secret shanghai characters as texts i've sent

rosalind to celia after being assigned as orion's mission partner:

these violent delights (the duology) by chloe gong, 2020:

roma, before passing out due to sleep deprivation:

oliver, orion, and phoebe:

juliette:

alisa:

DRDT HC, lmk what you think !

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 2?? (Is it even spoilers- Idk- but JUST incase. Mini spoilers Ig-)

Oh and, spoilers for KNY as well since I took inspiration from it a bit for said HC-

HC TIME ‼️

Whit probably dyed his hair after his mother died as memory of her.

But it doesn't end there.

He probably mimicks her personality as well, similar to Shinobu mimicking Kanae- 😊

HC approved?? Or rather- any thoughts on said HC? (I pulled this HC out of my ass, but anyways-)

FOUL HEART HUNTSMAN SPOILERS

Oliver to Celia, every two seconds: SWEETHEART--

Good enough ig ;-; 

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MXTX Interview with Risa Wataya for Subaru Magazine P.3

Risa Wataya: So that’s how it is. Although Lan WangJi is very quiet, he always uses practical actions to protect Wei WuXian's feelings. He’s a character that makes people feel sincere and earnest. I also really liked the scene where he couldn't beat the alcohol and drank until he lost self-control.

Mo Xiang: Lan Wangji is a cute person! Although he is stubborn and cold and not easy for strangers to approach on the outside, but when he loves someone, he is innocent (*) and sensitive, like a teenage girl. He will cry. He will be shy, jealous, and hesitant. He will worry and fret by himself... I like gong like this! The weakness to wine is to show this cute side of Lan Wangji. I think childish gongs are very cute.

(*: the word used here is chun de 纯的. It means ‘pure’ in the mental and emotional sense. As in his love and his feelings are pure and have no other motives or agendas. It’s not pure/innocent as in... well... we all know Lan Wangji’s sexual awakening involves a dream about him r***-ing Wei Wuxian so... It’s not that kind of innocent.)

Risa Wataya: On his forehead, he wears a forehead band, like a headband in Japan. The fact that the forehead band symbolizes self-restraint is also very interesting.

Mo Xiang: In reality, the forehead band also frequently appears on the costumes of classical Chinese literature. So I think it is a kind of ancient Chinese aristocratic jewelry, to emphasize Gusu Lan Shi's nobility (*) but without giving too much meaning at that time… However, later upon investigation, I found that in ancient China, there was a "ceremonial stoicism" (**) of ethics and etiquette, which is also reflected in clothing and jewelry. For example, "hairpin", which means "proper/virtuous posture"... When walking, if the hairpin makes a sound, you need to adjust your posture. Although the exposure of the forehead does not seem to have special meaning, "binding" is reminiscent of "self-restraint.” After considering the behavioral ethics of the ancient Chinese, I developed this “restraint oneself” setting.

(*: the wording here does not actually mean nobility as in a ranking or social class of the time, but in the feelings evoked by Gusu Lan Shi, in the way they conduct themselves, restrain themselves, deny themselves extreme power, in the goals and standards they set for themselves, in the ways they treat other common people in a time where China had an extremely rigid nine-ranked caste system and extensive slave class and slavery system. A sense of beyond the petty squabbles of common mortals. In other words, nobility from the bones)

(**: 礼服克己 Lifu Keji: an ancient manifested philosophy and a type of Asian ascetism where a practitioner must conduct his life, from the smallest, most insignificant details, with extreme restraint and control.) 

Risa Wataya: Ah, so that’s how it is. The plot related to the forehead band is quite interesting. Although looking at the full text, there are a lot of sorrowful, tragic parts, but after adding such interesting details, the mood becomes much lighter.

Mo Xiang: If it's all torture (*), my readers will run away. By the way, the “Aside from the destined person, other people cannot touch the forehead band” detail is something I suddenly thought of during the writing process. I often read classical Chinese martial arts novels (wuxia). The female characters often appear on screen and say: "You have seen my face. You must marry me." "Or "You touch my hand, you're responsible!" (**) But I thought, "Why do women always have to say this?"

(*: modern Chinese slang. It literally means ‘reverse/mistreat.’ It denotes ‘sad, sorrowful’ tones in stories that will make you cry buckets and run away screaming or require times in therapy (Ask the folks reading Erha. They will tell you all about it). Chinese stories are often marked with either ‘mistreat’ or ‘sweet’ to tell readers the tone of the stories. Alternative slangs are ‘glass shards’ and ‘candies.’ It’s a very popular modern Chinese writing technique to mix glass shards and candies, and it’s generally believed there are no great stories without ‘glass shards’ in them. The readers need to cry to remember the stories you are telling. So the vast majority of modern Chinese literature is of the ‘glass shards mixed in candies’ variety. Have fun!)  

