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And now I wonder which AUs readers think I am projecting my actual job in LOL.

thanks guys

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Hanguang jun i love u

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by far the most interesting part of the latest You’re Wrong About on homosexuality in the animal kingdom is the account of how science missed it for so long. the guest, lulu miller (of radiolab fame) basically divides the reasons into three categories: ignorance, self-suppression, and what you might call “official” suppression.

essentially, since the days of thomas aquinas when it had been simply declared that homosexuality was inherently against nature, you had a lot of observers of the natural world, even once the enlightenment got underway, who simply didn’t know what they were looking at. many animal species are very sexually dimorphic and thus easy to sex; but many more are not, and if your background assumption (because the background assumption of society in general) is that homosexuality does not occur in nature, if you see two animals of unidentified sex mating, you will assume one is male and one is female. or you might simply assume what you are seeing is an aberration, with no real systemic significance, and not pointing to any kind of underlying phenomenon, and simply fail to note it down–or talk to any other naturalists about it.

and this blends into self-suppression, which includes all researchers who might have noticed homosexuality among animals in the wild, but didn’t write about it. this includes researchers who might not have thought it was significant, or who might have thought nobody was interested in it–miller offers the example of a guy who died relatively recently who spent his life studying mountain rams, who omitted mentioning from his quite detailed survey of their behavior that about one in twelve males mate exclusively with other males, because it seemed to him (at the time of writing) an aberrant and unpleasant fact about an otherwise majestic creature.

“official” suppression we might apply to any time a researcher noticed and wanted to write about the phenomenon, but who simply couldn’t get their data published, including researchers who might have pressed the scientific community at large to recognize this phenomenon, only to be greeted with hostility and suspicion–i.e., what kind of pervert is so obsessed with this topic?

and out of a combination of all these factors you get centuries of a bias being confirmed, because anybody who might care to ask, “well, homosexuality clearly occurs in humans, have we observed it in other animals?” would have been confronted with a vast lacuna in the scientific literature, not because it did not occur, but because multiple intersecting cultural biases prevented anybody from actually talking about it. and it makes it hard to have a conversation about natural phenomena from an empirical and rational perspective when a bias that irrational runs that deep! and i cannot help but wonder what other biases we have in our culture, that might be producing similarly irrational lacunae in our apprehension of the world.

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WWOWOW!!! omg I cannot believe how gorgeous this is!!

THIS IS AMAZING!!!

Art inspired by @kizukatana's interesting modern AU (which can be found here)

#wei wuxian #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #rogue cultivators are sexy

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Amazing arty of wwx from Truth Will Out! They even made a logo for JustAFan which is AWESOME!!!

My take on Nie Huaisang’s design notes for Wei Yings cultivation outfit from “truth will out (when caught on video)” by @kizukatana

This fic is SO GOOD and i am also a sucker for nhs as a fashion designer in any fic.

I also did an alternate version and designed a logo for NHS because i have no control of my life and got hyper-focused on drawing 😅

#mdzs fanart #wei wuxian #Truth will Out

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hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys

heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:

to list what they attempt to track:

unique identifier

os version

device brand

charging status

device total memory

first name

gps coordinates

screen density

app version

device orientation

headphone status

rotation data

network connection type

city

available internal storage

device language

os build number

accelerometer data

network carrier

available device memory

last name

postal code

email address

gender

system volume

timezone

app name

country

state

screen resolution

cookies

device model

birthday

android advertising id

please for the love of God, dont download threads.

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Singles

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If the world is going to crash and burn around us, why can't it be from something cool like dragon attacks instead of asshole politicians bought by greedy billionaires? So boring.

#most boring apocalypse ever #where are the dragons?

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Is there any deeper meaning to Lan Wangji stealing the fragrance pouch Mian Mian gave to Wei Wuxian?

Well, yes.

He's jealous of that Mianmian hussy and wants Wei Wuxian to marry him and not her.

Hahahahaha!

Ahem. Let me explain. Flower or fragrant pouches are one among the 12 proposal gifts of ancient China.

Here it is, number 7 among the 12.

The meaning behind the flower satchel is 寄情寄思 (lit. to entrust my love and longing). So a woman giving a man a flower satchel she made in ancient times means, 'Marry me, dude!' And if a man asks for a satchel made by the woman's own hands, it means he's saying, 'You so hot, baby! Marry me!'

The flower/fragrance satchels as a token of great love and promise are most known through two separate legends:

1.Yang Guifei and Emperor Tang Xuanzhong. In which, after Yang Guifei died during wartime, only her flower satchel was reclaimed. The rest of her body was reduced to shattered bones. When he was given this satchel, Emperor Tang Xuanzhong cried and kept it in his sleeves for the rest of his life. This legend was made into a poem 太真香囊子 (The Pouch is steeped in Fragrance) by the poet Zhang Hu.

