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天行健 (Floating World) :: Rongtian Sect dance cut (cr. Chen Tianming)
#天行健#Tian Xing Jian#Floating World#v: weibo#lyn livestream#thanks tianming! :)#Liu Yuning#Fu Jing#Chen Tianming#'beggar's sect' XD#(actually the sect name means: 'to melt the sky')#(or is it 'to become one with the sky')#so i learned more abt this from the streaming event#lyn's character zhuo bufan wants to be/is the world's best swordsman#but in this world- it has already advanced to the point of having firearms#so there's the disconnect there#of being the best in a skill that is becoming obsolete
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anyway can we talk about how almost every upcoming liu yuning character is a tragic figure. cuz if im thinking about bai choufei for months after finishing heroes idk how many more of those my mental health can take tbh
#liu yuning#oh so that's what it takes for me to finally make a tag for him#like of his 5(?) upcoming shows 3 of them are adaptations so we know exactly how things end for all his characters#and the answer is 'not good' for all of them! delightful#like spoilers obviously but as far as i can tell#di lin (from zi chuan) has a very similar character trajectory to bai choufei#starts out in the protagonist trio slowly gets pushed onto a path that eventually leads to him betraying his brothers#and thats the one thats projected to air this year so. delightful#as a side note the zi chuan animation is on myanimelist?? wild#zhuo bufan from floating world is the worlds best swordsman in the era when guns are just starting to get popularised#you can probably already see how that's gonna go for him#completely unrelated side note but the story of zhuo bufan and his love interest is so fucking weird#like this is all from that one floating world bts live lyn did but#she is somehow simultaneously his 师妹 (younger girl taught by the same master) and 师娘 (wife of his master) ??#no idea how that works dying to find out#and best for last! luo mingxi from legend of anle#just like. classic pathetic love triangle victim male second lead stubbornly in unrequited love with the female lead#also his health is terrible like hes constantly ill or something#like you can just tell hes gonna be one of those. pathetic meow meow wet paper bag men and im so here for it#hilariously after heroes came out a lot of lyn fans who read the book the legend of anle is based on were talking about how like#luo mingxi has this. super likeable characterisation#like you can kinda tell the entire fanbase is just really sick of the bai choufei discourse#and like desperately hoping that his next character is gonna be just. wholesome and unproblematic#well with the way the chronologies worked out in the end we're sure as hell not getting that if zi chuan airs first but oh well#the writer and director on zi chuan are from the writing/directing team of ultimate note actually so i have a lot of hope#cuz ultimate note was a really good adaptation so clearly this team knows what they're doing#actually ultimate note has 3 credited directors and of those 1 of them is a director on both zi chuan and floating world#another is directing a journey to love#c ents a small world i guess ???
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Zodiac: Twelve Souls — 31
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“All that excitement over nothing…”
news
— New translated chapter posted.
— Thinking of taking a break after next week’s chapter. I will write a note if I do.
— Next update target: November 29, 2022
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— Draw:
From 和局 (hé jú). Draw as in “tie”: The game ended in a draw.
— Lead, clue, etc.:
Quan Diyan often uses 线索 (xiàn suǒ) to refer to things. Among these include the green scale he took from Wuchang, the message that Shiye intercepted in Year of the Hen, and Wuchang herself.
线 + 索 — Literally, thread/string/wire/line + cable/cord/rope/chain. The term evokes a sense of following a thread to see where it leads. I alternately translate this as clue or lead or thread, depending on how natural it feels in English. For example, a person typically isn’t referred to as a clue, but may be considered a lead.
— All hail:
From 参见 (cān jiàn). An expression used when paying one’s respects. I’ve also translated this term as salutations in the past. See:
Chapter 0.12 (Year of the Pig):
猴兵：参见山君……
Monkey soldiers: All hail the Mountain Lord…
Chapter 18 (Depart):
马不凡：参见牛族长
Ma Bufan: Salutations to the leader of the Ox Clan.
Chapter 31 (Draw):
参见畜王！
All hail the King of Chu!
Definition-wise, “all hail” is pretty appropriate since it is meant to be a general respectful greeting.
Context-wise, the way I tend to see “all hail” used in contemporary media is towards sovereign authority figures, especially when the all-hailer is a subject of that figure. So it feels weird to me, on an instinctive level, to have Ma Bufan say, “All hail the leader of the Ox Clan” — even though it is quite appropriate!
