KAMUT, toa Mangai of ice (5/11)
Standing in the inscribed halls of the great temple, Kamut considers the histories of the world to best serve the matoran they have sworn to protect. Quiet and contemplative, they work almost exclusively in a group, serving as a confidant for many of their siblings.
Kamut wears the great Calix, and channels their elemental powers through their Gelid Censer. Unlike other toa heroes, they use the Calix's foreknowing powers to try and predict little, infinite, possible futures instead of pushing their instincts to unnatural limits.
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browsing yb2 bloopers
nlg had a stunt double?? when did he have any stunts that needed doubling?? also xy face i love him
also shoutout to this blooper i'm a big fan it's got everything. yan su. quick maths. age facts. the slow pan over to famed youth general mimu qinbei-
(ETA: VIDEO IS DELETED augh if i predicted this would happen why did i not just download the video booo. vid title: 《大宋少年志2》花絮:野利皇后和宁令哥的母子年龄差(翁虹、闫肃))
for posterity:
ningling ge (ic): if you're going to pull a knife, in the future can you give me a heads up first
queen yeli (ic): this queen has gotten old, i forgot...
ningling ge (break char): 🤨 (looks at director)
(offscreen): maybe we shouldn't mention the age thing? because you really don't look old... (collective offscreen laughter)
queen yeli (break char): i'm playing his mom, how am i not old?
ningling ge, over her: it's because of your beauty... [the sweet-talking prince]
(offscreen): then that would mean probably you were 15-16 when...
queen yeli: so i'm 35-40, (motherly patting nlg) i mean how old is he? 17? 18?
ningling ge, played by fully late 30s actor yan su: ... i think that's a little ... let's say 24-25. (straight-faced -> starts cracking up, hiding face in scriptbook)
queen yeli, ignoring his crisis: 🤔 so if you're 25, and i was 15, so right now i'm 35?
[25+15=?]
ningling ge: hey aren't you supposed to be playing a youth general?
[pan over to s2 mqmb, also played by late-30s actor, bald with facial hair]
s2 miqin mubei: the youth got old, right
queen yeli, pointing: that miqin - even that mimu qinbei has grown to look like this, then i-
ningling ge, character once known as miqin mubei: it's miqin mubei!! mimu qinbei - qinbei~! [prince don't be naughty]
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Every day is a culture shock
Bro ive been on the internet for how long and I'm still in a perpetual state of culture shock?
I feel insane when I hear that people don't take family roles or family duty as seriously as I do.
My best friend loves to send me posts of People complaining about family and we both look like
Oh that's crazy! They're not even defending the family honor and reputation from outsiders????? Literally insane!! Even if you hate your family, you still have to defend them from outsiders. What's even going on?
To us it's like instinct. Even if your parents are straight up evil, you still have access to connections and favors by virtue of your last name. You have to defend the last name so you can keep using that. It's not a common idea? CRAZY! And what about your younger generations? You want to ruin it for them too?
Despite being females, we are both the firstborn son of our households. And then we go online and nobody knows wtf we're talking about
Wtf you mean you're the oldest and you're not at least the firstborn daughter? It comes with birth. You don't have any of those duties? Then what do you do?
Like obv were not robots. I have a lot of friends that didn't do some of their duties. Whether they disagreed or were lazy or just didn't want to, the word "duty" is always there. "That duty was stupid so I didn't do it". Fair. Your choice.
dude ok I know I'm aware other cultures exist and they're different. I didn't realize in practice its SO different. people look at me like I'm fucking insane bro!!!
I had a conversation with a girl and she's like "you're so lucky you have a great relationship with your dad!" And I was like "not all my siblings have this close relationship. I earned my right to stand as his equal by completing all my family duties (almost) perfectly"
Like I earned my right that when we argue I can say he's "being cringe". I earned my right to argue actually. I earned this by repeatedly demonstrating responsibility, maturity, and correct priorities.
Dude that girl said this sounds like child abuse and I was like dawg wtf are you talking about 💀 your parents don't let you earn standing? Do they even love you? (That was mainly ego. She insulted my family so I tried to as well).
I'm guilty of growing up in a mixed asian society. My best friend grew up also In a mixed Asian society but a different one. In mine, the largest groups were Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Korean followed by every other kind of Asian.
Her area's largest groups were japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian followed by every other kind of Asian.
So it's kinda different but close enough. She knows how to eat with her hands and I know how to eat with chopsticks. We all celebrate 2 kinds of lunar new year. One by the south asian lunar calendar and one by the east Asian lunar calendar (don't ask, I don't know why we have 2 lunar calendars. You would think there's only 1?)
Both our areas, aunties will scold you if they hear you talk disrespectfully to your parents. Both our areas people will look down on you for not knowing your home language. Both our areas, the elders expect proper acknowledgement.
There are differences too. In my area, those who disrespect you must be disrespected In return. It's an offense to your family that they think they are allowed to disrespect you. In her area, the disrespect will happen but not to the face. You have to show you're from a better family. Here you have to show you are aware of the bullshit and you won't let it slide. I think its a difference between acting on behalf of your family vs acting with permission from your family. That's my speculation.
When teachers at my school said "grades don't matter" we said "then don't grade us? Liar". When teachers at her school said that they said "we understand, thank you for telling us" and then told their parents and the parents filed a report against the teachers for intentional misleading and sabotage.
The levels or respect and politeness and what kinds of actions imply what about your family were a culture shock to me. When I visit her, I have to adjust to be a lot more mellow and polite than I have to show here. Here, the elders accept any proper acknowledgement like "hi grandma" is fine. Even "hello" or a wave is fine. There, elders expect you to acknowledge them according to their culture. I personally fuck this up so bad because I don't even know who they are so i just copy what my friend is doing. And then I get the relation wrong and then they stare at me. Sometimes I'm lucky.
Over here, we don't really know too many people. It's not as social. Where she lives, everyone knows everyone.
I don't know how to describe this melding aside from just generally "asian" .
I log on to the internet and there's no shared culture except for speaking English 🤣 HAH.
It's like the difference between going to a swimming pool vs a jacuzzi
Vs jumping into a pile of leaves
Previously the common factor was water. Now the common factor is that it's matter.
I'm being so deadass I feel like me and some fictional characters from cultivation novels have more in common
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This was supposed to stay a doodle. It was only supposed to have scribbly line art but then I made it nice. Then it was only supposed to have scratch color, but- well, anyway I drew a meme again! I had to. Emotionally damaged man is handed kids and quickly becomes dad is one of my favorite character arc tropes ever! So of course this was my favorite part of the book!
Characters are from @scribbly-blue-hearts' book Stormbite. If you enjoy sci-fi bird people, consider checking it out!
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