#asian central

[k0recreates]

spotted  !!!    fifty  (#50)  gifs  of  nicolette  vergara  ,  a.k.a.  Bini  Colet  of  the  filipino  girl  group  BINI  ,  in  various  interviews  and  performances  !!  she  is  of  filipino  (bisaya)  descent  and  was  born  in  2001  ,  so  please  cast  her  accordingly  !   stream  BINI  !!

like  and/or  reblog  if  you  use  !!  please  do  not  claim  as  your  own.  please  do  not  use  these  gifs  for  taboo/smut  rps  +  irl  celebrity  rps  ,  thx  !!!

content warnings include … flashing lights .

[awu-wangxuan]

FAN BINGBING as SONG QI Double Xposure (2012), directed by Li Yu

[kiwinatorwaffles]

[lmaowh-at]

Lanns n Starks lineups/costumes sketches that I will probably add other houses to. Tywin and Joff & the rest aren't here because I was lazy and Cerseis dress took all of my energy. Don't ask me about inspiration or historical basis for these

[natopajas]

[andromeddog]

dog metaphor

[pierrotsoup]

late 19th/early 20th c bakhtiari rug 🌟 textile arts I love you so ...oughh the detail!!

[gracielikegrapes]

Princess Rhaenys of House Targaryen, rider of Meleys with her children: Lady Laena Velaryon, rider of Vhagar and Lord Laenor Velaryon, rider of Seasmoke. Gone too soon <3

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[dream-world-universe]

Murdash, Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan: Murdash village is 100 km from Osh city. It is in Alay valley, just 15 km from Gulcha to the south east. Murdash village offers amazing trekking opportunites. The trekking route from Murdash to Sary summer camp is two days walk with amazing passes, rivers and juniper forests. Just going to Murdash in itself is interesting... The Alai Valley is a broad, dry valley running east–west across most of southern Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Wikipedia

[meirimerens]

pathologic fest day 19

"In the Darkness"

where nobody dwells but the earth herself

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Karabair

Height: 14-15 hh

Common coat colors: Various chestnuts, bay, and black

Place of origin: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

[gayaest]

Re-design of SABOH! 💚🎨

He has a chin-attachment as well for his Powerchair which allows him to move around with chin movement, if his arm is “not working”, or is particularly weak.

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

honestly the older ive gotten the more ive become disillusioned with 'xyz white character but now they're brown!' and it sucks because i absolutely do not mean it in the usual 'weh weh making everything woke' way but rather that many people who seek to diversify casts of mostly white/pale people never think through the cultural implications of what they're penning down yknow. like to be honest if you just pick up a white character and go 'theyre brown now look at my awesome redesign' i kind of feel nothing because textually that is just a white person wearing the skin of a poc and it's not like. representation. at worst it gets straight up tokenising. maybe it's just because it's actually very easy to find 'diverse' media that is not written by some white dude that is writing every character from the perspective of a white dude (there are so many brown characters that just read as white because the author does not put any effort into distinguishing lived experiences) and i find it much more fulfilling to take somewhat underdeveloped characters that are clearly meant to be ethnic and rightfully elaborate on them rather than slap a stamp of approval on some white guy. Not to mention the fact that sometimes a character being white is actually very informative of their place in society and their inherited cultural bigotry but then people turn around and contradict that which is like, not something i'm critiquing from a "how dare you ruin this white character" standpoint but from a "you have to make very convoluted steps and bounds to explain why this brown character acts like a white bigot and it quickly gets very uncomfortable" one. yknow. and tangentially i think the same thing with people randomly headcanoning characters as trans. like sure you want to project but sometimes i think its worth asking yourself 'is this character a critique of cis white men and how does making them marginalised change the implications'. like people can have their fun but damn man sometimes it just gets in the way. does that make sense.

[rrcraft-and-lore]

The Thar desert found in India. Most of it is found in the state of Rajasthan (Kings Land - Land of Kings), with parts stretching into Pakistan, the Indian state of Gujurat, Punjab, and Haryana. There is a unique tradition there in the city of Bikaner - the camel festival.

Some architecture from the area:

This is an utterly beautiful place in the world and just one of so many gems India has to offer. Bikaner has a nifty history of being an oasis trade path through central Asia and Gujurat.

[fjordfolk]

What’s your thoughts on wui hei quan dogs?

This response is going to derail.

My thoughts about any and all non-western breeds are that English (or Norwegian, which are inevitably translated from English) sources are rubbish, and the current media environment makes it near-impossible to search for anything.

This isn't new. This is western dog fancy.

My search engines will organize my location-based results over the things i actually write in the search field. My English-language and Latin-alphabet search results will inevitably land me search results in English.

Which means that from my scope, the wui hei quan dog could be anything from a fabricated tiktok trend featuring a black "chow" puppy to a genuine heavily pigmented regional breed of Chinese farmdog ("garden dog" but I've been around this translation block before, i c u). I'm tempted to lean toward the latter, just because the google search results want me to exchange "wui hei quan dog" for "xiasi dog," and the regions those are supposed to originate from are some minor fifteen travel hours apart. Which is a little bit like exchanging a Norwegian buhund for a German schnauzer. A household/farmdog from comparable regions. Right?

We run into this problem pretty often. You've got your chows and your shar peis, but otherwise, not-noble breeds are easily overlooked. Pekingese were "stolen" from the aristocracy so they're novel, our knowledge of Japanese breeds curiously spikes after WW2. You can throw a racism argument and I agree, but let's add a class card as well. How many regional Chinese ratters do FCI recognize?

Our knowledge of dogs is limited by access, language, and curiosity. We have access, arguably, and to an extent we can overcome language barriers. But I'm not sure we're curious enough.

In short, I've got zero to no thoughts about the wui hei quan dog or wuyishan black dog, because I know nothing about it. I would love to have more thoughts. I'd love to hear about regional asian dog breeds and their quirks and their qualms and politics.

whats YOUR thoughts on the wui hei quan dogs?

pls tell me

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