Latest Posts by weishenmewwx - Page 6
And now I figure out where to hang my mermen and unicorn-man…
posting on twitter feels like throwing something you worked on for hours, days, weeks into a river, hoping it'll get swept out to sea for many people to experience, only for it to immediately crash into some rocks and explode. its gone now. if no one sees it in the 0.00003 seconds it exists on their timelines, no one ever will
posting on tumblr is like carefully placing your work in the middle of a dark abandoned factory, and slowly a bunch of weird little goblins manifest from the shadows and touch your work all over with their little raccoon hands and share it with each other. sometimes they find your thing again many years later and excitedly share it again
the weird goblins are much more enjoyable
Here is Part 7 of 7 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1 (one I missed the first time I posted):
Here is Part 6 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, Appendix.
Here is Part 5 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, pages 264 - 341.
Here is Part 4 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, pages 210 - 263.
Here is Part 3 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, pages 148 - 209
Here is Part 2 of my annotations of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1, pages 87 - 147.
So, I think I’m done annotating my copy of First Edition MDZS, Volume 1.
Thanks to Suibian Subs and Scans and @baobeibuns’ Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/baobeibuns/status/1495228005026648067), I penciled in missing lines and corrected a bunch of little mis-translations.
I also re-translated a bunch of words that I felt weren’t conveying the correct feeling, and added a few explanatory notes in places that I remember being super confused.
Here is Part 1, through page 65:
https://youtu.be/X424BWOczS4
I now have something to aspire to. Imagine: a whole library of Just MXTX, or even Just MDZS ❤️
My books arrived from Taiwan. I’m going to start my Traditional Characters, top-to-bottom, right-to-left re-read from the inn in YunPing (where the bookmark is).
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grading the dramatic entrances of The Untamed, in no particular order
Wen Chao at the Cloud Recesses - Yes, he’s garbage, and he interrupted Jiang Cheng’s carefully prepared gift-giving, which is unforgiveable, but you cannot deny that this is a moderately dramatic entrance. From a piece of shit. 5/10, hate him, consolation prize for most punchable face.
Lan Wangji on the search for Wei Wuxian - The slow climb up the stairs. The epic scenery. The unsubtle threat. 8/10, points deducted because the follow-up is anticlimactic. We should have gotten to see some ass-kicking.
Lan Wangji at the hostage summer camp - Improvement! Isn’t letting the scenery do all the work, but letting it work for him instead. More slow swishy robes. More murder in his expression. No sign of having a broken leg because he keeps the pain inside. 9/10, excellent way to not be dead, no wonder Wei Wuxian rapidly develops a technique for flirting in hostage situations.
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An eye-opening article about Danmei Radio Dramas in China:
https://supchina.com/2021/11/04/the-wild-wonderful-queer-world-of-chinese-radio-dramas/
It’s good. Especially if you’ve experienced the absolute exquisite excellence that is the MDZS radio drama, you’ll enjoy reading it :)
Some quotes:
These societies recruited their own production staff and talent, who collaborated to produce radio dramas and release them online for free. These are known as “web dramas” (网配剧 wǎng pèijù), in contrast with the professionally-produced “commercial dramas” (商配剧 shāng pèijù) that came later. These creators spent time, labor, and often cash on recording equipment, studio time, music, and other services, and made no money from their productions. What they did was, as they like to say, “generate power out of love.”
Despite this move toward a more general taste, danmei remains the most popular genre in radio dramas. At the time of this writing, danmei seasons account for 19 of the top 20 most-followed list on MissEvan. ….Topping the most-played list is The Founder of Diabolism (魔道祖师 módào zǔshī), with each season exceeding 100 million plays.…. Even on Ximalaya — which has a much broader audience than MissEvan’s younger, more female-dominant audience to whom danmei content most appeals — six of the 10 most popular radio dramas are of the danmei genre.
Sometimes the standard can seem arbitrary. “Take kissing for instance,” she says, “some may think eight seconds is okay and let you pass, but some others may think five seconds is too long and must be reduced to four seconds.”
MDZS Weibo update, 1.22.2022 “Does the following collection of warm smiles from Hanguang Jun also touch you? There is still 1 day before Hanguangjun's birthday.”
Me: Yes, Yes it does! Hanguang Jun handsome Hanguang Jun.. may his days always be filled with warm smiles and happy moments with Wei Ying
Chinese Fashion doesn’t always make sense to me, but I gotta admit that I think it’s Really Interesting.
niche absurd fashion post
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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Is Chinese Concert Fashion more interesting than American Concert Fashion, or do I just not care enough about American Concert Fashion to pay attention?
