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I'll be returning the favor to you 💖 What would your Ocs (Specifically Primis) think of my Primis ocs?

alright let me try :D

Xiu (Wei): He sees Lena as his big sister, since he never had one. She's kind and caring to him, so he listens to her the most. As for Ji Eun, he's kinda afraid of her. Constantly getting yelled at because of his reckless behavior, but he still respect her. He isn't the most fond of Arthur for pulling pranks on him, but he gets him back sometimes so its mutual. He sometimes gets babysit by Dragomir, which he doesn't enjoy but still see him as a big brother.

YuLan: She calms whenever Lena is around, although they don't tend to talk much, she feels safe around her. Ji Eun is like her spirit animal, the similarities between them made her very comfortable around. She sees Arthur as a tall guy, but also a gentle giant to her. Dragomir and YuLan don't tend to talk a lot either, but she cares for him and sees him as a good ally.

Viktoriya: She loves seeing another woman who like science (Lena is a medic, while Vik is a chemist). She also find Lena amusing to tease whenever she asks question about Nikolai. She treats Ji Eun with respect, mostly to avoid getting called names. She sometimes loves to joke around with Arthur, she loves talking to him. Vik is always happy when Dragomir asks questions about her and Nikolai, always willing to listen.

James: He seemingly respects Lena, he enjoys talking to her, sharing stories about each other. He sometimes enjoy teasing Ji Eun, getting brave to joke around the little grumpy bean, but deep down, he enjoys her company. Seeing Arthur made him more confident to work on the investigation, he felt happier seeing another British fighting along with him. He would sometimes share his latest findings with Dragomir, mostly because he asks lots of questions and James loves questions.

#cod zombies #call of duty zombies #codz oc #wei fu xiu #mei yu lan #viktoriya belinskaya #james kingsley #valena villaneuva #gong ji eun #arthur frensby #dragomir ostrowski #your ocs are just perfection #do draw them more often #answer ask #ask answered

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dsneybuf91 · 2 years

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Cyclic Motifs of Everything Everywhere All at Once

(Originally posted on August 9, 2022)

In Daniel Kwan’s and Daniel Scheinert’s science-fiction dramedy movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, a visit from married Chinese-American laundromat co-owners Evelyn (Malaysian Chinese Michelle Yeoh, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Waymond Wang (Chinese/Vietnamese-American Ke Huy Quan, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) to the IRS takes an epic turn, when Evelyn finds herself suddenly chosen to prevent the multiverse from collapsing. Multi-dimensional fiction feels a dime a dozen, but the Daniels and their actors have used the concept to provide a stimulating reminder of the benefits behind breaking cycles and finding beauty and meaning in the unexpected. Viewers who can put up with the constant absurdity of Evelyn’s exploits can enjoy emotionally-engaging performances, excitingly varied fight scenes, and eclectic visuals. My look at this profitable critical darling took so long to write down – over a month has passed since the American DVD and Blu-ray release by now – partially because my most compelling thoughts contain extensive spoilers.

I've been trapped like this for so long, experiencing everything. I was hoping you would see something I didn't, that you would convince me there was another way.

-Jobu Tupaki

Chinese New Year provides a relatable time at which to set this movie. New Year's Eve allows for reflection upon unfulfilled goals, and setting hopes and plans on what to accomplish next. Evelyn finds fantastical means to perform these, through technology another dimension's Evelyn developed to help people tap into skills acquired in alternate timelines. People who use this technology must perform unconventional feats to tap into the skills, which sometimes results in comical expressions of the potential to learn from new experiences. Some of Evelyn's feats include declaring love to an enemy, and exploring unfamiliar areas of the IRS building. The movie's concept also delivers succinct demonstrations of Michelle Yeoh's and her co-stars' versatility, as Evelyn discovers various personas her family adopted across the multiverse. I typically associate Yeoh with a dignified austerity, but as Evelyn gradually masters inter-dimensional peace-making, Yeoh pulls off performing both without and with such dignity.

