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Finally, an actual guqin piece in genshin. Finally. You simply cannot find this stuff in any western media (movie or show or game or whatever) that claims to have Chinese cultural elements in it or tries to portray Chinese culture, I'm sorry but it's true. This is precisely why I kept saying that everyone needs to tell their own stories for this representation thing to work. You cannot have others tell your story and expect it to be good representation.
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Chenyu Vale music is what Liyue music should have been and I stand by that claim. The main Liyue soundtrack is good but in the end it's mostly a orchestra rendition of Chinese-sounding tunes, whereas Chenyu Vale music actually incorporated many Chinese traditional instruments.
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Chenyu Vale music is what Liyue music should have been and I stand by that claim. The main Liyue soundtrack is good but in the end it's mostly a orchestra rendition of Chinese-sounding tunes, whereas Chenyu Vale music actually incorporated many Chinese traditional instruments.
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If you can't tell your friends from your enemies, you won't get anywhere. Period.
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So lynette's quest is basically baldurs gate............
Ugh. I'll be honest I absolutely hate chance mechanics in storytelling. If bg3 wants to have that, fine whatever, it's based on dnd, but chance in genshin story quests? Fuck no.
#genshin impact#🙄#being able to make my own choices is great#but why the fuck do i have to roll a dice just to *notice* something. fuck that shit
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“Mystery virus” getting everyone sick… …. It’s COVID
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#here's the thing tho#covid testing (qpcr method) relies on primers to recognize the cdna for the s protein#BUT#covid has been changing and mutating as well#which means you need new primers#and the old primers. well they may not fail 100% of the time at 'recognizing' the cdna from the mutated virus's rna#but they will be less and less effective at recognizing new covid variants#:)#pandem-onium#and those new primers need to be synthesized and produced for huge numbers of tests#all of that like testing new vaccines takes time#but nobody is looking into actually stopping covid so the virus will just keep mutating#so we *might* reach a point where testing is becoming pointless because the tests can't catch up with all the new mutations
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Can't help but remember that one time when my coworker threw away 3/4 of a plate of perfectly good food and then proceeded to make fun of how "the older generations are always so pissy over dumping food"
I'm not going to do the whole "there are starving kids in Africa" thing because realistically, even if these assholes are willing to donate food very little of it will find their way to the actual starving kids in Africa, but there are starving people on the streets of America, right now. These are people they can encounter in person, right now. Oh but let's get our panties in a wad over people on the other side of earth being able to afford eating meat and drinking milk because "if they can all eat better they will destroy the environment"
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Doc: please refrain from staying up
You: doc do you stay up late
Doc: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Doc: please refrain from staying up late
Me: I work night/graveyard shift and this appointment is a 10:30am appointment
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#if it's all media then maybe 80% nonfic 20% fic#it used to be like 5% nonfic 95% fic 10 years ago but it's not bc I didn't care about what's going on#it's bc I know the news here is a terrible piece of shit source of info#:)
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[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Historical immortal Hanfu Based On Yuan Dynasty Taoist Temple Mural<永乐宫/Yongle Palace>
【Historical Artifacts Reference 】:
▶ China Yuan Dynasty Taoist Temple 永乐宫/Yongle Palace Mural
<水星神>:The "Statue of Water Stars God" is located among the gods on the east wall of the north wall of the Sanqing Hall of Yongle Palace. It is one of the five elements of Taoist statues of Water Stars God. According to Taoist norms, Water Stars is a female statue of a scribe wearing an ape crown. It belongs to the monkey god of the zodiac and is used as a written document.
<奉宝玉女>:The immortal attendant who presented the treasure.
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📸Photography post-production :@小何力
👗Hanfu：@雁鸿Aimee
💄 Makeup：百丽 （临溪摄影）
👭Model：@清音音音音
🔗 Weibo:https://weibo.com/1615560544/NDD5YEY5x
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know the difference
divine right of kings: it is not our place to question the King, for he is appointed by the Almighty God
the mandate of heaven: well we sure overthrew the hell out of that guy. I knew he wasn't meant to be Emperor
#:)#correct#'heaven' is meant to reflect people's thoughts#throwback to that one post I made to explain this#btw for the exact concept pls look up 天人感应
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A long time ago, I also used to believe the lie that "Chinese culture is gone", but that simply isn't true. The thing is, a lot of older Chinese people still practice it, and it's definitely not for show. People still believe in certain things. For example when my paternal grandfather passed away, he wasn't rushed home from the hospital in time, so he died at the hospital. Seems normal for modern circumstances, right? But ever since then there's been worried talks among other family members, they said he's cursed to become a wandering lost ghost, and this is all because he died away from home. I was a little surprised to hear this, because the "general consensus", even among Chinese people in China, is that "traditional culture is gone in cities, only remnants remain in rural areas", but my entire family is made up of city-folk, and we've been city-folk for as long as the city existed (we are natives). When they told me my grandfather would become a wandering ghost, it's not a metaphor, nor is it simply a nod to the culture. They meant what they said, and they believed in what they said. The culture is alive.
Also just in this case alone, I suppose this is part of the meaning of "fallen leaves should return to the root" (落叶归根). Most (younger) people nowadays understand it by its "metaphorical" meaning, that it means we are deeply connected to where we come from, but there is so much more to this. This is a belief that concerns life after death, people believe in it because they are concerned about what their existence after death will be like, almost like how Christians are concerned about whether they will go to heaven or hell. Of course that doesn't mean the "metaphorical" meaning is a modern invention; it's only the result of a "meta" analysis of the "why" and is still rooted in traditions.
#late night musings#there's also the story of how my youngest aunt who died from an accident keeps appearing in her mom's dreams#nowadays most people would say it's grief#but for her mother it was her daughter's spirit reaching out from the beyond#she's not crazy in any way that's just what tradition says it is#bc there is the concept of tuomeng/托梦 in Chinese mythology where ghost spirits gods demons can visit people in dreams
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scenery in china
#china#这是桂林吗#有的景色亲眼看比拍出来好看，这个就属于这种#拍出来总有种不实的感觉，亲眼看才有身临其境的空间感#travel#nature#landscape#scenery#chinese architecture
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What is it with Tesla drivers and reckless driving? Saw multiple Teslas go ~25 over speed limit in just the past two days (not on freeways/highways); one was even speeding and switching lanes back and forth in a school zone, no less.
#also pickup drivers#i would be going at speed limit like I'm supposed to and they would stay glued to my ass#:P#:)
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#“我走过的桥比你吃过的盐都多”#经典conventional wisdom#见识固然重要，但是没有思考的见识一点用也没有#这就是为什么有的老人简直是诸葛亮，而有的老人就很让人一言难尽#只有经过思考的见识才能成为人生经验#:)
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Anticipation (real this time because she's about to get two pokes in the butt)
Also: when you were so spicy that everyone at the clinic remembered you 🤪
Like no joke last time she came here for something more than a check-up, they asked me to get her out of the kennel myself because she was screaming the whole time lol, so loud that you can hear her wherever you are in the building 💀
Now I know how it feels to be that mom at the pediatric clinic with the screaming kid 🤪
#onion the cat#cats#her screams can literally reverberate throughout that clinic#she's not even that big :P#she didn't scream this time tho just hissed. thankfully😂
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