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I deeply appreciate that roughly 70% of SecUnit's strategy in any given situation seems to be "find a bot that seems nice and ask for help"

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@yeahitsak

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*UNKNOWN SPOILER*

Ok wait.

So they turn the lights out, leave the sonogram for him to find, and then Yuan hides in Lilli's room to be the first person he speaks to.

And Lilli hides in Yuan's room so she could come out when she's ready.

But San Pang hides in Qian's room, knowing damn well it's the last place he'd go? Lol

Clowns.

All of them.

He should've used her hands to cover her eyes, not her ears. Lol

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Hello I'm here to talk about the translation of the phrase "I can sum up my life in only two words: Wei Qian"

In the original he says

我這一生用“魏謙”两个字就能貫徹始終了

And I would roughly translate it to

"In this lifetime, only using the words Wei Qian I can always push through"

Which I think could give it a different meaning. From making all of Yuan's life about Qian to making Qian his sword and shield to face life. He bears those words like weapons to battle, like a blanket in the winter, like water in the desert, like ice in the summer and a lighthouse in a storm.

This means that Wei Qian is part of his strength. Wei Qian is part of the light.

I like the translation, but I think the original is important.

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You. You get it

Here’s the thing. While Yuan has never loved anyone besides Wei Qian, he definitely came back from America with experience. So I need fics of Wei Qian meeting one of Yuan’s exes please and thank you.

#yes to all of this #unknown the series #the unknown #unknown #unknown series #bl drama #bl series #taiwan bl

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Here’s the thing. While Yuan has never loved anyone besides Wei Qian, he definitely came back from America with experience. So I need fics of Wei Qian meeting one of Yuan’s exes please and thank you.

#the unknown #unknown #unknown series #unknown the series #bl drama #BL series #taiwan bl

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

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it's like they say in dune: "i must not jeff. jeff is the killer"

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I have been thinking about the shifting dynamic between Qian and Yuan all week. A ton of people have written really insightful posts about these two, and I can’t get them off my mind.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again and again: the tragic backstory is not used as a shock factor or just to make you sympathetic towards a character. It is ingrained into Qian and Yuan’s thoughts, behaviors, actions, and responses. And it contributes to their compelling relationship.

Qian is hesitant around intimacy of any kind. Yuan is eager to care for the person who saved him.

We’ve seen from the beginning how much of a caretaker Yuan is for Qian. The vast majority of intimate physical contact Qian accepts is from Yuan (and by intimate I don’t mean romantic. I mean familiar, personal, etc.).

Qian rarely ventures beyond surface level relationships with people. His experiences growing up left him in a constant state of survival. He focuses on work as a means of survival and doesn’t consider slowing down as an option.

We see this at work, where he is often separated from his coworkers and rarely interacting with them outside of a professional capacity. He often stays late and arrives early at the expense of his own wellbeing.

It’s Yuan who bridges the gap. Who asks coworkers to take care of his brother. Who makes Qian sleep and eat right. Who is there at work and at home ensuring that Qian won’t overwork and exhaust himself.

But their relationship is not one-sided. Qian takes care of Yuan as well, making sure he’s able to take advantage of academic opportunities and clubs and things that Qian never had a chance to partake in. He gives Yuan a life where survival is a guarantee, not something to earn.

Qian protects Yuan through hard work. Yuan protects Qian through tender care.

When Yuan is sent away to study abroad, the time skip works because it isn’t used at the very end of the series to jump to happily ever after. Too often, time skips force us to miss important character growth and leave us unsatisfied and wanting more. By placing the time skip towards the middle of the series and using it as an actual part of the story and character development, we are able to see how Qian and Yuan live during the separation and the impact it has on their relationship.

And their reunion is more than one scene before the credits roll. There’s still many episodes for them to keep learning and growing together.

Once Yuan returns, the line between them has shifted. Qian actively seeks out Yuan’s care in a way he never did before. He’s always watching Yuan, reaching out for him, and aware of his presence. He had always welcomed it, but the separation forced him to feel what the absence of Yuan’s care was like. He was miserable.

Yuan matured on his own and still knows that he loves Qian. Being away only confirmed what he already knew. And Qian is starting to realize that he loves Yuan too.

Yuan knows exactly where the boundary is between them, but he’ll let Qian be the one to break it down. They have complex relationship, and it is being respected, not rushed. Moments are earned, not pulled randomly from the trope bucket.