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betweentheracks · 3 years

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On a scale of 1-5000, how annoyed do you get when people have the gall to tell you, “Wow! You’re so lucky!” when they find out that you work in entertainment and with celebrities?

Also on a scale of 1-5000, how unimpressed are you with the celebrities you end up working with?

Please share some horror stories so we can commiserate over nightmare clients! 😂

Yeef and also yikes, do I actually want to dive into this particular can of worms? Lmao.

I thoroughly see spots of red in my vision whenever people try to do the whole “Wow, that’s really cool and lucky for you! How many famous people have you met or worked with? Your life must be so glamorous and exciting!!” Like please, spare me. It isn’t glitz and glitter all the time - in fact, the fun parts are in the minority of how working in this industry goes. Beyond that, I’m not ‘lucky,’ I worked my ass off to pull this off and have never slowed my pace (until this COVID-19 chaos) to ensure my post remains relevant. In accordance to your ranking, I guess I would go with 4999 points annoyed.

Frankly, my rating and impressions of my clients are like a river that flows on and on and yet there is no apparent water to be found. I have a good rapport with most of the ones I am contracted with exclusively, but they're prone to make my feelings change from sentence to the next. Celebrities will forever remain exhaustively effervescent.

If you really want some dish, I can offer up some from a client I once worked with in my apprenticeship and how much I hate the time I had to spend with her while also retaining a sense of gratitude for helping shape me into someone that can withstand some of the prickly goings-on of the industry. She wasn’t even my client, as I was merely apprenticing and therefore was little more than a ghost that shadowed one of the veterans of our company. I’m highlighting this now before diving into the thick of what was the worst week in my career thus far because it is extremely important to keep in mind that I was under no actual obligation to work with this woman.

Ahem, so, story time! Let me start off with first making it clear that even now I will only work with actresses and actors when I have no viable means of refusal. This is simply a preference of mine and stems mostly from this woman’s behaviors and treatments of me and some of the crew I worked with at the time. I was quite young when I entered my apprenticeship, like barely more than 20, and I was simultaneously accustomed and starstruck by the world I was entering. Before the apprenticeship, I had already been working off and on via temporary contracts and commissions as a MUA at the time, so I knew the ends and outs of the place and the people that worked my end of it. However, I hadn’t worked with many clients one on one as either a MUA or as an aspiring wardrobe stylist. Due to this I was still very green and awkward and hadn’t yet figured out the line between casual and professional (to this day, for me, this line is nearly nonexistent) and I tended to make a mess whenever I opened my mouth so mostly I kept quiet and melded into my role as an observing trainee with occasionally useful ideas but was mostly just an extra pair of hands. The stylist I was shadowing was, in a word, cumbersome. They weren’t a very great teacher and had a tendency to drop projects into my lap without much proper instruction or insight and would leave me to attempt making sense of what was wanted by means of vision boards and client portfolios. In much a similar fashion, when a scheduling conflict came up involving the actress which will star in this tale and another more major artist; naturally, he had to see to the client he had a more tangible contract with and stuck me with wrangling our golden girl.

Within the first 4 sentences of our first exchange as stylist and client I hated her immensely. She was the type of client I abhor to work with; overbearing and demanding, thankless and impatient. She was in the midst of her career finally catching some interest which is the most pivotal time in any celebrity’s career and I like to think she was so bitchy and just plain mean due to the stress and pressure she was under but it doesn’t make what happened any more justifiable. Her immediate and first words to me were, “You’re young and clueless enough to be my baby sister. Whatever authority you think you can have in dictating what I wear ended with the sound of the door opening when you stepped in, get that straight now.” I remember this extremely clearly because I went from gobsmacked to incensed within the time it takes to pop the top on a can of soda. But! I knew at least enough to know to keep my mouth shut and temper my immediate dislike of this person and tried to push forward and steer the conversation in the direction of what her ideal style and presentation should be. It went well enough for all of an hour tops before she domed me again by calling me “baby sis” in place of my name. As I am, in fact, the baby sis of my family I am well aware of when a power play is being maneuvered in on me and spotted this for what it was: her trying to remind me that I had no right to be speaking to her, let alone designing her. This was a culmination of her being upset and put out that she wasn’t chosen by my mentoring stylist and was stuck with someone that had basically no merits behind her.

