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I sailed away to China in a little rowboat to find you, and you said you had to get your laundry cleaned.
#dream#china#sailing#what was i doing in china#laundry#rowboat#how did i get there#did i also use a rowboat
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Do you think Jesus ever felt homesick. Do you think he missed his mom
#wolfy religious tedtalks#thinking about tjat time i went to china for like two months#for a study program#and i had a banger time it was great#but when i went to bed at night id sort of just sit around#and it was already like 11 pm and my parents were asleep#i couldnt really call them#but id sit and read or watch some videos or eat noodles and check the clock and look at that its 2am#what i wouldnt give for a hug right about now#do you think that after all his miracles he would crawl into an unfamiliar bed and he would think of his own in nazareth
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The American far-right: (((They))) built space lasers and hurricane machines to create natural disasters in the United States!
The American far-left: A country the size of New Jersey is single-handedly accelerating climate change to create natural disasters in the United States!
You guys sound exactly the same
#antisemitism#right wing antisemitism#left wing antisemitism#leftist antisemitism#american politics#current events#climate change#i dunno tankies I feel like your blorbos russia and china with their populations and landmasses and wars carry much of responsibility#for climate change#but what do I know I just have a basic grasp of math and science
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mooncakes for mid autumn festival (happy zhongqiu
#china#food#mooncake#zhongqiu#mid-autumn festival#What kind of flavors do you guys like?#i prefer lotus seed paste with egg yolk#lava mooncakes are also very good#My roommate says she likes the flower mooncakes(contains real rose petals) and ham mooncakes in yunnan
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oh 12.65 litres of blood clinging to the outside of my body, we're really in it now
#what happens when OP cannot figure out the esen sun symbolism#fine ill do ouyang moon symbolism then!#artfromthefrogs#blood tw#general ouyang#he who drowned the world#hwdtw#she who became the sun#swbts#the radiant emperor#tre#ouyang#art#this was supposed to be like a tarot format but it looked shite so (as usual) i scrapped a ton of work to make it look good#when zhu is trying to become emperor but youre too busy having the most tragic yaoi in china and also you must kill the khan#me when it turns out that killing the object of my affection means that he is dead.#frog portfolio
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Saw the director of Addicted Heroin Thailand had posted this on his Facebook account:
This man looked at the show that was the tipping point of the first big anti-gay censorship wave in China in the 2010s, and decided to remake it and intentionally self-censor, just to see if he could attract the "Chinese BL is superior because it doesn't rely on kisses or NC scenes to show the emotions" audience to Thai BL?
I am so mad about this.
#addicted heroin th#addicted heroin thailand#addicted heroin the series#bl meta#fandom meta#honestly i don't care if this is justifcation after the fact or if it was what he set out to do#either way this rhetoric horrifies me#What a deep misunderstanding of the importance of the series we have had from China during this period#for pushing against censorship rather than voluntarily enforcing it where it doesn't exist#also what disrespect to the source material and the original series#to imply that the physical affection between the characters cheapens their romance or their acting in some way#and honestly i can't get over how utterly his plan has backfired#because the censorship itself has been the biggest barrier to me enjoying or recommending this show#typed so that i can stop thinking it
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Haunted Doll AU.
If anyone has watched that Wizard of Oz movie where it's the prequel this'll make a lot more sense.
Instead of being one of those antique anabelle type dolls that are typically haunted, Danny is possessing a china doll instead- or a porcelain doll, kinda like this
So imagine Danny gets hurt by either the GIW or the Fenton dr duo and flees to the Infinite Realms, only for CW and Frostbite to suggest putting his ghost core in a movable container while his body heals. Normally Ghosts would probably just be able to switch up their body while their core heals and just reform their body after, but since Danny is a halfa his body will still be there but in a comatose state so it needs to stay under watch.
CW suggests a doll to put his core in and when they do, he is able to move and talk since his voice comes from his core and the doll is ball-jointed.
After getting used to the new body, Danny is sent back to Earth to wait for his body to heal fully, and accidentally takes a wrong turn and ends up in Gotham.
Cue one of the batfam finding a walking doll and taking it home after finding out that it's sentient and a ghost healing.
(Probably Damian during a patrol but it could be any of them.)
