~Princess of the Babylonian Satrapy of the Trans Achaemenid Empire~ Hi! I am a lady of many names, including: Hina (Public name) Usagi (Nickname when I feel like being Sailor Moon) Narāmtu-Ištar (Akkadian theophoric name; Darling of Ishtar, Cuneiform: 𒈾𒊏𒄠𒌅𒀭𒈹) Naneδāy (Sogdian theophoric name; Nana's Maidservant) and many more. I'm your typical autistic lesbian trans catgirl (she/her, mew neopronouns if you're close :3) with Ehlers-Danlos who has an unhealthy obsession with Ishtar, Mesopotamia, Sogdia, the Silk Road, Chinese Opera, Visual Kei, and Eurodance. Come say hi, I don't bite :3 I'm mixed Vietnamese, but I prefer not to be classified by Western racial terms. Kindly, please do not racialize me. I am a human No authoritarians. I am a queer anarchist and I don't entertain fascists or tankies. I post lewd stuff, under CWs. Minors that interact with these posts will be blocked. This isn't a minors DNI account, but this is an Act Responsibly Regardless of Age account. I am demisexual, I will not flirt with you I understand there is discourse about me, and that I may have a reputation among some fedi circles as a problematic user, due to misunderstandings and drama I never asked to be in. Just give me a chance, that's all I ask. If you still find you don't like me, that's fine, just don't knock me until you've gotten to know me
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Last Notes npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Maybe I'm going to leave the fedi, this is all too much for me npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…2lts That's basically what they did with the Lattey Sights in Battlefield V I think. Sadly Battlefield V was ruined with TTK 2.0 and now the only viable weapons are bolt action rifles or the fastest SMGs npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…2lts ahhhh yeah. Still better though than WaW's "Aperture Sight" lol. Like, BF1's Optical Sights are somewhat plausible since it has a front and a rear sight you need to align, but WaW's is just a piece of glass with a crosshair npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…2lts I do kinda like the optical sights in Battlefield One but mainly because they make it look like my gun's got a hooded sight. And like, MP-18 with a hooded sight is just aesthetically pleasing for some reason lol. Plus at least the BF1 Optical Sights are based on a real type of lens sight issued for Bolt Action Rifles. The Call of Duty World at War "Aperture Sight" is not only even dumber, it's not even an actual aperture sight! npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc My only complaint about Battlefield One is that the only multiplayer character with a Pickelhaube is the German Cavalry. I feel like all the German player models should have a Pickelhaube though lol The Pickelhaube is so goofy I love it npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc People complain about the use of experimental, never fielded weapons in Battlefield One, but let's be real, do you REALLY want a "historically accurate" Battlefield One where you *only* have access to bolt action rifles? Like for ultra hardcore realism bros, maybe. But from the perspective of someone who just wants an old timey FPS game, I like having automatic guns npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…0ftr I really like Sesame Chicken. What I'll usually do is mix it with sesame oil and laoganma, so it's savory and spicy. It's total deep fried sweet junk food but my Asian autistic ass loves it because it's like Asian American Chicken Nuggies lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Just jailbroke the PS3 :3c npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…azn0 Mainland Southeast Asia is the proper term. Indo-China is an inherently colonialist term and treats us as if all we are is just a land between China and India and lots of people use Indo-China as an antiquated name for Vietnam. It's a thing I see all the times in articles and documentaries npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Reminder that "Indo-China" isn't "the old name for Vietnam", it's a colonialist name by the French Please stop using "Indo-China" as a substitute for "Vietnam". Just say Vietnam, or do your research to find the name of Vietnam at the time since we've went through a lot of names npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc My geographical hot take is that "Siberia" should be extended to include Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Manchuria and Hokkaido npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I feel like the perfect form of Chinese Opera for me would be if you took Beijing Opera and combined it with Qinqiang and Cantonese Opera. Like, if you had the acrobatics and music of Beijing Opera, but with the musical instruments from Qinqiang and Cantonese npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc My bath was too hot and now my POTS is acting up 🥴 npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…h6rt :ablobcatheartsqueeze: npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc If I knew that Visual Kei would rely on an incredibly toxic piracy scene because almost 90% of it would never get onto streaming, I would've chose some other genre of music to get into npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc If you knew the things I experienced, the bullshit I was put through, you'd