went to the mechanic by myself today to get my car fixed BY MYSELF BTW and i stood there like this 🧍♂️ while three (3) mechanics roasted my car for 45 minutes (she has some issues but she tries her best!!) and i didn’t cry or call my dad until after it was all over 🙂↕️
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seen a couple posts about the silly sexy crossword in the hideaway last volume but none of yall are talking about when your LI starts threatening the safety of Gotham City
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Logan: *follows clues of a puzzle that lead to a building*
*Roman and Remus are already there*
Roman: Oh hey.
Logan: Aw fuck! How did you beat-?
Roman: Yeah, there’s a party at this club tonight and-
Logan: But- but the clues? The clues??
Remus: The clues lead to the party!
Roman: But there’s an address on the back of the paper if you don’t want to follow the clues!
Logan: Are you fucking kidding-?
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Okay I'm sorry but
I think the older Hiccup looks MUCH better in the original concept art, I mean damnnn 👀👀💦💦💦
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you ever think about how happy and good of friends they would have been had they met under better circumstances and lived long enough to spend any significant time with each other ☹️☹️☹️
excerpt from war of two by john sedgwick
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in hindsight the funniest part of the recurring cow jokes is that john says he built the wall out of cows and a bunch of sheep, and no one, not a single soul, seems to have spoken up on behalf of the sheep at any point fjsdkfhsajk. why the livestock sympathy inequality. why the cattle bias. I recognize that sheep are -- to be fair -- quite annoying to deal with, but if you prick them do they not bleat etc., it doesn't seem fair for them to get forgotten in the middle of all this
(the description of 'it was at this point that he had the grace to look embarrassed (may we even go so far as to say... sheepish)'... god stop being the funniest bitch in the world john I'm mad at you)
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Ive seenyou mention wuxia a few times now and i wonder what that is. Would you mind explaining it to me?
not the most qualified person to explain this as i'm not, in fact, from china; but i've read a couple of wuxia so here goes:
wuxia is a genre of fiction from china specifically, about martial artists in ancient china. i don't think a specific time period is like required? obviously some dynasties are more popular but idk how it goes in that front. it just has to be Not Today and probably Too Long Ago. like pre industral revolution i think. again idk if that's a requirement, but most i've seen are from around the same relative murky pre-electricity era.
xianxia is a subgenre of wuxia that's specifically more fantasy-like, and it's not just martial arts, but also spiritual powers and cultivation (which i have no fucking clue how to explain without two hours and three tangents other than chinese magic system. if you've ever heard of chi/qi as an energy, it appears there). so like- genshin is by all accounts a xianxia, it just doesn't use the more common specific xianxia terms like cultivation. some of those are very weird to translate and probably not common for the average non-wuxia reader, so it makes sense why they're going for alternatives.
chongyun and xingqiu and xianyun are very much straight out of a xianxia. xianyun's entire story quest was the closest genshin has gotten to a straight xianxia plot so far. i highly reccomend ashikai's video on unnecessary visions if you want more info on why genshin is a xianxia hahah
cyanide narwhal has some talk of some stuff from xianxia, but that's mostly because well- fucking liyue, that's how it works there. the whole light energy striking down someone who's getting powerful and giving them godhood if they survive the strike is, while not exactly like that, something that happens in some xianxia as well.
like the way adepti work in general is just very xianxia. ashikai does a much better job explaining it than i do tbh but yeah
TL;DR: wuxia is chinese martial arts fiction in ancient china, and xianxia is a wuxia subgenre with more magic elements. also genshin is a xianxia
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On my nth reread of Candide and only now paying attention to the fact that Cunégonde realises Pangloss is full of shit approximately nine light years before Candide does
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it's really funny how my brain works sometimes. it just tried to hit me with the ol' "hey. hey. you don't actually matter your friends forgot about you at the festival" but then yesterday's clubshow parried that whole thing so effectively with a "the bassist od that band that pulled you on stage last year remembered you And He Wasn't Even At That Festival Last Year" that i haven't thought about it since i've just been swinging between being emotional and exhilarated about last night bc the band is so fucking cool
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