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there really is something about relationships between two people that are simultaneously relationships between three people (or more). you can interpret that however you want. secret identity love squares. two people but one of them is haunted by another person. two people but both of them are haunted by the same person. someone is possessed. literally just a throuple. when there's just two people in the room but they always carry someone else along with them. Something about it.
most relatable character ➣ Julian Bashir STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993-1999)
You are dropped in a Star Trek location. Spin this wheel to find out which location and this wheel to find out who you are with.
How are you faring?
This is great!
I am confused yet intrigued
Uh... I am not so sure about this
I am definitely fucked
So far my favorite of your results are "Pon farr night at the Vulcan night club with Lwaxana Troi" which sounds like a great time and "Wolf 359 with Picard" which absolutely does NOT sound like a great time.
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Woke: using your computer’s idle capacity to constantly broadcast the name of the Buddha Amitabha in order to accelerate your rebirth into the Pure Land
The precedent of prayer wheels shows that you can gain karmic merit with actions performed by mindless tools. However if the broadcasting is done by a self-aware AI you are correct, and it’s the AI to achieve nirvana. Unless your computer contains a sufficient number of AIs that maintaining them counts as donating to a monastery
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all the best lies have a slither of truth :)))
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Can you give us a rundown on the variation in JC adaptions?
I can't do a full one right now because I've only completed the novel and the show, which is why I asked for others to weigh in! In terms of broad strokes, in the novel his last appearance is this:
After a moment of silence, Jiang Cheng shook his head, “There’s nothing to say.”
What could he say?
That, back then, I wasn’t caught by the Wen Sect because I wanted to go back to Lotus Pier to retrieve my parents’ corpses. That, at the town we passed on our way, when you were buying food, a group of Wen Sect cultivators caught up. That, I discovered them early and left where I sat, hiding at the corner of the street and didn’t get caught, but they were patrolling the streets and would soon run into you outside.
That this was why I ran out and distracted them.
But just like how the past Wei WuXian couldn’t tell him the truth of giving him his golden core, the current Jiang Cheng wasn’t able to say anything either.
Chapter 110, Exiled Rebels Translation
And his adapted endings are in order:
1. Wang Zhuocheng trembling smile crying a single perfect tear as he whispers Take Care to WWX's retreating back, with a postcanon extra two years later of LWJ writing a letter to WWX, grumbling fondly about how noisy it is in the Cloud Recesses now that he and JC have reconciled and JC keeps coming over to cause a ruckus.
2. Donghua!Jiang Cheng finds out about the core transfer after Guanyin Temple amd has a breakdown about it so bad he swaps endings with Lan Xichen and goes into seclusion, leaving Jin Ling to fend for himself.
3. Manhua!Jiang Cheng has a brief awkward conversation about flute ownership and watches WWX leave kind of looking like he wants to say something, but doesn't even think about it meaning that Jiang Cheng's sacrifice technically isn't manhua canon and he really may have gotten caught going back for his parents' bodies.
These are some BUCKWILD shifts, particularly if Jiang Cheng's sacrifice really isn't supposed to be canon in the manhua. I am actually reasonably pro adaptational changes but these are three completely different men? I'd have to watch the donghua in depth and read the full manhua to really do any kind of analysis, which I actually do want to! The donghua ending kind of killed my interest for awhile although I started getting slowly getting it back a couple months ago, but the manhua ending has me almost weirdly pumped. Like I'm ready to sit down and go through this making notes so that I might Understand, and come back with my completed thesis to get my PhD in Jiang Cheng Studies.
It's also interesting how CQL and the donghua do the actual core reveal, too.
In CQL we get a flashback to a scene that we remember from the show the first time, when two Wens were right behind WWX as he was buying food, and there was the tension of if they were going to catch him before there was a yell from down the street and they ran off. In the flashback we see Wang Zhuocheng standing in the rain, seeing the Wens, and clearly making a decision to call attention to himself, so that the Wens don't catch WWX. He says "take care" then, and so the present-day "take care" is an echo of that.
The Donghua... is kind of weird about it, imo. One thing I love about the donghua is it really leans into the animation medium and how much more you can do with animation - fancier fight scenes, better magic, more metaphor and symbolism. And we get a ton of symbolism in the reveal, with JC basically going into a dark place where you see the shining golden core, etc. But the actual reveal is close to the novel in one sense - Wens in the street, JC is in the alley waiting for WWX (kind of catatonic), he sees them and... just kind of runs out? It's not, I think, very clear exactly what he's doing. It's very artsy and gets redrawn to JC running away from WWX which is... not really what's happening? Like, physically he's running away, but it's to lead the Wens away, not because he's abandoning WWX, which is how that animation feels to me. I think it muddles the reveal and muddles JC's feelings as he gets his hair fucked up by LWJ and is left to cry with his hair loose as LWJ and WWX sail away, with WWX kind of like "meh" about the whole thing.
The reveal of How Jiang Cheng Really Lost His Golden Core is meant to be a subversion of the reader's expectations. This whole time, JC was willing to sacrifice for WWX, too. He did it first, in fact! The heir to a great sect, his whole family murdered, the weight of his filial duty to avenge them weighing upon him, decided to throw it away because he wanted to save his shixiong. Throughout the book we are told things about Jiang Cheng that are later proven to be false, and this is the last, ultimate thing we (and WWX) were wrong about. It's the thing that makes people go feral for JC and the JC/WWX relationship. CQL especially lays it on thick with WZC and his single tear and wobbly smile.
So it's... not... essential to the plot, if you think the plot is WangXian. But it's a weird choice to cut it from the manhua considering just how much JC, his choices, and WWX's choices with respect to him, haunt the narrative (even though he is not present for a lot of the story).
Hello Dear Friends. unfortunately the mdzs brain worms are wiggling inside me once again so having done some minor redecorating i am back from my 2-ish year long self imposed exile.
one thing about me is I love brutalism. I love concrete. I love not living in a house with cardboard walls and I love looking at a building and thinking this imposing boy would survive a nuclear war
I’m sorry for thinking that grim brutalist design and the vibrant resilience of nature go hand in hand. I’m sorry for seeing how striking, atmospheric and refreshing that looks. I’m right though
society if we started making places look like this again just with more plants
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this is a message for everyone who is 22. if you’re 22 please stop worrying. take a deep breath eat a bagel maybe. everything that feels impossible is going to work itself out. have a great day
do u have a message for 25 year olds
uhhhhh 2 bagels?
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bro twitter has been barrelling towards hell lately so everyone is talking about moving to tumblr and i... uh...
the problem with musicians is how they're always touring their latest album instead of like their critically hated second album from 2009 which is the one i'm obsessed with
i rly think we should stop rubbing it in ppl’s faces that shinee is the most superior kpop group of all time like just because shinee is the most superior kpop group of all time doesn’t mean we have to brag that shinee is the most superior kpop group of all time because shinee is the most superior kpop group of all time
New quiz: what harsh truth do you need to hear based on your music tastes? (Warning for mean but generally lighthearted results.)
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