I've always loved jigsaw puzzles. They are a fondly-remembered, family activity from when I was a kid. So how could I resist this flowery one when I saw it recently?
Incidentally, I know that you can synthesize a jigsaw effect using a digital camera but I guarantee that these shots are pure analogue. No Artificial Intelligence was used to create these images just good old-fashioned, human intelligence - you know, the kind you squeeze out of your brain.
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I have been thinking on the nature of mdzs as a deliberately vague text that leaves many things up to interpretation, and how i've slowly come to understand "up for interpretation" less as "there is One True version of this story i must find" and not even as " Everyone has a different One True Version of this story inside their head be based on their interpretations and the differences don't make one wrong and the other right" but as "There is no One True Version. Even in my own subjective interpretation of the text multiple things can be true at once" specifically, in regard to Jin Guangyao and the many things which are left up in the air as to whether he did them or not, most notably killing his son.
There's evidence for this, but it's non conclusuve (jgy saying he killed him while also saying he killed Qin Su, who very much killed herself. The speculations on how he'd have killed him being sect leader yao just saying shit. ) it is, esentially, just up in the air enough that if you decisively fall on one side of the debate is probably says more about you and your general opinion of jgy than it does about the "true" events of canon.
I have, as a proud apologist, always fallen on the "he didn't kill him but felt in some way responsible for his death." Side but recently have become more okay with the interpretation that maybe he DID kill him, and that at the very least, that when he tells Qin Su their son "needed to die" he is being genuine. Which, once you look at it beyond. "Is jgy a poor lil meow meow who it is Okay to Like or an irredeemable baby murderer" becomes both INCREDIBLY tragic and deeply interesting. Because here is a man condemned for who his parents were and who wants nothing more than to live, saying that it is possible to be so cursed by your heritage that you need to die. There is no existence for you. The exact same thing that has been said to him.
Of course being born out of wedlock to a sex worker and being a product of incest are different things, but that begs the question: where is the line? What crimes of the father can mean death for the son? How cursed can you be until your existence is so incompatible with society it is you who needs to give? And if there is... where is it? Qin su clearly thought she was past it. Was his son really past it? Is he?
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All I’m saying is that if you make me fall in love with the shifter character, and I have cute moments with them in BOTH forms I should also get to fuck in both forms.
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whos more likeli to get jiggy shoesmeller machner or billiam loo miss 🚽 😛
SHOESMELLER? Stu definitely sniffing Billy’s underwear but I don’t think he’s smelling shoes
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*In the voice of Adrian Cronauer (as played by Robin Williams)*: Gooood mmoorrrrning, Tummmblrrrr. I hope all of my lovely mutuals and followers are having a wonderful morning so far. Whether that’s cold, crisp, windy, dreary, or rainy - whatever works for you. For all of you wonderful people out there I just want to say that I hope you find some time in your busy schedule to shake what your momma gave you, just as the truck in front me on the way to work suggested.
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@shadowcatthievery liked for a starter with Truffle Cookie
It was late at night, the moon had risen quite a while ago, and to say not a creature was stirring in Truffle Cookie's mansion would be a lie.
For it was quite common for the sounds of stuff being wobbled around, drawers opening, and other bumps in the night to echo throughout the manor. Not to mention the skittering of her many spiders that call the place home.
But there was a sound that stirred Truffle from her evening tea, a loud thud, that seemed to repeat almost every minute. She wasn't sure what it was, but it wasn't normal to her, and that was saying something.
Was a spirit acting particularly restless? Or perhaps it was someone at the door, neither option frightened her, quite the opposite, it intrigued her. Deciding to entertain the second, more mundane option first, she went to the front door and slowly opened it to where, if anyone was outside wishing to see her, they would know she's available, yet still shroud herself, for it was quite cold this time of year.
"Is anyone out there?"
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K and Y :)
K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
Answered this over at this post!
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
DAMN I've been waiting to answer this one, but the way I'll answer this is by enumerating my sub-fandoms instead (a.k.a. fandoms I'm not as heavily invested in).
Now as I do the checks and balances, I think I'm actually in... a lot... and I'm practically stomach-to-chest-deep in some of them, so I'm going to rank them that way and say a little something about each piece as briefly as I can (even as I am equally giddy about everything on this list):
The Quarry - As of writing, this is the only game besides Bully to ever make me consider checking the tags on Tumblr again. I'm a sucker for hypernarratives. And I love that it proposed a choice for me to flirt with a guy as a guy amidst the impending werewolf doom.
Better Call Saul - Brain stimulator numero uno. I had to watch the entirety of BrBa just so I can watch BCS, and while the first of the Gilliganverse was utterly brilliant, the twists and turns these last few seasons always leave me sleepless for days. I'm committing crimes by not saying how its storytelling has changed me.
Severance - Brain stimulator numero dos. I wasn't even as invested in the first few minutes of it because I have a rather strong dislike of corporate life, but that's exactly the purpose of the show—to illustrate the horrors of a nine to five in a sci-fi, psychological sense.
Some notable mentions, since I don't think I'm as invested in them (anymore? not so much?), but for what it's worth, they still hold a place in my heart:
Stranger Things - I used to be so hopped up on the hype when this came out, but as the seasons went on, I slowly regressed. Then Season 4 happened, and I'm very much impressed with the amount of growth the show has gone through the years.
What We Do In The Shadows - Another show with great, great writing. If I were to compile certain genres of TV shows with intelligent writing, this would totally take up the Comedy spot for sure.
Bully - This became an instant favorite when this came out in 2006. Being a snot-nosed kid, I never got past three missions. Then in 2018, I got to revisit Bully Scholarship Edition and finally finished it in a span of a month. Smopkins wrecked me but that's for another discussion
That 70s Show - The first ever show to get me back into fandom spaces. I used to watch these episodes out of order on TV when I was younger, so when I watched the whole seven (discounting S8 here, that was all a fever dream), I got so intensely hooked on it and made it my personality for like... almost a year and a half, really! I gotta gear up for That 90s Show soon.
(Ask game is here!)
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