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"I'm not really sure, but I like someone. I can't tell anyone, so I lied. Cause they'll know I can never be happy."

— 怪物: Monster (2023). Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Written by Yuji Sakamoto

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Translation of Heaven Official’s Blessing EP9 Ending Song (红绝)

translator: “Blue Water” on Youtube

Please check out this beautiful translation by Blue Water on Youtube. It’s elegant, fluent and accurate, I’m a native Chinese speaker and I couldn’t have done it better myself. The song is basically written from Hua Cheng’s perspective.

Lyrics of 红绝, tgcf ending song:

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❀❀❀Holding hands in different occasions❀❀❀

ʀᴇʙʟᴏɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ʜᴏʟᴅɪɴɢ ʜᴀɴᴅs ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛs

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Hi Everyone !

So, I've recently compiled a gdrive of all the epub/pdf files of danmei/cnovels that I've made and collected (with permission of course !) so far...

I thought I'd share it with y'all who have difficulties reading on websites or online cuz fr I totally understand your plight on a personal level, anyways here's the link to the gdrive below :

Do let me know if anyone is unable to open or access the files for any reason whatsoever, I'll try my best to help out !

Enjoy ❤😉

( Note that some epubs that I made have been taken down and deleted in accordance to the translators' wishes, so please do not ask for them. That being said; all credit undoubtedly goes to the translators' and their immeasurable hardwork, I hope we can respect their decisions. Thank You !)

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As someone who started with CQL and has read parts of the novel and seen parts of the Donghua, though I understand your problems with CQL (god knows that many factors contributed to it being a mess), I do still like that adaptation and think that overall, it’s faithful to the characters.

While yes, they may act ooc in certain parts, but the essence doesn’t change and I personally believe that it’s primarily the lack of reading comprehension and a bizarre need for grey characters readers nowadays have, that has resulted in horrendous and inaccurate interpretations and meta.

No matter what version, reckless or not, it’s obvious that WWX is paying attention and is well aware of the consequences. Only JZX and JYL’s deaths were a surprise and accident, and even then, they both, as much as I’d like to respect the fictional dead too, were actually the reckless parties and paid for it with their lives. WWX is a good, the most moral character in the series (with his only equals being his husband and the new generation they’ve influenced) and smart and powerful. He would be an overpowered Mary sue if his motivations and the consequences of his just actions didn’t end up the way they did. But whether he is that or not, that doesn’t change how spectacular yet clear he is as a character.

Tldr: Adaptations may have made mistakes, but the mischaracterisation of multiple characters is almost entirely on the new and warped ideas in fandom. IMO.

i think you're right in that mischaracterisation generally goes hand in hand with fandom in general. although in mdzs's case it's particularly... egregious

i have to disagree that cql remained faithful to the original characters tho. i'm not just saying this to be a hater, i also started with cql, with no background knowledge of mdzs at all apart from that it's a censored adaption of a bl novel. i also enjoyed cql at the time (although i watched most of it completely wasted during that christmas-new years limbo period lol). anyway, my overall impression of cql was that it was pretty goofy, though more meaningful that it initially appeared, and overall pretty entertaining despite its objectively bad production quality. my friend who introduced me to cql informed me that the LA stayed very faithful to the original story, and the only part it was missing was the romance. lol. anyway so i went into mdzs with that expectation and honestly it wasn't a great reading experience at all. straight away, wwx felt like an entirely different character to cql. he felt very emotionless to me at first (this can probably be partly attributed to the writing style of exr's tl which took a bit of getting used to). my impression of wwx from cql was that he was impulsive, and reckless, and emotionally fragile. actually i found him very frustrating & unlikable for much of cql because he kept fucking stuff up for no reason then genuinely moping abt the consequences. cql portrayed wwx's tragedy as a result of his own actions. cql!lwj just felt like a non-character, he doesn't seem to be able to tell right and wrong for himself (which i would argue is not really a factor of his original characterisation), all he seems to do in cql is react, he doesn't come across as even having his own thoughts and motivations, other than 'rules' and, later, 'wwx'.

anyway, my first read through of mdzs was unfortunately very messy and confusing because (not to mention all the plot differences) i kept trying to reconcile the characters with how they appear in cql, which is impossible, because they are entirely different. i don't really want to talk abt this at length because that would probably require me to rewatch portions of cql (🤢🤢🤢) but main points that i can recall which make cql!wwx so different to wwx are