— It’s the absolute truth:
From:
qiān zhēn wàn què
千真万确
A thousand truths, ten-thousand certainties.
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#生肖十二魂#twelvesouls#manhua translation#quan diyan#wuchang#ji shiye#mountain lord#ma bufan#ox clan leader#king of chu#chengyu
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re: Mordor's location
I'm confused! I can understand being annoyed that Mordor is in the east (for me, it's because any new birth/new beginnings symbolism fails. BUT on the other hand, it works great with tolkien's biblical stuff - from study.com, "'East of Eden' is an allusion to the Biblical Book of Genesis. After Cain murders his brother Abel, he is exiled to the land of Nod, 'east of Eden' (Genesis 4:16)". I LOVE Tolkien's biblical symbolism, and smeagol murdering his brother is a direct cain/abel reference, so having the evil be to the east really works for me.
So I guess I'm just wondering if a) the symbolism thing is what irritates you about Mordor's location (or if there's something else I'm missing), and b) how does the evil being in the north resolve this?
Hey cool question!
Caveat that I’m literally just liveblogging my first ever read of LOTR, so while I read Hobbit as a kid and I know the movies and a good portion of the medieval prose and poetry Tolkien is drawing on very well, the only LOTR text I can reference is… from the Shire to Weathertop. Additionally, my perspective is as a medievalist, but I wasn't raised Christian and can’t speak to Tolkien’s personal faith, just to how he might use (and does use) historical Christianity (and a bunch of non-Christian narratives) in his work. At least like. Up to Weathertop.
Short answer a) not exactly! b) Because I expected evil to be in the north, and it checked that box. So-- your particular interest in Christian symbolism is immediately relevant here, because about 700 years before the King James Bible, in the medieval literature (and medieval Christianity) among which Tolkien has settled his own Middle-Earth, people had very very strong feelings about the cardinal directions, and North was heavily associated with Lucifer — this being stated explicitly in an Old English retelling of Genesis called The Old English Hexameron. Here, Lucifer's fall starts like this:
"with a presumptuous pride (moodiness) he said that he would make his throne above the stars of God, over the height of the clouds, in the north part, and be like unto God." (p. 17; not my translation but my guy Henry Wilkins Norman nailed it)
mid dyrstigre modignysse cwæð ðæt he wolde wyrcan his cynesetl bufan Godes tunglum ofer ðæra wolcna heannysse on ðam norð dæle and beon Gode gelic. (p. 16)
In non-Christian stories (though written down centuries later by Christians), the Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda describes Hel as “down and to the North” (sorry, just a link wiki here). So, same idea, and beyond these texts, North is generally associated with hell, death, or evil in early medieval literature, much more clearly than East usually is (even factoring in Old English and Old Norse stories about Cain, Attila the Hun, and the more exciting fauna of the Indian subcontinent, all of which formed the early medieval idea of East). Thus, finding out that an original Big Bad, of whom Sauron was “but a servant,” had once made his throne in the north made me go “OH! He didn’t forget after all!” in utter frustrated delight. My confusion wasn't exactly with evil in the east; it was the lack of evil in the north.
(this reply is really long, but my main point ends here, for anyone looking to bail out)
Actually, Genesis retellings in Old English are absolutely fascinating; I’m not wedded to Christian-only symbolism, but if it’s what you enjoy a lot, I very much suggest looking into the Hexameron and Genesis A, both great examples and very well known to Tolkien.
Personally I suspect I'll end up reading the symbolism of Mordor in the east as a more complex and varied thing than solely a reference to Cain's banishment. But to be really clear, in saying that I'm definitely not saying that Cain and Nod aren't valid interpretations (especially when they work for you so well!). Just my guess and my perspective. Old evil in the north and Mordor in the east is really interesting! So was the story of how Hobbits etc wandered out of the east to colonize the Shire, in another early medieval echo. And with Aragorn's throwaway "In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North" I got an extra point on the map, from which the story immediately unspooled into an even wider and richer thing. Which is so neat, I love everyone in this bar, etc.
