Reblog So This Escapes Containment And Gets A Fair Spread

i feel like this is relevant to a lot of ships

i just want he xuan and qi yan to be besties

cloud recesses arc

This is Eman a Biotechnologist from Gaza. Asking for help is not easy. It's not easy at all. You have no idea how mentally and emotionally tiring this is. But when thinking that the price is my family's life, getting out of here safely and achieve my doctoral degree dream, it just pushes me more and more to do this until we reach our goal. I'm here as I try to reach out to more people asking for their help to support our family's campaign so we can survive while all you have to do is literally donating even by just the price of your morning coffee or maybe a simple breakfast, So I think I'm not asking for so much. We're really tired of living under these catastrophic conditions for a whole 10 months. We live a life you cannot bear watch it behind screens. Your generosity will not only change our lives but also remind us that even in our darkest hour, we are not alone.

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when people resort to insults in an otherwise civil discussion, remember that YOU have the moral high ground and you are most definitely well in your right to feel some sense of self-satisfaction at that

Please rant to me

sure lol, i’ll rant about one of my many grievances with some parts of the danmei fandom.

some people in the danmei fandom, to an extent, fandom in general, need to realise its ok when other people have interpretations of characters that are different from yours, and that’s ok! they may have different ships, that’s fine too! no one deserves to be attacked for a ship they enjoy or a certain headcanon.

if you disagree with a way a person interprets a character/relationship, engage in respectful discussion.

if you can’t find it in you to be respectful about it, just scroll away or block.

of course, this works vice versa, if people ask about why you interpret a character or relationship a certain way, either tell them the reasons politely, or just don’t engage.

on the internet, it’s your job to facilitate your interactions with other people so you can have the best experience. crucifying other people for what they enjoy in fiction and blindly hating on them gets you absolutely no where.

also no one person’s interpretation is more right than another’s. it pays to be polite and respectful when engaging in discussions. fandom is all about meaningful interactions over shared interests, not necessarily agreeing on every aspect of how you interpret characters/the media as a whole.

also please don’t try and insist your headcanons are canon and they should be accepted by all as law.

wow this rant was longer than i anticipated, i hope it satisfies you anon!

wuxia, xianxia, and cultivation differences meta

translations: wuxia 武俠, xianxia 仙俠, and cultivation 修真/修仙 (xīuzhēn/xīuxiān)

think i've seen posts on this eons ago, and i'm pretty sure there are tons of these online, but since this has been written up already let's just have another one.

wuxia 武俠

wuxia and xianxia sound similar, but basically for wuxia it is about the pugilistic world (江湖 jiānghú). It is relatively more down-to-earth, and people practice martial arts ("kungfu") in their current life -- they do not do it to become xians (仙) and gods (神) however.

Like Thousand Autumns and Faraway Wanderers/Word of Honor, it has more historical background and ties to the current court and kingdoms, because people are living in the moment and concern themselves with worldly issues.

Martial arts may seem unrealistic, but in view of chinese fantasy it would be considered "real". It consists of fighting moves and internal energy, which they call qi or nèigōng (內功), and at times you see people flying around, climbing hills and jumping across rooftops which is qīnggōng (輕功).

xianxia 仙俠

A level up would be xianxia, where characters in the story cultivate to become xians (and gods, like in the heaven official's blessing). They don't really care about earthly issues here now, because their ambitions lie beyond the current world, and cultivation, getting stronger, and an immortal life are majorly all their goals.

You may not always see them working towards that purpose, such as in mdzs they are considered a lower-xianxia society (低魔), meaning people don't go through all the steps of cultivation and only stay at the stage before the "golden core" stage.

In xianxia, characters still learn basic fighting moves aka. martial arts, but to direct the internal energy they use línglì (灵力), zhēnqì (真气), and fǎlì (法力), all xianxia terms you commonly see. "neigong" is practically nonexistent in this genre. That's why people building up their "neigong" instead of "lingli" are likely never going to be able to cultivate.

cultivation 修真/修仙

A subgenre in the xianxia category would be cultivation. Characters actively go through the stages of cultivation, and likely for the MC, because they are the main character, they successfully become a xian and exit the world at the end of the novel.

There are many stages of cultivation, usually defined at the beginning of the novel in the synopsis, and a typical example of the different levels would be this:

练气，筑基，金丹，元婴，化神，炼虚，合体，大乘，渡劫

And with a cursory search, an English translation would be something like this, albeit not with all the cultivation ranks identified.

Qi condensation (练气), Foundation establishment (筑基), Core Formation (金丹), Nascent Soul (元婴), and the names after that vary too greatly with translation and fandom so I'll jump straight to Immortal Ascension

extra info: getting into the philosophy of it all

It'd be interesting to note that the word "xiá" (俠) permeates all these genres. This is something akin to the concept of "hero", but not at all also, and I'd love to speak more on this but this post has already gone way longer than I hoped it would be, so perhaps another day.

Regardless, it is interesting to note that wuxia has a greater emphasis on "xia" than xianxia. (some joke that cultivation doesn't have the word "xia" in it, and much of that is because characters have foregone heroism and focused on gaining powers and working towards ascension instead). As a result, wuxia is more confucianism-oriented, though not without its taoism and buddhism influences.

xianxia, on the other hand, is mainly derived from "dào" (道), from taoism, which is another lengthy concept if I ever get to it.

And some may have heard of the "farming" genre, 种田 (zhòngtián). This has to do with golden fingers (mary sues) in imperialistic china, earning a wealth of money, and all that. It has nothing to do with cultivation, alike they sound in english.

that's it for now, hmu if you wish to ask/discuss!

(and apologies for the pinyin translations, hope it's understandable still! formally writing pinyin they are supposed to be two separate words not one.)

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So idk if anyone else who is a Danmei fan was also a Percy jackson kid, but I was, so I’ve got a new series of polls!

DRUM ROLL PLEASE… 🥁🥁🥁

Who is this Danmei characters godly parent!

So like always we have to start with my fav, Xie Lian!!

*Disclaimer* there are like a ton of choices, so for this poll i will primarily stick with the main pantheon, but I’ll try and have an other option for any other deity options!!

'Mid' autumn festival? I find it quite based actually.