the best damn thing that ever happened to the st0ry of mingl@n novel was that it got picked up by good scriptwriters in one of the best production companies in the cdrama industry. because in the adaptation they actually managed to acknowledge and criticise the class and gender inequality in feudal society. and yet despite it, there are people like ML and GTY who are kind and good and love despite the pain and hurt they experienced in their childhoods.
the mingl@n novel was painful to read (so i dropped it), and the author's followup effort l0ve like the gal@xy is turning out the same (and i want to drop it)
it still has all these bitchy women constantly making snide comments to our protagonist for the audacity of 1) not being well-mannered or educated because her parents left her behind from a young age to fight a war and she was deliberately neglected by her awful aunt and grandmother for 10 years and 2) being married to the most eligible bachelor in the country, aka our male lead
the novel keeps telling how the heroine has her own mind, then throws that away in the middle because the male lead has to be stronger and smarter than her. never mind that she doesn't want to marry you, just have the royal family bully her into it. she's turning into a doormat. how dare she say no; how dare she want to break off the engagement; how dare she not fawn over her fiance like she actually loves him?! and yes it is repeatedly emphasised how firm his grip is, the heroine can't shake him off, but it's somehow romantic.
the drama adaptation isn't any better; for some bizarre reason they decided to turn her mother up to eleven, and now she has an abusive, neglectful asian tiger mom because her life has to suck and the audience needs someone else to hate on. and they kept all the shrill boy-crazy women too. you see, our heroine is ~not like other girls~
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iāve just discovered a little mod that hasĀ changed my (sims) life probably forever!Ā it expands both the CAS menus and the in-game menus to save you the pain of clicking a million times. the CAS one is compatible with the widescreen CAS camera fix, and theyāre all super easy to install (just drop into the downloads folder)!
DownloadĀ widescreen UIĀ by Chris Hatch
[CAS version is in post #2, change appearance post #23, buy/plan outfits post #28, and if you have a MTS account, thank Chris for this lifesaver!]
ive done so many pieces for zines that i cant post until laterā¦ hereās a tiny little something i did for a page header on the hollow knight zine i just finished up, to tide yāall over for the bigger pieces! ;0