#strange notes

[naughtynanzhu]

these clips from Strange Notes have me losing my mind lmao someone on xhs said "all the doors Chen Fei didn't get to pass happened here."

[discordix1031]

Silly meet jeff! Just go talk to him. Does jeff know about Sully?

Thank you Anon for your question.

Well, that answered your question then, now Jeff knows who he is, and Sully absolutely hated every bit of this meet up.

Any Q/A posts I make will be under the tag "Strange Notes", just be aware.

[justawanderingbabbit]

Strange Notes: The Liu Chang Episodes

I'll probably be watching more of the series later, but wanted to review Liu Chang's roles in this short horror anthology first.

Series Premise: In a bustling district, a House of Wonders variety store has opened, where items, seemingly ordinary, each possess peculiar functions. The owner, Damon, has documented the instructions for use in the Wonders Notebook, allowing customers to select items based on their needs. People from all walks of life flock to the House of Wonders, each facing their own dilemmas and seeking ways to overcome them. However, in the end, they invariably discover that what truly resolves their issues isn't these strange and curious goods, but rather their own love and faith. -- TenCent Video synopsis.

ETA: I found out there was a fourth episode for Liu Chang that I managed to miss. Rectifying that and giving the episode titles and Liu Chang's character names.

Beneath the cut because as usual... LONG                 (Also, SPOILERS!)

Episode 7: Memory Camera, Yu Sheng

Yu Sheng (Liu Chang) gets hold of a magic camera that shows the photographer and photographed person's memories. He and his girlfriend Lin, who both have amnesia thanks to an accident, make use of it to rediscover their relationship with each other. Except Lin realizes there's more to their memories than what Yu Shen is allowing her to see.

When she takes photos of Yu Shen covered in blood, she becomes suspicious of his motives and tries to run, only to learn that the memories the camera is showing her come from an attempted assault that she managed to escape by half-killing her foster father.

In the end, the couple decide they're best off making new, good, memories, than worrying too much about the past. They leave the camera with the proprietor of the House of Wonders and go off happily together, leaving the old memory of their amnesia behind.

This one is mostly a positive story. I'm not sure if the last scene was intended to suggest things weren't okay, but given the camera only takes pictures of the past, and the photograph Damon takes is something we already know, I'm not sure how it could be.

Damon, however, gets an ugly shock when he takes a blank photo of himself, so.... yeah.

Episode 18: Idol Drama Life, Gao Yuan

I didn't watch this one through because it hit all my cringe buttons. Liu Chang's character is a salary man who would love to be the hero in a romantic drama. His wish is granted suddenly when he finds the world stopped around him and a director demanding he behave in a certain way in order to win the love of a cold-hearted female CEO.

Unable to break out of the film crew's control, he does as he's told, even though he has no interest in said CEO and is actually in love with the little flower girl near his office. Following the script, he ends up marrying the CEO, who soon after dies for Reasons. At this point he thinks everything is a drama and believes the CEO is also acting, so doesn't feel any grief for her in his personal reality.

The script then allows him to fall in love with his flower girl, to his great pleasure. Except - unbeknownst to him - the flower girl is also an actress whose script has them falling in love and her inheriting the fortune he got from the CEO when he dies in two months.

I really didn't enjoy this one at all, though I did feel like there was plenty of meta to be had for Liu Chang and his struggles with romance drama/comedies. He doesn't handle them well, especially against perky little ingenues. I also didn't see a point where the character actually acquired an object from the House of Wonders, so his getting dragged into the mess doesn't seem fair.

Episode 21: Random Life, A-Qi

This one has one of my favorite time travel memes, although I sincerely hope the MC gets out of the problem in the end.

The main character finds himself fragmented through a month or so of time, waking without memory and sometimes injured. His only lifeline is a notebook he carries with him, showing the days he's lived in and hints as to what happened in his life. There's no notes past a certain date and he wonders if that means he's free of the mess after that day.

On one day he's killed by someone, only to wake up on another, much earlier day, with a note in his book in someone else's handwriting, telling him not to get into a taxi or leave his apartment. Afraid and angry, he instead goes to his taxi job and, somehow recognizing his enemy, takes him out in to the woods where they fight and he wins. We get a closeup of the enemy's necklace, with blue sand in a teeny hourglass.

He goes back home after burning all the evidence, then waits for midnight, hoping that ends the whole mess.

As it turns out, he visited the shop towards the beginning of the new year (I think the lunar new year) and is startled into breaking a red version of that hourglass, with the blue version right next to it. Damon tells him his time is fragmented now and that that shouldn't have been his in the first place. The enemy apparently buys the blue one at the same time.

As I noted earlier, one of my favorite memes is where one has to time travel into the past to cause something to happen in your future. In this case, we could be just facing the main character living the last days of his life out of order, of course. But that doesn't explain what the hourglasses are supposed to do and how they're supposed to be used.

I theorize that the blue hourglass lets the person involved avoid dying somehow and that he, knowing that the red hourglass owner will kill him on March 6th, tries to prevent it by threatening him. Instead, that threat ensures he does attack him.

