#palace of desire

[sorrymaybenextime]

Lisa Details Body⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡

[wellconstructedsentences]

The problem's not that the truth is harsh but that liberation from ignorance is as painful as being born. Run after truth until you're breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, a hard one interspersed with drunken moments.

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz

[yao-yaos]

Chen Hong as Princess Taiping | 大明宫词 (2000)

[palaceoftears]

Really wish I was a cool gifmaker to gif all palace of desire's and war and beauty's amazing costumes

[litandlifequotes]

Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a made chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Lon Chaney Jr. -

The Haunted Palace (1963)

[moononmyfloor]

ABSOLUTELY SECONDED.

Palace of Desire is one of the best palace dramas I've seen, with quite humane portrayal of Wu Zetian, her daughter Princess Taiping and many other renowned historical figures surrounding them and the struggles of life and politics surrounding them, with a dash of slice of life vibe.

And it was ahead of its time. (Or the other dramas are just not as good.)

Women women women. It was one of the rare 3D and fair portrayal of women I've seen in a historical drama. Good women, "bad" women, women with desire... all so validated and not judged and addressed empathetically in it regardless the age which is something lots of dramas rarely touch on... it was an amazing viewing experience.

How those women changed a dynasty by just being themselves. Like... it was amazing.

Very very impressed. 👏 👏 👏

When the ministers of the Court clamoured without hesitation for the Empress upon realising how capable she is, and when the peasants went: we don't really care if its a man or woman on throne, we only want the ruler to assure us a good life..

I just loved it.

And it has an openly Queer couple and they are portrayed in a positive and supportive light.

Plus it was witty and fun with great acting. Only bear with old production quality. This one shouldn't be missed especially if you are interested in Empress Wu Zetian and her legendary life.

Hundred thousand gratitude to this subber channel. ❤❤❤❤❤

Here is a recommendation.

Someone just uploaded English subtitled version of Palace of Desire on YouTube. I know there is scarcely anything Chinese on Netflix hence why certain show I personally held some reserved opinions got popular in English media. But if you’re really interested in Chinese literature and drama, this is a classic.

People in the past joked about the lines are too stage-like and there had been several incorrect historical interpretations, but as we know Romance of Three Kingdoms is more folklore than genuine history too.

And the absolutely best costume piece I’ve seen in all Chinese media productions.

Annnnd above all this is a story about the life of a really powerful princess… It’s certainly not lacking of romantic and aesthetic elements in it. (and tragic)

@acitymadeofsong

[deconstructthesoup]

Thinking about how if Jenny did come to London with the others, and if Monty does manage to turn back into a human and ends up joining the agency... there's seven members of the agency. Which means that there's one that matches up with each member of the Endless.

Edwin---well, that one's obvious, isn't it? He's come face to face with Despair, walked in her domain, stared her in the eyes as she quietly declared that they were friends now. He is, at his core, deeply and profoundly sad, and there's no denying that. Until Edwin allows himself to be happy, Despair will always have her hooks in his heart, and even when he's free of them, she will always linger in the faintest parts of his ghostly aura, will always be there whenever he travels through a mirror.

Charles... oh, Charles. We all know which of the Endless he would be the most affected by, don't we? He claims that he can't say he's in love with Edwin back, but the minute those words left his mouth, Desire was up there in their domain, cackling at how fucking idiotic this boy is. If we get a season 2, we will absolutely see them taunting Charles, purring into his ear that they know how much he's been ignoring his own desires and wouldn't it be nice to just acknowledge it, darling? Edwin was able to tell you, why can't you just say it back?

Crystal already feels as if she's losing her mind half the time, and doubly so now that she's fully warring with two very separate sides of herself. Would it really be a stretch for her to try to help a lonely-looking girl with wild red hair one night, only to touch her and immediately get pulled into a world that is a riot of color and confusion and things that don't and shouldn't exist? Delirium would probably be kind to her---her default state tends to be kind, even if not everyone sees it that way---but I doubt Crystal would have a good time there, even as Delirium compliments her on her name and proudly proclaims that she's a shiny rock and a pretty building and a football team and a flying machine all in one.

Niko's lost somewhere right now, and we all know she has a long journey home. I don't think it would be unlikely for her journey to eventually lead her to a palace with a roof made of stars, or a library full of every book that has ever been written---and every book that never has. And Dream might see this girl who doesn't belong in his world, but who can't take his sister's hand, and show her the way back to her friends. After all, she's lost so much and is still full of so much hope, and how could Dream not admire someone like that?

