Ah yes the leaders of the ordertide

A German slut

British French larper simp

Cursed Elf brothers

Your uncle or grandpa

scaile latinos

Russian Elsa

And dragon siblings with a strained relationship between each other

Hayase holds up his arms. Uppies, please! UPPIES!!!

Zhao, without ever breaking conversation with his imperious sister Miao Ying, lifts the boy into his arms.

"The Western trade routes have been harried by Greenskins in the northern mountains of Mourn because the Goldtooth Ogres have been distracted with the Dawi-Zharr" Zhao explained "I have sent expeditions into the mountains to assist the convoys but have yet to route them fully, this is why the taxation from the western provinces have not been as lavish to help strengthen the bastions walls"

"you waste time bandying words with the brutes and" Miao paused as she watched the boy in his arms "Zhao... what is that" "His name is Hayase" Zhao answered with a shrug "He is not one of fathers children so i assumed he must be a lost cousin"

"then it is a Dragon?" she questioned, scrutinising the child "it seems...small"

"children generally are small sister" Zhao sighed

all of his siblings think he’s “corrupted” when he’s just vibing with humans

Chinese Censorship of the 2023 Hugo Award Nominations

Back before the 2023 Hugo Nominations were conducted, I noted that the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China. I suspected this would result in arbitrarily applied censorship to control the ballot. I am sad and unsurprised to discover I was correct.

The 2023 Hugo Nomination vote data has been published (https://www.thehugoawards.org/2024/01/2023-nominating-and-final-ballot-statistics-published/), and includes notation where nominations were excluded from the ballot. Those with normal reasons, such as being in the wrong category or not being published in 2022 are identified with their reasons for exclusion. This time there are a number of nominations that are merely marked at "Not eligible".

Here is the list of those nominations, that would otherwise have been placed on the final 2023 Hugo Award Ballot.

Babel - R.F. Kuang - Best Novel: Very likely excluded for referencing student revolution, and the use of language and translation as coercive tools of oppression. Color the World - Congyun "Mu Ming" Hu - Best Novellette : A story about perception of, aid of, and discrimination against disability. Congyun Hu has left China and now lives in New York. Fogong Temple Padoga - Hai Ya - Best Story : Either there is something in the original Chinese that was not translated, there's a taboo subject that elides my reading, or this otherwise innocent looking near future tale of cultural building restoration was written by the wrong person. The Art of Ghost of Tsushima: Dark Horse and Sucker Punch Games - Best Related Work : The video game Ghost of Tsushima was subject to directed social exclusion for it's depiction of the Mongol invasion of Japan. Sandman, Amazon Studios: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long and Short) - A diverse and divergent cast, includes subject matter and social issues that are currently taboo in China. Paul Weimer - Fan Writer: Publicly Critical of holding a Worldcon in China. Xiran Jay Zhao - Astounding Award: Qualifying work "Iron Widow" is reimagined story of Chinese Empress Wu during a fantasy/mechanical alien invasion.

This raises a lot of questions as to if this basically taints the process, and what can be done about it.

Chinese Dynasties.

Shang | Zhou | Qin | Han | Jin | Sui | Tang | Liao | Song | Yuan | Ming | Qing

I also love it when you’re so domineering and wanting to tear other people’s face.

The Story of Ming Lan (2018) Episode 50

Cdrama: Till The End of The Moon (2023)

Their behaviors are always in sync! #罗云熙 #白鹿 #TillTheEndOfTheMoon #长月烬明 #cdrama #shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EWA_rQLFfEE

@aysekira has been sending me Youku press conference posters and some of them are aaaaa!!!

Liu Shi Shi and Shawn Dou in Kill My Sins:

Xiao Zhan looming Monte Cristo style in Zang Hai Zhuan:

Chen Feiyu and Wang Yinglu mutually moisturizing in Xian Yu:

The Double (and yup, FL is bleeding AGAIN! I think she and Sifeng from L&R should have a bleed-off at this rate.)

Tian Shu Li Ming:

The Grand Princess:

The Story of Pearl Girl (which is giving me ptsd vibes of TLB which is not a good thing or perhaps it is since despite my issues with that drama I adored LYN x ZLS in it.)

Favourite Trope: Held Hostage (179/?) Inside Man - Ep. 22

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*and one that @nemainofthewater supplied

New fic idea

Zhao Ming checking Gelt's mail and reading how much Karl misses Gelt, wishes to see and be with him again because every moment without him is killing him slowly.

And Zhao just goes "Wow such great friends"☺

🦵 - Does your muse have any physical ailments? How do they live with them? (Karl Franz)

🧠 - Does your muse have any mental ailments? How do they live with them? (Zhao Ming)

🎸 - Can your muse play any instruments? Do they play them often, or rarely? How actually skilled are they at playing them? (Luthor Harkon)

🦵- Franz had been writing these damn missives for the past hour, treaties and trade declerations that demanded the Emperors signiture, new musket and black powder research to sign off on and many other matters of state. It was almost enough to make him forget. He reached out to take his cup with his left hand, though he paused as he caught himself, the shaking and trembling hand that refused to cease despite the healers decree. He swore to himself and leaned back in his chair, the wine would have to wait until he could bring himself to put more effort in.

🧠- The Iron Dragon whipped his head around as he heard the accusitory whispers begin.

"Who dares?" he snarled out into the inky blackness of the night, but only the crickets seemed to hear him and silence themselves.

"you killed me brother!" The voice snarled "I was trying to warn you!"

