#Dexter Feng

[bonknigirlinthehood]

yingxing is way too hot >~< u have no idea how much hcs & fic ideas i have for him and his daughter (mostly angst ofc) ugh we need more old men in this game no way we only have him and welt 😔

I am the type of person who only scrolls through my Tumblr notifs for a split second, hereby I tend to miss a lot of asks in my inbox lol I'm sorry 😔

BUT YES YINGXING IS HOT (caps intended) like yes Blade is hot but Yingxing is just on a whole different level. Long White hair? Above 40? Has wrinkles? Has a divine (old men) body??? THAT is just the perfect recipe. I also have a lot of angsty scenarios involving Yx and his dotter (including Dan Feng) but sometimes i only have energy to create it in my head and cry myself to sleep. Though most of the time I think about Yingxing who one night got drunk, then he found someone who looks a lot like Dan Feng and they just sorta have a one night stand (listen if I were that person I won't even think twice if this old man were to fuck me) And then she just, got pregnant (duh). Maybe she wanted to tell Yingxing about it but she found out about his relationship with the high elder...and just backed off. Then only a few years after giving birth she passed away to illness and the commission found out the daughter belonged to Yingxing...

Now here's the catch, the daughter KNOWS Yingxing is her father, but she's been told that she should never bother him because well, he's a pretty famous person and she's just an illegitimate child.

Though eventually Baiheng finds out about it (after all who can miss a kid who looks like a carbon copy of child Yx, not in front of the person who raised him, at least) and she confronts Yingxing about it. This man obv doesn't remember, but he's willing to take responsibility. The problem is, his daughter seems very reluctant to live together with him, oftentimes just removing herself from any situation that has a lot of people involved.

But she loves making accessories!, Like, she definitely inherited Yingxing's dexterous hands because all the accessories she's been made are very beautiful. She is just very shy to show it to anyone😔.

Oh and another scenario about this is that on Yx birthday, his daughter wanted to gift him a hair accessory but he already got one that has his home planet flowers. She immediately felt discouraged and canceled the plan of giving the gift to him :( but don't worry Yingxing found out about it and wore the accessory.

[dangermousie]

If Lost You Forever characters had favorite TV shows.

Xiao Yao: Dora the Explorer

Cang Xuan: The Borgias

Xiang Liu: Spartacus

Tushan Jing: Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman

Feng Long: Cherry Magic

A’Nian: Clueless

Xin Yue: The Gilded Age

Fanfeng Yiying: Dexter

Toushan Hou: Succession

[ao3feed-fengqing]

Dexterity and Distraction

by armyoftoads Feng Xin knew Mu Qing was proficient at many things and that was probably what this entire situation had stemmed from.  See, Mu Qing was good with his hands - great in fact, phenomenal even.  Anything his hands did, they did well and Feng Xin took notice. Feng Xin had been obsessed with Mu Qing’s hands for a very long time now.  It had all started well before they had ascended, when they had both been attendants for Xie Lian. He first took notice of them when Mu Qing had been braiding Xie Lian’s hair for a banquet, hands and fingers moving swiftly as he softly chatted away about Xie Lian’s schedule for the day.  Across the room, Feng Xin’s eyes kept drifting towards Mu Qing's long fingers as they wove Xie Lian’s hair into complicated patterns, fastening the pieces into an ornamental style, and finishing off the updo with pins and a shining hair piece. It made Feng Xin uncomfortable at the time, inclining him to shift around until his skin didn’t feel so tight.  Now, he knew better. -- For Day 3 of FengQin Week - Competence kink Words: 8007, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Feng Xin (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Relationships: Feng Xin/Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Feng Xin & Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Additional Tags: Getting Together, Competence Kink, but honestly, Hand & Finger Kink, it did not start out that way, but then that's what it became, Character Study, Feng Xin and Mu Qing Being Idiots (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Feng Xin goes through it for 800 years, Hand Jobs, Hair Braiding, FengQing Week 2024 (Tian Guan Ci Fu) via https://ift.tt/BEsn9C7

[spriteofmushrooms]

Please nominate characters for the incredibly stupid event I want to run, The Annual & Eternal Allcheng Completionist Run Any% Event. Here's the random roll 2d10 table so far:

