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[nofr1lls]

eevrything i watched in 2023

(that i was fucked to write down/rmbd retroactively.)

Death note 2015 J drama Total drama island 2007/ Total drama action 2009/ world tour 2010/ ridonculous race 2016/ island 2023 sweeeeep But I'm a cheerleader 1999 The handmaiden 2016 Bound 1996 Clue 1985 Jennifers body 2009 Oppenheimer 2023 Barbie 2023 Bottoms 2023 on my computer Secret bridesmaids business 2019 too late 2015 Revolutionary Girl Utena 1997 Adolescence of Utena 1999 Taskmaster UK series 15 Red mist or something. Freakdog 2008 Don Quixote mariinsky theatre 2006 Saving face 2004 Joy Ride 2023 1001 nights 1998 Oh also ofmd1 and good omens 1. Blessed not to gaf tho. Dates 2013 The half of it 2020 Taskmaster UK 16 Everything everywhere all at once 2022 True stories 1986 Mosquita y Mari 2012 Bodiws bodies bodies 2022 M3gan 2023 Battle Royale 2000 Glass onion 2022 Battle Royale 2 2003 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Minions rise of gru 2022 Parasite 2018 Happy Death day 2017 Scream Queens S1 FNAF 2023 Breaking Bad s1-5 2008-2013 Fight Club 1999 Bottoms 2023 in theatres The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 2023 Saltburn 2023 Doctor Who 2023 specials The Bear s1&2 2022-23 The Boy and the Heron 2023 May December 2023 Beetlejuice 1988 Scott Pilgrim vs the world 2010 The Menu 2022 Holes 2001 Saw 2004

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[indigostudies]

a very incomplete list of cdramas (plus a few chinese films) i've watched and my rating for hsk proficiencies for them below the cut!

i've watched some shows that aren't included on this list, but i didn't watch enough of them to get a good sense for the level of challenge they pose, so they're omitted from the list. i've also included links to the mydramalist pages, if you want to get a sense of the plot.

i had to remove the list format, since tumblr decided i had too many characters per block of text, so i apologise for that. a number of these can be watched on youtube with english fansubs, but if you can't find something, you can always dm me and i'll get you a link!

沙海/tomb of the sea: this fits into the extended daomu biji/grave robbers' chronicles/lost tomb franchise, but you don't have to have seen the other shows or read the books to watch it, and the pov character is an outsider who also doesn't understand what's going on 90% of the time. this show is contemporary, and you could probably start watching it at a fairly low hsk level because it doesn't have a ton of complicated technical or genre-specific terms. the subbing in english decent, since it came out a while ago, but there are some errors that crop up with names and nicknames. if you wanted to watch it without subtitles, i'd say you could probably get the gist of what's being said at around an hsk 4 or hsk 5 level. it has 52 episodes, each around 45 minutes long. (mdl link)

双镜/couple of mirrors: set in the republican era, so some of the terms used are a bit outdated in terms of colloquialism, and it also has a mystery/detective element to it, so that could pose a bit of a struggle. that said, the show isn't actually too challenging in terms of vocab—i would say you could watch it without english subtitles at an hsk 3 level with some struggle, and with a fair amount of ease at hsk 4. 12 episodes, at 46 minutes each. (mdl link)

云泽传/legend of yunze: wuxia/xianxia, which makes the amount of unfamiliar terms higher if you aren't used to the genre, but the episodes are all very short, and the plot itself isn't overly complicated, which makes it easy to sit down and watch in one go. on a level of difficulty, as long as you're familiar with wuxia/xianxia terms, you could probably watch this at an hsk 2 level without too much issue, and the subbing in english is very thorough. has multiple seasons, but the first season is 12 episodes, between 3-7 minutes each. (mdl link)

神探/detective l: this is a procedural detective show, and it's set in the 1930s republican shanghai, so there's a combination of more formal/outdated language and specialised detective/case-related phrases. the english subs are decent, though, and the actors all enunciate clearly, which helps if you need to look up words. i would say this would probably be a bit of a struggle below the hsk 5 level, but you'll pick up a lot of new, crime-related phrases. 24 episodes, 40 minutes each. (mdl link)

