tentative-wanderer
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I’ve seen parents on social media advising other parents to do something like the second step with their toddlers—giving them two options to choose from makes them feel like they’re in control and they personally signed up to that route so they are more likely to cooperate in executing it
After all these years, we are still like children 😂 oh well just life things
the science bitch urge to correct all common misinformation when it appears vs the knowledge that people hate that bitch actually
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I had a little bit of fun translating this, so I’m storing it on this site
Can’t pack Mandarin’s poetry into English concisely, cos Mandarin phrases are very “dense” 🤷♀️ They used the ancient “you” and “I”, which look poetic in today’s world. And in Mandarin, day and night/dawn and dusk combined means “every day”, so the final part means “(I love) you every day”.
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TGCF donghua season 1 episode 1, that sequence merging with the ending credits, beautiful directing ❤️
• visual transitions, notably the breaking of each other’s falls and then the interlaced fingers showing the overlapping past and present
• the timing of the music with the scenes:
- ambient sounds and sounds of someone approaching melding with gentle, anticipatory music in the forest scene at the start
- sparks from the clashing swords just as the lyrics go “lightning struck”
- near the end, the Crown Prince looks sublime from the perspective of Honghong-er as his mask comes off, appropriately paired with a majestic yet gentle swoop in the tune. Then a rise in the tune—hope—in sync with Xie Lian saying “live for me” and something shining in Honghong-er’s eyes. Then a quick, decisive tune when Honghong-er makes up his mind and runs towards the ramshackle shrine
- the thump in sync with Hua Cheng’s boot stepping in the puddle
- the rise in the tune in sync with Hua Cheng raising his head
- I also like the music’s transition to the ending credits, where the combination has epic storytelling vibes, enhanced by first line of the lyrics during the ending credits: “I heard of Taicang Mountain, it’s difficult to reconstruct traces of its ancient kingdom” 😭
• gorgeous moving backgrounds in the ending credits hint of a legendary story by depicting various locations where it took place
• the umbrella tilted towards Xie Lian’s side (the following could very well be fake news, don’t quote me on this!!: saw a comment that said that the umbrella was initially drawn upright by a guy but a woman said make it slant towards Xie Lian. I didn’t know what I wanted but that woman did 😭)
• glorious song
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A hand shadow drama
Song: 大笑江湖 by 小瀋陽
[eng by me]
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Made a post to correct a mistake I made in a previous post, then deleted it a minute later when I found that I was mistaken about there being a mistake 🤦
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Pardon me as I enter my ATLA phase…
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it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.
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#interesting#tradwife#it’s like watching a TV drama with a handsome CEO#but viewers think it’s a documentary and not a drama
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I watched Ready, Set, Love
Pros:
• It’s a woman’s world. No patriarchy and toxic masculinity (the oppressors are women)
• Very bright and colourful in terms of mood and visuals, makes the child in you happy
• Straight, lesbian, and gay relationships
Cons
• Many, many oversimplifications, but these are ok if your intention is to chill without much brain usage
Verdict: I recommend it (unless you want a watertight plot)
Comments:
• I used to dislike a scene that’s popular in movies and dramas, where the female lead stares up at the male lead, stunned, as he moves into her personal space and looms over her. It triggers my temptation to sock him. This show made realise I actually like this scene when he is systemically incapable of being threatening (so there’s no need to be ready to sock him)
• someone needs to make a GIF of the male lead doing the little “I save you” dance. Stole my heart, it did
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SW: unhinged as hell
ZYL:
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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS
Too many beds
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss
Really nice guy who hates only you
Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class
Divorce of convenience
Too much communication
True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating
Too hot to cuddle
Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
Nursing home au
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One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.
The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.
“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”
The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”
“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.
I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.
He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”
“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”
A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.
I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.
So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….
“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.
Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.
The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.
So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)
But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.
“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”
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Patricia Thomas’ Instagram has many beautiful photos
Misty Wildflower Meadow, photo by @pthomas5313
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Maybe I should mention that I was kept hooked because a main theme in Deep Sleep is the fight for freedom and equality on both a personal level and a societal level, leading to the successful dismantling of the oppressive system. Or maybe I didn’t need to say it because anyone familiar with my recent-ish posts know I need to see revolution in books like this
Straight dude transmigrates into the body of a chinchilla omega, flees an arranged marriage with a military commander—a snake alpha—and unwittingly rescues the said commander during his escape in the belief that he is an injured omega
^ added Deep Sleep/Shen Mian 深眠 by 杨溯 Yang Su to my list of danmei recommendations
This author likes to make low-cost doodles to use as book covers. This is the one for Creature of Malignance/Xiong Sui, which is also in my rec list:
These two books are relatively recent so I don’t think there are English translations yet. There are fan translations for Yang Su’s other works, but they’re not in my rec list for now
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Straight dude transmigrates into the body of a chinchilla omega, flees an arranged marriage with a military commander—a snake alpha—and unwittingly rescues the said commander during his escape in the belief that he is an injured omega
^ added Deep Sleep/Shen Mian 深眠 by 杨溯 Yang Su to my list of danmei recommendations
This author likes to make low-cost doodles to use as book covers. This is the one for Creature of Malignance/Xiong Sui, which is also in my rec list:
These two books are relatively recent so I don’t think there are English translations yet. There are fan translations for Yang Su’s other works, but they’re not in my rec list for now
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