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Happy Lmk s5! I watched it and cried :'D
#lego monkie kid#lego monkey kid fanart#lmk s5#lmk s5 spoilers#lmk red son#lmk red son fanart#lmk mei#lmk mei fanart#lmk mei dragon#lmk mk#lmk mk fanart#lmk qi xiaotian#lmk fanart#The animation is better than i expected#But i dont understand chinese#Also cool story tho#i liked it#They also left us on a cliffhanger so we maybe get a sixth season#:D#I didnt managed to doodle s5 related stuff#These are a few old doodles from the past weeks
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Jin Xiaobao, the young pampered heir of the richest clan, meets a young woman and falls in love with her at first sight. This “woman,” however, turns out to be a disguised young man named Huaien.
Upcoming uncensored wuxia BL Meet You At The Blossom, airs on July 11th
#meet you at the blossom#huaien x xiaobao#zongzheng huaien x jin xiaobao#花开有时颓靡无声#xiaobaolovestruck#chinese bl#myatbedit#mygifs#mine#mjtag#userspicy#userjap#tuserkatherine#usersasa#rinblr#raeblr#cdramaedit#cdramasource#dailyasiandramas#cdrama#i love my gender mysterious wife huaien sm guys you dont understand
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The scale of MXTX characters hand writing from Worst to Best
Hua Cheng: literally intelligible, those basically aren't even words any.
Wei wuxian: the equivalent of a sleep deprived adhd stem student notes right before an exam. Technically legible but only to him, people who know him really well.
Luo Binghe: it's good. Not outstanding but Nicely legible, pretty when it needs to be.
Shen Qingqiu: technically there's nothing wrong with his hand writing, but His writing is too modern for the Xianxia settings he's living in and although it's not too much of a problem it's definitely enough to make peoples eyebrow raise.
Xie Lian: stunningly beautiful calligraphy. Truly just art in written form.
Lan wangji: the most beautiful and technically perfect hand writing you have everything seen. Calligraphy teachers weap with joy when they see his writing.
#i dont know what this is#its just something that appeared in my mind#im not entirely sure how different modern Chinese handwriting would be from historical calligraphy#but based on my understanding of written language evolution as a rule i theres theres probably some noticable difference#which would trip up shen yuans modern ass#:P#mxtx characters#mxtx mdzs#mxtx#mxtx tgcf#mxtx svsss#hua cheng#wei wuxian#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#luo binghe#xie lian#lan wangji#scum villian self saving system#scum villain#mo dao zu shi#grand master of demonic cultivation#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#shit post
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as a native chinese, i feel like some of yall are taking the gods in lego monkie kid a bit too seriously. i understand why it feels iffy to ship / make silly content of deities that people worship irl (eg. nezha, sun wukong) but it’s a phenomenon on chinese social media too. c-netizens ship the fictionalized versions of these gods, which the gods of lego monkie kid are. they aren’t the actual gods people worship; they’re slightly tweaked versions of the book characters, just like any other chinese adaptation or retelling of jttw (and such stories like fsyy) also, no, nezha isn’t a child, in lmk or jttw or sometimes irl. just because he’s often depicted in child form doesn’t make him an immortal child. eros / cupid is often depicted as a winged baby, and he has a wife and kids. it’s basically the same thing here. nothing in lmk suggests that nezha is a child (his voice, his appearance, his personality etc. all imply he is an adult), and while he’s described as youthful in jttw, he’s already 1700+ years old by then and gods can shapeshift. people only think he’s an immortal baby because that’s a popular depiction of him, since one of his prominent myths is set during his childhood. but as long as you’re talking about the god nezha (fictionalized or the religious figure) and not the human child nezha, then that’s an adult [edit: the last sentence couldve been worded better. i would summarize it as “immortal youth nezha is a valid depiction and is popularized by mythology, but adult god nezha exists too and they are NOT mutually exclusive”]
