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The less said of RL the better, so I've been only coming home and watching tv and collapsing on my couch and watching endless repetitions of Xiao Zhan gossip on yt - just a few things that's been on my notes:
Fic-adjacent:
The things I would like to rant about fanfics with 'ancient' Chinese settings (I'm looking at you, Untamed and Word of Honor fics) but have no energy for but here is a list:
1. There are no weeks in ancient China. If you tell me a character is meeting someone next WEEK, I am instantly thrown out of the story. Bonus if characters suffer from Monday blues because the concept of weekend also doesn't exist.
2. Addressing your elders by their name. Each time Lan Wangji speaks to his brother, "Xichen, see you next week" (see above), I twitch. Even more so when he addresses Lan Qiren by name. Even WWX calls him 'old man' (MDZS Q).
3. The months are not called January, February, March... I guess it would translate to First Month, Second Month...? And therefore Qixi does not happen on 7th July. It is on the 7th of the Seventh month (hence the name).
4. The dantian (or golden core, for cultivators) is not located in the chest area.
5. People generally DO NOT take on their husband's family name after marriage. Just don't. It's cringey. I guess unless yours is a weird as fuck A/B/O or d/s fic... in which case I twitch just as much, but quietly.
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Also watching:
《山河剑心》| Thousand Autumns
《山河剑心》| Thousand Autumns, Chinese animation, Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao, wuxia, wip (16 episodes in the first season so far), BL. Chinese title is <<千秋>> by 梦溪石 if anyone wants to read it at http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=2423737 which I'm going to do as I dearly want to know the ending. It's been translated into English, I believe, but I haven't looked into those yet.
Story (anime-wise) starts with leader of a self-proclaimed evil sect Yan Wushi coming out of a 10-year seclusion and he and his disciple coming across unconscious Shen Qiao, the erstwhile sect leader of Xuandu Sect who'd just been poisoned and therefore lost an important duel and fell down a cliff. As we all know, falling down cliffs is never deadly, though it usually signifies a (mostly symbolic) rebirth. And so it begins with Yan Wushi at first lying to the initially amnesic Shen Qiao that the latter is his disciple and after that sneaking around not-so-secretly helping him and turning up to make bait Shen Qiao at how evil humans are, why don't you turn evil like me ke-ke-ke? I just think Yan Wushi can't help being fascinated by the pure-hearted (but luckily, not overly idealistic) Shen Qiao, quickly changing his form to address to 'A-Qiao' after the first couple of episodes, and just needs an excuse to engage. Oh, and Shen Qiao becomes blind due to cliff-falling injuries, but of course in true wuxia style retains all his martial arts (after he eventually recovers) and wields a bamboo pole as a cane/sword substitute. There's a Mcguffin regarding some lost martial arts manual and more plot-points on Yan Wushi (inexplicably) helping the emperor to repel potential invaders. It wears its tropes lightly and the overall story is interesting so far.
One hilarious thing with the Tencent English subtitle (I think they did it?): apparently 'qi deviation' has been translated as 'infatuation' which is... either a beautiful mistake or an awkward misunderstanding.
Hospital Playlist season 2
I was a bit taken aback at first because I was expecting it to be made up of band practice and cute flirting and food, but that was of course me being self-selecting after re-watching my favourite clips over and over again. But now at episode 4, I do feel that it's a little more sober in terms of the patient stories and the upheavals among the doctors. But even so... How awesome is it?
Loved episode 1: the constant duality, the will-they or won't they... How many times did Min-ha pace before Seok-Hyeong's office before she entered... and the realisation that a different doctor could turn the prognosis of a patient upside down. All in the context of waiting for Songhwa's reply to Ik-sun's almost confession. And the incredibly cute couple, a milder version (to make public or not).
Episode 2: And then, just as we (I mean me) were getting used to feeling heartbreak - even Jeong-wan and Gyeo-Wool's adorableness can't make up for it... almost -
Episode 3: A lot of bleak outcomes, patient-wise, and even knowing it's 'just' a medical drama, you can't help your heartstrings getting tugged. Also, how awesome is Rosa?
Episode 4: Ugh, poor Jung-won.
