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My latest Guardian fanworks

2 Weilan fics, 1 Zhubai fic, 1 Zhubai drawing. :)

Let's Name Everything (507 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Kunlun/Shen Wei (Guardian)
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, The Language of the Primordial Gods, Implied/Referenced Sex
Summary: It almost sounds like blasphemy; neither of them has ever had a problem with that.

Much Better Than Expected (150 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Rain, Established Relationship, Drabble and a Half
Summary: Getting caught in the rainstorm was worth it.

A Quiet Celebration (333 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Kissing, Established Relationship, Soft
Summary: "So you skipped the glamorous afterparty to make out in the kitchen and eat noodles with me."

Not a Goodbye by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: Kissing, Fanart, Drawing
Series: Part 9 of Zhubai ~canon~ but with more kissing, Part 9 of Guardian Bingo 2025
Summary: This moment from the last day on set. :)

Dear Rarepair creator

Dear

rarepairexchange creator,

thank you so much for writing a story or creating art for me! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships I requested, and everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go,

My AO3 account is

Trobadora, and it's set to welcome treats.

General Preferences

( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )

Fandoms and relationships

In somewhat alphabetical order - note that some sections are expanded compared to the sign-up form:

Jump directly to:

绅探 | Detective L: Huo Wensi/Luo Fei
Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette
镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Ya Qing/Zhu Hong
Grimm/镇魂 | Guardian (TV) crossover: Renard/Ya Qing
Legend of the Seeker: Cara/Darken Rahl
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Anastasia/Jabberwocky
Time Engraver crossovers: Time Engraver/Zhao Yunlan, Time Engraver/Jiang Yang
长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen/Gu Xuanqing

( 绅探 | Detective L: Huo Wensi/Luo Fei )

( Grimm: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton )

( 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Ya Qing/Zhu Hong )

( Grimm/Guardian crossover: Renard/Ya Qing )

( Legend of the Seeker: Cara/Darken Rahl )

( Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Anastasia/Jabberwocky )

( Time Engraver Crossovers: Time Engraver/Zhao Yunlan, Time Engraver/Jiang Yang )

( 长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen/Gu Xuanqing )

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Coming soon: Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch

Zhao Yunlan sprawled on a couch, grinning at his phone. The background shows a purply sky with stars. Text reads "Slo-Mo Rewatch. Guardian - half an episode per week @ sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org."

Announcing the Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch, coming to a

sid_guardian near you, starting 5 September. We'll be watching half an episode a week (about twenty minutes) so we can talk and squee about our beloved 镇魂 | Guardian drama.

For those who remember our last rewatch, this time we're aiming for a lighter touch. Posts will be on the minimalist side - a brief summary, one quote, one screencap, maybe one noteworthy detail and some discussion-starter questions.

We're looking forward to some fun discussions as we revisit Haixing, Dixing, and the SID.

Fans of the novel, the drama, or both are very welcome! You don't have to keep up with the rewatch – it's absolutely fine to dip in at any time. We want to hear what you think! Those of us who've just finished the Readalong or are otherwise familiar with the novel are likely to compare and contrast the two canons, but it's 100% okay to focus purely on the drama.

Please consider hosting a post or two, if you're willing and able to! Comment with a date from the schedule below! Posts should ideally be made sometime on the Friday or Saturday, in any time zone.

Schedule for round 1
Weekend of 5 September - episode 1 up to 22:28:
Weekend of 12 September - episode 1 from 22:28:
Weekend of 19 September - episode 2 up to 22:11:
Weekend of 26 September - episode 2 from 22:11:
Weekend of 3 October - episode 3 up to 23:25:
Weekend of 10 October - episode 3 from 23:25:
Weekend of 17 October - episode 4 up to 22:16:
Weekend of 24 October - episode 4 from 22.16:
Weekend of 31 October - episode 5 up to 23:04:
Weekend of 7 November - episode 5 from 23:04:

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writing theory

Writing meta: What Middles Are For

Context and disclaimer: Most of these thoughts are not the kinds of things I take into account when I'm drafting. I'm hoping that looking at them in the abstract will a) train my subconscious in useful directions, and b) help me un-stick some WIPs.

