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Relax, You Two
This is a Ler!Riza, Lee!Edward and Lee!Ling tickle fic, with a little bit of Lers!Mustang and Hughes!! If this isn’t your forte, no need to read!
This is also Post-Promised Day, with the good ol’ Alive!Hughes au!
Summary: Riza easily notices how the two boys are still paranoid after it all. In her opinion, they need a day off.
The Hawk’s Eye catches all in her gaze.
A slight of hand, a petty crime preparation, the key to taking down drug rings. No matter how big or how small it may be, she sees it. She can stare at it as if it were clear as day. Nothing slips past her gaze, and everyone knows it.
So how could these two boys ever think their paranoia would go unnoticed?
Riza sees the way Edward throws himself into more research, almost in hysteria if he doesn't. She sees the way Ling gets jumpy near a window, or a door, or any dark place just big enough to hide a human.
Riza sees the way Edward stares off as Alphonse rests in the hospital, mere weeks after the Promised Day. The way his hand is placed on his brother’s chest, as if he can’t believe there is a beating heart just below the surface of pale skin, as if it will be ripped away from him if he wasn’t there to protect his little brother.
And Riza sees the way Ling’s body is constantly tense, fingers itching for something to curl around–something sharp to defend himself with– and how his head swivels about, scanning every inch and every crevice of every room he’s in.
Paranoia can do a lot to kids so thoroughly traumatized. She knows the feeling.
It does not mean she will let this slide.
So she took them for a day out with her.
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.
.
It didn't really work.
She had tried to take them to a clothing store, and as a result she had to compensate for thoroughly checking every rack they went to in order to quell Ling's whining. He wouldn't dare come so close to them until she did.
She tried a jewelry store next, and all Edward would talk about was 'Alphonse would like this' or 'Alphonse would like that'. Which wasn't bad at all, mind you. She thought it was rather sweet, actually.
But 'I hope Al is okay' and 'Those doctors better treat him well' or 'I really need to check on Al so I should go' weren't exactly good examples of relaxing.
She took them to as many places as she could within four whole hours, and nothing seemed to bring their guard down all that much, save for a few seconds of vulnerability at least twice or thrice.
It's a concerning situation for them to be in.
And she can't let this slide.
So she vowed to do something as soon as possible.
That comes into play when they find themselves in Mustang’s office.
It doesn’t take very long for the boys to start up their bantering by Edward’s desk, going back and forth about some topic she couldn’t distinguish (or maybe they were flying through a whole plethora of topics at once, she wouldn’t be surprised if they were capable of that).
For once, she allows herself to do some minor paperwork from the comfort of the couch, seeing as there isn’t much to do today anyways. She had deliberately cleared her schedule of anything major today just to spend some time with the boys, after all.
She doesn’t really try to involve herself in whatever it is they are arguing over, at the moment, but the argument seems to find its way to her anyways.
“Lieutenant!” Edward whines aloud as he flops against the cushions to Riza’s left. She turns to him as Ling huffs with crossed arms, but he clearly seems to be holding in his amusement of the situation.
“Yes, Edward?” It’s not often she gets to hear this whiny tone from him, given he isn’t much of a person to complain–around her at least, she doesn’t feel very sorry for the others–, so she decides to provide them both with her attention.
“There’s this damn Xingese phrase that Ling keeps saying and he won’t tell me what it fucking means!-” “Well I think I’d like to keep my things to myself, Ed!” She blinks slowly as they start their back and forth again almost immediately.
“If you wanna keep it to your damn self, don’t say anything!”
“Well I’m not gonna tell a lie, am I? Nǐ kànshàngqù hěnpiàoliang!!”
“I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT FUCKING MEANS!? I DON’T SPEAK BROKE ALIEN-”
Ling lets out a wheeze at that, laughing out ‘Broke Alien!?’ as he clutches his sides. Riza lets out a soft sigh as Edward grumbles and complains. They seem so carefree here. At first glance, anyone would assume so. Just two kids bickering and going at it over a silly phrase in Xingese.
But Edward’s shoulders are tense, and Ling falls into a seat on the other side of Riza, posture defensive, ready to fight back. His arms are the most mobile part of his body as they bickered; crossing, flailing, gesturing, expressing. They never stop, and they always stray too close to his pockets.
Edward’s bouncing flesh leg says a lot as it is, but the way he’s hunching so much seems to seal the deal.
It most certainly does for Riza.
She sighs, tossing the pen onto the table before her as she lets the papers fall onto that table with it. “That’s quite enough boys.” She spoke up.
Before either of them have time to properly react, she gently presses their heads against her lap, shutting up the duo immediately; Edward’s silence spoke volumes of realization, whilst Ling’s…she isn’t quite sure what he might have been thinking.
She’s done this to Edward a few times in the past years, but it has been a while she must admit. Perhaps she’s gotten rusty? Only one way to truly find out.
“Lieutenant, please.” Edward muttered as Ling absentmindedly turned on his back, spacing off. Edward’s face steadily grew rosey as she did not, in fact, let them up.
“I’ve been trying to help you two relax all day. Although, I suppose it would have been futile no matter what I tried. Or so I had thought.” Riza casually spoke as Edward tensed up, throwing his arms around his torso and ducking his face into his chest. He knows better than to try and escape anyways, the first few times he did were always a hellish reminder, she knew that well. The only thing he can really do is feebly try and protect himself, whilst his partner stays entirely oblivious.
“Huh?” Ling eventually hums, confused with a tilted head. Riza smiles down gently at him, disarmingly. He smiles right back at her, eyes closed with a grin of cheeky cuteness. Innocent and harmless.
Until she digs her nails into Ling’s side.
The yelp that greets them is high and startled, and Edward flusteredly flinches as Ling begins to giggle feverishly, squirming away from her touch. “H-Hehehehehey!! What gihihihives!?” He cries out, rolling this way and that under her arm.
“It’s simply a last resort. Perhaps I should have started with this first?” Riza contemplates to herself, seeking out anything that will get her a laugh out of the soon-to-be-Xing-emperor. He squeals at a pinch to the ribs, so Riza takes advantage of that, scribbling all along his ribs-wherever she can reach. Which is pretty much everywhere, he doesn’t seem to know how to protect himself.
Meanwhile, she smiles down at the flustered blond to her left, the anticipation alone having him flinch every time her fingers so much as twitch. “You seem awfully nervous, Edward. Is something wrong?” She asks, putting on yet another innocent facade.
“Nohoho…!” Edward practically whines, turning his head all the way away from her and giggling when Ling jerked and pressed the top of his own head against Ed’s. He gasps when her finger traces down his side, and almost instinctively snatches and holds it up.
Ah yes, as if that will save him from the inevitable.
For now, she concentrates on Ling.
“You don’t seem to be trying to protect yourself, Ling. I wonder why that is?” Ling squeaks as her hand travels to his neck, and his legs kick out like an excited little puppy as she flutters her fingertips at the junction of his neck and shoulder. He really seems to be enjoying this, isn’t he?
“That tihihickles! Pleehehehehease, oh myhihihi god!” Ling begs, his fists shaking as if he doesn’t know whether or not to grab her hand away. Her heart practically swells at such a cute display, she can’t help but tease her fingers right under his chin.
At that, Ling jerks harshly and his eyes shoot wide open as a loud squeal rips out of him. “TICKLEEES!! NAHAHAHAHA!!!” He shrieks, startling both blondes as he loudly laughs and shakes his head, raven hair flying wildly. She almost couldn’t keep her fingers on his chin from all his squirming.
“A sensitive chin? Now that’s new.” Riza observes, quelling the urge to smirk at the way Edward rolls half-way onto his stomach, ears pink and flustered. He even lets go of her hand, which she doesn’t waste hovering it right over his spine. He’s probably had enough of waiting, anyways.
“Are you ready for your turn, Edward?” Her nonchalant question makes the boy flinch, and he shakes his head rapidly with giggles already spilling out. “Why are you laughing already? I haven’t even touched you yet.”
“Be-becahause Ling’s laughihing!” Edward complains. “IHIHIH’M SAHAHARRY!! IT TIHIHICKLES-IT-IT-IHIHIHI CAHAHAHAN’T STAHAHAHAP!!!” Ling sputters and wheezes out between his laughter. “Edward, how could you laugh at your friend like that?”
Edward stutters for an answer, but the moment he opens his mouth all that comes out is a loud, high-pitched yelp as Riza drags all five fingers down the length of his spine, causing him to arch away.
He exploded with laughter, maybe even louder than Ling’s as she massages her knuckles into the center of his shoulder blades, a loud resounding snort escaping along with it. That only causes Ling to laugh harder, scrunching up his neck.
So she tries the next best thing and goes for his belly.
He immediately melts at the affectionate tickling.
He finally goes for some form of defense, balling up fetally to try and protect his poor belly, but Riza’s hand was already there and it wasn’t leaving anytime soon.
“Oh wow, I’m surprised that you’re both so ticklish.” Riza happily comments to the two snorting, giggling, cackling boys, heads in her lap with varying degrees of blush on their faces. Carefree, just like she’d been going for all day.
No tension in the shoulders, no discreet defensive stance, no underlying tension like only minutes before.
It was just them, giggling and cackling away like nobody’s business.
“HEHEHEHELP MEHEHEHE!!!” Edward cried out, causing the smile Riza sports to stretch further. “I CAHAHAN’T!!! I CAN’T-PLEHEHEHEHEHEAAAHAHAH-” The poor thing snorts gain when she switches to his side.
Ling tries with all his might to latch onto something-anything to ground himself, eventually finding Edward’s arm and holding on for dear life as he giggled himself silly. However, Riza decides to take advantage of this, and the Xingese soon-to-be-emperor squeals and tries to defend himself when she starts drilling right under his arm.
This, as luck would have it, clearly didn’t weaken his grip on Ed’s arm, only causing him to fling it up and out of the way and only making Edward even more accessible to her.
This was almost too easy.
Edward screams out the moment Riza targets his armpit, his thrashing increasing tenfold as his legs begin to kick and kick endlessly. She had to switch to the other one just so he wouldn’t throw himself off the couch.
“LEHEHET ME GOHOHO!!! LIHIHIHIHING!! LETGOLETGOLETGOLETGO-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH NOT THERE NOT THEHEHEHEHERE!!!” Pleading got him nowhere, his free arm flailing wildly and frantically colliding with Ling’s shoulder as the two poor teens seemed to only make it worse for each other. It was beyond hilarious to witness.
“STAHAHAHAP, I BEHEHEHEG I BEG-PLEHEHEHEHEASE!!!” Ling failed miserably to keep himself together, arching his back away as if that would ever help him escape. She didn’t even have to tease either of them like Colonel or-God forbid-Havoc would have certainly done; her staying silent through this ordeal only seemed to make them beg more.
Edward yelps out curse after curse, with Ling squealing and pleading desperately by his side as she gives them no mercy. And honestly, she would have given them this kind of treatment for an extra twenty minutes or so.
If it weren’t for Edward accidentally grabbing and clawing at Ling’s shoulder blade, that is.
“HOLY-FAHAHAHAHAHAHACK!!!”
Riza and Edward both jolted at the curse that split the air in two, and the former was so surprised that she immediately let up in her assault, causing the two teens to fall right off the couch in a mess.
“Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuhuhuhuck!!” Ling desperately pawed at his shoulder blade, trying to vanquish the tingly sensation as Edward melts into a fit of natural laughter across from him, clutching his stomach.