(ambiguously?) committing suicide (while a-yuan was still alone in the burial mound...?)

not trusting himself, giving lwj his blessing to kill him if it came to that during the defection scene

reckless actions during wen indoctrination camp

using wens as target practice one minute then defending them from abusive jins the next

forcing lwj to drink alcohol in the cr arc

also honourable mention to cql!lwj who told mianmian to go inside with her baby because there was danger but said nothing to her non-cultivator husband. lol.

wwx's defection with the wens is a pretty iconic scene in cql, the fact that both wwx and lwj - why was he trying to stop wwx? - are so ooc does fundamentally change the essence of not only their characters, but the whole story. also there's chief cultivatorji. so much wrong with that.

overall i get the impression that the writers for cql didn't really understand the original characters or story very well. there was probably a lot of spinning wheels and throwing darts going on in their decision making process.

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the four calamities

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Immortality's costume department has me eating glass

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Ye Wangxi 🖤

It's been a long time since I've been wanting to draw her, she's my absolute favorite. TT

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Xie Lian: So today when i was on my way home i found this adorable little fox by the road. It said it doesnt have a home so i brought it with me.

Feng Xin: (...)

Mu Qing: (...)

FengQing: Well yeah, but that does not explain the man lying on your bed.

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where do u read yuwu extras? 😭

I was reading the Yuwu extras and oh, such a balm!!!!

* Murong Lian coming up with fake names for Mo Xi and Gu Mang, and Mo Xi being annoyed that Gu Mang’s name is derivative of the Murong Lian’s name and not his own and trying to come up with a derivative of his own name to which Gu Mang says he prefers Murong Lian’s version and ML is all “see! he’s my little brother, who else’s name should he have?” while Gu Mang is all “OMG ugh, it just sounds better.”

* Gu Mang keeping track of Murong Lian’s ephemera use and weaning him off like an AA counselor :P

* Mo Xi and Gu Mang counting the stars - which are Gu Mang’s dead.

* We see Mo Ran’s great-great-great-whatever ancestor :) I loved that little teeny easter egg.

But this is my favorite bit:

I just love all of it and I wish there were more. The novel was so much concentrated intensity and pain and me bawling like a maniac, I want more peaceful domestic happiness.

Also, I will forever be !!!!! about the fact that I spent such a decent chunk of the novel wanting to gruesomely torture Murong Lian to death and by the end I adore him and love the concept of him running an egalitarian magic school in his inimitable extravagant fashion and living with his half-brother, said half-brother’s icy intense boyfriend and said half-brother’s goofy dog. Heeee. I do love that when Mo Xi and Gu Mang reversed time they knew that it was Murong Lian they could come to and live with under their fake identities and have new happy lives.

I kinda want to reread the whole thing now but I am terrified for my heart.

PS You know another thing I love about Meatbun? Her mains are not at all the same (except for intensity and capacity for sacrifice.) Mo Xi x Gu Mang are not at all like Mo Ran x Chu Wanning, individually or as couple dynamics. 

PPS The other thing? In most danmei, I usually love one main more than the other. In Yuwu, I literally cannot pick between Mo Xi and Gu Mang AT ALL. I love them both utterly equally.

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I was just remembering before falling asleep last night that we never got to know Mo Ran's reaction when his uncle was setting up Wanning for marriage.

I cracked up when I remembered Chu Wanning wanted a partner that was female and alive.

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2HA Audio Drama S2 Ep 3 English Subbed

Hello everyone!

2HA Audio Drama S2 Ep3 is now available English subbed!

Links: Episode | Cover

You can download all previous episodes from  >> Here <<

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Notes:

1)  Please download the file to your device first. If you play the file   directly on MEGA, then the bandwidth could get exhausted and others   might not be able to view the file for some duration.

2) Please use >> VLC Player << to play the file. It is available for a large range of operating systems as well as devices.

For advanced users, I’d recommend >> K-lite codec pack + MPC-HC player << Standard version or above. The player is included from the standard version onwards.

3)  Please avoid sharing these files on YouTube and other video streaming platforms. If you wish to share our subbed files, please just reblog this tumblr post or link this post in your social media accounts.

4) You can check out our English subbed videos for our other project - Copper Coins Audio Drama from >> Here <<

Enjoy~! :D

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mob boss mo ran has some fun with wanning (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

full pics on p/atreon! ✨

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Some BAB memes I made over the past week or so

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a dumb husky, a princess, and a little devil