Btw that’s both a visual and a literal Chinese pun and I’m literally laughing so hard right now (my parents say this every year) and I want everyone to understand this.
Here’s the two phrases you’ll need to know:
年年有鱼 (nián nián you yú) - “(I wish you have) fish every year”
年年有余 (nián nián you yú) - “(I wish you have) extra every year” - this is a common blessing used in China
Both the 鱼 and 余 characters sound exactly the same and here’s where the pun comes in.
Every Lunar New Year, as good luck, we eat “fish” so that we can “have fish every year”. In other words, we’re eating fish so that we can have extra every year.
Extra what, you ask? Extra everything! Extra money in the bank, extra food on our tables, extra happiness, etc, etc. It’s like an all-around blessing. Very kind and used often during Lunar New Year.
The cat has already gotten her “extra” (fish) for the year so the blogger is wishing you “fish” (extra) every year ^^
finally someone explained it, thank you<3
I am so delighted to learn that somebody else also has the tradition of eating puns for blessings on the New Year.
Why is every Chinese tradition or superstition I hear of based on a pun
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One reason why I love anime. The emotion of the voice acting is too strong
did
did this anime waifu just tear down the edgy pretentious pseudointellectual facades we construct for ourselves as an obfuscating substitute for actual worth of character and accuse us of being so wrapped up in our own insular self-validating atrophied emotional comfort zones that we can only relate to others through pop culture allusions and mental dominance contests instead of a genuine emotional connection between two human beings
what the hell man
at first i read the above explanation thinking it was just a bunch of long thrown in words meant to make something simple complicated….but that is the perfect explanation for what I just watched
It’s been mentioned many times before, but the voice actress did this in a SINGLE take… makes it all the more impressive
I reblogged this yesterday with no comment, but after watching the clip again… no. No, that response up there with all the big words?
That’s exactly what the character was telling her counterpart to knock off. Big words. Big words with the assumption that everybody listening or reading will understand or have the energy and means to research what they don’t. Big words that communicate a big ego and little consideration for others.
She’s telling him to come off his pedestal and talk to her as himself, with his own words - words she can understand, because no, she’s not a walking dictionary or thesaurus or history book or anything like that, and unlike him she also doesn’t pretend to be, even though she’s arguably just as “exposed” to all these things by way of his presence in her life as he is by way of his presence on the internet.
What is “obfuscating”? What is “insular”? What is “pseudointellectual”? Fine that you seem to know their definitions, but you aren’t addressing an audience that can or should be expected to know those things. For god’s sake, I do know those things and I still had to keep stopping to figure out what the hell was being said.
She doesn’t understand these things because he never tries to help her understand. She doesn’t understand why he thinks he’s educated and edgy just because he talks about blood and knows a little bit about this religion and that world issue. She very clearly wants to understand, but he’s so busy being clever that all she gets out of him is, “It’s really cool, but you wouldn’t understand it.”
So no, that… big jumble of words up there is not what’s going on. What’s going on is that an anime character just called the internet age on its bullshit.
And while she was at it, she threw some damn heavy shade at everybody who uses their entire stock of big words in casual settings without stopping to read the room and consider their audience.
^
this right here is so fucking important. As someone with ADHD, I struggled with having to decipher this bullcrap in my Liberal Arts classes or any time I needed to read shit for essays and it felt like pulling teeth. I would always think. “DUDE you’re talking about art!! Fuck off with the big words and just tell why I should give a shit about this damn painting!!” I’m not saying if you use big words fuck you I’m saying if you ONLY use big words fuck you. Especially when you’re to talking down to me about something I should understand. It’s a social wall that will leave you feeling cold and lonely up on your high horse. and If you do this and want to knock it off:
Don't always say: pseudointellectual
Try to say: pretentious or full-of-it
Don’t always say: insular
Try to say: ignorant or a don’t know don’t care attitude
Don’t always say: obfuscating
Try to say: Confusing or messed up
Soon you’ll find that people with actually wanna talk to you/ read what you write if they can understand what fuck you’re even on about!
None of those are ‘big words’? maaaybe obfuscate, since its just uncommon. But maybe yall need to learn some vocabulary words like this is a highschool english class. Like obviously, some people here are actually teens and under, so they get a pass, but the adults should know better.