(**: Common trope in Wuxia and Xianxia genre. This stems from the strict sexual segregation of ancient China and the rigid customs imposed on women. For thousands of years in China, up until the last one hundred years, it was very normal for daughters of wealthy families to never step foot outside their house, or even their personal wing inside their house, until the day of their wedding. And after their wedding, this process is repeated in their husband’s house.

The traditional saying is that there are only three places for women in this world: the ancestral hall, the kitchen, and the bedroom. This saying is even repeated by Jiang Cheng when talking about Jiang Yanli in the novel.

There’s a lot of emphasis on women maintaining extreme unstained virtue. So there used to be ridiculous things like if you see an unwed woman’s face, then you must take responsibility for her, and so forth. In particular dynasties, it also wasn’t strange for blood feuds or even all-out war to occur because some random dudes saw some particularly protected woman’s face… or touch her hair or that sort of thing.)

"So I wanted to try the same setup on the male character Lan Wangji, adding meaning to the forehead band. That moment when one’s ethics and ceremonial morality codes are broken. This feeling of hysterical panic and discombobulation applied to a male character might be very interesting indeed!” (*)

(*: tone / word choice is especially gleeful at seeing Lan Wangji metaphorically having his chastity slip being stolen by Wei Wuxian)    

Translator note: Hmm, this part the vocabulary is a bit more complex and needing extra explanations than the previous two. I worry that a lot of lingual concepts don’t match up to the English words, or that the same concepts don’t exist at all. Ergo, the abundance of notes. I hope it’s not too disruptive.

That said, after this part 3, I will have to stop for a few days. The reason is because... I have to wait (and beg) for the scan of the next page in the interview. You might not know this, but this interview with MXTX was rumored by Japanese fans for a long time. The result is when it was confirmed, the May-June edition of Subaru magazine was sold out in minutes! People queued up for hours and could not buy it. The magazine originally retails for about 10 USD. But now there are people reselling it for 70 USD and there are plenty of people queuing up to buy those too! So of course... even had I tried... I still would not be able to get even a finger nail on this edition. 

Luckily! I am in this Vietnamese MXTX fan group. A “rich sister” in there was able to acquire a copy and shared a scanned page with the rest of us. The magazine is something of a collector item now, much clout, very envy!! That kind! So the rest of us peons have to wait for the next scanned pages. 

To Be Continued (Pray for me...) 

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Religious Monkey King Flag

I recently acquired this 50-plus-year-old command flag (lingqi, 令旗), which symbolizes a given ritual specialist's mandate from heaven to exorcise evil. Reading from right to left, the exorcist deities listed are:

Great Sage Equaling Heaven (Qitian dasheng, 齊天大聖), a.k.a. Sun Wukong. A very, very faint chop seal print of his name also graces the bottom right of the flag.

Third Prince Nezha (Nezha San taizi, 哪吒三太子)

Lord Zhu (Zhufu qiansui, 朱府千歲)

Lord Li (Lifu qiansui, 李府千歲)

Supreme Emperor of the Dark Heavens (Xuantian shangdi, 玄天上帝). This deity is the highest exorcist in the Daoist pantheon. Most command flags carry his name or at least a seven-star big dipper pattern, which alludes to his role as a representation of the northern sky.

The symbol on the far end is "command" (ling, 令).

What's neat is that this flag is possibly written in blood, likely produced from the self-mortification of spirit-mediums (Chinese: Jitong, 乩童; Hokkien: Tangki, 童乩; literally: “Divining Child”).

I plan to have the flag framed behind glass to protect it from the ravages of time.

Something something Celia means heavenly something something "I will make you my altar"

Hong Liwen and Hong Lifu

the men you are 😭😭

Speedwagon pls? owo

Spdwd is scered fr his lifu

(my artstyle makes ppl from p1-3 look like aliens et lookin creatures, but I tried my best here)

