I am reading MDZS trying to pretend that I do not speak Chinese and have little to no knowledge of Chinese culture, while at the same time matching what I feel when reading MDZS in English to what I felt when reading MDZS in Chinese. Any time I see something that doesn’t flow well or that doesn’t match my original feelings, I make a note. Any time I encounter something that I think will trip up my non-Chinese friends (师叔 shishu?), I make a note.
I love this story, and I don't expect my non-Chinese friends to remember the 5+ different things that Lan Xichen is called, so I have made a lot of notes. Here they are:
Notes 1, pgs 1-65
Notes 2, pgs 87-147
Notes 3, pgs 148-209
Notes 4, pgs 210-263
Notes "7," pg 239
Notes 5, pgs 264-341
Notes 6: on the Appendix
Notes 1, pages 1 - 86
Notes 2, pages 87 - 160
Notes 3, pages 163 - 198
Notes 4, pages 199 - 279
Notes 5, pages 280 - 318
Notes 6, pages 321 - 351
Notes 1, pages 1 - 90
Notes 2, pages 92 - 217
Notes 3, pages 219 - 312
Notes 1, pages 1 - 49
Notes 2, pages 51 - 88
Notes 3, pages 89 - 151
Notes 4, pages 152 - 174
Notes 5, pages 175 - 208
Notes 6, pages 210 - 234
Notes 7, pages 236 - 266
Notes 8, pages 267 - 288
Notes 9, pages 293 - 309
Notes 10, pages 310 - end
Notes 1, pages 1 - 45
Notes 2, pages 53 - 131
Notes 3, pages 133 - 190
Notes 4, pages 193 - 267
Notes 5, pages 343 - 375
Notes 6, pages 383 - end
WHEN SANITY IS NOT HOME
Starring: DaGe, Director Nie, ErGe, and Yaomei.
Sorry, I can't breathe👻
Chinese Fashion doesn’t always make sense to me, but I gotta admit that I think it’s Really Interesting.
OKAY in response to this rb of my post here from @cansada-contenta, i’ve decided to compile a bunch of stupid fashion i’ve seen on chinese singer(s) and loved in recent years. :DDDDD
as for that horrific blue sweater on xiao zhan, YO THAT’S EXACTLY THE KIND OF SHIT I’M TALKING ABOUT. most of these photos are of my good boy 吴青峰 during his time on singer 2019 bc his stylist did GREAT (also i only watch one (1) chinese reality singing show lol)
if you’d like to see most of these outfits in person (plus others I didn’t manage to find good pics of! gosh that violet trenchcoat outfit he’s wearing when he’s singing with jolin tsai at 49:11??? so good. jolin looks classy and he just looks like a DISASTER) you can check out this compilation of all his songs on the season here! :D highly recommend, i love his voice ;~;
anyways, first, the spiritual cousin to that horrendous blue sweater number on xz:
hideous!! what the fuck is that!! looks like you cut up two sweaters and stapled them to the front of a white t-shirt and then paired it with some white slacks!! what!! horrible!! i love it so fucking much!
rest is under a readmore bc i got really quite carried away:
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Lan Zhan going from 😠 to 😊 when around Wei Ying.
Here is Part 5 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, pages 264 - 341.
Who does this picture belong to, please? I found it in my early MDZS searches, and it’s brought me joy every day so far 🥰
My new reading list! So far, I’ve got 杀破狼 done.
Featuring the return of some categories such as:
Best Worldbuilding
Best Interrogation of Themes (aka the “Rent-Free Award”)
Best Moment That Wrecked Me (aka the Knifiest Award)
Best Beleaguered Side Character Award
Best Unreliable Narrator
As well as never-before-seen categories like:
Best Himbo
Most Brilliant Moment of Backstabbery
Most Ambitious Scope
Most Heartwrenching Line Delivery in an Audiodrama
…and more!
This year’s candidates in the running:
《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu by 一十四洲 Yi Shi Si Zhou
《不小心救了江湖公敌》 Bu Xiao Xin Jiule Jianghu Gong Di by 六木乔 Liu Muqiao (有声漫画 audiomanhua season 1)
《无双》 Wu Shuang by 梦溪石 Meng Xishi
《问鹿三千》 Wen Lu San Qian by 光合积木 Voicegem, 吼浪文化 Houlang Studio, and 斗木獬编剧工作室 Doumuxie Screenwriting Studio
《师弟还不杀我灭口》 Shidi Hai Bu Sha Wo Mie Kou by 子鹿 Zi Lu
《默读》 Mo Du by priest
《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su
《海中爵》 Hai Zhong Jue by 七药 Qi Yao
《哏儿》 Gen’er by 南北逐风 Nan Bei Zhu Feng
《杀破狼》 Sha Po Lang by priest
《金牌助理之弯弯没想到》 Jin Pai Zhu Li zhi Wan Wan Mei Xiang Dao by (nominally) 非天夜翔 Fei Tian Ye Xiang and (mostly) 传奇火箭队 The Legendary Rocket Team
(unmarked spoilers, including but not limited to these titles, under the cut. for introductions of these titles, click here. for last year’s danmei awards, click here)
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Here is Part 4 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, pages 210 - 263.
from 杀破狼 Stars of Chaos, Ch 57:
Gu Yun laments not being more decisive about obliterating (murdering) all the evidence that he had previously mostly obliterated; or he should have just collected the evidence and used it to stage a hostile takeover. Sigh. Oh well.
Chang Geng reassures LiaoRan that he won’t attack the emperor (not because being nice is the right thing to do, but) because it’s not the right time.
I’m sure there are plenty of other modern western stories where the main characters are grey, but I just can’t think of any other story where the non-villain-coded main characters are all “darn, I should have murdered that other person” and “don’t worry — I won’t murder until the time is right.”