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How to build a sturdy bridge out of 9 beams using ancient methods

A full picture of the painting mentioned (Along the River During the Qingming Festival/清明上河图) can be found here, but I've inserted the section with the bridge under the cut

[eng by me]

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“Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.”

— Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs. From a BBC radio interview in 2007.  (via elviskeepsmypictureinhiswallet)

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tibetan fashion on xiaohongshu by 画感(model himself)

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please wait outside the one meter line

eat when you need, but don’t waste the food

please don’t bring in any external food

works/construction in progress

sichuan style hot&spicy chicken dish

marinated wheat gluten with peanuts and black fungus

watch your step/be careful not to slip

ethnic park

please contact with our salesperson before trying it on

detection dog/sniffer dog

i can’t say this one is wrong……

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I have heard the Youth’s concerns about problematic media and so I’ve decided to compile a list of non-problematic books you all should definitely read!! #tikok

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. A classic of Young Adult Lit.

Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima. A beautiful story of friendship between a young man and his older mentor. Great for anyone who uses the word sempai unironically.

Dangerous Liaisons by Chloderlos de Laclos. A roguish French aristocrat unintentionally falls in love and decides to change his life. Lovers to Enemies.

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Basically, Call me by your Name for Adults.

Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. A bunch of friends living their best life in a Parisian tenancy.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Love Boat but down the Congo River.

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A 19th century mock-documentary into the ups and downs of a Russian family.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque. If you liked Little Life, you will LOVE this.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Your twitter bffs band together and decide to live in a picturesque New England town.

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A 14th century retelling of Heartstopper.

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...more than soccer and samba.

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Kashmiri Muslim girl . 1939.

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by 徐大花xudahua

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Chinese street fashion in Chengdu

Videos compiled by me. Videos were filmed with the subject's knowledge.

song: 好久不见 - Lil Jet

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i only see the grouchy ramblings and ppl worrying about the mentally ill like always but if you think about it’s a very very interesting contemporary art project

it’s transmedia surpassing media and solidifying itself as its own thing: a fandom for a work that doesn’t exist. in a certain way it throws light at how media how we know it is completely obsolete, every big media project NEEDS to be transmedia too, be accessible on social media, spawn lore, exist outside of its canonical version.

as someone who majored in transmedia and thinks about getting a masters on the theme the Goncharov tag is absolutely incredible, the way people put commitment and thought in this project points towards a way i’ve seen snippets of: maybe a ‘post transmedia’ entertainment, where the main way of consuming content is creating fandoms based on collective ideas, not established pieces of media?

you could see a bit of this concept in ‘fandoms’ for original characters of famous artists who don’t have any media attached to, just designs and lore, but i feel Goncharov has shown the next stage of this phenomena. i’m amazed to witness this in real time.

i Genuinely find goncharov (1973) to be a really profound piece of collaborative storytelling and mythmaking and not just A Meme - like it is that, but it follows all these threads that have been human tradition for as long as we can remember, i think.

from mythologies about local pantheons and how the stories have evolved through geography, oral storytelling, and cultural drift over centuries and millennia - there is no One Right Version of the story, because every story is right Somewhere. from, whatever is going on with arthuriana and similar collections of Characters and their arcs. from the entirety of the czech republic playing into the cimrman bit, and kids having to learn that he's not real like he's santa or the tooth fairy. from the way actual historical figures get shrouded in propaganda to a point where what we learn about them is not the real story of what actually happened. from fandom shenanigans with homestuck's squiddles, and, uh, didn't voltron fandom invent a bootleg klance? from superwholock gif collections to the way podcast fandoms seem to soldify character designs for characters who have no canon visual appearance beyond a few precious clues.

i think stories can be Real without being Canon, because where DO any of these lines go? at what point does a character go from being an OC to a Fictional Character? are we not telling a story together? scorsese and license plate matteo didn't make this movie but you've made the movie now, or at the very least the experience of one. and you made something beautiful! you could have made a spiteful and irony poisoned dig at the movie industry and instead you decided to create something beautiful and meaningful.

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Girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers. Patras, 300-400 B.C. 

Can be seen at the Museum of Patras (Greece)

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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So I went to an art exhibit recently, a collection of Native American art from pre-colonial times to the present. As you might guess, there were a few pieces whose artist was lost to time or erased. But instead of the usual “artist unknown” credit, the curators instead chose to label the artists as “Name Once Known”.

I think that’s amazing. It says, “we don’t know your name any longer; we’ll never know who you were, exactly. But you were a person once, and you mattered. You had a name, and you were loved, you had a life, and you made this art. And that means something. Your name was once known.”

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thinking about reviving this blog since all the losers and bastards went to twitter and the CQL fam is strong here 🤔

hi my names is Sorrows/Ciarán/Ren/Chengmei/Tsuk/Thais/etc/etc, i’ve been around for 28 slutty slutty years, very mentally ill, i draw doodlesies, i cosplay peeples, i write thangs, i’m Latino crying in Brazilian, add me if you’re into

-pro shipping / pro fiction / anti censorship / k!nk positivity

-Yi City fuckery / SongXueXiao and all variations

-XueXian

-XueYao

-trans positivity / AFAB headcanons

-p@rn

-witchcraft

-drinking the Xue Yang/ Meng Yao respector juice