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William Lai next Taiwan president
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How the ROC is defined could have profound repercussions for cross-Strait relations.
by Prof. KAWASHIMA Shin
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US reaffirms commitment to “Taiwan’s self-defence capabilities”
Laura Rosenberg, chair of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the US embassy on the island, stated Tuesday that Washington would maintain its “commitment to supporting Taiwan’s self-defence capabilities.”
“The United States reiterates our long-standing commitments to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability. As you know, we are seizing upon the full range of tools authorised by Congress, and will continue to do so.”
Rosenberg also highlighted the US commitment to “maintaining a strong unofficial relationship with Taiwan that upholds democratic values, deepens our economic ties, and supports Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the international community.”
We remain committed to our one China policy guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three Joint Communiques, and the Six Assurances. For more than 40 years, this framework has enabled the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Beijing denounced the US delegation’s visit to the island, declaring that “anyone in the international community who violates the one-China principle is interfering in China’s internal affairs and infringing upon China’s sovereignty, and will face the joint opposition of the Chinese people and the international community.”
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#world news#world politics#news#taiwan#taiwan strait#taipei#taiwanelections#china#china news#china politics#chinese politics#lai ching te#william lai#xi jinping#mao ning#us news#us politics#usa news#usa today#usa politics#america#united states#united states of america
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Lukas: okay, well, they're not listening to you or me, so you guys all do fucking sick, goodbye. I'm sorry I did a cuss.
Ava: oh, you can say all of the swear words that you can. I'm a cool grandma.
Lila and Jaysohn gasp
Lila: fuck
Jaysohn: shit
Lila: shut up!
Jaysohn: pants!
Lila: hell!
All: pants *laughing*
Siobhan: I panicked!
Lukas: pants yea, let's roll!
Brennan: you pants with me again and I'll pants you right in your pants
Rashawn: don't pants me man
#aabria iyengar#dimension 20#burrow's end#ep 9 human#brennan lee mulligan#siobhan thompson#rashawn scott#jasper william cartwright#erika ishii#isabella roland#pants!#lukas: i'm very good at eating#lukas: i can go to sleep right when i lay down#brennan: these are just the things your mom has complimented him on: you're such a good eater! you go right to sleep when i put you down!
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The Husbands of River Song is not and has never been about the Eleventh Doctor being a deadbeat, distant husband (gross mischaracterization by the way) and the Twelfth Doctor being the "better, more mature, affectionate" husband.
It was about River Song. It was about River and how the events in Manhattan took such a toll on her. It was about letting us see River dealing with grief the way The Snowmen showed us how the Doctor coped after losing believing he had used up all his time with River.
Looking at THORS now with The Ruby's Curse in mind, I get the instinct (for lack of a word that I cannot remember) that the Manhattan incident Blue Roach read from River's diary was not the Manhattan episode that we saw in series 7.
On that note, I'd also like to bring up the fact that the Doctor grounds River and River grounds the Doctor. As Tree talked about in one of her tags, River's empathy is more cognitive than emotional and after musing on it for a bit – considering that the Doctor can no longer go to Manhattan (which may have changed in later series but I wouldn't know at the moment because I have yet to overcome series 7b) and that River does spend time with her parents in Manhattan post-TATM, would the latest Manhattan incident in River's diary be the funeral for Amy? Amy's death? Perhaps even Anthony's? I mean, we already know Rory died five years earlier than Amy. So, knowing how deep River's love for her mother is, it's not too farfetched to say that River spent that time with them. River was by their bedsides as they drew their last breath.
Then Rory's gone, Amy's gone, Anthony's gone. Where does that leave River? Where is the Doctor? (sulking on a cloud on top of Victorian London? trying to figure out the mystery of his newest companion? all while constantly mentioning a certain Professor Song who actually turns out to be his dearly sort of departed absolutely beloved wife?)
Without her parents (and her husband) to ground her, she goes on this maddened, grieving space Robin Hood spree. She seeks fun to fill in the void and takes up marriage as a hobby/side quest. Does she look for the Doctor? Perhaps. Yes, actually. Considering she crashed her latest sort-of-husband's ship onto a planet where she purported the TARDIS to be.
But... she's stealing the TARDIS. She could have just called the Doctor, yeah? So, she doesn't want the Doctor to know then. Well... yeah, considering she has two sort-of-husbands in hand.
So, River would just have gone on from one space Robin Hood spree to the next had the TARDIS not sort-of-stranded herself on Mendorax Dellora to make sure her Water stopped being stubborn and reconcile(?) with her Thief?
Also taking note of how River has read stories about them and knows that Darillium is purported to be their last night together (I could also bring up the fact that this is why I find it easy to digest the "River meeting regenerations of the Doctor younger than the Tenth Doctor makes sense and doesn't break cannon nor ruin SITL/FOTD" but that would take a whole other post). Does this River believe her time with the Eleventh Doctor has ended? The same way series 7b Eleven believed his time with older versions of River has ended? Is this all part of some grand fuckup in communication all thanks to their tangled timelines?