01 Jar Jar Binks (Star Wars)

02 Olaf (Frozen)

03 Heathcliff and/or Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights)

04 Six Balls (SVSSS)

05 Wang Lingjiao

06 Bowser (Mario)

07 Ganon and/or Ganondorf (Legend of Zelda)

08 Xenomorph (Alien) and/or any Predator (Predator)

09 GLADoS (Portal)

10 Shrek (Shrek)

11 You (you) and/or Your "Y/N" Name (reader)

12 Xie Lian and/or Hua Cheng (TGCF)

13 One Direction

14 Kairi, Riku, and/or Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

16 Song Lan and/or Xiao Xingchen

17 Gongyi Xiao and/or Zhuzhi-lang (SVSSS)

20 Luo Qingyang

23 Loki (any)

24 Xie'er (Word of Honor)

27 Shigure Shoma (Fruits Basket)

29 Ming Fan and/or Ning Yingying (SVSSS)

30 Jiao Liqiao (Mysterious Lotus Casebook)

34 Alucard (Castlevania)

35 Ianto Jones (Torchwood)

36 Sha Hualing and/or Liu Mingyan (SVSSS)

37 Ouyang Zizhen and/or Su Minshan

38 Qi Rong (TGCF)

40 Wei Changze and/or Cangse Sanren

41 Sephiroth (Final Fantasy)

42 PIDW Luo Binghe and/or SVSSS Luo Binghe (SVSSS)

43 Claude von Riegan (Fire Emblem)

44 Anne Elliot and/or Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

45 Haruhi, Kyoya, and/or Tamaki (Ouran High School Host Club)

46 Feng Xin and/or Mu Qing (TGCF)

47 Magnai (Final Fantasy)

48 Qui-Gon Jinn and/or Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

49 Yennefer, Jaskier, and/or Geralt (The Witcher)

50 Danyin, Dongfang Xunfeng, Jieli, and/or Shangque (Love Between Fairy and Devil)

51 Venom (Marvel)

52 Mobei-jun and/or Shang Qinghua (SVSSS)

53 Tadashi (Big Hero Six)

54 Tadashi (Sk8)

57 Jinzhu/Yinzhu/Jiang Cheng

61 Ling Wen, Pei Ming, and/or Shi Wudu (TGCF)

62 Wen Kexing (Tian Ya Ke/Word of Honor)

65 Elizabeth Bennet and/or Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

66 Yue Qingyuan (SVSSS)

67 Sesshoumaru (Inuyasha)

69 Tianlang-jun (SVSSS)

70 Toji Fushiguro (Jujutsu Kaisen)

73 Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)

77 Shen Qingqiu: Shen Jiu and/or Shen Yuan (SVSSS)

80 Qin Su/Wen Qing/Jiang Cheng

86 Sidon (Legend of Zelda)

88 Mo Ran and/or Chu Wanning (Erha)

91 Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen/Jiang Cheng

96 Di Feisheng, Fang Duobing, and/or Li Lianhua (Mysterious Lotus Casebook)

99 Wang Yue (The Journey of Chongzi)

100 Pike Dexter (Big Eden)

Only 47 options to go! Ideally, your ship should have no fanworks on ao3, but having up to 10-25 is alright.

Please include a number to assign on the table since I know very few of these characters. You don't have to stick with bad = low.

[lenglengflames]

assuming the timeline of tcgf takes place in the zhou dynasty and beyond, xie lian would’ve been educated in the six arts (bc the six arts was established in the zhou dynasty.)

the six arts include (also addressed in mdzs, iirc): rites, music, archery, calligraphy, chariotry and mathematics.

we already known xie lian excels in calligraphy, and given feng xin's dexterity with his bow, it probably isn't too hard of a stretch to say that xie lian also received training in archery even if he heavily favours the sword. i believe rites refer to taoist rituals, because the six arts stemmed from confucianism. (confucianism ≠ taoism, but both follow the tao (道).) anyway, xie lian is a taoist priest/ cultivation is a concept stemmed from taoism, so he'd naturally be competent in the rites of taoism. we'll assume he's decently skilled in chariotry and mathematics.

so that just leaves music.

here's the thing: the guqin was almost exclusively played scholars, generals, nobility, etc, by men of rank, prestige and privilege.

xie lian is royalty so there's a high chance he could play the guqin, and who else in the mxtx universe is also incredibly adept at playing it? lan wangji.

xie lian x lan wangji guqin duets with hua cheng and wei wuxian as their audience. (or consider, wei wuxian joins in with chenqing and hua cheng has an internal breakdown in an attempt to read the scores they're using.)

[neon-junkie]

You know what? Fuck it: Modern!Batch’s secret/surprising talents, let’s go —

Hunter: You’d think it’d have something to do with his tracking skills or even his hypersensitivities but nah — Hunter’s just weirdly good at the claw machines you see in arcades or grocery stores. Comes with the territory of having a plush-obsessed brother like Wrecker and a little sister capable of whipping out the puppy pout even at a very young age. It got to a point where sone arcade managers thought he was cheating but there’s no real way to prove it.

