#i'm all caught up on qi eps

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My media this week (12-18 May 2024)

the fucking contempt that dripped from his voice!

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Tea and No Sympathy (who_la_hoop) - 70K, drarry - enjoyable enough, set 2 yrs post war, draco gets stuck in a time loop & learns some things

😊 That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas (Oh_i_swear & ThePirateStorm) - 96K, shrunkyclunks - cute & entertaining - ymmv depending on your threshold for lots of britishisms in the dialogue of two ostensibly american guys + highly unrealistic kid behavior

😊 head above water (yourblues) - 91K, hocky rpf, started almost too slow burn for me since I don't know the characters involved but well written & compelling enough that I wanted to know & then about halfway thru I was fully in

😍 This, You Protect (Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail #1) (owlet) - 64K, recovering WS Stucky, one of the preeminent classics in the Stucky fandom featuring Cat Eleanor, The Olds, grilled cheeses and sheep pj pants.

💖💖 +56K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Kelly, the Well-Meaning and Very Confused Barista (chaya) - MCU: barbershop quartet, 6K - "An outside observer confuses the 'barbershop quartet' as one woman with a really bad habit for cheating. Complete fluff." - I really love a well-done outsider POV

and now you will not be alone any more (pocky_slash) - X-Men: cherik, 5K - "Erik gives driving, sewing, and cooking lessons, soothes nightmares, bolsters self-esteem, and still can't figure out why Charles keeps smiling at him like that." - love stories where Erik's like a feral cat that accidentally domesticates itself without realizing it

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Girls5eva - s1, e2

That '90s Show - s1, e1-2

The Unicorn - s1, e1-2

QI - series U, e9-15

Murdoch Mysteries - s16, e21

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s10, e3

Dead Boy Detectives - s1, e1

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Ragenarok (Part 1)" (s21, e19)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Only Cowgirls Get the Blues" (s16, e19)

Doctor Who - s1 (series 14), e3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Musée Mécanique

Re: Dracula - May 12: What Manner of Man is This

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - To the Moon and Back with Rebecca Boyle

Shedunnit - Bonus: The Chalet School

The Sporkful - Bringing Georgia O’Keeffe To Life With Her Recipes

99% Invisible #581 - It's Howdy Doody Time!

Decoder Ring - How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat

WikiHole - Nathan Lane (with Zach Woods, Jeff Hiller and Katie Dippold)

Under the Influence - The Gong Show: Ads That Could Never (Ever) Run Today

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum

WikiHole - Patrick J Adams (with Bowen Yang, Mary Beth Barone and Marie Faustin

Points North - The Legend of Heike's Tombs

The Allusionist - 194. Word Play 4: Good Grids

Pop Culture Happy Hour - I Saw the TV Glow is weird and transfixing

Switched on Pop - Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)

The Fandom Show - 29: The Golden Girls (with Tricia Black)

Dinner’s on Me - Zachary Quinto

99% Invisible #582 - Rocket Man

Vibe Check - Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Re: Dracula - May 15: Lizard Fashion

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Looking to the past and future of Black Twitter

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Underwater Sculpture Gardens

Welcome to Night Vale #248 - Mother Lauren

The Fandom Show - (NEW) Doctor Who

Re: Dracula - May 16: This Man Belongs to Me

Wild Card - Why Chris Pine gave up on being perfect

Wild Card - Chris Pine on performing the role of "movie star" + more Issa Rae (Wild Card+)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Gabbing Goblins with Colin Dickey

Dinner’s on Me - Harry Shum Jr.

Persuasion by Jane Austen - Persuasion 1. | Meet the Elliots

The Fandom Show - Our Flag Means Death

Short Wave - Scientists Reveal Mysterious Origin of Baobab Trees, Rafiki's Home in 'The Lion King'

Dear Prudence - My Mom Forgot to Take Her Medicine and “Accidentally” Made Racist Remarks. Help!

