Thank u ron

The Untamed

Hearing this, he spat, "Fooling around again! Your sect leader, I, has already poured you a bowl and put it outside. Kneel for me to express your gratitude and go drinking your soup outside."

Wei Wuxian skipped outside before he turned around and came back, "What do you mean by this, Jiang Cheng? Where's the meat?"

Jiang Cheng, "Finished it. There're only lotus roots left. Don't eat them if you don't want to."

Wei Wuxian attacked with his elbow, "Spit out the meat!"

Jiang Cheng, "No objections. I'll spit them out and let's see if you'll eat them!"

Seeing that they started to argue again, Jiang Yanli quickly interrupted, "Okay, okay. How old are you two, fighting over some meat? I'll just make another jar..."

The lotus pork rib soup that Jiang Yanli made was Wei Wuxian's favorite.

Aside from how it was really delicious, it was also because he'd always recall what happened the first time, he had it.

[...]

Having stayed up for almost half of the night, the two had grown hungry as well. And so, Jiang Yanli went to the kitchen and busied herself for a while, standing on tiptoe. She warned up a bowl of lotus pork rib soup for each of them. The aroma wrapped itself around his heart, lingering.

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Chapter 71-Departure - Part 3

sky: oh, you’re dating payu? cool rain: you’RE DATING PAI? NOT ON MY WATCH

and his voice took her far, far away. She could still see it: the stars of the desert gleaming above her and in his eyes.

“—that’s what makes her a hero. That’s what makes her—”

“Rayla,” she said, meeting Redfeather’s gaze. “My name is Rayla. And I’m going home.”

Inside me there are two wolves.

One wants Joel to win so he can bring a narrative balance to Lizzie’s death (and cmon, as a treat, the little guy deserves it)

The other doesn’t because he hasn’t been as evil this season and I want him to win while rubbing his hands together and cackling at the downfall of humanity

👀🍕..

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the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

I'm at the cricket and I'm in the shade but after everything today, how long until I'm lying on the concrete face down, only waking up at 5am when a stars official finds me and spoon feeds me sponsored yogurt and tells me I never have to go back to work again and

If the TV show varient of marc went through the same thing with bushman as comic book marc, then TV marc is an accomplice to war crimes 💀💀.

the more i read through issue one, the more i think the stone situation isn't caused by some enemy - i'm more convinced the cause of it is odyn himself.

(i had about half of this typed up before hashing this concept out in a very cool conversation with @last-ronin earlier today... but i fell asleep before posting it last night, lmao.)

these kids are Developing Powers, guys. they can communicate telepathically, not just holding entire conversations but also projecting imagery into each other's minds. it's unclear at this point whether they can all project images psychically or if that is specifically yi's gift, but it does seem to be implied that this makes her retellings different from uno's and favoured by odyn. i'm on the fence about whether uno's colour-changing ability counts as a power or not since it's something other lizard species can do and he's been doing it since he was a baby. moja is also noted as having an 'overactive nose' literally smelling something 'wrong' which is like... either a very odd character quirk or another sign of enhanced abilities. if she has heightened senses in general, that might have been subtly foreshadowed by the times in lost years where she's seen wearing her headphones even when she's not listening to music.

much like casey growing to inherit enhanced strength and reflexes from interacting with mutagen, it seems like the turtles bodies are also starting to get all funky from ooze exposure. hence the title, re-evolution.

at the end of the chapter, when the babies finally get their chance to fight a real fight, odyn clearly doesn't want to. he's very much giving michelangelo in the lost years - it's making me nervous that at some point we're going to get a 'GET UP FOOLISH CHILD' moment with casey and odyn, because as much as she loves her kids, casey marie is a complete hard-ass on the battlefield. i HOPE that we get to see it play out differently if history repeats. that always felt painfully unresolved in lost years and it really made me resent roninverse splinter. if this happens i'd like casey to have to confront the fact that she DID make these kids to fight a war, that was incredibly FUCKED UP and they DON'T have to accept that.

(this scene is so hard to read no matter how many times i come back to it. sincerely, FUCK YOU roninverse splinter.)

anyway. here are just a few moments in that final battle where he hangs back while the other three jump in with weapons swinging:

free my boy. clearly odyn doesn't want to be here rn. he seems rooted to the spot...

...like a statue, wouldn't you say?

so yeah. in a life where he's been raised to fight or fall, this feels very "third option" to me. this poor kid is in an impossible situation so his body gives him an out where he can keep himself safe like his family want without having to experience the horror of fighting lethal opponents. the problem is, if he's completely frozen solid like this, how does he know when the fighting is over? how does he know when or how to snap out of it?

my prediction is the turtles are going to use their telepathic abilities next issue to break through to him and coax him out of this stone state (possibly creating more hijinks if a new power is discovered in the process). i have NO CLUE if april and casey marie know the turtles have these powers, but they sure as shit are going to find out when they catch their babies performing a seance around their brother lmao.

there's also the possibility of this 'insidious foe preparing to spring a trap' from the issue 2 synopsis... i wonder if they have a way of messing with the turtles' new mutations?

much to think about. anyway, VERY hyped for issue 2!