Monty... well, he spends all his time looking up at the stars, and not just because they sparkle and shine and all of his crow instincts say that they're treasures meant to be plucked from the sky. He wants to know the future, his future, to find out whether or not he can be something other than just a witch's pet. And maybe, some of his wanderings will one day lead him into a labyrinth, and he'll come out the other side in the garden of Destiny. Will Destiny let Monty read from his book? Probably not, but I think being there might be comfort enough.

There's a slim chance of Jenny ever meeting Destruction, but they are more similar than you may think. Jenny, like him, is a prodigal who left her post, whose life always seems to fall apart, who struggles with a whirlwind of emotions that she can barely comprehend. And while he's off in a secluded land, finding new ways to channel creation rather than the purpose he was made for, she's rebuilding her life, as crazy as it may be.

And, well... we all know who the Night Nurse works for.

[moresandmanstuff]

Hearts in Dead Boy Detectives

In the Sandman universe, a crystal heart is the sigil associated with Desire of the Endless and I’ve noticed a couple hearts while watching Dead Boy Detectives.

The most obvious one is the magic charm that Crystal acquires from Tragic Mick in episode 6 (The Case of the Creeping Forest). It is known as the “Light of Heart” and only works because Crystal was romantically involved with the demon she wants to block from her mind.

Here it is displayed on a red velvet pillow. Notice the other heart-shaped stones nearby? Do they have any special properties?

As Crystal and Niko leave the shop with their purchase, a heart painted on the window turns into the charm lying on Niko’s floor back at the butcher shop. (This show has so many cool transitions!)

In order to activate it, Crystal states what she wants two times, at which point the heart bursts into flames and breaks in half.

The way this charm operates suggests to me that it has some association with Desire of the Endless. Then I noticed another heart in episode 3 (The Case of the Devlin House).

The mom is wearing a pretty large heart-shaped necklace. An accessory like this would be a very conscious choice by the show stylist so I don’t see it being a coincidence.

Are these hearts a clue that Desire of the Endless has a hand in some of the goings-on in Port Townsend? Are there other hearts I missed?

[harleybird]

"What are you in need of?

Ask me."

Dead Boy Detectives | The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers

Bonus CatKing!Charles and the lil bowtie wiggle:

[throwawaybog]

found a dbd payneland animatic to st bernard and losing my mind

[wellconstructedsentences]

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz

[bludpudding]

hello and welcome to

the series where i take a bunch of sandman characters, throw them into a drag race simulator, and make stupid 100% biased commentary. that’s it, really. (now with the dead boy detectives!)

{Week 1}

quite the ball fondler, aren't we, thomas?

monty, I'm a bit skeptical. you were just born like. yesterday. and spent most of your life in a cage. not exactly sure that's the best option.

crystal? something tells me that her abilities might aid in doing impersonations,,,, maybe,,,, i have faith in her

very cat thing to do.

what's with the birds and rhytmic gymnastics bitch you're birds

she's gonna serve and she fucking knows it!!!

death are you even allowed to do that on stage

oh they're all gonna eat. charles i'm laughing at you (affectionate)

THEY KNOW WHERE THEIR TALENTS LIE

and if i said this was a dumbass choice

guys is he gonna carve himself a new face i'm scared

winning the idgaf war

LUCIENNE ABSOLUTELY GIRL YOU GOT THIS

ESTHER??? OKAY. WHATEVER

oh you know his ass is gonna do a dramatic reveal

CORINTHIAN WHAT DID I SAY. WHAT DID I FUCKING SAY

yk i really thought edwin's gay boy piano recital was gonna take the cake but i was right crystal's got some extra powers

i am. staring at my screen rn. i swear to fucking god. we cannot do this in the first fucking week corinthian don't expect me to give you a welcome home

yk. this is not the first time this match up has happened.

THANK FUCKING GOD SORRY ROSE CORI HAS TO STAY ITS FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE

desire do i even want to know

ABSOLUTELY NOT NIKO WOULD NEVER. WRONG. WRONG. ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG

Relationship Updates

Recap

saw my life flash before my eyes tbh corinthian you're on thin fucking ice

[palaceoftears]

Oh god Longji is the worst character ever

[xxstrangermusicatxx]

DBD fans, this is (maybe) how we win

I put “maybe” there as a precaution because this whole post is purely theoretical. There are many times where I know exactly what something means and if it means something or if it means absolutely nothing regarding a renewal, however, although not fully strong enough in my eyes for me to consider it solid confirmation or proof, this news is giving me a good feeling about the show getting renewed.