I’ve mulched a bunch of Writing Excuses podcasts and Brandon Sanderson's Youtube writing lectures over the years, which have deeply influenced this random crop of ideas. I made some of it up myself, but I'm not claiming any kind of authority or even experience.

What Middles Are For

Arguably a story consists of 1) promises, 2) progress, and 3) payoff (cf Sanderson, Youtube). The promises are "here's what you're in for", including main characters, setting/genre/tone, goals and stakes. Most of that gets set up at the start. The payoff happens at the end, obviously, as all of it comes to fruition or failure. But middles can feel a bit formless. What does "progress" even mean?

Here are some thoughts about what the middles of stories are for.
( Many bullet points beneath the cut. )

Anyway, all of this has been swirling around my head for a while now. What do you think? Do you get stuck in the middles of stories? Do you have other ideas about what middles are for (other than putting some space between the beginning and the end)? Does thinking about it in these kind of terms help you, or do you prefer to frame your writing in other ways? If you look at your current WIPs or just-finished stories, what broadly/structurally are the middles of those stories "doing"? Do you think all this is different for fanfic, where you can assume a certain amount of reader pre-investment in the characters, at least, and where backstory is often canon?

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Guardian Readalong: Vol. 3, Bonus Stories: The Mountain Spirit

Welcome aboard for this week's extra in our Guardian readalong!

are last week's extras. You can find all previous discussions on the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), or via the !readalong tag.

Summary: Jianghu wanderer Shen San is injured while saving someone, falls down a cliff, and finds himself in the care of a beautiful ~~immortal~~ yao, who nurses him back to health. He soon finds himself entirely smitten. Returning as promised after taking care of unfinished business, he finds the cottage empty. Three years later, having made a home there, Shen San discovers his yao-xiong has been secretly around all this time. They settle into domesticity, disrupted only by a book of erotica and Shen San falling ill. Before Shen San dies, he promises to come back in his next life and find him again. Afterwards, the newly-named Shen Wei hunts down the original Soul-Guarding Order, which Shen San had given away, and unseals Daqing so Daqing can take care of Kunlun's reincarnations.

The corresponding part in the Chinese version/the fan translation is the "Shen San" extra.

Excerpts:
I could have quoted everything! But I managed to restrain myself. *g*

( 1) Shen San, jianghu wanderer )

( 2) Human, immortal, yao? )

( 3) Shen San has a revelation )

( 4) High literature )

( 5) A promise )

Questions:

What do you think about Shen San? How much is he like Kunlun, or like Zhao Yunlan? Do you think Shen San and his yao-xiong ever managed to make proper use of that book of erotica? *g* How do you feel about the tragedy of it all? Should Wei have resisted harder? Can you make sense of how the parts about the Soul-Guarding Order fit with everything else? Which parts of this extra have parallels in the drama?

(As usual, these are just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like!)

Our schedule - only one more extra to go! Sign up if you'd like to host it!

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!event

Guardian Wishlist 2025 coming soon!

Just a reminder that Guardian Wishlist 2025 is opening for business at

guardian_wishlist on 28 August!

This gifting fest runs along the lines of

fandomtrees and its ilk, but is specifically for Guardian (show, novel, and RPF) and related fandoms (main actors' other roles). It works like this:

People sign up with a wishlist of prompts and things they'd like to receive. Requests can include any media, including transformative works like fic, art, icons, vids, podfic, and also picspams and meta, translation advice, related music links, ~~lollipops, branches from a Divine Tree, wisps of Chaos, powerful ancient artefacts~~ anything.
Anyone can write, draw, record, or otherwise create gifts for any sign-up. Gifts can be posted directly in comments (which are screened until reveals) or to an AO3 collection. Gift posting continues right up until reveals. There are no minimums for gifts.

