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Happy Mid-autumn Festival! xx
my apologies to the person whose guardian reblogs i just spam liked lmao
Fill for the Guardian Red Pocket Prompt Fest 2023!
立冬 Lidong (Beginning of Winter) - REST
basically what if Shen Wei didn't leave after That Talk™ in episode 23
Guardian | Zhen Hun | 镇魂, Episode 8, translations from Viki
“Father: A person who doesn’t buy branded clothes, shoes, or perfumes and lives a simple life so that you can afford all of them.” –unknown
I’m on the found family feels train this week (then again, when am I not? ;D), and I’ve been wanting to talk about Shen Wei and Professor Zhou for some time now…. so here we go.
Behind a cut so I don’t kill anyone’s dash, because, as always, this got kind of long… ^_^
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Hey bestie whats a narrow boat? I saw you tag that on something you reblogged and I'm pretty curious now!
- Terry Darlington, Narrow Dog to Carcassone
A narrowboat (all one word) is a craft restricted to the British Isles, which are connected all over by a nerve-map of human-made canals. To go up and down hills, the canals are spangled with locks (chambers in which boats can be raised or lowered by filling or emptying them with water.) As Terry says above, the width of the locks was somewhat randomly determined, and as a result, the British Isles have a narrow design of lock - and a narrowboat to fit through them. A classic design was seventy feet long and six feet wide. Starting in the 18th century, and competing directly with trains, canal “barges” were an active means of transport and shipping. They were initially pulled along the towpaths by horses, and you can still see some today!
Later, engines were developed.
Even after the trains won the arms race, it was a fairly viable freight service right up until WW2. It’s slow travel, but uses few resources and requires little human power, with a fairly small crew (of women, in WW2) being capable of shifting two fully laden boats without consuming much fossil fuel.
In those times the barges were designed with small, cramped cabins in which the boaters and their families could live.
During its heyday the narrowboat community developed a style of folk art called “roses and castles” with clear links to fairground art as well as Romani caravan decor. They are historically decorated with different kinds of brass ornaments, and inside the cabins could also be distinctively painted and decorated.
Today, many narrowboats are distinctively decorated and colorful - even if not directly traditional with “roses and castles” they’ll still be bright and offbeat. A quirky name is necessary. All narrowboats, being boats, are female.
After a postwar decline, interest in the waterways was sparked by a leisure movement and collapsing canals were repaired. Today, the towpaths are a convenient walking/biking trail for people, as they connect up a lot of the mainland of the UK, hitting towns and cities. Although the restored canals are concrete-bottomed, they’re attractive to wildlife. Narrowboats from the 1970s onward started being designed for pleasure and long-term living. People enjoy vacationing by hiring a boat and visiting towns for a cuter, comfier, slower version of a campervan life. And a liveaboard community sprang up - people who live full-time on boats. Up until the very restrictive and nasty laws recently passed in the UK to make it harder for travelling peoples (these were aimed nastily at vanlivers and the Romani, and successfully hit everyone) this was one of the few legal ways remaining to be a total nomad in the UK.
Liveaboards can moor up anywhere along the canal for 28 days, but have to keep moving every 28 days. (Although sorting out the toilet and loading up with fresh water means that a lot of people move more frequently than that.) you can also live full-time in a marina if they allow it, or purchase your own mooring. In London, where canal boats are one of the few remaining cheapish ways to live, boats with moorings fetch the same prices as houses. It can be very very hard for families to balance school, parking, work, and all the difficulties of living off-grid- but many make it work. It remains a diverse community and is even growing, due to housing pressures in the UK. Boats can be very comfortable, even when only six feet wide. When faced with spending thousands of pounds on rent OR mooring up on a nice canal, you can see why it seems a romantic proposition for young people, and UK television channels always have slice-of-life documentaries about young folks fixing up their very own quirky solar-powered narrowboat. I don’t hate; I did it myself.
If you’re lucky, you might even meet some of the cool folks who run businesses from their narrowboats: canal-side walkers enjoy bookshops, vegan bakeries, ice-cream boats, restaurants, artists and crafters. There are Floating Markets and narrowboat festivals. It’s generally recognised that boaters contribute quite a lot to the canal - yet there are many tensions between different kinds of boaters (liveaboards vs leisure boaters vs tourists) as well as tensions with local settled people, towpath users like cyclists, and fishermen. I could go on and on explaining this rich culture and dramas, but I won’t.
Phillip Pullman’s Gyptians are a commonly cited example of liveaboards - although they were based on the narrowboat liveaboards that Pullman knew in Oxford, their boats are actually Dutch barges. Dutch barges make good homes but are too wide to access most of the midlands and northern canals, and are usually restricted to the south of the UK. So they’re accurate for Bristol/London/Oxford, and barges are definitely comfier to film on. (Being six feet wide is definitely super awkward for a boat.) but in general Dutch barges are less common, more expensive and can’t navigate the whole system.
However, apart from them, there are few examples of narrowboat depictions that escaped containment. So it’s quite interesting that there is an entire indigenous special class of boat, distinctive and highly specialised and very cute, with an associated culture and heritage and folk art type, known to all and widely celebrated, and ABSOLUTELY UNKNOWN outside of the UK - a nation largely known around the world for inflicting its culture on others. They’re a strange, sweet little secret - and nobody who has ever loved one can resist pointing them out for the rest of their lives, or talking about them when asked to. Thank you for asking me to.
Thank you for reblogging this and reminding me how much I like boats
We also call them canal boats. They're surprisingly good for fucking on.
They’re so good for fucking on
Weep for yourself, my man You’ll never be what is in your heart Weep, little lion man You’re not as brave as you were at the start
Song: Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons
Guardian | Zhen Hun | 镇魂, Episode 1
Spoken like a true science nerd.
Do you ever think about how Shen Wei’s power is “Learning” and just… cry a little?
Do you ever think about how for most of his life, he’s had to use that power for war? Had to use it to hurt others? And cry a LOT?
And do you ever think about the fact that when Shen Wei was given an opportunity to craft a life that would be completely his own, untouched by Dixing or Haixing politics, untouched by the war he’d been fighting since he was a child, a life where he could be who HE wanted to be and do what HE wanted to do… he chose a life in academia? Where he could learn whatever he wanted to learn without fear that it would someday be used to hurt someone else? Where he could guide and protect and nurture young people and have the opportunity to watch them blossom into curious, engaged, lifelong learners who would never even know that particular fear?
Because I do. I think about that a lot. And cry.
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a baby shen wei inspired by To the River | 过河 by @hidey-writes(/@hideyseek) !
that time Lord Guardian of Haixing and Black Cloaked Envoy of Dixing went grocery shopping
just ZYL being unprofessional again
don't encourage him SW 🙄
it has a fic now
It's kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I'd prefer if no one else saw it
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Wisptober Day 10 : Vast
“Over the vast plains of the prairies, the frost tended to arrive like the exhalation of a great beast.”
It's a more simple one but today is my Wedding anniversary, so I am taking my lovely wife on a nice little outing tonight!!:D
She is from the prairies and she was very excited about the Bison too today!
I am mohammed ayyad of Gazans, living in very difficult conditions because of the war that the Gaza Strip is under. Since the outbreak of the war on the seventh of October we have been evacuating .
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We have no work because of the war, and we do not have any kind of money and this is accompanied by a crazy and horrible rise in prices.
Although water is not suitable for drinking, this is the cause of many diseases
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