[Crossposting]

Non fanfic:

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho. Lives up to hype, though the K-drama-esque revelation at the ending was... very K-drama-esque. Or maybe that's just me. Jessamy (hate the name), a Harvard grad, returns to Malaysia only to find herself being haunted by her grandmother. As she tries to resolves a minor case of possession ( ( Read more... )

[a crosspost viz LJ ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

So, 2021 ( Read more... )

Happy Mid-Autumn festival, everyone ( Read more... )

September!

I'm now officially out of things to watch of Netflix, mainly because I'd like to stop bingeing stuff so I'd have time to write >_< No doubt I'd find something intriguing soon enough, but now it's pretty refreshing. Not least also because it's the 7th month in the Chinese calendar, also the Hungry Ghosts Festival and I'm sure there's got ( Read more... )

[crossposting from https://issenllo.dreamwidth.org/93184.html]

I knew he was in it, but my primarily reaction is still "That is Yang Yang?!" (as Jia Baoyu in 2010 Dream of Red Mansions): trailer here ( Read more... )

[manual crossposting]

I was watching Li Ziqi's newest The Life of Tomatoes, anticipating some tomato plants and dishes and then Li Ziqi splits a boulder. (Smallish boulder, but still.) WTH

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Time May Take Us Far Away , Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, a temporary temporal displacement, by bartycrouchjrs.

Digging Graves, berserker!Nie Mingjue, Nie ( Read more... )

Why are you so... I don't have a good enough description, except that I think the country (or the various units of it) began on very shaky grounds right from earlier times and apparently most people (aka the people in power) thought no, this was totally fine and so the shaky grounds just got papered over but the faultlines were always there ( Read more... )

Apparently, my DW entries were supposed to be crossposted and somehow, they never crossed...?

( 11 June 2020 entry at DW )