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Ok my first instinct was to laugh, but then I realised you might be onto something???
Shen Yuan is LITERALLY an impostor, who’s more far more kind and beloved by Binghe than the original. The Guanyin pendant is a counterfeit, but it carries the love of Binghe’s mother and is far more precious than any real jade could ever be.
The heartbreak Binghe’s mother felt after realising that the Guanyin pendant was fake and she’d been tricked was part of what lead to the gradual decline of her health.¹ In wanting to do something kind for Binghe, she felt that she’d failed, and this led to her demise. What is Shen Qingqiu’s entire story, but trying to be kind to Binghe, feeling inadequate at this, and dying? (More than once!!)
Guanyin is a Bodhisattva associated with mercy, kindness, compassion and unconditional love. She is a patron of mothers, and is called upon in times of fear, uncertainty, and despair. The Bodhisattva she originated from is seen as a saviour, through whose grace even those with the most negative karma can achieve salvation. Even when she is not worshipped as a goddess, she is revered as the principle of love, compassion and mercy.² From wikipedia, “The act, thought and feeling of compassion and love is viewed as Guanyin. A merciful, compassionate, loving individual is said to be Guanyin.”²
The original Luo Binghe appears never to have lost his pendant. Shen Qingqiu tells us: “It was the only bit of warmth in Luo Binghe’s dark world, always by his side, and even in the future when he was at his darkest, it could summon up his last dregs of humanity.”¹ He also states that “it was Luo Binghe’s biggest berserk button.”¹
Our Luo Binghe does not cling to the pendant when he’s at his darkest: he clings to the love he has for his shizun and to memories of his kindness, and later, to the lifeless body of Shen Qingqiu himself. His biggest berserk button isn’t when people insult the pendant or his mother, or try to take it away; it’s Shen Qingqiu: when people insult him or try to take him away.
From the start, Shen Qingqiu expresses truly unconditional love for Binghe. He spends three years showing endless compassion and kindness, actions which feel insignificant to him but are more than enough to completely change Binghe’s life. He holds no blame or resentment for the things he fears Binghe will do to him; though he doesn’t want to be tortured, he forgives Binghe for it nonetheless, before it has even happened. He sacrifices himself to save Binghe as his mind is eaten away at by Xin Mo, when he believes that Binghe just slaughtered a hundred Huan Hua Disciples, when Binghe’s reckless use of the sword is putting countless more lives at risk.³
Shen Qingqiu is a counterfeit that is more precious than the original could ever be. For Binghe, he personifies kindness, compassion and unconditional love. His regrets over his treatment of Binghe lead to his temporary demise. Binghe clings to him in his darkest moments, and he is that which Binghe protects most fiercely.
I always found the pendant’s role in the story to be almost lacking: it’s treated as such an important item to Binghe, yet in the end its return is almost anticlimactic. But perhaps this is because the role the pendant played in Bing-ge’s story has been overtaken by Shen Qingqiu. When he returns the pendant, Binghe is relieved and appreciative: but his joy seems to stem more from the fact that Shen Qingqiu held onto it and cherished him than from the pendant itself. The pendant doesn’t matter all that much to him anymore, at least not compared to how important it seems to have been in PIDW. Binghe doesn't need an object to symbolize love and kindness; he has a person to love, who loves him back.
In conclusion: Shizun was in fact the fake jade Guanyin pendant all along!
sources cited below :)
1. Seven Seas Volume 1, Chapter 1: Scum. Pages 40-41.
2. “Guanyin,” Wikipedia. There’s a lot more to her than what I mentioned here, she’s quite interesting.
3. Seven Seas Volume 2, Chapter 8: Death. Pages 154-156.
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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.
Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.
And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.
The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.
But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.
Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.
I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.
A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).
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Day 10 : Sibling
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(nanami, was this your plan all along…?)
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komahina + different outfits for an au of mine (i traced the first images so they could appear more in model ahah)
#i am putting my hands on my chin and batting my eyelashes please tell me more about this au#nagito komaeda#hajime hinata#stardust to remember you by#komahina#sdr2
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Hey yall bc I've been keeping an eye on this the Itch.Io bundle for the PCRF is now live
they had an issue last week with itch.io so they had to postpone opening for a few days but for those who wanted to d/ona/te it's here!
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Working spring locked Saw Cleaver from Bloodborne , bloodied version with blood gem embedded into blade .
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ChatGPT can generate Magic Eye pictures!
At least according to ChatGPT.
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#i really like how this blog goes into showing just how these programs (don't) work its so interesting#imo its really important to know what these things do#love them or hate them#theyre a part of our world#and you can't meaningfully interact with or dismiss them without understanding what it is they're doing
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there’s something wrong with him
#studying them under a microscope#this is so funny when laid out like this holy shit#kabru you poor boy#dungeon meshi#kabru#laios touden
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mdzs has all kinds of things going for it but i would be lying if i said i didn’t go scene to scene waiting for the next time wen ning shows up
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birthday comic for wen ning 🏹
it’s still april 11th in my time zone. this counts
#OUUUUUUUU I LOVE HIM#wen ning#HE DESERVES THE WORLD#PRECIOUS BOY THIS IS CUTE#ALSO WAAAAOGH THE ART JS SO PRETTY#mdzs
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Have y'all ever noticed the parallels between Malenia/Miquella and the Twin Princes from DS3?
