#Danshuis

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Nederland krijgt eerste Danshuis 

Het Danshuis brengt alle dansstijlen samen onder één dak. Stichting Droom en Daad heeft het Chinese MAD Architects gevraagd een schetsontwerp te maken om het Provimi pakhuis in Rotterdam tot een dynamisch Danshuis te transformeren. Het voormalige pakhuis maakt oorspronkelijk deel uit van de Fenixloods, waar Stichting Droom en Daad momenteel FENIX, het museum voor migratie realiseert.  Het…

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[niioka]

＠Journey.

[thingsdavidlikes]

Danshui by Poagao

[elixandre]

I am offended on behalf of the Taiwanese people that the when the voice for the MRT speaks in English they pronounce tamsui like that 😂

[torrentialstardust]

UMINEKO: THE WITCH OF BENEFICENCE, ATROPOS BEATRICE

Tonight is the night! It's the night the Epitaph is truly solved, and the answer is given to us.

You go down the Danshui rail line to reach Qilian. Removing that word from "Quadrillion", the word on that inscription in episodes 2 and 4 leaves you with "_u_dr_l__o_". "Tearing apart two who are close" leaves you with the letters on their own. Rearranging them into "Lord U" praises Kinzo's not-so-noble-name. Punch those into the relief with the "Quadrillion" text like the Konami Code and you've "gouged" everything. This opens up the door to all that delicious fascist gold.

To you, my beloved friend Atropos (@dappersnakes): I looked up the solution once you had gotten to the "Lord U" bit. My interest in the epitaph only exists as an extension of my bond with you. It's true that that last part, the punching in of the code on that specific place, wasn't something you reached. However, as far as I am concerned, you have solved the riddle of the epitaph. You are the one among us who had the brains and will to reach the answer without Will's brain (haha pun). You didn't even understand Japanese and still did it all. I am truly proud of you, and I'm sure everyone else feels the same.

To celebrate your ascension, I drew your witchsona! Drew upon the whole "Moirai Scissors" thing, tried to encorporate some of that J.M. Fenner style that you like too, and came out with something I hope you like! I also made sure to have a lil doodle to contrast. You have truly gained the qualifications to be a witch.

In other news, I went and changed my handle. The old one was designed with the possibility of me changing names in mind, but I still think it's too close to the old name. From now on, I, Indigo, will be accessible on many social media platforms through the handle "TorrentialStardust". I definitely wanna make a witchsona too, maybe that can be a new pfp. Atropos has been helping me with that as well as I look back on female characters from my youth and sob as I say "yeah I wanna be a tiddy goth witch, someone shoot me". Perhaps it's part of the metanarrative, me reaching this stage of self awareness as we also learn about one particular person.

I hope you're all having a safe week. Happy birthday chat <3

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Isaac Israëls - In het danshuis (1893)

[peppermintquartz]

may we see some photos of your perfect rock collection?

This was from Chiang Rai, Thailand on a service learning school trip and the guide took us trekking through a nearby jungle and we crossed a stream, and of course a teen me needed a stone 😊 That trip was the first time in my life I'd ever seen fireflies. Also apparently I caught the eye of a local boy hahahaha but he was too shy to approach me.

This is a smaller rounder one I picked up in Taiwan, I think at the Qi Xin Tan (Seven Star Lake) or Sun Moon Lake. They don't allow it now but this was like from over a decade ago. It is so round and good to hold. I keep it on a shelf near me just to hold it sometimes. That was my first vacation alone and I was relieved that I could really be alone with myself, no matter what.

My absolute favorite: this is also from Taiwan, and it was from Danshui. At the time I thought I was falling for a Taiwanese friend whom I'd befriended when I was 18 and over the years gotten close to over MSN messenger. But life unfolded differently, and he's still a great friend, and the sweetest and funniest thing is that he's super buddy-buddy with my husband. The rock is almost a perfect heart shape and the two parallel lines are so elegant. favorite rock in my house.

