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Just in case we hadn’t suffered enough today I bring you Ji Chen’s latest douyin update
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DMBJ Official Art for Xie Yuchen (10/03) & Hei Xiazi (01/23)'s birthdays by - 晓泊21
couldn't resist and decided to try to participate in nirashiya week. good news is that text for day 1 is already posted (and even almost on time); bad news is that that was literally all I've written, so I don't know if I will be able to post anything for any other days👉👈
so, nirashiya midwinter week, day 1: Recovery.
Niragi didn't think that he was lonely.
But seeing Chishiya was making the breathing easier. Bound by the trauma or something.
Or, about recovering your life after the meteorite.
please be aware that the text is in Russian, though I plan on translating it someday. also, it seems I cannot, for the life of me, make the posts pretty.
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Does anyone have any tips on how to characterize Chishiya/Niragi. I was already having a bad time trying to decide facial expressions, but now that I‘m throwing a little bit of dialogue into the mix it feels like I‘m creating plastic rip-offs of them💔
They've got similar traumas but they deal with it differently.
Chishiya is cold. Is clever and calculated and so so hurt. We see in manga flashbacks that he remembers his father as someone who never had time for him; I like to take that to mean he's stopped trying to reach out to anyone because he internalised that no one's going to reach back. (He's likely not entirely aware of this, and if he is he's lying to himself that it's fine.)
Key for him is the scene with the card game in the manga where one of the players says something like "You're a miserable existence" and Chishiya sorta kinda goes "yep". The Borderlands don't bother him because he's genuinely not interested in whether or not he survives, so he can make the coldest in-game decisions, so he lives. He just doesn't get that fight or flight that everyone else does. It's all the same to him.
Up until he meets our resident sniper-slash-human-firewood. Chishiya recognizes himself in Niragi and Chishiya does not like it. Niragi is loud and violent and arrogant and has no regard for anyone else. Niragi is the ugly externalisation of Chishiya's emptiness.
Niragi is also posturing. Niragi, far more than Chishiya, is aware of what fucked him up. He's so well aware of the hurt kid he's been, of how bad it can get, and he's decided that the only way to prevent that from happening again is to become the bully. He's both victim and abuser. (If he'd been the main character someone would have saved him). As we see in the manga shootout scene, he's also so so lonely. He's build up this shell of a persona around the pain and it keeps him locked in with that pain. Chishiya, cold as he is, is (as I see it) someone who can be a weird form of company for Niragi because he's so cold that he doesn't care about that violent shell.
(Now in a way I think Chishiya's worse than Niragi. Chishiya calculates where Niragi lashes out. Chishiya betrays Arisu though he knows what the consequences will be; Niragi acts as expected. Chishiya's premeditation where Niragi's manslaughter.)
Writing dialogue for Them is, admittedly, A Bitch. They're both lying to themselves and each other in some degree. Niragi's more honest, Chishiya's messed up on levels he doesn't even fully understand. Chishiya will imply things rather than say them out loud. Niragi will yell and bristle and snarl and say more than he means to but in such a way that it doesn't really come across. They're a mess and they're tough to write. But you can never go wrong with sarcasm, for either of them.
It helps to assign them a weak spot here and there. I like to write Chishiya as deeply terrified of any sort of emotional honesty. His parents are a bruise and when they come up he'll flounder because Niragi needs some sort of in. (Niragi, despite how he's portrayed in the show, is a diamonds player. He's clever. He sees those signs). But the fun thing about this show is that there's enough canon to go off but also enough blanks to headcanon to your heart's content so. There are options :) So. This turned into an essay. I hope it's useful :D
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Anonymous asked:
I'm interested in getting more into arthuriana beyond just my basic surface level knowledge but I'm a little lost on where to begin, given that there's about 100 million different interpretations and retellings. I was considering starting with the Mabinogion because I've already read part of that but I was wondering if you had a recommendation for a starting point?
Being lost is quite common :'D I remember at one point I decided to only focus on Mordred because it was too much (but then I could not resist).
I think personally I liked doing a mix of modern novels, movies and old texts, but I know that some people do prefer to start in a more chronological order. The Mabinogion is an excellent point to start, btw!
- A chronological order
I have a friend who is also starting to read arthuriana and she preferred the chronological order of older texts before moving to novels/movies. In that case, this is what I suggested to her:
In bold and with * are the texts I kind of consider essential or fun, so a good starting point to get a bit of everything. Keep in mind that the download links in that post might be old and not work well, but these should be easy to find online (or you can check the titles+link on the arthurian list of everything here).
In general, the "well known" arthuriana that most people will cite and refer to is "Morte d'Arthur" by Thomas Malory. I think a possible good starting chronological point would be:
- Annales Cambriae
- History of the Kings of Britain (Monmouth)
- Chretien de Troyes' four Romances
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Le Morte d'Arthur (Malory)
- The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
- Culhwch and Olwen
2. Sticking to a character
How I instead I did at the time was focusing on one character and reading everything every modern novel and old text I could find about them! Some examples: Mordred, Bedivere, Kay, Igraine, Morgause, Galahad (I will try to post Morgana and Guinevere soon!).
If you have a favorite character let me know!
3. A mix of old and new
I also in the past wrote some possible ways to start like this link here. But an updated version would be a mix of old texts (in chronological order, as linked up above) and movies and modern novels that "cover" the most. A lot of novels tell the story of Arthur from birth to death, and ends up covering a lot of characters and events. Even if they give it their own spin, it is still a good way to get a general bearing of what is going on!
Some good options for movies/tv shows are:
- The Legend of King Arthur 1979 BBC: good way to get a summarized version of Morte d'Arthur (If you are impatient, as that book is pretty long!)
- The Sword in the Stone (Disney) + Camelot (1967, musical movie): these are adaptations of White's Once and Future King and were quite influential! You said you already have some knowledge so probably they won't give you any new information, but they are very good
- Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert 2004: for a good faithful adaptation of the poem
- Merlin miniseries 1998 and The Mists of Avalon 2001: Are both pretty good miniseries that "summarize" (with their own liberties) Arthur's story from birth to death. Alongside Excalibur 1981 they are also among the most influential arthurian media, especially on the role of Morgana
Some good options for novels are:
- Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy and "Wicked Day" are quite good "comprehensive" novels that try to take Malory's tale and turn it into an historical-like adventure and drama. But please keep in mind that her note about Bedivere being the old Lancelot is nonsensical (at least from what i saw);
- Persia Woolley's Guinevere trilogy is a similar series, but focuses on Guinevere. Among the two I do prefer the Woolley's trilogy (I am not big on Merlin);
- The Once and Future King (White)
Also one of the best free resources out there is "Bruce's Dictionary":
Enjoy!!!
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idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
...Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
@vishcount is feeding me well with these tags:
- @foxofninetales additions, now it's a potluck
