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Eddie requests Story Time.
Don’t worry- Steve brings Eddie and his book to work and Robin reads it to him on her breaks. 📖
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so I know that a lot of chinese names are references to specific poems. Is there a way to determine this (vs general auspicious meaning) and which poem specifically? I'd love to be able to figure this out for character names and I haven't been able to find any resources (in case it's helpful, I'd say I'm my understanding is maybe HSK4-level so I can clumsily make my way through the chinese internet with the help of a dictionary)
feel free to make this public so that others can benefit if you have any suggestions
oof... unfortunately I suspect that this, along with one's repertoire of chengyu, is something that one simply Just Learns with reading more. my personal repertoire of poetry is embarrassingly thin, so the horrible horrible process I've been going through is, well, throwing the name into a search bar and hoping for the best.
here's an example of how I (think I) went about doing this for Xiao Xingchen's name, way back when I wrote this post:
I went ahead and dropped "星尘 诗词" ("Xingchen poetry") into the search bar, which turned up this:
Generally speaking, I'll only put the name (minus the surname) because putting the character's full name into a search bar will probably turn up the character themselves, and if someone's name is being derived from a poem, it's usually independent of the surname anyway.
Xiao Xingchen's name is an interesting example because it doesn't quite come from a poem, but it doesn't not come from a poem. you can see that the search engine has automatically assumed that I am looking for poems about constellations, as "星辰" and "星尘" are homonyms, and one of these is more commonly seen. I usually consider that a solid indication that "星尘" (the name) is a novel formation of characters in a name, and not likely a poetic reference.
but! in for a penny, etc. I'm a huge fan of the first search result, gushicimingju, since it's a solid database of poetry and some prose. clicking into that listing informs me that gushicimingju is turning up. oh my. 119 possible matches:
note that these are matches for "星辰" (constellation), not actually our character's name. still! you can click in and peruse the selection if you'd like.
now that you're on gushicimingju's site, you can also use the search function within the site to search for more exact matches, without worrying that you'll accidentally activate the fandom itself.
looks like there's a few matches for "晓星," but nothing for the full name.
so! gushicimingju is a solid database I like to refer to most of the time. if for some reason I'm feeling particularly academically rigorous, I might also do some searches on ctext as sometimes names will come out of famous turns of phrases (a la Zhao Yun 赵云 / Zhao Zilong 赵子龙 from that post I linked earlier) rather than poems. searching the dictionary sometimes (Pleco, or zdic) doesn't hurt either. basically, I throw spaghetti at the search engine wall to see what results come back for these characters in this particular order to try and get the original referent (if any) to show up; I'll probably give up after a few permutations of search terms if nothing is actively jumping out at me
but back to the search results: sometimes, if your character is famous enough, straight up searching for "what poem is this character's name from?" will help you find like-minded people on baidu zhidao (basically yahoo answers):
although of course, take baidu zhidao result with all of the salt you would take with any yahoo answers (look for alternate sources to validate, good for a laugh most of the time)
best of luck!
sorry my hand slipped
yall ever just look up playlists on spotify like “spencer reid” or like “peter parker” and you listen to all the playlists 😭😭
This... is a bucket.
i got a bunch of new followers today coinciding with a BIG surge of notes on my initial ‘draw your ot3′ post so here’s another batch of those as a welcome post and also to point out that i actually have a tag for those. enjoy your stay.
some loose brain thoughts for you?
Kathleen's speech. when she's talking to Henry about how "kids die. all the time." and how "this is what happens when you fuck with fate." people have pointed out the similarities and how this ties to Joel, but actually thinking about it? knowing what happens in the second game? that Joel finds out exactly what happens when you "fuck with fate"? I think all of our hopes of not having golf in the second season are gonna be pointless tbh
A dude got so drunk he successfully stole a diamond and the guys beating him up didn’t even want it
hey what the actual shit is going on in the mechanisms someone please explain
Just got back the second part to the first chapter of my Optima comic! Link to the first part is here, and the artist is ErikaGSkerrz. The third (and final) part of this chapter will be up next month. 💞 A big thank you to everyone who's shown support for this! I didn't expect it to blow up like it did, and I'm happy to know so many people love it. 💖
More miscellaneous Seeker headcanons
Seekers recharge in their alt-modes. Some even taxi around in their asleep. Back when the Decepticon’s Seeker fleet was still whole they would all sleep together in a big room in the Nemesis while in their alt-modes. This was reminiscent of the way they’d all recharge back in Vos. In their towers they’d have several large sleeping rooms and the specific way they were organized varied from tower to tower. When Seekers recharge they breathe out air so if you go into a room with a dozen sleeping ones it’s like going into a wind tunnel. When one Seeker begins to taxi in their sleep the others subconsciously follow suit, so Seekers are used to waking up in unfamiliar locations and just being a-ok with that. The confused grounders who tried to recharge in the nearby quarters occasionally snuck a peak into the Seeker recharge quarters just to see what the weird nose was and then walked in on ten Seekers slowly driving around in circles in their sleep.
When Starscream became the last living Seeker of the fleet aboard the Nemesis he got his own smaller quarters and left behind the communal sleeping room because it was just too empty.
When Seekers recharge in their root mode they always sleep on their stomach because they want their wings to face up into the air so that they can detect their surroundings better via the airflow.
Seekers instinctively grab onto things in their sleep because Seekerlings tend to wander around and leave the sides of their caretakers, so the caretakers evolved to instinctively just reach out and grab whatever is moving near them in their sleep. Starscream loathes recharging next to other mechs because this programming of his results in him instinctively grabbing onto and clinging to the closest living thing next to him. When Starscream was in the medbay he once reached over and grabbed onto Knock Out in his sleep and now KO repeatedly mentions it non-stop.
“Do you remember when you woke up while clinging onto me and my totally sweet finish?”
“Do you want my talons to cling onto your spark chamber?”
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Fuck it. So many of you asked for this so I’m delivering. English Willy part 2. Enjoy
joining the bat fandom is so fun, you pick a robin and hold onto that thing for dear life