Recently I realized that I’ve met a lot of people with the surname Hung but virtually no Hongs. Hung is a romanization of 洪 used in Taiwan (it's Hong in pinyin). So why have I met so many Hungs but not many Hongs? It turns out that in Taiwan, 洪 is the 14th* most common surname, but in Mainland China it’s way down at 107th**!
After learning this, I realized that 洪 is not the only surname for which I've noticed this imbalance. Using rankings I found online, I calculated the differences in ranking and also the "quotient" (rank in Mainland divided by rank in Taiwan) for over 200 surnames.
This list consists of surnames "significantly" more common in Taiwan ("significant" means quotient > 2). I’m focusing on surnames for which my personal observations line up with the numbers. The rest of the surnames meeting the criteria are under the cut.
List order: By rank in Taiwan, from most to least common
List format: 简体字 | 繁體字 pinyin (Taiwanese-style romanization)
Additional surnames meeting the criteria:
The first 4 surnames are so common everywhere that I haven't observed an asymmetry. Thus, they are listed down here.
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[trying to make a cloud pun work for a bio-related post is suffering]
Getting more work underway on finalized!106 and 107, and I wanted to take a more proper crack at translating the bio on Amon that O'Brien hands Professor Cobra as they talk early in 106. This bio actually shows up a handful of times in the first half of Season 3; the shot I used here to compile a "full" version of it is taken from 106 (hence Cobra's thumb), Manjoume pulls up the first half as he's looking him up in 111, and Amon brings it up for deletion in the first different world when they all stumble into his submarine in 121 (used for the second shot, isolated from the equivalent shot below, which I used to base the full version on), though it's super shrunken there. I actually previously translated it in my last run through Season 3, but only in its uses for 111 and 121, and I figured I'd give it a better once-over now since, looking back, I'm not too happy with some capitalization/font choices here, and I made a mistake with one of Amon's cards:
I've also transcribed the Japanese text on this, since I was actually surprised no Japanese fans managed to (text under the cut below), but from that, I updated my translation on Amon's bio and retranslated his cards in the list there, doing my best to measure things out to make sure things are evenly spaced out. The picture of Amon isn't a consideration, since I'll be masking the original picture over this edit as I work it into the video. Also decided to match Crunchyroll and use "Garam Conglomerate" vs the older "Garam Finance," especially since, with the way Manjoume talks about them in 111, they're much bigger than his family's financial group.
One thing worth noting: this lists Rain Storm as one of his Magic Cards and Diamond-Dust Cyclone as one of his Traps--but by the time he used them in 111/112, they were a Trap and Magic respectively. It's possible they were originally meant to be a Magic and Trap, but I accounted for this by properly listing DDC in Rain Storm's place (where for some reason I thought to use Wonder Cloud in my previous translation lol) and Rain Storm in DDC's place.
With this done, I'll also be doing a version to use in 111 with hyperlinks colored in, just to get it out of the way; then, I'll work it into 106 proper, into the two shots as Cobra looks at it and as he hands it back to O'Brien. But hoping it looks nicely done!
[also new Cloudian support when, some of his cards are still unreleased lol]
“From now on, Qilin will always be there every year. May you be innocent and safe every year.”
—(mtl)
Sorry, it's a bit late, but here are the fic recs no. 106 to 109 "Restart Window Paper Series". These fics are closely related to each other. There is a recommended reading order by the writer:
《悬崖》 "Cliff" → 《命蛊》 "Fate Gu" → 《深海以下》 "Below the Deep Sea" → 《敦伦之乐》 "The Joy of Dunlun*" (Bonus 🚗)
① [PX Fic Rec 106] 悬崖 "Cliff"
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: T | 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Complete | 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞: Chinese | 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡: 25 Chapters | 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐬: Canon Setting—Restart, Window Paper (has not been pierced) | 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐜: Wu Xie's First Person POV, Action/Adventure
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜: This fic fills the scene after NPSS's statement that he got drunk and changed the story. It starts from when Pangzi entered the calling spring from tulou, and Wu Xie met Liu Sang. There are some additional PingXie scenes and other necessary changes for the sake of the plot.
