#chopsticks for sure

[bugeyedfreaks]

Bad phone camera screen capture photo dump of maybe half of the tabs I’ve saved of things from Mercari I would LOVE to get of weird and/or unique Japanese PPG merch.

[forcebookish]

top deepening his voice when talking to mew's moms... gun speaking higher when talking to cher's mom... i love these choices

[queennai714]

Random hcs I have because I may be cringe but I'm free part 28 (Ninjago)

(Except I feel so strongly about this one, I have to remind myself on a daily basis that it hasn't been explicitly stated on the show)

Kai is the best at hand-to-hand

Jay is the Weapons Expert

Simple as that

Nothing could convince me otherwise except seeing an episode worth of proof from the show itself, which they wouldn't even do since it's basically canon atp

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I got a handmade rice/soup bowl. Was it indulgent? Slightly. Will I use it? Yes. I refuse to eat out of anything else I love it so much.

[lancrewizzard]

I wish I was more confident writing kid fic because I want, nay need, several thousand words of Rincewind and Twoflower accidentally adopting the entire Red Army

[notetaeker]

November 4, 2022 - Friday | Fall challenges 25/30 + 21/30

Great news today: I Finally after at least 7? 8? Years of failure, was finally was able to knit! And do you know why? Instead of the slippery aluminum knitting needles you can readily buy (and then struggle with for 7-8 years and then believe knitting just isn’t for you) Instead I used bamboo CHOPSTICKS and it worked. Chopsticks. It’s wild. I’m so excited! omw to by actual bamboo knitting needles.

🏆 What about you makes you proud to be you? My sincerity. Firstly I am literally the worst liar I can't lie to save my life. Secondly I always give everything my all. This backfires sometimes because what if you can't give your all, do you then give nothing? (The answer is no! You give as much as you could and that's good enough! Complete is better than nothing!) Lol in college to submit a graduation request we had to complete a long survey about the school and I went to do it with my friend and was taking forever while my friend was halfway done and she was like ??? why are you actually thinking about each one- just put whatever! it's anonymous! We have so much to do after this! And I was like. oh. here I was trying to sincerely answer each question 🤦🏽‍♀️😬 Still very proud of it tho because at least I personally know that I'm trying my best everyday, even though my best might look different each day.

📓 Favorite subject as a child English and science for sure and then history starting in high school. I really like stories that's really what the english and history is abt. I also love learning about why things happen. I'm so so curious!

[delightful-69]

Literally every conversation with them be like

"That doesn't sound right, but i don't know enough about [subject] to dispute it"

[donuts4evry1]

A lot of our chopsticks recently molded over (oops) so I pestered my brother to buy new ones!

anyways. Tag yourself, which one are you? (I'm the cat :>)

[dudefrommywesterns]

tbf i am the type of person who will clean off their table, even if people are paid to do that

[listentothelittlebird]

Tell me about your local/self-made childhood games that you bet will horrify some people I’ll start:

Two person game played in Mandarin, first you say (name of game) and then you say “first floor” (in Chinese, 一楼) and show scissors paper stone. Except if you both show a different hand sign, you go again and say “second floor”. Basically you keep going up until you both show the same hand sign, at which point the first person to make finger guns and say “bang!” wins.

The name of the game is “跳楼自杀”. As a child I never contemplated the name but on hindsight it’s pretty morbid to play “jump roof self-kill” (literal translation). Then again ring a-round the rosies exists

(If you have a not-morbid local game put it down too!! Gonna list more games down here)

Heart attack:

Scissors paper stone, but when you lose you put a hand on the floor in the middle of the circle of people playing. When the next person loses, they put their hand on top of yours. When a single hand is not on the pile, whoever’s hand is the bottom of the pile is pulled out to play. Eventually the hands will rotate until someone gets both hands free, at which point they chant “heart attack” at whatever pace they want before slapping the hand stack.