Across all of the dimensions, prominent circles illustrate the prevalence of cycles in Evelyn's lives. The movie begins with a round mirror reflecting Evelyn, Waymond, and their teenage daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu, whom the Daniels previously directed on Awkwafina is Nora From Queens) happily singing karaoke, illustrating circles as a Chinese symbol of unity. When the reflection abruptly changes to one of Evelyn struggling to complete her taxes, the contrast effectively reminds the viewer that a matriarch must prepare to tackle both leisure and stress.

While media about Asian-Americans often concern a generational conflict, this movie stands out with one spanning three generations. Among other sources of discontent for Evelyn, her father, Gong Gong (James Hong, Flower Drum Song) disapproved of her marriage to sensitive Waymond, and Joy confounds her by entering a lesbian romance. When Alpha Waymond connects Evelyn to the multiverse, a run-through of her life story shows Evelyn becoming distant from Gong Gong and Joy not only emotionally, but physically as well.

Appropriately, some of the alternate realities Evelyn taps into more than once include ones in which she never permanently left China. Some of them provide reasons to feel better off, such as one in which she becomes a famous martial artist and movie star, and one in which she becomes an opera singer with a proud father. However, sources of discontent in those realities prove the futility of achieving a perfect future. Shortly before movie-star Evelyn and businessman Waymond discuss how their lives would've differed if they married, the viewers learn that in that timeline, Everything Everywhere All at Once ends with her failing to save the multiverse. This juxtaposition suggests the ineffectiveness of escapism from issues, over actively finding a functional solution.

In a reality where Evelyn entered a same-sex marriage, she finds additional reasons to relate to Joy. It receives an unsettling introduction, revealing that people have hot dogs for fingers, and that Evelyn wedded Ms. Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), an adversary in her own reality. Despite this, Evelyn eventually finds this relationship romantic in its own right, and surprisingly acquires some useful skills. This helps depict homosexuality and heterosexuality as equally beautiful, even if the former initially seems disturbing. The tone also comes through in how, aside from the hot dog fingers and Evelyn's family, the reality feels identical to the main one.

Several Evelyns' income and survival depend on cycles within cycles, to put a profound "spin" on the mundane. The Evelyns who co-own laundromats monetize a monotonous ritual, in which laundry takes a tumble to come out clean. Chinese New Year similarly provides everyone in this story with an opportunity for a fresh start. Another Evelyn landed a job twirling a sign for pizza, making a living off of a cycle she helps control herself. Her main counterpart incorporates this twirling into her self-defense tactics, similarly reinforcing the importance of maintaining control of life's patterns.

Tying in with the value of food to Asian cultures, circular baked goods provide surprisingly poignant symbols in Evelyn's adventures. Among the various types of Chinese baked goods featured, the movie draws particular attention to almond cookies. In the main reality, Waymond bakes these as a peace offering to the likes of Ms. Deirdre. Even in a reality where Gong Gong successfully broke up Evelyn and Waymond, her karate teacher (Li Jing) philosophically incorporates almond cookies into her lessons. Considering the teacher first met Evelyn while saving her from some thugs, the prominence of almond cookies across multiple timelines illustrates the universal need for compassion. (Notably, the uncut version of Evelyn empathizing her way through a line of opponents included her giving a cookie to someone she recognizes as a counterpart of the instructor.)

After overstimulation transforms one incarnation of Joy into the reality-warping, dimension-hopping Jobu Tupaki, the overwhelmed second-generation immigrant chooses a Western snack as her nihilistic icon. The Everything Bagel combines the concept of expressing philosophy through treats, with consequences of Evelyn's overexerting parenting techniques, and Joy's American preference for excess. Unlike an almond cookie, a vortex gives the Bagel a center as empty and consuming as Jobu's diminishing sense of purpose.

