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raffaellopalandri · 1 year

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Happy Lantern Festival!

The Lunisolar New Year holidays come to their end in China with the Yuan Xiao (元宵节 / yuán xiāo jié), or Lantern Festival. Image taken from Internet Began over 2000 years ago, and linked to Emperor Ming (28 – 75) of the Han Dynasty, the festival has many meanings in Chinese culture. It celebrates family and its unity, and society. It also features ancient spiritual traditions. Lion dance (舞獅),…

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#China #Chinese Cullture #Dragon Dance #Emperor Ming #Han Dinasty #Lantern Festival #Lighting lanterns #Lion Dance #Moon Gazing #Raffaello Palandri #rice balls #Riddle games #Tangyuan #Walking on stilts #Yuan Xiao #Yuanxiao

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cain-creates · 8 months

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Zhàoliàngdēng/Lighting Lanterns and Its Divergence From Canon

hi, in this post i'm just talking about L2's differences when compared to the source material, Journey To The West!

1.) Aging

In JTTW, it's stated that 1 day in Heaven is equal to 1 year on earth. I always like the idea of celestial aging working differently from mortal aging, and Wukong is an immortal monkey, so he gets to deal with my bullshit.

Using @journeytothewestresearch's When Was The Monkey King Born?, I was able to create an approximate age for JTTW!Wukong!! It's as follows:

342 years old when Wukong crosses his name out of the Book of Life and Death. 100+ years as Great Sage. 10+ years as Bimawen. 49 years in the Trigram Furnace. 617-649 years under Five Phases Mountain. 27 years to go to and from India. ------------------------------------- 1,145 mortal years total, at least.

Now if I apply my celestial vs earthly aging here (and do 1,145/365), I get 3, which makes Wukong a celestial toddler lol. And that's not what I'm going for.

So then I went through a long journey of adjusting time differences and arrived here:

342 years old when Wukong crosses his name out of the Book of Life and Death. 90 years as Bimawen. 161 years as Great Sage. 49 years in the Trigram Furnace. 645 years under Five Phases Mountain. -------------------------------------------- 1,287 earthly years total.

Note: the 27-year journey is removed since I'm looking for his age at the beginning of the AU.

So, yeah. Rather than 1 day in Heaven being equal to 1 year on Earth, 5 days in Heaven are equal to 1 year on Earth. Here's the rest of the conversions bc mental illness (/hj). Big thanks to one of my Discord besties who did like all the math <3

1 Earthly Year = 5 Celestial Days 1 Earthly Month = 10 Celestial Hours 1 Earthly Week = 2.5 Celestial Hours 1 Earthly Day = 21.5 Celestial Minutes 1 Earthly Hour = 54 Celestial Seconds 1 Earthly Minute = 893 Celestial Milliseconds 1 Earthly Second = 15 Celestial Milliseconds

ANYWAY. With all that, I can do (1,131 E.Y x 5 C.D)/365 = 17.6301 C.Y, making Wukong about 17 1/2! So Wukong isn't a Grandpa Sun in the AU, as he's meant to be closer to the other MC's (Xiàhǎi) age... for reasons.

Note 2: there may be mistakes here because math is not my strongsuit... feel free to lmk lol.

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2.) Plot/Characters

L2 doesn't quite follow JTTW; it's a bit more like Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015) where a wandering child inadvertently frees Wukong and drags him into a heroic mess. This means there's no 27 year journey to and from India (at least I think lol), and arcs in JTTW may not be included or moved around (I'm in the process of reading the book, so I'm hoping to have subplots related to certain arcs or enemies!)

It also means Tripitaka, Bai Longma/Ao Lie, Bajie, and Wujing aren't going to appear as they do in JTTW—or at least I think. Xiàhǎi may fill Tripitaka's role (considering the plot isn't related to the scriptures), but as for the other three... I don't know yet! Maybe they'll come in different forms, or maybe I'll just do my own take on the three.

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3.) The Circlet/Fillet/Crown

The metal band that goes by many names! So there's several methods to Wukong getting stuck with the circlet—being tricked into wearing it (book JTTW), wearing it as some sort of punishment (I think this is the case in Monkey King: Hero Is Back?), or putting it on himself out of curiosity (The New Legends of Monkey).

For my purposes it'll probably be a punishment thing because I am a sucker for arcs like the one in Hero Is Back... HOWEVER I think I'll still have it function like it does in the book with a command.

SO thanks to @/journeytothewestresearch and this article, the "Tightening Spell" (also called "Migrane Spell", "Tight-Fillet Spell/Sutra", or "Old Saying Sutra") is formally the Mantra of Akshobhya! Since it's long, I imagine the circlet responds immediately and lasts until the mantra is over.

But that's just the theory for now!

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Hopefully more to come, I'm currently working on designing Wukong + Xiàhǎi and will hopefully be able to show them off soon :)

Great days and good nights!