be just like me too npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I wanna be spoiled so badly npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I think I am too stressed and too angry a lot. Like, I really need to chill npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…twud @nprofile…78f3 most Americans think Ancient Egyptians were either Italian or Swahili lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…78f3 yet most people are unaware it exists. If you told an American that Ancient Egyptian was related to Arabic, and that it's still used in Egypt as a liturgical language for Coptic Christianity, they'd freak out at you lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Wanting me to "recognize the accomplishments of the Song Dynasty emperors" is like asking me to recognize the accomplishments of the US Presidency: NO npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Like fuck no I ain't going to praise the fucking Ming Dynasty lol That's like asking me to praise Franco, Pol Pot or Mussolini for "restoring order" npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc While I get that the Oriental Despotism stereotype is genuinely harmful, I don't think overcorrecting it by trying to portray genocidal Chinese emperors as benevolent rulers was the best course of action npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I just want mutual acceptance between polytheists and monotheists I don't like this "Oh, you're just confused but you'll find out the truth" or "you're worshiping evil spirits/satan" or "You'll get punished in hell or sent to a lower part of heaven" It's bigoted If I'm a good person with a positive impact on people, shouldn't that be enough? Like my view is that IDK what comes after death, and that if god or the gods are truly caring, loving and compassionate, everyone who has tried their best to be a good person with a positive impact should have a good afterlife You don't have to agree with my beliefs, but you can be accepting of me and think of me as just as valid as anyone else npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…twud Isn't it funny how Scandinavian countries are praised for having systems that are either bare minimum, or in this case, just as bad as the American alternative? npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Can someone re-wire my brain so I can enjoy, idk, Lil Uzi Vert or Taylor Swift or some shit? I'm sick of listening to Visual Kei when the entire Visual Kei piracy scene is a drama filled shit-hole npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…twud Wait whore as in someone who fucks a lot, or someone who fucks for money? Because if fucking a lot is illegal in Iceland... then I'm not going there xD npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Indo-European only has the hubris it does because its the "white people" language family. If it weren't for western colonialism, Sino-Tibetan, Turkic and Afro-Asiatic would have the same hubris npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…e8r2 It's a Jewish thing, considered a sign of respect since they don't write the name of god npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…77fn and g-d dance dance dance and dance dance dances! npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I do think the destruction of city-walls was unnecessary though. I'd rather have homes be built into the old city-walls instead of the city-walls being torn down. That would genuinely be cool. Like, imagine the guard towers of the old walls of Beijing being turned into homes npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc From a political perspective, I don't like the Great Wall of China because fuck walls, fuck borders, but from an architectural perspective? God I love it and I still am angry at Mao having used parts of the wall for construction (even though it was probably necessary. Fuck Mao though) npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I think my current religious aesthetic is: Chinese Taoists, Tajik Mages, Manchu and Mongolian Shamans and Tibetan Bonpo worshiping Babylonian-Sogdian deities in Beijing and Xi'an npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Like don't get me wrong I love these instruments but when it's only these two, it just is too much high pitched going on lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MciaV9rF6mE npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I think my thing with Beijing Opera is, I can only really listen to it if it has a full ensemble of Dizi, Suona, Jing Erhu, Jinghu, Yueqin, Sheng, Pipa and Sanxian. If it's just a Yueqin and Jinghu, it's just too high pitched for me npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Despite Bactria, Sogdia and Chorasmia being incredibly important to the story of Buddhism in China, Japan and Tibet, Everything Buddhist in East Asia is automatically assumed to have an Indian origin with no regard for the East Iranians. In fact, a lot of people just treat East Iranians as spicy Indians npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc This is 100% up @nprofile…0elt's alley lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Mariah Carey is whatever ethnic identity she chooses because it's her life and I ain't arguing with the queen of R&B oh no guess I'm Oli London and Rachel Dolezal now lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc TFW