"I will not be doing the dance moves to the pop rocks candy song on this floating dock, even if the people who can see me from across the marina would find it funny" and other bad ideas narrowly avoided. I did make YMCA arms instead.
@liztai 🤝 from me, halfway through War of Faith right now, a few days behind the episodes airing on CCTV...8 I think, and thinking about what messages we're meant to get from it and what messages I do actually get. (And avoiding Weibo because I don't wanna get spoiled for tonight's latest twists.)
I find I don't want to watch anyone's modern day military/police shows right now, but I don't want to watch stuff that looks like my own suburban US white person life, either.
This just in from episode 2: Zhou Shen getting extremely nervous and being very worried about his Cantonese pronunciation and then knocking it out of the park anyway is very on brand. He's so sweet and relatable that way. And my god I don't speak Cantonese but I sure listened to the other singer sing many of those lyrics first and he sounded like he kept up JUST FINE.
The translations are presented first in a Chinese/pinyin/English format and repeated in solely English. I formatted it with spacing and italics for easier study, and set it up for US letter printing. Enjoy!
@lookitmychicken o no. I just realized how much I miss Vanness. Which is wild because I didn't like him at first but then I realized how kind and relatable he is. Will this be what gets me to watch this season....
@leahbobet are those Tulip socks by Cookie A I spy in your newsletter, or something that looks like them? (My housemate is working on some right now which is why the pattern name is back in my head.)
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