#Tsz

[trappedwell]

sim dump I've made recently ✨ College took all the energy out of me and now I'm totally exhausted 🌧️

[simmsys]

❤️❤️

[deepbluequill]

My friend asked me yesterday if Hong Kong is the capital of SAR.

She thought SAR was a country, like the USA.

I asked her what she thought SAR stood for and she said "South Asian... Realms or something."

She thought Hong Kong, was the capital of a US style south Asian federation.

What timeline is she from?

[eurosmart]

Những ngôi nhà được hồi sinh trong làng cổ Mui Tsz Lam

Những ngôi nhà được hồi sinh trong làng cổ Mui Tsz Lam nằm trong khuôn khổ dự án Plum Grove. Ngôi làng Mui Tsz Lam (MTL) 360 năm tuổi của người Hakka nằm ở vùng Tân Giới của Hồng Kông (Trung Quốc). Mui Tsz Lam có nghĩa đen là “Rừng mận”, cách Mong Kok, một trong những khu dân cư đông đúc nhất thế giới, chỉ 25km. Ngôi làng thuộc cụm làng nông nghiệp ở Sha Tau Kok. Một nửa ngôi làng đã bị chôn…

[sketching-shark]

"Tang Sanzang is completely peaceful all of the time!" Bah. True journeyheads know about that time he got two guys tortured to death and his "smashing yaoguai into meat patties is okay actually" mindset.

[kowloon-tiny-roach]

Twilight of the Warriors: General thoughts and micro-details

a/n: I've watched the movie 6 times. I'm watching it for the 7th time tomorrow because of the meet-and-greet (the producer, director and original novel author of City of Darkness) going on at K11. I've picked up some micro-details from the movie, mixed in with some personal thoughts, enjoyy:

Chan Lok Kwan first arrived in the Walled City on October 2nd, 1984, and his birthday is on September 24, 1953, as shown on his ID card. 

12th Master has this child-like wonder that makes him endearing, he still sticks stickers on his katana and short sword. (Also I'd like to think he has been keeping them for a long time ever since he followed Tiger)

Chan Lok Kwan is pretty much the most emotionally stable one among the Kowloon 4. Only lost a bit of his temper when he played Mahjong the first time with the boys though.  

Ever since that experience where 12th Master almost OD in the Walled City when he was younger, he avoids alcohol, smoking or any other harmful addictive substances. (there's a clip near the end where AV tries to offer 12th alcohol but he refused)

Boss Tiger lets 12th Master do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn’t get himself (severely) hurt since he’s gotta watch over his boss. 

someone asked this in the meet-and-greet with City of Darkness author Yu Yi: Why does King obey Mr. Big so much? He answered that the reason why King doesn’t want to disobey Mr. Big in the first place is because he acknowledges his power is much higher than him. He obeys whoever is stronger than him. 

To add up on King's part, I'd like to believe he always has the power and potential to overpower Mr. Big, yet the timing wasn't right and with how Mr. Big is so ambitious and controlling over his throne, King has no choice to stand aside.

King's attitude ticked from uncertain to overconfident. He went from having the belief where Cyclone's territory shouldn't be messed with to I can eat burning coal after he's gained his confidence from beating Cyclone, that one small encouragement from his goon, and k.o.ing his boss.

His overconfidence gets out of hand when he starts taunting in the last fight, dooming himself by biting off the blade piece.

love him tho, crazy

AV is still looking for his girlfriend through the av tapes (who got taken away by the Triads). To look for her, Shin and his underlings would watch in turns to help looking for her. The 12th Master too sometimes.

Shin's hairdo is definitely well-taken cared of by Cyclone.

(note: screenshots and clips are taken from the movie and the official fan accounts of the twilight of the warriors characters (putting it here just in case)

[emcant]

Friends With Kids' kid's favorite book is Caps For Sale and I think he has excellent taste

[lostinmac]

Time Still Turns the Pages (2023)

Dir. Nick Cheuk

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tsz Ching Chan's free program dress at the 2022 Junior Grand Prix Riga.

(Source: kissncry_pics)

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Stand News sedition trial: Hong Kong should tolerate criticism, even if it is not constructive, ex-editor says, February 17, 2023

[rateelism]

successfully revamped my blog theme !!!

shilling debut or die like pls pls pls learn abt testar pls pls pls be interested in these silly singing boys who must brave the waters of malicious supernatural beings and antis

[trappedwell]

Ma baby's "good girl" lookbook ✨

[simmsys]

[deepbluequill]

I told Tsz about that post saying Art Nouveau stuff looks Elven and Art Deco stuff looks Dwarven.

He stared at me for a second and said

"Actually that's kinda how i tell the difference between you guys and Nordics."

In this context "you guys" is celtic.

And yknow what???? I completely understand what he means.

but that makes it WORSE.

And neither of us can explain it.

I am so close to asking what's going on with the pearl river delta again, just to raise this absolute muppet's blood pressure.

[nineteenfiftysix]

Tsz Shan Monastery (Tung Tsz, Hong Kong - 2019)

[sketching-shark]

I main not be a tang sanzang apologist main but i sure as hell ready to square up for him at anytime

Man gets his reputation slaughtered bad n is misrepresented in fics (lmk wise)

Ill be his apologist n defending his character bc bro doesn’t deserve being misrepresented like this

(No bc why do i keep seeing post defending swk n then turned around bashing both bajie n tang sanzang—like what??? Y’all do realize he would slaughter u all against any slights towards them both😭😭😭

Heck sun wukong is the first tang sanzang apologist who stepped up(as in fight for his honor literally

Monkie Kid spoilers & complaining below so ignore or read on as you like

wegerf well anon just finished saying so but yeah chances are that if you're main exposure to the og pilgrims are from simplified and cartoony forms then it can be pretty easy to form a mostly negative opinion about them, especially following a common but often unspoken "equivalent exchange" fandom rule that if one character is going to be made better than another character has to be made worse (i.e. exactly what happened with Sun Wukong and the Six-Eared Macaque in Monkie Kid lmao). Hell as it is I've heard that even in China the multiple chapters Xiyouji dedicates to Tang Sanzang's backstory & traumas are often left out of retellings! And in many ways this too is understandable especially when you're dealing with a retelling aimed at children, given that from what happened to the monk's mother to living under the constant threat of getting devoured to being sexually assaulted numerous times...well, not many stories are going to want to even touch on the horrifying nature and aftermath of most or even any of that. But yeah at the end of the day leaving all of this out & keeping in other things like Tang Sanzang using the headband against Sun Wukong for seemingly no reason does make him a lot easier to fully demonize than he might otherwise be. But it does lead to a pretty disappointing situation where there's an overall sense that someone HAS to be bashed, vs. the much more interesting situation of each of the pilgrims having reasons, even very understandable reasons, for acting the way they do even while they are obviously very capable of hurting each other, and then slowly learning how to work together and even appreciate each other's company.

Because yeah at the end of the day anon you are so right about how the Monkey King himself becomes Tang Sanzang's #1 active apologist lmao