#Maggie Huang

[electricsoul-rpg]

HUANG MENGYING (黄梦莹) / MAGGIE HUANG

as Aisin-Gioro Ulan Shan, Princess Heshou

Heroes 天行健 (2024)

[dangermousie]

Episode 30 made me lose my entire mind.

I love that Muqing is no fool and figured it all out and laid out to her why he got to that conclusion.

And she is all "are you gonna arrest me?" and I swear it's flirting and then he asks her "do you think I will hand over the treasure to you?" and she asks "won't you?" and I can't already but then, they way he doesn't answer at first, seemingly, and yet HE DOES! Because he reminds her of when she asks him if he likes calling her princess and what that dynasty ever did for him.

I started screaming. Literally. As he lays it all out and I love that he gets that he's had no choice about the time he was born in, only what to do with it.

The fact that he got on board reform wagon back then in large part because of love for her aaaaaaa!

Very modest goals.

Ooooof!

The fact that he started in the reform in large part because of love back then and the fact that he refrained from doing so now also because of love - because revolution would overturn her world and destroy it. LIKE - I CANNOT WITH THAT MAN!

And then the way he logically lays out how he started realizing she might not mind her world destroyed - because he father married her off for political reasons and how he figured out she never liked her husband and how he figured out she's reform minded and then later she might be a reformist in general.

And now he knows she is, he can proceed because he'd never put a cause above her and AAAAAAAAA and honestly, this is so well done because it shows him slowly thinking things through in general in the drama - how he decides past plan of reforms wouldn't work and more radical republican ones are needed and how even with that he'd refrain from ANY reform participation unless it won't destroy her world and aaaaaaa GOD I LOVE HIM.

The way they clasp hands and you see their matching bracelets. No sex scene in Brigerton made me feel as insane as these two barely holding hands and his touching her face. I was literally high pitched screaming.

[danmeigirl]

Jin Mei Niang : Chief of Jin sha sect former member of the Scarlet guards.

Such a waste for a character who could have done so much more.

[hazel-makes-things]

3,3,10: A Bai Qian comedy.

[cnladies]

HUANG MENGYING 黄梦莹 for Knight Magazine | April 2024

Huang Mengying: more photos here Knight Magazine: more photos here

[yao-yaos]

Side Story of Fox Volant | Ep 12

Yet another bad guy who's only soft for one (1) girl.

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Ugly Queen (Season 2) (2022)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama “The Ugly Queen (Season 2)”

【ENG】 EP01 齐丑无艳之破镜重圆 My Fair Lady Zhong Wuyan （黄梦莹、任东霖、刘泳希、魏鹏 )´

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsNeY6EVOFo

[wronghandcomic]

Doing some character stuff.

[electricsoul-rpg]

HUANG MENGYING (黄梦莹) / MAGGIE HUANG

as Aisin-Gioro Ulan Shan, Princess Heshou

Heroes 天行健 (2024)

[dangermousie]

The way their past and present keeps blending for both of them.

(And how he was hopelessly worshipping in 1898 but he's still just as hopelessly worshipful now only older and so more contained about it.)

[frcstdfae]

𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓 | cami ( @silvcrspringsx )

Laptop  sprawled  across  from  her  on  the  bed  as  her  head  fell  back  against  the  mattress.  “Cami,  remind  me  next  time  I’m  writing  a  book  to  edit  it  while  I’m  writing  it,”  she  groaned,  eyes  drained  from  staring  at  the  computer  screen  all  day.  If  anyone  understood  her  qualms,  it  would  be  Cami.  The  amount  of  work  that  she  was  putting  into  getting  this  published  would  be  worth  it  –  as  long  as  she  got  the  publishing  company  to  agree  with  it.  “Please  distract  me  from  reading  another  sentence  I  wrote  that  I  will  end  up  hating.”

[cnladies]

HUANG MENGYING 黄梦莹 | Children's Day 2024

Huang Mengying: more photos here Children's Day: more photos here

[deadpanwalking]

The cancellation of the 2024 World Voices festival reminded me that I meant to make a post about this last week, when PEN America announced that it could not hold its annual literary award ceremony because so many authors and translators had withdrawn their submissions.  I don’t doubt that there's another post of this sort making the rounds, but since the ceremony was going to be tomorrow, I wanted to celebrate the literary achievements of every Finalist with a demonstrable backbone.

This is a list of writers who acted with integrity by withdrawing their work from the American subset of PEN International, an organization which has served as a bridge between literature and human rights for over a century.  PEN America has largely built its reputation by supporting persecuted writers, and has let down the entire international literary community by failing to take a meaningful public stance against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. 

The following titles have been withdrawn from consideration at the request of the authors and translators:

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

To a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact, which has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form and signaling strong potential for lasting influence.

Hangman by Maya Binyam 

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Poem Bitten by a Man by Brian Teare

Blackouts by Justin Torres

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

To an author whose debut collection of short stories represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise for future work.

The Sorrow of Others by Ada Zhang

PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

To a debut novel of exceptional literary merit.

Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection

To a poet whose distinguished collection of poetry represents a notable and accomplished literary presence.

Couplets by Maggie Millner

suddenly we by Evie Shockley

PEN Translation Prize

From From by Monica Youn

For a book-length translation of poetry from any language into English.

Owlish by Dorothy Tse translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce

Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny translated from the Spanish by J.D. Pluecker

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

[nevertoomanyspiders]

assorted children’s books with scarecrows in them, part 2

here's the previous post.

Long Tom, Robert Newell, art by Melissa Iwai

It's interesting to notice trends in stories in which scarecrows are the protagonists. either the scarecrow has trouble scaring things (typically crows), or they're lonely due to scaring away potential friends. this one's the latter.

The Lonely Scarecrow, Tim Preston, art by Maggie Kneen

another poor dude who has a hard time making friends.

The Shy Scarecrow, Mary Packard, art by Benrei Huang

I love the way Rags is drawn, he's so endearing. there's another book of the same character by Mary Packard, Shy Scarecrow Goes to School (illustrated by Eleanor Kwei). and yes there are scarecrow children and they go to scarecrow school to learn how to scare crows. duh!