#trade port

[chrxnicdaydream]

I think Dazai being traded to the Port Mafia would be super interesting BUT ever since I looked into IRL Tanizaki I can’t see it being anyone but him 😭 there’s so much foreshadowing in the themes of IRL Tanizaki’s works that it would actually be perfect??

Unless my other theory happens which is that no one will get traded because maybe Mori will accept Yosano telling him about Tachihara being a double agent as payment enough

#honestly i wouldn’t be surprised at all if the trade doesn’t happen #not bc asagiri forgot or something. but for a tbd reason #also i know Tanizaki being traded is the most popular theory but im basing this off of the little i’ve seen on his irl counterpart #i’m gonna make another post about the Tanizaki’s at some point bc they’re so underrated #just have to find the time sobs #rambling about bsd again #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd theory #bsd tanizaki #bsd mori #bsd yosano #tanizaki junichirou #mori ougai #yosano akiko #bsd port mafia #bsd hunting dogs #bsd analysis #bsd meta

[oledavyjones]

The Square of The Greenland Trade, Copenhagen. photographed by F.H. 1908.

#greenland trade #copenhagen #port of copenhagen #Chickens on the quay #denmark #early 1900s

[ancientorigins]

In 2020 an excavation of the sunken harbor of Kerpe was started. Now finds up to 2,400 years old are coming to light from the bottom of the bay in the first scientific underwater excavation ever undertaken in the Black Sea.

#Istanbul #Roman #Byzantine #Ottoman #trade #port #amphora

[probablyasocialecologist]

#Felixstowe #uk politics #felixstowe port #trade union #ukpol #dudes rock #felixstowe strike #logistics

[lieutenant-amuel]

It feels like people really forget sometimes that Shuriki has been ruling for 41 years, there are two generations that have grown up under her and have no idea what life looked like before she came

#Personal #*Avalor under Shuriki* #The biggest port in the whole EverRealm #Merchants arrive from over the world to trade there #Therefore Shuriki is bad #… #I mean yes she erased their culture #their national identity #And THIS is what bad #Not that she’s an evil sorceress #She wasn’t even violent she just sat at the throne and gained power #She literally didn’t care about people #Which means she neither thought about them nor harmed them #Thanks to Esteban life in Avalor wasn’t that terrible #The young generations like Gabe’s have NO reason to hate her #This is how they got used to live because they had NOTHING to compare with #Unless their parents were some rebels but this is unlikely if you care about your child’s safety #You cannot tell me that every single Avaloran hated her #There’s been SUCH strong propaganda under her it literally can’t work like that #Why would young generations care about festivals and music if they never experienced it? #There’s no way I’m saying Shuriki is nice of course not #But c’mon guys let’s be realistic #Even if we take Gabe into account #Do you really want to tell me that he had anything against her? #When he was a kid and a young teen? #With absolutely non-rebellious parents? #Yes Mateo is different because he learnt magic and was literally breaking the law so of course he treated Shuriki differently #But the majority of Avaloran kids were like Gabe #Because again they didn’t have anything to compare with #And if we talk about old people and adults too there must have been people who supported her this is just a lot more realistic

[junotter]

sometimes researching for avatar redesigns has you 6 layers deep into the Japan's Meiji era allies wiki

#im trying to mess with some of the stuff that feels weird about the ways the fire nation is depicted idk #like i do not feel optically it is good for like them to be so heavily based on japan's imperialist actions #while dressed in clothes that come from places japan colonized #but i dont want it to just be solely japanese though i did draw zuko and azula in hakama but its largely cause i wanted to draw hakama #and like the only place with strong japanese influence being kiyoshi island and my own frustration with the modern day samurai depiction #i think fundamentally it isnt a choice that had as much thought as i am putting in put into it but it does raise an eyebrow for me #anyway i think keeping the thai influence is fine despite the brief invasion japan had into thailand due to thailand then allying with japa #and further allying with the axis due to allying with japan #ugh and ive been told not to think this much about it because its fiction but its also fiction so so so heavily based on real places #and when you base fiction on real cultures you fall into some unintentional pitfalls #i also fucking hate the royal fire nation robes they look so meh and the most costumey out of everything in the show #they look like heavy blankets despite being a supposedly hot nation #theres ways to have heavy robes (heian era japan) but they look like i make them out of fleece and velvet blankets #back to kiyoshi island i think the really only aesthetically japanese reference in the show being an island of noble warriors is lame #plus over done #it feels like nowadays theres a lot of people who get all whiney about people saying fire nation is based off japan #but like dude the creators in the comics and korra like go even more into the japanese influence and clearly it was the original intentions #also i do think you could do some pretty interesting world building by having say there be an older cultural influence on kiyoshi island #from the fire nation especially if the place is established as a central port area then you tie in some okinawan or even hawaiian reference #and gives an explanation that makes sense to why kiyoshi stands out from the rest of the earth kingdom you have long term cultural trading #and it establishes interesting relationships even pre kiyoshi time thereby drawing back onto some real historic references #cause for awhile ryukyu china and japan used to be this trading triangle which could explain some of these various influences going on #i think you can get a really interesting harmony when you create the fire nation out of a mix of japan and thailand #i mean both have these floating buildings due to living on some pretty wet lands and theres harmony in that mix #god i did see one person go like “fire nation is more based on china because theres a lot of red and red is important in china” #my brother in christ red is also important in japan #red is important in like many many asian cultures #i mean of course a lot of that importance stems from china and cultural exchange with china but idk kinda silly to say with your whole ches #like if you want to bring china in then the dragons are the biggest thing like sure some mythos has dragons in japan #but a lot of those comes from china in some way

