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jackredfieldwasmyjacob · 4 months

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as i did last year, this year i've been recording basically everything i did during the year so i didn't forget. anyways, here is my true 2023 experience, it is divided by categories (travels, books, music, movies, etc) and i will bold my favourites of each category. also, if you want more details especially with travelling and music, here's the twitter thread i've been using to record everything down <3

also!! just in case, dates are in dd/mm format !

TRAVELS:

02/01. calp (alacant, spain) 05/04. mojácar (almería, spain) 17-18/04. glasgow (scotland) 18/04. balloch and loch lomond (west dunbartonshire, scotland) 20/06. albacete (spain) 18-19/08. barcelona (spain) 19-23/08. milano (italy) 20/08. lake como (lombardia, italy) 22/08. verona (italy) 08-10/09. valència (spain) 15/10. bari (italy) 15-28/10. metaponto (matera, italy) 22/10. taranto (italy) 13-16/12. vera (almería, spain) 15/12. mojácar (almería, spain) 16-17/12. valència / la pobla de vallbona (valència, spain)

CONCERTS:

14/01. amaia (la riviera) 17/04. paramore (OVO hydro, glasgow) 15/05. cariño (el matadero) 16/06. valeria castro (noches del botánico) 23/09. amaia (wizink center) 12/10. ginebras (wizink center)

MOVIES:

17/01. knives out 22/01. glass onion 19/02. ¡ay, carmela! 25/03. volver 26/03. jojo rabbit 26/04. super mario bros. the movie - IN THE CINEMA 30/04. knives out (rewatch) 27/05. glass onion (rewatch) 10/06. matilda (2022) 21/06. spiderman: across the spiderverse - IN THE CINEMA 28/07. barbie - IN THE CINEMA 01/09. indiana jones and the dial of destiny 22/09. the little mermaid (2023) 24/09. bottoms 11/10. barbie (rewatch) 18/11. mean girls 02/12. marie antoinette (2006) 09/10. the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes - IN THE CINEMA

VIDEOGAMES:

03/02. simmiland (PC) 03/02. stacklands (PC) 10/02. fire emblem engage (switch) 03/03. crusader kings iii (PC) 09/03. rpg maker xp (PC) 04/05. dice kingdoms (PC) 25/06. harvestella (switch) 27/06. indoorlands (PC) 08/07. humankind (PC) 28/07. the legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom (switch) 28/07. lakeburg legacies (PC) 28/08. the yawhg (PC) 08/09. frostpunk (PC) 31/10. lakeside (PC) 24/11. hades (PC) 23/12. cities skylines ii (PC)

TV SHOWS:

18/02. el ministerio del tiempo s1 06/03. druck s5 (rewatch) 08/03. druck s6 (rewatch) 13/03. el ministerio del tiempo s2 20/03. shadow and bone s2 16/05. abbott elementary s2 23/06. el ministerio del tiempo s3 21/07. derry girls s1 (rewatch) 12/11. bany compartit

TOP SONGS BY MONTH:

january: 5. la maza - priscila félix 4. la canción más hermosa del mundo - manuel carrasco 3. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 2. odio que te quiero - paula koops, noan 1. joker (REPUTA) - zahara, carolina durante february: 5. liar - paramore 4. you first - paramore 3. running out of time - paramore 2. big man, little dignity - paramore 1. figure 8 - paramore march: 5. si quieres - cariño 4. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 3. música ligera - ana mena 2. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (album version) 1. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (single version) april: 5. california friends - the regrettes 4. galgo - belén aguilera 3. costura - valeria castro 2. un clásico - ana mena 1. no me querías tanto - natalia lacunza may: 5. oh boi - shego 4. c'est comme ça - paramore 3. évidemment - la zarra 2. this is why - paramore 1. zenzenzense - RADWIMPS june: 5. yo quisiera - alice wonder 4. you first - paramore 3. antagonista - belén aguilera 2. father and son - yusuf / cat stevens 1. tonta - nathy peluso july: 5. guerrera - valeria castro 4. la vida moderna - veintiuno, love of lesbian 3. vampire - olivia rodrigo 2. i have a dream - amanda seyfried 1. fiebre - bad gyal august: 5. galgo - belén aguilera 4. nunca llega 05 - natalia lacunza 3. roméo&juliette - olympe chabert 2. discoteka - lola índigo, maría becerra 1. es albacete - rozalén september: 5. narciso - pipiolas 4. get him back! - olivia rodrigo 3. love is embarrassing - olivia rodrigo 2. vampire - olivia rodrigo 1. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo october: 5. vampire - olivia rodrigo 4. hot to go! - chapell roan 3. más colao que el colacao - la la love you 2. vii. cassandra (fillas de cassandra) - fillas de cassandra 1. ateo - c. tangana, nathy peluso november: 5. novix - maría josé llergo 4. si quieres - cariño 3. maledetta primavera - loretta goggi 2. salvaje - nathy peluso 1. all too well (10 minutes version) - taylor swift december: 5. san peter - pipiolas 4. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo 3. deja vu - olivia rodrigo 2. drivers license - olivia rodrigo 1. can't catch me now - olivia rodrigo

