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Sunday, October 27th, 2024 01:00 pm
I have one problem now. But it’s a good problem to have – there are too many things I want to watch. 😊 I’m so behind on so many dramas. My to-watch list keeps getting longer and longer.

GL dramas

Pluto

I watched the 1st episode a week ago right after it aired. I loved it. Namtan is wonderful and beautiful. Her and Film have great chemistry, and I’m intrigued by the main mystery. I do plan to watch that one every week as it airs.

The Loyal Pin

I finally got around to watching Freen and Becky’s new drama. I watched four episodes for now (it goes a bit slowly, because see above about my main problem now 😊), and I like it a lot. Freen and Becky are both great actresses, and their chemistry is burning up the screen. And they’re so good at kissing, seriously so good. Currently they are my favorite GL couple.


BL dramas

Perfect 10 Liners

The first episode will air later today, and I can’t wait. ForceBook my beloveds – I missed having them on my screen every week. I don’t even care if it is good, I just want it to be entertaining.

My Damn Business

It’s a very short Korean BL drama (just seven 10 minutes long episodes) about an office romance between team leader Han Yu Jin, whose sales team gets dissolved amidst the company’s management crisis, and Yun Su An (an assistant manager from another team). Yu Jin has to wrap up all the current projects and he gets assigned Yun Su An to help. There’s just two of them in the office, and even though their relationship is a bit cold and formal at first it soon starts to change.

It airs of Youtube. Here is the playlist. Four episodes aired for now and I like it a lot. It’s cute and funny, and manages to pack quite a lot into such short episodes.

And I have to say that Korean BL dramas keep surprising me nicely lately with wonderful, hot kisses. First The Time of Fever, and now this drama. Because that kiss in episode 3 was so, so hot. Here's the link to the beginning of that kiss, if you would like to see for yourself. 😊


Kdramas

Love in the Big City

I watched six episodes, still have the last two to watch. And it’s ok, I like it well enough. And of course I’m very glad it got made, and I love that Nam Yoon Su is so unbothered by all those hate comments they got. In one interview he said “I just laughed it off when I got malicious comments. Those people were actually 1 in a 100. I got a lot of messages of support.”

But I guess I expected it to hit me harder and make me very emotional, and I have to say it left me rather cold. There were a few scenes in the middle that were hard to watch for me because of personal baggage. But in general I am a bit underwhelmed.

Family by Choice

I’m so conflicted about this drama. On one hand I’m all heart eyes about OT3 subtext with our main trio. They are all great, and especially Hwang In Youp as my sweet, broken woobie Kim San Ha. But I love the three of them – they love each other so much, and care for each other. It’s so beautiful – the way San Ha always protects the other two, and the way both boys always drop everything to protect Ju Won. And the way Ju Won and Hae Jun always know what to do to drag San Ha out of one of his dark moods. It’s so heartwarming and lovely to watch. I mean, I know what the endgame pairing is, and I’m fine with it. But that’s canon. I just really hope there will be at least a few fics about my lovely OT3 later. And I ship the dads, too. They are really good at co-parenting their three kids. 😊

At the same time I have issues with how all the women in this series (except Ju Won) are portrayed. Even Ju Won I feel isn’t as developed for now as the two boys. It still can change, just six episode aired for now, but I am a bit disappointed now.


More here with spoilers.All the mothers are horrible here. San Ha’s mother especially or course. And she is horrible, don’t get me wrong. But for me narrative here unfairly blames her and only her for the tragedy from their past. San Ha and her sister had two parents after all, so why is only a mother blamed for leaving the children alone for two days? Where was the dad then?

And then there is Hae Jun’s mother, who abandoned her son, and Hae Jun’s aunt to some extent. And if that’s not enough there is Dal’s mother, too, constantly putting her daughter down and making her cry, even in front of her friends.

And in the background there are all those gossipy aunties from the neighborhood, who are so unkind about our three kids coming from broken homes.

I don’t know, like I’ve said it could still change, there are ten more episodes to go. I’m not disappointed enough to stop watching for now. But we’ll see.



As for fanfic writing - I posted a little SCI ficlet two weeks ago for Fandom Gift Basket 2024.

All I need is your sweet kiss (1027 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao, Bái Chí/Zhào Zhēn
Characters: Zhan Yao, Bai Yutong, Bai Chi, Zhào Zhēn
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Banter, Teasing, Kissing
Summary: Just a little scene from their post-canon life, with banter and laughter, and kissing. :)


And I finished my second Meet You at the Blossom fic and posted it yesterday.

