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Screenshot from the Chinese drama The Outsider, showing characters watching Gao Weiguang in Eternal Love on TV

Screenshot from the Chinese drama The Outsider, showing characters watching Gao Weiguang in Eternal Love on TV

A fun meta moment in #TheOutsider - the villain & his girlfriend are watching TV, & on comes Gao Weiguang (as Dong Hua) in #EternalLove

The girlfriend says:

“Doesn’t he look like [the current ML, also played by Gao Weiguang] - cold, aloof, totally unapproachable?” 😅

#cdrama

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😅

Yes, 2 episodes per day is preferable!

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Chandogya Upanishad - Wikipedia

Here’s the Wiki article on the Chandogya (containing some scholarship around its dating, as well as an overview of its contents):

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The Chandogya Upanishad 6.2 already sounds philosophical:

“How could being arise from non-being?”

It’s clearly a metaphysical argument, not just a mythic narration

Since Chandogya is often dated to around 600 BCE, it has some claim to being as old as or older than Thales & Parmenides 👍

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It’s just the standard kdrama release schedule of 2 per week 🙂

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I hope you get some good rest over the next couple of days & recover your energy 🙏

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I guess you’re jet lagged? - I’ve not heard of people who are constitutionally incapable of receiving delivery food though 😅; that’s a rare condition!

I’m glad you made it to the crackers & pickles section of your building though 😂

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A screenshot from kdrama Perfect Crown, with IU’s character (Hui-ju) holding up a paper bag advertising Subway

A screenshot from kdrama Perfect Crown, with IU’s character (Hui-ju) holding up a paper bag advertising Subway

You clearly need some takeaway food from a well advertised product placement source 😉

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Oh yes, the Republican era drama with Zhang Jingyi as the FL 👍

I remember watching the first few episodes & liked the atmosphere; but I must have got snagged by another drama at the time, because I can’t remember finishing it

15 hours ago 1 0 1 0

It’s both funny and ridiculous - and sweet - all at the same time 😅

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Oh I see - I’m not sure I’ve used that functionality before

But I did hear from people that after the outage, some functionality systems weren’t back to normal yet, so that may be why you’re having some issues with it 👍

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a man in a traditional korean dress and hat is standing in a room with other people . ALT: a man in a traditional korean dress and hat is standing in a room with other people .

😂

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Btw, when you say your pinned Home Feed, what do you mean exactly?

Do you mean the ‘Following’ feed?

I have several feeds - for instance including the drama feeds, a ‘Latest From Follows’ feed, etc - and any of them can be used as a home feed

Is this what you mean?

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The big outage last Thursday/Friday was caused by a DDoS attack, but there are functionality glitches that Bluesky has from time to time even without this

So it’s difficult to diagnose sometimes!

17 hours ago 1 0 1 0

Hmm 🤔 - I was unable to open Bluesky for an hour due to another local outage. It seems there are still system attacks taking place, but just not as widespread as last week

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Welcome back! 🤗

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The only films I watch these days are with my nieces & nephews

I quite enjoyed #NannyMcPheeandtheBigBang 😅

20 hours ago 2 0 0 0

Haha! - totally! 😅

I find it hard to watch movies these days, because everything happens so quickly & there’s no time to develop anything!

I tried watching Dune 2 recently (I liked Dune 1 when it came out), but it felt like it needed more time to make sense of the characters; so I didn’t enjoy it

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I also found C-M’s action skills more on point & believable

So that combination of emotional or psychological depth & better action performance made the TV Hanna live more vividly for me

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It’s been so long since I watched, so I refreshed my memory by looking up the details of the two Hannas (ie, film & TV versions) -

& I remember the difference now: Ronan’s Hanna was more emotionless & distant, while C-M’s was more emotionally grounded in being a teenager carrying a dark past

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I vaguely remember trying the film version, but it didn’t capture me for some reason. Even though Saoirse Ronan is memorable in other roles, her Hanna didn’t impact me like the one played by Esmé Creed-Miles

I think it also helped the TV version to have more episodes to flesh out the story

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I know it’s not quite what you meant, but I very much enjoyed the TV series of Hanna, where Esmé Creed-Miles plays a kind of teenage girl Jason Bourne who turns against her captors & tears stuff up 💥

It’s not politics-oriented from what I remember, but she certainly rages against the machine!

21 hours ago 0 0 1 0

I’m watching it on Youku’s YouTube channel (I don’t have Youku)

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Btw, it’s perfectly healthy to sometimes feel no desire to watch dramas at all - life is bigger than dramas after all 🙂

But I wouldn’t call this a “drama slump” - it’s a hiatus away from a particular form of stimulation

22 hours ago 2 0 0 0

There are also times when we feel low or disconnected for personal reasons - & during this time, it is perfectly natural not to feel a desire to start a drama

But beyond these examples, I don’t understand why people talk about a “drama slump”?

22 hours ago 0 0 1 0

During this fallow period none of the drama options feel like they connect, which is true 🙂

But once this mood of emptiness passes, it’s just a matter of connecting again (to a storyline, a character, an actor or atmosphere, etc)

22 hours ago 1 0 2 0

An example of a slump I can understand is feeling an absence after enjoying a really good drama, & feeling a slight emptiness

In such a situation it’s common to hear - ie, after a really good show - “I’m in a slump”

22 hours ago 2 0 1 0

I can readily understand that meaning of “slump” 👍

- but I’ve also heard it used as a way of dismissing the drama options already available. It’s this second sense that I don’t really empathise with

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I know 😭😭

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