THEATRE PLAYS & MUSICAL SHOWS:

05/03. la saga (teatro lara) 07/04. tick tick... boom! (teatro la estación caixabank príncipe pío) 08/10. school of rock (teatro ibercaja delicias) 18/11. mean girls (grupo de teatro amorevo) 29/12. phantom of the opera (teatro albéniz)

BOOKS:

29/01. assembly - natasha brown (2021) 08/04. tartesso y los fenicios de occidente - sebastián celestino pérez & carolina lópez - ruiz (2020) 12/04. daddy - emma cline (2021) 23/04. a thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini (2007) 29/05. los renglones torcidos de dios - torcuato luca de tena (1979) 03/06. the bands of mourning - brandon sanderson (2017) 24/06. kokoro - natsume soseki (1914) 10/07. miss benson's beetle - rachel joyce (2020) 08/08. the no-show - beth o'leary (2023) 18/08. tales of the alhambra - washington irving (1832) 22/09. the attack - yasmina khadra (2005) 25/09. the lightning thief - rick riordan (2005) RE-READ 30/09. the sea of monsters - rick riordan (2006) RE-READ 02/10. the titan's curse - rick riordan (2007) RE-READ 04/10. the battle of the labrynth - rick riordan (2008) RE-READ 07/10. the last olympian - rick riordan (2009) RE-READ 23/11. the kamogawa food detectives - hishashi kashiwai (2023) 21/12. a christmas carol - charles dickens (1843)

#2023 #2023 review #if i was a cooler people i'd do charts with the data and a timeline and stuff. but alas #you just get the most boring format of them all: bulletpoints #but if anyone knows how i could do a timeline in a way that would be easy and fun please let me know <3

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evansbby · 1 year

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I posted 7,706 times in 2022

That's 7,706 more posts than 2021!

5,838 posts created (76%)

1,868 posts reblogged (24%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@evansbby

@onsunnyside

@maladaptivexxdaydreaming

@maroonsunrise83

@hansensgirl

I tagged 7,578 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#anon - 4,317 posts

#poyt ask - 916 posts

#my thoughts 💭 - 233 posts

#ari levinson - 232 posts

#self reblog - 202 posts

#hehehe - 168 posts

#chris evans - 158 posts

#tw dd/lg - 112 posts

#queue - 111 posts

#ari x bunny - 104 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#that’s okay it’ll be done when it’s done and y’all will understand when you read it bc it’s a fuckign long and emotionally draining chapter

My Top Posts in 2022:

pouty princess

Pairing: daddy!Ari Levinson x bratty!reader

Warnings: smut, daddy!kink, dumbification, dd/lg undertones, major size difference, slight sugar daddy vibe, dirty talk, Ari goes dark towards the end, slightly dark.

Summary: You want to show your daddy that you can be in charge sometimes too, but it doesn't work out as well as you'd hoped. (Based on this ask and mini-drabble).

A/N: This is just a drabble I wrote in under an hour! Not a full fic, I just felt inspired by that ask the other day and wanted to write a more detailed version of the mini drabble! Enjoy!

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not sure if this is overboard, but obsessive dark (maybe mafia) ex-husband!ari hiring a friend of his to rough his ex-wife!reader up to scare her back into his arms is 😵‍💫

like maybe it took sooo long to get him to sign those papers, but just when u think you're free from him and his bullshit, you're right back to him and the soft, manipulative sex after...

sorry if this didn't make sense lol

Pairing: ex-husband!Ari Levinson x naive!reader

Warnings: dark!Ari, smut, daddy kink, dd/lg, babying, dubcon, cheating, inappropriate use of a stuffed animal.

Summary: Your daddy ex-husband, Ari, takes care of you after a scary encounter.

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3,460 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐲'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬

𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: Stepdad!Ari Levinson x bratty!reader

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: smut, stepcest, noncon, dubcon, daddy kink, forced babying, use of petnames, oral - female receiving, face riding, fingering, anal fingering, spanking, coercion, blackmail, dd/lg, dirty talk, dumbification.

