Higanbana (彼岸花), Red spider lily or Red magic lily (Lycoris radiata), originally from China, Korea and Nepal, it was introduced into Japan and from there to the United States and elsewhere,usually bloom near cemeteries around the autumnal equinox and are described in Chinese and Japanese translations of the Lotus Sutra as ominous flowers that grow in Diyu (also known as Hell), or Huángquán or Jigoku (japanese) and guide the dead into the next reincarnation. It flowers in the late summer or autumn, often in response to heavy rainfall. The common name hurricane lily refers to this characteristic, as do other common names, such as resurrection lily.
Some legends have it that when you see someone that you may never meet again, these flowers would bloom along the path. Perhaps because of these sorrowful legends, Japanese people often used these flowers in funerals. The popular Japanese name Higanbana literally means higan (the other or that shore of Sanzu River) flower, decorate and enjoyable, flower of afterlife in gokuraku jyōdo.
It’s also referred to as manjusaka, based on an old Chinese legend about two elves: Manju guarded the flowers and Saka the leaves, but they could never meet, because the plant never bears flowers and leaves at the same time. They were curious about each other, so they defied the gods’ instructions and arranged a meeting. The gods promptly punished them, as gods are wont to do, and separated them for all eternity.To this day, the red lily is associated with loss, longing, abandonment and lost memories in hanakotoba (花言葉), the language of flowers.The flower has many other names, but many of them are no longer used.
- some not used in Japan anymore as far as It`s known, chicken blood plant (鶏血草, keiketsusō), due to its colour.
- shibitobana (死人花), flower of the dead, because it blooms while you visit your ancestors’ graves.
- yūreibana (幽霊花), because the flower looks like a ghost.
It’s also called 石蒜 (stone garlic) and 蟑螂花 (cockroach flower) in China. Everyone who has learned of the latter name has had trouble appreciating its beautiful and melancholic imagery again. As this has also happened to me I feel it is information that should be shared with others too :D
ace demiro gaara is real and strong
i love having the same name as ling yao
do you ever see a photograph of someone really attractive from like the 1800s and you suddenly get pissed because they’ve been dead for like 200 years and you probably don’t have a chance with them
YOU ARE SO COOL AND BEAUTIFUL AND YOU COULD BE AN ANIME PROTAG AND I WOULD ROOT 4 YOU!!!
nonbinary robots are cool and all but imagine a robot designed to be genderless and it sees a girl and is like “wtf girls are cute im a girl now” and the scientists are like u cant do this thing but she is already out the door
"No labels" rhetoric isolates people from their community, history and culture. It keeps people from being able to articulate themselves and ask for what they need. It promotes a false sense of unity that only serves to further the dominant classes in society. It is a lazy way of getting out of understanding and digesting complex issues. I dislike this rhetoric and approach.
sometimes the glitter from the hairclips fall off on gintokis hair and the laws of the universe state that glitter is constant and will never go away so his hair sparkles sometimes and he beats up anyone who tells him “your hair is REALLY SILVER today ;-)))”
i like it! it’s very sweet and funny. i think he probably does her hair for her a lot very groggily in the mornings and she’s like ‘it’s only fair if i do yours’. he only likes certain clips/accessories he’s really picky about it and she gets so mad
it took him a while to learn how to do her hair properly but kagura can never do gintoki’s hair right on the first try bc he always changes his mind every day. sometimes she just sticks everything on there and lets him take out whichever one he wants you stinky ossan
also gintoki’s offered (dmab) kagura his paako breast forms for her to use but she never does bc she says “they smell like BO and chocolate”
I think you can crush/be attracted to somebody and it not be in a romantic or even sexual way..
YEah thats what most of my more recent crushes have been. i think bc the word itself is so vague it could be anything. its basically you like this person whether it be romantically or platonically or whatever else