at the edge of winter.

One of our professional skills is ‘not being bitten by patients’

We actually have a good broad knowledge base for both surgical, medical, and GP things

We’re used to improvising equipment because a lot of stuff is just not made for animals

Meat safety is part of our training

Our cars are often full of equipment, especially in mixed practice

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

Heya guys! Okay so I did a poll last week and SURPRISINGLY a lot of you said calligraphy?!! Honestly, smart af choice hahahaha because this will be like a beginner’s pack if you don’t know where to start XD 

This is for the calligraphy set giveaway, if you want MDZS/TGCF/SVSSS go here.

- ENDS 17 December, 2359hrs (GMT+8) -

Giveaway Rules:

Reblogs only (likes do not count)

Each user can only reblog this post twice

ONE WINNER ONLY - Will get full calligraphy set (except blank ink because Singpost doesn’t allow me to ship liquid items, I’d say get it from ebay, amazon, shopee, lazada etc. wherever it is)

NO NEED TO FOLLOW ME just for the giveaway either!

Shipping Notes:

I will take care of postage as usual 

This shouldddd arrive by end December if there aren’t any significant delays, but you’ll likely get this end January

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Giveaway Items:

6 brushes (I don’t even know if you need that many, but I suppose it’s nice that you can swap in a sense, or replace one when it spoils)

2 packs of yellow practice big grid paper (100 pieces each)

1 ink sauce dish 

1 water sauce dish

1 pen holder

1 brush holder roll

1 practice felt cloth 

1 practice word example set

2 practice cloths (can practice brush strokes with water instead of ink, and can reuse again when dry)

(and I do genuinely mean conversation, I’d love to hear other people’s input on this, because I did just write a long-ass post about the subjectivity of interpretation in translations)

So when I started interacting with the fandom and reading people’s fics, I got really confused by the way some folks were writing dialogue for Lan Wangji; he often sounded super awkward, spoke in fragments, and sometimes exclusively in third person. To be fair, all of those are elements of his speech at various times, but like, seeing it in English-language material felt like a really heavy-handed way of rendering it in translation?

I guess when you use third person within the first three episodes of the show, it makes a pretty big impression on the audience

This is not at all intended to be a criticism of people who are 1000% writing and creating wonderful work, which is more than I can say for myself, but I want to poke and prod and tease at some linguistic nuance here.

Take a deep breath, grab a pot of tea (this’ll take more than a cup), because we’re going to take the scenic route on this one–

DID HE JUST BREAK THE STAIRS???!!! U KNOW, THE FUNNIEST PART IS HOW  HIS REACTION WAS “JUST NOD AND SMILE. NO ONE WILL NOTICE.” THEN PROCEEDED TO GIVE PROOF OF HIS DOING TO BIGHIT AND LET IT GET POSTED FOR THE WORLD TO SEE AFTER HE TRIED SO HARD TO HIDE IT. 

Hengdian’s Eagle Eyes - Wang Yibo

While on the set of Legend of Fei in Hengdian, Wang Yibo helped to catch the people who are secretly taking pictures of the production. With both using his eyesight and/or the use of a drone, he would direct security to catch those people and chase them away 😂 and I can’t stop laughing about that

Wang Yibo is coming

Some people ask, how’s WYB? His eyesight is pretty good. No matter which corner you were at he would be able to spot you, once he spotted you he would chase you out, this is pretty good. He would discover you before the crew; the crew didn’t mention disallowing cars to follow them, but he would get off the car and knock on the car’s (that were following) window and tell you “please go away and stop following”. Even if you were hiding 10m away behind a window screen taking pictures, he would be able to point to the screen and tell the crew that there’s someone there. This amazing eyesight, I’m not sure how much gou qi he ate. His eyesight is amazing!

You’ve been locked on by Hengdian’s eagle eyes

Left: I went to take pics of WYB today, took pics for about a minute from the top of a tall building, after that I saw him crossing gazes with me. He gave an odd smile in my direction and I knew I was a goner. I then turned around and ran away; as expected, staff came up to catch people immediately. (Last comment: that building was so far and really high, how did he do it?)

Right: talking about how Yibo would play with his drone (patrol) everyday to catch those who secretly take pictures/film and will get the staff to catch them. The more he caught people, the more fun/interest he had in doing so.

Image sources: One Two Three

Gou qi: a herb that is said to improve eyesight

i just had a something hit me.

when hua cheng gets mad bc xie lian reveals one of the reasons he’s built up such a huge tolerance for pain or casually points out one of the shitty things that happened during the time between his second and third ascension, like we are supposed to get that hua cheng is upset that xie lian was hurt. obviously. it’s immensely clear that hua cheng likes xie lian from the word go. it’s not a secret. and xie lian is like “oh why is this super cute, mysterious, kind lovely person upset? did i do something?” fine. totally. normal romance novel moments when one character’s gone through some shit like you know xie lian has. and the other person likes them. adding a cut because is i think below gets spoilery.

Muah muah me pls gege

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