Aaah, I’ve just found a new way to practice my Chinese! I downloaded this game ages ago: Teahouse of the Gods by Naca Rat, https://www.choiceofgames.com/teahouse/. Just started playing it and discovered you can set the Chinese dialogue to render in hanzi or pinyin, rather than English!
@villainousfriend@lookitmychicken I‘ll never get over "Pull me down and fuck me" on pants. My first istinct is to pull the pants down but then the second part grammatically compells me to fuck also the pants. Pulling down the person and fucking them makes more sense but it‘s at odds with the obvious association of pants and "pull down".
@villainousfriend Ah thank you! I had only seen the news of the board resigning and lots of unclear stuff regarding one candidate that sounded like many misunderstandings were involved because I saw it discussed on a discord.
My friend @mamajo is crowdfunding for their top surgery: https://gofund.me/81d92ea1. They have a date and it’s SOON! —which is great, but means it’s urgent to get the money together quickly.
I’m offering #fanfic commissions for donations: at least 100 words per $10, just send me a screenshot with proof of your donation.
It’s my birthday! 😸 If you feel moved to recognise it, I love pretty pictures from costume dramas, drabbles (strict or >100 words), limericks, language facts, and you lot being your awesome selves. 💖
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: “I’m going to make those fools fight each other to death!”
Audio: would you like some travel insurance? or a phone top-up card? family pack of biscuits?
NB: this is the officially-uploaded episode from Tencent, and it isn’t advertising within the episode—they’ve just replaced the entire audio for the two most dramatic minutes of the episode with advertising/elevator/phone-hold music and never checked or fixed it.
I want backstory on how Xu Dong got to be such a loyal manservant for Lan Peizhi. I'm certain that guy's got a shady past and I'm here for it. #ALeagueOfNobleman
Downloaded the last seven episodes of #ALeagueOfNobleman to watch while flying home—this 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!
@villainousfriend A little while ago I watched the Japanese movie BL Metamorphosis, which is about a shy teen girl and an elderly woman striking up a friendship and experiencing love for life because of their mutual love of BL manga. It really captured this feeling of having your world expanded through this connection to other women. I loved it.