Perhaps inevitably, one of the last universes Evelyn taps into turns herself and Jobu into spheres. After Evelyn suffers an intensely aggravating convergence of dimensions at the Chinese New Year's party, she and Jobu end up as rocks in a universe where life never formed. Notably, they lack perfectly round shapes. Initially, the rocks appear unable to do anything except sit and wax philosophy through unspoken text. Jubilantly, during Evelyn's epiphany on how to redeem Jobu, she defies this universe's cycles by introducing independent motion.

As far as non-edible, non-electronic circles of Evelyn's main timeline go, some of the most important ones include the googly eyes Waymond applies to objects for levity. Their color scheme inverts that of the Everything Bagel, defying the notion of placing nihilism at the center of one's philosophies. After Evelyn realizes that combining his preachings of empathy with her knowledge of the multiverse could help rescue Joy/Jobu from surrendering to the Bagel's vortex, she symbolically applies one of the eyes to her forehead. Meanwhile, her rock form spontaneously develops two googly eyes once it begins moving. This both provides it with a more human appearance, and emphasizes her acquired wisdom.

Jobu warns Evelyn during the climax that peace and serenity never last in any dimension. Accordingly, by the time the film ends, Evelyn only manages to solve problems immediately important to her. She reconciles with her families and enemies, but the viewers never actually see the Bagel disappear. Regardless, the performances, editing, and music of Evelyn's reconciliations ensure a glorious victory when she convinces Joy not to let nihilism consume her. Even without showing the Bagel vanish, the movie successfully conveys the triumph of Evelyn's accomplishments as a matriarch and community member.

During Evelyn's next IRS meeting, inter-dimensional voices continue to pester her, but don't cause her to break down. Her efforts to remain focused on her own timeline demonstrate one last time that even if discontent can't stay away forever, empathy, optimism, and the capacity to learn can help overcome misfortune. By my standards, Everything Everywhere All at Once overall presents the most spectacular Asian-American-centric movie I've seen yet.

Plug

Violence towards Asian-Americans has reached alarming levels. I would like my readers to donate to The AAPI Community Fund, even if I personally take no share of the funds.

This article is dedicated to Perspectives in Science Fiction teacher Mr. Mike Feely (1971-2022), who helped strengthen my insight into and analyses of this wondrous medium.

#everything everywhere all at once #daniels #michelle yeoh #evelyn wang #ke huy quan #waymond wang #stephanie hsu #joy wang #jobu tupaki #james hong #gong gong #studio a24 #eeaao spoilers #eeaao #my posts #stop asian hate #movie review

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mostunderratedawards · 2 years

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Honorable Mention Male

Sarunas J. Jackson in Made For Love

Donald Sutherland in Swimming With Sharks

Nikesh Patel in Starstruck

Gong Yoo in Squid Game

Elias Kacavas in Euphoria

Josh Segarra in The Other Two

James Roday Rodriguez in A Million Little Things

Henry Eikenberry in Euphoria

#euphoria #elias kacavas #squid game #amlt #henry eikenberry #josh segarra #the other two #sarunas j. jackson #made for love #gong yoo #james roday #nikesh patel #starstruck #swimming with sharks #donald sutherland #emmys #golden globes

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sweetmctart · 11 months

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if ibis don’t got me ik notes app do🔥💯

#lookism #gun park #park jonggun #james gong #im gonna be so real right now everytime i read ‘gun park’ i think of some park in america with eagles and guns and screaming #GUN PARK GRAAAHH🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔫🔫🔫💥💥💥💥‼️‼️🦅🦅🇺🇸🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅#i made these yesterday when we were coming home from the mountainbs #there was like no service and my ibis was acting up sm bc of that tbh ☠️#poorly drawn lookism

