《狄仁杰断案传奇》86版第01集/主演：孙承政、马昌钰、王为念、王九胜、雍和平 导演：孙伟、刘远东 YouTube video by Live Shangshi

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Watching this next!

YES
*sitting here, clapping enthusiastically*

Got sucked into rereading 小蘑菇 because of this and I'm doubting my memory now lmao 🤣 is 安 of 安折 even a surname???? All kids come from Garden of Eden, and they're already named there. 司南 is also a name, but 司 is definitely not a surname.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

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There are actually guidelines around name/noun romanization that support no spacing (when name/surname is unclear, art names or stage names, gods & deities etc.), but yesssss! I get what you mean.

Hm I also do like the different, yet still visual way of carrying that reminder of his difference.

And he felt close to an zhe because seeing him felt like he'd gotten an extra little brother!

An zhe on the other hand... has a fuzzy understanding of these terms. And even after he does after spending time among humans, he still remains just a little mushroom.

An Ze gave him that name because he could see that the little mushroom that saved him was a gentle being, he knew that an zhe would need a human identity, and maybe he even wanted to leave a little mark in the world.

Arbiter has a nice dramatic ring to it even if its irl meaning doesn't match up, but then I also like Judge! You have 'the one who judges' and judge (rank) if we're being literal xD

Multiple translations existing is good actually! And translators can disagree.

Never thought I would say this (because its /that/ publisher 🤣), but surnames are a social construct made by humans. Fungi do not need surnames. A free little mushroom can keep the name it was gifted and go its own path!

(Actually quite a charming choice to me - yes! Like Feiliu!)

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xD I am Feiliu allllll the way.

If we do Fei Liu then I must have Mei Chang Su (and that's a win for me too!) xD

My brain went to the same places!!!! 🥺

I do quite like the An Ze and Anzhe choice :D

The criticism also feels like it escaped containment this time. I've been seeing roasts about unconvincing male/female general potrayals (among others) for a couple of years.

(It would be interesting if someone could do a compare and contrast for this role in idol drama through the past 2 decades)

I saw a post from an instagram person I follow that explained how it could have happened from the perspective of someone in the idol drama liking community in china... and it made sense to me!

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...and yes I only like 令狐冲 when he is injured 🤭

I had to chose between 笑傲江湖 and King of Attolia 🤣 in the end, we had to go with Attolia because lost a hand + health never quite recovered 🥰 + the 3rd person perspective going from dismissive to 🥺 over the mc. Even if the former was 1st exposure to all things I love in fiction... KOA wins here xD

Thanks. Just choked on my dessert 😆

Five books to get to know me by:

1. Little Women (with Part 2) - Louisa May Alcott
2. King of Shadows - Susan Cooper
3. King of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner
4.《琅琊榜》海晏
5.《折竹》一十四州

'Spicy' in haitang is the sort of thing people get cancelled in more immature fandom spaces for, not /arrested/ and extorted.

Targeting the ~symptom~ is never going to solve the root cause. They're just going to end up playing whack-a-mole with the latest gratification trend that becomes popular enough for extreme fan behaviour.

Here's another one: 【我竟然能在女孩子身上看到意气风发这四个字！女扮男装就应该是这个样子！-哔哩哔哩】 b23.tv/U0r1vG4

这位姐姐真的太帅了 🤣 我是误入了什么坑呀

I'm going to be imagining her roles in place of a certain type of male lead 🤣

【她要是生在这个年代，得是顶流级别了吧…-哔哩哔哩】 b23.tv/tCLJ4LK

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭

I see the bed is not a safe space for books xD

There is always your bed 🤣

He's from, I guess you could say, the previous generation of stars? A lot of them are 'quietly' playing dad/uncle roles now 🤣

But speaking of comparison videos, this is not that, but someone recced a vid of this jiejie, and OMG

【【孙翠凤】有了她，谁还看小鲜肉啊？-哔哩哔哩】 b23.tv/18Nv89S

Poster for Taiwanese drama Love of The Aegean Sea. Alec Su, Chae Rim and Peter Ho from left to right.

PLS Peter Ho *specializes* in playing cool generals 🤣 he's played every big general you can think of xD which makes me chuckle to think back on the days when he was a little more twink-y.

Honestly, what can you do to force productions to invest time in train their actors like they used to 🤣 none of them have years to months to waste on that these days, time is money! Also they probably have safety standards to follow now... and actors have insurance xD

We aren't ever going back.

i'm going to go see real snow at the end of the year (fingers crossed that all goes according to plan this time 😭) and kind of looking forward to this, but also not at alllllll 🤣

xD close both eyes when you see the snow!!!!! (idk what they used for it but it's definitely fantasy snow that i'd love to play with but will never get irl hahahaha)

i've heard from an aquaintance that "the recent trend of female protagonist cnovel is that the love interest should at best be backdrop, otherwise they are accused of overshadowing the heroine" (not the case when i was still reading them in the 2000s- early 10s). And these are the IPs being adapted.