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He has short blond hair, light blue eyes, and an aggressive pointed nose.
There is a huge scar on the right forehead. A tattoo on the inside of his left forearm but is damaged by a scar. Both forearms were covered with scars made by knife. In addition, there are countless scars on his body, some of which are left by knife, some of which are left by wolves.
Garth is a neurotic, selfish, arrogant, and cunning man. His good family background and rich knowledge make him have the arrogance to master everything, so once the development of things is not expected, he will lose his temper like a child.
Garth's parents are geologists and biologists from Birmingham, UK, they are typically old-fashioned and stubborn intellectuals. Influenced by his parents, Garth has rich natural knowledge and a northern English accent.
During the gold rush around 1900, Mr. Igneous and his wife come to Alaska with their 18-year-old son Hull, 16-year-old daughter Liz and 10-year-old Garth for research. Along with them is Jason Stamford, 26, a tutor for the children. The young Garth is in need of his parents, but the couple's work is very busy, they entrust Jason with the task of taking care of Garth and teaching him to read and write.
Jason is a talented young man with a major in paleontology. He was once a student of Garth's father. Because of polio, his left leg muscles atrophy and he can only walk with a walking stick. Various complications lead to his weakness and emaciation. But this does not kill his tenderness and love of life. These beautiful virtues also deeply influenced Garth.
As a sickly child, Garth does not like the outdoors, so he spends a lot of time with Jason in addition to attending classes. The two talk like father and son, read books and learn the piano, and their bond grows.
When Garth turns 18, he boldly confesses his hot, confused admiration to Jason. Jason also likes the studious and enthusiastic boy, but the work ethic makes him turn him down. Jason, who is also gay, does not criticize Garth's unusual sexuality, but encourages him to be himself and not go against his will.
但是这些事都被加什的父母看在眼里,他们辞退了詹森。加什与父母大吵了一架。
But Garth's parents see all this, and they fire Jason. Garth has a big fight with his parents.
Jason returns home to Manchester in poor health, but keeps up a close correspondence with Garth, offering gentle advice on the young man's troubles and doubts. Jensen died three years later, when Garth is 22.
In 1919, when Garth is 25 years old, he has a very heated argument with his parents about his professional planning. His parents have arranged work and marriage for him in detail and ask him to marry the daughter of a local investor in order to obtain academic financial support. Garth impulsively tells them his sexual orientation and desire for freedom. His parents are very angry, abuse Jason for instilling bad illusion into his son. In a rage, Garth packs up and leaves home.
Half of year ago, Garth's parents meet Anderson Hastings (27) from the south of the US. This handsome and wealthy young man is looking for the assistance of experts in geology and biology for his career. He is gorgeous in clothes and spokes appropriately and is soon recognized by the Ignoneus family. The two young people meet and become intimate.
加什离家出走之后理所当然的去投奔了安德森,他很快就带着加什踏上了去往苏联出差的游轮。两人开始热恋。
Garth runs away from home and goes to Anderson. Anderson soon takes Garth on a cruise ship to the Soviet Union for a business trip.
Anderson never hides his sexual orientation and introduces Garth as his boyfriend which makes Garth feel safe. But what Garth doesn't expect is that Anderson just takes him as a property could show off.
In addition, Anderson is a control freak playboy. He believes that love is only a trade. He provides his boyfriends with luxurious living conditions, and the only thing the boys need to do is following his arrangement. He thinks that Garth's idea of finding a spiritual partner is very boring and meaningless.
In that time, the phenomenon of money-laundering through academic research projects becoming popular among the rich. Most of the people Anderson takes Garth to see are such dandies. The days on the cruise ship are extravagant and chaotic. Garth feels helpless and disgusted at the atmosphere. Andrei Berekov (23) appears during this time.
Andrei is the quietest member of the group of Soviet scholars. While everyone drinks and socialize, he would sit in a quiet corner and write alone. Garth finds out that Andre, like himself, is also the one who has false expectations for this so-called academic trip. Moreover, Garth is shocked by his knowledge of botany (although Andre's accent makes it difficult for them to communicate).
Contrary to Anderson, the gentle Andre can always see the flash in Garth's soul. He respects every inspiration and idea of Garth and can turn every chat into a friendly and meaningful academic discussion. This is the kind of relationship state that Garth has been pursuing.
At the same time, the relationship between Garth and Anderson is disintegrating. Anderson arranges cocktail party bender to introduce Garth to celebrities in the academic circle. He buys ways for Garth to publish his unfinished paper and plans everything for him without authorization. The only thing Garth needs to do is being a good boy to flatter Anderson. All this violates Garth's principles. They row again and again and break up.
Then Andre and Garth fall in love. He introduces Garth to his family and live together in his hometown in Belarus for some time. Later, the two decide to go to the University of Edinburgh for master's degree in plant taxonomy.
A year and a half later, they graduate. Andre proposes to Garth at the graduation ceremony. After secretly exchanging rings, the two men embark on a trip to the Arctic Circle.
In 1923, the two men come to Yukon, Canada, and have a dispute with another group of fur hunters and they are maliciously retaliated. Andre is beaten to death. After being cut off his genitals, his body is hung in a tree and displayed with an "I'm a sodomite" sign around his neck. Garth is imprisoned and forced to watch his lover's body being eaten by crows in the aurora of the polar night. A few days later, with his last breath, he escapes, rides all the way south, and is finally saved.
