#Ada Liu

[binging-asian-dramas]

A Dream of Splendor. 9

Story: 9

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: New Life Begins (cdrama) ; Under the Power (cdrama); The Story of Ming Lan (cdrama)

If you’re into historically heavily female oriented driven cast then this cdrama will be right up you alley. It’s wonderfully written and extremely well acted all around with a more mature written vibe to it. The cinematography and visuals are gorgeous and breathtaking. It does have some bumps here and there in the pacing towards the middle and end felt a bit rushed, but nothing major. The chemistry between the main leads is one of my favorites. The glances, the coy smiles, oof, smexy as heck. It’s definitely a recommendation and a must watch if you love period pieces.

[4ever-always]

Love life light - 2023

[thisonehere]

I finally finished my first year of College, I'm free for the summer!

As you all know, I'm working on two requests rn.

[soggyarts]

yes i chose all of them idc idc

[dvque]

No apparent reason

(Their personalities matter, okay ?)

[almosttootight]

[faceappreciationsociety]

[theonlyadawong]

alt outfits for claire, ada, and leon

[firstfullmoon]

hi. i just lost my grandfather today, but we also hadn’t spoken in 8 years. if you were still doing poetry compilations, do you have any on the grief of losing someone you love? love your page, it gives me comfort

sending you love. I lost my own grandfather at the beginning of the year and here are the two poems I’ve been carrying with me 🤍

“The Hurting Kind” by Ada Limón – literally such a tenderness it rubs the bones in the ribs all wrong

“Lake of the Isles” by Anni Liu (“When he was alive, he and I / Rarely spoke. But his was a great / And courageous tenderness.”)

[rainbowlimenade]

music headcanons

Jeff: Mindless Self Indulgence, Insane Clown Posse, Uncle Outrage, probably Korn but i can't speak on that since i have only ever listened to one song that had korn featured on it, also probably MCR

Jane: Sisters of Mercy, Strawberry Switchblade, Siouxsie Sioux,, but my version of Jane is also a theater kid (as previously stated in other posts) so she also listens to a lot of musical soundtracks (Beetlejuice, Chicago, The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, Ride the Cyclone, Heathers..)

Nina: definitely MCR, Ken Ashcorp, Cats Millionaire, Saucy Yoda, Avril Lavigne, a lot of horror game fansongs and stuff adjacent to that (The Living Tombstone, JT Music, etc.. trying to avoid mentioning predators while talking about horror game music artists :/) also a lot of vocaloid stuff

Ben: a lot of nerdcore stuff,(along the same lines of what nina listens to) Uncle Outrage, MSI, Femtanyl, etc

Sally: i do not know what children listen to! my younger sibling is around my version of Sally's age (12~13ish) but they mainly listen to stuff i expose them to + object show soundtracks

Eyeless Jack: whale sounds, waterfall noises, etc. doesn't really listen to actual music

Toby: Nirvana, Of Montreal, Talkshow Boy, Mook, Bondage Fairies, Meth Wax, Green Day

Clockwork: Gorillaz, Del the Funky Homosapien, Hole, Nirvana, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Mook, Dazey and the Scouts

Kate: Slutever, Metric, Devi Mccallion, Ada Rook, The Moldy Peaches

Liu: lowkey has Britney Spears fan vibes to me. idk probably also Sabrina Carpenter

Laughing Jacque: pop goes the weasel. on repeat. forever

Lazari: Kidz Bop

Zero: Jack Off Jill, Zombina and the Skeletones, Nero's Day at Disneyland, Femtanyl, Black Dresses

X-Virus: Self, Green Day, Gorillaz, Nero's Day at Disneyland, Nirvana

Nurse Ann: hates music. listens to true crime podcasts

Judge Angels: Whatever Dad, The Scary Jokes, Kitty Craft, Kimya Dawson

Pinkamena: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic soundtrack, any horror my little pony fansong, goregrind music

Bloody Painter: like slenderman, mainly listens to classical music

Eyeless Lulu: Spellcasting, Stomach Book, Femtanyl, zombAe

Slenderman: classical music. i don't really know classical artists oops

Prom Queen: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Ayesha Erotica, etc

