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Some Things I Like and Even Reblog: FANDOM, SO MUCH FANDOM (Guardian (Zhen Hun), Granting You a Dreamlike Life, The Lost Tomb Reboot, ...let's just say "all things Zhu Yilong" and call it a day, yeah? XD, Dao Mu Bi Ji/The Lost Tomb/Grave Robbers' Chronicles, The Untamed (MDZS), Les Miserables, Star Wars, Rocketman/Elton John, Maze Runner, and many other fandoms, i.e., The Umbrella Academy, Teen Wolf, Harry Potter, Star Trek: TOS, TNG, DS9, AOS, Leverage, Being Human UK, anime, nostalgia fandoms, SO MANY MORE), MUSICALS (Hair, BoM, Newsies, so many Broadway and West End actors), SOCIAL JUSTICE THINGS (antisemitism, rape culture, misogyny, feminism, education, racism, sexuality, gender), CUTE ANIMALS, SCIENCE THINGS, PRETTY NATURE THINGS, AUTUMN THINGS, SO MUCH RANDOM... really, my blog is a mess. O_o;;;
OK, so I figured it was about time I started one of these, especially given the fact that my old tag post is so outdated, it’s not even funny. This is going to be a work in progress because I have a LOT of content to sort through and I will probably start with just linking the big tags, but… we have to start somewhere, I guess? ^_^
(Note: These are also going to be in backwards chronological order from newest to oldest, and there are going to be repeat posts, especially in the parts that are split by fandom, because those are search links, not tags.)
(Note #2: I have never been able to figure out how to make tumblr links work on mobile. None of these do. Sorry. :P If you want to use any of the links in the masterpost on mobile, just open them (or the master post) in a mobile browser; then they should work just fine.)
And behind a cut for the fandom specific stuff, I think. ^_^
My name is Claudia and I am doing a MA in Korean Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. I’m currently working on my dissertation and I’m basing it on Korean dramas and their subtitles - specifically how subtitles may influence people’s opinions about Korean culture and language.
I finally finished organising the main survey I was preparing, which I finally launched yesterday. This survey is the key to my research so it’s quite important to me!
To explain it quickly:
> It will take roughly 15 minutes to complete as there are quite a few questions and clips to watch.
> The survey is anonymous but I do collect emails just by default (Don’t worry, they’re not to be disclosed to anyone. It’s just to keep track of numbers and not to have people repeating the survey)
> I have used short clips from the following dramas: The Glory, All of Us Are Dead, Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Squid Games. However no spoilers to the plot have been used - all the clips are a few seconds long and only include idioms, expressions and cultural elements so no spoilers intended nor shown.
> In the last section you’ll be asked to watch said clips and reply to the questions related to them but again NO SPOILERS to the plots.
I see two common formulas when a character is severely hurt
injured >> panic >> faint
or
injured >> hide it >> faint
While these two formulas are great, I am here to propose other things people do when they are in severe physical pain. pain to this degree throws a persons entire body out of wack, show it!
here are some other less commonly found things people do when they’re in severe pain:
firstly, repeat it after me, kids! not everyone faints when they’re in a ton of pain! some people wish they could faint
but they do tremble, convulse, or thrash uncontrollably (keep in mind, trembling and convulsing are something the body does of it’s own accord, thrashing is an action taken by the person)
hyper/hypoventilate
become nauseous
vomit (in severe cases)
hallucinate
lose sight (temporarily)
lose hearing (temporarily)
run a low-grade fever
run a high-grade fever (in severe cases)
become unaware of surroundings
develop a nosebleed
develop a migraine
sweat absolute bullets
feel free to add more in comments/reblogs!
My wrist was SHATTERED in a car accident. With adrenaline I felt fine. I was totally logical with nurses. I maintained my sense of humor.
Then it was time for x-rays. I told them “I’m happy to try but please let me go at my own pace and I might throw up.”
That’s when they realized no one even offered me a Tylenol despite my OBVIOUSLY broken wrist. So they took me back, gave me a pain pill, and we tried again.
While the CDC has given up on providing any guidance on risk control measures for covid, The People’s CDC is filling the gap and continuing to track and update guidance as the situation evolves. Here’s where you can download their Safer In-person Gatherings Toolkit:
Here’s an extremely detailed guide on what to do if you have covid that includes how long to isolate for, how to set up your house with hepa filters and ventilation, what supplies to have on hand, when to go to the hospital, and guidelines on how to pace from the MEAction Network in the event you end up with long covid:
The work these guys are doing is amazing. They’re still tracking wastewater data too so you can still figure out transmission levels in your area and not just the hospitalization levels. Check them out!
white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy
If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.
here are some places to get native/indigenous goods and merch online if you can’t find something local or if physical access is an obstacle:
Imagine being some distant Wu cousin, someone who’s predecessors cut themselves from the main branch’s antiques business/graverobbing thing like, two or three generations back, and then one day Wu Erbai shows up at your doorsteps like:
‘Good day, young man, may I interest you in the position of a mob boss?’