Or are Hua ChenYu and Zhou Shen just more interesting than any other singers in the world?
Mars Concert 2021 - more pictures
sources 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6
I am new to DMBJ fandom and I want to ask a favour. Would you introduce me to some dmbj tumblr blogs, active or on hiatus. No pressure though.
Hello anon!! I have no idea when you sent this to me, and honestly huge apologies since I've been on hiatus for , like , literal months. Yikes. At this point you've probably found all the blogs you'd like to find, but I'll include a few that come to mind under the cut anyway!
Please keep in mind that I've been on hiatus for several months, so there could be super ✨hot✨ and ✨fresh✨ new blogs I am not aware of, and/or some of these folks may have drifted out of the fandom, and/or my memory may have failed me!
Best of luck anon, and welcome! :D
DMemeBJers (A-Z)
@cross-d-a - crossy baby has been on hiatus for awhile but I think about her tits post literally every day. If anyone has a link please sent it to me. Please. I’m begging.
@ghostyshades - a Meme Queen (gender neutral), tho I’m not sure if Sasha is still posting DMBJ?
@nope4ever - the absolute funniest DMemeBJ person alive
@psychic-waffles - Jack owns my entire ass and I would die for him, you’ve seen his sketches and you don’t even know, I love him
DMBJ Fan Artists / Gif Makers (A-Z)
@ashenwren / art blog @ashenlights - wonderful artist and all around good person! Multi-fandom but has some great DMBJ stuff :)
@creeds-eagle - Wonderful gifs across a variety of DMBJ shows!
@dmbjartreblogs, run by @unforth - thanks for the addition, Foxy!!! :)
@keichin - an incredible artist!! last I checked, mostly draws HeiHua + misc. from TLT3
@rose-nebulijia - does beautiful edits as well as incredible fic, is also my heart, love, and life. You may also see her referred to as Vishie!
@tianzhens - this is someone I just recently started following!
@wu-xie - makes gorgeous gifsets, though they may also be on hiatus??
DMBJ Fic Writers (A-Z)
@achray1 - multi-fandom blog and one of the absolute best fanfic writers I have had the pleasure to read
@amidalogicdive - very kind, great writer, and super involved in fandom projects!!
@chirpybirdy - I haven’t talked to them much, but I know they have a bunch of DMBJ fic? I’m not sure how frequently they post DMBJ
@dmbjexchange - a great place to start if you wanna get in on fic!
@eirenical - very horny for Zhu Yilong, which is relatable and sexy of them
@epicwalrus - a gem of a writer, person, and being. 10/10 good vibes
@foxofninetales - FOXY BABY is an absolute gem, a star, a great author and all around joy to be around, I really have no idea if she is still posting DMBJ but I think so and for that I include her
@hils79 - quite literally the nicest person on this hellsite, also a DMBJ legend @humanlighthouse - an absolute legend, PingXie fic queen, also has a very soft aesthetic that will make your dash ~glow~
@kholran - is any DMBJ rec list complete without the RiSang pool noodle? Signs point to no
@laireshi - incredible author with equally incredible feelings about Xiaoge and I think that’s very fun, flirty, and sexy of them
@mejomonster - multi-fandom, but can always be counted on for EXTENSIVE and HEART-RENDING DMBJ tags
@merinnan - multifandom and multi-interest blog; prolific writer in DMBJ + very involved in DMBJ fan events and such!
@pissmeoffanddie - not DMBJ exclusive but YES genuinely the most wonderful
@s1utspeare - an absolute fucking legend, mostly posting M9, Fo/FuBa, and other fandoms now, but still a great DMBJ source!!
@thosch3i - not on tumblr a whole lot but when they are I am almost guaranteed to peel at my yellow wallpaper about it
@traineecryptid - great writer and very fun dash energy!
@undyingsunshine - if you like crying about Li Cu, have I got the blog for you!!!!
Good Vibes and DMBJ Content (A-Z)
@dmbjaddict and @theyareinlovecanttellmeotherwise are great blogs if you want lots of DMBJ / PingXie content on your feed!!
