#a cultural staple

[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

[grand-line-shenanigans]

Nahh, don't worry about it, Rem. It's normal.

#trigun #trigun maximum #trigun 98 #rem saverem #millions knives #vash the stampede #my art #doodles #sketchy #comic!! #id in alt #its ok rem. dont worry rem. weird noun names are an important staple of trans culture

[ecoamerica]

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[mejomonster]

Modu by priest was truly such a good read. If you like romance? It has a sweeping romance, with a well done bisexual and gay lead (and straight best friend) all written in ways that manage to feel realistic, it's got features people likely found it for when looking for a danmei - rich manipulative younger man, older investigator who's got a hero streak, and yet those categories don't really do justice to them (and of course tao ran is the more grounded detective story lead who keeps his theories to himself and worries about dragging others into his mess).

They're so much more... Fei Du is a traumatized young man who's worried he's as monstrous as the people who scarred him, who is preparing to take the leap and cross the line to become an even more terrifying version of himself if it will destroy the corruption poisoning this city and harming so many, Luo Wenzhou is a cop that used to want to be a hero and learned he will fail people and be unable to save people and holds onto Fei Du as someone who reminds him he DOES fail but also reminds him why he wants so hard to keep Trying to help people even when it seems impossible... why trying and putting in effort to care and help Even when its too late to fix things is Worthwhile. Tao Ran is a contrast to them both, Fei Du living in a world where there's only monsters and victims and Luo Wenzhou desperately trying to force the world to be a place where justice CAN prevail and win even as he sees it fail over and over, trying so hard to believe all people have the capacity for everything and are worth trying to save. Even though Fei Du doesm't believe that, being around Luo Wenzhou makes him want to consider it. Tao Ran, their contrast? Believing the world can go either way, and its up to people like him to create any justice at all, any structure at all, or else everything is just meaningless suffering chaos. As characters, the three of them serve to explore how the world works and views on it in terms of a detective murder mystery encompassing the whole city, the small scale version of the world. Modu is a romance, but its also fully commited to being a murder mystery that wants to tackle the kind of themes that come up in the setting it's created. Its characters are so much more than Insert Character Ship types here. These characters were made this way to explore these ideas (just as the villains are all made to parallel and contrast Fei Du to explord these ideas in comparison to our point of view Fei Du moments, our impressions of Fei Du from Luo Wenzhou and Tao Rans varied perspectives, all of them are different lenses to view humanity and how it works, if the world is just or if we have to make it good, if we can be inherently good and if good people will reach out to us if we just keep treading water to survive, if its luck and chaos, and how much... and much more frankly).

Modu is like. If you want a story about a corrupt city and its victims, symbolizing a corrupt world and all of us at its mercy, and you want to see the heart of the people doing something about it. First the main trio, but also every victim Fei Du recruits to help, every murderer recruited to the corruption, all the people in the cases swayed to some side. Thats what Modu is about.

The romance is just one facet of exploring that, the personal debate about what these things mean about the world as told through two people who view this world incredibly differently. Yet find some way to exist in the same space, same mutual world, when together. It hooks you in and doesn't let you go and youre wondering right there with them, left to draw your own meaning in the end. Hopefully that its worth trying, that doing something is worth trying even when its just the trying you can do and not the succeeding, at least thats what I got from it (at least in regards to Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou meeting each other, unable to live up to the pillar they put each other on but trying anyway, is what I felt from them).

Then like? Modu gives you THAT story, which in its own right is enough to make you contemplate.

And if you're like me and care about people, about characters? Well it gives you, like I said, those big themes and a city's nightmares symbolizing the world, and brings them down to an individual level. You read from the mind of the little girl who grew up in this (one of my favorite scenes and when I felt this novel was going to not shy away from dark psychological moments and bringing them to you). You read from the mind of Fei Du when he knows himself, when he doesn't. You read from the minds of all kinds of people, and the heart of much of the investigation is peoples motives and things they'd gone through and how that shaped what they'd do next. Why they'd do it. Leaving you to wonder who's right. Jaded idealist Luo Wenzhou who wants to believe in the goodness of the people he loves, but also is willing to risk that strangers may have good intent? Fei Du who thinks theres only victims and perpetrators and everyone is going to fall into one in the right circumstance? Tao Ran, who feels the world is too messy to dare declare predictable, who thinks even your closest can betray you and even you can accidentally hurt them, nevermind strangers, and the only thing you can control and rely on is your own choices? Some mix? None of them? The side characters as they come up, grow and evolve, do they understand the world better or worse, and is the world they experience different than anothers and justify why their worldview is likewise different? Modu gives you that up close and personal, over and over. Im still thinking about it. And the way its done, they all get to feel like lived in people. Not structures to tell the themes only. But on their own, there's a personal struggle between Fei Du feeling like a monster who'll destroy Lup Wenzhou if he loves him, like his dad destroyed his mom, and Luo Wenzhou carrying the guilt he could never save Fei Du and desperate to believe in Fei Du (and keep trying to save him in that way if only that way) as person who can do good despite not being saved and despite Fei Du's fears. You could cut the entire city's plot away, all of the crimes and make the city calm, and still that core of their plot would be carrying a Lot of weight. Theyre playing a game of "enemies" to lovers sure, or whatever romance story structures they fit into. But they're also made to be deeply rooted into each other, their personal beliefs tied into the outcome of what they hope or fear happens if they are close together. Modu made me care about that. Its like the fears many people might have, abiut theur own flaws, about getting close to others, about trusting and being unsure if that trust is safe to give. Its that and magnified into bigger form, in this landscape of a fucked up city and the tragedy of Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou's meeting and former lives.

Its like. Id love to to read another danmei (Ive got a lot on my to read list). But what's going to give me roo

#modu #silent reading #lb #meta #like... modu was so fucking good. #it was 3 characters symbolizing their city symbolizing the world in terms of worldviews morality justice and if theres a point to #trying to help at all. like damn #i want to read ANOTHER danmei that makes me weigh those questions. that uses the characters this personally and intimately with the readers #because the Characters weigh the themes in their OWN lives so heavily. #like... i know priest can probably give me this kind of huge delivery in can ci pin and sha po lang (at least i estimate #priesr probably can as theyre very popular novels by priest) #and 2ha can (because ive read half and know its themes) #but like. what other danmei can? can thousand autumns? can peerless? can wu shang jie? #can Mistakenly Saving the Villain? #like... the only non priest danmei i read was svsss and i got supremely lucky #cause i personally LOVE satire and critique commentary affection for the topics it explores #and svsss AS a satire is incredibly well done. having read 2ha first? and seen Eternal Love? #svsss does an amazing job at critiquing webnovel culture and flaws. at the way capitalism effects writing #at the way some tropes have become staples of certain genres and when used well yeah you get 2ha but when used badly you get #the fake novel svsss was making fun of that there Are many real novels like

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1494- Cualquier necio puede escribir en lenguaje erudito. La verdadera prueba es el lenguaje corriente.

(Clive Staples Lewis)

#clive staples lewis #palabras #frases #textos #textos nocturnos #pensamientos #escritos de amor #vida #culture #books & libraries #amor #pensamientos de un escritor #escritores #escritora #un escritor dice #escritor tumblr #poemas #escribir #literatura

[transastronautistic]

i want to make a sewing piece with flowers from different liberation movements — e.g. lavender for queers, poppy for Palestine...

anyone have information on flowers linked to other movements / cultures? For instance, Black liberation or Latin American / Indigenous liberation?

#rn i'm thinking of doing a rose for Indigenous America because they #are native to here + are meaningful to various cultures #+ they make me think of Latin American liberation theology bc of their association with our lady of guadalupe #and the flower of a black-eyed pea for Black liberation because enslaved Africans were able to bring those plants with them #to the americas and nourish themselves with that memory of home #could also do sunflowers as an important staple crop to many Native American cultures (“the fourth sister”) #plus apparently sunflowers were used in some feminist movements? but i'll have to look into which ones Just In Case #averygaypost

[darkwood-sleddog]

This episode of PBS's "Human Footprint" features Devon Manik and his Inuit sled dog team. Devon is an incredible photographer and well worth a follow online.

#dogblr #dog sledding #inuit sled dogs #devon manik #also devon talks about how as a young person who didn't have a lot of mentors around for dog sledding #utilizing youtube! as a resource to reconnect with this cultural staple #there is hunted fresh seal in the video if you are sensitive to that #Youtube

[antagonistsbible]

Nick Nelson watching pirates of the Caribbean, looking at Keira Knightley and then Orlando Bloom, then going upstairs to google “bisexual” is SO BI CULTURE

#Or when he literally looks up “am I gay?” Like yeah that’s a staple in Pride culture #Idk but my boy will always be googling stuff #Nick nelson #heartstopper #charlie x nick

[solipsisticest]

My take on the whole oceangate thing is that objectively speaking any and all options available to the people in the sub were horrible ways to die. Sickening, even. But that it happened to those specific people? Ehhhhhhh, don't care that much as a result. The situation is comedic in its absurdity, and it has a lot of absurdity.