Eel: nerdcore, Self, a LOT of nightcore

Mary: Cab Calloway, Tom Lehrer, Shelley Duvall

[theprestigegirly]

again if it was up to me there should’ve been a re4 movie in 2005 where leon is played by christian bale

giggling and kicking my feet watching christian bale edits on tiktok

[mydaylight]

It's funny to think that we were in fact very close to actually getting Ada Choi as the actress playing Zhen Huan. The story behind this is that Liu Lianzi - the author of the book - is a huge fan of Ada Choi and particularly of her portrayal of Zhen Fu in the 2002 series 洛神 Luoshen or Where the Legend Begins, and Ada Choi was the person she had in mind while writing Zhen Huan's character. Ada Choi was first considered for the role when they started producing the series, but rejected it because she didn't believe she could pull off playing the teenage Zhen Huan at 37, and got the Empress' part instead. Also she was pregnant during the filming and later joked that playing the Empress was very fortunate because she could sit down while others bowed to her lol

So imagine that the original Zhen Huan is meant to look like this:

[darlingdespairstims]

My Fictional CG list

Marvel -

Storm / ororo munroe

Wolverine / James "Logan" Howlett

Cyclops / Scott Summers

Rouge / Anna Marie

Gambit / Remy Lebeau

Professor X / Charles Xavier

Magneto / Erik lehnsherr

Deadpool / Wade Wilson

Yukio

Spiderman / Peter Parker

Spider-Man 2099 / miguel o'hara

Mystique / Raven Darkhölme

Jean grey

Pavitr Prabhakar

Scarlett witch / Wanda Maximoff

Thor

Loki

Captain America / Steve Rogers

Winter soldier / Bucky Barnes

Black widow / Natasha Romanoff

Sentry / Robert "Bob" Reynolds

White widow / Yelena Belova

Invisible woman / Sue Storm

DC -

Dr strange / Stephen Strange

Batman / Bruce Wayne

Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel

Poison ivy / Pamela Isley

Bat girl / Barbara Gordon

Nightwing / dick Grayson

Red hood / Jason Todd

Wonder woman / Diana of Themyscira

Superman / Clark Kent

Starfire

Twisted wonderland -

Leona Kingscolar

Lilia Vanrouge

Azul Ashengrotto

Jamil viper

Divus crewel

Malleus draconia

vil schoenheit

Baldur's gate 3 -

Karlach

Astarion

Halsin

Minthara

Creepypasta -

Jane the killer

Eyeless jack

Jeff the killer

Homicidal Liu

Ticci toby

Ben drowned

Clockwork

Nina the killer

Monster high -

Clawdeen wolf

Venus mcflytrap

Twyla boogieman

Spectra Vondergeist

Lagoona blue

scarah screams

Sirena Von Boo

Robecca Steam

Operetta

Jinafire Long

Catty Noir

Mystic messenger -

ZEN / Hyun Ryu

V / Jihyun Kim

Jaehee Kang

Jumin Han

Identity V -

The photographer / Joseph desaulniers

The violinist / Antonio

The mercenary / Naib Subedar

The Professor / Luchino Diruse

Weeping clown / Joker

The novelist / Orpheus

The Batter / Ganji Gupta

Bloody queen / Mary

"Prisoner" / Luca Balsa

"Knight" / Richard Sterling

Wu Chang / Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujiu

Psychologist / Ada Mesmer

Genshin Impact -

Kaeya Alberich

Diluc Ragnvindr

Jean

Lisa

Venti

Zhongli

Neuvillete

Ningguang

Beidou

Candace

Dehya

Yae Miko

Arlecchino

Black butler -

Grell Sutcliff

Ciel phantomhive

Sebastian Michaelis

Alois Trancy

Sonic the hedgehog -

Rouge the bat

Amy rose

Blaze the cat

Shadow the hedgehog

Knuckles

Vanillia T. Rabbit

Tikal

Sally acorn

My little pony -

Princess Luna

Princess celestia

Fluttershy

Lyra heartstring

Queen chrysalis

Princess Cadance

Octavia Melody

Mrs. Cup Cake

Sugar belle

Rarity

Apple jack

Zecora

Steven universe -

Garnet

Pearl

Sapphire

Blue Diamond

Mouthwashing -

Curly

Anya

Daisuke

Ever after high -

Madeline Hatter

Briar Beauty

Raven Queen

Blondie Lockes

Ashlynn Ella

Cerise Hood

Arcane -

Vi

Mel

Sevika

Caitlyn

House MD -

Gregory house

Lisa Cuddy

Allison Cameron

James Wilson

Robert Chase

Disney -

Aurora

Jasmin

Ariel

Tiana

Cinderella

Megara

Cookie Run -

Blackberry Cookie

Golden cheese cookie

Dark cocoa cookie

Pure vanilla cookie

White lily cookie

Frilled Jellyfish Cookie

Kouign-Amann Cookie

Royal Margarine Cookie

Tarte Tatin Cookie

Latte Cookie

Almond Cookie

Shining Glitter Cookie

Oyster Cookie

Moonlight Cookie

Financier Cookie

Golden Osmanthus Cookie

Hollyberry Cookie