不良执念清除师/oh no! here comes trouble!: i'll be honest, this one was a struggle for me because of the taiwanese accent. i can understand what they're saying, it just sounds like the auditory equivalent of someone coming into my house and moving everything a few centimetres to the left. this is also a procedural show, but contemporary, so not quite as challenging in terms of vocab to detective l, in my opinion..........but it's also got a heavy supernatural element, which does come with specific vocab. the subbing is good, but if you're going to watch it, this one probably requires a higher hsk level to keep up—hsk 5, at a minimum, in my opinion. 12 episodes, 52 minutes each. (mdl link)

s.c.i谜案集/sci mystery/sci: another contemporary procedural mystery show, but from the mainland, so there's no elements of supernatural. surprisingly simple vocabulary; you could watch this at an hsk 2 level and get the gist, and an hsk 3 or hsk 4 level would let you watch it just fine. has fairly good english subs, and i believe they set the show in hk, which accounts for the higher than usual amount of english usage, up to and including in dialogue. the only bit that might make it challenging is the heavy lean into the psychology, but it's all largely explained directly, since most of the characters aren't familiar with the terms either. 24 episodes, 45 minutes each. (mdl link)

成化十四年/sleuth of the ming dynasty: ming dynasty (mid 1400s, under the chenghua emperor) setting, but a fairly colloquial vocabulary. there are some specialised titles used, but those are fairly self-evident by the way the show is shot, and easy enough to look up. the english subs are good, and i would put this at an hsk 4 level—but even at an hsk 3 level you probably won't struggle too badly. my hangup here was, again, one of the leads being played by an actor with a taiwanese accent, though it's not too heavy. 48 episodes, 45 minutes each. (mdl link)

老九门/the mystic nine: dmbj prequel, set in the tail end of the republican era (1939, if i remember correctly?). has a lot of tomb- and tomb-robbing specific vocabulary, alongside the more dated modes of speech, so i would put this up at an hsk 5 or hsk 6 level, but there's decent subs, so you could watch it at lower levels, it would just be a bit of a challenge. 48 episodes, 42 minutes each. (mdl link)

猎罪图鉴/under the skin: contemporary procedural show; there's a lot of emotion- and motive-specific words used, and the fact that it's a procedural makes it a bit more challenging, in my opinion. i would recommend that don't start with this show, just because of the fact that it's pretty easy to get lost if you don't grasp some of the vocabulary. i'd put it at an hsk 6 level, but that said, the subs are good and you can watch it at an hsk 5 level with some effort, i think. 20 episodes, 45 minutes each. (mdl link)

春风沉醉的夜晚/spring fever: honestly not as challenging in terms of vocabulary as a lot of things on this list, and fairly contemporary (set in the 2000s). i would say if you're at an hsk 4 level, you will probably do alright with it. 116 minutes in total. (mdl link)

关于我和鬼变成家人的那件事/marry my dead body: another case of struggling to acclimate to the taiwanese accent; otherwise, not too complicated in terms of vocab, though there are some spirit/marriage-specific terms used. overall, though, i'd put this at an hsk 4 level as well. 130 minutes in total. (mdl link)

陈情令/the untamed: heavy on the wuxia/xianxia elements, so unless you're familiar with that, you might struggle a lot to get through it. this is a lot of peoples' entry into cdramas, though, so it's not utterly inaccessible, and has decent english subs. i would put this around an hsk 5, if you want to watch it without subs, though you'll probably still have to pause and look up some words here and there even then. 50 episodes, 45 minutes each, making it the longest on this list. (mdl link)

山河令/word of honour: arguably the hardest on this list, i would say, because it's so plot-heavy. i, as a native speaker, struggle to follow along with this for extended amounts of time because there's a combination of 1. a lot happening, 2. a lot of wuxia terms, and 3. a lot of references to literature/art/etc. i would put this up at an hsk 7 level, honestly. that said, the subs for this are very good. 36 official episodes with a 37th mini-episode, 45 minutes each for the regular ones. (mdl link)