#dc x dp#danny is a doll#i read multiple posts where Danny moved as a doll without being seen#and just thought what if he could always do that?#boom china doll danny like those things from that one wizard of oz movie#the batfam are gonna be in for a surprise#damian would probably treat Danny like one of his beloved animals that are injured#tim is probably 2 minutes from passing out from either exhaustion or fear#because why is there a walking doll carrying fruits across the kitchentop with alfred?
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bunch of very old and not so comms I never posted for some reason but still like 😇 the more recent ones were made for @raven6229 and @frog-frussy !!! the owners of the old ones are lost in IG im afraid......
#some of them are from 2020-21 i believe#I do hope that my memory doesn`t fail me and none of the owners were against the publication atm#but IF pls contact me and I`ll remove it asap#also I'll be completely honest with you dakimakura is what I learned to draw for#its my magnum opus#it has a second side but I`ll leave it to your imagination 😋#hetalia#aph england#aph france#fruk#aph canada#aph russia#aph roman empire#aph china#aph australia
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Nico Rosberg may have ended his F1 racing career in 2016 with tears and an ex and somehow he still has the most paddock immunity powers I have ever seen? He comes in and isn’t afraid to ask all the most unhinged questions and somehow the team managers and principals are all so fond of him and love him?
Bonus mention here before everything else: please appreciate Nico telling Andrea Stella (current McLaren team principal) after Hungarian GP 2024 on how to NOT put teammates vying for 1-2 in TERRIBLE SITUATIONS
Exhibit A: Fred Vasseur, current Ferrari Team Principal (was Alfa Romeo team principal in 2019 when this interaction happened)
The way Fred kisses Nico and is gonna leave like thats their normal interaction before Nico calls him back to ask him a question 😭
Exhibit B: Nicolas Todt, Charles Leclerc’s manager
I think this happened after China GP sprint race and there was tensions between Carlos and Charles
“You could ask if you’re br-“ AND Nico is already moving in to yap in French. Mind you, Todt is apparently infamous for avoiding sky news like plague but stops to listen to Nico HELP
Exhibit C: TOTO WOLFF OF COURSE
We get this interaction during Hungarian GP 2024 and Nico is being his usual self and stirring up unnecessary drama
#nico what is your power#he somehow has ties to Ferrari#do you see my vision - Nico having inside connections to Ferrari#guess who is going to Ferrari next year huh#definitely not somehow Nico can’t stop talking about#not pictured here: Nico almost throwing hands with Christian Horner during China gp 2023 interview#maybe one day I will make a compilation of Nico judging everyone in the paddock#nico rosberg#f1#ferrari#toto wolff#nicolas todt#andrea stella#formula 1#mercedes#mclaren
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thoughts about the Cardassian writing system
I've thinking about the Cardassian script as shown on screen and in beta canon and such and like. Is it just me or would it be very difficult to write by hand?? Like.
I traced some of this image for a recent drawing I did and like. The varying line thicknesses?? The little rectangular holes?? It's not at all intuitive to write by hand. Even if you imagine, like, a different writing implement—I suppose a chisel-tip pen would work better—it still seems like it wasn't meant to be handwritten. Which has a few possible explanations.
Like, maybe it's just a fancy font for computers, and handwritten text looks a little different. Times New Roman isn't very easily written by hand either, right? Maybe the line thickness differences are just decorative, and it's totally possible to convey the same orthographic information with the two line thicknesses of a chisel-tip pen, or with no variation in line thickness at all.
A more interesting explanation, though, and the one I thought of first, is that this writing system was never designed to be handwritten. This is a writing system developed in Cardassia's digital age. Maybe the original Cardassian script didn’t digitize well, so they invented a new one specifically for digital use? Like, when they invented coding, they realized that their writing system didn’t work very well for that purpose. I know next to nothing about coding, but I cannot imagine doing it using Chinese characters. So maybe they came up with a new writing system that worked well for that purpose, and when computer use became widespread, they stuck with it.
Or maybe the script was invented for political reasons! Maybe Cardassia was already fairly technologically advanced when the Cardassian Union was formed, and, to reinforce a cohesive national identity, they developed a new standardized national writing system. Like, y'know, the First Emperor of Qin standardizing hanzi when he unified China, or that Korean king inventing hangul. Except that at this point in Cardassian history, all official records were digital and typing was a lot more common than handwriting, so the new script was designed to be typed and not written. Of course, this reform would be slower to reach the more rural parts of Cardassia, and even in a technologically advanced society, there are people who don't have access to that technology. But I imagine the government would be big on infrastructure and education, and would make sure all good Cardassian citizens become literate. And old regional scripts would stop being taught in schools and be phased out of digital use and all the kids would grow up learning the digital script.
