On your post about Din Djarin being partially deaf from explosions/missions, and tomfoolery (yes, he be tumblin' and shit and I live for it).
Is this why he just nods and doesn't reply? Not to look bad ass but because he can't hear shit? And in his helm, he's all "tf he just said? the what now?"
I can't unsee this in my head now but very valid points on hearing!
YES LMFAOOOO yES- he doesn’t even know what’s going on. yk how the fandom is like “din doesn’t know he’s in a star war”? bro is just confused because he can’t hear for shit 😭 the best way he gets people to think he knows what’s happening is just by nodding so he does that all the time and stays quiet. he’s just going along for the ride. it’s also why he’s so irritated all the time. he goes “i literally can NOT fucking hear you” like 50 times a day in his head lmaooo
too many thoughts in my head so anyway consider deaf din djarin. he gets caught up in a lot of explosions and i feel like that impacts his hearing a lot.
his hearing loss started on aq vetina that day he lost his parents- some explosion threw off his hearing and he was too confused in the moment to realize his ears weren’t working as well. and then later when he gets adopted into the covert, he realizes his hearing gets just worse and worse over time. i’ve seen theories that the armorer is a tusken raider and so when din was younger, the armorer taught him tusken sign language. he relied a lot on it when he was little and hadn’t taken up the creed yet. the armorer probably also designed little hearing aids for him.
yk how din is very observant and silent? being deaf keeps you totally visually dependent so he watches people a lot for their mannerisms and behaviors and body language so he can understand context. din probably doesn’t talk a lot because he’s self conscious over the fact he might’ve developed a deaf accent since he lost his hearing when he was very young (the reason he talks more often with grogu privately is because he’s gotten comfortable enough with using his voice around the kid).
anyway, eventually, when he took the creed, the armorer developed a built in advanced hearing aid system into his helmet, so he could hear really well with his helmet on. that’s why he prefers keeping his helmet on even when he’s alone or in private. whenever he takes off his helmet, he pretty much can’t hear. his hearing only gets worse and worse as he goes off and does bounties that concern explosions and loud noises, to the point where he can barely hear anything without some sort of aid.
anyway yk that scene with din being helmetless where that imperial officer was talking to din and he asked him what his name was and din was hesitating and confused??? deaf moment. he couldn’t understand what the officer was saying. he was relieved that migs helped him out because he has no idea what was going on. and then that helmetless scene where he took it off for grogu? boy couldn’t hear anything as he watched grogu leave with luke, just like how he couldn’t hear anything as he watched his parents leave him underground. it hits hard for him honestly.
anyway that’s just me and my little deaf din headcanon that probably won’t leave my thoughts for the next billion years.
I like this for the same reason I liked that Joel was partially deaf in one ear for the show. We tend to forget hearing loss is a common thing especially for people in lines of work that involve combat and Din being exposed to it as a child easily could have done some damage.
It also makes it funny because now you have to ask, does Din not respond to half of what Bo Katan says because he didn't hear her or is he using his hearing loss as an excuse to pretend he didn't hear her?
Boba Fett also has hearing loss but only Fennec knows that. And she knows he activley is not listening to someone when he takes his helmet off mid conversation, and no one knows why Fennec smirks when he randomly de helmets during meetings.
It also could explain why Din would keep his helmet on even though Grogu is his foundling, and by Creed families can show their faces to their foundlings. Din just knows without his helmets tech he doesn't always hear Grogu as well. Helmetless if hes holding Grogu in his arms hes usually fine, but since Grogu cant just use words in basic he keeps the helmet on to make sure he can always hear his son if they arent super close.
I just like the idea of the helmets having tech modified for the specific wearer to help them with things that might be difficult without it.
Also explains why Din both speaks Tusken and can sign in Tusken. Possibly Tuskens don't hear that well either considering they live in an environment that they likely evolved to have very good sight but its a desert and hearing likely wasn't evolved well as a priority. Din doesnt always hear very well so he learns to also sign with them as an act of respect.
