#yin and yang for real

[ssaraexposs]

It's literally been two seasons since they fought on the ship. I would surely hope things are different now!

[yearning4u0nly]

[lonelylesbian2]

how are you doing to look me in my EYES and tell me sskk aren't soulmates??? be that platonically or romantically. they're like the two people who would always be a duo/around each other in every single timeline. ever. they're LITERALLY yin and yang. atsushi is white hair with a bit of black in his hair. akutagawa is black hair with a bit of white in his hair. in this, akutagawa is yin and atsushi is yang.

HOWEVER, you could also take it the opposite ways where atsushi = tiger (Byakko! literally a white TIGER) and akutagawa = dragon (his first letters of his name is 'ryuu' = dragon). in this tho atsushi = yin and akutagawa = yang.

EITHER WAY they're meant to be together, they balance each other out. You cannot have yin without yang, you cannot have atsushi without akutagawa. you cannot tell me that the character design wasn't done on purpose to compliment each other, okay? i will not have that. you could argue against the ryuu one bcz they're already named after authors but the rest of it just seems too coincidental.

anyway they ARE soulmates.

[sufferingsokkatash]

Since I’m pretty new to tumblr, I felt like sharing some silly/fluffy zukka hc snippets that I haven’t put into writing form or they’re too short to turn into fics.

Zuko once made the mistake of calling Sokka his ‘panda lily’ and, despite being grown and kind of mature now, Sokka still sulked for an entire day because it wasn’t manly

The gaang go on a camping trip for old time’s sake but Zuko and Sokka keep Toph awake with their tent shenanigans, so Toph stands outside their tent at dawn and yells: WAKE UP FALL, proceeding to cause a mini rock fall around their tent. Our two favourite dumbasses cling on to each other, thinking it’s a real rock fall in the middle of the damn woods. Sokka laughs at the ‘wake up call’ pun later around the campfire

Zuko leaves a scroll of parchment under Sokka’s pillow for him to find and he titles it: Things of Utmost Importance to the Firelord. Sokka panics when he finds it and unrolls it more, thinking he’s been a terrible consort, but it just says: Sokka and Druk (Zuko rethinks this stance at 2am when Sokka is practicing boomerang throws in his sleep while Zuko is trying to cuddle him and Druk is singeing holes in their pillows because he’s dreaming about chasing Momo)

When Aang finally regales them all with the tale of Zuko rescuing him from Zhao dressed as the Blue Spirit, Sokka is super annoyed that this hot sounding alter ego with really tight black clothing, swords, and flexibility to make him faint is now at the bottom of Lake Laogai. He carves Zuko a new Blue Spirit mask based on Aang’s story and it looks nothing like the original. Zuko forgot to mention the one he threw into the lake was a copy

If anyone else wants to share theirs, please do, I love reading them on here ❤️

[marc--chilton]

anyways i just think it's crazy how house is more strongly affected by delivering news to patients that their diagnosis means death vs wilson, who literally works with Cancer patients, who is a little more desensitized to it. but yeah

[sstarfissure]

!! SPOILERS FOR II3 EP 19 !!

I FEEL SO BAD FOR CLOVER WE NEED CLOVERSPOON TO BE REAL LIKE DON'T DO THIS TO HER☹️

[tokumusume]

[laszlo-writes]

More vamp costume ref from Laura Montgomery’s Instagram! These Guide ones are all taken on-set vs the Nadja ones that looked like they were being done on a test background.

Hoping we’ll get to see more of both kinds of photos soon - I’d really love to see some wig-less shots of Kristen in Guide costume. I find pics like that so endearing!

Reminder to support Laura, especially since Emmy voting started yesterday!

[acesstark]

henry fox mountchristen winsdor has autism because I have autism and I said so

[deathbyoctopi]

lmao the Wens spending pretty much all the sunshot campaign looking for Xue Yang be like

I swear, he’s mentioned EVERY SINGLE TIME Wen Ruohan is onscreen, they are absolutely desperate to get him (his Yin iron shard) back

[fromthepurplehouse]

Balanced Duality - A copper mandala in which the duality of Yin and Yang exists in balance in the midst of chaos.