Calling me this wasn’t really an issue for me, but it did chafe against my skin enough to make me feel uncomfortable and anxious. Still, I let it slide and she continued to call me as such for the duration of our time together. The true horror of this story is what comes next and the escalation from minor verbal insults meant to belittle me fanned into blatant sabotage. She and I had come to a sort of estranged agreement when it came to modeling her vision board - she wanted to retain some traces of her perceived sweet and demure self from when she was cast in her first role, but play up the maturity and grace she held now and have it reinvented into timeless class while holding a touch of being chic. It was a headache to make sense of since, from a the perspective of fashion and trends at that time, this wasn’t the ideal and even seemed counterintuitive to someone in her position and of her age. I went along with it and threw myself into the quest to pull from the brands she mentioned liking most and for days I learned firsthand how exhausting and tedious it is to make acquisitions and swear responsibilities/accountabilities one after the other and put my name and my company on the line. I handpicked every item and steadily managed to pull off forming my second ever ensemble of 4 sets of styles each with 2 or 3 substitution items that could alter the look entirely while still remaining within the realm of what the client had asked for. I worked upward of 13 hours for 4 days and when I finally was able to bring the client to her showroom and present my designs, I was only able to feel relieved for mere minutes before she began to yell and make a scene. She demanded my supervisor and the head of the styling department of our company both come to tend to her and see what a mockery I had made of her ideal image. She went on to use her acting quirks to insinuate that I had gone off half-cocked and overruled her every idea and word and then dared to present her with such low quality fashions. She even managed to produce a vision board that was entirely different from the one she and I had planned together! It was obviously done by herself and lacked the detailed attention any of the stylists housed in our company would have added, but it was convincing enough to appear damning.

At this point my head was in a weird place, trying to make sense of the perilous world I was throwing myself into and the fact that this was actually happening to me at all and wasn’t just me daydreaming while watching daytime dramas. After I worked through that initial shock, I was more than mad but less than enraged. I was confused as to why this client was being so purposefully obstinate and difficult for me, even briefly wondered what sort of grievance I could have possibly cost her when I had only just met her and had done my utmost to seem cool and pro like all the seasoned stylists I had worked with. I thought I was going to lose my job and have to go back to my family with my tail between my legs and tell them they were right and I never should have strayed from my original course and career path. I only became aware that I was crying, like big fat tears that made a mess of my face and were embarrassing to the point that I wanted to flee, because my supervisor had given me his handkerchief. It was at this point that I teetered and looked deeply at the person accusing me and wasting my time and efforts and realized that it wasn’t about me and was only ever about her. This moment of clarity, though, was like the opening of a gate I had been clinging to all week in hopes of keeping all my spurned senses quietly simmering beneath my skin rather than wreck my name and finish off my chances before they truly begun. I very rudely told my supervisor and the department head that if they needed proof of my hardwork and dedication to the vision of a thoughtless actress caught in the weeds of her own wilting fame then they were free to examine my copy of the original vision board and compare it with the one she had; that they could check through the 15 or so LORs under my name and in her stead (both names are featured for security means). Anyway, she was attempting to spill a stain across our company and specifically the stylist in charge of me for blowing her off. Her idea was that if I failed in a big way it would make him look like a horrible mentor and cost him some of his reputation. I was merely cannon fodder.

This got insanely long - let’s put it up to me also being a storyteller and writer as well as very passionate about this encounter. It sparked the timid embers of my uncertain pursuit of my career into a fire that has since gotten me through many other rounds of hard hitting clients and their excessive personalities and entitled arrogance. I love my job a lot, but man is this industry full of bullies.

#peekbackstage #style asks #style speak #anyway now i adamantly avoid working with the acting crowd and my life is a lot more simple

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yeetlinglaozus · 3 years

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This is to the Asshole Anon who thinks it's a good idea to accuse someone of faking COVID-19: Shame on you. How the fuck were you raised? I dare you to go stand before your parents and tell them that you had the vile audacity to accuse someone of faking COVID. Absolutely disgusting, atrocious behavior.

You're legitimately my hero 💖✨

I don't need or even want attention. My tumblr is very self indulgent and I'm home and bored and can only do so much, so fucking pardon me for being online and public about being sick.

#peekbackstage #cakes asks #cakes has covid

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rainbowsky · 3 years

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Why is China so against homosexuality? [redacted] Upset gay turtle here venting.

Sorry, Anon, a lot of that rant came across as Sinophobic so I've removed it. I really urge us all to be careful about how we talk about these issues, and consider how our words might land on others. There's an incredible amount of racism and hate levelled at Chinese people these days, I believe it's our responsibility to do our best to lighten that load. Our pain doesn't justify giving others pain.

As for the issue of China and homosexuality, you're painting with a pretty broad - and apparently uninformed - brush, here.

I don't know nearly as much about this topic as I want to know (any book recommendations anyone has on queer history in China and/or translations of relevant Chinese poetry and literature would be greatly appreciated), but even in my somewhat limited understanding I know that the crackdown on queerness in China is quite recent. China has actually had a much more complex, much more nuanced, much more rich and interesting history with homosexuality and effemininity than most Western queer people would credit.

Also, the attitude of contemporary Chinese people toward homosexuality is by no means homogeneous, and queer acceptance and support for queer people is growing in China just as it’s growing everywhere else. Even those who are opposed to homosexuality aren’t necessarily opposed to it out of bigotry in the way Western queers might assume. There are cultural differences that impact all of this, so it’s important to approach issues like this with a spirit of inquiry rather than one of outrage.