This nightmare experience is a great blow to him, and the cruel torture leaves a huge ugly scar on his right scalp and countless scars on his body. He suffers from serious bipolar disorder, self-mutilation, and suicidal tendencies. He used to be a very gentle and humorous man, but now he has become an infamous one and gets the nickname of Yukon mad dog.
It is rumored that Garth finds the hunting team that hurt him years ago and retaliated against them with extremely cruel methods, but, the police let him stay in prison for only a short time because of his mental problems.
It's just a rumor. No one knows what Garth does to them. People just never see those people again in the Yukon.
Although Garth's mental problems are very serious and his behavior is very uncontrollable, it is indisputable that he is the most outstanding wolf hunting expert in this area. In 1932, he is invited to join a hunting team. They plan to go south to hunt large prey for fur.
In early winter, Garth meets Hart, a forest ranger. Hart's merciless attack drives the team out of the forest, while the gloomy and fierce ranger attracts Garth's attention. He thinks it is all good to kill him or be killed by him.
Garth soon finds that although the ranger's attack is fierce and threatening, he doesn't seem to really want to kill them. Garth leaves the team, returns to the cabin alone, and begins to test Hart's patience by taking the initiative to attack. Hart responds to his attack almost immediately.
As Garth thought, Hart does not intend to kill him - each shot wipes his cheek and flies over, only a few centimeters away.
Garth almost immediately indulges in this dangerous game.
Hart's reaction satisfies him - his counterattack would not only really pose a threat to himself, but also could excite Garth. Although Garth himself knows that this morbid emotion originates from the psychological shadow leaves in his heart when he faces death, which makes him afraid, manic, want to cry, want to laugh, it is the only time that he could feel alive.
However, this absurd and dangerous duel does not end with the death of one party. On a snowy day, Hart forces Garth to a dead end, but he doesn't pull the trigger, just askes him why he does it. Garth cries and laughs, says he wants to die.
Garth couldn't figure out why Hart has so many chances to kill him but doesn't do it. Hatred and fear have been burning in his heart for too long, burning the grassland of his inner world to black. However, from that day on, he could feel that a beam of light comes in through the black smoke, and something is slowly sprouting again.
They do not have any detailed communication and exchange and do not mention the inexplicable gun battle. The two freaks just share a bonfire, say a few words, and then naturally act together.
