I loved him at first sight. I have learned to love him more. I will love him until I die. I wish in next life I could still be in the same world which has his soul.
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The Alastair Campbell diaries Tony Blair x ‘Ali’
"It was my impulse, whenever I found myself alone, to remove my coat, rip off my tie, loosen my collar and roll up my sleeves- a gesture aspiring not merely to comfort but, in a more symbolic sense, to freedom. The Duchess likes to describe this process as my 'Striptease act.'"
-Edward, Duke of Windsor in Windsor Revisited (page 152)
Ok ok so I have no idea if your still interested in the titanic but I NEED to know how Harold bride handled lighttolers rumors about jacks death
HANDLED?? hahahhaaaa no he moved to Scotland and lived there quietly as i remember he didn’t handle anything and then suddenly in 1936 he dropped this banger—-
but this article is not about Jack’s death mostly it’s just about Lightoller being a moron with dementia or something..
"In celebration of Mary’s birth, Henry’s coat of arms depicted a little Tudor Rose (Mary) emerging from a Pomegranate, (the symbol of the house of Aragon, Mary’s mother). The stone feature originally adorned the gatehouse of Beaulieu Palace, now residing in the Chapel at New Hall School."
As someone who’s Chinese w/ a degree in social science + (art) history regarding East Asia I’m always super intrigued and interested to how others interpret changes in new titles on older religious texts- but I will ask in particular if you have any personal ties to Buddhism/Taoism/Confucianism (and Chinese culture) when you find yourself interpreting BM:W’s change in allegorical use of Buddhism as contemporary political adherence! BM:W’s religious and soul mechanics follows their previous game without much overt linking between the two.
Overthrowing Gods in East Asian media is a very common trope in videos specifically due to player involvement (contrast to books where you are separate as the audience) and often is used as an allegory for the system/recent events we exist in. In such it does shift a lot from the original text in base but I think it’s not supposed to relay the same allegory due to the time period in which the writers exist! Wukong’s story changing to him still being chained by the principles that envelop life is far more relatable to late-stage capitalist environments viewers and artists exist in- as such he fulfils the contemporary variant of his original role in JTTW!
I think the change in purpose the Buddhist mythos serves in this game is decisive by nature due to inherent bias present in the original text as a religious piece, and such is core to the allegory. However I don’t think BM:W is supposed to relay that allegory, I think it is supposed to branch off on its own as an alternate contemporary extension of the foundation JTTW set out (plus with the 2 DLC’s on the way, there is plenty of time to extend the universe in game to validate a shift in religious purpose compared to the cut 7 chapters planned during development). And such i think attributing it to the CCP can be a bit of a touchy statement (especially if one doesn’t have long standing ties to East Asian culture or Regional religious practice!) and can accidentally play into sinophobic phrasing and attitudes.
Buddhism as a practice and way of life has a very different presence in writers centuries ago compared to now, as well as how we use religion in audience-involved stories. And such I find it an interesting shift regarding a game made with an international and widely multi-religious audience (that isn’t consuming it as a psycho-socio poem compared to a much smaller and more culturally homogenous readerbase. I think the friction caused by thematic changes is more due to how the game relays the physical journey so closely with reusing characters and having to shift them according to the foundational changes- if it was closer to other written “sequels” that created characters connected to the original cast through descending from them etc, the changes wouldn’t grate on completed arcs or how we compare the experience to wukong’s parallel one
No, I do not have any direct personal cultural connection to Buddhism, Daoism, or Confucianism. I live in Asia, though, and beyond my research of JTTW, I do study religion here (with more of an emphasis on folk religion as it pertains to the Great Sage). My negative view of Black Myth: Wukong is colored by my deep love for the original story. In general, I don't like adaptations.
Thank you for your explanation of the game.
To think Bermondsey was more than ten years before Maurice!
did you see the interview where Hilary Mantel said “Mary is emotionally compromised or, as she would see it, morally compromised, because of the attraction she feels to him. She is angry – with herself.“? ☠️ Mary was not attracted to cromwell lmao; she was just being polite to an important administrator. What do you think of the Cromwell-Mary relationship, or how wolf hall handles it?
Why does every woman in the Tudor court have to have weird sexual tension with Cromwell?! Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Jane Seymour, now Mary... I am not a fan lol.
I think the Cromwell-Mary relationship was nothing more than Mary interacting with him because he was her father's chief advisor and unless you'd done something horrible, Mary seemed to be nice to people. I'm sure she also thought being friendly with him would help her situation, via Cromwell influencing her father.
But I can just see they're going to use the fact she drew him for a Valentine irl to portray their relationship more romantic ew.
Heads up that a clip from "Bermondsey" (episode of Thirty Minute Theatre) featuring one of the very first gay kisses on TV in the UK has been uploaded to Youtube recently!!! The full play is only available to view at the BFI I believe.
Heads up that a clip from "Bermondsey" (episode of Thirty Minute Theatre) featuring one of the very first gay kisses on TV in the UK has been uploaded to Youtube recently!!! The full play is only available to view at the BFI I believe.
