Ten Moon

Artiste Queer, Peintre d'Arbre Gardien, Poésie Punk, Fiction Anarchiste et micro-édition.

[tenmoonperhaps]

Thanks @duckyskull for tagging me! 🍃

Rules: make a poll with 10 of your favorite shows, they can be just 10 shows you loved watching or your top 10 tv shows of all time, then tag 10 people.

My actual top ten tv shows of all time. From most recently watched to most ancient.

Wich one is your favorite?

My lotus casebook

Nirvana in fire

Black Sails

His dark material

The owl house

We are lady parts

Sense8

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Seirei no moribito (anime)

Vision of Escaflown

Remaining time: 1 day 9 hours

tagging : anyone who wants to play!

[recapitulation]

what's your favorite of these sword-related actions/plot devices... 🎤

gifting someone a sword (especially as significant gesture e.g. betrothal gift)

drawing someone else's sword from the scabbard suddenly and without permission

using someone else's sword as a way to remember them after they've passed

you're not worthy of me drawing my sword/it's almost always left in the scabbard

sword with some measure of sentience e.g. ability to jostle/laugh/purr

emotionally significant "may I please borrow your sword" moment

plot-significant sword name change

Remaining time: 3 days 8 hours

there are of course one william possibilities and im sure ive left some good ones off... feel free to tell me abt some other good ones and their associated stories 👀

[recapitulation]

ohhhhh really really good ones from prev:

grabbing a blade with your bare hand to stop it

pushing yourself deeper onto a sword

mutual stabbing 🥰

[thatswhatsushesaid]

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[aro-ace-chaos]

I’m so tired of the “why do people hate aspecs, they aren’t doing anything?” argument. I know that it is an attempt to support us, but it fails so spectacularly to understand aromanticism, asexuality, and any other aspec identity that it’s actively frustrating.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

So, no, aces and aros and other aspecs aren't "doing nothing." We're doing quite a lot.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP is a Mauritanian student based in Beijing, and she joined the first Across Latitudes cultural exchange festival at China University of Geosciences. Cnetizens say she rocked both her traditional Mauritanian attire and Chinese hanfu. (cr 艾米 Amy)

[ao3commentoftheday]

I'm loving the discussions about the role and purpose of fandom, as well and what activities are needed to keep fandoms alive and flourishing!

However... as a fandom creator (writer and artist), I sometimes feel like too much pressure is concentrated on creators. I don't know if this is a frustration others share? Not only should we keep making things, but somehow we also end up becoming these central fandom figures who can feel pressured into responding to comments (or else we're called arrogant or ungrateful), making friends (or else we're rude for ignoring well-meaning people who reach out), and being the drivers and pillars of that community (running events, responding to memes, etc. – and everything falls silent if we stop). It's a lot of work!! I don't always have the time and energy to make things for fun and then also engage in all the ways people might sometimes feel entitled to because they enjoy my works.

I really wish that more "non-creating" fans in the community would discover their fandom power!! and not just rely on the visible "producing" creators to be the only people worth engaging with. It takes nothing more than passion to write a meta-post about a character or a plot point, or to create an ask game, or to DM someone else who you see posting funny tags – not just the creator! Maybe your followers have other tips for evening out the balance a little more?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, anon. This is an observation I've seen in many parts of life, not just fandom.

A lot of people feel as though they need permission or an invitation of some sort in order to contribute. That's why I always end my answers by asking people to share their thoughts. I want to make it explicitly clear that I want people to add things into the reblogs (which I can then share out for more people to see) and the replies (which people can at least read even if I can't reblog).

I have heard fans who are readers but don't write fic say that they think they can't get an AO3 account unless they plan to post something. This is incorrect, of course, but a lot of people make that assumption.

I think at least some people (I don't know what kind of percentage) assume that someone who is writing fic or posting art or making podfics and video edits etc. has some sort of expertise that "allows" them to post.

People with less confidence or with less practice etc. sometimes need an extra nudge before they realize that they're welcome to contribute too. If that's the case for you, please allow me to say:

You are welcome to post in your fandom, even if no one invites you to. Even if you think you're not good enough. Even if your idea isn't "popular."