The sweet sound of you (3086 words)
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en
Characters: Zongzheng Huai'en, Jin Xiaobao
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Porn with Feelings, Manhandling, Possessive Behavior, Jewelry, Jin Xiaobao Jingles During Sex
Summary: At first that sweet jingling sound was an innocent sign of love and warmth, of safety and belonging. But now it will be associated with something different in Huaien’s mind, too. Because that sweet and soft ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong is heard with every slow, sensuous movement of Xiaobao’s body on top of Huaien’s.

Now I can focus fully on my Yuletide assignment, which I love a lot. And on possible treats, because there are so many great requests that I would love to write something for.
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Sunday, November 13th, 2022 10:24 am
The first teaser for Kim Nam Gil’s new drama Island.

It looks amazing and I can’t wait to watch it.


My Yuletide assignment – the writing goes slowly but well.


Speaking of writing - I wrote one treat for Trick or Treat Exchange. It’s a Ma Han/Chen Jiayi fic. I planned two treats, but RL interfered and I only wrote around 500 words of the second fic, before I gave up on it. But I plan to finish it, too, it will probably take a while, though.

Afternoon happiness (1805 words) by maggie33
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chén Jiāyí/Mă Hàn
Characters: Chen Jiayi, Mǎ Hàn
Additional Tags: Dating, Kissing, Mild Smut, Treat
Summary: How sudden rain can ruin your date. Or maybe rather how sudden rain can improve it. :)



KinnPorsche actors – looking at Bible’s, Build’s or Jeff Satur’s beautiful faces always cheers me up. See for yourself behind the cut below. :)

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And last but not least, another tidbit from that post about translation I still haven’t written. :)

MIODZIE, JESTEM DOMEM! ALBO: PIĘTRO INNEJ MIŁOŚCI (ANOTHER LOVE STORY) GRA W JEDNYM POSTĘPKU by Stanisław Barańczak. About dangers of too literal translation - but it will be funny only to people who know both Polish and English.

I’m re-reading Barańczak’s Pegaz Zdębiał and the chapter where he translates Polish idoms literally into English as always made me laugh until my stomach hurt.

A few of my favorites behind the cut.

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Monday, February 21st, 2022 07:00 pm
My first Chocolate Box Exchange was a resounding success. I got two wonderful Chief Kim fics that made me very happy, because [personal profile] china_shop spoils me. :)


Base Camp, morning (1137 words) by china_shop
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Kim Sung Ryong/Seo Yool
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Episode 19, waking up together, Enemies to Lovers, Pre-Relationship
Summary: Yul woke slowly. He felt great—rested, comfortable, warm. He opened his eyes and for a moment he thought he was still dreaming. Kim Sungryong was right there, his peaceful face only a few inches away. Had they slept like this?! No! (Missing scene from episode 19.)


Kindred Spirits (2473 words) by china_shop
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Kim Sung Ryong/Seo Yool
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, First Kiss, Ghosts
Summary: “There’s a ghost,” hissed Yul. “An actual ghost in your club!”

“I know that,” replied Sung-ryong, mournfully. “She blew the electricity and frightened the clientele—well, all except for some who were frightening in their own right.” He shuddered.




And I wrote an SCI fic for my assignment and my second OW fic as a treat.


Touch me like you do (2046 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao
Characters: Zhan Yao, Bai Yutong
Additional Tag: Resolved Pining, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Mild Smut
Summary: Zhan Yao thought that he had left those feelings behind him, when he went abroad. He had tried very hard to convince himself that they were gone, but he had never really believed in the lie he told himself.


How to be a dream girl to your demon lover (1492 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character
Additional Tags: Angels and Demons, Inept Demoness, Supportive Angel Girlfriend, Fluff, Kissing, Humor, Chocolate Box Treat
Summary: Three scenes from the life of one inept demoness and her loving and patient angel girlfriend. :)
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Thursday, April 8th, 2021 05:30 pm
Ok, I’m alive. Well? Eh, could be better. But it’s not that bad, and the most important thing is that my mom feels much better, too. So I could take a deep breath of relief and dive into the fannish life again – mainly watching and reading fanfic, and writing. 😊

I finished watching While You Were Sleeping – a Korean drama with Jung Hae In as the second lead. His character Han Woo Tak is the sweetest and the most adorable guy ever and my favorite. But I loved the male lead and the female lead, too. And the drama has a lot of wonderful OT3 subtext, and [personal profile] china_shop wrote four fics about that OT3. I’ve read three of them already and they’re great. I still have the longest one to read, but I’m sure it will be great, too. 😊

And I finally watched the first episode of Goblin a few days ago. I liked it. I will continue watching, but first I have to finish my Awaken re-watch, which I started because I missed my beloved Nam Goong Min so much. His newest drama Black Sun has already started filming and is tentatively scheduled to air in late 2021. I can’t wait.