The losing players can try to withdraw their hand from the stack once the winner moves to slap. Whoever’s hand gets slapped is now the bottom of the pile for the next game (they start with one hand less)

While saying “heart attack” the winner crosses their finger over the pile with each syllable, kind of like doing innie-minnie-miny-mo. “Heart” tap on the hand pile, “aaa” tap on the floor, “ttack” slap the hands. To build suspense they usually say each syllable excruciatingly slow. “Hearrrrt-aaaaaa-ttACK”

Chopsticks:

Each player starts with one finger on each hand. When you tap one finger to another one-fingered hand said tapped hand becomes a two-fingered hand. Tapped by a two-fingered hand adds two fingers to your hand. You lose when getting tapped makes your hand five-fingered or a bigger number

There’s some additional rules: You can clap both hands to split the number of fingers between the two hands, so one hand has three the other has one you can clap to split two-two. If you wanna waste a turn you can just swap the number of fingers on each hand by clapping.

One-two-three(一二三):

There is an english version I think but the Mandarin one sounds better and is probably the original. I’ll explain in english then put the whole Chinese recitation at once

Basically it’s a long sequence of hand claps between two people. “One-two-three” put both hands together palms facing inwards and slap the back of the other person’s hand at each syllable. Imagine two fish tails slapping each other

”We go high” double high five above your heads “we go low” double high five at your legs/lap “we go back, front, legs” at “back” turn palms facing face and slap back of hands with other person, at “front” normal high five, at “legs” slap your own thighs

“we go one-two-three” double high five at normal height, three times. So “one” high five, “two” high five, “three” high five.

“We go four-five-six” turn your hands palms facing your own face. Backwards double high five another three times. “We go seven-eight-nine” normal double high fives again, three times. “We are best of friends” double thumbs up to each other

“We go jelly jelly lom chiam” make fists and roll them like a hand peddle “pas pas pas” and then throw out scissors paper stone. So, in Chinese:

“一二三//我们上//我们下//我们后前脚//我们一二三//我们四五六//我们七八九//我们好朋友//jelly jelly lom chiam pas pas pas!”

[lesbianboyfriend]

“it’s easy, you just hold it like a pencil”

guy who has been holding pencils wrong his whole life: um

[vampirechatroom]

guys please check your bongs before taking honorary rips for frank today. rhythm guitarists have been known to fall inside pipes and may need to be fished out before you can safely consume the chronic. thanks. 

[hua-fei-hua]

alright whenever you have time (and also the energy) I would love to hear your thoughts on the lantern rite epilogue! Have a good day <3

we're going to pretend that people following me will care abt genshin 3.4 lantern rite spoilers so we're gonna put my entire deranged mess under a cut hahaha

*gently holds* MY XVS......

truly this lantern rite had EVERYTHING although truth be told, like, the way venti was kind of shoehorned in was a little disappointing. i felt a little bit baited by the way the 3.4 TRAILER HAD THAT ONE CUT RIGHT where it goes from VENTI PLAYING THE LYRE in the harbor to XIAO LOOKING UP AT THE FIREWORKS outside of wangshu inn, and then we see the xiao bit in the actual cutscene on day 2, but absolutely none of venti until the epilogue. and also we never see venti playing the lyre during the event story so it's like. whoever edited that pv absolutely had xv on the brain. like. what the hell was that it was magical i feel higher than a boat right now

BUT ANYWAY like i don't even care how obviously shoehorned in venti felt bc the interactions were all SO PERFECT i love love loved them. i loved the way hu tao just RAN INTO WANGSHU INN and started shouting for xiao, and then talked death to him until he was like "yeah sure i'll go to your dinner". they are so besties i love them their friendship is everything to me.

THE WAY. XV INTERACTED. IN FRONT OF US. xiao just like "well. um. there's this. um. um." TOTAL PANIC MODE n venti had to SAVE HIM with like "huuuh? did you forget already? i'm a bard!" like HELLO why do they need a COVER STORY why are they making up COVER STORIES TOGETHER WHAT WERE THEY DOING TOGETHER IN THE MARSH EARLIER like what kind of GAY SHIT--

also i'm pretty sure when xiao started explaining his relationship to venti, venti fluttered his lashes at him. like, i recorded the whole quest (bc i didn't last year with the final part n i REALLY WISH I HAD bc i STILL remember the dRAMATIC GASP i had when we had that one beiguang moment in the cutscene), and when i rewatched it earlier i was like. "HANG ON. DID HE JUST FLUTTER HIS LASHES" n rewatched it like three times. maybe my game was just stuttering BUT IT DEFINITELY LOOKED LIKE IT and maybe i'll gif it when i get home from work tonight

