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And in this year’s Christmas shenanigans: cis white straight men are just learning that Santa in not in fact real and are a bit upset about it 🤣

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Why is the lofiart tag on instagram full of intricately drawn digital art?

Like my idea of lo-fi art is something scribbled in biro on a napkin, not something that took hours on a frickin computer!

Am I missing something? Do I not understand? Am I just really old?

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Dear Omniscient One, please may we swap her out for JKR?

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When a fic gets the angst 100% spot on, chefs kiss, but then the resolution, the happy ending is just... meh 😭😭😭 so frustrating!!!

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Lan Zhan, Lan Wangji, Hanguang-jun took a single look at Wei Wuxian, this strong, badass, seemingly-alpha-coded-looking man, just dripping with power and darkness, with a wicked smirk on his face, death in his eyes and dead women basically clinging to his robes, and said "I'mma top that". And he did.

And you know what? I respect that.

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I love modern AUs where Lan Wangji has pet rabbits, but imagine if they’re crazy mfers like this 🤣

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wei Ying: If I act like a deranged homosexual, I will definitely get banished from the Cloud Recess.

Lan Zhan: I will live off these crumbs for the next 13 years.

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Word.

Can't express how stress free being open minded is.

Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.

Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it's fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they're all working to run.

Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.

Being fat isn't unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.

Something doesn't make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can't figure it out it's cool we still have mysteries today.

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Reading a story which describes someone speaking in "accent-less English" (WTF is that?!) and features a town which has a starbucks but no bus service.

Americans are so weird.

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Thank you, thank you very much

This is my official tumblr coming out 🏳️‍⚧️

Gertrude is still here, but irl I’ve realised that I’m a trans (ftm), so please say hi to Bo @bo-was-here

I'm fine with any pronouns, but anyone who calls me sir will recieve a Snape / LWJ / WWX gif of their choice 😜

thanks weirdos 🖖🏻 🖤🖤🖤

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Hey, hello!

This is my official tumblr coming out 🏳️‍⚧️

Gertrude is still here, but irl I’ve realised that I’m a trans (ftm), so please say hi to Bo @bo-was-here

I'm fine with any pronouns, but anyone who calls me sir will recieve a Snape / LWJ / WWX gif of their choice 😜

thanks weirdos 🖖🏻 🖤🖤🖤

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It's very weird coming out (and just the realisation of being) trans later in life.

Everything is the same but also completely different, a huge shift in perspective, very disorienting. And it is difficult in many ways, and scary, but I can't ignore it anymore.

This is my official tumblr coming out 🏳️‍⚧️

Gertrude is still here, but irl I’ve realised that I’m a trans (ftm), so please say hi to Bo @bo-was-here

I'm fine with any pronouns, but anyone who calls me sir will recieve a Snape / LWJ / WWX gif of their choice 😜

thanks weirdos 🖖🏻 🖤🖤🖤

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Good day

This is my official tumblr coming out 🏳️‍⚧️

Gertrude is still here, but irl I’ve realised that I’m a trans (ftm), so please say hi to Bo @bo-was-here

I'm fine with any pronouns, but anyone who calls me sir will recieve a Snape / LWJ / WWX gif of their choice 😜

thanks weirdos 🖖🏻 🖤🖤🖤

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This is my official tumblr coming out 🏳️‍⚧️

Gertrude is still here, but irl I’ve realised that I’m a trans (ftm), so please say hi to Bo @bo-was-here

I'm fine with any pronouns, but anyone who calls me sir will recieve a Snape / LWJ / WWX gif of their choice 😜

thanks weirdos 🖖🏻 🖤🖤🖤

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Huaisang!!!

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Seconded.

I'd rather see the most beginner, sketchy, awkwardly proportioned Snape art than AI generated images of Snape any day of the week

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100 kudos. Would read.

Rewatched the Howl's Moving Castle movie (fantastic animated movie, definitely inspired by more than an adaptation of the book) while doing something else and I was struck this time by the fact that the Prince (Turniphead the Scarecrow) says that he intends to go tell his king to call off the war, but THEN he intends on COMING BACK to Ingary to shoot his shot with Sophie again because (as he says to the flirtatious Witch of the Wastes) "hearts change".

And maybe he will come back to make Sophie an offer of marriage and then leave again when he's turned down, but I imagined for a moment that the Prince (who is possibly the movie's version of Prince Justin, so let's call him Justin) might just... move back into Howl's house without asking and stay there. There are several cases of precedent for this. Also, as Turniphead, he's shown several times helping Sophie with laundry, or playing with Markl, or helping the Witch of the Wastes move around, and Sophie deserves that kind of help around the house! Howl isn't going to reliably do chores.

And you know what? I think Howl would be into that shit. There's something very Wynne-Jonesian about it all still. It's tempting to write a post-canon fic about this situation from the movie with an extra dash of flavoring from the books. Like:

This is the infamous wizard Howl Pendragon/Jenkins, a vain draft-dodging flirt who likes to build moving castles to evade taxes too. The beautifully angry young woman with the silver hair over there is his wife, Sophie Hatter, who may or may not be an extremely powerful witch, but right now she's dusting and do not get in her way. This is Calcifer, the fire demon who used to have Howl's heart and is arguably his other life partner and also might be in love with Sophie, and this is arguably kind of actually his house. The old lady smoking a cigar over there is Howl's ex-girlfriend and former nemesis, the Witch of the Wastes, who now lives in their house. This is Markl, Howl's apprentice, kind of his kid, and there is no explanation of where he comes from or what happened to his parents. The dog used to be(?) the Royal Wizard's spy (Howl used to be her apprentice and potential successor) but now he also just lives here. And that's Prince Justin of Strangia, Sophie's house-boyfriend. Don't listen to the propaganda, he wasn't kidnapped by a heart-eating wizard; he used to be a cursed scarecrow and now he wants to be here to help Sophie do laundry. He's trying to homewreck and Howl thinks it's both funny and hot.