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I need to look at some untranslated sources on Zhou Tai because what he was before he joined Sun Ce gets translated differently sometimes between various sources. Some translate it to pirate, some use more generic terms like brigand or highwayman. Yes this is incredibly important information, it's an extremely important distinction. Why does it matter if literally no one else cares, *I* care.

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white gays need to read up on pinkwashing and homonationalism before ever even thinking about opening their mouths talking about homophobia/transphobia in the global south

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How dare you exploit my weakness for the timeloop to make me reblog a post about Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang has the energy of a guy on his fiftieth iteration of the timeloop who is trying not to lose his shit at the new and creative ways people keep finding to ignore his detailed and incredibly well-informed instructions

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I think out of everything mentioned I'm going to see the comedy movie about the old guy who essentially turns his comically large family into a basketball cult that was made during the Arduous March in the 90s first, because apparently they started really kicking up the production of comedies because. You know. In the span of four or five years, anywhere from hundreds of thousands to several million people starved to death despite a massive outpouring of aid from the global community thanks to the utter uselessness of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as leaders, and people were resorting to boiling rice paper down into very very light mush and eating unripened corn cobs and uhhhh there were rumors of the occasional bit of survival cannibalism because you know, everyone was starving. (I really wanna emphasize the word 'rumors' here, because it's incredibly difficult to prove or disprove wholesale but if nothing else, people sure were scared of the possibility of it being real, and that says something in and of itself).

But hey, basketball cult comedy!!!!

Currently watching a five-and-a-half hour long video about the history of North Korean entertainment, I'll share it if I like it but unfortunately A) sitting through a video that long in one sitting is extremely difficult so yeah I'm not doing that and B) I have work today so you know. Gotta do that.

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Yeah you should definitely watch this five-and-a-half hour video about the history of North Korean entertainment. Seriously, it's really good.

Currently watching a five-and-a-half hour long video about the history of North Korean entertainment, I'll share it if I like it but unfortunately A) sitting through a video that long in one sitting is extremely difficult so yeah I'm not doing that and B) I have work today so you know. Gotta do that.

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The first rule of violent trench warfare is to have fun and be yourself

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Currently watching a five-and-a-half hour long video about the history of North Korean entertainment, I'll share it if I like it but unfortunately A) sitting through a video that long in one sitting is extremely difficult so yeah I'm not doing that and B) I have work today so you know. Gotta do that.

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We don't know as nearly as much about Zhou Yu's relations as we do the Sun family (I mean, we actually don't know all that much about the Sun family before Sun Jian's generation, probably because they weren't super affluent, but you know what I mean) and I am having so much fun making up random shit about them. A few of Zhou Yu's male relatives had big shot government posts including his dad who had some sort of position in Luoyang that I can't remember because that kind of minutiae has never been my main interest nor my specialty, (I'm sorry Confucius but you've yet to convince me that bureaucracy is the solution to all societal woes, do that and maybe I'll pay more attention to all the pedantic titles).

He's kinda wary of this kid who he's not entirely convinced isn't feral being his son's new best friend but I mean, he is also Sun Jian's presumed heir and that guy seems like he's going somewhere in life, so it couldn't hurt. Probably. Maybe he could even get a marriage alliance out of it or something.

I will not add wizard jokes to my fictional writing about Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. I will not. Wizard jokes are the mind killer. I have to prove that I can be serious because my writing is basically the only thing I take seriously in life. Neither of them even die because of wizards in the story, wizard jokes would barely be relevant.

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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This is very much the type of poll where I want to hear opinions in the comments, reblogs, and tags. Imagine you are in battle and must defend your favorite game's honor with your life. Reblogs are greatly appreciated to help reach a wider audience, especially if you voted, and even moreso if you chose the semi-obligatory see results option.

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A lot of people in mainland China are perfectly capable of getting around the so called 'Great Firewall of China' and interacting with the internet beyond it but the thing is a lot of them just flat out don't want to or don't really care all that much. Yeah sure the internet is heavily censored, but outside of that non-English spaces have gotten smaller and smaller while English takes over as the lingua franca of the internet, and they may or may not be able to read and understand English very well.

Also a lot of people on the internet beyond the 'firewall' are very hostile to them, they get treated like naive idiots or brainwashed infiltrators for the ccp. I remember a few years back when a lot of Chinese fanfic writers started uploading their stories on ao3 en masse because there had been a big uptick in websites that host fanfiction getting taken down and some people were so utterly vile about it, making jokes about how they could get the fics taken down by mentioning the Tiananmen Square massacre in the comments and things like that.

All because they were apparently offended by their favorite tags having more non-English works that can very easily filter out so they don't have to look at them at all. Because God forbid a fanfiction website that already greatly skews towards English fics have more works in other languages, right? That's like the only thing I miss about fanfiction.net, it had way more non-English fics, well that and more stories for certain fandoms than ao3 does.

And it's not like a lot of tech companies and other governments don't censor the internet to some extent or another, China isn't unique in that regard, it's just particularly infamous for being so heavy-handed and easy to use as a red herring.

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Yeah I dunno I think if I saw someone on the other side of a battle coming towards me with this thing I would be gone immediately.

Tempted to make a scale of certain unorthodox Dynasty Warriors weapons that people tend to think have no basis in reality that goes from 'that's an actual thing' to 'that's an actual thing but they exaggerated it' to 'yeah they just made that up, but who cares'.

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"He Would Not Fucking Say That" is whatever to me. For me it's always "He Would Not Fucking LOOK Like That". Why does he have abs. Why is he dehydrated. Someone help him

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Since I brought up Samurai Warriors and barely anyone in the west talks about how much samurai loved guns and how quick they were to innovate with them, the fuck off giant gun Saika Magoichi has in sw5 that's like a mix between a musket and a hand cannon is called an ozutsu, which is also 100% real and pretty period accurate aside from how much of a hassle it was to actually fire them since they were matchlocks. They were primarily used to disperse enemy fronts as well as to tear down defensive walls and similar structures. They were pretty good at that.

Tempted to make a scale of certain unorthodox Dynasty Warriors weapons that people tend to think have no basis in reality that goes from 'that's an actual thing' to 'that's an actual thing but they exaggerated it' to 'yeah they just made that up, but who cares'.

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Man I fucking love sailing the imperial Japanese navy theough the strait of hansan on this fine morning of July 8th 1592. I cannot wait to show lord Hideyoshi my awesome supply routes.

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I will not add wizard jokes to my fictional writing about Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. I will not. Wizard jokes are the mind killer. I have to prove that I can be serious because my writing is basically the only thing I take seriously in life. Neither of them even die because of wizards in the story, wizard jokes would barely be relevant.

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea