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[braidedribbon]

Delicious cherry? Or garden tyrant?

Here we have a freshly hatched bloomed dragon's wisdom from @neonghostcat fic Cultivate.

[veraverorum]

Tagged by @newyearknwwme in doing this cute picrew~💕

Oddly enough I actually own all of this stuff in different shades of white or pink

You're welcome to do or not, as you prefer~

@lacertae-dreamscape @randomingoftherandomness @llaevateinn @the-sill-of-all-sills @marsdiogenes @braidedribbon

[formlessvoidbeast]

@braidedribbon said: For a related but different question: Where would you start with Lupin?

Oooohboy this is a question. I would not recommend starting with Part 1 at all. Castle of Cagliostro is a fantastic movie, but also I think expects you to know these characters already? Still, probably a great place to start. I still haven't watched very many of the movies, so I can't speak for the rest of them really. And Lupin Zero was great, but was also for sure wanting to play with the nostalgia for the characters (which I did not have, watching the series).

I was kind of planning to write up a 'five best Part 2 episodes to get to know Lupin' so keep an eye out for that? In the mean time, here's a link to Jey's rec list, which is good:

[ibijau]

For the ask meme: "I'm mad at god" where sqq is really talking about airplane

Luo Binghe’s husband is, to put it simply, an odd and fascinating man he half gave up on understanding. It is easier, he’s found, to simply accept whatever Shen Qingqiu does and say and not question it too much.

Besides, even when he gives in to curiosity, it is rarely indulged, not for the oddest things at least. Shen Qingqiu will make excuses, or pretend he never said anything, or in more extreme cases, lightly hit Luo Binghe with his fan to get him to stop asking pointless questions.

It doesn’t matter much, in the end. Luo Binghe knows the important things, such as his husband’s acceptance of his love, and the fact that he is loved back with an intensity that Shen Qingqiu doesn’t always bother hiding anymore.

Still, sometimes it really gets too odd.

Today, for example.

They are both relaxing in Shen Qingqiu’s… in their house on Qing Jing Peak. Shen Qingqiu is polishing his sword, while Luo Binghe gives some news from the demon world. His husband is always curious about that, especially if fearsome creatures or rare plants are concerned. It is not the case today, sadly. Instead it is all politics, especially since a great lord recently died and left no blood relative but a child he had with a human woman. Successions are never easy among demons, but this one is already looking to be particularly ugly. The child is young still, and the mother has come running to Luo Binghe to beg for his protection, which he has granted.

“The mother is a good woman,” Luo Binghe notes. “Many would have abandoned their half breed child and only sought to protect themselves.”

He thinks, of course, of Su Xiyan. Somedays, he tells himself she tried to save him, as Shen Qingqiu once argued. Other times, he is convinced that she really meant to destroy him before his birth and failed. Certainty will always escape him on this matter, as on many others.

“This Lord is generous to give asylum to those with enemies,” Shen Qingqiu praises him with a tender smile.

“Shizun thinks too highly of this one. It is only that this one was reminded of his own youth when he saw a miserable mother and child. This one’s life would have been different if his mother had been given help in her time of need.”

Shen Qingqiu, briefly, interrupts his work and stares ad Luo Binghe in that air he has sometimes, as if seeing him for the first time. He then tightens the grip on his sword and starts polishing it with renewed determination.

“What’s shizun doing?” Luo Binghe asks.

“This one is making preparations,” Shen Qingqiu retorts in a dry voice. “I’m mad at god and this time, he’ll feel my wrath.”

“Shizun cannot be serious. Sizhun cannot think of fighting gods.”

Shen Qingqiu shrugs, the way he does when he’s too high on emotion to play the part of cold master he hides behind, and lifts his sword to the level of his eye, checking the edge.

“God is a wimp and it’s time someone took him down for what he did to my husband,” Shen Qingqiu retorts, standing up. “If you need me, I’ll be in An Ding Peak.”

Luo Binghe blinks a few times, unsure what to make of that. He knows of his husband's friendship with Shang Qinghua, but he doesn’t understand it and quite frankly, that little whimpering fool is the last person he would have wanted at his side to go fight gods.

“Will shizun be back in time for dinner?” Luo Binghe inquires, since somehow that’s the sanest question he can think of asking.

Shen Qingqiu only takes a brief moment to consider this.

“Yes. It won’t take very long.”

He then leaves, while Luo Binghe can only stare at the door and try to make sense of what happened.

His husband is a very odd man, but Luo Binghe is hardly normal himself, so they fit well together.

The real problem, though, is that he must now think of a meal befitting a man who may or may not have gone off to kill a god. It’s only early afternoon, but Luo Binghe needs to get to work.

[moonblossom]

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Well shit. That's awful bb, I'm sorry to hear this.

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*sending hugs* I'm so sorry

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<3

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[leaves out a pile of hugs] That really sucks. Ouch.

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*hugs*

Thanks everyone <3 I’m feeling better(ish?) about things today. I’m incredibly lucky to have a roof over my head and food in my stomach when everything settles, and my folks are being really supportive.

[asparklethatisblue]

Happy birthday~! *throws sparkly confetti*

YA

thenk

[dicedragonjo]

What is your flavour of spooky?

HONEY WHISKEY IN MULLED CIDER

[hattedhedgehog]

I hadn't really been planning on watching Riverdale. Now, after seeing you talk about what they did to Jughead, I definitely don't want to. ugh.

He was one of the reasons I stuck with it through the slog of bullshit sexual drama (the other being the actual mystery, and ladies-supporting-ladies, those were actually compelling when the hetero-bullshit was toned down), but alas I was betrayed. 

[dmcanonymous]

Los Muertos and Zenyatta by Ora (Finale) Fandoms:Overwatch (Video Game) Teen And Up Audiences Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings F/M, Multi Complete Work 28 Nov 2016 Tags Creator Chose Not To Use Archive WarningsTekhartha Zenyatta/Los Muertos Omnic/Omnic's WifeTekhartha Zenyatta Los Muertos Omnic his wifeart based on a lovely comic involving Zenyatta kicking the ass of the Los Muertos Omnic i named him carlos and his wife estella implied omnic-human-omnic sex Summary Zenyatta's Adventures in Los Muertos (based on Kochei's fanart comic)

[braidedribbon]

Look at my family of gaiwans!!!

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Tea with My Deer Friend

[braidedribbon]

Today was a playing with new teaware type of day

[braidedribbon]

I recently got a serious upgrade to my watercolours so I'm actually trying to learn a bit more about using them. Current ability: still have zero idea what I'm doing. Kinda like the leaf shapes I'm getting though.

But playing around with floral watercolours got me thinking about the dragon's wisdom from @neonghostcat fic Cultivate. as if I'm not always thinking about it And then I fell into some messy sketching/imagining. I know you call it orchid like. And I've totally looked at many flying duck orchid pictures as I think about how the dragon might be put together. But I keep leaning in a very lily of the valley direction. Mostly because I imagine the clarity sprouts being very hosta/lily of the valley like in their leaves. Here, I was kinda imagining the rest of the buds/eggs of the branch/clutch just weren't ambitious enough to become proper dragons.

[braidedribbon]

I love Montreal. But why is it so soggy (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

[braidedribbon]

I love my sewing machine. Even when I need to disassemble parts to deal with my bobbin tension problem.

[braidedribbon]

A new friend has arrived!