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[selketshaula]

破邪大星ダンガイオー by Moyan

[when-the-cities-burn]

[umblogsemnomeainda]

Totoro by moyan

[thorsten-j-pattberg-books]

Asians! Demand Your Correct Names! https://tinyurl.com/4d5usxzd ECONOMIST Magazine Halts Its 'Desecrating Asian Names' Policy, For Now #AsianNames #Japan #China #AbeShinzo #WangYi #YayoiKusama #LinhDinh #MoYan #PressSoldiers #XinCivilisation https://www.instagram.com/p/CpAg9mSvi_U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[naokikouno]

人形が観たくて…☕️ #moyan #unpetitgarage #doll #ginza (un petit Garage) https://www.instagram.com/p/CocWR5aS3GU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dingyuxi]

YOUR TRAP 步步深陷 (2024)

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

FETCH MY SMELLING SALTS!!! China does erotic romance (I know, I can't believe I've just written this either. I guess the CCP is really desperate to inspire its dwindling populace to make more babies and get them into the mood), leaving Fifty Shades of Grey and its like in the dust. This is how you portray sensuality and carnal desire between two consenting adults and give the audience two leads with insane sizzling chemistry that sets their screens of fire. Even the script over all is better(ish), but considering how awful FSoG were, the bar Your Trap had to overcome was set incredibly low.

Anyway, let's dive right in. The miniseries starts with Feng Si Qian, the chairman of a big corporation, rushing in the rain to Han Qing, his personal assistant and lover, looking like he is ready to devour her on the spot. I have never seen a cdrama male ogle a woman's leg so hungrily.

The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, especially for a low budget mini drama. The lighting, the play of light and shadows, color gradient, and the whole overall ambience of an illicit love affair remind me of Wong Kar-wai's movies.

I love he starts undressing himself since the moment he comes in and never stops. He is completely drenched from the rain, while she is wet from the shower, as he slowly closes the distance between them, while she doesn't even look back, knowing he would come to her.

Only later she does look at him when she prowls like a predator towards him, showing she isn't as unaffected as she seemed, closing the distance between them. It reflects her inner monologue and the dialogue between them - predator or prey, bait or fish, angel or devil - the dilemma between them, both of them questioning who is who, struggling between the two, but clearly both unable to stay away from each other against their better judgement and possible consequences.

In those shadows, he really looks like a fallen angel, and only an idiot woman wouldn't help him with his undressing endeavour, which clearly she is not.

THE PURE UNADULTERED SHEER NEED! Did I call their chemistry sizzling, I stand corrected, it's downright explosive. They way he touches her and looks at her so desperately! Western shows can't do this (or only on rare occasions), they idea of eroticism is getting the leads naked and be done with it, but this is on completely different level - the lingering touches, unsaid words, longing gazes, the distance slowly closing between them...

AND YOU SHALL! This is a man willing and eager to give every piece of himself into you.

Though, you can sense there deeper underlying emotions beneath the attraction and their words. When she says she wants all of him, she really means it.

[non-lethal-headshot]

Community is the farscape of sitcoms, and farscape is the community of space shows. I will not be taking questions at this time.

[juhuahaixianjiang]

《王者荣耀》干将莫邪皮肤—画中仙，莫邪花钿

[relaxinjourney]

ユニクロでソフィア・コッポラTを見た瞬間、マリー・アントワネットのこの配色がとてもかわいくて購入しました。でも実は、ロスト・イン・トランスレーションを見たぐらいで、マリー・アントワネットを含め他の作品を見たことないことに気付いて、レンタルショップに行くたびにソフィア・コッポラの作品を借りて見ました。

いろんな作品を見るうちに、女の子のいいところ、弱いところ、複雑なところ、やんちゃなところがすごく映し出されていて、見るごとにドキドキしてた。映像の色彩や音楽はめちゃくちゃタイプ。そしてなんといってもファッション、衣装がかわいいの‥特にマリー・アントワネット！

大好きなシーンです🌹🌹🌹

ビジュアルもかわいくてTシャツのプリントにしたくなるのにめちゃくちゃうなずけるや💞

それぞれのタイトルの字体も😘

みんなはどのソフィア・コッポラ作品が好きですか？

そして、映画にも影響を受けているのか！？

私の髪は今、人生で一番伸びているからこそ、自分なりにアレンジしながら楽しんでいます✌️🫧購入するものにも少し変化が‥！？民族柄が大好きなようです。

下の写真はしゅんくんのcacuuにて。しゅんくんのファッション、色味とグッドなコラボレーション💘💚🖤

2023.7.5 pm9:38 おまゆ♡

[luvkuvi]

Part 2:

As the day finally came to an end, you were finally laying peacefully in your bed, watching "your name" for the 12th time when suddenly.. you felt a headache.. and your chest felt so tight we're you having a heart attack? Is this the end?.. everything hurts.. it was all black..

..

until everything turned bright. We're you dead? Are you in heaven? Nah impossible. As you opened your eyes the first thing you saw was that mirror in front of your bed.

..

wait your bed? This wasn't your room.. did you get kidnapped? Were you high? Dreaming? Who was that hottie in the mirror? What the hell is going on? That looks like that little purple gremlin that you bumped into..

As your mind raced with tons of questions, the door opened and it revealed a similar looking girl looking quite intimidating. Oh crap it was that popular hottie from your school, Raiden Shogun.. "Did you wake up late again? Whatever, I'm going ahead with the car, walk by yourself." She said quite annoyed seeing that "i" wasn't ready yet and slammed the door shut. What the hell did you get into?

-🐈‍⬛ (Is this my writer era 😦)

part 3 is where we take off his clothes and— HQHSJSOQ OKAY BUT THIS IS REALLY GOOD

[karasbroken]

Ok, there is zero reason for this story to be 34,000 words. I need a beta! And to outline my fics so I don't wander around for three chapters trying to decide what to do. I actually wrote the ending first, and then had to throw it away because it didn't fit. Probably it would also help to write the whole thing first and then post it.

But will I do any of those sensible things? Odds are low.

Unlike last time, this fic suffers from too much plot. John and Aeryn wrangling over attraction and loneliness mostly gets overridden by asteroids strikes and commerce stations. I wrote action! And lots of unnecessary slice-of-life space stuff. I was trying to explore Aeryn feeling more able to invest in John because she starts to believe he isn't about to leave at any moment. Then half way through she decides to leave instead. I cannot control these people. Lucky Pilot and guilt get me back in the direction of canon.

I don't know, I actually like some of this. So read it if you want. It's ok.

Rating: T    |   Word Count: 34,321 | Chapters: 6/6

Tags: Post-"Rhapsody in Blue", Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Violent Thoughts, Loneliness, Angst

“It was hard, Livy, seeing her like that.”

Aeryn heard John's voice in enough time to stop before the sound of her footsteps could carry to him. The name meant he was talking to his magnetic recorder again, not any of the Moyans. O’livy’a was the name of his younger female sibling—sister— Aeryn made herself think the colonial word. There was always a warmth in how John talked about his family that felt incompatible with the precise terms of galactic Sebacean. In English, it sounded inappropriately like a hiss, sisistr. She wondered whether the word for brother was similarly sibilant. The only time they’d talked of brothers, she had been too distracted to pay attention.

”I mean, what a mind frell—” Crichton stopped himself with a bitter laugh, “They’re getting to me. A mind frell,” he emphasized the word, one of the few profanities that had a perfect translation, though his English version was harsher to her ear, more violent.

“I thought I was going crazy, I mean, of course I did! But the worst part— is that it felt so right. So good. The idea of having someone else with me, dealing with this crazed frelled-up situation together— of just… not being alone…” John’s voice dipped and fractured, and he lapsed into silence.

