[crossposted from dw]

While I'm online instead of falling asleep:

<<锦瑟>> 李商隐 (Li Shangyin ( Read more... )

[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... )

Watching:

Romance of Tiger and Rose: It's kinda cute? There's a femdom which is not very well developed but it's still fun. It's essentially a light-hearted romance (24 episodes) which plays with some drama tropes enough to make things fresh and I'm enjoying the costumes and being intrigued by Chen Qianqian's braids. Quick review at Cfensi here ( Read more... )

1) Re-watching The Untamed again: I'm not the only one who notices that EVERYONE wears the same make of shoes, am I? I mean, this has to do with how the production team does their work, of course, but it's very obvious when you film characters slo-mo-ing into the scene and rich or poor, from Gusu or Qinghe, they all wear the same shoes. Somewhere ( Read more... )

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Every time I start to feel regretful about being jobless, my ex-colleagues helpfully 'update' me on the latest procedurally/ethically questionable wtf thing that my ex-bosses have decided/said. And yes, there have been more than one. (I shall have to refer to them by number soon.) It's unnerving when senior lawyers forget that they are lawyers ( Read more... )

Still reading 瑯琊榜 Nirvana in Fire, chapter 121 of 149. I'd say that reading this novel is improving my Chinese, but unfortunately a lot of it is classical Chinese or archaic words (or both) that don't see much use in modern times. Kind of fun, though, if you are interested in the language ( Read more... )

I'm now sad it's too late to nominate 瑯琊榜 Nirvana in Fire for Yuletide because it's awesome and there's just so much to work with and I really want someone to write me Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan fic. Or Mei Changsu/Lin Chen fic.

Trailer in Mandarin, pretty long - but I love that they used so much guqin. English trailer, shortHave been spending ( Read more... )

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So I woke up to 阳关三叠, from one of our CDs, played by my dad as a way of being Chinese-y without resorting to the usual barrage of Chinese New Year songs ( Read more... )