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Technically true.
He got the job.
He takes his job seriously.
Prof Rad over on youtube dubbed the Wolf Hunter comic (click here)!
Go check it out and give them some support! :) (also the end killed me haha) ₍ᐢ•ﻌ•ᐢ₎
The farmer sheared the sheep, and it was used to make a gift for Wolf Hunter, so…
Wolf Hunter goes to the village markets.
Wolf Hunter and his conga line of sheep.
Wolf Hunter was looking for them for a while.
Not a werewolf.
The disappearance. 🐑
The worst snowman.
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🐐THE GOAT HAS FALLEN 🐐
HELL YEAH!!!!
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There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age 3.
At 21 years old, heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman, she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate, so beautiful, so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day.
Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu (璇璣圖) - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the Armillary Sphere" - it's a 29 by 29 grid of 841 characters that can produce over 4,000 different poems.
Read it forward. Read it backward. Read it horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Read it spiraling outward from the center. Read it in circles around the outer edge. Each path through the grid produces a different poem - all of them coherent, all of them beautiful, all of them rhyming, all of them expressing variations on the same themes of longing, betrayal, regret, and undying love.
The outer ring of 112 characters forms a single circular poem - believed to be both the first and longest of its kind ever written. The interior grid produces 2,848 different four-line poems of seven characters each. In addition, there are hundreds of other smaller and longer poems, depending on the reading method.
At the center a single character she left implied but unwritten: 心 (xin) - "heart." Later copyists would add it explicitly, but in Su Hui's original the meaning was even more beautiful: 4,000 poems, all orbiting the space where her heart used to be.
Take for instance the outer red grid of the Star Gauge. Starting from the top right corner and reading down, you get this seven-character quatrain:
仁智懷德聖虞唐，
貞志篤終誓穹蒼，
欽所感想妄淫荒，
心憂增慕懷慘傷。
In pinyin, it is:
Rén zhì huái dé shèng yú táng,
zhēnzhì dǔ zhōng shì qióng cāng,
qīn suǒ gǎnxiǎng wàng yín huāng,
xīn yōu zēng mù huái cǎn shāng.
Notice how it rhymes? táng / cāng / huāng / shāng
The rough translation in English is: "The benevolent and wise cherish virtue, like the sage-kings Yao and Shun, With steadfast will I swear to the heavens above, What I revere and feel - how could it be wanton or dissolute? My heart's sorrow grows, longing brings only grief."
Now read it from the bottom to the top and you get this entirely different seven-character quatrain:
傷慘懷慕增憂心，
荒淫妄想感所欽，
蒼穹誓終篤志貞，
唐虞聖德懷智仁。
The pinyin:
Shāng cǎn huái mù zēng yōu xīn,
huāngyín wàngxiǎng gǎn suǒ qīn,
cāngqióng shì zhōng dǔzhì zhēn,
táng yúshèngdé huái zhì rén.
It rhymes too: xīn and qīn, zhēn and rén
And the meaning is just as beautiful and coherent: "Grief and sorrow, longing fills my worried heart, Wanton and dissolute fantasies - is that what you revere? I swear to the heavens my constancy is true, May we embody the sage-kings' virtue, wisdom, and benevolence."
That's just 2 poems out of the over 4,000 you can construct from the Xuanji Tu!
At the very center of the grid, the 8 red characters wrapped around the central heart, she "signed" her poem with a hidden message:
詩圖璇玑，始平蘇氏。 "The poem-picture of the Armillary Sphere, by Su of Shiping."
Or reversed:
蘇氏詩圖，璇玑始平。 "Su's poem-picture - the Armillary Sphere begins in peace."
Many scholars, and even emperors, throughout Chinese history have been completely obsessed by Su Hui's puzzle.
For instance, in the Ming dynasty, a scholar named Kang Wanmin (康萬民) devoted his entire life to the poems (kangshiw.com/contents/461/2…), ending up documenting twelve different reading methods - forward, backward, diagonal, radiating, corner-to-corner, spiraling - and extracting 4,206 poems. His book on the subject ("Reading Methods for the Xuanji Tu Poems", 璇璣圖詩讀法) runs to hundreds of pages.
Empress Wu Zetian herself, the legendary woman emperor of the Tang dynasty, wrote a preface to the Xuanji Tu around 692 CE (baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%BB%87…).
Incredibly, there's even far more complexity to the Xuanji Tu than just the poems:
- The name 璇玑 (Xuanji) - Armillary Sphere - is astronomical in meaning and the way the poems can be read mirrors the way celestial bodies orbit around a fixed center. It's a model of the heavens.
- Her original work, with the characters woven on silk brocade, was in five colors (red, black, blue/green, purple, and yellow) which correspond to the Five Elements (五行) - the foundational Chinese philosophical system that explains how the universe operates. So it's also a model of the entire cosmic order according to ancient Chinese philosophy.
