A North Korean book on the history of Old Joson? On a scale of 1 to Worker’s Paradise how cringy is this going to be?
A lot of dodginess going on here, as expected. There’s the fact that the whole framework of history seems to have been shoehorned into historical materialism, in fact I’m pretty sure North Korean scholars can’t make historical output that strays from that dogma.
There’s also the equation of the Chinese hanja character hwan (桓, strong) with the Korean root hwan (환, bright), which I hadn’t come across before and is interesting. The extrapolation doesn’t follow the best linguistic practice of comparing records and usages to come to the conclusion, though. This makes me wary because I’ve seen far too many outlandish linguistic claims made without basis, though at least the claim here is more modest. I still dislike the way this comparison just jumped to the conclusion without showing the work, though. Not to say anyone has to reinvent the wheel every time they make a point, maybe that work has already been done by historical linguists in North Korea (and here in the South for all I know), but in that case I would expect a citation and, preferably, at least a recap of the main sources and steps taken to reach that conclusion.
The equation of hwan (桓) with dan (檀, birch) seems to have support from the records so at least it seems more trustworthy, but again, there are not enough indications of which records use them interchangeably, or citations to indicate where that comparison has been made. I would have preferred direct quotes in the text, too. This level of work simply would not pass muster for any serious scholarly publication here.
Another potentially interesting claim, made unserious and unreliable by lack of sources and process: The claim that the Chinese name for proto-Koreanic peoples (or one group of them, it’s been in flux), maek (貊, Northern People), comes from baek (百, hundred) which in turn derives from the Korean root bak (박, bright). Maybe it’s not a wildly out-there claim, but I’m not believing it until I see it confirmed with much better and transparent work.
Also did they just push the founding of Old Joson forward by almost THREE THOUSAND YEARS, from 2333 BC to 5011 BC, give or take 267 years they say, by dating what are claimed to be the founder’s remains? And can carbon dating (or whatever they were using) be that exact? It’s one of those findings that would be groundbreaking if it weren’t for the million warning signs that instantly pop up, starting with my being about 95% sure that this is a cheap ploy for prestige with a specifically political agenda behind it to prop up the regime. Like HOW do you know this is the actual founder of Old Joson, are there textual or other indications of the identity, does the grave match the styles found in the archeological findings of that era? Did this dig even happen? Even if it did, there’s no way I trust the claims at all without independent verification–not easy when it comes from North Korea where there is zero academic freedom or transparency of information.
Still reading on because it’s going on to points that are important to my own work, leading into tribal names, but obviously I can’t fully rely on this work. It’s worth a read as a side reference, but with giant asterisks and question marks all around.
Some of you may be aware of the utter shitfire that my blog has become for the last day or so. You can read the post that first made the issue visible (link), and/or the one where I tried to clarify my stance (link) followed by a cliff notes version (link). There are also a bunch of other tiresome back-and-forths that have consumed this blog, if you have the time and fucks to give.
Given that some people are calling me a reylow now and have expressed discomfort at interacting with me, while others have given their support, at this point I’m a little uncertain who is comfortable with me following or reblogging from them and I don’t want to unwittingly cross anyone’s boundaries. So if you no longer want me interacting with you, please block me so there will be no misunderstanding or discomfort. Thank you.
On the same note, if you want posts and art of yours removed from my blog before you block, let me know. I generally won’t count posts where you are not the op (that is, posts where you are part of the reblog chain) as “yours,” so if you want those removed as well you’ll have to specify. I will decide on a case-by-case basis whether I will honor that request, depending on the size of your contribution to the thread.
I will delete everything I can find but due to the spotty nature of Tumblr search there may be things I miss, so it would be prudent to do your own search as well after I have given you the delete notice. And of course, if there are any previous URLs you’ll need to specify those as well.
Additionally, Tumblr does not always show me comments added in a reblog and I might not be able to see and respond to delete requests if they’re in reblogs as opposed to asks or messages. If you put a delete request in a reblog and I have not answered, that is the reason so try my inbox or messages instead. If you want me to answer an ask privately, indicate so in words or add double asterisks**
As for the people whom I have blocked recently and who cannot contact me for delete requests ( @shropshiregirl79 and @santababyfinn), I have gone ahead myself and deleted all their content I can find on my blog. I have left up reblog chains and asks about the recent mess as a matter of record. I have also searched and deleted posts by muslimfinn and thotfinn, two past urls I can recall for santababyfinn, and if anyone can name others I would be grateful.