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: Your stepdad Ari has a strange obsession with you, but will he listen when you try to confront him about it?

𝐀/𝐍: Wow, it’s me with another surprise Ari fic! I wrote this quickly in the past few hours, and I hope you enjoy. But please read the warnings, Ari is super depraved and twisted in this! Based on this ask and drabble!

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5,103 notes - Posted July 20, 2022

preying on you tonight

Pairing: dark alpha!Steve Rogers x naive omega!Reader

Warnings: smut, dark themes, a/b/o themes, daddy!kink, noncon, dubcon, dark!Steve Rogers, bullying, Steve is really mean in this, jealousy, breeding kink, size difference, unbalanced power dynamic, humiliation, seriously Steve is super mean, and reader is really naive, minors do not interact!

Summary: Steve is the menacing alpha who makes your life at university a living hell every single day. He's cocky, brash and domineering, and you're the complete opposite - quiet, meek and reserved. Ridiculed by him day after day, you're convinced he hates you. But what happens when Steve finds out you have a boyfriend? Based on this ask and the discussion that followed it.

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5,193 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

➳❥ 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: dark!Lloyd Hansen x innocent!Reader

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: smut, dubcon, noncon, dark, minors dni, daddy kink, age gap - reader is early 20s, Lloyd is late 30s, coercion, dark Lloyd taking advantage of super innocent reader, like seriously reader is very innocent, corruption kink, babying, extreme dumbification, dd/lg undertones, mention of gun, use of gun in sexual context, choking, spitting, kidnapping, dacryphilia, loss of virginity, blood mention, killing mention, manipulation, gaslighting

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: Lloyd promises to let you go, but he demands a depraved repayment. (In other words: Lloyd pops your cherry).

𝐀/𝐍: This is really fucking depraved. Please, please be warned.

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6,169 notes - Posted July 27, 2022

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#lmfaoooooo okay!!!#damn #my 2022 tumblr year in review

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judgemark45 · 5 months

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USS Gwin (DD-772/DM-33) The U.S. Navy light minelayer USS Gwin (DM-33) in 1944. Gwin was built at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Pedro, California (USA), and commissioned on 30 September 1944.USN Image

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deliciouswombatwombat · 18 days

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An aerial view of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard looking west/northwest on 30 October 1995. The shipyard closed on 30 September 1995, but the Navy Intermediate Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) continued to store decommissioned and mothballed ships.

Vessels visible, left to right: USS Iowa (BB-61), and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) at the DD wharf; naval auxiliaries USS Sylvania (AFS-2), USS Milwaukee (AOR-2) and USS Savannah (AOR-4) at pier 5; the aircraft carriers USS Forrestal.

#united states navy #navy #usn #battleship #aircraft carrier

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paulgadzikowski · 2 months

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Last year (until my first tumblog vanished for a time), Dracula Daily inspired me to do something I’d considered before: Lord of the Rings Daily, following the events of the War of the Rings by calendar date from September 23 TA 3018 till the destruction of the Ring March 25 TA 3019. This will be following Appendix B so, like DD, not all days will have entries. And there’s a twist: it’s being done in my triangle figure cartoons instead of in book excerpts, and mashed up with the fandom crossover multiverse featured in my fancomic The Hero of Three Faces. There will be unique elements of both the novels and the movies.

February 16: The Fellowship depart Lothlorien by boat. Frodo (the Doctor) and Aragorn (James T. Kirk) have noted they are being shadowed. They travel without major incident until February 23.

Aaand that's as far as I got last year before my original tumblog got inexplicably and temporarily terminated. There's an entry for February 17 in Appendix B but it's an "offstage event" which I already didn't draw last year. After that not till February 23; then, though, until March 25 there's only a few days without entries … plus entries for February 29 and 30. This isn't the trouble in a leap year that it would have been last year but February 28-30 will be jammed into the 28th and 29th. The point is, I've been working ahead, so I shouldn't have trouble keeping up.

#lord of the rings #lotr #hero of three faces #lotrh3f daily

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poisonborz · 2 months

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Driving around random places in Germany, like, the smallest who-cares towns and villages, reveals its massive history and how these region was so important and culturally richest in Europe. But tall highs mean deep lows sometimes I guess. We stopped at Deggendorf recently on our autobahn trip for the night - normally we choose some scenic city and also look around, but weather was bad - so anyway here's that sob of a town, some tiny old town center, but otherwise a 30k population dustbin. When quickly walking around - really nice and busy market with lotsa social life on weekdays as well which I always admire here - as the only attraction is the standard german unit of one medieval town hall and one old church, both rather nice and somewhat reconstructed since the town was mostly leveled during WWII (also a standard german unit of history).

