🏳️🌈 sam | she/her | gen x | mostly cdrama & danmei
🪭 current fandoms: dmbj (pingxie, heihua), under the skin, guardian, mo du/justice in the dark, sha po lang, erha, mlcb, the spirealm, anything with zhu yilong in it
So I watched 霸王别姬/Farewell my Concubine (1993) and the scene that stuck with me the most was a young Douzi finally singing a line from the opera
Dreaming of the World Outside the Nunnery correctly. According to the subs the original line is “Yet I am by nature a girl, not a boy”. He repeatedly gets it wrong by saying “Yet I am by nature a boy, not a girl.” In my opinion. this ‘mistake’ is incredibly significant because when put in context, it shows how Dieyi and others perceive himself and most importantly, sums up his relationship with Duan Xiaolou.
Guardian | Zhen Hun | 镇魂, Episode 8, translations from Viki
“Father: A person who doesn’t buy branded clothes, shoes, or perfumes and lives a simple life so that you can afford all of them.” –unknown
I’m on the found family feels train this week (then again, when am I not? ;D), and I’ve been wanting to talk about Shen Wei and Professor Zhou for some time now…. so here we go.
Behind a cut so I don’t kill anyone’s dash, because, as always, this got kind of long… ^_^
I sacrificed myself to save you. I didn’t plan to survive. I burnt all the bridges. I intended to break your heart with my death, but that would be all right, because I wouldn’t be around to see you. I pretended that you’ll mourn me for a while and move on. I convinced myself I was going down in the blaze of glory. That my deed was appreciated. That everything was going to be all right afterwards, and I didn’t need to be there to see it.
But I survived. And now I have to look you in the eye. I have to pick up the pieces of the life I shattered and figure out how to put it back together. If it can be done at all.
remember: it is ALWAYS morally correct to wear shorts that are way too small. it is your right to have your ass cheeks out. if you ever find yourself thinking “do i really need to show hole to go hang out with casual platonic friends?” that is the devil talking. you do. you need to
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