So Brave Of Yanli To Look At Wei Wuxian, Who Literally Named His Sword 'whatever' Bc He Couldn't Think

so brave of yanli to look at wei wuxian, who literally named his sword 'whatever' bc he couldn't think of anything else, and be like 'yeah that's the one i want naming my firstborn baby :)'

师父 I have a tiny discussion request (only if you have the time/inclination). The scene when Wei Wuxian returns from Burial Mounds there is a tense exchange between him and Lan Wangji where he uses Lan Wangji’s title 含光君 ; a lot of people have talked about that specific moment, but I feel like a lot of nuance of their conversation (and the things 江澄 says) was lost in translation. Basically, I was wondering if you had any thoughts you wanted to share on that scene. Thank you for everything you do!

listen…you can’t just point at one of my favorite scenes in the entire show and call it a ‘tiny discussion request’…

all right, so, funny story — while I was writing my response to this ask, I sat down and rewatched that scene on YouTube with 1) the sound off (otherwise my brain will process the dialogue and not the subs) and 2) with English subtitles on, and I just…I can’t even…it was an experience. Only six minutes of an experience, mind you, but I don’t think I fully understood what y’all were suffering out there in the subtitled world. People put up with fifty episodes of these subs??? You are all much stronger and more forgiving than I.

If anyone’s still wondering if the dialogue sounds better in Chinese? It absolutely sounds better in Chinese.

One thing that I really love about this scene is how every character is active in the conversation, even if they’re not the ones actively speaking. In the first half of the conversation, the camera/editing tracks Lan Wangji’s responses to Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian’s conversation, and you can literally see Lan Wangji piecing together what Wei Wuxian isn’t saying way before it comes up in conversation (all hail Wang Yibo, microexpression king). While Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng are bickering about some imaginary secluded master and their powerful secret cultivation techniques, Lan Wangji is already lightyears past either of them, working through the ramifications of Wei Wuxian’s demonic cultivation to reach the sole conclusion of come back to Gusu with me before he even opens his mouth to speak.

But that’s for later.

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“Passing of the Shield” - Digital Oil Painting

Happy Memorial Day, here’s our new captain in red, white, and blue! This palette was actually sampled from the colors of the planet Pluto, which I thought were really pretty.

Please see the notes for my links, I always double post my art because Tumblr is excluding all links from tag searches. You should find my post tagged ‘licie links’ right under my original post in the notes. I know it’s annoying, but this extra step helps me out a lot.

MCU Winter Soldier’s Arm

So, it’s at three in the morning that, after seeing a gif, I begin having revelations/disturbing thoughts/deep contemplations about the bionics and biology of the Winter Soldier’s arm. And, of course, at three in the morning, that’s when I start assembling pictures and diagrams. 

Here’s a normal shoulder, and then the Winter Soldier’s. What gets me is that it’s not just a plug-in prosthesis that joins neatly up with his shoulder joint and the bone structures there. 

As seen here, all of these muscles: 

are what you need to actually move an arm and shoulder. With structures even as far down and centralized as the pecs, the muscles there bunch up in the shoulder region. As seen on the Winter Soldier, all of the places where his upper chest/pectoral, and shoulder muscles should be bunched up are (whether partially grafted with or entirely) metal. 

Here, (on my phone) I drew out how more natural muscle patterns would be going without the interruption of the prosthetic. And here’s what looks to be going on: 

At the seam of the prosthetic, we can see a glimpse of material that seems to extend down, following the basic lines of where musculature would need to be to support movement- which leads me to believe that at least in the front, that metal had to be extended (or at least extended by way of more flexible wiring to at least graft and connect to existing muscles and nerves) down through his entire pectoral muscles. Sure, his entire pec might not have to have been recreated/replaced by metal and wiring, but I’m getting the feeling that the lighter colored metallic structure at the seam continues farther down into his chest in order to connect to existing muscles and nerves. Depending on how far down they had to take things, they may or may not have had to anchor the pec and under arm metal structures to his ribcage. 

Now, onto the back. 

The scapula and other skeletal structures in the shoulder area are all pretty necessary for movement, and although Bucky only seemed to lose below the upper bicep after the fall, the scapula alone couldn’t support the weight and power of his new arm. So, I’m guessing that they left both the scapula and collarbone, but would have needed to reinforce both bone structures with metal (this includes shoulder joint and socket, if they were still intact enough); and all of that, they’d need to anchor to his spine/rib cage to keep the weight balanced and make sure the muscles and cartilage didn’t rip and tear with the weight of the arm during standing and fighting and such. 

As for what they’d do about the muscles needed for arm movement in the back, I don’t have a clue- for weight and efficiency’s sake, they probably would have done their best to preserve and connect existing nerves and musculature on his back to the arm, after reinforcing bone structures. Given that the muscles in the back and shoulder connect to the spine and neck, that would be a whole lot of metal to try and anchor down if they replaced everything back there with straight up metal (as opposed to connecting wiring and such to the muscles already there). 

So, whether or not this taught anyone new, I feel it’s certainly an interesting line of thinking, to consider just how far and how deep the socket, reinforcement, and overall prosthetic goes into the musculoskeletal structures of his chest, torso, and back. As for the wiring required to get the level of responsiveness and finesse that his arm has, I can’t begin to imagine how they had to integrate their technology into his nervous system- that might be a post for another day, and possibly by someone who has more than a basic understanding of anatomy (that’s what degrees are for!). Are there any more lessons to this? Well, I’m a biology geek and a Marvel geek, for one, and once more, we can reinforce that Hydra is fucking terrifying and horrible organization- albeit, one with surgeons that had remarkably, ridiculously, spectacularly advanced technology and understandings of bionics even in the 40s. 

post-canon wangxian is yunmeng for some reason (maybe dinner with jiang cheng) and while theyre there a big old fight breaks out and when asked "wha happen" the answer is "someone said someone else's soup was shit". while everyone around him is like "oh yeah" lan wangji is having a moment bc the soup drama was not an isolated incident, thats just how it goes in yunmeng

Wei Wuxian is gently touching Lan Wangji’s arm “I’m sorry you had to hear that,” he says, as Jiang Cheng grimly gestures for the tables to be moved out of the way to form an impromptu sparring ring so Satisfaction can be given.