#cain creates #[ 💊 ]#xiyouji #journey to the west #journey to the west au #jttw #jttw au #zhàoliàngdēng #照亮灯 #lighting lanterns

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audhd-nightwing · 6 months

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green lantern (hal jordan): *making fun of the discowing outfit*

nightwing: actually. i based the design off of my dad’s old costume. yknow, my dad that was murdered right in front of me? when i was eight? and i had to watch him fall to his death?

hal jordan: ……..oh.

nightwing: (:

#dc comics #dcu #dc #dick grayson #hal jordan #nightwing #discowing #john grayson #green lantern #only dicks close friends and family can joke about discowing #bc it’s all light-hearted and they know what it means to him #also yes hal is the resident asshole of the justice league #and i love it for him

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andallshallbewell · 4 months

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#lights #trees #lanterns #cottagecore #garden #yard

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petermorwood · 27 days

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More on pre-electricity lighting.

Interesting to see this one pop up again after nearly two years - courtesy of @dduane, too! :->

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After experiencing a couple more storm-related power cuts since my original post, as well as a couple of after-dark garden BBQs, I've come to the conclusion that C.J. Cherryh puts far too much emphasis on "how dark things were pre-electric light".

For one thing eyes adjust, dilating in dim light to gather whatever illumination is available. Okay, if there's none, there's none - but if there's some, human eyes can make use of it, some better or just faster than others. They're the ones with "good night vision".

Think, for instance, of how little you can see of your unlit bedroom just after you've turned off the lights, and how much more of it you can see if you wake up a couple of hours later.

There's also that business of feeling your way around, risking breaking your neck etc. People get used to their surroundings and, after a while, can feel their way around a familiar location even in total darkness with a fair amount of confidence.

Problems arise when Things Aren't Where They Should Be (or when New Things Arrive) and is when most trips, stumbles, hacked shins and stubbed toes happen, but usually - Lego bricks and upturned UK plugs aside - non-light domestic navigation is incident-free.

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Here are a couple of pics from one of those BBQs: one candle and a firepit early on, then the candle, firepit and an oil lamp much later, all much more obvious than DD's iPad screen.

Though I remain surprised at how well my phonecam was handling this low light, my own unassisted eyes were doing far better. For instance, that area between the table and the firepit wasn't such an impenetrable pool of darkness as it appears in the photo.

I see (hah!) no reason why those same Accustomed Eyes would have any more difficulty with candles or oil lamps as interior lighting, even without the mirrors or reflectors in my previous post.

With those, and with white interior walls, things would be even brighter. There's a reason why so many reconstructed period buildings in Folk Museums etc. are (authentically) whitewashed not just outside but inside as well. It was cheap, had disinfectant qualities, and was a reflective surface. Win, win and win.

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All right, there were no switches to turn on a light. But there was no need for what C.J. describes as stumbling about to reach the fire, because there were tinderboxes and, for many centuries before them, flint and steel. Since "firesteels" have been heraldic charges since the 1100s, the actual tool must have been in use for even longer.

Tinderboxes were fire-starter sets with flint, steel and "tinder" all packed into (surprise!) a box. The tinder was easily lit ignition material, often "charcloth", fabric baked in an airtight jar or tin which would now start to glow just from a spark.

They're mentioned in both "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Oddly enough, "Hobbit" mentions matches in a couple of places, but I suspect that's a carry-over from when it was just a children's story, not part of the main Legendarium.

Tinderboxes could be simple, just a basic flint-and-steel kit with some tinder for the sparks to fall on...

...or elaborate like this one, with a fancy striker, charcloth, kindling material and even wooden "spills" (long splinters) to transfer flame to a candle or the kindling...

This tinderbox even doubles as a candlestick, complete with a snuffer which would have been inside along with everything else.

Here's a close-up of the striker box with its inner and outer lids open:

What looks like a short pencil with an eraser is actually the striker. A bit of tinder or charcloth would have been pulled through that small hole in the outer lid, which was then closed.

There was a rough steel surface on the lid, and the striker was scraped along it, like so:

This was done for a TV show or film, so the tinder was probably made more flammable with, possibly, lighter fuel. That would be thoroughly appropriate, since a Zippo or similar lighter works on exactly the same principle.

A real-life version of any tinderbox would usually just produce glowing embers needing blown on to make a flame, which is shown sometimes in movies - especially as a will-it-light-or-won't-it? tension build - but is usually a bit slow and non-visual for screen work.

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There were even flintlock tinderboxes which worked with the same mechanism as those on firearms. Here's a pocket version:

Here are a couple of bedside versions, once again complete with a candlestick:

And here are three (for home defence?) with a spotlight candle lantern on one side and a double-trigger pistol on the other.

Pull one trigger to light the candle, pull the other trigger to fire the gun.

What could possibly go wrong? :-P

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Those pistol lanterns, magnified by lenses, weren't just to let their owner see what they were shooting at: they would also have dazzled whatever miscreant was sneaking around in the dark, irises dilated to make best use of available glimmer.

Swordsmen both good and bad knew this trick too, and various fight manuals taught how to manage a thumb-shuttered lamp encountered suddenly in a dark alley.

