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—Langston Hughes

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jiang cheng as aparna nancherla tweets

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sometimes an evening is just *practices chinese* *goes on tumblr as a break between chinese and another task* *sees mxtx stuff and gets really excited about learning chinese* *practices chinese* *goes on tumb-

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I love lan xichen… Guy who appears normal and put together on the surface but is upon closer observation so transparently dysfunctional that sometimes you have to be like dog how are you alive

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The Untamed + r/AmITheAsshole, part 1/?

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One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

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Hanging out alone on ur bedroom floor doing some sort of handicraft is really one of the purest aspects of young adulthood

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I think my favorite thing about 3zun is that all three of them are actively trying to make 3zun work, but because they all have completely different worldviews and circumstances, the harder they try the more they push each other away. It's a microcosm of some of the themes of the novel and I love it

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Mdzs: every major character has a surname and two first names

Me: okay that’s a bit much but I can handle it

Tgcf: EVERY CHARACTER HAS TWO E N T I R E NAMES GOOD FUCKING LUCK LMAO

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XiYao + text posts

do you know how hard it was to find posts that would fit xichen? my dash is apparently just way too chaotic for that shit

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Wei Wuxian: *sits on the table with Lan Yi's probably sacred heirloom guqin*

Lan Wangji, without saying a word: Could You Not

The Untamed episode six

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Lan Zhan, farewell. 

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The EPUB on my phone is 7500 pages

Every day I go on tumblr, I see tgcf art, I take one tiny step closer to reading tgcf

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Well I’m starting it. There goes my month probably

Every day I go on tumblr, I see tgcf art, I take one tiny step closer to reading tgcf

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Every day I go on tumblr, I see tgcf art, I take one tiny step closer to reading tgcf

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there’s hyperfixating on the untamed and then there’s hyperfixating on the untamed so much you get a sub-hyperfixation of intensively studying chinese

anyway it’s been about 3 weeks and i’m slowly rewatching the untamed while rotating through 3-4 actual chinese learning resources and i’m delighted to say that i can understand like every tenth word someone says, except wen ruohon, who talks very slowly and uses very simple words, and i can understand almost everything he says because apparently he talks to his underlings (aka every character he ever speaks to) as if they are toddlers