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Poll #33513 Light in Dixing
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In episode 23, the Deacon says the guest room is dim because Dixing's limited light is being diverted to the palace. Possible implications:

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wealthy people can bribe the palace for more light
2 (100.0%)

there is a black market in photons
2 (100.0%)

the Dixing bar is well-lit because its patrons donate a portion of their light quota
1 (50.0%)

the bar is not actually well-lit -- it just looks that way for filming convenience
2 (100.0%)

the glowy lava on the volcano uses up some of the limited light resources
0 (0.0%)

you can create a blackout elsewhere by making an especially bright light in a windowless room
0 (0.0%)

the Deacon is bullshitting because he dislikes Zhao Yunlan
1 (50.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Where did Zhao Yunlan's stash of face masks, as discovered by xiao-Guo in episode 16, come from?

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Zhao Yunlan always had them; he just never uses them
0 (0.0%)

the SID team presented them as a pointed gift in episode 3, after Zhao Yunlan sneezed on everything; Zhao Yunlan shoved them in a desk drawer and forgot about them
2 (100.0%)

Shen Wei sent them as a gift in episode 3, accompanied by a note wherein he politely hoped Chief Zhao's health had improved; Zhao Yunlan put them in his lollipop drawer and grinned whenever he saw them
2 (100.0%)

they arrived anonymously in the mail (Shen Wei)
1 (50.0%)

Lin Jing explained disease transmission to Wang Zheng, and she added them to the regular stationery order
2 (100.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

hi!

2025-08-20 11:03 pm
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Name: xmcu_fietro

Age group: 20's

Country: USA

Subscription/Access Policy: I'm so new to DW that I'm actually not 100% sure what this means, sorry!


Main Fandoms: X-Men movies (I'm super hyperfixated on Quicksilver, who my username references), Wandavision, Criminal Minds, My Chemical Romance

Other Fandoms: Doctor Who, Evanescence, Muse, BBC Sherlock, Moulin Rouge!, Percy Jackson, Arrested Development, Succession, Barry, IDK How But They Found Me, Pride and Prejudice, Autumn's Grey Solace, and lots of Broadway shows (Les Miserables, Heathers, etc).

I like to post about: I only have one post so far, but I'll probably post a mix of assorted fandom content and personal posts!

About Me/Other Info: I'm AuDHD and have dysautonomia and hypermobility, so sometimes I'll talk about that. Other interests that I have besides fandom stuff include psychology, philosophy, disability studies, sewing, drawing, writing (usually fanfiction), photography, gothic architecture/decor, fashion (especially styles like dark academia or anything that incorporates victorian elements), and playing electric bass.

Why is she still here?

2025-08-20 08:02 pm
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Feeling like shit emotionally lately, not sure why. Maybe it's because I keep reading my NYT email every morning (and I should stop). Also our closing date for our house keeps getting moved because of all these little inspection-related things that hadn't been completed, and now I have to pay a fee to keep our rate locked or else we'd have to push it back even more. Super frustrating. I just want to get my stuff out of storage and sleep in my own bed and feel like a real adult again :/ My muse has also fled the scene but I've got to get my ass in gear so that I can sign up for [community profile] ficinabox! It's probably my favorite exchange of the year.

In toddler news, she loves to say, "See you next 'morrow!" and she calls Gatorade "Grata", both of which I find very amusing.

I've listened to Reneé Rap's new album Bite Me. It is very high-energy and a lot of the songs are about love triangles and cheating, which makes me super curious about her personal life LOL. It does get a tad bit repetitive overall. My favorite track is Why Is She Still Here? Other stand-outs are good girl and mad.



We have to buy a new washer/dryer for our new house so I've been doing research on washing machines. This article about Washing Machine Settings made me think I've been using washing machines wrong this whole time. I hardly ever used cold setting but I think I should do it more. Also, I want a top-loading machine like we had at our last house but I'm also worried about saving space. Would anyone recommend their washer/dryer?