It's Been a Minute - Bumble & the trap of modern dating; plus, living ethically in COVID's aftermath

Endless Thread - Catfish for dinner

Strong Songs - "Easter Theatre" by XTC

Dinner’s on Me - Danielle Brooks

Re: Dracula - May 18: It was No Dream

99% Invisible - The Power Broker #05: Brandy Zadrozny

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Maya Hawke

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Sweetheart Soul

The Romantics Radio • Familiar

The Essential Survivor [Survivor] {2014}

My Supermix

AM In The A.M.: '70s Pop Morning

"Beach Baby" [First Class] radio

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Episode 21

As I suspected.. while the gang were having an emotional catharthis about Bai Jiu's mum... Chongwu Camp turned up to hunt for Wen Xiao.

Ayyy my boy Bai Jiu, all is forgiven. Yeah, you stand up to that scheming git who manipulated a grieving teenager.

Ugh I want to stab him.

What kindness? You took him in because you knew you could manipulate and use him! Listen to Zhuo dage, Xiao Bai!

What does he want the arrow for? Is he gonna... try to remove/obscure the Chongwu tattoo?

Called it.

My fucking heart!!

Go Zhuo Yichen!

Did she just... fucking snatch that arrow out of the air and fire it back at them:?!!

Is that what Wen Zongyu has been doing with his demon blood experiments? Creating demonised humans? His own personal army of demon-human hybrids? Can't imagine the prime minister (RIP) or king would be too happy if they knew about that...

Oh SHIT the one word spell doesn't work on them?!!

Oh FUCK the arrows are demonised too?!! That's why the one Sijing fired back at them killed the archer but her other shots didn't.

It's got fucking backwards-angled barbs along the shaft too! Bastards!

Is Zhao Yuanzhou gonna step in front of Wen Xiao and take an arrow for her?

Nope he caught it...

PLEASE tell me him getting cut by the demonised arrow is not going to count as the final step in sealing his 5 senses?!!

FUCK IT!! I KNEW IT!!

How many times did I say last ep that he needed to get at least 1 of his other 4 senses unsealed so that he wasn't vulnerable to having his last sense sealed? Why does nobody listen to me?!! 😂

Ohhh shiiiit the ever-burning fire will start to burn him if his senses are sealed?

Uhoh... fucking red haze incoming?

God I love how his pupils keep flickering between red and not!!

Congrats Wen Zongyu, you dumbass. You said a demon's inner core has a consciousness... with his senses sealed, his core's consciousness has taken over... but isn't his core basically made up of/controlled by malicious qi?

You had no idea what you were fucking with you goddamn dumbass!!

Aaaaand now he's loose in the mortal world, controlled by malicious qi.

Ugh and the visual of his bottle - the one from which he drinks to help keep the malicious qi suppressed - abandoned and left behind...

Aaand the gang is arrested.

God I love her...

Oh mannn... so he'll have retreated to the house where he barricades himself inside after each blood moon?

Oooh Zhu Yan vs his own demon core. This'll be where that clip from the trailer comes from then...

Yup, there it is.

How is it even possible that is the same damn actor? He looks like a totally different person!! 😍

Oh shit he's literally using visualisations of his relationship with Wen Xiao to fend off the visualisation of his demon core...

God I love this fucking song so much.

Our boy Ying Lei is tracking the shapeshifter demon.

Uhhh... noooo... Ying Lei... that's not Zhuo daren. Zhuo daren is in prison. And you're tracking a shapeshifter demon, Ying Lei. A shapeshifter demon. Ying Le? Hello?

He's such a fucking dork. I'm love him.

This has to be Xiao Bai having a nightmare, right? Cos they all got captured and put in prison. He's not following Zhuo Yichen through a forest...

Or is it not a dream? Did they only arrest Wen Xiao and Pei Sijing?

Ugh he hesitates to hold onto his braid... so Zhuo Yichen straight up offers it go him and tells him he can!

Because it's not fucking Ying Lei, Xiao Bai...