Garth knows that nature also has many strange partners, such as raven and jackal, Greater Honeyguide and honey badger. Some partners can even act together all their lives. Even if one party dies, the other will not find a new one. Maybe they are such animals, too.
Link Click Musical update 154 Official song lyrics 🎶✨
(part 1, M1-M12)
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M1时空旅行
作曲:Metablue赛博蓝
作词:陈璐
陆 光
每一张旧照片街接两个世界
每一次击掌后你将回到从前
程小时
拍摄的瞬间是穿越的结点
替代他人灵魂化身故事主角
陆 光
我只能预测十二个小时
发生的事件
你必须遵循别人轨迹
别擅自改变
一张照片只能使用一遍
这次回到矛盾爆发的起点
用你视角搜寻十年后秘方为何不见
程小时
就算看不见希望的踪影
真相总是千丝万缕
没理由就此放弃
就让我继续走完她们的结局
或许出现奇迹
陆 光
希望再渺茫奇迹是微光
他的坚持带来转机
找到关键的证据
你我的能力完成时空之旅
信任才是前提
无论过去
不问将来
彼此守护共同进退
M2轨迹
作曲:Metablue赛博蓝
作词:陈璐
陆 光
命运的轨迹
它不偏不倚
你认为的无心之举
都追随它的脚印
人生的轨迹
落下每一步棋
将会出现回应
程小时
脱口而出的言语
陆 光
掀起真相浪花分歧生根发芽
程小时
友情破碎的结局
陆 光
你埋下伏笔等分裂降临
程小时
因果循环的定律
陆 光
而我预知未来却无法洞悉
合
命运策划的轨迹
陆光代理人的枷锁
是在回忆中去相遇
亲身经历一段感情
然后冷静抽身离去
这轨迹困住我
我知道剧情早注定
这轨迹困住我
可是我还想保护……
M3你可算了吧 (You can forget about it aka 'sofa song')
作曲:Metablue赛博蓝
作词:陈璐
乔 苓
你霸占我家十五年不走
今天算笔账别找理由
一日三餐房租水电煤气费
你开车也是我加油
为你打理相馆我全年无休
受欺负靠我出头
还钱走人
既往不咎
否则与你誓死不休
友情算了吧
你我也算了吧
凭什么我要倒贴一切来当你的管家
友情算了吧
你我也算了吧
要不是我爸同意
你怎会留在这里
oh收拾行李搬家出去
光光你让一下,别溅你一脸血。
程小时
我是时光相馆的看门狗
在食物链下层游走
一个算盘打得精的老友
免费打工完成委托
房租就当丢根骨头
另一个冷漠无情新的朋友
时光代理人靠配合
只是霸凌我的噱头
你们算了吧
友情都算了吧
把我逼急了土狗也变狼狗
你们算了吧
友情都算了吧
我疯起来对自己下狠手
Oh算了吧友情都算了吧
干脆我原地上吊立刻动手
房子变凶宅死也不走
陆 光
以毒攻毒的小把戏
朋友间足够了解才能算计
时常上演决裂的闹剧
有反派才能齐���
朋友吵闹该如何解题
用狠话引起在意就是谜底
朋友的账单该要如何算清
付出总无法定义
算了吧
陪两个傻瓜玩游戏
程小时
那就算了吧
宽容是我人格魅力
乔 苓
只能算了吧
我发脾气就当你偿还利息
苓/时
不如算了吧
别再算来算去
陆 光
最佳损友是最坚固的关系
苓/时
不如算了吧
程小时
互相嫌弃但别人无可代替
苓/光
不如算了吧
乔 苓
账本翻到底
时光相馆没我不行
合
不如算了吧
M4友情的信仰 (Friendship's Faith)
作曲:Metablue赛博蓝
作词:陈璐
程小时
初次见面不太顺眼
白头发精神小伙
难道崇拜我灌篮动作
陆 光
球场上成群结队
落单只有他和我
勉强切磋
程小时
看我反手跳投上篮
陆 光
看我后撤转身抢断
程小时
你作弊
陆 光
别着急
刚才是练习
时/光
篮球的灵魂是配合
我防守你突破
比分是结果而信任是收获
让信仰带着光
信任交给朋友
绝不放弃每次伙伴的期待
陆 光
此刻回忆照进现实
他将梦想放你肩上
角色互换该如何抉择
程小时
你伸手拉我走出孤立无援
借你的光替我照亮了方向
绝境中传递信任携手进退
别放弃朋友期待成为信仰
是你忘了还是我抛弃承诺
就让我上场去守护他梦想
陆光
初遇浮现 友情点燃
约定回响 你我信仰
从未遗忘 陪你共同进退
光/时
篮球的灵魂是配合
我防守你突破
比分是结果而信任是收获
让信仰带着光
信任交给朋友
绝不放弃每次伙伴的期待
M5回到过去 (aka 'sad cxs solo')
作曲:Metablue赛博蓝
作词:陈璐
程小时
恐惧自责袭卷交错
无助彷徨吞噬着我
曾以为并不会失去你
现在我该如何去哪里
当丢失你讯息中断联络频率才看透改写赛局覆盖原本轨迹
你提醒过我误解了怨你冷漠全都怪我害你坠落时空漩涡
程小时
看不清听不见抓不住找不到你身影猜不透道不破想不明画不出你痕迹
哪个时空有你行踪
会不会你彻底被抹去消失不见
只要能挽救我一定不顾一切
难道非要回拨指针
回到过去时间暂停重来
可无数个过去拼凑所有未来
除非回到最初就算你我没相遇
让时间重来过
我必须要回去拯救你
啊~
只要能挽救我一定不顾一切
M6词不达意 (Words can't convey the love)
作曲:贾义秉
作词:陈璐
程小时
能不能够借几分钟给我
就让这首音乐替我表达
原谅我情绪太复杂
如果词不达意的话
请自行归纳
其实重点也就四个字吧
首尾两个就是我和你呀
中间两字加起来一共十八个笔画
粤语叫作钟意啊
陆光
哪那么多废话?
程小时
这句话埋在我心底已经数个春夏
就像是永不结疤的伤疤
此刻我心扉对你敞开
不必感到负担
拒绝好过遗憾
陆 光
说重点
我喜
程小时
喜喜
陆 光
喜欢
程小时
洗衣做饭
其实我
陆光
喜
程小时
喜喜
陆 光
喜欢
程小时
你今天的穿衣打扮
喜喜喜喜欢
四个字我怎么连起来却说不出口
时/光
词不达意忐忑不定心跳的频率
程小时
我该如何向你表明少年的心意
陆 光
闭上眼睛用心聆听
时/光
所有的惋惜都化作勇气
程小时
大声告诉你 我——
陆 光
我喜欢你这四个字这么难说吗?
M7 俗话说 (As the saying goes)
作曲:贾义秉
作词:陈璐
陈潇妈
老子从来和你讲道理你懒求得听
那些为你好的话你娃当你妈念经
你要不是老子亲生的哪个吃饱了才管你
喊你平时多读一点书硬是搞得像要命
不晓得你脑壳头装的是啥子
早晓得生儿子老子单身一辈子
攒劲学习考个第一是为你个人努力
篮球摄影没得出息将来你只能种地
程小时
hold on,hold on,这么玩是吧
battle我可没怕过谁
望子成龙是种包装掌控欲是爱的假象
听话才获得褒奖无视孩子心中理想
陈潇妈
出人头地才算理想,不务正业那叫妄想
成绩是唯一方向
再打篮球我打你两巴掌
程小时
别再白费口舌谁的人生谁负责
成功不用钱来衡量我的未来不是你的战场
陈潇妈
别再油嘴滑舌 你的人生我负责
我吃的盐比你吃的米都多!陈潇你给我听好!
