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Paintings of the Titanic sinking by Ken Marschall

I think my favorite currently is the second one. On one hand it almost looks serene and the ship looks not too damaged, but on the other the warning signs are starting to build. The lifeboats are swung out, the boilers are still venting huge amounts of steam(it can’t be underestimated how loud the venting was. Second officer Lightoller recalled he had to cup his hands over the Captain’s ear and shout to ask permission to start loading the boats, and in the wireless room Jack Phillips in one his messages to another ship noted he was having trouble hearing the signals over the noise), and observant passengers will have noted a slight forward list the ship has so far taken on(Lawrence Beesley recalled that when going to the boat deck at around midnight he noticed walking up the stairs felt different)

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Madonna and Child with Wise Virgins, Santa Maria in Trastevere, by Pietro Cavallini  (1259 – c. 1330), 13th century

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What is the titles of a princes wife and concubine in the qing dynasty (Like are they named Princess Consort X or something). And what are they referred as. Is there a difference between the emperors uncles wifes and his brothers wifes and the emperors wifes.

Thegeneral word for the wife of princes in the Qing dynasty is fujin 福晋,which is a transliteration of a Manchurian word. 

Duringthe times of Nurhaci and Hong Taiji, the main wife of was called da fujin 大福晋 andthe lower ranking consorts were called fujin 福晋 only. Lower ranking concubines alsoused the titles ce fujin 侧福晋 and shu fujin 庶福晋. Up until the time of Shunzhi, theemperor’s harem system was not formalised so this fujin system was alsoinitially used for the wife and consorts of the emperor.

Fromthe time of Kangxi, the titles of fujin were used to refer to the wives andconcubines of princes (sons of the emperor) and other princes (not sons of theemperor) who had been granted titles of qinwang 親王, junwang 郡王 or shizi 世子(eldest son of qinwang).  

Thehierarchy from then was:

Fujin 福晋: reserved for the official wife only, called di fujin 嫡福晋 for her position as the diqi 嫡妻

Ce Fujin 侧福晋: Prior to Qianlong era, only two ce fujin were allowed. From the Qianlong era, princes who held the rank of qinwang were allowed to have four ce fujin.

Shu Fujin 庶福晋 or Gege 格格: the lowest rank for concubines of princes, unlimited number.

Theconcubine selection process (选秀女) was not only held to chooseconcubines for the emperor, but also to select di fujin and ce fujin for theprinces. So di fujin and ce fujin were officially granted title with officialmarriage ceremonies (obviously with differences to account for their ranks).These women would be recorded into the official records and receive officialallowances. Because of this, there was the limit on their number and even cefujin was considered a more “official” and prestigious position. Both di fujinand ce fujin were allowed to bring their personal serving maids from home intotheir marriage. By constrast, gege were concubines who could come from the bondservant class orcommon families, though they could be elevated to be ce fujin if they had a son(like mother of Yongzheng’s third prince Hongshi, who eventually became QiFei).

(Gegeas a title for unmarried ladies and daughters of princes (not emperors) isanother kettle of fish. I used to be confused about it for years because of the pervasivenessof Huan Zhu Ge Ge. I’ve already angsted about this here, and here.)

DiFujin and Ce Fujin would be referred to by the title of their husband, e.g. XQinwang Di Fujin, X Qinwang Ce Fujin. If Ruyi is to be believed, within their particularhousehold, characters in their names could be used to differentiate betweenwomen of the same rank, e.g. Ruyi/Qingying = Qing Fujin, Xiyue = Yue Fujin,Hailan = Hai Gege.

Unclesand brothers of the emperor would very likely to hold titles of qinwang orjunwang, so they same system would apply to them. For more distant relatives ofthe emperor who don’t hold these titles, their wives would just be called“furen”. -H 

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I'm not exactly sure how old King Dedede and Escargoon are, let alone who's older than who. How old do you think they are?

Dedede is proooobably older, judging by his use of 'washi' as a pronoun, which is the 'old man' pronoun lol. Escargon uses 'watashi' which is more general. His mother is elderly, so he's probably up there himself. But he could easily be the same age too... Up to interpretation I guess rofl

I mean for his coronation anniversary, Escargon claims Dedede has been king for THREE HUNDRED YEARS, but we know his royal status is, uh, questionable to say the least, so it sounds like he just wanted to use a big number.

To put them to human equivalents tho, I'd say... Dedede is in his 50s and Escargon in his 40s.

The only characters we have official ages for are Whispy at 400 years, and Kabu at 'over a million' I think...

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𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞/𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 (𝟐/?)

𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐮𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 (𝟏𝟕𝟏𝟏- 𝟐𝟓 𝐅𝐞𝐛 𝟏𝟕𝟒𝟓)

*𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫*

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“Javier Valladares Urruela ranting about how the left is ruining society with race and gender equality, calling them “insanity.” He married into a family that still flaunts their defunct and useless “HRH Prince/Princess of Bourbon-Parma” titles (even the Luxes don’t flaunt those titles) or trying to secure votes to be part of the far right group (Eric Z) of France by saying they’re descendants of the King of France. Lol the family he married into only have titles and very little assets. Worry about trying make ends meet to pay the bills instead of what people in another country you and your in laws don’t have any connections or citizenship is trying to better their society with no titles to make themselves feel better” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Film directors should be barred from making a movie about any subject unless they can correctly fill a questionnaire about said subject with over 70% right answers, nevermind the fact that the life of Napoleon is one of the most documented in History and it's very easy to find if he did or did not do something

"Did Napoleon build a sphinx of himself out of Austrian soldier corpses? Y/N"

*Ridley Scott nervously sweating*

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On the topic of little Franz, it’s reminded me that it’s unfortunately still a common thing to see articles or books relishing the fact that he died, as a “payback” for Josephine. The reasoning behind it is that Napoleon was sexist and wrong to divorce Josephine. One of the reasons Napoleon and Josephine separated was so Napoleon could have an heir. So Franz only existed due to Napoleon’s second marriage to Marie Louise, who he married after separating from Josephine. The fact that Napoleon’s only legitimate son died young and without any children of his own is then paired with the fact that Josephine’s children (without Napoleon) have descendants. This in itself is pretty dumb because it ignores the fact that Napoleon had illegitimate children and also has descendants. But the premise is that little Napoleon II bore the guilt of a perceived slight committed by his father against Josephine and therefore had to be destroyed as a sort of revenge against the father. Little Franz was Napoleon’s greatest dream and the person he loved the most in the world. So the people who hate Napoleon rejoice in an event which they believe would have caused him pain (he was already dead at the time Napoleon II died).

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A quick sketch of  Joséphine de Beauharnais

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Princess Auguste of Bavaria writing to her brother, the future King Ludwig I of Bavaria, about Eugène de Beauharnais for the first time:

12 April 1805:

I even believe that Herr Otto [the French ambassador in Munich] had the order of asking my hand for Eugen Boharnet (sic); if [the engagement] with the Prince [Karl of Baden] wasn't so certain, a negative answer would had been dangerous; I do not even want to think the shame that it would have meant for our house

Princess Auguste of Bavaria writing to her brother, the future King Ludwig I of Bavaria, about Eugène de Beauharnais thirteen months later:

4 June 1806:

My husband deserves to be your brother-in-law... He has been ten days absent and I have never felt so abandoned; I could not stand a longer separation. And the Emperor [Napoleon] imagines that I'll decide to go to Paris to give birth. He is wrong. Eugène can not abandon Italy for a long time, and I will not separate from my husband

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WBRR Illustrated - drawn by @eve-to-adam

The Stables / I Plight Thee My Troth / A Family Divided / Heirs

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Winter Gaza 2022

📸 @Motaz Azaiza

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Mr Manchu and his life...

~1400s - 1620: Jurchen era! She would have been born sometime after the Jurchen Jin dissolves and splits, representing the Suksuhu River Tribe of the Jianzhou Jurchens. This personifying of tribes makes more sense to me for now, given how they seemed to see themselves, and allowing for a more exciting Jurchen Unification. Later she'd go to war with the other tribes and slowly unify the Jianzhou Jurchens before taking on the Haixi confederations and their allies, and then ultimately becoming the Manchu. At this point they were ruled by the Ming, until they rebelled and invaded. This is around childhood to mid-teens for Erdeni? The situation was a lot more complex than I stated above but in the interest of length (for now)...

1620 - 1911: Manchu Qing began! Roughly speaking anywas. As Jurchen culture shifts to become increasingly patriarchal under the influence of Confucianism, that is reflected in the mother goddess in Jurchen mythology/shamanism becoming the father god. Erdeni enters his man era. He's young and ambitious and a huge dick, violent, proud, etc. There's a weird mix of pride and a sort of worship for Chinese culture in him, he works hard on learning Hanzi calligraphy and poetry until he forgets his own language, almost. He's also a super violent empire though, and engages in bullying every day : ( China and Mongolia and Inner Asia and Korea and everyone around him are Going Through It. He forces China to cut his hair and has some delusions about the great Qing family... buying into his own propaganda? In any case it feels great to be China, the center of power. Korea and Japan are also engaging in a spot of 'China fell?? The barbarians took over??? that means... we are the new huaxia???? since China is dead now???' He grows during this period and enters his late teens.

1911: fall of Qing. Most frontier Manchu in Dongbei weren't hugely affected by it, but Erdeni clearly was not a frontier Manchu. China is free, but Manchu were understandably fairly hated so there was a lot of violence at this point

1911 - 1931: So starting in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese war, large swaths of Dongbei fell under Japanese control. At this point in the post-Qing era, because the revolution's plan for a republic somewhat fell through (Chiang Kai Shek :/) China including Dongbei was split into many different warlord territories. Puyi, the last emperor, had a tumultuous life including not realizing there was a revolution, a brief kind-of restoration, moving around to different estates, and dreaming of actual restoration, before ultimately becoming Manchukuo's puppet emperor, but honestly, at this point I'm not sure if I want to tie Erdeni to that... it's a bit murky for now, but he was for sure not having a good time around this point, and likely bumped into Japan quite a bit.

1932 - 1945: Manchukuo era... :/ well I debated on making him the face of Manchukuo because it almost legitimizes Imperial propaganda which I don't want, but I think it ultimately makes sense. He, like Puyi, is a puppet to legitimize the paper thing facade justifying 'Manchuria Independence', and yet has no power at all. He has a funny relationship with Japan at this point, something like wide-eyed and propaganda pilled on the surface, but a lot of bitterness right below it... I think Japan was quite invested back then due to the settler colony situation, though he's probably forgotten Erdeni ever existed by now. Erdeni's still a teenager, I do want to reflect his relative youth, and he basically hasn't grown since Qing started to crumble (note: it was way before the actual revolution)

1945 - present: Now isn't this a GROSS oversimplification! To be honest I just thought 6 was a good number and didn't want to deal with the rest of it, which is very fraught and messy. All I'll say is that it seems in recent years there's been something of a resurgence of interest in lost culture among the youth, which is pretty cool! His Manchu is probably spotty now, but it's not impossible to get back someday. He's also poor :( sad!

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People who are accused of sinophobia for accusing random Chinese diaspora with 0 connection to China of being a gov shill (in this case despite 23049685908 evidence to the contrary), and told this rhetoric is not only racist but has caused direct violence to the Chinese person recently: stop making this about you! this is about your GOV (goes on a tangent about what the gov which has nothing to do with OP is doing) WHICH MEANS YOUR POINT IS INVALID!

like you are just proving the diaspo's point... they've provided you the proof your accusations are unjustified... and now you're doubling down and starting to talk about the gov... which proves you conflate them with the gov they have 0 connection to and do not benefit from, as are actively facing racist violence tied to this. If you didn't think all Chinese = gov, then why would you continue bringing up gov actions after this Chinese diaspo proved they were not connected to it? What do they have to do with it? Why is this relevant at all, if you don't in fact support the conflation?

Finally, you can't get out of racism charges by saying they live in America, or that their people (not them) are also racist against yours, or that their parents' country holds economic power over yours. All POC can internalize racist rhetoric, racism is not a thing more inherent to some groups, it's a structural issue based on not only international power dynamics but local power dynamics as well, and those on different rungs of that ladder under the top level can and do internalize racist rhetoric against each other, and that is not justified through being on a lower rung *in general*. Spreading racist rhetoric online, in an anglophone space, means your rhetoric is simply going to be taken the way all faceless online anglophone rhetoric is and feed into irl racism in the west. Online, you are not limited by region but by language.

This isn't getting into how diaspora face more racism in their day-to-day lives, and how for some of the people targeted, we also face islamophobia and persecution/racism both abroad as diaspora and at home as minorities, as Muslims.

In this case *we are not more privileged than you in a way that is meaningful or manifests irl where this matters*, full stop. Privilege isn't an abstract that always manifests the same way, and intersectionality must be taken into account. Class, location, and relationship to the state you are living in, all of that matters, which is why different groups/ethnicities can have WILDLY differing levels of privilege in different regions. This applies to Asians in the West VS Asians who are the majority race at home, migrant workers and rich gentrifiers who are the same race and from the same country entering the same country, etc. Both historical colonialism and economic imperialism notwithstanding.

Also, weaponizing Japanese imperialism against a Korean through framing it as Easian colonialism vs SEA colonized, therefore conflating Easians (in this case Koreans) as the perpetrators, victimizing yourself vis a vis Korea, is fucking *vile*. Korea was arguably one of the most and longest brutalized, some of the main victims, the country pieced together their freedom after decades of colonial violence and suppression.

Downplaying and even mocking/denying colonialism and racism faced by other POC is racist no matter what. It feeds into violent rhetoric that affects us as diaspora IRL.

Finally, how hard is it to accept you've said something racist and move on, or changing your angle of attack at least? Doubling down is crazy. I've absolutely said unacceptable things before because I as a part of society have also internalized many racist ideas, we ALL do, that's how racism WORKS. And sometimes those things are against people who are more privileged than me! Who's gov or people have/are perpetuating this or that against mine! And I fix my thinking, retract my comment, and move tf on, because NONE of that justifies feeding into racism that oppresses them under the white supremacist world and societal order. Do you think I'm new to this, as an ethnic minority of a racialized group?

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

Edward W. Said, Orientalism.

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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia