#Make it China Think 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

[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

[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

[happypeachsludgeflower]

XIE LIAN PETS E-MING.

HE PETS HUA CHENG’S SWORD.

A SWORD WITH ONE EYE.

WAS THAT A DICK JOKE??!

#I’m pretty sure it’s a dick joke guys #mxtx absotluly would but idk if that’s a dick reference in China as well #mxtx does like her dick jokes or at least she did in svsss with cucumber bro and airplane bro #I’m not well versed in Chinese dick puns unfortunately tho so while it’s absolutely a dick joke here I have no clue if it is there #I feel like it should be because it feels like such an obvious joke #and yea I did notice it the first time I watched but I didn’t think to make a post about it til now #it’s kinda a double pun dick joke too #one eyed (snake) AND the sword!! #it’s absolutely a dick joke #i refuse to believe otherwise #hua cheng #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng x xie lian #mtxt #mxtx tgcf #tgcf donghua #tgcf #tgcf novel #tgcf xie lian #tgcf hua cheng #tgcf spoilers #tgcf season 2 #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing

[endofbeginings]

5/24.

inspired by vintage chinese pin up style posters.

watercolor flower set x

#posting again cause ifucked something up jsjs #i checked and triple checked that the chinese was correct and i think it is but im sooo scared of making a mistake lmao #like those people that get the dumbest words tattooed bc of a mistranslation #anyway this was tough #wanted to do smth with zhou but it didnt work out :''''''( #all the ideas i had were above my skill level #f1edit #my edits #f1 #chinese gp 2024 #f1 posters 2024 #own post #f1blr #formula 1 #china gp #chinese gp #formula one #chinese grand prix 2024 #dailyf1 #lewis hamilton #shanghai gp #shanghai 2024 #fernando alonso #nico rosberg #daniel ricciardo #michael schumacher #sebastian vettel #jenson button #kimi raikkonen #rubens barichello

[solradguy]

Dude I got mad on reddit under a thread where they were talking about why people don’t like Ky (the OP was asking to try and understand the memes). Everyone was trying to dunk on Ky, nobody was answering the question with anything but repeated memes. I got sidetracked talking about Dizzy and Ky memes…they’re deep characters I promise!! Aaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Honest to god the worst thing that can happen to a fandom is when the memes completely overwrite the canon lore/personality of a character. They don't even know that Sol was lowkey terrified of Ky during the Crusades because of how bloodthirsty for Gear blood Ky was before meeting Dizzy and realizing that he was killing intelligent beings. Or that Ky was willing to risk everything, seriously, to protect her. Why don't more people pick on him for his teacup collection the same way people constantly bring up Sol's Sheer Heart Attack record, also

#asks #I headcanon the Queen record as being the only thing Sol was able to save from his life before he got turned into a Gear #(which is how I wrote it into my Begin fic) #So it's likely it has much more sentimental value than Ky does to his teacups #BUT Ky was a child soldier used to doing whatever it took to survive. No telling what gross shit he had to do to make it to tomorrow #If there isn't a canon explanation for his teacup hobby anywhere (might be in LtA...) #Then I think it might be fair to say/headcanon his collection as him finally living the nice life he thought- #-he would never live to see. Delicate fine china and expensive rare collector's sets kept in handcrafted display cabinets... #Being able to maintain and expand something so fragile as teacups when all he was raised to do was kill and survive...