Just a quick further note on Smeagol, because I happen to have just gone past this bit and it's fresh! As far as I know at uhhh this very early point in LOTR (maybe it's changed later), Deagol was not his brother but simply his friend: “He had a friend called Deagol, of a similar sort, sharper-eyed but not so quick and strong” (though if you like the Cain and Abel imagery, this doesn't change that much tbh! I can see how it hits that note regardless). They are under the same matriarch (perhaps implying family ties) who eventually throws Smeagol out years after Deagol's murder; I liked that bit, bc I have no idea where Tolkien's pulling proto-hobbit matriarchs from yet, and Smeagol later lied and said the matriarch had given him the One Ring, implying that she was a ring-giver like an Old English/Norse thane or king. Smeagol and Deagol (and Frodo) are also wrapped up in lots of different tropes and symbols; Cain and Abel, yes, but also Beowulf and Grendel, and probably some other stuff I'll notice in like 10 years and yell at the ghost of Tolkien about. I think these stories work so well because they’re layers upon layers. It’s stories all the way down, you know!
Much like this reply, which is endless, so sorry about that.
#IMMENSELY LONG ASK REPLY IM SORRY IM SORRY#ask replies#astro lotr#with further apologies for being pedantic but also not doing my own translations
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No me convence mucho pero ahí está
-¿Cuando piensas teñirte el pelo otra vez?- Pregunto girando la cara para poder mirarla aunque el sol molestaba un poco
Estábamos en Ibiza de vacaciones con algunas de las chicas antes del Mundial.
-Sii, ¿cuándo? Estas rara de morena. Mapi León de rubia es mejor ya sabes... Por el León- Suelta la coña Leila que estaba a mi lado tomando el sol conmigo y Pina.
Mapi estaba en el agua con Ale y Patri cada una en una colchoneta.
Mi novia tiene la magnífica idea de salpicar a Leila pero acaba mojandome a mi también
-María!- Exclamo cuando el agua entra en contacto con mi piel caliente
-Lo siento amor, fallo en los cálculos- Me hace un puchero.
¿Cómo puedo enfadarme con esa carita?
-Gobernada- Dice Leila
Mapi le saca la lengua y ambas se ponen a hacerse burla
-Vaya par de niñas- Suelta Alexia en voz alta y ambas la miran con la boca abierta indignadas.
-¿Perdona? Me lo esta diciendo la que se va a teñir el pelo de rosa cuando salga Barbie?- Dice Mapi y Leila la apoya.
-Eso es una coincidencia, no voy a hacerlo por la película
Y aunque parezca increíble las tres se ponen a burlarse y meterse entre ellas.
Y yo para fastidiar más a todas me levanto y me tiro en bomba dentro de la piscina salpicando a todas y ahí empezamos un guerra.
Vamos a aceptarlo, todas somos una niñas pequeñas.
-Aahahhhh ayuda mapiiii- Per esta en vez de ayudarme se une a Alexia para hundirme
Así nos pasamos unas cuantas horas hasta que volvemos tumbarnos a tomar el sol.
-Ahora enserio, ¿porqué no te tiñes de rosa?- Le pregunto a mi novia y todas me miran. Algunas raras y otras divertidas.
-¿Qué? ¿Cómo hemos pasado de rubio a rosa?- Pregunta incrédula.
-Siii es una buena idea, t/n- Me da la razón Patri.
-Ale y tu de rosa- Dice ahora Clau.
-Piénsalo, vaya dúo rosa sexy. Una en Barcelona y la otra en el culo del mundo
Me mira un poco mal
-Vamos Mapi- La anima Alexia
-No no no, ya sé. Nos teñimos todas de rosa
-Eso ya me gusta más - Dice mi novia
-Pero que me estas contando? No, ni de coña
Se niegan las tres que estaban molestando antes.
-Si si- Asiento con la cabeza.
Mapi me mira y yo a ella y al final sabe que vamos a terminar todas con la cabeza rosa.
-Pero tu piensas con la cabeza, t/n? -Me pregunta Patri- ¿Cómo nos van a tomar en serio si vamos 5 de 11 con el pelo rosa en un partido?
-Eso, a Ale todavía se lo pasan por qué es la reina pero a nosotras no- Intenta persuadir Claudia
-¿Solo 5? Ja- Me rio- Cuando empezemos la pretemporada somos más.
-Tú estas loca- Dicen todas menos Alexia a la vez.
La capitana solo nos mira divertida y mete mierda de vez en cuando
-Lo estoy- Les doy la razón- Pero sabéis que al final seremos 6 Barbies futbolistas
Bufan
-Si tenéis suerte el tinte se va antes de que empezemos la pretemporada- Intento consolarlas.
Y ahí estábamos, todas con un peluquero amigo de Alexia preparadas para el cambio de look o por lo menos yo y Ale.
-Amor enserio, todavía podemos dar marcha atrás... - Me suplica Mapi sentada en la silla de peluquería- Me tiño de rubio
Ya estaban tintadas Ale y Leila y ahora le tocaba a Mapi.
-Mi amor, te va a quedar genial. Nos va a quedar genial.
-Sigo sin estar convencida
-Vamos a ser la pareja fresa más sexy del mundo.
Frunze el ceño pero no dice nada más así que el amigo de Alexia empieza a hacer su trabajo.
-¿Cuánto dura el tinte?
-Poco, 1 mes por ahí... - Contesta el peluquero
-¿Qué? ¿Tanto?- Pregunta Claudia escandalizada.
-Es poco Clau, hay algunos que duran 3 meses. No soy tan mala
1 hora después todas tenemos el pelo pintado de rosa.
-¿Qué? ¿Cómo te ves, amor?- Se está mirando en el espejo después de que se haya aclarado el pelo.
-Psssss- Se mira y luego me mira a mi
-Vamos, acéptalo. Di "Amor, me queda genial. He echo berrinche para nada" Vamos...
Me saca la lengua a través del espejo y yo me río dándole un beso en la mejilla.
-Venga, posa.
Saco la cámara y nos hago unas cuantas solas y luego con todo el grupo.
-Estamos preciosas. Somos unas barbies divinas- Dice Leila y la miro mal.
-¿Tanto escándalo para que?
-Solo se quejan las niñas- Dice Alexia- Vámonos T/n
-Quien llegue última paga los helados- Chillo corriendo hacia un puesto de helado.
La última en llegar es... Mapi
-Oye no es justo, Patri me ha empujado
Esta le saca la lengua
-Yo lo quiero de vainilla y avellana, amor- Le pido.
-Yo de fresa- Dice Pina.
Y así todas decían su sabor.
-Debería de pagar Ale, es la millonaria aquí
Esta le saca el dedo
-Lo estaré pero os ha ganado una lisiada así que merezco que me inviten
Nadie le rebate el argumento
-Venga que te ayudo a traer los helados, amor- Me levanto de la silla.
-Gracias, amor- Me agradece y en la cola me besa
-Mmmh, solo era un excusa para estar a solas, Rosita- La beso de vuelta.
-¿Nuevo apodo? Inventate algo mejor
-Mmmmh rosileon o no no rosapi
-Prefiero amor, eh- Me besa- Puede que tu punto más fuerte no sea el poner apodos.
Hago un puchero
-Ya me inventaré uno
#espwnt#futbol femenino#futfem#woso#woso imagine#woso soccer#woso community#mapi león#mapi leon#mapileon x reader#mapi leon x reader#fc barcelona#fcb femení#woso x reader#woso fanfics#mapileon
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The Ingenious One
What a ride this drama was! From the stunning shots, to the smart writing, to the plethora of well acted side characters it just had so much to give me.
Let’s start with the characters:
Snipping this for length.
Yun Xiang: Driven by a need to avenge the death of his 300 people family village, eradicated for seemingly no reason, he goes on a quest to find out who did it and why. For a Wuxia drama it’s very interesting to have our hero be a person wholly lacking in fighting skills, in fact the only thing he can do is run, and even that doesn’t last for very long. He is not someone who has a heart of gold in fact his plans will sometimes even endanger his friends, though the more he gets to know them the less that part becomes and he uses his brain to help them where he can.
Shu Yanan: Orphan, adopted by someone of Yun Xiang’s sect, she vows to avenge her adoptive father’s killer and thus her paths cross with Yun Xiang. In contrast to him, she is one of the strongest fighters of the show and physically is much stronger than him, which often makes hilarious things happen. The two of them are immediately drawn to each other and their bond is a big part of what carries the show for me. Shu Yanan is a cypher for the first half of the show, not letting the viewer know most of her thoughts and putting on a mask, even in front of Yun Xiang (but then again, he too changes masks so often it’ sometimes hard to keep up) and only in the latter half of the story does her true motivation/storyline come out but I didn’t mind that. The first half was used to build up their connection and the second half was used to delve deeper into her origin (story) which provided a very nice balance.
Su Mingyu: Initially a spoiled princeling of a rich merchant family with no business aspirations but Big Dreams about being a HERO of the Jianghu but no actual knowledge of what that means. Well he learns, pretty quickly, that despite appearing awesome and brave, actual fighting involves blood and death and the show makes it a point to drive that home. He is a skilled fighter and later on learns to become a man that can support his loved one and family but it does take him some time to get there. He is an AMAZING boyfriend tho, 10/10 in that regard, as far as spoiled rich princelings go you can def do worse.
Ke Menglan: Daughter of a disgraced official, cast down into the lowest societal tier in the very stratisfied Ming Dynasty (or at least it’s based on that) where upward social mobility was all but impossible, she tries her best to get back to the “normal” citizen-tier because she does genuinely love Su Mingyu and their marriage is literally not allowed. She is the very capable manager of what later becomes Yun Xiangs gambling house and their little club-hub and I love that she got her own story about dealing with who and what she was and loved the resolution for that arc since it was her choice and she has faith in SMY.
Jin Biao: Last but certainly not least in the main character gallery is my sneaky bigass sword dealing 10 gold jin per head demanding softie. His plot such as it is, is the simplest, but how can you not love a dude who uses his murder-gotten gains to support jianghu orphans??? Also I loved his little romance plotline, happiness for them always.
And this is just the main characters, there are SO many side characters that play an important role, some that come in later in the story, some that are dispatched earlier (usually bc they’re villains, or bc they get to go on a long deserved trip with their butler/assassin bf) and to put them all in here would cause my fingers to fall off, so i’ll just put a few favourites here:
Mo Bufan (and Kang Qiao): MBF is technically a senior of Yun Xiang, but he’s kinda let go of their sects teachings for the most part and embraced that capitalist lifestyle with his ... protegé? (I always read them as a couple tbh). Like YX MBF is not really a fighter, and they have a very interesting connection because of that, because it takes them a long time to be more than reluctant allies but they do become such great bros it is a delight to see.
Liu Gongquan and Princess Mingzhu: They come in towards the latter half of the story, one as the daughter of a Prince and the other as a former protege who is now an imperial investigator. He is at least as smart as Yun Xiang and it’s great to see them sort of work at cross purposes, feeling each other out and then coming to a tentative alliance. The princess is the usual sheltered naive girl type, but she shows these occasional flashes of smartness that are delightful to me (and LGQ hehe) and it’s great to see that clearly it is mostly a case of her lacking experience and not brain.
This is not nearly all of them, once again but man I gotta swivel to the villains now, because nothing in a show like this works without villains and oh do we have some interesting ones here:
Tang Xiao is our first initial big hurdle, and by god is he a slimeball par excellence. As the owner and proprietor of most of the cities gambling establishments he wields a lot of money and influence and uses it to menace women, be a creep and probably smell really bad. We get to see how he comes to hold on to his position though, because he is clearly adept at wheeling and dealing with people by any means necessary, though in the end that bites him in the butt. What makes him more interesting to me though is the fact that he has two very devoted underlings, one of whom is a female fighter who doesn’t talk much, wears an iconic hat and generally has a terrifying aura but who is very gentle to one of the female sidecharacters who gets caught by Tang Xiao, drugged (and probably abused). I had IMMEDIATE Black Sails Anne flashbacks in my head and though i am loathe to even put Tang Xiao and Jack into similar categories I do wish we could have explored the relationship between TX and his female underling (sorry I forgot her name) and just *why* she did the things she did for him.
At least Tang Xiao did have a very deserving end and I cheered hahaha.
Kou Yuanjie: He was the second Big Hurdle, but he was more of a “stock standard” bad guy: Spoiled Bratty princeling who was power hungry and Big Mad that his older sister is better than him in pretty much every regard: fighting, brain wise, not a psychopath, etc. He can’t stand any minor inconvenience and will use people as he sees fit, even going so far as to let his one devoted underling, who adores him for reasons unbeknownst to me, get killed. She even suspects he’s being shady, but then he kisses her and makes her forget her doubts, basically walking to her death, it’s not great.
The Big Bad: I have to say as far as villains go, he left me a bit cold because he was using circular rhetoric to justify his end goals/plans, but the impact he had on the story and our characters is significant so I was fine with it.
So yeah, the fact that even my goldfish brain can retain so much for these characters should tell you that they left a lasting impression on me, which is truly not easy.
Let’s talk about the plot now, because on its face it is a fairly standard story, but the characterwriting especially lifts it above and the way the show manages to not spin its wheels but keep the tension going by introducing new revelations slowly but also giving other storylines the ability to breathe while not losing focus was very good for me. I think the ending is not the blockbuster type that I personally would have preferred, but after everything it felt earned for our characters and I am happy with where they ended up.
NOW LET’S TALK VISUALS, because this show knows how to set up a scene, how to block a shot to tell a story. So often visual storytelling in cdramas is an afterthought at best it is especially noticeable to me when a visual language is established in a drama and made clear to the viewer. This is not to say this is some Every Frame A Painting sort of show, but whenever the drama wanted to put emphasis on something, it did.
One of the main ones was the focus on characters’ eyes and faces, there were a lot of closeups of the actors’ eyes and or faces and that’s where having expressive actors helps because I didn’t need dialogue to tell me what a character was feeling. Sometimes it was more obvious, sometimes less so, but it displayed an interiority to these characters’ lives that I feel is missing from many many many other shows.
The gorgeous cinematography can just speak for itself tbh.
FINAL VERDICT: 9.5/10 maybe a 9 depending on my daily mood but mmmm so good.
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𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐄 𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐃 ;
El tintineo de los gashapones se desvanece en el aire mientras los vástagos dejan atrás aquellos saturados callejones de Harajuku, la hora del sorteo llega más rápido de lo esperado y lienzo que comienza a teñirse de pálido azul es la señal. Estrellas que desvanecen ante el avance de la luz obligan a los vástagos a reunirse de manera rápida en el punto de partida.
¿Qué tan egoístas han sido los hados del destino contigo esta noche? ¿Logras salir del colorido distrito con un truco especial bajo la manga?
Mientras algunes gruñen por sus pérdidas, otres celebran que su esfuerzo ha sido recompensado. Pero aquellos cánticos victoriosos se ven opacados por la manera en que sombríos guardias de la Camarilla se acercan a robar aparente tranquilidad. No hay más que órdenes inconclusas del Príncipe y una obligación a reunirse en el Elíseo: intriga es única guía en lo que cuerpos desconcertados se alejan de la diversión.
Uno a uno, los vástagos son escoltados desde las esquinas más recónditas de la ciudad hacia las imponentes puertas del Suntory Hall. Bajo la protección diurna de los pasajes secretos que la Camarilla ha construido en el subterráneo, en coches de patrulla civil o en alguno de los tantos autos que se atribuyen a la adicción de derroche de Kiyoshi, tramo es tan rápido como pueden proveer — aunque no estás segure de sí protección es contra ti mismo o contra los demás, especialmente cuando ves a extraño grupo de vástagos ser detenidos por mismos uniformados.
Ryota, Nara, Satomi, Ryan. Rostros que habías perdido rastro en algún punto de la noche, que se te hacen conocides por la frecuencia en que también han asistido a los últimos encuentros, son aprisionados por guardias que están lejos de lucir ansiosos como los que te escoltan a ti, tan pendientes de mantenerte en vida como no levantar sospechas humanas. El trato contra los otros se traza de tanto desdén que muchos bufan que han quebrado una tradición, ¿tendrá que ver con lo de Mihara Naoki? Los nombres de Kirino y Maya son murmurados de un momento a otro en mismo bullicio, mas sólo las notas al llegar al Elíseo.¿Que ha sucedido en el transcurso de tiempo que no se ha sabido de estos vástagos? ¿Alguien se habrá tomado demasiado en serio su propia avaricia? ¿Será que el sermón resultará una pérdida de tiempo? ¿Qué tiene que ver esto contigo?
𝐀𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐎𝐂.
⦾ Los sucesos narrados han sido vivenciados por todos los personajes de primera mano y quedará en elles qué pudieron ver entre la cantidad de vástagos presentes.
⦾ El tiempo límite para cerrar toda interacción correspondiente a la actividad actual será hasta la publicación de la siguiente. La segunda parte de la actividad comenzará el día de mañana, MIÉRCOLES 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE, a las 15 HRS GMT-6.
⦾ Cualquier consulta, les recordamos que estamos a su disposición y a tan solo un mensaje de distancia. ¡Nos seguimos leyendo!
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Agree with @dangermousie that Yun Xiang's relationship with Shu Yanan is lovely - the trust, the way they complement each other.
But I gotta say, I *also* loved his relationship with the other main characters, especially Mo Bufan and Liu Gongchuan. (See edit above. Via @/tothestars82 on Twitter)
Some day, I hope they will cast Chen Xiao and Qin Lan together in a drama now that they're older (I just realised I ought to count Who Sleeps My Bro but I haven't watched it, so...) because I think they have excellent chemistry.
