Music rules my mind

STEP 1: Take a screencap of the video, preferably while it's playing so that the PLAY button isn't blocking the image.

STEP 2: Reverse image search of choice. To my chagrin, I tend to end up resorting to Google's Search by image because Tineye keeps failing me and I haven't gotten around to doing a deep dive into currently available reverse image search services.

If you use the Firefox desktop web browser (untested: other desktop web browsers, Firefox mobile web browser) you can combine STEP 1 & STEP 2: Feel free to repost the video to Tumblr first, preferably as a draft or private post to prevent people from reblogging the uncredited vid, because this method doesn't work as well on Reddit videos.

Right-Click on the video. In the right-click menu, look for "Image Search Options" and hover over it to bring up a list of search options. I'll have to try out some of the other options later, but for this demonstration I used Google.

The search engine should open in another tab.

STEP 3: The Search. This part will be a mix of luck, tenaciousness, and deductive skills.

For Google, I recommend going to the "Exact matches" tab because it presents matches and their information in a much more condensed format than the other tabs. "Exact matches" is a misnomer, as is apparent in the screencap below. This search actually pulled up images from at least two separate videos by the same woman hanging from the same tree: one where she's wearing a slate grey pencil skirt and blazer (as in the video reposted by OP) and one where she's wearing a pale grey long-sleeved dress.

Ideally, a functional search engine would let you sort results by useful variables such as "date posted". Google is not such a search engine, and with its progressive enshittification you may or may not be able to bully Search by image into limiting results to certain date ranges. Luckily, these videos have been less flagrantly reposted than some, so I didn't have to scroll through too many.

When searching for a source, one of the primary things to pay attention to is date. Obviously, the original source has to be older than any of the reports. Unfortunately, not all the Google results have dates, so the earliest dated video isn't guaranteed to be the original.

In this case, the earliest result was of the grey dress video variant posted on Instagram on Jan 17, 2026. However, upon checking the link it became apparently that the Instagram account was not the originator of the video and their repost was unsourced.

If the date check fails you, keep an eye out for any undated results that clearly stand out from the rest. In this case, I picked up on the following:

Which has the following unique traits:

A new outfit! This is the only result that features the woman in a pale brown blazer and pencil skirt.

Dimensions. This result is 1080 x 1920, while the majority of results were smaller in size. Reposts are more likely to be downscaled from the original than upscaled, so if the initial date-check fails you, you're better off checking the largest undated results first.

Specific username (Liang Li (@liangli521)). A lot of the other results just have captions or titles in various languages. Depending on the website, these are usually either captioned reposts or random search terms that don't even link to the actual video. Results with specific usernames are rarer and thus worth checking out, though some of them may turn out to be reposters.

In this case, I hit the jackpot! There they all were: OP's video, the grey dress video, the brown blazer & skirt video, and many, many more!

Legitimately, Liang Li's whole thing seems to be going ham in skirts, dresses, and frequently heels. Possibly for advertising purposes? Very beautiful. Very powerful.

Bonus videos:

Cool lights!

Obstacle courses and playgrounds with friend!

H-hot damn, ma'am...

Today is not like any other day. Today is a time of reflection and a time of reckoning.

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

FIVE YEARS OF QUINNDEPENDENCE

DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN

AS FANNIE LOU HAMER SAID, “NOBODY’S FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY’S FREE”

PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU ALL

It started with someone listing "places with uncanny energy," like gas stations on a road trip, empty movie theaters, etc.

Then someone reblogged it and said those are called "liminal spaces," defining liminal as in-between, neither one thing nor another.

Tomorrow (July 4th, 2026) is the 10 year anniversary of the-crepes-of-wrath's comment, which:

Predates the 2020 spike in interest by four years

Predates the original backrooms post, and the the creation of r/liminalspaces by three years

Predates the earliest mention that KnowYourMeme attributes to Twitter by two years

I'm pretty sure this is the moment the term "liminal spaces" was attached to this sort of imagery, and it's TEN YEARS OLD TOMORROW!

I’ve been thinking about it all morning. What would the plot points be for that? What makes a 30 year old coming of age story?

Some of your friends will get married or have kids in their 30s, and will then often not hang out anymore with any of their friends who arent married or don't have kids. If you want to date someone your age or older you will find that an increasing number of them are either divorced or have children from a previous relationship. You can also date younger people, though if you go below 25 you'll probably be shocked at how much less mature they are than you remember being at that age.

At some point, if you dont get married and have children in your 30s, you are probably going to find yourself living alone in a city where you don't know anyone. You will need to figure out how to go from having few acquaintances and no close friends nearby to having many acquaintances and a few close friends.

Some of your friends will join a cult in their 30s and disappear from your life, because they couldn't handle how lonely they were. And it won't be the fun kind of cult either, but the depressing sort of self-help psychotherapy high control group that preys on insecurity and reinforces it. At some point they may want to reconnect, and you'll need to decide whether they're deprogrammed enough yet to be safe to interact with.

