“What had Deidameia thought would happen, I wondered, when she had her women dance for me? Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

My translation to Chinese (comment if this could be improved!!): “认他只需抚摸气息。即盲认他 轻声呼吸，脚步踏地。认他在死面临末日。”

I AM CRYING CAMPHONG IS SELLING THESE MXTX TRIO CP CROSS-FAM ART PIECES LIKE HUALIAN WANGXIAN AND BINGQIU TAKE TURNS BEING PARENTS OR GEGES TO THE OTHER FOUR AS YOUNGER KIDS 😭😭😭

AND OF COURSE HUA CHENG IS THE ONLY BIJ IN ADULT FORM WITH HIS CHEST EXPOSED FOR ALL TO SEE

Someone is worried 💕

smol Katara and Sokka in the snow

how fast the night changes

Valzhyna Mort, from Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems; “Genesis” 

It's coming along. Wish me luck I'm about to use holographic filament for the first time.

ngl didn't realize this was unfinished at first and thought this was just a really weird shitpost

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ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

Wait a moment, something’s not right here… Before, you’d be yelling at me to mind my manners and tact. You’d be going on about proper etiquette, courteousness, and whatnot. Lan Zhan, you’ve changed!

i am made of memories.

anyone who complains about the power of love in media is a little bitch. the power of love fuckign rules. you dont understand anything about life.

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille's basics but especially:

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt's tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

dont know if this has been mentioned already but chinese cooking demystified is a fantastic channel for chinese recipes that also includes methods and ingredients that can be implemented in p much any western kitchen!

Signal boosting.

Offering "Salt Fat Acid Heat" on Netflix for a lot of food and cooking basics. Book by the same title is also available.

Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

personally i think bbc merlin’s choice to make every single character desperately in love with merlin was not only a bold addition to arthuriana but absolutely inspired

mdzs commission I did for @sunnydaysareover <3