Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Betty i assumed that her at least heavily implying he was illegitimate was part of the scandal, yeah and that it only works bc Jin Guangyao is trying his hardest to convince Jin Guangshan that yeah he *definitely* doesn’t have any legitimate heirs, nope, but hasn’t he, Jin Guangyao, been soooo helpful?

@ryfulets @Betty au where Jiang Yanli scandalously leaves the Jins to go raise Jin Ling as heir to the Jiang sect after her husbands death

JGY is initially like “sweet this vastly simplified my path to being sect leader” but later comes to have Regrets

@thalassa oh thats irritating!

@pixelcats @yesterdaychild i used to have “get my tabs under control” as a weekly to do list item every tuesday 😅

i should probably start that up again tbh, they’ve been really accumulating lately

@thalassa the thing thats really bothering me tho is why would one person/group use two totally unrelated methods of manipulating the results? If you’re going to the trouble of manipulating the results to drop certain titles off the list, why then go for the much more obvious “ineligible” marker for other titles?

@thalassa and also there was nothing stopping the *American* committee members from just coming out and saying something if they wanted the irregularities to be caught

exurbe has been writing about how censors historically generally wanted to be obvious in a show of power, which is def an interesting angle to consider: https://www.exurbe.com/tools-for-thinking-about-censorship/

I’m not sure it entirely lines up with what I’ve seen of China’s censorship (which puts a lot of emphasis on reviewing materials before release so doesn’t have to deal with so much of the “how do you track down every copy of every banned book?”) but then again…they do seem oddly fine with shows using terrible obvious dubs over censored words/lines so a lack of subtlety doesn’t seem to bother them much at the v least

@Lady @aescling 🍣

@twistylittlepassages this is why i’m like 🤔 when the vexologists insist using fewer shapes and colors is the path to distinctive, easily readible flags

@setavulos 1) yes
2) one of the early signals of how not-cishet all three of us were is the fact that we explicitly inquired to my parents about this, & when we discovered it was the same name for all three of us, debated who should “have” it (we gave it to youngest sibling
3) my current offline name is a gender neutral nickname that can derive from several names incl the one i was born with

@platypus i would absolutely only use those in 10c increments, so I didn’t have to break the panorama up

@alpine_thistle lmao yeah that does limit your options

@alpine_thistle yeah i wouldnt necessarily want the discussion off in an easily deleted section but the actual content was way more narrowly tailored than i was expecting lol

@alpine_thistle is “posthumous reputation” the normal heading for what I (a non christian) would expect to see under a heading like “canonization status” or is its useage there some weird landgrab to keep people from using the term to talk about eg. the debates over his queerness

@xieliansbignaturals @Sonaapareeya @geraineon @villainousfriend @soph_sol @Betty okay but good governance philosophy and crop yields SHOULD be the true key to a prosperous hero