#new brand campaigns

[margaretcruzemark]

I do Bottega.

[duckprintspress]

This is the best spam I've ever received.

idk, AM I the master mind behind it all? 🤔🤔🤔

...I might be... 🤔🤔🤔

I AM. I AM THE MASTERMIND.

[nicolethered]

TLOU is cleaning up in the technical awards, hope some of it spills over into the acting categories

ETA: They’re up to 8!! now on night one!!!

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Okay! Trying this again now that it's not midnight, because I'm still on my bullshit but have more words now. What I do not have is my copies of the first two novel volumes, since I am traveling, so I can't do direct quotes.

We know that, at some point, JGY and XY became cultivators. IIRC, it is stated in Volume 1 that becoming a cultivator without a golden core is possible but it's unorthodox and unlikely--even moreso given that a golden core in MDZS/CQL is akin to an organ that can be permanently destroyed/remove rather than an energy reserve from your qi being super swole. Demonic cultivation is appealing in part because it operates under a different set of parameters, and (though the world at large doesn't know this) WWX invents it in large part to compensate for the loss of his core.

We can also safely assume that the means to do this aren't accessible to everyone. We see peddlers hawking dubious cultivation materials. JGY tells his sworn brothers about the fraudulent pamphlets his mother purchased for him as a child and laments that she and people like her have no way of knowing that they're useless. (Since this statement goes unchallenged by LXC, NMJ, or WWX's narration, I think we can take this particular JGY assertion at face value.) In Yi City, WWX explains the "folk wisdom" practiced by regular people, ranging from the effective (the rice congee to absorb poison, the mortuary's high threshold to keep corpses from hopping away) to the superstitious (the paper effigies and joss money), and WWX reminds the juniors that these people don't have cultivation knowledge of their own. All of this suggests that there is no freely-accessible bank of cultivation knowledge, demonic or otherwise. There are no old-timey YouTube tutorials, and there is no indication that a person can roll up to a sect like it's nbd in this particular universe for formal education.

WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POINT, which is: how did JGY and XY become cultivators in the first place?

JGY has acquired some level of cultivation by the time he's working with the Nie, albeit with a shaky foundation that both he and Narrator WWX identify as a deficit he'll need to compensate for with breadth over depth. How did he develop his power without formal training or reliable study materials? Teenage XY has somehow become capable enough for the Jin clan to see him as an asset, despite the fact that he is a feral street urchin who can't even read as a child, and demonic cultivation is a brand-new technology, as it were. Where, when, and how did he teach himself? What skills did he demonstrate that caught JGY's interest?

Since this story is not about JGY and XY's professional journeys, the text doesn't have an explanation. (Or, if it does, this website and also the wiki have been slipping, because "how the hell does JGY even have a core?" has vexed me since 2021.) There isn't a definitive answer here! What I am curious about--because I cannot possibly be the only one who wonders about worldbuilding ramifications and what offscreen events brought these characters to where they are, and I think it is fair to wonder about the mechanics of things that a text itself brings up--is people's personal headcanons.

So! Canon-compliant Xue Yang and/or Jin Guangyao enjoyers! Tell me how you personally explain their whole deal! Bonus points for telling me how it changes for CQL, bc both of them are coming from very different places there, and an MDZS-compliant explanation won't work for CQL and vice versa. Bonus BONUS points if you have fic exploring it that you can link.

[shedontlovehuhself]

The first video from the tweet is in the link in the tags. It gives context to the video above. But I can only post one video at a time on Tumblr app so the 2nd (above) is more in line with my own thoughts.

I typically do all my political posting on twitter and insta, but since certain folks want to act like people haven't *been* saying we're not voting for Biden and he should step down. Well...

And also

[gaymageclub]

sometimes i get comfortable with my current life and i forget why i need to move somewhere else so very badly

and then other times i have awareness brutally slap me in the face again as i am reminded just how different i am from all of my friends here. just how few people there are who share my values to any reasonable degree around here.

i love my friends here, but i can never love them without reservation unless they suddenly start caring about things that they've never cared much about before

[ragsy]

It's a blessing to be able to have an active dnd character for nearly a decade but also that is WAY too long to be stuck with the convoluted edgelord backstory I wrote for him when I made him.

I'd like a hard reboot on my sorcerer please I'll do him right this time I promise

[starryemeralds]

missing my dnd campaign a little extra today, so wanted to share the chaos of my life —

maydae la croix 💜

[newfashionlove]

Behind-the-scenes footage from Cillian Murphy's first shoot for Versace has appeared. The actor became the global brand ambassador in the first half of March. The campaign featuring Killian is due to be released on April 4.

[yours-stevie]

Dua 😍

[margaretcruzemark]

ASAP Rocky for Bottega Veneta

[diocletianscabbagefarm]

A selection of most of the battlemaps we've had in our weekly D&D campaign since late april

[greyias]

What if we kissed... 😳😳😳

in front of the giant statue of Shar?

[mockingjaysnakes]

rachel zegler behind the scenes of rouge dior.

[robertsbarbie]

wait i forgot to tell yall the absolute highlight of my day, and probably year, and probably existence because it was genuinely the kindest thing anyone has ever done for me

[globallegalassociation]

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