aphanon_meme | part 353 whalers on the moon

part 353 whalers on the moon

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Oh my heart just fluttered!

I'm ron Burgandy?

/swoon

[WHEEZING. CAN YOU BLAME HIM, THOUGH. CAN YOU REALLY BLAME HIM]

HHhh--W-Where the hell are you going?!!--H-HEY!! My ribs are broken!! You can't just walk away-- [They're just badly bruised thanks to his nation strength but what does she know]

W-What the hell happened to taking responsibility!! O-Oi!! [Talking really hurts man, PANICKING AT THE SIGHT OF HER WALKING AWAY, HE CAN'T GET UP, HE'LL LIE HERE PRONE FOR ALL SORTS OF WILDLIFE AND ANONS TO MOLEST. But he lacks the common sense to apologize]

LIESELOTTE!! [ABOUT TO CRY BABY VOICE, C'MON. take pity on him, he is in so much pain right now he's sweating buckets. THIS IS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE HIM HER HOSTAGE]

Lol @ LJ probably implementing +1 features and letting the +1 feature decide the order comments are posted in, aka comments with the most +1s will be at the top of the post

actually they posted this

"We've been reading through your comments, and appreciate all the very thoughtful and constructive feedback you have provided! The reaction has been quite mixed, with some people in favor of the idea, but also many against it primarily due to concerns that this type of feature could be too trivial of a way for people to respond to something and lead to less comments of substance being posted. Given your feedback, we feel that the best option is to not move forward with developing/adding this feature to LiveJournal at this time."

I'm stunned. Did someone else buy LJ?

holy damn

[Oh hush, she's not going far, just hovering awkwardly and watching her horse gallop joyfully around a bunch of tents]

I shall never catch her at this rate...

[Pausing at his words, not looking back, but letting out an irritated, conflicted sigh.]

Responsibility? You refused to do so, did you not?

[BUT...him crying out her name like that and the worrisome breathy quality to his voice eventually tug on some kind of moral centre, and she turns back to him, frowning at the sight because he's shaking and sweating so much she's almost feeling it vicariously]

...Lie still, you may puncture something.

[...She's not a nurse, she's not actually sure what to do for broken or bruised ribs...just pain relief, isn't that all you can do? Well...alright, returning to the table to fish around in the picnic basket]

Hmm...

[Aha. Produces a small bottle of strong brandy, very delicately lowering herself to the grass in order to offer it to him. Looking rather put out and grumpy about it all, eyeing the hoof marks on his chest. God, what is she supposed to do without assistance]

I won't be able to move you, you know.

More than 100 years after the centuries-old practice of foot binding was banned in China, these are some of the last living women who were subjected to the practice as children.

Once a symbol of beauty and status, foot binding, also known as lotus feet, was carried out in China since the 10th century, falling out of favour in the early 20th century before it was outlawed in 1911.

Now the last remaining women to have their feet painfully bound in order to prevent growth have been photographed as part of a photography project celebrating their lives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652228/PICTURED-The-living-Chinese-women-bound-feet-100-years-centuries-old-symbol-beauty-status-banned.html

no I made the mistake of reading the comments

ANON. NEVER. READ. COMMENTS.

Waaaaaaaaat

Terrifying but fascinating too. Wish the article had gone more into specifics of these women's own experiences and thoughts on the practice, or of their families, husbands, descendants.

I couldn't help myself

[he sounds more like a dusty bellow right now]

It's different!! [Panting, ow, ow, ow.]

I'm a fuckin' [Shaky inhale and exhale] s-saint and you're a--a damn tyrant. I won't take respons-[heave ho trying to breathe man]-ibility for your evil!!

[ignoring both her advice and her brandy, rolls painfully to his side before shakingly sitting up, left hand covering that spreading bruise]

Y-Your people are. [Long pause to breeathee, okay no more full sentences] close by. Right? Take me. Your place--doctor--Pull. [HEAVE HO HEAVE HO BREATHING]

We'll. Walk. [Right hand thrusting towards her for her to help him to his feet, slightly impatient and snappy. Pull him up. Has a lot of nerve asking for her help for someone so rude. If they start to walk away, Nannerl will probably follow eventually and they can ride her the rest of the way if he doesn't faint first]

Edited 2014-06-09 02:24 (UTC)

Yeah, same here. I've read a few books about footbinding and its such a complicated cultural practice, it's a bit frustrating to see it's always boiled down to "GASP, LOOK AT THIS" when there's so much more to it than the physical appearance.

To be fair, the article doesn't read as "gasp, look at this" so much as a really brief and somewhat repetitious overview, like the writer was bored or lacked additional information or something.

To me, it feels like "GASP" because the emphasis is in the article is on the photos of the actual feet.

Foot binding is really interesting. Although it culturally was a consequence of male desires, it became very much an exclusive part of female culture in Chinese households, something only done through women's work.

And the general stereotype is that footbinding was meant to keep women incapacitated, but as the practice became popular with non aristocratic women, footbinding itself shifted to allow different styles that accommodated women who had to work and walk for a living--there's '
'bound' rain boots, 'bound' work/farm shoes, etc.

the author did a kickstarter apparently

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/livinghistory/living-history-bound-feet-women-of-china

[Well, it seems he's still rude and stupid, even injured, even when she's willing to help him. The nerve of it all. Pockets her brandy then, fine.]

You will only hurt yourself more-

[Sigh. Ignoring his overblown nonsense and getting to her feet wearily, looking around at the remains of her picnics and deciding to abandon the silverware (and send a grunt to retrieve it later, obviously)]

Yes, my company is near...by...

[Hey...yeah, help is close at hand, but more importantly, so are lots of armed gentlemen who will be only too happy to keep this guy under supervision...HMMMMMMM]

You might at least say please. Very well.

[Strangely accepting of his rude, assholish way of asking for help because she has Plans. Reluctantly takes his hand in both of hers and tries to heeeeaaaaave him to his feet. HE'S HEAVY.]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/04/photos-the-last-living-women-with-bound-feet/

For example this article on the same subject doesn't seem like "gasp" to me, because it focuses more on what the author of this project is trying to do and why she feels this is a culturally important project

Could be interesting!

Yeah, this is hardly an article, more like captions to photos.

Which books have you read about footbinding, anon? Do you have any thoughts you want to share on it?

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