My other rocks are like crystals which I think are neat, but don't have much sentimental value

[citroensap]

Isaac Israëls - In het danshuis, 1893

[semi-imaginary-place]

umineko ep7 pt2

Slaps roof of character wow they get so many names and character designs and personalities/personas. We got ushiromiya lion and the red suit. Clair the white ghost witch who has the role of urban legend beatrice who also shows up as elder sister gold Beatrice in .. ep5? And then chick younger sister beatrice. Then we got the og italian beatrice, and her incest daughter kuwadorian beatrice2. Oh yeah and gaap is also a beatrice. Lion and beatrice have gold hair why does shannon have dark hair.

Natsuhi and battler are so right, go get rudolph's cheating two timing ass. Rudolph being all torn up about battler hating him and cheating, and kyrie is out there popping off champagne and dancing on asumu's grave. It says something that 12 year old battler was more emotionally mature than kyrie. Kyrie to some degree even resented battler and hated asumu enough she was resolved to kill her. Battler meanwhile doesn't hold rudolph's decisions against ange and even admires kyrie. 12 year old battler shouldn't have carelessly promised things he couldn't keep. forgetting about what he said is so 12 year old core. In a way you can think the ushiromiya family incident as rudolph's fault. It sounds like shanon was more infatuated with the idea of marriage than any one boy, like girl you agreed to marriage at 16. Also something insidious about george probably wanting marriage for children to continue the family line and what not and idk if shanon is even capable of pregnancy. In the long run 6 years is pretty short, it just so happens to be at a critical time in a kids life, Rudolph didn't get to see battler grow up. Shannon high off copium deluding herself that this is all a test of her love that the longer battler stays away the more devoted he is. vs. the reality that like most 12 year olds and he forgot and didn't think it was important.

Huh white beatrice took on shanon's love for battler. She just made kanon??? You can do that? Scary. Shanon so repressed she made an edgy emo boy alter. And then clair remade her form to be battler's exact type, which just so happens to look like og beatrice. Or did she rewrite og beatrice's appearance? white beatrice changing her hair color still doesn't explain why shanon and lion have different hair colors. Unless yasu's hair was originally gold but in making the shanon servant persona they changed the hair color from gold to black/brown. Beatrice 2 3 is also classic anime 1 drop of white blood makes your family white forever (see ann takamaki) where as in reality 1 european parent 1 east asian parent always (excluding rare mutations) ends up with dark haired children like you get a dark chocolate brown at lightest. So beatrice2 (F1) being blond is almost impossible. I'm not even going to think of why kinzo has white hair or the ushiromiyas in general have light hair i heard someone say this is just for audience interest where in universe everyone has black hair. So at best bea2 would also be dark haired with recessive alleles. And then incest backcrossing to the same dark haired alleles means it's still impossible for bea3 to have blond hair. Which brings it back to blond lion unless that is just visual design and not canon.

Ah the epitaph was to decide whether genji would reveal yasu or not.

The thing is battler doesn't know beatrice exists so even if he did come back he wouldn't love her. The one battler has a past and relationship with was shanon. In taking that love from shanon they doomed it. Also i get they're a hivemind thing but it's kinda disturbing that emotions can be cut and pasted from one person to another

Weird that the translation is using a mix of romanized and japanified names but very few of the actual taiwanese names which are mandarin chinese. Like the translation uses Tansui when it's actual name is Danshui which is an actual place. The eng translators probably don't know but replacing existing names with japanese ones is one of the main tactics of japanese imperialism and colonialism to forcefully assimilate the population, cultural genocide and all that.

Not genji dressing her up to be presented to kinzo, feels sooo bad. Ok i wasnt sure which version because this beatrice acts like shannon but is being narrated by clair. But kinzo's line about your face and voice resemble your mother part i want to throw up. Get away from them, i must protec. Yeah sure you carry beatrice's blood but you're also 3/4 kinzo. Every line out of kinzo's mouth just gets worse! Die right now. Hell is too good for kinzo. Making them cosplay as their dead mother is so messed up. Kinzo was a bastard until the end didn't natter that he was ruining someone else's life or dumping massive trauma on them or that they'd been a servant since 6 and so many labor laws broken like child labor little rest nor vacation verbal abuse with holding food, noo all the mattered was making himself feel better.

