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whentherewerebicycles · 2 months

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morning! it was just starting to get light at 6:30 this morning instead of being depressingly pitch black and rainy 😭 we are creeping slowly closer to summer!!! today should be a super light day—I have no meetings and my only time-sensitive task is leaving comments on a student’s draft. I can easily lose WFH mondays to sloth but I always feel better if I can manage a sustained burst of productivity so: gonna try!!

things to get done today:

email CB, KA about moving thurs meetings

complete this PD training

write and submit JH rec letter

showerrrr

email RR about writing faculty workshop

confirm JS class visits

write and submit KC rec letter

review slides from SP’s mentoring workshop

leave feedback on RX’s draft

email RX with feedback synthesis

choose dates for april student workshops

2:30-3:30pm agility class with Pip

4-5 walk with liz (except suddenly it’s snowing???)

do an hour of editing on this fic draft

zzzz early I’ve been going to bed kinda late and paying for it in the mornings (the dogs do NOT adjust their morning schedule even if I adjust my bedtime schedule lol so we are up at 6 regardless of when I fall asleep)

#daily processing

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kaladinstormsblessed · 9 months

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good morning, it is sacrifice day! i woke up at 4:45 (after going to bed at 11 bc i was committed to trying to get up at 6 given how badly the 5 am wake up call has been going) and probably should have tried to go back to sleep but did not so. we're just rolling with it. i am, for the most part, feeling calm and relaxed! i'm going to run to starbucks and get breakfast and tea then do my duolingo and then be ready to start settling down at 8.

#after today i shouldn't have to think about rene girard's mimetic theory of violence again for. awhile. thank god.#daily processing

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mcmuppet · 8 months

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i'm so unwell its not even funny

LANDO???? SHIRTLESS??????? TAN??? ON AUX PLAYING OLD MAROON 5???????

he's literally the man of my dreams i need him

credits to @/norrislando_fans on insta

#i need him BIBLICALLY #this man #i literally cried over this video #i truly don't know how to process this #ooooooof #🥵🥵🥵#summer vaca did him well honestly idec that we saw like none of it #i don't think i would've survived getting daily content from summer lando #lando norris #mclaren

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everydayspamton · 9 months

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day 204 of drawing spamton every day until deltarune chapter 3

#daily spamton #deltarune #spamton #my process

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mrghostrat · 5 months

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i’m long overdue for some aziraphale studies! and god i was not expecting michael to have so much facial variation. total time 1hr! 😱

i want to catch my aziraphale up to my crowley skills asap, so i tried a new process tonight that i really enjoyed: noting all the details first, then sketch broad impressions of the same references with my big brush directly after. it’s like i’m speedrunning what i’ve just drawn, and with all those details fresh in my mind, it’s much easier to break him down into stylised strokes.

THANK YOU good omens reference library and everyone who helps run it! your server made this study sheet 100x easier than any of my crowleys! 😭💛 @orayasan

#i hope these trace videos are helping someone!! its so daunting sharing them and waiting to get cancelled over trace reffing #daily aziraphale #aziraphale #rat draws #sketch #good omens #good omens art #art process #timelapse #gomens

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free-my-mindd · 5 months

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#daily readings #trust the process

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whentherewerebicycles · 2 months

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today was fine! it was sunny this afternoon thank god so liz and I went for a very long walk in a new neighborhood. I’m trying to slowly work my way back up to an hour of walking most or all days a week, especially as I don’t seem to be interested in any other form of exercise during pregnancy lol. I think he must be hiding out behind the placenta today because he’s been kicking a bunch but it feels really muffled. mm let’s see I also cooked even though I didn’t want to and managed to eat four different vegetables today. AND I wrote a whole scene for this fic draft which felt great!! I have to go into campus tomorrow just to do that 10 min presentation but whatever, it’s fine, I’ll try to use the captive time in my office to finish these slides for friday’s workshop + finalize the details for this mentoring workshop series.

