So You Want to Name a Sino: A Guide to Not Making a Fucking Fool of Yourself
Note: this will be long and very, very extensive because god I am so sick of this shit 2k16 I just want absolution and I don’t think that’s too much to ask, and even if it is I’m asking it, I’m not asking it emptyhanded I’m asking it with a WHOLE GUIDE FOR YOUR PERUSAL, because I’ve found that Wiki’s great if you want to know why and how we use names and not really great for when you actually want a name.
A theme of this blog seems to be my long suffering, and I want it known, recorded, carved in stone that as of almost 1:00AM on Thursday, December 22nd, 2016, I am officially Fed Up with the way Sino characters are named in fiction.
Let us be clear: this is first and foremost An Attack™* on all the white authors whose imaginations can only extend so far to provide us with a glut of Lings and Linglings and Ailings (not that those aren’t beautiful names) and Peonies and Pearls and, god forbid they start getting creative with their Sachas and their Wai-maes, but this is also for the Sino authors who can’t seem to do it either. And like, I get it. It’s not easy. Sinos are a disparate bunch with varying degrees of fluency in varying dialects of Chinese. Romanisation and naming customs are weird.
But also can we leave the idea of the inscrutable mysterious unknowable East in the 20th century please? There are resources. This is one of them. Let’s start before I steep for too long in my own bitterness and annoyance.
In four billion years, there have been many continents that died.
You’ve heard of the famous ones–Pangaea, proud monolith; Laurasia, home of dinosaurs–but there were others, so many, many others. The grand march of time swallowed islands whole, scraped them up like residue from the baking pan of the world.
Everything has a soul. Everything remembers.
Gondwana floats gently over London now, remembering when the world was hot and green. She loves the lights. There were no lights, when she was alive. There were no lights when the world was so hot and green.
Rodinia settles onto the dry Atacama, bringing moisture from the sea. She moves much faster now, unhindered by gravity and friction, slipping through the walls of this new house. The walls are always moving, yet she stays, floating in and out, bringing moisture.
Vaalbara, eldest and most fire-born, sneaks in tendrils and wisps over her old haunting grounds. Her bones are buried in the outback, ancient cratons resting unrotted through all the fearsome gnawing of time. She likes the summers here. The heat reminds her, so faintly, of what it was like to be born. In the wildfires, she sees the magma oceans of her youth.
She’s the voice of Mulan, as if she wasn’t amazing enough.
She broke it with her fingers. Not a fist, her fingers.
Girl is 50 years old.
FIFTY. YEARS. OLD.
fun fact: When you break things with your hands like that you have t break your fingers on purpose before so that they heal stronger. So basically this woman is so badass she broke her hands just to do this.
You asshat, you’re making it sound like she snaps her fingers in half.
Martial artists like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee (and yes, fucking Ming-Na Wen, that beautiful badass) will build up their bone strength by repeatedly (and fairly gently) striking sand, gravel, wood and steel - this creates tons of microfractures in their bones (smaller than even a hairline fracture) so the bones will heal over again and make the bones stronger and denser with increased deposits of calcium.
This has to be done over long-ass periods of time, so the bones have time to heal, and none of the fractures expand into actual breaks.
Oh, and she’s doing precise-ass kicks in HIGH HEELS.
she kicks ass like a coursing river
Saw this post so many months ago and I still think about it from time to time lol so badass
Had the absolute pleasure of meeting her. She’s indeed a kind-hearted and gorgeous badass.
Shengsi, an archipelago of almost 400 islands at the mouth of China’s Yangtze river, holds a secret shrouded in time – an abandoned fishing village being reclaimed by nature. These photos by Tang Yuhong, a creative photographer based in Nanning, take us into this lost village on the beautiful archipelago.
The copyright for Moxiang Tongxiu’s Heaven Official’s Blessing(天官赐福 / Tian Guan Ci Fu)has been sold for a record-breaking 40,000,000 RMB (an equivalent of 5,900,000 USD). Just like Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Heaven Official’s Blessingwill be adapted into amanhua, adonghua, alive-action series, anaudio drama and agame.
Which also means, roughly 2 years from now, when y'all think that you are over with the emotional turmoil caused by Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, a brand new abyss called Heaven Official’s Blessing will open.
And trust me, this abyss will wreck your heart worse than you can imagine.
Stay tuned, folks. The golden age of Chinese BL / Danmei is coming.
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* In case you don’t know, here is a quick intro to Heaven Official’s Blessing, written by the same author of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.
“After quite a while, as if he had been possessed by a demon, Xie Lian actually reached out his hand.
After two steps, some soft thudding noises echoed from above their heads, like the sound of rain hitting an umbrella. It turned out that a moment ago, the teenager had opened an umbrella before holding it above both of their heads.
This situation and this scenery were both demonically alluring. However, this teenager held his hand with one hand and held up an umbrella with the other as he slowly led him forward. For no reason at all, this made their stroll seem romantic and flirtatious, like they were sincerely in love and inseparable.” - Heaven Official’s Blessing Chapter 8
The Ghost Holds a Wedding scene was illustrated so well OH MY GOD just look at the artwork… I don’t have enough words for that beauty
Something remarkable about Moxiang Tongxiu’s works
This table shows the statistics of Moxiang Tongxiu’s novels on JJWXC - the official webnovel platform where her works are posted. If you look at the “Score” column (second-last from the right), you can see that Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation has more than 12 billion points, while Heaven Official’s Blessing earns nearly 20billion points - which is the highest score in the entire history of JJWXC, by the way.
Fun fact: Moxiang Tongxiu’s upcoming 4th novel, Sishen Mei You Xiuxi Ri (rough translation: There Is No Rest for The Death God), has not a single chapter yet and the score is already past 600,000,000.
Talk about being really, incredibly popular (⑉⊙.⊙)…
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*JJWXC’s “Score” (积分) is calculated using a pretty complex geometric series formula. In simpler terms, this “Score” is a combination of the novel’s total views, review score, number of comments and a few other factors.