#i’m not even here for shipping discourse ie. “you can’t ship nezha w anyone cuz he’s a child!”#i dont ship him with anyone that’s never been my focus#i just dislike misinformation#if you understand that cupid and eros are adult gods despite often being depicted as babies then why don’t you understand this#and in case i need to clarify i hate pr*sh*pping i dont support it#the fact is that any lmk nezha ship simply isn’t a pr*sh*p because he’s a full grown man#never once in the show does he act or sound like a child so why is this such a widespread belief??#i’d get it if the show was about him as a child going on his killing spree#but lmk is clearly set millennia after that#also abt the “dont ship deities” thing i understand seeing non-cn fans treat chinese gods like fairytale characters is frustrating#but to me since lmk characters aren’t very accurate to their real life religious counterparts they are not the same ppl#like i see swk fanart and think “swk the lmk character” and not “swk the daoist god” yknow#but that’s only my opinion i wont say i’m totally right i won’t argue if you’re daoist or buddhist and find it offensive#lego monkie kid#lmk#jttw#journey to the west#lmk nezha#lmk swk#lmk sun wukong#age discourse#immortal child depictions of nezha do exist that doesn’t mean the god is always a child#and in FICTION. yknow SHOWS and STORIES. not worship. if the story says he’s an adult then that’s what he is#so like. statue of baby nezha = baby#statue of adult nezha = adult. it does not mean every single depiction of nezha is a child#don’t generalize things and do not infantalize him
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“宫、商、角、徵、羽” Gōng Shāng Jué Zhǐ Yǔ · The pentatonic scale in Chinese music
"Gong Shang Jue Zhi Yu" was first documented in the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2600 years ago. The five tones are the basic scales of Chinese ancient music. Compared to the seven-tone scale of Western music - minus the semitone ascending "fa" and "si", Gong is roughly equivalent to 1 (Do), Shang is roughly equivalent to 2 (Re), Jue is roughly equivalent to 3 (Mi), Zhi is roughly equivalent to 5 (So), and Yu is roughly equivalent to 6 (La). In the Tang Dynasty, “合、四、乙、尺、工” "Hé Sì Yǐ Chǐ Gōng" were used.
云之羽 My Journey To You · 2023
#云之羽#yun zhi yu#my journey to you#cdramasource#asiandramasource#dailyasiandramas#dramasource#chineseartistsinc#cdramanet#chinesemedia#cdramaedit#cdramagifs#chinese drama#cdrama#caps#chinese stuff#can you tell im trying to mimic the chess animation in the drama i did try to recreate the flipping and spinning effect and it didnt work#and then remaking the pentagon with the circles took 500 hours 🥴#pulling my hair out once again doing the write up i drafted few massive paragraphs about the music and origins of this too#but i dont understand music so that was hard to understand to translate and write up 五音不全说的就是我#and then i remembered that this is for a tumblr post on a chinese drama and not a music essay so i deleted it 😂
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idgaf if this is cringe or if yall hate sai but no chances actually fucking eats im not sorry
#like okay yeah we GOT FENG SHUI#im chinese and i dont understand feng shui completely#my ancestors rolling in their graves#twenty one pilots#scaled and icy#josh dun#tyler joseph#sun speaks
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White dungeon meshi fans sound like this to me:
It's extremely fascinating and frightening to me how hateful some of you people are towards shuro, a man who is clearly depicted as japanese, (a man who could look like me or literally any member of my family in real life) for being a normal, complex, and flawed human being.
Why do you single him out for getting frustrated with and mad at laios when chilchuck and marcille do the same literally all the time? What's the difference between them and shuro?
Why do you feel the unnecessary need to protect these white women from a japanese man?
Do you expect that this japanese man is inherently going to have some kind of ugly negative quality that has not been once hinted at canonically? Do you know what that's called? Because i do and it's fucking racism.
You people get scared the moment a character that is a person of color isnt a quiet little model minority or a sweet mammy archetype. You grasp at your pearls the moment they are revealed to have complex personalities and histories; when they feel negative, big emotions that are literally part of the human experience. Or god forbid, when they show romantic interest in a pure, helpless, little white woman.
And when a person of color stops behaving good and docile the way you want, when they decide that theyre not going to put up with a situation that makes them uncomfortable or miserable or RIGHTEOUSLY FURIOUS, they become the bad guy. As seen countless times in the medias demonizing depiction of the Black Lives Matter protests and even of black people who get punished for just living their lives. It happens so often i shouldnt have to reiterate it to you but it somehow keeps flying over your head.
And when that dirty, conniving, perverted, slant eyed, buck toothed, stumpy little japanese man understandably snaps at the white person you guys are projecting onto and all you see is this:
So dont be surprised when i say that id rather kill myself than entrust the safety of my oldest aunts and uncles or my youngest cousins with any of you who act like this. Im terrified of what could have happened if people like you worked at the facility that my great grandmother lived out her final years in. Would you have seen her as a wild animal that needed to be subdued too when she had one of her many dementia-induced violent episode?
