Give me some handwriting practice!

[presumenothing]

Because yes, who even does anything off-keyboard these days… but all the same, probably good to not let my handwriting go down the drain completely! or further down than it already has LOL

So: come suggest some words or quotes you'd like to see handwritten! From Guardian or any other fandom/non-fandom sources, anything goes. The only criteria:

• Comment with the text and source if any (or provide a video link + timestamp if it's from subs),
• Not be longer than a few lines total, and
• Preferably in simplified, because I have, like, next to no experience writing traditional (but if you'd like to see me try then sure, I'm still game).

I'll write and add my own after work. (Which is being immensely uninteresting today, hence this to 解解闷 in an educational(?) manner…)

And of course, if you'd like have a go at writing too, feel free to join in! The more the merrier.

那就放马过来吧! 🏇

Comments

[presumenothing]

Two from me!

One Zhou Shen – a quote from 定风波 by 苏轼/Su Shi (translation in link), which appears twice in 光亮/Silver Linings, recited once at 02:15 and Peking-opera-style at 03:25…

莫听穿林打叶声
一蓑烟雨任平生
畅音阁里终一叙
六百年一粟 沧海一梦

And one Guardian – my favourite quote from chapter 50:

因为他总是觉得沈巍心里好像压了很多的苦，不然为什么他每次身披黑袍出现的时候，身上都会带着那么多的寒意呢？

他难道就不冷么？

Because he'd always felt that there had to be a lot of pain buried in Shen Wei's heart – why else would such chill surround him, every time he appeared in that black robe?

How could he be not cold, too?

[shadaras]

How about ZYL's ghost-summoning spell in Guardian ch54?

九幽听令, 以血为誓, 以冷铁为证, 借尔三千阴兵, 天地人神, 皆可杀

(sourcing the cn text from this post about translating it)

[presumenothing]

Oh, excellent choice – this was such a chilling scene! And everyone flipping out over him using it afterwards except ZYL himself lol

Did it vertical right-to-left, as seemed appropriate:

(Also, I love that linked recording of Bai Yu reading it. So great.)

[shadaras]

Ooooh pretty! Yes, I agree that putting it vertical feels very fitting for this. :)

(and yeah, the recording is super neat!)

[nnozomi]

Nice! My request is short and straightforward, the note Guo Changcheng writes to himself in Guardian, which I have on a postit over my desk: 保持镇静！

[yaaurens]

Oooh, I like this game!

Here's a request, one of my favourite lyrics from Hua Chenyu's Conversations with ET:

你就是你 最好的你 没人能代替

[yaaurens]

Here's my attempt, and I should probably put it up on a postit note where I can see it too (maybe in my car, haha)

[presumenothing]

Sort-of calligraphy version for fun! Though my brush pen really isn't thick or soft enough for this, alas. (Someone buy Changcheng a keep calm and carry on poster to go with that…)

[presumenothing]

Haha, I thought it might be an interesting exercise XD and that's a very meaningful line!

[nnozomi]

谢谢, I love it! Along with the one below, now I have two nice versions and they're both going up where I can see them.
I should probably put it up on a postit note where I can see it too (maybe in my car, haha)
lol it really is a VERY useful phrase.

[nnozomi]

谢谢你，it looks great as a scroll! Along with the one above, I'm going to put it up somewhere I can see it, you guys have such nicer handwriting than me.

(Someone buy Changcheng a keep calm and carry on poster to go with that…)
lol oh my goodness, you're so right. (Would you basically add something like 坚持 to make the existing Chinese into "keep calm and carry on"?) I looked up the actual screenshot and it's funnier than I remembered, he's quoting Zhao Yunlan to begin with... also 多亏了 I learned the counter for lollipops.

[yaaurens]

Oh, lovely!

Yeah, it's one of my fave songs, even though it's very simple. It's very uplifting.

[elenothar]

Late to the party, but if you don't mind a bit of angst, I love Shen Wei's little speech to Ye Zun in ep 38, starting at 16:15 (to about 16:40).

https://youtu.be/V2dUtbSz4hQ?t=975

[presumenothing]

Oh you know I am ALWAYS here for the angst!!

……and I need to stop writing on unlined paper, lol, that upwards slant.

对。你说的对。
我的能量是黑色的。
我的眼睛、我的头发、乃至我的灵魂，都是黑色的。

可是我流的血跟他们一样。
是红色的。

[trobadora]

♥ ♥ ♥

[presumenothing]

We actually had to do calligraphy homework like once a week at my elementary school, which included the correct way to do the stroke starting/endings that gives the distinctive shape you see in Chinese 楷体 fonts… though I've completely forgotten how, haha.

Would you basically add something like 坚持 to make the existing Chinese into "keep calm and carry on"?

I guess something like 坚持下去 would work? Or to be a little more constructive if less literal, 再接再厉 or similar.

[elenothar]

I'm sure I could make some very deep point about how the upward slant represents Shen Wei's intentions etc etc XD

[presumenothing]

(pfah, I'm sure Shen Wei has learned some magical Dixing power to write level lines even on plain paper!! along with the neat blackboard writing, that's another one I don't have)

[elenothar]

I do all right on both (thankfully, since I do write on blackboards regularly these days), but now I'm wondering whether I would when writing Chinese as well - currently my brain classifies that still as drawing more than writing (sigh)...

[nnozomi]

I guess something like 坚持下去 would work? Or to be a little more constructive if less literal, 再接再厉 or similar.
谢谢！ My latest principle is that if I don't know how to say something, probably 接 is in there somewhere. 接下来...

[presumenothing]

I haven't written Chinese on any board in… wow, I can't even estimate how long it's been. Writing characters any larger than my default size (蝇头细字 – there's another questionable idiom for you, how are fly heads relevant to small writing) is already challenging enough on paper without the sizes going all uneven.

currently my brain classifies that still as drawing more than writing

This is still how my mom writes Chinese to this day, lmao. Which is why she doesn't…