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Clarissa C. S. Ryan
@wintersweet.bsky.social
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I guess I'm here now? But also wandering.shop? Where are any of us, really?

🏳️‍🌈🚀 sf/f writer, artist/designer, fan of things, GW2 player. Forever temporospatially disjointed. Ozarks→NorCal→Southern Tier NY. She/her, ish. 中文 OK
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I've found an amazing stocking stuffer for the right person
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A tube of lip balm and the box it comes in. Both have the iconic Chinese candy "White Rabbit" logo and colors.
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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嘿，各位喜歡《燕雲十六聲》的同好～
我開了一個Discord群組，專門給喜歡YYSLS/WWM的朋友～
不管是想聊遊戲、中文學習，還是遊戲裡的中國歷史文化，這裡都很適合！順帶也能聊聊戲劇、小說這些相關話題✨

無論你是像我一樣正在學習中文，或是剛開始對這些領域產生興趣，甚至是已經很了解的高手——都歡迎加入！
目前群裡以Global玩家為主，但也非常歡迎CN玩家一起來交流分享～

連結放在這裡：https://discord.gg/MjSNbmQ7z

有任何問題都可以直接問喔！歡迎來閒聊～ #燕雲十六声 　#WhereWindsMeet #YYSLS
Videogame night scenery in the background. On top of this is the Where Winds Meet logo and a Chinese phrase reading  鬼窟茶摟. which literally means "Ghost Cave Teahouse" in clerical script, a very old form of Chinese writing.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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L: A woman who's "almost 50 years old!" according to Where Winds Meet 🫠 it's like Wynne in Dragon Age all over again

(I need people to understand that life expectancy AT BIRTH w/high infant mortality doesn't tell you much, and that even if it did, it doesn't accelerate aging like *that* lol💀)
Realistic videogame screen cap of two women talking outside of a building. One is very old, with liver spots, deep wrinkles, and white hair. The other is young.
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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They may not be perfect but they look pretty good! Made with ghee, evaporated goat milk*, and no cinnamon, for food issue accommodations. Not pictured: LORGE dish of sourdough-based stuffing/dressing, also using ghee.

*milk of an evaporated goat, obvs
Two pies on a stovetop: one pecan, in a pie plate with some digits of Pi around the edge; one pumpkin, in a glass pie plate.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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If you live in any country *other* than the US, is it legal there for manufacturers to just list "spices" on an ingredients label?
Cropped screenshot of grocery store item, reading Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Vinegar*, Spices, Natural Flavor. *to preserve quality
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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1) unexpected moments in #WhereWindsMeet (yes, I am also a cute doggo in this scenario) (wow am I bad at this game) 2) pretty! if we're acquainted and you're playing, my character name is the same there as my username is here. I've been solo mode so far, so I haven't explored most of the group stuff
Videogame screenshot of three dogs (probably tugou, native Chinese dogs, which look similar to shiba inu) sitting upright at a majiang/mahjong table with their tiles in front of them. The POV character's view shows a snout and paws, too. It's reminiscent of the "dogs playing poker" painting, except this is clearly a minigame interface for actually playing. The dogs have nameplates: Fortune, Lucky, and Wealth. Semi-realistic video game screen cap of a character standing on a hill at sunset. In the background are misty rosy gold hills and trees. In the foreground a female player character in a fantasy Chinese-style outfit stands on a flat rock, looking away from the viewer toward the distance. She has a sword over her shoulder and a large scroll and a bow on her back.Maple leaves are scattered across the ground and a maple tree frames the left side of the image. An NPC is crouched in the shadow of the trees and rocks, looking for something.
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A bit of the physical TBR/ACR/ACRR* pile, featuring @thoughtsstained.bsky.social and @sevenseasentertainment.com. After looking at the photo I realized that these are all by women (AFAIK), though I didn't do that on purpose

*to be read, already currently reading, actually currently re-reading
four books stacked horizontally: The Beauty's Blade (Mei Ren Jian) by Feng Ren Zuo Shu, Blood Price by Nicole Evans, Guardian (Zhen Hun) vol. 3 by priest, The Magpie at Night by Li Qingzhao (it doesn't say so on the spine, but this is translated by Wendy Chen)
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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it's like playing whack-a-mole! I'm so tired of this, @firefox.com
– I disable one unwanted nonsense "feature" and then another one comes along
excerpt of right-click menu from a website in Firefox: "Ask an AI Chatbot" is highlighted, with a submenu showing options "summarize page, choose an AI chatbot, remove AI chatbot"
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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hey, me too! I'm terrible at the combat though 🫠
video game character standing in
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I just really wanted her to have a strong jaw y'all (generic starter outfit/weapons, earrings from pre-reg bonus). I see reviews are mixed and there are clearly some problems, but I like wuxia enough to want to poke around. Controls might defeat me but that's a skill issue on my part #WhereWindsMeet
semi-realistic video game screen cap: in the background are traditional Chinese-style structures, blossoming trees, and a pink sky. In the foreground is a female player character in a fantasy Chinese-style outfit. She has a high ponytail and carries several weapons.
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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It's possible you'll need to enable this in settings? The box for open tabs was already checked for me, but without % it still wasn't finding them 🙃

h/t @clinteryan.bsky.social
Firefox settings page: Search: Search Suggestions ("show search suggestions" and "Show search suggestions in address bar results" are checked), Address Bar – Firefox Suggest (all tabs are checked, including "Open tabs")
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Yesss it's here, the first Chinese f/f wuxia novel I've been able to buy in print and in English: The Beauty's Blade 美人剑 by Feng Ren Zuo Shu 封刃作