As for writing – I posted my new SCI fic yesterday. It’s a super self-indulgent AU with dark Zhan Yao. I finished the first draft just before I got sick, but in the last two weeks I managed to do the necessary editing and got it beta-read.

Their dark desires (4760 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao
Characters: Bai Yutong, Zhan Yao, Bai Yunwen, Zhǎn Qítián
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Canon Divergence, Dark Zhan Yao, Complicated Relationships, Wall Sex, Rough Sex
Summary: There was something between them. A connection obvious almost as soon as they laid eyes on each other for the first time. There was something in Zhan Yao that called to Bai Yutong, some sort of dark pull that made it impossible for Bai Yutong to stay calm in Zhan Yao’s presence. And there must have been something in Bai Yutong that made Zhan Yao stand a bit too close and find a reason to touch – just a light press of his palm against Bai Yutong’s arm and his fingers twitching slightly as if they wanted to tighten and grab and pull.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 05:10 pm
And more precisely four – two fics for Yuletide and two fics for fandomtrees.

Because I'm afraid I will be left here without you (4500 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao
Characters: Zhan Yao, Bai Yutong
Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Mind Manipulation, Bathtub Sex, Anal Fingering
Summary: Bai Yutong had disappeared early Monday morning. He went for his usual morning run, and the CCTV recorded him entering a park near Zhan Yao’s place. But it never recorded him coming back.


Love is like that (1008 words)
Fandom: HIStory2 - 是非 | HIStory2: Right or Wrong (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fei Shengzhe/Shi Yijie
Characters: Shi Yijie, Fei Shengzhe, Shi Keyou | You You
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Domestic Fluff, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Shi Yi Jie just wanted to do something nice (lovingly prepared breakfast) for his sick husband. It wasn't going so well.


Tell me do you too... (1295 words)
Fandom: 김과장 | Good Manager (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kim Sung Ryong/Seo Yul
Characters: Seo Yul, Kim Sung Ryong
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Getting Together, First Kiss
Summary: Seo Yul had a distinct feeling of déjà vu when he opened his eyes on this early morning. Because the first thing he saw was Kim Sung Ryong’s face with closed eyes, so serene in sleep.


Fly with the wind (1505 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Vaguely Slavic Fantasy, Women In Power, Dragons, Psychic Connection Between Dragons and Humans, Flirting, Pre-Relationship
Summary: Wislawa hated that time of the year when she had to leave Mieszko in the village and travel to the capital for the annual meeting of the High Council. She preferred to leave politics to politicians and concentrate on doing what she did best, and that was guarding the border with her dragon and her trusted team of experienced warriors. But there was no getting out of that meeting when one was the General of the Eastern Guard.



That last one was the biggest surprise for me. I’ve read a few original fics on AO3, but I’ve never before had an inspiration to write one. But when I read that prompt on [community profile] fandomtrees the idea came to my mind and three days later I had 1500 words written. And I had a lot of fun writing them. So who knows there might be more original fics in the future. :)
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Saturday, December 26th, 2020 11:20 am
I have the best Yuletide ever. First I got two wonderful, perfect fics for History 2 Right or Wrong. And one of them is the crossover with History 3 Make Our Days Count, which I didn’t expect in my wildest dreams. I read both of them twice already. :D

And today morning I got an e-mail about the third gift – the most adorable and heart-warming SCI fic. It’s Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen moving in together fic.


As the future holds (1848 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fei Shengzhe/Shi Yijie, Lu Zhigang/Sun Boxiang
Additional Tags: Mention Of Homophobia, Bullying
Summary: Yoyo and a small campus incident


My Best Friend (1712 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fei Shengzhe/Shi Yijie, Fei Shengzhe & Shi Yi Jie & Yo Yo
Additional Tags: Found Families, Insecurity, Yo Yo is the MVP, Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, Established Relationship
Summary: “Shengzhe, you are a part of this family,” Yijie said firmly. “Yo Yo wants you there.”

