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Re reading SVSSS again and at the raid on Cang Qiong in the first book about Sha Hualing and Liu Mingyan's rivalry in PIDW:

....this is what he has going on with Binghe and Liu Qingge

Like this is exactly their dynamic oh my GOD

And he finds it incredibly annoying and embarrassing

This is so fucking funny that MXTX used Sha Hualing and Liu Mingyan to foreshadow the love rivalry between Binghe and Liu Qingge

That's so good and so funny

having sha hualing’s introduction right after liu qingge’s really is comedic gold. shen qingqiu spends whole pages talking about how cool liu qingge is and how pretty he is and how can a man be so attractive. and then he sees sha hualing, acknowledges that she’s another popular character and then is like "her clothes really aren’t suited to the situation" like okay gay boy

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Every Kiss: #56 | 1.24 The Twizzle  

[ID: A picture of a person surrounded by smoke passing a blunt to the person in front. On top of it, there's a text that reads "pass that blorbo" in all caps.]

Pass That Blorbo 2k25 is a +18 prompt challenge where we try to figure out how to pass that blorbo in as many ways as possible.

AO3 COLLECTION

How many ways can you pass that blorbo? Lovingly and sweet? Hard and brutal? Forcefully? Like a party favor? Like a blunt? Like the last bottle of tequila at the after party?

This April, we pass that blorbo.

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FAQ Under the cut

Joanna Steinhardt, Finding Hope In The Dark Power Of Fungus

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

For my senior year of AP English, I was assigned reading over Easter break. We were instructed to read The Old Man And The Sea, and save the rest of the short stories in the book for the first week back.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

The power and utility of knowing how bullshit works CANNOT be overstated. It is one of the most important skills you can ever have.

This is also a good string on this topic.

i love a good first contact day hand-kissing-with-tongue meme, don't get me wrong, but put that aside for just one post. i think that from a vulcan perspective there's something really precious about that moment, and to me, it even explains their (very vulcan) affection for humankind from then on.

yes, vulcans do sometimes touch hands in a sensual way, but when you think about sarek and amanda touching hands publicly in "babel," it's not a "public display of affection" in a get-a-room way. it's very affectionate, but it's a public display of affiliation.

i don't know, just imagine that you're the vulcans. you go investigate this warp signature, and you know these people have never met aliens before. first contact is a dangerous mission! these aliens (earthlings) could very likely just shoot you!

and so you land, and these new aliens tentatively approach. no shooting yet, so you give a formal gesture of respect. and this alien tries to mimic it... and then basically embraces you like you're a member of their family.

i think that would really endear me to this new species!

CW: animal death, rabies

A horse just passed from aggressive rabies in Thatcher, AZ, and they couldn't euth it because it tried to attack anyone who came near, so it died in agony - they also couldn't shoot it to put it out of its misery because brain tissue has to be preserved for analysis by the state, and potential blood/brain matter spray from that method of death creates a rabies vector biohazard that can infect anyone or anything it comes in contact with. PLEASE make sure any animals you have that can have a rabies vaccine get it. It's a fairly inexpensive vaccine, and the peace of mind and protection it provides is worth it. Putting more description and the video of the horse under a readmore, all the content warnings, this video is truly horrifying, but I feel it is important for media evidence of what rabies can do to be out there for better information.

Heed the video warning but yes absolutely this is why I freak out every time someone downplays the danger of rabies. Rabies is INCURABLE and only one single proven person has ever truly survived rabies, with the vast majority of the others (except a claim one guy did as well but all articles are Spanish language only and he is not even acknowledged by worldwide rabies studies) are in permanent comas but not technically braindead.

You can PREVENT RABIES with a vaccine or if you have recent rabies exposure you can get prophylaxis injections to stop the virus from progressing. The latter is NOT available for nonhuman animals- vaccination is the ONLY way to prevent rabies in your pets and livestock.

Rabies is DEADLY and WILL KILL any animal who progresses to the symptomatic stage. Please vaccinate your animals- it's not expensive and is the only thing preventing them from dying an agonizing and painful death as the virus takes control of their brain.

I had the misfortune of coming across a video of this horse earlier this morning and it straight up disturbed me. That poor animal legitimately looked like a creature out of a horror movie. Cujo paled in comparison.

Even if you never give your animal any other vaccine please at LEAST give it that one. The results are hideous and sad and so so easy to prevent.

I NEED A SICKO… im holding out for a sicko till the end of the night ..and hes gotta haha and hes gotta say yess at the window with a look of delight

earlier this week Twitter user ppuccin0 tweeted about a fashion article that advised against tops with large floral patterns, saying the wearer was in danger of looking like a "ロマンティックおばさん," or a "romantic auntie." the tweet went viral with many agreeing that a "romantic auntie" sounded like a very nice thing to aspire to be, and some even posted illustrations or photos tagged with the trend

illustration by Toyota Yuu (author of Cherry Magic)

illustration by 141shkw/Sora Midori (author of Beautiful Curse)

photos by Takinami Yukari (author of Motokare Mania and Watashi-tachi wa Mutsuu Ren'ai ga Shitai or "We Want A Painless Romance")

illustration by m:m (mangaka of Matataki no End Roll)

illustration by ooinuai (mangaka of Onikui Kitan)

illustration by ma2 (mangaka of The Reason We Fall In Love)

BONUS:

Twitter user WomeGa55 drew some art of “Romance Auntie x Combat Auntie”

IT GOT BETTER

I'm dying.

Soon we will find him taking protein shakes too