俗话说听人劝少走弯路
能够避免风吹和雨打
听妈的话
程小时
俗话说每条路条条大路通罗马
命运自有章法
别让他绑架
陈潇妈
俗话说要享福先吞下学习的苦
未来才能享福
苦尽甘来
程小时
俗话说任他说
每个人的幸福都有自己走的路
我要走不一样的路
没得到命运眷顾亲情上缺乏感触
陈词滥调的俗话原来也会如此丰富
好庆幸这次任务是命运给的礼物
体会了斗嘴也算感受过妈妈给的温度
M8使命的枷锁
作曲:贾义秉
作词:陈璐
程小时
危险 潜藏暗处的危险
时间 迫在眉睫的时间
结点 我必须赶在死神降临之前帮助他们脱险陆 光 危险 只是历史在重演
时间 都已完结的从前
结点 死亡是你预知未来也无法去撼动的结点
陆 光
放手吧 别忘记你我背负的使命
接受吧 别留恋全都是过去宿命
程小时
放手 怎能甘心就放手
接受 绝不向命运低头
过去 明明他们就在这里让我感同身受怎么会是过去
陆 光
死亡 无法跨越的距离
命运 不容你还手抗拒
轨迹 如果他们活着就会有别人代替死去
程小时
谁该死去 都是无辜的生命
谁该侥幸 你凭什么去安排结局
陆 光
无奈的使命 共情后却要抽离
穿越的能力 到底是惩罚还是奖励
时/光
代理人的枷锁是在回忆中去相遇
亲身经历一段感情 然后冷静抽身离去
程小时
这枷锁绑住我
我知道不能再挣脱
这枷锁绑住我
可是我还想保护她
至少能保护她一个
M9给妈妈的信
作曲:余婧
作词:陈璐
程小时
我记得你饭菜的味道
我知道你也不想唠叨
那些你数落的话还在耳边
怎么温情的画面转眼不见
看你皱眉想起她的眼尾
若有机会也想和她斗嘴
明明这些年早已学会习惯
藏起她背影别让思念试探
想要写封信怪她
怎么说话不算话
我一直听话相馆又没搬家
再不出现忘记你啦
我记得你唱过的童谣
不重要童年不算难熬
只是偶尔也羡慕别的伙伴
不过有那么几回掉过眼泪
想要写封信问她
地址是梦境对吗
如果你听见梦里等你回话
不说话就当你答应啦
我在等你
小时妈
月亮别睡小宝贝他怕黑
拍怕你的背别流泪
星星别睡替我看看宝贝
妈妈抱抱你别皱眉
妈妈在梦里别怕黑
M10分裂时光
作曲:Metablue 赛博蓝
作词:陈璐
陆 光
看着你的我 失魂落魄 无可又奈何
可笑的我委屈难说 谎言已被戳破
一句散伙切割你我过往全部褪色
聚散别离 苦果也是结果
假如重来过 任你犯错 改写别人生活
袖手旁观 等你闯祸 此刻你会如何
怪我该提醒却隐瞒忽略了
妄想操纵委托
情绪教唆信任被挑拨
门外灯光暗了 进退别无选择
失望携手苦涩也怂恿着我
门内时间定格背叛在煽风点火
时光拉扯 倔强的你 自负的我
这规则困住你我 越坚守越是坠落
注定的宿命结果 不是你我能够逆转的
跨越着两个时空 命运这无情铁笼
过去与现在纠葛无法逃脱
黑夜与白昼交手就像你我
门外灯光暗了 门内时间定格
沉默携手夜色从眼前擦过
规则的守护者 插手博弈也是我
时光拉扯 倔强的你 自负的我
无论过去 不问将来 输了
M11尼克和马修 (Nick and Matthew) eng transl here
作曲:余婧
作词:陈璐
乔 苓
七岁那年遇见一个倒霉朋友
我的笑料都来自他出丑
没穿过耐克 自己画个倒钩
羡慕同学有爸妈开车接送
他吹牛家里游艇正在维修
这个蠢货幻想有两个朋友
一个叫尼克另一个叫马修
还以为是他国外的笔友
所谓的朋友全都是他虚构
说尼克是狮子马修是条狗
用秘密威胁他做我朋友
却提了个要求
家长会
我爸装他大舅
尼克马修其实是孤独的魔咒
若有人陪伴谁会如此荒谬
所有的情绪靠幻想找个出口
喜怒哀愁和故事书去交流
自我欺骗才能排解烦忧
这个倒霉蛋我认识十五年之久
你是除了我以外他唯一的朋友
看过了彼此的伤口应该更宽容
别被情绪左右一起向前走
如果我是尼克你来做马修
他渴望的两个朋友 你和我送他拥有尼克和马修他童年的缺口
填补了他的梦你我别放手
尼克和马修吹过最离谱的牛
能不能和我一起将他心愿保留
M12底牌 (Trump card? aka 'Rock paper scissors song')
作曲:Metablue赛博蓝/余婧
作词:陈璐
程小时
石头剪刀出布就拉倒 你的底牌就这一招
陆 光
摆烂自闭冷战绝交 你底牌也很无聊
程小时
论阴阳怪气你第二没人第一
陆 光
翻旧帐你第一oh 别谦虚
程小时
既然没诚意就和好暂停
毒舌古板装酷傲娇顶着扑克脸看谁都像没还你钱
陆 光
幼稚抠门冲动愚蠢相馆没倒闭是奇迹
程小时
失败就怪我成功的全都归你
下次穿越你自己搞定
陆 光
说到底这才是你的底气 合二为一是前提
时/光
揭开底牌
契约绑定不可分离
彼此能力要共赢
陆 光
我预知未来
程小时
我穿越回去
时/光
若命运洗牌新的能力
新的伙伴到来
或许不如你
这样想来你勉强可以
程小时
旧帐算一遍
我只是在意不被认可
我们协作
不甘心我总是闯祸
陆 光
旧帐都翻篇
也怪我从前主导太多
放眼未来不计前嫌
时/光
揭开底牌
契约绑定不可分离
彼此信任是唯一
别回望过去
别在意将来
用你我能力无所畏惧
新的挑战到来
我终于明白
朋友才是最后的底牌
Okay there are 2 more songs, I'll add them in a reblog. If any brave soul wants the full script in one document, for translation convenience, let me know and I'll send it to you :*
Tôi cảm thấy thế giới này xinh đẹp vô cùng. Trời thức dậy muôn hoa đua nở, mặt hồ gợn sóng một ngày mưa, tia nắng dài xuyên qua những con phố, cơn gió nhỏ nhẹ len qua kẽ tay, đài phát thanh ngân vang bản tình ca một buổi chiều nhá nhem, bóng tối trải dài trên mỗi nẻo đường đồi. Tất cả là lời em vô tình viết ra, khiến tôi đọc thuộc lòng theo năm tháng. Thế giới này là ý chí của em, còn tôi là di vật duy nhất của đời em.