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bungitonthen · 1 year

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8/6/23

hold your head up - argent

paper sun - traffic

silver machine - hawkwind

frankenstein - the edgar winter group

perfect mystery - gong

mockingbird - barclay james harvest

nantucket sleighride (to owen coffin) - mountain

living in the past - jethro tull

crime of the century - supertramp

question - the moody blues

in the land of grey and pink - caravan

virginia plain - roxy music

jail bait - wishbone ash

(wondrous stories: 33 artists that shaped the prog rock era)

strange kind of woman - deep purple

devil’s answer - atomic rooster

love like a man - ten years after

backstreet luv - curved air

in my own time - family

slip and slide - medicine head

northern lights - renaissance

jig-a-jig - east of eden

(progression: a progressive rock anthology)

cirkus - king crimson

tomorrow night - atomic rooster

freefall - camel

surprise surprise - caravan

burlesque - family

(journey to the edge: progressive rock classics)

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carryforthtradition · 8 months

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September the 29th

It’s my 52nd birthday today and I have been pondering about this day and what it means to me, to others and it’s historical significance.

birthdays

I was just on the phone to mum and I said to her; ”This day really should be about you mum, and a celebration of you bringing me to the earth; a thank you to the parents. I didn’t have much to do with that part of my arrival here into this world, it was because of you, the pain you went through to give birth and for taking care of me all my life, and still to this day.”

She did chuckle and mention something about stitches, but I tend to glaze over in those moments. My parents were wonderful when I was growing up (and have been all throughout my life and mum still is here helping me through). Me and my little sister were truly blessed to have such kind and loving parents, our life was magical and idyllic and safe and fun and nourishing and fulfilling. What more could you wish for as a child? I feel very fortunate to be alive at this time and will embrace being 52. Someone said to me the other day that being in our 50’s and 60’s are the best years because we have both wisdom and energy - let’s see - ha ha!!

Photos; Mum with me as a bump, little me, me on mum’s knee a few weeks, or days old, me and dad on a canal barge my parent’s hired for a holiday on the Norfolk Broads..

An unusual, recurring dream

Up until I was about 9 or 10, I had a recurring dream. I really believe that it was some kind of a ‘birth dream’; a record, a recollection of my exact arrival here or the time before I was born. Something given to me in my ‘Toolbox for Life’ that I would need as I grew to help me remember who I am. I still remember it clearly. I have spoken to others about it, some people look at me as if I’ve gone mad, some look interested, some have heard similar stories. (I’d be interested to hear from anyone else who has had a similar experience). There isn’t much information readily available about it, as far as I can see, but it really doesn’t matter. I remember it and it was a personal experience that still helps me today.

It went like this -

I’m in a dark, damp place with no light. The air is stifling. I can just about make out a wooden fence with a stile going over it in front of me, which I know I need to climb over, but my legs can’t move. Then I acknowledge that I am actually stuck in mud up to my knees as I can see a dim light glistening on the surface of the muddy ground; light of which I can’t see it’s source. Then in an instant, I am suspended, immersed in glorious, bright light, floating in mid-air, with no end in sight. No up or down or East or West, no time. Infinity. A sense of complete and utter freedom and serenity and peace. I am able to move in any direction I like, but I’m so content that I chose not to move and I just look into the light.

Theses two contrasting experiences would repeat all night until I woke up the next morning. Over the years, this, or course, stuck with me and I interpreted it many years ago. It tells me where I need to get to. I need to get over that stile. That is where I belong, in that illuminated eternal space. It is where I came from. This is a certainty for me and even more so as I travel further through life and through lived experiences. The mud is my karmic burden, debts, the things holding me back trying to stop me from being myself and returning to my true home in the Heavens. It is the challenge. The cultivation path which I chose is to help me free myself from all of this mud.