天官赐��/heaven official's blessing: one of the easier shows on this list; i would put this at an hsk 3 or hsk 4 level; there's some words you probably won't know, but while it does fall under xianxia, it doesn't go into that as much in terms of vocabulary as cql/the untamed does. i believe both seasons have both official subbing and official dubbing into english available, but that's not how i watched it, and i've only seen the first season, which is 11 episodes and about 20 minutes per episode. (mal link)

致命游戏/the spirealm: not particularly challenging in terms of actual vocab, but as of yet, only the first few episodes are subbed, since it came out literally this month, and the other subs are all auto-generated and.............very lacking. that said, it's a contemporary setting, and i would put this at an hsk 5 level, give or take; there are some references to folklore, but the characters research and explain or deduce the explanations of what is happening as it occurs, and you aren't left to struggle to figure it out yourself. 78 episodes, but each one is a bit under 20 minutes long, so it actually isn't that much content in total. (mdl link)

[thewatcher727]

Hi! How would you describe this movement?:

My attempt is too wordy. Thank you in advance! Love all that you do.

Hiya. From what I can see on the gif, it looks like he's being interviewed and asked something that causes him to then rolls his eyes upwards and to the side, either annoyed or impatient. If it were me describing this, I'd go somewhere along the lines of this below.

"An interviewer held a microphone towards him, asking a question that seemed to test his patience. With a subtle yet noticeable roll of his eyes, he looked upward and to the side, a clear sign of his annoyance. Without a word, he turned and walked off, leaving the interviewer and the murmuring crowd behind."

[redrobin-detective]

What was the most unhinged way you used to write fanfiction?

[signalhill-if]

v1.1.0 - THE TEST RUN UPDATE IS OUT NOW

This version includes several huge updates to Signal Hill, including...

NEW LEADS

TEST RUN (24.5k). You've convinced the Lamplighters to give you a chance- but before you can become a member, you'll have to do a little test run. Nothing big, of course. One of her guys has been kidnapped by a gang called the Motorheads, and she's just going to drop off the ransom and pick him up. Hopefully nothing goes wrong...

SHOTGUN ROMANCE (4.5k). You chatted up the guard at The Rose and Thorn, Reese, and it seems like he's into you. He asked you to meet him at the bar in The Stacks after work. This would be a good chance to learn a little about The Rose and The Red Light District. And also maybe get laid? (This lead is not available for male player characters)

QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES

Some players felt that turning off location descriptions caused them to get too disoriented when walking around the overworld. I've implemented a new system by which every location will show the full description upon first visiting, and after that, it will be replaced by a condensed one paragraph description. You can always re-read the full one by clicking the location's title. This should save some scrolling for folks who don't want to turn off descriptions!

For devotees, the altar is now accessible. If you already set up your altar and it was not accessible, it now will be. You can sacrifice items there to receive a buff to one of your skills at a time.

For a full list of bug fixes and updates in this version, check out the public release notes, which will be updated for every new version of the game.

PLAY IT NOW.

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[three-dee-ess]

look up "ayaneo flip ds". that's the real 4ds

tjat's not a 4DS thats a BDS. because it looks like if you glued a DS to a brick. also you could buy 4 n3DSXL's for that price and potentially get an 8DS up and going by gluing them all together

[thegrantwater]

new fic alert!!! new fic alert!!!

finally posting something after almost another year long hiatus from writing. i got a little more in depth about where i've been and what it's been like to write this in the end notes of the fic, so if you're curious go there, but i'll definitely be posting about it on here soon. so in the meantime....

we fill the gaps (you and me make three) chapter 1 is posted on my ao3! i've been dropping little hints about it for months, and my story for last years sqsn was the main driving point behind this fic (and yes the title for both fics comes from the same song, in my mind strange birds is a predecessor or sort of outline to this). the intro of strange birds was actually ripped straight from the draft for this, because i started rewriting season 1 almost two years ago and at the time had written some pre-henry-curse regina analysis to tie into it. this first chapter covers the events of s1e1 to about s1e19, and the rest of s1 up to the curse breaking will be chapter 2. consider its length both a treat and a warning that this is going to take a while.

love you guys <3

[velvvetcat09]

love it when it seems my art does psychic damage to some people

[fortemelody]

Hi!!! Found your blog through a sonic 3 post and I was already excited but then I saw you were ace spec and gender-fluid and in my mind I played that one video that goes “girl… ME TOO!!!!”