"You are dead Qian Feng" he swivelled around as though his brother was right behind him "Get out of my mind!"

"Miao Ying is right, you are a danger to Cathay!" the Ruby Dragons voice taunted and accused "Any day Yuan Bo will come for you and you know it!"

"You are not real!" The Iron Dragon roared, leapt into the sky, transforming as he went and belched fire at the shadows.

🎸 - Harkon swayed with the roll of the ship holding his hands up in an imitation of a Brettonian conductor, with the raise of his flat palm ranks of deck gunners fired in their ranks, filling the air with smoke, then with a clench of his fist the cannons roared and barked. His symphony of mad death on the water, brought a cruel content grin to his face

TCGF/NPAB AU where Pei Ming actually dies in his final fight as a mortal. Not against Rong Guang, but against Jun Wu, just after his ascension. In my personal headcanon, a god is a bit weaker and not fully immortal after they've just ascended, considering that this is a completely new form and they're caught off guard, so Jun Wu - trying to eliminate a threat before it becomes an issue - gets him while he's down. So, Pei Ming dies.

Of course, he comes back. Dead and kicking, like a vicious little ghost. Instead of Hua Cheng being the next Ghost King after the White Clothed Calamity, Pei Ming takes on that role (haven't decided a fancy title yet). Zhao Beitong may see a son in him, but she sees a warrior. He is the first ghost who refuses to forget her. He stares her dead in the eyes and downright refuses to be consumed so that he cannot forget her. Even if he forgets her name, he will not forget her. She is such a brave warrior, the only martial god he would ever respect. He is a general, and he kneels to her.

He's not really all about that Revenge Lifestyle™ and ends up hanging around Gusu, the site of his ascension, listening to the tales spun of the General who never wanted to be a God, the one who spurned his Godhood and now wanders, looking for someone worthy enough to fight him.

After Mount Tonglu, he just kinda hangs around, reconnecting with Yushi Huang earlier on because, welp, he's dead, the worst she can do is kill him again. He has no idea what the hell happened to his ashes (Jun Wu thought he scattered to them, but a certain Heavenly Official watched this mess occur and caused a massive distraction that allowed her to replace the body with a duplicate) and frankly, he doesn't really care. He's just waiting for something interesting to happen (preferably for the Heavens to crash to the ground, but he's not picky).

Because he ascended before death, he can still receive prayers after death. People speak of the General who spurned godhood, but one who still helps out those who beg for it, becoming a terror to those within his own realm. Ghosts fear him just as much as the gods who hunt them, and he is perfectly content with that. He never touches a sword after his death. He lives peacefully, learning to fight with other weapons, making his own armour and practicing just...living. Ironic that he had to die to learn how to do such a thing. He doesn't get involved with anything.

He listens to the rumours of the God-Pleasing Crown Prince from Xianle, sympathy seeping through him as everyone talks of the awe-inspiring legend, being one of the only people to see it as it really is: a soon to be tragedy. That doesn't stop the sympathy from crawling through him at the tales of how Xianle has been hit with a terrible plague along with a war, how the Crown Prince descends from the heavens to help his country, and the eventual demise of his kingdom. The tales of the White Clothed Calamity. The Crown Prince being banished from the heavens without his sight.

It all makes him feel sympathy for the Crown Prince, especially when less-savoury rumours begin to emerge. He doesn't think about them much. He stops paying attention to any sorts of rumours or stories after that.

Until Mount Tonglu. He, of course, has to go to it, because of the literal everything that goes on. When he watches Zhao Beitong coach a red-clad ghost, watching at a distance and not getting involved until she notices him. They share a look, and he just nods, beginning his journey into the kiln - one that he took before, but accidentally. He does allow himself to farm a few of the wandering souls, because he's allowed a treat sometimes, but he just sits by the doors, waiting for them to open.

He waits for a while. He speaks to Zhao Beitong occasionally. She seems pleased that he has reconnected with Yushi Huang. Apart from that, he doesn't really do much, just kills particularly irritating ghosts. When the kiln opens, he darts inside, not going out of his way to fight the ghost, mainly just watching. Even when the young man notices him, he just watches. Until they fall into memories.

There's no real surprise that the ghost manages to consume Zhao Beitong, but not before she makes him promise to make Pei Ming teach him anything she can't (surprisingly, there are things). When they exit the kiln, Pei Ming is surprised to find a group of child spirits waiting for the red-clad ghost to return. When they notice Pei Ming, he doesn't make any attempt to appear scary - he is quite intimidating as it is. The red ghost looking for his god turns and asks for him to teach him everything.

Pei Ming disagrees.

So, of course, he is absolutely fucking pestered by the ghost (who, despite being strong, cannot really fight against someone at least two hundred years older than him), until he is actually charmed into agreeing - by the child spirit with multicoloured eyes, not by the ghost.

(This was not supposed to be this adapted, just wait 'till He Xuan comes along)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 一念关山 | A Journey to Love (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Qian Zhao & Chai Ming Characters: Chai Ming, Qian Zhao Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, chai ming lives, Triple Drabble, Brotherhood, Imprisonment, Rescue Series: Part 13 of V's Drabble Collection Summary:

Chai Ming has lost track of the days he and his brothers have spent imprisoned when Changqing-hou has them all chained up and dragged out to be entertainment at his little feast to intimidate Li-wang.

(or, Chai Ming lives.)

THE STORY OF MING LAN (2018) EPISODE 40