[moki-dokie]

sitting here trying to puzzle out why they chose to change yokohama to just kohama. as far as i know it's always been yokohama?? maybe someone who actually lives in the area can educate me more on this.

i kept thinking it was a fictional place until i read up on taigen's bio and it described kohama as being on the central eastern coast. which is where yokohama is. and yokohama used to be just a little fishing village. and it makes sense to be present-day yokohama if ringo had to walk for days to get there from tanabe island (assuming that's located around tanabe bay on the kii peninsula). plus yokohama has some cliffs similar to what we see in mizu's flashbacks. and if it is yokohama that's a nice little parallel since it was japan's first foreign trade harbor when the country opened up again. i just dunno why its name is different. hmmmm

#blue eye samurai #there's not a lot i can find about yokohama before it turned into a trading port #which doesn't help matters any

[kyros-tha-soldier]

King riku: *asleep in his bedroom at the palace*

Doflamingo: *BUSTS WINDOW OPEN*

T H I S K I N G D O M B E L O N G S T O

M E N O W

#Doffy is foul for this #Like bro your ancestors gave up on it to become CDs man chill #Honestly i do understand that he can't go back to being a CD yadda yadda and all that #But come on man we all know you wanted it for the trading port... We know your lil mischievous ass is doing it for the money (and slavery) #Doffy doing his scheming and pirating: 😈😈😈👹👹👹👺👺👺 #Doffy when he gets knocked out by a 19 years old and taken to prison: 🤔🤨😒 #Like brah you had it comin #Honestly at the end of the day... And i hate to say it but it was somewhat homing's fault for being very naive- #And choosing to live among humans ESPECIALLY those who get wronged so many times by the CD #Anyways. Fellow doffy apologists pls don't get mad i-i'm just teasing ehehe #Lov me dofuramingo #King Riku should've also known better than to trust some man at his window wearing a pink feathery coat and giving him death threats #I just noticed that Homing and Riku are quite similar... Hmmmm #Makes you think if Homing came back to dressrosa (AND DIDN'T BRING UP THAT HE'S A CD OR CAME FROM MARIJOIS EVERY SINGLE GUCKING MINUTE)- #Then it might've worked nicely #One piece #Sorry for all the tags I'm just pulling random shit to get people to look at my lazy ass meme and laugh #Pls leave like doe... Thankies 🥺😔 #Donquixote doflamingo #Dressrosa #Dressrosa arc #King riku #King riku III

[bittwitchy]

it should be illegal for companies to have such a widespread issue and not fix it

#brina is being forced to upgrade her ipad bc its cheaper than fixing it w the trade in credit #and yes thays my drawing program and writing program i do axrually need that fucker the programs arent on other platforms #this is actually the worst companies should be sued more #tbd #the only fix options i was given was spend $600 on repairing the charging port #or pay $400 gor the ‘magic k/eyboard’ #its $600 to full out replace it w trade in cred #fuck ap/ple fuck ap/ple f u c k a p p l e #if these programs werent locked to this bullshit device id buy a samsung #i have to go do that now so #ik i have like messages and stuff i havent seen them yet im sorry i gotta go fic this shir

[dndsettingsinfo]

Sea Village [37×50] by Crossland Maps

#crossland maps #sea #village #villages #coastal #oceanic #port #ports #trade #roads #map #maps

[northern-passage]

Is sign language something the Order teaches?

After asking that, I realise that it's much more likely that Handlers learn it as part of their education (being the one who engages with the common folk out of the duo).

But what if a Hunter wanted to learn it? Would they have to request being taught as well?

