Clare

One of the things I really love about AO3 is using bookmarks and kudos of readers who leave the same on my works to find other works to read. Today I chanced upon a series of shorts between TB/X timeline, very lovely, exactly what I like. archiveofourown.org/users/byzant...

I wanted to say “who the f r u” but nvm… sp oni hardly gets any new wardrobe so….

This is really ridiculous cuz Dai has drawn so many sketches!!

🌸 gleaming edge | twilight moon 🌕 (2022)
#Onmyoji #Onikiri #阴阳师 #鬼切

Caught a little of the new tv drama prequel to the condor heros. The East & West arc is good enough to watch.

They’re using different directors for each of the prequel arcs but sticking to the same cast, which is such an interesting idea…

教えてくれてありがとう！地図で検索して見たら、去年仙台にいた時に入口を気付かずに通り過ぎた(午前だからね)

梅田や新宿で似たような所もあるけど、比べるとこちの方がかなり清潔さを感じてますわ！

いろは横丁に行きました！お店の方たちは親切で、食べ物も美味しくで、すごく楽しかった！そしてなかの通りは広い+清潔！

Ps: lots of fics seem to want to give the emperor a go with his minister’s younger self. I can see the temptation. After all, he died barely a handful of years older than the age at which his minister first met his precocious child self.

Frankly I love all of them, but hey look at this one! archiveofourown.org/works/48729046 the one who commands and the one who serves, to become the ultimate duo to rule and unite the empire, they must put their roles ahead of their selves, and who more suited to teach them each that lesson?

Anyways, a lovely, lovely compilation on the first emperor Qin & his mentor/ minister Li.
archiveofourown.org/series/3626011

And then of course we will think about lord Cao of the warring kingdoms who is famous not for being particular about whether the man (or woman) is older or younger, but for swaying them (and ideally winning them) over to him from the other side. (Cues our steadfastly noble Guan Yu).

The writer delightfully tabulates and concludes that the short-lived Qin kings (and one emperor) all favor older men who (except one) unfailingly outlive them, while on the other hand, Han emperors (of course Liu Che & his fierce little stray Wei Qing comes to mind) favor handpicking younger men.

So I always knew there’s lots of fics for emperor Qin Shi Huang (aka the man who forced China into unity and standardization) and his mentor & eventual first minister Li Si. Then I came across a fic for ALL (ok not all but many) of the Qin kings and their respective first minister (and one general).

For くけ、long time ago my grandmother taught me the method for finishing the edge when I cut short my school uniform skirt ;) for kimono there is more variety in technique.

Today I learn a new thing too. I didn’t know the term まつる before. Thank you for sharing!

Winter begonia novel clocks a total of 131 chapters at 850k words. There’s a lot of colloquial terms and jargon, so there’s added complexity. I don’t have good hopes for an official translation that I can recommend to friends.

The question is then, should I bother? looks to be a 2-3 yr investment.

I skimmed the drama - it has shoved the unsavory aspects of traditional opera’s history and social hierarchy struggles in the midst of upheavals in that era largely under the carpet, which I recognize is necessary to pass censorship, but that leaves a frivolous, rose-tinted story without gravity.

I haven’t gotten into reading danmei but I ended up liking winter begonia hmm. maybe it is well written enough, backed by firsthand research too, that I can afford to say it is a novel proper? Drama fans are going to get a rude awakening if they read the original before it’s censored to blandness.

You are right I have not thought about this!
Maybe 縫うis when the seam is functional? It needs to connect two pieces of cloth. くけるis more for finishing. Eg. to hide the excess/ open ends of the cloth, or pin additional layer onto the main body of the kimono…?

wtf who r u

Still thinking about how awesome Winter Begonia (the novel) turns out to be. The drama is meh, I agree with the top YouTube commenter in ep5 - the braised trotter is the best actor amongst them. But I do see why they picked it up for adaptation with this cast - the plot is substantial enough.

It DID recover gosh I have not pulled an all-nighter to finish a novel for a long while now. And I will call it a novel the way it wrapped up. Fantastic pacing after we get past the meandering and hit chapter 100 (there’s 131 in total). Saw that this took 7 yrs to write. Legit it is a novel proper.

I was saying this writing is tight and sharp but alas around Chpt 30 or so the writing suddenly starts to loosen and the plot starts to meander… well such is the fate of internet serials….i reckon it will recover since the whole thing made it to a tv drama adaptation?

I just got her yesterday!! (Technically today since it was after midnight) now resisting the sjade skin…..

The novel is good but I can understand why it might not be so popular with the current mainstream danmei readership in china.
But that’s fine man, that’s fine, cuz like what they like to say in Chinese social media, us older folks are only busy with life offline, we’re not dead.

Took a peek at the novel. Friends, Danmei fans, pls pls skip to the novel. The writing is knife-edge sharp tipped with a poisoned barb. The pace is brisk and I foresee it will have all the lovely dark undertones that the writer picked out for censorship in the adaptation.

I will have 3 days in Sendai and I am also going to give 2 days to Ishinomaki coastal area. I visited once not long after the tsunami, and google shows me that the restaurant I ate at is doing well, and the whole town, as told to me then, is now completed and thriving. So looking forward :)

Ohhhh I was just looking at the map yesterday thinking it’ll be a nice detour coming down from Akiu. It looks to be a very nice area!

Thank you for sharing!

I am 3 episodes in and IT IS A BL adaptation the VIBES are strong. STRONG. Gosh unbelievable isn’t it? Huang Xiaoming of all the people in a BL adaptation…
I’m a bit sad w the dubbing and rocky acting here & there but there is Charmaine Sheh! From the looks she acted in cantonese.. pity the dubbing

北京卫视热播大剧 |《鬓边不是海棠红 Winter Begonia》 看北平往事，观梨园百态 | 民国传奇情感大剧 正在热播！黄晓明尹正因戏结缘 | 欢娱影视 - YouTube 欢娱影视官方频道为您提供更多精彩剧集以及明星动态，订阅我们马上观看！☞China Huanyu Entertainment Official Channel：http://bit.ly/2X3Ecdi 更新时间：同步国内播出，3月20号起 每周五至周日20：00各更新2集 主演: 黄晓明 尹正 佘诗曼 简介：19...

holy **** I am so obtuse I DID NOT realize that 鬓边不是海棠红 (Winter Begonia) which kept popping up on Reebok feed was a BL novel adapted into tv drama… and joy too that there’s an official (? Yes?) ver on YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And I just took a look on ao3 and the “fuck u” is so literal.

哇啊啊！那以後我用中文回覆還是英文比較好？（繁體？）