In your 30s you'll need to eat properly and exercise more, because the older you get the more you'll pay for not doing so, and you're finally the age when this will start to catch up to you. You might actually even need to go to the doctor once in a while, but it will always still feel like a waste of time, even if they do something other than tell you to eat properly and exercise more. Most tests are routine and will be negative, and no one involved will respect your time, but you will not regret catching something like high blood pressure or thyroid issues or even skin cancer earlier rather than later.

Some of your friends will get into crossfit and alternative medicine in their 30s because they don't like going to the doctor. Some of your friends will neglect their health entirely in their 30s and stay out partying too late like theyre still 22. In both cases, you'll need to decide how much of their increasing levels of bullshit you're willing to tolerate.

In your 30s you'll constantly find out about new things that you were apparently supposed to have done in your 20s. It's not possible for any one person to have done most of it, and if you dont learn to ignore these arbitrary expectations and milestones, you're never going to feel like a "real" adult, no matter how many younger people there are in your life who look up to you and respect you.

Some of your friends will go back to school to get masters' degrees in their 30s. Don't bother unless it's going to make you more money and change the type of job you have to something you'll enjoy more than whatever you're doing right now. Most of them will not finish and regret it.

Some of your friends will be trapped in bad marriages or be forced to move back in with their parents or be underwater in their mortgages. it's relatively easy to end up in a situation in your 30s where you feel trapped and it's hard to extricate yourself, and easy to see someone else in that kind of situation and get sucked into their pit of misery trying to pull them out of it. regrettably in most cases if they could get out with your help they could get out without it. dont jump in the water to save a drowning person, you'll both drown.

an ex-friend of mine, then a psychology major and by now probably a full psychologist, once lectured me on how horrible and bad it was that i told her “i probably have some sort of neurodivergency”, and that if i were her patient she would never give me a diagnosis because “you aren’t like this now, but i know that if you get a diagnosis you’ll use it as an excuse to start treating people badly. that’s just how mentally ill people are.”

same ex-friend was extremely disgusted when she found out that fans sometimes make neurodivergency headcanons for characters that have the same symptoms as they do, and that authors sometimes write books with neurodivergent protagonists in stories that don’t focus on that (ex: she seemed horrified that percy jackson has adhd?)

multiple psychologists i’ve seen on facebook agree that they should refuse to treat patients that say “i’m here because i have symptoms of a disorder and wonder if i have it”, and that a patient should arrive to a psychologist as a blank slate.

school psychologist asked me how i was feeling about my trauma situation and i told him i thought my friends would leave me. instead of addressing the issue he said that that no i didn’t, that i was lying, that i had searched “bpd symptoms” online and now i was faking symptoms because i wanted to have bpd, that he shouldn’t have told me he suspected i had a personality disorder because now look what was happening. no, i didn’t search bpd symptoms online. yes, my friends left me, it was a completely founded belief and not a symptom, let alone a faked symptom.

so the next time you hear someone saying they’re “anti self-diagnosis” i want you to understand what they’re saying. what they’re saying is:

- i don’t want people to be aware of their own symptoms

- i don’t think my patients should have access to any information that doesn’t come from me

- i don’t think neurodivergent people should learn how to cope with their symptoms and live “normal” lives

- i think neurodivergent people should be denied a diagnosis because the moment they get one they will become evil and dangerous

From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.

Mulan: Uh, what boobs? Huh? Where did these come from?

Mushu: *facepalms and thinks quickly* (speaks from the shadows) I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE! BEWARE MY CURSED WATERS FOR THEY WILL TURN MEN INTO WOMEN!

Mulan: Look-

Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: WE CAN EXPLAIN!!

[One convoluted, chaotic explanation later]

Shang: ...is this why you've all been insisting we don't camp anywhere that doesn't have a lake.

Shang: and then none of you actually swim in it.

Shang: and you all keep jumping at shadows.

Shang: wait a second Ping did this happen before or after you became insanely good at fighting?

Shang: did you get better at fighting after you became a woman.

Shang: are women better at fighting than us.

Mulan: ....uh. well. maybe? no one's ever tried to find out.

Yao: [thinking very fast] y'know Captain it's just so hard to find recruits these days.

Chien Po: Real shortage of men.

Ling: Lots of women, though.

Mulan: [catching on] Without marriage prospects.

Shang: You're right, men. The spirits must have done this in order to show us that we should be recruiting women as fighters.

Mushu [from the shadows, seeing an opportunity to do the funniest thing]: EXACTLY, LI SHANG. I HAVE TRANSFORMED PING INTO A WOMAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE TOO LONG OVERLOOKED THE TRUE WAY TO WIN THE WAR.

Mulan [seeing an opportunity to get all the stories straight]: O Great Spirit, is it reversible?

