#growling tigers

[catfindr]

[theythemmer]

why is tyler posting forest fic references . what year is this . i feel like im losing my mind

[palettepainter]

Photos that were taken moments before disaster

[halepo]

The Mandalorian - s02e05: The Jedi

Such a cool fighting scene

[dangermousie]

Cao Pi's death scene in Growling Tiger Rising Dragon - I loved that on the verge of death he makes that callback to how he wrote on her hand when they were young...

and his heir, Cao Rui, who has a relationship with his father as messed up as Cao Pi himself had with Cao Cao watches, his loathing for the woman who supplanted his mother, about to burst:

Cao Rui is someone no censor today would let pass - a cross between Caligula and Yeonsangun - who executes painters by the dozens for not capturing the likeness of his dead mother (until he poses for them in women's clothes as her) and who yearns for the love of the father who never liked him and would have killed him if it wasn't for the father's second empress who he loathes for replacing his mother.

The contrast between The Advisors Alliance (both s1 and GTHD) and nowadays is SO stark though this was made less than a decade ago. This drama allowed Cao Pi to be both good (he's genuinely brave, he genuinely loves his second empress, he yearns for his father's love, he's a hell of a ruler/warrior, he tries to save people he cares for) and terrible (he killed his first wife and almost killed his son, he did get rid of his brother, he did a ton of ruthless bad stuff) but that is what makes him feel like a real person and a real period noble and a real period ruler - and the new idiotic restrictions don't get that all the bad stuff he did doesn't make him any less competent or worthy to be king, it just makes him more believable.

PS In general, the level of realism in period cdramas went down drastically. The scene where Tan Jianci talks about the horror of his first kill and his terror of his own own mortality to his sister in law? Brilliant and I cannot imagine in today's drama.

[axelmedellin]

Daily drawing 23 may 2024

Tiger

[creese]

Fire Tiger painting by Michael Creese

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

The Train Below by Growling Tiger.

1979 - Latest addition to my YouTube train playlist

[eatingyourteeth]

I think now my new favourite headcanon is that the reason why Hong-jin got his callname 'Horangi' isn't due to scars or climbing ranks easily— it's because he keeps wearing really shitty graphical t-shirts of tigers and he refuses to change into anything else.

[catfindr]

[sealitsgills]

injects future edd into my bloodstream

[sick-sad-little-world]

🐯🦁🐱 The Big Cats 🐯🦁🐱

[beehunni62]

Growling Tiger and Roaring Dragon Mini Encyclopedia Translation Post 24: Wine Rinse & Nuptial Wine

The Advisors Alliance 大军师司马懿之军师联盟 is a 2017 two-part Chinese TV series depicting the life of Sima Yi, a government official and military strategist who lived during the late Eastern Han Dynasty 东汉 (25 CE - 220 CE) and the Three Kingdoms Period 三国時代 (220 CE - 280 CE). [Wikipedia of the show’s first season]

The second part is titled Growling Tiger Roaring Dragon 虎啸龙吟 and keeps following Sima Yi’s life as he matures and becomes wiser [Link to the show’s second season’s MyDramaList page].

The Weibo account [Link] of the show made a series of posts in the style of small encyclopedias explaining different historical and cultural facts that where included in the series. The user @moononmyfloor compiled the 50 posts and asked me to translate them. This will be an ongoing series where I will do just that. Although I tried to stay as close as possible to the original text, I had to take some liberties in some posts to get the meaning across better. On the side, I have included extra information from personal research that explains certain things better.

The posts are not in order of the episodes but I will provide the episode and season number to avoid confusion. If there are any mistakes in translation, do let me know in the comments or privately message me and I will do my best to fix them.

If it is difficult to read the letters, tap or click on the image to expand it. Without more preamble, here you go.

Extra information:

Left image: modern reenactment of 合卺 [image source].

Right image: a drinking gourd split into two with the halves tied at the center with a red string, an ancient Chinese wedding tradition [image source].

A modern wedding ceremony showcasing jiaobeijiu [image source].

A contemporary 亲迎 (sometimes written as 迎亲) procession [image source].

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[allofroti]

Almost fucking beat someone today. I was dragged to an appointment without knowing and turns out I was signed up for a diabetic device behind my back. They brought it out, I saw and immediately tweaked. For starters, YOU DO NOT FUCKING POP SOMETHING LIKE THIS ON AN ASPERGERS PERSON. MUCH LESS SOMEONE WITH A MEDICAL GRADE FEAR OF NEEDLES AND HOSPITALS.

So when I started going rabid ape I had security called on me! I’m not to be blamed for acting out, you *need* to let people know what’s up!! COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT, PEOPLE. DONT HIDE SHIT, TELL THEM SO THEY CAN MENTALLY PREPARE.

[syrips]

i was talking to a 70 yr old dude on the phone for some program thingy im in and anyways he had the tone/charisma of a 40yr old man and anyways i am NOT smitten with him i SWEAr

[blueeyesfilledwithpassion]

What Do You Mean No More Coffee

You Might Want To Rethink Your Answer.

Errrrrrr.

You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry.

☕️🐯😎