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you can call me nickel! i am also snickettes on AO3 and persnickettes on tumblr. I am here for Wang Yibo and Wang Yibo leading me around by the nose into fandoms. Yizhan-flavored. #booksky #MovieChallenge #artskychallenge #musicadvent #charactermeme

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · Mar 18

i am loling that the CCTV is just like "feel the beauty of spring through Wang Yibo's singing!" and the songs are just:
- CHINA'S POLICE FORCE IS THE BEST POLICE FORCE
- YOU SHOULD DO AEROBICS
- BEING A PERSON WITH AN IDENTITY CREATES ENDLESS EXISTENTIAL ANGST
- CALL YOUR MOM

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 23m

from one old depressed friendless shut-in to another, i hear you! i definitely wish there were more ways to befriend people as we get older outside of glomming onto people from fandom, because that's also getting harder with all the splintering into a million platforms etc.

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 39m

discord is hard to navigate but i know there are so many avid discord users — @katlacakes.bsky.social is one! — who would be happy to help you learn to feel more comfortable with it. the key really is finding a small server you're comfortable hanging out in.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 40m

no you don't have to apologize! I wasn't trying to imply that you're annoying me in any way, i'm just trying to help you have happier engagements and expectations from people, because you seem very sad and very preoccupied with this subject, and it worries me.

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 2h

—shifting your expectations for what you want out of your online interactions and how you expect other people to respond to you.

i'm not saying any of that to be critical or negative, but just to give you maybe a different way of thinking about things, because you do seem so unhappy. <3333

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 2h

...and if you're finding that the people you're interacting with aren't responsive, go find different people! There are so many people here on Bluesky alone — @katlacakes.bsky.social is one! — who'd be happy to be friends and have fun interactions with you any time. It's just a matter of maybe—

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 2h

—feel awkward about interacting with you where they wouldn't be otherwise. Your art is lovely! You shouldn't worry about whether or not it's good or whether people like it. My advice to you, if you want it, is just to focus on having meaningful conversations with people and getting to know them.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 2h

i'm so sorry!

personally, i think the key is not to stress your popularity or the number of views/likes you get. You just can't base your success rate as a friend on those things, because when you complain about that publicly, it places pressure on your interactions with people, and may make them—

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 2h

well you are not helping with your beautiful photography!

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 3h

so so gorgeous!

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 6h

There are too many poems that live in my head at any given moment to possibly choose a favorite but I always come back to Frank O'Hara. I carried Lunch Poems around with me when I moved to NYC. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42662/...

My heart is in
my
pocket, it is
Poems by Pierre
Reverdy.

A Step Away from Them

It’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. Then ont...

www.poetryfoundation.org

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 6h

absolutely bonkers and so cruel to them and their fans 😩

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 6h

maybe it will come back after a while!

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 11h

so so neat

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 11h

ahhhhhh love this drawing style with the thicker shading!

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 13h

ahhhhh this is precious 💞

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 16h

Want a new place for ebooks in the UK? Well here you go!

Storyville Books @storyvillebooks.bsky.social · 16h

Ebook enjoyer? With Bookshop.org's recent ebook app you can now get a great range of digital titles while supporting your favorite indie bookshops (Including us)!

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 19h

*sigh*

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 21h

it's genuinely astonishing to me that he turned out as balanced and well-adjusted as he seems to have done. (i think a lot of that is due to him landing the job on DDU, because he couldn't have asked for a more supportive, mentor-rich environment to suddenly experience astronomical fame in.)

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 23h

onion bagel, toasted, light butter

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 23h

outside of street dance, where loose clothing is part of the point, I think he has really really tucked himself away very tightly (lol figuratively and literally sob) for the past several years now

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 23h

it's a lot to deal with. I sometimes think about how mortifying it must have been for him to go through puberty while living full-time with a bunch of other dudes.

(I also think at times it was a lot for XZ to deal with on set fhfhfhf)

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 1d

i do NOT which is why it took me way longer to find this than it should have haha

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 1d

In the year of our lord 2020, the universe bestowed unto us many, many, *many* terabytes of behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of Chen Qing Ling, and tucked away in all this footage are many moments of profound human connection that deeply increase our understanding of WYB and XZ as people—

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 1d

oh lol great minds 😂 (look i literally went and searched Twitter for "magnum wang" to bring this to us so yes i'm going to post it twice in this thread lol)

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 1d

Coreo cc @8caroline4.bsky.social technically we have been Very Aware since before CQL because of a few prominent bulge moments he had on DDU but especially when the CQL BTS dropped because of.

proto-climber yeebs on DDU! very, erm, eagerly handling his climbing gear.

Screenshot of Yibo emerging from the water on the set of CQL. He is very wet and his pants are very thin.

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