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Hello! What is the best/your most loved piece of fiction you've watched/read/discovered lately if you could only pick one? Also what is the best summer vegetable❔

hi! c:

HMMM if i could only pick one….let’s go with things that are completed because i’ve been reading some BL novels but the translations aren’t complete —

the cdrama mysterious lotus casebook! it was my personal top rated media of 2023 and hasn’t been unseated in the first third of 2024. it’s pretty wacky in places but it had real pathos and i was finally able to watch cheng yi in a show i could actually sit through

on summer vegetables i live somewhere very hot so i don’t know what vegetables grow in what season skdjfj they’re just always there 😭 do cucumbers count? lol.. i like cucumbers!

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absolutely obviously completely and clearly yes! this was never and can never be in dispute :)

i see a lot of posts “blaming” characters for their actions, which is just not anything that holds my interest at all. how did those actions affect the characters around them and themselves? how did it affect the story? these are by far the more interesting questions to ask. so this is why i said the personal extent of his “failure” didn’t interest me, but textually he is absolutely the one everyone put all their hopes on, and he is the one they blame when he can’t actually do the impossible.

Rereading the start of Book 2 is fucking fascinating because 1. how Mu Qing is treated by everyone but Xie Lian boils my blood, but also 2. I cannot believe there are people who think Xie Lian is naive and ignorant of the world after reading what he says and thinks during those first few chapters alone. He is so persistently considerate and sensitive to power imbalances and the abuse of power even before he """stops being naive""".

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saw your post about love between fairy and devil and yesssss i’m watching that now too ✨💕 will reblog your art immediately come time 💪

thank you so much, lovely 😊

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hiya! what is your favorite Jane Austen work? for me it's hard to pick but if i *had* to choose it would probably be Emma (as for adaptations, i absolutely adore the '95 P&P miniseries, imo it's a perfect adaptation) BUT i have yet to read Persuasion and Mansfield Park x

well hello! :3

(i just finished re-reading persuasion the other day, in fact! always recommend)

i love all of her books extremely, but overall the one that delivers to me the most unalloyed happiness from start to finish is pride and prejudice.

emma is really masterful. i don’t like emma herself very much as a “person” but as a character she’s brilliant.

i’ve just started rereading sense & sensibility, which is….sort of mixed, lots of love but lots of hmmm.

me to myself: i don’t even like this one very much, i’ll just read a chapter before bed

also me: reads 5 chapters

so much for that!

(the 1995 adaptation is SO GOOD, sorry 2005 but you can’t touch this)

my favorite adaptation is the 1995 sense & sensibility. 95 was a banner year for austen adaptations, it seems!

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enjoy more crab

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you should definitely give Killing Eve a chance because the first 2 seasons are simply amazing, i dont know anything else like it! (the 4th season does not exist; there is no 4th season. just like there is no season 7 and 8 game of thrones.)

just like there's no eighth season of dexter! or 7th....or 6th....

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inquisitive beep!

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Hello ms Vaporwave, have you ever played the Portal series? Or any other type of video games that you enjoy(ed)? :D

hello hello!

i don't play video games, i am afraid -- not since spyro the dragon when i was, hmmm 13? i'm bad at games and they literally got too complicated for me!

as a kid i played mario, donkey kong, a little bit of sonic the hedgehog, like everybody else in the 90's :)

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⁂✺✻⭐🌟 ~ sending you good vibes from across the ocean ~🌟⭐✻✺⁂

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Hello! How are you today?

i am not too shabby!! i have gone down to the beach in fact! thanks for saying hi 💓💓💓

how are YOU today?

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Where do you watch C-dramas

this is where i started watching them, and they’re a good repository in my experience, although they don’t have every show (i’m guessing it’s something to do with licensing).

all the cdramas i’ve watched in 2023 have been through the iqiyi international app:

which is very easy to subscribe to with an iphone/apple ID. i am not sure about android — if anyone else knows?

sometimes you can find things through youtube (it really depends; i don’t find it reliable) and netflix as well. there are other apps (youku, bilibili) but these are the two that have had most of what i want.

for full disclosure, i have memberships to both because i hate 1) waiting and 2) ads lol

i am not super knowledgeable but i hope this helps!

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Have you seen My Mister on Netflix? It's my favorite series I've seen in years, it really warmed my heart. I think you might like it :thumbsup:

i don't have netflix anymore, sadly! but i see it's on rakuten viki so i've added it to my watchlist <3

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Netflix

oh good, i have that one! thanks!

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“i can’t stop me” by TWICE (kpop was my number 1 genre this year skdjsl)

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And now after this latest episode I don’t know what to think! That one at least seems real, but it also had more foreshadowing/set up.

I’m being vague cuz spoilers 💀

OK but we’re thinking the dad and brother aren’t actually dead, right? They took their sect’s fake death potion Juliet style and are just pretending to be dead so they can figure out the real culprit behind everything and lure out the assassins, yes??