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Komorebi, a #jingrenheng fic. Now #complete at Chapter 3. Work will be up on #ao3 soon. Do enjoy the read, and share/repost to support the story. Thank you!! #NSFW #jingren #renjing #xingyue #fengxing #fengjing #jingfeng #jingheng #hengjing #renheng #hengren #hsr #fanfic

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Komorebi Chapter 2 of this #jingrenheng fic is up. This will be up in ao3 soon too - as always, all ships are switches, I am just using the most convenient tags. #jingren #renjing #renheng #Jingheng #xingyue #hsr #fic

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Dragon Pattern Scroll - Chapter 13 #dragonpatternscroll #baiyutang #zhanzhao #erya #translation #webnovel #wuxia #detective #mystery

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komorebi the days made of light, and dreams the sun cradles within. Rated E | #NSFW #hsr #fic #jingrenheng #renjing #xingyue #renheng #jingheng (well, its yuejing, more specifically, but they all switch, also jingheng is the usual tag, iirc)

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Komorebi Chapter 1 (1 of 3) | Rated E | #NSFW a #jingrenheng fic, and a past Luofu AU. #renjing (or I should say #xingjing), #xingyue and #fengjing (they all switch btw). I wanted to post on my blog first, but here is the ao3 too -

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66230272/chapters/170728177 #hsr #fic

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Whole Body Is Sweet. This is chapter 2 of the work, and there may be one or two more chapters posted today. #wholebodyissweet #WBS #transmigration #interstellar #webnovel #translation

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The Whole Body Is Sweet. New interstellar transmirgation webnovel translation. jjwxc details, along with original novel link and author links are in the content page of the post. #transmigration #webnovel #translation

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Caihua 彩画 "colour painting" is the traditional Chinese decorative painting used for architecture and one of the most notable and important features of historical Chinese architecture. Caihua served not only as decoration but also protection of the predominantly wooden architecture from various seasonal elements and hid the imperfections of the wood itself.

The use of different colours or paintings would be according to the particular local regional customs, as well as historical periods. The choice of colours and symbology are based on traditional Chinese philosophies like the Five Elements.

One of the most common types is Hexi Caihua 和玺彩画 “Hexi painting” or “Imperial-style decorative painting” which is the royal variation of Caihua. Historically used only on the most important buildings in Chinese palaces.

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Cut porcelain carving 剪瓷雕 is prevalent in the Hokkien architecture of Fujian and Taiwan, and to a lesser extent Vietnamese architecture.

Traditionally, Hokkien porcelain artists would gather small colored porcelain artifacts (such as bowls and other utensils), cut and/or grind them into smaller fragments, and then paste these fragments onto sculptures attached to buildings for the purpose of decoration. The topic of these sculptures may vary - ranging from plants and animals to figures from Chinese mythology or Hokkien folktales

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Chapter 12 - Tan Jin

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Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and Ouyang Shaozheng travelled a long way and finally arrived near the last blacksmith shop.

Ouyang Shaozheng looked at the topographic map of Daofu Town and then at the address, confirming that it was correct. However, this location being a blacksmith shop really confused him. There was a large bamboo forest in front and a…

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fuck these fascists

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

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Ship: Bakugou x Aizawa

Setting: Student x Teacher relationship, can be platonic

When Aizawa is sleep deprived, he often subconsciously seeks out soft and fluffy things like kittens. His love for cats becomes overwhelming when he cannot willfully suppress it. One day however, his mind tricks him. He’s calling out students to pick up their tests and when he hands it over to Baku who got a perfect score, his hand automatically goes out to pat him on the head in congratulations. The entire class goes quiet and Aizawa doesn’t realize what he’s done until he looks down to see Baku looking up at him with wide eyes. He quickly snatches his hand back and calls out the next student. Because if he can ignore the situation hard enough it will go away. Later though, in the privacy of his sleeping bag, Aizawa can feel his hand burning. The feeling of hair as soft as a kitten has been seared into his skin. He does his best to ignore it. But everyone hears about it and Midnight and Mic are nudging him with their elbows until he runs away from them. Even Nedzu comes up to him and offers his own head for Aizawa to pat. This unfortunately isn’t a one off thing as Aizawa is constantly tired and his hand will act like it has a mind of its own and reach out to pat Baku on the head when he does something good. This actually has a positive effect on Baku’s behavior, so now the other teachers are trying to give him head pats too. Baku hates it. (he loves it)

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While we're talking about how triggers aren't one size fits all, can we also talk about how sometimes they're just plain stupid??

I can read, write, and watch rape scenes with minor discomfort, but a dubcon drunk makeout scene in a TV14 show made me shut down and turned me off of the show for a month because it reminded me of something that happened to me.

I can watch gore, body horror, and slashers galore with no problem, but watching people slice loaves of bread with razor blades on Bake Off made me feel sick because it reminded me of my own self harm.

Does it make sense? No. But that's just how it is for me. No two traumas are the same, and it's so selfish to think that someone exploring something traumatic in fiction, in any way, is a reflection of you and your situation.

