#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.

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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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[niioka]

＠Journey.

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July 18 - Taipei; Fort San Domingo

Well, the start of my day was interesting to say the least. This day actually started last night with a bar crawl through three different bars and ending at the nightclub, Ruff. The bar crawl was okay, I’m not much of a drinker, so I just sampled the drinks that were given to us and then gave the rest  to someone else. The club was a bit more fun until a police raid occurred and we had to show them our passports. Thankfully, everyone in the group was okay and nothing happened during the raid. The raid pretty much cemented my decision to leave since I was already tired and not feeling well. I made it back to the hotel safely, but I did get a weird look from my Uber driver, he was looking at me through the rearview mirror, with pretty much just his eyes. I’m not exactly sure why, but I think it could be because I had called my mom and was speaking in English. I also think he may have taken me a bit less direct way, so that he could charge me more as a foreigner. Not the worst Uber ever, but I definitely could have done without the look; I still gave him 5 stars.  

Anyways, the rest of the day was full of activities. Running on 5ish hours of sleep, I showered, got breakfast, and went on my first solo excursion. My friend Megan recommended that I go to the Miniatures Museum of Taiwan if I had time, so that’s what I did. Pleasantly, the Museum was a short walk from the hotel only about 10 minutes; it was nice to have somewhere I could walk to instead of having to take the metro. Once I arrived at the building, I did get a little lost. Megan had warned me that the Museum was in the downstairs of an office building, so I tried going downstairs, but I must have gone into the wrong entrance because I did not see the Museum. At least, I found myself in an office space where I got the attention of one of the workers, told her 我迷路了, and asked her how to get to the Museum. I think she must have been asked that before because once she confirmed that was where I wanted to go, she said to follow her and took me to the entrance of the Museum. The Museum itself was a lot of fun and I was surprised at just how big some of the miniatures were. Don’t get me wrong, they were miniature versions of  iconic buildings and some truly were miniatures, but I imagined the scale of the bigger displays to be smaller than they were. It took me about 40 mins to get through the Museum, but by the end of it, my brain was so tired of reading the descriptions that I was ready to go. My phone too as it went from 90% battery to 72%. I had a lot of fun at the Museum and would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in miniatures or just has some free time and wants to spend it in air conditioning. 

The afternoon brought us to Fort San Domingo and old Danshui. The Fort is situated in a very interesting place, with Oxford College being built right next to it. But the convenience of walking to the university gave me a sense of home as soon as I stepped foot onto the campus, the feeling of “Yep, I’m back at college” hit me as I looked around at the buildings. Even in another country, a college campus is a college campus. At the Fort, an automatic coffee-maker amazed and entertained us in the heat. My friend Iris got a coffee and we had fun watching the machine grind the beans, brew the coffee in an already provided cup, and when it was finished attach a lid before being presented. I have definitely not seen a coffee-machine like that, but it was very fun to see, and I took some photos of Iris with it and her coffee. We then took the ferry to old Danshui, a very cute sort of beachy street market. Because of the early hours, some vendors weren’t open yet, but the ones that were did have some patronage. After half an hour at old Danshui, we mercifully called it a night and headed back to the hotel.

Academic Reflection

Sadly, the Little White House we were supposed to tour today was closed, but even without this stop, I learned a lot about Fort San Domingo. The Fort has a very long and complex history, with eight countries having played a part in some way or another, the countries are each represented by a flag flying outside of the fort. The first country was Spain, who built the original fort in 1642. The fort was built using wood and stood until 1644 when the Dutch built a more permanent structure, naming it Fort San Antonio.  Fort San Antonio is the structure that is standing to this day. It was definitely harder to pick out the Spanish influences, given that there is no structure to be seen on-site. The Dutch were then driven out by the Qing Dynasty, who then opened trade to foreign countries and leased the adjacent building to the British. Dutch influences can be seen in the building material of bricks, as they introduced their use. The Qing Dynasty is not seen as much either. British influence is not only seen in the consular building, but also in an antique stroller that was found in a servant’s quarter. Japan then became the owners of the Fort after the first Sino-Japanese War, and the British then leased with the Japanese. After WWII, the British completely left Fort San Domingo and transferred the consulate to Australia, who then transferred it to the United States, who finally transferred it back to Taiwan. With most of the later transfers lasting for a fraction of the time the British lease lasted, it was not surprising to see that the British continue to have the most lasting impact on the building and surrounding area. The assigned reading touched upon the impact each country had on Fort San Domingo, but going in person and having Peter explain the impact cemented the history of the Fort much more. 

The adjacent consular building to the Fort was also very interesting to explore. It did not exactly match up with the reading as the reading talked about the political history of the consular building and what I saw was how the building was lived in. In the reading, the ownership of the building bounced around depending on WWII, political ties with China and Hong Kong, and the sovereignty of the Taiwanese government. I did not really experience this while touring the consular building. I did see, however, the dining room table set in the British fashion for receiving guests, the nanny’s bedroom, the master and children’s bedrooms, and the downstairs sitting room. Still, seeing a house set up in the Victorian British fashion in a foreign country just showed more the scope of the British Empire. The article did mention that Aletheia University, also called Oxford College, was interested in purchasing the Fort for their use, which does make sense as to why the Fort and the College are so close in distance. 

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river arch by Poagao

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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!