I hope the next HBO show sam levinson makes is just one long snuff film starring himself

I've been screaming in quite a number of different posts, but I think it is worth summarizing and collecting in one post, so, here we go. 

as you probably know because I can't keep quiet about it, we did a big pride flag push for Lights Up for HSLOT Prague, which I started preparing less than a month before the show and was then joined mainly by @nauticallyrics​, while another rainbow project (sectored rainbow lights) was planned for TPWK and we coordinated with the organizers. While @nauticallyrics and I managed to buy larger packs of flags on amazon, it was not easy to get flags in Czech rep, order them so that they'd get to people in time for the show etc., but the project was locally met with unbelievably positive reactions and people started printing flags and gluing them to paper straws or sticks, a lot of flags were painted and drawn (someone even glued stripes of coloured paper together), so many people were working on making hundreds of flags like that and it was absolutely unbelievable that people came together in such a way. When we got in front of the venue, there were so many rainbows already, big flags and small flags and at some point our volunteers even struggled finding people without flags. And so many people were distributing flags as well! In the end we managed to hand out all of the flags that we had. You can get a pretty good idea of what it looked like before the show here. 

Harry in Prague on July 15.

I've been talking about the way people were working so hard to make this work here a lot, the project instagram was very active, sharing people's photos of the diy flags, encouraging others to do the same, we were pushing it on tiktok as well which helped us a lot, and we also talked about people bringing big flags for Harry to pick up during the song, because it would be sad if he didn't when we were doing such a project, and I mentioned that several times here as well. The thing is, Harry seemed to know that the project was coming - we have no idea where he knew from or for how long he has known, but he surely did and there were a few indicators, the most evident one of them was the way he made sure to get a flag. The video which I'm referring to is here. Those of us who were in the pit actually saw this happen - a flag landed on the stage, Harry was walking away and then came back for it and held it folded up in his hand before the song even started. This was a moment in which many people started reaching for their flags as well, telling each other to get ready, I started undoing my big flag etc., and I actually saw he joined us - he quite literally joined us in getting ready for the project. But it was dark and seeing the videos taken from the sides, most people would just see him with a flag in his hand when the lights went up as the song was beginning. Given the fact that he hasn't picked up a flag during Lights Up at the following three shows even though two of them had rainbow lights projects for it, it seems that this was absolutely deliberate. 

He then went on to say “Prague, do you know who you are tonight?” with the flag still folded in his hand, then he hesitated and smiled a bit and finally said “Let's go!” but it seemed like for a moment he was going to say something else. You can see that a bit here and here. Again, the little smile and the hesitation seem to us to suggest that he knew what was coming (and perhaps almost said something that would give it away more?). (Depending on the way he found out, he might also have known what we looked like, and he did definitely see us both and he interacted, but that may very well be a coincidence, which I'm going to choose to lean towards, but thought it worth mentioning.) 

The project worked wonderfully, the flags were everywhere and I have no videos of my own because I was absolutely mindblown by how many flags there were. Harry looked so genuinely happy and pleased and you can see him dimpling and having fun in many moments which are just now surfacing, because we were all so focused on the project and on the flags being there and not many people filmed him. As you can see for example here, he also told us: “Put your flags up!” and encouraged us and acknowledged the project explicitly. After the first minute of Lights Up, he turned to the band and he smiled at them, and that smile showed everything, really: 

gif by @kiwikiwiandkiwi​ (original post here)

Videos of this moment: x, x, x, x.

But he was so happy the entire time, you can see him quite overwhelmed in one moment as well, and also, as a bonus, he caught a sunflower and a cowboy hat, which he managed to catch onto the sunflower stem and was very entertained by it haha. (see here)

Most importantly, though, the project worked out wonderfully and there must have been thousands of flags in the venue, which seems absolutely unbelievable to me given how small our team initial was and how hard they were to get by, but you can see they were in every sector and section, on the pit there was a sea of rainbows and it was the same on the sides, and the “nosebleed” sectors, even the restricted view sectors had so many flags. It was really Louis level of rainbows and it created the environment we strove for - so many people told us they felt safe and happy and loved, including myself. It was incredible! The fans worked so hard to make this happen, he knew, he participated, he encouraged us, he loved it and he seemed almost as happy as I was that we made it!

Some of the videos of the project: a video where his smile and the flags in the pit are very visible,  Liz's video , a compilation of the project from different povs, the entirety of Lights Up in Prague, another moment where the flags in the pit are especially visible , the flags on the big screen and Harry smiling so hard you can hear it, the LOTPrague instagram highlights collecting most of the videos , the project TikTok , final compilation on the project TikTok

real talk with you guys I think my manager forgot that my father in law died last week and I’ve only just come back from compassionate leave

the gray/dante of it all....

finally got back to playing zero escape