First order as head: i quit. I guess this vaguely makes the george shanon relationship better, even if it's beatrice side that became the master the one with love for battler, and not shanon. Although really now that bea/lion/shanon/yasu (i hate this series most confusing identities ever!) knows, why didn't you choose someone who isn't a cousin/nephew. Oh wait i just realized they are 19 i remember earlier they were talking about faking yasu's age. In some ways the george relationship makes more sense. Shanon/clair/beatrice is so passive about their life. She hands over the position of head because they don't want to decide anything, leave everything up to fate and go where fate takes her. George offers that kind of certainty were he decides things for shannon and she goes along with it.

I dont get whats going on are clair and will undoing the previous episodes and murders?

Yasu/shannon/beatrice/clair/etc. (am i missing any?) is soooo normal. Girl splits her persona when her preteen crush ghosts her that's not a healthy response. She is not coping well. Shannon chooses george to tell her how to live and what to feel (not dissing lifestyle subs or anything but girl what). She sets up a bomb to blow up the island with an elaborate serial murder plot. Girl is mentally unwell. Oh yeah and then kinzo trauma dumps and makes her spiral. Oh yeah and kanon. I cant tell if their character is meant to be coded with dissociative identity disorder like maria is autism coded or not. They need therapy, and feminism. Actually all the ushiromiyas need therapy and feminism.

Gun safety everyone. This is why you store guns and ammo separately, don't fight over a loaded gun, and don't put your finger on the trigger unless you plan to shoot. Wow hideyoshi "let's hide the murder and bodies". Something about that fascist gold fever making everyone go crazy and murderous (except erika who's already deranged, and battler who's battler). You don't even need the explosion plot you can always lie and say krauss and natsuhi got in an argument about hiding kinzo's death and the inheritance.

Damn kyrie killing everyone is cold blood. Forgot she's a yakuza heir. She really lets hate rule her life. Asumu's gone so she just transfers her hatred into battler. Kyrie and rudolph a match made in hell, they're both terrible people. I've honestly checked out of all the main romances (battler beatrice, george shannon, jessica kanon). the most interesting are eva hideyoshi which is girlboss + malewife but they're both deeply sexist. And kyrie and rudolph, they're such terrible people but they really do match each other and make good partners. I'm not sure rudolph and kyrie are on the same page. Oh that's how eva survives makes what happens with ange more painful given what she accuses eva of.

Eva is the luckiest person alive. The ange angst train continues. Wow kyrie might be an actual psychopath (the actual clinical definition not the pop psych twitter definition), utterly self centered and self serving, kinda impressive but wow. The truth huh, the inside of Schrodinger's catbox. I guess battler won in the end with the anti witch anti magic hypothesis. But battler isn't dead yet. And of course ange's fragment of miracles is one where kyrie and rudolph succeed in massacring everyone.

What does that red scene mean?? Beatrice is reluctant about kinzo's "feelings" ew this better not be incest round 2 with beatrice3. They hate their body because of a terrible injury which she describes as unable to love. Or is this beatrice2.

