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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted XIRAN *Preorder Iron Widow!

      I'm gonna be fair and say that being born with "great qi" is totally a thing (ancient China was far from an egalitarian, democratic society) But talking about "qi" the overall concept like it means "martial arts XP" is cringehttps://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1302358585641373700 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      XIRAN *Preorder Iron Widow! @XiranJayZhao
      once again, qi is in everyone!! goddamn, it doesn't discriminate!! pic.twitter.com/LU0c4qq81b
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020

      Qi can be inborn but it can also be cultivated, it's a whole thing The word "qi" is just another way of saying how much "power" you have

      1 reply 5 retweets 72 likes
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    3. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I have a vague memory of reading a translation of a Chinese story where an older woman feeds this enormous party single-handedly, and the translator explains this was understood as her being a powerful sorcerer. Does that fall under the same notion, that "power" != martial?

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @LizardOrman

      Yeah there's an ancient Chinese folktale about exactly this idea The great archer Hou Yi starts demanding that everyone pay him homage because there's no target he can't hit So this humble merchant says he bets him there's a target challenge he can beat him at

      1 reply 3 retweets 20 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      And asks if Hou Yi can pour a bottle of oil into another bottle through a washer with a pinhole center without getting a single trace of oil on the washer Hou Yi tries and immediately fails and yells that it's impossible

      1 reply 2 retweets 16 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      And the merchant calmly shows him how he can send a tiny needle-thin stream of oil through the pinhole dead center, without effort And the merchant shrugs saying he may be a lowborn peasant who's never fought in a war, but he's been selling oil for decades

      1 reply 3 retweets 31 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      It's this whole thing about how "qi" is cultivated by effort and discipline over time as much as it may appear as inborn talent or nobility, and can express itself in any number of forms, not just the traditional one

      1 reply 1 retweet 34 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      Along the same lines, the term "kung fu" (gongfu) in Chinese is just the word for "discipline" or "hard work" In context it can mean "martial arts", and also can mean "magic" (like the way Vampire: the Masquerade uses the word Discipline) But it's a much more general term

      4 replies 3 retweets 32 likes
    9. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      I was surprised The Kung Fu Kid (I'm never calling it "The Karate Kid") actually explored this for an Anglophone audience with Jackie's whole "Kung Fu is TIME" speech

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @LizardOrman

      ...Which is ironic, because in both versions he becomes a martial arts master in a ridiculously short time

      6:29 PM - 5 Sep 2020
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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 5 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

          Members of the Smith bloodline can dilate time

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Ben Schouten‏ @BenGSchout 5 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

          It's what happens when you "ghost"

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 5 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @LizardOrman

          This is my grudge against basically every martial arts movie

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 5 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and

          Now remembering how on the Netflix daredevil they did this with Matt even though his single week of cryptic training happened during flashbacks so there wasnt even a narrative necessity to making it so brief

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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