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clevermanka) wrote2019-11-06 06:36 am
clevermanka) wrote2019-11-06 06:36 am
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Wednesday Update
As asya_aya said on Twitter, "Harper's Bazzar ships it."
Now that the conference is over,mckitterick has time for tourism before he teaches his writing workshops. He sends me photos to post on FB, which...it's fine. It's fine. It's a good thing I'm not a jealous person. NGL, tho, it does sting that I had to install Chinese spyware WeChat on my phone so we could communicate (he got a burner phone for travel but noooooooooo I had to install this shit on my beloved Galaxy 6). Petty insult to minor injury is having to post the photos to FB so his friends can follow his exploits. But it's fine, it's fine. Whatever. He said he found something for me that he's pretty sure I'll like, but I know Bai Yu is in Germany so it's not that.
Went to the gym yesterday and rolled out for a long time when I got home. Wow my hips are tight and my quads are a mess of knots. I'm weak enough that holding part of my weight off the foam roller serves as upper body workout. I might've pushed too much, tho, because about an hour after my shower I was so tired I couldn't even make it up the stairs to my bedroom and had to take a nap on the couch. No gym today. I have a fitness goal now, which is helping my motivation--perhaps helping too much, judging by yesterday's overdoing it. But! it'll get me off the couch today for some yoga strengthening poses at least.
Finished The Untamed last night. I enjoyed the show but didn't emotionally attach to it like I did Guardian. Ifmckitterick wants to see it I'll re-watch with him because if he needed help with names and explanations for Guardian, whooo buddy The Untamed is gonna be a zillion times worse. I might become more invested on a second watch, but I don't think I'll be reading fic for it. I will watch the follow-up movies, though, if I can. I was thrilled that my favorite secondary character survived to the end! Not saying who it was because spoilers, but if you're interested, shoot me a message. I fell for him in the first five seconds of his screen time and spent the remaining episodes waiting for him to die and when he didn't, it was a lovely surprise. TBH, I expected a much higher body count of named characters by the time the credits rolled.
They went all in on making the final villain as bad as possible, didn't they? I actually paused it and said aloud the words "is this really happening?" because...jeeeeeezus (for the record, it was just me and the cat at home). IDK if Chinese productions work like western shows, but can you imagine the table read for that reveal? o_O Wow.
Now that the conference is over,
mckitterick has time for tourism before he teaches his writing workshops. He sends me photos to post on FB, which...it's fine. It's fine. It's a good thing I'm not a jealous person. NGL, tho, it does sting that I had to install Went to the gym yesterday and rolled out for a long time when I got home. Wow my hips are tight and my quads are a mess of knots. I'm weak enough that holding part of my weight off the foam roller serves as upper body workout. I might've pushed too much, tho, because about an hour after my shower I was so tired I couldn't even make it up the stairs to my bedroom and had to take a nap on the couch. No gym today. I have a fitness goal now, which is helping my motivation--perhaps helping too much, judging by yesterday's overdoing it. But! it'll get me off the couch today for some yoga strengthening poses at least.
Finished The Untamed last night. I enjoyed the show but didn't emotionally attach to it like I did Guardian. If
mckitterick wants to see it I'll re-watch with him because if he needed help with names and explanations for Guardian, whooo buddy The Untamed is gonna be a zillion times worse. I might become more invested on a second watch, but I don't think I'll be reading fic for it. I will watch the follow-up movies, though, if I can. I was thrilled that my favorite secondary character survived to the end! Not saying who it was because spoilers, but if you're interested, shoot me a message. I fell for him in the first five seconds of his screen time and spent the remaining episodes waiting for him to die and when he didn't, it was a lovely surprise. TBH, I expected a much higher body count of named characters by the time the credits rolled. They went all in on making the final villain as bad as possible, didn't they? I actually paused it and said aloud the words "is this really happening?" because...jeeeeeezus (for the record, it was just me and the cat at home). IDK if Chinese productions work like western shows, but can you imagine the table read for that reveal? o_O Wow.
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Oh yeah. That whole photoshoot was so good. ♥ ♥ ♥
I liked The Untamed (and MDZS), and I'm reading fic a bit, but I'm not in love the way I am with Guardian, either. And I spent the entirety of the flashback sequence wishing it would end already so we could get to the present-time plotline. (Can you still call it a flashback when it lasts that long?!)
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Can any photo shoot beat the Harper's Zhubai wedding? No, I don't think so.
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Can any photo shoot beat the Harper's Zhubai wedding? No, I don't think so.
100% agreed!
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There's a Taylor Swift song that has the line "I might be okay, but I'm not fine at all" and that's such a good phrase. That whole song is gold, honestly.
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Fuck fatigue.
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At least my brain is coming back online after a long absence...although it's directed at fanfic instead of essays now. =\
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I'm not even remotely interested in RPS
I wasn't until I encountered these two assholes and now I fight a daily (losing) battle against it.
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And now I'm wondering whether shipping the Time Engraver with some alt version of Zhao Yunlan counts as RPS? I don't think so, but, hmmm... *Resolutely doesn't dwell on it too much*
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My favourite part of the fandom is all the twitter shitposts.
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After I sufficiently spoiled myself to know I wouldn't regret watching the show, I avoided it on Tumblr and Twitter. Please send links to particularly good shitposts if you have 'em?
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https://twitter.com/starlightsizhui/status/1161533878999404544
https://twitter.com/gususlan/status/1163518511739596800
https://twitter.com/HARMONIA3784/status/1151194891357081600
https://twitter.com/incorrectmdzs/status/1129144459407572992
https://twitter.com/maochi04/status/1179069742587334657
https://twitter.com/lwjaes/status/1164482979109863424
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\o/
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:: snorfle ::
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