Kind of sad to see murals from the 50s on a 14th century church, in place of probably much grander artworks.

But there is a small tablet hanging on the side.

"In 1383 the jews of Deggendorf were killed…the legend that emerged to justify this crime...is false…the slander perpetuated over centuries not only distorted the memory of Jews in the Middle Ages but also harmed the reputation of their descendants into the recent past."

Ehm, ok why? It's internet search and dismayment time! Ahm, how wonderful, this was the place of one of the best covered up vile pogroms in late medieval times in the area! Story time.

So it happened in 1337 that a large fire broke out, consuming most of the town. Reconstruction was hard, and the needed money came primarily from lenders/bankers, who, by medieval tradition (more like a necessity, as lending was a sin) were the Jewish people. Besides only being able to practise a few crafts to earn a living, these families already had to pay protection money to the king for free practising of their religion ("Reichssteuer"), and were a closed community. Now the whole town was indebted to them.

In the summer of 1338, a plague of locusts destroyed the harvest. Meanwhile, it was thought, the jews of the town lived a good life from their interests. On the eve of September 30, a day before the usual day of next payments, they thought of a good solution: townsfolk surrounded the jewish quarter and looted and murdered everyone in it. And… nothing happened.

Probably to suppress revolt in an unstable time, Duke Heinrich XIV of Bayern pardoned every participant, and signed a decree allowing "finders keepers" on the belongings and houses (meanwhile divided among themselves) of the massacred. In addition, "the bonds, mortgage deeds, and other documents held by the Jews, or what they should have otherwise repaid to them, shall be completely annulled". To not much surprise, this move resulted in further pogroms and killings in the whole region. However macabre, all that is was still a rather common occurrence in western Europe. What happened in later times makes it stand out.

Killing folks - even if "godless pagans" just because you owed them money, getting off for free, and then living in their houses is not such a cool story to tell to your children. Decades after the massacre a new narrative started to emerge. Folk songs and stories started to appear telling another version of the story: the Jews of Deggendorf hatched an evil plan and stole the Sacrilege from the church, trying to smelt it into coins. The Sacrilege cries and bleeds, child Jesus and Virgin Mary appear, alerting the townsfolk, who rush to rescue but a fight and fire breaks out. But the Sacrilege miraculously survives and hovers in the sky (:DD) descending on a monk who immediately becomes a miracle healer, promptly building a temple in the city to safekeep it.

This is the legend of "Deggendorfer Gnad" (Grace/Miracle of Deggendorf). In the following decades, 17 huge oil paintings were made and hung in the church to tell the story in vivid images for every visitor. Pamphlets were printed and distributed, songs being sung, and trinkets sold. The legend of the miracle spread far and wide, and soon Deggendorf became the largest pilgrimage site of the area.

Then there were the "Gnademarkt" market days hosting merchants selling textiles, household items, candles. In 1737 they recorded 140 thousand visitors. The church building and its decorations expanded heavily, featuring now a baroque tower and an expanded altar with vivid sculptures of Jewish figures using their hammers to smash the Sepulture.

As soon as the 18th century Enlightenment, notable politicians and writers lashed out against the festivities and the pilgrimage as being antisemitic, which voices grew louder in the next century. If you expect the story to end with "after the Nazi regime and WWII this festivity also ceased to exist" then, well, no, Deggendorf welcomed tens of thousands of pilgrims throughout the 20th century. The bishops of these decades defended the tradition that it's "part of the Bayern folklore" and harmless, "it doesn't glorify the murder" and "no amount of articles and pamphlets will stop it". To ease up the situation a bit, the church changed the festive theme a bit from miracles "the sins of the pasts, in medieval times to the 20th century" In 1968 bishop Rudolf Graber changed the plan to create a professorship in Judaic Studies in the newly formed University of Regensburg. Instead, he created one in Dogmatic Theology - the position taken by a certain Joseph Ratzinger, if the name rings a bell. This didn't stop researchers to study this story more fully, although with less funding thereon. Church historian Manfred Eder's dissertation in 1992 was the first work that comprehensively revealed the historical background.

Only in the aftermath of this study did the festivities stop for good the next year.

#history #medieval history #culture #antisemitism #germany

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potteresque-ire · 2 years

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The Big Politics Meta

0. Introduction; content notes and warning 1. The Boring Overview: 3rd Time is the Charm? 2. The Political Legacy of 2/27: A Hypothesis 3. Case Report of a Traffic Robbery, Committed October, 2020 >> 4. Two Stories about a State-approved, Top Traffic Star 5. Afterthought: The Big Environment

(Below the Cut — 4. Two Stories about a State-approved, Top Traffic Star)

30 years + 1 week before Gg’s birthdate, 劉德華 Andy Lau was born.

