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This is true for many Priest ships, including those who treat fencing as flirting match.

Fairly confident that fei du and luo wenzhou treat flirting as a fencing match

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Suddenly my entire world is spinning and swaying - wolf 2025

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Anyone knows how to disable it on PC?

Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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THE FONDNESS he's 2 secs away from laying a big wet kiss on LWZ in front of everyone

meanwhile Taotao is so over all the PDA (≧ヮ≦)

this "really bro..." face is so FUNNY

Look at my babies🥰

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Not to play into the lame top-bottom rhetoric, but this is PRIEST. So that dynamics is absolutely subverted in canon, it is always a mystery, and always not what you'd think it'd be if you follow usual tropes.

So, even in book canon, it has mostly always been Fei Du who initiates and loves to perform variations of "Kabedon" (car-seat don, sofa don, bed don and what have you) on Captain China (who actually is very weak to it) EXCEPT this one instant of textbook kabedon at the crime scene.

So yes, this change was never OOC in any shape or form. Fei Du's love for pushing and trapping Lao Luo against places was perfectly portrayed by Pei Su. Wenzhou's ever loving doki doki flusteredness over it was rightfully present in spirit through Weizhao.

Justice in the Dark and the Art of Translating Vibes (or: Why the drama's kabedon (ep. 18) is actually the novel's car kiss (ch. 75-76))

I've been mostly burying myself in the material rather than reading what anyone is saying on social media but @lunarriviera said I should share this, so here goes.

I really like the way the creators of Justice in the Dark worked really hard to translate emotional beats and preemptively plan for censorship, and I think it does something interesting because it moves parallel moments around to where they need to be given the exercise in translation that an adaptation must perform.

Spoilers for both Modu and Justice in the Dark versions below!

The main one I want to talk about here is the kabedon/wall slam that takes place when they go to investigate the crime scene where Feng Bin was killed.

Obviously, the scene as it appears in the book at that moment in the plot would not have made it into the drama in a million years, even if censorship wasn't the way it is:

So it is a given that there was not going to be an interrupted wallfuck in the drama, and the creators were well aware of that. In many dramas, the usual thing to do would be to say "well, we'll try and do as much as we can, perhaps a generous shove would be allowed."

But JitD didn't do this. Instead they looked into the origin of the interaction and considered where the characters stand at this point.

Previously, a similar divergence already occurred at the point of the car kiss/Fei Du passing out at the front door that happens in episode 13 after having gotten dehydrated and low blood sugar from being sick in the aftermath of Zhou Huaixin's stabbing. The kiss, likewise, could never have been shown in this particular reality. To compensate, the creators of the drama made Fei Du's state during the car ride worse, and likewise heightened the severity of the reaction when it happens.

First with the car ride, in which Fei Du is arguably worse off in the drama. (And I really recommend rewatching this bit, both for the filming and the incredible music they gave this little mini-montage):

Then when Fei Du collapses, in the drama they make him actually fully fall unconscious:

The novel version, Fei Du IS out of sorts, and the general progression is the same, but they do also make out in the car before Fei Du gets out and I think it is reasonable to say on that basis that he's not quite as obviously out of it as in the drama. Likewise, he never fully passes out:

So what happened here is that the creators turned it to their advantage; recognizing they can't have the kiss, they decided to crank up the angst/whump and make Fei Du even more messed up (which, let's be honest, is almost as good). What's more, it is an option that was not available if they had been able to do the kiss. So, in a sense, they have adapted to their constraints and provided us with a "two cakes" option.

This is a good example of what I mean by the translation/substitution. Another one is the way they substitute the flashback childhood fever scene since they cannot do the forehead kiss in the very next set of scenes. But I think folks have probably talked about that already, and it's not the one I really wanted to get to.

So now for that: the kabedon at the start of case 4 (or Verhovensky/Doestoevsky/the Yufen School case, whatever we're calling it). This was the passage I quoted at the start of this post, and it, like the car kiss, could never have appeared in the drama.

And here the drama team again did a translation, but in this case it takes into account not just the novel parallel at this moment in the case/plot, but also the relationship progression for each the novel and drama.