Uh anyways I like this headcanon since we tend to forget about disabilities in star wars like how Luke literally has a prosthetic hand
YES YES YES YES HELLO????? HELLO???? I LOVE THIS SO MUCH IM MELTINGGGF-
i absolutely love the idea that din just straight up ignores bo-katan bc he doesn’t want to put in the effort to listen to her 😭 LMFAOOO i love that so much honestly
AND YES BOBA FETT HAS HEARING LOSS TOO!!! and when he takes off his helmet mid convo just to ignore someone is AKNDKABFJDG i LOVE it- fennec knowing exactly what he’s doing is so ARUGHGHRJF
i think din and boba would bond really closely over their hearing loss <3 just the two of them signing together and talking about their experiences yk?
i also love thinking about the implications of how din’s deafness impacts his and grogu’s relationship. grogu obviously understands din’s situation but sometimes when din feels frustrated because he can’t understand something, he goes a little distant from grogu. we could explore so much more on how this impact their relationship.
and yes i love the idea that tuskens don’t have great hearing, and depend more on visuals!! maybe that’s why their spoken language is very loud and rough, so it’s clearly heard. and their signing is super interesting to explore too!!
i just loveeeee this headcanon and i am itching to write it all down
so about tusken sign language- i made another post about it but i’m bringing back the point that tusken sign language does NOT depend on facial expressions to get points across. while other sign languages (like ASL) use tons of non-manual signals like facial expressions and overly exaggerated movements to convey emotion and severity, tusken sign language DOESN’T depend on facial expressions and whatnot. i think that’s why din prefers TSL a lot more than other sign languages in the galaxy. his helmet obviously restricts his facial expressions so TSL is the best way he can express himself properly.
i also love the idea that the armorer teaches the foundlings TSL for that reason too. the mandalorian covert all probably learned TSL from the armorer since they all are strict followers of the creed, so their facial expressions wouldn’t be necessary while signing. the way they adapted to this way of life is so fascinating and urgghhgh i just want so much more~
Din having an auto-transcriber in his helmet but it’s about as useful as YouTube automatic captions which is why he can only communicate in languages he’s already fluent in because the auto-transcript can barely tell which language is even being spoken like half the time it’ll transcribe h’chu apenkee murishani as HAAT CHUR UPAN KE MIRSH ANI or etee uwanna waa as IT YOU WANT TO ARE and he has to unpack THAT with audio clues from his hearing aid output
SCREAMING AT THE TOP OG MY LUNGS YES ‼️‼️‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣💥💥💥💥💥
this is too good. like obviously he can hear alright with his helmet but not everything might get picked up so an auto-transcriber would do really well for him. he finds out it’s low-key kinda awful though, that’s why while talking to people who speak other languages, he’s always like “you speak huttese??” bc the auto-transcriber sucks ass.
often times i struggle with captions that don’t accurately show what’s being said so i always end up getting frustrated or just turn it off and leave. din would probably also do that, considering he just stays quiet or just says things like “i don’t speak droid” and leave it at that bc he truly does not want to deal with the headache of trying to translate everything for himself. the auto-transcriber probably works best with popular languages like basic or any other language he’s fluent in personally, since he can program it to receive better, but he probably still turns it off and gives up even trying to socialize. he most likely relies a lot on visual cues and body language + lip reading to understand, since he’s trained a lot for that kind of stuff. having an auto-transcriber right in his face will most likely distract him from picking up the tone and emotion of the conversation, so while he DOES have an auto-transcriber, he probably doesn’t like to use it.
THANK YOU for indulging in my deaf din headcanon i am literally kissing you on the lips ❤️
From what I remember of back when Millennials were outpacing Boomers at internet and tech stuff in general, this is going to cause a lot of issues for companies angling to use slop in marketing because the younger set are always going to be better at spotting it than the older, but the older are going to be the ones approving marketing campaigns and ads and etc. Meaning, the older people will not ever be able to tell what might actually convince the younger.
The good news is that if it persists and Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to scoff at the generated stuff, then marketing departments aiming at them will just have to give up on using it because they won't be able to figure out how to fool their targets with it.
The bad news is that this won't apply to scams and campaigns aimed at older people, so once again we're going to have a situation where the kids will be the ones lunging across the coffee table to stop Mom from giving her financial info to that really obvious fake scam mom oh my god do NOT buy that it isn't even a real thing.
coming out from post-exam haze is insane like wdym it’s been months??? anyway i swear i haven’t died or anything, 2nd chapter of deconstruction of the soul will come out soon! i just can’t figure out how to land the ending…
This has gone beyond "I cannot explain this to my spouse" and is firmly in "Archaeologists of the future will decide this is the point at which a group of people diverged from mainstream humanity and developed a new, indecipherable form of communication."
Go probably isn’t as popular as it was 400 years ago so kokushibo has to resort to disguising himself to be able to play it with others. Apparently giyuu likes board games so i think it would be funny if they accidentally met in a go parlour
Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"
And they were like "What?"
And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."
And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"
And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.
And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.
Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.
There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.
As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“
And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”
The consular physicians have spent the last year carefully removing 31,782 knives from Julius's backside and have asked everybody not to touch the pile please. Caesar is just taking a moment to recover, facing the other direction, ok?
Well uhh... I know it isn't really a good time for jokes. But I guess all that with kitchen knives and maybe some vegs would bring a whole new meaning to a,
a deviation from my normal TL style! for reasons i will get into below ^^
楼台/Butterfly Lovers is really queer. stating that off the bat. it’s one of mine and @dezsignpazsion’s favourite zs duets and i said that i would translate it ✋ then i looked through the lyrics more closely and realised i’d been had (sob) played for a fool (sob) like the clown i am (sob)....... this song! not easy. a lot of extra reading. and i knew immediately that at the very least i should read 梁山伯与祝英台/Butterfly Lovers before starting, so my first step was to do so. you can find it here as well! in this post, i’ll also be going through the novel/poetry/etc references that you can find in the lyrics + offering some of my notes on the song.
楼台 (‘pavilion’) references chapter 14 of the novel, 楼台会 (Meeting at the Pavilion); in the chapter, Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo reunite some time after he had sent her off from their school in Hangzhou. Liang Shanbo, having realised that she was a girl, arrives at the Zhu residence with the intention of proposing; Zhu Yingtai faces him, in female dress for the first time, with the news that her parents have betrothed her to Ma Wencai.
Liang Shanbo is not quite as chill about the pavilion gender reveal in 楼台. he, having fallen in love with the male Zhu Yingtai, cannot consolidate the man he knew with the woman she is— Zhu Yingtai becomes increasingly desperate to get through to him as the song progresses.
当年结拜 羞涩的神采
that year, we swore brotherhood / a bashful, sprouting bud
今日楼台 看你红妆粉黛
and today, in the pavilion / in a woman’s dress you stood
约定去未来 翩翩少年如雪白
the future, wherever, we said we’d go / two young men like fresh white snow
你写意山水蓬莱 我琴声飘云外
you freehand Penglai, right and good / and the clouds hear my qin from below
-> 蓬莱 (peng2lai2): fabled abode of immortals (wiki / baidu)
痴痴情爱（痴痴情爱）
madly in love (madly in love)
我心如松柏（痴痴等你来）
my heart, evergreen (madly awaiting you)
曾经沧海（朝暮三载）
unstirred by but one flower (morning, evening, three whole years)
任林中百花开（冬雷夏雨雪）
however many bloom between (winters thunder, summers snow)
我心如松柏 (my heart, evergreen) @ 《子夜四时歌·渊冰厚三尺》(南北朝佚名创作的作品 / an anonymous work from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, baidu):
渊冰厚三尺，素雪覆千里。我心如松柏，君情复何似？
The pool’s ice has frozen a metre thick and white snow blankets all around. My heart is evergreen, but what is yours?
冬雷夏雨雪 (winters thunder, summers snow) @《上邪》 (汉代乐府民歌 / a yuefu (wiki) from the Han dynasty, baidu):
山无陵，江水为竭。冬雷震震，夏雨雪。天地合，乃敢与君绝 。
Only if the mountains flatten, if the oceans dry— if the winters thunder, if the summers snow— only if the sky and earth unite, will I let go of my feelings for you.
while Liang Shanbo of the studying arc dreams of a singular flower, Zhu Yingtai insists on the strength of her love. zs affects a pleading tone to a discordant effect: there is a disconnect between Liang Shanbo’s tentative daydream and Zhu Yingtai’s desperation, emphasising the disconnect that is Liang Shanbo venerating their past (and the ‘man’ he knew) while Zhu Yingtai worries about their present.
你是祝英台
you are Zhu Yingtai
偏偏要改了穿戴（偏偏我改了穿戴）
you’ve but changed from pants to gown (i’ve but changed from pants to gown)
那个缠绵的男孩
that dewey-eyed young man
换成凤冠裙摆（不爱凤冠裙摆）
dons a graceful bridal crown (hates this graceful bridal crown)
-> 凤冠 (feng2guan1): phoenix coronet [...] used formerly as a bride’s headdress (wiki / baidu)
我不知 竟不知（我不是）
i didn’t know / somehow, i didn’t know (i am not)
你是深闺中的女子（藏在深闺中的女子）
that you were a boudoir-bound woman (some boudoir-bound woman)
满屋诗 空胭脂（观音祠 樵夫痴）
our room of books / your rogueless face (Guanyin temple / woodcutter’s way)
娥眉淡淡藏心事（我苦苦暗示）
hiding your worries from attention (my every hint and pun)
深闺中的女子 (boudoir-bound woman) @ 《别亲》（越剧《梁山伯与祝英台》第一场 / the first act of the Butterfly Lovers Shaoxing opera):
祝公远：她是祝府千金女，应该是描龙绣凤在闺门。
Zhu Gongyuan: She is the Zhu household’s only daughter, and should carry out her work in the boudoir.
i think Liang Shanbo’s echoing of Zhu Gongyuan (Zhu Yingtai’s father)’s words is uhhh really interesting!! because she was quite obviously not a boudoir-bound woman of any sort… if Liang Shanbo can’t accept that the man he loved was actually a woman to the point of mischaracterising her entirely, you can really understand her frustration with my every hint and pun.
观音祠 樵夫痴 (Guanyin temple / woodcutter’s way) @ 《十八相送》 (越剧《梁山伯与祝英台》经典唱段 / a famous aria from the Butterfly Lovers Shaoxing opera, wiki / baidu):
祝英台唱道：出了城，过了关，但只见山上的樵夫把柴担。
梁山伯：起早落夜多辛苦，打柴度日也艰难。
祝英台：梁兄啊！他为何人把柴担？你为哪个送下山？
梁山伯：他为妻儿把柴担，我为你贤弟送下山。
[...]
梁山伯：离了井，又一堂，前面到了观音堂，观音堂，观音堂，送子观音坐上方。
祝英台：观音大士媒来做，我与你梁兄来拜堂。
梁山伯：贤弟越说越荒唐，两个男子怎拜堂？
Zhu Yingtai: We’ve gone out of the city and through the gates, but I’ve only seen one man— hauling firewood up on the mountain..
Liang Shanbo: Toiling dawn to dusk, gathering firewood. Such a hard life!
Zhu Yingtai: Liang-xiong! Who does he gather firewood for? And who are you bringing down the mountain?
Liang Shanbo: He gathers firewood for his wife. And I, I’m bringing you down the mountain.
[...]
Liang Shanbo: Past the well, just a bit further— Guanyin temple!
Zhu Yingtai: You can get married there— Liang-xiong, let’s go!
Liang Shanbo: Nonsense! Two men, getting married?
+ Chapter 9 of the novel (十八里长亭相送 / Eighteen-li Sendoff):
祝英台指着卖柴的道：“哦！他是为家小出来奔走的。梁兄，这奔走和你一样呀。”
梁山伯摇摇头道：“不一样，不一样！挑柴的为了家中有妻子，要吃要穿，我是为贤弟送行呀！”
Zhu Yingtai pointed at the man selling firewood and said: “Oh! He’s out working for his wife and child. Just like you, Liang-xiong!”
Liang Shanbo shook his head. “No way! Not the same! He’s out selling firewood to support his family, but I’m here sending you home.”
Zhu Yingtai isn’t exaggerating; she dropped every hint/made every pun she could. it was in equal parts funny and exasperating to read. in the novel, Liang Shanbo’s obstinance was a product of his kind nature; in 楼台’s context, it can be read as a product of him having fallen in love with the male Zhu Yingtai— not the female one. personally, i like Zhu Yingtai’s use of 痴 (chi1, idiotic or crazy abt someone) here! it breaks my heart a little haha because as much as Liang Shanbo loved her (‘him’), she loved him back as much if not more.
你不是 你不是（我如何不是）
you are not / you are not (how could i not be?)
三年同窗明月修辞（难道光阴虚掷）
my classmate of three years’ moonlit learning (was it all for nothing?)