Rather than try to dig into topics I’m less than qualified to educate people on, I’m going to point you to some content that might give you a broader picture of these issues.

There have been some excellent metas from Pie. I recommend reading those because they are incredibly interesting and well thought out, and present a massive amount of information on subjects related to this. (Please heed all TW and CW; some of this is not for the faint of heart).

What BL stories onscreen might mean for the queer community

Entertainment industry crackdowns and the future of dangai

The feminization of men

How China’s population policies impact the queer community

DD’s sneakers and ice cream post

This entire exchange in answer to some of my questions about the situation for queer people in China

There was also an interesting response from @exitchasedbyawookiee to a related topic that you might find interesting.

@peekbackstage made a post about masculinity in China that you might also find interesting.

One of my past posts you might find interesting:

Drag, Gender Identity and Queer Culture

There is a lot more to these topics than we are aware of in the West. They’re enormously complex, and influenced by a broad range of political, social, cultural and historical issues. As someone who has been trying to get my head around it all for a couple of years now, I can definitely say that it takes dedicated study to get any proper understanding of queer issues in China.

I urge all fans to please be extremely careful and respectful about how we talk about these issues. As I said, there is so much racism and hate against Chinese people right now and they don’t need more hurled at them, even out of carelessness. We must all take responsibility for our own attitudes and how our behavior might impact others. And it behooves us to remember that in the West we’re massively inundated with anti-China rhetoric on a daily basis.

I’ve said this many times in the past, no regime is representative of a country, no matter how much that regime wants it to be true. And it would be intellectually lazy and foolish to try to characterize billions of people with a few simple buzzwords.

I agree that it’s frustrating to see human rights trampled on, and as a queer person it can be very triggering to read some of the homophobic BS coming out of the regime these days. I understand the temptation to compare China with other Asian countries where things are more progressive, but it doesn’t serve any useful or practical purpose and only leads to more negativity.

Ultimately we all want to be good allies for queer people across the globe, and it can be difficult seeing people we love having to go without the rights, freedoms and support we want for them. I encourage everyone to guide that love and concern into positive channels. Support for GGDD and their projects and endorsements. Support for LGBTQ organizations, particularly ones dealing with queer refugees. Support for your local LGBTQ orgs as well.

In the immortal words of Johnny Rotten, “Anger is an energy.” At such a depressing, emotionally deflating time in history, anger can be exceptionally useful motivator.

Over-arching all of that, a spirit of inquiry and cultural exchange with queer people in regions we aren’t familiar with is probably the best approach to dealing with our concerns about human rights in those regions. As the old saying goes, “Nothing about us without us.” If we want to be supportive, we should let others take the lead in giving us guidance on what they need.

I know that is a lot easier said than done when it comes to China, given how walled off things can feel, but with patience and persistence it is possible. And while we’re going through that long process, I don’t think any queer person in China would begrudge us looking to our own backyards as well.

More on this topic, including educational resources, can be found here.

#lgbtpride #sociopolitical analysis #brotherhood and stuff #your political disengagement is a weapon against you #fandom reflections #ask

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potteresque-ire · 3 years

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This is a response to @rainbowsky ‘s questions about BJYX, as the original post got too long for reblogging (I hope this is okay!). 1) Should we be worried about GG and DD being outed? I often think about what it’s like to be in the closet and I know how it feels to need to be SEEN. But I also understand the reasons why that might not be an option for them. Still, I worry about them being involuntarily outed. There are so many antis after them.

2) What would you speculate is the likelihood of this ever happening, and what might be the consequences if it happened?Is leaving an option for them, even as a distant goal years from now?

3)Does their fame and popularity hold any protective power in the situation (i.e. if they were to come out or be outed, would public opinion about what might happen to them have any impact on the outcome given the nature of the regime)? To what degree would that depend on how much money they are still able to make for interested parties?

My response is under the cut, as it got long, as usual ~

@rainbowsky, you’re among the first BXGs I followed! I’d like to thank you for your insightful posts as well!

Your questions ~ I don’t think I’m qualified to speculate because I’m still a very new turtle and also because of the volatility as well as inconsistencies of China’s sociopolitical policies. I do have a better sense of China’s politics than most international fans, but I also don’t live there and the only way to truly understand how things work at the ground level in a non-transparent country like China is to be there.

(For example, China has officially banned Christmas celebrations for the last several years, but as we saw last week, commercials remain very “Christmas-sy” and Chinese fans happily said Merry Christmas to each other. It takes someone who lives inside to know where to draw the line — what is permitted by the state and what isn’t — when the line shifts and adjusts accordingly.)