“Whahahahat the fahahack!? When’d you start cuhuhursing, idiot prince!?” Ling balled in on himself with embarrassment, letting out a high pitched whine that had Edward positively rolling. Riza could do nothing but sigh fondly as Edward’s relentless laughter was teasing enough for the Xingese Prince’s ‘bad manners’.
Well, he kept laughing until the door was pried open, at least.
“Lieutenant Hawkeye! We heard screaming and-”
Everyone in the room paused the moment both Colonel Mustang and Brigadier General Hughes entered the room, an almost awkward kind of silence kicking in.
“...Ah.”
“DON’T YOU ‘AH’ ME, DUMBFUCK!!!” Edward was quick to get defensive, pointing an accusatory finger at the two now smirking men, face redder than the coat he used to wear. Ling lets out an aborted wheeze as the Colonel makes eye contact with Riza.
She can just tell what he’s asking for.
And she, once again, shows no mercy.
“The boys are all yours, Colonel, General.”
It hadn’t even taken five seconds before something crashed in the office, the frightened shriek of the former-Fullmetal Alchemist and the loud ‘HAVE MERCY!!!’ from the Xingese Prince only serving to make her smile more indulgent.
The two men got to work on making the melody of their laughter pound through her very ribs, as Riza herself simply picks up the files and pen she previously abandoned.
She breathes in the positivity like well-made coffee, chuckling to herself as the four, man and boy alike, run and race around the room, the two youngers getting caught and escaping with barely their lives to spare, only to get tackled once again for their sweet, uplifting laughter.
Yes, this was better than their paranoia.
Much, much better.
#Okay#The phrase Ling said was basically#'You look beautiful!!!'#bc#yk#I'm an Edling stan#so it had to happen folks#ANYWAYS#fmab tickles#ler!riza#lee!edward#lee!ling#slightly ler!mustang#slightly ler!hughes#HBWriting#fullmetal alchemist tickling
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So because I'm a crazy person, I've tried looking through the raws of Scum Villain to see where Yue Qingyuan uses 对不起 (duìbuqǐ). It's translated as "I'm sorry", and it's the phrase that Shen Jiu says is "useless" after their reunion.
Maybe someone else can find something that contradicts this, but when I looked, the only other time I saw YQY use 对不起 ever again was right before his dying confession. And he even reiterates what SJ said, that 对不起 is "useless".
In fact, when YQY apologizes for startling SQQ in the Ling Xi Caves, he uses 我的不是 (wǒ de bùshì) instead of 对不起.
...so basically, YQY was like, "Oh? Xiao Jiu hates 对不起? He hates those three characters spoken in that specific order? I will strike that phrase from my vocabulary then."
A true simp.
(He also doesn't use "Xiao Jiu" after SQQ tells him not to, except in circumstances where death is imminent, but that's maybe its own post...)
#meta#svsss#yue qingyuan#qijiu#i like that you can sorta technically kinda sorta translate 我的不是 as my bad
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Best (Web Novel) Hater Tournament
Submissions Close Date: TBD
Rules:
Must be from a web novel or adaptation
Can be a hater of any kind or just have the hater soul
Please submit one character per response (no limit overall)
Tournament Tag: #best hater tournament
[Last Updated: May 25th, 2024 - Please check the original post for updates]
Han Sooyoung from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint
Submission: She spent years hating on a web novel similar to her own through an anonymous account and hate reading the comments it's sole reader posted. Even after the novel came to life, she still kept criticizing its horrible writing and protagonist.
Hua Cheng from Heaven Official’s Blessing
Submission: Treats nearly everyone that isn't Xie Lian with derision
Jun Wu from Heaven Official’s Blessing
Submission:
(Spoilers)
Tossing his old pals into lava and then destroying an entire generation of gods wasn't enough! He also ground the old generation of gods up and made them into the foundation of the new Heavenly Realm, so everyone steps all over them whenever they're walking around. Also an over simplified explanation of the entire plot is basically Jun Wu hears one phrase that sets him off and decides to be a giant hater because of it, destroying a whole kingdom within like three to four years in the process. This guy is the epitome of "...and I took that personally."
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Lan Jingyi from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
Submission: jingyi hates su she so much even though they've never interacted before and then absolutely obliterates him verbally in front of almost every sect leader, what a legend
Mu Qing from Heaven Official’s Blessing
Submission: https://www.tumblr.com/bonesblubs/708661194148511744/inspiration
Shen Jiu / Original Shen Qingqiu from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving
Submission: Both the Shen Qingqius are haters just in very different ways
Shen Yuan/Qingqiu from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System
Submission: He was an anti fan that literally got so mad at a novel he was reading that he died and then was transmigrated into the novel he hated (besides the main character) as the villain. The author of said novel also transmigrated and they formed a love/hate broship.
Yin Hanjiang from Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know
Submission: Second half of the novel YHJ in particular, hater energy unmatched! Righteous sects? fuck them up. His own sect? on eggshells. His best effort at not murdering someone is to start wiping his weapon with their clothes. General vibe of 'if anything happened to Venerable i'd kill everyone in this room and then myself AND SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED TO VENERABLE'. Anyway get their asses babe <3
Yu Ziyuan from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
Submission: I would not blame anyone who went through the first half of the story believing that Yu Ziyuan hated every single person she ever met because she talks shit about her husband, her son, her adopted son, and her daughter whenever she gets the chance to. Sometimes all at the same time. She projects so much raw hater energy that she psychologically scarred her son for life.
Dealer's Choice
Qi Rong from Heaven Official’s Blessing
“Obviously, those things weren't within the realm of consideration for Qi Rong. He swore like there wasn't a single person in the Three Realms he didn't want cursed to death. He called Pei Ming a rotten manwhore, Little Pei a kiss-ass, Jun Wu a faker, Ling Wen a damned bitch, Lang Qianqiu a moron, Quan Yizhen dog shit, the Water Master blackhearted, the Wind Master a tramp–he probably didn't know Shi Qingxuan was actually a man.”
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ことわざ 13/?
ことわざ are Japanese proverbs, and I have listed some basic proverbs, their equivalents in English, and a rough translation of the meanings of the Japanese phrase.
There is a test for ことわざ called the ことわざ能力検定 (ことわざのうりょくけんてい) and these are the phrases that appear in level 9 or 9級 (10 being the lowest level). For the time being, try one or two of these out the next time you speak with a native Japanese speaker!
ことわざ (こと検9級): 11 | 12
More ことわざ (こと検10級): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
舌が回る
したがまわる
to speak smoothly and with great skill
wag your tongue
舌先三寸
したさきさんずん
empty words; deception
nothing but 3 cm from the tip of the tongue tip (i.e., includes no heart or sincerity)
舌の根の乾かぬうち
したのねのかわかぬうち
before you can say 〇〇
(say/do something) before the base of your tongue can go dry
舌を出す
したをだす
to talk behind someone's back
stick out your tongue
舌を巻く
したをまく
to be at a loss for words
tongue twisted in silent amazement
食指が動く
しょくしがうごく
to crave a food
From a story about Duke Ling of Zheng (霊公鄭) in the Spring and Autumn period. On the way to a banquet, one of his servants said to the other that whenever a delicacy was in his near future, his pointer finger moved/twitched. Upon reaching the banquet, they saw prepared delicious soft-shelled turtle soup and laughed together in delight. When the Duke asked what was so amusing, his servants told him about the twitchy finger premonition, and the Duke was furious at such discourteous behavior. This squabble escalated and ended with the servants killing the Duke.
尻を叩く
しりをたたく
to light a fire under someone
strike someone's butt
白い目で見る
しろいめでみる
to give someone the evil eye
look at someone with white eyes (no pupil = no emotion)
心頭を滅却すれば火もまた涼し
しんとうをめっきゃくすればひもまたすずし
mind over matter
eliminate what clouds your heart and head and fire becomes cool
自腹を切る
じばらをきる
to pay for something yourself
to use as last resort your own stomach (purse)
上手の手から水が漏る
じょうずのてからみずがもる
nobody's perfect
water leaks from the work of a skilled hand (水が漏る is also a metaphor for losing tight control over a situation)
頭が高い
ずがたかい
arrogant and rude
a high head (lit. not bowing in deference enough)
背に腹は代えられぬ (背に腹は替えられぬ)
せにはらはかえられぬ
desperate times call for desperate measures
you can't replace your stomach with your back, so best sacrifice your back
絶体絶命
ぜったいぜつめい
hopeless or life-threatening situation
end of body, end of life situation
前代未聞
ぜんだいみもん
unheard of; never-before-witnessed
hitherto unheard of by previous generations
相思相愛
そうしそうあい
mutual love
mutual thoughts and feelings of love
#日本語#japanese#japanese language#japanese langblr#langblr#studyblr#ことわざ#japanese proverbs#こと検9級#さ#さ～そ#tokidokitokyo#tdtstudy
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Was trying to find some prompts on your blog to send (sorry in advance if you get loads of prompt based ones, they're most likely from me 🌷)
I saw this "catcall the other one in a different language, not knowing they can't understand that language" and instantly thought of Pando if you could kindly write something?
Absolutely feel free to send me as many prompts as you like 🌷anon! I might reblog a few prompt lists again soon! I have so many of them in my likes!
That prompt absolutely creams Lando and Pierre with Pierre trying to flirt with Lando in French!
Pierre might be a little drunk.
Okay, scratch that, Pierre was drunk but it was Charles's fault. The other man had gotten a promotion at work and demanded that they go out to celebrate. It was his fault that Pierre had gone through at least two bottles of good wine after having skipped lunch for a work project earlier in the day. All of it meant that Pierre, as he walked home slowly was more than little tipsy when he laid eyes of his neighbor that he had been crushing on for weeks.
The other man was one of the most beautiful men had ever seen, and that included the model he had dated in his college years.
He hadn't had a chance to talk to him yet because their schedules seemed chaotic. Whenever he was coming home, he'd see his neighbor leaving, camera bag slung carefully over a broad shoulder. He had the most adorable little gap in his front teeth whenever he smiled and waved at Pierre in passing, and he had heard his laughter once when the other was on the phone and walking by him. It was the type of laughter that made you smile and want to join in despite not knowing the joke.
Right now, his neighbor, Lando, his mind supplied, was focused on the sun setting in the little park across from their building. He was engrossed in his camera, snapping pictures and lowering his camera to fiddle with it. Occasionally changing position and what Pierre assumed were settings as Pierre cut through the park towards him.
Here, in the dying glow of the day, Lando almost looked like an angel as he bit his lip softly as he examined something on his camera once more and Pierre was struck with the overwhelming urge to kiss him senseless and burry his hands in curly hair.
He didn't do that, but he did manage to blurt out the most embarrassing pick up line his mind could come up with as the alcohol ling in his system.
"Excuse-moi. Est-ce que tu embrasses les inconnus ? Non ? OK, je me présente alors"
Lando startled slightly as Pierre spoke, and his cheeks a flushed a little making Pierre think for a moment that maybe his silly pick up line had actually worked before Lando was looking at him sheepishly.
"Sorry, Pierre, right? I have no idea what you just said", Lando laughed a little shyly as he grinned at him, "My French is pretty much limited to basic phrases"
Pierre's brain, not recognizing the out he had just been given by the fact Lando didn't know English, betrayed him once more and repeated the line in English.
"I asked if you kissed strangers", Pierre babbled, scratching at his neck as he felt it flushed, "And then offered to introduce myself if you didn't so we would no longer be strangers"
"Oh", Lando blushed, cheeks gone bright pink and even his ears flushed. It was adorable, blocking out any embarrassment that Pierre should be feeling, before Lando gave him a cheeky grin, "I don't kiss strangers, but I do kiss pretty Frenchmen named Pierre after they've taken me out on a date"
"Oh", Pierre repeated the word with delight, "Does this Friday work for you? I know a place"
Lando grinned at him before he reached into his pocket and pulled out a business card and a pen. Pierre could only watch as Lando quickly quickly scribbled his personal number on the back of the card before handing it to him with a shy smile.