Specifically, in the drama, as stated, there was no car kiss. In addition, the novel sequence puts two other important and relevant sequences between the car kiss and this scene: Fei Du's first and second nights out of the hospital. The first night is the one that involves blanket-burrito Fei Du being handcuffed to the bed and the non-consensual hairdrying (glorious moment), the second involves their first fuck, which takes place the next night, after Fei Du has gotten up for water and interrupted Luo Wenzhou reading Lao Yang's testament, and Luo Wenzhou telling Fei Du that he can't explain everything to him yet, so please give him a few days. I won't go into the excellent translations that do occur in the drama condensed single night of that sequence, but suffice to say, when drama Luo Wenzhou wakes up covered in photographs from Luo Guosheng's crimes 20 years ago and Tao Ran's urgent call, in the novel he's waking up in Fei Du's arms. And so later when Zhoudu are going to the Lovers' Mirror on the crime scene date, this is the first date after the first fuck—in the novel.

Meanwhile, in the drama, there has instead been much yearning and a sleepless night where I am certain they were both horribly desperately wishing they were in bed with the other—but they weren't. (Aside: yes I do also love the other interpretation that the filmmakers were gesturing towards them being together with overlapping cinematic effects, but I'm setting that aside for now, what can I say, I like multiple interpretations, I contain multitudes etc.) Thus this moment is not the same moment as it is when it happens in the novel.

What moment is it?

It's the car kiss.

As far as the relationship beats, Zhoudu are still at the heightened point of tension without much physical contact that their novel versions were at during the car kiss.

And that—that kiss was initiated by Fei Du.

(Aside: yes, I also agree with the perspective that Fei Du was trying to get rid of him so he could go have some quality basement time, and he knew that kissing him would make Luo Wenzhou aroused and flustered and furious—and probably he'd storm off. But people can have multiple motivations and he DID want to kiss him too.)

Anyway it is here (apologies for the long screencap):

What does that sound like?

Yep. This is actually the car kiss.

Tbh I don't care at all who tops and I think it is a boring thing to argue about, but I started thinking about this because I was wondering what the writers in the drama were doing and at first glance this was a surprising scene if watched with the novel equivalent in mind. I was convinced that there's no intentional choice made to invert/reverse anything, because in all other matters the creators have been paying an incredible amount of attention to trying to follow the novel in spirit and vibes even when they cannot do so literally. So why would this suddenly be an outlier?

And thus my proposed answer: It's not. It's absolutely in line with the translation strategy they've been pursuing in other scenes previously, but it is complicated by the divergence in relationship progression between drama and novel, the consequence of which its equivalent emotional/horny moment falls at a different plot moment.

The drama kabedon is the novel car kiss, not the novel kabedon.

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Part 1

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Whenever someone makes a post like this | go "wanna look at my blorbos? 🥺"

ughhh, I have several half-watched C Dramas atm which hit their ep 20 slump and my "what's this nonsense I'm being shown" button, and I don't know. I like to know how a story ends! But on the other hand, ughhh

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-Chapter 115

I now realize WHY this sentence exists.

an absolutely INSANE shot of LWZ's ass

but it was nice detailed zoom out through his crotch that we got this missing girl's poster

The lolita case really was ongoing throughout the years.

(and some other missing posters on the side of the trash can. Left side is for a missing labrador)

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Forgot to post on tumblr on 25th (whoops) but here I am 4 days later.

Hi @sad-weiying!

I'm your Secret Shanren for this year's Christmas Event at r/wordofhonor (Secret Shanren 2024). I tried to put in most of your fav things in this except it became a Poem instead of a fic 😅 And I'm really bad with angst so I'm not sure it got conveyed properly. Hoping you still enjoy this 🎁

I've gifted the entire NSFW version on AO3 and as usual posted the SFW version on reddit.

Happy Holidays ❤︎

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu Characters: Zhou Zishu, Wen Kexing Additional Tags: Love Poems, Porn as poetry, White Haired Wen Kexing, Bottom Wen Kexing/Top Zhou Zishu, POV Zhou Zishu, Missing Scene, Porn with Feelings, Light Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

A poem trying to capture ZZS's feelings after he performs the Six cultivation methods back on WKX, the few moments when there's no response and he doesn't know whether his soulmate is still alive and then when WKX comes back to life.

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UK ADULTS IT IS TIME AGAIN TO SHOUT AT YOUR MP.

It is about that Wes Streeting plans to make the ban on puberty blockers for specifically trans children and not cis children undergoing precocious puberty permanent.

Advice on what to put in your letter, with sources, is available here:

You can and should personalise it as much as possible, but there's nothing wrong with C&Ping most of the text from the doc and adding a couple of sentences on your own experience/views.