Which is good for the totalitarian government! Imagine you can only write digitally. On computers. That the government can monitor. If you, like, write a physical letter and send it to someone, then it's possible for the contents to stay totally private. But if you send an email, it can be very easily intercepted. Especially if the government is controlling which computers can be manufactured and sold, and what software is in widespread use, etc.
AND. Historical documents are now only readable for scholars. Remember that Korean king that invented hangul? Before him, Korea used to use Chinese characters too. And don't get me wrong, hangul is a genius writing system! It fits the Korean language so much better than Chinese characters did! It increased literacy at incredible rates! But by switching writing systems, they broke that historical link. The average literate Chinese person can read texts that are thousands of years old. The average literate Korean person can't. They'd have to specifically study that field, learn a whole new writing system. So with the new generation of Cardassian youths unable to read historical texts, it's much easier for the government to revise history. The primary source documents are in a script that most people can't read. You just trust the translation they teach you in school. In ASIT it's literally a crucial plot point that the Cardassian government revised history! Wouldn't it make it soooo much easier for them if only very few people can actually read the historical accounts of what happened.
I guess I am thinking of this like Chinese characters. Like, all the different Chinese "dialects" being written with hanzi, even though otherwise they could barely be considered the same language. And even non-Sinitic languages that historically adopted hanzi, like Japanese and Korean and Vietnamese. Which worked because hanzi is a logography—it encodes meaning, not sound, so the same word in different languages can be written the same. It didn’t work well! Nowadays, Japanese has made significant modifications and Korean has invented a new writing system entirely and Vietnamese has adapted a different foreign writing system, because while hanzi could write their languages, it didn’t do a very good job at it. But the Cardassian government probably cares more about assimilation and national unity than making things easier for speakers of minority languages. So, Cardassia used to have different cultures with different languages, like the Hebitians, and maybe instead of the Union forcing everyone to start speaking the same language, they just made everyone use the same writing system. Though that does seem less likely than them enforcing a standard language like the Federation does. Maybe they enforce a standard language, and invent the new writing system to increase literacy for people who are newly learning it.
And I can imagine it being a kind of purely digital language for some people? Like if you’re living on a colonized planet lightyears away from Cardassia Prime and you never have to speak Cardassian, but your computer’s interface is in Cardassian and if you go online then everyone there uses Cardassian. Like people irl who participate in the anglophone internet but don’t really use English in person because they don’t live in an anglophone country. Except if English were a logographic writing system that you could use to write your own language. And you can’t handwrite it, if for whatever reason you wanted to. Almost a similar idea to a liturgical language? Like, it’s only used in specific contexts and not really in daily life. In daily life you’d still speak your own language, and maybe even handwrite it when needed. I think old writing systems would survive even closer to the imperial core (does it make sense to call it that?), though the government would discourage it. I imagine there’d be a revival movement after the Fire, not only because of the cultural shift away from the old totalitarian Cardassia, but because people realize the importance of having a written communication system that doesn’t rely on everyone having a padd and electricity and wifi.
#if I read over this again I will inevitably want to change and add things so I'm refraining from doing that. enjoy whatever this is#forgive my very crude recounting of chinese and korean history! I am neither a historian nor a linguist#but I will NOT apologize for talking abt china so much. that's my culture and I'm weird abt it bc of my family history#and it's my GOD GIVEN RIGHT to project what little I know abt it onto all my worldbuilding#also I've never actually read abt any of the various cardassian conlangs but I'm curious if this contradicts or coincides with any of them#I still want to make my own someday. starting college as a linguistics major (in 2 weeks!!) so presumably I will learn how to do that#narcissus's echoes#ds9#asit#star trek#cardassians#cardassian meta#a stitch in time#hebitians#lingposting
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I love how that person who was like "oh ew a Zionist" also has reblogged posts about not being antisemitic and buying into antisemitic conspiracies while ALSO like.
Reblogging posts about how Israel is a uniquely evil "colonial scar" and how Israel is "murdering children" and like. Literally straight up antisemtic shit.
