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Re-posting because I was feeling nostalgic—technically it's a Qihun fanmix (concept: Gu Yu and Jiang Xueming make a mix CD together), but it's pretty much a 2000s Mandopop playlist with three out of the five S.H.E songs I know. Originally posted on Tumblr 3 years ago.

fanmix cover tracklisting

tracklist, stream links, and notes here on [community profile] chillwaves




Recently:

  • Finished watching To the Wonder, which certainly, uh, took a turn in the last ep. I think I have thoughts about the show and some notes about the production, but right now my only thought is that I could have been healed with more scenes of baby sheep.


  • Started reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Rainbow Turtle fantranslation). I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected! Some of the character moments were scenes I didn't even know I needed... But it really is so long and I'm bad at consuming anything for extended amount of time so I've stopped, somewhere around volume 5. I like that it's appropriately webnovel-y and very easy to read on the phone (it's very light on descriptions), while also being meaty.


  • Got myself stuck in the Proving Grounds of Eiyuden Chronicle. 🤣 I initially stopped playing because I wanted to wait for "the right time" to do a dungeon crawl, but, well, weeks have passed... Sometimes I turn on the game so I can "explore a bit"... But there's a puzzle element to this dungeon and I genuinely don't remember which dungeon configurations I've finished... And battles still take forever to load so I ragequit every time I try to continue. 🤣


  • Saw 毛雪汪 ep 90, featuring Wang Yuwen and Zhang Xincheng. I now get all my ZXC updates from [twitter.com profile] gixininja, a Tan Jianci fan who... has conditioned me to think about Tan Jianci every time I think about ZXC. I initially wasn't going to watch this because I just don't have the spoons/attention span for variety shows (ZXC is doing a lot of variety shows this year and I simply am not following them), but she assured me it was my type of variety show (chill and cozy) AND informed me that Mao Buyi has a pug who is an official cast regular... She was right! There were also mentions of TJC, which I reported accordingly. XD

    My key takeaway from that ep is that ZXC wrote a song for the drama he and WYW are in (whose English title is *drumroll* You Are My Lover Friend), and that WYW was NOT asked to sing for it, as previously agreed. (From what I understand, it's meant to be a duet?) (This is all told in good humor, since WYW and ZXC are childhood friends, and 80% of the ep is WYW exposing ZXC.)

    I also have to say that it also felt very freeing to just sit back and watch this without having any thoughts about subbing or translating or cutting the video into bite-sized segments... And to not really feel a thing except mild interest in music. I feel like my Chinese has deteriorated a lot over the past year of stepping away from fandom and most cmedia, but it's really nice to just be a regular viewer lol.

    Anyway this is the ep... I didn't realize how clickbait-y the episode description was until now haha:
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    Who's the Murderer S1 eps 10-?
  • Apparently I stopped midway through the Jackson Wang + Avengers ep and I'm picking it up again two(!) years later because I still haven't cancelled my Mango subscription... Though I really should just cancel and watch it on Youtube since there will be no music to delete, unlike in Time Concert. XD Also, English subs!

    Watching the early seasons hits different now that I know that a lot of the original cast just aren't returning for various reasons that I found out at various points this year. ;__; There seemed to be massive drama among the core MXDZT regulars/crew (outside of the Sasa thing, which everyone is very understanding about), and Guigui got blacklisted for expressing the "wrong" political opinions (I always assumed she couldn't return because of the pandemic + scheduling). ;__;


  • Now starting the Republican ep with--I think--Aaron Yan??? Again, feeling complicated about this because I can't un-know his crimes and wish I'd watched this ep on the year it came out, and not in 2024… He’s also gonna be in the upcoming (BL?) science fiction miniseries Q18 Quantum Dice: Allegory of the Quantum (trailer link) directed by Zero Chou (Spider Lilies, Handsome Stewardess). I'm a bit curious about the premise anyway.


    成何體統 How Dare You eps 1-6
    Novel-based transmigration donghua that's still airing on iQiyi: A corporate slave finds herself isekai'd into the part of a minor villain in the webnovel she was skimming, and finds the tyrannical Emperor on the same boat.

    This one has het romance and more moving parts (multiple transmigrated characters that have funny indicators that they belong in the real world). Unfortunately it also has, idk, the fantasy martial arts equivalent of a fat suit, which was annoying because it almost successfully subverted trope expectations before it dropped that revelation.

    I kinda want to watch on to see what the in-universe FL ends up doing, but mostly I just had the urge to read Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (fantranslation), which I guess I'm doing now. The way my attention span works, though, is that I'll read a few chapters for a day and then start something new the following day.


    當我飛奔向你 When I Fly Towards You eps 1-2
    NGL I mostly listened to this like an audio drama... and it certainly works as an audio drama. XD I also only put this on because I misremembered Zhou Yiran (周依然) being in this, but instead I got Zhou Yiran (周翊然) who I'm less interested in. orz

    I guess it's a pretty good youth drama (a lot of shenanigans, all very low-stakes), but as usual I'm unimpressed by the romance setups + I believe the girls are too good and cute for the boys... The episode titles being lyrics of old tunes made me hope for musical tie-ins, which obviously did not happen. XD They also made me wonder if music licenses are more expensive these days or have to account for all the different platforms? Or maybe these ones just weren't as integral to the plot as the great Eason Chan roadtrip in My Huckleberry Friends… But even With You had scenes of 晴天 (I think!) playing through Liu Haoran’s headphones, and the students joyfully breaking out to 龍捲風 and neither of those was particularly relevant, just vibes… Sugarman Media is big on retaining nostalgic references though so maybe they were just determined to have the music. 😂
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    Content notes: both videos have fast-ish cuts

    For the prompt: "Shi Guang and/or Yu Liang go to sleep on far ends of the bed from each other but wake up to realize they are snuggling"






    For the prompt: "Shi Guang/Yu Liang go-themed wedding day"

    The idea is for Shi Guang and Yu Liang's wedding to be a Go tournament, but I lost track of the plot around 30 seconds in oops haha


    In other news, P-pop girl group BINI, who just released a banger summer minialbum, appeared in Mango TV's Show It All today...It's pretty cool to see a Chinese translation of their lyrics even though some of it is wrong (they should have retranslated from the official English translation, IMO) + the Tagalog lyric captions are a mess lol.



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