Ok so they definitely did only arrest the girls (rude!) and that explains why Ying Lei wasn't surprised to find Zhuo Yichen appear while he was hunting down the demon... the 3 of them went to hunt her together.

Uuuh you ran off so fast you left Xiao Bai behind, Zhuo Yichen!

And how's he supposed to know if anyone who comes up to him is who they seem to be, or if it's Ao Yin?

Ooops!

Dudes... my dudes... what if the Ao Yin in this scenario is actually... Xiao Bai?

How could he make a demon obey him? Because he's been sodding experimenting on them for at least 8 years!!

But yes.. well done Sijing, this particular demon was working with Li Lun!

Uhhhh is he though? You were still in Li Lun's illusion when he died?

Oh SHIT... and surely if he had died the illusion would have immediately dissolved? Which would mean he very much DIDN'T die.. and just faked you out with an illusion of him burning up!!

EXACTLY!!

Ru-roh Shaggy!!

Hahahaa the way he ducks away from Ying Lei's pat on the head - and then actively seeks one from Zhuo Yichen!!

Jeez, callous much? Also? Fuck you!

You tell him Sijing!!

AND WHOSE FUCKING FAULT IS THAT?!! YOURS!!

You made this happen!! All so you could get your precious fucking ever-burning wood!!

Point of order though... why did he wear that dumb mask for so long? Like.. who did he need to be hiding his face from other than us, the audience? There was no need for him to hide who he was from Chongwu Camp?

Don't you fucking stick that needle in my girl, you fucker!!

Hahahaaa Ying Lei is soliciting head pats too!! These dumbasses!!

Oh my god poor Zhuo Yichen!

Saved by Bai Jiu!

His double-take from.. "Thank goodness you're here!" to "Why are you here!"

Zhou Yichen she's a fucking SHAPESHIFTER!!

Why are they so fucking stupid?

Oh ffs didn't Ying Lei warn you about this Zhuo Yichen?!!

Aaaaand that's where it ends.

Ngl that whole sequence annoyed me. They KNOW she is a shapeshifter, why did they keep getting taken in every time she pretended to be someone they know?!

[literaticat]

Hi, totally unrelated to book stuff… if you want a fun break from that, I just wanted to share that I have become totally obsessed with this show on Netflix called iZombie. I decided to try it out for the hell of it not expecting anything… And it has totally swept me off my feet! So clever and fun and funny mixed with CSI components. Great characters. And they know how to keep things interesting! You shared you enjoy winding down from your days with Netflix… Have you caught this show??

I'm posting this if OTHER people want a recommendation -- for me, it's probably a nope. The title alone creeps me out, and I just looked up the premise and while I SEE why people would like it, it made me feel actually ill. I'm not trying to watch anyone eat brains. *shiver*

I am very basic. This is what I watch:

Jeopardy.

Reality / Competitions to do with drag queens, food, fashion or travel. (All iterations of RuPaul's Drag Race, Bake Off, Amazing Race, Project Runway, Top Chef, Below Deck, etc.)

British quiz shows/panel shows. (Would I Lie To You, QI, 8 out of 10 Cats, Countdown, Taskmaster, I Literally Just Told You, etc.)

Comedies, sometimes. (right now I like Ghosts and Abbott Elementary, but I also forget that these exist for periods)

Random stuff on YouTube. (I like Good Mythical Morning, Mental Floss John Green episodes, Weird History, Map Men, Baumgartner Art Restoration, etc)

I have gone through phases of watching some dramatic show like Grey's Anatomy or Criminal Minds or something, but I usually can only watch them if I am doing a puzzle or playing a game on my phone at the same time so it's like a radio show and I don't have to look at anything gross. (And when the phase is over, I can't even THINK about those shows again - like what was I thinking with that Criminal Minds phase, it's a miracle I can ever fall asleep again! GROSS!) -- I don't have one of those on tap now. So MAYBE I would try ONE ep of iZombie WHILE PUZZLING AND NOT LOOKING. But not until I'm done with all the 30+ seasons of Amazing Race!