#daily processing #tomorrow is/would have been my due date for the first pregnancy #I felt really sad about it last week but I think I journaled out the big feelings #so now I just feel a little sad. manageable levels of :(#weird to think about it you know? like in an alternate universe I’m living this other life

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kaladinstormsblessed · 9 months

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gooood morning everyone i am awake but tired! i was really wiped after yesterday and despite passing out at like 9:30 i still feel like i'm in recovery. i am onto exam 2! i feel good about about my questions for this exam - the thing i'm most worried about is the commentary. i chose my seven books and went through the two commentaries i had and took notes so i have marked up copies of the text for each commentary. unlike with sacrifice, this is going to be a lot harder to judge when i'm "ready." i think my main focus needs to be setting myself practice commentaries bc i haven't actually done one for homer and that passage will be sight unseen. so i think the goal will to be to focus on reading over the primary text and picking out the big elements and then doing as many practice commentaries as i can (once again, i can be super nice to myself and pick passages i feel confident about! it's just about the experience of doing it.). i may try and set myself a practice exam on wednesday and then spend thursday doing a verbal run through of my questions and reading all seven books in english and both of my marked up commentaries. i think the biggest thing to remember (as i told my mom yesterday) is that, if i stick to my studying plan this week, i will have done everything that i feel i could have done and so i need to keep that in mind - i can only do what i can do! and tbh i do know a lot of things! it's just going to be about making sure i don't freak myself out when i encounter an unseen passage on the exam and then have my brain shut down on me.

hm i think i will eat breakfast and do my duolingo first then go to starbucks with my primary text. if i have time today, i would also like to finish memorizing my altstadt question. i am very close to being done with my bay of naples questions! if i can finish those this week i will be in very good shape!!!

#deep breaths #it's going to be okay!#daily processing

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guardevoir · 16 days

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100 days of art, 54/100 - Horatio Hornblower as played by Ioan Gruffudd, because it's been actual Years since I last did something for my favorite shipful of sad damp dorks.

#horatio hornblower #hornblower #ioan gruffudd #guardy's art #guardy's daily dose of hornblower #guardy's 100 days of art #the100dayproject #I hated this with a burning passion until I was almost done #and then suddenly went “oh fuck that kind of slaps”#...... something something trusting the process I guess?

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muninnhuginn · 20 days

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In Defence of Qiao Ling

I've been musing on several threads relating to Qiao Ling in the last few weeks and have seen a few posts going around that have pushed me to actually try and put all my Qiao Ling thoughts into words and in one place.

Despite the title, I don't fully agree with the show's handling of Qiao Ling, but I do think she has been provided with a clear ongoing arc and so that's what I'm going to be focusing on here.

This got quite long so most of it is under the cut, but shout-out to @lizzieonka and @oceaniche for their previous posts on Qiao Ling, which definitely ended up inspiring some parts of this.

So, let's start with: what do we actually know about Qiao Ling?

Qiao Ling's Background

She's first introduced as the "landlady", for all it quickly becomes apparent that her relationship with Cheng Xiaoshi isn't quite that simple. Her family "took Cheng Xiaoshi in" but there's always been some distance and that's reinforced by the whole "rent" deal. (The fact that Cheng Xiaoshi is still adamant his parents will return likely also factors in to this.) Still, Qiao Ling herself clearly sees Cheng Xiaoshi as her younger brother and is willing to stake her claim on him as family to near-strangers (we've seen it both when she met Lu Guang and Li Tianxi).