Mushu: WHY WOULD YOU WISH TO REJECT MY GIFT? I HAVE SEEN YOUR HEART, CHILD, AND HAVE ALREADY ALTERED THE MEMORIES OF EVERYONE WHO KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU LEFT FOR THE ARMY. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THEIR DAUGHTER.

Li Shang: Welp, the spirits have spoken. Ping - wait is your name still Ping if you're a woman now?

Mulan: Uh. Actually, I was thinking of renaming myself. How do you feel about Mulan?

BONUS:

Mulan [climbing out of the eleventh lake the men have arranged for her to swim in]: Yeah no, it didn't work. Still got boobs. [tries to appear dejected].

Chien Po: If it makes you feel better, they're very nice boobs.

good evening chat, have an edit that almost made me cry several times while i was making it

Song: The Hand - Annabelle Dinda

this song means a lot to me and so does this series and i hadnt personally seen an edit of this song with pokemon so i decided to make it myself, and it took a bit cus i was trying to fit 130 or so characters into it (i was only able to fit 113 of them out of the 130 but i PROMISE i tried my best and i do love everybody i didnt include as well im so sorry, i did in fact feel bad that i couldnt include them but im so sorry i tried my best)

under the cut is just me listing all the characters and games included since i cant tag everything

Okay, so, right off the bat. The first thing that sticks out to me is how all the men characters get their own section of text, while there are sometimes multiple women characters sharing a lyric. The first example of this is at 0:27, the next at 0:34; it doesn't happen again until 1:23, and then it happens at 1:33, 1:38, and 1:44, and starting at 2:00 happens more and more frequently. The cuts make the women's screentime feel more choppy and interrupted, like they have to vie with each other for time while the men get as much as they need. If that doesn't fit with The Hand thematically, I don't know what does. Women aren't encouraged to take up space, we're taught to minimize ourselves for the benefit of the men around us, and – like any oppressed group – we're pressured to put down others who share our condition if it will benefit us individually.

That's probably my most coherent thought here. The rest of what I've got is just about the characters and their respective lyrics and scenes, and are a lot more jumbled. So:

First off is the symmetry of Red at the beginning, "Everytime a guy writes a song," looking up at Zygarde 100%, and Harmony at the end, "and take me somewhere higher," with Zygarde 100% rising up behind her. The framing of a man boldly staring down a force of nature while the lyrics describe agency against a woman being supported by that force's strength while the lyrics describe passivity is absolutely incredible. The edit applies The Hand to represent how women aren't represented with the same strength that men get. Amazing.

Second, just as I'm moving through the video– Steven being the clip for "like the first pioneer" is an incredible detail. Steven Stone is the legacy heir of the Devon Corporation, which is just about as silver spoon as significant characters get in the Pokemon world. Like many significant historical "pioneers," he has financial backing for his goals, free from having to perform labor in order to survive. "Bold" and "adventurous" men in history (take the highly-educated Renaissance Man archetype) had their wives, daughters, and slaves to do menial labor for them while they went after whatever caught their fancy. That's an amazing detail in the edit.

Next I want to talk about Raihan, Leon, and Blue's scenes; "It's a loud movie trailer / clipping every image and sound / like it proves he was here." We have two characters who prominently are media personalities, and the first champion of the series. Men's achievements dominate societal narratives. They're "the first" to do something (even when they factually aren't), where women are "the first woman" to do something. Men appear in movies, in online spaces, in irl activities, and their presence is taken for granted; when women appear, attention always is drawn to their gender.

The next thing, and this I'm really excited to get into, is Serena; "a typical type." Yajima confirmed that Serena and Ash are supposed to have a long-term romantic relationship. The thing is, though, that Serena's character design is very conventionally attractive. That's especially important as a love interest, which has often been the only significant trait women characters have had. Putting Serena on screen for only one second with the words "a typical type" right over her, especially with the chosen clip being one where the conventionally attractive features (long, well-cared for hair, curves, etc) are particularly visible, draws attention to how depictions of women often reduce their value to their bodies, to how attractive they are to men. Conventionally attractive women can be love interests, they just have to fit the mold.

Next detail I love is Nemona and Jacinthe's scenes; "everytime I open my mouth / I think wow, what a loud noise." Patriarchal and white supremacist societies particularly tone police brown and Black women; think of the "Loud angry Black woman" trope used to paint racialized women as emotional and unserious. These two characters have their energetic and excited attitudes as core parts of their personality, and from my reading of their respective games, these are presented as a positive traits. This goes back to my earlier point about women taking up space; it's not often that women, especially racialized women, get to be loud and energetic without being tone policed, and having positive representation of that is a valuable step in the right direction.

Next I want to look at a few characters and their lyrics at once. Courtney, "the hand;" Oleana, "I'm complicit;" Commanders Mars and Jupiter, Ariana, Bryony, Aliana, Celosia, Mable, and Wicke, "Just sweep me up." So many women characters play second fiddle to male characters. Once again, women do labor and get swept up, so to speak, in the shadow of another's fame, most often a man's.

i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?