Find it at: https://www.fromthepurplehouse.art/abstract-fractal-art?pgid=lmf5urdx-dfffdf4b-b35c-437d-855d-b08e9eab4a18

[incarnelia]

an instance of daoist transgender sorcery

there's this old paper by isabelle robinet i reread like half a year ago which around the middle of p. 46 mentions an early medieval daoist text yuanshi wulao chishu yupian zhenwen tianshu jing which contains instructions for talismans which transform your gender. obviously that's pretty cool so here's my go at a translation. (i figured i might as well share it) i will admit i'm only a private student of classical chinese but the language is Relatively easy to follow and i'm reasonably confident in the majority of my translation (nonetheless i beg indulgence for any errors...). not to mention the ctext edition (this is the original with the talismans proper, this is the punctuated version that's the base for my translation) is extremely accessible . so here, i hope you enjoy maybe someone vaguely in my internet circle will get something out of this .

(something of a sequel to that citation on gender transformation as an ill omen in han times)

九天太素陽生符，元始付太上丈人，其文在赤書後劫，見日宮之陽。

The talisman of yang generation of the Great Simplicity in the Nine Heavens was handed down by the Primordial Commencement to the Old Man of the Most High; its text resided in the Red Writings. After an eon, it manifested the yang of the Sun Palace.

玄都紫微宮舊格，丹書白素，方五寸，清齋百日，入室思日精，含而吞之，與日同壽，天地俱存，思靈念真，形自能飛。存濁炁於口，符既出而死也。一名生真券，一名八威龍書。女吞此符後，生為男身。

According to the old rules of the Palace of Purple Tenuity in the Mysterious Capital, it is written in vermilion on white silk, five inches square. After pure fasting of a hundred days, enter the chamber and meditate on solar essence. Encompass and swallow it. One will share the same longevity with the sun, persisting together with Heaven and Earth — meditate on numinosity and think on perfection, and one's form will be able to fly of itself. If turbid qi is visualized in the mouth, then the talisman will leave and one will die. Another name is the certificate of generating perfection; another name is the dragon-writing of the Eight Majesties. After a woman swallows this talisman, they will generate a male body.

三天太玄陰生符，元始以付太上大道君，其文在赤書後二劫，見月之上館。

The talisman of yin generation of the Great Mystery in the Three Heavens was handed down by the Primordial Commencement to the Most High Great Lord of the Way; its text resided in the Red Writings. After two eons, it manifested the High Office of the Moon.

玄都紫微宮舊格，黑書黃繒，方五寸，清齋百日，入室思月精；含而吞之，與月同壽。道士欲尸解者，黑書木刀劍，抱而臥，即為代人形而死矣。行此宜精，他念穢濁于口，符即出，身即死。此符一名化形券，一名九陰靈書，男人吞此符後，化為女子。

According to the old rules of the Palace of Purple Tenuity in the Mysterious Capital, it is written in black on yellow silk, five inches square. After pure fasting for a hundred days, enter the chamber and meditate on lunar essence. Encompass and swallow it — one will share the same longevity with the moon. Daoists who desire liberation from the corpse should write it in black on a wooden sword, embrace it, and go to sleep; it will take on your human form and die. When practicing this proper essence, if one has other thoughts of filth or turbidity in the mouth, the talisman will leave, and the body will die. Another name for this talisman is the certificate of transforming forms; another name is the numinous writing of the Nine Yin. After men swallow this talisman, they will transform into women.

此二符，陰陽二氣，日月之精，自不精身苦志，慎輕服御，惟清齋合式，即能無窮。

With these two talismans—the Two Qi of yin and yang and the essences of the sun and moon—even if one does not refine one's own body or discipline the will, cautiously making light of clothing and deportment, and only engages in the ceremony of the pure fast, they will be able to be boundless.

[ii-ii-accout]

[yepthatsacowalright]

@hamish-linklater-btc found this video of Lily & Hamish at the Downtown Owl premiere and shared it on instagram (you're always so good at finding awesome Hamish-y things on the internet THANK YOUU) and I just really needed to be able to reblog it. <3

[sunflowercider]

[woofools]

Who the fuck is Natalie??