In general, most often celebrities do not change their names after marriage, but in their case there is a possibility that this could happen and it would be funny: after all, it’s not Tom who can change his name (and become just Tom - this is absurd) 😆), but Zendaya’s surname changes will not change anything for society and cinema, she never used her last name and it would be funny if she really changed her last name and they accidentally found out about it a couple of years after the wedding, for example, in some interview like the one where a French journalist asked TZ - their names, last names, family status. For example, many years ago, when Madonna was married to Guy Ritchie, she bore his last name. Changing your last name is optional anyway, but it's always a funny TZ joke.
i'll never get tired of the "just Tom" joke
but yah, my sister-in-law didn't change her name, it's not really a big deal, i just think us making such generalized statements about them as "they would NEVER change their last names" is so wanna be progressive, it's not a good take to have when changing your last name simply can be for sentimental reasons and people are allowed to want to share a family name, i personally would want to share a last name with any future spouse, i dont care about keeping my current last name
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Ive seenyou mention wuxia a few times now and i wonder what that is. Would you mind explaining it to me?
not the most qualified person to explain this as i'm not, in fact, from china; but i've read a couple of wuxia so here goes:
wuxia is a genre of fiction from china specifically, about martial artists in ancient china. i don't think a specific time period is like required? obviously some dynasties are more popular but idk how it goes in that front. it just has to be Not Today and probably Too Long Ago. like pre industral revolution i think. again idk if that's a requirement, but most i've seen are from around the same relative murky pre-electricity era.
xianxia is a subgenre of wuxia that's specifically more fantasy-like, and it's not just martial arts, but also spiritual powers and cultivation (which i have no fucking clue how to explain without two hours and three tangents other than chinese magic system. if you've ever heard of chi/qi as an energy, it appears there). so like- genshin is by all accounts a xianxia, it just doesn't use the more common specific xianxia terms like cultivation. some of those are very weird to translate and probably not common for the average non-wuxia reader, so it makes sense why they're going for alternatives.
chongyun and xingqiu and xianyun are very much straight out of a xianxia. xianyun's entire story quest was the closest genshin has gotten to a straight xianxia plot so far. i highly reccomend ashikai's video on unnecessary visions if you want more info on why genshin is a xianxia hahah
cyanide narwhal has some talk of some stuff from xianxia, but that's mostly because well- fucking liyue, that's how it works there. the whole light energy striking down someone who's getting powerful and giving them godhood if they survive the strike is, while not exactly like that, something that happens in some xianxia as well.
like the way adepti work in general is just very xianxia. ashikai does a much better job explaining it than i do tbh but yeah
TL;DR: wuxia is chinese martial arts fiction in ancient china, and xianxia is a wuxia subgenre with more magic elements. also genshin is a xianxia
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Hachi was named for the time of her birth- born precisely at 8:00 am according to the medical staff (as "hachi" is also the pronunciation for the number 8 in Japanese). Hachi's name is written with the katakana ハチ. It is worth noting that names written in hiragana or katakana do not hold specific meanings as names written in kanji do; they are purely phonetic.
While it's not uncommon for given names to be written in the phonetic-based katakana or hiragana rather than kanji, and while Hachi has no issue with the name or the set of characters selected on its own, it occasionally becomes a point of insecurity for her when contrasted to her sister Emi's name, which is written in kanji--specifically, the kanji 恵美 (恵 meaning "blessing, favour, benefit" and 美 meaning "beautiful, pretty").
For Emi's name to so deliberately note her as beautiful blessing while Hachi's name is much more simply based off of the time of her birth, well, it's prime fodder for (over?)thinking when Hachi gets caught up in trying to analyze it.
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tagged by @leviiackrman @denerims @shadowglens @risingsh0t & @indorilnerevarine to make some of my oc pairings in this picrew – thank you guys so much ily! ♡
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Back on my Hospital bullshit <33
Have a Fleaf
Anyways fun fact, Fleagood is like. Probably my irrationally favorite doctor??? I dunno I just saw the lil fleafuck and somethin clicked and I was like “holy shit that’s him, that’s my skrunkly.” I don’t even know how it happened, I don’t know why it happened, but Im just overly attached to the flea muppet now.
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