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@passingthroughstranger
my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.
i literally love tumblr
this is so painfully true it hurts.
They want followers, not friends. If that ain't the truth.
this is so painfully true it hurts.
They want followers, not friends. If that ain't the truth.
Strength is light ☀
Actual Queen Shit.
Queen Sibylla said, "Fuck you guys, that's my man."
Official colors of Chinese dynasties and faction colors in Dynasty Warriors and Sanguosha
Ancient Chinese believed in the Cycle of the Five Elements idea: the elements are Wood (Green/East), Fire (Red/South), Earth (Yellow/Center), Metal (White/West), Water (Black/North). All Five Elements are in constant move, and pass through cyclical changes (phases). The main cycles are the Generating cycle and the Destructing cycle.
The Generating Cycle: one element (serving as parent) strengthens and promotes growth of the next element (serving as child): Wood feeds Fire -> Fire creates Earth (ash) -> Earth bears Metal -> Metal collects Water -> Water nourishes Wood:
The Destructing cycle is when one element suppresses another element: Wood breaks the ground (Earth) -> Earth soaks up Water -> Water puts out Fire -> Fire melts Metal -> Metal chops Wood:
(There is also the Weakening cycle, which is basically the Destructing cycle in reverse order: Earth can bury Wood -> Water washes away Earth -> Fire evaporates Water, etc.)
Because of this belief, each dynasty was associated with one of the elements of the Generating cycle. Therefore flags and formal dress of each dynasty were colored according to the dynasty’s element: Green for Wood, Red for Fire, Yellow for Earth, White for Metal, Black for Water.
The official color could be changed during one dynasty’s rule: the Han empire went from Black (Water; inherited from Qin) to Yellow (Earth) in 104 BCE, then to Red (Fire) in 27CE. But this applied only to the color of the flag: the official dress color of Han always remained black, as it was during Qin.
The official color of Wei was Yellow, and its corresponding element was Earth, the next element of the Generating Cycle after the Han’s Fire, since Wei succeeded Han. (I believe Wei, like Han, also retained Black as the official dress color, that’s why sometimes Wei colors are said to be Yellow and Black: yellow flags, black formal clothes.)
The official color of Shu was Red, its element - Fire: Shu proclaimed itself the continuation of Han, not a new dynasty/empire, and adopted the Han’s color and element.
The official color of Wu was Green (element: Wood). Wu positioned itself as a new state completely unrelated to the Han empire, so the people of the South “reset” the Generating Cycle and chose its first element - Wood. By doing this they demonstrated their independence from the North.
Jin had Red official color, despite its Cycle element being Metal (White): it was postulated (by Fu Xuan) that the official color should only be changed if a dynasty was destroyed as a result of a war. Since the transition from Han to Wei to Jin was peaceful, the official color was “reset” to that of Han - Red. After Jin, this became customary.
So, historically, the colors of the Three Kingdoms + Jin were the following: Wei - Yellow (Black for official dress), element - Earth Shu - Red (and probably black official dress), element - Fire Wu - Green, element - Wood Jin - Red, element - Metal
The Chinese card game Sanguosha mostly follows the historical tradition: Wei - Blue Shu - Red Wu - Green
In Dynasty Warriors the colors are different: Wei - Blue Shu - Green Wu - Red Jin - Light Blue
As for Wei being Blue in both games: nowadays Dark Blue is sometimes treated as an alternative color of the Water element, and historically Wei official clothes were Black, after the Water element of the Qin dynasty, so Blue is chosen here instead of Black. Plus, from the design point of view, when you have a lot of very diverse characters, Black isn’t the best choice: it lacks shades. Since Dark Blue can also sometimes serve as the color of the Water element, in both games Blue substitutes Black. Both Dark Blue and Black also symbolize North, and that’s where Wei was.
It’s interesting that both games avoid using Yellow for Wei. Probably in order not to confuse Wei with the Yellow Turban rebels. Or because Yellow has a strong association with the Emperor person and the legitimate imperial power.
