#west taiwan

[trashwaaveactual]

#ukraine #politics #geopolitics #israel #palestine #russia #funny memes #meme #west taiwan #taiwan

[libertarian-druid-in-greater-vt]

#fuck the ccp #anti ccp #West Taiwan #current events #meme

[guidodisicko]

Amazing Marc Lowe Art by half Mexican half Italian half Cherokee pro LGBT Native American artist Prickly Succulent. Succulent casts the pretend musician Marc Lowe as the site of the Peeking Olympics and uses Marc Lowe’s gigantic nose as the ski jump site for the Winter Olympics held by the bosses of Joe Biden in West Taiwan (ex-China).  Marc Lowe pretend musician extraordinaire has released something like 150 horrid LPs on CD-Rs and emptied live houses everywhere he’s played in Japan. Support real musicians and real artists. Uri Tenpo is not a man. Uri Tenpo is a movement. https://www.marcloweart.com/

#marc lowe #pretend musician #pretend musician marc lowe #marc lowe pretend musician #uri tenpo is a movement #prickly succulent #marc lowe art #native american artist #art #music #live house #japan #west taiwan

[kaapstadgirly]

26bil in aid to Israel I'd be so fucking mad if I was American and my tax went to that bitch ass country

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #gaza strip #genocide #social justice #free west bank #human rights #us politics #news update #jerusalem #tel aviv #america is so fucked up #palestine news #world news #ukraine #international politics #russia #taiwan #iran

[thistransient]

More train window vistas

#taiwan #台東縣 #train travel #mountains #clouds #from my trip back in December #recently i took the HSR up the west coast and there was no such scenery #at least looking out the west side window

[tanadrin]

I think a better international order is possible, maybe one that strengthens the UN or replaces it with something stronger. But first you have to build internationalism in influential countries like the US, where internationalism is (sometimes) seen as opposed to that country’s interests. And it would help to improve US-China relations, so there was greater unity between major powers. Not impossible by any means, but it is a long-term political project without any quick institutional shortcuts.

#could the US and China ever be real allies? #would the west (say) sacrifice Taiwan #to try to turn a revisionist power into a friend? #hard to imagine!

[germanfamily]

HA! I'm doing this shit again! >:D

#countryhumans #countryhumans west germany #countryhumans east germany #countryhumans germany #countryhumans third reich #countryhumans america #countryhumans uk #countryhumans ussr #countryhumans france #countryhumans taiwan #countryhumans fanart #Youtube

[writingwithcolor]

“Weird West” Taiwanese first-generation gunslinger

Anonymous asked:

Hello, I’m writing a weird west story. One of the main characters is a first-generation Taiwanese gunslinger and I have a few concerns regarding how I should tackle their arc and character. They’re non-binary and their full name is Huang Hsiao-Ling. Full disclaimer that while I’m non-binary, I’m not Taiwanese.

They have complicated but ultimately strong family ties, having prompted their parents to pick one of their names as an act of respect towards them. Their own choice was Hsiao (骁) while their parents chose Ling (玲), making their full name “黃骁玲”. I was able to find people with the same romanization, but I don’t know whether the hanzi works or not and I’d hate for it to be clunky. The literal name being “valiant tinkling gem” is deliberate as it shows both the adversity between their chosen path (骁) and their parents’ wishes for them (玲).

There’s some family tension but it comes from a place of worry concerning their dangerous career rather than a sense of strictness or tradition from their parents. Their older sister followed a wholly different path, which veered in a much safer direction to their parents relief. Despite this, both siblings have a close relationship and I plan for their sister to make multiple appearances throughout the story. I don’t want to fall into the trope of the main conflict being them distancing themselves from their family due to pressure. Their arc does however deal with their struggle in accepting their family’s concerns, and their disregard for their own safety. What should I remain conscious of as I write this arc?

