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Women in STEM (Sleepiness, Time for bed, Extremely comfy sheets, Mattresses)

thinking about this again

funny how white danmei fans on here try to act like they know chinese culture SOOOO well and WAAAY better than actual chinese and chinese diapora bloggers and yet they’re incapable of comprehending the horrors of japanese imperialism in china and in other regions of asia. like. all of us knew you were full of shit but wow. what a way to go out.

Yeah no I'm no longer a zhehan stan acc. There's no way the visits to Yasukuni Shrine and Nogi Shrine were purely coincidental.

For the folks who are detached from the intergenerational trauma of Japanese colonialism, here are some history facts from 1937-1945 World War 2 that personally impact my decision:

- The bataan death march. I have family who experienced this.

- The history of comfort women and girls: Grassroots activists from South Korea, China, and the Philippines are still fighting TO THIS DAY in order to get reparations for the enslaved women forced into prostitution. There were children who were kidnapped. Its too traumatizing to share more detail.

- Japanese occupation and bombing of my city from 1941-1945

There are multiple recent sources stating Zhehan's involvement in these insensitive acts and I cannot bring myself to believe he didn't know any better. Yes, people are sensitive to this news because we continue to mourn the events that occured less than 80 years ago. History may be of the past but the past impact our present day realities.

Whether or not you continue to support Zhehan is your choice. What I find disappointing about this discourse is the disrespect regarding Chinese people's anger. The context is heavy.

actually i have even less tolerance for diaspora who act like this isn't an issue. you literally don't have to out yourselves as so disconnected from history. seasia is still recovering from the effects of japanese imperialism, korea is still petitioning for reparations (or even just a fucking apology!) for comfort women, and until today japan continues to propagandise or straight-up lie about what it did during wartime. it is downright irresponsible to reduce the issue to fanwars or chinese nationalism and the language people have used is incredibly fucking disrespectful

Happy Tears!

WeiLan: 10,000 years of pining

WangXian: A decade worth pining

WenZhou: FUCK pining. I just met you but we are now soulmates. No take backs.

Alignment chart of fictional male characters

exactly

*walking around between my mutuals desks* hi how are we doing over here? you guys need anything? *leans down and peeks at your posts* oh youre doing a great job with that picture! awesome job colouring :) is he a character from the cartoon you like? ohhh its called anime? well he looks so cool you did an awesome job.

We get asked this a lot: can I still be LGBTQ+ if I'm religious?

The answer is yes, of course!

Tiktok feat. @amiryassofficial

How many times do we have to say it: SELF-DIAGNOSIS IS VALID.

Official diagnosis take time and money lots of people don't have. Medical treatment and professionals are often biased against minorities. Medical professionals often don't know or don't care about nuanced or rare disorders, and either aren't able to diagnose or aren't willing to diagnose them because of stupid reasons like they don't believe they're real, even though they're in the DSM.

In short, if you disagree with self-diagnosis, if you think self diagnosis isn't valid, if you assume self-diagnosed people don't have what they say they have... shut up. Especially if you don't even have that condition/disorder.

People assume that doctors and medical professionals are perfect because they went to school for a long time. And yeah, if you can, it's best to try to get professional help. But this isn't always possible. Often because medical professionals can be STUPID BIGOTS. Trust me, I've met a lot of them.

Look, if you have the disorder they're claiming to have and know that they're spreading misinformation and just making fun of the disorder, that's different. You have the right to call that out.

If you don't have the disorder and suspect that that's happening, keep in mind: you could be wrong, and if you are and you say something, you could damage their mental health. It's best to listen/ask others with the disorder/condition about the situation.

If you think self diagnosis is just people seeing a tiktok about a condition and deciding that they have it or to pretend that they have it, and you bully people accordingly... SHUT UP. Seriously.

Self-diagnosis often takes months of research and self-reflection. The research is often a combination of reputable medical sources and testimonies from people with personal experiences with the disorder/condition in question. It is not done for attention, or for a joke; it's done so that people can finally get answers for their symptoms, find a community, and find supports and advice that works for them.

tldr; It's not your place to judge others for their conditions, diagnosed or not. You'll never fully know what they're going through.

Self-diagnosed people, I support and care about all of you. You are loved and valid, and I hope you have/find the support you need.

Do you know what having bpd is?

Having bpd is crying because someone has given you a gift.

Not because the gift is too beautiful. But because they paid attention to your words. To what you said. They watched you and saw how you look at things.

Because they thought of you, saw you smiling with it, and got it for you.

Having bpd is calling them an idiot because they got you a gift.

Not because it is too expensive. But because you are so used to feeling so worthless that someone spending money on you just because you wanted something sounds so selfish and so wrong that you feel the need to fix it. You feel the need to apologize, to make up for a fucking gift, because you are not that much of a thing to be given gifts.

Having bpd is being stunned to silence because someone has given you a gift.

Not because it was a surprise. But because you never even expected someone to think of you. You never consdiered the possiblity of being on the receiving hand of a holiday. Never thought people would be grateful for your existance too, not when all you see in the mirror is a disgusting void.

Having bpd is not being able to thank your friend.