You own what happened to you, but you don't have a monopoly on trauma lmao. You don't get to dictate how people write about these things. And you don't get to decide who is and isn't valid based on how they explore difficult topics in FICTION.

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looking forward to this!!!

We'll post more info on the event soon! Stay tuned!

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So in the past few years I’ve seen so many videos / posts that are like:

“Actually wolves don’t have hierarchies!  They live in family groups where the ‘alphas’ are mom and dad and the other wolves are their CHILDREN and offer their respect willingly! :D”

and I just have to say

how dare you try to make normative nuclear families out of wolves

Yes, a lot of the old “nature red in tooth and claw” stuff about wolves is nonsense. (Like anything from Jack London.) And anything ‘alpha’ you see sleazy men trying to relate to dating (yikes!) is especially nonsense.

But wolves are complex social creatures and they create complex social structures. Just as you can’t say “THIS is the way human society is structured. Just THIS single way and no other”, so too there is no single form for a wolf pack.  

Some packs are a mom wolf and a dad wolf and their wolf children.  Others are two small ragged packs that combine to form a large pack.  Others are packs where a lone wolf joins and eventually becomes a leader. Others are packs where a grown child-wolf has pushed their parent out of the leadership role.

Speaking of the latter, let’s look at the tale of Wolf 40 and Wolf 42.

Wolf 40, Wolf 41, and Wolf 42 were wild Yellowstone wolves, daughters of the alphas. Their father was illegally killed by hunters and shortly after ambitious Wolf 40 ousted her mother, driving her out of the pack.  Wolf 21 became the new alpha male, and 40′s mate.

Wolves have personalities, and Wolf 40′s personality was “volatile”.  Imagine Scar from The Lion King combined with the boss from Office Space, and you have Wolf 40.  She habitually bullied the other female wolves, attacking them until they expressed abject submission.  And the wolves that got the worst of it were her sisters, Wolves 41 and 42.

Wolf 41 got tired of the bullying and left.  Wolf 42 remained, perhaps because she was close to Wolf 21, the alpha male.  Despite that, Wolf 21 did not interfere when his mate harassed Wolf 42.

Unlike 40, Wolf 42 got along well with the other female wolves, spending time grooming them and relaxing with them. Wolf 40 could have followed her sister’s example and built up positive social bonds. But she didn’t.

One day, Wolf 40 went out on an important task.  She was going to kill another litter of her sister’s pups–having done the same in two previous years.  This isn’t uncommon wolf behavior (but is not universal, as we will see.)  Typically only the alphas breed.

However, Wolf 40 never returned from her important task because Wolf 42–who previously had submitted to her alpha and sister, who had allowed the killing of two previous litters of pups–had had enough.  She fought back.

And the other female wolves jumped to aid her.

Collectively, they killed Wolf 40. Because “alpha” isn’t a magic cloak of protection, it doesn’t even mean “strongest wolf”, it’s just a job title.

The next day Wolf 42 carried her pups, one by one, to her sister’s den.  She set her children among the pups of her dead sister and raised both litters together. And when another wolf in the pack had pups, Wolf 42 carried them to the den to be communally raised as well.  She was the alpha female now and she made the rules, and the first rule was “we don’t hurt pups here.”

As for Wolf 21, he became the mate of Wolf 42.  Maybe he understood that Wolf 40 had been riding for a fall. 

As alpha female, Wolf 42 continued to be supportive and kind towards the other pack members.  Wolves who had been nervous wrecks under Wolf 40 began to relax and come into their own; one of the former omega wolves gained self-confidence and became one of the best hunters.

“Alpha”, for wolves, just means leader.  They might be good leaders, whom you respect, or they might be bad leaders, who fill you with dread.  They might be your parents, or they might not.  Even if they are your mother or father, wolves don’t contextualize those relationships the same way humans do.

But one thing wolves have in common with humans is that they have individual personalities and experiences, and their actions derive from those.  There is no “typical wolf pack.” And I think that’s beautiful.

If you want to learn more about wild wolf dynamics, I recommend reading the annual Yellowstone Wolf Project Reports.  Which are FASCINATING.  There are also some good wildlife specials out there.

Wolves are my favorite animal. <3  It pains me to see them misunderstood as crazed bloodthirsty brutes, but it also pains me to see them woobified.  They deserve better than that.

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Bodily autonomy, for those unfamiliar with the concept:

Even if life begins at conception, the law has no business making abortions illegal.

Let’s say I have a child who is … let’s say 20 years old. Let’s suppose that my 20 year old child needs a partial liver transplant, and I am the only match. There is an argument of moral obligation, sure, but if I choose not to partially donate my own liver (they grow back! it’s not like a kidney), that is not illegal.

Let’s say I’m DEAD, but did not consent to being an organ donor while I was alive. Guess what? 20 year old child is still not getting that liver. That’s because my DEAD BODY has rights.

You can be the sole person that can keep another person alive by using a part of your body that won’t harm you by giving it away. (Your blood or your bone marrow for instance.) You can choose not to give that part of your body to keep that other person alive. The law does not get a say in this decision. That’s because you have a right to bodily autonomy.

So, should a human in possession of a uterus have less rights than a corpse, or should a fetus have more rights than any other human being?