Hey hey, I posted a new #fanvid! #niehuaisang enjoyers, step right up! #cql #mdzs archiveofourown.org/works/75854216

AIEEEEEEE! Oh my god, look at these tags, look at this set-up, it's like this was made for me or something! I am bouncing off the walls!

Time to settle in with some cocoa, pie, the annual love meme, and the backlog of fic comments I've been meaning to write. gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

Useful guide to Spotify alternatives: touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...

Appreciating the kpop thread in Ngozi Ukazu's "Flip."

congrats to innie for seeing this every night #BangChan #방찬

Stray Kids 2 Kids Room is functionally JYPE-orchestrated Aliens Made Them Do It fanfic, isn't it? In you go, boys! We'll release you as soon as you either make out or commit seppuku.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

At the eye doc ordering reading glasses, and the clerk chirped, "Do you read a lot?" and I said, "Oh, yes!" and she said, "What are you reading right now?" and in my herculean, gear-grinding effort to avoid saying, "Stray Kids werewolf porn!" I blue-screened and forgot every title ever printed.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Seems like a day for an old wangxian bedsharing excerpt from The Eternal WIP.

Would be better with a liripipe.

It would be so fucking funny if it was Wei Wuxian and Jin Zixuan who got stuck in the cave instead of Lan Wangji

Last week I hung out with a man obsessed with KPDH and in sore need of kpop recs, and a woman who nodded sagely and sent him to Stray Kids, so when I got home I looked them up and, as I suspect is common, got jump-scared by the one who looks like the prettiest princess and sounds like a coal miner.

Back from hiatus: "The Good Rain Knows its Season" Modern #wangxian AU with cultivation and reincarnation. archiveofourown.org/works/63343438

this is the funniest thing i've ever seen

Youtube just recced a kpop youth covering Taemin's MOVE, and I clicked because I love that choreo and it's always fun to see people tackle it. It was a heroic attempt; he's good. I immediately dashed off to rewatch one of Taemin's live shows, then unplugged my headphones and

I don’t know how to link the video directly from reddit, so I will need you to trust me and see this www.reddit.com/r/MoDaoZuShi...

What is your favourite thing to make when you come into an abundance of cilantro?

Kizu writes the best comfort fic when times are hard.

#mdzs Update: This is *fabulous*. Very cool magic, perfectly tender and romantic, and extremely funny.

This looks tasty

I love my friends 😂

Fascinating piece of fan history, fascinating to think about ongoing reverberations and replications...

Belatedly typing up my own shortlist:

Okay these are fab. Kickstarter ends May 22. www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Xiao Zhan drama summary drops: His entire family was killed by a scheming minister! Years later, he's back in the capital in disguise, to exact his revenge!!! Me, salivating, fervent, completely unironic: Groundbreaking!!! 🙏😍🥵

Seeking recs for Asian dramas whose narratives treat the FL as fully powerful, capable and active as the ML. Not, "Almost," or, "Well, she would be, except he's got 5 years on her," or, "Sure, except he has better intel." Who don't trip over a cobblestone and swoon into the hero's arms even once.

For people who don't mind WIPs, raitala's wangxian casefic continues to be the best thing I've read in ages. Like, damn. archiveofourown.org/works/63343438

Love a man who cleverly sneaks up on a known martial artist, gets kicked in the mouth, spends all night fussing in front of a mirror, then asks her out first thing in the morning, fat lip and all.

1. Two or more people are cooking a meal together. 2. Stealth quotation or literary reference I'm anxiously waiting for somebody to notice. 3. If there's sex, there's probably some sort of overwrought aquatic metaphor. 4. Somebody is in a canoe. What did I miss?

if you think fans being weird is a new thing, reminder that the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee were literally invented 300 years ago to mock how Handel and Bononcini fans spent their lives trying to tear the other one down to support their idol while the composers themselves were good friends

Gorgeous quote, *and* from a fic I haven't read yet! Makes me want to share my own favourite description of LWJ: "Wuxian cast a glance over his shoulder. Wangji looked like a stuffed owl. He was very good at hiding his amusement." vulnerable_bead, archiveofourown.org/works/18537901

Okay, so I'm working on several ao3 WIPs, so I know I shouldn't do this but hear me out: //modern au //wangxian as teens then adults//exes to lovers// We always have Straight Boy Wei Ying (love that for us) but what about the unexplored potential of Straight Boy Lan Zhan?

O, the suffering of Me, with my titanic kinks for characters stiff with honour, loving and not even letting themselves pine for love, for they have shit to do, foiled by yet another Sexy Forbidden Relationship fanfic.

Xiao Zhan and Hou Minghao are handsome, phoenix-eyed beanpoles with the exact same clever little lopsided smirky-smirk. Waiting patiently for somebody in cdramaland to notice this and cast them as brothers on opposing sides of a conflict.

Xiao Pingguo is communing with the frog on my desk at the moment. I may move her to the mantel or the fridge door later, so JJ can admire her. (Hey, y'all, did you know @bettytheteapot.bsky.social can *knit*? ❤️)

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

Doing some feed maintenance in an attempt to corral the politics into a politics list. I don't want to mute keywords, I just want to choose when I see them (and not everybody is ruthless about tagging anyway). Nothing personal if you got zapped! We'll find each other elsewhere!

@lisanise.bsky.social I wonder if they'd be interested in carrying your stock.

Of course Zhuo Yichen is the kitty kitty.

What a gem of a translation!

Gosh, Hou Minghao, uncannily handsome AND does a more convincing worldly, yet impish immortal than 90% of 20-something c-ent idols with similar jobs. Most of them simply do not have the centre of gravity for it.

Anybody got Fangs of Fortune fic recs? I'm already subscribed to Deastar, who's also one of my favourite CQL writers still churning out devastating one-shots.

This might as well be the first chapter of my ship manifesto for Chunmiao/Jinzhen. They make so much sense to me. I love Coreo's descriptive writing.

SHEER POETRY.

#WIPWednesday Renewed War of Faith #cdrama chatter has me all inspired. I don't think I've shared this snippet yet? I left out a short, unfinished bit between the two caps.

Sekrit project help request: Can anyone say more or less when or in which ep this set piece shows up in Love Between Fairy and Devil? #cdrama

Two weeks left to create fanworks for the fandomtrees event! You can peruse people's wishlists and make smol gifts for them, be it fic or art or icons or book recs or a list of soup recipes! Lots of different fandoms and wishes. Browse all wishlists: 🎄 fandomtrees.dreamwidth.org/182939.html

Just finished Rookie Historian on Netflix, and it stuck the landing! It's not the most intricate or subtle kdrama, but the characters are delightful and it neatly dodged a bunch of ship tropes that drive me batty.