Unraveller - Francis Hardinge

2025-08-20 07:12 pm
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I haven't read Hardinge in ages, so I'm catching up some of her books I missed. I started with this one, and really enjoyed it! Although it's not specifically similar to it, I was reminded of Fly By Night in its general vibe - not as dark as some of her books (... I say this about a book in which
slight spoilerone protagonist's brother ate her sister and that's not even the worst trauma of her life),
with entertainingly unhinged worldbuilding including a kingdom partly ruled by spiders, and kid protagonists caught up in adult politics in which they're not sure which of the various morally gray adults around them they can trust.

Basic setup/characters/etc )

Spoilers )
amedia: On the left: Da Qing in human form, a young man in white shirt and overalls. Caption: Da Qing. On right: Da Qing in cat form, stout dark cat with folded ears. Caption: Chinese characters for Da Qing. (Guardian: DQ1)
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Is there canon or fanon about Jiajia's family name?

Many thanks for any assistance!

Seeking New Friends

2025-08-20 08:29 pm
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Name: Remy

Age: 41

I mostly post about: My personal life, mental health, game reviews, book reviews, movie reviews, and other stuff. I am also working on a furry fantasy novel that I hope to finish typing up one of these days--I already have it written out in seven or so notebooks.

My hobbies are: AI furry art, reading, writing, video games

My fandoms are: I was heavily into the furry fandom and AI furry art communities but had several falling outs with the former ages ago and the latter recently that led to me leaving social media, but I still enjoy doing them.

I'm looking to meet people who: Comfort me when I'm in need, make insightful commentary on my entries, appreciate my unique autistic perspective.

My posting schedule tends to be: At least once every few days.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: I am very somewhat ideologically sensitive as politics has broken tons of my past friendships.

Before adding me, you should know: I am autistic and very PTSD, damaged from 18 years of psychiatric medications. Read my sticky post to learn more.

第四年第二百二十四天

2025-08-20 07:59 pm
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部首
口 part 11
含, to contain; 听, to listen; 启, to start pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=30

语法
人 vs 男人
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/ren2-vs-nan2ren2/

词汇
演, 表演, to perform; 演唱, to sing; 演唱会, concert; 演出, show; 演员, actor; 导演, director pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你们没有迷路,而且即将开启新世界的大门, you are not lost, rather you have opened the portal to a new world
你有没有看见一个脸上留着胡子,然后嘴里可能含着棒棒糖的这样的一个男人, have you seen a man with stubble on his face and maybe a lollipop in his mouth?
你们这么喜欢演戏去当演员啊, if you like play-acting so much go off and be actors

Me:
他的演唱真的好听。
男人嘛,没办法啊。

Four Days Without Internet

2025-08-20 06:06 pm
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 Our internet melted down

For real.


melted recycling bin
Image: melted recylcing bin

Our neighbors one block over and one street down had a garage fire that melted a lot of stuff, including the overhead internet cable. 

Why is your internet overhead, Lyda? The short answer is that our neighborhood is dense, old (as in the age of the houses and buildings) and poor. For whatever reason, the cable/internet providers aren't interested in burying our lines. They might be now? But, from what I could tell from watching their workers, they just restrung the cable, so, no, not so much. 

I'd ask if you missed me while I was away, but I've been away from DW longer for much less exciting reasons. I was telling a friend today that the weirdest part of not having the internet was that I still had my phone and its data. So, I had all the WORST parts of the internet--the ability to doomscroll, waste time, etc.--and no ability to do the things that feel far more productive: write my novel, attend Zoom meetings easily, do my committee work, etc. 

Stupid. 

But at least it's back!

Soooooooo

2025-08-20 06:49 pm
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How does one compose an email to say "I got a job offer that seems just on the cusp of too good to be true, but as you and your company appear to actually exist I thought I should contact you and see if it *is* legit before I delete it"?

