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[lmaonade]

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it’’s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i’m not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i’m talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it’s literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

[lmaonade]

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can’t even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don’t need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught… but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don’t know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you’re able. i’m not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber’s “best” recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

[eroticcannibal]

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

[loumandliker]

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille’s basics but especially:

making rice

making scrambled eggs

making oatmeal

levels of cooking meat

using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

cooking techniques playlist

how to cut x

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

freezer meals,

weeknight meals,

kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &

kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt’s tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

j. kenji lopez-alt (various)

marion’s kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)

maangchi (korean)

future neighbor (mostly korean)

the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have “specialty” ingredients)

family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)

not another cooking show (various)

cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)

you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)

how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)

internet shaquille (various)

babish culinary universe (various)

i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

[jothehat]

Also teach people how to mend clothes. I taught myself to darn last year (aged 49) and it’s such a useful skill!

[geniusoflove]

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[bnq]

perfect boy .

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[felicitypdf]

ibuprofen and sink water is the midnight version of coffee and a cigarette…

[aflo]

im starting to think some of you guys might not be okay

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[tlirsgender]

I'm really not a very angry person there's just a lot of rage inside me

[tlirsgender]

There's something terrible boiling bubbling under my skin ready to burst out of my chest but I'm a chill guy

[thetenderpassion]

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[imoverallofit]

*Concern*

[leorioismydad-deactivated201809]

these all have the same energy

[leorioismydad-deactivated201809]

another contender

[cottoncanyon-deactivated2018012]

Reblog if it’s ok for people to give you $599.99

[catchymemes]

[untamedconnotations]

藍湛

     字  忘機

[untamedconnotations]

Lan Zhan

Courtesy name WangJi

Why do Wei Ying and Lan Zhan call each other by their formal names, while most everyone else calls them Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi?

I see some people getting confused about why a guy has so many names, and it’s not exactly obscure knowledge but not everyone knows this, even if you’re a native speaker. But the connotations are so delicious, so I’m gonna paraphrase some stuff from a Lofter post here: http://cherrywolfling.lofter.com/post/1e533604_1c65417ff

Lan 藍 is the family name. Zhan 湛 is his formal name (名) and WangJi 忘機 is his courtesy name (字). Wei Ying 魏嬰 is the formal name, and Wei WuXian 魏無羨 is the courtesy name.

HanGuang Jun 含光君 is a title (號 or 号) that other folks address him as to show respect, same goes for the YiLing Patriarch 夷陵老祖, which I’ll talk about in another post.

Lan Zhan, the formal name, is his birthname that his parents gave him when the baby is 3 months old. Lan WangJi, the courtesy name, is given to him by elders in the family or some VIP when he’s about 20.

You’re not supposed to call someone by their formal name if you’re about the same age, because it’s rude, and can be taken as picking a fight, so you almost always use their courtesy name, unless you’re their elders in the family, or you’re *close*.

When you talk about yourself, though, you should always use your formal name. It’s silly and awkward to refer to yourself with your courtesy name, kinda like talking about oneself in the third person.

You can still use the courtesy name to address someone even if you’re their elder, perhaps to show courtesy, or perhaps because you don’t want to assume familiarity.

Here come the interesting parts:

A. Wei Ying only started calling Lan Zhan by his formal name because Lan Zhan ignored him all the previous times when Wei Ying addressed him courteously.

B. Lan Zhan only started calling Wei Ying by his formal name because Wei Ying added *adult content* into his reading material and Lan Zhan got quite upset.

C. The elder Jiang clan leader calls Wei Ying / Wei WuXian by several forms of both of his names, sometimes A-Xian but more often A-Ying; Jiang’s wife Madam Yu calls him Wei Ying, which sounds exactly like when your grade school teacher calls you up by your full name.

D. Jiang Cheng calls Wei Ying by his courtesy name Wei WuXian all the time, even though they’re close like brothers, because while he might not be polite to Wei Ying, he certainly adheres to the established social norms. Meanwhile, Wei WuXian always calls him and Wen Ning by their formal names, because he is *~untamed~*.

E. Jiang Cheng’s courtesy name is Jiang WanYin; Wen Ning’s courtesy name is Wen QiongLin. The only two times I saw these used in the TV series were:

(i) Lan Zhan addressing Jiang Cheng. Lan Zhan is a polite boy. Also, you almost never hear him directly addressing someone who’s not his elder or Wei Ying. The only time he called out Jiang WanYin’s name was to stop him from you-know-what; that’s why it sounded so abrupt.

(ii) Wei Ying addressing Wen Ning. The only time Wei Ying called him Wen QiongLin was in a panic and to wake him up from possession. Otherwise the audience would’ve forgotten that Wen Ning wasn’t his courtesy name.

Calling someone by their courtesy name doesn’t always mean respect, though. It’s just a way to show you’re spotless in terms of social customs. Examples are the minor villains Wen Chao and Jin ZiXun, who are very happy to torture Wei WuXian while addressing him with his courtesy name.

How is a courtesy name usually picked? 1. Pick words that have the same meaning as the formal name. 2. Pick words that are similar or adjacent in meaning to the formal name. 3. Pick words that are the antonyms to the formal name. 4. Pick words that explain or expand on the formal name.

[stoicwangji]

Okay so WWX actually calls everyone he is close to by formal name then? Huh, so it’s not that special that he calls LWJ by formal name.

[xiaobenhuo]

Actually the point about you should always refer yourself by your formal name is not correct, wen ning has referred himself by his courtesy name. Also they’re given their courtesy name by the time they start schools, because they will start interacting with their peers, that’s quite a few years before 20. All of the characters have courtesy names when they’re 15 when they’re introduced in the cloud recesses flashback.

I don’t think it’s always about politeness, it’s sometimes just a habit. rando in the cultivation world refer wwx as yiling laozu wei wuxian, he’s rarely called wei ying by ppl in the cultivation world (wen chao called him wei ying sometimes in the anime, but not in the novels). I think this is mainly because wei wuxian sounds way more badass than his birth name which just means baby. Wei wuxian does tend to call everyone by their formal names, i think he just finds it more bloke-ish? Lan xichen is sorta the opposite, he tends to address people in the most polite, gentle and affectionate ways e.g. Wei gongzi, Ah Yao.

[untamedconnotations]

I’m glad you noticed the part about Wen Ning, and actually the Lofter OP had pointed out the same about Lan Zhan referring to himself as “WangJi” when he said “This is WangJi’s fault.” So the show is pretty good at attention to details in many places, but maybe not so much classical grammar.

An example was in episode 15 right after Madam Yu first slapped Wang LingJiao in the face: she said 賤婢爾敢 - “Lowborn slave, you dare?” which is jarring in a way a modern speaker tries to talk like someone from a thousand years ago. Half a dozen Youtube comments pointed it out, and Tencent had the voice actor redo the part, so now it is corrected to 賤婢敢爾 - “Lowborn slave, [you] dare [behave] thus!”

I last read the novel more than 3 years ago when it was still pre-revision, so I don’t remember how far MXTX took her artistic license and ran with this cultivator universe, but the Lofter OP is correct about historical usage of the names and ages. If you consider the fact that these fictional characters look the same whether they’re 170 or 30, you might could say they’re functionally adults at the young age of 15.

I agree with you on Wei Ying sounding less badass than Wei WuXian, but the reason everyone on the street calls him by his courtesy name might be more complicated. An analogy would be if you google the famous Su Shi rather than his art name Su DongPo, you get 1000 times more results, but if you talk to less well-educated kids about him, you might find that a lot of them know Su DongPo but not Su Shi.

Also, I love what you said about Lan XiChen – by all rights, he should address Wei Ying by his courtesy name, but he doesn’t, because it’s both distant sounding and less polite (compared to Wei gongzi), yet at the same time he doesn’t call him by his formal name either, even though he is elder to Wei Ying. There is debate among the readers though, about what he now calls Wei Ying after the show ends, because by then Wei Ying is practically his brother-in-law.

Related meta posts Courtesy names | Courtesy names 2 | Honorific titles | Name meanings | Genealogy register

[moon-ballad]

Gu Yun: Do you want to go get lunch?

Chang Geng: Oh, I already ate with Liao Ran, but what do you want?

Gu Yun:

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[perfect-jerry-blossom]

i love Thunderbolt Fantasy because even though it’s an action series about puppets it’s filmed in the cinematography style of a telenovella snndnsbfbsb

[hikayagami]

My veins are strings. My pulse is percussion.

My breath is air flowing through a woodwind.

And there is no place for the distortion of evil in the music of my life.

[niknak79]

Walking in on the wrong class

[thebowtierambler-deactivated201]

I found this far more hilarious than I should have

[kalofi]

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