Leveling criticism at Israel that positions it as a unique evil among all other countries and doing literal blood libel (IE, Israel murders Palestiaian babies in a way no other nation kills children) is FUCKING ANTISEMITIC. Israel is JUST A COUNTRY. It is JUST another nation, doing the shitty stuff that other nations do. And if you find yourself railing against Israel EXTRA hard right now, or ever, in ways that you do NOT rail against other shitty countries that do shitty things (and, I can't believe I have to say this, if you find yourself saying that the kidnap, rape, torture, and murder of any civilian ever is justified because "uwu this radical extremist group is freedom fighters"!) then you're a fucking antisemitic, racist bigot.
Like. It blows me away how so many people don't seem to see that Israel, the Jewish state (whether you agree with how it is run or not, whether you agree with how it came to be or not) gets SO MUCH MORE SHIT than other comparable shitty countries... Come on.
Because the alternative is that you DO see it. That you DO agree with all of those things that are STEEPED in age-old antisemitic conspiracy. And you agree.
#antisemitism#i/p#like#idk how to get it through to people#ESPECIALLY my fellow fucking AMERICANS#that Israel is... Just another shitty country#y'all are nowhere NEAR this loud about other shit going on#and there IS other shit going on#constantly#but i don't see you going after other nations saying they shouldn't exist#i don't see you saying China and everyone in it should be destroyed#fuck#I watched all of you say that we can't blame individual Russian citizens for what Putin and his fucking cronies do#but the SECOND Israel pulls some bullshit#you demand every jew in the world bow down and slurp on your cocks#people gor MURDERED in broad daylight on FUCKING VIDEO that the killers POSTED THEMSELVES#and you denied it happened#and then said well if it did happen they deserve it like#you could not be more obvious in your hatred for my people
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Asian family makes pancakes for the first time
#definitely not based off of recent events#those pancakes gave me diarrhea#we got a pancake bottle mix as a donation from a family friend and it was whole wheat mix#I hate whole wheat anything#it was just alright but the process was fun#none of us knew what we were doing#I discovered a new talent tho#very proud of these shapes#I attempted a Jesus fish but it broke :(#hetalia#hetalia asia#hetalia fanart#hws china#hws japan#hws taiwan#hws south korea#digital art#my art#fanart
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The dancing Metal Cardbot videos going around have been traced back to being from the live action version's credit theme.
Overseas exlusive spinoffs sure are a treat. Especially noteworthy being that Fleta Z is missing his abdomen and wings. Credit theme song is great though!
For those that don't know yet, The spinoff is titled:
"炫卡鬥士之猛獸能量" (Metal Cardbot: Beast Power) and all the cardbots will be getting beast "spirits". You can find a few here:
More images can be found here as well.
#metal cardbot#so far my mutuals in china are not a fan but the beast spirits r cuties. some hate the dancing but i. have a love hate with it#somethin really funny though about overseas producers getting to work with the official models and their first thought is to make them danc#i think theres something a little utterly insane in choosing wild guardy to do what looks like a combo fortnite dance with gangnam style.#for those that dont watch hes literally duke from bp. imagine#it has rid2015 to tfADV vibes
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Rip most frenemies from F1 you would have loved the Andrea-Emily relationship from The Devil wears Prada
#'Alex are using-' 'your chassis because I broke mine? Yeah I am'#nico rosberg baby only Emily when she finds out Andrea is going to Paris can understand your pain#Me everytime I see the 'new' Redbull livery in Miranda Priestly voice 'Groundbreaking'#James Vowles @Logan 'I thought you would be different. I said to myself#go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the American boy'. I#Nico Hulkenberg is soooo Stanley Tucci coded you have no idea he's been stuck in his failgirl era for too long#very haopy about his point in China though literally made my day better#I want rge grid to watch The Devil Wears Prada and tell who or what do they think is the villain#f1#formula 1#brocedes#charlos#loscar#landoscar#galex#i don't know how to tag this#maxiel#FRENEMIES COME TO ME#lestappen#are they a frenemy?#they used to be
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I don't know if I want to write a massive essay about this, but they missed the whole point with all the characters, especially Ye Wenjie. I'm assuming everyone who said this portrayal is accurate and a raging angry Ye Wenjie is good is because they either never read the book, or non-Chinese, or both. (Or maybe projecting their own views on Maoism). Ye Wenjie received higher education during a time period where it wasn't common for women. She believed in science, she believed in people, but time and time again, the people in her life let her down and never showed any signs of remorse. What I've gathered from the text is that she isn't fuelled by rage, more so she is dead on the inside, she has lost all hope in people. Her decision to reply is not because she wants to destroy, she believes that a civilisation from a higher standpoint could save humans, and this roots in the fact that she is educated. She's not some crazy rage driving women who would ever say "time is a motherfucker", not even a Chinese equivalent.
