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I mean fannishly speaking. Real Life – eh, could be better. Although actually... You know what, RL wasn’t bad either. Work was ok. And I finally could go for a manicure after three months break, and it was wonderful. :)


I’m slowly working on my sign-up for Rare Male Slash Exchange 2020. Slowly, because thinking up prompts is really hard. Especially for The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, because my enthusiasm is still so big, that I’m like “Prompts? What prompts? I want everything, give it to me”. :D

And then I found out that there was a similar exchange called Rare Pairs Exchange for all pairings, not just m/m. And that means I could nominate my two f/f pairings: Cheng Xinyan/Zhu Hong from Guardian and Man Han/Chen Jiayi from SCI. So now I’m wondering if I can do two exchanges with 1000 words minimum more or less at the same time. I kinda want to try, but at the same time I don’t know. Two fics seem like a lot, since I’m a slow writer usually.


Speaking of exchanges – 520 Day Guardian Exchange 2020 is live. There are so many interesting things there, but for now I only managed to read two fics besides my gift. They are both great, so this a rec:

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan fic by china_shop - Natural Selection

Shen Wei/Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan fic by synonemous - obscura


I got a lovely Ye Zun/Zhu Jiu fic by extrapenguin - Outwalked the Furthest Lights for You about Zhu Jiu saving Ye Zun from the pillar, with a wonderful Zhu Jiu voice.

And I wrote a Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng fic for flashforeward - Did it ever occur to you that maybe we fell in love



The week in watching


She-Ra and the Princesses of Power season 5

I watched it all. I loved it and I bawled my eyes out during the last episode. It was beautiful.

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Where Your Eyes Linger

It’s a Korean BL drama on VIKI about two 18 years old boys. Han Tae Joo comes from a very wealthy family, so his father employed Han Tae Joo’s childhood friend Kang Gook, who is great at many different types of martial arts, as Han Tae Joo’s bodyguard. They live together and go to school together.

Episodes are very short – only 10-12 minutes long. The drama is 8 episodes long, and for now only the first two episodes have English subtitles on VIKI.

It’s not very good, at least those two episodes weren’t. But both boys are pretty and cute and have a nice chemistry. And it’s sweet and made me go awww a lot. There are longing looks and lingering touches and homoerotic wrestling, and a lot of mutual pining. So I’ll watch the rest for sure and hope for the sweetest happy ending. :)



Ancient Detective

Well played, show, well played. Your reward is your own tag. :)

There was such a twist in the last episode. It took me completely by surprise and elevated the drama from just “pleasurable pastime that I don’t pay much attention to” to “oh, wow, I’m very impressed and I want the 2nd season NOW”.

Major spoilers behind the cut.

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And here is another rec: a wonderful Zhao Wohuan & Jian Buzhi fanvid by TheMeaninglessArt

The last scene in that vid – it did happen like that in the drama, with that exact dialogue. I know they both have female love interests, but I can’t find a heterosexual explanation for that scene, I really can’t. :D



The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty

I started a re-watch yesterday and watched the first two episodes. Still great and squee inducing.

And I’m refreshing The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty’s AO3 tag a lot. There are already a few fics I liked, but I want so much more.

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty episodes 13-20

There were 8 new episodes this week, not 6. Yay! And they were wonderful and funny and cute. Wang Zhi is fantastic and I’m full of squee.

Spoilers below.

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Also I went into tumblr tag to see if someone made a gif of my favorite Tang Fan & Wang Zhi scene and they did. It’s the scene when Wang Zhi praises Dong’er’s intelligence and he says “I have only seen one genius like her in my life before.” Tang Fan of course asks “Who is it?”. The rest of the scene is here.

And here is another one of my favorite Tang Fan & Wang Zhi scenes in gifset form. I love their scenes. And I could absolutely go for Sui Zhou/Tang Fan/Wang Zhi in fanfic.

And I watched a few BTS vids on youtube. Darren Chen (Tang Fan) and Fu Mengbo (Sui Zhou) are both adorable and resemble their characters a lot. Darren Chen is flirtatious and outgoing and funny, and Fu Mengbo is quiet and cool and a good cook. :)


Royal Sister Returns episode 1

Zhu Yilong is very cute and he looks beautiful, but I was very bored when he wasn’t on screen, so I don’t think I will continue watching.


Ancient Detective episodes 1-3

And to stay in Chinese historical crime dramas genre I started watching Ancient Detective. Well, the main reason was – because Liu Yaoyuan, the actor who plays Wang Zhi in The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, has a supporting part here. And he’s a great actor, so I wanted to see him in something else.

I watched three episodes and it’s ok I guess. The two male leads are pretty and cute and slashable with their contrasting personalities. One is the brains, the other is the brawn. The female lead is a stereotypical “skilled assassin cold on the outside and soft on the inside” type for now. Liu Yaoyuan was in these three episodes for maybe 5 minutes tops. But I’m intrigued by the main mystery, so I will watch some more for sure. And the main leads together have makings of a nice OT3, and I’m always down for M/M/F threesome. :)