2. The Book of Jin Jia Wu recorded Jia Chong's youngest daughter Jia Wu falling in love with his lowly aide Han Shou. To discreetly confess her love, Jia Wu made a satchel and gifted it to Han Shou. When Jia Wu detected the familiar scent of his daughter's fragrance recipe on Han Shou's body, he immediately cottoned onto their feelings. Luckily for the pair, Jia Chong was a considerably open-minded man for the time, so he blessed their love despite the gap in social stations and allowed the two to wed.

So Wei Wuxian asking Mianmian for a fragrance sachet is tantamount to asking her to marry him in the eyes of many, and at least very, very flirtatious. That's why Mianmian reacted the way she did.

And this was in front of Lan Wangji.... Imagine how Lan Wangji felt. So it wasn't without reason (other than the fact Lan Wangji was at a very low point in his life then) that Lan Wangji reacted like he did.

So Lan Wangji stealing WWX's fragrance pouch and keeping it on his body for decades after is equivalent to saying, 'You will not marry her. You will marry me!' without actually saying it.

That is to say, Hanguang Jun might not look like it, but he would fit right at home in one of those scandalous, overly dramatic telenovelas where the love rivals duke it out by bitchslapping each other. You just need to speak his language (of actions) to see this.

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Dearest @cerbykerby has this amazing threadfic on Twitter and I had to pay tribute because it is truly awesome. Plz give her some love!

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i really really want more modern cultivation au secret genius wei wuxian who just drops mind-blowing revolutionary theories and innovations anonymously under a stupid ass middle school pen name like yLlingla0zuxX

comical plot twist:

lan qiren has a secret hobby ever since he discovered the joys of Online Cultivation Forums, especially one where he can scout for people with Massive Potential and/or Brilliant Ideas and offer to help them formalize their ideas into actual Papers (or discover Horrible ones and send them better reference materials).

of course, Internet etiquette sanctifies anonymity so lan qiren doesn't press for personal information from the few brilliant minds he meets. he has a good instinct for identifying the younger ones from the tried and true experts, and this yLlingla0zuxX clearly is an esteemed veteran.

his methods may seem scattered, but lan qiren is Most Willing to Invest in the Time to help this esteemed cultivator get the merit and proper consideration his ideas deserve. under the very proper alias: GrandArchivist.

GrandArchivist reaches out to yLlingla0zuxX offering to help him flesh out his innovations so yLlingla0zuxX can get it published and patented as Proper.

yLlingla0zuxX is reluctant at first, but agrees to do it. he shares a gee doc link.

it takes a while, but - between lan qiren's initial bafflement at real-time collaboration and yLlingla0zuxX's erratic and rambling thoughts - they manage to publish it.

offscreen:

GrandArchivist reaches out to his nephew A-Huan how this gee doc works and if he's Sure it's not a bad virus or phishing scam link or anything. he opens the link to see. bulleted paragraphs??? paragraphed bullet points??? either way, the most horrible draft he's ever seen... typing itself???? a-huan, are you certain this yLlingla0zuxX has not hacked my computer?

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Haha I don’t post too often my fanfic related fan art but I really couldn’t help it this time - thanks @kizukatana for permitting me to post this, I hope you like it!! ❤️

This is my take on one of the outfits created for wwx in the latest chapter (9) of Truth Will Out (when caught on video)

Check out the fanfic here:

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But tell me now, who's stronger and who's weaker, who's right and who's wrong? Wei Ying! Is this the promise that we pledged our lives to keep?

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Hi Kizu!

Your newest update for Truth Will Out (when caught on video) has had me cackling the whole day (I absolutely love the fic!!!). Would you mind If I post a fan art I made for the latest chapter here on Tumblr (tagging you and adding the link to the fic as well, of course)?

tysm!! I would be honored!!! I have zero drawing skills so I am always excited to see what people have in their heads for these characters!

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would you be able to upload any sketches you include in your fics from twitter onto here? ive been reading ur Truth Will Out fic (love it! you're such a good writer i hope you know that) and am very curious what ScourgeDaughter has sketched out for the last chapter! thanks!

Their art doesn't belong to me, so I can't post it here but I asked them to post it and they did on twitter here:

They are so good!

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Just found your Tumblr and wanted to say hi! I love your fics so much and even if twitter fails I'll keep following you here and on ao3 ❤️

Thank you!!! Yeah, I am assuming it's just a matter of time now before I am only here and on AO3.

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LOL writing in gdocs and instead of lwj denying that he is trying to make an assignation with wwx, it keeps trying to autocorrect it to assignment.

lqr must be somewhere behind my monitor trying to protect his precious cabbage.

Sorry, lqr. I hate to break it to you, but they're going to be fucking, not doing homework.

#wangxian #mzds #lwj #wwx