Shen Yuan | November Catch-All

[xiaoxiuya]

Who: Shen Yuan, CR group, People who actually want to talk to the weird metal faces . Maybe more to be added later, who knows!
What: Thread starters for people who want to get bogus relationship advice from Google translate; Shen Yuan Starts a Group Chat, TBD
When: Throughout November
Where: Deernet and beyond

Content Warnings: TBD

Comments

[stayscared]

Yes, and all that.

Not a weird question. You'd really have to try to make it weird here. I'm both American and English-speaking. Why do you ask?

[how is this happening? any friend of

he

has he been adopted into a friend group

oh god

here come the tears

no wait these are different tears. he can stop these. if he is going to dehydrate he is going to do it with alcohol not tears. tears can come after alcohol]

[xiaoxiuya]

[Awww, Mike. You've definitely been adopted bro, this is your life now.]

Nothing bad! It's just that, like you've probably noticed, my three Chinese friends here all grew up in a very formal society, and it seems like the majority of Trench is, if not Western per se, at least from cultures that are American or European-derived, you know what I mean? So I'm trying to be a bridge and help them adapt, but I'm not actually Western myself, so there's going to be some gaps, you know? I'm afraid you're going to end up being held up as an example a lot, sorry about that. XD;

I'm also Chinese, for the record, but I grew up in a different, less stratified China than they did. Different worlds, different normals, you know?

[stayscared]

[this is his life now.]

I do know what you mean. I've had a bit of a look around, and yeah. I've seen it.

It's very cool of you trying to bridge that gap, and I'm all in for helping, but I don't know if I'm ready to be an example. At least, not a shining example. Some days, more of a cautionary tale.

Different worlds, different normals, I couldn't have said it any better.

[he needs that on a baseball cap.]