"It's a date"
#pando#pierre/lando#lando/pierre#excuse the french if it's wrong#i googled french pick up lines for this
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No one asked for this but i really want to talk about why this song is so good for LIng Wen.
I came up from nothing / the streets were my playground / i belong to the city / And was raised on the stakes I claimed.
Ling Wen did not grow up wealthy or even middle class. While growing up , the kingdom of Xuli was already in an extreme situation of unease. Many people weren’t in great positions, poverty and conflict had greatly escalated. As the civil gods CONSTANTLY bring up with Ling Wen as an insult, she was a shoe seller on the streets when she was mortal. Not even with a shop , but on the streets. She came from nothing in many respects. No family honor, an absent father ( she doesn’t know if he died or left and never bothered to check ), and a mother that abandoned herself for the sake of trying to get a husband from any man that showed interest. There was a lot of her barely scraping by and being resourceful on the streets and lower sections of town. Surviving was based on the stakes they made and risks they took, both literally in regards to streets like those performers that Feng Xin and Xie Lian encountered in their banishment, and to what Ling Wen claimed as her own. For example, she was also famous for writing letters, sonnets, and general scribe work for other people , even the wealthy. That was her claim , her stakes. Women WEREN'T supposed to do that in her time. It's also why she's still the ONLY female civil god and a big reason why the other civil gods hate her. ( As discussed some in this post )
I’ll talk about this later in the post or another post, but this fact she came from nothing also plays a large part in why she pushes so hard in what she does, because she has ALWAYS had so much against her.
I let the rumor turn me into a legend. A good myth is hard to kill.
This phrase has multiple meanings and times it is applicable. First, as a mortal. Ling Wen wrote the piece of literature that beat the (at the time) #1 literature god ( even if no one knew at the time because he was disguised as a human to compete). HER piece in that competition was a political piece that basically ripped apart the Kingdom of Xuli, her kingdom. She submitted it anonymously, but one of of her clients recognized the style and ratted her out, which led her to be thrown in jail. Naturally this caused rumors to explode. A woman competed in the competition AND she won AND she did it while opposing the kingdom. Of course people were going to talk. And it certainly made her a story and legend in people’s eyes even before she was brought up to be a middle official. At the heart of the matter, it doesn't matter if you're the hero or a villain. If you're a famous enough rumor, you become a legend. And those are hard to kill.
Even after she fully ascended, she had and still does have plenty of rumors about her. I’ve said it plenty of times , but females make up a very small population of the Heavens according to TGCF ( and many stories in the belief themselves ). As far as we know, Ling Wen might be the only fully ascended female civil god, as juniors/middles aren't quite there yet. As Ling Wen became rose and became the top civil god , many gods and humans made accusations that she seduced her way to the top. She absolutely did NOT, but many men felt threatened by a woman in higher position of power than they were. Even within her own palace there’s rumors and insults about her when they think she doesn’t hear or know ( but she does - even Hua Cheng makes mention that Ling Wen has eyes and ears everywhere). It’s what led to many of her followers on earth changing her stories and statues to being a man and why her male form is stronger but she can’t retain it as long since its not her real form. However, there ARE still places that worship her female form , especially since there was the play about Ling Wen and Pei Ming at the banquet. As she says “ People will talk. “ No matter what she does , because she’s a woman , because she’s in essentially the highest spot besides the emperor , people will talk with rumors or insults no matter what. But at the same time , that just keeps her around..
WHICH leads to the point on Jing Wen. Ling Wen completely destroyed him. Both literally in terms of causing his downfall and hundreds of years destroying the last pieces of him , but his stories. People forgot there was a literature god before Ling Wen despite the fact Jing Wen had once been well established. Even XIE LIAN forgot Jing Wen had ever existed despite Jing Wen being the reigning god when Xie Lian first ascended. But Jing Wen's myth , his legacy , wasn’t good enough because she destroyed him in a matter of weeks , maybe a couple months at most. People may have controversy over her , but all those rumors just solidify her place in legends. SHE WON'T BE FORGOTTEN. And THAT is the lifeblood for gods and goddesses. It’s why people still debate over if Lucifer is heroic or a coward in Paradise Lost or how people feel about Guinevere in Arthurian legends or if Beowulf is good or not. To this day people still argue over it. The same thing is happening with Ling Wen and as a literature goddess , as much as some may frustrate her , ultimately it benefits in the long run.
The odds are stacked against me / I keep my cards close to my chest.
Short paragraph for this because I talked about a lot it above. She’s a woman in a male-dominated society. Of course the odds are stacked against her. It’s what has driven her so hard to push so hard for what she wants. She keeps all her skills close to her chest. Another line related to this is ‘ I have a way of find out their sins and secrets / bringing them to their knees. ‘ which is very applicable for Ling Wen. She CREATED the communication arrays , she knows people’s sins and secret and she holds them close to her because she can bring them down when she chooses. ( Headcanon related to that HERE )
Why do I need friends when I’ve got plenty of enemies.
Again , covered on earlier. The Civil gods explicitly HATE Ling Wen. Even her own palace has men saying they could do better if given the chance ( spoiler alert : they don’t , not even anywhere close. Everything falls apart the moment she's not there ) Her own god group hates her , she doesn’t get along with the goddesses , its only the martial gods that welcome her and embrace her. And among them her only real friends are Shi Wudu and Pei Ming. Even that wasn’t planned or expected. Ling Wen doesn’t NEED friends to succeed , she’s proven that. She's proven a willingness to sacrifice. She is just fine enjoying proving her haters wrong. But she does like having her boys.
The world owes me a debt / and now I’ve come to collect / so don’t get in my way.
Listen the world has had it out for he , mortal or goddess. But it doesn’t matter to her, because Ling Wen will continues to climb opposition and reach higher no matter who tries to stop. But sometimes she does show up to collect, be it from blackmail on information she knows to force someone to obey, or to simply call in a few favors. The real important to her is don’t get in my way.
She will tear you down and kick you out of her way. With maybe 2 or 3 exceptions , Ling Wen has no problems with crushing someone or flat out removing them if they’re in her way. After all, she’s heartless as she says. She doesn’t care. She does what she needs to to succeed. Even those exceptions she can confront like being on the enemy’s side if its best for HER. Albeit she will not go to the same extremes for those exceptions that she would for anyone else. As a person though ? Getting in Ling Wen’s way is a VERY BAD spot to be. You think she won’t kill you or bring your ruin ? Cute. She will. And she will do it without hesitation or remorse.
By the time you’ve figured out the rules I broke / I’ve already won the game.
This ties into the last section. Ling Wen is EXTREMELY intelligent , cunning , and ruthless. In the case of Jing Wen’s downfall , he didn’t realize what was happening until it was far , far too late. She’d literally already won. In the case of the Brocade Immortal , NO ONE realized it was her initially. It was her secret till it eventually got out. But by then she already has the Brocade Immortal and was carving her way to success ( and in some ways had because she took down the whole communications array in the Heavens and sent everyone into disarray. THAT'S how essential she is, she's made HERSELF into the heart of the game board basically. ).
Basically, if you are an enemy of Ling Wen, you won't realize anything until its too late. She doesn't play fair but she plays smart, and rewrites the rules to her own will.
#ICB I FORGOT TO MOVE THIS TO THIS BLOG#but i love this still#the song is so good and UGH#i could talk about ling wen for DAAAAYS#the fandom forgets / ignores her so much smh#᛭ — [HEADCANON] truths strangled by false rumors [LING WEN]#᛭ — [MUSIC] force the world to hear your voice [LING WEN]
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Is mathematics unconditionally good? ~ Sima Qian（司馬遷）'s Anguish: Mathematics Note 10 (Essay)
Manga drawn on the cover of my graduationgraduation thesis
“He was extremely wary of 'making. His job is to "say". In fact, he only said But what a lively way of saying it! It was a description that would have been impossible for anyone but someone with abnormal imaginative vision. Sometimes he is so afraid of "creating" that he re-reads what he has already written and cuts out the phrases that he thinks make the historical characters move like real people. Then, the person certainly stops breathing. You don't have to worry about "making" it. But what is "statement" to describe different humans as the same? When he thinks about it, he can't help but make use of the deleted words. After putting it back together and reading it over, he finally calms down. ”
``Ri Ling: Atsushi Nakajima''（中島敦）
What I want to pay attention to is the part of "statement of a different person as a different person". This is where my dissatisfaction with current urban engineering comes from. In other words, what does 500 liters/person/day, which is calculated as the maximum water supply per person per day, mean? There are many types of people in the world, some people use only 100l a day, some fools use 1000l. It's called individuality, but the "basic unit" of 500l/person/day originates from erasing individuality.
The historian Sima Qian's problem still remains relevant today. I absolutely cannot allow a study that kills individuality. The operation of "quantification" is a double-edged sword in that sense. If someone who doesn't know how to use it gets their hands on it, this sword becomes an extremely dangerous weapon.
Phenomena in the natural world are basically curvilinear, and when they tried to replace them with easy-to-understand forms—straight lines—the seeds of Western scientific civilization arose. However, even for the simplest curve, the circle, the π was a number (transcendental numbers) that could not be handled by triangle approximation. The Western conscience has the clarity to make the impossible impossible. But fools assume that a straight line divides all curves. There can only be "destruction"!
(2023.04.22)
#Sima Qian#司馬遷#Atsushi Nakajima#urban engineering#quantification#curvilinear#straight lines#the seeds of Western scientific civilization#π#transcendental numbers#The Western conscience has the clarity to make the impossible impossible.#fools assume that a straight line divides all curves.#destruction#mathematics#essay#rei morishita
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TMMN ep1 thoughts
overall I loved it!!
the OP & ED pay homage to the og anime’s OP/ED! (I nearly cried when they sang “[it’s] showtime again!”)
that, combined w/ the fast pacing has me thinking new might be more for fans of the og series than for new audiences - we learn masaya’s name & basic personality b4 even hearing ichigo’s name, as if we’re expected to already know her. just overall it was a very busy ep, but not much actually happened til the last 10ish mins. they really rushed thru laying the groundwork
that said i do really like the changes they made re: mint already being a mew. i really really hope they give her an arc about coping with being the 1st mew but not the team leader
it’s interesting that the girls were deliberately chosen this time round, unlike the manga or og anime where it was coincidence/fate that they all happened to be at the exhibit. hope it’s explained how/why they specifically were picked & by whom
another reason i love mint already being a mew - SHE & RYOU HAVE BANTER!! they’re besties! genuinely my fav part of the post-fight scene, pls let them continue to be snarky & judgmental together
i truly truly adore the new voice cast! tenma & hinata bring so much personality to ichigo & minto! in particular i love tenma’s voice cracks & hinata’s v clear, crisp tone (i dunno how to phrase it, something about her delivery just reads as confident & direct w/o sounding stiff or mean). i loved them + juni as retasu from day 1 (can’t wait for next ep!). toda & ishii took some time to grow on me but they’re perf too! all of them just express their characters’ energies so well - props to the voice director!
haven’t paid as much attention to the boys’ va’s, but i do like this masaya so far - he’s a lot more reserved & low energy than the og series, which i think works better for the character. i think a subtlely flat/detached affect suits him & helps w/ foreshadowing
also, am I reading to much into it, or did his initial reaction to ichigo confessing she doesn’t actually know about animal conservation seem like subtle withdrawal/shut down - up til she starts asking him more about it? like, he was excited to’ve met someone he thought gets it, but when it turns out (from his pov) ichigo’s just like every1 else, he immediately puts the mask back on all the way. it’s once she starts trying to learn more & engage w/ the topic sincerely that he starts to open up again. but it all happens v quickly in just a minute change of facial expression. i dunno maybe i’m reaching
speaking of ichigo, SHE’S SUCH A TEEN I LOVE HER. having no clue what she wants to do when she grows up & deciding ‘fuck it, focus on the present’, learning about some great injustice in the world & immediately forming a hard opinion about it, seeing her crush get attacked by a monster & her 1st instinct is to throw a rock she can barely lift & tell it to fuck off, getting in a car w/ strange men, realizing only once she’s in the vehicle & has no clue where they’re going that maybe she’s in danger & THEN POUTING & STOMPING out of the vehicle when ryou calls her annoying - SHE’S A DISASTER WHAT A DARLING
i think my only real big let down is that once again they omitted the girls meeting bc of retasu’s bullies. it’s a really good scene! it communicates in just a few pages how the girls react to someone in need & how they resolve conflict (plus i was really looking forward to watching bu ling kick some1 in the head & zakuro casually threaten to break a girl’s arm)
neway i’m so excited for the rest of new!
