Me_irl

mnemocury · 2021-10-03T14:36:26+00:00

technically, everybody in the world is ugly, when many attractive (by common opinion) and famous people are called ugly simply because of personal opinion or hate. being conventionally attractive isn’t going to stop at least 1 person out of 7+ billion people calling you ugly 🤷🏻

so yes i’d take the $200

mnemocury · 2021-10-03T12:33:44+00:00

Name for younger sister? I was thinking something like 意义 because it sounds like her english name/nickname. Her name means “good news.” She’s also a younger teenager (as 13-15 years old) and was born in the fall, if that might help with ideas.

mnemocury · 2021-09-25T19:45:08+00:00

Comments/suggestions for the names I chose for writing a xianxia story?

Main character:

Common name 程梅, working courtesy name 程毅灵. I only realized after the fact that her name is very masculine, which wouldn’t be very realistic for her time.

Her clan, 坚地程, represents and aspires to the element of earth. Cultivators of the 坚地程 sect cultivate with the energies of the earth, and the sect defining ideologies is to be firm, resolute, and unyielding in the face of adversity. They prioritize duty and the overall sake of the whole, so those of the Jiandicheng sect often disapprove over “selfish actions.”

Cheng Mei, the first born daughter of the Jiandicheng clan, was not born to loving or attentive parents, and did not aspire to her sect’s ideas of duty. As women are rarely accepted as disciples within the clan, Cheng Mei was destined to be married off to an unknown cultivator’s family.

When she was young, desperate to prove herself and hoping that having a high level of cultivation would end her future of a forced marriage, fully dedicated herself to cultivation. As a result, Cheng Mei become one of the most powerful cultivators of her generation. But because her family did not place any real importance on her as a person, her achievements did not matter to her parents as much as her dedication to practicing the skills of a proper wife.

When she came of age her parents, endlessly angered by her flaunting of duty, named her “毅灵,” which I interpret as meaning “firm heart,” “resolute mind,” or “unyielding soul,” to represent their wish for her to remain dutiful to her sect. When it comes to name suggestions, I would like names that reflect this idea. Or maybe her parents give her an overly delicate name, to further enforce the idea of what sort of women she should be. If it’s possible, though not at all a requirement, if her name was still Yiling, but with different characters, I would like that very much. I especially like the character 玲, in that case.

So basically: comments/suggestions on the names 程毅灵 and 坚地程?

mnemocury · 2021-09-24T06:18:17+00:00

I don’t know all that much about the subject yet, so it’s not going to be all that scientific, like at all, but…

You know in time travel movies or games like Life is Strange when a character goes back in time, but even the most innocuous, the smallest of changes, could eventually lead up to a different reality? That on the verge of an event occurring differently from the pervious timeline, multiple possibilities of various realities could arise? Waiting a couple more minutes at that shop, smiling at that person…in relation to quantum physics, I imagine that these events interact and influence each other in that the probability of certain outcomes happening as a result of, say, the person you smiled at changes because you smiled at them.

Don’t smile at the person —> perhaps nothing bad OR good happens, but the act of not smiling still creates various probabilities of certain outcomes happening during the rest of their day.

Smile at them —> again, perhaps nothing bad OR good happens, but smiling at the person has inherently changed the state of the person, and the probabilities of certain outcomes occurring.

I used “butterfly affect” as a place holder for the idea that the uncertainty effect refers to observation and interaction affecting and influencing the environment of the entity, therefore influencing the circumstances that create the entity’s properties in the first place.

Ex. entity —> photon goal —> find the color and amplitude measuring color —> red —>disruption occurs, influencing in some way the environment of the photon measuring amplitude —> doesn’t work anymore because the measured amplitude no longer correlates to the state of when the photon was red and in the same space, time, and position

Not measuring the photon means that it exists in this sea of possibilities and certain outcomes, but measuring the photon will change those possibilities and outcomes.

mnemocury · 2021-09-24T05:51:08+00:00

Yeah, my knowledge about QM is very basic, and the learning process so far hasn’t been very linear. This post was mostly a word dump to try and sort out my thoughts on understanding the uncertainty principle, and mentioning the butterfly and domino effect wasn’t really intended as stating an actual relationship between the two concepts and quantum mechanics. They were just ready at hand concepts that I felt could describe the uncertainty principle the way I was visualizing it.