Here’re my thoughts, as of today (2020/12/31): if the perpetrator is only some segment of the fandom and the purpose is merely to knock them off the popularity pedestal, outing isn’t a particularly effective way to do so. Homosexuality, being a highly regulated subject in Chinese news and social media, is likely to mean limit transmission of the accusations. The accuser also has to run to risk of being banned themselves first. Also, with BJYX + ZSWW + LSFY being the sizes they are, the people who will most consider turning against gg and dd, ie, the solo fans, have probably already heard something. Some will leave, but the news won’t be a bombshell to them.

The next possibility is if a legal case becomes possible, ie. if China suddenly outlaws homosexuality. This scenario may seem the most dire on the surface but is also one that I least worry about, because with China’s judiciary system being very biased to those in power, if someone wants to frame gg and dd, they do not need to use sexuality as the accusation and subject themselves to the same restrictions as mentioned above. Tax evasion, as @peekbackstage has mentioned with the actress Fan Bing Bing, is far easier, because it tends the turn the audience against the defendant: these stars are making so much money and yet they’re not contributing their share! And as long as the accusers have sufficient power — remembering that commercial and political power are married in the country — the accuser can make up any evidence to suit their needs for any crime.

The third possibility is what I see as the worst case scenario: that the government decides they don’t want their major stars / entertainment industry to be *perceived* as queer — whether the stars are officially out doesn’t matter — and signals the media and commercial companies to stop using any “suspect” star altogether. (Chinese term: 封殺). This is the case of career murder without blood — laws aren’t changed; all the fans will hear are rumours confirmed by nobody. I see this as a possibility because of the Xi regime’s view of The Ideal Men , and my admittedly limited experience with dealing with older generations of Chinese, who I’ve found tend to confuse perceived femininity in men with queerness. I think, and this is only my opinion, that the sheer amount of adapted BL dramas in production (the so-called “dangai 耽改 101” phenomenon) and the heated discussions of them on Weibo will at some point trigger the government (which is made mostly of older generations Chinese). Even if gg and dd don’t do anything, should the government decide these adapted BL dramas, even after the elimination of their queer element, are “non mainstream socialist core values”, all the major people involved with the Untamed—arguably the classic and the drama whose success all these follow-ups are trying to imitate—can be cast as the culprit. If the same officials become aware of BJYX and if they’re somehow convinced that BJYXSZD, it can be easy be used as evidence of the bad influence these dramas can do—“they can turn people gay”—and it doesn’t help that according to reports, gg, at least, used to have a girlfriend.

Something more to consider: Gg and dd are also in a very special position now, in that not only are they immensely popular in China, no other native mainland Chinese stars have achieved this level of international fame with a native mainland Chinese production (ie, not a production from Hollywood, Hong Kong or Taiwan, or with a Kpop band). As such, they are likely subjected to high levels of scrutiny from the state. Depending on who’s in charge in the appropriate department, they may decide gg and dd have to be China’s image; they may have a set idea of what image it is and most likely, it won’t be queer. 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 are special times for China, image wise, both at home and abroad. 2021 is the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, and gg and dd are both starring in its propaganda productions (dd as a police in BAH and gg as an army officer in AT). CCTV, the state-controlled TV station, is already promoting these shows. So, for 2021, gg and dd are slated to not only be the faces of Chinese entertainment, but also the image of Chinese uniformed forces. If gg and dd come out or are outed, their allowing themselves to be being perceived as queer while donning uniforms will most likely to be viewed by the current regime as an embarrassment; a career murder, then, is an apt response to such transgression. 2022 is the year of Beijing’s Winter Olympics, so again, it’s the time where image matters.

You may have noticed a pattern, as I have as I write this up: them being outed is something to worry about, but also ... nothing more than anything else. If someone wants to tear gg and dd down — and there will be, given their massive commercial power right now and the increasing evidence that they’re working more like collaborators than competitors (ie, they aren’t about to tear each other down any time soon) — they do not need their sexuality as a reason.

(And if these accusers really want to use homosexuality as a reason, the unofficial BTS is, IMO, more than enough, as long as the accusers have sufficient power.)

Your other question ~ can gg and dd’s fame, popularity, and ability to draw consumers protect them? My (slightly) educated guess of the answer, then, is that it’s very much a double-edged sword. Indeed, the one major thing that may be going for these adapted BL dramas, and for those who come to superstardom to it — with gg and dd being the prime examples — is the economic health of China, which, by some reports that can no way be verified, are far worse than what has been reported. This is the thing about countries lack transparency; without reliable news, there’s no way to get the facts. Reports on China outside the country tend to be either propaganda or demonising / filled with conspiracy theories, and the truth is probably somewhere in between. If the reports of poor economy are true, the commercial sector — which, again, is tied to those with political power; ie the money made in the former goes into the pockets of the latter — desperately needs stars like gg and dd to move products (based on those recent consumer reports!) and with that, it will want to keep gg and dd and these dramas that can potentially make more gg and dd around. This *seems* to be what’s happening so far, with the the state-run media happy to show gg and dd’s dramas (when it should know, at least, that they got to the height of their fame playing lovers-not-lovers) and gg and dd’s sponsors not-so-subtly wooing the BJYX segment of fandom, so I’m tentatively optimistic. However, the current regime has also shown a willingness to sacrifice the economy for the sake of political ideology, so it’s not something to be taken for granted. (What’s going on in Hong Kong is a good example of that.)