Given kyrie's love for ange turned out to be a lie i wonder about her relationship with rudolph. Maybe it was pragmatism afterall it can be pointless to love someone who's dead and kyrie sees thing that way but I've never met anyone with that degree of control over their emotions. Most of the time when people can control emotions it usually is just repression ignoring and stuffing down emotions rather than changing them. Less often people are talking about indirectly affecting their emotions like rewarding yourself with a cookie to bring your mood up or leaving an environment that is making you angry I've never met anyone who can turn love on and off like a light switch. Kyrie admits to testing rudolph so i do think it possible she would have killed him too if he'd been unable yo murder george and battler. Which makes me wonder if she did love rudolph in her own way as much as she was capable of. The two certainly got along well, had good chemistry, and seemed well matched in dispositions being able to keep up with and push each other, similar hobbies, etc. or was rudolph an achievement, a possession, a trophy husband for her. Kyrie did devote 18 years to getting him but it almost to me seemed more about destroying asumu for daring to get in the way of what kyrie wanted. The other thing is why does kyrie twice now monologue about her motives. Flipping the chessboard bern shows it to torment ange. But what about kyrie to vent? To distress her opponent?

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禁止戲水

[niioka]

＠Journey.

[thingsdavidlikes]

river arch by Poagao

[irismfrost]

July 11 - Taipei

What a week! It's hard to believe that it's Thursday already. Even though I checked into our hotel last night, I am still jet lagged, tired, and feel stiff. I also met some others from my group in the airport, so I was less alone than I thought. I even went exploring with two people that I met on the flight!

This morning, I had breakfast at our hotel. I have never eaten food like what I ate this morning. I am not exactly sure what the name of everything is, but it wasn't bad - just very different from a classic American breakfast. Our group had a buffet dinner tonight to celebrate our first day, and once again there were so many new things. The sweet items have a different type of sweetness than the US- it tastes more like what I would expect from a natural sweetener. With the exception of fried food, everything here feels just a little bit lighter. They also serve the option of rice with every meal.

We all have MRT passes now, which lets us travel on the Taipei metro (and other select areas) for the next 30 days. Today we traveled to the older part of the city. This area is closer to Danshui River, where the city originated. There are many young people in this part of town. They have a large building called "Party World" nearby that is mostly just karaoke - they take it very seriously, like people practice days before. Taiwan is also the first and only Asian country to legalize same sex marriage and continues to be a country with many freedoms that rival those of the US. The support, especially in this part of the city, was very evident.

We also visited a daoist temple and the nearby night market (it was not night when we went, they were still setting up). The temple was dedicated to Mazu, goddess of the sea. When the first settlers of Taiwan came from China, crossing the Taiwan Strait was a dangerous feat. People pray to her because it is thought to grant them protection and good luck. I have never been to a temple like that. People wait in lines to pray while their incense slowly burns. Taiwan has never had religious conflict. Everyone is very accepting and that's pretty cool. I suspect this is because of the external conflict that plagues Taiwan. People have to come together to learn to live with different rules - they don't have the energy to bicker about internal affairs like religion. Our tour guide mentioned that with four generations, his family speaks four different native tongues: Japanese, Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese, and English. I think that speaks to the trauma Taiwan has faced on a global scale, particularly because it has been pawned off to many countries.

Today, I learned a lot. It's only the first day, and I will be learning so much more too. I'm very tired, but I will make my first official post tomorrow!

[bookofjin]

Biography of Quan Qi (ZS44)

[A hereditary official from the valleys south-west of Luoyang.

I find it interesting that the text seems to refer to the people living there in the early 6th century as Baren巴人.]

Quan Qi, courtesy name Sidao, was a native of Fengyang in Shangluo. For generations his family had been prominent in Shang and Luo. His great grandfather Jingyan was Wei's General who Establishes Integrity, provisional Commandery Warden of Yiyang, hereditary Prefect of his home county, and ennobled as Marquis of Danshui. His father Anzhi then became General who Establishes Integrity and Commandery Warden of Yiyang, acting as Prefect of his home county, [but] demoted in feudal rank to be an Earl.

Qi was nine sui when he mourned his father, his injuries from grief was of the same kind as an adult man. After the mourning period, he inherited the feudal rank. Aged twelve, people from the district, Huang Ping, Chen He, and others, more than three hundred people, went to the province to request Qi become the county Prefect. The province had it presented upwards. At the time the Master of Writing of the Personnel Section, Guo Zuo, since Qi was young of age and not capable of stewarding the people, requested another be selected and dispatched, and at the end of this single [term?] limit make Qi replace him. Emperor Xuanwu of Wei's [r. 499 - 515] decree said:

Qi is more or less fully formed and on his own feet, moreover he would be a delight for his home district. He can be dwelling in this inheritance and furthermore seek one limit.