Tech: At first I wanted to say diabolo but the idea of him being awful at it is far more appealing to me. No…Tech’s surprise talent is…composing music. (Is SoundCloud still used as an insult?? I dunno, I’m not hip) At any rate, there are times when he’s holed up in his room and his siblings think he’s doing his usual tinkering or coding when in fact he’s actually got headphones on, GarageBand open, running through scales and praying to whatever gods there may be that the headphone jack doesn’t come loose and reveal whatever he’s working on. He doesn’t really care to have attention on him for it, much preferring to post it anonymously on YouTube. Some people want him to do a Patreon or even Spotify but he’s not entirely sold on the idea. He just wants to get these tunes out of his head exactly as they sounded in there.

Crosshair: I was gonna say mechanic work (check him in the garage souping up an old motorcycle he bought for cheap) but I dunno if he’d even consider it a talent. Crosshair is more the sort to keep his skills quiet, only bringing them out when they absolutely have to be, and you’d better not bring them up again. …That being said, I think everyone already knows or at least suspects that this guy is good at needlework. He’s got the finger dexterity and patience/ability to sit still for long periods for it. But Maker help you if you draw any attention to it whatsoever. He sucked a lot at it as a kid but that secretly festered in him as a need to prove himself wrong and work hard to do better. In secrecy, of course. But there’s only so many places one can hide knitted socks, scarves, and embroidery hoops that definitely aren’t from any old store. The unspoken rule of the house is that if you have an article of clothing that needs hemming or a tear that needs stitching, you simply leave it where he can find it — but you can’t be present for it. And don’t ask him when he’ll be done (once again, that’s acknowledging too much). (It’ll be done within the week, depending on how urgently it’s expressed you need the thing done by.)

Echo: Alternative talent? Ping pong. Old boy can ping some pong. I will not and cannot expand any further it just. Feels right for him.

Wrecker: Well, it’s not a surprise because it’s already been hinted at in the canon, but it’s a shocker to anyone who doesn’t really know him: Wrecker has an eye for decor. …When it comes to literally any room but his own. Kinda like those people who love cleaning other people’s spaces but their own is so disorganized. He just as a way with feng shui and what colors will and won’t go together and just how much dado is enough.

Omega: Omega is a can-do type of girl who embraces all her skills and talents wholeheartedly, so I don’t think there’s any one thing that can be defined as a secret or surprise. That being said, she loves the arts. She’s involved with plenty extracurricular activities at school, ranging from sports to the humanities but I genuinely do think that she hold a particular soft spot for art club. She’s by far not at all stifled at home, she has plenty of room to express herself, but there’s something fun about being in a new environment and being able to bring her thoughts and experiences with her family there. Especially if it means coming home with an abstract painting of Lula or a mosaic of Tech’s van or a portrait of her brothers gifted to them on Veteran’s Day.

Posting this ask as is because it's great!! I love these headcanons lol. 10/10, very in character of them all ahah :P

[hi-my-name-is-cosmopathy]

(LATE) Traintober 2022, Day 1 - Moon

Hi lol

I made this late thing for something called "Traintober". Decided to be ambitious and create art and a story for it. I'm gonna do the next one tomorrow. Now, here's the story:

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Yong Bao just finished telling James the story of “Chang E”. Well, the version where she fell in love with an archer called “Hou Yi”. James was still thinking about it. He stared at the moon in wonder as he recollected what the Chinese engine had told him...

"During the time the two fell in love, there were ten suns surrounding the Earth."

James believed it was silly. He had lived for many years and never once heard such a thing as "ten suns" being present in this world.

"It was getting too hot. Plants wilted, and many passed away due to the heat."

"Well, obviously," he thought. One could never stand the heat of ten suns. You'd have to remove one or all nine of them to finally cool down.

"The Jade Emperor, who was in charge of the lands, requested Hou Yi, a dexterous archer, to shoot all the suns. All, except one.And so he did. With such ease, he makes it look effortless."

James, was admittingly stunned to hear this. Unsure whether it was confusion or admiration he was feeling. "He must've become a hero for it. Only such a noble man could achieve such things."

"As a reward, Hou Yi was given a pill, secretly known as the elixir of life.""But Hou Yi did not want to take it, because he loved Chang E too much to want to leave her side. No one knew if one got to stay on Earth once consuming the Elixir of Life, so Hou Yi gave the pill to Chang E for safekeeping instead."

"The devotion of that man," James muttered under his breath.

"Many were astonished by Hou Yi's mission, that many begged to become his apprentice. But unfortunately, one of many appretinces was Feng Meng, a greedy and evil man who wanted the elixir for himself."

"One day, while Chang E and him were alone, he attempted to steal the elixir. She knew that she couldn't trust him with it, so she did the only thing she could...."

