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rapha-reads · 7 hours

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tumblr is the only place that im honest, how do you tell your instagram followers that you just saw a bird that changed your life? they are soulless on that app, they dont give a fuck

#that post i made earlier about my insane walk under the rain >> would never ever post anything like that on insta #that kind of madness is only for tumblr

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rapha-reads · 7 hours

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"justice league doesn't know batman has kids" and by some freak incident, they end up meeting them all at once, after never having one single sneaking suspicion of batman being a family guy.

you've got every batkid + justice league member in the same room, and bruce tries for a total of 6 seconds to diffuse the situation before giving up.

there's bats left right and centre making completely false claims about how their family came to be, just to stir shit. also purposely trying to ruin batman's 'stoic and mean' reputation as best as they can.

jason and steph are telling everyone that they're all bio kids, and bruce does try and correct that one (some of those kids don't even belong to him in a non-bio way!!) but not before tim pipes up and goes 'well actually it depends what you count as biological, he grew me in a lab'.

dick's taking full advantage of the JL's perception of batman being oh so impressionable in the moment, and is telling stories of his childhood + batman raising his younger siblings, making him out to be the softest guy to ever exist (completely on purpose). cass is nodding along next to him, and making sure whenever she adds a comment that she uses the word 'dad' instead of batman just for the extra domestic flare.

babs and jason are explaining how they all consider themselves bats, in a way that would make anyone believe that they're in a cult. bruce is standing amidst it all, an immovable object, with dick's arm on his shoulder, and damian huddled into his side (ALL for dramatic flare. they need the JL to know that he's. just a guy with kids).

#batfam #bruce wayne #batman #no because that's literally what and who he truly is at his core: a guy with kids trying to make the world better for them

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rapha-reads · 8 hours

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#my hands in rich dark dirt #i can't wait to go back home and start gardening with my father

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rapha-reads · 9 hours

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 (2022) Dir. Yi Zheng

#love between fairy and devil #cang lan jue #cdrama #ah i love that show

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rapha-reads · 9 hours

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Question, because I trust your judgement more than the interwebs: Which should I read (or which should I read first): Heaven's Official Blessing or Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation?

Asking for myself, the friend with an overflowing library. <3

Heya! Good question. And thank you for regarding my judgement with such esteem! Very honored.

I haven't read MDZS (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) yet (started the first chapter), only watched the show, so on that side, I can't help you.

I read Heaven Official's Blessing (TGCF - no duh, you must have seen my posts 😆), and I absolutely LOVED IT. I couldn't put it down, it was so addictive. I'm deep into the fics right now, I cannot tell you how many tabs I have opened already (got hooked into the side-pairing because of course, the potentiaaaaal). Very besotted with that one. The plot is masterfuly constructed, the characters will make you foam at the mouth, the humor, the angst and the softness are perfectly balanced... Aaah. I love that book.

I think whichever one you want to start with is okay? Both have their own fandoms, MDZS has a live action show, a manhua (comic) and a donghua (animation), TGCF has a manhua and a donghua (and the live action started production in 2021 apparently).

On a personal note, having watched The Untamed first (and then a second time; and a third, and... right now I'm at 5 rewatch), I think that's why I find it more difficult to get into the novel - from what I've heard around, some characterisations and (maybe?) plotlines are a bit different from book to show, so I'm naturally reluctant to let go of the known (and beloved), but if you haven't watched the show, maybe you'll find reading the book easier. It is, after all, immensely popular (I like to state the obvious).

My personal opinion: read both, and start with whichever one attracts you more in terms of plot!

On one hand, you have Xie Lian (TGCF), once a glorious prince, then a glorious god, now a disgraced and forgotten deity roaming the earth and doing menial jobs to survive. He's extremely smart, cunning, resourceful and knowledgeable, but he likes to pretend he doesn't see and doesn't know anything because that boy is just Tired™. Love him. He's baby. Made me cry. Made me gasp. Made me scream in my hands. He's just like me for real.

On the other hand, you have Disaster-in-chief Wei Wuxian - my boyyyyyy! As I type this, I am literally wearing a white hoodie with a chibi Wei Ying in the back, a birthday gift from my sister 3 years ago, that's how much I adore this mess of a human being. And a mess he is. No self-esteem, no survival instinct, no emotional intelligence, he is simultaneously the smartest and the dumbest person in the room. Again, haven't read MDZS, so all of this is show-character.

Anyway.

I think @thegreymoon could be much more helpful than me, if you want a more detailed argument!

#replies #marloviandevil #rapha talks #rapha reads #books #mxtx #mxtx novels #mdzs #tgcf #book recs #book review

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rapha-reads · 10 hours

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#the untamed #wangxian #cql #i am legally obligated to reblog the 'ooooh it's like that okaaaaay' wangxian gifset

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rapha-reads · 10 hours

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#mostly canon or canon adjacent or should-be-canon-but-censorship or canon-in-source-material-but-not-in-adaptation #i'm thinking and honestly - go on and tell me that merthur or poe/finn are non-canon #i think tybalt/mercutio is the only real non-canon ship i have? and then again they are each other's narrative foil so.#and apart from that i read gen

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rapha-reads · 10 hours

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"A disciple of Lize Palace cannot fall in love with a woman, have a wife and a family."

Right, so, by that logic... He could fall in love with a guy, marry that guy and have a family with a man? So what you're saying is, Lize Palace is the gay club of LaR's martial world? Is that it? Only gay dudes in Lize Palace, and Yu Sifeng is actually the token straight?