We'll be back closer to the date with updated rules and guidelines (all announcements and such are crossposted here on

sid_guardian), but here is this year's schedule again:

28 August: sign-ups open
5 September: first wishlists posted
15 September: sign-ups close
16 September: final wishlists posted
6 October (Reunion Festival): gifts revealed

And if you haven’t, come check out our participation poll in our initial announcement post!

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Okada Yachiyo (1883-1962)

Okada Yachiyo was born in 1883 in Hiroshima, the youngest daughter of a prominent doctor; her older brother was the innovative theater director Osanai Kaoru, and she was also a distant cousin of the painter Foujita Tsuguharu. When she was two years old her father died and her mother moved the family to Tokyo, where they frequently attended the theater and Yachiyo went to Kyoritsu Girls’ Vocational School, graduating in 1902. Encouraged by her brother and his friends, she began to publish her writing (both fiction and theater critique) in various literary magazines, including Yosano Akiko’s Myojo [Morning Star].

In 1906, she married the artist Okada Saburosuke (the marriage was arranged by Mori Ogai, husband of Shige), who used her as a model for several well-received paintings. Yachiyo herself continued to write and became a frequent contributor to Hiratsuka Raicho’s Bluestocking magazine. Her 1912 one-act play Tsuge no Kushi [The Boxwood Comb] is considered an answer of sorts to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House; its heroine O-Tsuna, who has left her home and her husband, longs at one point to return. In addition to writing Yachiyo was, like her brother, involved in theatrical production; she ran a children’s theater which performed from 1922 to 1930, and later a troupe of young actors which was active from 1935 to 1939.

In 1926, the Okadas’ marriage broke down and Yachiyo walked out, briefly taking up with an actor in Osaka; although never officially divorced, she and Saburosuke lived separately until his death in 1939. They made up temporarily in 1930 and visited Paris together; Yachiyo remained there until 1934.

She was a close friend of the editor Hasegawa Shigure, working with her on the first, short-lived version of the Nyonin Geijutsu [Women’s Art] journal and later in the wartime Kagayaku Kai [Shining Group] which supported Japanese troops overseas (she also visited colonial China for this purpose in 1941).

After the war she continued to write essays and playscripts, as well as editing and directing; in 1948 she founded the Japan Women Playwrights’ Association. She died in 1962 at the age of seventy-nine.

Sources
Mori 2008

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Poll: Drugs and lollipops (drama 'verse)

Poll #33486 Drugs and lollipops

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

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Where does Wang Zheng get the drugs to sedate the others in the mountains?

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she bought them online before leaving Dragon City
7 (46.7%)

she raided Lin Jing's drug stash at the SID
3 (20.0%)

she raided Da Qing's drug stash at the SID
1 (6.7%)

she found them in Zhu Hong's luggage (along with the syringe of resurrection juice)
0 (0.0%)

she gathered local traditional herbs in the mountains
8 (53.3%)

she slipped out and procured them from a local healer in the village
4 (26.7%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Second best time Zhao Yunlan offers someone a lollipop (the first is YOHE!Shen Wei, obviously)

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Guo Changcheng upon his arrival at the SID (ep 1)
5 (38.5%)

Zheng Yi when she's in hospital (ep 12)
2 (15.4%)

Cong Bo upon his recruitment (ep 14)
3 (23.1%)

Ying Chun at their first meeting (ep 21)
3 (23.1%)

random lab tech at the Inspectorate (ep 30)
1 (7.7%)

Da Qing, when Zhao Yunlan goes to retrieve xiao-Guo and Shen Wei from Dixing (half-eaten lollipop) (ep 33)
4 (30.8%)

other
0 (0.0%)

When you read "SID", do you mentally hear it as

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sid
8 (50.0%)

S.I.D.
9 (56.2%)

Special Investigation Department
0 (0.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

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Covid jab

For the record, I had my 11th Covid jab today. (I'm only posting about it because this is where I look when I'm checking dates. :-)

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Four recent fics (Guardian, various)

Three flashfics for

fan_flashworks, plus another instalment of my Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan post-canon 'verse.

