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clevermanka ([personal profile] clevermanka) wrote2020-05-23 09:53 am

Vertigo Schtick

Guardian/adjacent:
Fanart: Bedtime snuggles. I laughed at this baby Ghost King comic. 2Luo.
Companies spend a lot of money on marketing in China. I honestly don't know how one survives being faced with a larger-than-life-size ReFa ad.

Untamed/adjacent:
Modern CQL illustrations continue, now with Zidian.

One person left kudos on six of my stories yesterday, including Ghost Story. o_O That's a lot of reading.

In a conversation on yesterday's watch party, someone (Sherly--I don't know their DW name?) mentioned having Zhao Yunlan-levels of bad luck in love and I thought we were going to have a whole Bad Romance thread \o/ but then nobody else weighed in on their tragic love stories. /o\ Then this tweet about being a "foster girlfriend" crossed my tl and Lord Do I Know That Feel. Something I didn't mention in yesterday's hilarious outpouring of woe was that for about, uh, 20 years all but one dude that I had sex with married the next woman he dated (and afaik that one guy is still unmarried). I seriously could have rented myself out as a service for wedding-bound women. So if you feel like starting a Bad Romance comment thread here, I'm all ears. And now I'm gonna go rewatch that music video for the bajillionth time because that's still a great song.
tinny: Bright yellow Zhu Yilong looking into the camera seductively, Chinese text: "kiss" (guardian_zhuyilong kiss)

[personal profile] tinny 2020-05-24 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
sorry, no bad romance stories from me. (Also sorry that you have so many of them. *hugs*)

I mean, I can't say that I understand the cfandom mindset of buying everything which has Zhu Yilong's or Bai Yu's face attached. But I would *not mind* seeing life-size cardboard cutouts of them in fast food stores, and I would probably even actually go there and spend a small amount of money just to be surrounded by walls plastered with Zhu Yilong's face. /o\ Oi.

Also, I note that Zhu Yilong is the only male face on any of those ReFa packages. That shock of seeing a male face advertising something that seems to be so predominantly female is the best marketing strategy ever.