As of Wednesday, August 14, The Gentlemen was renewed by Netflix for a season 2, now you might wonder, what does this have to do with Dead Boy Detectives getting renewed?

Now stay with me here, this is about to be a very long rant but all will be explained and make sense in the end.

From following Netflix’s renewal and cancellation decisions closely for a couple of years now, I’ve started to be able to predict whether a show will be cancelled or renewed, and in this situation, my belief has lately been “this show has been out for over 100 days now with no news whatsoever and low viewing numbers, Netflix is simply ignoring it right now and will inevitably cancel it at some point” since Netflix seems to usually renew shows generally quickly if they are going to renew it (the most recent example of this being Supacell which was just renewed 3 days ago, 47 days post-release), although The Gentlemen has proved me wrong.

With how long The Gentlemen was taking to get renewed, I was starting to wonder if despite the show’s success with its viewing numbers and its completion rate in the first 30 days (63%), maybe Netflix still decided to cancel it (because while I can predict this stuff from a mile away usually, Netflix sometimes does have its moments where they make absolutely no sense whatsoever and cancel shows that you wouldn’t necessarily expect them to cancel).

While this could easily be a special case (because those do exist as we all know, such as Survival of the Thickest which took 215 days, and the more well known and more obvious example to this fandom, The Sandman, which took 90 days), it’s still giving me hope that despite how long we’ve been waiting for any news at all, maybe all hope is not lost as I initially thought.

Usually, especially with a show in the YA fantasy genre like DBD (as a lot on Netflix fall victim to this unfortunately), like I said, I would just assume Netflix is ignoring the show because of low numbers and is going to inevitably end up cancelling it one day (which could still very much be happening, there’s still another whole month until Geeked Week starts, you never know), however, with this show being in The Sandman Universe, a part of me wants to believe Netflix wouldn’t just ignore it since it is tied to such a big show that they so clearly want to make a universe out of.

(Unless it’s just The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance all over again where they want to make a franchise for their streaming platform then they ignore the spin-off they made for a year and then cancel it, killing off their franchise, I doubt they’d do this because of the fact that the original media that DBD is spinning off of is a successful Netflix series unlike The Dark Crystal movie which isn’t a Netflix original and a movie from the 80s, but who knows, it’s Netflix, they are confusing sometimes, but I don’t think Netflix would do that with DBD with the Sandman connect)

With the fact that The Sandman is going to be one of the shows featured in Geeked Week, they could easily pair DBD renewal news up with that since they share a universe. At this point, I’m just simply confused on why Netflix still hasn’t said anything despite this show being in the same universe as The Sandman (a successful show), because Netflix isn’t afraid to quickly cancel shows that get bad viewing numbers, even if the parent/original shared universe show was successful (as proven with Freeridge, the On My Block spin-off series which got cancelled after 69 days due to low viewing numbers). It is lost on me why they are ignoring it since it is attached to The Sandman.

On My Block was successful, yet they still quickly cancelled Freeridge due to bad numbers, so why aren’t they doing the same with Dead Boy Detectives right now? Dead Boy Detectives didn’t get high viewing numbers at all, the numbers it got are quite similar to Freeridge’s numbers in fact, so why haven’t they just straight up cancelled it yet? Why drag it out and stay quiet for so long? Especially when you are a month out from what is basically your streaming platform’s comic-con-esque week where you are confirmed to be announcing news about said show’s parent show?

So to connect my points here, with the fact that The Gentlemen just got renewed after 160 days post-release proving shows can get renewed after that long (which would put DBD 144-148 days post-release if renewed during Geeked Week, the week of September 16-20), Geeked Week (which will include news/new content for season 2 of The Sandman) upcoming in exactly a month from now (while we still have no news of if DBD was cancelled or renewed despite it being over 100 days now), and DBD’s Sandman Universe tie-in/connection, I think we could possibly get a renewal during Geeked Week!

For anyone who has read to this point (probably no one but hello if you are still here!), thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

JOKING, BUT GENUINELY STILL THANK YOU FOR READING THROUGH ALL OF MY (POSSIBLY DELUSIONAL) RANTING, I KNOW I TYPE A LOT SO GENUINELY THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME ON THIS ONE!