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tag of the week:

#i've been flirting wrong for YEARS- thank you lwj ✳ @fancymurdermansion #is it even really possible to look at this giant dork and NOT feel affectionate?? ✳ @chadekelevra

Gods this man looking sexy like this. ✳ @liadantaru Even with a tissue stuck up his nose 😂 ✳ @nebuluscharlie

#how can he look cute with a napkin stuck in his nose????- so cute- and zhan-ge's smile is everything- so cute together♥ ✳ @too-old-for-wangxian #how does he look so beautiful with ectoplasm leaving him like some Victorian psychic- the power of love baby- it shines out from within ✳ @latitudeoctopus

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WHATTT?!?

This wonderful and long awaited thing, adapted from the Danmei novel Shan He Yong Ji or 山河永寂, has had so many names

- 紫陌红尘

- Eternal Silence of Mountains and Rivers

- Purple Street Red Dust

- Zi Mo Hong Chen

And now today the trailer for a Dangai of ancient Chinese gays, that’s not going to be queer-coded, has finally been released and once more it has a brand new name: Kill To Love

What ever the name this Danmei adaptation looks 🔥🔥🔥

Link to a FanSub of the trailer: https://x.com/xiaolin_0908/status/1948750980843192674?s=61&t=Ldh9JmfcEKSK5X1hFzSxQA

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xiao zhan and a meow meow ☺️

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Xiao Zhan - Shanghai Leica Photo Exhibition

Leica is holding a photography exhibition in Shanghai that will be in place for one month, and the exhibition features four photographs from Xiao Zhan.

More information under the cut.

According to the description of his works, the inspiration for these images comes from his hometown Chongqing. In his impression, in the streets and alleys of Chongqing Lushao, the "Bangbang Army" shouldered the weight of the mountain city.

Bamboo sticks and ropes are not only tools for livelihood, but also engraved with the memory of the mountain city. When the light rail passes through the building, their trumpet sounds are finally swallowed up by the roar of the machinery, but their rough palms still hold the old fireworks.

The camera freezes the moment when they intersect with the modern city. A steel forest rises from the ground. These images are not only an elegy for the disappearing industry, but also witness how the bones of a city are quietly heavy in the fission of the times.

(cr: BB ART)

Witness of the Century: When the Leica Meets China

07.26 - 08.25

Shanghai Postal Museum

No. 250, North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai

Exhibition Introduction

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Leica camera.

In 1925, the Leica camera was officially put into mass production and launched. This compact and portable camera created a new way of photography - photography has become flexible, low-key and natural, allowing photographers to capture the original, immediate and unmodified moments of real life.

On this centenary, the exhibition "Witness of the Century: When the Leica Meets China" pays tribute to the deep roots of the Leica and Chinese photographic culture. This one-month exhibition is held at the Shanghai Postal Museum.

In this exhibition, visitors can enjoy rare cameras and lenses from the early days to recent years, detailed design manuscripts, raw materials and components of the production process, antique advertisements and "Leica" magazine covers and other historical materials, as well as rich image works from Chinese and foreign Leica photographers with a creation time span of nearly a hundred years.

This exhibition not only traces the evolution of Leica Optical products, but is also a visual epic written with lenses.

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藏海传 Legend of Zang Hai

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dufu caotang, chengdu, sichuan province, china

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Who will speak first?

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I know these people are incapable of feeling guilt or empathy most of the time, but I'm going to tell every one of them my mother died and it sucked. I don't care.

Maybe I'm trying to make sure a horrible, pointless, unnecessary death can have some meaning beyond my grief. That my mom's suffering can have some... reason.

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Never forget, if someone asks you an invasive question, you can always reply by asking them "do you think that's a normal thing to ask people?"

Do it in a super casual and cheery tone, like you were asking about their favourite food.

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This is EXACTLY the kind of movie I love. I really, really hope it comes out where I am (or if not, on a streaming service!).

Film Rec: 看我今天怎麼說 | The Way We Talk (2025)

On the topic of new Hong Kong movies, I want to shout from the rooftops about The Way We Talk, which will be releasing in theatres in Canada on July 25, 2025 and in the US on August 1, 2025. (It's also recently wound up theatre runs in Australia and the UK.)

TWWT is the latest work from director Adam Wong Sau-ping (after The Way We Keep Dancing in 2020). Without explaining too much plot-wise, the film focuses on several young Deaf Hongkongers attempting to find a middle ground with one another, when their backgrounds have each shaped their lives and identities as Deaf people in different ways. Starring Neo Yau, Chung Suet-ying, and Marco Ng, it's a look at and celebration of Hong Kong's Deaf culture and Hong Kong Sign Language, highlighting the diversity of Deaf experiences and pointing out systemic issues faced by Hongkonger Deaf communities which still have yet to be addressed. More generally, the film is also an incredible, nuanced look at how multilingualism and disability play into formation of one's identity, and how different individuals navigate those things.

Beyond the story itself, this film has multiple standout aspects. The acting from all three leads is phenomenal, and in my opinion TWWT should be considered a representative work in all their careers (special shoutout to Marco Ng, who'd never acted before this film but easily held his own with the other, more experienced leads). The sound design is beautifully done and immersive, to the point that I wouldn't recommend you bring popcorn or crunchy snacks into the theatre for this— it'll take you or others around you out of the film. And bouncing off of sound, the ways in which signed and spoken language are utilized (alongside subtitles or deliberate lack of them) together add new layers to the storytelling, and make the film almost interactive with the audience at times. I was lucky enough to watch TWWT twice in theatres when I flew back to Hong Kong in May, and I wholeheartedly consider it to be the best film I've watched this year.

TWWT was first released in Hong Kong theatres in February 2025. The acclaim it's received since has notably included Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress nominations for Neo Yau and Chung Suet at the Golden Horse Awards (with the latter winning her category), and nominations for Best Film, Best Director (Adam Wong), Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best New Performer (Marco Ng), and Best Sound Design at this year's Hong Kong Film Awards. If you have even the slightest interest or curiosity in this film, I encourage you to go watch it and give it a chance. Here's a couple trailers below to help make up your mind:

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“I don't hold grudges. I always get even on the spot.”

藏海传 Legend of Zang Hai

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xiao zhan happy and teary-eyed at a stefanie sun concert 🥹🥹

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Cr: 一口全麦兔司

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One of the big whump scenes, and it was one long take. Wow.

Xiao Zhan on a scene in Legend of Zang Hai that was really challenging to film and his own contribution to it.

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Omg these are fucking gold 😂

So I got Ransom Notes

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Whyyyy did XZ get so shy when asked about common interests with WYB?!?!