Regarding their occupation, they’d already be a highly sought-out, seasoned sharpshooter with years of experience behind them at the story’s start. Since they’d have mostly worked solo over the years, they wouldn’t be much of a conversationalist to begin with. I can see how this could easily fall into the “overly competent aloof East Asian” trope and I was wondering how to make it clear that it has much more to do with years of experience turning them a little dour and their occupation requiring a certain level of inscrutability. I was thinking that scenes with their sister would show another side of themselves, a much more open person who’s got a soft spot for their sibling. Similarly, regardless of their relationship with them they’d always worry for their parents.

Thank you for your time and all the work you pour into this incredible resource!

Regarding the style name: I would like to note that none of us here really know much about it, because the practice stopped around the turn of the 20th century. I have heard, though, that any hanzi can be used, and the name itself looks fine to me. However, when writing the names of Taiwanese people, make sure you’re using the Traditional system vs. Simplified, as the Traditional writing system is currently still in use in Taiwan. Therefore, the name would be written as 黃驍玲. 

Another thing to note is that while I don’t know much about the “Weird West” genre, I’m assuming this is using turn-of-the-century aesthetics and history as influences. If that’s the case, you may want to look up the Hokkien pronunciation of your character’s name, as Mandarin wasn’t widely used in Taiwan until after 1945, and it’s more likely they’d be speaking Hokkien instead.

When it comes to parents, I think you’ll be okay so long as the conflict between them and your character hinges on their safety and the parental concerns vs. wanting them to enter another profession due to either prestige or higher income. This was the main concern my parents had when my brother decided to enter the military because of the high safety risks he was subjecting himself to. I’d say so long as you have the parents coming toward this as being worried for their child’s safety and pointing out your character’s tendency to disregard it, you’ll be fine. 

(tbc on personality aspects and how maybe including flashbacks and past experiences leads character to harden up, along with maybe showing their softer side to others) --mod Jess 

Just a note (which could have been intentional on your part) from a nonbinary Taiwanese perspective about ‘gendering’ in the characters: 玲 is typically assigned to girls and 驍 to boys in binarized naming. Obviously, gendering in names is a weird concept, and I myself (and many other nonbinary Taiwanese people) don’t adhere to the system. So, I’d say it works!

I also agree with Jess- Taiwanese culture is very family-orientated and so long as they’re characterized as a complex human being with goals, bonds, experiences and whatnot.

--mod Em

#Taiwan #Taiwanese #Names #Taiwanese names #nonbinary #genre #weird west #languages #Taiwanese families #asks #guns tw

[zhuhongs]

just found out the lead singer of taiwans biggest death metal band is also an active parliament member since like 2015.... and is still active as a death metal singer. he's a pretty standard taiwanese center left anti communist from what i could gather. which like as a leftist i dont really agree with but i also dont know enough abt taiwanese politics to like make a full judgement. though he seems to be a standard liberal nothing remarkable, radical, or new, not overtly horrible but just bland. but that was something i definitely did Not expect. apparently he's very pro indigenous rights and self determination for indigenous people but being in a centre left mega party like the DPP does not seem like the best way to achieve that. But yea, just thought I'd share