James jaw dropped. "Who in the right mind decides to eat a pill that could grant everlasting life?", he asked himself. "Surely she could've just throw it anyway."

"Right after she did, Hou Yi came back, only to witness his beloved ascending and floating away into the sky and into the Heavens."

"But she didn't want to go there. She wanted to be close to her lover. So she tried to stop floating and ended up on the moon."

"The devotion these two have for each other", James corrected himself and said once again.

"Hou Yi was beyond heart-broken. And so he began to place Chang E’s favourite cakes and fruits on a table under the moon, worshipping the moon and hoping to see her again one day."

"What a shame, what a shame," James mumbled to himself. "It would've never happened in Feng Meng came in the way." He believed that only such pure-hearted angels would choose to stay with their loved ones instead of ascending to the Heavens.

"Well at least she wasn't alone," Yong Bao reassured him telling him about the rabbit that kept her company while she was on the moon.

It was a strange story, but that became the least of James concerns. It wasn't what was on his mind.

"Could love ever be that strong between two people?", he asked himself once more.

James never understood romantic love, and rather found it indignant to talk about it. But, perhaps...he could make a few exceptions...

(This photo and story was made by me :D Like and reposts would be appreciated 👍)

[warningsine]

American director Stewart Thorndike’s horror film is a gender-flipped and queered remix of The Shining, complete with a pair of creepy spectres (joggers this time) and an ominous fixation on a particular hotel room. Ruthie (Glow’s Gayle Rankin) turns up for a weekend break at her mother’s snowbound resort, which she is in line to inherit, with three friends. She, girlfriend Cal and pal Maddie (trans actors Hari Nef, recently seen in Barbie, and Rad Pereira) just want to loll around the pool and have fun. But antsy Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who mistakenly believed she had cancer, won’t settle down and seems to have designs on Ruthie.

Thorndike couches proceedings in an aura of generalised hipsterdom – Cal is never seen without her Hole T-shirt, while the fluorescent-green title design is purloined from Twin Peaks – that is suffocating for the film’s first 15 minutes. But gradually it becomes apparent that the snide repartee, emanating chiefly from Ruthie, is the result of a kind of emotional constipation that events in the hotel’s pastel corridors seem to be trying to shake loose. While Ruthie is hooked on watching Ted-style talks from a scarlet-suited hospitality guru (Molly Ringwald), strange happenings hint at deeper levels of psychic disturbance: breakfast-lounge denizens manifest themselves to Fran, or a chainsaw-wielding maniac in a hoodie.

The initial archness is irritating and keeps the horror elements at safely ironic distance, almost as if it’s a game the characters vicariously enjoy. But Thorndike slowly generates greater levels of feeling as Bad Things reveals how the paranormal is a product of Ruthie’s internal conflicts, culminating in a business meeting scene that corresponds nicely to Jack Torrance’s Lloyd-the-bartender hallucinations in The Shining.

Some of the storytelling gets clotted, leaning too much on the girls shrilly screaming at each other. Bad Things, though, is sharply filmed, with cinematographer Grant Greenberg feng-shuiing the hotel spaces into tone-setting tableaux (with a touch of Twin Peaks’ kitsch). This movie is a long-term occupancy filled with shivers of twentysomething anxiety and maternal oppression.

[indulgentia]

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Nᴀᴍᴇ:  Han Juri  ( 한주리 )

Fɪɢʜᴛɪɴɢ ꜱᴛyʟᴇ:  Tae Kwon Do

Aɢᴇ:  25 years old

Bɪʀᴛʜ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ:  January 1st  ( Capricorn )

Bɪʀᴛʜᴩʟᴀᴄᴇ:  Daegu, South Korea

Sᴩᴇᴄɪᴇꜱ:  Human  ( with enhanced biology? )

Gᴇɴᴅᴇʀ:  Cisgender Female

Oʀɪᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:  Pansexual  /  Aromantic

Oᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:  Mercenary  /  Leader of S.I.N.

Aʟɪɢɴᴍᴇɴᴛ:  Chaotic Neutral

MBTI ᴛyᴩᴇ:  ENFP  ( Campaigner ) ⠀ ⠀

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Eyᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴏᴜʀ:  Purple

Hᴀɪʀ ᴄᴏʟᴏᴜʀ:  Jet black with shades of purple

Hᴇɪɢʜᴛ:  5'4"  ( 162 cm )

Bᴏᴅy ʙᴜɪʟᴅ:  Athletic skinny with defined muscles

Nᴏᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ᴩʜyꜱɪᴄᴀʟ ᴛʀᴀɪᴛꜱ:   Her left eye was damaged long ago and replaced with the Feng Shui Engine which amplifies her abilities. Some of her hair strands are dyed pink.  ⠀

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Cᴏᴍʙᴀᴛ ᴩʀᴀɢᴍᴀᴛɪꜱᴛ:  She is immensely skilled the hand-to-hand combat, often resourting to powerful an energetic kicks alongside her outstanding flexibility, which are amplified by the Fen Shui engine. And of course, as a mercenary he's not afraid of fighting dirty.

Pʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴩʜɪᴄ ᴍᴇᴍᴏʀy:  Juri never forgets a route she's taken, and can easily memorize minimal details about things she’s actually interested about.

Dɪꜱɢᴜɪꜱᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴜɴɴɪɴɢ:  She makes use of all means, especially her sly speech, intelligence and sensual mannerisms to achieve her goals.

Tᴀᴄᴛɪᴄᴀʟ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴛʀᴀᴛᴇɢɪᴄ ᴩʟᴀɴɴɪɴɢ: Strategic studies were not left out of her learning, hence she also has a highly satisfactory tactical reasoning.  

Pᴀʀᴋᴏᴜʀ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴜʙᴛᴇʀꜰᴜɢᴇ: Since she’s not extremely strong in physical terms, this fighter honed her ability to escape from all kinds of places ( and heights ), using agility and dexterity to get away from obstacles and trouble. ⠀

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀   Juri fights purely for the thrill of the battle; unlike those who seek meaning, her drive is much more vengeful, selfish and ruthless, as she's extremely sadistic, liking to inflict pain on her foes, and she's also extremely hot-tempered, as she can easily lose her temper when she is struck back in retaliation or without warning. Juri loves combat to the point where she becomes irritated when it is denied to her like when opponents refuse to fight her seriously, to which Juri scathingly repy that "they could just die" if that was the case. She displays several traits of a femme fatale, as she makes provocative and suggestive remarks toward her enemies, as well seen in her win quotes; she is also very cunning, as she is not above leaving her partners to further her own agenda. At times, she appears to be brooding and depressed, Menat claimed she felt a sense of "loneliness" from Juri implying all her wiles and cruelty is just a cover for how broken she is on the inside.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀   However, despite her vengeful and ruthless behavior, she still has some vague sense of honor; during one of her missions she left a young boy alive despite many civilians being caught in the crossfire. Juri also appears to detest fighting children, and views Evil Ryu to be a far more abhorrent type of ruthless, which somewhat contradicts her opinion on other Ansatsuken users. According to her win quote, she is against animal cruelty. Juri is also slightly hypocritical in many of her criticisms and insults of other fighters, demonstrating that she needs to mask her pain by deflecting her flaws onto others. She mocks the suffering of Cammy and Decapre at the hands of Bison despite having gone though similar pain and trauma in her own childhood. But then always returns to help them in their times of need. Juri also calls Vega a "pervert" despite her deriving sexual gratification from hurting and taunting others. This seems to provide enough evidence that Menat was right in her observation about Juri's psyche.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀   At the age of 15, Juri was the preeminent practitioner of Tae Kwon Do. Her father was a lawyer in charge of prosecuting organized crime operations. When he started targeting Shadaloo, her family was kidnapped by the organization. During the ordeal, Juri lost her parents and her left eye was gravely wounded. Ten years later, she undergoes an operation at the S.I.N. laboratory to have the Feng Shui Engine implanted into that eye. The people operating on her note her calmness during the implanting. Juri assassinates operatives in a public area as her first mission in order to test out the Feng Shui Engine. Even with guns, her enemies stand no chance against her, taking them out one by one from behind. Even so, her mission ended with Juri unleashing her eye's power knocking her opposition unconscious. As her victims lays on the ground, Juri prepares to deal the finishing blow. However, her Feng Shui Engine malfunctions, forcing her to flee back to the lab.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀   During the global tournament hosted by the former leader of S.I.N., Juri is in to participate; she sees it as a perfect opportunity for some 'fun.' The results of the fights are unknown. Juri continues to tend to her hidden agenda. In her ending, she approaches the leader, who was incapacitated as a result of Bison's brutal beating, and taunts him for "being nothing more than Bison's spare body." Before she is to dispose of him, she reveals that she was to serve S.I.N. for as long as it suited her purposes, since she was merely trying to pit the leader, Seth, and Bison against each other. Juri viciously crushes Seth's Tanden Engine by stomping on it, and leaves him for dead.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀   Shortly after the fall of S.I.N., Juri faces off against Bison again to avenge her family. However, Bison quickly gets behind her, attacks her with Psycho Power and grabs her head. He rips out her Feng Shui Engine and leaves her for dead. She goes into an abandoned S.I.N. laboratory and finds another eye, the Feng Shui Engine Alpha. Juri meets up with Kolin (under the disguise as Helen). Kolin offers Juri the ability to join her, when they are interrupted by Balrog, who's looking around for S.I.N. agents. Wanting to test out her new eye, Juri fights him, before Ed tells him that they have to get back to base to discuss a plan. Juri later meets C. Viper, who informs her that the only reason she's not in jail is because she is not the primary threat and warns her about Shadaloo's motives.Later at the Shadaloo base, looking around for data on Shadaloo, Juri confronts F.A.N.G., who becomes insulted by her remarks on being Bison's second in command. Their fight ends with F.A.N.G using his poison clouds to make Juri retreat. Juri now realizing their motives, calls Kolin by phone and finally accepts her offer to take down Shadaloo.

[lava-nder]

Sealing the deal<3

Asian Inspired Wedding at a random place renovated by ratboy (at least i THINK it’s renovated) bc i dont rlly care for weddings tbh

Fun Fact by the time i was playing this My Wedding Stories was recently out and i didnt get it SPECIFICALLY NOT to ruin this wedding cos everyone was once again complaining about its bugs.

[sunlesspeach]

katarina: ill talk to you later lina

melina: *on phone* okay hun. have fun at your family outing and let me know what they say

k: of course. and youre still coming over later?

m: you know it!

k: love you

m: love you too

[shamballalin]

Facing Your Inner Dragons

Facing Your Inner Dragons

Are you a little stressed out? Are you fighting with the dragons within you? Do you want to gain control? The Dragon is giving you a clue. Notice in the above picture that the Phoenix is rising to meet the Dragon, which is clinging to two blue Baoding Balls. This is a representation of you each time you feel yourself beginning to be out-of-control, not knowing which way to turn. What is a person…

[readerbookclub]

Foodie - September Book List

This month’s list is all about food! In all of these novels, food plays a central role in the story or character’s lives. As a foodie myself, I’m really excited about these books! I hope you like them too :)

As always, please vote for which of these books we should read. Link is at the bottom of this post. 

And on to the books...

Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail. To appease the red-haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board. His first triumph at sea is actual bread, made from a sourdough starter that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon he’s making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider. But Mabbot—who exerts a curious draw on the chef—is under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur hidden on her ship, she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. As Wedgwood begins to sense a method to Mabbot’s madness, he must rely on the bizarre crewmembers he once feared: Mr. Apples, the fearsome giant who loves to knit; Feng and Bai, martial arts masters sworn to defend their captain; and Joshua, the deaf cabin boy who becomes the son Wedgwood never had.

Quentins, by Maeve Binchy

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close in failure. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that way...

Sourdough, by Robin Sloan

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people, exactly?

The Kitchen Daughter, by Jael McHenry

After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning (“do no let her…”) before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish. A haunted kitchen isn’t Ginny’s only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka “Demanda”) insists on selling their parents’ house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents’ belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn’t sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn’t know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father’s photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there’s only one way to get answers: cook from dead people’s recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother. With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother's dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook - searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother's sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor - she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle's cryptic scribbles. Within the journal's tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.

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[deliverance-the-game]

What would be the RO's reactions to MC wrapping their arms around their neck, nuzzling into the RO's neck, backing away with a wide grin on their face, only to get up and walk into a tree/wall/door/another person?

When the Messenger rolls high for Charisma and a Nat 1 for Dexterity.

Ishraq

Ishraq hurries over to the Messenger, one arm wrapped around their shoulder as he checks for any injury. Once he’s sure they’re fine, he allows himself to laugh about it. His heart swells with fondness at their little goof up, though he can’t promise he won’t get into a similar accident, either. The Messenger can be...distracting.

He then smiles, with a hint of shyness, and asks if a kiss can make it better. Is it to comfort them and make them feel better? Definitely. Is it also a thinly veiled excuse to resume their brief moment of affection? Absolutely.

Deva

You bet this girl is gonna laugh. Really loudly. If she gets glared at by the Messenger, she’ll just laugh even harder. The nuzzling didn’t really throw her off just now. She preened at the contact, in fact.

“Real smooth, darling.” She chuckles as she brushes hair out of their face to make sure they didn’t break their nose or something. Then she boops their not-broken nose and grins. They’re so cute when they get silly like this, she thinks. A day never goes by without them making her laugh. It’s one of her favourite things about them.

Yi-feng

Yi-feng may or may not have yelped in shock at the collision. Embarrassment from being nuzzled forgotten, he rushes to their side and makes sure they’re not hurt. He runs his hands, warm and gentle, over their face, shoulders, and arms in concern.