Believing in reincarnation, I do think that maybe I did have had something to do with my return. Although, as it goes, our memories are wiped clean before we arrive; giving us the opportunity in the human realm to pay back our karmic debts and fulfil our vows and to figure this all out as we go along our way through life. The many challenges thrown my way have never pushed me off track, I have persevered, got up again when I’ve been crumpled and kept going and I’m fortunate enough to have had an excellent foundation built for me by both parents and my family, and in my more mature days, since 2011, my daily spiritual practice of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), a Buddhist meditation practice which adheres to the Universal principles of Truth Compassion and Tolerance. It teaches returning to one’s true self, emphasising virtue - the guide to help me on my way. (What is Falun Gong (Falun Dafa)? | Ancient Chinese Spiritual Practice (faluninfo.net))

Photos: Me on my potty eating breakfast (glad some things have improved) toddler me on mum’s knee, me and my little sister, mum and dad one Christmas

providence

My birth day is one of historical significance; it is on St Michaelmas Day.

Link - Michaelmas, 29th September, and the customs and traditions associated with Michaelmas Day (historic-uk.com)

In Christianity, St Michael the Archangel was a noble warrior fighting against demonic forces. He battled against the dragon in Heaven, Satan, who was then cast down to earth with the fallen angels. He is a fierce defender of the people, the commander of the army of God leading Heaven’s Army in their triumph over hell. St Michael symbolises the victory of good over evil and is seen as the protector from darkness and evil as we come into shorter days. Another interesting part of my destiny is that I live in a town called St George. Saint George is the Patron Saint of England. St George’s Day falls on April 23. According to legend, he was a soldier in the Roman army who killed a dragon and saved a princess. St George was persecuted by the Roman army and eventually executed for refusing to give up his Christian faith. Photos: A little ink drawing I am working on!!!

"The China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC (lead prosecutor of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), conducted the world’s first independent legal analysis of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. The Tribunal examined all available evidence in order to determine what criminal offences, if any, may have been committed by individuals affiliated to state or state-approved bodies, organisations or officials in China that may have engaged in forced organ harvesting." -- https://endtransplantabuse.org/2020-china-tribunal-judgment/

the fight between good and evil

I’ve written before about my efforts over the last 12 years to expose the evil crimes of the Chinese Communist Party and it’s persecution of Falun Dafa and other spiritual groups in China; Uighurs, House Church Christians, Tibetans and others. Amongst many other things, I have organised briefings in, and spoken in Parliament, until 2020, I was the UK Manager for The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), and I remain on the Committee. ETAC initiated the independent people’s tribunal ‘The China Tribunal’.

Quote taken from the 2020 China Tribunal Judgment - The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

the china tribunal conclusion

Quote taken from Final Short Form Conclusion China Tribunal

"“These individual conclusions, when combined, led to the unavoidable final conclusion that; forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale and that Falun Gong practitioners have been one - and probably the main - source of organ supply. The concerted persecution and medical testing of the Uyghurs is more recent and it may be that evidence of forced organ harvesting of this group may emerge in due course. The Tribunal has had no evidence that the significant infrastructure associated with China’s transplantation industry has been dismantled and absent a satisfactory explanation as to the source of readily available organs concludes that forced organ harvesting continues till today” - " -- Final Short Form Conclusion China Tribunal

If you would like to learn more or help in any way - please look here - How you can help - The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

good prevails over evil

I’ve needed a tremendous amount of courage to be involved in exposing this new form of evil. I’ve really pushed myself through so much fear and anxiety and stress to stand up against such evil, this devil, this demonic force opposing life. Both these Saints are associated with Divine protection, honour and courage and, of course, the elimination of evil forces, which is why they resonate with me. In fact, I have always felt that I am being looked after since I was a little girl and practicing Falun Dafa has helped me to understand even more deeply that Divine beings are indeed watching over us. I believe I will be alive to witness the end of evil’s reign on this earth and will continue to play my small part in it’s demise so that all sentient beings can be free. Returning to tradition and to our traditional values have a huge part to play in this - which is another story, for another time. So hold on everyone! Keep going!

#Becky James #Falun Dafa #Falun Gong #evil #St Michael #St George

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