[dostoyevsky-official]

You know Mandarin??

sometime in the spring of this year i kept encountering the idea on other social media that chinese is impossible to learn for europeans, that it's too difficult, that no westerner can learn or truly understand it, and in combination with a mainland friend visiting and telling me the ancient chinese etymology of some basic characters (and the 白人饭 Lunch of Suffering meme) i got fed up/enchanted and did the extremely mentally healthy thing of teaching myself basic mandarin, through about ~april to july. at some points in may i remember coming home from work, scribbling characters in my mandarin notebook over and over, doing chores, going to sleep, and repeating the cycle. a taiwanese friend on here helped out with a lot (it's much, much easier if you have chinese friends to help you, however, i am really not about traditional, although i admit it's more beautiful) and baptized me with a chinese name.

i don't know mandarin, and at this point a lot of the characters i'd learned have faded from memory, but i insist that it's not actually difficult to learn chinese (up to a point— maybe HSK 3 or 4 is where it gets really difficult). in fact, learning chinese is really, really fun.

the difficulty lies in the fact that you have to do it every single day for at least an hour, probably for more (i spent pretty much all my free time on it, but there was something not normal going on with me then). you'd think, isn't that the case for every language? yet i don't remember doing daily french like that, and i consider some aspects of french conjugation/russian grammar much more difficult than what chinese throws at you at similar difficulty levels (good luck with motion verbs, non-slavic speakers). i found learning characters to be very, very easy. they're all distinct. if you learn them together with their etymology, looking at ancient chinese and how they developed along with associated idioms, it's endlessly rewarding. at least in the early levels, there's a bit of a system to how characters and words come together and increase in complexity—sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's cute. it's a breath of fresh air to start reading even basic sentences and idioms in a language so entirely different from anything you've experienced before. many people say speaking chinese is easier than reading/writing: in my experience, that's false. i barely started getting a grasp on the tonal system (my goal was to get to HSK 1 solely through written chinese); i remember listening to the same 2 minute audio clip of two people exchanging phone numbers for half an hour or something once before getting everything right. people say "chinese doesn't have grammar" but that's not true, because otherwise it won't be a language at all, though you don't have to learn any conjugations, declensions, etc. at HSK 1-2 you just throw a modifier/particle into a sentence and you're good to go.

the other main difficulty besides tones is that imo chinese culture is borderline impenetrable if you want to have a genuine stab at it (but for this you don't, necessarily, need to learn mandarin). you can learn HSK 1-2 in a few months or a semester, but it will take you years to genuinely understand the cultural context—there truly is no context clue or familiar idea you can latch on to, as opposed to when learning a european language/history, or even turkish, arabic, persian; there is nothing in common here, and if you guess, you'll probably wind up wrong. it all makes me think of how many journalists/experts get russia wrong: i now firmly do not believe a word of what people write about asia unless i find the author knows the language

anyway

#keep in mind of course i did not go past HSK1 #i prefer simplified but seeing what they did to 門 makes one a rabid antimaoist #you get to understand the pò èr shǒu chē reel of the little chinese girl pointing at a porsche that goes around on instagram. #i truly wish china was somehow connected to what i study bc i cannot justify spending that much time on mandarin #unfortunately the harbin russians didn't bother with chinese #smth else about this blog is that india is likewise impenetrable to me. the sheer historical and geographic scale is unbearably intimidatin #where does one even start? #ed* ^ i know the basic 101 historical outlines but i don't think that's “knowing” a place

[skate-the-onion]

Oh my FUCKING GOD you guys I was today years old when I realized that this is not a smiling beluga whale

#i just ... never questioned it? #gp france has a chicken #gp china has a beluga #makes perfect sense unless you think about it for .02 seconds

[sisyphysaches]

my predictions for the Shanghai race results

Max (obviously and he had 13 second gap between him and Lewis in the sprint, I think he'll maybe fight checo and alonso at corner one then he'll be gone)

Checo (he's in a redbull and has had a solid weekend so far other than a tire blunder in Q1)

Charles (the girls (the ferrari's) are fightinggg and he came out on top yesterday and I think he'll do it again)

Carlos sainz (he's still driving like a mad man and I respect it)

Lando Norris (we've seen some really good times but everyone's been predicting that the mclaren isn't going to thrive on this track)

Alonso (the man himself says he doesn't think the car will be able to handle fighting off the mclarens and ferrari's the entire race and he'll likely fall back somewhere along here, tho if he gets podium i will happily eat my words)