There's a sword-and-lantern combat in the 1973 "Three Musketeers" between Michael York (D'Artagnan) and Christopher Lee (Rochefort), which was a great idea.

Unfortunately it failed in execution because the "Hollywood Darkness" which let viewers see the action, wasn't dark enough to emphasise the hazards / advantages of snapping the lamps open and shut.

This TV screencap (can't get a better one, the DVD won't run in a computer drive) shows what I mean.

In fact, like the photos of the BBQ, this image - and entire fight - looks even brighter through "real eyes" than with the phonecam. Just as there can be too much dark in a night scene, there can also be too much light.

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One last thing I found when assembling pics for the post were Folding Candle-lanterns.

They were used from about the mid-1700s to the later 20th century (Swiss Army ca. 1978) as travel accessories and emergency equipment, and IMO - I've Made A Note - they'd fit right into a fantasy world whose tech level was able to make them.

The first and last are reproductions: this one is real, from about 1830.

The clear part was mica - a transparent mineral which can be split into thin flexible sheets - while others use horn / parchment, though both of these are translucent rather than transparent. Regardless, all were far less likely to break than glass.

One or two inner surfaces were usually tin, giving the lantern its own built-in reflector, and tech-level-wise, tin as a shiny or decorative finish has been used since Roman times.

I'm pretty sure that top-of-the-line models could also have been finished with their own matching, maybe even built-in, tinderboxes.

And if real ones didn't, fictional ones certainly could. :->

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Yet more period lighting stuff here, including flintlock alarm clocks (!)

#period lighting #tinderbox #too light too dark #social history #writer notes #research #period tech #sword vs lantern #c. j. cherryh

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allura-raine · 4 months

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beholding-moth · 5 months

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this turned into less doe eyes (like i wanted...) and more into seductive eyes... but uh hi, it's me, back at satisfying my Gerry drawing needs for the year

also!! a BIG thank you to @the-lantern-lights for the post that inspired me drawing this :] <3

#tma #the magnus archives #gerry keay #gerard keay #tma gerry #tma gerard keay #tma fanart #my art #elly art #i will link the post my lantern-lights once i find it hsgfjdgj #its been... i while since i wanted to draw this h #hope yall like the gerry art tho o/

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ex0toxin · 3 months

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matsuri 🏮🕺🎇

jsys week'24, day 2

#was planning on having em do some sort of traditional dance but from what ive seen they tend to be big group parade type stuff #so FUCK IT we twirl in the bushes under the lantern light!!#also i think okuyasu would LOVE taiko that motherfucker has the discipline rage and biceps for beating thehell out of a drum #josuke just sits and looks pretty idk. tries not to clap too enthusiasticly. staring at the sweat rolling into okus shirt #hes really normal #josuyasu #josuyasu week #josuyasu week 2024 #josuke higashikata #okuyasu nijimura #jojo #jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba #my art

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prince-eugene · 2 months

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✨️ appreciation for the lanterns during the day ✨️

#mygifs*#prince-eugene #tangled #tangled movie #tanglededit #tangled lanterns #i see the light #rapunzel x eugene #disneyedit #disney #disneygifsdaily #.#ofc they are insane during i see the light/night time.. but they look just as pretty during the day 🥹✨️

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assassin1513 · 1 year

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⭐️⚜️December Moment ⚜️⭐️

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dozydawn · 5 months

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#ruby glass #castors #pickle castors #someone called them fucked up lanterns... yeah i was thinking they could be repurposed into candle holders or whatever #like a fake tea light so you could close the top

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cain-creates · 8 months

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! 𝙈 𝘼 𝙎 𝙏 𝙀 𝙍 𝙇 𝙄 𝙎 𝙏 !

updated as of 8/21/23.

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➤ The Storge AU follows Róngguā, a meek, quiet female of the Shuāngyīng troop on Huāguǒshān, when a mysterious monkey happens upon them. ➤ WARNINGS INCLUDE animal inaccuracies, profanity, demons, depictions of Hell, angst, grief, misogyny, ableism, violence, gore, near-death experiences, and character death. ➤ Masterlist (N/A currently)! ➤ Tags are #storge!

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➤ PLEASE NOTE THIS AU IS STILL VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS. ➤ The Lighting Lanterns AU follows Xiàhǎi, a 14 year-old girl raised in a female monastery, and Sūn Wùkōng as they attempt to save the world from the Four Perils. ➤ WARNINGS INCLUDE animal inaccuracies, historical inaccuracies, profanity, demons, monsters, angst, grief, period-typical misogyny, ableism, violence, gore, consumption of humans, near-death experiences, and character death. ➤ Masterlist (N/A currently)! ➤ AO3 Link (N/A currently)! ➤ Tags are #zhàoliàngdēng, #照亮灯, and #lighting lanterns!

#masterlist #cain creates #[ 💊 ]#xiyouji #journey to the west #journey to the west au #jttw #jttw au #storge #zhàoliàngdēng #照亮灯 #lighting lanterns

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lucie-o-lantern · 2 months

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