Title: Behind another face (100 words) [General Audiences]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Zhang Shi & Shen Xi, Shen Xi/Zhao Xinci
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Complicated Relationships, Sharing a Body, Secrets, Drabble, Face challenge
Summary:

Zhang Shi meets Shen Xi.

Title: Take back the world (1288 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Wang Yike/Zhang Ruonan
Additional Tags: Reference to canon rape, Aftermath of canon rape, Pre-Canon, Upsetting Dixing powers, Revenge challenge
Summary:

One day, everything falls apart.

Title: two are halves of one (851 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Episode Related, Episode 22 after the blindness arc, First Kiss (for one of them), Crowd challenge
Summary:

A deep twist of desire makes Zhao Yunlan laugh. "After this—” He circles his chopsticks over the meal and has to clear his throat to keep his voice light. “Shen Wei, I think you should give me a thorough health check.”

Title: life in the silver lining (2732 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Complicated Relationships, The emotional implications of the existence of time travel, intimacy is hard, rated for themes
Series: Part 4 of Breakage and Repair 'verse (CSZ/SW/ZYL)
Summary:

“You’ve time-travelled before.” Shuzhi’s voice was low and raw. “What if the next time you go to Dixing, the Hallows open a portal to the past? Would you go and stop Ye Zun, and put everything back how it’s supposed to be?”

(Follows on from Raw Nerves, Old Scars.)

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Four recent fics (Guardian, various)

Three flashfics for

(Follows on from Raw Nerves, Old Scars.)

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weekly update

Me-and-media update

Previous poll review
In the Reading preferences poll, 71.4% of respondents prefer standalone novels, and 55.1% like finished series. In terms of book selection, 61.2% prefer new books by favourite authors, 55.1% like discovering new authors, and 44.9% gaze helplessly at their TBR list.

In ticky-boxes, hugs won with 61.2%, followed by "carrying moonbeams home in a jar" and "teenage giraffes adopting more of a flamingo aesthetic" with 51% each. Thank you for your votes!

Reading
( Cut for length. )

Kdramas
Nothing But Love (AKA Nothing But You) (Cdrama). I love this so much, and it's so good for exercising to (lots of tennis players training and playing matches) that I'm slowing my rewatch, trying to make it last. I may have to start something else for my non-exercising viewing. Meanwhile,

tinny's made a Nothing But Love/You rec post, if you're curious.

Other TV
( Cut for length. )

Guardian/Fandom
So busy! All good things!

Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses, a lot of Letters from an American (for your regularly scheduled nightmare politics; bite-sized episodes in a calm, measured voice, with added historical/legal context), and a bunch of Keep It Steady (audiodrama adapted from a Les Mis modern AU) because a new episode dropped yesterday, so I backtracked a bit.

Writing/making things
I've been plugging away at a little "flashfic", but yesterday the

fan_flashworks deadline caught up with me, so I blatted out a different 850 words. I don't really have my teeth in anything atm. I miss it.

Life/health/mental state things
It's so cold, I think my brain has frozen. Not much goes in, and not much comes out either.

Food
I've got a theory it must be ~~bunnies~~ dumplings... that have messed up my arms, so I'm going to switch to using my cheapo dumpling press and see if that helps. (Boo! Folding dumplings is the fun bit.) I've recently made batches of pork and chicken, so I need to make vege ones next. I'm going to try a Moosewood sweet potato recipe my friend sent me.

Recently made: crispy tofu in various things, egg and tofu stir-fry.

Link dump
Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working by

heathercoxrichardson (10:45, US politics; her whole channel is excellent).