Worst part about this is I’ve only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn’t who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
Due to some stuff brought up in recent posts I believe it is time to once again extol the virtues of Ms-Demeanor’s Patented Where Did I Put That Fucking Paper Organizational Binder.
Hello! I am a disorganized adult! This is the system by which I manage my important shit like pink slips for my car and medical records and tax information.
You’re going to need:
A 3-Ring Binder
Transparent Sheet Protectors
Notebook dividers (optional but VERY useful)
A backpack (optional)
So the way this system works is you put the sheet protectors into the binder. You can either use the dividers to divide the binder into sections or you can label some of the sheet protectors to make different sections but what you are generally going to do is make sections of the binder labeled things like “taxes” or “vet” or “doctor” and put a few sheet protectors in each section.
Then all of your papers with important information get crammed in that folder. You don’t organize them, you don’t sort them by date, you don’t alphabetize. You put things vaguely relating to taxes into the sheet protectors in the taxes section. You put things relating to cars in the cars section. You don’t even attempt to make this readable - you’re not using sheet protectors so that you can read each page and keep it legible, you’re using sheet protectors because it’s a cheap plastic bag that will sit nicely in a binder.
You CAN put stuff into the individual sheet protectors when you get it, but let’s be realistic you probably WON’T do that, so just tuck individual papers into the front of the binder until you get to a critical mass of paperwork then take an hour to sit down and sort into categories and put it in the binder once every six months to three years (depending on how frequently you get paperwork). Sometimes these sections will outgrow their original allotted space - since my spouse had a transplant surgery the medical section has had to become its own folder - and that’s okay. If you end up with multiple folders just keep them together (this is why the backpack is an option, and one I strongly recommend).
Because yeah, if my organization system relies on opening up a drawer and putting something where it belongs as soon as I get the paper, I will simply not be organized. It’s not going to happen. But I can handle a messy stack of paper that sits in one place and grows until it is time to shove it into a binder. I can’t organize things for thirty seconds a day every day but I can organize things for an hour once every year or so (maybe two hours every five years when I sort out stuff I don’t need like copies of warranties for parts on a car I don’t own anymore).
When my mom died she had about fifty pounds of paper files in her office that were neatly organized in a system that didn’t make any sense to my dad, my sister, and I. I ended up sorting through those files for twenty hours, tossing out copies of paid invoices from ten years ago and student handbooks from my junior high school. I reduced one filing cabinet, two desk file drawers, and a foot-high stack to a six inch binder that I gave to my dad. My mom died five years ago; two months ago my dad asked me about a medical document and I was able to tell him to go look for it in the medical section of the binder. It was there, because ALL IMPORTANT SHIT GOES IN THE BINDER.
Where is my birth certificate? In the binder. Where is my tax return from 2017? In the binder. Where is the record of my dog’s last rabies shot? In the binder. Where are the records for my life insurance? In the binder.
A lot of what people consider “being organized” breaks down to whether or not you can find the specific things that you’re looking for. Does my binder look nice? Is it aesthetic? Does it have color-coded tabs and papers all laid out neatly? Absolutely fucking not. But if you ask me where to find a paper I know that I can do so within about five minutes of shuffling through the pile of letter-folded sheets that I pulled out of the appropriate section of the binder.
I’ve discussed the Where Did I Put that Fucking Paper Binder before, but now it is time to expand that concept to the Backpack of Important Shit.
You likely have Important Shit that does not fit in a binder. Some of my Important Shit that does not fit in a binder is stuff like jewelry and the spare key for my car. Other stuff - the reason I decided to bring this up at all - includes my backup hard drive and packaging (including product key codes) for pretty much all of the software that I own. This is also where I store printed out copies of the recovery codes for most of the online accounts that I have.
There’s a lot of weird fiddly shit that we have to have that we might not access all that often. This is the kind of stuff that might end up in junk drawers or under sinks or in disused laptop bags or kicking around under a bunch of papers in a desk drawer.
It doesn’t matter so much when that weird fiddly shit is a set of hex keys or a utility knife or a protractor or a copy of a student handbook but it DOES matter when it’s something that you might need to put your hands on in a hurry. If your computer crashes, you’re not going to want to track down the software in the back of a filing cabinet and the backup drive from somewhere in the bowels of your desk. If you lock your keys in your car you are not going to want to figure out if your spare is in a junk drawer or the old purse where you keep semi-important stuff or the tin on your desk that has buttons and pins and headphone covers. Just put it in the Backpack of Important Shit and when you need it you know where to look.
So anyway, if you are a person who is a minor disaster who has trouble finding important things when you need them please don’t think that you have to get your life together and have a nice organized filing cabinet or clear plastic bins full of documents or a neatly divided storage closet where everything from board games to backup drives has its own neatly labeled place. Just assign ONE LOCATION for important shit and start putting the important shit there. It doesn’t matter if you have a filing cabinet where you keep old copies of homework and printouts of online orders and family history records - you do not need to keep everything that is file-able in one place and depending on what level of catastrophe you are it might be detrimental to you if you try to do that. It doesn’t matter if you have a jewelry box where you keep your collection of gauges and wrist cuffs; if you are going to stress out about where grandma’s ring is when you’re digging through your collection of cheap earrings and silver pendants then *do not keep grandma’s ring or any other Important, Vital, Cannot Be Lost jewelry in with your day-to-day wear*.