Start a conversation. Share a thought. Talk to folks who reblog cool shit. Be a folk who reblogs cool shit. You don't have to do everything in order to do something.

As mentioned above, please do share your thoughts in the reblogs and replies to keep the conversation going.

[leomonae]

Other things people can do:

make a rec list

make a "here's all the fics I've found in this fandom with this one trope/general vibe/very particular setup I just think is Neat" list

make a "welcome to the fandom, here's the fics that people will just assume you've read/know about to get you started" list

make a "if you liked [popular fic A] you might enjoy [less well known fics B through N]" list

[iguanodonwildman]

More things you can do!

Create whumps lists

Create lists of shippy moments

Make screenshot collections

Record and post clips of your show to get more people into your fandom

Make incorrect quote memes

Make silly little TikTok-style edits of your favs

Make character playlists

Figure out the layout of buildings/cities

Recreate those building in the Sims or with an online floor planner or even just draw it out because holy hell writers will be so thankful for that

Make your blorbo in various video game character creations

Build a pokemon team for your blorbo

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

Create outfits based on your blorbo’s design or outfits they would wear

There are so many ways you can engage with fandom that aren’t making fanart or writing fanfics. Fandom is community - Please don’t be afraid to join in!

[pancake-surprise]

(I've been on tumblr for 15 years, far longer than I was ever on twitter, but I've never engaged much beyond reblogging so please pardon how many times I reference fandom activities I witnessed on twitter)

Collect interviews with the author, producer, director, mangaka etc

Similarly, translate interviews

I remember someone in the haikyuu!! fandom kept a twt thread of every time two characters were in the same panel. Not sure what the tumblr equivalent would be. I guess just a regular old post with lots of additions? (Send help; i'm not sure why my brain is struggling so badly to translate twitter threads to tumblr posts)

Run a quote bot account: I'm not sure of the status of quote bots in a post twitter era, but those were quite fun. Again an example from the hq!! fandom, there was the hq!! bastille bot which would spit out a bastille lyric + a ship. The siken bot would spit out a line of poetry + a ship name. On tumblr maybe the equivalent would be a gimmick blog?

Run a ship/character week. I think these are probably the easiest kind of fandom event to run. it doesn't take more than one person, a blog, and rudimentary graphics skills.

Are socmed AUs still a thing?

Make gifs

Try to figure out the layers to a character's outfit and share your studies with the world. (I'm looking directly at you, Hoyoverse and all you're what-even-is-that how-do-they-even-put-that-on character design. beautiful, but confusing)

Update fandom wikis

Log fandom history on fanlore.org (another project run by the Organization for Transformative Works, aka the parent of ao3)

Volunteer for the Organization for Transformative Works/ao3

[marypsue]

Fandom wikis!! One thousand blessings upon everyone who maintains fandom wikis, oh my god.

Some suggestions:

Transcribe episodes for film/audio canons

Podfic! We can always use more podfic, and most people's phones have a voice recorder.

Create bingo sheets (e.g. make a fanwork with five or more of these tropes for a bingo; read/reblog fanworks in five or more of these categories for a bingo)

Be a Your Blorbo expert consultant! If I'm writing about a character I don't have strong feelings about, but I know one of my friends is constantly reblogging and posting about them, even if it's all silly memes and "character <3"-type posting, I'll sometimes reach out to them for advice on if I'm getting Their Blorbo right. It's absolutely invaluable and I appreciate these people so much.

We are all just enthusiastic nerds on the internet. You have as much right to share your enthusiasm as anyone. One of the things I love about tumblr as a platform is that you can just start saying whatever about something you like, and you will find other people who like it too.

[pyresrpgear]

I just want to emphasize these 2 ideas from above.

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

These 2 can be so helpful for creators too.

I have ended up writing at least a few fics inspired by posts like these. And, at least I do this, when an author finishes the fic odds are they will link back to the original post that inspired it, and/or gift the fic to you on ao3 if they know your handle. I did one like this and it ended up sitting on my computer finished for quite awhile until I saw people posting happy birthday wishes to the person who made the original post. So I dusted off the fic and gifted it to her as an impromptu birthday present.