(cont from previous ask) + accepting their dynamic is pretty
horrible. kyl0 is a space nazi, he invaded r3y, etc. and while
acknowledging that, if you want to explore the dynamic offered in canon,
i think there’s nothing stopping you (plural.) it doesn’t mean you ship
r3yl0 as reylows ship it, which is romanticized, even fetishizied,
ignoring how r3y canonly hates kilo + all that. sorry, this got a bit
lengthy.
Yeah like… since when is depiction automatically endorsement? A major problem is that that reylow fandom itself is a trash fire and ship-critical content, I’m pretty sure, is considered ship-bashing and unwelcome in the tag. So basically neither the most vocal antis nor reylows have it through their heads that depiction=/=endorsement, for all the latter might protest to the contrary.
and I would now like you to remove all of my content from your blog as the words of bell hooks and other womanists are apparently to *nuanced* for you.
Done, I have removed the quote of bell hooks that I reblogged from you as kankqueero and your self-reblog of it as butchchadsidy. I can’t find anything else (other than this reblog chain that will go up), so if there’s any more that I’ve missed you’ll have to let me know.
Also, this goes out generally, Tumblr notes are being trash as ever and I can’t see and respond to all delete requests if they’re in reblogs as opposed to asks or messages. I had no idea there was an added comment in this reblog, I just clicked to see because the tag asking if I was secretly thesovereignempress was too good to pass up. If you put a delete request in a reblog and I have not answered, this is the reason so try my inbox or messages instead.
Think Joker and Harley for example. You know their toxic and that’s interesting concept to explore. So you role with just that. No AUs of WHAT IF Joker wasn’t abusive to Harley and relationship wasn’t toxic. That’s what LJ is doing with reylo which is fine. There’s no right or wrong way to ship things.
Now as for other antis reaction to this. Well they just don’t like people shipping reylo period critically or not. We seen how they act with just mulitpshippers alone or even people indifferent of the ship.
So yeah that’s mostly it, my stance I’m neutral on matter. If you agree fine if not fine. If you still unsure on the matter just do common thing block and keep it moving.
I’m still enough of an anti to think there is a wrong way to ship, or at least that you should take responsibility for what you say and create and are not free from criticism for it. You know, basic personal and creative responsibility stuff. But otherwise yeah, pretty much. Thanks for setting the record straight on your side of the fandom.
(cont from previous ask) + accepting their dynamic is pretty
horrible. kyl0 is a space nazi, he invaded r3y, etc. and while
acknowledging that, if you want to explore the dynamic offered in canon,
i think there’s nothing stopping you (plural.) it doesn’t mean you ship
r3yl0 as reylows ship it, which is romanticized, even fetishizied,
ignoring how r3y canonly hates kilo + all that. sorry, this got a bit
lengthy.
Yeah like… since when is depiction automatically endorsement? A major problem is that that reylow fandom itself is a trash fire and ship-critical content, I’m pretty sure, is considered ship-bashing and unwelcome in the tag. So basically neither the most vocal antis nor reylows have it through their heads that depiction=/=endorsement, for all the latter might protest to the contrary.
This all really fascinates me. I’ve written an AU fic where Rey leaves a relationship with Ben Solo. The bulk of the story is Finnrey, but does the fact that she *was* with Ben Solo in a failed relationship make me a reylow shipper? Nah. The point is that it didn’t work because Ben was trash. Hell, even TLJ, for all of its poor execution, was a look at what if a connection was forced, and Rey was cheated into having compassion for him? Could something real form? And the answer ended up being no, because Kylo is trash.
I don’t know if it was necessary to look at in canon, but there is value to seeing it fail. To seeing both of their true colors shine through once the manipulations are revealed. Rey recognizes and overcomes naivete while Kylo digs himself deeper into his power-grab. Poorly executed, but if it had been done well, it might have been a great message to little girls everywhere. There’s value to exploring negative relationships in fiction–just not romanticizing them. Which to me, is what “reylows” really are.
This, exactly, which was why I couldn’t give the simplistic yes/no answer that people were demanding. They were basically asking that I either a) apply to myself the association with abuse romanticization, erasure of Finn etc. that had built up around the word “reylo,” or b) lie and deny that I had ever created or would ever create content depicting them in a sexual or romantic relationship.
The fact that reylows take TLJ as an endorsement of their ship shows that they are as simplistic in their mindset as many antis are in believing depiction is endorsement. TLJ’s framing was a mess which is why it fails, but the point that RJ got across, poorly, was that Kylo is a toxic manipulator and a relationship between him and Rey whether as friends or lovers would be deeply unhealthy. RJ said this himself, that Kylo was trying to undermine Rey and make her rely on him, but it’s so frequently ignored and glossed over much like JJ’s assertion that the FO are basically space neo-Nazis.
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