#the situation has gotten so out of hand

[shiloh-game]

Not my usual post but something

So I play very girly games, and one of the is "CocoPaPlay" it's dress up social game where there are competition promos, new clothes and theme

But it's there 10th anniversary, and one the thing they did was bring out some of there character and mascot.

You see were I'm going with this

Two of the characters they used where a town character who a goth and a character from a mini they got rid of, the shepherd

Everyone is OBSESSED WITH THEM, and rightfully so

So here art BECAUSE THERE IS NO FAN ART OF THE CHARACTERS

Which is a shame because they look so awesome

Shepard and Brad people (yes the goth man is named Brad)

Here what they look like in game

They're like twigs, I love them

[lazycranberrydoodles]

modern AU where they meet again at the fast food place Xie Lian works at and Hua Cheng has to figure out how to romance a customer service employee

[pippuns]

the only thing that could have improved SVSSS is if shen jiu was in the background providing scathing hateful commentary the entire time. i want to see him and shen yuan eat each other alive <3

[rock-a-noodle]

Can everyone PLEASE leave Illymation tf alone?

"She used clickbait in her video" UM in some states they stupidly classify removing tumors from your uterus as an abortion because they're "living and growing" EVEN IF THEY ARE DANGEROUS.

Somebody made a video tearing apart her Being the Fat Kid video and even stooped low to the point of making fun of her posture, clothes, skin, and glasses. Idfc if you are doing it in the name of being "health conscientious," you don't insult people's appearance, especially if it's not related to the topic at hand. And yes she takes selfies of herself with fast food, but that's not the ONLY food she eats and her drawing herself with Frosted Flakes and the end title with various food that's not 100 percent healthy. It's a cartoon she's not actually eating that.

Also, her videos aren't aimed at kids that's just her artstyle, moreso 13+. You're assuming all cartoons are for kids based on her style.

And your reaction to her responding how one would normally reply to this is to call her a crybully.

Do you research and grow tf up people.

[starsfromtoulon]

anthony "big dumb beautiful brown eyes" andrews as sir percy blakeney, the scarlet pimpernel 1982.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

I need a capri sun and then I need to be torn apart molecule by molecule

[autumnrory]

woooo my niece took 5 of my 13 lego sets, one of which was one of the three larger ones, so that's one huge box out of the way and i'm just glad she wanted them because like they ARE twenty years old and they look fine ofc but sometimes kids aren't gonna want stuff that isn't new and shiny ya know, but she did seem to want everything which would've been fine with me but i knew there was no way they would take all that with them, and at least i still have stuff of my own to sell, plus should get at least a cut of my brother's stuff for doing the inventory and putting together that stuff that wasn't already done

[feroluce]

smth smth yingfeng paralleling farcille

(magically inclined long lived partner tries to defy death by bringing their short lived partner back to life/have immortality but they come out Wrong(tm) instead)

just. the parallels <3

RIGHT? Like oh my god I love the idea of it: a mortal and immortal character falling in love, and the immortal one doing something horribly taboo for them to be together forever. But maybe they fuck something up, or maybe it's just their punishment for playing god, but their now-immortal lover Comes Back Wrong.

I'm actually not caught up on dunmeshi (I get the gist of farcille from socmed, though) but I really like an Inuyasha/Kikiyo flavor to it- Mortal lover is full of rage and hatred, immortal one can't not love them, and then they romantically and dramatically die together murder-suicide style and drag each other to hell. You know, the good shit. ☆

It is one of my ideal dynamics for a bad end pairing. And I do like necromancy shenanigans with a happier/good end, like farcille style too! Just...I don't like either situation for yingyue.

I don't think there's anything wrong with playing with them that way as long as you don't pass it off as canon, like I say all of this with no judgment. But I'm picky and I like to follow canon more closely so I can't really see them in that kind of scenario haha.

It's just! Yingxing's whole deal is that he's a haughty, spiteful, arrogant asshole of a man whose life mission is to be such a damn good craftsman that he can tell all the Xianzhou Natives who looked down on him to suck his short life species dick and flip them the bird. Him being made immortal takes all the fun out of it for me and kinda removes a central part of his character. I LOVE him being petty and full of himself. He should do it more!

And I am so so dearly enamored with the relationship between him and Baiheng. I can't write her out of the whole equation, especially considering she and Yingxing both Came Back Wrong from this incident, and she was the actual intended target.

Like. He loved her. Yingxing loved her. Baiheng was so, so important to him. She's referred to as "the beloved" in Blade's character stories. He called her his bosom friend. He handmade a jade flask just for her.

Not a weapon,

not something she needed,

not something he was doing to show off,

just a flask.

