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nikkistrations · 7 years

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Get to Know Me Tag

((I’ve never done one of these before, here’s hoping I’m doing it right))

Rules: Tag 20 people,you want to get to know better

@foolmoontrash @my-spider-inside @starschart

I… Can’t think of a whole lot more off the top of my head. I follow a lot of blogs I’m sorry

I was Tagged By: @heyyoucancallmekai. ((Who I would also like to get to know better, hello!))

Name: Ellen *shudder* *cringe*

Nicknames: Nikki, Nik, I was once known as (and actually still am occasionally) “Hotlegg”

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Capricorn

Height: approximately 5'4" according to the last time I was measured. Pretty sure it’s still accurate seeing as I havent grown any taller since

Sexuality: I’m not 100%, but I’m pretty sure I’m leaning towards straight so far if you don’t take into consideration my probably unhealthy fear of romantic relationships and the fact I’ve never really like someone irl ignore

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff!

Favorite Animal: kind of a tie between cats and frogs

Average Hours Spent Sleeping: 4-5 on a good night

Dogs or Cats: cats

Number of Blankets You Sleep With: one at my father’s, but my mother keeps it so damn cold in her apartment I have to sleep with three comforters and still wake up cold!

Dream Trip: Italy or Japan

When I Made This Account: sometime earlier this year

Why I Made This Account: I shut down the original nikkistrations because I feel I couldnt do with it what I really wanted or needed to to get it out there (it was only a side blog). So, I made a main art blog, and it’s grown faster in approximately 6 months than the original one did in a couple years!

Number of Followers: 34! Way more than I ever expected, and I love every. Single. One of them

Reason for my URL: obviously nikkistrations was and is still taken, and I wanted to show that I was trying to grow and improve my blog. Kind of like a second version, or a part two. Since I couldnt use something like nikkistrations2.0, I had to spell it out.

#never thought tagging some senpais woukd make me anxious #hoo boi #i was wrong #get to know me #nikki speaks #nikkispeaks #text post #heyyoucancallmekai #thanks for tagging me #ive never been tagged before

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msniikkii · 6 years

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Water Works

a little note on the impact of dehydration on the brain. IT IS THE WORST.

funny thing is, that you probably don’t even realize what dehydration is doing to you.

here we go with the SCIENCE part:

your BRAIN is 85% water!

your brain is made up of NEURONS

neurons transmit ELECTRICAL signals to each other

water CONDUCTS electricity

see the relationship starting to form?

for the sake of time and energy, i have posted a couple easy to read articles and videos on how and why your brain needs water. check my blog.

what are the symptoms of DEHYDRATION?

i’m not talking about severe dehydration...i’m talking the everyday dehydration that most of us have unknowingly imposed upon ourselves, without TBI.

headache*

dizziness*

thirst/hunger

irritability*

dark coloured pee pee

constipation

dry skin

okay so if you are like me, a TBI can already come with a few* of the above symptoms. on top of those i find the following can also be accentuate with dehydration:

decreased concentration

decreased mental awareness

brian fogginess

fatigue

feeling slowed down

more memory issues

moral of the story is that WATER IS YOUR NEW BFF. yes you will probably pee more often, but it’s worth it.

here are some of the rules i follow:

drink HALF of your body weight in OUNCES, or

drink 2 LITRES of water per day

drink a GLASS of H2O upon waking up (helps me with alertness)

for EVERY glass of ALCOHOL, drink its equivalent in water (but don’t drink too much or at all if you can help it)

drink A LOT of WATER after eating anything with REFINED SUGAR

don’t CHUG water. small sips throughout the day is key to ABSORPTION

EAT lots of leafy green and fruit, they contain a lot of water

carry around a reusable water BOTTLE, fill it up whenever you can

water actually works. simple but true.

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stabbitystab-blog · 8 years

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Oh man, that’s actually a tough one?I haven’t formed enough of an emotional connection to any fictional characters recently to be that in love with them…But given my most recent show watching and book reading I might have to give it to Dr. Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG1. He’s such a precious smart guy and while he’s forever getting over his wife’s death I think we’d be good together :p

#nikkispeaks

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puzzlekittynikki · 9 years

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Thank you so much to the fourteen haters who sent me garbage fanmail and asks saying that i'm a piece of shit because i'm an american who is whining about not being heard in a mass where there are bigger problems than me and that i'm trying to "be something i'm not". The special messages with the hurtful touch at the end that i'm ignorant and uncaring about other things they mentioned, and that i'm selfish to only focus on the one. I literally just wanted to point out that hey, I dont think the same as some and well damn if I do and damn if I don't. Sorry for ruining your day and voicing my opinion, but i am not sorry for saying something that i've felt like I needed to because it has been picking at me for awhile. I respect other's opinions and their views, I just wanted to put my own down too. But that's wrong on tumblr I guess. I aint gonna bring nothing up anymore.

