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this performance has been blowing up on xiaohongshu, and honestly I need to share it here. when I say the first time I watched this I SCREAMED- like sure it's inspired by yue opera, sure chen lijun is playing a man and it's desperately heterocoded as hell- but two women? singing and performing together in a somewhat romantic context? YES PLEASE.

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Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

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[ID: gifs from the 22nd episode of the series "Mysterious Lotus Casebook." Fang Duobing says to Li Lianhua, looking outraged, "You had a beautiful woman in your arms, so you forgot about our important moon-viewing date!" Li Lianhua shuts his eyes and taps between his eyebrows to soothe a headache. /end ID]

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The gang.

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a soundtrack playlist + anniversary quiz by shade_nightwalker

shade_nightwalker compiled every song used in dS (or at least those that are available on YT) into a convenient playlist for whenever you need to return to the soundtrack.

Plus, the new quiz is up—it's 30 questions, anniversary edition, and very fun.

Enjoy!

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Well this was a fun timetravel exercise, thanks op! Hooboy 2014 right? I‘m trying to go with similar subject matter.

1 Portraits (in this case both in pastels)

2 Pose studies in different media, but went from ballet/dancing/figure skating to wuxia heroes. Also, I started doing Inktober in 2017 and it has made all the difference in my ink work.

3 Backgrounds - are still a thing I only do for challenges or exchanges, but I‘d never have attempted something complicated like on the right ten years ago.

Like @epikhightechnology I experiment a lot more now, have discovered the joys of toned paper (see pastel portrait) and am trying to push myself to work outside of my comfort zone (backgrounds).

The 10 year art tag!!

Thought it'd be fun to start a little art challenge here! This isn't a super original concept (actually saw a couple people on other places do something similar recently) but it sounded fun anyway lol

If you're an artist and see this, reblog this (or create another post, whichever you'd prefer) with an artwork from 10 years ago next to a recent one to show your progress!

I think we as artists can often feel we're not getting anyway until we see our older art and realise that we have actually improved a lot!

Also then feel free to tag some other artists so we can spread the love <3 (no set number of people you have to tag btw, you can do as many or as few as you'd like!)

(side note, if you don't have any art specifically from 10 years ago then just go with the oldest works you have lol!)

These two pieces were made almost exactly 10 years apart, and I honestly do still really like the 2014 one, though definitely prefer that my art has become a lot more expressive and emotive over time!

Tagging (no pressure to do it of course!!!): @yeollbae @aerialworms @iroismart @all-or-nothing-baby @mayarab @reddoll123 & any other artist who sees this and wants to do it lol!!!!

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Throwback to when I first watched Nirvana in Fire and the translation called the jianghu the "pugilist world" and all the martial artists were "pugilists." Technically correct. Interesting choice. Anyway, Mei Changsu deserves a dog.

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“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

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no but really, like 

i know that some folks love telling creative people that “you should be doing it for fun because you love it not for the compliments” but creative people thrive on feedback whether it’s critical or just complimentary

so when i write fanfiction and don’t get any actual feedback i feel like i spent all that time and energy doing it for nothing because i’m not getting feedback from the people i wrote it for 

doing something you’re proud of and then presenting it to the sound of utter silence is like the worst feeling on earth 

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i know that it's at partly just that i do not generally post when i ride, but fang duobing, bounciest boy on the screen at all times, posting incredibly dramatically, is very funny and charming to me. he really wakes up and is like 'fuck yeah, every day is leg day, work them thighs!'

like, sir. please. you're gonna die. how far are you riding. how can you possibly sustain that, you cannot, it is impossible. how will you walk when you get off that horse. your thighs will be of steel, by which i mean utterly incapable of moving.

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Here's a Poison Ivy commission I recently drew, which I really liked!

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Solid advice!

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The blueberry tart moral quandary has been very fun to ponder! Thank you for sharing it with us. I think the real question, however, is what each of your animals would think about ordering two slices of tart under the circumstances

You're right, that IS the true question here. Let's situate this in a universe where blueberry tart is safe & delicious to eat for all animal species.