- It's also of course deeply mathematical with this 29 x 29 perfect square grid, with sub-squares, lines and rectangles, and a structure which allows for symmetrical reading patterns in all directions
- Last but not least, the content of the poems themselves contain multiple registers. On top of expressing her personal grief and longing for her husband, it's also filled with accusations against the concubine (Zhao Yangtai) he left her for, reflections on politics (with many references to sage-kings) and philosophical reflections.
So the Star Gauge is simultaneously:
- A love letter (expressing personal longing)
- A legal brief (arguing her case against her rival)
- A cosmological model (structured like the heavens)
- A Five Element diagram (encoding the fundamental structure of the world according to ancient Chinese philosophy)
- A mathematical construction with perfect symmetry and precision
And yet, for all this complexity, we should not forget this was all ultimately in service of the simplest human message imaginable: a 21-year-old woman asking the love of her life "come back to me".
Her husband did, eventually. According to what empress Wu Zetian herself wrote in her preface to the Xuanji Tu, when he received Su's brocade he was so "moved by its supreme beauty" that he sent away his concubine and returned to his wife. As the story goes, they lived together until old age.
The heart at the center was filled after all.
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You just found out that your roommate is a literal god(dess). One who is completely unknown and has not a single follower, because apparently they tried that before and quote: "they were so annoying."
Ask and ye shall receive (one of them, at least)
"You're..."
"A goddess," Kara finished.
"Right." Lena's eyes weren't on the other woman as she said it though. Instead, her attention was locked onto the innocent white flowers blooming against green leaves. Flowers which Lena had watched blossom before her very eyes—as if she had been watching a time-lapse. The apparent cause: Kara, leaning over the potted plant and blowing gently across its branches. "A goddess."
"Please don't tell anyone," Kara begged with a wince.
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Angst with a happy ending. Damn, they got me
Dead Dove.
Y e u p.
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One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go.
I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried
And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated.
"She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair"
I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of"
Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people.
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You think this is an exaggeration, but didn't they actually make a whole series of ads showing that you can use AI to write "heartfelt" messages and order "thoughtful" gifts for your family when you can't be bothered to do it yourself? So you can go through the motions of appearing to care while being completely disengaged from your loved ones?
At work, there's occasionally a volunteer activity to write e-cards for kids at St. Jude's. There are some guidelines, as well as templates if you just don't know what to write. Last time the powers that be pushed AI at us, someone gushed that they loved using AI to come up with messages for these cards, an activity that is already so low-effort and distant as to be almost meaningless.
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Have never in my life taken dildos in a carry-on suitcase while flying, but tomorrow I will be taking not one, but two of them (and a harness)
On one hand, I’m like— meh, TSA sees all kids of shit, they don’t give a fuck.
And yet there remains this tiiiiiiny reel playing in my head, imagining the TSA officers opening that baby up and grabbing them, one looking at me with hapless shock and the other giving me a deadpan expression
My plan in such case is, of course, to just lift my eyebrows and say “have you ever tried that brand? They’re amazing.”
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sunnydale dashboard simulator
☀️carriebradshawunderstander Follow hey I think I just saw a giant lizard thing take a bite out of a guy's head. what's up with that
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🫶breakingdawn not to be insensitive but some of the people who come to my sister (the slayer) for help are so funny. "you need to stop her I saw her at the demon cult ritual!!!" girl... what were YOU doing at the demon cult ritual 👀
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🌌blinking182times I moved to sunnydale for college and tbh I still really don't get why everyone is soooo into LARPing here... no matter where you go you constantly hear people talking about vampires n shit and if you refuse to go along with it they look at you like YOURE the crazy one 😭
🐈⬛annericeroutine Follow op i hate to break it to you but we're not larping the vampires and demons are very much real
🌌blinking182times sure whatever man
#this is what I'm talking about like??? 💀💀💀
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🍄mschanandlerbong Follow Please delete this blog. This entire tournament is so offensive, many of us have lost loved ones to demon attacks, including my sister who died in at the hands of a Lei-ach. I know you're just joking around but please don't try to "fuck" a demon. You can't. THEY WILL KILL YOU.
🏆most-fuckable-demon-tournament okay well rip to your sister but i'm different
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🦇armandapologist Follow human blood tastes so good when you don't have a slayer in your ear bitching about how drinking it is evil
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💸imanya-andimnotademon2001 woahhh me and giles just got jumped by a bunch of vampires. I got away but they're beating his ass rn :(
#anya talks #his legs are old and because of that he can't run very fast #sad!! :(
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No one's. I'm celibate. Who told you this
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me: I think I hauve been cursed
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🔮willow Follow hi sunnydale citizens, i'm really glad everyone is showing their pride but please remove any banners saying "everyone is welcome" from your house, vampires WILL be able to come in!
☠️xxx-spike-xxx Follow sounds to me like you're just homophobic... keep them up everyone.
🔮willow Follow i'm literally gay?
☠️xxx-spike-xxx Follow notice how she's not denying it. SHAME ON YOU
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