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Fake Dating the Amnesiac School Prince by Qiao Bi
Started: 6/28/23
Finished: 6/29/23
Reading Links: Chrysanthemum Garden (1-68)
Summary: Top of his class coward Zhen Yuanbai gets fed up with class bully Shi Bufan and pushes him, causing him an injury that leaves him amnesiac. In order to protect his future, he pretends to be Shi Bufans bestie, but Shi Bufan misunderstands and thinks he’s in love with him. Wishful thinking for a guy who doesn’t remember the crush he’s been harboring for a year now!
Notes: This was cute enough. Im not a huge fan of the characters or their dynamic tbh. I kept wanting ZYB to be a little sweeter or SBF to stop giving ultimatums, but it was a cute enough story.
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Demon Performance Record (2019) 降妖功德簿
Director: Yan Yuchao
Screenwriter: Lai Zhenghua / Hui Peng
Starring: Wang Yukai / Meng Zhanyi / Lin Fengye / Zhao Lin
Genre: Drama / Costume
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2019-05-24 (Mainland China)
Type: Retelling
Summary:
Based on folklore stories, the film combines fantasy, humor, and love, and is full of freshness. It mainly tells the story of the Great God of the Big Dipper, "Tianpeng", who was demoted to the lower world for violating the rules of heaven. The heavens bestowed it with a "merit book", allowing it to travel around the world and read the stories of the common people.
Marshal Canopy (played by Wang Yukai) is brave and powerful, commanding an army of 800,000 sailors, wielding the "nine-toothed rake" and fighting the evil beast Qiongqi for three days and three nights. In the end, Qiongqi will be defeated and won a complete victory. The victory in this battle made Marshal Tianpeng act recklessly and lawlessly. He was drunk and knocked down the Jade Emperor's Bullfighting Palace. Marshal Tianpeng fell into the mortal world under the pseudonym Bian Zhuang, practiced hard all the way, fell in love with Gao Cuilan (played by Meng Zhanyi), and settled a century-old grievance with Qiongqi. After a hundred years of grievances, he finally understood what love is, what righteousness is, and completed the story of self-salvation. In addition to the "happy friends" love between Tianpeng and Gao Cuilan, the relationship between Gao Bufan (played by Lin Fengye) and Myna (played by Zhao Lin) is also a highlight in the film.
Source: http://chinesemov.com/2019/Demon-Performance-Record.html
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tedYaRa6I&ab_channel=YOUKUMOVIE-GetAPPnow
#Demon Performance Record#降妖功德簿#jttw#jttw movie#movie#live action#retelling#zhu bajie centered#jttw media#zhu bajie#Gao Cuilan#Grass Demon#Bird Demon#Black Insect Demon#flower demon#tree demon#Jiang Ziya#addition
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From Zhuhai to the World: “Qiaopi” Opera Showcases Chinese Cultural Diversity and Global Influence
By Sunlei,Hong Kong Economic Herald,in Shenzhen
To promote and extol the cultural values and spirit of honesty, integrity, hard work, courage in pioneering, and devotion to one’s roots encapsulated in “Qiaopi,” and to significantly enhance the influence and appeal of overseas Chinese culture, a press conference was held on April 24 in Shenzhen to announce the “Qiaopi: Journey of Ten Thousand Miles” tour. This event was guided by the China Overseas Chinese Federation and the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Federation, organized by the Publicity Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee and the Zhuhai Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and executed by the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group.
The press conference featured the presence of Guo Qihua, Deputy Minister of the Cultural Exchange Department of the China Overseas Chinese Federation. Also in attendance were Lin Kefeng, a senior inspector of the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Federation; Min Yuntong, Executive Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee; Zhang Lili, member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Zhuhai Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese; Chen Weian, Secretary of the Party Committee, and Zou Jianhong, General Manager of the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group. They provided an overview and responded to media inquiries.
“Qiaopi,” a key cultural project of Guangdong province and Zhuhai’s first original national opera, is produced under the guidance of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. It features a distinguished creative team including composer Meng Weidong, playwright Wang Yong, directors Liao Xianghong and Deng Yijiang, and conductors Zhu Man and Fan Jie, with performances by leading domestic artists such as singers Lü Wei, Li Yang, Li Bufan, and Dong Bin. Set against the backdrop of Tangjiawan in Zhuhai, the opera delves into the unique “Qiaopi” culture of the Lingnan region, weaving a profound historical narrative on stage that tells of the overseas Chinese renowned for their reliability and commitment.
Since its premiere at the 2nd Zhuhai Arts Festival in October 2022, the opera “Qiaopi” has been staged in cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, Macau, Hangzhou, Urumqi, Guangzhou, and Zhongshan, eliciting deep emotional responses from audiences. It has been selected for the National Culture and Tourism Ministry’s 2022–2023 “Chinese National Opera Heritage and Development Project” and has received various national and provincial awards, including the Outstanding Opera Award at the 5th China Opera Festival and the First Prize at the 15th Guangdong Arts Festival. The opera has also featured on significant cultural platforms such as the “Outstanding Stage Art Works Exhibition of the New Era” and Macau’s “Spring of Haojiang.”
At the press conference, Min Yuntong outlined the touring schedule, noting that from April 24 to May 15, the opera will visit key diaspora cities such as Shenzhen, Shantou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Dongguan. Associated activities, tailored to each location, will include a concert version of “Qiaopi” at Ningbo University and visits to the Shantou Overseas Chinese Museum and Ningbo Commerce Museum, aimed at enhancing the cultural impact and resonance of overseas Chinese heritage.
Zou Jianhong, General Manager of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group, elaborated on the preparations for the tour and the opera’s creative process. The creative team, after extensive research and multiple revisions, has focused on authentically representing the protagonists’ inner worlds. With each performance, they carefully consider audience and expert feedback to refine the opera, aiming to create a lasting and influential work. Zou hopes that the tour will attract more domestic and overseas Chinese to theaters, using art as a bridge to convey the warmth and affinity of the motherland.
According to the touring schedule, the opera “Qiaopi” will debut at the Shenzhen Poly Theater on April 24, followed by performances at the Shantou Lin Baixin International Conference Exhibition Center on April 28, the Xiamen Jia Geng Theater on May 2, the Ningbo Grand Theater on May 6, and the Dongguan Yulan Grand Theater on May 15, bringing this heartfelt family letter across mountains and seas to audiences in each diaspora city.
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#Contención. La creación toda en suspenso. La tierra gime. El mar se encrespa. Las nubes bufan su hálito frío y aún no se derraman. #Tantra de la #naturaleza. #tormenta #Israel #mediterráneo #actodeamor
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Prof. univ.dr. Radu Bufan și Asist.cercet.dr. Natalia Șvidchi, Despre puterea de imixtiune a fiscului in interpretarea clauzelor contractuale [Conferința „Dreptul Afacerilor în Dinamica Inovării” (DADI), IASI, 2023]
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It always chuffs me that the simple ubiquitous preposition “above” is three Old English (OE) prepositions piled on top of each other (a, bi, ufan), the latter of which is itself two more Proto-Germanic (PGmc) prepositions (*ub plus ablative *-ane).
So etymologically, it’s “on by above”, where that embedded “above” is really “from up” or “up there” or “up <separated from speaker>”.
This is actually a fairly typical treadmill in language, especially among short words that carry a lot of grammar like prepositions or word endings: You have a word but it’s somewhat more predictable because of its role in the utterance, so the speaker doesn’t have to emphasize it so much, and so the speaker starts slurring it and mushing it up. But when it gets mushed up too much, listeners (and everybody who is a speaker is also a listener) need more definition to be sure they understand, so you tack on another little bit of a word to make it more prominent again. Then the process starts over again.
So PGmc’s useful word “up there” gets mushy, so OE sticks another ablative-type preposition on it and you get bufan, “by up there”. (Note that -f- between two vowels is pronounced -v-.) But then there’s a whole sort of fad where all these placement words gets on- tacked on the front, which immediately gets degraded to a-, (cf. across, against, around), and now you have abufan, “on by up there”. But now that’s gotten long and you don’t need to say that much to be understood, so by Middle English, where everybody is busily removing anything that looks like it might be an ending anyway, you lose the final n. Now, it’s probably three syllables still, but the last one is barely a puff of sound, and by the Early Modern English period, lazy speakers don’t bother saying that puff of sound across an enormous population of words (all those silent-e’s that help make our spelling insane). And thus, in something like 2000 years, you’ve taken a two-part word with five sounds, thrown away the whole rear part (in multiple stages), tacked two more parts on front (throwing away some of their sounds in the process), changed the pronunciation of all the vowels to boot, but kept spelling it the way it was pronounced 700 years ago.
And that’s why historical linguists have to work very, very hard at their jobs.
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bu fan for 高磊, photo vogue festival
#i just wanted these pics on my blog also i love him so much#bufan#bu fan#oner#idol producer#ipd#mine
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