Crumbs

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
Why is it so cute when people and by "people" I mean Zhu Yilong can't wink? 
WET.
Musical fandom work.
Fanart: Just tell him already, Shen Wei. 2Luo Chibi. Kunlun.

Today's another Guardian day on my Tumblr. Posts go up at 10am and 2pm US CST. These'll probably keep happening until my likes folder is thinned out. Dear Tumblr: what the is the point of putting things in a likes folder if the page stops displaying the images three or four pages into the eternal scroll you've forced me into? Fuck you, buddy. I swear, if things there weren't so damn pretty...

I'm feeling spread thin today. Not overextended so much as scraped away. sigh *opens up a document to lose myself in*

ETA: quick question for Guardian friends. Do y'all use Inspectorate and Ministry interchangeably? Is there a difference? I'm realizing I used them both in Deconstruction but would like to be consistent.

Comments

[nnozomi]

the winking thread is too much cute. Honestly the percentage of my brain taken up by Zhu Yilong right now is...possibly kind of a problem?
On the same topic: you kindly linked that lovely Wendy Cope poem about the orange a while back? I thought of another and sillier illustration for it, as here...

I hope today's writing is...I'm trying to think of the opposite of "spread thin"... fluffing up? Oh dear.

[clevermanka]

the percentage of my brain taken up by Zhu Yilong right now is...possibly kind of a problem?
I mean, there are worse problems to have, but also yeah I get it. Like, what is even the point of other men (unless they're Bai Yu)?

Today is pretty much all revision, so at least there's that!

[invaderjim]

I love your posts! World's Oldest Pines just made my day :)

[clevermanka]

I'm so happy to know they're brightening your days! 😊

[yantantether]

Is the Inspectorate maybe... Zhao Xinci's bit of the Ministry? *waits for someone with a better eye for canon detail to pop up*

[clevermanka]

Naye reminded me that there also exists the Xingdu Bureau so now I'm thinking I'll just emoji shrug my way through this whole damn fic.

[yantantether]

Sounds like a plan! Tbh I think I just use Ministry for it all and tend to forget about the existence of the Inspectorate/Bureau.

[naye]

Zhu Yilong, attempting to wink: WONK

why. Is it. So cute???


Oh man the Ministry/Inspectorate thing. I...use "Ministry" for the part where Xiao Guo's uncle works and then there's the thing Zhao Xinci's director of and that's the Xingdu Bureau?

IDEK.

[clevermanka]

Oh lord I forgot all about the Xingdu Bureau. ha! ha ha! /o\

[naye]

Probably because it ~makes no sense~.

[marycrawford]

I was going to type things but then I had to stare at that 'WET' gif for like seventeen hours wstfgl.
:pulls self together:

I have used Haixing Inspectorate as "a place where terrible bureaucrats live" mostly but I have no real idea about what office does what, and would not pick up on any inconsistencies there. :D

[clevermanka]

wettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Glad to hear we're all of like minds regarding the bureaucratic organization(s?) of Dragon City.

[trobadora]

Oh my god that winking thread ... *stares*

I mainly use Ministry myself - got into the habit before solo's subtitles came up with "inspectorate" ...

[clevermanka]

Ohhhh, is that where I got it? Good to know, thank you!

[tinny]

Why is it so cute when people and by "people" I mean Zhu Yilong can't wink?

I suspect it's only cute in people who are cute in the first place. And who don't actually think they can wink, just get talked into trying a lot and failing cutely. *g*

WET.

I don't know what kills me more, the WET or the smile at the end. God, he's gorgeous.

Inspectorate and Ministry

Fwiw, I've never used the word Inspectorate in my life, inside or outside of Guardian...

[clevermanka]

I suspect it's only cute in people who are cute in the first place
Idk, I think for me it's a factor in making someone cute!