I will not apologize for saying that i find it deeply disconcerting to see so many of you happily posting hateful vitriol or even about committing acts of violence against a man that looks like me, solely because he was experiencing his humanity
#like especially after all the shit east asians but especially chinese people had to put up with after covid started#anyway listen to poc voices to stop being so fucking annoying#GO AHEAD LOOK AT MY YELLOW JAP FACE AND GIVE YOUR MADE UP JUSTIFICATIONS ILL EAT YOUR FUCKING EYEBALLS#ALSO WHITE FARCILLE WARRIORS: HE IS NOT GETTING IN THE WAY OF YOUR YURI SHIP#YOU BITCHES SOUND LIKE 2010s FUJOSHI HATING ON FEMALE CHARACTERS FOR GETTING IN THE WAY OF YOUR YAOI#BUT WITH MISOGYNY REPLACED WITH XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM#this is absolutely about how some of u fuckers treat kabru too btw#here i come bitches its the one thing that scares you more than a jap#ITS A JAP WHOS FUCKING MEAN#initially when i saw shuro i was like ooooh cutie! but then when i found out how tone deaf and racist some of you people are???#he immediately became my favorite character#like how asian diaspora kids at school form friend groups even when we dont share an ethnic identity#bc we understand each others experience better than any white friend we make will#shuro dungeon meshi#laios touden#falin touden#toshiro nakamoto#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon
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A little clarification on how Neuvillette addresses Furina in her story quest—in English it's rendered as "Miss Furina," and shortly after "Lady Furina," implying he uses a different honorific each time.
However, in both these lines Neuvillette actually uses 女士/nǚshì, the same way he has always addressed Furina in the past, barring the instances where he only uses her name, which he only does in private and generally not to her face.
When Furina asks the NPCs in the quest to stop calling her "Lady Furina," they switch from 大人/dàrén to calling her 女士/nǚshì/Miss Furina. Previously Neuvillette was the only character who called her that. When he did, it was always rendered in English as "Lady Furina," the same as the other more reverent honorific.
So no actual change between them in this regard, just the translation team finding themselves in a bit of a bind over how to translate it going forward where the two are concerned!
#furina#neuvillette#genshin impact#neuvifuri#focallette#this isn't really meant as a ship post unlike my usual fare but since it's of interest i shall tag anyways. anyone is welcome to enjoy.#you really gotta check the chinese to parse exactly how furina is addressed cos idt any of the other languages catch all the nuances of it#ex. japanese has both neuvillette and the knave calling furina 'dono' when the knave uses a different term from nv in chinese (xiaojie)#i dont claim to speak the language nor fully understand the implications of each honorific but even just knowing where there's a difference#is very enlightening. one of these days i'll finish up the draft i have compiling how each character addresses furina#i haven't checked the act v dialogue to see how neuvillette addresses furina there btw. all in good time.#genshin impact spoilers#furina story quest spoilers
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Whenever I see danmei discourse reliant on translations, especially where translator interpretations differ, it's so clear that a lot of English-speaking danmei fans truly believe, consciously or unconsciously, that translation is a plug-and-play, one-for-one prospect - that languages are interchangeable and there is an Exact One True Translation that the Perfect Translator will be able to unearth and provide to the masses that ideally encapsulates the original using accurate words.
I suspect this is a venn diagram in the shape of a circle with people who are English monolingual.
I also suspect this is a venn diagram in the shape of a circle with people who think their own interpretation of a text is Truth instead of one possible reading.
Like, even when we read a book in the language it was originally in, there isn't only one true meaning - different people will interpret it differently.
That is magnified when we can only access the text via translation - translation can never be a perfect art because languages aren't one-for-one and English doesn't have words or phrases for every concept in every other language (no two languages do!) and translators have to take what's in the original, interpret it as best they can through their own lens, then convert that into another language while trying to preserve the meaning, the intent, the nuance, the lyricism, and give the secondary language reader something readable, polished, and eloquent.
It cannot be done perfectly.
Having access to multiple translations that differ is a strength, not a weakness - a window into the nuance that is lost in any one translation, a glimpse at how complex and beautiful the original language is.
But there will never be One True Translation, anymore than there will ever be One True Interpretation. That's. That's not how books work.
I am begging English-speaking danmei fans to wrap theirs heads around this, and maybe attempt to study even a little Chinese before opening their mouths about the translation aspect of these books.
If I never see another "I plugged the hanzi of this characters name into a machine translator and they literally mean this hahaha" post again it'll be too soon. If I never see another "this version of the translation is Wrong I will use the version that narrowly supports my personal interpretation" post again it will be too soon. Like. Uggggh.
(This wasn't prompted by anything I saw recently/today it's just a constant low-level annoyance.)