For those who don’t know him, all you have to know is, he started as an idol in the 1980s, and over the next 20 years, achieved superstardom not only in his home city of Hong Kong, but also in the entire Sinosphere, including China. He is 61 years old now, and his fans are mostly in the late 30s to 40s.

Oh, also this: he was my childhood idol. I’ve followed his news for 30+ years.

Promotional poster for the programme 牛起來 for the 2021 Spring Gala, with Andy and Dd. Due to COVID restrictions, Andy stayed in Hong Kong for the performance, and was “implanted” into the show with AI.

Why am I talking about Andy? Because, perhaps, some of you have wondered — would things have been different if Gg and Dd are just better in the eyes of the government in some ways? Becoming even more the walking, breathing embodiments of “core socialist values”, maybe? Or, being even more demonstratively, loudly loyal to the government?

Is there a way for stars like them to achieve perfection in the eyes of the Chinese government, and is that perfection necessary for the government’s approval?

The stories about Andy would suggest the answer is no.

The first story I’d like to share is this. At the turn of the millennium, when Andy had as many passionate fans in China as Gg and Dd have now, he wanted to set up a branch of his fan club in China. The Hong Kong style fan club at the time was very different from the online fan clubs in China today — it was more like a recreational club, with a physical location and also, a membership fee. In Andy’s case, for about 25 USD a year, fans could go to his fan club to hang out, take a variety of recreational classes (often based on Andy’s interests), and more importantly, enjoy free admissions to the fan club birthday party in June — in which Andy and his family showed up every year and took pictures with everyone — and a birthday concert in September.

Andy’s wish was denied. The freedom of assembly was (is) highly restricted in China, and a fan club like that would be more than an assembly — it would be almost a religion (which was (is) even more regulated in China), a shrine where fans would come from far and wide to worship their idol.

Andy kept trying anyway. When his wish was finally granted in 2009, it came with one condition — his fan club was to be incorporated under the Ministry of Culture, i.e. it would be overseen by the government. Officially, this condition was reworded, embellished as 首個經政府部門批准的社會團體組織 the first government-approved social organisation. In addition, this new social organisation wasn’t called a fan club, but an 影音文化發展促進會 Audio-Visual Cultural Development Promotional Association — a name sounding every bit as stiff and Very Important as Gg’s audience in the Asian Games Concert.

The arrangement didn’t last very long. Andy’s fan club would exit mainland China in 2013, citing restructuring as the cause.

This story confirms the following concept: the Chinese government’s fear and suspicion of top star power has always been there.

Again, it’s nothing personal.

Always been there, as well, is the passion of mainland Chinese fans. Even in 2022, those who are old enough to remember still name Andy’s fan 楊麗娟 Yang Lijuan (right) as the most legendary “crazy fan” in China. The story of her idol worship, which led to her father’s suicide, can be found here. The media in China at the time (2007) expressed sympathy with Yang, encouraged her star-chasing ways until the tragedy happened.

The second story about Andy is much more recent. A month ago (September 3rd), Andy held an online, live concert on Douyin. During the live session only, the total view count was 0.35 billion, or, about a quarter of the country’s population. Of course, each viewer probably contributed to multiple view counts, thus the actual number of people watching was significantly lower. Still, it was a phenomenal attendance.

The tag 頂流 “Top Traffic Star” went on hot search. There were Andy fans talking about, reminiscing their younger days, but there were as many netizens just marvelling … today, I’ve witnessed true, top traffic stardom.

This sentiment isn’t new. Andy’s idol reign in China was in the pre-traffic days, but he has been associated with the term “Top Traffic Star” since his opening his first social media account in China, on Douyin, in 2021. The strange thing is? No one talked about Andy’s traffic as being a bad thing. No one questioned if his traffic had been a result of PR, MCN etc etc. He has continued to get likes and approval from state media, from state officials; he has sung in state-sponsored events, for President Xi.

Why is his treatment so different? Is it because Andy is the perfect star, like Gg said before, like so many people in China have said?

Of course not — and I say this with confidence, having followed Andy for so many years. Andy has made his share of mistakes. Nothing major— as a star, he is really as professional as they come — but some of these mistakes, if repeated today, would definitely put a significant damper on a younger, rising star’s popularity. Some would even more definitely displease the Chinese government of 2022.

And the Chinese government of 2022 isn’t unaware of Andy’s history.