With a worried frown, he tells them to be more careful next time. Then, eyes flickering away with bashfulness, “It won’t do to have you run into things whenever you hold me.”

Yi-feng is not pouting.

Yeshe

Yeshe hasn’t even gotten over their embarrassment from being nuzzled. Their affection gets them so flustered. And before they can even recover from it, this happens. They can only blankly stare at the Messenger as they walk straight into something. It’s just one of those days. This might as well happen.

But Yeshe walks over anyway, because this fool just got themselves hurt. They tut and harrumph as they check for injuries, saying this is what they get for being so shameless. But their tone is full of fond exasperation.

(They didn’t mention anything about not liking the nuzzling, either.)

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(Also, to honour your username, I will unofficially name this post ‘Deliverance the Game but the companions all share one collective braincell’.)

[wrestlingisfake]

NXT 2.0 Fake Rankings

The last time I went through the NXT roster was right after the August 6 cuts, which heralded the end of Triple H's super-indy vesion of NXT and the rise of NXT 2.0. Since then another 15 performers left this brand, either to move up to Raw/Smackdown or in the November 4 cuts.

NXT 2.0 officially began on September 14. Two months later, the 18-49 demo is at a record low, and the median age viewer is 62 years old. The shakeup can only be considered a success in terms of one metric--the brand is now more directly focused on developing wrestlers to be what Vince McMahon wants to call up to Raw or Smackdown Whether that's worth it remains to be seen.

Men's singles division - babyfaces

Tommaso Ciampa (NXT men's champion)

Bron Breakker

Johnny Gargano

Dexter Lumis

Cameron Grimes

Odyssey Jones

Solo Sikoa

Grayson Waller

Xyon Quinn

Boa

Men's singles division - heels

Pete Dunne

Carmelo Hayes (NXT North American champion)

Roderick Strong (NXT cruiserweight champion)

Tony D'Angelo

LA Knight

Joe Gacy

Andre Chase

Trick Williams

Duke Hudson*

Unranked: Draco Anthony*, Edris Enofe*, Malik Blade*, Ru Feng*

*Not listed on WWE.com's official NXT roster

One improvement in NXT 2.0 is that I can actually come up with 10 faces and 10 heels to rank in the men's singles division. (It's only 19 here because Santos Escobar disappeared for a while, but he just came back.) Instead of just pushing 4-6 "real" stars and treating everyone else like losers, we've got some actual depth. For instance, it's easy to see the wide gap between Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams, as opposed to Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick Boogs (who have a similar partnership but fewer guys between them in the pecking order).

The elder statesmen of this brand now are Ciampa, Gargano, Dunne, Strong, and Kyle O'Reilly. Those are the guys that best exemplify the "What if WWE bought Ring of Honor?" era of NXT, and their futures will be very interesting to follow. Gargano and O'Reilly have contracts expiring in December, and there's a lot of buzz about whether they'll jump to AEW. Dunne recently signed on for another few years, which surprised me, but I guess we'll see if he's rewarded for his loyalty.

Men's tag team division - babyfaces

MSK - Nash Carter & Wes Lee*

Kyle O'Reilly & Von Wagner

Jacket Time - Ikemen Jiro & Kushida

Brooks Jensen & Josh Briggs

Men's tag team division - heels

Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel (NXT men's tag team champions)

Raul Mendoza & Joaquin Wilde

Brutus Creed & Julius Creed

Grizzled Young Veterans - Zack Gibson & James Drake

*Not listed on WWE.com's official NXT roster

WWE has recently gotten their act together about keeping the website roster up to date, which certainly makes it easier on someone like me. One weird oversight, though, which I only recently noticed, is that Wes Lee isn't included in the NXT roster for some reason. I'm sure it's a mistake, but I am kinda curious how long it will take for them to catch it.

It's difficult for me to believe that O'Reilly and Kushida will have any lasting value with the company beyond helping Wagner and Jiro get started. I don't see either team lasting very long. I'm also not bullish on Gibson and Drake, whose big story this week was that they swiped the women's tag belts to pose with because they wanted to pretend they'd won the men's tag title.

Women's singles division - babyfaces

Raquel Gonzalez

Io Shirai

Sarray

Cora Jade

Women's singles division - heels

Mandy Rose (NXT women's champion)

Dakota Kai

Elektra Lopez

Kay Lee Ray

Unranked: Amari Miller, Erica Yan*, Gabby Stephens, Jenna Levy*, Valentina Feroz*, Yulisa Leon*

*Not listed on WWE.com's official NXT roster

The new mandate for NXT is to recruit younger and younger talent, and to avoid long-term commitments on anybody that isn't developing quickly enough. So the window to start with the company is shrinking, and so is the window to convince them you have what it takes. And it'll be worse for the women, because the age limits are said to be even lower for them. I would expect a lot of turnover in this division.

