Stranger Things spoilers ahead but I need to talk about Jonathan Byers.
Jonathan, who took it upon himself to organize his baby brother’s funeral because his mother wasn’t doing it.
Jonathan, who dropped everything to *save* Will when he was presented with evidence that he wasn’t dead.
Jonathan, who could not physically bear to watch Will in pain even if it was necessary to free him from the mindflayer, and had to turn away so he didn’t have to see him suffer.
Jonathan, who never treated Will like he was annoying like Mike and Nancy or Lucas and Erica.
Jonathan, who truly *saw* how Will was acting around Mike and knew what it meant.
Jonathan, who admitted he had been distant and chose to be the one to reach across the distance and tell Will he would always love him no matter what.
Jonathan, who gave Will acceptance and reassurance without asking anything of him.
Jonathan, who realized in 1986 that his baby brother was queer and made sure he knew he was explicitly supported without outing him before he was ready.
Just. Jonathan Byers y’all.
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one of my favorite things about zhongli is that he doesn’t shut up like i know we like to compare him to neuvillette and alhaitham but zhongli is like inverse of their signature traits. social awkwardness? quiet and reserved? zhongli does not care he will talk like he understands liyue’s social customs very well he just does what he wants. like yeah he’s calm and reserved but he’s not quiet and he enjoys socializing with humans like it’s one of his favorite things to do. the people of liyue describe as someone who is a little odd but very helpful and knowledgeable so he understands people and he seems pretty good at reading their intentions and behaviors so yeah he’s weird but he’s very popular cause he’s always doing shit
tldr zhongli is a yapper he will talk about anything and everything if you give him a chance he does not care if it’s weird or socially unconventional
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id: a digital drawing of solaire from dark souls. he’s fully visible, standing up and facing the viewer. he’s slightly sticking his left foot out and at the same time raising his left hand far above his head, summoning a lightning spear that’s been stylized to look more like a sun. his shield is raised at chest-level, but not covering his body entirely. the background is black. end id
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Idea: The Matrix, being a parasite that uses the Primes as it’s hosts, slowly turns the Primes into eldritch horror-ific beings, and the forms they hold in front of people to make them appear normal are actually just a ‘cloaked’ form for their ‘true’ form (Maccadam from CV for example). This happens to all the Primes, it just usually takes a long time even by their standards to build up enough, and usually the newer/younger ones are like baby horrors.
Another idea: Rodimus, having been born in the primacy essentially as Optimus’s son, has grown up with them, and seen them in their true forms from a young age. It is now impossible to freak him out with them, because before Hot Rod could walk, he looked Nova dead in the face in it’s true form as it cradled him in it’s arms, and cooed up at it. Optimus now says that to Rodimus, they’re not horrors, they’re eldritch wonders. He genuinely looks at them and believes some to be quite pretty. Or he calmly/casually asks if Op thinks Quintus’s Subnautica octopus ass could fit in a flower vase, because octopuses don’t have bones, and this is long dead ghost, so it’s gotta be possible, right? (Op just wants one normal conversation about the Primes with his son. one. that’s all he asks (while snorting laughs but that’s beside the point-).)
In short: The Primes are eldritch horrors in their true forms + Rodimus isn’t bothered in the slightest about this fact.
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the apothecary diaries kinda au with reisaru. Minakata is a future heir to imperial throne but for now pretends to be a mere high ranked official. Saru was literally high key brought into palace to work as a low staff. saru is extremely annoyed by it and wants to return back to brothel (where he was left as a child and raised by high ranked prostitutes who were better parents than his actual ones could ever be). and apparently during his own investigation of unexplainable deaths muna sees saru coming to same conclusion and becomes progressively interested in him. also saru is angry so he throws hands with people even if it’s consort’s dumbass maids.
and then one of grateful consorts takes him under her wing and then munakata sees saru at one of celebrations dressed all rich and without his usual hairstyle and with different glasses that make him look softer and oh yes munakata is in love. also saru’s explanation to looking and behaving like that is that being soft and gentle in brothel, as well as being a young pretty boy, isn’t a good thing.