Racial separatists are now comparing mixed people to trans people In the comments of Mariah Carey saying "My mother is white, my father is black and Venezuelan, and I'm... tan I guess?", people were commenting shit like "First gender identity, now people are confusing their race. Sad world we live in" and "Mariah Carey is biracial, not black, but you transgendereds want to break every natural division!!" like god The worst part is, I've seen so many leftists parrot these but without the transphobia shoved in npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc The fact that a lot of Wikipedia pages on Tibetic peoples rely more on Chinese legends and uses the outdated linguistic phylum "Tibeto-Burman" makes me sad npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Someone should take a Mobile Home and modify it to look like a Chinese house I bet you could take 4 and make a Hutong house with a courtyard! imagine the polycule living in a makeshift trailer hutong :dse_wonder_1: npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc According to the Wiley-Blackwell companion to Zoroastrianism, in the section about Sogdian Zoroastrianism in China, "The fact that Zoroastrians performed no forms of asceticism in contrast to the Nestorians and Manichaeans spurred the impression of “lewd” and “amorous” behavior on the part of the Zoroastrians. This image contributed to the association in Chinese folk literature of Zoroastrianism with adultery." This is incredibly funny given that one of the most worshiped deities in Sogdian Zoroastrianism, is the Mesopotamian goddess Nanaya. A trust me, Nanaya's up there as one of the hornier goddesses. With epithets in Mesopotamia as "voluptuous" and with dedicated poems that sound like straight up erotica. She's also said to swing both ways if ya catch my drift Sadly it seems as if this book has quite outdated info on the Sogdian worship of Nanaya; it assumes that Nanaya was a water goddess syncretized with Anahita. But the West Iranian Anahita doesn't really appear much in Sogdia, and Nanaya was less of a water goddess and more of an astral goddess. The main water deity was the deification of the river Oxus, and Anahita was largely relegated to the role of Venus in it's Babylonian and Persian derived astrology. I do believe due to both Anahita and Nanaya's connection to Ishtar, I could see them being syncretized? But not in the way this book claims. It doesn't cite Michael Shenkar or Joan Goodnick Westenholtz for the parts on Nanaya in Sogdia so... yeah lol So how did a Mesopotamian goddess get to Sogdia? Well, that's easy to answer, because since the Achaemenid Empire, Mesopotamia and Sogdia were under the same rule and lots of Mesopotamian influences came to Central Asia. The real question we should be asking is, why didn't any other deities from Mesopotamia get fully adopted into Sogdia without being syncretized with a native Iranian deity? Like, Shamash doesn't really appear in Sogdia; although Shamash was syncretized with and heavily influenced Mithra, who was worshiped in Sogdia. Nanaya's spouse in Sogdia was the Iranian deity Tishtrya, which comes from Tishtrya's syncretism with Nabu, which was Nanaya's husband in Mesopotamia. Both were also gods of scribes and learning, and were associated with the planet Mercury (although the Greeks of the Seleucid Empire and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms, who influenced Sogdia greatly, syncretized him with Apollo) Interestingly, in Sogdia specifically, Tishtrya begins being depicted as female, a depiction that survives in Chinese Buddhist Astrology (which is separate from the Taoist astrology). So if you squint.... Sogdian Nanaya was a lesbian lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Ok so like, does the GTA Definitive edition patch actually make the game better? Or is it all just hype? I'm really leaning on it just being hype npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc "She's biracial, not black/asian/latina" is a racist statement btw npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…dyh8 IKR! I genuinely think Sleeping Dogs is better than GTA V npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc It could be all steam-punk perhaps. Steam cars that play your choice of Chinese Opera (multiple different varieties), Manchu Octagonal drum, Mongolian Aiser music, Mongolian throat singing, and other period accurate music on the radio npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Ok hear me out: A video game that is basically just Sleeping Dogs in it's movement and combat mechanics and open world setting, but it's in Warlord era Beijing or Xi'an instead of 2012 Hong Kong npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…rw49 No but Malacca is a suitable alternative for Hoi An in Vietnam lol (I will never forgive the tourism industry for turning Hoi An into an orientalist theme park) npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @nprofile…qa9y Ahhh that shit. If only Japan and China would have the humility to say "No, those islands belong to nobody but the seabirds that live there" lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I will never understand any of the territory disputes in East Asia because they're all fucking stupid lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I don't wanna live in a fucking commieblock, white picket fence suburb, or a tiny-house, I wanna live