our first thanksgiving overseas was strange for many reasons! but i am warmed by a few things: watching people immediately rush to care for each other. seeing all the love + concern from our friends pour in. going to dinner with more friends and having them pull out gag HOMEMADE PILGRIM HATS for us.

unsurprised to see some international coverage of the fire focusing on the bamboo scaffolding; half the city has that up at any given time! photos from the morning show that a lot of the bamboo DIDN'T burn, what burned was the insanely flammable netting and styrofoam they used (wildly against code)

it's been dry and windy and we just had a big fire in causeway bay YESTERDAY, and now a whole apartment complex in tai po is burning! heartbreaking and terrifying: www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

the reverse sensation to seeing "old man yaoi" applied to guys i'd card is seeing "boys in love" for people in their forties

"kokuho" was absolutely incredible, an actual epic. i did not, however, look at the runtime before i decided to see it at 8pm yesterday

mr. orange's desire for at-home hot pot can no longer be contained. welcome to the family, plug-in tabletop induction burner

when my father was teaching me to draw, he made a little outline of a dog, and then he turned it into a perfect simple sketch of OUR dog, which i can still picture in my mind exactly as he made it. i was awed that you could see something and then capture the feeling of having seen it.

managing anxiety about my dad's health by overbuying for his birthday. i'm sure he won't notice something is up with me, even though i've scheduled [checks notes] five deliveries

I was going through my old twitter ficlet files and found a cheeky little zhaoxie bloody kissing ficlet that honestly deserves to see the light of day archiveofourown.org/works/74414916

thank you @dcyiyou.bsky.social for reminding me i NEED to watch blood river. for reasons

"He's our sharpest blade." 🤭 #BloodRiver #LiDaiKun #cdrama

can't believe i've been in such a work hole that i neglected to CROW FROM THE ROOFTOPS that my BELOVED SIDEB_TRACK2 wrote a new and delicious #YEXIE FIC???!!!!????!!!!!!! title: Tuesday word count: a palindromic 13,031 modern au, please heed the tags here it is: archiveofourown.org/works/73202086

i'm inured to a lot of terrible decoration, so the shitty little gold text didn't phase me. but when the camera pans to the GIGANTIC text at the TOP OF THE WALL i gasped aloud. please don't call this rococo, this style is technically called 1997 Newsletter Made With Microsoft Publisher

caving to the right on healthcare for the nth year in a row doesn't make you guys smart campaigners. it makes you insulated cowards who would rather buff the shoes of a pharma exec for cash than be a voice for your own people, which is the job you literally swore to do, "so help me god."

big uptick lately in students reaching out for [redacted] this past month and today i figured out why: someone has been intentionally sending them my way as a minor passive-aggressive protest against a bigger departmental thing. this is vague by necessity. but man did realizing make me laugh

it is interesting to live in hong kong, where i am a minority but not any kind of oddity, and then to go across the border and have people stop and take photographs with me without permission while i stand waiting for a didi. like okay. i guess my students can see me on xhs later like a jumpscare

"did women ruin the workplace" did possums ruin the dumpster? maligning beautiful creatures for making the best of a pre-existingly bad situation

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

one of the things that feels so exceptionally shit about the present moment is watching businesses that *literally and actually* have no rational reason to preemptively align to steven milleresque segregationist insanity are just. doing it anyway

i support this bear's dreams

save me late night circle k dim sum

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

passing the hat for the PCRF! if you want to give too, i will match three donations of any amount under $50!

The fascination with villains and antiheroes also has a lot to do with feelings of alienation, whether from family or society in general or even alienation from one's own body. Dark characters are much more free to express themselves in ways heroes aren't usually allowed.

hear me out, THIS time "finding some fictional element from pop culture that mostly women like and deciding it should be destroyed because it's... making society immoral or something" is DEFINITELY going to get us back on the good timeline. we just need these chicks to see reason

got real marxist for a few minutes today and then laughed and said "well, this has been Capitalism With Dr. Orange, thanks for watching" and my students lost it. still got the juice

there's a family in philly being threatened with deportation and the parents have been here 20 years, originally as refugees. i see comments like "20 years and still not legal???" and i wonder how you look at that story + that number and can't IMMEDIATELY see that the problem MUST be with the system

we've been invited to a big halloween bash and once again 90% of the guests are queer women... and mr. orange, who is attending as a hot dog

i believe in open borders with no caveats. no “they can come if they do it the right way”. anyone who arrives can stay, period. the united states had completely unrestricted borders until 1875, and you’ll recognize that most immigrants who arrived before that year came from northern/western europe

Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Ye Baiyi taking photos to send to the new immortal assholes on the cold mountain while he’s on a whirlwind tropical vacation to thaw out xie wang from being a scorpionsicle.

this'll work sooo great except in just a few places where people won't want to work out loud or audibly repeat sensitive information, like... hospitals, schools, cubicle-based offices, banks, government offices of any kind, insurance agencies, and literally all of microsoft's other major purchasers

Опачки, вспомнила о ядовитой булочке~~~ Просто, динамично, мне нравится) День 11 - жало #inktober2025 #inktober #woh #WordofHonor #FarawayWanderers #xiewang #skorpionking #art #sketch #sting

everything bagel, cream cheese, crispy bacon, avocado. i don't care if i win or lose i'm having a great fucking time out there

i just... cannot NOT participate in a conversation that i am deeply engaged in. i make affirmative noises, nod, and yes, jump in with supporting examples/context. i do try to do it respectfully, but it's easy for me to get carried away and blurt. i've gotten comfy with saying "sorry, please go on"

best part of "flower of evil" is when hyunsoo is like "oh yeah didn't i tell you... my evil dead serial murderer father haunts me in hallucinations, but never when my ji-won is around, because he's terrified of her" the absolute terminal turbo-level wifeguyism

had the loveliest time moon-watching on the beach with friends tonight! happy mid-autumn fest 🌕♥️🥮

night falls swiftly, tucking us in her black velvet robe, the stitches showing through #SaturdayPoem

"historians" lmao eat shit. i've seen your work and there ain't no way you're replacing me. "passenger attendants" a computer is going to hand me a drink? a computer is going to do that? lying clownass bitches. Eat double shit

my parents adopted a rabbit???? they were like "you have a new brother! we pick him up tomorrow!!" and i was like "oh you finally got a dog?" and. nope

imho we are past the "we need to call fascism by name" stage. i personally like to think we are in the "high-ranking elected governmental officials use the power of their offices to forcefully reverse it" phase but i see this is an unpopular opinion among many said officials

"a better tomorrow ii" seems so normal right up until the fried rice scene. even when it's like "oh yeah, a comics artist has been illustrating your secret gang exploits and showing them in his gallery," that's nothing compared to the fried rice scene

it's an... experience to talk to (white) "expats" who are like "oh yeah i've been here 22 years, went to high school here, but i'm not a hong konger! you can't be FROM somewhere you weren't born!" and i just. i admit there's a lot of complexity in identity but imho there's also an element of choice

unfortunately.... this is a perfect death for ninety-nine-year-old ye baiyi in my "boogie woogie" verse. i'm sorry but you know i'm right

spinning a trope wheel through the devil judge universe, my finger thunks down on omegaverse. and so here we are new fic: four legs. (gaon/yohan, rated E) link: archiveofourown.org/works/71289136