#Make IT China

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

traditional knife 石镰shilian specially used to harvest glutinous rice

#china #fun #video #miscellaneous #the same stone knife was unearthed in liangzhu culture良渚文化 #op says they chose manual harvesting is because the glutinous rice isn't that much #glutinous rice are not necessary staple food #terrace farming in mountainous areas also makes machine harvesting inconvenient #others say it's just for video #anyway i think this knife is very practical in home garden #i'm not good at caring for plants #there are often withered stems #shilian must be easier to use than ordinary scissors

[onlylostphysics]

Edward “Guess I’ll Die” Teach

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #taika waititi #edward teach #blackbeard #gifs #i read something about how ed's reaction to a plan going wrong is to go nuclear #either everything's perfect or they're all going to die #which made his decision to just leave instead of finding out what happened to stede FINALLY make sense to me #he absolutely catastrophises when stede doesn't show up #and like a normal person goes well obviously the plan's fucked then this is unsalvageable bye #because heaven forbid they should talk about their feelings instead of running away TO CHINA #anyway here's a gifset about it

[fanning-the-flames]

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) in Sargent’s Repose. I imagine this is how White Lotus disciple Luo Binghe sees his Shizun while in reality, the Peak Lord is drooling, hair a mess, and has crumbs on his robes.

Now for a close-up:

And the sketch I posted earlier is linked here. Hope this ended up meeting expectations!

Your Easter Egg for this year is this view of what the scene looks like without the Shizun goggles.

#shen qingqiu #svsss #mxtx fan art #john singer sargent #pov Luo binghe #Shizun goggles on #I tried my best to make the setting and clothes more ancient China and was only marginally successful #like no way that skirt is accurate but I will seize all opportunities to paint luxuries drapery with both grubby hands #I'm glad you all love sargent as much as I do

[lorigreys-blog]

Me and daddy🤍🎀

#coquette #vintage americana #this is what makes us girls #lana del rey #alana champion #lizzy grant era #daddy's good girl #girlblogging #elizabeth woolridge grant #pinterest girl #american lolita #spank me daddy #daddy issues #daddy’s babygirl #bd/sm daddy #china doll #dollette #dolette #nymph aesthetic #sweet little nymph #nymphett

[3cosmicfrogs]

oh 12.65 litres of blood clinging to the outside of my body, we're really in it now

#what happens when OP cannot figure out the esen sun symbolism #fine ill do ouyang moon symbolism then! #artfromthefrogs #blood tw #general ouyang #he who drowned the world #hwdtw #she who became the sun #swbts #the radiant emperor #tre #ouyang #art #this was supposed to be like a tarot format but it looked shite so (as usual) i scrapped a ton of work to make it look good #when zhu is trying to become emperor but youre too busy having the most tragic yaoi in china and also you must kill the khan #me when it turns out that killing the object of my affection means that he is dead.

[unsanctitude]

pretty kitty

#chien-pao #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #scvi #scvi spoilers #my fave new pogey for sure tied with the snail one #not sure if or when ill play scvi but i at least enjoy the ruinous legendaries a lot #theyre so out of place it makes me wonder if theyre gonna be reused in a china themed region #i think itd be neat if they did another game based in the past like arceus before these pokemon were imprisoned #however i dont have a lot of faith in the future of these games 🧍‍♂️ #look at the funny weasel

[spocks-kaathyra]

thoughts about the Cardassian writing system

I've thinking about the Cardassian script as shown on screen and in beta canon and such and like. Is it just me or would it be very difficult to write by hand?? Like.

I traced some of this image for a recent drawing I did and like. The varying line thicknesses?? The little rectangular holes?? It's not at all intuitive to write by hand. Even if you imagine, like, a different writing implement—I suppose a chisel-tip pen would work better—it still seems like it wasn't meant to be handwritten. Which has a few possible explanations.

Like, maybe it's just a fancy font for computers, and handwritten text looks a little different. Times New Roman isn't very easily written by hand either, right? Maybe the line thickness differences are just decorative, and it's totally possible to convey the same orthographic information with the two line thicknesses of a chisel-tip pen, or with no variation in line thickness at all.

A more interesting explanation, though, and the one I thought of first, is that this writing system was never designed to be handwritten. This is a writing system developed in Cardassia's digital age. Maybe the original Cardassian script didn’t digitize well, so they invented a new one specifically for digital use? Like, when they invented coding, they realized that their writing system didn’t work very well for that purpose. I know next to nothing about coding, but I cannot imagine doing it using Chinese characters. So maybe they came up with a new writing system that worked well for that purpose, and when computer use became widespread, they stuck with it. 