(I always think, eat each candy like it can be the last one. With this regime, it can be. We can wake up tomorrow and gg and dd have to break up BJYX to protect the fans.)

(I always think, treasure, treasure, treasure. Ask for more dy and lz and Weibo posts, but never anymore from gg and dd when it comes to insights of their relationship, even without considering it’s actually their private lives and they’re under no obligation to share.)

(They’ve shared with us far more than enough.)

There’s really no precedence for us to predict the future of an outed gg and dd from, as far as I know. Confirmed queer stars in Chinese entertainment (those with sufficient followers to make news) have all been from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries. The successful BL dramas before The Untamed — Addicted (2016) and The Guardian (2018) — didn’t have a real-person cp that truly took off. Addicted, a true BL drama (ie, it retained the queer elements), was banned before it finished its broadcast. The two actors were also banned from appearing together afterwards, and this “signal” from the government almost cost the two actors their career. Bai Yu from The Guardian, meanwhile, already had a girlfriend as he filmed, so there was never a Weibo supertopic dedicated to him and Zhu Yilong. gg and dd, along with their millions of turtles, are treading untrodden ground.

Something I should clarify ~ all the things I said above may sound very scary to international fans, but to those who live in the country, they understand it as the way things are, and they strategise and move accordingly. This is their way of life. What I wanted to say, in my first reblog, is that we who’re outside may not understand why they do things the way they do, why they don’t, for example, come out with all the candies they are spending so much effort to give out, but I do believe that gg and dd have a plan, not in the sense that they’re scheming or trying to trick anyone, but that they are moving things along at the pace necessary to meet the pre-requisites for the outcome they want. What this outcome is is anyone’s guess, mine being that they have the freedom to work together, not necessary in lover’s capacity — most of us are not required to perform our day jobs carrying our identity as so-and-so’s significant other and gg and dd shouldn’t be exceptions — but as colleagues, professionals and friends (lovers are friends).

To some international fans, this may sound implausible, ridiculous: why do they need a multi year campaign for something as simple as this? As working together again? And I suppose, all these words I’ve typed so far is my attempt to answer this question, to ease the … unease, the frustration of those who may not understand. True to its marxist root, perhaps, many things that are considered mindless, effortless tasks elsewhere somehow become battles, grand struggles of sorts in China. That sea of sea lights on the night of Tencent awards, for example? It was the result of gg’s fans fighting, strategising in real time to smuggle those LED banners in when they realised the venue had forbidden their entry. They wrapped the banners around their bodies under their underwear because they were patted down by security at the underwear level; they hid batteries in their shoes. They ran batteries from one zone in the stadium to another during the whole show for whose who only managed to smuggle in banners or batteries. They fought the security guards inside the stadium, who continued to snatch away their banners even after seeing they were merely support material for the idols. They fought and fought, despite their identities were recorded by their COVID pass and facial recognition. Many confessed they had no idea what gg was singing during the show; they were too busy. They were there, some paying scalpers > 10x the ticket price, just because they promised the sea of red would be there for gg when he returned. When some realised dd’s banners were confiscated in high numbers because his fans happened to have seats right by the strictest security, they improvised, found an image of a green block to show on their cell phones to make makeshift green support lights for dd. They used Weibo to spread this trick to fellow fans. All these trouble, all these effort, all these planning and scheming and sweat and tears — all for one night, one concert and they laughed about it, called it a wonderful day.

(There are many ways for lives to be hard.)

The very first thing gg and dd need to accomplish, therefore, isn’t to announce what they do in the bedroom—the very first thing they need, for their plan to come to fruition, is to stay on top of the industry. How can they be on the same stage for the yearly Tencent Awards if either of them fails to make VIP? What’s their negotiation chip for a future collaboration, when the current norm is against cps like them working together again, if they cannot draw enough viewers and consumers, or if they offend Tencent and other media companies by refusing to see to the needs of the other side (for example, the need to promote new dramas)? So far, the two of them have accomplished this in flying colours. The other thing they need right now, the way I see it, is for their fans to get along. I think part of the reason they’ve made BJYXSZD so easy to believe in and love, in addition to their very human need to be seen when their careers may be safer otherwise (yes, I think they know what they’re doing, the candies they’re throwing), is because they want their fans to unite, as they have united. To make sure something like 227 cannot happen again, or at least, if it does happen again, their fans cannot be used as an excuse, as scapegoats. And this union is happening — slowly, but it’s happening. The size of BJYX (>2.8 million as of now, on Weibo supertopic) is a powerful indicator; I also had a wonderful time reading the comments of gg’s solo fans who went to purchase dd’s new song. This is the part gg and dd need their fan’s help. This is the one of the fews things we, as overseas fans who have limited access to their products, can help.