(Just like the old days of buying manga in the US, this newly-published book is actually about 10 years old)
Photo of book cover sitting on open laptop. Title: The Beauty's Blade/Mei Ren Jian by Feng Ren Zuo Shu. The cover has a dynami semi-realistic watercolor-style painting of two women with long hair and Chinese fantasy-style clothing. One wears red and attacks, holding a long sword toward the other's neck. The other wears white and pale colors and pushes away the blade with her hand. They are staring directly at each other. There are peach blossoms in the background.
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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this Wechat emoji is my candidate for "pictorial communication cannot be assumed to be crosscultural"

(it doesn't mean "I want to give you a Satanic phone call" or even "you're a surfing demon", it means "amazing/awesome/smooth")
standard yellow emoji-style face looking off to the side and smiling slightly, with a stylized hand with pinkie and thumb extended, and "666" in red on the top
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm easygoing about CG, I don't nitpick a lot in general especially when there's magic in a setting, and I am enjoying Shui Long Yin so far but WHY IS THAT WHEEL DRY! WHY IS IT JUST LIGHTLY SKIMMING THE SURFACE! WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S *FOR*!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING! Ahem. cough. ok. it's fine, I'm fine
Drama screencap of a realistic elaborate but compact ship in a fantasy Chinese style with peaked roofs, tasseled lanterns, and heavy carving. On each side the ship has a wheel that looks like it goes with a paddle steamer or something, but the wheel appears to be totally dry although the ship is moving through a body of water.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I was just admiring some an hour ago 💛
a grassy slope almost entirely covered in golden ginkgo leaves
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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it was Not ideal trick-or-treating weather (high winds advisory & all), but we gave out a fair amount of treat bags anyway. I only saw 1 skimpy costume and it was an accurate (non-sexified) Princess Mononoke, so points to her for sticking it out. (And us for surviving the whole evening on the porch)
Weather app showing Binghamton: 39 F, feels like 25. Rain for the next hour, and high winds. Sam thing but in Celsius: 4C, feels like -4.
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"We hope you enjoy your Demonic Korean Magnetic Magpie" is one of the best sentences I've ever read (and I will, friends, I will).

Its feet come off so that you can use the magnet base to attach it somewhere, e.g. your shoulder. Made by yangban3D (they're on Instagram and Etsy).
Photo of a 3D-printed version of Sussie, the 6-eyed, traditional-hat-wearing magpie from K-Pop Demon Hunters. It sits on top of a printed note from the maker, which is on a laptop. The laptop is displaying a screenshot of a mystical wall panel from the Chinese drama "Back From the Brink". A photo of the same 3D-printed version of Sussie. It sits on my shoulder. In the background on a bookshelf is a sculpted raven on top of a stack of books.
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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ewwwwww

("frequent AI imagery" well no surprise there)
Bluesky user profile for welcometeam, with the tags "User Blocked" and "User - Frequent AI Imagery"
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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learning to do new stuff! feels good

(Procreate, Maodo brushes, PoseIt)
screenshot of zoomed-in Procreate image, showing a bit of a larger illustration. It's in an ink-painting style and you can see two full sleeves, a winding ribbon, and a hand reaching toward the left
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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<3 <3 <3 Hope the procedure is SUPER BORING AND TEXTBOOK, and that recovery is swift, and they actually give you sufficient useful discharge information <3

(not AI, just a picture that's been hanging out on my hard drive for ages)
A white and silver hamster peeks out of a pretty floral teacup, which rests in grass with wildflowers including (I think) forget-me-nots and violets
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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photoshop jumpscares:
- waugh!!! wrong layer!!!
- omg why did that disappear
- BRUSH SIZE: 2500
- I forgot I made a shitpost image last night and it's the first thing I saw this morning
screencap of Photoshop with an open image: poorly edited photo of Chinese actor Zhu Yilong with his legs stretched so he's ridiculously tall
October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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joey long
Zhu Yilong walking in an outdoor area, poorly photoshopped to be extra tall
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Y'all it's OBVIOUSLY jollars
A worn dollar bill with the color and texture of denim
October 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Today in interesting unhaunted buildings for sale nearish me:
former convent $285K
church still in use $89K
1868 schoolhouse (converted) $383K
1800 house "includes former post office" $260J
not shown: geodesic dome house falling apart so badly that they won't even let you go in it, 8 acres, $99k
Symmetrical brick building with a statue of a saint in a niche over the front door A very plain white wooden church with a short spire or belltower or something Aerial view of a large old house with a flat-topped belltower (I think) and a large backyard with a pool, an additional wooden building that might be a sauna or something, some halfhearted topiaries, and garden beds Interior of very old house with exposed beam ceilings, ornamentation around the windows, and what looks like an extremely old kitchen complete with fireplace. For some reason there is a rocking horse.
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I mean it is a different experience to read it thinking "hmm this character has 10 years to live, historically" and "hmm this character is going to be emperor, historically" but I think both reading experiences will be valuable. (I've only started it, since I have work to do.) Cover art by Cappa888
Book cover art in a style influenced by traditional Chinese painting. The backdrop is green hills and mountains, and mist. In the foreground, there is the figure of a person seen from behind. They have long black hair and are wearing flowing, decorated robes. They stand near a flowering (probably pear) tree. In the distance, a figure in red faces toward the foreground person and reaches up toward a messenger pigeon. Even further in the distance are the silhouettes of soldiers riding to battle.
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM