Evening dress ca. 1863
From the Museum of Vancouver
Evening dress ca. 1863
From the Museum of Vancouver
Having an absolute blast watching Cang Lan Jue rn mostly bc Dongfang Qingcang is just. A cat.
A literal cat.
One of those huge and mean feral tomcats who were taken in (against their will) during a real bad snowstorm and now (against their will) he realizes “Oh This Is Comfortable” and makes less and less serious attempts at escaping until he eventually decides “Ok I Live Here Now” but he doesn’t admit it and keeps swatting at any hand coming too close until he accidentally starts purring when a sneaky person with a sneaky hand starts rubbing his ears and oooohhh that’s nice and he HATES it. He’s purring and all but he’s so indignant about it he really hates it now DON’T STOP GIVING HIM SCRITCHES
Just remembered my friends and I have wildly different takes on this so:
Do you use oven mitts?
Yes, obviously, how else would you do it
No they’re a scam, that’s what dish towels are for
Whichever’s closest/depends on the dish
This poll assumes I use the oven at all
Reblog not to increase sample size but to be comically indignant regarding household tasks
god i want to talk ab danyin and gender. for her to appear as a very feminine, mean girl archetype, existing within the constraints of being a spoiled rich girl, a girl trying to get the attention of a man… she’s framed in all of these feminine conceits, but then as you learn more about her, the person that she Actually Is denies a lot of the delicate femininity of her initial appearance. she goes through her mortal tribulations as a man, and while other people don’t blink an eye, what’s important is that she doesn’t blink an eye—she sees herself dressed as a man, watching the wedding in yunmeng lake, and maybe she was distracted, but she had no qualms about that. when it comes time for her to go back and try to protect changheng she goes right back into her masculine disguise with none of the discrepancies that you might expect of a traditionally feminine character in her situation. when the time for war comes, she puts on armor and goes out with her sword to fight with the rest. her story doesn’t end with getting the man she wanted or with being heartbroken over the man that she wanted: her happy ending is in being close platonic friends with him, as they were when they were both men. she goes off to become a soldier. she goes off to become the god of war. i love love love to think of her from a genderqueer standpoint because she breaks out of our feminine preconceptions of her so easily, so casually, and finds herself happiest outside of the constraints of being a lady in society, and like… can’t even formulate thoughts. danyin <3
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Afternoon dress ca. 1897
From the San Diego History Center on Flickr
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Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there’s such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don’t
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#you can’t reconcile the feminist idea that men and women are equals with acting like they’re different species
#the feminist idea that women are more than their reproductive systems with the one that womanhood is defined by a reproductive system
#the feminist idea that women don’t need to adhere to arbitrary standards of femininity with the one that they do or they aren’t women
#the feminist idea that women are allowed to have body hair and be tall or muscular with the one that they’re to be scrutinized if they are
#the feminist idea that women as equals to men should be allowed to compete with them with the one that both must always be separated
#i can not consider terfism to be feminism in any fucking way
#and don’t say ‘no true scotsman’ that’s not it
#i don’t consider feminists for the same reason i don’t consider the democratic people’s republic of korea a democracy #or nazism socialism. having feminist in their name does not mean their ideas are automatically feminist
#i’ve yet to meet a terf that actually cares about women more than about hating on trans folk
#there is no feminist belief that can come from someone who views women as vaginas with legs that are too frail to do anything men do
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Let’s talk about Language
Jonathan Harker is an Englishman from Exeter. As such he speaks (Devon-accented) English.
He has mentioned a couple of times now that he also speaks German, but not very well. He calls it a “smattering” but it’s enough to get him through Hungary, which is famously diglossic. He does not speak Hungarian. When he gets into Romania the language barrier becomes more profound because not only does he not understand any Romanian, the locals don’t have a whole lot of German either. When he talks to the innkeeper’s wife they’re both using a common language neither speaks well.
You’ve all heard me go on about this but I am going to say it again: I’m obsessed with the fact that in earlier drafts when the Count was located in Austria he specifically requested a solicitor who did not speak German. He’s not supposed to be able to communicate with the locals. He’s supposed to be wholly dependent on Dracula, who as we’ve seen in the finished version is arranging all his travel and writing him little letters and such to help him navigate his way there.
[Aside: is Dracula speaking German to the coachman? Because Jonathan is able to understand their conversation, which he wouldn’t if it were in Romanian. It makes sense because the coachman refers to him as the English Herr. But if so Dracula must be doing so specifically for Jonathan’s benefit - otherwise he would be using his own language.]
But! At some point Jonathan acquired a polyglot dictionary! This is another great character moment. Like his research at the British Museum, it means he is aware of his deficiencies (not speaking the local language) and taken steps to correct them. Dracula wants him isolated, but Jonathan wants to know things and talk to people. He asked questions of the waiters in Budapest. He asked questions of the innkepers in Bistritz (who suddenly forgot how to speak German). He can’t ask questions of the townsfolk or other passengers on the coach because he doesn’t speak their language, but he’s trying to understand anyway by means of the resources he does have - the polyglot dictionary. Communication is key and he’s trying to make it happen.
A second aside: people have pointed out that he misspells (and mistranslates) ördög. Other people have pointed out that he’s remarkably good at looking up words in a language he doesn’t speak just on sound. (To harken means to listen and pay attention - his name means Listener, so maybe he’s just preternaturally good at that). But he’s writing his diary in shorthand, which may not have an obvious way of rendering the diacritics (he leaves them off of mămăligă as well) so that’s an extra layer of translation. And he’s relying on his little dictionary, but that dictionary may not be reliable, in the same way that despite all his research he was not able to find Castle Dracula on any map. (Maybe it’s like Rokovoko - too real for maps).
