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[jacketslutjayse]

Actually, fuck it, here

If anybody is interested in Chinese folklore, here you go!

Have all the old scans I have of stories from my chinese literature, folklore, and popular culture class.

It's free university lol. Unfortunately a lot of it we read straight from the main book we had (Ma and Lau, ed. Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations), which had a lot of interesting things in it (like the whole genre of snake women and related stories that are mentioned in the final PDF, but which I unfortunately have no stories for), and it is now in storage, nowhere near me, and I therefore cannot scan any of it (Actually, it's possible i even left it behind when i was getting rid of things to move? /: idk. Guess I'll find out at some point). If you're interested in more Chinese folklore and can get your hands on a copy, though, I suggest it; your local library might have it! But anyway, what I can give you is these PDFs!

Gonna split this into 2 sections for clarity (and turns out I'm gonna have to do the second part in a reblog because of the link limit. Sigh. May as well section off the first part too)

[jacketslutjayse]

GENDER STORIES

This document that is basically the intro to all of it with a bunch of background info, but also contains the absolute first appearances of Mulan and Butterfly Lovers (which I was talking about in the tags of that other post before) that you can read, as well as some other excerpts on them and some other similar tales:

Gender intro: Mulan, Yingtai, etc.docx | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - Basically the intro to all of it w a bunch of bg info, but also has the 1st appearances of Mulan & Butterfly Lov

'Li Marries Virgin Huang with Honor'. A story that just goes through a shitload of examples of similar gender role focused tales with similar people (including Mulan and Yingtai of Butterfly Lovers):

Li Marries Virgin Huang with Honor.pdf | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - Goes through a shitload of examples of similar gender role focused tales (including Mulan and Yingtai of Butterf

Now. On to the fuckload of other versions of Butterfly Lovers lol

Here is my favourite (Wu Dialect Ballad), and thank fuck I decided to upload it anyway because it was completely illegible lol, but on the share site I can read it just fine. Wonders never cease:

Wu Dialect Ballad (Butterfly Lovers).pdf | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - Best version of Butterfly Lovers in my personal opinion. (Of the ones I've seen. There are literally way too man

'The Ballad Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai's Common Study As Sworn Brothers' (part 1 & 2) and the very beginning of 'The Song Of Liang Shanbo':

Ballad Of Sworn Brothers.pdf | PDF Host

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More excerpts from 'The Song Of Liang Shanbo' with some commentary:

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PDF Host read free online - More excerpts from 'The Song Of Liang Shanbo' with some commentary

Two excerpts from the performance ballad 'Yingtai's Grief' (part 1 & 2):

Yingtai's Grief (excerpts).pdf | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - Two excerpts from the performance ballad 'Yingtai's Grief' (part 1 & 2)

[jacketslutjayse]

KNIGHT-ERRANT & BANDIT TALES

'The Curly Bearded Hero' (a T'ang Dynasty story):

Curly Bearded Hero.pdf | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - a T'ang Dynasty story

'The Assassin', 'The Highwayman Monk', and 'The Kun-lun Servant' (T'ang Dynasty short stories), as well as a bit of interesting info on the history of knights and bandits in Chinese fiction:

Three T'ang Dynasty Tales.docx | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - 'The Assassin', 'The Highwayman Monk', and 'The Kun-lun Servant', as well as a bit of interesting info on the hi

'A Leopard Monk Returns To The Laity Of His Own Accord' (a Ming Dynasty stage drama):

Leopard Monk.pdf | PDF Host

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'In A Humble Inn, Mr Li Meets A Knight-Errant' (a Ming dynasty story):

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'Wu Sung And The Tiger' (written story and excerpts from Shandong clapper tale [performance poem, regional oral traditions]):

Wu Sung And The Tiger.docx | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - 'Wu Sung And The Tiger' (written story and excerpts from Shandong clapper tale [performance poem, regional oral

'The Plot Against The Birthday Convoy' (a Yüan Dynasty story, part of 'The Men Of The Marshes'/'Water Margin'):

Birthday Convoy.pdf | PDF Host

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4 Tales of Illustrious Women, 10 Tales of Women Knights, and some interesting background on each and on women & revenge in Chinese fiction.

