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please call me orange! // (formerly stilloranged and orangecrushed on twitter) // robotmango on tumblr // orange_crushed on ao3 // she/her // 30+ 🔞
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masterpost for my #yexie "red wine supernova" threadfic!

part one (xie'er's perspective):
bsky.app/profile/stil...
cheering myself up by imagining "red wine supernova" is about hot braless burnout milf ye baiyi from the perspective of a recently emancipated, sexually overwhelmed early-twenties xie'er
i tell my students that they're obligated to give each other feedback on presentations, but i also always explain what feedback IS. praise and enthusiasm ARE PART of feedback. sometimes you need analysis, sure, but sometimes you also need validation + reinforcement! for creative work even more so.
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
my students have come up with some amazing paper topics? mostly based on weird asides i made in class, or things i told them to go read later that were a little too high-level or deep in the weeds to put into the syllabus. these kids are fucking nailing it
December 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
things that have amused the whole neighborhood this morning: a guy rolling a cart around with a cat carrier on top of it, inside of which is a VERY vocally despairing cat. everyone that passes gets yowled at. about 50% of people are yowling back and cracking up
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the habit of making one level in an otherwise cozy game some kind of platformer challenge, like you're farming and doing puzzles and suddenly you have to make timed jumps between vanishing stepstones, yes i am looking at you, grow: song of the fucking evertree. you son of a bitch
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#wip... friday? sure. it's thanksgiving week and i'm writing a sequel to "rational creatures," so here's family dinner with the kangs and their human tug-of-war rope
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
our first thanksgiving overseas was strange for many reasons! but i am warmed by a few things: watching people immediately rush to care for each other. seeing all the love + concern from our friends pour in. going to dinner with more friends and having them pull out gag HOMEMADE PILGRIM HATS for us.
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
unsurprised to see some international coverage of the fire focusing on the bamboo scaffolding; half the city has that up at any given time! photos from the morning show that a lot of the bamboo DIDN'T burn, what burned was the insanely flammable netting and styrofoam they used (wildly against code)
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
it's been dry and windy and we just had a big fire in causeway bay YESTERDAY, and now a whole apartment complex in tai po is burning! heartbreaking and terrifying:
www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...
Hong Kong fire: At least 13 dead as more than 700 firefighters tackle blaze
The fire has engulfed a number of buildings, with flames spreading on bamboo scaffolding. At least one firefighter is among the dead.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
the reverse sensation to seeing "old man yaoi" applied to guys i'd card is seeing "boys in love" for people in their forties
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"kokuho" was absolutely incredible, an actual epic. i did not, however, look at the runtime before i decided to see it at 8pm yesterday
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
mr. orange's desire for at-home hot pot can no longer be contained. welcome to the family, plug-in tabletop induction burner
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
when my father was teaching me to draw, he made a little outline of a dog, and then he turned it into a perfect simple sketch of OUR dog, which i can still picture in my mind exactly as he made it. i was awed that you could see something and then capture the feeling of having seen it.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
managing anxiety about my dad's health by overbuying for his birthday. i'm sure he won't notice something is up with me, even though i've scheduled [checks notes] five deliveries
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I was going through my old twitter ficlet files and found a cheeky little zhaoxie bloody kissing ficlet that honestly deserves to see the light of day

archiveofourown.org/works/74414916
sorry about the blood in your mouth - ripeteeth - 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
thank you @dcyiyou.bsky.social for reminding me i NEED to watch blood river. for reasons
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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"He's our sharpest blade." 🤭 #BloodRiver #LiDaiKun #cdrama
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
can't believe i've been in such a work hole that i neglected to CROW FROM THE ROOFTOPS that my BELOVED SIDEB_TRACK2 wrote a new and delicious #YEXIE FIC???!!!!????!!!!!!!

title: Tuesday
word count: a palindromic 13,031
modern au, please heed the tags
here it is: archiveofourown.org/works/73202086
New Session | Archive of Our Own
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i'm inured to a lot of terrible decoration, so the shitty little gold text didn't phase me. but when the camera pans to the GIGANTIC text at the TOP OF THE WALL i gasped aloud. please don't call this rococo, this style is technically called 1997 Newsletter Made With Microsoft Publisher
Below are two videos showing the White House vs Waldorf Astoria renovations. Can someone knowledgable about the relevant trades breakdown what it took to do each one? What was the process? How much human skill and craftsmanship were involved?
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
caving to the right on healthcare for the nth year in a row doesn't make you guys smart campaigners. it makes you insulated cowards who would rather buff the shoes of a pharma exec for cash than be a voice for your own people, which is the job you literally swore to do, "so help me god."
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
big uptick lately in students reaching out for [redacted] this past month and today i figured out why: someone has been intentionally sending them my way as a minor passive-aggressive protest against a bigger departmental thing. this is vague by necessity. but man did realizing make me laugh
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
it is interesting to live in hong kong, where i am a minority but not any kind of oddity, and then to go across the border and have people stop and take photographs with me without permission while i stand waiting for a didi. like okay. i guess my students can see me on xhs later like a jumpscare
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"did women ruin the workplace" did possums ruin the dumpster? maligning beautiful creatures for making the best of a pre-existingly bad situation
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM