#romance of our parents

[chineseredcarpet]

Romance of Our Parents stars Guo Tao, Mei Ting, Liu Lin and Liu Yijun reunite at Weibo TV & Internet Video Summit 2023 as the drama is soon to celebrate its 10th anniversary since premiere

[bird-likes-to-fandom]

i think kissing a girl would fix me

[punkeropercyjackson]

No because it's genuinely flabbergasting how often Rick contradicts himself with calling Percabeth the perfect couple

Poseidon said 'The sea does not like to be restrained' in reference to Percy and Piper said Annabeth 'keeps him in line'.Percy directly said to Annabeth he wishes she'd be nicer to him and she responded 'I am never going to make things easier for you'.Percy straight up insulted Annabeth in his narration for not treating him like Rachel does(the 'unlike some other girls' line)and Annabeth deadass started crying because she hated that Percy's approach to their romance wasn't as direct as hers.They find eachother's interests stupid and lame.Percy is an abuse survivor and has resigned himself to Annabeth's constant hitting he never returns as seen by 'Nah,you'd just beat me up' followed by Annabeth laughing in agreement.Even after they start dating,Annabeth has ZERO trust in Percy's to be faithful to her seeing as she assumed he'd gotten with Hazel literally just for standing next to him in a friendly way and used Rachel as ammo to make him nervous on purpose for her amusement because 'you gotta keep your boyfriend on his toes' and it's topped off by the fact Percy quickly gently letdown Reyna because he remembered her.Annabeth hates her hair and traditional femininity and Percy says it makes her look like a princess and thought she looked better than normal after Circe's makeover

They give eachother ZERO character development,Annabeth intensified Percy's insecurities big time and Percy enabled Annabeth's bad coping mechanisms just as much.Percy hates masculinity and is drawn to femininity but forces himself to act and look like a guy so he can be Annabeth's ideal macho boyfriend and Annabeth quirks herself up into a manic pixie dream girl instead of acting like herself to be Percy's It Girl.Percy hates fate and destiny and he's always told Annabeth is his by people who don't even know him.They don't even have any reasons to be attracted to eachother to begin with seeing as they find the other so annoying it's hard to believe they're not actually found siblings and the fact that all the other campers kept teasing them about liking eachother only adds fuel to it!I'm fucking loosing it,'Percabeth gave me my standards for romances' is one of the most depressing ship related things you can say i'm so serious

[breeistired]

I’d like to think that Regulus and James both adopted or had a child together.

AND THAT CHILD WOULD BE ME.

[aroaceleovaldez]

doodle page from a couple months ago of Nico having way too many immortal friends

also yes i did just use Nyx’s Hades design. it’s a good design.

[figure-skating-avocado]

Super niche, but I just saw someone comment on something saying that they can't comprehend the fact that figure skating qualifies as a sport and as a figure it kind of just ticked me off? Of course the skaters seen on TV are really good at it and they make it look easy but the amount of work that goes into training that isn't seen in competition isn't as pretty as what's shown on the screen. There's a lot of off ice training for cardio and strength in the form of fitness classes and there's also the on ice cardio training which is running program parts in addition to the full run through. AND THEN, so it looks good, there's ballet, and on ice movement, and theatre on ice etc. etc. etc. which makes you THINK it's more of an artform but I've gotten so many bruises from falling that I don't think I can call it art, more like pain. Honestly figure skating is a dangerous sport, there's so many risks that can lead to injuries, I've a couple of friends who have gotten concussed from bad falls and I call myself very fortunate for not having gotten any bad injuries that cause me to take time off (knock on wood) but all of the gross stuff that happens out of the shiny costumes is what gives figure skating the right to call itself a sport.

[theodoravery]

i'm like halfway through sos now and i think it's easily gonna be one of my faves once i'm done with it. which. doesn't really surprise me since it's by alice, who also wrote arcanum (another one of my faves). what does surprise me however, it's that she also wrote heaven's secret lol

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Duchess Hana Lee

Who else thought it was bull that Liam didn't name Hana as a duchess? She would make a far better duchess than mc, imo. In my hc, when Liam rewards MC with duchy Valtoria, he also rewarded Hana with a duchy of her own! The same duchy that House Aster owned centuries ago. I thought Hana was more Aster than Rosario and Everhart.

[impulsivelycontentious]

Kiddo wants to DM their first dnd and so we have given them a campaign and spouse and I have rolled our characters.

The rolling did not go great. Especially not for spouse. Poor bugger got two 6s and one 16. I got a 6, sure, but also a 17, and everything else 10 and over so. Doable.

Anyway while we chatted we developed pur concepts; which of course center on our respective dump stats - Intelligence, and Wisdom.