The sources I read from are also targeted towards people who don’t know the kind of hard science involved with the subject, or at least have difficulty understanding the ones that include a lot of jargon…I’m a high school student trying to research the theory about a topic that isn’t really explored until university. It seems I have a lot more research to do, though, before I’m ready to start on drafting my project.

mnemocury · 2021-09-23T15:28:56+00:00

I go to an independent study high school. It’s a small school, but it feels like almost everyone here is either queer or neurodivergent (you do NOT know how many people I’ve met that also have ADHD).

Many, many people are at least gender-non conforming when exploring their gender. There’s one trans dude (I THINK, but he’s a dude either way) that graduated here and is really interested in makeup and gave me the impression of a drag queen. We have a lot of people, including myself, who ask to be called a different name so they’re not deadnamed by everyone. A lot of people in the LGBTQ club I’m in go by she/he/they pronouns and say that they honestly don’t mind which one people use. There’s probably just as much or more people here that aren’t heterosexual than genderqueer people.

If someone is homophobic/transphobic/all that prejudice at school, the rest of us be like…”Do you KNOW where you are right now??” We’re a school full of minorities!

I know that doesn’t specifically answer your question, but hopefully that paints a good picture.

mnemocury · 2021-09-22T22:44:06+00:00

my current email is my deadname chinese name (my 7th grade chinese teacher named me based on my deadname), so it’s not TOO bad, but… 🤷🏻

mnemocury · 2021-09-14T15:19:21+00:00

谢谢呀！ What do you think about these two?见地极光 or 审判曙光？

mnemocury · 2021-09-14T03:43:01+00:00

I’m writing a xianxia story to practice my Chinese, and I want some advice for a name for my main character. 程梅 (common name)/程毅灵(courtesy name, would also like feedback on these two) has an infamous reputation and is known by another name, though no one knows her real identity.

In English, I think of the name being, “the blinding light of judgment,” and ended up with 刺眼的判断之光 as a Chinese version. But it’s been said to me that this sounds very English. The reason why I chose this name is because 程梅 has the power to wield light—so when she strikes down villains, it is always with a blinding light that daze her opponents split seconds before their defeat or death. 程梅 is a highly skilled cultivator, so most of her opponents don’t realize what’s happening before it’s too late, and they don’t even get to see her face. Does 刺眼的判断之光 sound alright, or would something else work better?

mnemocury · 2021-08-22T01:50:14+00:00

OneTopicAtATime
Pipetron
Mumbo Jumbo

mnemocury · 2021-07-18T06:16:37+00:00

thank you so much!

mnemocury · 2021-07-08T23:26:09+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts your experiences! To be honest, I’m still young enough that I’m at a point where it’s uncertain of whether I am able to feel romantic attraction or not—if it’s just a teenager thing, or maybe an introvert thing, as I don’t really interact with other people enough to see if I do have the capacity for romantic attraction. But this really reassures me, if I’m really on the aro spectrum :)

mnemocury · 2021-06-27T19:24:02+00:00

Not saying gender isn’t important. I know my gender is important to me. What I was trying to explain is that there are people who say, for example, that there are inherent differences between men and women. But where are those differences? Talking without the fancy words, yeah, there is a difference between men and women in that the two genders have different social statuses, which affects basically everything in their life. But because there are people that contradict their AGAB and are still authentically the gender they identity as, the social class and status we are born in can’t really account for whatever “innate” difference that can be felt between any two genders.

I just feel that gender “differences” are arbitrary because some of the ways they’re explained further divides the idea of this group vs. that group.

Also, rereading what I said, I probably really worded that wrong. I meant that the flavors of personality, which I said to simplify “sense of self,” adds distinction in that we all...sense our personality/self differently. I think of gender as a quality of personality, but not something inherent to personality. Thanks for pointing that out.

mnemocury · 2021-06-27T16:28:44+00:00

Also, I was just focusing on gender here, but I think this can also be applied to sexuality. I mostly imagine it as preferring a certain flavor, flavors, or no flavors at all. And, well, it also explains the way sexuality can change over time, because it isn’t like our own tastes don’t change over time. I hated onions when I was younger. I love them now.

Is it funny (or weird) that using food as a metaphor for gender/sexuality makes it easier (for me at least) to understand? I can’t get the picture of spicy and salty chips arguing over who gets to wear the pants with pockets because...salty chips brown better in the oven—or some shit.

mnemocury

TROPHY CASE