New Watercolours, New Sketchbook 

late night cuddles with wangxian~

Very much inspired by Holly Warburton’s illustrations, which I absolutely adore.

i keep trying to memorize every detail of the moments i live in. in the soreness of my legs from standing so long at a concert, the chill of the night, the patterns of a tablecloth, the oily texture in my mouth after eating fried bananas. i keep trying to memorize the feelings, the quiet contentedness, the laughter, the excitement. i keep trying to memorize the people, their smiles, the way they speak, what makes them laugh. i’m constantly on the cusp of the next part of my life and that’s just so.. strange. but it makes it so much easier to find happiness no matter what’s happening to me, in a way? because i’m already kind of looking at life with those rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, simply because i know these are times i’ll never be able to live again, and these are people i might not always have, and that makes it so much easier to appreciate everything i might miss later. 

Level 1: Porn with plot

Level 2: Porn with social commentary

Level 3: Porn with troubling philosophical implications

Level 4: Porn with maddening revelations of humanity’s place in the cosmos

Level 5: Porn with math

wait why'd the music stop

an unforgettable chilly memory ❄

I know I talk about mdzs modern AUs a lot, but it's just somehow become a fascinating adaptation process to me, all these people making their personal calls about the nature of reality.

And a thing I keep coming back to is all the people who deliberately decide to give modern!wwx Mo Xuanyu's build.

To preserve the strength contrast that's leveraged for horny, which like, yeah that's fair, horny is an acceptable reason to make a story choice. I respect that, sometimes grudgingly.

But as a result of noticing this being done, oftentimes it seems without any reflection about why, I've developed this minor obsession with the fact that wwx in his own body at its adult height was fractionally shorter than lwj.

And this was the height he reached after a multi-year period in childhood living on scrounged garbage, plus the three months starving in the mass grave toward the end of his growth period.

Meaning that by all normal logic, a modern AU wwx who did not experience these periods of intense privation--which is most of them; it's quite rare for children to experience that particular form of total neglect in modern developed nations and modernAU!wwx's life ruining circumstances only occasionally involve intense physical torment--is going to be significantly taller as an adult.

Like. Add a few inches on there.

Where are all my adequately nourished six-foot-four Wei Wuxians???

Korean This vs That Word Differences #3

속에 vs 안에

Both of these mean ‘inside’, as in, one object inside another. However 안에 is normally used to talk about things that are inside objects that can be opened, such as a box, a jar, a drawer etc (e.g. 고양이는 상자 안에 있어요 - The cat is inside the box), whereas 속에 is used to talk about things that are inside objects that cannot be opened, such as the heart, the stomach, the mind (e.g. 내 마음 속에 저장! - You are saved in my heart). As you can tell, usually the things you would use 속에 for are not often physical objects being inside something.

방법 vs 방식

Both of these mean ‘way’ or ‘method’, like in the phrase ‘There is a right way and a wrong way’. 방법 is the more commonly used word and refers to a way/method that takes you from beginning to end of something, such as ‘Do you know the way to use this?’ (이것을 사용하는 방법을 알아요?) or ‘Do you know the best way/method to get to the library?’ (도서관에 가는 가장 좋은 방법을 알아요?). On the other hand 방식 is used more for talking about things that persist and don’t normally end, such as ‘A way of thinking’ (사고방식) or ‘A way of living’ (생활 방식) or ‘A method of payment’ (지불 방식) or ‘That’s just our way of doing things!’ (그건 그냥 우리 방식이야!) There are more ways to say ‘way’ or ‘method’ but these are the one’s you might commonly see

거부하다 vs 거절하다

These are really similar but just vary in strength/degree. Both mean rejection or refusal. 거절 means refusal/rejection in the sense of ‘not accepting something’ (e.g. 나는 너의 거절을 거절한다 - I refuse your refusal) but 거부 means strongly reject/repel (e,g, 내 몸이 약을 거부하고 있어요 - my body is rejecting the medicine). If you used 거부 to refuse someone, it is a pretty huge refusal and means you’re probably not going to change your mind about it.

달걀 vs 계란

There are lots of words like this where the meaning of the word is exactly the same, but the only difference is whether one is Sino-Korean and the other Native Korean. 달걀 is the native Korean word for egg, whereas 계란 (which is commonly taught first) is the Sino-Korean word for egg. It’s okay to use either and actually both are used interchangeably, however its more common these days for people to opt for the native Korean word, therefore 달걀 is worth knowing.

아무튼 vs 어쨌든 vs 어차피

All of these mean ‘anyway’ and these aren’t the only ways to express ‘anyway’ either, however you will hear these rather a lot and there are slightly different uses for each of these. 아무튼 is heard a lot when changing topic or conversation (e.g. 아무튼, 내일 뭐해? - Anyway, what are you doing tomorrow?). However, it can also be used to say ‘in any case’ or ‘whatever the result’ (e.g. 내일 비가 올지도 몰라. 아무튼 우리는 아직 갈 거야 - It might rain tomorrow. Anyway [in any case], we’re still going). 아무튼 is quite a casual term and is sometimes regarded as slang, therefore if you are using it to express ‘in any case’ to someone that you are not close with, you might want to use 어쨌든 instead.

어쨌든 means ‘either way’, ‘anyway’, ‘in any case’, ‘anyhow’. When it is used, it comes across in quite a neutral way, which is why it is often thought of as ‘either way’ - it comes across as you striking the middle ground between views, therefore it is quite a relaxed way of saying ‘anyway’ (e.g. 어쨌든, 너는 결정 할 수 있어 - Anyway, you can decide, or 어쨌든, 그것은 아직 멋있네요! - Anyway [either way], it’s still cool!).

Finally, 어차피 is derived from Hanja and has a slightly different meaning - it is used to express that something is going to happen eventually, such as 어차피 일어날 일이에요 - ‘It’s going to happen anyway’. Further examples = 어차피 잃어버릴 거예요 - ‘You’re going to lose it anyway’, 어차피 살 거예요 - ‘I’m going to buy it anyway’.

魚と男の子のシリーズ３ 

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