I Love Priest's Supporting Characters. I Love How She Started Stars Of Chaos From Supporting Characters'
I love Priest's supporting characters. I love how she started Stars of Chaos from supporting characters' POV, and then she keeps dropping in on them and making us love them more and more.
My one complaint is: why doesn't she write more (even more) Extras featuring her supporting characters? We care!
Brief Character Analyses and Spoilers for Stars of Chaos below...
Cao Chunhua 曹春花 / 曹娘子 Cao Niangzi:
曹春花， I love you! How did you get so good at languages and disguise and acting? Did you ever get to catch a nice young man? Or are you constantly catching nice young men in a serial fashion? Ahhh, our little 娘子 <3 I definitely want to read more about you and your adventures.
Li Feng 李丰, "Long An" Emperor, Chang Geng's unfortunate half-brother:
You tried so hard. I don't actually want to read more about you, but I want you to know that I appreciate that you did your best, and validate that you really were a lot better than your dad -- you were just unlucky, and, sadly, you had to die for it. Life is hard. And short, for you.
Fang Qin 方钦
Yah, life is unfair. I don't want to read more about you, either -- I just want to ruminate on how you were a fancy rich popular kid, but all you really wanted was to hang out with the nerds. The nerds were smart and fun and honest and doing cool things, but your fancy rich popular old-money family held you back. Too bad you didn't have any backbone.
Chen QingXu 陈轻絮 and Shen Yi 沈易
What an amazing couple. I feel like Chen QingXu is barely in the book at all, but every time she is mentioned it is with reverence and awe. My favorite scene with Chen QingXu is when she's chaining together Pipa melodies while a battle is literally going on in front of her, then elegantly floats away when her part of the battle is concluded...
And! And! When she figures out that the Spirit Mannequin is actually a "book" and clutches it "like she's never seen wood before," I swooned -- Chen QingXu is a scientist, through and through <3
Every time Shen Yi is mentioned, I know I'm going to have a good time, too. It is through his near-constant consternation at Gu Yun that we see how terribly fun (emphasis on the "terrible") Gu Yun is.
Poor Shen Yi, putting up with his crazy best friend. Accidentally rising to one of the highest positions in the land just because he doesn't want to go home and instead follows his best friend out to the far remote edges of the empire; and is totally willing to give it all up to be a house-husband for the girl he likes, once he gets up the courage to tell her he likes her. What a sweet guy <3
Yah, I want more Chen QingXu and more Shen Yi and more ChenYi.
Old Master Shen 沈老爷子
While we’re talking about the Shen family, I’d love to read more about Shen Laoyezi. He knows everything. His bird cusses out everyone. He’s pretty awesome.
Yao Zhen 姚镇 / 姚重泽 Yao ZhongZe (Chong Ze?) (I'm not so good when a word has multiple pronunciations)
I'm not super hungry for more Yao Zhen content, but I love every bit of Yao Zhen that I get to read. Poor man -- he just wants to hang out and enjoy life, but Gu Yun keeps giving him all these empire-critical, life-and-death-of-thousands responsibilities. The man knows what he wants! But Gu Yun just railroads past those clearly delineated desires and keeps raising him up to higher and higher positions of responsibility!
Living up to your true potential is overrated; sleeping 10 hours/day is the way to go :)
Huo Dan 霍郸
Oh, the stories that Huo Dan could tell... Poor man, having to put up with Gu Yun's peculiarities and Chang Geng's idiosyncrasies and I'm sure he learned very early on to always knock before entering any space that the two of them think they're alone in.
I want more Huo Dan stories ;)
That's pretty much it for me. I love Ge PangXiao 葛胖小 / 葛晨 Ge Chen, too, but I am satisfied with his story already. He's cool, he's sweet, but he's not mysterious like Cao ChunHua and Chen QingXu, or in an entertaining state of near-permanent exasperation because of Gu Yun's shenanigans like poor Shen Yi is. You do you, Ge Chen.
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MDZS Volume 4 Annotations
Part 5, pages 174 - 208
And so begins my “Please No American Slang!” tirade, plus a few more grammatical / vocabulary changes to make the story flow more clearly.