And outside of the Order, how is sign language treated in the overall world?

it is, actually! sign language is pretty widely taught as a second language in Adrania. that's not to say that everyone is fluent, though, and there are different dialects just like in real life (ie ASL vs BASL) if someone is fortunate enough to receive schooling they will typically study common sign language (which is mainly used for trade and is very formal), but whether or not they retain it and can still understand it varies from person to person, and again there are variations that will differ from the basic common version taught in a school. with the class divide in Adrania, i also imagine there would be a drastic difference between the culture and sign of lower classes (who most likely will not have received any kind of education) and the upper classes.

and you're right, Lea is the one that is more proficient in it between the two, mainly because they are the one doing most of the talking. the hunter has a basic understanding and can typically interpret signs, but isn't the best at signing themself. if you go with Merry in Blackwater, you can see her, Mal, and Branwen all sign to each other, with Branwen actually being hoh. the hunter recognizes that Branwen calls Merry a bastard, but for the most part the three sign too fast for the hunter to understand. Merry and Mal will continue to use sign throughout the story, and they actually use a variation that neither the hunter nor Lea will recognize, even if they were signing slower; think of it like the thieves cant, but in sign.

#i know this kind of breaks some of the potential customization for the hunter #but it's not really something that will come up besides with Mal and Merry (which the hunter cant understand anyways) #but dont take this as me saying you cant roleplay your hunter as hoh #just know that it's also not something im planning on writing into the story. if that makes sense #also i use the word 'common' here like the way it's used in dnd #ive had sign built into the world since i started hehe i always intended for it to kind of work as a common trade language #a very formal variation used in ports and markets to get around language barriers #which is how a lot of pirates ended up using their own variation that evolved into what is basically a secret language #this will come up in ch3 since mal and merry will use it to talk to each other in front of everyone else #ask #anonymous #lore

[akatsukirites]

Seventh entry for @sweetspicybingo - Coffee (third bingo! only two more to go for blackout)

Narutoverse | KisaKonan | G | ~700 words

How Akatsuki disposes of the dead is not a concern to Kisame the way it is for Konan. After they kill the Kumo-nin, she wraps the body in a paper shroud and lights three sticks of incense before Zetsu comes. Even traitors deserve proper rites; or at least the rites she can spare. After the affair is done, she teaches Kisame how to perform the transmission jutsu so they can report mission-status to Pein. He congratulates them on a job well-done and asks if they can accommodate a second mission on their way back. (Konan knows by now that there is no room to refuse.)

This is how they find themselves entering a dark, wet cave in Hot Water Country. The strong smell of salt and limestone envelop them in a thick, humid blanket. When they reach the shore, it's pitch black outside. One can hardly see the schooner tied to a hastily-made dock. The skeleton crew of five is easy work for Kisame– not even worth his blade. He drowns them in the sea before they even notice he's there while Konan goes through the captain's things.

The schooner is a light vessel, carrying no more than twenty crates and lit only by three oil lamps. A horse-cart and a donkey are tied up, braying as Konan unties the beast. It runs off into the night. No sense in taking something that'll only slow them down.

"How much does Leader-sama want us to take back?" Kisame asks, surveying the crates.

"He didn't say." She answers as she finds a crowbar to pry one of the crates open. Cotton bolts. There's five crates full of cotton bolts. She finds five more loaded with silk. Pein wants them to sell this? Kakuzu must be on thin coffers if he's asking Akatsuki to rob some poor merchant.

She hears the sharp slam of a crate top behind her. Looking behind, Konan sees Kisame recoiling, lips curled back in disgust. Something he found? Perhaps the cargo is unusual after all. She opens a canvas bag and finds small, fragrant beans. Dried? Dipping her hand in, they sound like heavy grains of rice as they fall between her fingers back into the bulk.

"Hoshigaki-san, come here. Bring another lamp."

The additional light doesn't solve the mystery. They look like adzuki beans. But adzuki beans don't smell like this; warm and bitter.

"They're coffee beans." Kisame offers. (Konan is getting tired of not knowing so many things outside of Amegakure.) "Something from the west. The daimyo like it."

Ah, so they're illegal beans.

"This whole shipment is probably going to one manor."

She leaves his side, examining the other crates. Books in English. More cotton bolts. Then, she happens upon a crate that hasn't been properly shut. The one Kisame didn't like? Konan pushes the top aside and digs through the straw. Her hands meet something rough. She hangs the lamp on a post and brings it up. Another bolt– something like leather but with more scales. The texture is fine and sandy. What is it they use to wrap katana hilts with?