Mine, below the cut:

I am writing to you to ask you to oppose the permanent ban on puberty blockers, for the following reasons:

The ban was implemented by the previous and current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in an apparent response to the Cass Review, which itself did not directly call for such a ban;

The review however marked all observational studies as poor and itself only conducted a systematic review, which under the GRADE II methodology is classed as very poor, as has been noted by a Yale study on the metholody of the review;

According to NHS figures, a typical waiting time for a child to be seen by a gender specialist is 6 years. If they turn 18 before being seen, they then progress to adult services, where they face another 6+ year long waiting list (this information was obtained via a freedom of information request to the NHS https://docs.google.com/document/d/1neOdLdAPHD6wTikLi9s7Y1AFxrOR9FZQjoMvxKIyJGk/edit?tab=t.0).

The inability to access timely treatment, even for serious cases, leads many to obtain puberty blockers via private healthcare, an avenue of access that has now been removed by the ban.

The ban therefore currently leaves transgender children with no medical treatment options for gender dysphoria within the UK, forcing those who can afford it, to take their children overseas for treatment, and leaving those who can’t with no medical pathway.

As a transgender adult, I am well aware of the acute, often suicidal distress suffered by transgender children undergoing a puberty which does not align with their experience of their own gender. It is not inconceivable that blocking transgender children from accessing this healthcare will increase suicide rates in this group.

A preprint paper by Goldsmiths lecturer Dr Natacha Kennedy (Kennedy, 2024) examines the effects of the ban, using a survey for the parents of young transgender people after the ban was implemented. The parents responding to the survey commented that the ruling seemed to have emboldened transphobes, particularly transphobic politicians and media, by making transphobia more respectable:

“She feels as though the government and media hates her. It’s disgusting that our country is doing this to children.”

As part of this, there has been an increase in delegitimizing language, such as referring to transgender children as ‘gender questioning’:

“It seems since the ban following the Cass Review that it has given politicians, the government, the press and public endorsement to try to further reduce trans youths’ rights and even the word ‘trans’ or ‘transgender’ is being removed from the narrative and there seems to be an erasure of using the word ‘trans’ for youth and it has been replaced with Gender Questioning Children. My child is not gender questioning, they are transgender and have been out for over 9 years and living as themselves. They know who they are and it hurts terribly when people doubt that or don’t accept it.”

The results of the survey show the lack of treatment options has already had a horrifying effect on children and young people’s mental health. Parents noted:

“I have a child who has been suicidal, self-harming and has been unable to leave the house.”

“My child was suicidal and has self-harmed many times as a way to express her emotional distress at the change in her access to gender affirming care.”

“Distraught. Devastated. Distressed. She had already been through the experience of having her healthcare access stopped after the Bell judgement - she had been due to start blockers that week and they were instantly stopped. This deeply affected her trust in adults responsible for her care, and had a knock on effect on relationships with teachers, club leaders, the GP etc.”

The paper also shows that parents and families have been severely impacted by the ban. They feel powerless to protect their children and abandoned to deal with the impacts alone:

“I am so worried about puberty. I think about it at least once a day. I am deeply concerned that if she struggles then we are helpless.”

“It has caused direct damage to my mental health by causing panic and confusion. I was left to support a child whose mental health changed for the worst overnight (literally). There was no support for her or parents. There was no warning. I felt confused and desperate and also totally unseen.”

“Watching my child suffer and struggle needlessly due to the decisions made by people who this has zero impact on is single-handedly the hardest thing I've ever had to do as a mother.”

One parent noted that their daughter was now frightened of being outed at school and potentially stabbed because she will go through the wrong puberty:

“I am so afraid for her. She is in stealth at school, afraid of being stabbed and now she will undoubtedly go through the wrong puberty for her.”

With the rise in hate and transphobia, this ban may well put children and young people at physical risk from their peers, which is more dangerous than any safety issues from puberty blockers.

Much as anti-immigrant rhetoric from public sources in the UK has embolded violent racism, so a government which is seen to withhold support from transgender children emboldens violent bigotry against them. We have already had one despicable, very widely-publicised murder of a transgender teenager in this country. It falls upon us all to prevent any more.

The ban is not firmly based on medical recommendations or evidence. The Cass Review remains controversial, has been criticised for its quality by various professional institutions and is still being critiqued and analysed. Banning puberty blockers is a politically motivated and scientifically unjustified response. The UK is an outlier in implementing a ban and goes against the expert opinions of many professional associations and nations worldwide. Several other countries, including Australia and France, have conducted reviews of their own finding that puberty blockers are a considerable help to transgender children.