The Chinese for this is super funny. I could totally see Jin Ling staring at his JiuJiu, staring so hard that JC felt the stare and looked over to see his teenage nephew absolutely googly-eyed as he tried to Jedi-mind-trick / wish his JiuJiu into saying something nice to him.
Jedi mind tricks don’t work on JC, of course. (Wishes don’t work on him, either.)
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I’m looking forward to this (badly suppressed excitement I’m about to text this trailer to Everyone i know. Michelle Yeoh is and always has been a superhero!!!!!)
Everything Everywhere All At Once | A24
Starring Michelle Yeoh
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Who’s The Murderer | Paradise Island “Horror Nursery Rhymes” - Zhou Shen
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So during my second time watching Jiang Cheng walk across what I now know is a random mountain to meet Wen Qing, all I could think about was Wei Wuxian, Wen Qing, and Wen Ning’s plan and the fact that they must have been following him, like:
Wen Qing: should he really be walking across that field?
Wei Wuxian: I don’t know, I thought he would follow the path
Wen Ning: should we stop it now so he doesn’t trip and fall?
Wei Wuxian: naw let’s wait a bit, he needs to think it’s difficult
Wen Ning: is this a good place? can I ring the gong now?
Wei Wuxian: I think it’s good. wen qing?
Wen Qing: yeah yeah it’s fine. ring the stupid gong - I’ll lead him to a better spot
Wen Qing: I’m not going to wear the hat
Wei Wuxian: c’mon, you need to wear the hat
Wen Ning: yeah, wear the hat, a-jie
Wen Qing: he’s wearing a blindfold! he won’t be able to see my face anyway
Wei Wuxian: but what if he takes off the blindfold? what then, hmm? the hat is key
Wen Ning: yeah a-jie, the hat is key
Wen Qing: uuuuugh fine I’ll wear the hat
Chinese Fashion doesn’t always make sense to me, but I gotta admit that I think it’s Really Interesting.
niche absurd fashion post
OKAY in response to this rb of my post here from @cansada-contenta, i’ve decided to compile a bunch of stupid fashion i’ve seen on chinese singer(s) and loved in recent years. :DDDDD
as for that horrific blue sweater on xiao zhan, YO THAT’S EXACTLY THE KIND OF SHIT I’M TALKING ABOUT. most of these photos are of my good boy 吴青峰 during his time on singer 2019 bc his stylist did GREAT (also i only watch one (1) chinese reality singing show lol)
if you’d like to see most of these outfits in person (plus others I didn’t manage to find good pics of! gosh that violet trenchcoat outfit he’s wearing when he’s singing with jolin tsai at 49:11??? so good. jolin looks classy and he just looks like a DISASTER) you can check out this compilation of all his songs on the season here! :D highly recommend, i love his voice ;~;
anyways, first, the spiritual cousin to that horrendous blue sweater number on xz:
hideous!! what the fuck is that!! looks like you cut up two sweaters and stapled them to the front of a white t-shirt and then paired it with some white slacks!! what!! horrible!! i love it so fucking much!
rest is under a readmore bc i got really quite carried away:
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Behold, my Dictionary Collection.
(Not Including the dictionary that I actually normally use, or the online dictionaries that I live by.) (I gotta get myself a multi-volume Cantonese dictionary like my mom’s someday. And she has the coolest 成语词典 Idiom Dictionary, too!)
Ok! Ok. So I’m going at MDZS Vol 4 very very slowly, and it took me until today to remember that other, much more talented people have already translated the updated/online version of Ch 95 (7 Seas ch 20 part 2).
There’s just no way to elegantly annotate Ch 95 — the newer online version has a few deletions and a bunch of little additions, and a few paragraphs that got moved up or down. It’s easier to just read this excellent translation.
Enjoy!
MDZS Chapter 95. “Sleeplessness” Part 6
Love to bathe
[Content Warning: drunk sex]
Lan WangJi ignored him and kept staring, as if afraid that Wei WuXian would run away as soon as he blinked. Wei WuXian reached out a hand to cover his eyes. Lan WangJi ducked half of his face into the water to avoid the hand, blowing out a stream of bubbles into the water. Laughing, Wei Wuxian lightly pinched his cheek and asked, “Er-gege[1], how old are you?”
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