#me every time i tag anyone: i'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorry

[craseydreams]

tagged by @meichenxi, thank you!! i started this and then promptly left it in my drafts for over a week, so this is! outdated! (but i am loath to change most portions of this)

Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better! (my anxiety will not allow me to do this and in fact i received a spam email with the subject line: “Do not contact me I am not interested” immediately after i first saved this as a draft which felt like the universe communicating directly with me)

Last Song: 寒鴉少年/Jackdaw Boy, by 华晨宇/Hua Chenyu

Listen, this is an absolute banger of a theme and I watched the entirety of 斗破苍穹/Dou Po Cang Qiong just to figure out when they played it (alright no I also watched it because Xiao Zhan is styled in a waist-length braid and I am w e a k); it’s credited as the OPENING THEME on Wikipedia but it fucking is NOT and in FACT they only used it ONCE during a training montage VERY early on in the show which is WILD. If I were a cdrama, I would NOT shut up about this song.

you can listen to it here! i’m linking a live performance instead of the music video (even though the piano in the studio version is more... aurally satisfying? like when i first heard it and the first notes came in, i sat UP and took notice) because hua chenyu is such an interesting and committed performer, i could never get tired of him. anyway, i can no longer say 走吧 in a normal way, i must simply scream it like in the chorus

Last Movie: Yellow Rose! I have many thoughts on this film that I am still unable to articulate - all I can so far say is that I cried, very hard, and very often. 

Currently Watching: making my way downtown through 有翡/Legend of Fei, which is unfortunately very slow going as I’ve yet to really connect with it. I have maybe been rewatching The Good Place and Galavant instead.

Currently Reading: Tackling three (!) books rn, which I haven’t done since I was a kid and used to leave books like a trail of breadcrumbs all along the house.

1) The first two volumes of David Hawkes’ translation of 紅樓夢/Red Chamber Dream just arrived this week last week. This is out of filial duty (my mom will not stop telling me to read this) but also like a desire to reconnect with my heritage hurghsdf

2) The Discworld books, shoutout to Ash! I am likewise going in publication order and beginning with The Colour of Magic, although a lot of people seem to warn against it (including Neil Gaiman??), but even with the very little progress I’ve made, I know that I will love this. This writing feels like home.

3) Finally diving into The Song of Achilles, shoutout to Melissa, because I kept seeing your tags on cql gifsets with tsoa quotes and I knew I had to read it. 

tagging: @deer-earthworks @sandayuoda @benevolent-fairy-queen-squirrel @faeofthewood @ravenstag @clydetheshamelessdiva

#tag meme #crasey.txt #me every time i tag anyone: i'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorry #as always there's no pressure to ever do these! #and if you want you can also just msg me and be like: 'pls don't tag me in stuff like this' #i also understand the desire to not be perceived #that said i see a lot of you on my dash daily #and in some cases we've been mutuals for a while and i'm just SHIT at reaching out #so consider this a tentative overture at further communication #which you don't have to respond to!! #we can still be like ships passing in the night if need be!! #anyway #can yall tell how much i love hua chenyu #he is SO charismatic it BOGGLES my mind #i think there's an understanding of and devotion to music and performing in his work #which transcends beyond being cringe or camp #(not that camp is bad/there's definitely a distinction between cringe and camp) #(but even at his most stylized/obviously performative there's a genuine-ness? and joy?) #IDK MAN #the root of it all is probably that i just like guys who can sing high #and girls who can sing low #i am merely a simple bisexual