Oscar Piastri (this is his first time on this track like ever, has been pretty solid the entire weekend, this feels like a safe bet)

George Russell (It just makes sense tbh)

#and after that I don't know or care #charles leclerc #max verstappen #formula 1 #f1 #china gp 2024 #shanghai gp 2024 #though i think (hope and pray) that Lewis will make a big jump and maybe not be in points persay but close #lando norris #oscar piastri #george russell #fernando alonso

[ch3rie-pop]

So I finally got my tablet back (and some motivation)

And I decided to draw me (my sona) and my sons :3

#it sucks #I know #BUT I HAVEN’T DRAWN IN SO LONG CAN YOU BLAME ME?? #also that forhead use to be china wall high so yk I had to go back in there and make a TON of adjustments #wah #anywho #my art #Welcome Home #Wally Darling #Wally plushies #<- aka my sunshine babies #listen #the only way I can distinguish the two is their headshapes #I’m thinking about making blocky head Wally Walliver and balloon head Wally Wally. Because yes #don’t question me #(no but please if you have better ideas I would love to hear them I will make you the Godmother (regardless of gender)) #Sorry the godfather’s reserved for Allister but don’t tell them #Moonie you came in really close but idk how you’re going to support life a bajillion miles off the surface of the earth #I STILL LOVE YOU THOUGH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #Aren’t you too young to have kids? #<- Yes #But also I crave wholesomeness and stable relationships and when I don’t have my mutuals around this is what I resort to #so there #myeh. #peace out I’m gonna pray my therapist is still around

[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

[enlichened]

The thing thats consistently bothered me the most in the fallout show is the racism. I would hesitate to recommend it because of that alone. And there was obvious love that the set and prop designers, actors, costume department, and even maybe the writers put into the show! There are themes and characters in fallout that i'm certain would resonate with fans of color!

It KILLS me that so many of the fallout entries are damn well unplayable/watchable in this regard because the writers simply Don't Care how the people in their work are presented. That this like hugely popular world with a lot of worldbuilding and thought behind it does such wrong to so many people, fans and otherwise, that you cannot find any game in the series that does it right or well. It alienates a lot of people who might've been fans just because the majority white creators and fanbase don't give a shit, and I'm sick of it.

it's not enough to say "in the fallout in my head that racism doesn't happen," you actually have to put some things into PRACTICE. Allow space in your head, your games/show, your fan spaces for people of color! notice and say something when you see racism coming from media, yourself, and others!

#like its not AS bad as other fallout media but isnt that the fucking kicker. that its not AS bad #and in fact the games im thinking of that are most egregious in their racism ARE interplay/obsidians games. #bethesda is NOT free from criticism or racism. just look at the elder scrolls. #all of the fallout games have been terrible to different extents to their black characters #the games are TERRIBLY sinophobic. the great war being pinned on china allows for SO much racism in the writing and in fan spaces #but fallout 2 and new vegas specifically have awful and degrading representations of indigenous people. to the point where i wont play 2. #and now this show treating maximus nearly one to one with how star wars writers AND fans treated finn? its not okay #personal / #fallout show #fallout blogging #racism #antiblackness #colonialism #fallout #if not for this i would have thought that the show was GOOD. surprisingly compelling. anti capitalist messaging. but its just. all the time #and this is coming from a white person! i can only listen and imagine how painful it is to play these games or watch the show #and be the butt of the joke every time!!! or the villain or the fool or the one who dies or the nameless entry. #maximus gets to have Some time in the light as a protagonist but for the beginning half of it he's treated SO awfully by the writers #and the latter half does not do enough to make up for it #EDIT: I JUST FINISHED THE SHOW AND THEY FUCKING MADE IT WORSE.... #taking max out and having lucy leave him. for what exactly. why did they have to undermine him and make him look stupid at every opportunit #AND. two of the more major black women being evil capitalists juxtaposed by some white guy who opposes? ......................... #like im glad moldaver was there. i guess. but even she is posed as the villain for the good majority of it and kills innocent people #for no reason and. UGH

