寻觅你最明媚的四月天

Have watched more dramas and have a lot of feelings about A Winter Sun Wakes the Wind in Spring Hills' Dream (Chinese BL, Thailand production). Also some feelings about Revenged Love (Taiwanese BL) and Payback (Thai BL, adaptation of a Korean webtoon). It's hard to articulate coherently and I can't even gif about it; mostly I have watched edits and clips on Instagram and Threads. But also the full shows.

In non-BL dramas, I gave up on Blossoms of Power because I didn't like the FL (as she was acted -- in theory her written character would be entirely my cup of tea), but did enjoy (well, it's fine) mini-drama Spring Over Phoenix Pond, mostly because of the actors for the FL and ML. The writing got substantially worse in the second half.

I loved the vertical drama Hong Luan Yin, which is a transmigration reverse harem trope in which our cunning and beautiful FL collects a harem of four beautiful men who trip themselves over her and she dog walks them. It's insanely iddy. I love her so much. I love the sexy ab-touching and leg-touching and her borderline incesty vibes with her (not blood related) "younger brother". She literally collars him. Actually, let me correct that: he collars himself for her and hands her the leash. And then there's the general who's the ex-husband, the secret prince posing as male courtesan/entertainer, and her childhood friend who loves to bicker with her. I love the Crown Prince who is just watching all the drama eating melon seeds. I desperately need a season 2. Somehow with their budget they made the sets look luxe and the costumes look great. Everyone is pretty. I'm so on board.

Vertical drama means each ep is 2 minutes and there are 92 eps...but really you can watch it all as a 3.5 hour movie. Worth it.

Anyway, classes are back and students and events are back. I'm so busy. I read some stuff in August, I'm trying for September...we'll see.

( Books, August 2026 )

June went by too fast, though I did enjoy my two week ASL class. Had an all-American July 4th weekend at a friend's cabin/camp as well, though also grateful to be home with my mattress and central a/c.

Reading a lot in June but also getting through some cdramas! Since the semester ended: Pursuit of Jade, Secret Lover, Gemini, To My Shore, Threads of Destiny, The Double, kinda Advancing Bravely (I fast forwarded a lot). Now almost done with Sammy's Children's Day. What's after that? Who knows.

In sports news, Canes won the Stanley Cup (omg) and we're deep in the World Cup now. F1 continues as well, I guess.

( Books, June 2026 )

The semester is over and graduation is tomorrow! My schedule will finally free up to read more and even watch dramas! I can't wait.

For May, my personal goal is only to read Asian/Asian diaspora authors, to try to get me to work through my unread books. Exception being any library holds that come in.

( Books, April 2026 )

It's March! Which someone feels crazy to me. Lots going on in April so most of this month is going to be geared toward planning and prepping for that month, plus our first trip back to Houston since we've moved. Cramming a lot into 4 days but excited to see people and eat things, and be Too Warm. Spring finally creeping into Rochester, with our giant piles of snow finally melting, but Houston is already Hot. Of course.

Many things I want to read still! But also read some good things so far this year. And some interesting things. And some less interesting things.

( Books, February 2026 )

Well, due to the possibly impending loss of LJ, I did import meiface@LJ to this account, which has overwritten my profile and tags. So be it. (Oh, the years of history are probably worth it.) Also created a mirror of my writing comm, chineseink, to save all that fic I never bothered to upload to AO3. Will I now? Eh.

Meanwhile, it's back to work tomorrow so slowly dragging my mentality back out of tropey cnovels and into caring about the real world. But there's still so many things I want to read!

( Books, December 2025 )