Caramel Arrow Cookie

Blueberry Pie Cookie

Vampire cookie

Raspberry cookie

Invincible -

Mark Grayson

Debbie Grayson

Eve Wilkins

Miscellaneous characters -

Sally face / sal fisher

Steven Stoughton (strangled red)

The huntress (dead by daylight)

Aren Kuboyasu (Saiki K)

Kenny McCormick (South park)

Kyle Broflovski (South park)

Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy {sorta}

Paracelsus (guilty gear)

Testament (guilty gear)

Zane ro'meave (Aphmau)

Aaron Lycan (Aphmau)

Daphne Blake (Scooby Doo)

Gallagher (Honkai : star rail)

Boothill (Honkai : star rail)

Howl (howls moving castle)

Wednesday Adams

Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Barbra Maitland (Beetlejuice)

Lady dimitrescu (residents evil)

Masky/Tim (marble Hornets)

Morticia Adams

Leonardo hofstadter (the big bang theory)

Mikoto Aiura (Saiki K)

Mark Greyson (invincible)

Atom Eve (invincible)

The end..! (≡^∇^≡)

[s0ap-bubbles]

Hyperfixation so bad you start unironically shipping the canon straight ship

I’d put more but it looks nice with the 4 so I ain’t changing it lmao

Honourable mentions: Liu kang and kitana, Jonathan Joestar and Erina, Yasuho and Josuke, Dick and Kori/Nightwing and Starfire, Ada Wong and Leon S. Kennedy depending on my mood, and Nero and Kyrie

[veliseraptor]

October Reading Recap

I read kind of a lot this month, mostly as a product of the holidays meaning I had a lot of time where I (a) wasn't working and (b) wasn't online and also there was the fact that I was (c) depressed and desperately trying to keep myself occupied at all times to avoid slumping into a pit of nothingness.

so this one's kind of long.

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera. I need to read more mysteries again. I had a lot of fun with this one - I am always a sucker for books that play with multimedia type formats (movie scripts, podcast transcripts, etc.) and while I've fallen out of the true crime circuit it was fun to watch the ways in which this book was playing with it.

The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu. I've read all of Marjorie Liu's comics (and loved them) but this was my first time reading her prose. Short story collections are always hard for me to assess, since I very seldom come away from them feeling in any way uniform about the stories within, but this was a rare short story collection where there weren't any I didn't like. There weren't standouts to me in the same way that, say, Monstress stands out to me, but they were all solid.

Pine by Francine Toon. Picked this one up sort of on a whim as a horror novel and I don't feel like it quite was, in the end, a horror novel. It was good - quiet and a little eerie - but probably not one I'd pass on an enthusiastic recommendation for.

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. With the possible exception of Mexican Gothic I've been decidedly underimpressed with Moreno-Garcia's work, and this book was not an exception. I was excited about it! But maybe that's partly because I was hoping for more horror than I got. But then again, it was billed to me as such, so I'm not entirely coming from nowhere with that.

Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer. I think I liked this book more than I liked Too Like the Lightning, but that might also be because a lot of Too Like the Lightning was setup/catalyzing for events that actually happened in this book. I'm definitely going to read the rest of the series and this is another one where I want to read, like, literary analysis of these books, or discuss them in a group, or something, because they're doing some very interesting things that would be fun to cogitate on more deeply than I feel like I can do just on my own.

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I didn't like this book quite as much as I've liked Tchaikovsky's other work, in part because I felt like this one got a little heavy handed/didactic which is the fastest way to turn me off a book. But I'm maybe more sensitive to that than I need to be, and I think the question of...is-this-meant-to-be-horror-tinged-or-not means I'm going to be thinking about this one moving forward. It's no Children of Time but I continue to be a Tchaikovsky devotee.

