of the novel because I'm so jiuyuan pilled all I can think of is that line where he says he wants to coddle shen jiu

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age regressing at the local brothel once by accident bc he felt so small and safe in a prostitutes arms and he wanted to die about it but he keeps going back and they keep indulging him.

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44. Things That Cannot Be Compared

Summer and winter. Night and day. Rain and sunshine. Youth and age. A person’s laughter and his anger. Black and white. Love and hatred. The little indigo plant and the great philodendron. Rain and mist.

When one has stopped loving somebody, one feels that he has become someone else, even though he is still the same person.

In a garden full of evergreens the crows are all asleep. Then, towards the middle of the night, the crows in one of the trees suddenly wake up in a great flurry and start flapping about. Their unrest spreads to the other trees, and soon all the birds have been startled from their sleep and are cawing in alarm. How different from the same crows in daytime!

—The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (c. 966–1017)

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'His Mouth Was Dry and His Strength Gone'--History of Disease Among the Court Nobility.

The account of the illnesses that beset Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027), the most powerful of the Fujiwara regents. Indeed, disease in the form of a great epidemic in 995 assisted Michinaga in his rise to power by killing several of his rivals. In the end, Michinaga succumbed not to an infectious disease but to a condition often associated with modern lifestyles: diabetes. Keep in mind that disease made life terribly hard even for the nobility in the days before modern medicine. The material below is a translation of one section of a Japanese book that examines history through the lens of disease.

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Basic architecture of the Heian-era palace

The world where Sei Shōnagon lived and wrote had an elaborate range of protocols and rules. Especially relevant to MYOM is the way that architecture establishes people’s identities, allocates places for courtiers–both men and women–and also places barriers to direct communication. Here is a schematic model of what the Heian imperial palace looked like–note the veranda.

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Watchfulness and Resourcefulness, 2021

Something that’s easy to forget, especially when reading the Tale of Genji from a modern perspective, is that the characters are rarely “alone”. Though the text may not explicitly indicate this, the main characters we follow are usually accompanied by retainers, servants, and so on. The cast is huge, as befitting a courtly world full of complex family and social relationships. Many “background” characters do a ton of grunt work in propelling the story’s events, bringing news (or gossip); transporting, hiding or impeding people; and so on.

I found that even though a lot of characters appear so briefly, I had a strong sense of them as people, with their own stories. That I was just seeing tiny slices of them. Maybe it’s because of the tale’s framing, that someone’s telling you about all these events with side commentary. Maybe it’s because, more than once, one of these seemingly fleeting mentions reappears later, with a lot more presence. So I came to feel that anybody could easily burst to the forefront of the narrative; it was just a matter of perspective. As I noted before, whenever I browse the Tale of Genji again, I frequently run into people with fits of recognition from the future, because I didn’t pay attention to them the first (or second, or third) time around: “Hey! That guy who appears later, this is him as a kid, singing! I didn’t realize he shows up way before his more narratively-famous brother!!” (Kobai, little brother of the notorious Kashiwagi.) “Oh I didn’t realize this lady appeared so early before I actually noticed her!” (Hanachirusato, who by the time I started paying attention was already living in Genji’s house.)

Obviously I do not have the time nor willpower to depict everyone, though quite a few of the less prominent folks did make it into some of my other illustrations because I love obscure characters. For everyone I didn’t catch, these two images represent all of those wonderful consequential and incidental figures who create the rich fabric that is the Tale of Genji. A world long ago, yet remarkably familiar.

Below the cut are a random smattering of people I thought about as I was working on these pieces. There are, of course, so many more!

These are the third- and second-last illustrations in the Genjimonogatari series - #52 and #53 in a 54-illustration set I’ve been working on intermittently since 2018. Wow, I can’t believe it! Only one more illustration left! The last one will feature a very, very special character.

humangray.com / Print available on INPRNT / Genjimonogatari series

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Re-reading 'how to survive as a villain' and knowing that there's angst, but believing that it won't be as bad the second time around

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Concept art by Chen-Yi Chang and Jean Gillmore for Mulan (1998)

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After trying to find the last of my favorite fan translation’s missing chapters on the wayback machine (and failing and finally giving up) I finally bit the bullet and got the first two books from Rosmei:

A bit pricey but they’re worth it. I’d much rather have physical copies than one day discovering my online copy disappeared overnight.

Aren’t they beautiful??

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TGED fans: *having either Lloyd or Javier as favorite*

Llovier/Llojavi shippers:

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Lloyd is keeping his priorities straight!

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