#chthinic collabed heavily with collage last year and ik natsuki (lead singer of collage) is very pro indigenous rights and posts abt it a #lot of instagram and i really appreciate the amount of political stuff on her platform. its all very progressive tho v much limited to tw #so idk. i kind of got the cibe of some groups that see taiwanese indigenous issues as seperate to the larger issue of colonialism and #indigenous rights all over the world to conflicts such as palestine. where some other groups have a lot more of the collective consciousnes #and idk. my view is limited and i didnt see that much but when i go back i def wanna look for more political groups in tw and learn about #the political landscape there for leftism. theres a lot of potential in tw imo #chthonic* natsuko** #edit: overall i think that like.. i get the spirit but i feel like for many taiwanese the identity of tw has been everyone united agaisnt #china which i can understand from the perspective of the indigenous ppl that had their land colonized by the japanese then had to share with #the fleeing kmt settlers. but like i dont think that its the best approach to say only china bad rather than big governments threatening to #take your land by force is bad. because idk my take on china and tw is that regardless of the historical claim or wtv. taiwans indigenous #people have been there long before the han ever stepped foot. and china isnt all good as seen in its treatment of the uyghers and tibetans #but is overall not nearly as bad as the west paints it to be. china is neither fully a communist paradise. and has many capitalist undertone #s influence the government ever since deng xiaoping came to power. personally i never fully agreed with mao. i think mao was a necessary #figure in the beginning and let power go to his head and i believe zhou enlai always shouldve been the founder of the PRC #fuck the kmt.. never liked the kmt and it seems as they are also slowly losing favor in tw also. and like... hmm #i need to do more reading tho. none of this is like 100% set in stone how i feel bc theres a lot i dont know

[rubberbandballqueen]

when at the library today i picked up a book abt typography to pick up some more theoretical skills there and to no one's surprise it pretended that european languages were the only languages in the world which like whatever i'll still learn what principles it has to teach and then try to reverse-engineer applications to cn font design based on what i know.

despite not trusting the english-language resources available online to be as in-depth or technical as i desire, i got curious and googled "chinese typographic design" anyway n scrolling through the introduction to the first result, you can kind of tell it's not written with a chinese-speaking audience in mind, or at the very least an audience with some semblance of chinese cultural sensitivities bc its section headed by the words "navigating the simplified and traditional divide" goes on to basically say it's an Aesthetic Decision which. well. is certainly a way to pretend you're avoiding politics.

#mostly you get the impression bc one of the first sections is like 'so how do chinese words work?' #and goes on to explain the idea of radicals and components n stuff and it's like If You Knew Literally Any Chinese #even as a foreigner starting to learn you'd understand the concept of semantic radicals #the worm speaks #phrasing that heading as 'navigating a divide' feels like it's alluding to An Awareness of the political implications n stuff #which most people in the west are not actually aware of!! so then to go on and be like #'oh yeah simplified is like swiftly efficient and ~modern~ while traditional holds fast to its cultural roots from a bygone era' #like. this is some stares straight into the camera type shit to me. like you really didn't have to call us bygone y'know. #like i'd have been fine if they were like 'simplified is what's used in the mainland china n is thus used much more frequently' #'whereas traditional is used in taiwan hk and with older communities' like that's Fine you did it you Navigated The Divide #but if you frame it in terms of an aesthetic choice based in how ~modern~ or ~bygone~ you want to feel #then you're going to end up with people who are merely curious abt cn typography bc it's a very foreign language to them #who take that at face value. good lord #AND ALSO they have separate encodings in unicode. like just saying. they are also encoded differently and that's an important thing #you do not know how many times i've downloaded allegedly traditional cn fonts only to discover they expect simplified input #in order to display the glyphs which Are still designed as traditional to be fair but anyway. it's a nuisance.

[hearse-full-of-rats]

The shinkansen is so pretty I'm going to cry why is she so cute like why can't we have this i would kill to have such a cool looking train in my region bro

#Taiwan High Speed Rail #shinkansen #hsr #sees one picture of a train and rambles incoherently for an hour #brightline west

[dilebe06]

My Top Male Characters of 2023

#my top male characters of 2023 #kdrama #korean drama #cdrama #chinese drama #jdrama #japan drama #taiwan drama #tw drama #i am the years you are the stars #jiang bai ju #weak hero class 1 #jeon seok dae #gomenne seishun! #tsutaya satoshi #kairos #im geon wook #ikebukuro west gate park #morinaga kazunori #extraordinary you kdrama #jin mi chae #the gifted #thai drama #ohm #the spies who loved me #jun jo hoon #small and mighty #zeng ju jia #how to buy a friend #heo don hyuk

[fieriframes]

[Chef Erik Bruner-Yang. I'm from Taiwan. Me and my mom came over to California when I was four.]