#nikkiSpeaks #feeling #worthless #sad #why #are #people #so #sensitive #i'm #not #even #arguing #i #just #wanted #to #speak #thats #it #:'( cry

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pastelcheckereddreams · 1 year

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Four Seasons Manor (四季山庄): Set Layout!

If you’ve been following my descent into madness my research progress for my next set design project, you’ll know that it immediately became impossible for me to work out the layout of Siji Manor from screenshot studies of the show alone. To backtrack to about a year ago: it quickly became clear that the exterior shots of the manor’s first courtyard and the birdseye view we see in episode 24 is not located in the same set, or possibly even film base, as the “interior set”. Unfortunately, that secondary set is where many of the indoor scenes take place (with significant rooms, such as Wen Kexing’s bedroom being redressed to be used for other scenes in the show), and is where the secondary courtyard is located. I soon realised that I had to do three things in order to create a Four Seasons Manor for my project that feels as authentic as possible to the one we are presented with in the show. First, find the full film base on Google Earth (which has the most up-to-date satalite imagery I can find); second, identify all the buildings to create a “complete” Manor and confirm the secondary set isn’t just another part of the first; and third, find the secondary set in order to correctly map its layout and marry it with the birdseye view. Friends, I have achieved two of those three things. The second set still evades me. But so far, I have finally managed to correctly and completely identify the film base that is presented to us as Four Seasons Manor:

(Full research breakdown under the cut.)

This is one of two full manor sets on Hengdian World Studio’s No.1 Mountain in the ‘Spring and Autumn Tang Park’ filmbase. In anticipation for the birdseye plan in my set design project, I’ve gone ahead and mapped it out faithfully to the satalite image:

As you can see, there's five distinct areas that make up this manor: three courtyards (labelled 1,2,4) and two gardens (3,5). The first courtyard will be familiar to everyone who has watched Word of Honor:

It is the main courtyard of Four Seasons Manor. Likewise, the fifth area will also be familiar to you all, although you may not realise it yet. It's Sanbai Manor:*

*With the exception of the main gate. The main gate of Sanbai Manor is actually from another set in the Spring and Autumn Park filmbase - the Tang Palace. There is fantastic drone footage of that set here. The Sanbai Manor gate is at the rear of the set, but you may recognise the opening shot of this clip as another place we see in the very first episode of WOH 🤫 Edit: I forgot I had a second douyin clip for the Tang Palace set.

These are the main two areas used in WOH of this set. Confirmation of the rest of the set comes from drama New Life Begins and various douyin videos and tourist photos on the internet. I won't bore you with a breakdown because Tumblr has eaten too many drafts of this post and I am Tired, but here is a snapshot of my confirmation process:

Find the difference between these two pictures

Edit: On rewatch, I can confirm that are 4 is also used in WOH. We see it in the very first scene of episode 1, dressed as the Military Governer Li’s Manor:

Here is a daylight photograph (source here) of that same building:

You may be wondering though, about the alternate layout I have detailed in my map:

Friends, this is where I would like to hear your ideas.

After scouring many clips and photographs trying to confirm whether these photos are part of this same set or a later development, I've found that since the satalite picture of this site was taken by Google Earth in 2020, corresponding to what we see in WOH, Hengdian has remodeled this part of the set. You can see a wonderful walkthrough of areas 4 and 5 here, in which you can see the remodelled layout:

This douyin video was the last confirmation I needed to place the photographs from the article. This photograph in particular feels very much like Siji Manor to me, and so I will be trying to include this remodelled layout in my project design:

But.

Despite not having located the secondary set yet, I have been thinking over which area would be best to remodel myself, to try and incoporate the kitchen space and the two rooms it sits between, which I have confirmed to be WKX and ZZS's rooms:

Reminder of that early process here.

There are two options that I see right now:

1) I use area 4 as this second courtyard. I remove the gate, make the main room ZZS's room, remove the side halls, drop in a kitchen, put WKX's room where the gate was. Chengling's training dummies then get dropped whereabouts the hexagonal pavillion is in the alternate layout, and I tweak a random building here or there:

However, somewhat crucially - the view from WKX's moon widow would be blocked by the big building that is the centerpiece of area 5. I don't like that. Past the first courtyard, there's a certain sprawl and lack of uniformity to Siji Manor created in part by this CGI shot. I think that's why the above photo appealed so much to me.

So, 2) I remodel area 3. It's pretty sparse. I was thinking of making courtyard #2's main hall into a private study or meeting room, with the sidehalls being ZZS's "medicine room" and the "first night room" - the Cold River Room, as @minnarr called it in their stellar sleuthing post (I hope you don't mind that I'm using the name? And may continue to use it? Also, I'm still searching for this set and your sleuthing is going to be so much help.) - they could later become Chengling's room (and Han Ying's. For hanwenzhou headcanon rights).