Some instances of precocious puberty have been treated with puberty blockers for the past 50 years, with no discernible side noticed. By this point if there was a serious issue, it would be endemic. Contrary to their presentation as being a recent and experimental innovation, Puberty Blockers have been used in the treatment of cisgender children since the mid 70’s and transgender children since the late 90’s, with no discernible epidemic in side effects. We have decades of observational studies which show that for 90% of people transition is the right course of action and even for the 10% who detransition, only 3% of them detransition because they’re not trans at all. (Numbers are from the preliminary results of the world's largest review of detransition rates in the world, the North American Dare Study.) A decade-long study of 200 trans children which showed no decline in mental acuity, was ignored (Arnoldussen et al., 2022).

The Cass Review was conducted without the assistance of Gender Specialists and Endocrinologists due to a perceived bias, that in itself should be cause for concern. Imagine a review of natal services in the UK excluding specialists in that field. Yet, members of SEGM, a designated trans hate group (Southern Poverty Law Centre, n.d.), participated in the NHS Working Group on Gender Dysphoria, which helped to create the Cass Review (https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDownloadDocument?pubId=&eodoc=true&documentID=136692)

I therefore ask you to get in contact with Mr Streeting and to urge him to lift the ban, before more children and young people are hurt.

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we’ve always been here (and we’re not going anywhere)

@ravens-play-exy-too / the handmaiden (2016) // frida (2002) // wilde (1997) // oscar wilde in a letter to leonard smithers // dickinson (2019-2021) // emily dickinson in a letter to sue dickinson // brokeback mountain (2005) // our flag means death (2022-2023) // e.m. forster, selected letters of e.m. forster // kill your darlings (2013) // black sails (2014-2017) // eleni prineas, finding the lesbians: personal accounts from around the world // anne with an e (2017-2019) // gentleman jack (2019-2022) // portrait of a lady on fire (2019) // a league of their own (2022) // virginia woolf in a letter to vita sackville-west // carol (2015) // james baldwin in an interview with richard goldstein // sappho, fragment 147

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how do i get the moon to notice me back

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If it helps @gaywatch,

The glasses are just part of Shen Wei's Professor cosplay. He doesn't actually need them for eyesight issues. [Might just treat it as a mask/veil replacement to hide away his true self, but hey, that's just what repressed gays do.]

Meanwhile, Zhao Yunlan actually does wear reading glasses at times in the books to protect his eyes. Like this bit in Chapter 16.

So enjoy glasses Bai Yu ❤ 'cause boy is myopic.

[Pics from Guardian Bazaar Photoshoots]

Hey Brittany!

The streams this week are so fun! A rollercoaster ride if you will~ But youtube is being mean again and not letting me comment about this on the last stream, so here I am~

Did you know that Zhao Yunlan's doorbell is actually a 2009 MAJOR HIT SONG? Priest is always so fun with her trivia and choices~ What's even more fun is that Bai Yu (Zhao Yunlan) and Zhu Yilong (Shen Wei) actually sang this in a Karaoke Session held during Guardian promos!

Watch it here: Bai Yu Zhu Yilong Karaoke The Hottest Ethnic Trend

Playlist for the entire Karaoke: ZhuBai Karaoke Session for Guardian

The rest of the karaoke session was also very lovely. I absolutely love them singing to the songs on no. 4, especially "I" by Bi Icon Leslie Cheung.

Have fun listening to these! Stay warm and healthy ❤

The way my brain does not compute Zhu Yilong without glasses yet Bai Yu with glasses even, what, two years after I watched the series? More? Just speaks to the casting perfection.

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r/wordofhonor is back with Annual Christmas Event

Join us for Secret Shanren 2024 by filling out this form;-

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So a while ago Bai Yu did a podcast on Lizhi where he discussed his character in Guardian and read some lines from the novel. I did my best to make translations and put together an Eng subbed video. 

The audio comes from lizhifm here

There’s another video of Bai Yu reading lines from the novel, which @naanima posted here

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@wuxiahiraeth put this on our watchlist, pronto.

So I'm watching a C-romcom about a heroine being thrown into domesticity with a bunch of gorgeous boys. they're all _gamers_! and I'm like - omg is she watching the untamed, or is it just me who thinks any Chinese costume drama is the untamed?

aww, but she IS! cql is THE Chinese costume drama!

And then all the gorgeous boys with crack eyeliner wake up

And the library is open, officially. This (CQL aficionado) guy is salty because the heroine replaced his beautiful soulmate on the team, and they cannot fight back to back anymore 🥺

you were my soulmate! - still am.

Yeah, come back to Gusu with him! now I see the secret message behind the untamed appearance 🥺 the heroine is thrown into the hot boys setting for her shipping needs first and foremost, and her own inevitable het romance is just a side bonus. fuck censorship, wangxian have got your backs, gal and gents 🥺