Anyone else watching #ALeagueOfNobleman? I saw episode one tonight and Iāve promised my irl cdrama friend to watch the whole thing, so she has an audience of at least one for her rewrite of the ending. š
Thoughts so far: they clearly used the entire budget on cheekbones and eyebrows for the leads (Iām fine with this); itās so good to see Guo Cheng in a new show!
Iām catching up with #TGCFReadalong! Just finished chapter one, now reading chapter two for this week.
Observations from ch1:
Iād forgotten that Xie Lian was playing the role of Jun Wu himself in the great procession, and not just a more generic heroic martial god. I also like the line about reconstructing the grandeur of the event from ancient books and tradition, as if half the characters in this novel canāt remember it personally. š
#MLCWatchParty I watched the first 1.5 episodes on the train on Thursday night and really enjoyed them. Love an epic battle on a ship! I feel like there are more ship battles in wuxia than we usually talk about. š¤
Just saw the hashtag #FicRecFebruary and you know what, itās only the third, I can catch up! I kind of made things too complicated for myself with #DecRecs, so Iām going to try to keep this one very simple. š @Forestofglory you might also be interested in this!
Who was it who was talking recently about giving and accepting things with both hands? I just read this passage in #APastUnearthed that mentions it.
I wonder if āin a way that showed total appreciation and gratitudeā was added by the translator, to make explicit what would be obvious in the original Chinese?
Oh HEY, while Iām drunk at my work Christmas party: why do people not like amnesia as a trope? Speaking generally here, as I do like it, or at least I think I do.
Downloaded the last seven episodes of #ALeagueOfNobleman to watch while flying homeāthis involved installing Python 3 on my macbook air and then monkey-patching youtube-dl to make it work on 3.11, so you see my dedication!
You Huo, his uncle and his cousin are transported into a mysterious 'examination' system, where the questions could easily kill any of the examinees. Breaking the rules to test the system, You Huo gets under the skin of Invigilator 001, but the two can't get away from each other.
š§± Xue Yang has questions
š§± Xiao Xingchen doesn't want to answer them
š§± Xue Yang starts to find out anyway
š§± domesticity, violent thoughts, identity porn, #justYiCityThings
Has anyone read Death Notice by Zhou Haohui? I picked it up on impulse at the weekend and Iām nearly halfway through so far. To be honest, Iām still waiting to be gripped. It seems like a fairly standard crime thrillerābut maybe Iām just out of practice at reading the genre. Or perhaps itās just about to get good!
š start working on fanbinding of girlfriend's favourite disappeared-from-the-internet Weiss Kreuz fanfic
š boyfriend shyly asks if I could bind a book for him
š I agree, of course
š boyfriend finally goes through his old hard drives and assembles the 'lost' original short stories I didn't have access to, and therefore couldn't bind as a surprise
š I start typesetting book
š boyfriend is newly excited about writing and gets fresh inspiration!
Finally started reading Qian Qiu/Thousand Autumns. Iām enjoying it so far! I only recently discovered it was set in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, one of my favourite historical periods. š„°
LBs: every time I see a ChatGPT-authored work on the Archive, my instinct is to report it as plagiarismābut I havenāt been doing that because I suppose it wonāt really have any effect until there is an explicit AO3 policy on the topic, and will just take up volunteersā time. Am I wrong here?
This is my irregular appeal for more #CQL fics that capture the energy of the Wen Ning vs. Song Lan fight in Yi City (including the fact that one of the parties involved was not fully conscious and controlled by Xue Yangās skull-nails and tiger seal).
I would advise watching #ALeagueOfNobleman episode 25 on Viki rather than Youtube, unless you find dramatic revenge speeches substantially improved by having the audio replaced with jingly telephone-hold music.
Character: twisted and vengeful smile, tears in eyes
Visuals: Dutch angle, cuts back to other character grimacing in distress
Subs: āIām going to make those fools fight each other to death!ā
Audio: would you like some travel insurance? or a phone top-up card? family pack of biscuits?
Has anyone got #sff#scifi#fantasy recs for good books with ambulatory #wheelchair users? Big bonus if thereās an audiobook available.
My sweetie is yelling about how the wheelchair user in her current read was written (among other things) and Iād like to get her something better. :)
#ChineseLiterature#ChinesePoetry folk, has anyone got a recommendation for books/articles about the #Shijing? Iām back reading the Waley translation and greatly enjoying it, but Iād love some more context, both on the history and on the commentaries that have informed the translation choices.
Currently writing fic that really no one will want to read, in an attempt to dispell the brainworms that have been distracting me all week. I feel like I should apologise in advance. š
Powering through the "I've bitten off more than I can chew with this fic" feelings as hard as I can. I will simply Not See this self-doubt until it's posted.