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Some random, unbetaed snippets set during the Siji Manor arc in which I'm trying to process my Feelings about these two and about Wen Kexing's backstory. Spoilers for eps...mid-20s onward, I think, show canon only. CW for loudly implied, past, severe child abuse.

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Even though Zhou Zishu has never slept so deeply beside another person since his master was still alive, he's too well-trained to forget just how dangerous the person at his side, ironically, actually is.

Every so often (when Chengling says something especially innocent, when sunlight glances a particular way off a kitchen knife, when Zhou Zishu smiles unprompted) he'll see Wen Kexing's eyes widen and his face go strangely blank, like a performer caught in the middle of switching out masks behind the curtain. It's the blankness that Zhou Zishu recognizes from the moments when Wen Kexing casually sets aside his gentlemanly front and leaves corpses in his wake.

The second most horrifying thing about it is the fact that Zhou Zishu can't sense any change in his qi - no focused heaviness of killing intent, no ozone tang of impending violence like a lightning strike. It's not because of the Nails slowly destroying his senses, either, but rather that this means Wen Kexing is either constantly on the edge of violence or the violence has simply settled so deeply that it's indistinguishable from his resting qi state.

The most horrifying thing about it, though, is what that implies about the years in which his shidi had been taken from him.

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122 notes • Posted 2021-03-24 21:50:25 GMT

#4

This just in: local sect leader shows affection by metaphorically knocking shit off the coffee table.

It’s the first time Jiang Cheng has seen Jin Ling in person since the morning after the temple, and Jin Zixuan’s proud posture with Jiang Yanli’s gentle eyes and the fire that is all Jin Ling himself is making Jiang Cheng realize that coming up to him in public was probably a big fucking mistake. Have you heard, the rumors would say, the fearsome Sandu Shengshou started bawling at the fucking conference like a mother on her daughter’s wedding day. His nephew is all grown up and Jiang Cheng squashes the (irrational, unhelpful, don’t do it you miserable bastard) urge to grab Jin Ling and fly back to Yunmeng.

“Your guan is crooked,” Jiang Cheng says instead.

204 notes • Posted 2021-11-22 22:45:48 GMT

#3

POV: you're the chief cultivator and your nephew comes home saying something about how Sandu Shengshou taught him not to be so afraid of thunderstorms.

Sect Leader Jiang,

The next time you feel compelled to teach Jin Ling how to challenge unstoppable natural forces, I recommend beginning with something which does not result in him causing a significant amount of damage to priceless family heirlooms with naught but a rope, a surprising degree of six-year-old child creativity, and a can-do attitude.

Sincerely,

Chief Cultivator Jin Guangyao

…

Chief Cultivator Jin Guangyao,

Sounds like not my problem.

Sincerely,

Sect Leader Jiang

226 notes • Posted 2021-11-08 18:35:04 GMT

#2

I'm finding a lot of mass-produced hanfu on Etsy being sold at prices that are sometimes twice as high as I've seen the same sets going for on other English-language hanfu sites. :O

So, uh. If that's your thing, before committing to an order, you might also take a look at sites like New Hanfu or Fashion Hanfu, both of which I've had decent luck with in terms of quality and shipping. Yesstyle.com is another option with greater variety than the other two, but my limited experience with it suggests that quality is a bit more...hit-or-miss?

On the other hand, Etsy does have merchants which do natural fiber fabrics. :D

227 notes • Posted 2021-09-23 04:32:08 GMT

#1

"describe the plot of one of your favorite books badly"

a misunderstanding over wontons nearly genocides two entire worlds

534 notes • Posted 2021-04-22 17:14:32 GMT

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[heymeowmao]

Are you watching Ancient Love Poetry? I thought I saw a post you made a while back about it anyway I'm all caught up on the drama I'm loving it! I might need to do a rewatch though because I think I missed some things especially who Bo Xuan is I thought he was Bai Jue am I wrong in thinking that? Do you think you can list the episodes he shows up in the flashbacks if you don't mind.

