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Did you ever just feel so lucky for knowing someone you met online? Like.. I was one click away from not following you. I was one second away from never even knowing of your existence.I would never have been this happy!!!...

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first word from peepaw in months and its this

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some messy slaine drawings, inspired by @fabelyn fic ‘In Carcere’, plus tried out his disguise coloring.

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congrats jdj on beating the pairing that invented slash fiction in the 2023 yaoi-off on tumblr dot com 🎉

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My name is Maarva Carassi Andor. I’m honored to stand before you. I’m honored to be a Daughter of Ferrix, and honored to be worthy of the stone. Strange, I… feel as if I can see it. I was six, I think, first time I touched a funerary stone. Heard our music, felt our history. Holding my sister’s hand as we walked all the way from Fountain Square. Where you stand now, I’ve been more times than I can remember.

I always wanted to be lifted. I was always eager, always waiting to be inspired. I remember every time it happened, every time the dead lifted me… With their truth. And now I’m dead. And I yearn to lift you. Not because I want to shine or even be remembered. It’s because I want you to go on. I want Ferrix to continue. In my waning hours, that’s what comforts me most. But I fear for you. We’ve been sleeping.

We’ve had each other, and Ferrix, our work, our days. We had each other, and they left us alone. We kept the trade lanes open, and they left us alone. We took their money and ignored them, we kept their engines churning, and the moment they pulled away, we forgot them. Because we had each other. We had Ferrix. But we were sleeping. I’ve been sleeping. And I’ve been turning away from the truth I wanted not to face.

There is a wound that won’t heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here, and it’s not visiting anymore.  It wants to stay. The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep.

It’s easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it’s true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it’s too late. But I’ll tell you this… If I could do it again, I’d wake up early and be fighting these bastards… from the start.

Fight the Empire!

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we talk about akechi going “feral” during third semester battles, but we don’t talk about how he is actually extremely busy flirting and being worried about joker the whole time

snippets from here

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My (late) entry to #YeXiuShipWeek2022

Based on Mythril's Zhouye Pacific Rim AU Modesty Reflex

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i couldn't think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle

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Fanart for Mythril’s lovely fic “Penguin Day Out”. 

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these lines were so sweet n corny but i kept thinking WAS HE EMBARRASSED ??? ? ?

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«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021

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https://bookshop.org/

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References and Allusions to Male Same-Sex Relations in Chinese Literature

I am tired at this point of reading and watching Danmei/Dangai and be exposed to the same “cut sleeve” reference to allude to male same-sex attraction and relationships.

Don’t get me wrong, I thank the creative team and the writers for finding such a unique (?) way of bypassing censorship but there are so many more literary and historical references that they could use to allude to same-sex attraction. I’m kinda over the same old “Cut Sleeve” reference. 😖

Here are some of the most popular allusions used by writers in Chinese literature to reference male same-sex desire.

The Four Male Love Icons of Chinese Literature

I’m pretty sure that, if you are into Chinese history, folk, literature, etc, you have heard of the four beauties of ancient and imperial China. You have the four most beautiful Chinese women and the four most handsome Chinese men.

The same thing is true for the tradition of male same-sex love. Those are:

Mizi Xia (彌子瑕) and Duke Ling of Wey (衛靈公)

Lord Longyang (龍陽君) and King Anxi of Wei (魏安僖王）

Prince Zixi, Lord of È (鄂君子皙), and the Yue man (越人)

Emperor Ai of Han (漢哀帝) and Dong Xian (董賢)

Other literary allusions include:

Pan Zhang (潘章) and Wang Zhongxian (王仲先)

Lord Chan of Anling (安陵君) and King Xuan of Chu (楚宣王）

Hu Tian Bao (胡天保) as Tu’er Shen (兔兒神)

The four revered bottoms of Chinese literature and history are:

Mizi Xia (彌子瑕)

Longyang (龍陽君)

Dong Xian (董賢)

Chan (纏), Lord of Anling (安陵君)

If you ever come across a poem or prose that mentions any of those names to refer to a male beauty, just know that it’s an allusion to their stories. They were considered the peak of bottom literary reference.

The Passion of the Half-Eaten Peach (餘桃癖) 🍑

Keep reading

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seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

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Can’t afford the actual chair, can only draw  🙃

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クリタワラハ　スケッチ

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So you like Star Wars… BUT. it’s time for more sci-fi

you want to try something else with Similar Vibes: A Books, TV, Film and Graphic Novels rec list

Please note: these are deliberately picking out slightly less-often-recommended series that are easier to miss

Books If you like… weird Force lore, military sci-fi, interrogations of empire (plus central trans, nonbinary, genderfucky main characters) Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee If you like… found family, banter, dubiously legal crews who are nevertheless doing the right thing (plus sapphic romance and queer worldbuilding) The Salvagers Series by Alex White

If you like… funny droids trying to keep their mischievous masters alive, technology with a sense of humor (plus aspec/agender protag) The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

If you like… chosen ones who aren’t totally happy about it, complex inherited and ancestral memory (plus sapphic romance) The Deep by Rivers Solomon

If you like… inherited magics that aren’t totally understood, culture clash, space travel Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

If you like… ethical questions about the complexities of a Galaxy with many sentient beings, plus quiet romance A Long way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

If you like… weird space religious orders, biological ships, secrets of the depths of space Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather General b-list if you like… coreworld vs outer rim politics, space opera worldbuilding, various gay shit Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston, The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, The Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliot

+1 Graphic Novel If you like… epic starscapes, the eerie loneliness of space, ruins and relics On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

TV shows If you like… bounty hunters, normal dudes getting wrapped up in immortal drama, fart jokes (plus wildly queer cast of characters) Killjoys If you like… meandering slice of life character drama with coherent worker-centric politics Cowboy Bebop

If you like… lots of puppets, compelling and galaxy-sweeping romances, bondage gear as props Farscape Movies If you like… alien vibes, mystical powers, family struggle Jupiter Ascending If you like… grungy urban aliens, scenes in Coruscant underworld The Fifth Element If you like… ruminations on legacy and the fight to make a better world Tron Legacy