Qiao Ling's social life is clearly contrasted with that of Cheng Xiaoshi. Where Cheng Xiaoshi's first "proper" friend was Lu Guang, Qiao Ling has her own circle of friends and is fairly sociable in general (she literally found a client by befriending a stranger when she came to learn martial arts). Xu Shanshan, for instance, is very much Qiao Ling's friend despite hanging out with the collective group at uni. Qiao Ling also spoke of Cheng Xiaoshi's childhood as something that happened to him specifically, implying that she herself was spared the bullying (which makes sense considering the fact that she wasn't the one with missing parents) and so had a more "normal" upbringing. Whether she spoke up back then or stayed quiet isn't fully clarified (not speaking up against adults is one thing but what about classmates?), but Cheng Xiaoshi doesn't seem to hold it against her either way.

Nowadays, Qiao Ling's role in managing the photo shop's side-business has her interacting directly with most clients. She's the most customer-facing of the three, relaying information between clients and shiguang. This is despite her not actually knowing the full details behind shiguang's diving process until season two, which in retrospect makes it more impressive. Qiao Ling taking on the managerial role (and what is also implied to be social media advertising) also has the (unintended?) effect of obscuring shiguang's roles in the business from the public, as it's Qiao Ling who earns the nickname of "witch". It took until Xiao Li saw Cheng Xiaoshi in the CCTV footage during the Doudou case for anyone to see through this.

Key Character Moments

In terms of Qiao Ling's key moments, we have four main ones.

In Doudou arc, Qiao Ling admits she saw Doudou being taken three years ago;

In season two, at the hospital, Qiao Ling asks for some trust and to not be shut out anymore;

Qiao Ling bonding with Li Tianxi and using their shared aspects to bring her out of her shell so she would help the investigation;

The revelation that Qiao Ling did, in fact, receive some form of Lu Guang's memories from Tianxi and her dismissal of their implications.

The main thread behind all of these scenes is that they are about information and what you choose to do with it.

My thoughts are two-fold here. First, how these scenes connect with Qiao Ling's arc specifically, and secondly, how they connect with the broader themes of the series.

Qiao Ling's Arc

Doudou

Let's begin with Doudou arc. In this arc, Qiao Ling reveals that she saw the kidnapping of a child several years ago. She hadn't told anyone about this for three years and likely would have continued to have kept it to herself if not for Doudou's father approaching the photo studio. In this arc, there is the following exchange:

Qiao Ling's main regret is that she didn't do something or say something as she saw Doudou being taken away. That her inaction may have ensured that Doudou's kidnapper was able to get away with him. And she specifically says "I didn't even have the courage to step forward and provide any information." (Tangent: Funnily enough, Lu Guang is the "star of courage" in the Star Warriors later in the episode, not Qiao Ling. Qiao Ling is "star of wisdom" who is meant to "light the way". Still fitting, but in a less straightforward way.)

Now, to me, this is clearly setting up an arc, not resolving one. Qiao Ling wouldn't have offered the information if not for the circumstances. And it tells us that for all Qiao Ling has friends and is sociable, she still holds certain cards close to her chest. She doesn't want to confront the past so instead she will hold her guilt tight and not say a word. Though, as this exchange shows, she does want to have that courage. And I'll get onto this later, but this ties in very clearly with the information she later holds regarding Lu Guang.

Hospital confrontation

Throughout this entire scene, even before it becomes a "confrontation" Qiao Ling is clearly feeling guilty. She runs after Cheng Xiaoshi when he tries to leave to help the police so that she can *do something*, make up for it the best she can. Guilt and avoidance are key traits for her and they both manifest here. They're still holding her back.

And, of course, there's her statement to Cheng Xiaoshi: "You're always trying to protect me. I really appreciate it. But what I need more is your trust." Qiao Ling knows what it's like to be locked out of the loop. She didn't know the specifics of diving for months (possibly years?) and it didn't really seem to bother her (or at least she didn't give the impression it bothered her when "Xu Shanshan" asked her about it). But she has her limits. And being locked out when the situation is actively dangerous? That's clearly past those limits.

Li Tianxi

Grouping together the final two scenes, because the first Li Tianxi scene is more a demonstration of character traits as well as digging in those sibling parallels between LTC-LTX and CXS-QL. Anyway, the first scene adds more evidence to the idea that Qiao Ling is more sociable and a people person. That she could could get Li Tianxi to open up by taking a more understanding approach and showing that she gets it to some extent. She's in the same boat.