Thereupon he depended on what was requested. Qi, though young and immature, was fond of studying, the hundred families were calmed by him. Soon after, he left his post due to grieving for his mother. The old fathers within the county then petitioned and requested with ardent eagerness. [?] A decree allowed it. He rose up to return to his original duties, with promotion to General who Chastises the Bandits.

Beginning of Xiaochang [525 – 528], he was again promoted to Dragon-Prancing General, Holding the Tally, Detached Commander Defending Luo province. Soon after he was appointed Commandery Warden of Shangluo.

When Xiao Baoyin rebelled [in 527 AD], he dispatched his partisan Guo Zihui to assail and occupy Tong Pass. Qi led 3 000 local troops to resist him and fought continuous battles over several days, his sons and younger brothers who died numbered twenty people, and thereupon he greatly routed Zihui. For his merits he was designated General who Conquers the Villains. Baoyin again dispatched 10 000 troops to press on to Qingni to coax to action the people of Ba, with the plan to capture Shangluo. In Shangluo prominent clans, the Quan and Du families, secretly responded to him. Qi and the Inspector, Dong Shaozong, hid troops to ambush and assault them. The two families dispersed and fled, and Baoyin's army likewise withdrew. He moved to General of the Left and Inspector of Xi淅 province, and was specially ennobled Earl of Jingyang county, with an estate of 500 households.

Middle of Yong'an [528 – 530], Liang's general Wang Xuanzhen entered to rob Jing province. Promoted Qi to Holding the Tally and Chief Controller, to lead the multitude and assist them. He intercepted Xuanzhen at Shunyang, fought with, and greatly routed him. He was appointed General who Consoles the Army and Envoy Holding the Tally. He was made use of as General who Garrisons the South and Inspector of Dongyong province, and advanced in feudal rank to be a Marquis.

A commoner in his section, Yang Yangpi, was a junior cousin of the Grand Guardian, Chun. He relied and counted on Chun's influence to infringe and injure the hundred families. The wardens and stewards were often affronted and insulted by him, but everyone shrunk away and did not dare to speak. Qi arrested and put him in order, and was about to apply the utmost punishment. Hence the Yang clan were ashamed and afraid, and his lineage and family went in unison to request mercy. After this, the prominent and honoured covered their traces, and none dared to transgress.

He was by nature also pure and restrained, graceful and not the slightest disturbing to the people. He was in the province for five years, and always transported grain from his home village to supply himself. Liang's Weixing commandery was the territory next to Luo province, and petitioned to request to belong with it. Decreed Qi to be Master of Writing to the Acting Tribunal to console and admit it.

The Great Acting Tribunal, Heba Yue, since Qi had formerly managed Dongyong, and was hold dear by the magistrates and people, therefore petitioned for Qi to again become Inspector. A decree allowed it. A commoner from Shu, Zhang Guojun, assembled a faction to pillage and plunder, the province and commanderies were unable put it in order. Qi instructed to arrest him and expose his corpse, the entire region was pure and reverent. At the beginning of Xiaowu of Wei's reign [r. 532 - 535], he was promoted to General of Chariots and Cavalry and Brilliantly Blessed Grandee of the Left.

When Shenwu of Qi monopolized the government, the Wei Emperor had a mind for looking after the west, and intended to entrust Qi with the affairs south of the mountains. He therefore appointed him Inspector of Luo province and Chief Controller of his controlled province. Not long after, the Emperor moved west, and Shenwu of Qi led a multitude to arrive at Tong Pass. Qi dispatched his son Yuanli to direct 5 000 people from his home village, and set out north through a [the?] great valley to offer them. Shenwu of Qi did not dare to advance.

