Sunday Snippet, et. al.

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
I volunteer to help Bai Yu with some deep tissue/myofascial release work to open up those hips.
My tl had barely recovered from that when we got hit with this Zhu Yilong photoshoot. And then this. And then this. Here's the clip of him singing.
"I'm not listening to this."
Domestic bliss! (a promotional still of this scene is my laptop lock screen I love it so much)
Fanart: There's already fanart of Z1L's singing. Blush. Don't cry, little ghost king. Smoking kink. What are you working on? Assisted push-ups!

Untamed/adjacent:
Lan Zhan! Wei Ying! That's it, that's the show.
Costuming choices.
I'm not a kid person but the little cutie who played A-Yuan makes me melt.

Yes. (someone made a Guardian post of this but I apparently didn't send it to myself)

Okay well I just now got some super-sad-making news. My friend won't be able to come over anymore because her mom doesn't feel safe about it. It's understandable since of course all she sees on the news is how USians are stupid people who don't care about other's safety but y'all. I am barely holding back tears. Of course yesterday I started the Chinese program on Duolingo so I could try out some words with her on Thursday.

Welp.

Time for other distractions I guess, so here's a snippet from the due South story, tentatively titled "The Wooing of Ray Kowalski."

It had been the smile that had done it.

That was not the smile of someone who didn’t want to spend the rest of their life with you. Preferably in some sort of carnal embrace a good part of the time. Ray recognized it from what he’d seen in pictures of him looking at Stella. But Ray had never in his life had a look like that directed at him and it shook him down to his bones. It wasn’t news to Ray that he thought guys were hot. Quite frankly he didn’t understand the guys who didn’t. Hadn’t they seen Bullitt? But the realization that he’d fallen in love with Fraser just like he had Stella hit him with a ton of bricks. And he was…fine with it. He was really fine with it.

Comments

[glymr]

Oh man, that's awful that your plan with your friend didn't work out. Can you ask if there's anything you can do that might make her feel more comfortable? Is it possible to completely isolate for 12-13 days given your living situation? (Like, have groceries delivered, etc.) If you can promise that, would she be willing to consider it? I'm just throwing out ideas, but I figure it can't hurt to ask. ^_^;

Congrats on your Due South fic progress! It looks great so far!

[clevermanka]

I don't think there's anything to do about making her mom feel comfortable, alas. Apparently she wasn't even happy about Meng Hui coming over at all (she just hadn't communicated this to her) so when MH said she'd come inside and invited me over I guess her mom sorta fell apart. 😟 I feel bad about that and will be leaving the ball in their court on suggesting future contact.

*cracks knuckles with the intent to work on the dS fic today*

[glymr]

That's so frustrating. I'm really sorry. :( Perhaps a brief, polite note of apology to her mother, apologizing for making her uncomfortable and explaining that you haven't had contact with anyone outside your own household for X number of days so she doesn't need to worry (or explaining how you've limited what contact you've had and why) might make her feel better? Even if it doesn't lead to better relations, I bet it would be appreciated, and who knows? She might feel more relaxed about you in the future. (I know she doesn't read English, but something short that your friend could translate for her might not come amiss.) I can totally understand that she was blindsided by you suddenly showing up; if she knows more about your own situation maybe she won't be so uptight at least about her daughter seeing you. Just throwing out ideas, feel free to ignore me. ^_^;

[clevermanka]

I don't think I'll write it with the intent to try to get MH back over here, but writing her mom a note of apology is a very good idea, thank you!