The two dragons of badland

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Today is Thailand national holiday that celebrate the first day of rice farming, the most culturally revered plant, of this year!

With better technology and irrigation, Thais can grown rice more than once a year, or anytime of the year, but this is still a sacred ancient holiday which mark the beginning of raining season and how the ancient farmers had sow their rice seeds today! The first farmer who sows the seed is the King, or someone appointed by him (The Crown prince/or someone from The Department of Agriculture)

With this Holiday (17th May this year), now Thailand has officially entered its Rain Season. Rain here is stupidly brutal. It is like Angels throwing a bucket of water on you, so please be caution if you come here.

nopakun
nopakun

Damn who tf to choose??? Old power from the last Junta coup? Tax evaders? Or neo liberalists? Or the dying technocrat that can't get their shits together?

Like holy shit. Politics is pain.

Unofficial vote count looks like the tax evader is winning...and after stealing 10,000 million last election and write so many shitty laws that people were happy with military coup for 2 years.

My god, I am not even 30 yet and not looking forward withnessing yet another military coup in my short ass life time.

nopakun

Wair. Wait. The neo liberalist is winning by a hair.

nopakun

Ok. The serial tax evader is so bad, I am thinking that the destruction of long-term government wellfare to short term free money scheme might be worth it too keep the tax evader away.

As long as the Junta government don’t disslove their party.

nopakun
nopakun

Damn who tf to choose??? Old power from the last Junta coup? Tax evaders? Or neo liberalists? Or the dying technocrat that can't get their shits together?

Like holy shit. Politics is pain.

Unofficial vote count looks like the tax evader is winning...and after stealing 10,000 million last election and write so many shitty laws that people were happy with military coup for 2 years.

My god, I am not even 30 yet and not looking forward withnessing yet another military coup in my short ass life time.

nopakun

Wair. Wait. The neo liberalist is winning by a hair.

Damn who tf to choose??? Old power from the last Junta coup? Tax evaders? Or neo liberalists? Or the dying technocrat that can’t get their shits together?

Like holy shit. Politics is pain.

Unofficial vote count looks like the tax evader is winning…and after stealing 10,000 million last election and write so many shitty laws that people were happy with military coup for 2 years.

My god, I am not even 30 yet and not looking forward withnessing yet another military coup in my short ass life time.

solitarelee

Anonymous asked:

who tf is the sworn brothers

is this some genshin impact term im too old to understand?

solitarelee answered:

Hhhhhhh oh god. Oh god anon I don’t think you meant to but you took me tf out with this one. “What’s the meiji restoration is that some boku no hero academia thing” god I’m reeling. Okay, but no, I’m not going to be like that, you’re one of today’s ten thousand. I’m also really not the one to explain this super well since it was explained to me by a Chinese person, I am Italian kgjsglkdsjgk. I’ll try but please take this as a leaping point to do more research and don’t just take my word as law.

So “sworn brothers” is a real historical thing that… well my friend was referencing it in Chinese literature but I originally read the concept in some old Japanese literature I read for a world lit class, so it might actually be more widespread? I think in Chinese it’s called 結拜兄弟, and in Japanese I believe it’s 兄弟分? I’m not sure if there’s a Korean equivalent or more in other languages, sorry.

Basically it’s a trope in literature where two men (or boys maybe sometimes?) swear themselves to each other as “brothers,” and kind of like the “childhood best friends” trope (but way more intense), it has certain connotations. For instance in the story I read, which was from I think… 13th century Japan? It was pretty explicitly a romantic homosexual relationship between the two “sworn brothers.” The one man’s mother reacted to it as if they were married (and she was overjoyed about this). It can be a somewhat literal joining of families in that sense. You can read about the history and stuff of it if you want, I’m really not an expert.

What I do know is that within modern literature (particularly Chinese literature particularly light novels, but again my introduction to it was from centuries ago) it tends to be used to invoke Gay Feels and that tends to upset Westerners who mistake “sworn brothers” as, uh, you know, brotherly, and therefore call it incest. It’s funny you mention Genshin Impact, because Diluc and Kaeya are probably one of the most well-known instances of this trope upsetting Westerners.

nopakun

What, The West absolutely has sworn-brothers??? Isn't that like, the blood of the covenant thing??? Or how Homoerotic the army gets sometimes???

It is less about upsetting the West and more of upsetting twitter, becaise Thai twitter users are upset about irl royal family by their sheer lack of touched grass.

solitarelee

It's not exactly the same concept, but it's similar, which is probably why it gets translated to English as sworn brothers in the first place.

For instance, if two men in a piece of western history went "hey, this man is so incredible, I'm pledging my life to him, we're going to be inseparable and part of the same household and I will treat his parents as my parents" that's not. Really what people mean when we say "like brothers" here. In fact if you did call it that, the entire gay community under 30 would emerge to kill you en masse for not declaring them both gay on the spot. We also don't have the same cultural or legal system around it; it does not matter how close two homoerotic military bros are, that dude's not considered next of kin. Not that that exists now (to my knowledge) but it did once upon a time, and these are the details that make western ppl confuse them for like, adopted brothers in the more literal, western sense.

nopakun

Thai Twitter users actually idealized The British Royal family lol. People who don’t touch grass dislike their own royal family because the incest. (There are people who dislike them for more normal political reason, but it is not important now.)

Basically, marrying cousin/sibling is the norm 70-80 years ago. And most of people do not have record of their own tangled family tree and they turns their attention to the royal families that has a record far back.

So, in Asia countries, being a sibling and being in that kind of relationship is nothing too strange. Even if it is now frowned upon and illegal in most places. This lead to young twitter Thai people screaming at old literature.

Basically, I bring it up because the nature of Keaya and Diluc may be weird (depend on how old the writer is), it is not uncommon to call your sworn brother’s parent your own parent and then bang your “sibling” the same night.

Sorry if I bring up “They might canonically engage in something like an incest relationship based on some old Chinese poem I read.” into “Twitter users mad at people shipping Diluc Keaya because they don’t understand the Chinese concept of sworn brothers.” table.