The Independence Palace, the former presidential palace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, c. 1988
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Chetty people from Saigon, modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
French vintage postcard, mailed in 1905 to Paris
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my litmus test on whether or not you're qualified to talk about southeast asian political issues is based on whether or not you understand miss saigon
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Saigon, Vietnam
1995
Honda culture
Photograph by Nick DeWolf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/183086704
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I hope Eva Noblezada gets a happy role next
Because between Kim in Miss Saigon and Eurydice in Hadestown, she's already proven that she excels at playing the woman who you know isn't going to have the happy ending but you root fir anyway.
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Fic writer asks: 14, 16 or 27 (whichever haven't been asked yet). If all have been asked: minus 2 from all of them and see if those numbers work 😂
XD i appreciate the strategy here
14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick?
oh this is hard. I feel like while I love writing for storytelling, I also just genuinely love the vehicle of writing/language so it's not super intuitive to me to think of switching the media of any of them? Ironically, I think I'm probably more into the idea of an adaptation of the fics I like the least XD
So with that in mind, I think the letters of your name could be a fun movie maybe? and through the desert could be adapted pretty well to a comic format
16. At what point in the process do you come up with titles?
it depends but usually pretty early on. I do sometimes get to the point of posting on AO3 without a title, but it's relatively uncommon. A lot of times I sort of organically decide on a title in the process of writing a fic; sometimes I have a title before I have a fic; and oftentimes I pick a poem to use as a title either while writing or when I go to post.
27. 25. Have you ever upset yourself with your own writing?
I have but it's not like...common. I am more likely to work myself out of upset through writing and I tend not to be very affected by my own writing—see: the time in childhood where I read an injury description from my own story to my dad and made him nauseous while i was just like >:D hehehe. With more time between writing and reading it, I am usually more affected but for 90% of the worst scenes I've written, I'm the person doing it with a completely unbothered mien (or cackling to myself lol). I might make myself a little sad, but yeah, ya girl compartmentalizes like a container store
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just found out theres a musical about the tiananmen square protest and that on top of there being a musical about marcos' dictatorship that just opened up is truly doing my fucking head in
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I just saw someone say with their whole chest that slide on is better than anything on 5sos5. And usually I am on the side of the bonus track, because 5sos has some gems hidden as bsides and rarities. But not this time. That song does not fit the album. I don't even believe that's a 5sos5 rejected track. That sounds like a wfttwtaf rejected track. But even when put next to wfttwtaf, I like the ones we have a lot more.
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (2) (3) by Levana Una Laitman
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Lion Drummers
After living in China and Vietnam for almost 8 years, I have seen these Lion dances many times, I feel as excited as a child when I catch one. The tradition is 1500 years old, they bring good luck.
In Vietnam the Lion performers are normally teenagers, they have a strong sense of fun, as a teacher I know having a good sense of humour is essential (though sometimes I forget).
The drumming was…
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Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan faces the death penalty in a trial that began Tuesday over alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and Vietnam’s largest financial fraud case on record.
The 66-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat allegedly used “thousands of ghost companies,” paid bribes to government officials and violated banking regulations, according to a government document. She is accused of illegally controlling the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank between 2012 to 2022 and using it to embezzle $12.5 billion, the document adds.
Another 85 people are being prosecuted in connection, including a former State Bank of Vietnam official accused of accepting $5.2 million in bribes. Lan was arrested in October 2022 and could get a death sentence if found guilty.[...]
Lan’s arrest is among the most high-profile in an ongoing anti-corruption drive in Vietnam that gained momentum since 2022. The so-called Blazing Furnace campaign has seen thousands of officials and business executives come under investigation. It reached the highest echelons of the Vietnamese government in January 2023 with the resignation of former President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and two deputy prime ministers for the “political responsibility” of corruption scandals during the pandemic.
But analysts added the anti-corruption drive has also dampened Vietnam’s economic outlook and made foreign investors jittery at a time when the southeast Asian nation has been positioning itself as the ideal home for businesses looking to shift their supply chains away from China.
5 Mar 24
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Please reblog for a bigger sample size!
If you have any fun fact about Vietnam, please tell us and I'll reblog it!
Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.
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