One thing I would recommend if you’re going to post fic outlines or ideas, let people know in the post if they are free to play with it. I know some people (especially those with anxiety) may be hesitant to take an idea and run with it from a post like that without explicit permission.

And this all comes with the double added bonus of both more stuff (fic, art, gifsets, etc) in your fandom, but also it gives you a great excuse to interact with someone you might not have otherwise.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

hey. hey. don’t cry. work of early chinese photographer Lang Jingshan

[anonajn]

looking at these i was immediately like, oh yeah this guy was an excellent photographer, but mostly what he was was a master printmaker. looked him up and indeed: "Long Chinsan's photographic works were influenced by the landscape pictures of masters in the Northern Song dynasty, and he praised also the elegance of the vivid spirit of Chinese painting. It is the first generation of Chinese art photography masters, and his wisdom in art has made the "composite picture（composition in the dark room）". The so-called "composite" is the multi-bottom synthesis, that is, during the developing procedure, the selected negatives were zooming in, using light-enhancing hand gestures to unify the shades in the darkroom. The artistic creation is performed on the composition, focusing on rhythmic vitality. He achieved composite pictures besides very few times by using brush and ink on the negatives. Together with his friend, Hu Boxiang, he established several photography groups and organized a series of exhibits which also traveled to Japan, the United States, and England."

this bit from wikipedia doesn't do a stellar job explaining, but i'll try. when you're making a black and white print in the dark room, you're doing this by putting your negative into a device that will shine light through the image and project it onto a sheet of photoreactive paper. the printmaker controls this process: the length of time the image is projected, its sharpness, its contrast, the chemical steps that reveal and set the image. this isn't like hitting print on your computer. because the chemistry of black and white printing is pretty safe and forgiving, the printmaker has a lot of power, and can treat printmaking as an artistic endeavor of its own. lang jingshan created these images by exposing the paper to first one image, then another (compositing). parts of an image you don't want to appear can be blocked with a mask (usually a piece of cardboard, often trimmed to a specific shape). the "light-enhancing hand gestures" mentioned sound like nonsense, but this is just dodging, a standard technique when making a print where you cover an area of the image for part of the exposure time to prevent the projection from darkening it further. this can be done with masks, but when you're just lightening an area rather than removing it entirely, this is often done by sticking your hand into the projection and waving it around over the spot you want to be lighter. the second image in this set (Drawing Water from the River at Dawn) looks to me like the image of the tree is masked out of one negative, the water carrier and the central landscape are masked out of another, and the misty mountainous shape was likely inked onto a negative. judicious dodging would keep our boundaries between the elements smooth and add to the pale, dreamy look. this is very fucking cool!

photographic printmaking is one of those skills that didn't get talked about much in the first place and seems to be getting talked about less and less as darkroom photography becomes more and more niche and people, frankly, forget there ever was such a process. there are skeuomorphic cues in photoediting software still, the names and icons for the dodge and burn and mask tools, but i think most people are so removed from the photographic process that this aspect of the artform is fully invisible. bums me out a little honestly! lang jiangshan was not just a skilled photographer, he was doing art actively in the dark room. you would not be able to take his negatives and reprint these images dozens of times; the artwork was created as a single unique print.

i also like this one, which i think was probably made by placing this leaf skeleton directly onto the print and then projecting the negative through it.

[ao3commentoftheday]

I don't know if it's just me being in small fandoms, but fandom as a whole feels...really lonely as of late. People have split themselves up so much that they don't discuss things the way they did before, they just kind of post their stuff and leave and half their audience "consumes" it like "content". There's no comments, barely kudos, the only places fans talk with each other anymore are on private discord servers that no one ever finds out about...I don't know, I'm a bit of an old and I feel like I'm screaming out into the void for no reason at this point. Sure, "somebody" will like my stuff, but will I ever get to know about it?

I think about this kind of thing a lot, anon, and I think my generation (Gen X/xillennial) kind of did folks dirty a bit.

In our defense, we didn't know we were.

I'm an educator by profession, as well as on this hobby blog, and so I spend a lot of time thinking about how people learn things. A lot of learning is social, and a lot of it happens when parents teach their children.