Best Interrogation of Themes (aka the “Rent-Free Award”)
Best Moment That Wrecked Me (aka the Knifiest Award)
Best Beleaguered Side Character Award
Best Unreliable Narrator
As well as never-before-seen categories like:
Best Himbo
Most Brilliant Moment of Backstabbery
Most Ambitious Scope
Most Heartwrenching Line Delivery in an Audiodrama
…and more!
This year’s candidates in the running:
《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu by 一十四洲 Yi Shi Si Zhou
《不小心救了江湖公敌》 Bu Xiao Xin Jiule Jianghu Gong Di by 六木乔 Liu Muqiao (有声漫画 audiomanhua season 1)
《无双》 Wu Shuang by 梦溪石 Meng Xishi
《问鹿三千》 Wen Lu San Qian by 光合积木 Voicegem, 吼浪文化 Houlang Studio, and 斗木獬编剧工作室 Doumuxie Screenwriting Studio
《师弟还不杀我灭口》 Shidi Hai Bu Sha Wo Mie Kou by 子鹿 Zi Lu
《默读》 Mo Du by priest
《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su
《海中爵》 Hai Zhong Jue by 七药 Qi Yao
《哏儿》 Gen’er by 南北逐风 Nan Bei Zhu Feng
《杀破狼》 Sha Po Lang by priest
《金牌助理之弯弯没想到》 Jin Pai Zhu Li zhi Wan Wan Mei Xiang Dao by (nominally) 非天夜翔 Fei Tian Ye Xiang and (mostly) 传奇火箭队 The Legendary Rocket Team
(unmarked spoilers, including but not limited to these titles, under the cut. for introductions of these titles, click here. for last year’s danmei awards, click here)
Best Worldbuilding
Winner: 《杀破狼》 Sha Po Lang by priest
This award goes to 《杀破狼》 Sha Po Lang for the effortless ease with which p大 manages to merge the genres of imperial intrigue, steampunk mecha, alternate history, and wuxia elements. Over the course of the novel, priest explores how the development of 紫流金-based technology leads the fictional Liang Dynasty into industrial revolution, and doesn’t hesitate to include all the negative consequences of early industrialization. So you’ve rolled out mechanical alternatives for farming? Have fun dealing with the uprisings of unemployed farmers while fending off international threats on your borders. So you want to roll out paper currency/government bonds to stimulate your war-torn economy? Good luck even getting people to trust the validity of paper the way they trust the hardness of coin. In a way, 《杀破狼》 Sha Po Lang carries on the tradition set down in priest’s earlier novel 《七爷》 Qi Ye of protagonists using decidedly underhanded methods to effect the change they wish to see in the world, and the morality thereof remains just as thorny in 《杀破狼》. what would you do in the name of peace? how much of yourself can you give away before you are no longer the same person?
oh and I have to give a shout-out to the trains in this book, I’d give this award to 《杀破狼》 Sha Po Lang for its (re-)invention of trains alone
Best Interrogation of Themes (aka the “Rent-Free Award”)
Winner: 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu by 一十四洲 Yi Shi Si Zhou
I listened to 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu via audiodrama before I read the novel, and every time I finished an episode I would have to just sit for a few hours, processing. Despite its seemingly lighthearted premise, 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu shows us an apocalypse in all its cruel magnificence. The oppressive atmosphere of unending martial law, the seductive proximity of despair, the omnipresence and unpredictability of death, the utter lack of justice or closure or meaning in a world slowly grinding to a halt, the vast, inhuman lengths civilization will go to in the name of survival... to this day, 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu haunts the solemnity of my early mornings with questions like what would you condone to survive? and wherein lies the locus of meaning when everything it means to be human has been stripped away? and like. I haven’t been the same since my mushroom phase, okay
Best Beleaguered Side Character Award
Winner: Ji Bolan from 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu by 一十四洲 Yi Shi Si Zhou
This poor man had to deal with his childhood friend growing up to be a governmentally-licensed and universally-reviled mass murderer, the complete breakdown of the laws of physics, and witnessing Lu Feng and An Zhe flirt in front of his salad soup, all during the apocalypse that he is frantically trying to solve. Frankly, he’s allowed to roast Lu Feng as much as he wants, and the fact that he’s voiced by the same person who did AD!Jiang Cheng and AD!Xiao Zheng (winner of last year’s Best Beleaguered Side Character Award) is 1) extremely funny, 2) very on-brand, and 3) further proof that being in voice actor fandom 其乐无穷
Best Moment That Wrecked Me (aka the Knifiest Award)
Winner: 《默读》 Mo Du by priest
The character of Fei Du in priest’s 《默读》 is easily the character who had me clawing at the walls the most for the better part of this year (I’m still clawing at the walls, if we’re being honest). I am in love with everything about the way priest wrote him; from his introduction as the flamboyantly aggravating playboy chasing after Tao Ran (brilliant character work there as well as brilliant comedy, 感谢陶然不弯之恩 etc etc) to the slow, methodical reveal of his backstory and how deeply, deeply traumatized he is, Fei Du is one of the most complex and intelligent and nuanced and terribly lovable meow meows characters I’ve had the good fortune to run into
To pick a single Fei Du moment? A single one? Well if I have to choose, unfortunately it’s going to have to be chapter 180 朗诵(五) for the simple reason that it hurts me:
[Luo Wenzhou] wished he could tear apart time, to barge back into that moment seven years ago and pick up that silent child, to cradle those hidden wounds and say to him, “I’m sorry I was late.”