“Someone comments on the ghastly oil painting of them, still not in the bin. Chris admits there are others.
‘Where’s that one of you as a woman, Neil?’ he asks.
‘It’s us as a married couple,’ Neil explains.
It has conveniently disappeared. There are more: Japanese fans are keen to represent the two of them interacting in strange ways. They were once given one of Chris crying and Neil comforting him. Another depicted them kissing.
‘That really turns them on,’ laughs Neil.”
- Pet Shop Boys, Literally (1990) Chapter 7
THE SERVANT (1963) dir. Joseph Losey
Why does Mary look younger than Elizabeth in Firebrand
Anne stans are saying KoA was sent to “comfortable country manor houses”, all her miseries was due to “her own choices”, and she could “easily change it”. Ok so actually Tower of London could also be a very comfortable place to live in, even as a prisoner. What about that! And I guess when these fans get into similar situations they’ll happily admit their daughters are bastards, just so they themselves could live comfortably? (Meanwhile the financial promises are actually unstable because the ex husband has the absolute power)
One more for the road ...
Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton at Shanghai TV Festival, 24th June 2024
Source video clip on Xwitter
Me, staring at the "Nezha is eternally 12/Nezha is often depicted as a kid so he's just a kid and nothing else" crowd: man, have you heard of Child Manjushri a.k.a. Wenshu Tongzi
(This is totally not an excuse for me to find cool statue pictures and talk iconography)
So, here is Bodhisattva Manjushri in his standard "graceful aristocratic prince" form, riding his azure lion. The statue in the picture doesn't have it, but oftentimes, he'll also be holding a flaming sword that symbolizes wisdom's ability to cut through ignorance and delusions.
This is "Holy Old Monk Manjushri", a variant that I came across a few times while temple-touring, but couldn't find many good online pictures of. It seemed like a thing that was popular around Mt. Wutai, based on the "Buddha-palita met Old Man Manjushri" tale. Sometimes his BFF Samantabhadra is depicted as an old man too, for matching purposes.
And this is Child Manjushri, with his five hair buns, often worshipped in an esoteric context. On Mt. Wutai, there are five major temples atop five peaks, each worshipping a different form of Manjushri, and the "middle peak" temple has a Child Manjushri in their main hall. Like, it's far from the most common variant, but neither is it this super obscure form that no longer enjoys active worship.
Lastly, just for fun: this is Yamantaka, a guardian deity/Wisdom King, who, in Tibetan Buddhism, is believed to be Manjushri's wrathful form.
If you wouldn't call Manjushri "the eternal child Bodhisattva" just because he has a child form, why would you say Nezha is an eternal child when he, too, has both child and adult forms?
Even though Nezha's child form is vastly more popular and well-known than Child Manjushri, I think my point still stands: A deity is capable of having multiple manifestations, of varying ages and appearances, each fulfilling a particular function and niche——none of which is the "One True Form TM", just different clothes they wear based on occasions and audiences.
To stretch the analogy a little, Manjushri's child form is the formal dress he puts on before attending a religious event, while Nezha's child form is the lotus T-shirt he wears a lot while appearing on TV, to the point it becomes his most iconic attire.
This doesn't mean he only has a single shirt, for goodness sake, and using his child form as evidence for the "eternal child" claim is like saying Nezha's only allowed to wear that one shirt and nothing else.
I believe the real danger is not the ghosts so as a woman I won’t do it.
Meanwhile I find the one reply saying they’d do it for free to be the most ridiculous. They are only saying words to show their discontent with politics and their moral superiority without actually doing anything. It’s equivalent to saying all funeral related industry should do their work for free. They need to do their job, show empathy to the clients, and entirely depend on photosynthesis to live. It’s similar to some people’s expectations for medical staff. And those people won’t ever choose these professions for themselves.
Historian: Let me write in details about whether Thomas More and his second wife Alice had sex or not.
Me: That sounds a bit weird.
Also me: Ok fine I also kinda want to know.
Me after reading the evidence the historian gives: Well that doesn’t explain anything.
Just saw a random English YouTube comment doing class analysis on the story of Liangzhu. Was impressed because I’ve never thought of it that way, but maybe to a outsider (with a bit of background knowledge) it looks pretty obvious?
《点解》曲子原唱原来是PSB……
为了这首歌我好想结婚😂
听把悲伤看透时好想去日本坐火车
但是想象的中心都只有我一个人 婚礼场景我想要的是让大家都来听和唱这首歌
wow今宵多珍重粤语版好有我想象中古代中国和民国的感觉 感觉非常适合婚礼(尽管歌词)
wow今宵多珍重粤语版好有我想象中古代中国和民国的感觉 感觉非常适合婚礼(尽管歌词)
当年撒切尔还跟手下商议过送什么礼物给做为总理的他……
如果没看错的话赵紫阳家书柜里有俩queen's guard纪念品摆件 可爱…… 我猜是孙子孙女辈的带回去的吧
如果没看错的话赵紫阳家书柜里有俩queen's guard纪念品摆件 可爱…… 我猜是孙子孙女辈的带回去的吧