in a fucking Hutong. I want a beautifully crafted house with a courtyard npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Why is there so much nationalism caught up in the Senkaku Islands dispute? No one fucking lives there lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1ms4…za2g @npub1csc…8pjk Racism isn't the reason for Mercator's weirdness. Mercator's weirdness comes from the fact that all maps are inherently distorted because you're trying to fit a sphere onto a flat surface, which will always lead to distortions. Mercator is popular because it shows longitude and latitude as a neat grid npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Northern China also captivates me because, I notice that there is a bit of disregard for it in the West. Most of the Chinese diaspora in America is Southern Chinese. Usually descended from immigrants from Guangdong. So most of the Chinese culture I was exposed to growing up, was Southern Chinese. Combined with that, there is this stereotype that Northern Chinese culture has been "corrupted" by Manchu and Mongolian influence. A common thing I often hear people say is "Mandarin and Jin are "less pure" than Cantonese or Hokkien and is basically Manchu" (which btw, is pseudo-linguistics. Mandarin arose in the late Song Dynasty and no Chinese variety is more or less "pure" than the other). But me? I find all these North Asian influences to be fascinating. npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc What especially interests me about the Manchus is, unlike other """Barbarian"""" dynasties, the Qing Dynasty pretty much made all Manchus noblemen and moved them to Beijing Manchu culture before then was pretty humble. Mostly pig farmers and reindeer herders, with a martial society akin to that of the Samurai. Then all of a sudden, you go from humble fishermen or pig rearer, to living in the Forbidden City of Beijing. Not only that, your emperors promised the people of China that they'd restore the order that was held under the Ming, and that's hard, because the Ming were fucking off the wall batshit with their interpretation of Confucianism It must've been a lot to adjust to in such a short amount of time npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc What really captivates me about Mongol and Manchu culture is that, both groups have been unfairly maligned by people who aren't even Asian. It's still normalized for people to call them "barbarians" and talk about them as if the only thing they're good for is war and pillaging. Western stereotypes about Asians used to be based on their experiences with the Huns, the Khitan, the Mongols and Manchus, so combined with racist shit from Confucianism in China and Korea, a lot of views on them are informed by Western racist shit too npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1q6e…yyzk yup! They have Han people parading in fake costumes of indigenous peoples yet believe in a racially segregated heaven npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub16dy…ry6y this goes beyond 2005 funny enough, considering that Drake didn't make music until very late 2009 npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I think I have a crush on Katja Macabre Need metal vocalist GF npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Is "90's" just a buzzword now? None of these artists are from the 90's. Especially not Drake Also... Chris Brown with a fucking Bloods bandana and a beard is cursed https://media.translunar.academy/media/4a509eb3a4a271a8c8441a51909cdecbcc8d7b1edc432fe92c60eb46ae1d5437.png npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I hate Shen Yun. "5000 year old Chinese tradition that the CCP doesn't want you to see!!!", yet it's the same fake westernized shit you can find in China. The singing is Western Opera singing, the dance moves are Western Ballet, the music itself is Guoyue music, which is Western music on modified Chinese instruments. If you want to see real traditional Chinese music that, at one point, the CCP tried to stamp out: try finding a show of Chinese Opera. It will not sound "pretty" or "zen", Chinese opera is loud and rustic (which is why I love it), but it's an authentic traditional art npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1h4z…2e8f @npub14x7…wdx5 @npub1eeu…ap7h I was playing Xbox a lot up until earlier this year when my friend started the IW4x server (it's called AutoLobbies if you ever wanna play. Pwease!! xD) and it was relatively ok, until I started getting into Ground War lobbies where it's the same snipers who do the same organized spawn trapping and have a "fair aimbot" so they always hit you specifically on the chest and never hitmarker you and I just gave up after that lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1eeu…ap7h @npub14x7…wdx5 From what I've heard, it's just MW2 and some other games that have issues with new PSN accounts. World at War is actually like, exempt from that. I've heard claims that because of this it actually has the most players out of the old PS3 CoDs lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1eeu…ap7h @npub14x7…wdx5 Back when I was playing Steam MW2 last year, the only lobbies I could get into were the rigged trickshot lobbies by fake SoaR guys. It go so absurd that me and a friend got mod menus to ruin their fake trickshots lol. These days I mostly play World at War on Xbox (since there are no vanilla servers