Your final question — sorry, this is getting so long again — about leaving. Of course, it’s always up to the government and It’s impossible to say what can happen so far ahead. But my perception, right now at least, is that gg and dd have no intention to leave, no intention to sacrifice their career for their personal lives and vice versa. After all, this is a pair who has answered those A vs B choice questions with a straight-faced “I want both” and “so annoying” without a follow-up reply. They’re right to want both. I like them for wanting both. And maybe, with their intelligence, charisma and hardwork and ambition and personalities that seem to clash but somehow complements each other’s, they will figure out a way. Maybe they are, as the Chinese turtles call them, the Chosen Pair, and they will be the ones who’ll change the perception fo queer artists in China, and we’ll one day get a biography about them and laugh at the candies we get right, laugh harder at those candies we get totally wrong.

(Dd ~ I want your honest opinion, in your own words, on the ones we get wrong.)

(Gg ~ videos of your expressions while reading the crazy theories the first time will be very much appreciated. By me.)

It’s a good day to look forward to.

#bjyx #yizhan #pie metas

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p-h03n1-x · 3 years

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Top GGDD CP Fandoms and CP Supertopic Rankings

Reading this post from @rainbowsky and this post from @peekbackstage made me check the super topic rankings just to see what’s going on there now and I thought of writing this post

*Note that stats presented here are as of this writing, Jan 21, 2021 (Edit: As of Jan 25, 2021, these 3 fandoms have dominated Weibo CP ranking consecutively as top 1, 2 and 3. More on that in this link)

So let’s begin!

Undoubtedly, the number 1 of GGDD CP fandoms is BJYX and number 1 CP in Weibo for the past 2 years. It’s been consistently at number 1 daily without a break. This just might be the longest standing #1 CP in the history of Weibo (someone correct me if I’m wrong here please)

博君一肖

Other names include:

BJYX / Bo Jun Yi Xiao / To get a smile from you

Current CP Ranking in Weibo #1

5.74 Million Posts and 2.85 Million Followers (😱)

Click here to follow this CP Supertopic if you have Weibo or Weibo International

Next largest GGDD fandom

战山为王

Zhan Shan Wei Wang / ZSWW / Conquering the Mountain to Become King

Current CP Ranking in Weibo #7

200,000 Posts and 1 Million Followers

Click here to follow this CP Supertopic

And last but not the least

连琑反应

Lian suo fan ying / LSFY / chain reaction

Current CP Ranking in Weibo #17

50,000 Posts and 660,00 Followers

Click here to follow this CP Supertopic

Note that there are wordplays and alternative meanings in the fandom names, particularly on who tops /who bottoms and I did not opt not to include that. However, this post won’t be complete if I don’t, so I’ll just write it this way, as I think you should also know this because you will see it as a prevailing theme in some of the posts, artwork and vids that you will find in these super topics. In order, it’s DD Tops / GG Tops / Switch

#BJYX #ZSWW #LSFY #GGDD Top 3 Fandoms

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ohnobjyx · 3 years

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Hey!! Love your blog!! Thanks for always taking the time to answer you’re so helpful!! I was wondering if you thought there’d be any chance that YB and XZ will be in a drama together again? From their popularity and the way it multiplies when they’re together it seems like something directors would want to monopolize on. Thanks!! Have a great day!!

Hi, anon! I’m glad you like my blog!

I wrote a similar answer to that in the beginning of this blog here. You can see by how I failed to predict the outcome of 2/27 (Oath of Love is not being aired yet, but not because of 2/27) that many things in the post are probably wrong (though I did insist that I’m an outsider to the industry and that I know next to nothing).

Please, don’t take the contents of that post seriously. Take it as... light reading? 😂 If you read it at all.

Now, I still think it will be difficult, though the exact nuances and why escape me.

@potteresque-ire or @peekbackstage may have more information than I do or have another opinion on this. I think they know much more about the industry than I do ☺️

#yizhan #bjyx #ask #anon

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starsxinxthexbluexsky · 3 years

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Hi, thank you for answering questions. I’d like to know how long usually some celebrities can be top stars? I mean on their peak usually? As we all know that entertainment industry is very competitive and it’s pretty normal that each year a new fresh celebrity becomes a top. How long does fame usually last? (I mean common fame, ofc stans and loyal fans will stay forever with their idols)

Hi Anon, your welcome 💓. I'm happy to response questions, but I really believe that I am not the right person to answer your question, I have never known much about it. 😅😅😅

I can tell you that maybe if a celebrity just doesn't bring up trouble it would help, but I certainly don't know what the pros or cons are, or the amount of time a person can be at the top.