② [PX Fic Rec 107] 命蛊 "Fate Gu"
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: T | 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Complete | 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞: Chinese | 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡: 30 Chapters | 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐬: Canon Setting—Restart—Yucun, Clear Water, Window Paper, HE | 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐜: Wu Xie's First Person POV, Action/Adventure, Ambiguous Relationship, Life Span
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜: This fic is a continuation from 《悬崖》 "Cliff". After their last adventure in Restart, Iron Triangle came back to Yucun. How𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜:𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜:ever, for some reason, Xiaoge and Fatty's wound couldn't heal for a long time. In order to find the cure, they once again embarked in a new adventure. The main topic of this fic is the life span matter and it is solved here.
③ [PX Fic Rec 108] 深海以下 "Below the Deep Sea"
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: T | 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Complete + Extra | 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞: Chinese | 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡: 22 Chapters + 8 Extras | 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐬: Canon Setting—Ten Years, Restart, and Yucun (Notes in Rain Village), Pierce the Window Paper, Dual POV, HE | 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐜: Wu Xie's First Person POV, Zhang Qiling's First Person POV
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜: After Zhang Qiling came back, he took it for granted that he and Wu Xie were already together, but Wu Xie mistakenly thought that the other party was straight and insists that he was actually straight too. To make it worse, Wu Xie didn’t dare to ask or say anything about it.
"Last question, what is the deepest place on the seabed?"
I thought for a while and said, "How do I know this? With the current modern technology, it is still impossible to explore such a deep place, and whether there is a deeper place is also an unknown field. It is estimated that only the sea itself knows."
"Do you understand?" The fat man looked at me and gestured upwards with his hands, "What can be measured and seen is the part that is exposed. The part that is most hidden..." He poked me with his finger, "Only the sea knows."
④ [PX Fic Rec 109] 敦伦之乐 "The Joy of Dunlun*"
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: M/R | 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Complete | 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞: Chinese | 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: 2,886 | 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐬: Canon Setting—Yucun (Notes in Rain Village), Zhang Qiling's First Person POV | 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐜: First Time, Established Relationship
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜: This part is also the first extra story of 《深海以下》 "Below the Deep Sea".
Before having a relationship, I regarded sex as optional. Although I occasionally had thoughts, I was not sure whether both of us were ready.
Until one night, I had a s*xual impulse towards Wu Xie.
𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞: PingXie Only
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧: It's really really worth to read! The overall story is great 💖 The plot is not too fast or too slow, and the whole thing makes sense. I think PingXie is a type of ship where everything needs to be taken slowly, it's easy to become greasy if you don't write it carefully... and the writer really did a good job, even Xiaoge's smut part doesn't feel out of place. The double perspective is also impressive, I can feel Xiaoge's strong and independent personality here. I mean that he always has his own thought, even in canon, he isn't the type of character who likes to follow along blindly without thinking. He comes to this point because he wants to do so, he always has his own reason to do something. It's just that Wu Xie's perspective make it difficult to know what Xiaoge is thinking. This is one of the best window paper fics I've ever read! (*˘︶˘*).。*♡
𝐀 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: Dunlun means s*x between husband and wife, more info here.
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝:
Lofter (the search function doesn't work properly on web, so I give you the archive page link instead).
その後放送されリマスターされたバージョンは改訂版であり、オリジナル・プリントはヴィンテージの16ミリ・プリントを使った特別上映以外は二度と上映されることはなかった。そのうちの1枚がインターネット・アニメーション・データベース・フォーラムのメンバーであるParamountCartoonsに提供され、彼はこのバージョンから可能な限り多くの部分を分解し、そのプリントはすぐに色補正されたMKVとしてLost Media Wikiで共有され、誰もが楽しみ、調べることができるようになった。
M2
cancion rosa
(Adiemus)
M3
アテネの白いバラ
(Nana Mouskouri)
M4
if I were a rose
(Sebestyen Marta)
M5
le temps des fleurs
(Sandie Shaw)
M6
Willie Stewart / Molly Rankin
(Eddi Reader)
M7
I know a rose tree
(Secret Garden)
M8
野ばら
(おおたか静流)