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yebreed · 3 months

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Jet-black Polyhedral Seal of The Western Wei General

This multi-faceted jet seal of the Western Wei dynasty, belonged to the famous General Dugu Xin (獨孤信). It has 8 edges and 26 sides: 18 square and 8 triangular ones. It is the ancient polyhedral seal with the largest number of facets.

Among them, 14 sides are engraved with inscriptions. The inscriptions range from one-character to five-character. The functionality is differentiated, including the use in official letters, orders, document labeling, etc.

The jet, a composite organic gem, from which the seal is carved, is known in China as “coal jade” (煤玉).

The total height of the object is 4.5 cm, the width is 4.35 cm, and the weight is 75.7 g.

The seal was accidentally discovered in 1981 by Song Qing, a student from Xunyang county (旬陽縣), Ankang, Shaanxi. While returning home from school, he picked up a weird object in the gravel on the roadside, which aroused his curiosity with its bizarre shape. Song Qing had no idea what it was. Having examined the inscriptions at home, he gave the find for examination to the local archaeological museum, where the artifact was considered not of particular cultural value.

The seal vegetated on the outskirts of the local exposition for another decade, until it was revealed and recognized by a prominent researcher Wang Hanzhang (王翰章) from the Xi'an Institute of Literature and History. On display in Shaanxi History Museum (陝西曆史博物館).

#ancient china #chinese culture #chinese history #chinese seals #seal #seals #calligraphy #lettering #chinese calligraphy #jet #carving #stone carving #gemstone #gems #gemstones #lignite #jet-black #Western Wei dynasty

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ganondoodle · 17 days

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you know, i had a totk thought (uh oh)

soemthign thats really bothering me about the whole "actually, ganondorf didnt like the guy appearing out of nowhere marrying a hylian and just saying yep das our kingdom now and we can mine it barren under your nose and also i got laserbeam pebbles that i totally wont ever use on anyone come join me or die just bc of all of that but mainly bc the guy brought some weird tech with him that he dont like" - thing is that ......... we see almost not a single tech thing in the past (and for that matter see nothing of the oh so perfect and peaceful paradise hyrule was before big evil desert man didnt want to join our paradise- like what is the point about making the whole point of the game be -we need to restore hyrule to this paradise it once was- when you dont even see it or get to care about anything of it)

it might sound like a weird hangup but no really, the most we see is like two servant constructs, thats it, when they 'prepare for war' im pretty sure all you see is some lightly dressed ( ... is it just me or does their whole get up look alot like native american/other indingenous people too ... i still dont know how to feel about that- kinda adjacent to some of the sonau armor, the battery one i think??, also having that look...) hylians with spears, where the heck is all that tech?? is it implied to be all down in the mines hollowing out the underground (for no real reason either bc .... theres only two sonau left and no one else seems to want use nor need the tech otherwise there should have been more traces or soemthing left of it -unless it all just magically appeared out of nowhere in mostly prime condition while all shiekah tech jsut vaporized for bs non reasons just for it to be in tha game but oh dont you see its always been there lmao- so whats the point really????)

or up in the sky as most battle constructs are and they cant get them down in time bc *gestures vaguely*

or is it intentionally kept out of view bc idk seeing an army of robots on raurus side he can send out on a whim might not make him look as oh so good and perfect as they want him to look when he already got laserbeam pebbles (most of which hes been hoarding until ONE falls into hands not under his control) ?? like it just ... feels weird?? so many battle constructs that can even be a threat to link are jsut fully functioning strolling around in the present still, why wouldnt you want to use any of them to battle gan and if they DID why wouldnt you show that (no the 3 second unicorn cutscene doesnt count bc its just .. gan and his monsters isnt it) ?? (also ... why isnt there a big like battle ground , like fine you dont have to animate an army of monsters and robots clashing but... wouldnt it be cool to have you discover a giant flat plain in the underground (that magically got put under ground like gan just decided to stroll down there to get sealed lol) and its the only mostly empty field in the game littered with thousands of monster bones and dead constructs intermingled?? just to give it all a bit of weight?? evidence that it happened?? cool ass discovery????)