All your saying is ‘dumb yourself down for me’, punishing people with more knowledge on a subject or vocabulary then you. Like sure, dont talk like that in casual conversation with friends, but if you are having are doing something like literary (or in this case, media) analysis you use those so called ‘big’ words because that is the proper format. You wouldnt say ‘pretentious’ in an essay or a debate, it would be fucking rude and incorrect. That person up there was giving an analysis, so they are correct. You can tell when someone is just doing it to sound smart, where its sound like someone barfed a thesaurus onto the page. And they didnt.
You didnt even give correct synonyms for the words up there, or at least didnt include the connotation. And thats what ‘big words’ are for. Different words have different connotations despite having the same definition. For example,
pseudointellectual
can be used for someone pretentious OR it can be used for someone using shitty ““science”“, like an antivaxxer using ‘science words’ to justify their false beliefs. its not pretentious, but it is
pseudointellectual.
and hell I dont know the context in the anime, with her ‘wanting to learn’ maybe she actually does, or maybe shes doesnt bother to actually try and learn about his interests and hes tried to explain but she just goes ‘heh i dont understand, thats to complicated’. He shouldnt be forced to hid his interest in mythology just because she does ‘get’ his interests. Imagine how excited he must get when he finds someone that he actually can have a conversation with at length about something hes passionate about. Do you know how much its sucks to be excited about something and then brought down hard when someone complains about not understanding? Your the same people who would shut down a kid excitedly tell you about fortnight because you ‘dont get it’. Let people be excited, even if you dont understand.
People on this site go on and on about being supportive of ‘special interests’ until its one you find boring or ‘complicated’ and not just obsession over a cartoon
Tldr: If you are bothered by someone talking like that, maybe instead of trying to change them, you should find different people, who are more on your level, to hang out with
Okay I realize that nobody plays Fallout 4 anymore but I was looking through the game files today and I discovered this fuckery
HER STRENGTH IS NINETEEN. NINE. TEEN. This is not a typo on the wiki. It is coded into the game.
Danse’s strength is 5. Cait’s strength is 9. X6-88′s strength is 16. After Strong (24), she’s probably the strongest person to live in one of your settlements.
“Back in my day, they used to call me Murphy the Madwoman”
For my final blog post I wanted to post something a little more philosophical and insightful. hopefully a few people get to read it before I shut my Tumblr down. I chose the topic of “Ronin”. This isn’t meant to be some amazing scholarly work of art. Don’t critique it at that level. This is merely a philosophical translation of a crisis many of us young adults face today using the term “Ronin” as a tool for the translation because Martial arts is a topic I’m passionate about.
Hopefully some of you who make it through this rant enjoy it. If not I couldn’t care less but will gladly take well thought out critique.
For about a year and a half I’ve been taking Iaido classes. For those of you who don’t know what that is (although I’m sure most of the people here do) Its the art of Japanese sword drawing. Basically its learning different forms like the Kata’s we do in karate, but using a sword and starting with the sword in the saya. In class we touch heavily on the Samurai culture.
One day the topic of “Ronin” came up. Everyone knows that a Ronin is a Samurai with no Lord or Master. A drifter, a wanderer. They were unable to take new masters but also unable to leave the Samurai life behind. They couldn’t just take on a new trade for cultural or political reasons. Many became bodyguards or mercenaries something similar to what the once were. They couldn’t let go of who they were or maybe they didn’t want to.
What I learned though that I had not previously known is the actual translation of “Ronin”. The more elegant translation my Sensei gave me was “Man tossed about by the Waves” or “Wave Man”. I found this pretty cool, and it has lead me to a whole new line of thinking of a modern philosophical approach to being a Ronin.
Ronin were Samurai who have basically lost their path more or less. It could be they were shamed by their master, they were let go from his service, deserted their master, or their master died. I’m sure there were many other reasons as well but essentially to put it bluntly…Life threw them a curve ball…The waves became rough and rocked the boat.