@canary3d-obsessed - actually not sure how much she posts DMBJ consistently, but her DMBJ fashion posts literally ascended me to the heavenly realm
@jaecomments - the literal love of my life, professional hype beast
@justpostsyeet - always down for a good head canon discussion, especially about our fave bitchy ex ;)
@greymouser13 - I have no idea if they are still posting DMBJ but I do know that they bring me joy, and thus here they are
@kolachess - super interesting posts, head canons, and translation discussion! (multi-fandom)
@mythochondrion - bonk, go to horny jail
@ninbayphua - Ninby posts loads of fandoms, incl. DMBJ! Also has a writing blog that you can find here: @ninbayphua-moyan
@uschickens - great head canons and DMBJ discussion, same good vibes as @momosandlemonsoda
@xcziel - follow for the tags, stay for the incredible loving energy
@xiaobaibai - a great place to find fanart and general good vibes :)
@xia-xueyi - not DMBJ exclusive but has a really cute turtle and really nice energy so.... 🐢
Mystic Nine Specific, & We Love That For Them (A-Z)
@elletromil - every day I think about how talented Elle is, and every day I weep. These are related events.
@gaiahenshin - immediately after weeping about Elle, I think about how kind and lovely Gaia is, and then the weeping recommences. These are related events.
I’m sure there are loads I missed, and others I mis-labelled! Please feel free to add corrections and additions in the reblogs or notes. :)
This is most affirming thing I’ve ever read.
I am very grateful for this (amazingly funny and honest and raw and did I mention funny?) analysis of Why This Story Changed My Life.
okay love this tor dot com article exploring writing craft through the lens of the untamed fucking slaps and why
As I’m preparing my copy of MDZS to lend out, I’m re-reading about how crazy and difficult it is to translate XianXia.
Of course, I can’t share any of these posts with my uninitiated friends, since even the Name meta contains a spoiler. Ugh!
At least I’m enjoying it. And can maybe copy-paste abridged non-spoiler versions of some of these posts :)
松风水月 masterpost
Hi I’m jing (she/they, 海外华人) 🍆 You can find my mdzs/cql meta and translation posts on this blog :) Please note that I do not allow my meta and translations to be translated, reposted, edited, reproduced (including printing, and/or the distributing of electronic and physical copies), or used commercially.
General meta related to terms used in mdzs/cql
The real meaning of 走火入魔 / “qi deviation”
The real meaning of 青山不改 绿水长流 后会有期 (cql only)
The differences between gongzi 公子 and shaoye 少爷
The differences between dizi 弟子 and mensheng 门生
The C-fandom’s nicknames for mdzs characters (novel only)
Plot meta
CQL subs critique
On the names of Lan Wangji’s bunnies (novel only)
What Jiang Fengmian might have done differently
The ideal wife, according to Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian (cql only)
The moment Nie Mingjue acted like a true Chinese parent in canon (novel only)
The 36 Stratagems in MDZS
Character meta
Jiang Cheng: Family, responsibility, and love
Lan Sizhui: What Lan Sizhui’s birth and courtesy names mean
Lan Xichen: What Shuoyue and Liebing mean
Lan Xichen: Fairness, justice, and love
3zun: Oath of fraternity
Analysis of speech patterns in mdzs from character to character
Translation notes
What really happened in the love confession scene in the Guanyin temple (novel only)
Wei Wuxian’s heart and temperament 心性
What Nie Huaisang was saying about Lan Wangji in the flower petal scene (cql only)
Lan Wangji never said “you are an awful person” to Wei Wuxian (novel only)
Misc
The meaning of “jianghu” 江湖
Using Chinese names
A short note on translation
Right panel style 右衽 and left panel style 左衽 in hanfu
Other links
🐥 Meta originally posted on Twitter 🎨 Main art tumblr ☕️ Ko-fi
I’m annotating the Official Translation of MDZS before I lend it out to non-Chinese friends, and as I was reading I realized that the Chapters are different! Paper Book ch 1 = online book ch 1-4!
Which is ok, fine, sure…but that also means that there are no incredibly cute chapter titles to make the relationship between author and reader feel more intimate. I love MXTX as much as I do partially because every few chapter titles felt like it was a charming little inside joke that she wrote just for me (and her other millions of readers).
Here is a screenshot and link to Awesome Charming Cute Chapter Titles:
Here are the English Translations, courtesy of the MDZS wiki ❤️:
So my questions now:
do I just Pencil In the Cute Chapter Titles in the paper novel where they would/should appear?