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay. This book was bad. I mean, it wasn't the worst, but it also wasn't very good at all, and felt like it was leaning hard on the movie script format gambit as a way to mask how thin the book as a whole was.

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree. I was hoping for a book more about the content of books as they relate to war and wartime propaganda, but I probably should've read the subtitle more carefully, so that's on me. This was much more about books as a material object and libraries as an entity during wartime, specifically mostly during World War 2 and the Cold War. Which was interesting, but not as interesting as I hoped for.

Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi. Another horror novel - I've been meaning to read this one for a while though I'm not actually sure I remember what put it on my radar. I think Malfi is an author I've seen around and this was a book where the summary sounded vaguely interesting to me, so I marked it down as a title to give a new-to-me author a go. While my feelings on this book are sort of mixed - the way it wrote its disabled character in particular had my eyebrows twitching a little - I do think I'll be trying more Malfi.

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan. Remember this post? Yeah, it was about this book. I'm not proud it made me cry, but made me cry it did. On the other hand, I'm (a) astonished that it references MDZS for inspiration but not SVSSS, though maybe that's because the author was afraid it'd make the ways she was cribbing from SVSSS too obvious, and (b) this book actually did have me when it settled down into being serious and cut some of the goddamn quippiness. Look, I'm not entirely opposed to a good quip. They can be fun, and I think I get what they were conveying in terms of character (that the protagonist wasn't really taking things in the "fictional" world seriously, up to a certain point), but they can also be very grating. On the other other hand I probably will be reading the sequel, unfortunately. So you know. Mixed fucking bag.

Leech by Hiron Ennes. I read a fair amount of horror this month and this was one of the standouts specifically because of its initial conceit and how that conceit was developed - which I don't want to say too much about because I think it's stronger to come into this book not knowing much about it.

Silent Reading (Mo Du) by Priest. It's not the cnovel that caters to me most personally that I've read so far, but it might be the best one I've read so far, if that makes sense as a distinction. The character work, the dynamic between the main characters, the tightening noose of the core mystery...I really liked this one, and definitely plan to go back and reread it. Might bind it, too, we'll see. I should finish Qiang Jin Jiu first.

Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton. I understand why Gratton didn't have Hal kill Hotspur in the end (as in the play this is drawing on for source material) but it definitely weakened the book, in my opinion, that she didn't. It would've been much stronger, narratively, if also a lot sadder. But ah well. Would've been absolutely slammed with bury-your-gays discourse. Anyway, I liked The Queens of Innis Lear better but I didn't dislike this one.

Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier. I am very excited to read the rest of this series, which @mongooseland turned me onto by doing art for it. I don't know that I'd endorse it wholeheartedly for everyone - in fact, I definitely wouldn't, for one thing content warnings for heavily-referenced if not explicitly shown sexual assault - but I'm personally into it and looking forward to reading the next books, which are going to be difficult to find, alas. I have adopted a new terrible boy from this, if anyone was wondering.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. I feel like I did not understand this book and probably need to read some analysis of it to get a better sense of what was going on. Makes me wish I'd actually read it for the book club meeting about it, since maybe someone there would have a better idea of how to dissect what it's doing than I did.

Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. I didn't like this one as much as I liked his other two that I've read - it felt more action/adventure and less horror in a way that appealed to me less. It was still good enough that I'm glad I read it, and I'll continue to follow the author, but I was moderately underwhelmed - though, to be fair, that's more by comparison with his other work than it is comparison with other horror I've read, which it still outshines.

I'm currently reading Catching Chen Qing Ling: The Untamed and Adaptation, Production, and Reception in Transcultural Contexts (that's a mouthful) alongside rereading The Last Unicorn. Might try to finally finish reading Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle this month, finally read Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey, and maybe read one of the short story collections sitting on my shelf (The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, possibly). New Remnants of Filth volume and new Monstress (speaking of Marjorie Liu) are coming out this month, so those will probably make it into the rotation too.

taking mystery/thriller recommendations still, if anyone has any! I'm generally pretty good at just feeling my way around in the fantasy/sci-fi and nonfiction spaces, but I've got no idea where to start when it comes to other genres.