March 2021
More than 12 months since Covid and everything else aside, I'm moderately burnt out at work? As in, I can still deal with my work/clients until about 2pm which is when I long for it to be Friday.
At least my parents got their vaccines yesterday and other than reporting some arm achiness, no other hiccups. (They are paradoxically happy about feeling some discomfort; apparently this means they got the REAL vaccine - I was not even aware this was even an issue to them. @ _ @) We'll see how it goes with the second shot.
Finished Joy of Life to leap right into two other C-dramas:
(1) Sword and Brocade (trailer) which has Tan Songyu and Zhong Hanliang, a Ming-era historical-romantic (more romantic/dramatic than historical) drama about a girl who marries her brother-in-law after the death of her elder sister (it's less racy and more family politics than it sounds) and they eventually fall in love. Usual array of manipulation among his other wives. All very well and good, and the performances are very nice, but really, I came for the costumes. Ming-era women's clothing just looks a lot more... conservative? It covers up more, that's for certain, layers upon layers, with high collars, but at the same time it's sooo pretty.
(2) Word of Honor, the newest BL adaptation (episode 1) of Priest's novel (the same author of Guardian) which is made of m/m flirtation. Right now it's all jianghu politics and a McGuffin - while the two main characters meet each other and identify each other as soulmates rather quickly and adopt a teenager along the way - and some long-lost secrets will be spilled sooner or later. It's again very pretty. (I guess this is a big hint that my brain is not up to anything more.) Not that big a fan of Zhang Zhehan, but Gong Jun is very attractive, though there is a shitload of photoshopping that renders their faces unnaturally smooth, which is just very weird.
At least my parents got their vaccines yesterday and other than reporting some arm achiness, no other hiccups. (They are paradoxically happy about feeling some discomfort; apparently this means they got the REAL vaccine - I was not even aware this was even an issue to them. @ _ @) We'll see how it goes with the second shot.
Finished Joy of Life to leap right into two other C-dramas:
(1) Sword and Brocade (trailer) which has Tan Songyu and Zhong Hanliang, a Ming-era historical-romantic (more romantic/dramatic than historical) drama about a girl who marries her brother-in-law after the death of her elder sister (it's less racy and more family politics than it sounds) and they eventually fall in love. Usual array of manipulation among his other wives. All very well and good, and the performances are very nice, but really, I came for the costumes. Ming-era women's clothing just looks a lot more... conservative? It covers up more, that's for certain, layers upon layers, with high collars, but at the same time it's sooo pretty.
(2) Word of Honor, the newest BL adaptation (episode 1) of Priest's novel (the same author of Guardian) which is made of m/m flirtation. Right now it's all jianghu politics and a McGuffin - while the two main characters meet each other and identify each other as soulmates rather quickly and adopt a teenager along the way - and some long-lost secrets will be spilled sooner or later. It's again very pretty. (I guess this is a big hint that my brain is not up to anything more.) Not that big a fan of Zhang Zhehan, but Gong Jun is very attractive, though there is a shitload of photoshopping that renders their faces unnaturally smooth, which is just very weird.