Good things
Crispy tofu. New TV shows. Kudos and comments. Fanworks and outpourings of fannish love (and analysis and critique, too). People who post, people who comment, people who vote in polls, people who lurk. Wholesome kids' cartoons. Friday is forecast to be sunny. *hugs to you all*

Poll #33483 Obsessions

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Current active fandoms

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none at the moment
8 (15.7%)

one
5 (9.8%)

a couple
16 (31.4%)

a handful
13 (25.5%)

a lot
0 (0.0%)

it's complicated
19 (37.3%)

there are a few things I dabble in on the side, but which I don't usually count
11 (21.6%)

I have blorbos but no fandom
4 (7.8%)

other
2 (3.9%)

ticky-box full of thirteen synapses in a bag of goo
17 (33.3%)

ticky-box full of dream parkour
24 (47.1%)

ticky-box of following an author (or narrator) up hill and down dale
20 (39.2%)

ticky-box full of goth butterflies and punk moths putting on a music festival at dusk
29 (56.9%)

ticky-box full of hugs
39 (76.5%)

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My latest Guardian fanworks

2 drama Weilan fics, 1 novel drawing, 1 Zhubai drawing. :)

Sweet Surrender (1621 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Lollipops, inappropriate use of a lollipop, Food Sex, food insertion, Object Insertion, Anal Play, Nipple Licking, a lot of licking in general, Established Relationship, The Author Regrets Nothing
Summary: Lollipop, inappropriate use of.

Poems on Your Skin (1940 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Ye Olde Haixing Era, Writing on Skin, Body Calligraphy, Dixing Culture & Customs (Guardian), First Kiss, First Time, Frottage, Coming In Pants, Porn with Feelings, Guardian Bingo
Series: Part 8 of Guardian Bingo 2025, Part 5 of All the different first times for YOHE Weilan
Summary: Zhao Yunlan helps Shen Wei with a ritual.

Fading by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen San/Shen Wei (Guardian)
Characters: Shen San (Guardian), Shen Wei (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Illness, Bedside Vigils, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: Wei watches Shen San sleep.

I [Heart] You by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: video call, Fluff, finger hearts, Guardian Bingo, Fanart, Drawing
Series: Part 7 of Guardian Bingo 2025
Summary: Daily video call.

Current Mood: calm

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from the enchiridion of epictetus

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Poll: Some questions about novel Weilan (major spoilers)

This contains major spoilers up to the epilogue, so I'm cut-tagging. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the relationship dynamic in the novel. Please approach with due caution.

( Spoilery novel poll )

ETA: Oops, I reworded the "how much has Shen Wei changed?" question and made the scale unclear. /o\ 5 = he has changed completely; 1 = he hasn't changed at all.

Current Mood: lonely

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i am not a well writer

momentary lapse

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Guardian Readalong: Vol. 3, Bonus Stories: Sage 1 & Sage 2

Hi, and welcome to this week's installment of the Guardian novel readalong! We're finished with the main text of the novel, but the readalong continues - it's time for the first bonus stories. ♡

Here are last week's chapters, and you can find all previous discussions in the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), or via the !readalong tag.

This week's chapters:

Sage 1: Many SID team shenanigans happen, including but not limited to: They have acquired a Samoyed puppy named Xiaomi who plays with Daqing. They talk about the new office they're moving to, and have some theories why Zhao Yunlan is not at work. No one tells Guo Changcheng that he's the wick, they just confuse him with questions and occasionally pluck his hair to experiment on. Meanwhile, Zhao Yunlan talks to Shennong's mortar about the primordial past and Shen Wei's oath, and explains that some things are meant to be confusing. Shennong's mortar announces that he's leaving Zhao Yunlan's father's body. Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan take a walk together and cause spring flowers to bloom.

Sage 2: The SID moves to their new office, which includes a sunny attic and Zhao Yunlan's vegetable garden, among other things. Everyone loves Shen Wei because his arrival means that Zhao Yunlan finally goes home. Lin Jing invents an invisible listening device. Daqing bickers with people, including Shen Wei. Zhao Yunlan falls asleep trying to learn gardening from a boring book, and cuddles with Shen Wei (while also bickering). Guo Changcheng goes on an arranged date with a girl. Chu Shuzhi accompanies him and listens in on their awkward conversation, and then interrupts the date and drags Guo Changcheng away. They start dating, which is revealed to the rest of the SID by Lin Jing's listening device.