yep! i'm watching! up to 22 so far. i haven't yet started on the new eps- i was actually going to when i saw the ask(s). i also think bo xuan is bai jue- just like how tian qi in the immortal realm is known as jing yuan.

did a quick skim through and the flashbacks are really only in e17 between the 10-20 minute mark.

then- in e19 when qing mu and hou chi agree to look for bo xuan together and share their info:

hou chi: /looks qing mu up and down/ qing mu : what is it? hou chi: you look like bo xuan in figure, but you're totally different in temper. i never heard anything about it. did bo xuan date some female lord from qingchi palace ten thousand years ago? if you're his son, you should call me "aunt." Or maybe you're his brother? Maybe someone even closer to him than we know.

[minty-marshmallow]

Legend of Yun Xi [Ep 42]

Recap:

Eunach Li follows Tang Li and NingJing. He overhears them talking about how Yun Xi and Feiye are separated and that she is forming a cure and that Qi Shao is assisting her. Tang Li is furious to hear that Qi Shao is with Yun Xi and goes to find her at Dr. Gu's house. He confronts her and ends up telling her the truth about who killed her father. Yun Xi is distraught having wrongly accused and hated Feiye. They are then attacked by Eunach Li's men.

Qi Shao and Yun Xi run and hide but are nearly caught. She poisons one of them. The other two continue to pursue them while Tang Li goes to get help.

Feiye finds Qi Shao and Yun Xi together and is jealous and acts indifferent and cold towards her. She tells Xi Feng she won't go to the palace and will go back to Dr. Gu's house. Xi Feng argues with her but she tells him that Feiye said himself they were divorced and so they have no relations. Feiye is obviously angry but knows he can't do anything but accept it since he won't force Yun Xi.

Qi Shao and Yun Xi have a heart-to-heart and she tells him that she can't accept his heart. He still is very much in love with her though and willing to do anything for her.

Xi Feng exaggerates what Yun Xi and Qi Shao have been up to. Out of jealousy Feiye goes to see her and sees that she's doing well. She asks why he lied to her but he doesn't answer her and she runs off. Later, Tang Li asks him why he doesn't explain and brings Yun Xi back. Feiye says that being with him might be what hurts her most.

NingJing misunderstands Tang Li and Feiye's conversation and tells Yun Xi that Feiye is planning a surprise for her. Just then Nanny Zhao brings her letter that is Feiye's handwriting to meet him at the temple. She and NingJing switch clothes and she immediately goes to see him. However, MingXiang is the one there to "greet" her.

Review:

And here we go with the MingXiang murder plot lol. She's gonna try and kill Yun Xi in the next episode. However, I already know she won't succeed cuz there are still like 6 episodes left haha.

Qi Shao has really turned into the typical second male lead at this point. I feel really sorry for him being so devoted to Yun Xi hoping that she will choose him in the end. Even though, he's already lost far before this game even began. Yun Xi says she doesn't deserve him treating her well but she does. Besides, it's a person's own choice if they decide not to give up on their one-sided love or not. Regardless he knows that he can stay by her side as a friend.

Have I mentioned in any of these recaps that I simply adore Xi Feng's character? He's so devoted to his friends, and job and he's got a great sense of justice. He's serious but also has a cute, sweet, and funny side to him. He's a nice balance between the goofy Qi Shao (now), and the stoic Feiye.

Ugh...Feiye is really getting on my nerves. I mean I still love his character but why won't he just talk to Yun Xi. Just tell her what you're worried about and everything. I know he thinks that "letting her go" is what's best for her but he hasn't taken her feelings into account at all. He hasn't even asked her how she feels about anything! Besides, he's not doing a great job of letting go haha when he's got guards and all his folks constantly being by her side. Yeah...sure you don't care about her at all sir lol.

Tang Li and NingJing are cute but I'm still waiting for Tang Li to realize that he loves her. I think with her just being around all the time he hasn't had the chance to really think about it. Plus he has had to pick up more duties and work so he's been busy.