#unforth rambles#and this is why ive been studying chinese for three years#i just want to get to the source and be able to interpret it for myself#but the vast majority of people in english fandom seem to have zero interest in learning chinese#its baffling to me tbh#to see the same people quibbling over translation have zero understanding of how translation works#and zero interest in learning the language so they dont have to rely on translation
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Just started link click, so far so good
#link click#shiguang daili ren#shiguang#lu guang#cheng xiaoshi#i dont understand why people say its traumatizing???#i mean#time travel = angst#fair enough ig#my post#just for the record im slow at watching animes#or dohngua#or whatever the fuck Chinese anime are spelled
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Saw you on twitter through your post about alixpress and wanted to support you. Super happy with the stuff. Im in love with all these freaks so I'm definitely a happy customer ❤️ (Sorry for the crummy pics my phone is 7 years old lol)
thank you so much! i remember packing this order :> i'm very happy you like all your items 💖 and you have excellent taste in robots, if i do say so myself
#merch in the wild#ask#bowl-o-nudel#the bootleg queens (that i had bookmarked) have been deleted (i did not do that though) but the wheatley is still up#they wont take my copyright registration because they do not understand what a Username is. so. gotta take the fucking L i guess#sending the people stealing my pins big 'get fucking murdered' energy#my shop did get some extra sales from this which is nice though#i appreciate everyone that orders but i would like to extend an Extra special thanks to people who helped spread the word#and who made orders after hearing about what happened#friends dont let friends shop on cheap chinese websites <3
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one really interesting thing about the Sui siblings is that their sibling age order isn’t so much about biological age but more about when they first managed to separate themselves from Sui and therefore how comfortable they are in their own individual identity (i’m far from the first person to point out that the Sui siblings are basically the opposite of the seaborne/We Many) - Shuo, the oldest brother is so secure in himself that he’s able to create a whole identity entirely separate from Sui, which is how we get Chongyue The Very Human Guy. Ling is able to defeat the Sui Xiang in invitation to wine with ease simply because she sees it as a shadow of herself, as opposed to Nian who sees the siblings as shadows and dreams of Sui. Dusk, the second youngest of the siblings, is so scared of the existential threat that is Sui that she has hid herself in her paintings and refused to sleep for centuries just to hide from it
… which makes me really want to meet the 12th brother (the cook) because if that is where Dusk, the 11th’s head is at i cannot imagine he’s having a good time either
#arknights#suiposting#there’s a point to made *somewhere* in here about the second brother and how hes been keeping himself intact across the. 181 pieces of hims#but im gonna have to reread invitation to wine for that which#like i dont like reading the english event story because its localised weirdly but i also keep putting off reading the chinese version#because some of the writing is. wow that is hard to understand#if you cant tell from my suiposting and iberiaposting tags who am i and where do i belong are themes that ALWAYS get me in fiction#anyway#god i cant wait for cny I WANT TO MEET THE NEXT DRAGON SO BAD
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Prolly gonna be my one and only rwde post (cus the fanbase is rancid and I'm not rlly a rwby fan, just a person who watches the show): some of you rwby fans are too comfortable using your queerness as a shield to silence BIPOC voices about the racist writing and your 'precious' bigoted CRWBY. You guys unironically act/think that just because you have to deal with queerphobia; you are IMMUNE to being bigoted yourself and you are INCAPABLE of parroting bigoted beliefs. Cus I know there will be a dumbass ant1-rwde posters who will try to drown out this post by saying its 'lies from the EVIL RWDE!!!': You would rather weaponize your queerness to bash on BIPOC voices, while claiming to care about our voices. You would rather be complicit with the racist writers and their racist writing, just because your racist writers gave you a queer ship. There is no shame nor issue in projecting the abused you suffered onto the characters, however you refuse to see through the characters and their writing through a BIPOC lens. You do not get the right to impose your perspective of the characters at the expense of BIPOC voices, you do not get to twist our voices to be alt-right bigots because we called out RWBY's rampant racism. You do not get the right to say you give a shit about BIPOC and have #BLM in your bio when you fervently defend your bigoted company. You do not get to pretend to care about racism when you buy merch off of your bigoted company. My fellow BIPOC (especially the queer BIPOC): why are you guys so comfortable dismissing your fellow poc about their discomfort with RWBY's racist writing? BIPOC are not a monolith with the same opinions about racism in media; but some of you guys are weirdly comfortable with turning a blind eye to your fellow BIPOC getting dogpiled by the white fandom. We can and will disagree, you not agreeing as a BIPOC about RWBY's racist writing is not what I take issue with. The issue lies within you upholding the racial colourblindness in the fandom; like how the fandom was ok with throwing the racism under the bus in favour of queerness, you are ok with throwing your BIPOC peers under the bus for white queerness. Sincerely, a POC who has been watching the fandoms rampant racism problem ever since 2019.