Because you don’t know how to thank people when they consdier you as a human being and consider your feelings and thoughts while buying you something just to see you smile.

I have bpd and I am crying over here just because I got a gift, because I still don’t think I was worth it.

time: [passes]

me: what

watching word of honor was fun because i knew all the spoilers but none of the actual plot. yes i know everyone who dies in the penultimate episode. what’s a glazed armour. yes i have seen 30 different gifsets of every wenzhou scene including the epilogue. who’s zhao jing

(insp)

edit

++Bonus

GJ: Okay I have to hug Ah Xu

Director: NO. WEN. KE. XING. YOU. DO. NOT. FUCKING. HUG. HIM. BACK. ABORT. ABORT. ABORT. JUST HOLD HIM!!!

GJ: Ahhh… I get it now, I hug him

Humor is so attractive tho…

Just be laughing my ass off like hahahahavesexwithme lol

Word of Honor (2021) | Zhang Cheng Ling placing his trust in the right(?) people

(insp)

WORD OF HONOR: PRESENTING THE ROMANCE THROUGH TRADITIONAL WUXIA TROPES.

There is a reason why to the Chinese audience, WenZhou's relationship is indisputably romantic. It's because there are very specific visual cues used to show romance in wuxia, and WOH uses the exact same visual language on WenZhou. These tropes are blatantly recognizable from the wuxia/guzhuang dramas we all grew up watching.

1. Fated meeting in a peach blossom forest.

Although in this case, fate has a name and it is Wen Kexing.

2. Sucking poison from the other's shoulder.

Worth mentioning that in the book, the wound was on Zhou Zishu's arm. The drama deliberately took it up a notch and chose the more tropey version.

3. When the disguise (usually the female lead disguised as a man) is removed, the love interest can't stop staring.

Later on (ep 13) there is a scene where Zhou Zishu is trying on a fake beard that looks exactly like the ones female leads use to disguise themselves.

4. Spinning together in mid-air during a fight, the love interest's hands on the other's waist. Slow motion. Eyes firmly locked together.

Usually male lead saving the female lead. For example, there is a very similar scene between Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv from Condor Heroes. In fact, if you've seen it, you'll recognize similarities between the visual cues used for the two couples.

5. Martial siblings falling in love.

Yes, this is a common thing in wuxia. And no, it is not incest, nor does it make the dynamic any less romantic. What the hell. Martial siblings are often coded as romantic in wuxia, and there are actual examples in the show itself: Wen Kexing's parents were shixiong/shimei and Gao Xiaolian eventually married her shixiong, Deng Kuan.

6. One of them getting kidnapped (usually the female lead) by their sect/family and the love interest swooping in dramatically to save them.

And yes, riding on the same horse.

7. One of them is from an evil/unorthodox sect and it causes problems for the couple. The person is hailed as a villain and the other one challenges all of jianghu to stand by their beloved.

Their confrontation with Ye Baiyi is also a good example: Zhou Zishu defending Wen Kexing despite him being the Ghost Valley Master and choosing to die with him instead letting Ye Baiyi kill him alone. Going against the jianghu is a common trial for lovers in wuxia. Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv went through something similar as well.

8. The male lead fixing the female lead's hair and putting a hairpin on it. Then she looks at her reflection on bronze mirror. This usually happens the morning after the wedding night

This is a very blatant romance trope in guzhuang, so much that I instinctively went "they got married??" when I first saw it. A lot of us were surprised this even made it in. They even had a lingering shot of Zhou Zishu smiling at a bronze mirror!

9. Falling off a cliff together, or one falling and the other jumping in immediately to save them.

WOH gave us both versions. The first one was before they found Senior Long (which also gave us another common trope: the couple spending time in a cave while the other is injured/knocked out) and the cliff scene in the latter episodes where Zhou Zishu jumps in after Wen Kexing.

10. Dual Cultivation to save/heal the other.

Know who else cultivated in a cold place and also ended up as immortal lovers after going through trials and tribulations for each other? Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv again! (Yes, I am a big fan of Condor Heroes) arguably the most famous couple in wuxia. If you've seen the wucai bros reaction series, they all clapped and said "It's just like in Condor Heroes! They are immortal lovers!"

There is honestly a lot more, depending on how detailed you want to get. The point is that it wasn't just the flirting, the hugs, or the poetry. Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu's relationship itself was presented in the visual language of traditional wuxia romance, but this time in a love story between two men. WenZhou was written in the language of love.

Wen Kexing: I am the leader of 3000 devil's, did you think I am stupid enough to come rescue my husband without deadly eye makeup, wedding gown and also yeah BACKUP?

Zhou Zishu: 😍

MAKE ME CHOOSE  ─ @baek1nho​ asked:  wenzhou or wangxian

Quiet BPD is like...

.. having a deadly allergic reaction to the entire human race. Everyone you attempt to have some sort of interpersonal relationship with, casual friendship all the way up to romantic partners and everything in-between, will either intentionally or unintentionally trigger big giant feelings that make you wanna die.

I don't want to hurt you

or anybody,

so please forget about me.

Just try.

Find yourself a better friend.

I mean he definitely got the nicest one 😌