Turmoil/Clarity | #NieYao ⌗ author: ama (ao3) ⌗ artist: Keyjamm (ao3) ⌗ beta: jolybird (ao3) ⌗ rated: T 🔗 link on replies

one more sleep before big bang posting!! (first few chapters anyway)

this is a song lan appreciation post. what a guy

Been getting really into barley lately.

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Getting a great idea for a historical fiction novel only to subsequently learn it’s based on disputed facts… ouaghhhhhhh why must I have ethics? And how strong are they REALLY?

The tragedy is that wwx was like “obviously he needs his core to rebuild the sect” and jc was like “obviously i need my brother to rebuild the sect”

So many aspects of the Mongolian Empire are so fascinating. I read a LOT of history and I have rarely been so… entertained? In 1237 they laid siege to the walled city of Riazan by building another wall around it. I mean COME ON. 😂

Okay I'm watching the newest episode of Taskmaster and I can't believe they're treating "one" as a number in this task when they did NOT in season 18!! The injustice.

Delighted at all the people discovering akinator for the first time. Every few years I remember he exists and play it for like an hour straight.

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

we need more top shaming in fic. more coming too soon. more nervous boners. more this was supposed to be a threesome but *someone* had too good of a time and now there's no point, what are you even good for, I could've stayed at home with my dildo at least that stays hard until I'm done

Not just landlines, either—I still have my parents’ and my sister’s cell phone numbers memorized because my parents insisted we learn them in case our phone batteries died. Our Nokia phone batteries.

No. 3 fit like a GLOVE. Instantly the most comfortable boots I’ve ever tried. And this is why you need to try on shoes in person, because I was wary of the high shine and they are much closer to the other two in person. Still patent leather but not quite so Hercule Poirot.

This guy’s ONE JOB was to let some caravans pass through his province so his boss the sultan would get a friendly new trading partner by the name of Genghis Khan. And instead he spurred the creation of the largest contiguous land empire in human history. Nice job, guy.

Going boot shopping tomorrow and scoping out the website ahead of time like “gosh these are all soooo different I don’t know how I’ll choose.”

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Did one of my mutuals on here read Triple Sec and have strong opinions on it?? I remember knowing SOMEONE who did but for the life of me I can’t remember who or where.

You know how some apps make it so that they silence your music when you’re in the app and it’s really annoying? In the new Facebook update, it turns off my music when I LEAVE the Facebook app. It’s absolutely bizarre.

Not continuing the chain properly because this is an unoriginal thought but it’s got to be Let’s Go Birds Transsexual

as someone who has leather dom!Alexander Skarsgard-character WIPs from 2017 I am more than seated for this. about damn time.

Sesame bagel, scallion cream cheese, lox. There's one particular local shop that does PASTRAMI-SEASONED LOX and that is soooo good, I wish every place did that. just a nice little crust of pastrami seasoning on the edges.

people can be SO WEIRD sometimes. someone in the open thread posted a totally benign question about scheduling Outlook requests--namely, they assume someone will speak up if there's a conflict, and if the other person doesn't reply then they're planning to attend the meeting--and a commenter

I'm thinking of maybe making myself a sweater, possibly with a basic design like this. and hopefully most people will consider it Fashion but probably some knitters will be like "you didn't buy your yarn at once, did you?" and I will say NOPE.

Line goes up

Nothing like pasting an excerpt of truly spectacular classical literature into Google Docs and watching the blue “grammar error” lines appear. Shut up, computer, you know nothing of art.

Okay I’m not usually a huge XiYao writer but I’m thoroughly enjoying the dynamic between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane and I 100% think someone should write a XiYao AU about it.

Last night an event I normally love was less than great, I have spent a full hour of my day fighting with outlook, the playoffs are a bust, I meal prepped something that turned out bad, and even the cup of tea I made to cope ended up horribly oversteeped. Today is Not It. 🫠

some kind of split universe occurred circa 2022. there is a timeline out there where the Phillies won the World Series in the season with the dramatic turnaround, the big Harper and Hoskins moments, the underdog mentality. unfortunately, the timeline we're stuck in is... this.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

I don’t want to start any Real new fic before SXX exchange starts… what if I tinkered around with a lil omegaverse NieYao simultaneous bitching/studding fic. That’s so silly it doesn’t even count right?

LRP I had just finished telling a friend I was more excited about the postseason than scared (at least this first series) and then I got to that clip of Wheeler and was instantly like “no this is deadly serious, they MUST win, LOCK IN, BOYS.” #RedOctober 🧿❤️

All for October. #RedOctober

A while ago I came across a message in a fandom discord server from someone expressing their disappointment that every time they got a subscription email from me it was for [a different fandom] and I’m really annoyed at how much that stuck in my brain.

The Divorced NieYao Lifetime Movie Fic is officially coming to an AO3 near you on October 21! 🍿

anywhere and sometimes twice • Songxuexiao • Rated E 👁️ Xingchen's best friends don't get along 👁️ turns out they're actually dating 👁️ Xingchen discovers a voyeurism kink 👁️ Songxue are totally down with this 👁️ Oh My God They Were Roommates archiveofourown.org/works/71519096

Now up to 13 failed attempts to volunteer with different nonprofits, including one where I spoke with the director irl and she said “yes absolutely!” and told me to email her personally.

I have left emo night and am waiting for the bus in the rain, singing sea shanties to myself and giving directions to groups of wandering drunk women. In my Element.

Someone I work with has the exact opposite customer service instincts that I do and would make me incredibly annoyed/uncomfortable if I were a visitor and having to work in the same space with some frequency raises my blood pressure so much :/ but there’s nothing I can do!

Edmundo Sosa 3 homer game what is going on lmao

Watching the Phillies at the new women’s sports bar and

I had a dream that I was at a MLB doubleheader and the new way they did it was they alternated between games every inning. Switched pitchers, tracked two different scores, one of the teams even changed uniforms. It was the worst idea ever and I think someone should try it.

Friends, my (Jewish) New Year's resolution is to turn my mild appreciation of autumn squash into a passionate love for it. I already have a curried butternut squash soup recipe I like, but what else have you got?

Always fascinating to DNF a book within ~40 pages and see it has a high rating on Goodreads. Like wow I wonder if we read the same book.

Guys who fling their dumbbells around at the gym have to already know we all hate them, right? There have been enough memes about it. Get with the program, bro Muscle Mommy Nie Mingjue would never do this.

Cousin I liked as a kid but haven't had much direct contact with as an adult liked one of my political posts on instagram

I'm watching the new episode of Taskmaster and this frame nearly killed me. I had just taken a bite of cheesecake and went into paroxysms of laughter.

No one will ever put out my need to draw a moustache in every moustacheless nie mingjue. That's how pro mustache I am. I will privately and mentally vandalize art for it. It deserves it

Oof I am in one of those moods where I just don’t want to do anything. At work, at home, nowhere, nothing. I want to decompose.