The corresponding chapters:
Sage 1 = fan translation Extra 2
Sage 2 = fan translation Extra 3

Excerpts:

( 1) The SID team speculating about Zhao Yunlan's activities )

( 2) Shennong's mortar leaves, and Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan make flowers bloom )

( 3) The new SID office )

( 4) Daqing 'practices yoga' )

( 5) Chu Shuzhi interrupts Guo Changcheng's date )

Questions:

Favorite SID shenanigans moment? (Or several - there are so many!) Do you think Xiao-Guo should be told that he's the wick? Do you understand what Zhao Yunlan explained about the primordial gods, or are you also a few thousand years too young? Are Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan consciously making flowers bloom, or is it just what happens when nature gods are happy? What is your favorite thing about the new office? Whose garden idea do you like the best, and why is it (not) the slutty eggplant? Any thoughts about the drama adaptation of these chapters, especially Xiao Guo's date?

You can answer as many or as few questions as you like, or just comment without answering any of them at all! And if you see this post and you're not actually reading the novel, I would love to know what you think about any of this with limited context. :D

And here is the schedule, where you can sign up to host a post. (There are only two weeks left!)

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: panqueque
Current Music: gaga | how bad do you want me

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30-50 feral hogs, the sequel

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canada fandom,
tv

Canada has come back to haunt me

Last night, Andrew and I and our tv-watching-with friend started The Sympathizer, a drama set just after the Vietnam war, about a Vietnamese double agent. It's structurally really interesting, and it has RDJ in multiple kind-of-gross roles, lol. Darkly funny, but deals with some really serious subjects.

Created by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, who are also showrunners. Yes, that Don McKellar.

It also, features Sandra Oh. I did not expect either of their names in the credits! :D

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Kohashi Miyoko (1883-1922)

Kohashi Miyoko was born in 1883 in Shizuoka. (Wikipedia says Kohashi, my other source says Kobashi, it could be either.) She graduated from high school in Tokyo and in 1901 became one of the first entering class of the brand new Japan Women’s University, where she also converted to Christianity.

Upon graduation in 1904, she became the editor of the alumnae magazine, and subsequently also took on the editing of various other journals, including the Christian women’s magazine Shinjokai [New Women’s World], where she worked with Yasui Tetsu. In 1914, she became editor of the women’s page of the Yomiuri Shimbun, then as now one of Japan’s major newspapers, producing articles written by Yosano Akiko among others. The section’s focus on women’s issues and views of general news seen from a woman’s perspective, along with an advice column, became very popular. (Ichikawa Fusae, among its fans, wrote in about her longing to travel to Tokyo. The advice column also catered to readers who were not literate enough to write their own letters, having journalists interview them and formulate their concerns in writing.)

The following year, Miyoko founded Fujin Shukan [Women’s Weekly], expanding on the work she had done at the Yomiuri to address women’s lives from a variety of angles, and writing editorials calling for occupational training for women and the need to raise men’s consciousness in order to improve women’s status. Among her magazine’s writers was the businesswoman Hirooka Asako, who had had her eye on Miyoko since the latter’s college days; Asako also provided financial support for Miyoko’s work, and Miyoko published her autobiography in 1918. She also founded the Women Journalists’ Club and worked with the WCTU to ban prostitution.

In 1919 Miyoko traveled to the US to study journalism and women’s studies at Columbia University. Upon her return to Japan, she continued working as a journalist with a focus on women’s issues, also publishing a collection of interviews with Margaret Sanger. She died of a sudden illness in 1922, at the age of thirty-nine.

Sources
https://kajimaya-asako.daido-life.co.jp/column/43.html (Japanese) Photos and reproductions (scrolls right-left)