maybe this is just bc im a northern girl thru and thru (regional essentialism), but i’m ready to speak my truth: qu chuxiao was way hotter and more tragic than wang duo in 媚者无疆

these boots are sooooooooooo fab

all that’s really important is that in 2024 i looked hot and dressed well

tbh i’d move to dali and buy an apartment there if i could deal with the 12 hour time difference 😩

what i’ve decided to do w my one wild n free life is get rly into emma of normandy and hildegard of bingen

secondarily i must say this: silver river is objectively more beautiful than milky way

anyway something that absolutely sucks in translation is how much english references greek and roman mythology in ways that just don’t make sense for non-greco roman cultures

you’ll never get publishing takes out if me short of knowing me irl but the amount of conspiracy minded brain rot circulating,,,,,,

masking is so sexy

tee hee the bluesky bbs get dispatches from my personal life in ephemeral 10 minute chunks but hey, it’s more than the twt bbs get :>

still platforming tao lin in 2024 sure is a choice (this is a substack subtweet)

i love lulu wang but the most recent hubbub is what happens when diaspora dialect discourse w little material connection to the lived experience of people in asia meets said asians 🥴

the vibes babe the vibes are rancid

everything just feels worse and worse and idk if it will ever feel better again 🥴

u know what i think about an unreasonable amount is when kpop stans claimed that newjeans supported terrorism because they drove a car thru basque country for a music video for a song called estimated time of arrival

and here is the other thing right and why i don’t mind colourblind castings like jodie turner-smith as anne boleyn is that, we all know the real woman was white, her casting does not change that at all. what is actually at stake is the statement that people of colour have a claim to this history

chiang kai-shek vs the bandits is v pompey vs the pirates coded

i stopped watching it a decade ago bc i couldnt stomach the copaganda anymore but sometimes i do wish i could turn off my brain for NCISLA i always wonder how kensi & deeks r doing 😔

using bluesky like circles bc circles is gone :(

i want cdrama costume designers to put DOWN the chiffon back away slowly return to 人世间, 可不可以呀 仙侠我就勉强忍了 但是主角是人的情况下 can we consider hemp. cotton. linen. silk.

can this be the end of representation politics can we move onto politics of liberation now

fleabag style northanger abbey when i dont wanna have to do it myself but i will if that’s what it takes like it shouldnt have been persuasion to get that treatment when northanger was right there

anyway i still feel like shit but there were a group of students who went to their uni’s roof to show solidarity & that was unexpectedly moving israel may have the us & uk govts underwriting its bombs but palestine has the people on its side, its does not fight alone

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pls i want everyone to watch heart signal china season 2 i’m in a yang kaiwen x zhao qijun mood again now that is ROMANCE now that is a WOOING and four years on they are MARRIED 🥰 i love love!!

i dont think ive ever said aiya but i do say aiyo a lot 😔

“people discriminate because theyre scared of those who are different” no people discriminate bc it gives them power to do so and the sooner u understand that the more blessed i, personally, will be

gotta be honest i’m actually not too surprised that authors who write books that employ fantasy “inborn blood superiority” and “oppressors are just jealous of us” tropes have wishy washy irl politics 😐 iirc did not one of them quite literally write about special and unspecial blood

just dont understand how we’re meant to carry on like things are normal, like a genocide isn’t being manufactured with help from our state

booked my train & accommodations for bath but then a coworker told me today that she visited the brontë sisters’ house in yorkshire and i wanna to there too……slowly coming 2 accept that i will have to return to the uk at some point

french flaps & deckled edges remain the sexiest, on this i will not budge

what the brits have done to the bagel should be a jailable offense !

ada wong is my no. 1 girl 😔 can’t believe she’s real 😌

i wish bluesky had the option to lock accounts bc then i actually will go full nuclear with some of my sauciest takes 😔

anne boleyn and henry percy are my roman empire

MY ass is still thinking abt that george qiao review 🥴 nuts. nuts!

not that it’s my job to worry about how other people are spending their money but i think if you are reaching the point where you are buying 20+ books at a time you need to be honest that ur hobby is buying books, not reading them

trying not to freak out about how much money i’m spending but also i booked a trip for this friday to stratford-upon-avon 💀 so here we are, here we go

lmao is this the place to say that actually, i am still furious about what happened last summer

the more i learn abt chiang kai-shek the more inevitable the outcome of the civil war becomes 🥴 i’d say i’m surprised it didn’t start sooner except that it did basically start right away, before he was named president even

dont wanna be known for my brains actually wanna be known for being hot and looking adorable

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hi if ur here for publishing stuff just know that “bookish” is my least favourite adjective and my job/by will cease to be something i orient any part of my personality around once twitter dies 🙆🏻‍♀️ thnx!

every round of sex scene discourse on that other app is more obnoxious than the next like i know this industry is made up of some of the most annoying people on earth (myself included) but must we do this EVERY year?

no publishing shit on bluesky this is a cdrama and history place ONLY 😌🤌