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How Chinese people practice folk musical instrument pipa. (cr 男人鱼，小佟，星星醒来了，西红柿炒巧克力，宝姨，子子曦)

There were long-term and profound cultural exchanges between China's Tang Dynasty and the Eranshahr/Sasanian Empire, namely Pārs/Persia, present-day Iran. Pārs music and dances had a deep influence on both Tang courts and ordinary people in that era. The Tang Dynasty pipa琵琶 was originally derived from the Pārs barbat. The Chinese name for Persia is 波斯 (bō sī), which derives from the word Pārs instead of Persia. Just as the Chinese people call Greece 希腊xī là instead of using the English name Greek, this name derives from how the Greeks people refer to their own land as Hellas. The title bō sī was officially recognized by the Sasanian Empire via diplomatic interactions back then. It originally referred to one of their major provinces Pārs, just as Chang'an was used to represent China in Tang dynasty.

Chinese traditional yangqin扬琴 came from the Pārs santur. The bili筚篥 originated from the Pārs wind instrument baru, which later developed into the suona唢呐. Apart from them, many Pārs instruments were introduced to China in a complete system. Only a few of them are still common nowadays, and the rest are rarely seen.

During the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties (220–589 CE), envoys, merchants and Zoroastrians from the Sasanian Empire already came to China. The Sui Dynasty also sent diplomats to Pārs, yet all these exchanges were quite sporadic. Official diplomatic ties were only formally established in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE). The Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE) rose and fell while China was still in the midst of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period (770–221 BCE). The two sides had no idea that each other existed, so there was zero contact at all.

In the Tang Dynasty, the plectrum used to play the pipa was a wooden strip held in the hand, not the modern style attached to fingernails. They were mainly made of hard wood, while high-grade ones in the courts were crafted from ivory, bone, horn, jade and tortoiseshell.

May 5 is the Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People. (Also known as Red Dress Day.)

Show your support and pass on your strength by wearing red on May 5, and raising awareness. And if you have never read the Reclaiming Power and Place report, you can do so here.

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

das Monster = monster

das Wort = word

der Groll = grudge, anger, malice, rancor

die Imitation = imitation

un- = un-, in-

fähig = able

-keit = -ility

die Unfähigkeit = inability

die Fehde = feud

der Handschuh = glove

der Fehdehandschuh = gauntlet

der Wurf = throw

Monsterwortbildungsunfähigkeitsangstverzweiflungsrückzugsecke

Monster=monster // wort=word // bildung(s)=formation

unfähigkeit (s)=incabability  // angst=anxiety

verzweiflung(s)=desperation  // rückzug(s)=retreat // ecke=corner

Monsterwortbildungsgespür

Monster = monster 

Wort = word 

Bildung(s) = formation

Gespür = intuition

• irren = to become lost (also: to err, to be mistaken; to wander, to stray)

• der Garten = garden

der Irrgarten = maze, knot garden

• be- = prefix with a variety of functions: ¹as part of a compound word, it denotes a processing or change of state; ²as part of a compound word, it denotes a touch; ³as part of a compound word, it denotes a more intensive preoccupation with or thematization of something; ⁴it forms from a noun an adjective with a pseudo-participle form because the corresponding verb does not exist; ⁵as a prefix, it forms a transitive verb from a previously intransitive verb; ⁶as a prefix of a verb, it shifts the focus and thus changes the sentence structure

• lustig = funny

• -ung = suffix turning an adjective/adverb into a noun

die Belustigung = amusement, entertainment, merriment

Doom scroll // self explanatory

auf- // lit.: „up“ indicates rising, or something becoming bigger, better, healthier

hell // bright

aufhellen // to brighten something up

-ung // makes a verb a noun

-s- // the glue that keeps german compound words together

repost // self explanatory

Doomscrollaufhellungsrepost // a repost to brighten up your doom scroll

It’s just conventional in English to keep writing spaces in between larger compounds, whereas in German it’s conventional to remove them. But they sound the same! Grammatically, they’re identical!

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Incidentally, as a frequent blood donor myself (thank you, haemochromatosis), and thus being more aware of the volume of blood donated at each session (the average appears to be 450ml, or 0.45 litres per blood bag filled) and needing to know how long it takes red blood cells and plasma to recover after donation–

about 24 hours for plasma, and up to 8 weeks for red blood cells themselves, which is why the average length between donations is 12 weeks, to ensure the body is well recovered by the next donation (which is also why I was so fucking tired after having to donate once a month for the first three months of my treatment)

– I ended up doing a bit of reading re: blood loss, but this really is the best imagery for it I’ve seen without bogging down into too much science stuff.

Other crucially important facts relevant to vampire porn I have learned: 

yes, you can get an erection after donating blood, as the body generally maintains blood pressure equilibrium even if the volume of red blood cells per liquid ml is lower, though if you lose anything more than half a litre you’re probably gonna find it a bit difficult; 

erythropoietin is a funky chemical involved in converting stem cells to red blood cells which your body produces when you need more of ‘em, so if we’re going with the standard ‘vampire saliva is an anticoagulant and narcotic stimulant, and/or induces arousal’ conceit, it probably makes sense that said saliva introduces a similar compound into the human blood stream in the post-feeding stage to encourage their food to recover quickly for a repeat feeding, usually while licking the wounds left behind;

your vamp is probably gonna have a really full belly if they try and drink more than the average 450ml or so in one sitting. Blood is quite a bit thicker than water or soft drink; it’s more like drinking a hearty broth or soup. Can you imagine attempting to chug a litre of pressurised soup as it squirts into your mouth with considerable force? No thanks!

AND while I was trying to find that video, I also came across these visual aids:

And this shirt, which only has 250ml (¼th a liter) of fake blood on it:

"The kirre is one of the more vicious animals of the forests and jungles of Athas." It resembles an 8 foot long tiger with 8 clawed legs, a pair of large horns, and a barbed tail. In combat it attacks 7 times: twice with front claws, bite, gore with horns, twice with secondary claws, and stab with tail (1-4/1-4/1-6/1-8/1-4/1-4/1-6). It also has natural psionic abilities, like many creatures of Athas. (AD&D 2nd ed Monstrous Manual, 1993)

éowyn pretended to be dernhelm, a man. to fit in, she must have worn men’s armor. so the armor in the illustrations is normal for rohirrim.

therefore, all the rohirrim rode to war just like that:

male or female

hero or villain

sea or land

even in the snow

Look at this freaking thing