Which means when we get to the final scene, this is what ties it all together. Qiao Ling has inherited the memories Li Tianxi saw from Lu Guang. She has seen Cheng Xiaoshi's "death". She has information now. But her first instinct is to dismiss it. To avoid it and refuse to confront it because the implications are too much.

But, see, she's been in this situation before with Doudou. She's had information and done nothing with it and regretted. She wanted to have the courage to do better. This is her goal.

And the implications of these memories? Do they mean Cheng Xiaoshi is in danger? Wasn't danger her red line in the sand? Didn't she tell him that "protecting" people and "trusting" them aren't mutually exclusive?

And finally, Lu Guang isn't Li Tianxi, but isn't the scenario here at least somewhat similar? Isn't Qiao Ling in the same boat as him here, wanting to keep Cheng Xiaoshi safe? Hasn't Qiao Ling shown she can connect with people through their shared experiences?

Qiao Ling isn't a confrontational character. She's avoidant. She will wallow in her guilt and not let on until it gets too much. But she wants to do better and isn't this her chance to do something? Say something? To not just be a passive observer and be left with regrets? I don't think it will be immediate by any means, but I think for her arc to conclude properly, she will have to conclude for herself that she needs to be open with the information she has and share it. If she's pushed into it, then it's just Doudou again. But if she chooses to share the information, then that's the pay-off set up back in season one.

Broader Themes in the Show

Broader themes regarding information and withholding of it. We see time and again in this series, that characters withhold information from others.

Liu Xiao and Lu Guang with Li Tianchen and Cheng Xiaoshi respectively, both holding more information than their "partner". Refusing to share it so that they can control them. Their reasons may differ, but the dynamics mirror each other in that respect. Unhealthy dynamic number one.

Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi, never addressing what Li Tianchen is doing with their powers. It allows Li Tianchen to pretend to himself that he is protecting Li Tianxi and carrying out justice. Li Tianxi is heavily implied in her telling of their backstory to know more than she lets on with regards to Li Tianchen's actions. But the refusal of both siblings to broach the topic eventually leads to Li Tianchen going where Li Tianxi cannot follow in his pursuit of vengeance and puts Li Tianxi in the very danger Li Tianchen wanted to avoid. Unhealthy dynamic number two. (There are more than this but I'm just sticking to these to keep this from getting any longer)

To go back to the hospital confrontation, when Qiao Ling says: "You're always trying to protect me. I really appreciate it. But what I need more is your trust." When she says this? It's a direct hit against the idea that protection should involve keeping people out. And in this case, Cheng Xiaoshi does start to let her in. They do manage to have healthy communication here now that Qiao Ling has been let in on the dives and is allowed to do something to help. She doesn't want to be passive.

She knows what it's like to be locked out, to be "protected" without having her own agency respected. But now, as of end of season two, she's on the other side. She has the information and Cheng Xiaoshi is locked out.

When Qiao Ling was assigned as the "Star of Wisdom, to light the way" in the Doudou arc, that's because it's her role in the show overall. Lu Guang certainly isn't going to push forward with healthy communication; he's too committed to his path for that. Cheng Xiaoshi meanwhile doesn't have the information needed to even start a confrontation. Qiao Ling is the only one in the position to lead the way with her knowledge. To provide the route to healthy communication once more.

She is the catalyst.

#ikik catalysts speed up reactions (not cause them) and are used up in the process so pls don't take this metaphor literally #link click #shiguang daili ren #shiguang daili ren spoilers #also my bolding is so eclectic but I tried to just go for the parts that were most important to what I was trying to say #also sorry im too lazy to make this more screenshotty so it's just full on words without many images to break it up #hopefully the formatting helps a tad but yeah sorry

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