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Blue-Haired Bad guy kidnapped cheng cheng, lao chu and the firebreather/manipulator. We get some background insight for Lao CHu.

We also figure out that the Blue-Haired Bad guy teleportation is light limited. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei blackout the whole city to capture him. Ingenious. but Zhu Hong now knows that Shen wei is BCE and she is not going to keep that to herself.

BUT BUT BUT

we've got Lao chu holding Cheng chenge to stop him freezing.


straightontothenextepisode

How do I encapsulate this: whiney Blue-Haired Bad guy [who's never recovered from being shot]. Dies! And he's eaten by the pillar. the regent's being a manipulative tool.

WHITE CLOAKED ENVOY!!!! locked in the pillar.

it was great. he immediately confronts Zhao Yunlan. fight.Holy Tools! Zhao Yunlan is great -- banters, holds him, argues -- cos he just knows Shen Wei is going to save the day.

Yeeeeeeeeeesssss. it was so good; Shen Wei was so concerned for Zhao Yunlan. but also so annoyed at White Cloaked Envoy. Actually told him to shut up. i didn't get his name. Shen Wei brought out the long polearm and banished WCE back into the pillar. apparently he's not going to be a problem for a while. So maybe the regent is going to be the big bad?

Zhao Yunlan is blind.

[i'm actually off work this week so there may be some faster watching]



Okay, I'm not brilliant at face recognition [I muddle up people that i regularly work with and know them best situtationally]. But whilst it's not obvious WCE is Shen Wei [all the time], his voice sounds like Shen Wei sometimes. [the actor is so good at different physicalities]

Oh that's very cool -- BCE power is learning. I thought it was manipulating energy.


Zhao Yunlan's dad. Hmmmm. We'll just park him for a mo He's possessed or has two personalities? More evidence that Zhao Yunlan has Dixing heritage?

so they all go down to Dixing, and there's another chained pillar?!? and a lot of people have amnesia. Practically everyone who the BCE takes back to Dixin becomes part of his network [or they're recycling actors]

chengCheng and Lao Chu are getting closer *awwwww*

Okay the regent is fucking annoying. And a lying liar who lies. He was so cloying obsequious, but interesting he could not bring himself to sit before Shen Wei. Lost the register? My bum; he's doing a run-a-round.

i really enjoyed the Mountain River Awl segment

Chief ZHao is increasingly getting more suspicious of Professor Shen which is at odds with his innate I know and trust this man.

Coat swapping and no return *g* [for plot reason, but also very cute]. It was good to see Prof Shen make the switch to BCE.

Also got a little h/c. The BCE; one mouthful of distilled wine, and bless down for the count. I guess that is one way to take out a demi-god. It's an interesting trope. Lan Zhan in the Untamed was similarly unable to drink alcohol.

Plotwise. So when and where were the tools lost? And why are they appearing now? The Mountain River Awl was being used by the clan -- therefore it wasn't lost. I'm not 100^% sure when the BCE sent the team to the surface [the team who were all killed] I wonder if Chief Zhao is the child. How does the gun that hurts Dixing people come into the story? A gun that he struggles to use.

two tools down; two to go [three if you count that gun?]

Professor Shen is the Black Cloaked Envoy **



** okay I feel a little stupid, but i don't think that it's always Shen Wei dressed as the BCE

the professor has magic

it was love at first sight.

puppet master is very, very attractive

is the poor cat a Scottish Fold?

the professor is also from Dixing; that's why he knows so much. I guess the SID could send him back


Not 100% sure what the holy tools are.

the dementia story is pretty upsetting .

so the hero can call the Black Cloaked Highness to his side, but hasn't ever before--- but now (having met him once) now telephones him in. And Puppet Master & Black Cloaked Highness know each other.

Yesterday was sort of semi-shit. I went around to check on an elderly neighbour/friend-of-family (she was fine), but in chatting she says,

“I didn’t want to tell your mam, ‘cos she’ll get upset, but [redacted] has prostate cancer.”

Conversations continues. She’s worried, I tell her about treatment options. And it’s good that they caught it fast.

“Oh, and the reason that {also redacted} is stepping back from church is he has prostate cancer, your mam doesn’t know. She gets upset cos her husband died."

Funnily enough, I know.

Goes to check on my mam after seeing Auntie, and she tells me about someone else who has prostate cancer, and gets a little upset.

I’m soothing everyone, which is fine. I get that they’re upset.

But why does no one get that my DAD died of prostate cancer, and I fucking miss him every day.

Fuck cancer.

In a far flung future
Future fic
Outside perspective

Warning: none spring to mind.
Relationship: m/m
Disclaimer: writing for fun and not for profit
Beta: I don’t think that I asked my beloved beta to beta, but I did it would have been the wonderful Springwoof. Thank you, Springy

( Un'emozione da poco )

Mini The Old Guard fic.
Little in the way of warnings apply, although a memory of past battlefields intrudes
un-betaed

Indulgent
Summary: once again Nicolò makes a new friend (or two… three)

(  The Crow’s Nest  )

Fandom Content Posting Strike… Break? A Fandom Experiment.

So I have seen A LOT of posts where it is pointed out if people want content they should ideally support and encourage content creators (writers, artists, viders etc etc).

Note, of course, that fandom content creators are also consumers.

To be fair you cannae make people comment/engage, and neither can you make folk create and post. And to be honest, folk still create and throw content into fannish spaces, so people don’t need to comment/engage to ensure content.

But folk don’t need to post. Folk post their content for a lot of reasons as a final hurdle, to engage with people….

Why not organise a fandom-wide posting break, a day, a weekend or even a week, where no new content is posted? Obvs. create to your heart’s content, but no posting. Consume old/previously posted stuff. This gives folk a break, for example, AO3 volunteers can take a breath, archive archivists can relax, hosting media can see how core fandom content is to their franchises.

Maybe we’ll learn something?





Although based on the recent ao3 maintenance, the results would be crying. *woes*

Episode 50

Okay, I did get sushi and prosecco….

I was geared up to a massive fight with Wei Wuxian dying as he saved everyone else. Honestly, I had written it in my head. I can visualise it.

Okay, it was amazing, 50 episodes have kept me invested.

But I have questions! Please tell me that Lan Wangji returned to Wei Wuxian as he stood on the side of the mountain playing his flute after that drawn out goodbye? It didn’t sounds like Lan Wangji.

Poor Zewu jun -- he cared so much.

So I called Nie Huai Sang correctly as a mastermind. Although his motivation wasn’t evil per se, but to avenge his brother,which was pretty neat. Manipulation as a skill set.

But what happened with the Ying Iron and the blade in the papier-mâché tortoise?

What happened when Wei Wuxian was cast into the burial mounds?

Was Wei Wuxian reincarnated or was he a revenant that took over (possessed) Mo?

Was Jin Guang Yao always the puppetmaster or was there several puppet masters?

How many pieces of Ying Iron were there really?

When did Ying Iron become a Stygian tiger amulet?

What was the craic with the animated statue?

I have questions and no answers!