#chinese amazons

[thekingofwinterblog]

So, just a cute little detail, but Shampoo imagening herself as Ranma's bride also has her wear a butterfly hairpin as a decoration.

More speciffically a stylized pin of the "Lens of Invincibility" from her homeland.

This has 2 meanings:

1. Of course being that said pair of lenses make the wearer "invincible" in a fight, symbolizes how she views her marriage.

2. The lenses were never actually meant to be worn and used by the strong, instead having been designed by those with knowledge and skill to be used by the weak and elderly to protect themselves from attackers.

So basically in her dream wedding, she imagines her relationahip with ranma as both "invincible", but also one that is pointedly about him taking care of her for the rest of her days, even as she becomes old and weak.

It's a surprisingly sweet little detail once you realize it, and goes to show that despite everything she does in the story, Shampoo is a HUGE romantic.

[lindsayfrazerdraws]

[fjordfolk]

@some-sort-of-ecologist Eep, missed this!

I've got a rechargable 1000lumen noname LED lamp that i probably paid ~30USD for. It is pretty good! Decent range. Looks like this:

[trans-xianxian]

which speaking of its so lame when ppl make lan wangji play like. the violin or the cello or whatever in modern aus. like you do know that the guqin is still an instrument people play right? like it's not even some crazy niche skill either I've seen people play one in real life multiple times

[aglitchinmatrix]

Reika Kirishima in Drive My Car (2021)

Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

[girlwiththegreenhat]

a dude my ma works with at amazon died of a stroke on the job because they force them to work in hot conditions and they refused him water. they bring in modified temperature readers so they can say "see, it's a safe temperature in here, all up to code uwu" but someone snuck in their own temp reader and it was much hotter than they claim it is.

it was ninety degrees Fahrenheit. heavy lifting for several hours at a time, no water, in 90 degree loading docks.

stop fucking using amazon. or at the very least, fucking unionize.

[fedorahead]

i'm so sad nerd culture has been corporatized because it's so accessible that it's been cheapened.

i don't mean this in a gatekeepy way; if i wanted a poster of fanart of, say, welcome to nightvale, i'd have to order it from the artist or buy it at a con or draw the damn thing myself.

now, fanart is still being made but i can log onto any of the various chinese sites (including amazon) and get a poorly manufactured print of someone's art without ever having the artist themself involved or paid. and i'll have a low quality wall hanging. and because it's so accessible, i can do this 50 times. cover a wall in it. overpay for something i could make on my home printer, get none of the satisfaction or human experience, but cultivate the aesthetic of that particular wall.

and it's completely loveless

there's no joy to the discovery of cheap crap on amazon that will fit the ~vibe~ i'm going for. there's no passion when i order a stack of ten arts that go together because they scream "nerdy" and use catchphrases that were played out in 2010.

i go to events and see people reselling stickers they got off wish for a dollar apiece, when the 50 pack was a dollar.

it's all so soulless

so when i say nerd culture sucks now, i don't mean "aaaa too many people i don't like have discovered that cool stuff is actually cool" like people love to pretend is the problem (though we can discuss the neurotypical invasion and subsequent ousting of autistics from traditionally social-reject circles later) the problem is that capitalism has sucked the joy out of it. 42 isn't an in-joke, it's a brand slogan at this point. everything is "wibbly wobbly" now. merchandise featuring d20s is some of the most popular cheap shitgifts you can get for holidays. everyone has seen how dragons consider you good with ketchup.

it's exhausting. none of the cheap crap is special. the market is oversaturated.

and now when i say i like xyz show, even though i liked it for 20 years, people do the whole "name three of their songs" type shit because they expect fandom to be so commodified that we have to be experts on every nuance if we've enjoyed something (or even loved it passionately) for so long. i haven't seen much doctor who past matt smith, but i've seen a shitload of baker and davison. being weird at me because i don't have an opinion on clara when i've only seen her twice is just obnoxious. because now, everyone's experience with a show or fandom is supposed to have some kinda alignment. when i was coming up, some of us had seen episodes others hadn't because they were still missing, or had to be torrented, or we went out of our way to find them, so every fan had a personal and unique relationship with the franchise. that just makes you out of touch now. if you haven't got all the info the youtube digests feed viewers, or the tiktok trends spread, you're a poser. if you don't like 5th ed d&d, you're boring and old. if you enjoy THAC0 you're a weirdo; but in a few years when the hipster zoomers discover it you can bet that my inability to calculate it myself will mean that i'm the poser.

i want the experience of having to order my specialty weeb shit from japan. i miss finding the vhs tapes of episodes of shows that didn't air anymore. yeah, that shit was more expensive back then, but it also meant that there was less drive to consume for all of it. each individual item i found was a special treasure, and that's just not the case anymore.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

this alone will ensure america's power and prosperity for centuries to come.

[insignificantstrawberry]

I’m better than the astronauts from the I.S.S. horror movie on amazon prime because I didn’t NEED to be blasted up a billion centimetres into orbit and see the planet turn to know that borders aren’t real and governments won’t save you and we просто нужно помнить о том, что нужно держаться вместе.

[sl33py-g4m3r]

Mahjong set differences?

hope I don't sound like I'm complaining here~~ but which set of mahjong tiles should I buy if I get any?

it seems that Chinese mahjong tiles only work for traditional Chinese mahjong, and not American or riichi mahjong...

so that means what? choose a style that I want to learn and then buy the corresponding tiles?

you'd think they would all work for the same game.... unless there are all different tiles or things of that nature in each game...

did some cursory research too, mainly on amazon, and the sets are expensive to boot~~ like $50+ for a set~~ and if you want quality, even more~~

would the Chinese tiles work for the Hong Kong style or Singapore Bloody Rules (idk what style that is, read about mahjong on a reddit thread and someone listed off variations)

want to learn the game but don't have tiles, nor do I really have friends to play the game with~~ so the tiles would be a novelty but a good thing if I actually can find people to play with~~

[liketaylorswift]

gift shopping is such a bleak scene.

gifts targeted at men are like ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC? YOU SHOULD BE AN ALCOHOLIC. HERE ARE SOME SOCKS. WHAT ABOUT A WALLET FOR ALL THE MONEY YOU MAKE? YOU NEED ANOTHER TIE, HERE’S A REALLY UGLY ONE. SMOKE A CIGAR ROLLED WITH PRISON SLAVE LABOR! BREW YOUR OWN IPA!

gifts targeted at women are like GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN WHERE YOU BELONG WITH OUR USELESS GADGETS! HAVE YOU DONE ANY HOUSEKEEPING LATELY? WHAT ABOUT A VACUUM SO YOU CAN DO MORE? HAVE YOU CONSIDERED ALCOHOLISM? WE THINK YOU’D MAKE A GREAT WINE MOM. WANT A SCARF THAT WAS MADE WITH BARELY-PAID LABOR IN MALAYSIA? HOW ABOUT SOME MORE KITCHEN GADGETS?

[jediaxis101]

[spring-of-drowned-flag]

[phanthief]

not to sound weird but i need a place i can buy plant seeds that deliver internationally but that must not be amazon.com

[naomiknight-17]

Why is it so hard to just get some fucking fish stock

[cressida-jayoungr]

Whoops

Somebody at Amazon messed up bigtime with this image and film summary combination: