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grouchydairy · 24 minutes
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The last time I watched this show it was half over dinner and half not paying attention, so there was a lot of historical context that I missed that I ended up digging into more. First, with more understanding of Chinese history, I moreso recognized the players in the Chinese civil war, namely the Kuomingtang (KMT) party that ultimately pulls out of Shanghai and retreats to Taiwan. Last time I watched it, I think I just simply accepted that the retreat as a plot point was them falling back. I didn’t connect it with the actual historical event. Second, for some reason, last time I’d watched this, I’d completely missed the whole French concession area in Shanghai (1849-1943). With so many shows set in Hong Kong having white characters (usually representing the British), I never really paid attention to these minor characters. That, and now that I’ve rewatched it, the actors involved playing French characters were unconvincingly French in the French that they speak. It’s still pretty big that I missed it the last time I watched it though. What was I paying attention to last time? (Read: probably fuming over Kenneth Ma being dubbed over). A Wikipedia deep dive brought me into the Concessions in China page listing a whole list of concessions I’d yet to hear about. I know about Hong Kong (British) and Macau (Portuguese) and now Shanghai, but the extensive table lists United States, UK, Russia, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, and Austria-Hungary.
on Lord Of Shanghai (TV show)
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grouchydairy · 54 minutes
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To remember that ruins don’t always mean ruined; in its place, a new story, a new significance.
#ruins
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instant noodles
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soup
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mapo tofu
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hot pot
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grouchydairy · 3 hours
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You can do this, after all.
lucy dan / needing affirmations today
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grouchydairy · 4 hours
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My brain has so many tabs open and the tabs are GROUPED I'm that kinda person.
TIME CAPSULE: nov 2023
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grouchydairy · 4 hours
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Ants, small, tiny, imperceptible.
#poetry
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grouchydairy · 5 hours
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spring journal prompts
things to get rid of, things to gain
something you want to learn
go out and press some spring flowers, write how each makes you feel
write what each colour of the rainbow means to you
what does birdsong make you think of?
do some mental spring cleaning; dump old thought patterns that no longer serve you
set a "spring goal" for yourself
watch the sun rise, write about it
design your ideal ecosystem
what are you looking forward to?
go outside. what do you hear? how does that make you feel?
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard "Richie" Jerimovich Forks, The Bear
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From Duna Haller’s chapbook, Limbo, available at https://bottlecap.press/products/limbo
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grouchydairy · 6 hours
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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.
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Cora vest pattern by CucurucuCrochet
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Carolein Smit - Rakker mit gouden trannen (Rascal with golden tears) (2009)
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_oui.sungah
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artist: chloé joyce
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