Aeryn heard the click of the recorder being stopped. Was he talking about her? She hadn't thought he was there for any part of her humiliating collapse. To be rendered completely ineffective by mere hallucinations was bad enough when witnessed by Pilot and D'Argo. It was somehow worse to have the habitually incompetent human see it too.

But no, his words didn't seem to match that. They had not been together facing the rogue Delvians; that had been the problem. He'd been on his own.

The button clicked again. “It took me arns to figure out that Alex wasn’t real. Actually, I never figured it out. The priestess just let me go. Until then, I believed it all. That Alex joined Ayahsa with me instead of going to stanferd. That she was on the Farscayp project with me. That she had been my copilot when I got sucked down the wormhole….”

Alex. That wasn't a name she remembered from John’s many many stories. Someone he knew from his past, but didn't talk about. Until now, when he was clearly upset. That made her eavesdropping seem uncomfortably invasive.

Crichton was probably tucked into a niche just around the bend of the corridor. This hall, like many others, had begun to narrow and curve more dramatically in the last few weekens. But it still gave access to a window sheltered by an arching column where John liked to sit and watch space. Aeryn could continue on, greet him, ask him to help with the survey she was starting again, as she’d intended when she first went looking for him. It felt as if she'd just completed a full tier review, but Moya's internal structures seemingly changed every day. The work might be a distraction for him.

Or she could go back the other way, down a tier, or up, to find a new path around the apparently growing hangar that sheltered the ship’s child. She could leave Crichton to talk to his ghosts alone....

[dangermousie]

Farscape rewatch 2x04: Crackers Don’t Matter

One of my favorite eps and the most quoted one in the Mousie household.

You know what I am struck by, this time? How crazily Farscape works. I am faced with the next to last scenes of this ep: John with green face-make-up, shiny cover, attacking a bug-looking alien with a sword as it gibbers, screaming 'humans are superior' and marvelling at the fact that somehow, it all works. How crazy is it? It works, works brilliantly. Farscape took some odd risks, some strange choices, but IMO, they almost always worked out.

 And the way the humor (and this episode is bona fide hilarious) can coexist with cruelty and darkness because the ways the Moyans turn on each other is just vicious and what makes it horrible is that it’s their darkest ids, worst selves exposed - so it is them, even if the worst version of them.

And they have to live with it, with all the stuff they said and did, no easy solutions...

This is long and cap-heavy so behind read more...

I am also struck by how tight the writing is. It's obviously an organic show: it didn't have every plot detail worked out years in advance. But when things come up, they get so incorporated for later, they get brought up again, it all just fits. Just think of the little throw-away comment by Maldis in S1 that John lost his virginity to Karen Shaw, and how it comes to play in Kansas in S4. Why am I thinking of this for this ep? It's the fact that here is Harvey (his very first appearance), telling John that revenge is a dish best served cold, his whole attitude, his whole statement is so in line with the whole late S3 ep 'Revenging Angel' which echoes it so well. In RA Harvey fails to understand what makes John tick, what makes him stay alive: he is limited by his creator Scorpius. He fails to realize that what keeps John alive is hope and that for John, Aeryn is hope. (That is why chip!John in Scorpy's head in Incubator is so intractable, so final: he is post-loss-of-Aeryn, he really has nothing). What Scorpy fails in (and by extension Harvey) is to understand John on a very basic level: they don't really fit, like two odd pieces of a puzzle. Grayza of course makes the same mistake on Arnessk. It's going to sound corny, but Scorpy fails to understand goodness (not surprising considering his upbringing) while John has one-up on his opponent because he understands evil, because his face has been rubbed into it until it's raw.