Ronin Were essentially looked down upon. Typically Samurai without Masters are supposed to commit Seppuku or Hara Kiri, (Ritual Suicide). Being a ronin was not typically a good thing, although its heavily romanticized in movie culture and there are a few well known historical ronin such as Miyamoto Musashi and the 47 Ronin.There’s actually many debates on whether it is okay to consider people like that Samurai at all. I believe in the “Hagakure” (I could be wrong about this source I’m stating this part from memory.) The author considers the 47 Ronin as going against Bushido for not immediately committing suicide at the death of their master, rather they exact revenge and commit suicide afterwards. But this is a whole other thing I could rant and debate about. The important thing to remember is that the norm was to avoid and shame Ronin, Even though by the end of the Shogunate they made up a large percentage of the samurai population.
Now to get into the purpose of this. In modern Japan supposedly Ronin is a term used sometimes to describe the unemployed or post high school level graduate not in university. (I got this from Wikipedia…that’s a credible source…right?) So again we go back to the fact that these are people that have no solid path in life yet. who have been tossed about by life’s waves. So isn’t it possible that We can still apply the term “Ronin” to people today, but on a more personal or philosophical level?
I think this is an important term for all of us not just as martial artists, but those of us still trying to find their path in life… their careers, their soulmate, or just their general direction. For Martial Artists, we sometimes struggle with our training. We lose our purpose, our path. We get frustrated, stop training, get injured, or find we are training at the wrong dojo. I see it on here too. People talk about having to leave gyms or dojos because of bad instructors, harassment, injuries, money, or other reasons. In a sense we become “Masterless” except our Master’s are not physical people but our driving forces. Our Master’s are what motivates us to reach our goals or they are the goals themselves. Some people have only One “master” One goal they Strive for in life, usually its some kind of career they want but it can be anything, having a family, traveling, etc.
Binding yourself to one “Master” in today’s society can dangerous. Of
course there is nothing wrong with having a single goal you want to
obtain in life and If you reach it well good for you. But not everyone ends up where they thought they would
be. I’ve seen people have to change their careers or stop training
because of powers beyond their control such as injury or illness or for
personal reasons. I’ve seen many college students change majors because
they realize the career they wanted is not really what they expected or
wanted in life. Why can this one track, one life goal/career frame of
mind be dangerous? Well… What do you do when what you want escapes
your grasp? When you only want one thing in life and its no longer
achievable? When you no longer have that “Master” ordering you to keep
moving, keep fighting, keep training, keep studying? If you have only
one goal…one master you become a “Ronin” when you lose it.
The feeling is crushing. Its shameful. You feel like a failure. Truly you feel like a shamed Ronin of old.
Now unlike past Japan, Being a “Ronin” in today’s society shouldn’t be anything we should be ashamed of or look down upon, especially for the younger generations. Young adults are still trying to find their place in the world so its natural to not know where you are heading. There is so much political, economic and social turmoil its very difficult to plan ahead, and sometimes we find the what once motivated us or thought we wanted in life (our master) is no longer what we are after or we find it is unobtainable, thus we are forced to dessert it and seek a new path. we wander aimlessly through life in search of new motivation, new goals.
Its natural to feel lost or alone. To wander the roads.
There is nothing wrong with this. but for some of us it can feel like utter defeat. I’m sure some Samurai were cool with becoming Ronin while others felt ashamed. it varies from person to person and circumstance to circumstance
Now why do I try to connect an old term of Samurai Culture with a Modern personal crisis?
Mostly because lately I’ve been feeling this way. I feel like my path has been taken from me. It’s become harder and harder for me to get into my field. I spent The holidays feeling broken and defeated. I feel like a man tossed about by the waves. I’m stuck in a job I’m barely qualified for and I feel like I’ve wasted the past 8 years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars to achieve a goal I now might never get to. I can’t just take up a new trade. I can’t leave behind who I want to be. I don’t know where to go next and quite honestly I’m afraid. I constantly look at myself as a modern Ronin, looking for something to make my life worthwhile.
I’m not the first person to feel this way. I have plenty of friends who have been in the same situation. Some have kept going and reached their goal, some have had to find a new “master” and some are still wandering. I guess this “Modern Ronin” Philosophy I’ve come with is a way to help me cope with this anxiety and fear of my future. Maybe one day I’ll be able to update this with ways to help others get through this feeling. Hopefully It will help me be okay with being a Ronin for now.
If you made it this far…Congrats! hopefully it wasn’t too boring!
