All of those events involve spectacles, celebrities, and obscene amounts of money. Notably, the Met Gala is the only one that's a charity for a public institution. What upsets people isn't the actual money or celebrities, but the notion of fashion. The more unusual the outfits, the more outrage.

But such outfits offend people — really offend people — because people don't think of clothes as anything more than consumables. It's notable to me that the Met Gala gets compared to the Hunger Games, whereas such criticism is rarely levied at the Oscar's red carpet or the Super Bowl halftime show.

(that feeling when your mom is your imaginary friend)

never have I ever (another round) 🍻 modern AU 🍻 Wei Ying is being weird 🍻 Lan Zhan is freaking out 🍻 everyone is hungover 🍻 chapter 4/5, rated T

I think I’m gonna need to up this chapter count again. There’s no way I’m wrapping up this fic in chapter 4 🫠

All right, friends. I need to get some serious writing done this weekend, so I’m trying a trick I’ve seen suggested before—giving myself clear and obvious permission to write bad 😆

Aaaaah! Everyone look! For my birthday Stormy wrote a surprise new chapter of their post-apocalyptic junker WWX fic! Everyone go read this phenomenal little fic and tell them how great it is!

So glad Word ruined their once-functional grammar check by incorporating AI into it. This doesn’t make my life harder at all. Whatever would we do without suggestions like this.

Love that even my friend who doesn’t go here can’t avoid being infected by my brain rot.

WWX as a jigsaw puzzle world champion, and LWJ as a documentary filmmaker doing a series about niche competition circuits

Happy Ace Day! 🖤🩶🤍💜

I really need to start working on the last chapter of Never Have I Ever, since that one has an Actual Deadline. Stormy’s birthday is so soon!

Do we still do WIP Wednesday? Because I actually have a WIP Wednesday for once! Making slow but steady progress on lighthouse fic, now with more pirate shenanigans!

It’s finally time! I’m starting the second half! A few minutes into sorting, and I’m already regretting my life choices. Sorting 3500 puzzle pieces is such a slog

This too is Jiang Cheng

I’m at a soccer game, and suddenly I’m feeling a powerful need for a wangxian soccer AU.

Gonna start billing extra for pain and suffering whenever I have to fact-check spider facts for a copyedit.

Something lurks behind Lotus Pier… #MDZS #LanWangji #WeiWuxian

youtube chose violence tonight, just coming for me like "you haven't watched this video in a while, better put it at the top of your feed so you can revisit the emotional damage" youtu.be/Mdw-lxD0YlI?...

Wangxian meet cute

Several months into a jigsaw puzzle fixation, and I’m about to start a 7,000 piece puzzle. Curious to find out if this will be the one to break me.

I love Kip’s dad

The icicles on my house are wild!

…what if I start watching Heated Rivalry again for the third time?

Publishing timelines in TV shows and movies are hilarious. Ma’am, you are not ready to go to print with that manuscript you just finished reading for the first time. That is not how that works.

I just realized we’re coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the first chapter of my first wangxian fic (which still isn’t finished, lol oops) Stormy and I are planning to celebrate by having the next chapter ready to post by then. Good motivation to not take two years between chapters this time 😅

fall to pieces (fall in place) 🧩 modern cultivation AU 🧩 WWX & LQR centric 🧩 CSSR/WCZ/LQR 🧩 casefic if you squint 🧩 7.5k, rated T

Oh good, my heat’s out again. What fun.

yoho, a pirate’s life for me co-written with the fabulous storm_songs ⚓️ a Ghosts of All Things That Are bonus fic ⚓️ pirate WWX ⚓️ stowaway A-Yuan ⚓️ A-Yuan is really going through it (sorry) ⚓️ 2k, rated T

Chapter 9 is finally up, just two short years after we posted chapter 8! This seemed like a good time to make an official promo post for the fic as a whole, since apparently I never did that over here. (Promo post incoming soon for the little bonus fic in this series)

ghosts of all things that are ⚓️ a wangxian pirate AU ⚓️ lighthouse keeper LWJ ⚓️ pirate WWX ⚓️ seaside pining and swashbuckling adventure

Called OUT for showing up to my own fic two years late with starbucks 😂

Finally watching 10Dance, and you will all be SHOCKED to learn that I can’t stop thinking about wangxian

Stormy and I have fallen into a delightful strategy for working on lighthouse fic: have a writing session, spend the next three months talking about how we need to finish the chapter, have another writing session where we can't decipher any of our notes from three months ago. 0/10 do not recommend

I have heat again! 🎉

I can’t believe I made it through this much of my life without knowing that I could dust the pan with sugar. I continue to be in awe of how successfully my tiny bundt cakes come out now!

Me: I think I’ll make February a low spending month. My boiler:

please know when I use the ✨ emoji, I do not mean anything to do with AI. they stole my emoji from me.

Thinking about the the LWJ/LQY/JZX friendship trifecta again

Does anyone know of a site like redbubble or etsy but with a policy against AI slop?

I went to an Elden Ring concert today, and now I’m like…do I need to play Elden Ring?

When kindergarten teacher WWX gives his class a lesson on entomology, A-Yuan is over the moon, because “That’s my baba’s job! He never TOLD me his job is bugs!” He’s so excited to ask LWJ about his bugs job after school.

I keep thinking of modern A-Yuan having a bug phase and always asking to go check the bug books to identify the ones he finds in the garden. Meanwhile single Dadji: 😬 When WWX enters the picture and starts taking care of Bug Time, LWJ decides to propose.

It’s here! An 8k word bonus chapter about WWX superfans A-Qing and Mianmian on a quest to find and befriend their new concert buddy who is totally, definitely WWX’s boyfriend! 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/45079345/chapters/204277606

It’s here! An 8k word bonus chapter about WWX superfans A-Qing and Mianmian on a quest to find and befriend their new concert buddy who is totally, definitely WWX’s boyfriend! 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/45079345/chapters/204277606

I am in formatting hell. Remind me not to write a fic with so many text messages and social media posts ever again

Guess what just came back to me!! I think I might be posting the new bonus chapter tomorrow!

Love discovering that someone already wrote the fic that has been plaguing me. Now I can read it without having to write it first! The question is, will this scratch the itch or make it worse? I give it 50/50 odds I start drafting an amnesia fic this weekend 😆

I am once again feeling a powerful urge to write an amnesia fic

Historical costumer LWJ, who posts detailed videos of his work recreating historical clothing using the tools and materials that would have been available in the era. His videos are both soothing and informative.