This one's an open ending in my view. Liu Chang's character might die at the end, since he's killed (or at least attacked) on the last day of the notes. Or, because it is a magic hourglass, he'll continue waking up inside his scattered time and having to repeat everything he's done before. And, if so, maybe he'll be smart enough to work out what's going on and put a stop to that shit. (Being a Liu Chang stan, you can be sure I'm hoping for the last, no matter how bleak it might appear.)

Oh, I don't know if they did it on purpose, but the character's last day is April 14th, one day short of Liu Chang's actual birthday.

Episode 23: My False World, Zheng Tong

Wu Yong and his best friend (Liu Chang) are discussing false memories, where they recall things like a Pikachu with a black tail and Mickey Mouse in overalls. As they go about their day, though, Wu Yong realizes things are weird around him - he feels like people walk through him and like the world isn't right.

In order to determine if his best friend is a false memory, he takes Zheng Tong to the Strange Note's shop and uses a set of parallel mirrors which will only reflect a person infinitely if they're real. Zheng Tong turns out to be real, but when Wu Yong steps between the mirrors he realizes he's the one with no reflection.

As he disappears, Damon tells Zheng Tong that he's now cured of his delusion.

This one wasn't bad, if a bit obvious. One is left with an uncertainty (because of course) that the world Zheng Tong is in is real, but given the whole series is that trope, one pretty much expects it. It's a very short episode, but Liu Chang's whump expression does feature when his friend goes bye bye.

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Strange Notes | S01E07

Chinese Drama  - 2024, 24 episodes Links:  GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

~~ Adapted from the web manhua “Guai Qi Bi Ji” (怪奇笔记) by Chuanghua Culture (创画文化).

[emotional-mess-of-jellies]

This is going to be my go to response for every bullshit ever😸

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

you’re kidding me, right?? 😭

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BEHOLD THE LATEST TWST MERCH… a toy truck?????? They made merch of the isekai truck?!?!?!!!!/j 💀

IS IT JUST ME OR???? It looks like the dorm leaders and Grim are tacked up missing people posters… or wanted posters…

[disgracefulthings]

Shang Qinghua, holding a present: Happy Birthday my king!

Mobei-Jun: ...what?

Shang Qinghua: Oh, once a year humans celebrate our birthdays with gifts, so I got you something!

Mobei-Jun: No I got that, I just don't know how you know it's my birthday, I don't even know when I was born

Shang Qinghua, sweating profusely: I guessed

[tinycrescent]

sorry Mochi ♡🙏 

this may be my favorite Misa moment in Death Note. listen, she gets shit done. not in a safe or sane way, but she gets it done... lol

[aniisol]

ren versus everyone else's POV of him was so funny.

Ren said: "I love my buddy, I can't bear to go without him. If I be a little weird and off-putting maybe I will fly under the radar. Then I can win this for us"

Everyone else heard: "I am an amalgamation, I am something Else. The rot will consume all as it has consumed me, and you are the first to witness what it has done. The dead that crawl from the earth are in my likeness and I speak with the voice of a false god"

[rowrowrowyourboat-05]

(ignore how wonky he is, I made him in September)

a platypus?

PERRY THE PLATYPUS??!

[qifreyplushie]

(bad bunny voice) gege be careful..... the mosquitoes.....

[popcorn-plots]

I should be doing homework but instead...

(idek if this is popular anymore, I just need motivation tbh)

1 note and I'll go take a shower

25 notes and I'll get off Tumblr and finish my homework.

50 notes and I'll put away my laundry

100 notes and I'll fix my sleep schedule

150 notes and I'll start eating breakfast before school for the rest of the school year

200 notes and I'll tell my parents what I want for my birthday

250 notes and I'll start handing out my resume/applying to jobs [did not get hired anywhere, and I'm gone most of the summer anyways]

300 notes and I'll start running 1 mile every week

350 notes and I'll finish/publish a wip [trans Stephen fic, the public has determined]

400 notes and I'll finish the next chapter of BtSA [posted here]

450 notes and I'll spend 10 minutes a day working on my novel (;-;)

500 notes and I answer my emails

550 notes and I get a pixie cut (I've been wanting a shorter cut for months) [LOOK HERE]

600 notes and I'll fix my Doctor Strange cosplay (and post pictures)

(1000 notes and I'll come out as genderfluid to my therapist, despite how terrifying it is)

(1500 notes and I'll come out to my favorite teacher OR my ally YW leader)

(if, for some reason, and probably with divine intervention, we hit 20,000 notes..... I may consider coming out to my parents and/or my ward friends.)

[discordix1031]

To Slenderman: How do you clean your clothes? I ask because your clothes don't seem to be something you could throw into a washing machine with them being so large, compared to human clothing.

Thank you @cosmiconix for your question.

You learn something new every day they say, but this is something I never knew 😀.

Any Q/A posts I make will be under the tag "Strange Notes", just be aware.

[willthespy]

solangelo life is strange au scrap? in the year of our lord 2025??? in this universe????

so cutesie ‘n happy! (if you ignore the details)

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Strange Notes | S01E06

Chinese Drama  - 2024, 24 episodes Links:  GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

~~ Adapted from the web manhua “Guai Qi Bi Ji” (怪奇笔记) by Chuanghua Culture (创画文化).

[owenhcrper]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.06 - Lost in Translation