When I was growing up, pre-internet, my parents taught me how to talk to other adults in our community, how to play with other children, how to order food in a restaurant, how to call a business and ask a question. They literally walked me through how to do all of that stuff and more because those were daily skills in the world at that time.

We've spent the last 20+ years talking about how kids today are "digital natives" - but have we spent enough time teaching kids how to keep a conversation going when you're not in the same room as the other person? How to leave a comment on a post by a person you don't know? How to show your appreciation to a content creator? What a content creator even is and how that differs from a fan creator?

I know there are a lot of jokes out there about different things that would kill a Victorian child, but I think what would actually be difficult for them would be the lack of rules and instructions that kids today receive from the adults in their lives.

I don't have kids myself, so maybe this is all just bullshit and I'm talking directly out of my ass. But a LOT of the time when I notice someone doing something 'wrong' it's because no one ever told them how to do it right.

I kind of suspect that might be part of what's happening in fandom these days. Combine the above with the fact that fandom got inundated with new members in 2020 during quarantine and lock downs, and it's not surprising to me that a large percentage of the people in fandom today don't approach things the way that we used to before.

i don't fault them for it. When fandom was smaller and the internet was new, we used to take the time to bring people in. But now, it feels like 'everyone knows XYZ' so why does it need to be taught? And with how fast things move, it's more rare for newcomers to lurk for a while before they dive into everything.

This is a very long answer to a problem that probably just needed a listening ear, but I hope what you take away from this is an understanding that you're not the only one who feels the difference. I see this same experience shared in the notes on my posts all the time.

There is no easy fix for the situation and it certainly won't be fast to change, but maybe if we mentor a bit more when we have the spoons to, we can shift the culture a bit? One fan at a time?

If you managed to get all the way to the end of this, do yourself a favour and leave a comment on a fic or reblog a post with some chatty tags. DM somemeone or tag them or send them an ask just to let them know you see them and you think they're cool.

Even if nothing happens as a result, you tried. And maybe you just made someone's day. 💗

[tenmoonperhaps]

I want to play too. (@duckyskull)

So…

Last song : Skagos (anarchist atmospheric black metal)

Favourite colours : Red and blue. All nuances. I can't choose and I will not.

Currently watching : Fated heart and Dashing Youth

Currently reading : I just drop the french traduction of The Waters Outlaw by S. L. Huang. I was very upset by the poor traduction work. + too much typo. After four chapters, I 've grabbed my pen to make corrections. Grr… I will try to read it in english. I found it in pdf, but I really need to read on paper. So, maybe later... In the meanwhile I start A hero born by Jin Yong (in english too). I wanted to try it for a while but I was afraid it was too difficult for my english reading level. It's a bit difficult but I'm fine, I'm just really slower than usual and I can't tell yet if I like it or not. Also, I have two manga series in reading since months : Yona of the Dawn and Golden Kamui. (I really really love them). In non-fiction, I'm currently reading Le discours de la tortue : découvrir la pensée chinoise au fil du Yi Jing by Cyrille Javary. It's an author recommended by my kungfu teacher, in case I wanted to deep dive in chinese way of thinking.

Current obsession : How to survive summer. Not a fun obsession.

Currently working on : Try to write with brain fog and/or others inconveniences, as usual. Reshape part of my already existing summer's cloth to smooth gender dysphoria. + too much wuxia drama make me want to have more layering cloth and fancy waist band.

Last internet search : wordreference for writing this post. ^^

Current desktop picture : Yona's family by Kentaro Miura.

Can I tag you forward @aoya ? :) 🍃

[drchucktingle]

in betweens

i have been fortunate enough to live a life in the arts, creating things and following hallowed footsteps. its something many buckaroos dream of, and as someone who has done it, THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS i received are the moments in between. if you generate with AI, THAT is what you rob yourself of

anyone who has done theater will know this, because it lives in the energy backstage. anyone who has played in a band will know this, because it lives in the late night diner afterwards. anyone who has written a book will know this, because it lives the coffee shop where your plot point locked in

in other words IT IS NOT THE PRODUCT. yes, it is cool to see your name on a marquee or your book in a store or your face on a poster, but the REASON this is cool is because it tethers you to the BETWEEN TIMES. the between times are everything. the PROCESS of creation is a gift to yourself

i think this is REALLY difficult for these ai goofballs to understand, and why the things they make dont resonate. anything you create without the in between is just a hollow shell, a movie poster without small talk at crafty or an album without eating burritos on the studio rooftop

we have ALWAYS had the ability to NOT make something and pretend that we did. the difference now is theres an algorithm built for convincing people whove never stepped outside the theater door for a smoke break on opening night that they actually have. they have not. there is no ai for that.

