#CHINESE ADAPTATION

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METEOR GARDEN (2018 CHINESE ADAPTATION)

Good girl Shancai (SHEN YUE) couldn't leave her friend lost in a blizzard so she had to go looking, completely unaware that some mean girls lied to her. She was caught in the storm basically prepared to die when the man that loves her came to her aid.

Daoming Si (DYLAN WANG) found Shancai near death and jump into action. Warming her up in the cabin by stripping down and cuddling they were awaken when two Canadians entered the cabin.

Daoming Si and Shancai get dressed and he gallantly carries her on his back to his luxurious home. Can't deny Daoming Si went about it in the wrong way often times but he definitely loved a girl called Dong Shancai.

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MADE IN CHINA

SHEN YUE

DYLAN WANG

DARREN CHEN

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

rotating shadowpeach dynamics and angst in my brain and wound up drawing a Peter Pan-ish AU, ft. Sun Wukong as Pan and Macaque as Captain Hook

this was mostly inspired by what I've heard about the original Peter Pan being a little darker in some areas than expected - basically take the shadowpeach backstory of 'events outside our monkey bros control force distance between the two besties, SWK basically rolls with the punches and SEM does NOT leading to one ugly blowout of a fight that permanently fucks up the bromance' and apply Peter Pan lore:

Mac becomes Wukong's tagalong/lost boy/BFF when Smol, but as time goes on, he grows up and SWK does NOT, losing interest in the friendship and sending Mac into a panic. He desperately tries to hold onto their friendship and chase after SWK, but that just backfires when Wukong lashes out. Down a hand and an eye, Macaque becomes obsessed with vengeance and continues trying to catch/kill SWK, growing up into a ruthless pirate captain

something that was just tugging on me with this idea is that in this AU, SWK's character growth basically gets surgically removed on account of the 'permanently an immature child' thing, and WOW yeah that part of the Peter Pan lore is kinda underused for angst wtf

bonus: drawing timelapse go brrrrrrrrrrr

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Quarry No. 8 & 9, Lishui, China - DnA

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Chinese GP '25 // P13 in Sprint Quali

"It's been a tough day up until now - struggling with some balance problems...not knowing exactly where to find the lap time, bit of overdriving, and bit of a problem with the seat. So, yeah. A bit too many issues which meant we couldn't go through. But we'll try and learn from it... I feel I am still short in mileage with learning the car and how to drive it, especially when it comes to qualifying."

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Meet You at the Blossom | S01E12

Chinese Drama - 2024, 12 episodes

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Native Title: #花开有时颓靡无声

A: “Hua Kai You Shi, Tui Mi Wu Sheng” (花开有时, 颓靡无声)

Genres: #Romance #Historical #LGBTQ+

Tags: #Adapted from a Novel

Cast: #Li Le #Wang Yun Kai #Li Jun Liang

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A-Qing, the little fox.

[xinyuehui]

If I told you that you could travel back in time through photos, would you like to take the chance?

LINK CLICK LIVE ACTION

[overthinkingmoth]

mayhaps the donghua team were hualian's strongest warriors all along

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Poster of My Stand-In EP.11 - Love is Merely Madness

Producer Yuan tweeted that the English tagline took inspiration from Shakespeare's As You Like It

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

The Chinese tagline is "有美人兮，见之不忘" which can be translated as "There is a beautiful person, I will never forget them after seeing them"

Producer Yuan explained that this Chinese tagline comes from an ancient Chinese poem and she feels that it describes the visible yearning and longing Ming has for Joe in EP.11

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METEOR GARDEN (2018, CHINESE ADAPTATION)

As fans of this series know after Mrs. Daoming chased off Shancai with the threat of going after Shancai's (SHEN YUE) friends and their families.

Shancai joined her parents in the fishing village where they lived (remember Meteor Garden is the only version in which the female lead did not have a kid brother)

Hauze Lei (DARREN CHEN) found her and brought her home.

Later Hauze Lei told Daoming Si he planned on pursuing Shancai since she and Si broke up. Si pretended it didn't matter and later got drunken crying in front of Meizuo and Ximen.

However later Daoming Si (DYLAN WANG) decided he couldn't live without Shancai and told Lei.

A scheming Lei says to let Shancai decide. Then Lei called Shancai and requested she turn off her phone for 48 hours and stay with her best friend. She reluctantly agreed. During this time Si searched high and low for Shancai to no avail.

When he did find Shancai she was with Lei walking on the street, Si confessed he could not live without her. Shancai makes her choice and boards a bus with Lei. Si chases after the bus until it is out of sight and he is out of breath.

He turns slowly defeated.