Why did Koei switch colors for Wu and Shu? I think when Koei started to design factions in DW they didn’t even think about the official colors of Chinese dynasties, and chose color scheme based on directions: Red is the color of South, so that’s Wu, Blue is the color of North, so that’s Wei. According to this logic, Shu should have been White (being in the West). But White is as difficult to use in design as Black, besides Koei needed a bright and contrasting color, so they settled on Green (the color of the East), which has many positive connotations and is suitable for the “hero“ faction.
For the Jin color scheme Koei found (intentionally or not) a perfect solution: they understandably couldn’t use the historically correct Red (already assigned to Wu), so they took Light Blue as a way to mark Jin as the successor to Wei, and added a lot of White which historically was the color of Jin Dynasty element - Metal.
A nice article that lists Chinese dynasties colors and talks a bit about color significance in Chinese culture:
http://eap.ee/public/trames_pdf/2012/issue_3/Trames-2012-3-237-285.pdf
a little accident
funniest shit i learned this week: absolutely obsessed about the way daddy sima fang vs daddy sun jian named their sons + the hypothetical relationships they had.
lets look at Sun Jian: He was born to a peasant father whos name was never even recorded in history, but he had high hopes for his sons and he named them accordingly:
Sun Ce, styled Bofu -- Ce means "strategy," Fu is a type of military token used to prove that a command has legitimate authority. very ironic the son named "strategy" is the hothead who rushes into things. Sun Quan, styled Zhongmou -- Quan means "right" e.g. "the right to rule", Mou means also strategy. this time it's appropriate, at least! Sun Yi, styled Shubi -- Yi means "to assist," Bi also means..."assist" I guess daddy was trying to get the message across "hey champ. ur like the 3rd son ur NEVER going to inherit. so just be good and help ur bros, ok?" Sun Kuang, styled Jizuo--Kuang means "to revive" as in "to revive the han dynasty." Zuo............also means "assist." (OK DAD. I GET THE MESSAGE. GOD.)
MOVING ON! this is the 8 brothers of the sima clan. notice anything?
ALL their courtesy names ended in Da. No it wasn't common for the time. Their contemporaries were straight up roasting them for it, calling them the "Sima-Eight-Da" it gets better. you see the courtesy names Bo, Zhong, Shu ect? they're used to denote birth order going from eldest-> youngest. this is the fucking equivalent of naming your kids One Two Three Four Five... + tacking on a Da at the end. (Da means achieve/reach btw) im losing my fucking mind over the implications. Sun Jian the barely-educated, peasant-born, Mr "talk softly and carry a HUGE sword," is spending 7 hours a day on babynames.com in between kicking dong zhuo's ass, obsessing over each letter like a 13yo creating their first OC, being all "my precious baby boys are destined for greatness and they need the COOLEST names and COURTESY names to match." and sima fang is like [Ctr+ C] [Ctr + P], and in the end it's HIS ugly kid that ends up unifying china.
(and sons)
i miss sun jian he was a daddy of all time
tl;dr if everyone is guilty, big brother longer needs to differentiate between slave and free man when meting out punishment
(in case anyone needs an example/breakdown to illustrate the current problem)
Also let's not kid ourselves, the wealthy and powerful will still have access to all the porn and sexual indulgence they want, because their law is only binding to the rest of us as their servant class.
If the president of the united states can be a convicted sexual abuser who never faces consequences for his crime, the illegalization of porn was never about harm prevention, just about furthering the systems of control that restrict sexual satisfaction to those who rule the rest of us.
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Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.
many on here need to be learning this lesson
This!
there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:
(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)
interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and
im simultaneously amused at the perception of what kids think adults watch, fascinated that they're thinking to take these measures, and saddened that theyre forced to live in a stupid digital panopticon
adding my favorite tags / comments so far:
