Put 10 songs you listen to, then tag others!
Ooooh thanks for the tag @shamera!!
My music taste is embarrassing because my playlists basically consist of the soundtracks from whatever c-drama or show I'm currently unhinged about, and then songs I've discovered by watching fanvids of the c-dramas / shows I'm unhinged about. XD
With that... *cracks knuckles*... here goes!
Zui Meng - Hai Lin ...... from The Untamed. I will literally never be over this track, thanks to this post. When I first finished the show, I listened to this on repeat for maybe 19723894729 hours. And I can't multitask while listening to a song I REALLY like, so I was just...essentially experiencing spiritual enlightenment... LISTEN. I LOVE IT. I LOVE THEM. NOW I'M CRYING AGAIN.
山外 (Outside Mountains) - 张远 (Zhang Yuan) ....... from Mysterious Lotus Casebook, of course. Missing these blorbos so much.
3. 莫叹人世太匆忙(《莲花楼》电视剧原声带配乐)...... from Mysterious Lotus Casebook. It took a while to find this one (thank you MLC tumblr for the help!) -- it's the piano only version of the peppier theme. This version plays whenever something extremely emotional is happening so it invokes an absolutely visceral reaction in me. ajshdopfhasidohfasi.
4. No Bad Days - Bastille ...... love me some Bastille. <3 (And yes, I discovered this from an MLC fanvid)
5. This Mountain - Faouzia ...... this came up on a playlist one time and I fell in love. Such a banger.
6. Power - Isak Danielson ...... heard this in a Devil Judge fanvid and I needed to lie down for 7-10 business days.
7. Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy ..... I found this while searching for the above song instead (lol) but it also just wrecks me.
8. Dynasty - MIIA ...... is in every fanvid ever because it RULES!!!
9. Tempest - Huckleberryfinn ..... from Devil Judge! <3
10. Chi Qing Zhong - Deng Lun ..... from Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity. Absolutely stunning love song and I'm crying forever that we'll never get that sequel.
Tagging if you want to participate! @crism79 @mipib @willowcatkinblossom @thesilversun @omgpurplefattie <3
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Popular and popular-ish danmei books I ditched due to ➡️personal⬅️ tastes:
(Been a while since I attempted reading these, so if there are minor inaccuracies below, that’s why.)
• First-Class Lawyer/Yi Ji Lǚ Shi 一级律师 by Mu Su Li: the trials in the book are not bound by the laws of our real-world countries, and that’s fine, but I doubt that any fair legal system will allow major surprise evidence/arguments to be sprung on a party during the trial. To address each side’s reasoning properly during the trial, parties have to receive and get to know each other’s general arguments before the trial. How can you prepare a proper defence if you don’t understand the reasons and evidence behind the accusation? How can the prosecution deal with the defendant’s counter-arguments if they don’t know what they are until the last minute? Everyone has to generally understand each other’s POV beforehand. Furthermore, evidence has to be submitted for approval by the court before the trial to filter out irrelevant, bias-inducing evidence.
—From what I remember from my law course, that’s roughly how it works in the U.K., and I think that’s a fair way of doing things so I’d bet most civilised societies do that. The surprise-evidence plot twist smelled too illegal to me, so I was put off from reading the rest of the book.
• Priest’s books:
1. Sha Po Lang 杀破狼: stories with ancient yet non-xianxia/wuxia settings tend to bore me. Ancient yet non-xianxia/wuxia means the plot likely revolves around politicking and sometimes war, which I don’t like when they come in large (and male-dominated) spades because they’re too dry for me.
2 & 3. Tian Ya Ke 天涯客, Liu Yao 六爻: I love xianxia and wuxia so I thought I’d love these, but I just couldn’t keep reading far enough. Things were happening, but they weren’t riveting. I couldn’t get attached to the characters.
