I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.
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#no sorry its bc people fell off cliffs a lot in Jin Yong novels#and now all the ancient historical chinese men in dramas and novels have to fall off cliffs#it's like the tolkien spider#european authors dont have a spider kink its just tolkien#chinese authors dont have a cliff kink its just Jin Yong - explained by @tavina-writes
#the amazing thing to me is everyone who falls off a cliff somehow mages to survive#the yeeting cliff#I wait for it in every wuxia tags from @rojaloca
See, this is where we are forgetting our genre roots because the MAIN Jin Yong cliff guy (Qiao/Xiao Feng from Demi Gods and Semi Devils) who I think actually is the guy most people think of when a Jin Yong man falls off a cliff very much DID die of his cliff falling.
(He even threw himself off in front of BOTH his sworn brothers bc he was also part of a uh, well, a bad decisions sworn brother throuple. Lets just say that.)
he also invented and or popularized: the wuxia iteration of doomed sworn brother throuples (specifically in sets of three), shizunfucking (and also the shizun death arc and also shizun's coffin kink), wuxia hero is a good archer, a surprising number of chess formations that get mentioned in wuxia, corpse bug poison (and tbh a lot of other poisons), men with fans who also fight with said fans, the torture music (and also the og wuxia flute soloist), musical cultivation (see torture music), throwing yourself off a cliff, specifically a game of dice ending with someone having smashed the dice to dust....a very specific type of sexy murder lady, the guqin(orthodox cultivator)/xiao(heretical cultivator)type ship, other highly specific things you start seeing EVERYWHERE....
I'm pretty sure he didn't invent the sexy brothel murder lady since that was Gu Long's contribution to the genre but yknow there's lots he invented and or popularized that I'm forgetting.
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Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
Source (non Aboriginal)
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.
The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.
Their oral history also contains stories about hunting prehistoric megafauna too. Native Australians are the oldest existing culture on earth, which is even more amazing considering how hard the british tried to wipe it out.
Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they're under the cut. They're free to use as long as it's for personal use only.
you got any recs for stuff that smells like baked goods?
(also iirc ur pretty busy rn so absolutely take ur time - though I certainly wouldn't turn down a notification when you get this just so i know it made it through)
baked goods are my favorite smells <3 i have always been on the hunt for photorealistic baked goods...
cheirosa '71 by sol de janeiro - fairly cheap, easily available, and one of my all-time favorites. it has a yummy caramel and vanilla scent. the popcorn & macadamia notes, to me, make it smell like something that's been toasted, like when you have something yummy in the oven and your whole house smells like it
lira by xerjoff - lemon cake! it's a little more sophisticated than a lot of other gourmands IMO.
lait de biscuit by chabaud maison de parfum - this one sounds promising. yummy vanilla wafer cookies.
delizia di marshmallow by kyse perfumes - technically not baked goods, but in a similar vein. this is theeeeee gold standard of marshmallow perfumes. this entire brand seems to do very favorable gourmands
chocolate greedy by montale - this one comes up every single time anyone talks about chocolate fragrances, though i have yet to try it myself. it sounds promising... a lot of chocolate fragrances, to me, smell like cocoa powder instead of actual chocolate, so the idea of one that smells like real deal chocolate dessert is verrry interesting to me
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my notes for the luna vii archon quest definitely drifted into actual liveblogging so i'm posting them because i can
full of spoilers obviously, and longer than i expected, so they're under the link
(also text only because i don't feel like editing in screenshots from my phone and doing the alt text for them)
lol @ Alhaitham reading the manual for the fucking Akasha because it was there (apparently this is in his character stories too? I havenāt managed to pull him yet so I didnāt know that before this quest)
actually, watching him + Kaveh interact w/Thoth in particular is great
mmm yes more Sumeru desert mechanisms to play with (I am being 100% genuine about this I loved the desert world quests and fucking around in Deshretās buildings)
three kings of the Seven Pillars equivalents (personality/vibes thing!)
Heryshaf = Alhaitham (canon)
Thoth = Nefer (canon)
Sobek = Kaveh (not canon but idk it feels right)
Wanderer and Paimon??? not a duo Iād expect to get along at all but their conversation is sweet
ā¦Cyno, Tighnari, and Wanderer are all on-field DPS why the fuck are we fighting using them as a team
is it trial Nahida time??? ā¦no wait thatās my Nahida lmao
omg the Mavuika and Nahida/Traveler fistbump across the barrier is adorable
Dehya flirting at Dunyazard and Dunyazard flirting back? nice
aaah the cutscene where the Akasha switches over is great I love the tech side of Dendro/Irminsul so much
ā¦Pantalone I canāt decide if Iād raid your closet or not (this was the point where I fucked off to sort characters by their clothes on Tiermaker for a while as referenced in my previous post lmao)
Cyno, Dehya, and Candace⦠actually work together as a team? not big numbers but Iām comfortable with this
lmao @ Cyno getting snippy with Jeht for insulting Tighnari
Paimon stop forgetting you can fly
ā¦why did it switch back to Lumineās old design?
oh itās time for me to fall off the platforms over and over huh
Wandererās hard light effects here are really cool ok I donāt remember if he has them normally
go Nahida!
thereās something to say about how the visual language Hoyoverse uses for digital villains develops from the Herrscher of Corruption through Irontomb to Dottore here but I canāt quite grasp it enough to do that, even though I can see the threads
oh I like this combined burst thing for Wanderer and the Traveler
thatās Rhinedottir talking as the Shade of Life and not Naberius, right? I can really only tell from the gold
I feel like thereās more to think about re:this conversation between Dottore and Nahida š¤ guess Iāll do that later
oh hey itās not in that special game mode anymore
lmao I can just imagine Thoth and Heryshaf at the Temple of Silence
huh ok I didnāt picture Layla there too
lmao right when I was wondering where Sobek was, Heryshaf insulted him
lmao ok Thoth doesnāt know where Sobek is either, i see how it is
oooh more Kaveh and Alhaitham house stuff yes good
oh my god the Akademiya librarian gave Nefer a copy of the book Kaveh et al wrote in at the same time as the Simulanka event thatās hilarious
seven days and seven nights? first, damn that was thorough, Nahida. second, probably symbolic, huh
gotta look up what the Chinese version used for āfateā and āfortuneā in this conversation
ah, of course, international politics
tomato callback time I guess, oh Nahida
the Pyro Gnosis disappearing is foreshadowing if Iāve ever seen any
Sucrose and Albedo cameo!
tough, impressive-sounding job titles oh Collei
ā¦the dodocos exist as actual creatures when theyāre not symbolizing Hexenzirkel members???
Liloupar disappeared off to Mondstadt??? huh wasnāt expecting that
ā¦I kind of wanted to see Nabu Malikata, though I get why they wouldnāt make a model for her just for this
Amber cameo too!
ending on the tree at Windrise in contrast to Irminsul is interesting, I think I like it
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