We laugh a lot at “I must ask the Count about these superstitions,” but here’s the thing: the Count speaks English. No one else on this trip is able to communicate with Jonathan in his own language (or in theirs!) even if they wanted to (which they often don’t, since vampires are Scary). And this is by design!
And Dracula speaks excellent English. Better than Jonathan’s German. And he wants to get better at it (which is totally reasonable). But there’s this huge linguistic power imbalance here, in spite of which Jonathan still manages to arrive better prepared and better informed than he is supposed to.
By the time Dracula arrives in England, will he be speaking with a Devon accent?
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dongfang qingcang is the most perfect man. he’s a terrifyingly powerful and widely reviled sorcerer fueled entirely by stubbornness and childhood trauma. his only friend is a dragon. he has excellent fashion sense. he spends time in love with a potted plant. he’s beautiful. he is so done with your shit. he got accidentally body-swap soul-bonded to a cheerful flower fairy during a prison break. he enters and exits situations in dramatic bursts of smoke and flames. he has to be taught how to smile. his two settings are “zero feelings” and “maximum feelings” with absolutely nothing in between. he thinks genocide is a romantic gesture on par with sunrise viewings and nourishing soup. he broods a lot. he has never met a problem that he doesn’t try to solve by offering himself up for unspeakable tortures. he fell in love with the first person who was ever nice to him. he lets her poison him multiple times. he killed god. twice. he is–i cannot stress this enough–a tremendous bitch.
nobody is doing it like him. he’s perfect in every way.
Applying for jobs is a hell designed specifically to torment autistic people. Here is a well-paying task which you know in your heart and soul if they just gave you a desk and left you alone and allowed you to do it you would sit there and be more focused and enthusiastic and excellent at it than anyone else in the building. However, before they allow you to perform the task, you must pass through 3-4 opaque social crucibles where you must wear uncomfortable clothes and make eye contact while everyone expects you to lie, but not too much (no one is ever clear exactly how much lying is expected, “over” honesty is however penalized). You are being judged almost entirely on how well you understand these very specific and unclear rules that no one has explained. None of this has anything to do with your ability to perform the desired task.
It is hell! I want to acknowledge that the original point of the post is NOT fixed by my providing solutions (the way jobs are filled makes no sense), but also I want to leave some notes for folks struggling with these unspoken rules.
Some brief notes on the correct kinds of “LYING”:
Always use “I” expressions, instead of “we”:Someone asks if you have experience in a program (like excel):
- eg “I created a solution to a recurring problem by doing [x].”, even if it was really you and two others in a group
- If you LED the group (or did project-management), you can say, “I led a team to create a solution to a recurring problem by doing [x].”
- This is because employers like to know that YOU can do, and they also value team-leadership. If you say “we”, they may stop you and ask what You did specifically. You can avoid this by just saying “I”.
Mistakes (some interviewers may ask about a time you made a mistake, or a weakness of yours):
- If you feel confident using it: “Yes, I am very proficient.”
- If you have used it a few times, and could at least google what to do next: “Yes, I have good experience.”
- If you don’t have any experience: “I have used it before. I generally pick up programs very fast, and I’m a quick learner.”
Someone asks if you’ve ever led a team / managed a project:
- Good answers are those with solutions.
- Bad answer examples: “Sometimes I don’t catch mistakes before sending things.” OR “I don’t like working with other people”
- Good answer examples: “I had a problem catching typos, so I implemented steps that force me to check my work.” OR “I prefer to do things on my own so I know it’s done right, but I’m working on trusting my teammates to take on pieces as well.”
- Try to say YES to this question (even if it is a lie)
- If you have, say yes, and say how many people were on the team.
- If you haven’t, but you played a large role in a group of people, say yes, and talk about your primary role on the team.
- If you haven’t, but you worked solo on something that needed input from other people, say yes, and say what the project was about.
Additional:
Misc RulesHave a list of projects / bragging points to talk about in advance
- You can ask people to repeat interview questions
- You can write down interview questions while they’re asking (write the basics of the question down for yourself, like the top things you have to answer). People will wait for you to finish writing, you don’t have to answer Immediately.
- Try to keep your answer to questions somewhere between 30 seconds to 1 minute and 30 seconds. You don’t have to time it, but if you find that your answers are taking 3 minutes, you might lose interest.
“Do you have any questions for us?” (A question asked at the end of most interviews.)
- Try to make sure they at least answer the core question asked, don’t just bring up a completely unrelated topic
- Example: if you are really excited to talk about a program you wrote, and someone asks about balancing projects, you can say you are good at AUTOMATION, and an example is this program you wrote
Thank you emails
- “What has been your favorite part of working at [company]?”
- “What’s been your favorite project to work on?”
- People like talking about themselves
- Some employers care if you send them a thank you “letter” (email). Sometime by the end of the day (you can do it right after the interview if you think you’ll forget), send a thank you email like this (you can look up other templates, or ask a friend for help):
- Subject Line: Thank You
- “Hi [interviewer name],
It was great speaking with you. Hearing more about the role, as well as what you said about [their answer to a question you asked them] has made me even more excited for this opportunity.
Thank you for your time today,
[Your Name]Good luck!!
Im gonna need this in 2 years!
Honestly the “applying and interviewing for a job” is harder and more stressful than actually doing the job 999% of the time for me. I hate it so much.
Wait they ask about mistakes and weaknesses because they want to hear about solutions?! That makes so much more sense! Why dont they just verbalize the solution part!
The combination of being autistic and being entry level makes it extra hell.
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