4. Zhen Hun 镇魂: I couldn’t get into it, partly because “modern + superpowers” isn’t a setting I usually like. (I do like it if it comes with a generous serving of humour, like in Depressed Husbands Want to Live a Peaceful Life by Cyan Wings.) Things were happening, but they weren’t riveting.
5. Mo Du 默读: one reason why I couldn’t get into it is because it’s a police story. Strangely, I love mysteries but not danmei police investigation novels, though I hope I’ll come to like them one day. (But I like police investigation fics! I guess I need to feel an attachment to characters first before they get involved in policing.) Another reason why I dropped it is that as I read many chapters into the book, there was still very little progress on solving a core mystery that the author periodically hinted it. It was kept very shadowy and vague, and while this can be acceptable in books, it was frustrating here because there weren’t other things along the way that made me feel “oh this is a fun journey”.
• Criminal Psychology/Fan Zui Xin Li 犯罪心理 by Chang Er: it’s a police story, so the first reason as the one for Mo Du applies
• Qiang Jin Jiu 将进酒 by Tang Jiu Qing: same reason as Sha Po Lang
• Golden Stage/Huang Jin Tai 黄金台 by Cang Wu Bin Bai: same reason as Sha Po Lang
• Thousand Autumns/Qian Qiu 千秋 by Meng Xi Shi: I found the protagonist, romantic relationship, and events (as far as I managed to read them) bland
• Little Mushroom/Xiao Mo Gu 小蘑菇 by Yi Shi Si Zhou: interesting setting, but there are three things preventing me from liking the book:
1. I usually don’t like danmei books that are wholly set in a futuristic dystopia. I don’t read danmei to enjoy imagining a world/society that’s similar to ours but more oppressive/painful.
2. The protagonist’s personality is too mild for me, and the love interest’s personality isn’t a type I like either.
3. Female suffering. I can’t forget that part of the book because it’s so realistic (kudos to the author), it feels like shit that would actually happen if our world were to face those conditions. Good for the story, but I read danmei to feel semi-free from gender inequality, so it’s not great for me personally.
• Tong Qian Kan Shi 铜钱龛世 by Mu Su Li: the plot and characters weren’t attractive enough
• Supernatural Movie Actor App 灵异片演员app by Xi Zi Ji Jiu: the horror wasn’t horrifying enough and the protagonist tried too hard to seem impressive
• Qi Zi ���子 by Yi Xiu Luo: the systemic inequality within spousal relationships in the book is too huge and oppressive for me to enjoy the story
• Ru Xi 入戏 by Tong Zi/Zhe Yi Mei Zhen: racist, and based on the part I read, it looks like it’s on track to treat its female characters badly too
• Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream 欢迎进入梦魇直播间 by Sang Wo: 1) it feels too video-game-like and unrealistic (some books, but not this one, have fantasy settings that feel viable, like they could actually exist); 2) I’m not attached to the protagonist, and 3) there is very little interaction between the protagonist and love interest.
• Pan Guan 判官 by Mu Su Li: I wasn’t attached to the characters
• Quan Qiu Gao Kao 全球高考 by Mu Su Li: I wasn’t attached to the characters
• 万诱引力 Law of Universal Enticement/Wan You Yin Li by 骑鲸南去 Qi Jing Nan Qu: great pun for the Mandarin title, but I don’t like settings that are too game-like; the two main characters were too perfect in some ways; and the method used by a character to successfully solve a problem in the very first arc was too unrealistic.
• 反派他过分美丽 The Villain, He’s Excessively Beautiful by 骑鲸南去 Qi Jing Nan Qu: I only remember that I gradually lost interest in the plot. I might try to read this book again, but actually probably not; I’ve given second chances to highly recommended books that I couldn’t manage to like in the past, and I’ve never once succeeded.
• Some books by Yang Su 杨溯: a bit like Priest’s books, they fall into the category of “things were happening but they were strangely not riveting enough”.
