🫚Ginger🫚

She/her, 21, Multi-fandom blog Doing stuff, thinking things

[gingersp1ce547]

Welcome to my blog!!

I’m ginger, I’ve been on tumblr for about 7 years (this is my second account, my old one was lost for a really long time but awhile ago I was able to get it back. Still, I don’t really use it anymore so I digress) and have been around fandom spaces for even longer than that!

I make mostly write analysis posts and occasionally post art and memes and fics. I occasionally reblog character x reader posts (no rpf) but they are always sfw and tagged as such if that’s not your vibe. However I do interact (comment, like, pretty much anything short of Reblogging) with nsfw posts

I am also only an english speaker but i will engage with posts from other languages!

General tags

-gingersp1ce547 (posts i made or feature in)

-my art

My interests move by usually pretty quick but the ones I’m currently into/ am still atleast slightly active in are:

Ordem paranormal

-not caught up, still rb things tho

Tags: opvodblogging, doplivevodding, opclivevodding

FOR SPOILERS: osni, opd, opc, aop, sdol, opq, nm (followed by a tag with the ep number)

Kingdom hearts

-the fandub got me back in ok

-played every game except dark road (sorry mobile game fans)

Critical role

-not caught up on campaign 4 but still slowly working my way through it

-havent seen any of c3 but will rb stuff sometimes for c1 and c4

Vampires smp

-only seen scott's pov, will rb other povs stuff tho

Fics that I’ve made:

-A canon divergence fic for One Piece about what if Sabo did become a noble which you can read here !

Au’s that I’ve made:

Ordem paranormal qsmp au

- team e from osnf ends up stranded on quesadilla island

- master list here!!!

- tags: opqsmpau

[music-dreamers]

im at a paaayphone trying to call gnome

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[polystyrenequeen]

siobhan has such a bisexual playing style but she always gets overshadowed by zac who accidentally backs himself into bisexuality season after season

[succubusboyfriend]

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

[problemsleuth]

a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale

[luckyvalentines]

[razzmothazz]

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

[razzmothazz]

we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?

[tedthetalk]

I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[bucketofdeltav]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[ntrider]

noncon friendship

[sonyvegas9-deactivated20241118]

Coworkers

[thebiffmethod]

she looks like gaia and ryne’s biological daughter

[zenderra03]

I've been reading the light novel and maomao keeps missing shisui like she's her dead wife. she thinks of her like. every second sentence.

actually totally understandable. i mean, shisui became her first friend, and then outsmarted her and left, disappeared without a trace. i would be like that too.

[samreich]

one year older, four rules wiser

[meowmeowsabortionclinic]

Maomao is Autistic

Another botched translation from the LN5 Epilogue;

Maomao is as close to being confirmed autistic as you can POSSIBLY get, short of the DSM falling out of the sky and hitting someone on the head.

The Official English Translation has this passage;

Firsthand experience was just so much more memorable than merely asking questions. That was all. Maomao wasn’t any smarter than the average person, just a little more...dedicated. And when it came to emotion, that she actually had less of than most people. She felt sadness and happiness, anger and joy—less acutely than ordinary people, but they were there. But there were other emotions that people allegedly possessed which Maomao still didn’t understand.

But, no, "a little more... dedicated" changes the intent completely.

Because the kanji used here is the same one for Autism's characteristic special interests, in diagnostic settings.

強い興味 = Strong interest.

経験はただ聞くよりもずっと身につきやすくなる、それを実行しているだけだ。猫猫は他人より賢いわけではない。興味が他の人間のそれより偏っているだけだ。そして、猫猫の場合、知識の代わりに感情が人よりも欠落している。喜怒哀楽、それらは乏しいなりに存在する。でも、他人が普通持つという感情のいくつかはいまだよく理解できない。

A more direct translation is this;

Experience teaches far more readily than mere hearing; I'm only putting it into practice. Maomao isn't smarter than others. Her interests are simply more particular/concentrated/specialized than those of other humans. And in Maomao's case, emotions are lacking more than knowledge. Joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure—they exist, however sparsely. But she still doesn't quite grasp some emotions others take for granted.

She also very specifically uses "HUMANS" here. Not just "ordinary people." Other humans. The wording is focused on her alienation from other people and how it leads to wariness and misunderstanding-- something I find extremely familiar as someone with autism myself.

That's important for the overall tone of LN5's epilogue, because the point is that she denies her own value and neglects her personal emotions and desires. Her neurodivergence is part of both aspects.

She isn't calling herself "more dedicated," that's a compliment. She's making a neutral statement to downplay her intelligence, arguing that Jinshi would be making a bad choice if he picked her.

Unfortunately, the "official" English translation is like a death by a thousand cuts. It's the loss of a lot of little details like this, compounded with the MUCH larger mistakes, and the occasional peppering of what seems to be active bowdlerization, that makes it so bad <:/

[justanapothecary]

[arrowwanders]

Women in The Apothecary Diaries

Something I really love about The Apothecary Diaries is the specific way it shows how women survive and navigate oppressive systems. I remember learning about Imperial China in school and thinking about how awful it must have been to be a woman during that era. I was particularly affected by the idea of concubines and their relationship to the emperor. From my perspective at the time, I could not fathom having any sense of personhood in that type of environment.

The Apothecary Diaries does not shy away from depicting how dangerous and stressful life as a woman could be during that time, but it also doesn't use that depiction for the sole purpose of triggering emotions for the audience. I'm used to historical media really milking oppression as a kind of suffering porn for the audience. Look how hard things were back then, and now be sad about it.

The Apothecary Diaries uses oppression to highlight the resourcefulness and intelligence of women. The concubines are constantly navigating the politics of the Rear Palace and making tactical moves to ensure their, their children's, and their family's status. Even if a concubine is used as a "pawn" by her family, the emotional impact on her and her own priorities take center stage. (Honestly, I could do a whole tedtalk on Loulan but thats for another time) There is something so satisfying about seeing women exercise so much agency in that type of environment. Even the courtesans have their own motives and priorities despite having careers which serve men.

Maomao's narration helps the audience understand the oppressive system, and her characterization makes that delivery very matter-of-fact. There's an acceptance in her perspective that all the more highlights how clever she is for being able to navigate the system. She could have been a protagonist that laments her circumstances and constantly rebels, but that would have made the oppression the focal point. Maomao is intriguing because of who she is rather than the circumstances that she is in.

The Apothecary Diaries takes a very firm stance that, no matter the circumstance, women are intelligent, resourceful, and have the capacity for agency.

[lackadaisically-m]

knh is for the yearners‼️

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

Something about Apothecary Diaries and the complexity of what it means to have a mother. Something about Maomao and her only memories of her mother being silence or a pain that has nothing to do with her but is reflected onto her anyway, and yet still engineering things so that Lakan, years later, would come to find and marry her. Something about all of the courtesans in the Verdigris House being like mother figures to Maomao, yet never paying attention to her when she cried. Something about Loulan doing everything in her power to not be a mother - taking drugs to avoid it, knowing that to have a child would be a selfish, cruel thing, even down to 'killing' the children who adore her. Something about Jinshi, and both of his mothers - the one who birthed him and the one who raised him. Anshi, and raising him to be mature and older than he should have had to be to be the opposite of his grandfather, the man who victimized her, and Ah-Duo, unable to be in his life because she chose to give him up. Something about mothers not being unconditional and uncomplicated; something about motherhood being absent, ugly, confined by circumstance or by past pain. Something about not wanting to be your mother; something about being too much like your mother. Something about how your mother haunts you regardless.