But then he hears Shancai calling out his name. Shancai chooses Si over Lei.

Lei later claims he did it to get Si jealous (more or less) Lei lets go of Shancai and leaves for Taiwan.

Note: Hauze Lei was a decent guy. He always stood up for Shancai when Si let her down (mainly because of his mom) even when Si abandoned Shancai when she traveled to London to find him where she was robbed. My point Lei should not have ended up alone. But that's just my opinion.

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MADE IN CHINA

SHEN YUE

DYLAN WANG

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Chinese censorship isn’t the most important thing about The Untamed. Why is it treated as though it is?

When explicit televised BLs consistently have nothing more than their explicitness to recommend them, the retreat to quality is always going to take BL fans to Chinese Danmei adaptations, called Dangai, for political substance, romantic meaningfulness and life-changing queer inspiration. I was so excited to see one of my fave BL podcast teams give this pathbreaking Dangai the in-depth tour de force it deserves.

I was however, disappointed with one aspect of this Review Conversation Podcast in that what first ensues is an enthusiastic, extended yet hollow discussion on Chinese censorship which for me somewhat overshadows an otherwise interesting and valuable discussion of the Biggest BL Drama in the World.

I believe the podcasters are acting in good faith by introducing statements such as that every country has official media censorship, but equivocating the censorship of American empire with Chinese indigenous attempts to control their own information and cultural sphere, is a false comparison I admit most stumble into without understanding the two are not comparable.

The US has the most sophisticated and thorough censorship system in human history, affecting not just the inhabitants of its own national boundaries, but also profoundly and nefariously shaping the information sphere globally for billions of people. However what’s really outstanding is that most Americans not only don’t recognise how much of their worldview is censored - from their university education to mainstream news to Hollywood shows, and therefore erroneously believe their censorship regime is the standard that should be the baseline for the rest of the planet. For example the fact many believe Chinese are poor downtrodden slave labourers; there’s a ginocyde against Uyghurs in Xinjiang; Chinese are governed by a social credit system; and Taiwan is an independent country is a triumph of the almost seamless effectiveness of American censorship globally.

The US media censorship regime is for the purpose of manufacturing imperialist wars without casus belli; generating profit from the destruction of nature, lives and livelihoods; whitewashing multiple genocides; and normalising poverty, suffering, underdevelopment, white supremacy and capitalism.

In comparison, Chinese media censorship standards are not covert so Chinese all know what is being redacted and why. China is a communist country; communism and socialism reject pornography and the commodification of human sexuality. More than 22 million Chinese fought and died to create and preserve a communist country where they can live their lives free from western oppression and especially western values which subjected them to the humiliation of colonisation, slavery, horrendous poverty and cultural degradation and whose purveyors are presently gearing up to reduce China to this state again even in 2025.

Americans are “free” to say and do almost anything in the name of self expression because their free speech changes nothing; it is impotent for improving the material circumstances of their lives - regardless of sexuality.

The free speech of Americans hasn’t been able to grant them a real wage increase in 30 years; female control over their reproductive capacities; prevent African Americans from being killed anytime with impunity by state forces; provision of affordable health care for all; end chronic homelessness, drug addiction or depression - all of which Chinese citizens have been able to achieve since the communist revolution and the rejection of western value imposition. You’re unlikely to see make-out scenes on Chinese tv that you can masturbate to but you will see state-provided trans health care being rolled out in every province.

Because of this unacknowledged context Chinese governance consistently receives the highest citizen approval in the world because it is the most responsive to delivering on the demands of its people, while the U.S. and other western liberal, capitalist nations lack this level of meaningful legitimacy as stated by their own people. This explains why it’s imperialist, chauvinist and supremacist to start from the assumption of western superiority or to hold up western values as a standard, far less being equal in the conduct and pursuit of human welfare.

In China the great firewall is for the purpose of protecting national economic, political and cultural sovereignty, thereby securing the continued upwards trajectory in the lives of 1.4 Billion people. The failed CIA-backed Color Revolution at Tiananmen Square is one solemn reminder of what can happen to the Chinese way of life if American values permeate their society unchecked. This is a life and death struggle for the Chinese civilisation not irrational whimsies of prejudice against minority group identity.

On the specific matter of using and misusing LGBT organising for nefarious reasons - CIA pro-democracy, liberal identity politics funding has been used to mobilise anti-government and opposition movements in the guise of funding LGBT HIV reduction programs in Cuba and in Nigeria LGBT political organising ended up with the government announcing a No Gay Marriage policy, a policy no Nigerian LGBT movements even asked for. The subsequent regime change that was so successful in one of these two countries has led to catastrophic declines in the economic and social conditions of Nigerians - LGBT people are not least among the worst affected.