For example, I can still find the remnant of a special issue on CCTV news from more than decade ago, when Andy’s secret marriage had just been uncovered. As romantic as the page may look, the title was 大話天王 Liar Heavenly King, a nickname bestowed upon Andy at the time (Heavenly King was itself a nickname given to the most popular singers in Hong Kong during the 1990s). In the numerous links on the page, the state media recounted every old romantic rumour associated with Andy, from the details of the tell-all by his former girlfriend to his gay rumours.

The header of CCTV’s online special issue “celebrating” Andy’s marriage (Source).

Even Andy’s career that, in the narrative offered by the Chinese media today, justifies his top traffic, has been built by many things that the Chinese government of 2022 can’t possibly approve. Andy’s rise to superstardom was very much contributed by films that glorified the mafia — Andy’s signature role was the bad boy with a heart of gold. His CV was packed with awfully made movies. The countless music awards he had won? Anyone who is familiar HK-ent at the time would tell you — they were the result of PR, of money and profits changing hands. Hong Kong had a healthy industry of entertainment journalism, and these exchanges were not exactly secrets. Stars have talked about it openly themselves. One of the simplest “rules” of the game, for example, was that attendance to the awards ceremony was required if a star wished to win any major awards, because the star’s attendance would bring viewership to the programme, and the viewership, advertisement income to the stations hosting those ceremonies.

The same elements that Prof S claimed to have built the evil top traffic-dom of Gg have, therefore, also helped build Andy’s top traffic-dom, only in a different playing field because the industry, the technology had been different then.

Wong Kar-wai’s directorial debut, and his first commercial success was also a mafia-glorifying movie, 旺角卡門 As Tears Go By (1988), which starred Andy in the lead role.

And all of this is insignificant to Andy’s political adventures, which would have certainly got him cancelled immediately if he were any younger, any less established. In 1993, he attended Taiwan’s National Birthday celebration, and wore its military suit. Hong Kong’s last colonial governor, Chris Patten, who became the enemy of the Chinese government by attempting to inject more democracy into Hong Kong’s political system right before its handover, called Andy his friend — he used to invite Andy to the governor’s mansion for dinner.

Do the people in China know, remember these things? Some do. The few antis Andy have (yes, one can be 60 year old and still have antis) were posting his old photos in the military suit here and there, but netizens just looked away, ignored them.

Andy dressed in Taiwan’s military uniform, from 1993. Photos from that evening were sporadically seen in the discussions of the Douyin concert. They didn’t make a splash at all. (Source).

Thus, Andy is far from perfect, by the official standards set by the Chinese government of what perfection means for its top celebrities.

The perception of Andy being perfect — a perception that, by the way, has never been shared in Andy’s home of Hong Kong, even at the height of his popularity there, of the amount of respect he commanded — has actually been fuelled, encouraged by the Chinese government, especially over the last decade.

In other words, Andy isn’t a state-approved traffic star because he is perfect. Rather, he is perfect because he is a state-approved top traffic star.

What makes Andy state-approved, if it isn’t perfection? Andy * is * very professional. He is polite, kind, generous. He has lived a disciplined, clean private life, and …

Having watched Gg and Dd for two years, I don’t think Gg and Dd are inferior, compared to Andy at their age, in any way. It’s true, of course, that Andy has a far longer list of accomplishments than Gg or Dd has. However, many of those accomplishments were possible only after Andy had reached superstardom — sending fresh, previously overlooked directorial talents onto their paths of success, for example. Andy couldn’t have done it without having amassed sufficient wealth, and sufficient influence in the industry first.

Young stars like Gg and Dd are simply not at that stage in their careers. If a CV like Andy’s is the government’s requirement for a star to justify their top traffic, then, there’s really not much any young star can do — they have already been set up for failure. Andy has a 30+ years head start ahead of them, and that’s before considering that his career rise had happened in a place, an industry with far less rules and restrictions. Censorship.

Perhaps, it all comes to this — Andy can become a state-approved top traffic star because his traffic isn’t threatening anymore. His fans are older; they are there for him, but they are also distracted, tied down by life. They have little time or energy to mobilise, start any movement.

Their lack of online presence also means … their traffic is no longer worth robbing.

This is the end of the two stories of Andy I’d like to share.

Aside from the question of whether Gg and Dd are just not perfect enough, the stories have got me thinking too: in the days of traffic robbery, wouldn’t selective invisibility be a nice attribute for Chinese fandoms to have? The ability to be alternatively seen and not seen, the ability to camouflage to — I don’t know, the Weibo background? — during politically sensitive moments like now.

Gg and Dd have already made themselves semi-invisible.