on Plutonium that are active. The only one is HGM and it's unfairly imbalanced to benefit snipers) but I'm switching to PS3 because the playerbase is just as big as Xbox and I hate paying for Xbox live lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1eeu…ap7h @npub14x7…wdx5 I wish there wasn't all the bullshit with RCEs and RATs on the Steam version because imo, MW2 is best played the way it was originally intended. My friend runs an IW4x server that emulates the original Xbox experience but rarely anyone plays it because they're too busy playing 32 player Terminal 24/7 with no explosives allowed npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1eeu…ap7h @npub14x7…wdx5 Dayum, OMA Noob Tubing. I can tell this isn't IW4x because on IW4x, OMA tubing is disabled lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc The best answer to any existential question is: fuck if I know npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc What do I think happens to people of other religions after death? IDK, IDK what even comes for me after death. That's a bridge we'll cross when we get there npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub166y…6dc6 Be a folk scholar. The knowledgeable one who doesn't need an institution to tell her she's qualified npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1lxp…qw7x Sadly, it seems that in Asia, a lot of the popular feminism is TERF-y in general. South Korea is a pretty Confucian place with not a lot of queer visibility. The extremeness of the 4B movement is a reaction to centuries of Confucianism degrading women's rights since the Joseon dynasty, in a country where Confucianism has also pushed queer people to the margins. And now you know why I really, really fucking hate Confucianism npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Phags-Pa is just really fucking cool. It's modified from Tibetan, and was used during the Yuan Dynasty to write Mongolian, Tibetan, Persian, Uyghur and the earliest attestations of Mandarin. It's how we know what Mandarin used to sound like It died after the rise of the Ming Dynasty, but continued to be used as a seal script for Tibetan https://media.translunar.academy/media/14cfd25ff1ec06d74573814f611e6490a66bb617321204ccdcb5075b67930f09.jpg npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Instead of inventing simplified Chinese, they should've just revived the use of Phags-Pa for Mandarin and expanded it to include Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka, Jin, Gan, Fujianese and Teochew npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Like seriously, the hate for Glam Metal is just dumb in 2024. The whole Glam vs. Grunge genre war was fucking absurd lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Got recommended a video titled "How Deathcore has become like fitness instagram and Glam Metal" and I'm just thinking... "BASED, I LOVE GLAM METAL" npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Mongolian throat singing is not "oonga boonga" caveman music Not all Mongol culture is about war and raiding Mongol women had lots of freedom compared to their Chinese or Russian counterparts I'm begging people to give up these racist stereotypes of Mongolia npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Old history documentaries made for TV are always so fucking vague. "There was a guy who did this thing. This thing was big" What guy? What thing? How big? They never answer npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub16dy…ry6y I do know that there are a lot of mid 2000s Emo Punk bands that do fit the stereotypes, but sound closer to their 90s origins than the late 2000s and 2010s Pop Punk and Metalcore stuff people began calling Emo. Like, AFI is a pretty good example of that npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Actually, how did Emo shift from being a pretty specific genre of Punk rock, to just... referring to any band with flippy hair, to referring to any white rapper with face tats? npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Are there any emos left that like, listen to pre-2007 Emo Punk? It seems most of the subculture's forgotten it's punk roots npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1ery…unm2 Noted! I'll check those out! npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Walkable cities are nice, but are they also disability accessible? Wait, before you comment "Of course they are! Why wouldn't they be? Why do you even have to ask that question? Why do disabled people gotta make everything about them?", hear me out: A lot of famously walkable cities, aren't disability accessible. Especially historical areas. And like... sure... we disabled people can just stay away from the places that aren't accessible, but honestly, I feel like we disabled people deserve to experience historical and cultural architecture too npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1ery…unm2 Yeah I watched a bit of the trial and I really got the impression that the relationship as a whole was mutually toxic and that neither parties are necessarily great. I'm definitely missing a lot of the finer details but like, I never exactly got the Amber defenders. Although I find that the Johnny defenders were being quite misogynistic npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Anyone remember in the mid 2000s when Nelly and KRS-One had that beef? No? Me neither