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songxiaolin · 1 year
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chinese figurine by 徐大花xudahua
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songxiaolin · 1 year
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A mini dance trend to the yangge tune 回到山沟沟 (Returning To The Backwoods).
Yangge (秧歌) is northern Chinese popular folk dance. The movements in this video are characteristic of the dance style.
Videos compiled by me :)
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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i don’t know exactly how to say this in a way that comes across clearly, but i am obsessed with the idea of depicting m/f relationships in a way where the hype isn’t all on the man’s love of the woman, and how swoonworthy it is and how powerful. (this has been on my mind an awful lot lately because lost loves to lean on this, especially in season six. it’s also something that often grates on me about the office’s depiction of jim and pam even though i’m very fond of jim and pam.) i really want to see women being active in the relationship too, rather than just being the object to be pursued or worshiped or cherished or whatever the heck! not in a way that depicts women going out of their way for men who don’t reciprocate, which i think is always the go-to assumption when you talk about this kind of portrayal of a relationship. but i love the idea of women being able to make romantic gestures and acts of great love toward their male love interests in a way that is, like, considered cool and iconic in the way that so many male characters’ romantic actions toward their ladies are cool and iconic. idk how to say it. like, something that goes beyond ‘is this woman being honored nobly enough by her man, which is the sum total of all romance?’ i want the women participating tooooooooo! WHY NOT!
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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i cant speak for other polyam people but being in a triad/throuple relationship in real life is just inherently funny. show up to the family function with two guys and everyone else has one guy. just seems like a power move every time even though we're just living our lives. hilarious. i recommend this for comedic value alone
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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[id: a tweet that reads “one time at a party i kissed someone’s girlfriend and to make sure he wasn’t mad about it i just kissed him too...i blacked out and woke up to a text in a groupchat with both of them that said “did u make it home safe baby? ❤️”. The user has been blacked out. /end id]
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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winter in northern china
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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favorite things to see on here
- posts about soup
- posts about bread
- posts about onions and garlic in a pan
- pictures of kitchens
- pictures of fresh veggies and fruits
- posts about cooking as an act of love
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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Im a simple polyam, I see three or more idiots, I ship them together.
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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songxiaolin · 2 years
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My favorite ship dynamic is "they're both extremely stupid in completely different ways and extremely smart in completely different ways, but rarely is any of that useful because they just get extra double stupid when together"
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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“I WANTED TO BE LOVED SO DESPERATELY THAT MY FINGERS SHOOK WITH IT I AM NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT I COULD BE”
— Emily Palermo, What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado, published in Rising Phoenix Review
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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imagine having a little garden where you grow strawberries for your cakes and cucumbers for your sandwiches and you have tea with your partner every midmorning.  you plant each other’s favorite flowers and give each other bouquets. thats the life.
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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This website provides information about the movements of various poets (mostly of the Tang and Song era) in China and along the Silk Road. This is a very cool project, because traditional Chinese poetry often cannot be understood without a detailed context - what happened, where the poet was and what he was doing. That is why prefaces to poems are often much longer than the poem itself.
For example, here is the map of Li Bai’s travels throughout his life:
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He was born in Suyab (present-day Kyrgyzstan).
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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20 days, 20 characters — day nineteen: song lan
“for some reason, song lan’s face was extremely pale. he stared at the door of the coffin home, as if he would rush inside if he could, but was too scared to do so. the aloof look that he had was completely gone.”
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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for my birthday, i commissioned a little songxiaolin thing from @zipperqwerty ! definitely check it out! 
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songxiaolin · 3 years
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thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love
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