[maryeve-the-bitch]

Hetalia card masterpost

original

#my edit #aph north italy #aph italy #aph germany #aph japan #aph france #aph england #aph america #aph russia #aph china #aph slovakia #aph czechia #aph luxembourg #aph portugal #a very special sorry to russia i think his hair is more messed up than the others i couldn't make it work better ;-;

[spiritofjustice]

If I had a nickel for every time fans of a game that has a clearly India-coded fake nation in it insist the country is supposed to be China, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

#psy's no punctuation posts #I’m talking about Dalaam from Earthbound and Khura’in from Ace Attorney #I only saw someone say Khura’in was supposed to be China once but I’m counting it so I can make this post KRNF #i was like CHINA?? YOU THINK KHURAIN IS SUPPOSED TO BE /CHINA/??????? #what’s the crack you’re smoking. can I have some #i have seen multiple people insist Dalaam is China and dude it so obviously isn’t fucking China #there could be Chinese influences in it but it’s not fucking China #and Khurain and Dalaam may take inspo from nations other than India of course but you’re supposed to read them as India-like

[trans-leek-cookie]

i feel like we are conflating "not realizing you were being lied to" and "accepting/ignoring obvious gross behavior" in the same realm of being Not At Fault. Yeah this is abt James Somerton cause like. Yeah you're not going to notice plagiarism unless youre familiar with the plagiarized work (or someone calls out said plagiarism) that's fine. But like? You aren't irredeemable or anything, but maybe in the future be more critical when someone you respect or like says stuff that's misogynistic or lesbophobic or biphobic or transphobic? Like you don't have to instantly persecute them, but please let that inform how you see them? Don't just write them off as having good intentions or important things to say (even if they do), you can acknowledge those intentions while also acknowledging their faults. Again: it's not an unforgivable sin, but there's a difference in being lied to and listening to someone Say Misogynistic and Bi/Trans/Lesbophobic Shit openly

#Also isn't 'yoi was restricted by Japanese censorship' basically just racism or some shit. Like does that not reek of China makes Disney #Take out their gays vibes. Also stealing from an Asian writer about Mulan. Like the trans thing is important but he stole from #An Asian writer talking abt the Asian Disney Movie. Like I think that is almost equally important. Hello. #Anyway my relationship w James somerton s vids was seeing his killing stalking vid hearing him describe it as Just Horror or whatever w fan #Being the ones to fetishize it went ''didnt someone make a post abt how the author Clearly Also Fetishizes it'' (and misrepresents mental #Illness) thought that was dumb and went on with my day bc I wasn't abt to risk going on an impassioned rant Abt something I half remembered #And y'know what. Dodged a bullet. (This was like a few years ago or something idk) #Also the nazi shit sorry for forgetting that what the fuck was wrong with him

[nyanspirals]

hm the thing north americans should understand when non english speakers complain about websites or the internet in general being very usamerican is that like. its like that everywhere online. everything is for you... its all built with you as the default in mind ... every other nationality has to carve in a little.community for themselves but theres not any website online thats like. for south americans. or for koreans. or for mexicans. etc like you get the idea. there are only communities within default US websites. that gets frustrating when youre not usamerican

#the only sites i can think of made with other nationalities as the default is like chinese websites #because their government did that on purpose #as cynical as i am about china (my personal communist views and et cetera.) i think that was based on their part #i wish there was a website for brazilians how funny would that be #anyway. 'i dont get why people complain that tumblr is an usamerican website like yeah obviously! its american!' #so is youtube and twitter and instagram and tiktok and reddit and pinterest and- you get the idea #like it gets frustrating. of course you dont see the problem #because you never felt like you had to make a place for yourself or find a way to fit into an online culture that wadnt your own #idk 🤷‍♂️ my personal opinion i guess #neon.txt