nuri148
nuri148
Nuri 148
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This is where I ramble about all things fandom, fanfic, and the act of writing. Ship and let ship, kinktomato. AoT, rivamika, arumika; TAD, jinmao; Yubiren.  Born in the 20th century. AO3/IG: nuri148 | Tw: nuri_148
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nuri148 · 5 hours ago
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but be nice to fanfic authors. Reblog their stuff. Tell them you liked it. How you felt when reading. What school assignment you didn’t finish because of how captivating their story was. Don’t just scream to your friends about it. But tell them.
So many wonderfully talented people out there don’t get the praise they need. If their work brought you joy, make their day better by telling them it did.
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nuri148 · 11 hours ago
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nuri148 · 13 hours ago
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So it's no secret that I love The Apothecary Diaries, and one of the things that captured my interest is the dynamic between Jinshi and Maomao, and while Maomao deserves eight hour video essays given in her own right, I wanted to talk about Jinshi as a character because I know he can be a bit controversial. I have a particular friend who despises Jinmao as a ship because she claims it's non-consensual, and that Jinshi is simply a trope of the handsome official with a dark secret and "silly" personality, albeit while being incredibly problematic. What's interesting about that is I also thought Jinshi was simply a trope when I first started the series; the sparkles, the smooth, seductive personality, being a secret prince, even being "silly", all of these things made me dismiss him as amusing, yes, but a trope nonetheless. However, by the time I finished watching through the second season of the anime, I was surprised by how much Jinshi grew on me, both him as a character as well as his writing, specifically in how he ends up subverting the trope he used to be. *anime only*
When Jinshi is first introduced, it's as the sparkly head Eunuch in the Rear Palace—all smiles, charming everyone in the palace, acting flirtatiously with Maomao, going to visit her as if she's a toy to him, the works. But as he states later—it's all an act. And where Jinshi differs from all the other "everyone thinks I'm popular but actually I'm just lil ol me and only she sees me for beyond my looks" trope is that his act is much, much more calculated. He uses his looks as a weapon because that's all he has in this world, and if he wants to survive, he has to utilize everything he has in order to protect himself, because the alternative is much worse. So he plays the part of the charming Eunuch that's always calm and collected, all while carrying a much larger burden. What stood out to me the most was the moment by the second garden party, the one with the blue roses, where we hear his inner monologue. And suddenly, we as the audience are clued in much more to how incredibly aware Jinshi is of everyone at all times. How he exploits lust, manages envy, and is incredibly wary of those he can't read. Because from a young age, he's needed to compartmentalize, get used to losing what he wants, and has to be aware of everyone else at all times lest there are political repercussions. The thing is, the act is also so very lonely. He's crumbling under pressure, and yet he always has to put on a smile. The anime doesn't shove his loneliness in your face; rather, it's more understated. For example, when Maomao first comes to stay by him, she learns that he basically has one attendant, Suiren. They couldn't have other servants because of the less savory things they would do. Jinshi has to keep everyone at a distance, living only with two people who've known him since he was a child, because no one else can be let close.
No one else except Maomao.
The thing about Maomao is that his charms don't work. She isn't secretly flustered (though we all know what truly thinks of him), it just simply bounces off. No matter what Jinshi does, Maomao doesn't lose her composure, doesn't react to his advances, and still maintains an even conversation with him. For the first time in his life, he has someone who's brilliant, yet reserved, and whatever he does, no matter hard he tries to seduce her, it just. won't. work. And this is where some of his behavior comes from; he's so used to getting what he wants from seduction, when encountered with someone who won't react, he sometimes pushes himself on too strongly. The thing is, he's grown up so emotionally repressed and detached from others that he doesn't know what to do with the girl in front of him. It doesn't excuse his occasional less than savory behavior towards her, no, but it's evident that he's grown to truly care about Maomao, and simply lacks the means to express it. He keeps pushing and pushing, sometimes stepping too far, because he doesn't know any other way. And even with the Frog Scene™ and how forceful he got with her, he later came to apologize, a fact which is very often overlooked for some reason. Similar to Maomao, he doesn't know what to do with his emotions, and often gets outbursts which come from how much he suppresses himself. He's learning how to deal with it, and the Jinshi he becomes by the end of the second season is very different from who he was at the beginning of the series. With Maomao, he's able to drop the mask of "charming, perfect Eunuch" and even Maomao says she prefers him when he's being more immature. Because at the end of the day, he's just a 19 year old with an enormous amount of pressure on him, weaponizing everything he was given while keeping everyone at a distance, and doesn't know anything else beyond using seduction in order to get what he wants. He grows to let his true self show more and more, and as he displays many times, he cares deeply for Maomao and doesn't wish to hurt her or use her for his gain, even going so far as to fire her because he was worried she hated having being sold to the palace. He acts like a child because he never got to be one while still not even being an adult. And yes, he makes mistakes, but he grows from them and becomes much more than just the trope and turning into a real human being with flaws.
Tl;dr: Jinshi is a complex character, and he's so much more than just a trope or a red flag.
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nuri148 · 1 day ago
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nuri148 · 2 days ago
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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
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nuri148 · 2 days ago
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nuri148 · 2 days ago
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Levi with a man bun, the bow got me.
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nuri148 · 2 days ago
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Ackerman war part 2
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Good night , Commander (eruri comic)
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nuri148 · 3 days ago
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Uh- are you aware of the meaning of proship?
Proship has never meant anything except a combination of three ideas:
Ship and let ship (your ships don't harm me and vice-versa) and YKINMK (your kink is not my kink, and that's okay; my kink stories don't harm you and vice-versa)
Harassment over fiction is not acceptable
Censorship of fiction is not acceptable either
Any other definitions are made by antis, not proshippers, and are an attempt at revisionism to justify harassment based on false claims.
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nuri148 · 3 days ago
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periods are medieval honestly. like sorry I got suicidal last night turns out I had too much blood in me. yeah no some of it fell out and I'm fine now.
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nuri148 · 3 days ago
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"Hey brat..." I'm convinced levi wouldn't call the cat anything else.
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nuri148 · 4 days ago
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nuri148 · 4 days ago
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This is fascinating. As I started reading I wondered whether blind speakers of heavy geturing languages (eg italian) also gesture more than say, german blind people. Reading the results i think they probably do!
Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal)
People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.
Blind people will even gesture when talking to other blind people, and sighted people will gesture when speaking on the phone - so we know that people don’t only gesture when they speak to someone who can see their gestures.
Earlier this year a new paper came out that adds to this story. Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the *way* they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded and others left able to see their conversation partner.
Turkish and English were chosen, because it has already been established that speakers of those languages consistently gesture differently when talking about videos of items moving. English speakers will be more likely to show the manner (e.g. ‘rolling’ or bouncing’) and trajectory (e.g. ‘left to right’, ‘downwards’) together in one gesture, and Turkish speakers will show these features as two separate gestures. This reflects the fact that English ‘roll down’ is one verbal clause, while in Turkish the equivalent would be yuvarlanarak iniyor, which translates as two verbs ‘rolling descending’.
Since we know that blind people do gesture, Özçalışkan’s team wanted to figure out if they gestured like other speakers of their language. Did the blind Turkish speakers separate the manner and trajectory of their gestures like their verbs? Did English speakers combine them? Of course, the standard methodology of showing videos wouldn’t work with blind participants, so the researchers built three dimensional models of events for people to feel before they discussed them.
The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something that’s deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.
References
Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature, 396(6708), 228-228.
Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2016. Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker? Psychological Science, 27(5) 737–747.
Asli Ozyurek & Sotaro Kita. 1999. Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish: Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization. In Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 507-512). Erlbaum.
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nuri148 · 4 days ago
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there IS a middle path between "worshipping every cis guy who says anything vaguely feminist and then being shocked when people use this to cover up their own misogyny" and "treating every single cis male feminist as inherently suspect and probably a lying predator who only talks about misogyny for clout/to get laid." we don't have to do either. there's this cool thing called "seeing other people as full human beings" and i think it's worth trying out
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nuri148 · 4 days ago
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I often think about this exchange, especially the last shot where Levi is looking out of the corner of his eye. Like he’s making EXTRA sure that Hange isn’t upset with him, but he’s trying to be chill about it.
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nuri148 · 4 days ago
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