Anyways I watched it in the cinema yesterday with a couple friends and I kid you not the way my best friend and I were squeezing eachothers hand throughout the movie 😭😭😭

Now I’m just stuck here thinking of a rotating png of different frames from the movie I’m so speechless and wanna yap so much about it it’s insane because !!!! Them!!!!

“gurl…me too! AAAAA-“

love being pride twins 🙏‼️

anyways this is so real. i too have so many scenes engraved into my brain (and even looked a couple up cus i couldn’t help myself…). if the “them” you’re referring to is maria and shadow then i totally get it… heartwarming stuff for sure wahhh (or maybe you’re just talking about all the characters lol sorry bad at assuming things correctly 💀). genuinely i wanna go back and see it like 5 more times with everyone i know so i can relive those moments, and eventually get the dvd too.

the hand squeezing awwww.. i’m glad you and your bestie had a good time!! you see, i just resorted to sitting in weird positions and slapping my knees and stimming and screaming at my favorite parts BAHAHA not pretty but it gets the job done

i’m actually surprised to get this many asks about sonic in a day! this was such a nice surprise tysm. like i said in the other post feel free to dm or comment!

(oh also lastly shameless plug sorry but if you or anyone else wants to see the cosplay tiktoks i filmed at the movie with my friends my tiktok is @fortayee)

[waitineedaname]

🦞 - cant wait to start TGCF !!! everyone has been telling me that tgcf is more romantic than other mxtx books ... whats your opinion about it ?? and do you have any tips before I start reading it 😶

it is definitely the most romantic of the three mxtx series! personally it is my least favorite of the mxtx novels, which isn't a criticism of tgcf and is more just a matter of my own tastes lol I am too thoroughly svsss-pilled and also I found the pacing of tgcf kind of dragged in the beginning/middle. HOWEVER the last several parts of tgcf are fucking CRAZY and i enjoyed them a lot, so it's definitely worth sticking through it if you get bogged down in the pacing of the early parts. I found the ending very satisfying and it made me understand why people say hualian invented love <3

my number one tip is to keep track of names!! I could not remember ANYONE'S names in that damn series lol everyone has their birth name and their god name and sometimes they're referred to as the place where they're from and sometimes they have another title on top of that and then sometimes they just fucking LIE about who they are and it's so confusing. a friend of mine was keeping a spreadsheet of names while reading and that meant I occasionally got texts that were just "MY FUCKING SPREADSHEET" when yet ANOTHER identity reveal happened. it's great.

[vintagecandy]

ever heard of Skullgirls?

Oh, definitely!

I am certain I drew Peacock at least once, I loved her, with the creepy idea of her black dot eyes being that her eyes were cut out? What a gruesome take on a toon lol

Although the eldritch nun monster was amazing, one of a kind, peak aesthetic tbh. Gorgeously animated.

Oddly enough though, overall..... I have to say I like Diesel Legacy just a little more? Purely out of personal taste. I love the 1920s and I love art deco and silent film sci-fi. I feel they did a much better job of capturing the vibe of that theme with their cast and story.

Skullgirls had more of a focus on horror movie tropes with only the occasional general 1920s reference. But many of the characters sacrificed being time period themed for.... sex appeal sometimes lmao-- but also anime tropes, which muddled it quite a bit.

[chloesreality]

Have you read the vampire diaries books? And if you have what do you feel about the changes they made when making the show?

sadly I won’t be able to answer this very well considering im only on the 5th book in the series and I love it so much haha

I wasn’t a super fan before the show came out and i watched the show before then I read the books so I don’t have much of an opinion on it, im not like “omg why is the town called mystic falls and not fells church?!” but because I watched the show before reading the books im was more like: “omg that’s weird that it’s called fells church and not mystic falls” haha

it was also weird to me when I read the high school name, “Robert E. Lee High School” EHH? it’s not Timberwolves?! 😭

also can we talk about how Meredith wasn’t an actual character in the show??! it’s Elena, Bonnie and Caroline Not Elena, Bonnie and Meredith?! I love her character in the books and it would’ve been so cool to see Meredith in the show too!!

