So You Saw The Trailer And Thought You Come To The Lost Tomb Reboot To See Them Raiding Tombs, Fighting

listen, i’m a sucker for all of wei ying’s different smiles😤

this awkward and confused why is he being nice to me because he loves you dumbass smile

this haha that was kinda embarrassing haha sorry sheepish grin

this watery god i love you so much you fuddy-duddy

the i am literal sunshine and i know it

the pained but silent resignation

just. evil. and maybe illegal

the i’m babie smile reserved for shijie and shijie only

the drunk cutie

this maybe i am up to no good hehe smile

smiling through the rain. i mean pain

that’s it for now but ik there’s definitely more so feel free to add to it!!

Saturday, August 7, 2021. That’s the release date for Mo Dao Zu Shi season 3!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me while I go schedule my Season 1 and 2 marathon so that my memories will be perfectly fresh and ready for Season 3 on August 7!!!!!!!!!

(Sources: https://youtu.be/YzvNsFSw0RY and https://www.yualexius.com/2021/01/mo-dao-zu-shi-season-3.html. I really really hope that they’re right!!!!!!)

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Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are coming back in 2021 for Mo Dao Zu Shi Season 3 and I am sure that I am not the only one who is excited to see

It’s accurate.

Watching Guardian like:

I know. I already made one like that.

But it's funny.

MDZS Vol 3 Annotations, part 1

Here is Part 1 of my annotations of MDZS Volume 3, pages 1-90. I hope it helps improve your reading experience!

(It's mostly cultural annotations and reminders of appropriately-untranslated words, with a few re-translations of really thorny sentences that I admit have no good translation.) (And a few places I re-translated to take out the fanciness. WWX, especially, usually speaks in a very simple, colloquial manner.)

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I don't know. I hope they do. But perhaps a few more of them will after reading this.

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Stars of Chaos 杀破狼

Volume 3, Notes 3/5, Pages 152 - 265

Cute trivia: in the online novel, this entire paragraph is One Sentence. 9 commas. No semi-colons.

This is (part of the reason) why it takes me 3-12 months to read a single Priest novel.

In case you don't already know, there is a lovely story about an emperor who had a male lover who fell asleep on the long, voluminous sleeve of his robe; and rather than wake the lover, the emperor just cut off his sleeve so that he could go work without bothering his sweetie. And now 断袖 "cut sleeve" is another word for "homosexual man."

I love the idiom for this situation: 投鼠忌器 "throw" "mouse" "afraid" "devices," or "afraid to throw anything at the mouse for fear of breaking the vases."

So, 蹂躏 does translate as "violated," but it also translates as "savaged" or "trampled," both of which I think fit here better.

Here, 完蛋 a little more vulgar than I like to think of it. I'm pretty sure this is a phrase you can use around elementary school kids. It means "to be done for," like "Uh oh. We've been caught."

Top: "Bat out of hell" in Chinese is 赶投胎似的 = like he's rushing to be reincarnated. (I find Western theology- based idioms disconcerting in Daoist/Buddhist- based novels. I understand that they convey the meaning most accurately, but it still weirds me out.)

Bottom: So cute! They are using food-based euphemisms. The Chinese for "eat his fill" is 吃了顿荤的 = "eat a meal with meat" ¬‿¬. And then they break the metaphor with "ended up in the wrong position" (on bottom instead of on top). And then return to the food euphemism with "nearly choked to death." Cute, yah?

xiansheng 先生 = "Teacher", in this context.

I added a （1) and a (2) because I started getting confused.

I also added unnecessary Chinese on "If you're so smart", that it started out (in the online version, anyway), as "你有注意" "If you have ideas,..."

OMG. If you go to a robust Chinese dictionary and search for the Chinese translation for "me," you will get SO MANY WORDS back.

One of those many words is 孤, which was used by feudal princes for a time? And 孤 usually means "lonely" or "solitary."

He climbed on Gu Yun's shoulder. 肩膀。

Either way, he's being carried around by Gu Yun and leaving drool marks on Gu Yun's shoulder <3

My DanMei Literary Adventure Masterpost

Stars of Chaos - All Notes Links

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Concept arts and sample insert illustrations by Marina Privalova (@Baoshan_Karo) for Sha Po Lang Russian Edition of the book shared by Istari Comics Publishing.

If you haven't seen the beautiful cover arts, here's the link.

Yes, the same artist behind MDZS insert illustrations for EN and RUS license.

I’m doing my first re-read of Mo Dao Zu Shi, and would like to complain very publicly to a sympathetic audience that I Don’t Want to Read Song Lan’s Death again. It hurt the first time I read it, the first time I heard it on Audio Drama, the first time I watched it on CQL. (Now I skip that chapter in Audio Drama). I don’t want to experience it again; but I’m over halfway through ch 40 already and can’t abandon WWX’s POV via A-Qing.

I’m just looking forward to Drunk Lan Zhan #2. The promise of Drunk Lan Zhan will get me through this. Yes.