#rwde#bitches be like: 'yeah we know that rwby handled racism bad :)))'#then get fucking furious when you say 'adam taurus being retconned from a minority rights fighter to an abusive ex was kinda bad'#go watch unicornofwar's white fang video and think about it holy shit. listen to the white guy if u dont wanna listen to poc#white fans get furious when you say that rwby has a racism problem TO THIS DAY#you dare mention how the 'villains' are all poc with visible ethnic traits/darker skin tones#while our heroes are white as fucking paper with zero ethnic traits#they would scream to the heavens that ruby and yang are chinese#despite being very much modelled off of white women/afabs#while also be giddy about whitewashing james to fit their evil facist dictator narrative#despite james being modelled off of an ACTUAL asian man unlike ruby and yang#and is one of the few characters who have visible ethnic features unlike ruby and yang#fandom racism goes unchecked over here and i have never felt so unsafe in a fandom#at the end of the day: ig white ppl will always prioritize themselves at the expense of bipoc#'omg we're ur allies#i totally understand how it feels like to be discriminated against 🥺'#<- not even a week later you borderline gaslight a poc rightfully saying its fucking weird to be making animal jokes about blake#at this point? call me a slur#dont pretend you give a shit about me as a poc#dont even fucking bother being my friend as a white queer if ur just gonna spout the same shit i see online#rwby fans you guys are one of the most racist fandoms out there#btw if you guys are gonna come at me with racism and harassment#you will be blocked <3#especially if u are as slavic as the vikings#do not bother lecturing a poc about how ur racist anime isn't that racist
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One thing I love about ikesen is that without it I would have never heard what the sengoku period was. Im so glad I’ve come across this game and come to b aware of this time period.
(Currently learning bout (irl) hideyoshi’s failed invasions of Korea- very interesting stuff!)
#im turning into a history nerd like sasukeee#just my thoughts#INCOMING HISTORIC RAMBLE#hideyoshi toyotomi#what was hideyoshi thinking lmao 😭#admiral yi is a GOAT absolutely crazy i dont think I’ve ever felt so impressed by a historical figure till now#very few instances in history where Japan Korean and China are all involved?#anyways as someone who is Chinese and is interested/fond of Korea and Japan this is very very interesting#also I think the catastrophic failure of the invasion lead to most daimyo to support Ieyasu Tokugawa instead in sekigahara?#understandable cause bro so many ppl died for no reason#but why oh why didnt hideyoshi just enter China from (modern day) Shanghai?#wouldn’t it b so much easier than to having to go thru Korea first or am I missing something?#speaking of sekigahara I read (some of it at least) kanetsugu naoe’s letter the other day#I really really wish there was more English sources of information on the sengoku period#ikemen sengoku#ikesen
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i do love that someone thinks that this makes for compelling criticism of localization instead of sounding like a 4chan greentext about weebs' heads exploding when the anime says 'bob had four red apples' instead of 'bob had four apples that are red' (the literal translation that has been butchered by localization)
#spitblaze says things#i get the honorifics thing can be annoying#but most of the time with localization the target audience is not necessarily people who understand how honorifics work already#ask yourself if this would still be a relevant complaint if this was for a language *other* than japanese#im willing to bet good money that most of these whiners dont know shit about chinese honorifics#and would be confused if they were included in the tl of a chinese movie#and then complain the opposite way bc 'nobody knows chinese honorifcs just omit those'#anyway. localization haters having a normal one
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ghhh i am just. sinophobia its fucking everywhere on the western internet it is just SO widespread and accepted. and even when people aren't actively sinophobic they're just utterly ignorant about. any aspect of chinese (hell, even pretty much all asian) culture and i never see people even ATTEMPTING to learn about it. i have not met a single white person who has pronounced my last name correctly. It is one of the most common family names on the goddamn planet. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
#chinese culture and languages are also played off as a joke so much#hahaha this thing is funny because its Weird and Foreign and because i dont understand it its Strange < ILL GET YOU!!!! ILL FUCKING GET YOU#chinese culture and values and food and media is somehow both generalized into a monolith#and yet also turned into an incredibly specific set of harmful stereotypes#i guess this is a vent post lmao#sinophobia
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