I find the last names weird too:

- Vickie Bennett?

- Bonnie McCullough?

- Matt Honeycutt?

- Tyler Smallwood?

why did the writers change their names in the show?

elena having a little baby sister called Margaret and an aunt called aunt Judith? 😭

Matt and Vicki not being siblings in the books 🤷‍♀️ also I love. Matts character they definitely should’ve developed it more in the show fr

the writers also changed the fact Stefan and Damon can transform with their vampire powers, like Damon is a crow (but then they got rid of that after the pilot?) and stefans an eagle? or some sort of dog? I can’t remember lol but they took that out? also I was thrown off by Stefans appearance in the books, it’s so different to the show “curly black hair, and deep green eyes, and he was originally born in Italy in the year 1490 but they changed his origin in the show to mystic falls 1846.

elenas angel white power, she should’ve stuck with it in the show but they turned her into a damsel in distress icl 🤷‍♀️

The vampiric and witch power to send thoughts to eachother, like a calling power or something? That would’ve been cool to keep ln the show.

Mrs. flowers (the witch who owns the boarding house in fells church) instead she’s just a bed in breakfast hotel owner in the show, but to be fair I think I like the idea better of the salvatores owning the boarding house.

+ im only on book 5 and Damon and Bonnie have kissed a few times and I think Damon has a soft spot for her so I hope they get together (I heard they do but still, wishful thinking 🤪)

also im hating the malach right now and Shinichi or whatever so im glad that doesn’t happen in the show 😭

+ HEAVY on the anger I feel because they didn’t add Meredith to the show 🤨

Also can i politely ask that no one gives any spoilers to the books? Im still reading it. Thank you 🩷

[randomloserlover]

I would wager that OJ has been drunk before. And by drunk, I mean it in all terms of the word (inebriated, imbibed, and impassioned). It would have probably happened at a party inside of Hotel OJ (hideously orange building) that got out of control. I would imagine one of the residents spiked the punch (culprit: Taco) and OJ was unlucky enough to drink it. This meant the party no longer had an active host (previous host dazedly intoxicated), which left the attendees to do whatever they wanted (wreck the hotel). Paper would try to step up in OJ's place, but the other drunken residents (also drank the punch) eventually overran him (flattened on the floor). Yin-Yang would then finish off the rest of the punch, search for more sustenance, and set his eyes upon OJ (glass full of delectable fruit juice). He would somehow procure a comically large straw (Slurpy from BOTO?) and sink it into the person-sized cup. OJ, experiencing something similar to vampirism, would immediately start freaking out (WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?) and attempt to pry Yin-Yang off of him. Due to the fact that both of them were drunk (one being drank, one becoming drunker) the two objects would fall over and spill the remainder of OJ's contents onto the floor (carpet now matching walls). Yin-Yang would stay on the ground (face-down, wasted) while OJ would slowly pick himself up (freshly-empty, winded). Reflecting on everything that had happened, starting with the spiked punch (consumed by half of the residents), leading to the chaotic trashed hotel (entire days of clean up time), and ending in someone literally drinking out of him (where did the straw come from??), he was filled with wholehearted emotion. And by wholehearted emotion, I mean he was filled with unbridled unyielding unfathomable rage that was unleashed on every single unfortunate object in his unpleasant path of anger. It was the most furious anyone had ever seen him (even angrier than Paintbrush). It was a miracle nobody got kicked out (notably Yin-Yang). It was a day that no object would ever forget (exception: blacked-out objects).

The reason why an event like this has not been previously brought up is because everyone (show creators included) has unanimously agreed to never speak of it again. It was the party that didn't happen. And so, even though I strongly believe OJ has been drunk (in all terms of the word) before, the fans will likely never receive confirmation of it.

[ask-katima]

Hey yall, could I ask if yall like the formatting so far on my AO3 page? I desperately need to know if yall like this or not so I can fix it before I do all the pages like this- please comment!!!