#haoppo rambles

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How the hell am I getting Jiao Liqiao feels? I don't relate to her at all... but the level of unhinged is so exceptional I can't help but WANT to understand.

Who were you before?

Why where you where you were when you first met Di Frisheng?

What traumas drive you?

I feel like I'm going through that cadence of judge, get, become and I'm still somewhere between judge and get.

[donotfeedthefish-moweiyu]

So one reason I got really into cql and cql adjacent fandom was all the webnovel recs.

I'm chinese and grew up in the US. I read a ton of wuxia in grades 7-9 and then kinda stopped.

For me, eeading simplified chinese is fun but takes either some mental calibration or slightly more effort for me than reading english; reading traditional chinese is to reading simplified as simplified is to english.

Also, when I read wuxia I inadvertently picked up a lot of vocab.. so I'm reading bl webnovels to try to do that with language skills. Lol

That said, random things (e.g. tea) gets me really excited.

At some point during my 2ha reading I came across the 成语 (I think idiom is the closest translation) 如火如荼: like fire, like suffering/bitter plant is the literal translation. 荼毒 means torment. 荼 bitter plant + 毒 poison. The idiom is used to describe a raging fire.

I think this was my first time seeing the character 荼 outside of reading about tea. So back in the day, tea used to be called 荼, or at least classified under there until it got its own character - 茶. I believe that happened in the han dynasty when tea became more popular.

I read about 荼 when I was trying to read The Classic of Tea (茶经) by Lu Yü (陆羽) (I got distracted and never finished it... Maybe I shouldn't have tried to read it while in line at a Six Flags...). It's the first volume on tea and I need to get back to reading it and memorizing chunks to quote... Some of the stuff is really nicely written... Some of it isn't really applicable imo anymore... But still good to know historically... But I like his take on water and terroir. :D knowing the classic take on that should further my tea drinking... 🤔

Anyway, I was really excited to see that character in a book. >.>

[watch-grok-brainrot]

I never thought I'd feel this way, but there's a bit too much blood spitting in Till the End of the Moon. It's losing its emotional impact.

Also, I'm not impressed with how they just keep the stuff on the actors' chins. Guys, the trope is for the angst and *aesthetics*. Please keep the aesthetics in mind. Half smudged caked on red gunk all over their chins is meh at best.

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Gif making really is going through and entire 40 ep cdrama looking for every scene with a specific character to try to make them work with some stupid quote you managed to get fixated on.

[watch-grok-brainrot]

Ok guys. Can we talk about Chinese briefly?

Mandarin is, for the most part, a dialect. It is spoken Chinese, just like Cantonese and Shanghaiese and even Sichuanese.

If something is just about the written language, calling it Mandarin feels weird to me.

That's all..I see posts of mine being tagged as Mandarin and it's fine if that's your language tag but I wanted to say something just in case someone didn't know the difference.

Written language will likely be simplified or traditional.

And this isn't to say you won't see diffences in writing out the language between dialects. That's absolutely a thing. It's just not something I've seen people get into yet in the fandom.

Thanka for reading!

[watch-grok-brainrot]

I scrolled through Tumblr for a tiny break from work and saw another post that took the words "soul mate" at English face value. And so I exited tumblr. But then decided I wanted to come back and drop this thought.

I don't actually mind soul mate as a translation... But I never really expected to find a romantic relationship with a zhiji. I think my husband often surprises me with how well he knows me. I think we're compatible. But the yearning to be loved romantically and the yearning to be seen and known are so separate in my heart and seeing them smashed together due to something lost in translation just sits funny in my brain...

Anyway... That's all. I'm not saying it's wrong. Just how things sit with me. :)

[watch-grok-brainrot]

Friendly language reminder: 滚, which has been translated as scram, get out, or even f*ck off in regards to what LWJ says to WWX in the cloud recesses library porn swap scene actually means “roll”. 

I started watching Ever Night because @baoshan-sanren​ really likes it. And I like her tastes. It is GOOD!

And in these gifs, the dude who spits out his drink in the second gif told Chen Feiyu’s character to 滚 out and then 滚 in. The character cheekily 滚s into the room which causes the man to loose his drink. 

And omg look at that gremlin cheeky grin. I really really think he will make a good mo ran. XD gonna watch ever night now and I really recommend it... even if i’m only 5 eps in. 

[watch-grok-brainrot]

Mostly taking a mental break because apparently I'm burning out from trying to work 50hrs a week， do this， and other stuff... I'll be back in a week or two. Just making myself breathe. DMs are open if you need anything. Discord group is still running if you want to join and chill. Just lmk.