[ SECRET POST #6802 ]

2025-08-20 05:42 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6802 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #971.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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wednesday reads and things

2025-08-20 04:11 pm
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What I've recently finished reading:

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett, which, it's the third book in the series, so if you like this series you will probably like this book. I particularly enjoyed the trope (which is not uncommon - it's also an element of the Invisible Library series, for example) that the Fae are governed by tales and stories, so the things that happen in their kingdoms generally follow the well-known structures of fairy tales. I also appreciated that the story wrapped around to include elements of the first book.

What I'm reading now:

My hold on Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio came in, and - I can't remember why I put a hold on this book? Did one of you recommend it? I've started it but I am not finding the style particularly engaging. I'll stick with it for a while, though.

What I've recently finished watching:

Untamed, about which I must agree with [personal profile] treewishes's assessment: "Excellent scenery and interesting characters, the plot, um." The drone shots of Yosemite are spectacular! The action taking place in meadows with cliffs in the background is beautiful! The very beginning has some really fingernail-biting rock climbing (both B and I, who used to climb, muttered at the total sketchiness of one of the placements...) and overall the scenery is just gorgeous. The characters and the way they interact, their backstories and their drama and trauma, are definitely interesting. The plot, um. I have a lot of niggling criticisms, like, there is no way an LA cop would be able to easily transfer to a park ranger job! There is no way an experienced law enforcement officer would go confront a dangerous person without backup! I am side-eyeing the idea of a hippie encampment being on park land and not cleared the hell out of there immediately they found it! I can't imagine a park far from major cities being a hub for [spoilers redacted]! But mostly it's just a ridiculously convoluted plot for the sake of ridiculous convolutions.

Apparently there will be a second season, but I have no idea what they are going to keep constant from the first - the people, the setting, ???

What I'm still playing:

I'm still playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's still entertaining.

(no subject)

2025-08-20 10:36 pm
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I was looking at the cinema times for October, mostly to see if they have Frankenstein up (they don’t) and they are showing a bunch of spooky films on rewind. So far there’s Curse Of Frankenstein, Donnie Darko, The Exorcist, A Nightmare On Elm Street, It Follows, Halloween, Scream and The Thing.

What’s strange is that Halloween isn’t being shown… on Halloween. Instead it’s being shown on the 24th which feels like an odd choice.

But I’ve only seen 3 of those (Donnie Darko, Halloween and Scream) do people rec the others? (It Follows is a no go though due to timing)

(And speaking of the cinema it keeps more K-Pop Demon a Hunter showings. I’m sure it only had one per day originally, then went to four and now it’s at 8. I just wish they weren’t all sing alongs.)

Today I did a comics order, cause I’m not going to Birmingham any time soon I decided it was for the best. I was gonna order from forbidden planet but it would’ve been £5 postage for two issues so instead I just did an order on eBay. So I’ve got the next two Exquisite Corpses, The Umbrella Academy and Event Horizon Dark Descent.

That last one was a surprise for me cause I had NO an idea it even existed until I saw an article today. It’s a prequel to the film and I’m so hyped and I was planning on watching the film for spooky season anyway so this gave me more incentive.

Because Seapeekay has been playing Blue prince I’ve ended up going back on it and I’ve made some progress. I have all the blue flames light, I finally got to the antechamber (though not with enough steps to use the key😭) and I did the chess puzzle. I feel I could get to room 46 soon though I also sense there’ll be more puzzles.

I have to admit I am using guides a bit, but that’s mostly because I can’t actually read the text clues half the time. (I even struggle seeing the text on room upgrades) Makes me wish I was playing it on the switch (is it on switch??) but I guess it’s a sign my eyes are getting worse. Or that it needs an option to increase text sizes (but I guess they won’t cause of the magnifying glass)

But the past two days (other than seeing Weapons) has been low energy. I think I’ve been drained from the weather, the argument with mum and just being so bleh in general. Last night I ended up just laying in the dark with the Pokémon stream on and I just… zoned out and drifted off. It’s so annoying especially that it’s been so frequent lately. Meh.