Do they matter as much when it’s so difficult to translate the completely different style that they are written in — cutesy slang — vs. the writing style of the novel — proper “period” XianXia? I mean, of all the LWJ references in the chapter titles, she only writes his actual name Lan Wangji “properly” twice. Twice, in over 100 chapters. I learned how to read slang in Chinese because of these chapter titles! (And the end-chapter notes, and some of the comments :)
What’s the best way to introduce this story to a non-Chinese, non-XianXia, non-BL-reader?!?!?
Read the notes 😘
je croix que nous devons arrêter de parler anglais et semplicemente ricominciare a usare la nostra prima lingua quia istud clarum dii signum est ita ut nos ne loquamur barbarorum linguam
Book / Author recommendation time! Please support Daniel May so that he can keep writing so that we can keep reading his work ❤️.
Daniel May (best pen name ever 😉) recently released Blood Sports, previously working-titled Equestrian Mafia Daddy. You can read it on Kindle Unlimited, buy it a bunch of places?, and/or join his Patreon for it and more.
Here’s one of my favorite lines from this book:
And another:
I first read his work in AO3, Yi City fanfic. He made all the Yi City pain go away… (except for all the super scary painful angsty stuff he also writes, but he tags his fics well, so I know what to reread and what to avoid).
If stories are food (well, ingestibles), Daniel May is my pusher, and I hope you’ll get hooked, too.
!!!!!!! Now, can anybody tell me about the quality of the translation before I buy copies for all my friends?
I’m looking forward to this (badly suppressed excitement I’m about to text this trailer to Everyone i know. Michelle Yeoh is and always has been a superhero!!!!!)
Everything Everywhere All At Once | A24
Starring Michelle Yeoh
So you saw the trailer and thought you come to The Lost Tomb Reboot to see them raiding tombs, fighting ghosts, killing monsters, exploding this exploding that...
Turns out you see two 40-ish dudes talking nonsense, waving fake lightsabers in a tomb (yeah, in a tomb, no less) 🙄 And in later episodes they’re gonna dance tango, sing karaoke and hula hoop, also in a tomb...
I’m sorry not sorry I set all the wrong expectation...
[Okay I’m kidding, they actually do raid tombs, kill monsters, explode things. But it isn’t my fault our main characters happen to be idiots... ( ･ᴗ･̥̥̥ )]
My Highly Responsible Teenage Daughter keeps reminding me to Clean Up My Phone (delete images and video), so I can’t really justify keeping albums and albums of Zhou Shen pictures on my phone, but I really really want access to Lots of Zhou Shen photos without having to scroll through tumblr for (how long has it been? That’s not sunlight coming through the window, is it?) -
BaikeBaidu to the rescue:
https://baike.baidu.com/pic/%E5%91%A8%E6%B7%B1/15089196?albumId=3139037095&bk_fr=view_album&hit_contrast=1
Zhou Shen Song Obsession of the week: 无问 No Matter.
Apparently this is a song written (lyrics) by oft-collaborator Mao Buyi for the movie 无问西东 Forever Young, starring Zhang Ziyi, Wang Leehom, and other people I should probably know but don’t. The movie looks beautiful, but it doesn’t look like it’s bursting with happiness, so…
Zhou Shen sang 无问 for Singer 2020 in one of their Quarantine Sessions (I think), against a plain white wall, wearing an oversized jacket that looked like it could slip off any moment; his hair was tousled and his eyes looked puffy and no one had touched up his eyebrows — he looked exactly like how a lover is supposed to look after a long night of sharing heartfelt feelings. He starts in a whisper that hooks into your heart like the scent of jasmine in the dark before morning, and then the song and his voice build into a spectacular dawn, then settle once more into the most intimate whisper imaginable. I can’t linguistically express how this song makes me feel, except Loved.
https://youtu.be/9bWNHPuCxr8
I hope you like it, too.
Lyrics have been translated, if you’d like to read.
It’s accurate.
Watching Guardian like:
I know. I already made one like that.
But it's funny.
I finally found an English-Language explanation of What Happened in the novel 镇魂 Guardian by Priest! It had been hidden in video…and I had refused to watch any reviews until I had finished watching the drama…
So! If you happen to be as confused as I was after reading (loving!)(confused loving!) Zhen Hun, here’s another person to commiserate with about how unfathomable (illogical) the plot of the novel truly is (but we still don’t care. We just want more WeiLan).
https://youtu.be/jfOH0kFvDuQ