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Please. Please can you tell me what a baeddel is and why people (terfs?) used it in a derogatory manner on this website for a hot minute but now no one ever uses it at all
you asked for it, fucker
[2k words; philology and drama]
baeddel is an Old English word. i have no idea where it actually occurs in the Old English written corpus, but it occurs in a few placenames. its diminuitive form, baedling, is much better documented. it appears in the (untranslated) Canons of Theodore, a penitential handbook, a sort of guidebook for priests offering advice on what penances should be recommended for which sins. in a passage devoted to sexual transgressions it gives the penances suggested for a man who sleeps with a woman, a man who sleeps with another man, and then a man who sleeps with a baedling. so you have this construction of a baedling as something other than a man or a woman. and then it gives the penance for a baedling who sleeps with another baedling (a ludicrous one-year fast). then, by way of an explaination, Theodore delivers us one of the most enigmatic phrases in the Old English corpus: "for she is soft, like an adulturess."
the -ling suffix in baedling is masculine. but Theodore uses feminine pronouns and suffixes to describe baedlings. as we said, it's also used separately from male and female. but it's also used separately from their words for intersex and it never appears in this context. all of this means that you have this word that denotes a subject who is, as Christopher Monk put it, "of problematic gender." interested historians have typically interpreted it as referring to some category of homosexual male, such as Wayne R. Dines in his two-volume Encyclopedia of Homosexuality who discusses it in the context of an Old English glossary which works a bit like an Old English-Latin dictionary, giving Old English words and their Latin counterparts. the Latin words the Anglo-Saxon lexicographer chose to correspond with baedling were effeminatus and mollis, and Lang concludes that it refers to an "effeminate homosexual" (pg 60, Anglo Saxon). this same glossary gives as an Old English synonym the word waepenwifstere which literally means "woman with a penis," and which Dines gives the approximate translation (hold on tight) male wife.
R. D. Fulk, a philologist and medievalist, made a separate analysis of the term in his study on the Canons of Theodore 'Male Homoeroticism in the Old English Canons of Theodore', collected in Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England, 2004. he analysed it as a 'sexual category' (sexual as in sexuality), owing to the context of sexual transgressions in the Canons. he decides that it refers to a man who bottoms in sexual relationships with another man. i don't have the article on hand so i'm not sure what his reasoning was, but this seems obviously inadequate given what we know from the glossary described by Dines. Latin has a word for bottom, pathica, and the lexicographer did not use this in their translation, preferring words that emphasized the baedling's femininity like effeminatus, and doesn't address the sexual context at all. Dines, however, only reading this glossary, seems to decide that it refers to a type of male homosexual too hastily, considering the Canons explicitly treat them separately. both Dines and Fulk immediately reduce the baedling to a subcategory of homosexual when neither of the sources to hand actually do so themselves.
by now it should be obvious why, seven or so years ago, we interpreted it as an equivalent to trans woman. I mean come on - a woman with a penis! these days I tend to add a bit of a caution to this understanding, which is that trans woman is the translation of baedling which seems most adequate to us, just as baedling was the translation of effeminatus that seemed most adequate to our lexicographer. but the term cannot translate perfectly; its sense was derived from some minimal context; a legal context, a doctrinal context, and so forth... the way Anglo-Saxons understood sex/gender is complicated but it has been argued that they had a 'one sex model' and didn't regard men and women as biologically separate types, which is obviously quite different from the sexual model accepted today; in any case they didn't have access to the karyotype and so on. the basic categories they used to understand gender and sexuality were different from ours. in particular, Hirschfield et al. should be understood as a particularly revolutionary moment in the genealogy of transsexuality; the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft essentially invented the concept of the 'sex change', the 'transition', conceived as a biological passage from one sex to the other. even in other contexts where (forgive me) #girlslikeus changed their bodies in some way, like the castration of the priestesses of Cybele, or those belonging to the various historical societies which we believe used premarin for feminization [disputed; see this post], there is no record that they were ever considered men at any stage or had some kind of male biology that preceded their 'gender identity.' the concept of the trans woman requires the minimal context of the coercive assignment at birth and its subsequent (civil and bio-technological) rejection. i have never encountered evidence that this has ever been true in any previous society. nonetheless, these societies still had gendered relations, and essentially wherever we find these gendered relations we also find some subject which is omitted or for whom it has been necessary to note exceptions. what is of chief interest to us is not so much that there was such a subject here or there in history (and whatever propagandistic uses this fact might have), but understanding why these regularities exist.
a very parsimonious explanation is that gender is a biological reality, and there is some particular biological subject which a whole host of words have been conjured to denote. if this were the case then we would expect that, no matter what gender/sexual system we encounter in a given society, it will inevitably find some linguistic expression. if, like me, you find this idea revolting, then you should busy yourself trying to come up with an alternative explanation which is not just plausible, but more plausible. my best guesses are outside the scope of this answer...
anyway, all of this must be very interesting to the five or six people invested in the confluence of philology and gender studies. but why on earth did it become so widely used, in so many strange and unusual contexts, in the 2010s? we're very sorry, but yes, it's our fault. you see apart from all of this, there is also a little piece of information which goes along with the word baeddel, which is that it's the root of the Modern English word bad. by way of, no less, the word baedan, 'to defile'. how this defiled historical subject came to bear responsibility for everything bad to English-speakers doesn't seem to be known from linguistic evidence. however, it makes for a very pithy little remark on transmisogyny. my dear friend [REDACTED] made a playful little post making this point and, good Lord, had we only known...
it went like this. its such a funny little idea that we all start changing our urls to include the word baeddel. in those days it was common to make puns with your url (we always did halloween and christmas ones); i was baeddelaire, a play on the French poet Baudelaire. while we all still had these urls a series of events which everyone would like to forget happened, and we became Enemies of Everyone in the Whole World. because of the url thing people started to call us "the baeddels." then there was "a cult" called "the baeddels" and so forth. this cult had various infamies attatched to it and a constellation of indefensible political positions. ultimately we faced a metric fucking shit ton of harassment, including, for some of my friends, really serious and bad irl harassment that had long-term bad awful consequences relating to stable housing and physical safety and i basically never want to talk about that part of my life ever again. and i never have to, because i've come to realize that for most people, when they use the word baeddel, they don't know about that stuff. it doesn't mean that anymore.
so what does it mean? you'll see it in a few contexts. TERFs do use it, as you guessed. i am not quite sure what they really mean by it and how it differs from other TERF barbs. i think being a baeddel invovles being politically active or at least having a political consciousness, but in a way thats distinct from just any 'TRA' or trans activist. so perhaps 'militant' trans women, but perhaps also just any trans woman with any opinions at all. how this was transmitted from tumblr/west coast tranny drama to TERF vocabulary i have no idea. but you will also find - or, could have found a few years ago - i would say 'copycat' groups who didn't know us or what we believed but heard the rumours, and established their own (generously) organizations (usually facebook groups) dedicated to putting those principles into practice. they considered themselves trans lesbian separatists and did things like doxx and harass trans women who dated cafabs. if you don't know about this, yes, there really were such groups. they mostly collapsed and disappeared because they were evildoers who based their ideology on a caricature. i knew a black trans woman who was treated very badly by one of these groups, for predictable reasons. so long-time readers: if you see people talking about their bad experiences with 'baeddels', you can't necessarily relate it to the 2014 context and assume they're carrying around old baggage. there are other dreams in the nightmare.
the most common way you'll see it today, in my experience, is in this form: people will say that it was a "slur" for trans women. they might bring up that it's the root of the word bad, and they might even think that you shouldn't use the word bad because of it, or that you shouldn't use the word baeddel because it's a slur. all of this is a silly game of internet telephone and not worth addressing. except to say that it's by no means clear that baeddel, or baedling, were slurs, or even insulting at all. while Theodore doesn't provide us with a description of how we can have sex with a baedling without sinning, and it may be the case that any sexual relations with a baedling was considered sinful, sexuality-based transgressions were not taken all that seriously in those days. there was a period where homosexuality within the Church was almost sanctioned, and it wasn't until much later that homosexuality became so harshly proscribed, to the extent that it was thought to represent a threat to society, etc. and as i mentioned, there are places in England named after baedlings. there is a little parish near Kent which is called Badlesmere, Baeddel's Lake, which was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Domesday Book (as having a lord, a handful of villagers and a few slaves; perhaps only one or two households). it's not unheard of, but i just don't know very many places called Faggot Town or some such. it's possible that baedlings had some role in Anglo-Saxon society which we are not aware of; it could even have been a prestigious one, as it was in other societies. there is just no evidence other than a couple of passing references in the literature and we'll probably never have a complete picture.
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“Young man, there are two cringe worthy phrases in one’s life that must be said, no matter what.”
Jin Ling asked, “Which two?”
Wei WuXian replied, “‘Thank you’, and ‘I’m sorry’.”
You know the fact that JL had to wait until he was 13 yo to learn this lesson on basic decency makes me wonder how much of a shitty brat he would've grown up to be if wwx hadn't been revived and didn't become part of JL's life along with the Lan juniors and lwj
Also when I think how JL was friendless and hunting on his own when we 1st meet him then he meets the juniors and they adopt him almost immediately despite his rude and abrasive personality 😭❤️ this is why i adore those ducklings so much
So true!! & the fact that these words are the last Wen Qing said to WWX _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_
Wen Qing interrupted him, “I’ve never really said such things to you before. But now that it’s today, there are indeed a few things I should say. I really won’t get a chance to say them after this.”
Wei WuXian whispered, “… Shut up… Let me go…”
Wen Qing, “I’m sorry. And, thank you.”
Wei WuXian was lying for the entire three days.
Wen Qing’s calculations were indeed correct.
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No one asked for this but i really want to talk about why this song is so good for Ling Wen. But not necessarily going in lyrical order.
I came up from nothing / the streets were my playground / i belong to the city / And was raised on the stakes I claimed.