I kept thinking, why is John the least affected by Traltixx in this ep? I am sure the eyesight has something to do with it (I love how Farscape turns on its head the old trope of humans being saviors because they are better. Crichton is 'better' because he is handicapped, because he doesn't see so well). But I think there are other issues here: for one thing, Crichton is a researcher, someone who must be analytical by nature. More importantly, he is attuned to oddness not just because of his post-Scorpy paranoia but because he is a stranger in a strange land, sensitized. And the thing is, just as with the chip later - knowing something is off is different from being able to put breaks on it. He periodically, alone among the rest of them, realizes something is wrong with his behavior but he is unable to truly stop it - the ugliness and the violence just come pouring out; the only concession to control is that he doesn’t kill anyone. The crew is horrifically ugly to each other in this one, but the ep is also mind-blowingly hilarious. Not like Out of their Minds, which is just plain funny. This one is funny with a hell of a sting. Some pretty bad things are said. I am struck not even as much by the Aeryn-John showdown (they know each other the best, so they really know where to hurt. Though I am still wondering how you can be both frigid and a skank :)) but I think it's because Aeryn and John cause each other such universes of pain, exactly when they are not trying to, but only trying to protect themselves or even do what is best for the other, that this is small fry. What is a little exchange of gunfire and a hit at Aeryn's being a traitor or John not measuring up to his father in comparison with Die Me Dichotomy or the coin toss or so much of late S3 or S4? Still, ouch ouch ouch.

What I am really struck by are other interactions: D'Argo with Rygel, flopping the little guy around like...well, a puppet, force-feeding him crackers. It's ugly. We haven't seen D'Argo attack a helpless being since DNA Mad Scientist, and we've forgotten, and it hurts. Though it does show a difference: here it's Traltixx doing an equivalent of drugging him. The inner savage is much further from the surface. The crew from early S1 would have succumbed to Traltixx in ten minutes flat.

 And keeping with the fact that actions always have consequences, there is no magic forgiveness at the end (though also like Farscape, there is hope of one later.)

And Crichton with Chiana. It's an unnerving scene, horrible to watch, precisely because normally John is so protective of her, because for Chiana, John is in many ways her safe harbor, her surrogate big brother, someone who she would always feel safe in the area of sex with (i.e. he won't, with her). But he turns that protection on its head, something ugly (though luckily, a bunch of the horrible stuff comes from Harvey, not John, so she doesn't hear it). 

 Yikes.

Pretty telling tho that even messed with by Traltixx, any sexual threat is not from John but is suggestion of the chip, which is doing whatever to get Crichton to kill his shipmates so he’d be easier to capture. John himself is horrifyingly cruel but does not see Chiana this way at all.

The idea he ends up liking is tying her up next to the rest of them so he could try to talk without everyone shooting each other, not anything else and thank GOD.

This is such a reversal of his attitude in Taking the Stone so I think it's interesting that the attitudes in here and TtS are juxtaposed (in TtS Crichton is losing it a bit, slowly, but it makes him more protective, not less. That is the natural 'insane' Crichton, not the one where someone took over and brought out the darkest id; when he is himself, however utterly mad and irrational, he is never wantonly cruel to his loved ones.) And then of course, later, when he is back to sanity and tries to apologize, she blows it off, acts impressed. Chiana is queen of repression in some ways, however open she is in others.

 You know, there is another reason why Crichton was the one to pull it together. (And no, I am not just referring to stubborness). He already has that edge of insanity to him and it's growing slowly larger. So has he figured out how to cope under weirdness while maintaining some control? He's had to persevere through some horrid stuff and had his head messed up with, so he can temporarily put aside distractions. But the thing is - this is only the start of Scorpius messing with his head. He can fight it on the margins for now (Harvey the Chip clearly wants him to kill everyone so he can be captured easier) but he can fight it even under the stress but we all know how it ends...

Oh yes!

He tries to tell Aeryn about seeing Scorpius but she’s also affected by the light and pays no attention and even John himself assumes it was some of the stuff Traltixx did (and I believe when they first had Scorpy show it was supposed to be a one off, not a chip) and oh boy, the misery that is going to eventually follow.

(the little correction she makes, heeeee...)

Oh boy, and eventually he will make you do that and this will be one of the worst moments of your life.