The less said of RL the better, so I've been only coming home and watching tv and collapsing on my couch and watching endless repetitions of Xiao Zhan gossip on yt - just a few things that's been on my notes:
Fic-adjacent:
The things I would like to rant about fanfics with 'ancient' Chinese settings (I'm looking at you, Untamed and Word of Honor fics) but have no energy for but here is a list:
1. There are no weeks in ancient China. If you tell me a character is meeting someone next WEEK, I am instantly thrown out of the story. Bonus if characters suffer from Monday blues because the concept of weekend also doesn't exist.
2. Addressing your elders by their name. Each time Lan Wangji speaks to his brother, "Xichen, see you next week" (see above), I twitch. Even more so when he addresses Lan Qiren by name. Even WWX calls him 'old man' (MDZS Q).
3. The months are not called January, February, March... I guess it would translate to First Month, Second Month...? And therefore Qixi does not happen on 7th July. It is on the 7th of the Seventh month (hence the name).
4. The dantian (or golden core, for cultivators) is not located in the chest area.
5. People generally DO NOT take on their husband's family name after marriage. Just don't. It's cringey. I guess unless yours is a weird as fuck A/B/O or d/s fic... in which case I twitch just as much, but quietly.
***
Also watching:
《山河剑心》| Thousand Autumns
《山河剑心》| Thousand Autumns, Chinese animation, Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao, wuxia, wip (16 episodes in the first season so far), BL. Chinese title is <<千秋>> by 梦溪石 if anyone wants to read it at http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=2423737 which I'm going to do as I dearly want to know the ending. It's been translated into English, I believe, but I haven't looked into those yet.
Story (anime-wise) starts with leader of a self-proclaimed evil sect Yan Wushi coming out of a 10-year seclusion and he and his disciple coming across unconscious Shen Qiao, the erstwhile sect leader of Xuandu Sect who'd just been poisoned and therefore lost an important duel and fell down a cliff. As we all know, falling down cliffs is never deadly, though it usually signifies a (mostly symbolic) rebirth. And so it begins with Yan Wushi at first lying to the initially amnesic Shen Qiao that the latter is his disciple and after that sneaking around not-so-secretly helping him and turning up to make bait Shen Qiao at how evil humans are, why don't you turn evil like me ke-ke-ke? I just think Yan Wushi can't help being fascinated by the pure-hearted (but luckily, not overly idealistic) Shen Qiao, quickly changing his form to address to 'A-Qiao' after the first couple of episodes, and just needs an excuse to engage. Oh, and Shen Qiao becomes blind due to cliff-falling injuries, but of course in true wuxia style retains all his martial arts (after he eventually recovers) and wields a bamboo pole as a cane/sword substitute. There's a Mcguffin regarding some lost martial arts manual and more plot-points on Yan Wushi (inexplicably) helping the emperor to repel potential invaders. It wears its tropes lightly and the overall story is interesting so far.
One hilarious thing with the Tencent English subtitle (I think they did it?): apparently 'qi deviation' has been translated as 'infatuation' which is... either a beautiful mistake or an awkward misunderstanding.
Hospital Playlist season 2
I was a bit taken aback at first because I was expecting it to be made up of band practice and cute flirting and food, but that was of course me being self-selecting after re-watching my favourite clips over and over again. But now at episode 4, I do feel that it's a little more sober in terms of the patient stories and the upheavals among the doctors. But even so... How awesome is it?
Loved episode 1: the constant duality, the will-they or won't they... How many times did Min-ha pace before Seok-Hyeong's office before she entered... and the realisation that a different doctor could turn the prognosis of a patient upside down. All in the context of waiting for Songhwa's reply to Ik-sun's almost confession. And the incredibly cute couple, a milder version (to make public or not).
Episode 2: And then, just as we (I mean me) were getting used to feeling heartbreak - even Jeong-wan and Gyeo-Wool's adorableness can't make up for it... almost -
Episode 3: A lot of bleak outcomes, patient-wise, and even knowing it's 'just' a medical drama, you can't help your heartstrings getting tugged. Also, how awesome is Rosa?
Episode 4: Ugh, poor Jung-won.