Sometimes, when c-turtles feel the challenges Gg and Dd are facing as the top-traffic stars, they would say the following, derived from the quote Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown from Shakespeare’s Henry IV:

「欲戴王冠，必承其重」

Literally: If one desires to wear the crown, one must be able to bear its weight.

And I think of the crown; the charts, the graphics intended to broadcast a number one rank in sales, in viewership, in number of endorsements etc etc. I think of all the jewels on the crown, the shining proofs of traffic, of being popular, of being loved ... blings-blings that are just begging to be robbed. A crown that doesn’t, actually, make anyone king. When one is the king, the crown belongs to them — even if that crown is in a high tower somewhere.

I think of President Xi, whose pursuit of his 3rd term of the General Secretary have already given him the nickname Emperor Xi. I think of the “Two Establishes and Two Safeguards”, the propaganda emphasising, dictating “Love me and no body else”. How attractive a crown of popularity must look to him now, on the eve of the National Congress.

And I think,

無冕之王

The King without a Crown.

#pie metas

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another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire · 7 months

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Bram Stoker: Now our heroes will talk to someone new... from the working class!

Us: You're not going to heavily phoneticize their dialogue like some cartoonish street-urchin again, are you Bram?

Bram: ...

Us: Bramothy Thornley Stoker, you better not--

Bramothy Thornley Stoker:

#istg every week i think I'm done hearing The Spam Lady voice in my head reading Dracula when Brammy Boy does it again with The Accents #dracula memes #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #bram stoker #dd september 30 #dracula september 30 #september 30 #dracula spoilers

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lifelinebooks · 7 months

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Praying today's re: dracula keeps me awake on my drive to work. I always have problems with eye heaviness while driving this early in the morning.

Also wondering what driving down the highway in a full moon, windows open, and jonathan sims in my speakers will do to my imagination.

#dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #jonathan sims #jack seward #mina harker #jonathan harker #and all the vampire hunting gang #dd 30 september

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rainbowsky · 1 year

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I posted 2,523 times in 2022

1,768 posts created (70%)

755 posts reblogged (30%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@accio-victuuri

@rainbowsky

@significanceofmoths

@potteresque-ire

I tagged 2,509 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#ask - 684 posts

#wang yibo - 628 posts

#xiao zhan - 608 posts

#devastating dd - 318 posts

#chongqing beauty - 276 posts

#the mysteries of yizhan - 225 posts

#adorkable gg - 154 posts

#sdoc5 - 141 posts

#ggdd forever - 129 posts

#bjyx - 111 posts

Longest Tag: 131 characters

#thinking how sad it is that people rehearsing how to speak to each other in order to not look like an idiot is a trope in tv dramas

My Top Posts in 2022:

So I see a lot of bjyx saying things like GG denies all the rumors with li Qin and him dating and all the others but when it comes to DD he doesn’t do that so that automatically means something but in a county like CH it’s very hard for them to deny openly like this a same sex rumor about themselves especially how popular they are now so of course they would never do that even if there were rumors about them dating. And especially now with all the things that are changing there and them wanting to promote even more boy/girl romance and kinds stuff so it wouldn’t be in their best interest to deny them dating so openly like that…

And I just want to know what your thoughts are on the whole thing. Thank you 😊

What do I think, Anon? I think that this logic is so thoroughly contorted that it has a promising career with Cirque du Soleil. 😅

Fake, fan fiction, CPN.

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DD was pictured promoting Yuehua's blind box figurines, and now the supertopics are full of hilarious memes fans have made from the photo. 😅

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This clip on DD's dancing recently went viral on Douyin.

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My #1 post of 2022

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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diavorchid · 2 years

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Dr. Seward simply nodded. The Professor stood up and, after laying his golden crucifix on the table, held out his hand on either side. I took his right hand, and Lord Godalming his left; Jonathan held my right with his left and stretched across to Mr. Morris. So as we all took hands our solemn compact was made.

me: oh my god they're all holding hands—

#dracula daily #jack seward #arthur holmwood #quincey morris #mina harker #jonathan harker #abraham van helsing #dd sept 30 #my post #september 30

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rebloggingrexan · 11 months

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heyo! i’ve got over 2000 Dracula Daily posts, all tagged by date! so this is my spoiler-free post where all the dates are easy to get to. (and this is my extra ginormous Dracula Daily masterpost WITH SPOILERS and more; and links to fun tags like “dracula meta” and “dracula is a comedy”)

Draculadailytracker, Cattuladaily, ourgoodfriendjonathan, and draculadailyreactions are good Dracula blogs to check out too!

