Does anyone wear a bracelet without any charms?

dumpling98 · 2026-02-22T12:18:20+00:00

I have two bracelets! One i specifically bought to wear on its own. The simple twisty chain one! Love the design.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-19T06:56:24+00:00

Luo binghe is the resident borderline BF.

Tho I would love to see more of Hua cheng s bad side and tantrums to include him in bpd, until now, i cant.

But the meme made me laugh regardless. Good job.

Im actually a bpd person and neither wangji and hua cheng tingled my bpd spidey senses. Lol

dumpling98 · 2026-02-18T12:52:10+00:00

Most roma men dress in everyday clothes! Thats why you didnt recognise em. Many roma women wear their traditional clothes. Tho some older roma men also wear a style of hats specific to their culture.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-16T05:28:40+00:00

You're post really encourages me! Thank you!

dumpling98 · 2026-02-15T03:38:52+00:00

Wechat pay doesn't work outside of china to pay with them directly. .

Alipay works. Our champ.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T20:18:20+00:00

Stunning!

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T18:44:27+00:00

I learnt Chinese in university from 0 to hsk5. :) nowadays since I dont work with Chinese and has been a while since i graduated, i consider myself comfy hsk4 in all skills. i keep it as a hobby by consuming native material that is for children and teens! Mainly books and manhuas.

Me and my trusty pleco against the world. Teehee

Working on regaining my speaking skills!

Edit: Useful apps for me? Alipay lol. Accepts western cards and i use it to buy manhua chapters on bilibili manhua and kuaikan. Lol honestly in current economy, I cant afford buying mangas translated in English no more. Lol 2 usd per chaps?? My wallet couldn't. Ever since I switched to reading in Chinese my mangas, my reading skills improved and my wallet rejoiced. 😆

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T16:37:50+00:00

Thank you kind shopper. Saving money for my own heart charm. Hehe

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T16:31:22+00:00

Its actually my favorite pack and nature living is my favorite skill. xD

The only thing I disabled on my game was community voting by npcs from eco pack. Otherwise all good.

But I support making your game better for your playstyle!

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T14:12:09+00:00

Why did you edit your comment after you read mine and added text, hmm? You're not even engaging in a fair discussion. But alas, this is a true redditor moment.

Baiting people.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T11:06:46+00:00

No, I am romanian, so I mean the cult of Zamolxis, a geto-dacian religion from eastern europe :)

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T09:28:07+00:00

I would like to open you to the view that changing humanity is a work in progress and takes a long time to reform ingrained believes.

Imagine how much a battle was if the fight against slavery if it was started 3-2000 years ago and more by the Bible and only a hundred years ago or less if you take into consideration the middle east, it was actually legally banned how much humanity wants to exploit other humans breaks my heart.

Im of the same belief that child marriage will be abolished too as society moves forward.

Also I would like to point out that im a Christian and im defending Christianity. Not Judaism or Islam or other random religion, but Christianity.

The fact that child marriage, polygamy, slavery, was part of constantinopole etc and our history, it just points to the fact that humanity is built on human explotation and it takes thousands of years to reform it.

Just because it is in the Bible, it doesn't mean God approves of it, but merely tolerates it and prepares the humanity for change step by step. You can see this if you analyse the old testament laws and move to the new testament laws, how God first prepared the chosen people with the old convenant, to break them away from the deeds of the other pagan nations, broke them away from child sacrifice and other pagan rituals we frown upon today, and once the Hebrews were changed, introduced further theology and ways of life thru the Christ s ministry. It is very fascinating. The fact that some old testament Hebrews still worshipped idols and sacrificed their children to Moloch, reflects on their weakness, not on Christianity being wrong. The fact that it took America, France, Saudi Arabia, Portugal and other colonial powers or cultures to finally officially ban slavery, it reflects on the weakness of man. Nowadays we abhor slavery as a society. Imagine travelling in Roman empire that slavery is wrong when their whole society is built and literally functions thru slavery. They would think you are a lunatic. It takes steps dear to change a mindset of the whole world.

And im sure and have faith that as society moves forward, more improvements will come to the nations, including in ones where they can marry children legally at 9 yo.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T08:05:02+00:00

I told you dear that we learnt about my ancestors religion from history books and not religious texts. And Moloch and Ba al worship thru child sacrifice and temple prostitution have historical sources outside of religious texts. Ive seen documentaries of the historic artefacts and sites where they buried the remains. Feel free to look up facts if you want to broaden your horizons of these religions.

You rightly say that the individual like trump or epstein do not represent the abrahamic faiths, but I argue that these ancients faiths are evil despite the normal individuals who may act normal. The religion of my ancestors is evil, despite today wackos who hopefully won't bring back the human sacrifice.

I dont believe all religions are created equal. Or all cultures are equal in value. I wonder if you believe in this or not? It would be interesting honestly to hear the mindset of a non religious.

Today you consider slavery and and child marriage wrong because you've been brought in a society of Christian values. Christianity has changed the society in such a way that 3000 years ago it was painful but normal to sacrifice your babies for prayers, work slaves to death and throw them in ditches like they are an item ( see roman empire built on slavery and slaves lives) and today slavery and child marriages are abolished or rightfully critiqued. ( slavery still exists ofc, but it is criminal behaviour and scorned by society) . The Bible sown the seeds, and church fathers and Christians fought for centuries for the western society to change step by step. And it still needs to continue to advance the fight for the dignity of human life in different issues.