(also also i cannot let go of ganondorf apparently being sooooo anti tech but then clamgan uses the shiekah stuff??? shouldnt he also be against that then or is that suddendly fine bc- oh woops sorry, forgot clamgan is actually just something, not connected to gan at all actually, i mean why else would miasma turn into malice only to turn into miasma again haha none of that is connected actually what is a calamity anyway? also im sorry to bring this up again but i just cannot let go of the ppl in the present being so obsessed with using sonau tech in every part of their life now- they just lived through an apocalypse of a barely understood strange tech but CLEARLY this other even less understood strang tech is not dangerous at all lets make CARS OUT OF IT and what theres no danger in miasma and that tech existing at the same time LIKE SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE THAT IDK SEEMS LIKE A BAD COMBO--- oh sorry forgot that ceased to exist in both the world and peoples minds for *gestures vaguely* plot reasons- why why why are monsters mining the sonanium?? they dont even work with the yiga no that is also completely disconnected we dont wanna draw and interesting connections after all- whats the point if it means nothing but to be a loot box for the player-- actually, so much of totk is just a so built around throwing you into a box of toys with no substance to it- listen i know games are kinda like toys but if it doesnt make sense and offers you nothing interesting to think about even slightly whAT IS THE POINT)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #ganondoodles rants #totk #like not to make myself sound like a better writer ............ BUT #in my rewrite rauru does that also to suck the life out of the desert more and more to force the gerudo to be depended on their trade #to both pressure them and force them better into submission #bc of the whole plot point (in my rewrite) that rauru came from the underground with his dying people bc they discovered warnings of old #about the king of a deserts nation becoming a horrible world destryoing monster and so plotting with sonia to get gan secretly sealed #and by doing that rauru seals his own fate (rauru dies and its his stone that gets taken) like the fairytale prophecy thing making people-#-do exactly what leads to it while trying to avoid it #bc gan finds out and plots against it #-ANYWAY #when i see other people talk i need to talk again even if i make little sense

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imminent-danger-came · 6 months

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#MAKING MEMES TO COPE #I am just so fucking excited about Nuwa #*grabs Nuwa* WHY DID YOU MAKE MK #You sealed him I know you did #you sealed him in the fucking stone #And you told Wukong to watch over that stone #I KNOW YOU FUCKING DID #EAMK EAMK EAMK EAMK EAMK EAMK EAMK EAMK EAMK-#NUWA WHY IS MK CONNECTED TO THE FUCKING CURSE #TELL ME #YOU TELL ME RIGHT NOW #*ahem* anyways #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk meme #lmk nuwa

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drowsydregon · 4 months

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i feel like i've talked abt this before but i'll never not bring it up/complain abt it

i wanna know which EM signed off on the anacondrai tomb

"hey you know that tribe of serpentine that could've singlehandedly killed all of us, and is known for being a cut above all the other serpentine ?? let's put them in a giant, obvious horn in the middle of the desert and hope that a locked door is enough to stop them. oh there's also cracks in the ceiling but we're gonna ignore that"

#ninjago #ninjago serpentine #ninjago pythor #my interests #this is one of the things in ninjago that makes me the most mad LMAO #the other tombs seemed to be sealed relatively well ?? aside from maybe the constrictai tomb but u could still find a way to explain that #like there's some stone structures that the constrictai can't dig through as shown in s2 #but this ?? this is a literal war crime

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kukishkakish · 7 months

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I recently walked and touched the grass, and there...

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #seal #seal tf2 #stone

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i-lavabean · 3 months

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Aabria Iyengar should play Galadriel.

Audiobook, liveplay game, movie I don't even care, she'd be amazing in all of them.

#she just has 'beautiful and terrible as the dawn tempestuous as the sea stronger than the foundations of the earth' vibes #all shall love her and despair #quiddie #aabria iyengar #candela obscura #circle of tide and bone #tide and bone sealed my opinion in stone on this #also Liam O'Brien would be a very good Gandalf #and Sam Riegel could be Sam Gamgee #and Noshir would definitely kill it as Aragorn #i just need the tide and bone cast to do more drama stuff together please please please #this is what happens when I listen to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack after watching Candela Obscura

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dabidagoose · 2 months

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THE LITTLE SCROLLY SIDEBAR LIKE IT'S A VIDEO GAME I'M SCREAMING

#I'm going so so feral for all this downtime shit holy shit #the fun school music #the cutesy sidebar #the sound effects!!!!#I'm. insane #holy shit this is my favorite ever #exactly right now this became my favorite season of d #of d20 ever #35:40 into episode 7 stress tested #my favorite season. confirmed. sealed in stone #this is so good #dimension 20 #fantasy high

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fall3nash2339 · 7 months

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My diving sessions are always fun. I wish I could live down here.

#freminet #freminet genshin impact #ocean view #oceancore #oceangate #ocean #stone ocean #sea #sea life #fish #seals #i love the ocean

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jjba-smash-or-pass · 3 months

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#have you SEEN his ass?? he's quite pretty himself but that ass seals the deal for me #johngalli a #stone ocean #jojo's bizarre adventure

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pyromaniac-cyndaquil · 9 months

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Oh yeah while I'm showing y'all pmd stuff I've been working on:

Almost done with the relic fragment I've been making!

#pmd #eos #pmd eos #pokemon #made it with a 3d pen + a lot of soldering and sanding #tried giving it a stone texture but the colours were silly so then i painted over it (some of the texture remains so that's cool)#finally dug out the right size posca to do the markings today!!!! just gotta seal em in when i find my top coat spray again #pyro crafts

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bywandandsword · 6 months

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TMA fandom, why did I have to find out that the The Magnus Protocol trailer dropped from my youtube recs?