“I know, but maybe it would be better without me,” he said.

Yijie put both of his hands on Shengzhe’s shoulders and leaned his handsome face in close.

“Nothing is better without you,” he replied.

The story surrounding the last scene of the series. Yo Yo's two dads go to see her read her essay.


Practical Magic (3621 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen
Additional Tags: Background Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao, Moving In Together, Fluff(with a little bit of angst), Light-Hearted
Summary: One of these days, Bai Chi, a guy is going to borrow a 1-dollar coin from you to use in a magic trick, and make a bet with you over it. But, Bai Chi, do not under any circumstances accept this bet, because if you do, as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up moving in with him.



And there is quite a lot of great fics to read in the collection. For instance there are 18 The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty fics (I’ve only read one of them for now).


And it’s snowing right now. That snow won’t last for long, it’s 0 °C outside. But sill – snow! Big, fluffy, white petals swirling outside my window! Yay!

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Sunday, November 8th, 2020 04:22 pm
I got a lovely SCI fic about Bai Yutong taking care of sick Zhan Yao.

When We've Grown Frail (521 words) by geckoholic
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao
Characters: Zhan Yao, Bai Yutong
Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Comfort Food, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Headaches & Migraines
Summary: Zhan Yao sighs and glances towards the kitchen, towards the man who's cooking all his favorite food right now, knowing it'll take something he really can't say no to in order to get him to eat at all.



I wrote two fics. Here is my assignment for iamtheenemy – my first History 3 Trapped fic:

Cradled in love (1785 words)
Fandom: HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack | Fang Liangdian/Zhao Li'an | Zhao-zi
Characters: Zhao Li'an | Zhao-zi, Jack | Fang Liangdian
Additional Tags: Episode Related, First Time
Summary: What happened under the covers during Jack and Zhao Zi’s first time.


And I took my first pinch hit ever – I wrote a SCI fic for geckoholic:

Those who play (1913 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao
Characters: Bai Yutong, Zhan Yao, Zhào Jué
Additional Tags: Angst, Possessive Behavior, Rough Sex, Partially Outsider POV
Summary: Bai Yutong instantly knew something was wrong when Zhan Yao said “Xiao Bai, you should head back” in that suspiciously nonchalant tone of voice. Bai Yutong smiled, said ok and left the apartment. But then he waited by the door, worry and anger filling his mind.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020 07:35 pm
I didn’t sign up for Parallels Exchange. Because when I finally decided that I wanted to do it, I remembered the time wrong and missed the sign-up by couple of hours. But I still wrote something. Because when you combine inspiring SCI exchange prompts with a re-watch the result is this: three treats with three different pairings. :)

Can I tempt you for a kiss (1051 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chén Jiāyí/Mă Hàn
Characters: Chén Jiāyí, Mǎ Hàn
Additional Tags: Mild Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Treat
Summary: Chen Jiayi tries to deal with an awful day she had. And Ma Han tries to talk about feelings. :)


Hold my hand, it's gonna be all right (1990 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bái Chí/Zhào Zhēn
Characters: Zhào Zhēn, Bái Chí
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Treat
Summary: Zhao Zhen had such a good day. And then his phone rang. Five minutes later he was in his car again, hands trembling. “Shot, hospital, lost a lot of blood,” ringing in his head, over and over again.


Morning, evening, late September (1326 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao
Characters: Bai Yutong, Zhan Yao
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Treat
Summary: One couple, two scenes, a few kisses and a lot of fluff. :)
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Monday, July 20th, 2020 08:30 pm
It’s hot and stuffy. My thermometer showed 35 degrees of Celsius this morning, so it was probably around 40 at noon. I hate such weather, my heart hates such weather. Can it get a bit colder soon? Please?

Luckily there is a lot of new and good fannish stuff, so I have a lot of distractions.

Collection for Multifandom Drabble Exchange opened on Sunday.

There are 7 SCI fics. And they are all wonderful. I’m so glad this small fandom still attracts new people.

And there are 13 Guardian fics, with 3 great Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng fics.


And speaking of SCI, the official version on youtube has subtitles for all episodes but one now. Episode 21 is still without subtitles. I started a re-watch last week, and I’m up to episode 11 already. And I love this drama so much. Bai Chi is the sweetest puppy. And Ma Han is super cool. Here have a gif of Ma Han and her beautiful thighs from episode 9:




I have also 3 new SCI fanvid recs:

Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen – You Are My Soniya

Zhan Yao & Zhao Jue – Hypnotic

Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao – like a river


And here on weibo is a super cute BTS vid with Gao Hanyu falling asleep on set. He looks so tired, poor baby. :)
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Saturday, May 9th, 2020 11:10 am
SCI Mystery

The official version on YouTube has English subtitles now, although not for all the episodes. There are subtitles for episodes 1 and 2, then for episodes 10-13, 15-16, 18, 20, and 22-24. Which is a bit weird, but here is hoping soon all the episodes will be subtitled. I watched a little bit of episode 1 yesterday and these subtitles seem pretty good.

A good new fic on AO3:

hold me close (and let me hear your heartbeat) (4307 words) by ScissorLord
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao, background Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen
Characters: Bai Yutong, Zhan Yao, Bái Chí
Additional Tags: Fluff, Pining, Unrequited Love, plot twist its actually requited
Summary: Zhan Yao thinks about Feng Jie, and the way Bai Yutong’s eyes had always tracked him across the room as if they were riveted by his movement. He thinks of the way the two of them were close, how they looked at each other and how they had talked often, leaning in close to share words and soft touches. He thinks about Feng Jie and knows what he feels is jealousy for a dead man, but Bai Yutong is mourning and Zhan Yao knows better than to want what he can’t have.

Or

The Tuxi case happens. Zhan Yao and Bai Yutong grow closer in the aftermath.



The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty episodes 37-44

Always a very good thing. There was so much angst in this week episodes and I loved it.

Spoilers below.

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And I had the revelation yesterday while watching. They kneel a lot there to show loyalty and respect, and that’s one of my bulletproof kinks. No wonder I like this drama so much. :)


Exchanges

My fic for Guardian exchange is finished. It will be edited and posted this weekend.

I think I will sign up for Rare Male Slash Exchange 2020, too. I nominated all my usual suspects – a lot of Guardian pairings, HIStory dramas, SCI, and The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty. Signups open on the 20th of May and by that time I will finish watching The Sleuth (last 4 episodes will be on VIKI next week). I don’t want to write it, but I want to read all the fics. There are already a few on AO3, but I want more.
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Thursday, April 16th, 2020 03:41 pm
Yesterday was a bad day. I didn’t feel well, my heart was bothering me the whole day. One good thing is that I work from home this week, it would be worse at the office. Here I could at least lie down for a while during the day.

Luckily it was also the day of two new episodes of The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty. That drama is my happy place right now. I love it to pieces and it always cheers me up. But I also kind of regret that I started to watch it without waiting until it aired in full. Because I watched those two new episodes yesterday, and I was so impatient to watch the next one right away. And I couldn’t. But two new episodes again today, so yay for that. :)


I planned to start My Roommate is a Detective this week – another Chinese historical crime drama, this time the one set in the mid-1920s. But I think I’ll wait until it finishes airing and all subtitled episodes are available on VIKI.


Youku put the whole season of SCI Mystery officially on youtube, unfortunately without English subtitles. The playlist is here. Here is hoping they will add subtitles later. It would be nice to have the official subtitled version that you can point interested people to.


In between checking my business e-mail I was also doing some bookmarks cleaning today. So here are a few random fanworks recs.

One fanart:

My favorite Lestat/Louis fanart by Dany&Dany


And two fanvids:

Always Gold by MH - Pythagoras/Icarus (Atlantis)

That was a very entertaining show, and it was such a nice surprise when they made that relationship canon in the 2nd season.


We could have had it all by Feuwise6 - Paul/Jacob/Emma (The Following)

Ah, my favorite psycho killers in love. That show was pretty bad, but that threesome pushed all my buttons – it was complicated, fucked up, dark, angsty and with no happy ending. I loved it very much.
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Saturday, June 29th, 2019 11:23 am
Yesterday was creator reveal for Night on Fic Mountain exchange, so I can finally admit that I wrote a treat for [personal profile] lynndyre - SCI fic with Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen pairing:

Stay (I need you here)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Additional tags: Episode Related, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss

Summary: Bai Chi helps Zhao Zhen deal with the aftermath of the events in episode 15.



