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i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me

#music #take the time to really let this unfold #orpheus and eurydice #greek mythology #choral music #anais mitchell

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when i say i wish people started using the reblog button more i don't mean it in a 'i want more notes' kind of way i mean it in a 'i want to read about your thoughts on this particular thing' and 'i want to have conversations in the tags' and 'i want this to feel like a community again and not like any of those boring social media platforms where artists are content creators and interactions never goes beyond a like'

#this #reblogging

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⭐Luo Zishang ~ Destined ⭐

For @mademoiselle-red 😁

#fanart #luo zishang

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Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013)

Poirot & Hastings + being domestic

#hercule poirot #david suchet #favourite poirot

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Zhan Shiqi - Ancient Detective ep.15

#ancient detective #zhan shiqi

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Ancient Detective | Zhan Shiqi

#ancient detective #zhan shiqi

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Fan

1895

Rodeck Brothers (Austria)

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.2803)

#art #19th century #decorative art #fan

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Gu Xiang art

#word of honor #gu xiang #i miss her #my art #reblogging my own stuff

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Emperor Jingyan for @erizosan1

#nirvana in fire #xiao jingyan #fanart

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I went to a restaurant with a friend yesterday and upon entering we saw these splendid blueberry tarts under bell jars on the counter and we made jokey small talk with the waitress like oh, people will fight over these if there's not enough for everyone, it'll tear families apart, are you making more later? and she said no, I'm afraid that's our entire stock for today, but there are 18 slices, it should be plenty! It was a small village restaurant with only one menu du jour so there weren't any other dessert options but they don't usually get that many customers—but then a couple of large groups arrived and most people noticed the tarts like we did, and went ohh blueberry tart, it's been a while, I can't wait, and it became clear that when we'd get to the end of our meal there would be winners and losers in the blueberry tart rush

But later as we were about to order dessert I wasn't hungry anymore and I was like well that's too bad but someone else will be glad to get 'my' slice of tart—and my friend said yeah, me :) You should order it anyway, I'll eat both! At first I thought she was joking, but no. I said, there's not enough for everyone, you can't take two, and she said, we were going to order two slices, what difference does it make? and I was baffled that she couldn't see the ethical difference between two people eating one slice of tart each vs. one person eating two, when there's a limited quantity of tart. I felt like we were in a simplistic social justice metaphor it was so obvious, but there was no changing her mind. When I said "it's just... not nice" she said "okay" with a shrug, and what can you say to that. She added, you don't know any of these people and I was like, why are we reverting to tribal dynamics in a non-apocalyptic setting, how would you feel if we'd arrived a bit later and seen others ordering two desserts knowing you'd get zero? And she said, I would think that's their right, and I felt kind of amazed.

I pointed out that if she didn't think it was a wee bit wrong, she wouldn't ask me to order her second piece as if it was for me, and she said yeah maybe we don't need to do that, there's no law preventing me from ordering two desserts. What about Kant's categorical imperative Okay I guess you're not breaking any laws by taking more than your fair share of a thing other people also want, just failing a kindergarten-level morality test. I felt embarrassed for sounding like an annoying preachy rigid person so I dropped the issue, and as she ate her two slices she'd smile at me every time we overheard someone order coffee without dessert—like "See? There'll be enough, no one will be deprived of tart because of me!" as if that cancelled the fact that she didn't care in the first place. I guess it was one of these tiny issues that can still significantly alter the way you perceive a person. I tried to tell myself not to be so bothered about this small thing but I was! so bothered. And I felt like writing a letter to some agony aunt like "should I end a friendship over irreconcilable blueberry tart ethics"

#ethics #dessert #vive la fraternité

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Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

#racism #feminism #audre lorde

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thinking about them

#fanart #i don‘t go here #but they are lovely

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Dancer doodle

#art #dancing #hanfu

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So I’m about 4 episodes into the new Fallout show and I gotta say, it’s not just including references to Wizard of Oz, it’s including DEEP CUT references to the Wizard of Oz book and I say this as someone who read all 14 of the books as a kid

#fallout show #fallout spoilers #wizard of oz #meta #haven’t watched fallout to the end #but so far this makes sense

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David Bowie as Mephistopheles (1999)

#david bowie #costume appreciation #opera costumes

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"It's better to sleep at home, don't you think Xiaobao?" part 2

#Aaaaaaaaaaah #mysterious lotus casebook #fanart #li lianhua #and his xiaobao

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so what you‘re saying is we have one (1) doctor and his three (3) dogs on the show: Huli Jing, Xiaobao and A Fei.

Had to hunt down this post by @difeisheng to be sure but. Dfs and fdb are twelve years apart in age. You know what else happens every twelve years? The same animal year in the chinese calendar.

Anyway what I'm saying is that, FEASIBLY, we may not be that far off the mark when we all joke about difang being guard dogs.

#mysterious lotus casebook