CHICKENS. The chickens would definitely want that second helping of tart because chickens live in a solipsistic moral universe and would hesitate to share tart even if it was their dying sister's last wish. However if you place two slices of tart on the ground for 2 chickens, they will immediately and violently start fighting each other over the same slice, thus giving you the opportunity to discreetly retrieve the first slice for yourself. Moreover, if a chicken manages to break off half of the slice and starts running like hell to go eat it elsewhere in peace, the other chicken will take off after her instead of eating the other half happily by herself. If they then break this half in two while fighting over it, they will resume fighting over that half of the half, allowing you to retrieve 3/4 of the second slice. And so on. This is Zeno's paradox applied to chickens and tart: the hens will spend the rest of eternity fighting over diminishing crumbs while you get almost all of the second slice back (albeit broken in increasingly minuscule halves.)

CATS. Not only would the cats want that second slice regardless of who else wants it, they would also sit & start grooming themselves on the rest of the pie with great serenity, rendering it inedible for anyone else. However, my original post established that the pies were under large bell jars. Two of my three cats are (to their everlasting torment) stymied by this sadistic human invention. If the bell jar is heavy enough that you can't push it off the table (a popular strategy), then Mascarille and Merricat will just circle it a few times, ram their faces into the glass, do a full body swipe against it in case this might open a secret door, and then walk away in frustration. Morille on the other hand is a cat possessed of extreme patience, diabolical intelligence and acute interest in forbidden food. She will get the tart no matter how long she has to lie in wait.

DOG. Pandolf would not want a second slice or even a first one, if he is made to understand that this might make other people sad. The thing with Pandolf is, he can smell disappointment. His great big nose picks up on every particle of human disappointment in the air and they go straight to his heart. He is also too polite to even defend his bone from thieving chickens. There's no way he would claim any tart at all unless someone gave it to him and made it clear they would be happy for him to eat it. However Pandolf is very cute when he sits there with a lolling tongue, happy for others to have a good time, and there is also no way one or several persons wouldn't give him their slice of tart. He would definitely end up with tart.

LLAMAS. Pampelune is the matriarch and since her duties involve dying to protect her herd in case of predator attacks, she considers it her prerogative to eat first and as much as she damn pleases in compensation. She would get two slices. I believe Poldine would choose to have only one slice and kiss everyone in the restaurant on the cheek for good measure, and I also believe she would actually get zero tart. As shown in the salt video, Poldine understands her place in the pasture hierarchy (the one who eats last) and has to resort to subterfuge to get even 1 lick of salt while others are gorging themselves. She will be very dependent on other people's temperance and decency to get any tart (so, Pandolf is her best bet.) Meanwhile Pampérigouste is trying to figure out how to escape the restaurant undetected to go on an adventure while the sheeple are talking about tart. She will get one or two or three slices but only if they can facilitate her various stratagems (for example, to bribe a guard at the door.)

The FISH—do not have the cognitive abilities to worry about morals but more importantly, do not experience soul-deep desires in the way the birds and mammals in this list do. My fish live in a smooth and quiet world where the gods make food rain from the sky every day. In this luminescent existence of untroubled abundance their capacity for longing has atrophied. They do not understand what wanting tart means, let alone the complex philosophical agonies humans can put themselves through when faced with culinary conundrums.

DONKEY. Pirlouit's first instinct would be to claim all the tart he can eat and then some. However donkeys and fish sit at opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum; Pirlouit strikes me as an animal who would be interested in exploring the ethical ramifications of the issue, as an intellectual exercise. 70% of his life consists in quiet deep ponderings. I think Pirlouit could get distracted ruminating the blueberry tart quandary in light of the rich philosophical heritage of donkey civilisation, and arrive too late to get any tart by the time he determined whether one or two slices is the right answer. Kind of like that time he got distracted by his need for revenge and was late for breakfast and the llamas had already claimed the hay.

IN CONCLUSION.

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