A part of being an adult is living with regret and not allowing it to consume you. The older you get, the more mistakes you’ve made, opportunities you’ve missed, people you’ve disappointed. And every day you have to remind yourself to be kind and forgiving of yourself. You accept and love the you from the past and understand that it’s all a part of the process. Then you move on and live your best life, knowing now as old as you feel today, you’ll never be this young again.
John Strang, Director of the Gender and Autism Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, spoke about this lack of understanding: “As a society, we don’t do a very good job of listening to autistic people and what is important to them. There is so much focus on the clinical diagnosis of autism and on various interventions but not nearly enough focus on the lived experiences and identities of autistic people. Queer identities are often marginalized, and this is a particular problem for autistic queer people. We’ve learned that it is not uncommon for gender-diverse autistic people to experience extra ‘gatekeeping’ in terms of accessing gender diversity-related care.“
打鐵花 (da2tie3hua1; struck iron fireworks) is a traditional folk firework that began in Henan and Shanxi, first arising in Queshan county, Henan and later circulating through the whole country. It had first appeared during the Northern Song dynasty, and was most popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
For Queshan struck iron fireworks, a two-layer pergola is built and covered with willow branches for performances, under which the molten iron is struck up with two willow sticks to create a rain of fire.
[eng by me + edited an ad out]
(On top of the information in the video, I have some more about its recent history under the cut.)
On Bilibili, in response to a comment about whether you’ll get hurt from this or not, she says this:
You still get hurt, my clothes have many holes burned into them, my hands also have a lot of small burns, my hair had burnt off a chunk, and dage-men’s* chests and backs are all scars. I only meant the finer it is struck the more difficult it is to get hurt, but when striking tens of times, it won’t be perfect every time.
*大哥们 - the plural of dage, dage being a polite address for men
(She say it’s all worth it in another comment)
OP has mentioned in a comment that the camera operator is wearing 1500° fire resistant clothing, though I’m not sure why no one else seems to be…
one of my cousins has one of those wretched sequined nicolas cage pillows and today the rest of us received this photo of perhaps the most upsetting thing i’ve seen all year, slugolas cage