Ling Wen did not grow up wealthy or even middle class. While growing up , the kingdom of Xuli was already likely in a situation of unease. Many people weren’t in great positions. As mentioned , while mortal , she was a shoe seller on the streets. Not even with a shop , but on the streets. She came from nothing in many respects. No family honor , an absent father ( she doesn’t know if he died or left and never bothered to check ) , and a mother that abandoned herself for the sake of trying to get a husband from any man that showed interest. There was a lot of scraping by and being resourceful on the streets and lower sections of town. Surviving was based on the stakes they made , both literally in regards to streets like those performers that Feng Xin and Xie Lian encountered in their banishment , and to what Ling Wen claimed as her own. For example , she was also famous for writing letters , sonnets , and general scribe work for other people , even the wealthy. That was her claim , her stakes.
I’ll talk about this later in the post or another post , but this fact she came from nothing also plays a large part in why she pushes so hard , because she as so much against her.
I let the rumor turn me into a legend. A good myth is hard to kill.
This phrase has multiple meanings and times its applicable. First , as a mortal. First of all , Ling Wen wrote the piece of literature that beat the #1 literature god ( even if no one knew at the time ). But it was a political piece that basically ripped apart the Kingdom of Xuli , her kingdom. She submitted it anonymously , but one of of her clients recognized the style and ratted her out , which led her to be thrown in jail. Naturally this caused rumors to explode. A woman competed in the competition AND she won AND she did it while opposing the kingdom. Of course people were going to talk. And it certainly made her a story in people’s eyes even before she was brought up to be a middle official.
Now , even after she fully ascended , she had and does have plenty of rumors about her. I’ve said it plenty of times , but females make up a very small population of the Heavens according to TGCF ( and many stories in the belief themselves ) , and extremely few in the Civil section. As Ling Wen became #1 , many gods and humans made accusations that she seduced her way to the top. She absolutely did NOT , but many men felt threatened by a woman in higher position of power. Even within her own palace there’s rumors and insults about her when they think she doesn’t hear or know ( but she does ). It’s what led to many of her followers changing her to being a man and why her male form is stronger but she can’t retain it as long since its not her real form. However , there ARE still places that worship her female form , especially since there was the play about Ling Wen and Pei Ming at the banquet. As she says “ People will talk. “ No matter what she does , because she’s a woman , because she’s in essentially the highest spot besides the emperor , people will talk with rumors or insults no matter what. But at the same time , that just keeps her around.
WHICH leads to the point on Jing Wen. Ling Wen completely destroyed him. Both literally in terms of causing his downfall and hundreds of years destroying the last pieces of him , but his stories. People forgot there was a literature god before Ling Wen despite the fact Jing Wen had once been well established. But his myth , his legacy , wasn’t good enough because she destroyed him in a matter of weeks , maybe a couple months at most. People may have controversy over her , but all those rumors just solidify her place in legends. It’s why people still debate over if Lucifer is heroic or a coward in Paradise Lost or how people feel about Guinevere in Arthurian legends or if Beowulf is good or not. To this day people still argue over it. The same thing is happening with Ling Wen and as a literature goddess , as much as some may frustrate her , ultimately it benefits in the long run.
The odds are stacked against me / I keep my cards close to my chest.
Short paragraph for this because I talked about a lot it above. She’s a woman in a male-dominated society. Of course the odds are stacked against her. It’s what has driven her so hard to push so hard for what she wants. She keeps all her skills close to her chest. Another line related to this is ‘ I have a way of find out their sins and secrets / bringing them to their knees. ‘ which is very applicable for Ling Wen. She CREATED the communication arrays , she knows people’s sins and secret and she holds them close to her because she can bring them down when she chooses. ( Headcanon related to that HERE )
Why do I need friends when I’ve got plenty of enemies.
Again , covered on earlier. The Civil gods explicitly HATE Ling Wen. Even her own palace has men saying they could do better if given the chance ( spoiler alert : they don’t , not even anywhere close. ) Her own god group hates her , she doesn’t get along with the goddesses , its only the martial gods that welcome her. And among them her only friends are Shi Wudu and Pei Ming. Even that wasn’t planned or expected. Ling Wen doesn’t NEED friends to succeed , she’s proven that. She is just fine enjoying proving her haters wrong. But she does like having her boys.
The world owes me a debt / and now I’ve come to collect / so don’t get in my way.
Listen the world has had it out for her , mortal or goddess. But it doesn’t matter , because Ling Wen will continues to climb opposition and reach higher. But sometimes she does show up to collect. The real important to her is don’t get in my way.
She will tear you down and kick you out of her way. With maybe 2 or 3 exceptions , Ling Wen has no problems with crushing someone or flat out removing them if they’re in her way. After all , she’s heartless as she says. She doesn’t care. She does what she needs to to succeed. Even those exceptions she can confront like being on the enemy’s side if its best for HER. Albeit she will not go to the same extremes for those exceptions that she would for anyone else. As a person though ? Getting in Ling Wen’s way is a VERY BAD spot to be. You think she won’t kill you or bring your ruin ? Cute. She will. And she will do it without hesitation or remorse.
By the time you’ve figured out the rules I broke / I’ve already won the game.
This ties into the last section. Ling Wen is EXTREMELY intelligent , cunning , and ruthless. In the case of Jing Wen’s downfall , he didn’t realize what was happening until it was far , far too late. She’d literally already won. In the case of the Brocade Immortal , NO ONE realized it was her initially. It was her secret till it eventually got out. But by then she already has the Brocade Immortal and was carving her way to success ( and in some ways had because she took down the whole communications array in the Heavens ).
Basically , if you are an enemy of Ling Wen , you probably won’t realize your death or downfall until it’s far , far too late.
#〉truth among the rumors〈 — ✒ ⌜ling wen headcanon⌟#i realize this probably is not important to anyone else#but i wanted to talk#so here we are jghddjfg
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hello! regarding wwx in mxy's body: i'm not actually sure what's going on with that? could you please explain? based on varying things i've seen it seems like 1) wwx is either just IN mxy's body now, or 2) wwx is just IN mxy's body but due to spirit hijinks of some sort mxy's body has developed a few of the features wwx used to have, or 3) mxy's body was like a cocoon that magically brought forth wwx in his OG body somehow? except apparently he's definitely shorter? pls help??
(all follow-ups to this post, and maybe the tags on this post)
please just assume I’m constantly flailing in the general direction of CQL worldbuilding because seriously, who do I have to pay to get some consistency around here, why did I ever leave the sweet sweet embrace of Cosmeric hard magic systems
so! I think a lot of the confusion about Wei Wuxian and Mo Xuanyu derives from the different adaptations we have. In MDZS the novel (and audiodrama -- unsure about donghua?) Wei Wuxian is resurrected into Mo Xuanyu’s body. It’s a mind-body dualistic world we’re all living in, and Mo Xuanyu-the-soul has vacated the premises so Wei Wuxian-the-soul can move in. Unwillingly. Let’s not get into consent issues and worldbuilding issues at the same time. The end result is that we have a Wei Wuxian who looks like Mo Xuanyu (who, by the way, is supposed to look completely different from Wei Wuxian), wears Mo Xuanyu’s body, and can thereby cultivate with Mo Xuanyu’s core.
(this is also why post-resurrection!Wei Wuxian/Mo Xuanyu!Wei Wuxian is definitely shorter -- they make a big deal of the fact that pre-death Wei Wuxian was three inches taller than Lan Wangji, and post-resurrection!Wei Wuxian-in-Mo Xuanyu’s-body is three inches shorter)
CQL then proceeds to fudge with the worldbuilding a bit, partially for production reasons, partially for plot reasons, partially for censorship reasons. The end result is that pre-death!Wei Wuxian and post-resurrection!Wei Wuxian are visually the same (since they are both played by Xiao Zhan), and we never actually see what Mo Xuanyu looks like. Presumably, he resembles Wei Wuxian enough in body type (beanpole) and physicality (over-the-top) that most people don’t question who it is under the mask (in fact, people seem to identify Mo Xuanyu based solely on the mask? At least, Jin Ling’s conversation with Wei Wuxian in episode 34 suggests this). That being said, that raises lots of questions about what the resurrection ritual actually did.
Considering the lengths to which CQL goes to try and reassure us that Wei Wuxian wasn’t actually one-hundred percent authentically perma-dead during those sixteen years (see: lack of a body, Inquiry without success, that whole conversation in episode 33 about 'not knowing where he was’), there’s a lot more room for interpretation. Our options for the resurrection process include (but are not limited to):
using Mo Xuanyu’s sacrifice to power the heavy duty magic of transporting Wei Wuxian in his original body straight from his swan dive off a cliff to sixteen years later
pros: helps explain why Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji never found a body; explains why Wei Wuxian looks exactly like Wei Wuxian
cons: doesn’t explain why post-resurrection Wei Wuxian lacks the same scarring as pre-death Wei Wuxian; doesn’t explain why Wei Wuxian comes to in Mo Xuanyu’s clothes rather than the clothes he died in; means Wei Wuxian is definitely unable to cultivate a new golden core post-canon :/
keeping Mo Xuanyu’s body but thanks to ~spirit hijinks~ (thanks anon for this delightful phrase), Mo Xuanyu’s physical form is altered to incorporate some of Wei Wuxian’s physical features
I’m basically imagining Wei Wuxian’s head stuck on top of Mo Xuanyu’s body for this
pros: helps explain why Wei Wuxian can pass as Mo Xuanyu; accounts for the lack of scarring on his original body; means that he has a weak golden core that would explain his ability to use Suibian post-resurrection; explains why Wei Wuxian can wake up in Mo Xuanyu’s clothes and, y’know, have them fit
cons: doesn’t explain where Wei Wuxian’s body went those sixteen years; doesn’t explain why Wei Wuxian. . . just looks exactly like Wei Wuxian instead of some combination of the two
magical resurrection meat grinder recycles the raw material of Mo Xuanyu’s body to make a brand new Wei Wuxian
pros: grants Wei Wuxian the possibility of cultivating a new golden core, explains the lack of scarring while simultaneously accounting for Wei Wuxian looking exactly the same
cons: what the fuck did this ritual actually look like in the moment, no wonder why there’s so much blood, good god I hope Mo Xuanyu wasn’t conscious for this, still doesn’t explain why Mo Xuanyu cousin is such an asshole that he doesn’t even recognize a literal different person
#I'm personally a fan of the third interpretation because reduce reuse recycle#ask and ye shall receive#CQL worldbuilding#Wei Wuxian#another post another handstand
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Episode 28~ Well, I heard this season’s supposedly got 60 episodes total (don’t quote me, that may be wrong) so we’re almost at the halfway point... I’m gonna wait till episode 30 to talk about that though.
This episode I actually rather liked, even though absolutely NOTHING happens other than the important things at the very beginning and the very end. That’s becoming a pattern this season - lots of nothing sandwiched in between hints of big dramatic things to come. Eh. But yeah, I liked it anyway :P for a few reasons that are probably not that objective. It’s not the kind of episode that’s gonna make you want to rewatch though.
Cap of the week!
Look we all know Jou is exactly the kind of 12 year old who folds his clothes neatly even when lost in a mysterious parallel world. Also he brought more textbooks (social studies and Japanese). Aka more ammo for Mimi
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Last week we ended with Patamon evolving to Angemon in what was a pretty anticlimactic moment, despite a big villain being there and a cliffhanger ending. Seemed like a waste after all we went through just to get him.
However, I do think the beginning of episode 28 makes up for it somewhat. Angemon gets to show off how Very Very Cool he is, but it’s also made clear that he’s not up to full strength. Seeing him throw all his effort into the battle to save them even though it’s clear he won’t win was actually pretty great.
More typhoon winds throwing everyone back XD they must have so many bruises
Poor Takeru gets thrown back all by his lonesome
So last episode, I said I thought Darknightmon was gonna go for Hikari and was surprised and somewhat relieved when he stayed interested in Takeru/Angemon. Um... I guess that was a red herring x’D he’s after Hikari after all.
He literally says “I have no use for you” to Angemon LOL sick burn my dude
Hikari: “There is a new cutest child.”
Takeru: “Um, actually the phrase is ‘smallest child’.“
Hikari: “No. Cutest child. Do not interrupt my moment, impertinent one.”
Grogu: “Did someone say ‘cutest child’?”
Angemon’s peeved that Hikari stole the spotlight so he immediately jumps into the way and prevents Darknightmon from grabbing her.
Angemon: “No one treats ME like some washed up has-been!”
But as hard as he tries, Angemon just hasn’t recovered enough. It probably took all the energy Patamon had stored up just to evolve. His wings lengthen and release into millions of shining feathers, and both he and Darknightmon de-evolve.
I really did kind of enjoy this battle! Seeing Takeru be all strong and heroic, and the desperation with which Angemon tries to protect him... me likey.
Next it’s a nod to 99 series! D-D-Digimon!
Yamato screams like he’s at the dentist’s.
There’s lots of freaky black lightning that rains down seeming to give dark energy and empower random Digimon who get hit by it. Just to ensure our heroes don’t get to waste time on any more “breaks”
A single feather floats down where Taichi lands and dissolves. I am not sure what happened to it, if it did anything or if it was what protected them until this point...
Taichi and Hikari wake up and discover they are alone. So last week I thought they’d get swept off into pairs... I didn’t even consider that they’d each wind up alone. Mixed feelings! On the one hand, seeing each kid interact with their partner and their partner only was one of the good things about this episode (except it wasn’t always true, which I’ll get to in a minute). On the other hand, my fears last week were that whoever ended up with Taichi would be overshadowed by him. Turns out, if no one’s with him but Hikari, that means all the plot stuff is with them and the others have nothing in particular to do. -_-; At least not this week. My hope is that it’s coming (and there were a few promising hints this episode so), but next week’s trailer looks pretty Taichi-centric too..
Taichi: “Can I help it if I’m so charming cool awesome and dare I say it adorable”
The impact of everyone being “alone” is cut short by the fact that they can all still communicate via digivice. I would be fine with that, except for what I said earlier - they wind up spending too much time talking to each other instead of their partners. Particularly the ones who like to Plan Things. Eh.
Yamato tells Taichi to protect Hikari, doesn’t even mention that he’s sadly separated from Takeru at this point ;_; He knows Takeru’s okay though because Takeru is also communicating by digivice.
Sora: “Hello yes, it’s in my contract that I get to be awesome X number of times per episode, and I have doubts that you are making your quota.”
I love how Tentomon’s job is basically Koushirou’s secretary x’D “Put my calls on speakerphone Margaret” “Yes Mr Izumi”
The partners really are suited to each other... Koushirou gets a secretary, Jou gets a mom, Mimi gets a gal pal, Yamato gets a therapist, Sora gets a sister, Taichi gets a... preschool child who eats paste... -.-’
takeru and hikari don’t count because they’re Special and their main attribute is Cute
All the kids have ended up alone except for super-charged monsters who want to eat them. Palmon hoists Mimi up a very sheer rock trying to escape Golemon who is not great at climbing but doesn’t seem to know that
Meanwhile Jou... is like “Ohh yeah, you guys have it so rough, I’m trying my hardest too, keep fighting the good fight y’all”
He’s relaxing in the hot springs and freaking studying.
Gomamon’s unusually fine with it though. Because he gets to swim. He says “Let’s invite the others here.” They’re both like YEAH THIS IS WHAT I CALL A VACATION
It’s all fun and games until the hairy guy with the tattoos and veiny arms sharing your hot spring starts staring at your ding-a-ling. Uhhhhhhh.
he does make the “Nanimono?” joke so all is well lol
No matter what form he takes, Patamon is always an Angel 👼
Takeru is alone but he has Patamon... but Patamon is...
... ADORABLE... and conked out. Takeru’s so proud of him though, look at that smile *sniff*
Taichi remembers to ask Koushirou how conditions are back at home. This kid is too organized.
Koushirou: “News and variety shows continue as normal even though the world’s ending.”
I’m not going to get into everything he says but it’s pretty much more of the same regarding the power influx from the human world to the digital world and the way the Zurumon’s attacks are wreaking havoc with electronics...
Taichi almost says “You’re so sugoi!” Almost. He’s grateful anyway. *chews on those Taishiro breadcrumbs till they’re broken down to atoms*
Then... Hikari’s acting strange!
Agumon: “What are you looking at?”
Hikari: “I don’t know.”
Taichi: “You don’t know but you’re looking at it?”
Hikari: “It kind of looks like Steve Buscemi... it’s hard to tell”
Taichi’s not too wigged out by freaky Hikari because he’s lived with her all his life, and she’s always been a freak.
Baby Hikari: “Shteeve... bushemiii....”
Agumon: “Your sister’s weird.”
Taichi: “Yeah but she’s MY weird sister.”
Yamato is fighting, of course. He stops for a moment to be impressed by how well Takeru’s handling himself. Garurumon points it out. I suppose it’s simply time to accept that this season Yamato is just not the disaster boy he was in 99 x’D
Now have some gratuitous adorable Patabutt images.
Patabutt patabutt pata pata butt butt
Um... is it just me or is Patamon kinda... oversized all of a sudden lol...
Takeru: “Did you eat all of my candy stash again?”
Patamon: “I just can’t seem to quit”
Takeru: “That’s it we’re getting you into rehab”
Patamon tries to fly but just can’t ;____; poor baby is totally wiped out. Takeru takes a long time to catch on to that. I REALLY HOPE THIS GOES SOMEWHERE, like Takeru has to protect Patamon instead of the reverse etc... pleeeeease don’t just leave this where it is writers!! The potential for cute is endlessssss
On the matter of Things That Are Not Cute... -.-;
Jou: “Please stop looking at my junk”
Nanimon: “Stop looking at mine”
Jou: “YOU DONT HAVE ANY wait do you wAIT I DONT WANT TO LOOK”
Mimi is much more useful! She discovers a shiny rock!
Theory!
This rock... could be the raw material for their Crests!!! Squeee~!! I mean, it’s about time something about that came up, assuming it’s still a thing. (Since they already seem to have their Crests loaded in their Digivices and got to Perfect level without any talk of values and personal strengths, I don’t know how much of the old Crest legacy remains in this season.) I, uh, did the same thing in my fanfic so I guess I’m just biased... These could totally be Evil Rubies Of Darkness and Terror but I’d rather have Crests :p Of course I would have expected Mimi to find green stones in that case sooo... maybe not.
Anyway she and Palmon are suitably distracted from running from Golemon and go mining instead. I’m sure that will not cause any problems.
We swing back to Taichi and Hikari, who are being approached by a big scary monster...
Taichi: “Watch my Tarzan impression.”
Hikari: “Nooo! I don’t want to be Jane!”
Fortunately Agumon evolves just to catch them in midair x’D Now is not the time for impressions, Taichi, seriously.
They are attacked by Volcdramon, which is a dumbass name.
Voldramon: “I AM VOLCRADMON, THE VOLCANO DIGIMON”
Taichi: “Velcromon the Velcro Digimon?”
Voldramon: “what NO i am Volcdramon-”
Hikari: “Voltronmon? Voldemortmon?”
Voldramon: *sniveling* “why does this happen EVERY time i JUST want to be one of the cool guys youre all such BULLIES”
MetalGreymon and Volcdramon face off, but something’s not right! Much like... the Digimon in the last episode whose name I already forgot *cough*, Volcdramon seems able to absorb other Digimon’s power. This presents a problem because last time it took all of them shooting into its mouth together to overload it so they could win. MetalGreymon is having a hard time on his own as Volcdramon just absorbs all his attacks.
Hikari prays to Jesus to save them. Digimon is approved for Christian families 👼👼👼
ugggghhh I love them
Taichi promises Hikari everything will be okay. His back-and-forth with MetalGreymon here is kind of cool. Every time MetalGreymon takes a hit, Taichi’s encouragement and coaching?? I guess keeps frustration at bay.
Buuut eventually they’re both feeling pretty desperate :P It was hard for me to take this battle seriously since, after all we’ve seen MetalGreymon capable of, it seems weird that he should be struggling this much. But obviously they don’t just want to make him invincible. And this problem makes sense: the ability of Digimon to absorb attacks and turn them into energy is definitely a new problem.
The question is, how do we solve it?
Apparently it helps if you have a little sister who’s some kind of super battery.
Taichi: “Nothing shocks me anymore with Hikari. She could announce she’s been Beyonce this whole time and I would believe it”
WarGreymon appears (again) as his goldeny vision self, defeats Volcdramon, then promptly de-evolves back to Agumon.
So the question is, why is this happening... From earlier episodes we know Agumon & co are some group of legendary warriors who have had their memories tampered with (??) to some extent (because they do still know each other, or at least Agumon and Gabumon remember knowing each other). Omegamon’s a given for that of course so I suppose that’s why. Hikari seems to be the key to unlocking the legendary warriors, maybe with Takeru. That’s my guess. Of course, Tailmon’s probably already in the bad guys’ clutches, much like Patamon was. I hope she’s still working for them. I want more double agent fun times. Also ANGST
Hikari: “Thank you, Agumon-” *disappears*
Taichi: “GEEZ I can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t even breathe without something bad happening anymore, like excuse me for BLINKING”
Yeah so... Skullknightmon appears and abducts Hikari like it’s nothing xD
Skullknightmon: “What’s under arm number two? Iiiiit’s your sister!”
Taichi: “Aw damn, I wanted the sports car”
Taichi quickly gives chase. I assume Agumon’s pretty exhausted after that and probably can’t evolve now. Bad timing. Oooor maybe this is all how Skullknightmon planned it...
Then... the unthinkable! Hikari looks at her brother rushing desperately to save her... and turns away!
Taichi is SHOCKED! Le GASP!
Taichi: “But but but I’m the MAIN CHARACTER”
Hikari: “Not anymore bitch it’s my show now”
Yeah okay jokes aside! This bit was AWESOME. Like, I’m sure it’s obvious that she can tell the voice that “called” her to the digital world is with Skullnightmon. Or at least, her heart’s telling her she has to go with him in order to meet that person (Tailmon, duh). I’ll be surprised if that’s not what’s going on. But... to so coldly just turn her back on her brother... I mean, maybe she also thinks she’s protecting him... but SHE JUST GOT HERE... holy crap...
To think we spent so long theorizing that Takeru would be the one abducted but no it’s Hikari... In retrospect should have been obvious. She’s 1) a girl and therefore a damsel, and 2) the one who was abducted in 99 xP
But I really like her semi-willingly going off with Skullnightmon. Much better than just screaming as she’s whisked away King Kong-style. In 99 she also got abducted voluntarily (I mean, it was coercion, so... that’s not voluntary, but you know what I mean). So they kept that in this season and I like it.
That’s it for this week’s episode! So the bits that I liked were the individual moments with the kids and their partners, of which we had more than usual but still not nearly enough. Nowhere near. In the end it was still a Taichi episode.
As a Taichi fan... it’s not like I’m ever sad that he gets more focus. But I love ALL the kids and they’re NOT getting development. We do keep getting hints about them but it’s so, so, so slow. To be fair, it’s not like we know THAT much about Taichi either. He gets so much focus because he’s always fighting. This season doesn’t seem concerned with personality and character bits like the 99 one, and I am gonna compare them for that. Because I think that was the heart of the 99 show. Without it, it’s missing something. I keep hoping it’ll come back, we keep getting those hints and special moments here and there, but the plot is such a distraction... if it was like a really good plot maybe I’d care less but...