从此窗棂檐角相思（我夜夜相思）
from now on, the eaves sigh lovesick (every night, i’m lovesick)
他已消失 不留一字（山伯未迟 错订盟誓）
for he’s already gone / without warning (not your fault for being late / but mine for promising)
@ Chapter 9 of the novel (十八里长亭相送 / Eighteen-li Sendoff), Zhu Yingtai tells Liang Shanbo that ‘he’ has a sister, Jiu-mei (九妹), and promises to introduce them so they can marry. in 楼台, i think this promise only added insult to injury when the truth was revealed 😅
当年结拜（当年结拜）
that year, we swore brotherhood (that year, we swore brotherhood)
我心如松柏（羞涩的神采）
my heart, evergreen (a bashful, sprouting bud)
今日楼台（今日楼台）
and today, in the pavilion (and today, in the pavilion)
看你红妆粉黛（天地沉入海）
in a woman’s dress you stood (the sky and earth, one)
天地沉入海 (the sky and earth, one) @ 《上邪》, once again! what was once Zhu Yingtai’s insistence on the strength of her love is now a sign of her suffocating despair; with the sky and earth having united, will she give up her feelings? her and Liang Shanbo’s division is represented structurally by zs and zq singing in canon, contrasting the first stanza of the song which this stanza is supposed to mirror. in terms of rhyme scheme, i still had this stanza match the first one (AABA CCBC) as it’s the start of the second verse.
你是祝英台
you are Zhu Yingtai
翩翩少年如雪白（哪来少年如雪白）
a young man like fresh white snow (what young man like fresh white snow?)
我不曾退隐蓬莱（你不曾退隐蓬莱）
i won’t retire to Penglai (you won’t retire to Penglai)
你却换凤冠裙摆（我不换凤冠裙摆）
and still, you don a graceful bridal crown (i won’t don this graceful bridal crown)
我不知 竟不知（我是）
i didn’t know / somehow, i didn’t know (i am)
你是深闺中的女子（藏在深闺中的女子）
that you were a boudoir-bound woman (some boudoir-bound woman)
满屋诗 空胭脂（鹊桥织 鸳鸯池）
our room of books / your rogueless face (magpie bridge / lovebird pond)
娥眉淡淡藏心事（我苦苦暗示）
hiding your worries from attention (my every hint and pun)
鹊桥织 鸳鸯池 (magpie bridge / lovebird pond) @ 《楼台会》 (越剧《梁山伯与祝英台》第八场 / the fourth act of the Butterfly Lovers Shaoxing opera):
祝英台：可记得比作鸳鸯成双对，可记得牛郎织女把鹊桥会。
Zhu Yingtai: Remember that we were like a pair of mandarin ducks, remember that the cowherd and weaver girl reunited on a magpie bridge.
mandarin ducks (鸳鸯; yuan1yang) figuratively refer to an affectionate couple (lovebirds) (more on this later!). both in the play and song, she pleads with Liang Shanbo to remember their love.
interestingly, among Zhu Yingtai’s possessions is a bowl-shaped steel statue of a pair of male and female mandarin ducks; she leaves it to Liang Shanbo when she is summoned home from Hangzhou by her parents. Chapter 8 (师母为冰人 / Shi-mu Plays Matchmaker):
祝英台用手摸摸那鸳鸯的扁嘴，摇摇他的翎毛，两只鸳鸯的形势，差不多挤到一处去。她又用一只手，在两只鸳鸯背上盖着。便道：“不，这鸳鸯的形势，有点像兄的境遇，弟若去后，将这对鸳鸯天天抚摸，也许抚摸得出所以然来。”
Zhu Yingtai stroked one mandarin duck’s beak, shaking its plumes. The two ducks’ shapes were so close together that they were almost one. She then used a hand to cover their backs, and said: “No, the ducks’ situation is sort of like ours. Once I’ve gone, stroke them often— maybe you’ll find out why.”
Liang Shanbo accepts the gift, but admits that he has no idea what she’s talking about otherwise; by bringing up the ducks, 楼台’s Zhu Yingtai reminds Liang Shanbo that not only did she try to tell him that she was a girl, but also that the male and female versions of her were not as different as he was making them out to be. simultaneously, she worries for herself: with the prospect of a happy marriage retreating further and further away, she wonders who will weave a Magpie bridge for her.