I don't think research is of much help, because, if we talk about Asian culture is one world and the show is part of that too. But, you can ask, @peekbackstage or @potteresque-ire. I'm sure, they know more than me, on this subject

I'm a bit sorry to disappoint you by not answering your question ... have a good day, Anon

#ask response

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dravbn · 3 years

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So we’ve been having all this talk about how weid it is that mangement doesn’t stop the candies and kadian and stuff (courtesy of @peekbackstage) and today xz’s crew decide to caption the pictures of his artist with the exact same idiom yibo had uttered marely two hours before... If that isn’t extremely odd by the staff idk what is, especially after all of the other “candies” we’ve been fed with today.

#yizhan #bjyx #my posts

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peekbackstage · 3 years

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A love letter to an Anti

This love letter is to the anti who thought it would be a good idea to send me an ask filled with hatred.

Trigger warning: Antis

Dear Anti,

Sometimes I wonder, what kind of sickness has caused you to have so much hatred in your heart? Who was it that hurt you so much that you have such a terrible sense of self-worth and self-esteem that you now have a pathological need to try and ruin someone else’s source of happiness, to try and hurt another human being? What kind of sick person raised you to believe that there is honor in being morally abject, in maliciously targeting others, specifically to darken their doorway, to bring them down, to cause them pain?

What terrible monster taught you that this world is only worth living in by destroying someone else’s reputation? Someone who you have never met? Someone whose only “mistake” was daring to become famous in the first place?

Who instilled such values in you? Who taught you that there is goodness in hatred, that it is ethical to spread toxicity and lies? Were you bullied as a child, as a teenager, as a young adult? Is this why you pathologically feel the need to bully an artist whom you’ve never met, and that artist’s fans, on the internet?

I really feel for you, Anti, I really do. I hope one day you can learn how to love yourself. I hope you can learn how to have enough confidence that you no longer feel the sociopathic need to go on a campaign specifically with the intent of destroying someone else. I hope you can stand to look at your own reflection in the mirror, instead of turning away with disgust at what you see with the knowledge of your malicious actions crawling through your mind.

I hope you can step out into the light of day and away from the computer screen or your phone screen and do something that actually adds value to this cold, broken world. Maybe, take the time you would be spending spreading hatred volunteering at a nonprofit organization instead. Maybe, instead of tearing someone down, you can build something worthwhile with your own two hands.

Maybe, you can stop sending asks that suggest that a certain someone believes himself to be “higher” than any other celebrity. Do you personally know this individual? Have you met him? Have you had a conversation with him about what he really feels? If not, then how could you possibly know what his feelings are? How could you possibly know what anyone’s feelings are?

The reality is that you know absolutely nothing, Anti.

You say you enjoy my content about the music industry. That’s nice. I’m glad you took away something positive from all of this. But, I want you to stand before the two individuals who raised you if they still walk this earth, and tell them what you have been doing on the internet. I want you to tell them exactly how you come into a stranger’s ask box. I want you to tell them that you tried to destroy something that gave that stranger joy and happiness, all for what?

Some sick sense of satisfaction?

I want you to look at whoever it was that raised you, straight in the eye, and tell them the truth of what and who you really are. I dare you to do this with pride.

If you feel any shame even thinking of such a scenario, then you know in your heart that what you are doing is fundamentally morally and ethically wrong. You know that there is nothing good that comes out of this.

And if you know this, then I hope you can find something worthwhile you can put your energy into. Something that is positive and bright and filled with light, and not with this unwarranted anger and hatred and toxicity. Something that adds to the world, instead of corrupting it.

We have such few things in this world, in this life, that are worth fighting for.

If you want to fight for a cause, let it be something that produces fundamental, good change in the lives of others. Let it be something that actually has a net positive effect on this world.

Fighting strangers on the internet specifically with the intent of hurting them or someone who brings them joy - that, Anti, is not a good pursuit.

I wish you the best.

With love, peekbackstage

#antis #dear anti #unless you are a masochist i recommend not coming into my ask box with hatred or disrespect

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zhansww · 3 years

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Tagged by @kailmursher — thank you ^-^ I know I’m kinda late with this but I hope you don’t mind~

Post 4 songs you’ve had on repeat lately

I pretty much always listen to songs on yt while I do other stuff on my laptop so I’ll just conveniently put yt vids here.

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I listened to WuGan for a whole year before Yibo released this. I’m fully expecting to keep listening to his songs until exactly Dec 30th 2021 when he’ll release his next song. He’ll make that a tradition~

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This isn’t gg’s own song but I still like it. I prefer just listening to this rather than watching it, too, cuz he makes me question my asexuality here. Hate it when he does that. Also, I should not have disrespectful thoughts about dd’s husband /cough cough/

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Definitely my favorite from BE! It’s an instant mood changer for me and I can never listen to it just once~

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His entire last album is one I listen to pretty much daily. He released this video recently, though, so I’ve been listening to / watching this a lot more lately.

