This is amazon's description for Dearly Beloved, a.k.a. 'even good authors like Putney occasionally lose their minds:'

In 1799 Scotland, Gervase Brandelin, the victim of a sexually abusive mother, is livid when forced to wed Mary Hamilton, a deranged clergyman's innocent daughter whom he has unwittingly compromised, and promptly rapes her ( Read more... )

I think my obsession with the upcoming Chu-Han Contention (楚汉传奇) has reached truly pathetic levels - I am trolling Google images for pics while not being able to read any Chinese. Still, I did find these:


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I ship this:


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On a complete random whim, I tried Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James (it was a rec of a rec of something else I got on Kindle ( Read more... )

A comment on youtube to one of the eps of Sawan Biang:

"Gosh people ok yea he raped her four times but the first time was because of revenge second and third she kept making him piss and forth he was jealous calm the fuck down!!!!"

Well, duh, that totally justifies everything and makes it super-fine. Duh.

Fandom.

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Still mainlining Sawan Biang and am on ep 3. Still no rape yet, but I am beginning to think heroine is lucky that is all that is going to happen because hero gives off every indication, with his violence and sociopathy and lack of control (who behaves the way he did at his father's wedding?) of a future killer. Honestly, if I were a friend, I'd ( Read more... )

The only explanation is that the angst of Bu Bu Jing Xin fried my brain because I am not watching any of my drama backlog, but instead watching Sawan Biang, the infamous Thai lakorn starring Ken and Anne. I can't claim I have no idea what I am getting into - not only do I know the plot, ages ago, I watched the last third of it.


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Baby Mousie just went to bed. I was going to do a whole bunch of things - reply to comments, do posts (I have a huge Three Kingdoms picspam I want to do of scenes I haven't gotten to yet), and of course watch more of Three Kingdoms but ( Read more... )

I barely had any sleep, my eyes keep hurting, and I am getting a bit dizzy, but I cannot stop watching and am too hyper to fall asleep. I am also talking at all these characters non-stop which is a sure sign of insanity. It took me about two-and-a-half hours to get through the 40 minutes which constitute not-credits running time of ep 8 because I ( Read more... )