A younger brother, who was supposed to be a savior to their people, but turned out to be cursed and/or afflicted with a sickness.
An older sibling who is also cursed, but who nonetheless rose to the challenge in protecting their younger brother, and failed.
The older sibling/protector wielding a kickass sword and being known as a great warrior long ago.
Both sets of twins retreat into a sancuatry to find peace and escape the madness of the outside world.
The Twin Princes is my favorite fight in any FromSoft game, so maybe I'm biased, but there sure seems to be more than a passing resemblance here.
Or maybe I'm just down bad for Prince Lothric. Who knows.
#i have seen people talk about this#theyre going to make me unwell too i just know it#elden ring#malenia#twin princes#miquella#lothric#lorian#for that is our curse#oh what'll it be for the other two i guess time will tell
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Finally another danganronpa post
The girlsss
#these are all so good but nanamis gremlin face is perf#shes thinking of wario#danganronpa#chiaki nanami#mukuro ikusaba#junko enoshima#kyoko kirigiri#peko pekoyama#maki harukawa#tenko chabashira
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Why ate you brainrotting me into a ship that dosen't doesn't exist nooooooooo
Imposter×izuru my beloved
YEAH. I AGREE. Here I'll talk more about it and drag you deeper into the hole
I feel like im despair Izuru hated the Imposter because they had become a perfect imitator. Any of their actual personality being suppressed for the sake of imitation. Like a sort of Ego Death. Izuru hated it because it was too reminiscent of himself. But after the NWP I think they begin to bond.
I mean this is all headcanon-
but I always saw Izuru as a pretty subservient being. I mean the Hope's Peak people probably wanted a good amount of control over him. So he's not really an active person. Needing someone to point him in whatever direction.
Contrasted with the Imposter who is naturally a leader. They care a whole lot about people because they're so good at reading people. And despite their feeling that they lack an identity, they still have aspects that shine through.
Izuru is supposed to be a new personality. A metamorphosis after Hajime Hinata had been completely erased. But Izuru cannot seem to form an identity. Think about it. He never really has anything he cares about, people he cares about, likes or dislikes. Even his constant stating that hes bored is just a statement of fact. Not really said with any malic.
While the Imposter is supposed to be nothing. Supposed to be someone who can become anything. And despite it. They have so much personality. They care about people, have a pension for leadership, love food and love their body. This isn't a person with no personality.
So they both fucked up what they were supposed to do. A person meant to be a void cares, and the person meant to care is a void.
That might be a source of jealousy between the two. It might not. But they're kind of polar opposites. The Imposter's understanding of people leads to them caring more for them. Willing to sacrifice themselves to save someone who they knew was dangerous. While Izuru understands people on such a deep level that he finds them boring. Disliking most people he interacts with and being generally apathetic. Being perfectly willing to sacrifice people around him.
And I think after the NWP, The Imposter starts to come into their own, since constantly pretending to be someone else is terrible for your mental health. They're not used to it at all. They take up a leadership role and kind of have a workaholic duo with Hajime and Izuru. Maybe the imposter also has a better time dealing with the Despair version of themself. Since they already are pretty good at compartmentalizing their identity.
While Izuru- I've spoken before how I think the return of Hajime Hinata to his headspace causes Izuru to like... Be able to be someone. Since the parts of his brain that were suppressed to destroy Hajime are reactivated- suddenly Izuru is like... Capable of feeling and caring for people, and having opinions and a personality. And i see them as a system too. So now Izuru is feeling all these things- is super overwhelmed and can't interpret any of them. And his headmate is there too and his emotions are even stronger.
And i imagine that Izuru has only one person who can possibly understand what it's like- The Imposter. So they have weird conversations with 12 layers of context and subterfuge. And then maybe they kiss as well.
It's literally because they are such great foils to eachother too. Like i wish it was brought up in canon cause they're sooooo similar and yet so different.
#i am extremely here for convincing people onto the hinata-and-or-kamukura/impostor bandwagon#also this is fun#i headcanon that people were just wrong about izuru re: being emotionless they were just unable to express it#bc theyre baby#and forced to learn all the things and if they did get emotional theyd get put back in the lobotomy chair#plus being shsl everything they just are Too Aware All The Time Of Everything#imagine being constantly overatimulsted all the time#but also bored out of your gourd#adhd izuru am i right#but more to the point YES IMPOSTOR AND IZURU!!!#identity and figuring out ones self and not even knowing where to beging exploring that#hinata's got himself mostly figured out even if he wants to be someone else he at least knows who HE is#and he comes to terms with himself during the game#but izuru? izuru and impostor are both so#like what even is their identities?#izuru kamukura#shsl impostor#sdr2#stardust to remember you by
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