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me in five years when i still don’t have my life together:

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Soooo nobody is going to ask him about the BLOOD POOL?

Why? How? When? What?

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do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

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My review of The Apothecary Diaries 3 volumes in is that Maomao is on par with Katniss Everdeen when it comes to understanding political dynamics and her special interest perfectly but being a completely unreliable narrator in regards to understanding that the people around her care about her as a person.

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I was compelled by some sort of curse maybe to do nothing but make this for the past day and a half.

@reliqvia tagging op because it wouldn't let me put videos in the reblog

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doing my part by being in my 20s and not getting married HOLD THE LINE

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He's about to ruin this whole man's career

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@sun-ashes @xiaokuer-schmetterling @maelstrom-of-emotions

Thinking about the soulmate modern au you made but focusing specifically on the part about Wei Ying giving Jiang Cheng his kidney cause I've spiraled into an au where Wei Ying is adopted to be the 'Savior/donor Sibling' for his brother. Imagine Yu Ziyuan gives birth to a sickly Jiang Cheng and she pressures Jiang Fengmian to find a way to fix it and some shady doctor suggests the Jiangs get pregnant with a donor sibling but Yu Ziyuan refuses to go through another pregnancy so this doctor suggests the Jiangs adopt a kid who can be one and they are that rich, powerful and influential enough that they can do some back alley testing on orphans from a variety of different orphanages and it takes a few years but they finally find a match in Wei Ying. A 5 year old boy who'd been orphaned after watching his parents die in a car accident. His adoption is made into a public spectacle where the Jiangs are framed as being benevolent and kind for taking in such an unfortunate child.

But it's drilled into Wei Ying even from a young age by everyone around him that he is indebted to the Jiangs and giving parts of himself away to help his brother is 'the least he could do'.

He's not allowed to play sports cause he might get injured, and Jiang Cheng needs him to be healthy and ready. He's not allowed to have friends outside of the family because Yu Ziyuan didn't want to risk him getting into the bad crowd and start "smoking and drinking like the delinquent child he is." Jiang Fengmian does nothing to limit Wei Ying, but he also does nothing with his wife's attempts to do so.

Blood, bone marrow, liver. He gives and gives.

"Open the toolbox and take what you need!" he told the doctors with a toothy grin as if it was just a game.

The eventuality of Jiang Cheng needing a kidney transplant is unsaid but still hangs in the air like a hangman's noose. When it finally happens, Wei Ying wakes up after the surgery, groggy and in pain to see Jiang Yan li by his bedside. Tears running down her face because she'd been so scared. There had been complications on Wei Ying's part during the surgery and while her parents hadn't reacted to the news, she herself had started trembling at the thought of losing one sibling for the other.

So she apologizes. Through muffled tears, with her face buried into Wei Ying's side, asking to be forgiven for a fault that was not her own. After all, what was she supposed to do in the face of her mother's indignation and fury? Was she supposed to take one brother far away while the other laid dying in his own bed?

But Wei Ying's own heart aches seeing the pain he's causing her. So, on his third day of lying in his hospital bed, doing nothing but listening to his only visitor cry when she thought he was asleep, he decides.

On the fourth day, after visiting Jiang Cheng, she makes her way to her other little brothers room only to find it empty with fresh sheets laid out and pulled tight at the sides. She's told by a nurse that, at 18 years old, Wei Ying was legally allowed to discharge himself even if it was AMA, but he had left Jiang Yanli a note before he left. Then the nurse scurries away to do her work before Yanli can even react.

Imagine Wei Ying stumbling as he walks to nowhere. Nothing on him except for a duffle bag filled with the few possessions he'd brought with him to the hospital. Imagine he stops by a cafe because the pain is too much and, by serendipity, is found by Wen Ning, who was working as a barista at the same cafe. Who sees past Wei Ying's smiles to notice the sweat beading on his pale skin. The grimace he fails to hold back when he tries to straighten up in his seat. Without hesitation, Wen Ning tells his boss that he needs to go home even as he hears the man throw threats of unemployment in his direction. Wen Ning simply says nothing as he helps Wei Ying walk to a cab that neither of them can afford, already waiting outside.

Wen Qing isn't pleased to be woken up after a 24-hour shift at the hospital, but she can never say no to her little brother. Especially when he brings home a stray who urgently needs her medical expertise. Though she doesn't hold back from verbally berating the stranger when she finds his fresh surgical scars because what was the idiot thinking???

Imagine Wei Ying staying with them for weeks. Healing under threat of violence from Wen Qing should he try to leave. Imagine him planning to work to repay their kindness but somehow finds himself staying permanently when the little boy living with them asks him to come to his kindergarten talent show to watch him dance. Imagine Wei Ying being the one to show up to parent teacher conferences because Wen Qing unfortunately has work, and Wen Ning is busy with his college courses. Imagine Wei Ying being the one to help little A-Yuan with his homework. The one to tell him bedtime stories. The one to look after him when he gets chicken pox.

Imagine one day the little boy falls asleep curled up on his lap and Wei Ying finally realizes that he can't leave. That for once he felt needed but not for what he can give but for simply just being himself.

Imagine, with Wen Ning's encouragement, he starts taking online courses at the same university. Studying what he actually wants instead of the course that had been decided for him so he could look after Jiang Cheng.

One day, he has to hand in an assignment, and the TA is an old high school friend he didn't think he'd ever seen again. Lan Zhan, on his part, never thought he'd ever reunite with an old crush that is starting to bubble back to the surface the second their eyes met. Both of them have lost the shackles that held them back from fully living their lives. But the question is, are they actually willing to chase what they want and recognize they deserve to be loved for who they are.

Just lots of angst, ok!

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anybody out there hiring gay losers. ideally a 100k/year salary and i work for one hour every day when i feel like it. thanks

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Underneath the bridge, drifting through the river’s end;

Two lovers met.

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Children's books author Wei Wuxian (alias Mo Xuanyu) that writes books explaining grief, loss, adoption and gay marriage to children. Editor Lan Wanji who edits the books, greatly admires the author and would like to get to know the man better but doesn't want to be unprofessional, and so he just buys the books for his son, A-Yuan.

Also preschool teacher Wei Wuxian who takes ideas for his books from the questions his kids ask him. And parent Lan Wanji who is constantly being pushed to meet someone by his family so A-Yuan can have another parent (LWJ works a lot and Xichen and Lan Qiren are worried be will burn out). And kid A-Yuan who absolutely adores his preschool teacher and wonders why he can't just marry his dad.

Cue to WWX writing a book explaining single parenthood to children and why they may feel attached to their teachers/want them to be their families, LWJ connecting the dots and asking him out, and A-Yuan being extremely pleased this worked out as he intended.

A year later WWX writes a children's book about adapting to a new parent and a parenting book about how to do so. Not that he experienced any of the problems written in there: his child practically matchmaked him.

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I caved, ok? Is that what people want to hear?? I fucking caved. I thought y'all were exaggerating. I thought it was subtle. But by God those firefighters were eye fucking by the second episode-

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Every night at eleven I have to choose between enjoying the sweet embrace of slumber or staying up late to do something enriching and fun that I wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to do. And every night at eleven I take the secret third option of “doing nothing on my phone until one in the morning.”

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The La Clan experience is that everyone except maybe Lakan and Loumen thinks everyone else is the weird one and they're the only normal ones. Y'all are just all autistic!!

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it took me two whole weeks to create this illustration... do you think it was worth it? 😂 a small tribute to the finale of the second act of arcane and one of my favorite scenes from the series. even now, i feel like crying every time i rewatch that final scene.. poor isha 🥺