WEAVE spectrograph begins study of galaxy formation and evolution More than 500 astronomers from all over Europe, including members of Catalan universities and research centers—the UPC and the ICCUB—have designed and planned a total of five years of operations for the WEAVE spectrograph, a powerful instrument recently installed at the Canary Islands observatory. Combined with Gaia's measurements, it makes it possible to study a wide range of cases in stellar and galactic science. The first observations show unprecedented aspects of the collision between the galaxies at the heart of Stephan's Quintet, 280 million light-years from Earth. The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the WEAVE instrument team have presented first-light observations with the WEAVE spectrograph. It is a powerful new generation multifiber spectrograph in the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands), which has recently been launched and is already generating high-quality data. Astronomers from all over Europe have planned eight surveys for observation with WEAVE, including studies of stellar evolution, the Milky Way, galaxy evolution and cosmology. Together with the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, WEAVE will be used to obtain spectra of several million stars in the disk and halo of our galaxy, and thus to do archeology of the Milky Way. Nearby and distant galaxies will be studied to learn the history of how they grew. Quasars will be used as beacons to map the spatial distribution and interaction of gas and galaxies when the universe was only about 20% of today's age. First-light observations: Stephan's Quintet galaxies WEAVE targeted NGC 7318a and NGC 7318b, two galaxies at the center of Stephan's Quintet. Its galaxies, four of which are 280 million light-years from Earth, are colliding with each other, providing an excellent close-up laboratory to study the consequences of galaxy collisions and their subsequent evolution. The first-light observations were carried out with the so-called Large Integral Field Unit (LIFU) fiber array, one of WEAVE's three fiber systems. When using the LIFU, 547 very compact optical fibers transmit light from a hexagonal area of the sky to the spectrograph, where it is analyzed and recorded. WEAVE's LIFU has measured a large number of individual spectra of the two central galaxies of Stephan's Quintet and their surroundings, examining the intensity of the colors of their light, from the ultraviolet to the near infrared. Among other information, these spectra reveal essential details to study collision processes, such as the motion and distribution of stars and gas, and their chemical composition. From these data, we can learn how galaxy collisions transform the other galaxies in the group. ING director Marc Balcells explains that their goal is "to install a unique instrument that will allows us to carry out cutting-edge astronomical research. It has been fantastic to receive financial support from the national research agencies of the three ING partner countries (UK, Spain and the Netherlands) and contributions from other non-ING countries (France and Italy)." "We are pleased to demonstrate that the LIFU part of WEAVE not only works, but produces high-quality data. The ING telescopes will continue to deliver results of high scientific impact in the coming years. We look forward to announcing soon the first-light events for the other observing modes, which are currently in the final calibration stage." WEAVE, a new generation spectrograph The WEAVE spectrograph uses optical fibers to collect light from celestial objects and transmits it to a spectrograph that separates the light according to its different wavelengths. It can work at two different spectral resolutions, which are used to measure the speeds of objects in the line of sight (using the Doppler effect) and to determine their chemical composition. The versatility of WEAVE is one of its main strengths. While the LIFU mode contains hundreds of fibers in a compact distribution, essential for imaging extended areas of the sky, in the MOS mode about a thousand individual fibers can be placed (by two robots) to simultaneously collect light from stars, galaxies or quasars. During the first five years of operation, spectra of millions of individual stars and galaxies are to be obtained, a goal that can be achieved thanks to the spectrograph's ability to observe so many bodies at once. Catalan contribution to the spectrograph The project involves scientists from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC). The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) takes part with researchers from the ICCUB and the UPC units. From the beginning of the project, these Catalan institutions have worked on the definition of its scientific objectives and the selection of the objects to be observed—from stars in various evolutionary stages to star clusters—as well as the sampling of quasars, extremely bright and very distant active nuclei galaxies. Specifically, two ICCUB-IEEC researchers, Maria Monguió and Mercè Romero-Gómez, and UPC researcher Roberto Raddi, from the Department of Physics, who is a professor at the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC), are members of the international working groups on young stars, galactic archeology and white dwarfs that make up the team of scientists responsible for planning the observations. Teresa Antoja and Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, also from the ICCUB-IEEC, co-lead the research teams responsible for galactic disk dynamics and quasars, respectively. Roberto Raddi, commenting on the contribution of the UPC, says, "Our team will contribute to the study of some 100,000 white dwarfs previously observed by Gaia, and discover the secrets behind the last evolutionary stages of Sun-like stars, including the fate of their planetary systems, and the mechanisms leading to supernova explosions in binary systems with white dwarfs." Maria Monguió, from the ICCUB-IEEC, explains, "After years of preparation, we hope to soon be able to obtain the first spectra of stars in the disk of our galaxy. The quantity and quality of the millions of spectra that we expect to observe will allow us, among other things, to analyze regions of recent star formation and to measure how stars move. These data, together with those provided by the Gaia mission, will allow us to address fundamental questions about the formation and evolution of the Milky Way."

I was not expecting this extreme positivity while out of curiosity looking up anatomy statistics.

Like thanks Lifu Tao on quora. I have sacrificed many shirts to the shoulders.

*slams fists on table*

TOMORROW IS THE DAY.

THE DAY THE I WILL SEE ATARU MOROBOSHI AND HIS WIFU FOR LIFU LUM THE INVADER FUCK YESSSSSSS-!!!!!!