because the only way to conjure the unfathomable magic of those in between moments is to live them, and when you get a hit of excitement from a prompted movie or book or song without a journey of creation, you rob yourself. you curse yourself to exist as a cardboard cutout who thinks they are whole

[aoya]

Wei Wuxian for @saganarojanaolt

[tenmoonperhaps]

A weird spider. Eight legs, one pair of mandibles and two pedipalps were not enougth. Why not add two more pairs of wings ? I've dyspraxia with only two arms and two legs. Despite that, sometimes, I'm yearning for more… . It's a study for my next tattoo project. My tatto artist will certainly do better, but I like it anyway.

[aoya]

I'm always rambling about music, so I thought — why not do a post about throat singing. If only for my future self. This is going to be my all-time favorite collection.

Okna Tsahan Zam - Edjin duun This is pure love. The entire album is a gem.

The same song, another country - 旱獭乐队 - 母亲

Ezir-Kara (骏马黑鹰)

4. Хөсөгтөн - Mongol

5. Anda Union - Jangar

And another one - 安达组合《江格尔英雄赞》

6. Хөсөгтөн - Altargana

7. Haya - Wolf Totem

On the heavier side:

8. Tengger Cavalry - War Horse

9. Suld - The war

10. The Hu - Shihi Hutu

11. Ego Fall - Brave Heart

12. 额尔古纳喻队 - 阿黑图

13. Hanggai - "戈壁路" (Gobi Road)

And here's a bonus — not really related, but I couldn't forget about it : 阿云嘎 & Hanggai - 星辰大海

[tenmoonperhaps]

”Noctuelle du camérisier” with some liberties.

[tenmoonperhaps]

13 songs I have on repeat

Thanks @duckyskull for tagging me ! :)

Music make me alive. I drink it.

It's difficult for me to chose one song. I always listen by album. For me, it's more immersive and gives better musical coherence.

So, I select songs that bring me into a specific emotional or mental state.

I've constructed this list as a progression. Mind the gap between 6 and 7. ^^

Tell me if one of them catches your ear. Enjoy!

Until Now by Nine treasures (Mongol Folk Metal)

Da:lum, extract from Coexistence. (experimental duet with korean traditional zither)

Northern North by 惘闻 Wang Wen (post-rock). I'm currently exploring their discography.

牺牲 Sacrific by Woodoo kung fu (Extreme folk metal). Hypnotic. Very immersive. I litteraly loop on it during peculiar or tense writing session.

Atashgah. It's just beautifull.

否世 (Mukti) by 虚极 Bliss illusion (Buddhist atmospherique post black metal). Very difficult to choose one song. I really really love their music.

The coming swarm by Black fast (blackened thrash metal). One of my dopamine song.

Said the king to the river by La dispute (post hardcore screamo with spoken word).

Isadora by Witch (stoner). Raw and hypnotique.

Freedom in retrograd by Dawn Ray'd (Anarchist black metal UK) - accoustic.

We still believe by Stick to your gun. (PunkHardcore)

I'm the mountain, by Stoned Jesus (doom prog rock). My favorite song of this group even though I'm not really a big fan of the rest of their work.

Collapse + Recharging the void by Vektor from Terminal Redux (space-op death/black prog metal ). It's a tryptique : three albums for a cosmic travel. I often listen all of it for huge creative sessions (painting or linocut). But most of the time, when I just need a shot, I listen to this two songs.

tagging : anyone who wants to play!

[sioltach]

this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

[lodgerlodger]

Yue Opera, "fanchuan", and why I hope to see an all female danmei cast someday

A while ago there was a widely-shared Youtube video called "When Women Play Male Characters", where the author made the assertion that in traditional Chinese theater, men played women, but on screen, women played men.

