A Humble Invitation To Lose Your Mind About With Me

a humble invitation to lose your mind about 《声入人心》 with me

finally getting around to a rec post for 《声入人心》 Sheng Ru Ren Xin / Super-Vocal because this lowkey might be the best show I’ve watched in the year of our eternal suffering 2021. yes, you heard me right, this variety show from 2018 is quite possibly my favorite television thing I’ve consumed all year

(rolls up sleeves) aight here we go—

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I’ve noticed lately that it’s often Americans who leave tags like “I don’t even care if it’s made up” on posts I make that are not particularly unbelievable, but are pretty specific to my way of life or corner of the world (like the one about the cheese vendor). It reminds me of that tweet that was circulating, that said Americans have a “medieval peasant scale of worldview”—I mean, if you don’t want to be perceived this way by the rest of the world maybe don’t go around social media saying that if a cultural concept or way of life sounds unfamiliar it must be made up?

It’s the imbalance that’s annoying, because like—when I mentioned having no mobile network around here I had people giving me info about Verizon to fix my problem. I post some rural pic and someone says it must be somewhere in the Midwest because the Southwest doesn’t look like this. My post about my postwoman has thousands of Americans assuming it’s about the USPS. On my post about my architect there’s someone saying “it’s because architecture is an impacted major” and other irrelevant stuff about how architecture is taught in the US. This kind of thing happens so so so often and I’m expected to be familiar with the concepts of Verizon and the Midwest and impacted majors and the USPS and meanwhile I make a post about my daily life and Americans in the notes are debating like “dunno if real. it sounds made up”

Going online for the rest of the world means having to keep in mind an insane amount of hyperspecific trivia about American culture while going online for Americans means having to keep in mind that the rest of the world really exists I guess

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Pandemic Then and Now

In 2021, when everyone was talking about the Spanish Flu and the Roaring Twenties, I went looking for answers in history, about how the pandemic ended then and how ours might end now. I never posted it because it didn't feel complete, and eventually I forgot about it, but I just rediscovered it and, well, it's not prescient exactly but it's not inaccurate. It compares the pandemic of 1918-19 and the modern COVID pandemic to try and find answers, and doesn't really succeed, but I think it asks some interesting questions.

Anyway, I figured I'd share it now, since it's not going to get more relevant as time goes on, at least one hopes.

Watching Przewalski's horses run free on the Kazakhstan steppe for the first time in 200 years