Oh yeah we're having fun with it.

So his concept is Scaly Himbo, and I am Sunshine chaos gremlin.

He is a juvenile dragonborn cleric; i'm an almost adult gnome paladin.

We have both recently begun questing. The head of my order, after a few decades of being terrorized with my lack of filter between thought and action and decidedly average intelligence, the umpteenth thousandth injury of someone who happened to chase me in to a dungeon i SHOULD NOT HAVE ATTEMPTED and walked out of fine, scratched out the title on an accounting book, wrote signatures on it, and told me to go and help 1,000 common folk and get their signatures in this book.

I accepted this without question.

Meanwhile in a peak of exasperation a town over, spouse's character (Strom) has driven his abbot to distraction and, likewise, been sent on a quest. He is to aid 3 people (a number he can count on one hand) in their epic quests.

I met him outside the door. The conversation went as follows:

"Hello. What's your name?"

"I'm Mouse!" (My name is mouse).

"You are not a mouse. You are a human baby." - dragonborn who was walking shortly after hatching and has never seen an infant human and just made some assumptions.

"Do you have an epic quest?"

"YES I DO! I HAVE TO HELP 1,000 PEOPLE AND FILL THIS BOOK WITH THEIR SIGNATURES!"

"I will help you, baby."

And then I show him my first two signatures (I delivered someone's bread and helped a very confused old lady across the road).

Some more highlights:

"omg HORSES!!!" - Upon seeing a cart with cargo everywhere seemingly abandoned in the middle of the road. [Roll for perception] [4] "I'M GOING TO PET THE HORSES!!!" Running in to the obvious trap. The armour class is 18 and we agreed I can do this as Mouse's wisdom renders her immune to common sense.

"Do Not Upset the Baby," says Strom to a goblin who fired an arrow at Mouse.

Gnome Paladin, str 17, repositions and throws a javalin through the Goblin for an instakill.

"You upset the baby." Sage nodding. Pulls the javelin out, returns it, and leans down for a low 5.

after the fight:

I'M PETTING THE HORSES! [Animal handling: nat 1] "HORSY I LOVE YOU!" the dragonborn who has known Mouse 2 hours and is already long suffering: [animal handling 17] I calm the horses. "You must be calm around animals. They do not like shouting."

"How old are you?"

"I'm 48!"

"That is a bit old to still be counting in months."

The kiddo is having a marvelous time. Our antics are hilarious.

[mikeyfrickinway]

I was telling my parent abt how Gerard Way was a fan of placebo and they just turned to me and went "oh he and Brian fucked for sure" I'm gonna lose my mind WHAT

[sleepapparition]

I kinda realized MalVicky is basically like the angel/demon version of Reylo. Like wow we really get it all, the vision romance, the mental connection, the soulmate lore, the enemies to lovers trope. Yup that’s the stuff right there.

[comet-wire]

Ngl I've been having a gender crisis again on top of all the stuff that's happened with my dad, I think I still identify as male/masculine idk 🗿

Same with my ace/aro spectrum placement ☝️🗿

[thirsty-4-ghouls]

So, I have a sapphire sapphire pair of veilspun that had a hatchling with mismatched genes, I also went pretty crazy with the valentines day genes so I have two of each left in my vault. I need to breed change but

I'm planning on changing him

into this

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Just a moment here to appreciate the worldbuilding of Elemental.

It's not every day I see an elements-based movie that doesn't feel like fanatasy or magic more than it feels scientific. I don't know how to explain it but the way the writers built the world made it feel magical without relying too much on magical elements.

Clearly, there is a fantasy element (no pun intended) with the people being made out of literal geological things, but there's a practicality and groundedness to it all that I really, REALLY love and want to see more of.

It's, in short, a magic that truly feels like science; or in other words, it establishes their abilities as something every day and then draws out the casual wonder of it all. Yes, Ember can glassblow and melt things and that's just a fact but she does it so artistically! It's wonderful and beautiful! Yes, Wade can squeeze through tight spaces and literally go anywhere not too hot. But he's powerful, he can hold back a mini flood just for a bit as well!

I don't know. It's just an aspect of worldbuilding that I love so much, normalizing something magical and then drawing the magic out of it again through the lens of other characters appreciating it.

[goldenwaves]

wanna play dnd so freaking bad but its only the start of the week fuck!!

[ierogenvy]

my sister thinks i’m crazy for wanting to go to wwwyf again next year just because mcr is playing “you’ve already seen them” “wait how much were tickets for this year” “you need to save money” “didn’t you say you weren’t gonna go unless the line up was life changing” but she doesn’t GET IT the lineup IS life changing