#I AM BEING TOTALLY NORMAL ABOUT THIS I SWEAR #the fact that Jonny Sims and Alexander J Newall are listed on the cast #but not as writers or anything their role name/title are glitched out #also are we going to talk about the inverted Philosopher's Stone symbol on the agency seal?#that can't be good right???#Sword speaks #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol

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r0ttkins · 6 months

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#doodle #shitpost #dr. stone #dr stone #fomk #fomk the seal

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imminent-danger-came · 3 months

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Possible thought about Qi Xiaotian in relation to the fact that he and broken memories make similar sounds- he is a memory.

A memory of Sun Wukong given life. Here's my evidence:

While he did come from a stone egg, we never actually see that egg in reality, just in the memory scroll.

One of Wukong's most used powers is shape-shifting, and that is still used. But Wukong has a long history of shifting into human guises, and we never see him do that- Macaque does it, changing both into Xiaotian in his debut episode and the puppet master. It may be possible that Wukong hasn't done that in the present because he doesn't need to, but there's not even a mention of it in glimpses at the past

All the mirror parallels between Xiaotian and Wukong

And that's my only pieces of evidence. My other theory is that it's a side effect of having his monkey woken up inside the scroll when you probably should have done that anywhere else.

(Post anon is referencing!)

So, I think it's pretty clear by this point that MK is connected the scroll is some shape and form. Both times he enters the scroll, it emanates from him (which MK distinctly notices the second time):

(4x02 Familiar Tales)

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(4x11 A Lifetime of Mistakes)

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In s4, we also have the gang embody/meet their past counterparts: Tang becomes Tripitaka, Pigsy becomes Zhu Ganglie, Sandy becomes Sha Wujing, and Mei meets Ao Lie, but MK....MK meets the curse. That's the reflection of himself he comes across.

In 4x02, this is how Azure describes the scroll/curse:

Azure Lion: "[The scroll of memory is] a prison, designed to contain wicked souls, forcing them to relive their past misdeeds over and over again, for all eternity. In order to contain it's prisoners, a powerful protective curse was cast upon the scroll to prevent those in prison from escaping, and ensnare any who would seek to free those locked inside, trapping them forever. Left unchecked, that curse would have spread, consuming everything until nothing remained."

So, the scroll/curse forces you to re-experience memories, but for MK it tries to encourage him to give into Chaos and pushes him to the brink to reveal his Monkey Identity.

MK is a reflection/mirror of Wukong, yes, but there's also this other aspect to him we've never quite touched on. His eyes go blue on occasion, he interacts strangely with the Lady Bone Demon's powers, he seems to be associated with memory (LBD's og plan was to "undo" the memories of the world, and to use MK to do it).

MK being a warped memory of Wukong isn't necessarily off the table, but I do lean against it because of this scene:

This is what Scroll Subodhi asks MK to "remember" about his childhood. It's a memory that's linked to his creation, in some way.

And right now, I'd posit that MK is part underworld/scroll/memory, and part Wukong/the stone.

Wukong wasn't able to defeat the Jade Empeor, he says so himself (and so does the plot lol):

Sun Wukong: "But don't worry—I almost beat the Jade Emperor single handed once!" (4x12 The Plan Man)

But then soon after, Wukong makes this claim:

MK: "Ne Zha's right—while Azure has the Jade Emperor's power and the scroll, there's NO way we could beat him head on!" Sun Wukong: "I mean, some of us could beat him! *ahem* One of us, specifically-" MK: "Nope! None of us at all."

(4x12 The Plan Man)

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Wukong isn't talking about himself here. He's talking about MK, and how MK could beat the Jade Emperor single handed. MK then quickly denies it, wanting to ignore this part of himself. Then in 3x13 MK pushes Azure to his absolute limits, causing Azure to go berserk and almost destroy everything. Had MK not been thrown out of his Monkey Form, I have no doubt that he really could have defeated the Jade Emperor—which makes him terrifyingly more powerful than Wukong.

One of my biggest questions pre-s4 was how MK got his powers, and why exactly he was so strong (particularly when facing the Samadhi Fire, something that's world-ending). Monkey Form explains some things, but we haven't gotten to the real meat of MK's origins yet, which I'm excited for.

#anon I'm with you like. MK is connected to memory.#It's a little strange that we've never seen Wukong take on a human transformation (not even in 3x08)#Especially when we now know that MK has been transformed this entire time. Like I'm curious #all this will probably go into my re-write of the eamk theory at some point #it'll be fun #MK was sealed in the stone. I'm telling you. I'm telling you all #Like he could have just been born from the stone *only* but then we still gotta explain all of the other bullshit #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk theory #eamk theory #lmk MK #lmk SWK #asks

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musicmakesyousmart · 10 months

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