#s23e15 east-west flavorfest #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #chef erik bruner-yang #taiwan #mom #california

[ammg-old2]

We’re living through the birth of a new species of skyscraper that not even architects and engineers saw coming. After 9/11, experts concluded that skyscrapers were finished. Tall buildings that were in the works got scaled down or canceled on the assumption that soaring towers were too risky to be built or occupied. “There were all sorts of symposiums and public statements that we’re never going to build tall again,” one former architect told The Guardian in 2021. “All we’ve done in the 20 years since is build even taller.”

There are skyscrapers, and then there are supertalls, often defined as buildings more than 300 meters in height, but better known as the cloud-puncturing sci-fi towers that look like digital renderings, even when you’re staring at them from the sidewalk. First supertalls were impossible, then a rarity. Now they’re all over the place. In 2019 alone, developers added more supertalls than had existed prior to the year 2000; there are now a couple hundred worldwide, including Dubai’s 163-story Burj Khalifa (a hypodermic needle aimed at space), Tianjin’s 97-floor CTF Finance Centre (reminiscent of a drill bit boring the clouds), and, encroaching on my sky, Manhattan’s 84-floor Steinway Tower (a luxury condominium resembling the love child of a dustbuster and a Mach3 razor).

Some supertalls have an even more futuristic designation: superslim. These buildings are alternately described as “needle towers” or “toothpick skyscrapers” (though not every superslim is a supertall). Early superslims shot up in Hong Kong in the 1970s, though lately they’ve become synonymous with New York City; four supertall superslims loom over the southern end of Central Park in a stretch of Midtown dubbed “Billionaires’ Row.” Building engineers, like judgy modeling agents, have varying definitions of superslim, but they usually agree that such buildings must have a height-to-width ratio of at least 10 to 1. To put that in perspective, the Empire State Building (one of the world’s first supertalls, completed in 1931) is about three times taller than it is wide—“pudgy,” as one engineer described it to me. Steinway Tower is 24 times taller than it is wide—nearly as slim as a No. 2 pencil, and the skinniest supertall in the world. (The developer’s official name for the building is 111 West 57th Street.) These superslim buildings—and supertalls generally—have relied on engineering breakthroughs to combat the perilous physics that go with height. A 2021 article in the journal Civil Engineering and Architecture declared: “There is no doubt that super-tall, slender buildings are the most technologically advanced constructions in the world.”

Like many cutting-edge innovations, supertalls can behave unpredictably. In strong winds, occupants have reported water sloshing in toilet bowls, chandeliers swaying, and panes of glass fluttering. The architect Adrian Smith, who has designed numerous supertalls, contends that you’re in supertall territory not just when you hit 300 meters, but when you build so high that you get into “potentially unknown issues.” And, he acknowledges, there are “still mistakes being made.”

#architecture #construction #urban planning #skyscrapers #supertall buildings #united arab emirates #china #palestine #egypt #ancient egypt #england #saudi arabia #taiwan #russia #432 park avenue #burj khalifa #tianjin ctf finance centre #111 west 57th street #empire state building #tower of jericho #great pyramid of giza #lincoln cathedral #new york world building #central park tower #jeddah tower #willis tower #taipei 101 #shanghai tower #lakhta center #shanghai world finance center

[thistransient]

I took the train around the southern tip of Taiwan today and the difference in air + water was very striking from the west, above, to the east, below (no filter/edit)

#shall we blame the air from the continent or simply the fact that all the big cities in taiwan are on the west coast #it could just be particularly hazy today too #taiwan #south china sea #pacific ocean #train travel

[crearuru]

im going to murder cisgender bridget guilty gear fans. Not even close to all of them. Just the ones who are being transmisogynistic. A sizable number, but id like to think its not a majority

#saw someone say that bridget was retconned to appease west taiwan's government #the fuck does that even mean!!!!!!