Next week... as far as I can see, it’s another Taichi episode xP But I do think they’ll do the same as this episode and intersperse Taichi’s battle with what’s going on with the others too. If that’s how they do it, I won’t mind. It might even be better. Fine, Taichi can fight, as long as the others are showing us more about themselves and getting other things done in the meantime. Mimi and Jou both look promising. Takeru too. Sora and Yamato, not sure..
Koushirou better not just sit at his computer the whole time -___-
Le owch.
Taichi: “Look being the main character’s not all it’s cracked up to be. I have three concussions and six broken bones. Also I can’t feel my toes anymore”
hang in there bud im cheering for ya
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Alright so!! I got some requests from people for me to make a post with tips on how I self-study my languages, so here we are! It’s not perfect and everyone studies differently, but I hope some of these tips can help you out.
Personally I study Korean & Thai so this list is aimed at those but a lot of the study tips are pretty general and can be applied to whatever language you’re learning.
I’m an energetic puppy in human form - I simply CANNOT sit still and study for longer than 20 minutes before getting insanely restless and distracted, so I tend to only actually sit down and actively study once a week. If you’re expecting something clever and insightful this is absolutely the opposite of that... I basically trick myself into learning! So here is my silly little guide, let’s go!
General Tips:
★ Get ridiculous with sticky notes. Seriously, do it. If you’re just starting out and don’t know the words for all of those household objects then go ahead and scribble them down on those post its and stick them EVERYWHERE. It might drive your family members/roommates crazy but hey... you’re doing it for a good cause, right?
★ Don’t rely on romanization too much - if your language has its own writing system, focus on that using as much as you can. Romanization seems helpful but in the long run you’ll rely on it too much. It’s better to get familiar with the native writing system asap!
★ Pick out a word/phrase of the day and write it somewhere you’ll see it often. I have a whiteboard in my room that I’ll scribble a few phrases onto and then every time I walk past it, I’ll say them. Or if I’m not gonna be home all day then I write something on my wrist and glance at it throughout the day! This one is the most fun because when people see it they’re like “ooh that looks pretty!” or “ooh does it mean something deep and profound?” when in reality you have the phrase I like cheese written on your arm and it never stops being entertaining. Bonus points if someone native to that language reads it and looks at you like you’re crazy.
★ Say the words in silly voices. It sounds weird but if you’re sitting there repeating words (like the word banana, for example) from an app in a monotone voice you’re definitely less likely to remember it than if you’re yelling out “BANANA!!” in an opera voice or squeaking out “b an a n a” dramatically as you let go of Jack’s hand and let him sink into the ocean.
★ Don’t isolate vocabulary. Learning new words is great, but it’s useless and you’re more likely to forget it if you don’t learn to use it in a sentence.
★ Keep a diary! One of the absolute best ways to practice your writing and improve your skills is to just jot down a few things every now and then. It’ll be rusty and you won’t have much to say at first and will definitely keep needing that dictionary every 2 seconds, but after a few weeks you’ll really notice the difference. Buy pretty pens and stickers to motivate yourself to write in it! It’s also fun to do this around people who can’t speak it as they’ll look at it in awe and you can show off when in actual fact your writing is usually a clumsy scribbled “today I snacks eat and go sleep” but hey what they don’t know can’t hurt and it’s always fun to look like a genius.
★ Talk to your pets in that language. They’re not going to judge you, they actually don’t even care what you say as long as you say it in that entertaining pet voice. I don’t have any friends that speak Korean or Thai so the majority of my speaking practice is hurled at my dog. If you don’t have a pet, then plants or stuffed animals work perfectly too!
★ Listen to language podcasts while you do household chores, heck if you’ve gotta do something boring, might as well yell foreign words while you do it!
★ Change your phone settings to your target language. That way you’re literally forcing yourself to use it, and it becomes second nature and you pick up key words so quickly. Only do it if you know how to get back into your settings and change it back if you have to... or else you’re stuck and lost.
★ Listen to music and sing a lot. Just scream those lyrics! A little off-key screeching never hurt anybody!
★ Get comfortable with numbers. They’re something that is dominant in ALL languages and you’re going to use them on a daily basis. Start with learning how to count to ten and get comfortable with it, and then go higher. Once you’re used to numbers individually, make it harder. I used to get my mum to write out 10 random numbers between 1 to 10,000 in the morning and I would translate them, and then I would do the same for myself in the evening. After a while you get quicker at them and before you know it you don’t have to awkwardly translate them in your head anymore, the numbers are just there ready in your brain.
★ Don’t only watch dramas! Watch more natural stuff too - variety shows, vlogs, instagram lives... anything where people are just chatting like they normally would do. That way you’re subconsciously learning more casual speech patterns and casual language too!
★ Don’t just study at home! Always make sure you have a dictionary handy (like on your phone, for example!) and keep your brain busy while you’re out and about. Buying some groceries? Try to name everything in the fruit and vegetable aisles and if you don’t know the name of something, look it up! You’re more likely to remember vocab this way as your brain has a situation to associate it to.
★ Be mean and make yourself work for things you normally do - check your horoscope on a regular basis? Read it in your new language instead! Want to check out the weather forecast? Do it the hard way.
★ Don’t feel like studying? Not in the mood? Then don’t do it! Instead put on your favourite show in your study language of choice. Not every study session has to be a hard one. Just relax and watch a foreign movie! You have no idea how much your brain picks up without you even noticing, chilling out and watching a drama absolutely counts as studying. Don’t force yourself to study if you’re not feeling it, you’re more likely to learn if you’re having a good time.
Advanced Tips:
★ Get keyboard stickers - if your new language has a different alphabet and you use your laptop to study it a lot then you’re definitely gonna need these! You can buy them SUPER cheap on ebay!
★ Change the language on your Netflix account and get ready to binge watch your faves! If you change your profile language to the one that you’re studying, you’ll notice that a lot of the shows available will now show subtitles in that language too. If you’re pretty advanced then now is probably the time to drop your native subs and start watching with the original subtitles in the original language.. good luck!
★ Play Pokemon. When the latest Pokemon games started coming out with Korean language options I JUMPED at the chance - what better way to study than to just laze around playing video games? This is great for any other kinds of games you can snatch up in your target language too.
★ Read a favourite book in your new language. A common one is Harry Potter! It’s pretty much available in every language at this point and it’s a story you probably already know, which means you never get too lost because you know the plot already.
Resources:
Here are a bunch of apps and things that I use for studying that I find super helpful (and all of these are free!)
Drops (for Thai and Korean - available in both the apple store and the google play store)
- I use this app every single day without fail. It’s brilliant for expanding your vocabulary (there are TONS of languages available on there too!) HOWEVER: It only lets you study for 5 minutes and then you have to wait around 9-ish hours before you gain another 5 minutes to work with unless you want to pay for more. But honestly? That’s a good thing. You only need 5 minutes of vocab study before your brain wants to dissolve into mush anyway. I get up, do my morning stuff (usually just involves rolling around and blinking in confusion before grabbing a coffee) and then sit and do 5 minutes of drops, and then by the evening my 5 minutes have replenished and I do it again. Rinse and repeat, and you’ll be learning more words in a week than you even realise!
Duolingo (I use this for Korean, there is currently no Thai option)
- This app is fantastic. I don’t recommend it for beginners as it should be used as more of an aid alongside your natural studies, rather than as a study resource itself. This app expects you to already know the basics so I’d dig into this one once you’re starting to get a little comfortable with your language!
Naver Dictionary (for Korean)
- I use this every single day! Not only does it help me when I need to find a certain word, it also gives me lists of example sentences which is PERFECT and super helpful when I’m trying to memorize words!
And for Thai I use Thai-English Dictionary (I can only find it in the Apple store sadly) and that’s incredibly handy too, I wouldn’t be able to cope without it! I also use this website as a Thai dictionary when I’m not on my iPad!
Talk To Me In Korean (for Korean)
- This has been a core element to my Korean studies. They have tons of lessons available on their website, they do regular YouTube videos (usually only 5-10 mins long, perfect for just a mini casual study session!) and they also sell textbooks and do podcasts too. If you learn best from textbooks then these are by far my favourite ones I’ve found, give them a try! They’re not too pricey.
Lingodeer (for Korean)
- It’s cute, it’s friendly and it’s helpful!! I learned a bunch of new phrases using this one and it’s perfect for casual study!
Memrise (for Korean)
- Fantastic if you’re a beginner! There are tons of languages available on here too. Although, there are only 3 levels in Korean so I got through this one pretty fast.
Eggbun (for Korean)
- An app that encourages you to learn using a texting format! I haven’t really used it much but I have friends that have said it’s really useful!
Ling (for Thai and Korean)
- This one was pretty good, once again though I wouldn’t use it if you’re a beginner, it’s probably a lot more helpful if you know the basics before you attempt this one! I’ve only used it for Thai but there’s a Korean option you could try checking it out!
Mondly (for Thai and Korean)
- This app is cheeky and it wants your money. You get a bunch of free lessons to start with which are GREAT but that’s it. Then it reduces you to one free lesson a day but honestly? Still useful so go ahead and use it. They also have speaking practice available too!
Thai2English (for Thai)
- This website is an absolute LIFESAVER!! If I’m ever browsing and come across a sentence that just throws me, I simply copy and paste and this legend of a website just breaks it down for me word for word.
Extra Korean links:
Children’s books in Korean
Learning Korean through fairytales - a textbook used in Korea for children who are learning to read, it’s helpful as a Korean language learner too! You get a little story and then it’ll ask you questions about what you just read.
TOPIK previous exams - these are so good for practice and if you want to get a general idea of what academic level your Korean skills are at.
Learning to type in Hangul - this one was fun and I now type Korean pretty comfortably on my laptop so if you know you’re gonna be typing a lot, I recommend this program!
#the way I learn languages is so weird I am so SORRY#I kinda just implement my language into my daily life and it works perfectly for me... I hope this is helpful to at least ONE person djgsjk#thai resources are sadly not that common but I'll add more if I find them!#language studies
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tgcf lb the second. chapters 7-13
love that we’re getting fu yao and nan feng described as “two little pretty boys” amazing and completely as expected also everything theyve done is 10000% funnier now
The military officials heard their impromptu, slapstick live comedy and couldn’t help but smile. The dissatisfaction in their hearts had dissipated a lot, and they felt a bit more closer to the other three. This resulted in the sedan chair becoming much more stable. - tbh it is often true that if you make people laugh they are more likely to like you in my experience. to be fair what xie lian did was funny theyre a funny trio
okay time for some creatures and beings. base slaves do sound terrifying no thank you i do not like hordes. remind me a bit of husks from mass effect and those were the worst so. also xie lian wielder of silk ribbons i like it
im very :eyes: at fu yao and nan feng rn. i think theres more going on with them..... i have suspicions but we’ll see
well goodbye butterfly boy who crushes skulls and spiritual arrays and sick boots and taught me what a vambrace is. im guessing we shall meet again i have the strangest feeling that ive heard about you
In fact, all of the dead people in this room wore wedding garments while smiling even in death. - grim!!! spooky!!!
