#so precise

[psalidodont]

marie the hagfish

[mellosdrawings]

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I would sell my soul to them for a corn chip.

Life is unfair 😞

[heartbeats-exe]

A rogue cultivator sneers at Shen Jiu during a summit: “Your reputation precedes you, Peak Lord Shen. Cold. Cruel. Unlovable.”

Shen Jiu, folding his fan with a sharp snap: “Oh? And yours doesn’t precede you at all. Likely because no one cares to remember you.”

He tilts his head, smile like a blade, voice smooth as poison and twice as fast-acting: “Tell me—did mediocrity feel like destiny, or was it a surprise? Or are you simply proud of having clawed your way to insignificance?”

The man opens his mouth. Shen Jiu doesn’t let him speak.

“Please, spare us your lineage. I already know it. A long, prestigious line of disappointments, each more forgettable than the last. You speak as though your opinion bears weight, but even your presence barely casts a shadow.”

He walks closer, circling once like a cat toying with a bleeding bird. His voice drops, every syllable enunciated with scalpel-precise contempt.

“You call me cold? That’s laughable, coming from someone who’s never burned hot enough to be remembered. Cruel? If I were truly cruel, I’d pretend to respect you. And unlovable?”

Shen Jiu leans in, smile gone—eyes narrowed, utterly, devastatingly unimpressed.

“Fool. Men twice as worthy have begged to crawl between my knees for a fraction of my attention. What have you ever inspired besides boredom and pity?”

He turns his back without ceremony, flicking his fan open once more like a judge pronouncing a death sentence.

“If you want relevance so badly, next time bring a blade, not your tongue. At least then we’d have a reason to remember you.”

The rogue cultivator looks like he aged a decade. One of his sleeves might be damp from silent tears. No one breathes.

Liu Qingge, in the back, visibly sweating: “Is this a duel or foreplay ??” Yue Qingyuan, staring glassy-eyed at Shen Jiu’s mouth: “I fear I may have developed a condition.” Mu Qingfang, flatly: “Do you need medical attention?” Liu Qingge: “Yes. For… heart demons.”

[brushstrokes-art]

POV: You are a supercomputer looking at your favourite little construct. (+ alt under the cut)

[thatwavephenomenon]

No but the 'team meeting' after the fall of Weisshaupt was so. unorganic or unnatural. 'What a crushing defeat, maybe we should focus on our mental health now to do better next time.' Like hello??? This is not your job of which you had to take a step back from because your boss is an asshole?? You are all at war against two gods who keep Resident Eviling the world?????? I mean it's not such an awful idea but it's executed rather poorly. Like the game was this close to display a message saying 'You have just finished one of the main quest. You should focus on the companion's quests next.'

[sualne]

mithrun sketch to celebrate

[great-and-small]

Imagine if you asked a baker to make you a chocolate chip cookie and instead of doing that they started with an oatmeal raisin cookie and then spent millions of dollars to genetically engineer flatter, rounder raisins that look more like chocolate chips. I guess that would be kind of a neat thing they were able to do and maybe it would be helpful in some other situation but I probably wouldn’t feel like they’d made me an actual chocolate chip cookie.

That’s kinda how I’m feeling about this “De-Extincted” Dire wolf thing

[katemartin17]

"My trusty civilian volunteer and I"

I'm not sure whether to be super happy and excited over the "trusty" or burst out laughing at Kaeya basically referring to Diluc as just a common civilian HAHAHAHA

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?

[queenofsf]

wip

[skoff-the-artist]

A spell gone wrong RIGHT!!!

[himemeiya]

Fuck you *unwhitewashes your Anthy*

[boarloved-art]

[ID: MDZS fanart of Nie Mingjue kissing Lan Xichen as he plays his guqin. The two smile into the kiss, and offset panels show them smiling sweetly at each other once the kiss ends. End ID]

lans may not accept payment for their services generally however id say this counts

[ilions-end]

i love the part of sophocles' ajax where odysseus very carefully, very diplomatically debates agamemnon, trying to convince him that ajax deserves a proper burial

some of my favourite lines:

AGAMEMNON: Odysseus, are you for me or are you against me, and for this man? ODYSSEUS: I hated him when it was honourable to hate him.

!!

ODYSSEUS: He was my enemy, but he was also noble. AGAMEMNON: And you have respect for an enemy's corpse? ODYSSEUS: I am moved by admiration for his greatness, rather than by hatred for his smallness. AGAMEMNON: He was a man of many turns. ODYSSEUS: Many of our friends later become enemies. AGAMEMNON: But do you wish to praise these so-called friends? ODYSSEUS: I do not see friends and enemies as mutually exclusive.

and the finishing blow:

AGAMEMNON: I see now that every man works for himself. ODYSSEUS: Who else should a man work for?

[melkingmd]

It's always been a deconstruction of a hero. It’s always been: let's build a hero that seems incredibly capable, incredibly knowledgeable, trustworthy, dependable, responsible, and then chip away at him. And so in the moment when you expect him to come riding in on the white horse, the horse comes in without its rider.

(Noah Wyle on Dr. Robby)

[sunny-and-vicious]

Inspired by @rowantarctic, I did an emerald duo bag