Fei Du only seemed to recover a semblance of consciousness when they loaded him into the ambulance. His eyes, unfocused, stopped on Luo Wenzhou’s face for a while before smiling slightly.
骆闻舟艰难地看懂了他无声的唇语。
Luo Wenzhou read his words in the soundless shape of his lips with difficulty.
他说:“没有了……怪物都清理干净了,我是最后一个,你可不可以把我关在你家?”
He said, “They’re all gone... All the monsters are taken care of, I’m the last one. Can you lock me up in your house?”
I’m just. if you need me I’ll be screaming about sunflowers in the abyss
Best Unreliable Narrator
Winner: Yan Zhuoqing and the Deer God of 《问鹿三千》 Wen Lu San Qian by 光合积木 Voicegem, 吼浪文化 Houlang Studio, and 斗木獬编剧工作室 Doumuxie Screenwriting Studio
surprising shortage of unreliable narrators in this year’s contenders, but 《问鹿三千》 makes up for it by having not one, but TWO unreliable narrators involved. can you believe that BOTH of these semi-immortal dumbasses have amnesia? smh Deer God you’re literally the god of time and memory, how you’ve even gotten this far I’ve got no idea
honorable mention: Fei Du from 《默读》 by priest. this man had the audacity to say the words “我没有创伤” / “I’m not traumatized” after asking for Luo Wenzhou’s assistance in recovering some of his repressed memories that he’d blocked out because of the — you guessed it — trauma
Best Himbo
Winner: Situ Jin from 《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su
I think it’s safe to say that Situ Jin is a Very Good Egg With No Braincells Whatsoever. None. This man had to be bullied into a hurt/comfort scenario by his future wife, and when she came to him for comfort, grieving her father’s death, he responded to her “now I’m all alone” with “don’t cry: you’re one, I’m one, together we’re two.” proud of u for basic math, bro, but is now really the time. his other highlights include: thinking dreamily about his wife while in prison, defending innocent bystanders regardless the personal cost, and continually failing to seek medical attention while bleeding out
Side Character I’m Still Mad About (aka the Gongyi Xiao Award)
Winner: Fu Luo from 《海中爵》 Hai Zhong Jue by 七药 Qi Yao
so it turns out that I am Weak for this very specific kind of character, the one who is a Good Kid, the one who tries their best to be responsible and reasonable, the one who could honestly be a protagonist in another novel. double points if you can trust them with a spreadsheet (Bian Yanmei), triple points if they’re delightfully lowkey devoted to the actual protagonist (can I get a wahoo for the Jiangzuo Alliance in here??)
and you know what the author does? murders them with prejudice
tl;dr I’m still not over Fu Luo, because like oh man that scene was well done but also ouch
"most memeworthy/meme-able"
(this one’s for you, @presumenothing)
Winner: 《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su
I mean I literally—
this book is a Very Serious and Somewhat Grimdark book, but I have to say the sheer amount of misunderstandings that occur are comical in their quantity. have you ever met two people more in love with each other and less capable of uttering a single sentence about it, it is only by the grace of the author that these two didn’t murder each other before their happy ending at the many given opportunities throughout the book
"most deserving of a shenshen OST"
(this one’s also for you, @presumenothing, ty for all the brilliant category recs)
Winner: ........?
this is such an interesting award category to consider, because it’s like asking “which one of these texts would you like to hand a steak knife to gut you with,” but it also begs the question of what a shenshen OST would bring to the text that the existing music/adaptation doesn’t. it also raises the question of what kind of narrative (grand, sweeping, vast in scale or minute, gentle, heartbreaking?) would be most compatible with a shenshen OST?
my first thought was 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu, since it has both the monumental scope and the fragile, breakable heart that shenshen OST’s are so suited for (他只是一个小蘑菇 goodbYE—), but the music of the 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu AD is already so perfect I don’t actually want to add anything to it. my next thought would be 《问鹿三千》 Wen Lu San Qian — again, for that blend of scale and sorrow, wistfulness at what can never be and gratitude for what we have. but 《问鹿》 also has five songs already, and while a shenshen OST would be nice, it most certainly isn’t necessary
so I think I’m going to cheat and give this award to a title that isn’t even on the list of candidates this year, one that already has a shenshen OST: 《天宝伏妖录》 Tian Bao Fu Yao Lu by 非天夜翔 Fei Tian Ye Xiang, which has the great fortune to have Zhou Shen’s 《天地为念》 for its ongoing donghua title song. what a beautiful, meditative song; what an ethereal, gently sorrowful melody. extra brownie points because I maintain that Zhou Shen and 锦鲤 Jin Li (the voice of Kong Hongjun) are counterparts of each other in their respective industries, and also because I’m ride or die for both of them
"most untranslatable ever"
(category shout-out to — you guessed it — @presumenothing)
Winner: oh ABSOLUTELY 《金牌助理之弯弯没想到》 Jin Pai Zhu Li zhi Wan Wan Mei Xiang Dao by 非天夜翔 Fei Tian Ye Xiang and 传奇火箭队 The Legendary Rocket Team
I consider myself fairly proficient in audiodramas on 猫耳FM as a medium/genre now; I’m familiar with the ways script adaptation dovetails with post-production, the roles the voice directors and producers and casts play, the different twists that can happen with 报幕, what names to keep an eye out for while checking out the production team... so when I say that this audiodrama knocked me flat on the ass when I first listened to it, I really do mean that I was in no way prepared for the chaos that was to come. where do I even begin to describe it? the speed? the unhinged energy? the unending 吐槽 / roasts? the brilliant comedic pacing? the extremely 洗脑 片尾曲?whatever the hell this is?