Something pretty, and just for her, something that she would like and use everyday. Not a need, but a want. He did it simply because he wanted to give her a present.

She was the first person to really encourage and believe in him. She helped him come out of his shell (so all that arrogance is her fault BSMZJMS). That animated short where they went up in her star skiff together and she called him cute fucking killed me. They make me chew concrete.

And she was really important to Dan Feng too! He wouldn't have tried to bring her back, otherwise! She died saving him. And he knew what he was doing when he chose to try to bring her back as a Vidyadhara. He had to have. There's no way he couldn't have known that his life was forfeit after this. They don't let you get away with purposely breaking one of the Ten Unpardonable Sins like that.

And he chose to do it anyway. He still chose her life over his own. Dan Feng loved her, too.

He and Yingxing both worked together to try to bring her back because she was someone neither of them could bear to lose.

So if anything, I feel like yingyue is more like larcille bringing back their beloved Falin haha

But no matter who is romantically involved with who, like. It's the love between all three of them that's important.

That's the secret ingredient that makes the triumph of Falin's rebirth and the horrific tragedy of the Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae so emotional. Because these were things that could not have happened unless they all loved each other.

[yeonban]

You know you're incredibly dear to Tobias if he allows you to use his Wammy letter even without discussing what you'll be using it for with him beforehand ('use his Wammy letter' meaning the resources it comes with, the networks it allows him to access, the direct contact with nation/army/church/etc leaders across the globe etc). The use of a Wammy letter could easily grant you access to anyone / anything, and if used poorly it could definitely lead to even the WW3 the orphanage was created to divert history from in the first place. To date, the only person Tobias has this much trust in and fondness of is Elijah, who technically already has access to these same resources, but Tobias' letter ("T") has more reach than "E" because he's used it more in order to deepen the connections he's been given, whereas Elijah's whole schtick has always been to remain in the shadows.

Although tbh, more or less the same can be said for his "Tobias" persona too. If he allows you to use it as you see fit without telling him about it first, it means the same thing as above - the main difference being that he'd find it easier to allow you to use "Tobias" over "T". Tobias and T could make anything happen (which is why he wanted the letter in the first place - it grants him resources he could've never even DREAMED of); Tobias works for nearly everything shady/non-legal you might think of, whereas T works for everything legal under the sun, including contacting presidents and demanding something of them with a tested and tried 99.9% success rate (of them saying yes to the demand).

[kohakhearts]

awake 2 hours before my alarm? well happy early wip wednesday, then

From the other room, the sound of paws hitting the floor draws Goh’s attention behind him just as Umbreon enters the kitchen. She pauses right in front of him and sits down, eyes boring into him.

He crunches into his toast. She stares.

It’s never occurred to him before, but as Umbreon continues to size him up, he wonders if Gary learned that trick from her, or if she learned it from him. Whichever way it goes, as he finishes the second slice of toast, he decides it’s a lot more intimidating when Umbreon does it.

He turns around and drops the plate over Gary’s arm into the filled sink. The water splashes up on to his shirt; instantly, Gary’s glare is on him.

“A ‘thanks for breakfast’ would’ve sufficed.”

“Maybe if you’d put something a little more gourmet than butter on it, I would’ve.” Goh steps back, shrugging. “Let me know when you’re ready to go. I’ll be busy swallowing my stupid pride in the meantime.”

He leaves the kitchen, steadfastly ignoring the way both Umbreon’s and Gary’s eyes follow him as he goes. He gives himself credit for the fact that jaw only clenches a little bit when he hears Gary say to her just before the bathroom door slams shut, “Think I should’ve told him to do something about that stick up his ass too?”

“please stop implicating the dog in your domestic violence” challenge failed

[arlo-venn]

This is psychological warfare

[dan-crimes]

I gotta complain abt being a picky eater here for a sec cuz I'm lookin @ all this stuff on the breakfast menu and there's always the SAME ingredients in all these SAME food items and it would be SO much easier if I could just order food without having to think of all the stuff I DON'T want on my food cuz I always gotta put in so much effort to look into every single ingredient in every since food item that I order bcuz I DON'T LIKE MOST FOODS !!! SMHH !!

[marsdemo]

guy;s im not going to lie to you new wolfwood looks like shite

[lilgynt]

shit my partner has done in the last 48 hours: one. make fun of my dad who just got out of the hospital bc he beat me as kid allegedly two. slapped my ass in front my old coworkers bc she genuinely hates their guts

[scientia-rex]

When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”

He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)

I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.

What is your objective?

Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.

I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.

I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.

Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.

Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.

How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?

Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.

Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?