The moment he finished saying that, he pinched that corpse’s face twice. The youngster only felt that the skin beneath his hands felt smooth like tofu, making people’s hearts feel itchy. - eww!!!! also dont feel up the corpse buddy wtf. also everyone leave little ying alone
Drip, drop. Drip, drop. This created the frightening scene of a forest filled with corpses as blood rained down from above. even more grim!! - happy halloween kids
When he heard Fu Yao’s explanation, Xie Lian thought in his heart, ‘This name was truly unnecessary. If it was a ‘Devastation’, then it was a ‘Devastation’. If it wasn’t, then it wasn’t. Just like how there were only the phrases, ‘ascended’ and ‘haven’t ascended yet’. There were no such things as ‘near ascending’ or ‘approaching ascending’. On the contrary, adding on a ‘near’ word made people feel awkward. - nevermind the deaths, xie lian needs to make some points about semantics. it has nothing to do with the situation at hand and i love it
QI RONG IVE HEARD ABOUT YOU FROM MY MUTUALS!!! terrified
Who knew how many times he had already said that phrase tonight. Every time something happened, Xie Lian would have to say it at least thirty to forty times. However, there would always be people who turned a deaf ear to his warnings. He felt truly quite helpless. - not sure if this is be xie lian is dressed up as a bride or if its just his bad luck. or if its bc thats just how people are. either way i feel you buddy
“Excuse me for this.” Xie Lian grabbed a hand from each bride before placing them on each other’s necks. The two brides suddenly touched something and were very surprised. Since they couldn’t see anything, they began to fiercely destroy each other. - xie lian stop being funny fjlkajdfs;kasj also right after this he goes into his street performer spiel upon being applauded. amazing
the visual of this fight with the villagers inside the ruoye loop and all the brides is pretty sick. also xi lian on the spirit phone to ling wen while the villagers cheer is very funny
heteronormativity obfuscates another mystery... but also a possessive jealous bride walking on her knees... thats quite a figure!! and tbh it is interesting that everyone assumed that the ghost was a bridegroom who didnt want to see happy couples and not a bride who didnt want to see happy couples. congrats xie lian for thinking
bruh she ripped his skull out and it screamed
i mean the indiscriminate killing of innocent women is bad but other than that im on her side tbh fuck this general pei guy
ow wtf i just cried a little bit. xie lian’s reassurance to little ying... her response.... wtf ;_;
As for the matter between General Pei and Xuan Ji, unless one was directly involved, it was better not to comment on who was right or wrong. He could only pity those seventeen innocent brides, the military officials and drivers who had escorted them. It truly was an unexpected disaster. - valid. still sympathetic to her tho i just am
human face plague..... bruh. okay might have to alternate between reading this and watching hannibal not sure i wanna do those together
He really wanted to hang a sign on his back saying, ‘Ascension is not as good as collecting scraps’ and promote it in the mortal world. - this lb is officially just funny xie lian moments now
The meaning behind his words were basically, the female ghost Xuan Ji causing trouble could not be blamed on General Pei, because she originally did not have the ability to cause it. If they wanted to pin the blame on someone, then they should pin it on Green Ghost Qi Rong, for it was him who took in Xuan Ji and gave her the ability to harm people. - told you. i was right to blame the men
i have indeed seen the donghua trailer so my suspicions that butterfly boy was indeed hua cheng being confirmed are just like. yep. exactly as expected.
i read the second half of chapter 12 on my phone so i didnt get any quotes but hua cheng rise to infamy funny. xie lian listening to it all and just going “hehe silver butterflies pretty” is also funny
i forgot that xie lian was in debt but im glad he paid it off good for him be free
After a while, Ling Wen really couldn’t stand it anymore and privately told him, “Your Highness ah, the things you send in the spirit communication array are all very good, however, I’m afraid that even a Heavenly Official a few hundred years older than you wouldn’t send them.” - fakhlsdfjakl; ling wen really told xie lian he was facebook grandparent posting in the spirit communication array
Since he couldn’t fix this, then it was still better to just forget about it. Xie Lian gave up on this issue, and as a result, stopped being gloomy as well. - you know what i respect that attitude i really do. xie lian said well ill just get over it and he did. i need to do this with twitter
However, this kind of problem didn’t exist for Xie Lian. With the curse upon him, he was no different compared to mortals, and thus could eat everything. And because he was a seasoned veteran of a hundred battles, no matter what he ate, he wouldn’t die. Whether it was a steamed bun that had been lying around for a month, or pastries that already sprouted some green mold, he would definitely be fine after eating those things. Since he had a constitution like this that defied the heavens, he actually got by alright during the period he collected scraps. - im sorry i know i keep saying it but xie lian is so funny i love him fjasdlfsdjfadksl literally king of eating garbage i love him so much
okay more hua cheng lore next time. and this interloper in the cart... ok
#mouse mumbles#tgcf liveblog#honestly so far everythings just really funny#except the gruesome bit and the bit where i cried#but i really do like xie lian a lot
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Guzhuang Dramas and Heroines
There’s a common trend in heroines in guzhuang dramas, so its not surprising the heroines that are most memorable are those that go against the odds.
Wei Yingluo (魏璎珞) played by Wu Jinyan (吴谨言) in The Story of the Yanxi Palace (延禧攻略) is a great example of a heroine that starts out strong and clever.
The Typical Trend
Usually, female leads start out innocent and naive (if not stupid). There’s a Chinese phrase for this - 傻白甜 (Sha Bai Tian). It basically means, stupid, innocent, cute. And that's exactly how a number of our protagonists start out, here’s a list of just a few of them:
Zhen Huan (甄嬛) - Legend of Zhen Huan (甄嬛传)
Jin Mi (锦觅) - Ashes of Love (香蜜沉沉烬如霜)
Qu Xiaofeng (曲小枫) - Goodbye My Princess (东宫)
Hua Qiangu (花千骨) - Journey of Flower (花千骨)
Wan Mei (晚媚) - Bloody Romance (媚者无疆)
Li Weiyang (李未央) - Princess Weiyoung (锦绣未央)
Others may start out smart, clever or witty, but rarely are they ever full on “badass”. For almost all of these examples (minus Xiaofeng) they all grow to become more cruel, evil, smart or “badass”. There is also a term for this in Chinese - 黑化. It basically means the opposite of 傻白甜. Of course this kind of character development, when done well, can really be amazing. It can show why this character becomes this certain way, and launch many moral arguments.
Who Goes Against this Trend?
Rarely do they unleash hell upon their enemies or straight up manipulate or beat up others right off the bat. Very few protagonists start out cruel, intelligent, and worldly. Honestly, I would say Wei Yingluo (魏璎珞) is really quite a spectacular character in that respect. Yes, her character is kind of unrealistic in that aspect as well, but it gives such a fresh feel to Yanxi Palace. She starts out clever and cruel, ready to manipulate anyone into feeding her information, and she’s the opposite of innocent. Not only is she vicious and intelligent, she also is stubborn and very strong. She is wiling to do anything to avenge her sister’s death, and when death is glaring her in the face she will punch it with all her force.
Another notable female lead who is not innocent, cute and stupid is Huang Rong (黄蓉) from Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传). While I would say she is definitely more innocent than Wei Yingluo, in terms of strength and intelligence, she is truly amazing. Huang Rong has got to be one of the smartest characters of all time. She’s not smart in a cruel way, but she is extremely intelligent terms of being able to understand various martial arts, fighting tactics, and how to please various people in order to get what she wants. She also knows a great amount of martial arts and can learn a new skill and master it extremely easily. She is rather innocent however, and tends to view people in a more positive light.
Huang Rong (黄蓉) played by Li Yitong (李一桐) in Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传)
Lu Zhaoyao (路招摇), the female lead in Zhao Yao (招摇) would be an exception to this as well, but not as much as Yingluo and Huang Rong. She does start out rather innocent and idiotic, but she is also strong and proud. However, what differentiates her more visibly is the fact that she becomes cruel and vicious must earlier into the series (I forgot exactly when since I never finished the show but... I’m guessing in the first six episodes).
While I would say that Chu Qiao (楚乔) goes against the trend because she starts out cautious, independent and strong, she isn’t fully cruel or vicious either. She never really plots against others or manipulate them into their downfall as Wei Yingluo does.
So Why are the Female Leads always the same?
I don’t know, but I really would like to know. Even going beyond just guzhuang, almost every single heroine out there starts out stupid, immature, innocent or full of idiotic dreams. I can list so many from school dramas its not even funny. I have no idea why directors/screenwriters feel as if this trope is soooooooooooo interesting and why they feel they must use this trope in every single series.
Though, as I said before, when a female lead grows throughout the series and you can see all the different events/obstacles that led to her becoming cruel and evil, that is character development done well. Perhaps in big guzhuang dramas that's what the writer is preparing you for. Building up this character’s hatred piece by piece until they are fed up and fall to the “dark side”.
Zhen Huan (甄嬛) played by Sun Li (孙俪) in Legend of Zhen Huan (甄嬛传). CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT DONE RIGHT!
For Xiaofeng in Goodbye My Princess I can also see the reasoning behind having this kind of female lead. They create this rather spoiled, cheerful, and innocent young girl who smiles all the time and then they show how this one event and betrayal changes her forever. While she’s still smiley and energetic once she arrives at the palace, that's only because she jumped into the River of Forgetfulness. Once everything comes back to her, she becomes depressed and lonely. With many harem dramas they suggest that a character must become evil like the villains in order to succeed, and in Goodbye My Princess, there seems to be a subtle message that because Xiaofeng is so nice, kind and unwilling to hurt others, she cannot rise to any significant power. With Zhen Huan she eventually becomes the Empress Dowager, with power in the harem that's only second to the Emperor. With Wan Mei (晚媚) from Bloody Romance (媚者无疆), she becomes the leader of Gui Hua City, never having to take orders from anybody else. With Wei Yingluo, she becomes the loved Noble Consort who is the Emperor’s favorite and has nobody else to share his love with. But with Xiaofeng, she ends up dying, sacrificing her life for peace. She is unwilling to see so many lives lost over her ill-fated romance because she is such a kind and compassionate person. She has never plotted to kill or sabotage anyone. In the other hand, Zhen Huan plotted against Hua Fei, the Empress, An Lingrong etc. Wan Mei plotted against Cha Luo, and Wei Yingluo plotted against, Ling Long, Chun Fei, Xian Fei and Shun Pin. This trend seems to suggest (in this epic melodramas) that it is those who can become cruel and vicious, that succeed in the end.
Wan Mei (晚媚) played by Li Yitong (李一桐) in Bloody Romance (媚者无疆).
Wan Mei is another interesting example. She’s kind, compassionate and unwilling to kill the innocent, but she is willing to kill anyone cruel or evil. In the course of the show, her plot to become the leader of the City of Assassins leads to the deaths of her shadow and lover, and despite becoming leader of the city, she ends up lonely and sad, despite never becoming vicious. Why is this? With Zhen Huan, she becomes cruel because there was nobody there to stop her, nobody who she could trust and nobody that could comfort her. Her best friend died, her lover died, and now she's alone. There’s no one left that she really “cares”. With Wan Mei, the person she loved, Chang An, died for her, and he specifically told her never to become evil or scheming. Wan Mei treats his words like a rule she must follow, for if she doesn’t it would feel like she is betraying him. With this kind of pressure to remain kind, its no wonder she never becomes cruel. Everybody who died for her, Xing Feng, Chang An, Liu Guang etc, they all died because they wanted her to change the rules of the City. They wanted her to treat the other assassins nicely, and let them leave if they wanted to live a normal life. They sacrificed themselves so she could create a better world. If she didn’t change a thing and rule as cruelly as the leader before her, she would be betraying everyone’s hopes and dreams.
Well, that was a lot of rambling and hopefully it made sense! Anyways, I really love good character development!
#cdrama#cdrama analysis#Yanxi palace#story of yanxi palace#Zhen huan#Legend of the Condor Heroes#bloody romance#zhao yao#the legends
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