I started tentatively, very tentatively, thinking about maybe signing up for Yuletide exchange this year. For the first time I have 4 fandoms I could write in (that never happened to me before, so thank you, Asian dramas :)). But only if Guardian would still be eligible. When I apply filters on AO3 the result is 1159 works, but of course many fics are still wrongly tagged with Language: English – I counted 8 only on the 1st page.


Last, but not least, my first Guardian fic „Kiss me the way I like it” reached 100 kudos a day before yesterday (102 today). Woohoo!
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019 07:24 pm
I still haven’t read the chapter 14 of I Ship My Adversary X Me. I decided to wait until a few more chapters were translated.

But I read quite a lot of SCI novel instead – I’m up to chapter 19.

First about the translations: the translation on Novel Updates is only up to chapter 13 and the quality varies between chapters. And the translation on tumblr gets a bit better later on (or maybe I just got used to it :)) and there are more chapters here, so for now I’m sticking with that one.

Bai Yutong is Bai Yutang and Zhan Yao is Zhan Zhao in the novel – they had to change the names for the drama and I read somewhere why, but I admit right now I can’t remember the reason.

Spoilers for the novel and the drama behind the cut

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Monday, March 18th, 2019 05:10 pm
Something In The Rain

I watched episode 3 yesterday and it was fantastic. I’m all heart-eyes about it. :)

Minor spoilers behind the cut

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Guardian

Thanks to [community profile] sid_guardian’s friending meme I have a few new people in my circle and more wonderful Guardian posts on my reading page.


Beseeching fires all night long – Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan fic by yantantether. It’s exactly how I like hurt/comfort fics – heavy on the comfort. :)



SCI

I’m in the middle of re-watch and keep discovering new things to be excited about. Also I found out that there is another translation of the novel here. I read the same two chapters as before and that translation is so much better.


Two SCI fanvids:

This one is Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao

I want it, I got it


This one is the general SCI fanvid

East of Eden

It’s really great and it’s made by the same person that made one of my favorite Guardian fanvids – Man on a mission
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Thursday, March 14th, 2019 09:32 am
After watching three Chinese dramas (Guardian, Memory Lost and SCI) I decided to branch out and watch a Korean drama. I chose Something in the Rain, because it’s on Netflix and because I remembered vaguely seeing a few positive opinions about it. I watched 2 episodes for now and I like it. I like it a lot. Two main characters Yoon Jin-ah and Seo Joon-hee are both wonderful and they make such an adorable couple. I like a few secondary characters, too and I would like to set a few on fire, mainly Jin-ah’s bosses and her ex-boyfriend – what a bunch of jerks. :)

As for c-novels - [personal profile] qikiqtarjuaq in this post recced I Ship My Adversary X Me. And yesterday I read all of the translated chapters, thanks to two hours delay on my train trip from Warsaw (we were stuck in the middle of nowhere between stations, because excavator fell over the tracks and we had to wait until it was removed). And it’s so great - cute and funny. I laughed out loud a few times. It cheered me up big time. I like the narrator’s voice and as far as I can tell (since I can’t read the original) the translation is very good. Thanks for the rec, qikiqtarjuaq. :)

After I finished I Ship My Adversary X Me, I read two chapters of SCI novel. And it is... not good. I don’t know if that’s the original or just the bad translation. I will read a few more chapters to see if improves later, but for now I’m not impressed.
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 02:38 pm
Bad things

Only one – I was sick, but I’m a lot better now. Five days at home wasn’t that bad (despite coughing and a sore throat), but tomorrow I am going to work and I don’t even want to think about the backlog awaiting me there.


Good things

The new poster for Bai Yu’s upcoming show Detective L


The new Bai Yu commercial – he’s in a black leather jacket on a motorcycle, I don’t need more to be happy. :)


A lovely Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen fanvid on bilibli – it has all their best scenes from the drama.


Two great Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao fanvids on youtube:

Hey Kids

Love Me Like You Do



Game of Thrones season 8 trailer – yay! I can’t wait.


And I have new episodes of Shadowhunters and Roswell, New Mexico to watch.
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 12:45 pm
Here’s my reaction to the last three episodes of the 1st season (because there will be the 2nd one, wheee!) – mainly a happy squee and a few confused questions. :)

Spoilers behind the cut

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 06:15 pm
I finished all subbed episodes. Now I have to wait for the episode 22 until, hopefully, Monday. And then wait for the last two episodes. But I’m impatient and I want it now, now, now. I’m so, so glad that I got into Guardian when it was already subbed in full. The waiting would be unbearable. ;)

As always spoilers behind the cut


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