I live someplace that has fires. My binder got upgraded to my Backpack of Important Shit when the fires were getting uncomfortably close to the house I was living in and I wanted to have one bag to grab if we had to get out fast. Once I did that, I never took the binder out of the backpack and the backpack has now made three moves with me and has meant that I’ve had my birth certificate handy when I needed it in the middle of a move between two states, I was able to provide a history of my cholesterol panel going back six years to a visiting nurse, and I was able to give the exact names and contact info of my spouse’s previous surgeon to the hospital when I had unexpectedly moved to a new state with three bags and my work computer at the beginning of the pandemic.
Get yourself a backpack of important shit and a folder of where the fuck did i put that paper. It is so much easier to search a backpack for important shit than to go through an entire house and it is so much easier to flip through a binder than it is to dig through a filing cabinet.
Anyway good luck and happy adulting.
Criteria for determining what is important shit:
Was the document difficult to get? Birth certificates, death certificates, deeds, pink slips for cars, etc. Falls into this category. If you had to spend more than an hour getting the document and if you would have to make at least one phone call to replace it, it is an important document.
Was the paper difficult to generate? If you had to sit down and fuck around with a program and look at three other sheets of paper to make the document, keep a copy of the document you generated. This might be a tax return, this might be a college financial aid application, this might be an application for a home loan.
Does it have an account number on it? You do not need to keep EVERY piece of paper with an account number on it, but it is a good idea to keep at least one piece of paper with an account number for accounts that send you paper. You should have one copy of a bank statement or a credit card statement or a life insurance policy number or your retirement savings number. A good way to determine what you should have is by asking “how many steps would I need to take to get this number if I was talking to someone on the phone about it.” Maybe I don’t need to keep a bank statement because it would be very easy for me to get a copy of my account number, but it would be difficult for me to track down my life insurance policy number online so a copy goes in the folder.
Does the paper represent a legally binding agreement? This means is it a lease agreement, an insurance policy, a financing agreement? The whole document goes in the folder because you want a place where you can reference the agreement in case you need to file a claim or something like that.
Is the paper current? It is good for me to have a record of my dog’s rabies vaccines, but I do not need to keep a copy of every vaccine she has ever had in her life; I can discard old copies. It is good for me to have a copy of the insurance for my current car. I do not need a copy of the insurance for a car I no longer own.
What would happen if someone asked for this document and I didn’t have it? If a mechanic asked you for a copy of a receipt for a repair done at a different shop five years ago and you didn’t have it, you would likely not have any problems. If you were asked to produce a copy of your birth certificate in order to get a marriage license and you didn’t have the document, there would be problems.
Keeping paperwork is not a matter of sparking joy, it is a matter of covering ass. If you had to move to a new state on the other side of the country and establish yourself there for everything from getting an ID to requesting a pet license to applying for a loan or opening a bank account to proving your income history to a landlord, would you have the documents you needed to get it done? If you have those documents, they go in the folder.
EN subbed 8-min interview (Jun 25): Zhu Yilong cut with Youku Starry Movie Salon for Lost in the Stars. On why he accepted He Fei’s role and his experience working with Ni Ni & Janice Man.
There’s a reason lots of good parents say to babies stuff like
“You’re excited to go to the park!”
“Oh, it makes you mad that we can’t go outside.”
And then when the babies get a little bit older the parents can say
“You seem upset. Are you sad?”
“Are you excited that gramma is coming over today?”
Which lets the kid (who is learning to utilize speech) respond with yes or no, which may prompt more questions, like
“So you aren’t sad, are you angry?”
“Yes, does it make you happy when gramma is here?”
And then, finally, when the child is learning to use language in a more complex way, the parents can say,
“How does it make you feel?”
“Why are you feeling like that?”
And it’s all about teaching emotional awareness. I really reccomend using the process on yourself. Learn to ask, “am I happy?” “Am I sad?” “Am I anxious?”
Then practice identifying, out loud or on paper if you can, “I’m happy.” “I’m upset.” “I’m sad.” “I’m anxious.”
Final step: “Why am I feeling anxious? I’m still thinking about that awkward conversation earlier.” “Why am I happy? It’s such a beautiful day outside.” “Why am I sad? None of my friends are responding to my messages.”
It really helps you notice patterns (“I’m more likely to be happy when I’m around this person.” “When I haven’t eaten, I often feel angry.” “If I don’t plan ahead, I get anxious.”) which is the first step in avoiding things and people that are bad for you and encouraging things and people that are good.
Basically don’t forget that you’re just a baby who got more complicated.
Not sure how to articulate what you are feeling? Try starting at the middle and working your way out to the more specific feelings!