Mail came today and it was a mix of eh (a clearly scam letter) and yay (the adorn magazine I ordered with Luke Hemmings). Luke looks so pretty in it and I wish I had the focus to read but alas I don’t.

That’s another annoyance mostly cause I wanna read Clown In A Cornfield but just don’t seem to have the focus for it. Bleh.

But also yay the Black a series Night Trooper I ordered came yesterday which looks cool, though I didn’t get a chance to look at it cause food shop.

Tomorrow it’s heading out to pick up something mum ordered and then who knows.

Next few days I hope I have the focus to read (if not Clown at least Exquisite Corpses), I wanna get back to Hell Motel and there’s Reading And Leeds showings. There’s only two actual shows (Chappell Roan and Bring Me The Horizon) so I hope iplayer gets the full Waterparks set. Walsall pride is this weekend but I don’t feel up to it, between general mood and not feeling peoplely.

As for tonight I was hoping to watch the new Alien Earth, but the future games show ran longer than I expected so I’m less sure about that.

(no subject)

2025-08-20 05:58 pm
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What I've Read

Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - Audiobook with Katie Leung and George Weightman - Interesting vignettes but as a whole story, functionally kind of incomplete. Bradley talked about this book's origin as a piece of fanfic based on AMC's The Terror, which covers a fictionalization of the end of the doomed Franklin Expedition. (Fun Fact: I tried to read the book that the AMC series was based on, but truly hated it! Do not bother!) Bradley wrote pieces for her herself and her friends about how Graham Gore, time traveler scooped from death on the unforgiving arctic ice, would feel about modern UK life - and those bits shine. They feel fun and interesting and cared for. The main character of the novel, an unnamed government official who is strikingly similar to Bradley herself , is also a compelling look at a kind of person who might, in extremis, work at an amoral government agency that scoops people out of time to bolster Britain's fading national security.

The problem is, well, everything else. In a book that started with a thought experiment about how a particular man out of time might react to the modern day world, Bradley has plopped a fairly opaque government apparatus into the story to cover the whys and hows, and added time travel mechanics to make it all fit. But that's a lot of worldbuilding to commit to to just fill in the gaps of the story, and it feels like Bradley kind of just doesn't care too much about it.

Fanfic is all abou asking "What if...?" about a completed work, and I find myself thinking this book would also be great for fanfic - someone one would have fun filling in these gaps!

And Never Been Kissed by thehoyden, Twentysomething - Hockey RPF - I said last time I posted about this, it's a magnificently horny fic. I re-read this as part of my TheHoyden Renaisance where I was just diving back into fics from ten+ years ago , and this merits a re-read. My god, we were all so young and dumb and horny. Wonderful slow burn fic with truly the most desparately horny hockey loving teens I can imagine.

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters - I want to buy Waters a beer. This book tells a humanizing story of so many athletes in the 1930s, about how they were all just living their lives and working their hardest at their sports and then, wham! Fucking Nazis. Every time I thought, wow, I have hated the Nazis so much for so long, I cannot hate them more! Then this book showed me new gleaming heights of hating Nazis - distant beautiful peaks of hating Nazis that I have yet to climb. Because hating Nazis is based in loving that which they threaten, and Waters truly shows you people and a world that is worth loving. It's a wonderful book for showing you that the world is complex and weird and the past I took for granted was never the black and white of photographs. It really drove home just how much Nazis and fascism *took* from the world. I loved this book and burned thru it in about two days.

What I'm Reading
Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett - The audiobook came and oooh , it's good, so I jumped in.
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky - static from last week
Deal with the Devil by Kit Roch - static - I need to read it for next Wed.

What I'll Read Next
Book Club books planned
Lent by Jo Walton
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
Space Opera ?
Monsters and Mainframes?
The Revolutionary Temper — Robert Darnton - Jo Walton talked about this in her July reading round up and I'm down

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2025-08-21 05:52 am
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