Imagine everyone is so smitten with Munakata too because of his good looks, he’s just smiling and sparkling at everyone while Fushimi glares in disgust (and that only makes Munakata more intrigued). Fushimi’s mom was a high-ranking courtesan who got tricked by her lover into getting pregnant and dumped the baby at the brothel before going off to become a high powered merchant instead. Fushimi was raised with a bunch of loving big sisters who always told him how pretty he looked even though he’s crabby all the time. He teaches himself useful things like medicine because he didn’t want to be worthless like his father, he’s returning from the market with a bunch of herbs one day when he gets grabbed by some random dudes and sold to the palace as a servant.
Fushimi figures if he keeps his head down maybe he can get out of this without having to do any more work than necessary, in this AU say there are both male and female concubines so it’s okay for male servants to work in the inner palace without being eunuchs. Fushimi is befriended by boisterous servant Yata, who shows him all the ropes and tells him about the ‘frilly pretty guy with glasses’ who’s in charge of the inner palace operations. The first time Fushimi sees Munakata he doesn’t get what the fuss is about, that guy is definitely weird and creepy (also while servants in the inner palace can be male the one in charge is assumed to be a eunuch, so you have Fushimi thinking Munakata’s like that the whole time). What Fushimi doesn’t know is that Munakata is basically in disguise, he’s actually the future heir to the throne and is basically showing his competency and abilities by pretending to be a mere official even as he directs everything in the inner palace to his liking.
At some point there’s a scandal due to the unexplained death of an infant in the inner palace and Munakata naturally takes charge in finding out what the issue is. As he’s doing his investigation he gets an anonymous tip about the face powder the concubines are using, though Fushimi did his best to be sure he wouldn’t be caught Munakata still finds out that Fushimi was the one who solved the case. This makes him very intrigued, there appears to be a particularly skilled servant in the palace. He maneuvers things so that grateful concubine Awashima (who is one of the highest ranked concubines but also semi-working for Munakata behind the scenes) takes Fushimi on as one of her personal servants. Munakata of course uses this as pretext to visit Fushimi constantly and put new unexplained cases in front of him, Fushimi is annoyed by having to do all this work but somehow it isn’t so bad either, having someone who believes in Fushimi’s abilities to this extent.
Of course eventually there’s a big garden party and as one of Awashima’s attendants Fushimi has to attend, which is when they all find out how pretty he is. Normally Fushimi keeps his hair all messy and has big thick glasses and maybe he even seems slightly tanned normally or wears color contacts that make his striking blue eyes brown, but that’s all an act — he learned quickly living in the brothel that being a slim pale pretty boy would make him a target. When he arrives at the garden party he’s got all that makeup and disguise removed though, he’s given a more stylish pair of glasses and his hair is more combed and of course he’s so pale and gorgeous looking. Munakata has been looking for Fushimi specifically to give him a hair pin and almost overlooks him, for once struck speechless by the sight of this ‘real’ Fushimi. He recovers quickly of course, noting that Fushimi is indeed even more skilled than Munakata ever would have thought. He puts the hairpin in Fushimi’s hair and Fushimi assumes this is just a weird court thing, having no idea why everyone else keeps looking at him and whispering.
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This summer I was fortunate enough to find a wild yeast bloom on one of my chokecherry trees. I harvested & dried those chokecherries, then soaked them in water til they fermented. Then I used that levain to jumpstart a buckwheat/sweet white rice flour gf sourdough starter. (The picture is literally day one, now it’s so bubbly it looks like hot air)
((If you don’t know what hot air candy is, oh my god run don’t walk to your nearest fancy candy store and try some NOW))
But the thing is? Right after I got this starter established, I needed to go overseas for 2 weeks and Mr61below already had far too much on his plate, so I put it in the fridge so he’d only need to feed it once. But the cold really did a number on it, and it took me two whole weeks to get it bubbly again. I was legit concerned I’d gone and fully killed it. But, now it’s happily churning away again, and this is my second loaf made with this baby.
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