Fallen Angel

I swear I’m literally addicted to the sound of Yiling Patriarch’s flute. These scenes in episode 14 of the donghua got me goosebumps I just can’t stop watching it omfg-

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No worries, you aren’t bothering me!! I love answering asks on Banana Fish. 

I think Blanca chose Dino’s side because he genuinely thought it was best for Ash. Blanca is someone who doesn’t want freedom in the same way as Ash: he binds himself to contracts and in many ways has given up on a life with love and hope post-Natasha’s death. Blanca is exactly what Ash does not want to become, but Blanca just wants to keep Ash alive more so than free. He’s never free, so he gives up on that and focuses on just keeping what he loves alive. 

Natasha he failed to keep alive, and so then it’s Ash and then Yut-Lung. It’s not a coincidence the terms of his contract with Yut-Lung are that he will only protect Yut-Lung, not murder on whim. 

He also pretty clearly chose to try to help Ash from within the system of contracts because it became clear to him that Ash was dying anyways in Dino’s care, and so to keep him alive he chose to help him. (I also don’t think he chose to protect Yut-Lung only to help Ash; he pretty clearly cared about Yut-Lung too.) 

“Private Opinion” really establishes how Blanca really does love and care about Ash, and tries to protect him by breaking Marvin’s arm and teaching him to protect himself, but what’s tragic is that Ash is 14 in this side story. By the time of “Angel Eyes,” Ash is in juvie, Blanca is gone, and it’s only been a year. Ash also tells Eiji at one point that this girl he had a crush on was killed when he was 14… I think it’s likely that Blanca saw what happened, immediately flashed back to himself and Natasha, and left after that because it was too hard for him. Blanca is absolutely projecting onto Ash and Yut-Lung:

But Blanca realizes in the end that to keep Ash alive he has to work outside of the system too, hence why he breaks his contract with Yut-Lung (but still does what he can to protect him). 

Blanca will break rules for people he cares about. Eventually. But he’s traumatized too and it takes him time to get over his cowardice and to realize that, for someone like Ash, there are things worse than dying: to stop projecting, really. 

But Blanca is still unable to overcome his own self-hatred, even though he knows it’s self-defeating. He thinks people like him and Ash should be alone, but in the end he can’t even agree with that: 

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also Blanca: gets stuck in the fucking vent and looks like a helpless baby

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.