Saw Elizabeth but no P so here’s your SX official marquee post! (Still hoping to randomly run into him out here so putting that out to the universe LMAOO) also looking to see the film on Wednesday so I’ll keep yall posted!
hi i am in the middle of taking a break from writing (even tho i just started back up again) bc i am going through a really sad breakup and it sucks and i can't focus for longer than 30 seconds anyways and i really dont want to f up the roommates fic with my sadness bc it's my pride and joy but i WILL GET BACK TO IT.
anyway change is absolutely miserable but people reaching out to help me and take me out (for drinks not with a baseball bat though i would say yes to both) is so overwhelming and kind and makes me feel so loved also tumblr user @king-buckley is an angel with wings and is keeping my mind off things and i just love her ok
Thank you to everyone who has inspired, supported, tolerated and guided me over the past month. Thank you to those who knew and stayed and thank you to those who left. Thank you to those who noticed that something was not working and had the delicacy not to ask, but thank you also thank you to those who asked, because there is nothing I like better than knowing that people are themselves with me.
February really was a merry-go-round of worry and anxiety, but it came to pass. March got off to a tiring start but is making up for it.
As the wise man says, "If a problem has a solution, it is not a problem", so I'm blessed and im gonna be fine, I just had to change POV.
I will continue from here, but first I wanted to say thank you, because you are a wonderful community and such a amazing group of friends.
I feel joy when a phone is in my hands, or when my fingers lay upon a keyboard. Talking to people who I may never meet, through a bright glimmering screen and a separate identity I've made for myself which truly defines who I am. I like how they compliment, listen, talk, discuss, include, support, make me feel a part of something special. Whereas the ones I know in real life make me feel like a side character, an npc, a figure in the background of their photograph.
I want to meet the people who I may never meet. The strangers on the other side of the screen. I wish to meet them. I wish to escape the living hell of those I know, to plunge joyfully into the unknown, to be in the arms of those who really care about me. I want to meet them. I want to meet them all.
There’s freedom in finally letting go. I used to be so afraid of letting my parents down and no longer being the version of me they envisioned. I used to be so afraid of not meeting other peoples expectations. I used to be so afraid of not being where I was “supposed to be” in life. I used to be so afraid of failure. There’s freedom in reaching your worst case scenario. There’s freedom in hitting bottom. I can’t explain the feeling, but you finally belong to you and only you.
I knew breaking up with everyone was gonna be tough but everyone I made friends with before the break up has basically stopped talking to me and only one of them is keeping in contact with me but i feel so incredibly alone and incredibly despondent and I feel like ive lost everything man. anyways, i just needed to get that out
my bipolar makes me hate myself. my bipolar makes me hate myself. my bipolar makes me hate myself. my bipolar makes me hate myself. my bipolar makes me hate myself
Sorry for saying I'll write and upload, then going back on my word.
Something is happening in my brain and I just can't right now :( so I can't promise a fic out soon, but I'll absolutely attempt to write some more soon.
打鐵花 (da2tie3hua1; struck iron fireworks) is a traditional folk firework that began in Henan and Shanxi, first arising in Queshan county, Henan and later circulating through the whole country. It had first appeared during the Northern Song dynasty, and was most popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
For Queshan struck iron fireworks, a two-layer pergola is built and covered with willow branches for performances, under which the molten iron is struck up with two willow sticks to create a rain of fire.
[eng by me + edited an ad out]
(On top of the information in the video, I have some more about its recent history under the cut.)
*Also, a note about one of the subtitles: I realized later that "going into battle without a shield" actually just meant going shirtless. I was only confused about this phrasing while translating because she didn't go shirtless, although that is for obvious reasons
Queshan struck iron fireworks had almost been lost before Yang Jianjun unearthed it again in 1988. It had almost died out in the early years of the Republic of China being established, after which there had only been three performances until 1988: 1952, 1956, 1962. Yang Jianjun had seen the 1956 performance as a 7-8 year old and later on as the director of a cultural centre, began digging up the skill and its history. In the process, he became an apprentice to Li Wanfa, who had been the last head of the Queshan Struck Iron Fireworks Society. He practised with sand and water, learning of its historical origin, its ancestral inheritors, craftsmanship and performance arts, but didn't touch the real thing until 1988. Through Yang Jianjun's efforts and investment, the first struck iron fireworks performance in more than 25 years took place in Nanshan Square (then a deserted area) in Queshan county.
Queshan struck iron fireworks are different from other struck iron fireworks in that it requires a wide area to perform, whereas others only needed a wall or could be hit straight up into the air, and it costs much more money to set up.
The names of inheritors are difficult to trace, and can only be traced back to the Qing dynasty during the Qianlong period, making Yang Jianjun a sixth-generation inheritor, and Jiang Xunqian (OP) the first woman and a seventh-generation inheritor.
hey gang, lets all agree that if youre going to class, do not put on ten pounds of perfume/cologne. a spritz is fine. but some people get sick from them and if people can smell it from across the room, you are obstructing peoples learning/life