MDZS Secret Santa exchange for AO3 user PorcelainAlice, for a prompt requesting fix-it where Jin Zixuan goes to Nie Mingjue for advice on connecting with his many illegitimate younger brothers.

Also on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52171486

a. e. housman, from 'hell gate'

Naomi was insane for writing this

greek mythology: akratos

akratos is the demi-god of the drinking of unmixed wine. the greeks traditionally drank their wine mixed with water so akratos was no doubt regarded as a deity of festive excess. he was an attendant of the god dionysos.

The ability to feel mixed emotions is a sign of maturity. If people can blend contradictory emotions together, such as happiness with guilt, or anger with love, it shows they can encompass life's emotional complexity. Experienced together, opposing feelings tame each other. Once people develop the ability to feel different emotions at the same time, the world ripens into something richer and deeper. Instead of having a single, intense, one-dimensional emotional reaction, they can experience several different feelings that reflect the nuances of the situation. However, the reactions of emotionally immature people tend to be black-and-white, with no gray areas. This rules out ambivalence, dilemmas, and other emotionally complicated experiences.

-from Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

just had perhaps my most distressing Food (or in this case drink) making experience probably ever

this is Iced Slop

i made this horrible self-modulating synth patch that literally makes me feel like im committing physical violence against my synth every time i use it

clear song and wind (plus black jade)

liu feng / liu qingge from my villains are destined to die x svsss fic

shissou

𝔖𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔩𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔞 - 𝔄𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔭 [𝔏𝔦𝔳𝔢]

Draw this in your style prompt from Pakhnokh!

SO! Doctor Who! The Star Beast! It was... Very Disney. Some parts, and especially the new TARDIS and the reactions to it at the end... Felt very Disney and not enough Doctor Who. It also looked like the insides of the giant centre parks flumes lmao.

I loved the first section, the comedy was on point, but then everything did get very ott, like too much all at once, it felt chaotic in a way that didn't feel cohesive, it was like they shoved in too much for it to handle. And exposition wise, idk if there actually was much exposition but it really felt like there was a ton. And the ending, sweet ig, but it felt...

yk when there's a big ending and it's all saved by "THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP TM" OR "TRUE LOVES KISS" and wrapped up with a little now that makes you grown and feels like a cop out, the easy way that doesn't make much sense and feels like they didn't put much effort in. Yeah, felt like that but it was "the power of gender TM." And ik tumblr is gonna eat that up, but I think other parts of the episode to do with gender and stuff were far more meaningful, and this felt like it was cheapening it.

tried something new

9:36 PM EDT March 29, 2024:

Shirley Horn - "Return To Paradise" From the album Verve Unmixed (2002)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

love to all my sorrowful friends during advent. christ came to taste our sadness, to partake in the human condition, and to redeem our suffering weakness through his suffering strength. he knows what it is to have a failing body, failing mind, and failing heart. he dwells with his people. he feels our hurt.

White knuckles and wild horses | rated T | 782 words | Jason Spezza/Kyle Dubas/Sheldon Keefe

Jason’s wanted this for years, but there’s never really a good time to fuck your coach and your GM, no matter how gently the three of them constructed their relationship around those concerns.

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