A native of Shangluo, Chief Controller Quan Yue and his younger brother Menglüe, together with a native of Juyang, Du Zhu, and others, planned to turn over Luo province in response to the eastern army. Qi knew about it. He killed Yue, Menglüe and others, and transmitted their heads to the palace, but Zhu absconded and threw in with Eastern Wei. For his collected deeds from beginning to end, he was conferred Great General of Chariots and Cavalry, Ceremony Similar to the Three Ministers.

Beginning of Datong [535 – 551], he was promoted to Opening Office with Ceremony Similar to the Three Ministers, Combined Archer-Servant of the Right to the Masters of Writing, and advanced in feudal rank to Duke of Shangluo commandery with an increase in his estate, passing along the previous, to 1 000 households. Qi aspired still to honesty and prudence, every time he was appointed to an office, anxiety was seen in his facial appearance. Reaching this point, he again and again yielded, [but] the Wei Emperor wrote in his own hand a decree to not allow it.

3rd Year [537 AD], Gao Aocao led a multitude to besiege and pressure the provincial city, and Du Zhu was his local guide. Qi resisted and defended for more than a ten-day. With the arrows exhausted and aid cut off, the city was then lost. Qi spoke to Aocao, saying:

Quan Qi's strength is yielding, but his will does not submit.

When Dou Tai was caught, Aocao withdrew withdrew and fled. He thereupon carried with him Qi and went east, and used Zhu as Inspector. Qi just before being sent out secretly warned his sons Yuanli and Zhongzun, saying:

I all my life aspired to and desired nothing more than [a county] Prefect or Chief, and that is all. Fortunately [I] happened upon a sagely cycle, [and gained] position second to the eminent ministers. Now feudal rank and beneficence have been plentiful, and the row of years are also at sunset. The road in front is worn down and dangerous, yet likewise can be known.

Your aspirations and legacy are both strong, worthy of establishing merit and achievements. Furthermore, with the ways of loyalty and filial piety, it is not possible to keep both intact. [You] ought each to make plans for yourselves, and do not follow each other into the bandits' hands. Only by bringing your strength to the originally court will I have no remaining regrets. [You] will not be with me in the east, and consequently fail at a subject's steadfastness. You should make an effort of it.

Then he wiped away his tears and bid farewell, and for the remaining time had nothing to say about it. None of those who heard him did not sigh with indignation. Soon after he passed at Ye.

Yuanli as young had aspirations and spirit, and was fond of bows and horses. He was quite comfortable with the draft and clerical scripts, and had the manners of a nobleman. He let go from commoner life as Servant at the Spring and Autumn Courts and Separate Carriage of the Home Province.

He amassed moves to Supernumerary Cavalier Attendant Gentleman, Great Central Corrector of Luo province, Supernumerary Cavalier Regular Attendant, General who Calms the East, Holding the Tally, and Chief Controller, was bestowed feudal rank of Earl of Lintao county, and advanced to General who Conquers the East, Gold and Purple Brilliantly Blessed Grandee, concurrently Cavalier Regular Attendant.

When Luo province was lost, he and Qi together were apprehended and brought east. Yuanli escaped on the road and returned home. At the time though Du Zhu had become Inspector, the people of Ba habitually made light of the Du and put weight in the Quan. When Yuanli arrived, and he and Zhongzun saw each other, they felt indebted to their father's words from just before their parting, and covertly connected with and confided in the prominent and honoured. Within a couple of nights, he thereupon led the local people to assault the provincial city, beheaded Zhu, and transmitted the head to Chang'an. The imperial court praised him, and designated him General of Guards and Great General of Chariots and Cavalry, hereditary Inspector of Luo province.

He accompanied Taizu to the battle at Shayuan, was hit by a flying arrow, and thereupon passed. His son Zhen inherited. His official rank reached Ceremony Similar to the Three Ministers.

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Isaac Israels, In het Danshuis