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[mochipong]

You are my sweetest downfall

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My art for the Timeless: 2024 ranwan calender zine on Twitter

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GAMING & MAN CHAI ❖ dancing beasts and soaring kites

[httpwanning]

Meatbun boys

[animepopheart]

★ 【吃桑叶的喵】 「 我化身为光 」 ☆ ⊳ tsukishiro yanagi // zzzero ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter // bsky

[gaywaren]

full cover illustrations of 2ha thai edition volumes 1-6 and 9-10

these are the official cover art for 2ha thai edition in high quality posted by the artist themselves on weibo.

[ruanbaijie]

ruan nanzhu + vinegar (sometimes his own)

THE SPIREALM 致命游戏 (2024) 1.21 adapted from the danmei novel Kaleidoscope of Death 死亡万花筒 by Xi Zi Xu 西子绪

[marilearnsmandarin]

[hakuaryouga]

仮面ライダーエグゼイド (2016) Episode 3 Subtitles by EXCITE! Subs

[xmitchxx]

Barbie trend (Jiang Yexue / Taxian-jun)

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD)Traditional Clothing Hanfu Photoshoot

【History Note】

During the Northern Song Dynasty, women who are 命婦 to attend formal occasions or common people's women often wore crowns and long-sleeved shirts and skirts when they got married.

※命婦(ming fu):Generally referred to as titled women. A married woman enjoys various ceremonial treatment, and generally refers to the official's mother and wife.

Women in the Song Dynasty had the custom of wearing flower crowns, some with fresh flowers, some with fake flowers(make by paper or silk); some with single branches, some with several branches; some of them will take flowers of the four seasons and combined it inserted on a crown, which is called "one year scene(一年景)".

Song Dynasty Lu You(陆游)'s "Notes on Laoxue'an(老学庵笔记)" records: “ 靖康初京师织帛及妇女首饰衣服，皆备四时。如节物则春幡、灯毬、竞渡、艾虎、云月之类，花则桃、杏、荷花、菊花、梅花，皆并为一景，谓之一年景。而靖康纪元果止一年，盖服妖也。 ” ​

【Translate】

“At the beginning of Jingkang era(1126-1127AD). In the capital city,the weaves silk and women's jewelry and clothes pattern, all prepared for the four seasons.

For example, the festive objects pattern are spring banners, lanterns, racing boats, aihu(艾虎:Dragon Boat Festival pattern), and cloud moon pattern, and the flowers are peaches, apricots, lotus, chrysanthemums, and plum blossoms. They are all combined into one scene, which is called one year scene. 

But the The Jingkang era(Emperor Qinzong's Reign) really ended in one year,sure enough, strange fashions will herald changes in the world.”

Just like the maid standing beside the Empress in the Portrait of Empress Cao of Song Dynasty:

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💃🏻Model： @寇白吃不饱

💄Stylist： @仰望的花鼻子

👑Song Dynasty Crown： @皇家传承御用手作 ​​​

📸Photo：  @realyn

👗 Hanfu： @山涧服饰 ​​​

🔗Weibo：https://weibo.com/2878787212/MnbL74qxn

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[violetdisasterzone]

VOLUME 3 COVER ‼️

[veggiebunbuntmlr]

Ch.113

“Without a word, he solemnly brought Chu Wanning’s hand to press against his own chest.”

[3ampeidd]

I deprived him of his shirt once in a while

[meichenxi]

Hanzi update (+accidental trauma talk)

tw illness, trauma, vomiting, weight loss, recovery. I didn't plan to write about this but because of what happened in the last year I can't really write about how I studied Chinese without talking about it. so. but it's mainly about hanzi lol

I've been learning how to write traditional characters with the vague idea that I'd go and study in Taiwan, and also that if I want to write Classical Chinese or Japanese they're far more useful - but the program I want to go to Taiwan for requires HSK7, which I DO not think I can achieve and have the results of before March. Who knows! Perhaps within me lies untold brilliance and dedication!!

...well, I wouldn't rely on it. (I am also busy with a job, a partner, studying an A-level course to begin tutoring it in September, and writing the second draft of my novel.)

And even if I ended up going to Taiwan with my absolutely fantastic HSK7, there's no way I could handwrite all of those words within a year. If I learn 10 characters a day, that's like 3650 characters in a year, but realistically that will never happen - and you still have to actually remember them.

I also know from my last experience where I learnt a stupid amount of characters very quickly (about 800 in two weeks) that I can technically do it, I have a very large swollen brain, but then the brain, being very large and very swollen, promptly burns out. And leaves me to not do any Chinese again for like two months. So basically - completely pointless, because after those two months of rest I had forgotten most of them anyway. I will not be doing that again.

This time around I have been slowly, very slowly, learning things on Skritter. I have about 400 characters so far. I'm not doing words but doing characters, which is a bit slower, but I figure it'll be more useful in the long run. After I have the first 1000, I'm planning to then systematically go through the HSK and TOCFL lists and check I know how to put characters together and which 'jing' is used in 'yijing' etc.

This approach is only really going to work because I know a lot of vocabulary and can read a lot of stuff already - otherwise I wouldn't recommend to anybody without that backbone of vocabulary to just learn random isolated characters, unless you're masochistic or much harder-core than I am.

As I have said in a lot of posts before, I had a very difficult experience in China last August and have basically taken an entire year off studying because in all honesty I just couldn't bring myself to face the language again. Every time I tried I had this crazy grief and nightmares and stress response. What I went through was so stressful that during those two months in China that I lost seven kilograms, as I couldn't eat much without vomiting it back up due to stress and fear, didn't sleep, and ended up having to leave for Thailand pretty severely malnutritioned - which then made me susceptible to illnesses there and I spent the next two months after with awful health, vomiting and weak and generally sick. Luckily I was with friends and I gained the weight again and my period and digestive system sorted itself out.

And I never expected that a language itself could carry trauma? Like. Nobody died, it wasn't like that, I wasn't abused or assaulted or anything but still...for just under a year, every time I spoke or heard or read Chinese I couldn't help thinking of those two months. Even now it's still hard. I'm finding my way back to it but, to be honest, I didn't expect how hard it would be. I thought I could just - move past it, because I'd already had so many great experiences in China and Taiwan and with Chinese, that they would cancel each other out or at least be aided by the huge amounts of love that the language has shown me. Alas, it was not the case.

Anyway. All of that to say - I have only managed to do about 400 characters in a year, because I essentially gave up studying completely.

Now I've just finished reviewing and re-remembering those 400 characters on Skritter, so I'm ready to start again! I don't know what's changed, I guess just time - I feel more positive, I feel curious and interested about the language again. I don't know. I'm not going to question it too deeply. But for these past two weeks, I've been having a lot of fun :)

I'll update everyone on my progress as I go! Next post - 500.

[animepopheart]

★ 【吃桑叶的喵】 「 鲨鱼妹 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

[httpwanning]

Roubao Tarot part. 3

Mo Ran, Duan Yihan and Xun Fengruo