room in the hostel has flooded due to the heavy rain 😑

fitz-fool:

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything – or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person’s mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well. So as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for ruining a good story.”

Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner

wenzhoulvr:

modu 默读 10th anniversary extra (EN)

hi hello! like i mentioned previously, i managed to find the entirety of CN raws for the new modu extra that priest wrote for the 10th anniversary release!

since i am obsessed with this novel, but i unfortunately do not speak chinese, i decided to translate the text using various translation softwares (google translate etc., no LLM models such as chatgpt, gemini or other AI tools of similar nature have been used) to compare the output and create the version that hopefully gets pipi’s point across.

if anyone that is fluent in the language would like to obtain the raws and try their hand at translating the text themselves, feel free to ask me and i will share – human work takes priority for me, always.

everyone else, please share your thoughts about the extra in the comments, i have SO MANY feelings about it. without further ado, proceed under the cut for some glorious zhoudu content <3

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springinsfeld:

flintmiranda - staying still (noah kahan)

dramastream:

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026), Ep. 08

mostlyfate:

scalpho:

the problem with personality tests and other similar quizzes is that they assume you know things about yourself. Which is simply not true

mostlyfate:

Zhang Ruonan as Huo Linglong
ZHAN ZHAO ADVENTURES 雨霖铃 · 2026

spica-starson:

There‘s something to be said about how Shao Jizu repeatedly blames Zhan Zhao for „stealing his girl“ and claiming that the reason for Linglong to not want to marry him is because of „her feelings for Zhan Zhao“.

The immediate assumption that her actions were because of a man and not for herself—something that she has from the very first episodes reiterated and made clear to (funnily) Zhan Zhao himself. That she refuses to marry someone just because she was told to and that she should be able to judge and decide her own future partner—and she has always been very clear on that throughout the entire series.

Yet again and again Shao Jizu (and other characters, even her Great Aunt) reminded her that she has no place on Zhan Zhao‘s side as a wife and to stop imagining things, even though we as the viewers know that (implications of her feelings aside) that was never the main reason she wanted to stay by his side (and Bai Yutang‘s).

And the sheer poetry when she didn‘t even end up marrying anyone at the end of the story, fully escaping the clutches of expectations placed on her by both other people and the viewers themselves…

Something something amatonormativity alongside misogyny……hmmmm

heymeowmao:

雨霖铃 | Zhan Zhao Adventures E27 ° You are a man of the law. You wouldn’t dare harm me.

thealogie:

So hacks finale was the writers going “have you imagined what a little show named house md would have been like if everyone got therapy and had really healthy relationships?”

strawberry-seal77:

time loop with two people in it but one person refuses to acknowledge the loop and pretends to be looping with everyone else. meanwhile the other person is freaking out

mikaylaabdalla:

HOUSE, M.D.
6.20 The Choice

havingapoemwithyou:

ALT

To a stranger by Walt Whitman

scalproie:

I hope I’m not just a blog to you guys but also a gateway to acquire secondhand knowledge of medias you’ll never get into