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Icelandic traditional clothing

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xiao jiu but he was never alone 🐈

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Today's Seal Is: Gossiping

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There’s a fic with this concept too :D

Shen Qingqiu Omodoki Doll 20cm Proud Immortal Demon Way (2233 words) by bunnyiling Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu Characters: Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu Additional Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff, Fluff and Crack, Humor, Plushies, Comedy, Established Relationship, Established Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu Summary: After unlocking the System's Official Store feature, Shen Qingqiu is able to purchase a cute plushie of the character Shen Qingqiu for Luo Binghe as a gift. He just didn't expect Luo Binghe to look so adorable taking care of that plushie as if it were his own child.

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A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

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Luo Bingge: believes he deserves happiness and makes it everyone's problem

Shen Jiu: believes he doesn't deserve happiness and makes is everyone's problem

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Nest of Pikachu by Diane Özdamar

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2nd Age Middle Earth thought: We know Sauron is a fan of long-range psychological attacks as he besieges a city. Do you think after 400 years of getting to know the people of Ost-in-Edhil, they were personal? Like, it’s not just Sauron camped on a nearby hill weaving a spell of fear and despair into the dark clouds that now flow out over your city, setting fell whispers loose in your dreams. It’s Sauron whom you once told, while tipsy at a Yule party 200 years ago, that you were still frightened of dogs after an incident in your childhood, or that you never felt like you’d truly lived up to your mother’s expectations, or… And now the Song he’s woven of hopeless terror has notes that sound like the howling of hungry hounds, or your mother’s disparaging sigh, or... And he’s doing that to everyone at once with all their different private doubts and fears.

Annatar: a great friend in that he’s an active listener, very good at remembering your favorite tea to drink when you’re down, or the book you mentioned reading to discuss with you a year later. Also, unfortunately, Sauron.

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500kg

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Tajik woman, Tajikistan, by nissorphotography

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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Today's Seals Are: Not What They're Called

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Anyhow, Cang Qiong Mountain hadn’t lost too much face. But no matter whether their past relationship had been good or bad, the peak lords absolutely had to come and express proper sentiments. Shen Qingqiu calmly received their greetings and used the chance to learn the faces of several peak lords he hadn’t yet met, while also taking the opportunity to make some small talk and strengthen his relationships. That night, he was on cloud nine as he thought: Finally, I can have a peaceful night’s sleep. (...)

He’d definitely just been drunk on satisfied smiles, comfortably sinking into sleep on his bed—so could someone explain why he’d been dragged into this space?! ch3 favor points

he's such a fucking extrovert. he LIKES making small talk and socializing

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Horse breed of the day: Castillian

Height: 14 -15hh

Common coat colors: Predominantly grey

Place of origin: Spain

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What should the Shens relationship start out as?

Shen Yuan is fairly easy: he would be motivated by an opportunity to meddle in Qing Jing (make a happier environment for the protagonist!) regardless of whether he is attached to SJ yet.

For Shen Jiu though, it makes more of a difference what exactly his motivation for teaming up with SY would be.

Option 1, they are siblings already.

This could be a double transmigration where Shen Jiu is reborn as one of SY’s conveniently blank slate siblings. Has good potential for SVSSS style meta stuff, if they both know about the modern world and about the novel.

In this case, I might spice it up with egg SJ being reborn as the little sister instead of a big brother ;)

Option 2, alliance of convenience that ends up with them growing attached.

This could be kicked off with dimensional travel. SJ (plus probably some other PIDW peak lords) temporarily spend time in the SVSSS timeline. SJ is seething at this apparently amnesiac version of him that is so well-liked and successful, but then he realises what is going on! If this SQQ isn’t a version of him and isn’t possessed either, then clearly this must be a long lost twin brother standing in for him.

SJ sets off to find his own timeline’s version of his “twin”. A, if his twin is in the public eye, then his twin can’t secretly take his place as peak lord. B, he saw how effective his people skills are, and wants to take advantage of them. This then leads him to freshly transmigrated SY.

You know what would be fun? A Shen family fic where Shen Jiu is invoking the fix-it premise on purpose ;)

Shen Jiu wants to fix his reputation for Reasons (maybe post-canon SJ doing a redo), but naturally he is not going to do this the hard way and actually address the problems. So instead he recruits Shen Yuan as a likeable didi accomplice for sympathy points.

Could be pure silliness or more serious, depending on how well SJ does at the ‘avoiding addressing the actual problems’ part XD