The thing is - having your mind hijacked is horrible but long before that happens to any significant degree, the layers of horror of it all are there because it’s not just John thinking he’s losing his mind and having his mind sorted through and controlled; it’s the fact that he now lives with the constant presence of his chief torturer in his head - it’s a somewhat literal metaphor for aftereffects of torture yes but also there is the sheer body horror of it which is incredible.

Yikes...

Side note - the ugliness with John and D’Argo bothers me least because they are evenly matched but also it’s pure physical violence, no emotional cruelty involved. 

Also, cool bit of foreshadowing, Chiana aligning with D'Argo here but also, the way Aeryn and John still want to jump each other in this little scene tho they were shooting at each other and have not too much rationality. Heh.

God, those two must have some truly spectacular sex once they finally get to it.

Oh, and the sheer unhinged anything goes vibe of this is so perfect. I don’t know how they manage.

And of course Zhaan just spending the whole episode orgasming and show making no bones about it - I love how just genuinely out there the show was.

Just wild...

Crichton barreling through insanity to save the day but everyone emerging a little or a lot worse for wear is a lot of the modus operandi of this show and this episode really distills it down so concisely in the most gloriously insane way.

[the-marron]

Zhu Yilong as Li Xiang in The Great War | 志愿军：雄兵出击 (2023)

And that's it folks - he does not appear in the movie itself, just in a post-credits scene that is a montage of all the scenes he was supposed to be in, I guess. So what you see above is everything of him in the movie. Truly. I watched it so that you don't have to.

Absolutely do not recommend the movie, and defnitely not if you just want to see Longge, so here it is, the collection of Li Xiang Best of (which is also his ALL).

Rant under the cut.

This director made The Battle at Lake Changjin| 长津湖 (2021) before and it was much more tolerable on the ✨Message✨ it also made some attempt to show the human side of the war.

Here I think someone got to the script because from what I could discern, the story was meant to be centered on the family - Li Moyan, the father and the commander of the unit that the movie follows, Li Xiang, his son who is a soldier and Li Xiao, the daughter that ends up in the diplomatic party, going to the US to argue the Chinese cause. The traces are there, but they do not come together at all.

The characters of Li Xiang and Li Xiao are absolutely absent from the narrative, they only exist in Li Moyan's words when he tells his comrades that he has a daughter and an estranged son. Li Xiao appears at the very end, for two scenes together and doesn't bring much to the story aside from crying about the words of the Chinese representative and explaining to Madame Tang (Zhang Ziyi!!!) that she has a father she loves and who has the other key to her home. Li Xiang appears only in the post credits scene that I screenshoted above.

What is left in the movie? Well. Death, explosions, dramatic singing of the national anthem, Good Leader Mao crying for his people and pretty much everything that comes to your mind when you think 'heavy-handed national propaganda'. A lot of emphasis is put on the character's ages - you are meant to realise that the soldiers are young, mostly between 18 and 30. Mao's son who tragically dies is 28, a very important thing for everyone around.

That's why I believe Longge was ultimately dropped from the movie - he is too old, simply. Doesn't fit the image the movie wants to sell but they couldn't exactly cut him out entirely, since he was one of the promoting factors.

So they slapped the montage at the very end, right after the first credits, to appease people who watched it only for Longge, that is my theory.

I have a very high tolerance for propaganda, but this movie was too much even for me. Don't recommend, even to support Longge.

[littlespringsongbird]

The real couples of the 1st national US Hadestown tour ❤️🌹🎶

Michiko Egger (band guitarist) & Eladio Rojas (band drummer)

Newly engaged Cecilia Trippiedi (former swing, Eurydice /fate understudy) & J. Antonio Rodriguez (former Orpheus and ensemble member)

Hannah Whitley (former Eurydice) & Chibueze Ihuoma (former Orpheus)

Belén Moyan (former fate) who travelled with her Husband

[mafiamaria]

just my curve MoYan's artwork