BUT ANYWAY (2) point is that the expression work this time was ON POINT like whoever's doing all that over at mhy hq needs to get a raise pronto. venti going (¬‿¬) at all the other immortals was so immaculate. you aren't subtle little man!!!

it's probably just shipper goggles on to an extent, but i feel like the xv implications were really strong this time around, with the parallels to that fontch guy's ancestor, and the guiping n everything... i'm kind of disappointed that we don't get to actually hear any of venti's unobstructed thoughts on xiao; like the ribbing n implications at the dinner are a lot of fun (like, they were totally making out in the marsh before dinner. we all know this. it's very clear imo), but it kind of makes me wonder why we can hear xiao like... do his Very Heavy Implying abt venti's importance to him (though again, he doesn't outright say anything-- we know the full extent n depth of xiao's feelings abt venti (romantic or not) bc we can read his character stories, so technically really he hasn't told us jack squat in the current canon timeline), but the best we get from venti are smug expressions. those expressions are very telling, ofc, but a very unhinged part of me wishes that mhy didn't feel the need to wrap up the xv in layers of allegory and metaphor and just outright heard one of them say, "this person is very dear to me." i know it's just the rabid shipper in me, and i need to be sedated, but i was really kind of hoping that we'd see the allegory w/the fontch guy's ancestor n madame ping lifted away at the end n, like, see or hear it be bound to xv outright. just for purely self-indulgent purposes o(--(

but anyway (3) i also love love loved all the playful ribbing, witty banter, and prev event callbacks btwn the characters!! hu tao n venti canonically making a pact to be poetry friends was SO GOOD you just KNOW hu tao is gonna commission venti to compose a JINGLE for wangsheng advertising purposes later, while zhongli n xiao are like, "this meeting never should have happened. we are all doomed." somehow i legitimately forgot that xq n venti know each other from irodori n was like, "...huh?" when xq mentioning knowing venti for like, a FULL two seconds. the way venti was like "damn you know i was right outside this entire time. can you believe the way some people ignore the wind?" n zhongli was like "hahaha (✿◡‿◡) the harbor is very busy this time of year (✿◠‿◠) it is very hard see or hear an individual person's whereabouts (^人^)"

AND ALSO. PAIMON BEING ELECTED AS THE "MOST DISTINGUISHED GUEST." PAIMON YOU GOT IN THE WAY OF MY DERANGED SELF-DELUSIONMENT MANY TIMES THIS LANTERN RITE BUT THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY. i thought it was interesting how no one nominated venti. like i was kind of expecting xiao to do it (but ofc he nominates traveler) which is fair honestly, n then i was like "IS LUMINE GONNA NOMINATE VENTI????" but then she nominated paimon n paimon was like "wait... me?????" n it was just EXACTLY like a bunch of adults telling the little kid they are the most specialest ever n they should have the honor of doing The Thing. as that little kid growing up, i know the feeling very well lol

there are other bits i'm just,,, rotating around in my mind, like venti and kazuha hanging out on the alcor, the way xiao goes "i can't taste the difference in xiangling's special almond tofu" when you go visit him afterwards, ALL THE GANQING THAT HAPPENED IN THE MAIN STORY I'M SO HAPPY FOR THEM I'M SO HAPPY FOR ME I WON VERY HARD THIS LANTERN RITE, n like,,, yeah!!!!

[llatimeria]

i like to think im a very cultured person until i go out for asian food and i am the only one who isn't using chopsticks

[blennie]

saw someone dressed as yor from spies, someone they were with was like ohh i didn’t recognize the costume bc you don’t have her chopsticks. her chopsticks??

^ these??????

[sillyfroggremlin]

having ocs is so great because I'm the kind of person who wants to know everything possible about a character and... if I create them, then I'm always right about them !!!!