Me: Not That I’m A Snob But I Dont Like E Readers I Like The Feel Of The Paper The Smell Of A Book

My (late) contribution for Make A Terrible Comic Day! I've been going to the library more often lately so this has been coming up a lot, cause I want something to read but have had trouble finding anything that I'm comfortable with.

If anyone has recommendations please please let me know because I am struggling.

What is guardian drama?

Hello, anon! Guardian 镇魂 is a Chinese live action sci-fi webdrama. It’s about a special investigative department that handles cases related to supernatural criminals from the underworld. The two leads are:

Zhao Yunlan, police chief of the department in question. He’s scruffy, charming, confident in the face of danger, and sharper than he lets on. Outwardly informal to strangers in a way that’s kind of rude. Also, when he’s into someone, he’s a huge flirt.

Shen Wei, university professor.  He’s very mysterious and restrained, and tries his hardest to be all mild-mannered and polite. But he’s actually secretly ~THE BLACK-CLOAKED ENVOY~, an ancient powerful ambassador from the underworld who helps catch abovementioned supernatural criminals.

So, the deal is, Shen Wei has this epic crush on Zhao Yunlan. They have this 10,000-year-old connection that Zhao Yunlan isn’t aware of. Shen Wei would do anything to protect Zhao Yunlan, he’d kill for him and he’d die for him. He is so devoted and self-sacrificing, and you can just see the love in his eyes whenever he looks at Zhao Yunlan. And Shen Wei does this ridiculous stoic woobie thing, where he’s visibly pining and suffering and keeping secrets from Zhao Yunlan.

Zhao Yunlan is initially wary of Shen Wei..but he’s intrigued by him, and he can tell that Shen Wei is so intense about him even if he doesn’t know why, and their relationship builds over the course of several cases.

Guardian is based on a BL novel by Priest. The drama had to change many elements to get past the Chinese censors - it had to change all the supernatural/fantasy/mythological aspects into sci-fi. Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are a canon couple in the novel, but the drama had to scale back the m/m romance also because of the censors.

But…it’s very much there. Like, it’s screamingly obvious that Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are in love and they’re a couple, even if it’s subtext-that’s-pretty-much-text. The chemistry between them is palpable, and you can tell that the writers, cast and crew committed themselves to make this as gay as they possibly could (here’s a fanvid for reference). 

Caveat: this show is not high quality television and obviously had a low budget. Terrible CGI, bad voiceover dubbing, bad acting from most of the characters who are not the leads, the plot and worldbuilding is a mess, ridiculous villains, awful costuming of side and background characters, etc.

But it’s tropey fun if you’re like me and have nostalgia for shows like Torchwood and early New Doctor Who, and the love story between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan is one of the best things I’ve ever watched onscreen. This is a show that knows the BL fan id, which is ‘hot badass dudes getting hurt and having tender feelings for each other and gently touching each other.’

I’d like to note that this series has a sad ending that verges on being ambiguous, which sucks, but that can easily be headcanoned away. And it helps that Priest (who wrote the original novel) fixed it by connecting it to the novel universe, which does has a happy ending.

Guardian drama subbed on YouTube

Novel Translation on Wattpad

Novel Extras Translated on Wattpad

The amount of fandoms I’ve joined just cause I knew they had good fanfiction is astounding

Reblog if you remember Huntik: Secrets & Seekers and their super awesome theme song

Being a fangirl means you love fictional characters but you love them with someone else more.

Inktober no 13.

since it’s technically the 13th here in Sweden now (by about 1:30 hours) I’m posting it. XD

Cody and Obi Wan getting ready for another engagement against the Seppies. I absolutely love their close relationship in The Clone Wars series, they seem to work so well together and seem to know exactly what the other need to do during battle. 

I love it.

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To be honest the only thing canon about my OTP is the intense eye fucking contact. That’s all.

I’ve been a little bit obsessed with bnha ww

Ok, so I am currently rereading the Legend of Eli Monpress series, and I had a thought. How do they eat? Everything in this series is supposed to have a soul, a spirit. For the majority of the series a lot of the spirits are asleep and not everybody can hear the spirits anyway, so I can understand the humans eating fruits and vegetables and meat then, but after Spirit’s End (spoiler alert) all the spirits are awake all the time and all the humans can see and hear the spirits. So how do people eat? The animals of course are fine, predator, prey, etc. But how do humans deal with being talked at by their crops, or their fruit, or even their livestock? Even if the livestock don’t really have much to say. Do the humans ask permission? Is it ok because of the whole cycle of rebirth thing? I really need to know the answer for this because it’s really bugging me.