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the fact that the captions didn't translate gora pakoda is a crime!
gora means somthing along the lines of fair skinned, or outright white
pakoda or pakora is a fritter made with various vegtables in a gram flour batter and then fried
gora pakoda thus means white fritter and is often used as a term of andearment for white people or as mild, but friendly insult (depending on context)
Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist
Okay, but the runs in her stockings! She starts out with beautiful, clearly new stockings, and then over the course of the video they get shredded, then there's a close up on a scrape on her leg that looks like it's from a wire - oh there's themes there!
made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied
At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.
The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.
It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.
The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.
This map required:
North and South Vietnam in it
All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated
Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)
Has Laos and Cambodia in it
Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it
So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'
I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.
Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.
The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.
The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc
At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"
My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond
good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map
My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.
We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.
going to get my blood tested and dr acula and nurse feratu walk in. hope everything is ok
the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not
you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot
other assorted roles may include
retrieval team for objects in the backseat
custodian of the parking garage tickets
"All clear my way"
en-route dining concierge
announcing "Horses!" when there are horses
Don't forget the Tommy Gun
You should never forget the Tommy Gun
World Heritage Post
I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me
phineas and ferb heritage post
*slams reblog*
Klezmer dolphins.
I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.
honestly they’re better than the band that played at my bat mitzvah
I like dolphins.
I love klezmer.
But as a former band kid, this made me die laughing.
PURSUIT OF JADE 逐玉 (2026) — Xie Zheng + cheek/neck caresses
All these beautiful little moments and touches so romantically sweet ~ melts ~
man what if you wanted to be a dog your whole life but everyone around you is always telling you that you’re actually a wolf so you go through the motions howling and hunting and shit UNTIL a beautiful woman brings you into her house out of the snow and gives you a meal and tells you that everything is safe now, no need to worry, she’ll take care of you because you’re such a gentle dog. and you lie down in front of the fireplace warm and content for the first time in your life and slowly start forgetting that you were ever a wolf at all. what then?
i live for every bit of this scene and this little family!
from the way he's so butthurt that she'd agree to let another woman "borrow" him
to mrs. zhao defending yan zheng like the wonderful shipper auntie she is
to the zhaos bickering like the affectionate long-time married couple they are (and showing off an example of a good marriage, not whatever stilted obligatory relationships xz would have been exposed to up to now)
to the zhaos going from "how dare!!!" to "well...that's a good deal actually"
you can see how desperately he wants to scream "30 taels?!?! for a motherfucking MARQUIS??? your HUSBAND?????"
not to mention changning giggling by everyone's knees and having the time of her life. i love them i love them i love them all
Mind you this man just had to prevent a whole a whole riot. Then fight hand to hand with multiples people. Fighting his ennemy which by the way is thirsting after his wife and saying he kissed her. Then has to do diplomatic talks with a guy who also seemed to like his wife. To then find his wife, argue with her, say a bunch of dumb things, get punched (rightfully so) and have his lip bleeding because of it. To then laying on the snow, knees giving out because he just lost the woman he loves.
And THEN he has to go back to his fuckass work and prevent the nation from crumbling appart. Not only that he also has to get reminded by his aides that he just got dumped.
5 minutes later
Gongsun Yin being more interested in Xie Zheng's marriage drama than battle strategy is so funny #gossip queen first strategist second
for me one of the strengths of this drama so far is all the other relationships that the mains have and continue to discover and develop. i am just as invested in the friendships and found family as i am in the love story.
i mean i actually bawled when these guys showed up just like fan changyu did.
can you imagine how incredible it must be to see your bro gang suddenly saunter in ready to help and defend you after spending the last two months chasing traffickers and bandits alone and still not have found your sister or had any word about your fake husband?
and then their little gathering at night just broke my heart. she bears the weight of having to tell these guys about what happened to their families and their town (having literally carried mementos from their loved ones across the country for months) and then the way she doesn't let them descend into hopelessness, galvanizing them with a purpose. and the way they respond to her! they have their grief but they also have faith in what she's saying.
i think it's this ability and not so much her physical strength that reminds tutor tao of xie zheng. because yeah, xz has this fearsome reputation and it's earned, but he also has friends like gongsun yin and loyal men who will follow him into crazy 1000 vs 20000 kind of battle schemes without question. they're both people who others instinctively respect and trust but they would also never betray that. it's what makes them such good leaders/generals.
i'm actually glad right now that they're giving fan changyu's growth arc so much time and depth. it's going to give her eventual rise to notoriety much more weight than just "strong girl beats up bad guys, becomes general" (which is one of the ways legend of the female general fell short imo). and i love that she'll get to do it surrounded by her bros and her (future) godfather.
it almost makes me not miss the romance-heavy parts. almost.
I can feel Xie Zheng making a list in his head of everyone whose careers he's going to destroy for the ultimate crime of being mean to his fake wife when he goes back to being absurdly powerful
it feels so weird to say this about a show where such a shit load of terrible things happen to them, but the writing of pursuit of jade really loves women.
our heroine, fan changyu, gets so many wonderful relationships across both genders, has such a developed and defined personality.
and small characters like the maid in qi min's manor make big impacts just by being kind to other women
then there are so many female side characters who are set up to be shallow antagonists but I think damn near every single one gets moments of dignity or bravery and as someone who's watched so many historical shows like this where they DON'T love women over the course of my life I'm just 🥹🥹🥹
((we don't talk about madam song ok))