In order: 'The Chaste Woman Cui°', 'The Pure Woman Hao Jie E.°', 'The Virtuous Woman Peng°', and 'The Martyred Woman Hu°'; 'The Maiden Of Yue*', 'Lady Jing The Thirteenth*', 'Aroused By A Sense Of Justice*/Cui Shensi's Wife*/The Merchant's Wife*/Zhang Daqing°' (4 versions of the same story), 'The Lady In The Carriage*', 'Hong-Xian/Red Threads*', 'Nie Yin-niang*°', 'Lady Jing Thirteen°', 'Dong Guoqing's Concubine°' (2 versions), 'The Woman With The Incense Pill' (Yüan Dynasty), and 'The Female Knight-Errant' (Qing Dynasty). [*=T'ang Dynasty; °=Song Dynasty]:

Women Kights, etc.docx | PDF Host

PDF Host read free online - 4 Tales of Illustrious Women, 10 Tales of Women Knights, & some interesting bg on each & on women & revenge in C

[may12324]

Dyke Knights ⚔️

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“WHY QUESTION???”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

“WHY QUESTION?????”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.

Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.

[theradioiscool]

I love the friends part 2

Part 1

[theradioiscool]

I love the friends

Part 2

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Vaelus and Thaisha Lloy from Critical Role. Vaelus is sat in Thaisha's lap, facing her. Thaisha is smiling up at Vaelus and has an arm around her waist. Line drawings of floating feathers are scattered around them. End description.]

Just two ladies who went to bird hell together 🪶

[chaotic-orb]

Death of Tansul for @artists-guild-of-exandria's latest project.

[teaboot]

I wasn’t gonna talk about it but one of my parents died the other day and the weirdest part has been not talking about it, specifically because they sucked and I kind of don’t care and that’s not a very hashtag relateable thing to bring up around the office so I’m just walking around at work rn like “nah not much going on hbu”

[teaboot]

As a “dark humour is my coping mechanism” person I would describe this feeling as “children’s birthday clown with a flashbang grenade” and I gotta say, the deeply fucked up power is intoxicating

[teaboot]

Man with the power to end any conversation

[nyenye0701]

i feel rocky would say slangs from portable earth thinking machine and half the time grace would not know them

[stealingpotatoes]

you’ve seen project Hail Mary???? Oh my gosh I love Rocky in your style!!!

well now i just havee to draw more rocky in my style

(links // tip jar!)

[nic0las-uncaged]

i say ridiculous things and expect laughter and companionship in return

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[rockrockgrace]

Do you think Eridians have some sort of 'rock skipping' sport, where the ones with flatter carapace shoot themselves across a lake and and the ones that go the farthest/have the best form win? Kind of like human diving competitions, but horizontal??

YOU'RE A GENIUS YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT

(It's one of Grace's favourite Eridian Sports!)

[parkchanwoohoo]

Incredible

[saucefunk]

dirty dirty dirty

[pineappical]

for the people in my last post saying rocky weighs almost 400 pounds and double on erid. oh they KNOW

[rylandgraces]

ok I know I seem insane for watching project hail mary for the fourth time in 10 days but I got to watch it with the directors commentary tonight and it’s incredible how much thought and love went into this film by EVERYONE. the directors, ryan gosling himself, the sound department, costumes, set production, cameras. everyone has so much pride and the story is so beloved by all. anyway here are some of my favorite things from the commentary

no one knew how to pronounce eridani (air-id-ah-ni or air-re-deni) so they just literally never said it in the film

the “good luck” at the beginning is supposed to have been written by the astronauts on the ISS who delivered ryland to the hail mary

the mop ryland was dancing with was called moppy ringwald

when ryland calls stratt after successfully breeding astrophage and he says “carl and I made a baby,” that was ryan gosling calling sandra hüller on her day off and she had no idea that’s what he was going to say. that “what” was her genuine first reaction

the scientist whom ryland called a stagnating waste of carbon was the bearded guy sitting next to him and stratt in the initial phm meeting

the idea of the soundtrack being so hopeful was supposed to be like there were two different planets cheering him on

when ryland is sitting on the beach in that don’t-go-crazy room and sees a figure walking towards him, that’s him on erid at the end. he’s seeing himself 

among the markings on rocky were the petrova line mission patch, his rank, family crest, and wedding band

rocky always stamped his claw on the ground twice for a question

they wanted to make it so that eridani could have different tones. so it could be a given series of keys for one word and then you could change the frequencies for happy, sad, scared, etc.

after rocky wakes up and asks ryland if they caught the taumeoba and ryland shakes his head no and then yes, the directors went “what an odd thing to do”

ryan gosling wrapped all the gifts that ryland gave to rocky himself

the entire reason that exchange panel was put on rocky’s ball was so that ryland could pass him the little beanie earth

the movie starts with an upside down shot of ryland waking up. the epilogue starts with a right-side up shot of ryland waking up. he also makes his bed and brushes his teeth to show how time has passed LOL

their headcanon for explaining the rocky nature of the beach is that the eridians tried to emulate sand but got the scale of the grains wrong

rocky had them create a beach, and wave machine for the beach, and a tree for ryland so that he felt closer to home, but rocky was all he needed for that