As interesting as the video was overall, this description of the Chinese tradition of fanchuan, or gender-flipped casting, is very much inaccurate. The prevalence of women playing men in Chinese cinema was in fact influenced by and perhaps a direct adaptation of Yue Opera conventions, whose rise to fame was precisely the result of the dominance of all-female Yue troupes in the 20th Century.

When it first took off, the audience (particularly women) went absolutely wild over these all-female Yue Opera performances. It was a very potent combo of the whole cast--including the male characters--being played by women, and the shows being made to primarily appeal to female sensibilities and focus on romance themes. Its popularity even briefly eclipsed that of all-male opera troupes, which had been the dominant theater convention for centuries.

When the popularity of live theater dwindled, female fanchuan lived on in television and cinema, though the focus moved on to individual characters instead of full female casts. A famous example of this was the 1992 television series New Legend of the White Snake, which is a honest to god core memory for most people in my generation. Behold:

(Also the meme potential of this thing is insane:)

The only excuse answer the director gave when questioned about his decision to cast a woman in the leading male role was that he couldn't find a sufficiently uwu male actor to play Xuxian, a hapless but kindhearted young scholar who dates the titular White Snake, a thousand-year-old demon snake milf. (Incidentally, this is also the only White Snake adaptation I remember where they actually found an actress in her 40s to play the milf instead of some 21 yo.)

The point being, this was perceived as very normal at the time and people simply accepted seeing two women in leading romantic roles. I'm both saddened that this isn't as common anymore, and a bit miffed because the full depth of its potential hasn't even been plumbed. I want the full Yue Opera treatment. No explanations given, just an entirely female cast playing male characters because it's neat and desired by many viewers, given the explosive popularity of all-female Yue Opera when it first hit the scene a century ago. And what else if not Danmei, where a full fanchuan treatment would be monumental? This is a genre that like Yue Opera, is geared towards romance, melodrama, and female viewership. We already have many beloved female danmei cosplayers, as well as the enduring popularity of all-female theater troupes in Japan like Takarazuka Revue. Yes, it's niche, but danmei used to be extremely niche too.

I actually hesitated making a long post out of this for ages because of the possibility of it getting twisted into a "wlw supplanting mlm" sort of thing, but I've been getting the sense that many of you would like this as well. I don't see it as wlw encroaching on mlm, but rather as a marriage of the two. I do very much enjoy the default male adaptations, I just think the odd mlm narrative with a wlw aesthetic would be bonkers in a good way, and I think Chinese television is well-positioned to actually pull off something like this since it's already a part of its theatrical/cinematic tradition. In an environment where live action danmei is being suppressed and othered anyway why not say fuck it and just go nuts.

It will probably never actually happen but one can dream 😔

[yunsound]

Translating the last line of Ne Zha 2 (2025)

When Ao Bing asks Ne Zha how he knew he'd come back, Ne Zha says something that I think might be the perfect ending line.

因为我们都太年轻，不知天高地厚

Yin wei wo men dou tai nian qing, bu zhi tian gao di hou

I think the theatre I watched translated this as "Because we're both too young. Too young to fear."

Honestly, this translation is pretty good! It's touching and impactful.

Bu zhi tian gao di hou, 不知天高地厚, is a saying that is used to refer to someone that is arrogant or foolish and doesn't understand the power or cruelty of the world.

It means: To know not how high the heavens stretch, nor how deep the earth goes.

Usually it is used to admonish someone, usually an elder scolding someone younger that they're overly confident or idealistic, and don't know anything about the realities of what's out there.

Ne Zha and Ao Bing have both technically lived thousands of years. They were originally the Chaos Pearl, so they've witnessed a lot. They do, in fact, know how unfair the world is, and have seen the heavens and the earth.

However, since their bodies and minds are still young, it's especially impactful for Ne Zha to say this to refer to himself and Ao Bing. Essentially, he is saying that despite them both understanding the cruelty and unfairness of the world, they still choose to be young and foolish.

It's not that they're arrogant and overconfident. It's that they understand they have little chance, but they must fight anyway. They are choosing to be young and wild, choosing their three year old naïveté over their thousands of years as the Chaos Pearl.

IDK, it really got to me.