this audiodrama is not only the most untranslatable ever due to the high concentration of internet and culture-specific slang, but also apparently the most impossible to explain ever. idk. listen to this AD and lose your mind
Most Brilliant Moment of Backstabbery
Winner: ch. 116 of 《无双》 Wu Shuang by 梦溪石 Meng Xishi
I described 《无双》 Wu Shuang as “a book about roasting your rival first, saving your dynasty second,” but perhaps didn’t do justice to the sheer lengths these two will go to one-up each other. I’d like to take this moment to recognize a certain flamboyant demonic sect leader (that is somehow not Yan Wushi) for not just habitually backstabbing (gently, for funsies) his love interest but also getting some frontstabbery (once, with great intention) in as well. truly, no one out here is doing it like Feng Xiao
honorable mention: 《不小心救了江湖公敌》 Bu Xiao Xin Jiule Jianghu Gong Di by 六木乔 Liu Muqiao, for the sheer quantity of backstabbing that occurs. maybe this is simply what happens when all of your characters are professional evildoers at fluctuating levels of retirement
Best Comfort Media
Winner: 《哏儿》 Gen’er by 南北逐风 Nan Bei Zhu Feng
earlier this year, I went around asking various people: what makes a book, movie, or other text comfort media for you? listening to the answers, it occurred to me that I don’t really have texts that I turn to on a semi-regular basis to re-read or re-watch. especially because my favorite books tend to be the ones that rip my heart out through my throat, the idea of choosing a “comfort read” from among them seems somewhat, er, misguided
and then I ran into 《哏儿》 Gen’er, which is the only text I’ve chosen to carry over from last year’s danmei awards because the second season of the AD aired this year. this webnovel/AD is also, genre-wise, the outlier in this year’s awards — no magic, no speculative elements, not a single sword in sight, just slice-of-life, daily trials and tribulations, characters balancing budgets and bantering backstage and discussing art over hotpot. the cast and characters of 《哏儿》 feel real and lived-in in a way that is so deeply precious to me; at times throughout the year, I would simply cue up the beginning of S2E2 to listen to the first fifteen minutes or so to quiet down. the ongoing discussions threaded throughout the narrative about the roles of traditional culture and art in modern society, how to adapt traditional forms to contemporary values and preferences, and the ever-relevant question of how to get other people to care about things you love... 《哏儿》 hits different, hits real close to home, asks thought-provoking questions in a gentle, lighthearted manner in a way that is totally unique among the danmei works I’ve read, so here I am, conferring this new, foreign honor upon it. it’s a first for both of us!
Most Ambitious Scope
Winner: 《问鹿三千》 Wen Lu San Qian by 光合积木 Voicegem, 吼浪文化 Houlang Studio, and 斗木獬编剧工作室 Doumuxie Screenwriting Studio
I know, I know — very bold of me to give this award to an audiodrama that’s still airing, that we don’t know if it’ll ever be completed, but I still have to take a moment to yell about this completely original episodic gufeng AD, because like... wow. there is no answer key; there is no original work; there is no blueprint to work off of, no pre-existing fanbase of readers to appeal to. this entire project with its xuanhuan scope will succeed or fail based on its merits alone, and what scope it has, too — from the five voice actor songs (I guess everyone in 光合积木 can sing too??? sure that’s fine I guess) to penning scripts that play specifically to the voice actors’ strengths, to engaging with thorny dynamics of family and relationship and devotion and misalignment, I think it’s real gutsy of the 《问鹿》 creative team to embark on such a vast and ambitious project, and carry it off as well as they did. now it’s just 乖巧坐等更新.jpeg hours, fingers crossed they come back for a season 2
Best Work I Was Songbaited Into
Winner: 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu by 一十四洲 Yi Shi Si Zhou
Definitely the first thing that even put 《小蘑菇》 Xiao Mo Gu on my radar was 奇然’s 《风过荒野》 appearing in my YouTube algorithm. The song’s arrangement is haunting, lyrical, and so unlike any other AD song I’ve ever heard. The second season’s 《极光入夜》 is also transcendent in lyrics, composition, and the fact that both of the main voice actors can sing 哎呦还让人活吗—and don’t even get me started on the beautiful piano and string covers they work into the soundtrack! 声罗万象请受我一拜!
let’s put it this way: I actually went out of my way to translate the 《小蘑菇》 songs (here and here) for how hard they go. one day I’ll get over the lines “玫瑰静默凋谢” and “审判是我于你的吻别” but today will not be that day
honorable mention: 《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su, for having the opposite energy of the 《默读》 AD asdlfskdfjs no less than FIVE original songs composed for a THREE season AD. I was on the fence about listening to this AD until I heard 远皓ZIL’s 《燃灯》, which immediately joined my playlist before I’d even read the book. Again, the lyricism, the arrangement, the melancholy, deeply thoughtful atmosphere of the song got me interested in exactly what kind of maddeningly angsty plot could result in these lyrics:
我愿抚拂前尘 燃着灯 做你归途的引 / I would brush away the dust of our past and light a lamp, and be what guides you back
只求你破迷津 渡极乐 回首看我在等 / I only pray that you break free from the labyrinth and deliver paradise, to look back and see me waiting
我匍匐入尘埃 叩长阶 奉上所有虔诚 / I crawl through the dirt, pressing my forehead to the stone steps of the long stairway, offering up all of my piety
只为听你亲将 相思说 那纸情书太薄 / just to hear you say, yearning for me, that this love letter is too thin
不载残生颠簸 无你我 苦不可脱 / it cannot carry what’s left of our tumultuous lives — without you or me, life would be bitter with no escape
Audiodrama Adaptation with the Strongest First Episode
Winner: 《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su
Adaptation is a delicate and tricky practice; how do you accommodate for the limits of production, the requirements of medium, when it comes to translating a work across dimensions? And particularly when it comes to AD’s, how can you capture a listener’s attention within the first few episodes, to bait them into the story and make them willing to pay money to unlock what happens next?