Nigeria is a capitalist country which subscribes to neoliberal capitalist values as promoted by the US and Nigerians largely admire the USA, viewing it worthy of emulation; Cuba is not. Cuba, like other independent, socialist states before them, has one of the most progressive LGBTQ+ suite of legal rights in the Americas and indeed the world, particularly in its recent Family Code revisions.

These negative impacts of kowtowing to western social orthodoxies are not accidental; they are the point of disingenuous white saviour, pro-LGBT and pro-democracy orchestration in the majority world and specifically in countries targeted by the US for Regime-Change, who can discount these experiences at their own peril. Astute leadership will not.

If you want to make the lives of Chinese LGBT better and safer start campaigning for the removal of the 400 US military bases that surround China and threaten every citizen with annihilation, irrespective of sexual preference, for the crime of wanting sovereignty in choosing their own future.

I’m hoping the Part 2 of this Conversation can zero in on much more important and interesting questions such as why so many more millions, perhaps even billions of viewers continue to watch and rewatch and bond over 50+ “censored” episodes - far more than consume the sexually explicit novel or all the other sexually explicit BLs combined, and why they find this queer-coded Dangai more meaningful, more impactful to their mental health and make them feel more optimistic about queer, anti-patriarchal love and romance than more explicit LGBT works with less high viewing barriers to entry.

These are just some of my initial thoughts as I listened to that review Conversation which I hope will encourage people to dig deeper into this intellectually unfamiliar territory and come to their own conclusions especially when commenting about ways of life and being of countries, almost everything about which they know has been taught to them by China’s enemies and therefore conditioned by anti-communist propaganda under the might of the most aggressively immaculate imperial censorship regime, from cradle to grave.

Links to screenshotted References in comments.

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so i've been falling down the danmei productions (chinese censored productions of BL novels) rabbit hole and i've figured out the basic BL starter pack:

1. BANTER. the two protagonists need to make a ton of thinly veiled jokes at each other about being in love. because censors! so in order to get any of it aired it's all gotta be nudge nudge wink wink. let me insert an episode where everyone suddenly acts out of character due to magic! or let me make the shameless one dress as a woman for an episode! they will find any and every way to let the two leads f l i r t and make us all wonder: why don't these two just get married already?

2. YEARNING. because if one half of our main couple has not waited at least 10 years for the other to either show up in their life or resurrect from the dead, are they really in love?

3. OPPOSITES ATTRACT. we need the flirty one! endlessly grinning and touching and teasing the silent one! and the cold quiet one is only soft for the sunshine one! how else can we know that their love is true!

4. SUFFERING. and i mean SUFFERING. dead parents. entire families annihilated. torture. tragic backstories abound. these men have never known happiness until they've met their other half. and then all they want to do is watch the world burn together. (and can we really blame them for that?)

5. ACTS OF ("brotherly") LOVE. they were brothers, historians would say, but they're almost always nearly dying for each other, and longing after each other, and siding with each other against the entire world.

5.1 OH BUT THEY WERE IN LOVE IN LOVE. there's gotta be at least one scene somewhere when our two main protagonists speculate about their possible future together. especially if it's just before some incredibly terrifyingly intense climax of the story (where one of our leads may *gasps* die) they talk about running a noodle shop together, or roaming the world together, or travelling from town to town fighting crime together.

5.2 AND THEY WERE SOULMATES. the word soulmates comes up somewhere. it technically translates to confidant (or person who knows me) but. if the translators decide to subtitle it as soulmate who am i to tell them otherwise.

6. FOUND FAMILY. they also have to adopt a kid who's gonna follow them through their adventures. sometimes it's two kids, sometimes it's a whole baseball team of children (of all ages and genders, they are incredibly inclusive on this point in this way). these kids are going to represent every single viewer, watching the main leads flirt while wondering, why don't i have two dads? why must one always go away and leave me behind? why is it always the rich dad that's gotta go? please come back and feed me and my poor papa we are starving rich dad.

i could keep going but these are the main requirements in our basic chinese BL novel adaptation starter packs. oh also most of the budget goes into hiring the two most attractive main leads possible and you get to watch as the cgi gets worse episode after episode as the show loses funding through its run. but it doesn't matter because these two men are clearly in love and i'm still 100% here for it.

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THE FIRST FROST

Wen Yifan: I don't deserve you. Sang Yan: Wen Shungjiang, take that back. Do you know why I never dated anyone all these years? Because I only wanted the best.

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The Untamed | S01E22

Chinese Drama - 2019, 50 episodes

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