I'm not sure why the writers decided to write Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining's relationships out of the story...Oh so she is rescued by a white man later on hmm??? (Coincidentally, all the characters driving the plot are also non-Chinese in this). Ye Wenjie marrying Yang Weining and giving birth to Yang Dong gave her a glimpse of light in the life from which she had lost hope. Spending time in Qijiatun also gave her a bit of warmth. When she pushed Yang Weining off the cliff, it marked another significant point, she was calm, cut the rope with no hesitation. She did not care to get herself entangled in romantic affairs. Making her have a child with Evans is laughable. They also dumb down Yang Weining, to the extent that Ye Wenjie had to explain 43+8=51 to him. Mind you, he was a real proper engineer. (Weirdly with all the diversifying, they did not keep a single male Chinese scientist in the main team huh)
Anyways, before I go on a tangent. The writers have fast tracked everything and left out the finer text about the characters in the book. I'm not sure if they missed the point or that nowadays the audience are ruined by fast media, something like the tencent version are simply too slow for the people in the west. Any of my moots and followers who watch cdramas will know that the real good stuff is all in the build-up. It's all the little text that adds up to a fleshed out character. If the culture difference is too much for Netflix, leading them to change all the characters and most of the plot, why not just buy a western ip. There's plenty of good western sci-fi ips.
I can't help but think they want to do this because they wanted to film the scene where Ye Zhetai is beaten to death. Have an excuse to turn Ye Wenjie an angry woman. We all know why. If they really cared about showing a true China during that time, they would have spend some care with the Red Coast details as mentioned above (we did not have screens in 1960s that display Chinese text!!! And definitely no simplified Chinese characters on computers!!!!). Instead of having her snog Bai Mulin off - unrealistic since people were a lot more conserved back then, they would not have done this and it's ooc for Ye Wenjie. Falling in love with Evans - a real blasphemy. I guess the 3 Body Problem here means 3 bodies pounding at each other. Jin-Raj-Will also seem to have their own 3 body problem going on too.
(One last tangent) Ye Wenjie and Yang Dong(Vera) as scientists not believing in god but having monks at her funeral ??????????? Not even a typical normal Chinese funeral will have monks. The stereotype enforcing is real.
#okay i did say im not writing a massive essay in sentence 1 but i got carried away#3 body problem#three body#also changing the game to a mongol background - as if it isnt obv enough what they are trying to do#i cant help but to think that this adaption being bad is what they intended#typical viewer will not care to read the original they'll pass this as bad chinese media and leave a bad impression on china overall
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Me musing to myself: how to go about this... I think mizuki still feels, personally, like they could be possibly fem enby, or possibly specifically x-gender, considering the momentary resignation when explaining to that well-meaning classmate in anni4 that yes, she does like wearing 'cool' stuff, just particularly likes wearing cute things, and that absolutely rang to me like 'complicated gender Stuff™ for cis people: intro class analogy 'cause i'm not getting into it'. Also i like how using multiple pronouns in English helps nod to the fact that some things are lost in translation, so it'll be a nice touch to acknowledge some of the unique gender identities that spring up in Japan. So when i write fics i will continue to use both they and she for Mizuki as I feel is right and shift according to how i'm writing for that piec-
Me: *sees the zero reading comp folk insisting that the classmates making transphobic comments asking if ena's a guy too or a normal girl means mizukis actually a boy*
Me:
Me, tucking my interpretation onto the shelf: i'll come back for you when it's just good company again ok? It's gonna be singular pronoun sets for a bit.
#warproduct rambles#if you imagined me putting away the they set like a china set. congrats thats exactly what i was going for#project sekai#there is no greater thing to get me to not do amth than pure spite#anyway to my fello multipronoun set users#(and to the subset of those who've read my past mizuki fics)#and drawn comfort from the headcanons behind them#i'll thank you for your understanding while i make it 100% clear i have no tolerance for people who can't be normal about trans girl mizuki#and show some love to the trans girls and ladies who strongly resonate w mizuki and yknow! deserve to know there are folk around em#who respect that#prsk spoilers#mizu5#akiyama mizuki
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