#love and redemption #yu sifeng #cdrama #rapha talks #rapha watches shows #lmao #as usual the stupidity of the heteronormative gender binary world strikes again and makes things dumb

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rapha-reads · 10 hours

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

#..........#???????????#OH.#that explains so much

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rapha-reads · 13 hours

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I never told my wife I had an ex-fiancee

One thing I never told my wife is that I had a fiancee before her. It’s a long story, so buckle up.

It was the year after I graduated college. I was dating my girlfriend, Stephanie, for a couple years and things were getting serious. At the time, I had my roommate, Joey, but he was a Craigslist roommate. We didn’t know each other very well. If you asked me how I knew him aside from Craigslist, the answer is I didn’t. He wouldn’t even tell me where he grew up.

Now, no shit, on the day I was going to propose, tragedy struck. I adorned our apartment with candles and even set up a nice glass display with framed pictures of me and Steph on top. Before Steph came in, Joey walked in and tripped. He actually shattered the glass display and got some in his face. Steph came in a few minutes later as I was on the phone with 911. Fortunately, Steph is a nurse, so she was able to patch him up as the three of us went to the hospital together.

Joey would recover, but he had some issues with glass on his face. He needed some cotton gauze inside his eye, which fortunately the doctors were able to save.

Clearly, I put off my proposal for the time being, but Steph and I agreed to get married. Our engagement was hush hush. Steph’s hours were wonky so she took care of Joey when I wasn’t around. And I should’ve seen the red flags, but I ignored them. They’d hang out together with and without me. They’d be in Joey’s room and lock the door.

One day, I came home and all of Joey’s stuff was gone. He moved out. Steph wrote a note. The note said, “We fell in love and we’re leaving together. Don’t try to find us.”

I didn’t listen and I searched, but true to the note, I couldn’t find them. I’ll never know what happened.

Suffice to say,

if it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe

I’d have been married a long time ago.

Where did you come from, where did you go?

Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

#JEFF #oh that's a good one jeff well done #jokes #humor #comedy #badjokesbyjeff

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rapha-reads · 14 hours

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Si Feng: I'm ready to pine and yearn and long forever without doing anything. I welcome the aching longing.

Xuan Ji: yeah, no, fuck that, if I want something (*you*), I'll come and get it. What are you gonna do about it?

Si Feng: ... *proceeds to blush for the rest of eternity*

Alright, I'm starting Love and Redemption again! I had watched the first two episodes last year before losing interest, now I'm back and I'm interested. Let's see how much lore, angst and yearning can this bad boy pack in.

Also Xuan Ji is totally right, Cheng Yi's smile is absolutely precious.

#love and redemption #yu sifeng #xuan ji #cdrama #rapha talks #rapha watches shows

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rapha-reads · 18 hours

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90,000-year-old human footprints found on a Moroccan beach are some of the oldest and best preserved in the world

Two trails of ancient human footprints pressed into a beach in Morocco form one of the largest and best-preserved trackways in the world.

Researchers happened upon the footprint site near the northern tip of North Africa in 2022 while studying boulders at a nearby pocket beach, according to a study published Jan. 23 in the journal Scientific Reports.

"Between tides, I said to my team that we should go north to explore another beach," study lead author Mouncef Sedrati, an associate professor of coastal dynamics and geomorphology at the University of Southern Brittany in France, told Live Science. "We were surprised to find the first print. At first, we weren't convinced it was a footprint, but then we found more of the trackway." Read more.

#archaeology #morocco #footprints #waaaaw

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rapha-reads · 18 hours

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I hate when people say ohhhh your pets only love you because you feed them. as if that wasn't the first form of love any of us felt. get real.

#i want a cat

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rapha-reads · 21 hours

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Welcome to

✨Rapha is insane✨

Second day of my three-day trip in Granada, Andalucía. Before leaving, I checked quickly the weather, then thought, "It's Andalucía in April, it ought to be sunny". Indeed, the first day was bright, sunny and hot.

Today? Today it's raining hallebards and I didn't tale my umbrella with me. Said to myself, "I don't need to buy another one, I'll just use one of my scarves to protect my head". And then I decided to go and walk for 40 minutes across town, through all the little paved, slippery, steep streets, to go visit the caves.

End result: I am DRENCHED. Pathetically wet cat drenched. From head to toe. Because also the only shoes I have are my Converse, and my travel pants are military cargo pants, so they drag on the ground. My shoes, my pants, my wool cardigan, my scarf, my hair, my gloves, my bag, my wallet... This is just my new state now. Wet. And cold. And will definitely get a cold.

I could have stopped. Turned back. Or at least buy an umbrella. But noooooo I went on ahead, literally at times singing in the rain, talking to myself and laughing silly at my own stupidity.

I need a minder.

#it's not that i didn't think things through #i did. and then i decided that i didn't care. and now here i am.#i'm gonna have lunch at a restaurant literally called the name of my city in morocco and then defeatedly go back to the hostel #save me chicken tajine with olives and fries and hot tea and homemade bread. moroccab food save me.#rapha talks

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rapha-reads · 21 hours

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#terry pratchett #terry pratchett quote #quotes

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rapha-reads · 1 day

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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

#me currently about feng xin and mu qing #they're just. they're so. ARGH.#fengqing #tgcf

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The amount of time and trial and error that happens between when you realize you need to change and when you actually start digging your heels in and making those changes is often literal years which is so crazy cause we can know something for so long and refuse to let it sink in when we know it will deeply disrupt our lifestyles and comforts/crutches so it just prevails for so much longer than we could ever imagine even when we realized so long ago what was wrong we just back pedal when we are scared until something just cracks and we feel ready

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