cheng xiaoshi: speaking of which, the first time we met was also on a basketball court, wasn't it?
lu guang: it was.
cheng xiaoshi: (half-jokingly) you and i weren't meant to be [lit. "originally have no fate"?]. this is all because of one basketball.
lu guang: i really shouldn't have agreed to play that match.
(the important bits are from google translate because i am bad at mandarin. also i did transcribe this off just the audio + i don't have access to captions or know where to find official transcripts. so i hope i got this right 🙏)
hi im gonna brag and also whoop artist lore drop i had my first singing lesson today and my teacher said i had a similar voice timbre to hayley williams?????????? like miss hayley fucking williams???????????????? dont talk to me i dont need anything else in life i can die now
"i thought you were a older 20s gay man!" that's sweet of you considering i look like i organize goth slam poetry events for "thems & femmes" and like my name is Clare or Willow or something
I learned that Patricia Summersett (English voice actor for Princess Zelda) is a singer. Her real voice is a bit lower and more mature than Zelda's, so it doesn't necessarily sound like the character singing, but she's a beautiful alto.
Her music is often relaxed and minimalistic (sometimes just piano and voice), but I really dig the melody and lyrics. You could choose to read this particular song as a subtle reference to Zelda, and/or her experience voicing her?
i keep getting shown ads for books that are marketed as "why choose" romances which i have gathered means the main character (always a woman in these ads) has sex with all of the potential love interests (always men in these ads) but every single one is also like "you won't believe who she actually chooses in the end! 😜" so i feel like i'm having some kind of fundamental misunderstanding of what these types of romances are. do they choose or don't they
I’m reminded of that post about how goths and people who wear only lots of pink are actually the same because “wearing only one color” is a specific choice in opposition to just looking Normal
I’m flying to a friend’s wedding today, and I recently acquired from my neighborhood free page a very pretty vintage suitcase in like a brocade upholstery texture in all of my good colors, so of course I needed a coordinated airport outfit à la Midge Maisel. You guys don’t know me, but I usually dress very put together, in what my sister calls Outfits, with a capital O to distinguish it from just wearing clothes. And since getting a full time job I’ve been slowly adding to my collection of vintage and 50’s-vibes clothes, because I just really like that aesthetic (my bridesmaid dress for the wedding is a vintage tea dress I got from Etsy. The fabric is in great condition but I had to reinforce pretty much every seam with my sewing machine, because the structural integrity of the original thread was breaking down, so that was an interesting learning experience).
All of which is to say that I Dressed Up for the airport in a vintage-y outfit that coordinates perfectly with some of the colors of my suitcase, and my hair is curled, and I have a vintage leather purse that my grandma gave me that matches her watch that I’m wearing and the shoes she bought me last summer at the same vintage store that my skirt came from, and a teenage-ish girl with whatever you call the 2023 teenage equivalent of emo/punk vibes, like the dark maroon mullet and not a lot of makeup and dark comfy clothes but like, very on purpose, told me I look cool when I walked past on the way to security
And like, she Gets It! We have different fashion goals but I think we put a similar degree of intention into the way we look compared to just wearing regular clothes. Which is cool! It’s validating. Not that I really need validation, but it’s always nice to get compliments, of course. And the way I dress is really not terribly distinctive most of the time, other than being Outfits and a little dressier than maybe the norm is, like I think most people who see me one time in passing would see that I look Nice but not necessarily see it as a cultivated Look. But punk mullet girl gets it.
I love excusing any and all of batmans behavior by saying "no he doesn't really mean that he's just playing the long game to manipulate you for your own good because if you knew how he really felt then he would have to navigate a path that would be even more painful but actually he thrives on pain because he thinks he deserves it because nothing makes sense unless he deserves it and so when he makes sure he can stay in his role as batman by sabotaging everything around him it's not actually sabotage because he's doing the correct and right thing in his mind by causing just enough pain to be able to fix it and keep the cycle of pain and healing going"
“William...? William!”
“Uh, I need a drink.”
“I’ll get you some water.”
“Uh.. I was thinking... more a double whisky. ... Oh, what have I gone and done to myself now?”
“Here, shh. ... You've had us all so worried, William! I’ve been coming every day to see you. To sit with you, hoping you’d wake up. And now you... and now you have! Oh my-- listen to me going on, how are you feeling?”
“If-if you’d just let me speak...”
“It's good to hear your voice, William. It’s... good indeed! Can I get you some more water?”
“I’d prefer whisky.”
“You're not having whisky. ... is this comfortable?”
“Not particularly when you do that.”
“Sorry.”