but apparently it happened But what surprises me most is, Nelly was just being defensive the whole time, when he really should've went on the offensive because like, KRS-One has some VERY questionable songs on the album Sex and Violence that would've been perfect ammo Dude literally could've ripped KRS-One a new asshole just for the song "13 and Good" npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1spn…rred I have no idea who this is about, and my input is useless, but.... ... I have had situations where I was bullied for being "mixed with white". But I imagine this isn't what that's about lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1elm…8rwv @npub1ycz…y5rr I just look generically "brown" lol. I get mistaken for any "brown" ethnicity npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Like, the first emperors of Vietnam's last (and worst) dynasty, the Nguyen Dynasty, literally had the Tay-Son rebels stomped by elephant and then ate their corpses We are just as bad if not worse than the indigenous peoples we still continue to dehumanize npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub15lg…76mu Here in the US it's still sadly the basis for liberation movements because racial separatism is seen as the default form of leftist liberation. And like, as an incredibly mixed person, it frustrates me because I don't feel liberated by separatist nationalism npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1lxp…qw7x and it's incredibly sad how now, us POC transfems are lumped under "white transfem" when we call out the transmisogyny npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I miss 106 and Park I wish they released the series on DVD or something but I can only find really bad DVR rips npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc @npub1lke…zk68 @npub1h4z…2e8f You should get a PS3 so we can play World at War multiplayer (I normally play Xbox but am switching to PS3) npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc The funny thing about the "MANDARIN ISN'T CHINESE!!! IT'S MANCHURIAN!!!" thing I see Southern Chinese nationalists throw around is... no... it's no Manchu. The Manchus had their own language, it's in the Tungusic family with Evenki, Orok, Nanai and Xibe. But sadly, the actual Manchu language is moribund, no one speaks it as a native language. No one is taught Manchu growing up. Now, usually, what they mean is "Mandarin is very influenced by Manchu while Cantonese or Teochew or Hokkien is a "purer Chinese"" but that's misleading too; Mandarin of course has Manchu and Mongol influences, but Southern Chinese languages all have Hmong-Mien, Vietnamese, Zhuang, Kam-Sui and even Para-Austronesian influences. None is really "purer" than the other npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc This isn't to say that Jurchen or Manchu culture wasn't similar to Mongol culture. Mongol, Khitan and Uyghur culture were fundamental influences in Jurchen and Manchu society. The kings of the Jurchens were called Khans. The Manchu script and much of Manchu clothing is of Mongol origin. and like the Mongols they had a martial warrior society. It's just that the Manchu weren't nomadic for the most part npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc It was like if Spotify had the amount of straight up disregard for copyright that Old YouTube had I used it from like, 2017 to 2020 I think? npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Does anyone remember Xiami (not Xiaomi)? It was this Chinese music steaming service that for some reason, had a lot of Visual Kei, because it mixed legitimately licensed music with ones uploaded by, well, let's say unverified users. it legitimately became how I listened to Visual Kei for a good few years because well, there was suspicion that they were getting their Visual Kei from Monochrome Heaven, so like... Combined with its actually pretty decent recommendation algorithm, it was actually a decent way to listen to and find new Visual Kei. Sadly all good things come to an end lol npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I really wish I could be involved in the Traditional Asian Arts Like, there are people who live in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and their job is to restore old art works and that just sounds like a dream job npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc imo a Maya Catholic involved in traditional veneration of Maya deities turned Saints, represents the love of Jesus more than the average Baptist from Alabama npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Folk religion is valid and just as authentic as the codified institutionalized stuff In fact, for many, folk religion is liberatory and I really feel sad when people from the institutionalized versions try to steer people away from their folk traditions Like missionaries that try to stamp Shamanism out of indigenous Christians npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc TFW you realize you still do 2000s snap dances npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc Yeah politically, the Qing Dynasty sucked, but that's because as a concept, Monarchist Feudalism sucks lol. Qing, Ming, Yuan, Song, Tang, they all sucked to live under npub1c5uql0kswfh4d2ql9np9qkw53ztqhqem0fddn09fxvgr95laf3nsszn87m Hina's Kabukimono Arc I unironically find Qing Dynasty arts and clothing to be cool and I'm not afraid to say it