#oceangate #titanic #stockton rush #submarine #honestly the empathy discourse is mind-boggling because making jokes about things that aren't funny is a staple of internet culture #and this whole thing IS funny! not the way to die #but the who and the why? #it's a real life black comedy

[j-ustkeepgliding]

what do you mean I touch myself by the divinyls is the pens' goal song. who picked it I gotta know so I can make them my favourite

#literally a staple of australian culture #LOVE #pittsburgh penguins

[banamaak]

gorgeous women talking smack about the west.jpg and 5 seconds before azadeh drops the "but who am i judge"

#had this sudden urge to draw more cultural clothing #with lots of color and patterns! #it was a fun little exercise #if anyone is wondering who's who #afghanistan is to azadeh's left #iraq is to her right and uzbekistan is at the faaaar right #and ofc azadeh is in the middle lol #i'm putting the time of this drawing as some time during the 1800s #mostly cause of azadeh's qajar fashion being a staple of that decade #anyway felt good to draw my daughter again! #tumblr i'm begging u to not decimate the quality of this image #my art #ok to reblog!

[jhsharman]

"The Peril"

#Archie Comics #Betty Cooper #Veronica Lodge #Archie Andrews #Jughead #jello #Gelatinous food #The Blob #Harry Lucey #1962 #It take a few years for The Blob to break into massive consciousness as a pop culture reference point staple?

[sistermorph1ne]

the specials photographed by chalkie davies, 1979.

#the specials #terry hall #1979 #chalkie davies #black and white #ska #two tone #jerry dammers #lynval golding #horace panter #neville staple #john bradbury #roddy radiation #1970s #70s music #british music #british culture #ghost town

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Even since Michael's heavenly ascend, not just the music industry but, quite frankly, the entertainment industry as a whole has been left with a massive void that I don't believe will be fulfilled in the near future or ever again. That man had a star power equivalent to three Galactuses at their most powerful. You will never witness someone like that ever again, not in this lifetime nor the next one. He was and still is one of a kind.

#michael jackson #txt #michael is one of the very very few celebs i actually care about even though he is no longer here with us physically #how come this man has been dead for nearly a decade and a half and he is still more relevant than the most relevant LIVING celebs rn???? #that's how you know that if he was still around people would go just as insane over him as they did decades earlier #michael is the biggest celebrity artist performer entertainer of all time. there is no debate around this topic #the mj fandom on this site is practically dead but i know there are a few of you that will come across this and agree wholeheartedly #i manifest the biopic being a massive commercial and critical success #it will gross over $1 billion at the box office and become one of the most profitable movies of the 2020s as well as a staple in biopics #specially the musical ones. we are gonna make that happen #i mean we already do a far superior job to his actual goddamn estate so we can easily turn this into an overnight hit #not a sleeper hit/cult movie but an INSTANT hit #the closest people we got michael's level of legendary fame are paul mccartney and madonna but even they don't make as much noise #i'm (not) sorry but michael was truly built different. he was on a category of his own #a category so incredibly monstrously and insanely high that i don't believe anyone else will ever be able to reach it #no swifties taylor swift isn't on michael's level either #her level of fame is closer to madonna's at her peak #a massive star but not on michael's level. michael was practically worshipped outside of america even in the most racist anti-black #cultures you can think of. he broke racial barriers like that #and madonna was still bigger than taylor in her heyday lol #so what does that tell you? #i'm sorry but being famous was far more impactful back then than it is now #social media changed the dynamic between the public and celebs forever

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1490- Dios susurra y habla a la conciencia a través del placer, pero le grita mediante el dolor: el dolor es su megáfono para despertar a un mundo adormecido.

(Clive Staples Lewis)

#palabras #frases #textos #textos nocturnos #pensamientos #escritos de amor #vida #culture #books & libraries #amor #fe en dios #dios #palabra de dios #amor de dios #diosesamor #promesas de dios #placebo #conciencia #gritos #un grito desesperado #dolor #notas de dolor #amor y dolor #citas de dolor #dolor del alma #desamor #sentimientos #llorar #tristeza #clive staples lewis

[aurosoul]

🍞 ultimate bread masterpost 🍞

#yewchube #bread #sourdough #breadcore #baking #someone asked me once wtf i do with all this bread #and the answer is me and my bf EAT it all ahaha #bread has been a main staple of the human diet across all cultures for thousands of years for a reason #all cultures who cultivate/have access to grains/starches anyways #fresh bread (especially sourdough) is an excellent source of energy #and a decent amount of protein #we use our loaves for sandwiches and to go with soups and as croutons and french toast #and also just as buttered toast to go with vegetables #when we have a fresh loaf on hand we just work it into our weekly meals #so none of it goes to waste

[underclerysclock]

There's no way Gerry wasn't/isn't an ABBA enjoyer he was queer and camp in Australia in the 70s-80s and we were once notorious for being insane about ABBA

#flood warning #nr #abba 🤝 classic simpsons <- things that became cultural staples over here despite not actually being australian