hi all! i am moving my fandom account to @jingyixia_
please follow over there *ONLY* if you want to see xz and wyb content.
this account will change to be a general interest account.
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much as I understand the difficulty of 33 deg in the UK (very hot! indeed! I have felt it!) the bitching seems disproportionate to the heatwave's length of time - ie 3 or 4 days... if I didn't know, I'd think it lasted 3 or 4 months just going by what's said online
we were still travelling like that in 2011. no roaming data, you printed your bookings and subway maps, read signs, remembered routes and asked directions
remembering once I was queuing up in a Vienna train station when a Korean auntie waved frantically at me then jumped over the queue poles, grabbed my arm and jabbered at me in Korean asking for help with her tickets (or something). her confidence that I'd help just coz I am Asian
started watching white lotus and was thinking, god iโd hate it so much if random hotel guests started talking to me at the pool or the beach or bothered me while i was on my laptop to talk about themselves
"I โค๏ธ east Asia" ppl when they get reincarnated into an average chinese family & have to attend school from sunrise to sunset n deal with strict parents for 18 years just to maybe get into uni and get a job working 60 hours a week to pay off the house for their arranged marriage
look im not saying scrolling on twitter is GOOD, but theres actual studies that measure cognitive effects of different platforms, and these studies found that stuff like youtube and twitter have a negligible effect while stuff like tiktok and reels noticeably make you dumber.
How the world's greatest cities became unforgettable:
1. Paris makes you fall in love
2. Tokyo makes you feel the future
3. New York makes you feel alive
4. Istanbul makes you question time
5. Rio makes you forget your problems
6. Mumbai never lets you sleep
7. Vienna makes you feel cultured
8. Havana makes you nostalgic for something you never lived
9. Beirut breaks your heart and fixes it the same night
10. Kyoto makes you slow down
11. Lagos makes you believe in energy
12. Rome makes you feel small in the best way
13. Buenos Aires makes you want to dance at midnight
14. Amsterdam makes you rethink how a city should be built
15. Cairo makes you feel thousands of years pressing down
16. Barcelona makes you believe architecture is a love language
17. Nairobi makes you feel a continent rising
18. Lisbon makes you ache for something you cannot name
19. Seoul makes you question whether you have been living efficiently
20. Mexico City makes you understand that chaos and beauty are the same thing
21. Prague makes you feel like you stepped inside a painting
22. Marrakech overwhelms every one of your senses at once
23. Singapore makes you realize what a city looks like when it actually works
24. Athens reminds you that everything modern was once someone's ancient idea
25. Sรฃo Paulo makes you feel the hunger of a city still becoming itself
26. Edinburgh makes you believe in ghosts and you are not even superstitious
27. Tbilisi makes you wonder why nobody told you sooner
28. Cartagena makes you feel like the heat itself has a personality
29. Medellรญn shows you that a city can completely rewrite its own story
30. Copenhagen makes you question why everyone else makes things so complicated
31. Accra makes you feel a pride that does not even belong to you
32. Kolkata makes you confront beauty and struggle sharing the same square meter
33. Bruges makes you feel like time forgot to move and you are grateful
34. Amman makes you feel welcomed before you have spoken a word
35. Jakarta makes you understand twenty million people sharing the same urgency
36. Tallinn makes you feel like the medieval world never fully let go
37. Bogotรก surprises you so completely you feel embarrassed for your assumptions
38. Chiang Mai makes you breathe slower without anyone telling you to
39. Porto makes you realize faded beauty is still beauty, maybe more so
40. Dakar makes you feel the ocean and the continent pulling equally
41. Reykjavik makes you feel the earth is still being made beneath your feet
42. Jerusalem makes you feel the impossible weight of what people believe
43. Hanoi moves at full speed and still feels intimate
44. Thessaloniki makes you wonder why its neighbor gets all the attention
45. Sarajevo makes you sit quietly long after you leave
46. Oaxaca makes you understand that culture expressed through food survives everything
47. Lviv shows the stubborn dignity of a people who refuse to disappear
48. Zanzibar makes you feel the air itself is different
49. Lagos deserves a second mention because one feeling was never enough
50. Delhi swallows you whole, overwhelms you completely, and somehow makes you want to come back for more
this is why i only trust singaporean reviews of hotels because they know whatโs important: wifi strength, AC temperature and number of towels provided
so nobody in the world should ever watch concerts or theatre shows overseas because they should be limited to domestic audiences only. goodbye, gig travel economy!
Hey hereโs a hot take: Japanese media is made for Japanese people. Tickets to live shows and such are limited, and are intended for their domestic audience. Once you open up these limited seats to the world, suddenly the local fans canโt get seats. Itโs that simple.
thereโs a cosmic irony in the fact that gen x thought cubicles were hell because they were so anti-social, and now gen z is subjected to open plan offices which are hell because theyโre too social
the insane self-insert / โi canโt read anymore because the author said 1 thing i disagree withโ discourse about reading makes me think of this lin yu tang quote - how true it is that these people are imprisoned in their immediate world. and they donโt know how to step out of it
the best thing about that โno mountains in chinaโ claim is that this map was posted as a response - and it is endlessly fascinating!! look at the little green circle of sichuan surrounded by mountains! the vast plains of the north! the peaks in the west! what a country