Or maybe the script was invented for political reasons! Maybe Cardassia was already fairly technologically advanced when the Cardassian Union was formed, and, to reinforce a cohesive national identity, they developed a new standardized national writing system. Like, y'know, the First Emperor of Qin standardizing hanzi when he unified China, or that Korean king inventing hangul. Except that at this point in Cardassian history, all official records were digital and typing was a lot more common than handwriting, so the new script was designed to be typed and not written. Of course, this reform would be slower to reach the more rural parts of Cardassia, and even in a technologically advanced society, there are people who don't have access to that technology. But I imagine the government would be big on infrastructure and education, and would make sure all good Cardassian citizens become literate. And old regional scripts would stop being taught in schools and be phased out of digital use and all the kids would grow up learning the digital script.

Which is good for the totalitarian government! Imagine you can only write digitally. On computers. That the government can monitor. If you, like, write a physical letter and send it to someone, then it's possible for the contents to stay totally private. But if you send an email, it can be very easily intercepted. Especially if the government is controlling which computers can be manufactured and sold, and what software is in widespread use, etc. 

AND. Historical documents are now only readable for scholars. Remember that Korean king that invented hangul? Before him, Korea used to use Chinese characters too. And don't get me wrong, hangul is a genius writing system! It fits the Korean language so much better than Chinese characters did! It increased literacy at incredible rates! But by switching writing systems, they broke that historical link. The average literate Chinese person can read texts that are thousands of years old. The average literate Korean person can't. They'd have to specifically study that field, learn a whole new writing system. So with the new generation of Cardassian youths unable to read historical texts, it's much easier for the government to revise history. The primary source documents are in a script that most people can't read. You just trust the translation they teach you in school. In ASIT it's literally a crucial plot point that the Cardassian government revised history! Wouldn't it make it soooo much easier for them if only very few people can actually read the historical accounts of what happened.

I guess I am thinking of this like Chinese characters. Like, all the different Chinese "dialects" being written with hanzi, even though otherwise they could barely be considered the same language. And even non-Sinitic languages that historically adopted hanzi, like Japanese and Korean and Vietnamese. Which worked because hanzi is a logography—it encodes meaning, not sound, so the same word in different languages can be written the same. It didn’t work well! Nowadays, Japanese has made significant modifications and Korean has invented a new writing system entirely and Vietnamese has adapted a different foreign writing system, because while hanzi could write their languages, it didn’t do a very good job at it. But the Cardassian government probably cares more about assimilation and national unity than making things easier for speakers of minority languages. So, Cardassia used to have different cultures with different languages, like the Hebitians, and maybe instead of the Union forcing everyone to start speaking the same language, they just made everyone use the same writing system. Though that does seem less likely than them enforcing a standard language like the Federation does. Maybe they enforce a standard language, and invent the new writing system to increase literacy for people who are newly learning it.

And I can imagine it being a kind of purely digital language for some people? Like if you’re living on a colonized planet lightyears away from Cardassia Prime and you never have to speak Cardassian, but your computer’s interface is in Cardassian and if you go online then everyone there uses Cardassian. Like people irl who participate in the anglophone internet but don’t really use English in person because they don’t live in an anglophone country. Except if English were a logographic writing system that you could use to write your own language. And you can’t handwrite it, if for whatever reason you wanted to. Almost a similar idea to a liturgical language? Like, it’s only used in specific contexts and not really in daily life. In daily life you’d still speak your own language, and maybe even handwrite it when needed. I think old writing systems would survive even closer to the imperial core (does it make sense to call it that?), though the government would discourage it. I imagine there’d be a revival movement after the Fire, not only because of the cultural shift away from the old totalitarian Cardassia, but because people realize the importance of having a written communication system that doesn’t rely on everyone having a padd and electricity and wifi.

#if I read over this again I will inevitably want to change and add things so I'm refraining from doing that. enjoy whatever this is #forgive my very crude recounting of chinese and korean history! I am neither a historian nor a linguist #but I will NOT apologize for talking abt china so much. that's my culture and I'm weird abt it bc of my family history #and it's my GOD GIVEN RIGHT to project what little I know abt it onto all my worldbuilding #also I've never actually read abt any of the various cardassian conlangs but I'm curious if this contradicts or coincides with any of them #I still want to make my own someday. starting college as a linguistics major (in 2 weeks!!) so presumably I will learn how to do that #narcissus's echoes #ds9 #asit #star trek #cardassians #cardassian meta #a stitch in time #hebitians

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

an AU of sorts where everything is the same but Wuya tried a little harder to keep Jack as her minion-er apprentice, and what says more than 'we are a team' than coordinated outfits?

or just me wanting to dress Jack in vaguely more chinese clothes i guess lol

#xiaolin showdown #jack spicer #wuya #xs wuya #chase young #i mean jack already got 'coincidental' coordination with wuya. why not go all the way?? make him wear chinese clothes u cowards #he lives in china and the idea of traditional chinese outfits but goth amuse me

[hellonerf]

im sick but i still found time to rip chunks of my head out

seprat

#hetalia #hetalia ensemble #myart #Um #aph america #aph canada #aph russia #aph china #aph england #aph france #aph italy #aph romano #aph japan #aph germany #aph prussia #hws america #hws canada #hws russia #hws china #hws england #hws france #hws italy #hws romano #hws japan #hws germany #hws prussia #WOOh!(wipes sweat) #stickers for con maybe #ill probably have to crank up the saturation when i go to make them stickers...

