Steven Chabotte

@sunriseoath Thanks. Was wondering what it was.

@schabotte The context of that tweet is that I was mentioning Chinese Mandarin aptitude test results in a conversation about non-Standard Chinese accents among both foreign-born-or-raised ethnic Chinese and Chinese outside of the Beijing capital region plus the Northeast.

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@sunriseoath What does A-2 mean? Yeah, this book looks at all the creepies - but mostly on the more monstrous side than the elegant side. It also looks at the creatures from the aspect of vitality drain - so blood, breath, spirit, essence, etc. all fall into the concept of the Codex.

@schabotte When I think of vampires the "undead" part is very nominal and mostly I am thinking about beautiful women in long dresses with wine glasses and handsome men in tuxedos devilishly flashing their sharp fangs. Jiangshi are gross and rotting, xixuegue are sexy and dangerous.

@sunriseoath I went off wikipedia research. (I know - hardly a bastion of accuracy.) Here is the page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi

@schabotte Note, "jiangshi" 僵尸 could maybe generally refer to the undead if we *really* squint (my wife disagrees even here), but among Chinese people it mostly means "zombie". The typical term for "vampire" is "xixuegui" 吸血鬼 ("blood-sucking monster").

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I just launched my latest project on Kickstarter - Venom & Vitae, a treatise on poison and poisoncraft for Dungeons & Dragons 5e. It also has enough non ruleset specific guidance to be adopted to other fantasy TTRPG rule sets. kickstarter.com/projects/steve…

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Just launched my latest Kickstarter Drop-In Lairs Treacherous 5e Encounters for Brave Adventurers kickstarter.com/projects/steve…

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