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however wang duo was both hot and tragic in 晴雅集

maybe this is just bc im a northern girl thru and thru (regional essentialism), but i’m ready to speak my truth: qu chuxiao was way hotter and more tragic than wang duo in 媚者无疆

these boots are sooooooooooo fab

all that’s really important is that in 2024 i looked hot and dressed well

tbh i’d move to dali and buy an apartment there if i could deal with the 12 hour time difference 😩

what i’ve decided to do w my one wild n free life is get rly into emma of normandy and hildegard of bingen

secondarily i must say this: silver river is objectively more beautiful than milky way

i guess u could call it the morning star but my god is that christian

how r u supposed to translate the planet venus from a culture where venus does not exist

anyway something that absolutely sucks in translation is how much english references greek and roman mythology in ways that just don’t make sense for non-greco roman cultures

PLEASE

so many people being so loud and so wrong! i am often tempted to remind people to please go to their agents for some perspective before saying anything

we all have better things to be focusing on

you’ll never get publishing takes out if me short of knowing me irl but the amount of conspiracy minded brain rot circulating,,,,,,

masking is so sexy

tee hee the bluesky bbs get dispatches from my personal life in ephemeral 10 minute chunks but hey, it’s more than the twt bbs get :>

still platforming tao lin in 2024 sure is a choice (this is a substack subtweet)

it was always a bit silly to call something with like 86 million native speakers “dying”, that’s more than the population of some entire countries!

also the thing i have not seen a SINGLE one of these discourses touch is that there ARE endangered languages in china, they are mostly languages spoken by ethnic minorities, that there ARE dying dialects but no one’s raising the flag bc there aren’t enough native speakers to make a discourse of it

i love lulu wang but the most recent hubbub is what happens when diaspora dialect discourse w little material connection to the lived experience of people in asia meets said asians 🥴

the vibes babe the vibes are rancid

everything just feels worse and worse and idk if it will ever feel better again 🥴

that was a day that really was a day! some children, mr bush, needed to be left behind actually

u know what i think about an unreasonable amount is when kpop stans claimed that newjeans supported terrorism because they drove a car thru basque country for a music video for a song called estimated time of arrival

anyway, back to the romans

what i get more upset about is like, what philippa gregory did to anne boleyn and margaret beaufort, the portrayals of mary stuart / jane grey / marie antoinette in ways that flatten their particulars and their personhood but like, go u! my fault for making it onto that side of tt to begin with

like i made it onto coquette royalist edits tiktok bc i watched one too many tudor historian and one too many wars of the roses hot take and it’s interesting how someone can forgive the fictionalisations of reign, which imo are far more historically egregious, but not the premise of jts as ab

not to harp on this too much but it does interest me when people shriek about historical inaccuracy when it comes to a black british actress giving an interpretation of a famous british queen but will love movies like anastasia and marie antoinette

it is very transparent!

anyway bring back still star crossed and galavant, it’s what we (i) deserve

but other than that? the complaints about poc in period & costume dramas really don’t move me 🤷🏻‍♀️ we’re here, we’re ur neighbours, deal with it