The big direction for NXT 2.0 is Toxic Attraction (Mandy Rose, Gigi Dolin, and Jacy Jayne), with the idea that they're incredibly evil about being incredibly hot. Which is the same gimmick Carmella has, and that Eva Marie had until she got cut. I don't know how you can do this same gimmick with five different women in the same company and not figure out that it isn't working.

They're doing an eight-woman WarGames match for December 5, with Rose & Dolin & Jayne & Kai vs. Gonzalez & Shirai & Jade & TBA. With Zoey Stark on the shelf there aren't a lot of women left to put in that last spot unless you dip into the jobbers. So this might be a way to see who they're looking to push next.

Women's tag team division - babyfaces

Kayden Carter & Kacy Catanzaro

Indi Hartwell & Persia Pirotta*

Women's tag team division - heels

Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jayne (NXT women's tag team champions)

*Not listed on WWE.com's official NXT roster

Zoey Stark's injury has put her team with Io Shirai on hold, so NXT only has three women's teams left. Astonishingly, that's still more active women's tag teams than Raw and Smackdown put together.

No TV matches in 30 days: Danny Burch, Dante Chen, Guru Raaj, Hachiman, Ivy Nile, Mei Ying, Santos Escobar, Timothy Thatcher

I don't want to do the whole "I bet somebody gets cut next" bit, but I am genuinely surprised Burch and Thatcher made it through the August 6 and November 4 releases. Hachiman is also a weird case, where he was introduced as sort of an enforcer-looking guy for Roderick Strong's Diamond Mine stable, and he still hasn't had a single NXT match yet.

Another oddity of WWE's website is that Guru Raaj is only listed on the 205 Live roster, which is really just a remnant of when 205 Live was treated as a fourth brand for cruiserweights. Not that it makes much difference, since he hasn't been on any WWE show in months.

Part-time/semi-retired: Beth Phoenix, Brian Kendrick, Robert Stone

I'm starting to give up on Kendrick ever returning to full-time action. He hasn't appeared in a match in over a year, which I remember because it was his return from being away for a whole other year. I assume he's taken a producer job or something, and WWE just can't be arsed to update his website profile.

Robert Stone is a weird case because he was a full-time wrestler before he came to NXT, but they stuck him in a manager role, and now everyone in the Robert Stone Brand has been cut except for him. So I guess they'll repackage him as a full-time wrestler, but if there was any future for him in WWE doing that, they wouldn't have made him a manager in the first place.

Inactive

Candice LeRae (pregnancy)

Samoa Joe (undisclosed injury)

Saurav (visa issues)

Zoey Stark (left knee - torn ACL and meniscus)

To my knowledge, WWE has never provided an update on Joe's status or given any indication that they'll pick up on him trying to regain the NXT men's title after being forced to relinquish it. I'm not sure if Saurav will ever make it back into a WWE ring at this rate. I don't think anybody knows when LeRae's contract is up, but since Gargano could be leaving in December, there's been a lot of unfounded speculation that she'll end up wherever he goes.

I haven't seen a timeframe for Stark's recovery, but with knee injuries you can usually figure it'll be somewhere in the 6-12-month range.

[macabre-morality]

Roman: As you all enter the pitch black cave for whatever reason, you start to get a bad feeling about this. Are you sure you want to continue, Ass?

Remus: Fuck yeah! Also, full name please. I need to be immersed!

Roman: (sigh) xXAssblaster420Xx.

Remus: Better.

Deceit: Can take the stick I found earlier and light it on fire?

Roman: Alright. You successfully use one of your precious matches to light the stick on fire. You provide 15 feet of sight for everyone.

Deceit: Alright, let's go deeper then.

Virgil: Can I specify that Feng Ripper is ninja rolling.

Roman: Roll dexterity with disadvantage.

*Virgil rolls*

Virgil: Okay.. so with my bonus that's... Not bad. Can I keep this because I have darkvision?

Roman: Fine. What did you roll?

Virgil: Fourteen.

Roman: You roll around with the flamboyance and coolness of a gymnast!

Virgil: Sick.

Roman: Alright, as you head deeper into the cave, you hear a rumbling and suddenly all light from the outside that assisted your sight before is gone. The entrance has been closed. From the ceiling a powdery substance falls, putting Speeralaumin in a paralyzed state.

Logan: It's pronounced Spirlaunim, for the last time. Anyways, good luck with this one guys. I spent days designing this.

Patton: Ooo! This'll be so fun!!

*everyone else fucking groans cause the last one took them a whole hour to solve it and someone almost died in real life*