this award has to go to 珞玉 Luo Yu and 子穆木 Zi Mumu for their adaptation of 杨溯 Yang Su’s novel 《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing. The book itself runs chronologically, from the two main characters first meeting each other as children, the months they spend together, their sudden (and deeply traumatic) parting, and then resumes the narrative the next time they meet each other seven years down the line, attempting to kill each other (in their defense, it was dark, and neither of them were sure if the other survived the massacre that separated them in the first place). Episode 1 “故人来” of the AD begins with that reunion as Shen Jue, disposing of a body, finds an injured assassin just outside the palace walls. They grapple in the dark until they recognize each other, and the way post-production editing fills in their backstory through a quick, tantalizing flashback and brings the listener back out of it by overlapping young!Xiahou Lian and present!Xiahou Lian saying the same lines (“shaoye, remember: don’t look back, don’t say anything—”)... well done, well played, I sure paid money to listen to the rest of this AD
Audiodrama Adaptation with the Strongest First Ten Minutes
Winner: 《海中爵》 Hai Zhong Jue by 七药 Qi Yao
haha I think I’m hilarious, but while 《督主》 has the strongest first episode I would also like to shout out how good the first ten minutes of 《海中爵》 Hai Zhong Jue are. seamless transition from baby Hailian to adult Hailian, from quiet lullaby to sea battle, and establishing Hailian’s sass, competence, kindness, and swashbuckling swagger as well as introducing Fang Tinglan (and his shamelessness asldfksj). credit has to go to the director 齐杰, the scriptwriter 虾仁猪心@一梦还江月, and the post-production editor 时柒@丶为之奈何 for pacing the opening scene so well, and an extra special shout-out to 梅梅 (韬韬你是最棒的) for the funniest little “bye~~~” as he throws someone off a boat
Most Heartwrenching Line Delivery in an Audiodrama (aka the Knifiest Award, audio edition)
Winner: S1E7 of the 《默读》Mo Du audiodrama
I can yell for years about how talented voice actors are, but there are specific moments while listening where I have to pause for a second or ten and silently mouth “damn”
杨天翔 Yang Tianxiang’s performance as Fei Du in season 1, episode 7 of the 《默读》 Mo Du audiodrama knocks it out of the goddamn solar system with the plaza broadcast scene — this was a scene that I was pretty eh on in the novel, but after listening to it in the AD... 当! 场! 封! 神! with Yang Tianxiang’s measured delivery, the slow excavation of the depth of Fei Du’s anguish, the forced steadiness of his voice when he says “你们如果都这么狠心,为什么以前还要表现出好像很在乎我们的样子?” / “If all of you were always this cruel, why did you pretend to care about us so much in the beginning?” underlaid by the devastatingly quiet, melancholy piano backing of 《以沫》 that then kicks into the sequence that culminates in 何忠义 He Zhongyi’s “等我回来!” / “Wait for me to come home!”... (silently screams into a paper bag) I’m not okay and I haven’t been okay for months
Honorable Mentions:
S2E2 “也恨相逢” of 《督主有病》 Du Zhu You Bing by 杨溯 Yang Su: specifically for 梅梅’s line “少爷,这是我的命” / “shaoye, this is my fate.” for a scene that didn’t even exist in the original novel... hot damn wow
E12 “绝不复寡“ of 《师弟还不杀我灭口》 Shidi Hai Bu Sha Wo Mie Kou by 子鹿 Zi Lu: 锦鲤 has the range and this AD proves it! While he spends most of the AD being generally the comedic, satirical commentary, Zhong Yan/Qin Mingxi absolutely begging, tears in his voice, for Gu Xuanyan to leave him to die in this scene? look I’m not immune to this trope either
S1E13·上 of 《问鹿三千》 Wen Lu San Qian by 光合积木 Voicegem, 吼浪文化 Houlang Studio, and 斗木獬编剧工作室 Doumuxie Screenwriting Studio: (cups hands around mouth, yells) 马! 老! 师! it’s hard to explain the heartbreaking context of the line I have in mind without giving away the entire story, but 马正阳’s throat-scraping scream of “我要你爱我” / “I want you to love me!” is wince-inducing from the sheer force of the raw anguish in it
wooooo and that’s a wrap! thanks for tuning into the 2022 danmei awards :)
looking forward at my reading list, I’m not sure I’ll be doing a 2023 round since my reading is taking me in different directions and I simply might not have enough candidates to fill out a whole awards post next year (and I suspect I’ll have gone so far off the map that people won’t even have the faintest idea what I’m talking about anymore asldkfajsd)
I've always wondered where I can find the link to read those comics. They look so cool and I don't know if you could help me or if any of your followers would know where to find it pls