Tagging: @lisa-vetta, @8585s, @naein, @yibocheeks, @light8828, @peekbackstage, @wei-gege, @thejingshi, @baozinotbaozi

#about me

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betweentheracks · 3 years

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A little about me, to kick us off.

You may or may not have seen me lurking around in the wings of @peekbackstage and inserting tidbits of stylist insight. I am a lead stylist in America and work with a company that works with an emphasis of handling up and coming celebrities - typically artists in the music industry, but there’s a few actors and personalities in the mix as well. I have been with my company for 4 years and have been a lead for 2 of those.

Lead means what it reads like; I am in charge of a 3 person glam team (6 if you consider our assistants) and am the one that dictates what style/outfit/look/image we will be running with and have the final judgement on what can or can’t be incorporated to make it happen. I oversee accessories and make up, hair and clothing and a thousand tiny and tedious things that make up these staples of fashion. I also am in charge of handling contracts with labels and brands that wish to sponsor or cast the clients in my care. This doesn’t mean I deal with the financials or the paperwork, but that once a deal is struck and agreed upon I am the one that sifts through style samples and clothing ensembles to and pick and choose which of the offered sets are in line with my client’s image. This is arguably one of my most important handles, and positively my least favorite to undertake.

I will later talk about how I made it into my position (which is actually 4 separate job titles stacked under a trenchcoat if I’m honest) and what the daily odd and ends are for basic working as well as the chaos gate which descends and opens upon a style team whenever there are live events.

In actuality this blog is to help me stay sharp and keen while I take time away from my career to recover from my hospital stay and the terror COVID-19 wreaked on my health. I’ll probably be less glamorous and exciting than you want, but the job is like that as well so it is a good lens to view this profession through. I hope you enjoy the ramblings of a work junkie trying to chase her high.

#style speak #bear with me and i will one day say something profound probably

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yeetlinglaozus · 3 years

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What made you want to become a stylist?

Yeef. Okay.

So I never actually wanted to do this until I was already swept up into it. I went to school with an emphasis on psychology and cultural studies, intending to stack that with sociology. I had a very clear ideal of me being an Intellectual™ and it was also largely expected of me to follow this course. Cut to me being absolutely inundated with constant work and stress and living a very sad book oriented life and having many breakdowns.

I’d always been especially good with makeup and styling friends for their big dos of our teen years and into early adult life. It was something oddly gratifying to me, to be able to take someone’s presentation and turn it into art and an expression of them. A friend that works in the industry had been one such person I did up a few times and she composed a pseudo portfolio of my works and submitted it for review to secure me a job as a cosmetic assistant without my knowing, and the ultimately roped me into agreeing for a weekend run at a smaller scale event. It was intoxicating and heady and I had a rush that was something my life of research and regurgitation was not plying me with.

From there, I switched my education around to be more geared towards fashion merchandising and kept my cultural studies but became especially keen on cultural fashions and trends worldwide. I continued working as an entry level make up tech until eventually I earned enough recognition that I made it onto my first real glam team and was signed to a legitimate company that works with rising stars in both the music and film industries. I made it clear early on that my interests and intents lay beyond cosmetics and that I wanted to pursue styling, that I was stacking my portfolio with an educational backing (something that is not strictly necessary for personal stylists) and kept pleading and looking for opportunities to strike.

Finally, we had a newbie artist that came in and was rather difficult for some of the more veteran stylists to handle as he was very particular about what he wanted his public image to look like. I happened to be lingering around and going about business as usual when he spied me and said he wanted a style like mine and brought me over to ask me a bunch of questions on what pieces I typically go with, brands, why I pair certain key features, etc. That was that and nothing came of it for weeks until there was some uproar about an artist having a bit of a fit about his glam team not being up to snuff; specifically he was upset with his stylist for not capturing the essence of the aesthetic he wanted to present (he said this in a lot harsher words, but it boils down to this lol) and asked about “that girl that looked seamlessly NG” which was me. I consulted with his stylist on how to achieve the look he wanted and thought that would be the end of it, but he was so pleased with the way I made him look he pressed management until I was contracted as his. By which time I had my degree and was only lacking true experience. He’s still my client to this day.

This got longer than I intended but I struck some nostalgia and wound up talking more about how I got here than why. To really iterate what it is about styling and fashion that hooked me, I would simply say it’s that I enjoyed the idea of doing something with immediate gratification and the overwhelming satisfaction I feel to know that, according to what some artists and clients tell me, I boost their confidence by ensuring they look their best and tailor them to look sometimes completely opposite of how they are behind the scenes of their image. I like making people feel good by looking good.

#peekbackstage #cakes asks #ask game #get to know me #this is just a very romanticized way of me omitting the amount of times i broke myself down to make it here tbh

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