Area 4 could then be used as a training courtyard and lecture hall perhaps? Meanwhile area 3 can be completely redone, to have ZZS's room at the bottom facing north, WKX's facing south:

The "training area" is then still technically past a covered walkway to the left of their courtyard. The spirit remains. However, crucially: The dotted line between areas 3 and 4 is indicative of a drop in elevation. The whole set is on a slope, with areas 1,2 and 3 at a higher elevation to 4 and 5. So. If the moon window in WKX's room did face west across the garden and down the mountain, it would actually be true to the CGI we see out of his window in the show: Especially because you see part of a roof. That could totally be the roof of the building that sits against the dotted line.

But additionally, there's also this alternate orientation:

It makes the kitchen feel more tucked away, and the additional screened walkway would give ZZS and WKX their privacy. But the view from the moon window would be blocked, and there's no reason to not have the rooms central to the courtyard the way they are here.

...Does any of that make sense? I bypassed Normal about this show a solid year ago. I'm leaning towards option 2 right now, but I will continue my hunt through cdrama for this other set. What's irritating is that I can see its style in lots of other places, including Lotus Pier, and I just can't find the real world setting for it...

ANYWAY, as always, thank you for joining me on my research adventures. Supporting me through ko-fi, and checking out my previous CQL projects here and on inprnt, would be greatly appreciated.

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

#nikkidraws #nikkispeaks #my neurodivergance is showing #but more importantly #also my epic sleuthing skills #true to form i will now yeet this post from me because my brain is DONE with it #woh set design #set design saga #word of honor #four seasons manor #siji manor #wenzhou #my hanwenzhou agenda #shan he ling #hengdian world studios #spring and autumn tang park #spring and autumn tang garden

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nikkistrations · 6 years

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That awkward moment when you realize your birthday is in 10 days.

#im not ready to get older #19 is too far in my life #im not ready #nikkispeaks

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ambiguousbeta · 5 years

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withagentleheart replied to your post: {{PSA}}

I love smut. I just can’t seem to write it.

It’s one of the only things I am actually good at writing.

#withagentleheart #;;Nikkispeaks #Fight scenes #I suck ass at fight scenes

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msniikkii · 6 years

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Jet Me Outta Here

guess what! i’m going on an adventure! a VACATION. (i’m actually probably already gone!)

i am in my 18TH MONTH of recovery. did i think i would be 100% better by now? ABSOLUTELY. am i 100% better? NOT AT ALL have i come a long way since my injury? YES.

is going on a 3.5 week adventure to the UK the best idea? let’s look at pros and cons.

CONS:

navigating through unfamiliar places

visiting crazy busy cities that never sleep

getting off routine

lots of sensory stimulation, that i might not be able to control

decision making and problem solving on the fly

time zone change and potential sleep disturbance (jet lag)

nutrition/exercise might suffer

PROS:

great for my mental heath (vacation mode)

taking a break from constantly focusing on recovery

experiencing the world, new culture

strengthening me and my loves relationship

exposing myself to sensory experiences (tolerance)

get to speak french (for part of the trip)

cross another item off my bucket list

to be honest i was so excited about going on this trip, that i completely DISMISSED MY INJURY and potential symptoms. i really thought i’d be BETTER BY NOW and that my TBI would be a distant memory. well. it is still very real and VERY PRESENT in my daily life.

i mean, i’m going on a trip that we have been dreaming about for years, it’s finally happening. so of course my brain is going to be fine, right?? probably not. good thing my psychologist brought back down to earth.

realistically i should have planned a RELAXING BEACH vacation. but like i said i wasn't considering my injury.

so what am i doing to help regulate my symptoms?

PACE

i tend to try and do everything and see everything. we really had to PRIORITIZE what we wanted to see and do

ALTERNATE busy days and lazy days

take our time

PLAN

i WROTE everything down. times, booking references, locations, addresses

will help with planning ANXIETY

MINIMIZE the amount of decision making on the fly. not my idea way of approaching a vacation, but you do what you have to.

ADJUST for jet lag

sleep is my saviour. SLEEP DISRUPTIONS could make or break my experience

adjust sleep schedule prior to trip to align my CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS to the UK timezone

bring MELATONIN to help get into a new sleep routine

ALLIVIATE SYMPTOMS

bring ADVIL (headaches)

bring EYE MASK, EAR PLUGS, and headphones

travel PILLOW for sleeping on planes, trains and automobiles

COMMUNICATE

real talk with my partner

adjust his expectations

plan for the worst, hope for the best

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