I'm Bilal. I suffered a severe injury in the war, resulting in the loss of my eye and a large part of my intestines. More than 18 cm of my intestines were severed. My home and workplace were destroyed, and I'm now unable to support myself due to the injury. I'm completely helpless. I'm not asking for much; we're living a living hell. The bombing never stops, and the suffering never ceases.
We live in a dilapidated tent, and my tent has been bombed several times. Now my children have scabies due to the lack of hygiene and the sand.
I'm just trying to care for my children and provide them with the bare necessities. Please, if you can't donate, you can share and talk about my suffering.
props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack.
props to hums people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any stem essay because literally u just have to repeat stuff. but for a hums paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be new stuff from your brain. wack.
what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck
are you ever about to put on a movie but you realize you don't really want to watch The Movie, you want to be eight years old on a rainy saturday, and under your favorite butterfly blanket, and mom made hot chocolate and popcorn with extra butter, and you're watching The Movie for the first time ever? what are you supposed to do then
One of the things that confused me most in Love Between Fairy and Devil is why our protagonists insist that Xiao Run has to be the destined lover and murderer of Xie Wanqing, when the English subtitles only say she has to die at the hands of her "beloved," which could be Dongfang Qingcang, right??? Easy! Why do they lose all hope when Xiao Run doesn't follow their plans?
The TL;DR is that there's a bit of ambiguity in Xie Wanqing's fate poem, and xiao-Lanhua and co. interpreted it a little too literally, while the Netflix subs gave us the more abstract meaning.
Here is the crucial line, according to Netflix subs:
Then she meets her beloved who understands her well
In Chinese, it is
偏逢萧郎解语人
pian feng xiao lang jieyu ren
In particular, the two characters 萧郎 or Xiao-lang, superficially mean "a man whose surname is Xiao." It's the same Xiao character as in Xiao Run. This line could conceivably mean, "Then she meets Mr. Xiao, who understands her well," which is how xiao-Lanhua and friends interpreted it.
However, if you search for Xie Wanqing's fate poem on the web, you'll find lots of posts in Chinese explaining that 萧郎/Xiao-lang is actually a poetic way to indicate a woman's beloved. It has origins in multiple historical figures surnamed Xiao, but the definitive usage is in a poem by Tang-dynasty poet Cui Jiao, in which he laments that his lover, a maid, was purchased by another man, and alludes to himself as Xiao-lang [See https://www.gushiwen.cn/mingju_576.aspx]. Hence "Xiao-lang" became a way to refer to the person a woman loves. And as we see later in the show, the Netflix subs are actually right in interpreting "Xiao-lang" as "beloved," and not an actual person named Xiao.
To draw an English parallel, I think it's a bit as if the poem had mentioned a person named Romeo, and there just happened to be a guy named Romeo in the vicinity. I, as a viewer with a modicum of English literary education, know that "Romeo" can be a general epithet for a loverboy, but a thousands-years-old immortal with no connections to the human world might not.
That's not the end of the wordplay in the fate poem, though it is the most important. Here are some small things I found on the rest of the lines:
半世锦绣半世尘
ban shi jinxiu ban shi chen
Mine: Half a lifetime of splendor, half of dust
Netflix: Half a lifetime of glory, half a lifetime of dust
Notes: The word 风尘, meaning prostitution, literally breaks down into "wind-dust," and the 尘 (dust) in the poem probably alludes to this, according to https://www.douban.com/group/topic/273507772/?_i=8820568QDrpMtA.
一舞惊鸿倾鹿城
yi wu jinghong qing lucheng
Mine: The elegance of a beautiful dance overwhelms Lucheng
Netflix: A magnificent dance stunned the whole Lucheng
韶华等闲随烟柳
shaohua dengxian sui yanliu
Mine: A beautiful spring thoughtlessly follows the budding willows
Netflix: Her beauty is just like the willow's
Notes: https://www.douban.com/group/topic/273507772/?_i=8817957xu4lIgj suggests that this means Xie Wanqing is unhappy with her life and fate despite her status as Lucheng's number-one courtesan. https://edu.iask.sina.com.cn/bdjx/6fnw1wJF5xw.html explains that 烟柳 yanliu refers to the time when willow trees are covered in tender budding leaves that are not yet green, giving them the appearance of being shrouded in smoke.
凭栏元夜闻笛声
pinglan yuanye wen di sheng
Mine: Leaning on the railing, she hears a flute on the night of the Lantern Festival
Netflix: She hears the flute on the night of the Lantern Festival
断肠几欲飞仙去
duanchang jiyu fei xian qu
Mine: Grief-stricken, she almost flies to the heavens
Netflix: She is heartbroken and wants to end her life
Notes: 仙去 is a poetic or figurative way to say someone dies, but also literally means "goes to the fairy realm," a nod to Xie Wanqing's real identity as the fairy God of War.
偏逢萧郎解语人
pian feng xiao lang jieyu ren
Mine: Unexpectedly, she meets a man surnamed Xiao who understands her
Netflix: Then she meets her beloved who understands her well
Notes: Discussed above.
缘定花朝丝萝梦
yuan ding huazhao siluo meng
Mine: Fate ordains a dream of marriage on the second month's fifteenth day
Netflix: They are destined to be together
红烛剑影断芳魂
hong zhu jian ying duan fanghun
Mine: The shadow of the sword in the light of the celebratory red candle cuts the young woman's soul short.
Netflix: Her husband kills her on the wedding night
Notes: https://www.douban.com/group/topic/273293366/?_i=8819367xu4lIgj agrees with me that this does not necessarily mean the groom will be the killer.
Dongfang Qingcang must take great pride in his long beautiful flowing hair since he’s the only one that didn’t change their hairstyle for his mortal disguise
I love those posts that are like "My fantasy evil creatures that are dumb and violent so the good guy characters can freely kill them in good conscious and no these creatures don't have any political agenda", that but with fantasy biomes and landscapes.
My fantasy landscape called the "Wasteland" where everything is dead and evil and dry and cold and inhospitable and nothing good grows there and all my evil characters live there and this has no political meaning. Also it is based on deserts/the arctic/the plains