ALSO THO, SINCE THIS IS MY PINNED POST AND I REBLOG MORE THAN DRACULA, BE SURE TO BLOCK ‘#HEAVY POST’ IF YOU WANT TO BLOCK ANYTHING LIKE BODY HORROR, GORE, SERIOUS POSTS, OR ADULT CONTENT

for Dracula Daily posts, the format here is "#dd (date) (month)," (i also use simply “#dracula daily,” but seriously beware spoilers. EVERYTHING is there) so the start of Dracula Daily and a glut of paprika memes would be "#dd 3 may," but on this post, to make things pretty, i'll just list them without the "dd" at the start. September, October, and November only use their first three letters in the tags, though, e.g. #dd 3 oct

(right now as of June 2023, there are a few scattered dates without posts, or with fewer posts than i’d prefer, but i’m working on that! some empty days will get filled when a given day rolls around and scheduled posts get reblogged :) )

you can sign up for the Dracula Daily emails HERE and you can check out past installments HERE!

(please glimpse through my “dracula important” tag to get some information on racist instances in the story as well as other places/ways that may be more convenient to read the story)

BONUS: APRIL

• 21 April • 25 April • 28 April • 30 April (one queued for 2024 lol)

MAY

• 3 May • 4 May • 5 May • 7 May • 8 May • 9 May • 10 May • 11 May • 12 May • 13 May • 14 May • 15 May • 16 May • 18 May • 19 May • 24 May • 25 May • 26 May • 27 May • 28 May • 30 May • 31 May

Rest of months under cut!

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JUNE

• 5 June • 6 June • 13 June • 17 June • 18 June • 24 June • 25 June • 29 June • 30 June

JULY

• 1 July • 8 July • 18 July • 19 July • 20 July • 22 July • 24 July • 26 July • 27 July • 28 July • 29 July • 30 July

AUGUST

• 1 August • 2 August • 3 August • 4 August • 6 August • 8 August • 9 August • 10 August • 11 August • 12 August • 13 August • 14 August • 15 August • 16 August • 17 August • 18 August • 19 August • 20 August • 21 August • 23 August • 24 August • 25 August • 30 August • 31 August

SEPTEMBER (a busy month!! hold on!!!)

if you want some audio readings to help stay caught up, scroll down the archives of Cryptic Canticles��s Dracula Daily audio readings to get to any dates you may need

(note: in the tags, all months starting here and on use shortened versions with only their first three letters: sep, oct, nov)

• 1 Sep • 2 Sep • 3 Sep • 4 Sep • 5 Sep • 6 Sep • 7 Sep • 8 Sep • 9 Sep • 10 Sep • 11 Sep • 12 Sep • 13 Sep • 17 Sep • 18 Sep • 19 Sep • 20 Sep • 21 Sep • 22 Sep • 23 Sep • 24 Sep • 25 Sep • 26 Sep • 27 Sep • 28 Sep • 29 Sep • 30 Sep

OCTOBER (another busy month!!)

NOTE: OCTOBER 3 IS THE LARGEST ENTRY, OVER 50 PAGES. MAYBE START READING AHEAD IF YOU WANT. and again, you can scroll through the Cryptic Canticles archives to listen to any dates you need

• 1 Oct • 2 Oct • 3 Oct • 4 Oct • 5 Oct • 6 Oct • 7 Oct • 8 Oct • 11 Oct • 14 Oct • 15 Oct • 16 Oct • 17 Oct • 18 Oct • 19 Oct • 20 Oct • 21 Oct • 22 Oct • 23 Oct • 24 Oct • 25 Oct • 26 Oct • 27 Oct • 28 Oct • 29 Oct • 30 Oct • 31 Oct

NOVEMBER (NEARING THE END!!)

• 1 Nov • 2 Nov • 3 Nov • 4 Nov • 5 Nov • 6 Nov • 7 Nov • 9 Nov :)

SOME MORE BONUS TAGS

• prep (posts of people hyping Dracula Daily before it starts!)

• after (recaps, epilogue-ish non-November-7-specific posts, etc.!)

• ddn (posts that don’t really relate to any specific day and aren’t spoilery)

• other (Dracula-related posts that don’t directly relate to the story but may be spoilery for people who haven’t read it yet! like The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolks's posts. also basically a “miscellaneous” tag for posts i can’t otherwise figure out huehue.)

#i may do some heavy editing of this post in order to mention the 're: dracula' readings :)#that's probably a good audio source next to Cryptic Canticles #pinned #draculadailyreactions #me #ourgoodfriendjonathan #Draculadailytracker #Cattuladaily #dracula notable

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