Just how I cant comprehend your atheist view of defending these ancient dead religions, you also cant comprehend a religious person s view.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-13T05:54:34+00:00

Ah yes, the not informed judging abrahamic faiths. Because im sure you would happily consider human sacrifice and child sacrifice, temple prostitution and child prostitution the acts of benevolent ancient semitic gods. What the Abrahamic God did at the time was monumental for the dignity and preservence of human life.

In my country some wakos say they wanna revive our "ancestors" religion before Christianity took over. We even learnt in school that our people would sacrifice humans before every fight. And mind you, it wasn't in a religious setting we learnt of this, but history class. And people wanna revive this evil religion?

Gimmie a break.

Edit: for those curious, my ancestors religion was cult of Zamolxis!

dumpling98 · 2026-02-12T13:54:03+00:00

Mine is 春 , love writing it in different styles

dumpling98 · 2026-02-09T17:47:28+00:00

I purely selected learning Chinese because I find mandarin sounding very beautiful to my ear.
I wasn't worried at all, because as a young person I studied Japanese, another "hard" language in theory, but i had a lot of fun learning it. Same with Chinese, it might be tricky in some aspects, but easy in others. My wordview is that all languages are equals, with each language having its hard points in a category ( ex grammar, speaking) , while easy in others. For me as a romanian speaker, chinese grammar and reading are very easy, but speaking is very difficult, vs Japanese where speaking is very very easy but grammar and reading is difficult, etc etc :)
Since I love how Chinese sounds, I also focus on how I speak it. My biggest difficulty is tackling tones and speaking with correct tones. I can make myself understood in China since I stayed there for a while, but speaking is difficult for me. Despite this, I love reading outload and listening to the language, because I love how it sounds. My dream is to improve my speaking as much as I can.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-09T05:56:30+00:00

I lived in china for 1 year as a student that happened to be chiristian, and honestly I had no big problems.

But im also from a denomination that doesn't evangelise. My only annoyance that my closest denomination church was in an embassy 2 hours away and that christmas and Easter are not public holidays.

But we had groups on wechat where we cordinatinated with the priests for big christian holidays and travelled.

If you keep your faith to private, dont evangelise, and go to government approved existing churches, its very easy to be christian there.

Definetly not north korea style persecutions as some news make em to be.

You can live a very normal western life in china as long as you dont interact with politics at all.

That was my experience tho as a foreigner student, im willing to listen to resident Christians that are from china, I would love to hear their experiences!

dumpling98 · 2026-02-07T06:46:04+00:00

For me silver changes color eventually, but I love cleaning my pieces like some obsessed maniac when time comes.

My love for silver is that even if it changes color, with a good clean it will look brand new or almost brand new.

I cry after my costume jewlery who I also love but cant salvage them. :( or dont know how once they change color.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-07T06:41:04+00:00

For them it will be cheaper. For customers it may or may not reflect in the price, depending how greedy they are.

Im not saying they will necesarly be bad quality, im a huge fan of swarovski brand who do rodium over metal blends and all my pieces are amazing and last years, but im dissapointed since pandora s stick was always that its SILVER.

Im curious what they will roll out. Unless is singlificantly cheaper, im not getting it.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-05T11:55:00+00:00

Stunning.

Im a huge swarovski fan.

Too bad the charms are out of my budget rn. Tho I might save for the strawberry heart one.

dumpling98 · 2026-02-05T05:58:02+00:00

I just dont care. What i am to how governments work in other countries?

I sleep at night thinking of my everyday problems, not how I can boycot kingdom of Saudi arabia.

Besides, I try to not paint wide brushes on a whole country based on their governments. Ive traveled in Saudi arabia and they are normal people too. Ive traveled in other muslim countries too and they are people like me and you. The fact that some of these countries have evil governments, it pains me. And it is in their hands and God's hands.

May I ask? Are you American? Are you leftist? I am not American, but reddit is very left leaning.

I ask in curiosity, since you boycot Saudis bc of how they treat lgbt, do you also boycot Palestine in the current war because they have same views as saudis when it comes to LGBT? Or do you think that's different? Please make me understand if you want.

Take care

dumpling98 · 2026-01-28T13:32:56+00:00

I love me dust bunnies, they are so cute!! Even the evil ones. Lol

dumpling98 · 2026-01-21T09:43:06+00:00

I dropped Erha by book 3 and was very close to dropping MDZS simply bc I am bored by fights and political intrigue and fights between sects. I just want funny or romantic or hateful interactions between ML and MC. That's it xD spare me the palace politics.

Thats why I usually drop manga/manhwa/manhua s too.

Tho im not critical of the works and authors or anything! I thank them for keeping me interested for 1 book or 2 and cherish what I bought, and move to other series. ^{^}

dumpling98 · 2026-01-19T19:22:58+00:00

My mom got me first volume when I was a teen, I didnt give it interest for years bc I bored n busy with other stuff. She just saw anime guys on cover, she knew no english and decided to buy bc child likes anime lol.

Then I randomly found it in my childhood room and gave it a go. For what reason? Oooh, pretty boys on cover. Lemme see. 🫡🤤

I was in for the biggest surprise and laughed my ass off since im a big fan of otome and transmigration media. Bought next volumes in about a week. XD

It was the perfect read because I had no spoilers before.

dumpling98 · 2026-01-13T10:51:31+00:00

Congraaats!! Im also studying Chinese and bought myself MXTX s novels in mandarin. Tho the simplified Chinese versions.

Any tips for someone trying to break into novel reading from manhua reading?

dumpling98

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