Okay can I just say I mostly definitely typed “repeat” when I first made this post and my phone fucked it up? 😒 because I went back and corrected it once and then I guess didn’t notice the second time. I was already annoyed that it had changed dyke to Duke.

At the dyke bar ordering a “She/Them Tiddies” cocktail from a bartender in a she/they pronoun pin who then had to ask me to repay it, presumably on purpose. Will keep you updated if the meet cute proceeds as the trope suggests.

i think alphas should become pliant and submissive when their knot gets squeezed

Hilarious update: if anyone remembers my “I don’t want to write a TOUR in a HALLWAY” complaints from a few months ago, I did end up having to write a tour in a hallway, and I had two major practical points where I was like “this will be a problem” and my superiors were like “no it won’t.”

Improving my mood by spending $70 on one book I’ve been wanting to get for a while and one book that I saw and snatched up immediately.

I had a really frustrating meeting at work today where basically like… for three years one of the main things I’ve done at my job is write tours (virtually All of Every tour we’ve done since I’ve been hired), and I’ve always gotten feedback/edits but been consistently told they’re great.

I'm never NOT in a mood for leatherman Nie Mingjue (unless I'm in the mood for leatherbutch NMJ) but GOD. today I am IN IT. if only the rest of the fandom was as committed to the vision 🥺

Me in January: This year I'm going to focus on my original writing and not overburden myself with fic commitments. I'm going to do this one bingo fic and that's it. Me in February: ...And the Big Bang. Me in March: ...And the RBB. Me in October: And the SXX exchange that should go w/o saying. 😐

When you think about it, Meng Yao kind of worked in customer service and that makes everything he did make a lot more sense [ #mdzs #mengyao #fanart ]

at least he tried

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

i think their stage play hairdos are so cute!! idk you but this is all i could think about when i saw that one photo... predictably #songxue

Saint Bernard and the Virgin, by Alonso Cano, 1645-52, 📸 by @MilesKennedy

"They're very comfortable," Xiao Xingchen says as Song Lan laces up his boots. Song Lan likes his boots tight and knots his laces so he doesn't have to check them later. On one knee, he glances up at XXC. "I'm sure." He says because... because Xingchen is waiting for a response.

I'm watching a nine-hour Age of Scorpius review and godddd it makes me want to pick up a red pen SO BADLY. At one point the reviewer casually says "No one likes editing" and I was like ME I DO, LET ME EDIT THIS BOOK.

not quite the same but reminds me of Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills (Ram's Head and White Hollyhock, New Mexico), by Georgia O'Keeffe, 📸 by @emchinn

EVERY TIME a game goes into extra innings I get jumpscared by the Manfred man.

I realized I wanted another source on a specific aspect of Mongolian history, and lucky me I found a "20 best books about Mongolian history" blog post. Unlucky me, a full 10 of those books are "The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction," by four different authors.

Bohm goes the dynamite 💥

Phillies social media truly is elite

kind of bummed that the rare kink buffet closed before I thought of this but. will someone please let spoiled rich kid Jin Ling use his allowance from shushu to buy a stupid expensive sex doll? and then be humiliated by someone walking in on him using it?

Modern day NieYao sending this at 11PM to Xichen. Da-ge's had a drink or two, feeling loose, Meng Yao is very clearly like 'you up'. Lan Xichen who goes to bed at 9PM on the dot seeing it at 5AM the next day: TT_TT

me going into a really popular fandom then choosing to obsess over the rarepair:

Okay I need to crowdsource opinions: if you read/write manga/anime fanfiction, would you find it more natural for a POV character to be referred to in the narration with their given name or family name?

I’m gonna work on a fic for a little-known manga, specifically the ship I have been WAITING for someone to write (in English) since TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT to no avail.

I’m in an awkward space rn where I really want to write on the clock, but I don’t want to work too much on my Big Bang fic for fear it will be finished way too early given it’s a collaborative event, I can’t work on my RBB fic because it hasn’t been assigned, and my only other active work is

Tired, middle aged Jiang Cheng

🗝️Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan 🗝️3.7k 🗝️Chastity devices 🗝️First time/wedding night 🗝️background jgs remaining the worst as always

it needs a good edit, but I'll probably have another fic for my kink bingo series tomorrow. so far my m/f chapters are noticeably longer than my m/m chapters, which is uncharacteristic.

rewatching CQL clips for reference and wow Xiao Zhan is very charming and Wei Wuxian is a great character. crazy how no one ever talks about this.

I was randomly reminded earlier this week that my Downton Abbey epistolary fic inspired partly by Oscar Wilde's De Profundis is like. easily one of the best things I've ever written.

I have to share some excerpts from this fantastic article in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Can't sleep so I clicked through the rare kink prompt page and ended up submitting one I am lovingly referring to as "Dirtbag Da-ge" in my head. Nie Mingjue fucking [person of the author's choosing] mostly if not exclusively because he knows it will piss Jin Guangyao off.

One of my nearby neighbors occasionally opens a window and plays music at a volume that would be mildly annoying if it weren't for the fact that their music taste and mine align VERY well.

Terracotta desire, adoration glaze. (2023)

aw I was just clicking through the rare kink challenges and one of them is a perfect match for a scene in my upcoming big bang. hopefully someone else claims it so they don't have to wait until October, tho.

doing macrame with undyed string feels so xiao xingchen-coded

For our country, Philadelphia

yeah. I know it feels like you should just be able to write the perfect words first time. if you go slow enough, you should be able to just find each next perfect word. but it's not like that. it's like a bicycle. too slow & you fall. it has to be in motion even awkwardly to get where you're going.

birdy bunting, as promised! I only took one hasty picture before the party started, IDs in the alt text

What are your favorite bird-themed songs? Making a party playlist. Bonus points for the ones that name obscure/specific birds--I checked a few existing playlists and noticed none of them had Hozier's Shrike, for example. Save my guests from having to hear the word "bird" 5 million times in a row.

Just found out my new tour script is going to be reviewed by the two most academia-brained employees in the unit and I’m. Not going to get preemptively irritated with it but aughhhhhhhhhh.

It just occurred to me that a lot of bad MDZS discourse comes from people inappropriately applying a Prince of Egypt Moses/Ramses dynamic to Wei Wuxian/Jiang Cheng. Like there are surface-level similarities but they are Not the same.

"Does he spark joy?" with XY remains possibly the best shitpost in a fandom that contains many.

Heated Ravelry

this is majestic as fuck

THE FANFICTION. nobody here follows me for this but. 📜 On the Nature of Women 📜 The Queen's Thief - Kamet/Costis (Rule 63) 📜 12k Kamet and Costia have differing philosophies on gender and sex, but they reach a satisfying resolution. archiveofourown.org/works/80018366

I have been like 300 words away from finishing a fanfiction for three hours and I keep having to stop to talk to people at my job. About a topic that I love and could yap about recreationally for hours! BUT THE FANFICTION—

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

Happy birthday, #JinGuangyao & #JinZixuan 🎉✨️ #金子轩0220生日快乐 #金光瑶0220生日快乐 #TheUntamed/ #CQL #cdrama #mdzs #mxtx