Zhu Yingtai refers to herself as a ‘weak, boudoir-bound girl (深闺弱女)’ exactly once in the book. Chapter 19 (忽然坐船可以走 / Sudden Agreement to Marriage):
祝公远还是摇摇摆摆在房里踱慢步。一回头看见祝英台，便带了笑容道：“恭喜我儿，贺喜我儿！”
祝英台就站定了，问道：“儿一深闺弱女，有何喜可贺？”
Zhu Gongyuan swaggered slowly around the room. Looking back at Zhu Yingtai, he smiled: "Congratulations, my daughter, congratulations!”
Zhu Yingtai paused. She asked, “Your daughter is a weak, boudoir-bound girl. What’s there to congratulate?”
Zhu Gongyuan (Zhu Yingtai’s father) is congratulating Zhu Yingtai on her marriage into the Ma family, which he arranged against her will. Zhu Yingtai’s statement of her boudoir-bound status, although spiteful, is also true of her behaviour: by chapter 19, Liang Shanbo has already died and the grief-stricken Zhu Yingtai has spent the last few months holed up in her study.
with the change of Zhu Yingtai’s line from 不是 in the first chorus to 是 in the second, you could say that Zhu Yingtai’s POV takes place after Liang Shanbo’s death, beyond the grave as they wait for the moment of their reincarnation into butterflies.
你不是 你不是（我如何不是）
you are not / you are not (how could i not be?)
三年同窗明月修辞（难道光阴虚掷）
my classmate of three years’ moonlit learning (was it all for nothing?)
从此窗棂檐角相思（我夜夜相思）
from now on, the eaves sigh lovesick (every night, i’m lovesick)
他已消失 不留一字（错订盟誓）
and he’s already gone / without warning (my fault for promising)
我不知 竟不知（春去冬至）
i didn't know / somehow, i didn’t know (spring's gone, snow's here)
你愿化蝶轻言生死（蝴蝶几日生死）
you want wings / saying life and death all easy (butterflies live only a short whirl)
早与迟 虚与实（既相识 又相知）
too soon, too late / the real and fake (from acquainted / to intimate)
无关谁家贵公子（何必辨雄雌）
whoever your husband may soon be (why quarrel boy or girl?)
你不是 你不是（我如何不是）
you are not / you are not (how could i not be?)
十八里路绵绵情丝（伴你蒲苇磐石）
he of that send-off’s gentle yearning (i’d be a rock, pampas grass waving)
从此窗棂檐角相思（我夜夜相思）
from now on, the eaves sigh lovesick (every night, i’m lovesick)
他已消失 不留一字（山伯未迟 蝶已展翅）
for he’s already gone / without warning (not your fault for being late / but our wings are spreading)
伴你蒲苇磐石 (i’d be a rock, pampas grass waving) @ 《孔雀东南飞》 (汉代乐府诗作 / The Peacock Flies Southeast, a yuefu from the Han dynasty, wiki / baidu):
君当作磐石，妾当作蒲苇，蒲苇纫如丝，磐石无转移。
You are a rock and I am pampas grass; untiring pampas grass, an unmoving rock.
《孔雀东南飞》 (The Peacock Flies Southeast) is the tragic romance of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing, ending in the fulfilment of their suicide pact and their subsequent reincarnation as mandarin ducks. the parallels between them and liangzhu are pretty plain ^^ what i like about the line, though, is how zs sings it. that's despair babey.. Zhu Yingtai can no longer see a future where they can be happy together as they are! and their only option for a happy ending is the one they chose— reincarnation.
从此蝴蝶忘了旧事（忘了旧事）
for now, the butterflies have forgotten what’s long over (what’s long over)
传奇故事
as for the legend…
各执一词
to each their own
so 楼台 ends with liangzhu’s only option, and the story’s only end. have they resolved any of their issues? i like to think the reincarnation meant that they loved each other, despite everything, but that’s because their relationship means a lot to me after reading Butterfly Lovers itself. i would love to hear what everyone thinks!!!
楼台 is a very unique song of the zs catalogue; as an older one (8 years old this year!), i don’t see him performing it again anytime soon 😓😓 maybe if it got really popular on dy like 云裳羽衣曲 did (and 瞳 seems to be doing)? zs did sing it a couple times during 深空间, though! here’s one with zq and here’s a solo (!!).
this TL was a lot of work on every front, so it means a lot to me. thanks for reading!!!!
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