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our landlord has started ominously talking about doing property valuations for our flat so we've decided to make some mortgage appointments to see if we actually have any reasonable chance of buying something if we get kicked out. stressful, hassle, yadda yadda, but the point is i'm filling out this mortgage website's form with our details and it asks for your occupation via a dropdown menu
unsurprisingly, 'learning technologist' aka my job is not listed as one of their occupations. weirdly neither is 'IT support' which was the next closest position i could think of, but whatever, still not too unusual, but then i started scrolling down the list of what this website DOES have for accepted occupations and now i have some questions about how they establish what jobs need to be included as options
Your hands taking strands of hair with an unfamiliar tenderness, the pale sickness of eyes green as forest trees, the red of blooming flowers. You won’t say you love her but when she sits beside you and the sunset breaks the sky, when she laughs, you never want to go another day without hearing that laugh.
Love was there. It didn’t change anything, it didn’t change you. But there was love here.
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A companion piece to my other portrait; or. Braiding hair as an act of love.
Equivalent in Leeds, England
i once read a bingliushen fic where lqg wasn't a virgin bc he got into one too many fuck or die situations, so during their first time when lbh was rough with him sy told him to be more gentle, but lqg told him smth along the lines of "i'm not gonna break" and bingqiu just looked at him like what the fuck is wrong with this guy, so the truth of why lqg wasn't a virgin anymore got out. and i just think it'd be a really fun premise for a fic for bingqiu to make it their mission to rewire lqg's brain so he would stop thinking that get down and done in five minutes in a life or death situation is what sex supposed to look like. but then that would only make the situation more complicated bc now lqg would think that intimacy and skinship is reserved for sex, so bingqiu gets yet another mission to get that idea out of lqg's head and teach him about the differences of sexual and non-sexual intimacy. not with words ofc, that would make their lives too easy
Qiong Ding
Disciples accepted to the first peak are expected to go through the “Qiong Ding Bulk”, where physical cultivators and hopeful diplomats tend to double or triple in mass in an effort to appear more physically intimidating. While this is not the case for every cultivator on Qiong Ding, many are monuments of muscle and fat.
Qing Jing
Spoiled pillow princesses that are good with their hands. Qing Jing being a nearly ascetic peak, their disciples resistance to this reputation has only made it stick more.
Wan Jian
Something something they’re good at handjobs because they spend all day polishing swords
An Ding
“An Ding Thighs” are legendary in their strength and size. While often overlooked as physical cultivators, An Ding has a reputation for endurance 😉
Xian Shu
As a peak of spies, many of the weapons Xian Shu disciples train in must be easily concealable. This includes classics like hairpins, daggers, needles….. and whips. Make of that what you will.
Bai Zhan
Reputation for being absolutely abysmally terrible at sex. No patience, too rough, too much energy, no communication or aftercare. Largely this characterization is true.
Qian Cao
Considered not just the sex gods of Cang Qiong, but of the Jianghu more broadly. While dual cultivation is a niche practice on Qian Cao, all of its disciples carry the reputation of being incredibly competent and considerate in bed.
Ku Xing
Rumor has it that depraved lunatic shit is always happening on that peak, and those ascetics are so repressed that when they fuck they go crazy. Much like Qing Jing, efforts to dispel these rumors have only enforced them.
Zui Xian (am I remembering the name right??)
Seen as the hedonism peak where pleasures blur together as one cohesive and expansive entity. Drinking, eating, drugs, sex, and vice all converge in secret orgies held in the cave system they use for aging food. These rumors are largely untrue, but the members of Zui Xian are dedicated to their continued spread.