Fearfully and wonderfully made

Like to charge, reblog to cast for the sand in his hourglass to run out

just had an absolutely atrocious thought

Notes are in complete agreement

modern Scheherazade reciting summaries of Internet drama to the king

“And that,” said Scherezade, “Is why the saga of Thanfiction is second in fame only to the story of the Snapewives on the astral plane in early 2000’s internet fandom drama.”

Freshly interested, the king rubbed his eyes, fighting the pull of sleep. “The what on the astral plane?”

Scherezade’s eyebrows shot up. “Have you never heard of the Snapewives? Much has been said of their marriage, most of it cruel, but the real story is far more interesting and complex than most remember.”

“You must tell me,” he demanded, and Scherezade knew that she had once again caught him on her hook. All that remained was to reel him in.

“My king,” she said, arching her back in a dramatic yawn, “I cannot; the hour is late, and I am far too tired to do it justice. I am sure I would forget important details, with my mind so clouded with sleep!”

The king chewed his lip, still fighting a battle he had lost many nights before. “Very well,” he said. “We will sleep, and you will tell me about it tomorrow when you are rested.”

Scherezade smiled a secret smile and closed her eyes, safe for another night, already planning how best to bait the king into asking about the story of hivliving.

After his first wife wrote a callout post about him, the king became wrathful and misogynistic; each night he would take a new wife only to cancel her in the morning. When all the unproblematic maidens of eligible birth had been cancelled, the vizier’s own only unproblematic daughter, Scherezade, stepped forward and agreed to marry the king herself.

She's going to get a solid week of nested stories out of explaining the A/B/O court case.

cassandra clare takes a month

Tie in MsScribe and it'll take three.

2024 achievements

English added by me :)

Have ya'll seen this? Will Ferrell's best friend (and coworker) decided to transition, and when she told him, he suggested they film a road trip documentary together. It's called Will & Harper, our Sept. 27

the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe

one of the deans in beijing dance academy rehearses with students

#he's so good damn#obvs he doesn't have the same athleticism as the students#but he's so much more in control of his body#he moves much more self assuredly#and doesn't exaggerate the way the more inexperienced ones do#he knows exactly what to do and how to do it naturally#wow

Oh so that's what books mean when they talk about seeing a swordperson or a martial artist move and immediately knowing you're fucked. If I saw someone handle a weapon or switch martial art stances that smoothly and with that economy of motion, I would immediately know I was going to die.

Oh, what a blast from the past! They're (and more importantly, he's) doing a type of Mongolian folk dance.

I recognize this track because my Chinese folk dance group used the same one when my teacher taught us a similar dance, ha ha. I haven't heard it in more than 15 years, but bam, there is is. We basically ripped the track from this master dance.

The dean here is Jiang Tiehong 姜铁红!

I think, I THINK here Jiang is at 3:00 in an older (1986 from the description) performance of this dance. In another video, somebody says that he and the four dancers immediately around him in white went on to become teachers at Minzu University of China, and I believe it, ha ha. He's also listed as a famous soloist for this dance and was a student of Minzu University of China, so I imagine he earned his solo then (and maybe this is one of those student performances!), and has been reprising it for fun anniversary performances and teaching moments like the one that went viral this year. I am cobbling this together without reading primary sources, so grain of salt.

(I have complicated feelings about "Chinese folk dance", the dance traditions of ethnic minority groups in China, and the Han-ification of them, but this performance objectively rocks. Also, the Minzu University of China is cooler than most because their education is focused on the ethnic minorities of China.)

we live in hell. what do you mean elon musk is going to lead a new department of our government called "doge"

im sorry if this is how you found out. yes its real

"Elon Musk, the world's most powerful internet troll, has found yet another joker mask to wear..." (x)(x)(x)

This is Andrey X, a Jewish Israeli pro-Palestine activist.

I don't know how to describe this video so I'll just write out what he's saying:

On stage at her show, black Brazilian singer and actress Ludmilla announced that she is expecting a 3-month-old baby with her wife Brunna Gonçalves. A beautiful moment, where he received support from fans and especially his family and his mother. it's important to talk about this, in Brazil, where it is one of the most homophobic and racist countries. Ludmilla, a beyhive who fulfilled her dream of meeting Beyoncé and is now Beyoncé's friend, fulfills another dream of being a mother with her wife, with the welcome that all women and black lesbian couples deserved.

congrats to them! i’m laughing at “expecting a three month old baby”

The fact that in Czech we legit say “the knife in my pocket is opening” when encoutering behavior we hate or find super annoying is something so memey

Like yeah I’m really feeling like stabbing something… but I’m not gonna…. But I’m feeling like it

use, and i cannot stress this enough, thriftbooks

if thriftbooks doesn’t have what you’re looking for, especially if you’re looking for it used/cheap, alternatives include betterworldbooks and discoverbooks.

Other tips for cheaper books is checking amazon and scrolling down to the “buy used” or “other sellers” section and then checking to see if those sellers have storerfonts off of amazon.

There is also a good chance that you might have a local, indie book store that likely also has a used book section! Indiebound might help you find those book stores!

Also, check out your local library, sometimes, they have a for sale section or might have certain times of the year where they do massive used book (dvd, cd, etc) sales to fundraise!

(It’s also worth checking directly from an author’s or publisher’s page and seeing if they have other places they sell their books. I know this is about cheaper/used books, since some of y’all aren’t built for piracy or the library, but also if you want to dodge supporting amazon AND want to more directly support artists you support, there’s a good chance they might have alternate ways to buy the books!)

I use thriftbooks a lot, it's so good!

as someone who works in an independent bookstore, alibris is the best for supporting yr local bookstore! abebooks is now owned by amazon. thriftbooks is great also just doesn’t usually support independent stores.

when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text

I’ve also uploaded this design to INPRNT, and all sales proceeds will be donated to environmental and humanitarian charities!

this is still going around with the old dead links - please help me share this version

11/6/2024

not really sure what else to say at this point. these opinions being platformed in the mainstream media is just so catastrophic for the way that people view minorities in this already extremely racist-by-nature country. gasoline on a bonfire.

Neither did white women or white men apparently and yet they never get the misogyny label applied to them wholesale. Seems exclusive to men of color.