[vexx-the-egg]

How is no one talking about the GORGEOUSELY hand painted the backgrounds for The Boy and The Heron are. Every tiny detail. Every wisp of light streaming through the windows. All of it so beutiful rendered in water color. Like a children's book come to life. Look im all for glossy hyper relistic backgrounds but WOW. Wow did this movie remind you that all of that is a hand drawn craft. In the best way possible.

#the boy and the heron #THE LITTLE DETAILING ON THE CHINA #the messy ways the ink spills over a bit on the leaves #the way it makes the whole movie look like a moving picture book #like this isnt new to ghibli there already known for beutiful backgrounds and water color texture #but that cranked that to 100% the whole way through #it was pure eye candy

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

BY 换谁不迷糊呀 (fyi, don't try chinese daoism 手印shouyin/指诀zhijue in a bold manner because↓

#china #video #fun #shouyin #zhijue #the practice of making a shouyin is called 结印jieyin #chinese culture #daoism #i think he is half in jest because of that doge emoji(is he? #so don't worry it probably will just cost you two years #not twenty

[casart]

Toy Castle au because why not!🧸🏰

#casart #sanders sides #remus sanders #roman sanders #creativity twins #creativitwins #does anyone else know this show???? I been on a kick of old media I used to watch as a kid #does this age me lol flipping LOVED these kinda obscure live action shows lmaoo #anyways not sure who the others would be but maybe patton would be rag doll and janus china doll #and im so tempted to make virgil the ballerina skjfhks #the toy castle #le château magique

[anti-kawaii-daily]

Today's Anti-Kawaii Character of The Day is Runa from the oneshot manga, Dangerous Love!She wears Dark Girly most of the time but she does wear China Kei at the Cafe where she works, she also fits into the Yandere archetype!

#dangerous love #Runa dangerous love #dark girly #girly kei #china kei #yandere #also Runa is a rare LGBTQ yandere and that makes her stand out amongst characters like Yuno Gasai or Kotonoha Katsura #cw: self harm

[lorigreys-blog]

I’m daddy’s girl🎀🤍

#coquette #vintage americana #lana del rey #this is what makes us girls #alana champion #lizzy grant era #daddy's good girl #girlblogging #elizabeth woolridge grant #pinterest girl #spank me daddy #daddy issues #daddy’s babygirl #bd/sm daddy #nymph aesthetic #sweet little nymph #nymphett #china doll #dollette #dolores haze

[cienie-isengardu]

"She [Mother] would applaud my actions" << & >>" Mother would be so proud"

MK1 Smoke vs Sub Zero (Bi-Han) << & >> MK11 Sub Zero (Kuai Liang) vs Noob Saibot

#mortal kombat #bi han #noob saibot #sub zero #kuai liang #smoke #tomas vrbada #mortal kombat spoilers #BI HAN IS SUCH A MAMA'S BOY AND I DON'T SAY THAT AS AN INSULT #just this is second game bi han is talking about mom #and as a noob he mentioned his and jacqui's mom #and considering how mothers are often dead in mk i find it interesting #but also bi han's original backstory was about how his mom tried save him and little kuai liang from their father #a sub zero himself who wanted take them back to china for lin kuei training #and she was never seen again with the youngest daughter #which could mean she was killed #and bi han rarely has anything good to say about father or grandfather (previous game(s)) #while kuai liang is always all about (grand)father? #and dunno if this is on purpose done by creators #but the original backstory always makes me think that bi han could be old enough to know the father is responsible for mother's death #or her disappearing and dunno with the mother dead in mk1 who also was said to be fighter #maybe this is why bi han couldn't care any less about his father? #and sure noob is sarcastic (I think) when both brothers said how they are disappointed by each other but damn bi han the remark about mom #was a surprise #bring sub zero bros' mom to the story i have question so much questions

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lecture tips: Be naked and wet for the most convincing rhetoric.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #season 1 #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #lan xichen #look it never specified whether or not they kept their robes on in the cold springs #and visually its a lot easier to show welts when they are covered up #this is just the fantasy China equivalent of hanging out in the boys locker room together #A binding moment for some. A test of will (to not start fighting) and endurance (god do you remember locker rooms) #i have yet to encorperate audio into this series (YET) but #for the beat reaults; wwx is giving his speech in the ‘number 16: burger king foot lettuce’ intonation and tenor #for the most faithful to my vision results: wwx is giving his speech in the same intonation & tenor as ‘number 15: burgerking foot lettuce’ #other note: JC carrying wwx after he gets beat makes me get a lil teary. I imagine he doesnt get the oppertunity at yunmeng very often #im really really soft for the yunmeng sibilings. Tragic as they are/become…. #also ack….you *know* it hurts wwx sense of needing to be a protector and not a burden #He has yet to learn to be loved is to lean on each other!