1. 渡厄 Du E (I won’t attempt to translate this title before finishing the book in case it doesn’t convey the right meaning): I tried reading this novel twice—that was how much I wanted to like it
2. 嫁魔 Marrying the Demon/Jia Mo
3. 督主有病 The Governer is Ill/Du Zhu You Bing
Among Yang Su’s books, I liked 深眠 Deep Sleep/Shen Mian and 凶祟 Creature of Malignance/Xiong Sui, the former more than the latter even though the love interest in the latter is one of my favourites. This is because the former is a shorter book with a brisker pace. Taking that factor into account alongside the books I dropped, it seems that I find Yang Su’s longer works draggy with too much space in between the hooks.
• 蝶变 Butterfly Metamorphosis/Die Bian by 麟潜 Lin Qian: I don’t like settings that feel like video games
• 桐花中路私立协济医院怪谈 Scary Stories About the Privately Funded Hospital at Tonghua Middle Road by 南琅要减肥 Nan Lang Yao Jian Fei: frequently recommended on Weibo when I looked up danmei horror novels, but I really don’t think it warrants such high praise. The writing quality is not high and up to the parts where I dropped it, it wasn’t very scary. I tried it twice.
• 我在惊悚游戏里封神 I Attained Godhood in a Horror Game by 壶鱼辣椒 Hu Yu La Jiao: not scary. Not riveting either.
• 南禅 Nan Chan by 唐酒卿 Tang Jiu Qing: the main characters’ personalities and plot weren’t interesting enough before I dropped it, though there was a mystery/adventure brewing
• 不见上仙三百年 The Immortal Unseen for Three Hundred Years by 木苏里 Musuli: see here
• 闲与仙人扫落花 by 归鸿落雪: the world is cruel, but far more damningly, the main characters are too cold-blooded
• The Consequences of Mistakenly Saving the Villain 论救错反派的下场 by Feng Yu Nie 凤羽涅: I can’t clearly remember all the reasons why I dropped it, but I didn’t like the protagonist enough—was it some vague (fake?) Gary Stu vibes? Can’t remember—and the writing quality was not very high.
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69 LMAO HAHA
also 2 3 12 and 57
OMG FINALLY 69 HEHEHEHEHE
Good to see you here Tosieks!!
69 >:D
Oooh, a nice one!! Shocked that it is so low honestly
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both are endings from CSM. Tbh I didn't like the anime that much but the music?? It SLAPS
12:
I think it was mentioned before but the gays deserve a second mentioning
57:
Omg, Blind Guardian... It is the only band I've been into for more than a year. I think I started to listen to them 5 yrs ago?? It's a big deal for my ass who generally likes songs not artists. So yeah. Highly recommend band <3
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Sacred Tree Has Heart Episode 39 - 40 English Sub - Full Episodes
Sacred Tree Has Heart Episode 39 - 40 English Subtitles
Taichu, ancient sacred tree of Xuefeng mountain, and Xinyue, the saint of Snowluo tribe, help Donglin Wang Guangye in competitions. Disputes between countries, including King Beirong, Princess Regent of Nanchu, and others. Who will dominate the Central Plains? Masters like Shangguan Zui, Meng Yilang and Yanshi Meng Ji enter the scene with cunning strategies and chess figures. What will this bring to Bo Yun's chaotic world? (Source: TVmaze.com) Edit Translation
⬇️⬇️Watch Sacred Tree Has Heart Episode 39 - 40 Eng Sub - Full Episodes⬇️⬇️
Website : https://dramasian.xyz/search/Sacred+Tree+Has+Heart
Native Title: 山有木兮木有心
Country: China
Episodes: 40
Aired: Nov 1, 2023 - Nov 19, 2023
Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Original Network: Youku
Duration: 45 min.
Content Rating: Not Yet Rated
Also Known As: Shan You Mu Xi Mu You Xin
Genres: Fantasy, War
Tags: Web Series (Vote or add tags)
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