Maybe. Maybe not.
But has River not just been running from her family's death? Has River been running from her supposed last night with the Doctor?
"But River doesn't run." Oh yes. Yes, she does. She knows when to stand her ground. She knows when to charge. And she knows when to run.
"That's out of character for her." No, it's not. She's not invincible. She's this well trained assassin, yes. But invincible? No.
Invincible from the tendency to be blinded by their emotions? Obviously not.
River lies. And River runs.
She is not afraid of her death. She is afraid of the day when her husband, her Doctor, looks into her eyes and looks right through her. And it shouldn't kill her but it does. It did.
So she ran and ran until her bigger-on-the-inside Mum gently reached out and put her back together with the only person left who could ground her. Who she didn't recognize at first but still fell in love with (and would have loved even if he hadn't been revealed to be her actual, long missing husband). Who finally found out their last night wasn't just any night – it was a twenty-four year long last night. Who finally gave her a breather from all the running she'd been doing.
And oh what a night that was (it was the talk of the universe).
#tia talks tish#dw musings#i should be studying but look! i'm yapping away about fictional characters that nobody in my (offline) life knows about#and to whoever wants to yap accordingly or in the opposite manner please be kind to my remaining brain cell i'm just trying to make sense of#my own brain 👍🏻#laying all this out made me feel like that one meme with the guy about to burst his vein trying to explain the wall of stuff behind him#does all this make sense? most likely not. i refuse to reread it because it would just end up in the drafts if i do so and would not see the#light of day until - oh maybe six months from now#doctor who#river song#doctor x river#eleventh doctor#yowzah#twelfth doctor#the doctor#amy pond#rory williams#doctorriver musings#THORS has serious plot holes i'd like to banish forever but it still gave my gal River and her husband that much needed breather#so for that it's sort of forgiven (but never really forgotten)
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What remains constant is the fact that her death is romanticized. More than that, idealized. Type her name into Google and you can quickly find hundreds of depictions of flower-crowned girls in ponds with thousands of reblogs on Tumblr. Those many, many versions of her are uniformly gorgeous, almost dreamy. Everyone picks up on Ophelia being "mermaid-like" with her garlands of flowers. There's very little acknowledgment of her abrupt and muddy death. That's not pretty. It's not picturesque. While Hamlet gets long soliloquies and self-introspection, Ophelia gets lute playing and off-stage drowning. - Nadine Akkerman, "Dead Woman in the Bathtub"
#'her garments pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death.'#society: idk suddenly i can't read but i liked the part about the mermaid#that second gif will be starring in my bad dreams tonight#thanks for that jean#hamlet#william shakespeare#jean simmons#the silver screen#*
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darl + jewel, as I lay dying
after abel, dante émile/ as i lay dying, william faulkner/ cain and abel, orazio riminaldi/ antigonick, anne carson/ you are jeff, richard siken
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#it's 5am I'm laying in bed and I'm thinking about a bunch of pixels#i need therapy#also my rose toy#pls ignore me#i need her so bad it hurts#abby anderson#abby anderson smut#abby tlou#abby the last of us#abby anderson x reader#abby anderson x you#tlou2#the last of us#ellie williams smut
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I've been wondering about some details we never got to know about Ellie, and it lives in my mind rent free.
Like, is Ellie allergic to something? Is there any kind of food she can't eat because it makes her tummy ache? What is her favorite color, taste, and thing to eat? What is her number-one favorite song and game? What is her zodiac sign? How tall is she? We already know what she loves, but what are the things that upset her? Has she ever had a crush on someone she saw in a magazine or read about in a book? What are her turn-ons and turn-offs? Can she cook at least a little something, and if so, what meal does she know she's good at preparing? Can she speak any other language besides English? Does she know any Spanish words or phrases? What about something that happened in her past life that she is incredibly embarrassed about? What annoys her the most, and what soothes her when she's upset? Is she a hot chocolate or a tea person? Did she ever have nightmares as a kid, and if so, what were they like?
I could go on, but I need answers that I won't ever get.
#shame on you naughty dog for never giving us the answers#i need to lay down and daydream this#ellie williams#ellie tlou#the last of us#tlou#the last of us game#tlou game#the last of us part 1#the last of us part 2
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Would it be a fucked up headcanon if Veldiguns could see the ghosts of their past victims
Like- imagine Clyde just manifesting Lewis for Alex to see and talk to only briefly
#alex williams doai#dreams of an insomniac#doai#doai sitcom au#i was literally laying in bed thinking about this with a huge ass smile on my face#clyde doai
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This fucking moment right here. THIS FUCKING MOMENT RIGHT FUCKING HERE
The undeniable female fucking rage.I was holding my breath the entire fucking time.
The way that the camera lense was going blurry because of all that fucking blood???
#the last of us#ellie williams#ellie the last of us#ellie tlou#the last of us episode 8 spoilers#tlou spoilers#bella ramsey#I’m literally laying on the fucking floor right now clutching my chest
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