"Sharkskin." She whispers to herself, realizing what it must be from Kisame's reaction.

Kisame returns to her after he's done with inventory. Five bags of coffee beans. Two crates of books. Eight crates each of silk and cotton. He looks around her and tells her, "Three crates of shagreen." Even though none of the crates have been opened.

"What do you want to bring back, Konan-san?"

There's no argument in her mind.

"Ten kilos of coffee, five bolts of silk, and as many books as we can carry. Bury the leftover coffee, books, and silk. I'll send for it later."

"What of the rest?"

"Sink the rest."

A look of quiet relief pans across Kisame's face. He does as he's ordered while Konan sorts through their plunder. Later, when they're eating at camp, he thanks her.

"What for?"

"The shagreen is worth more than the whole ship. You knew that."

Yet she ordered him to dump it. Konan blinks and settles her mind, breath coming to a quiet pulse.

"My comrades are worth more than shagreen."

Kisame looks at her in shock. Unable to reply, he simply goes back to his meal. If she looks hard enough, Konan swears she can see him smile.

#sweetspicywinter #shagreen is the word for this type of material #it can be made from other animals but this one is made from sharkskin #when only the dutch traded with japan in nagasaki #cotton silk and shagreen are listed in the wiki as stuff that also came through those ports from south asia #[♣️–vdwrites] #♣️–kisame #♣️–konan #naruto fanfiction #kisakonan #konan #hoshigaki kisame #♣️–challenge

[robotpussy]

me falling into the pits of swirl propaganda after seeing the little mermaid 2023 and fighting against it for so long

#also me trying not to make the connection that prince eric was probably involved in the slave trade/colonialism #when he started talking about cargo and ports and trading while wearing those clothes..... #nonblacks dni

[cheswirls]

doing one of those yt wrapped ficlet challenges would be SO fun but alas i use vanced on my phone which is where i watch 90% of yt videos and it doesn't collect your view history bc of how the app handles spoofing+privacy

#that was a long way to say the only videos in a yt wrapped would be ones i had open on my laptop #i wish i could like...input a set amnt of playlists and let it mix from them #i have one for nearly every month bc of the way my adhd brain consumes music #it wouldn't be able to list by plays (does yt wrapped consider loops as new plays?? if not lmfao it wouldn't work for me regardless) #but it should still generate some sort of randomized list tho now that ive typed it i realize #i could create a new yt playlist and port all of this years into it then shuffle #wahhhh actually it wouldn't be fun if it wasn't sorted based on how insane i was abt it #i would not trade vanced for the world tho and if that means a continued lack of watch history then so be it

[nutmeg-puppygirl]

Playing through Assassin's Creed: Liberation, and its really weird that despite the main character's professed anti-slavery politics the opening act appears to have her...preventing a slave revolt? Because it happens to be associated with the Templars? (And the Assassins are loyal to the Kings of France. But that's from a later game.)

Coupled with the main character explicitly benefitting from agricultural trade in the Gulf of Mexico in the mid to late 1700s, which was dominated by unfree labor, and uh...oof.

#also its really weird that you trade spices and not sugar from Port au Prince #also why the fuck are you trading with Port au Prince and not Le Cap #assassin's creed #ac liberation #aveline de grandpre #mercantilism

[nine-aetharia]

MIKU'S NOT A VOCALOID ANYMORE!???

Officially, she isn't. Especially because a few years ago when she and the other CVs were pulled, there was this whole 'you can't refer to these vbs as Vocaloids anymore' thing and it was an official statement too? I think? Damned if I can remember, I never bought Miku NT.

But also while the old Vocaloid programs have been discontinued, there's still old users who are selling their old copies, Miku and the others included. So as a Vocaloid, she's still out there.

Also also, we still call her a Vocaloid as shorthand and so we don't confuse casual fans. But the community knows that she and others haven't been Vocaloids since like, 2019, and that Gumi's usurped her as the face of Vocaloid.

#vocaloid #vsynth #hatsune miku #WHEN V6 RELEASED OHHHHHH LET ME TELL YOU #it was a DOOZY it was WILD there was screaming there was pissing there was shitting /j #we thought gumi would jump ship along with everyone else bc Vocaloid had been silent for years lmao #and then it turned out she got promoted #so now she's sold along with the V6 editor as a bundle #anyway if we all band together we can convince internet co and crypton to jump ship #hey crypton. ooooooh you wanna port miku to synth v. you wanna port miku to synth v soooooo bad #also if anyone wants to get old vocaloids someone in a trading/selling server im in is having a massive sale of their old vocaloid acts #and they're for like $20-25