#luoyang

Literally 20 episodes of this guy obsessed with the user of a specific weapon only to figure it out in episode 20 or 21 and then have that storyline resolved as fast as possible. wtf. That's crazy work. And don't even get me started on how we barely even get to know them as a person or their relationship so when they die and it's supposed to be sad, but it just doesn't hit. Props to the actor for trying to do as much as they can with a severely underwritten role!

And that's kind of the main issue with Luoyang is that all the characters aren't fully fleshed out, they're just there to move the plot but the plot is so sluggish itself that it becomes more and more boring as you go along. Ahhhhh!

It really seems like they were relying on the start power and budget to get this show notice. But if you don't have a compelling story then what's the point?

Victoria Song do be looking great in this show though and I love her hair. It's fucking perfect.

Of dramas watched in 2025

Favorite OST Songs (Part 2)

心念 (Longing of heart) - 黄诗扶 || Lyrics || OST Luoyang (风起洛阳)

我愿天地炉 (Willing to Enter the Furnace of Heaven & Earth) - 陈令韬 (Chen Lingtao)《天书黎明 Treasure At Dawn》

流芳 (Spread Good Reputation) - 谭维维 (Tan Weiwei)《国色芳华 Flourished Peony》

不逢不若 (Do Not Conform) - 杨紫 (Yang Zi)《国色芳华 Flourished Peony》

芳华吟 (Youth Song) - 张紫宁 (Zhang Zining)《国色芳华 Flourished Peony》

鮫人之歌 (Mermaid Song) - (周深) Zhou Shen/Charlie Zhou《The Blue Whisper 与君初相识》

鱼跃而上 (Fish Leaps Up) - 萨顶顶 (Sa Dingding)《The Blue Whisper 与君初相识》

如果我说我没错 (If I Say I Was Not Wrong) - 谢彬彬 (Xie Binbin)《水龙吟 Whispers of Fate》

于何处 (Where) - 者来女 (Zhe Lai Nü)《水龙吟 Whispers of Fate》

春声碎 (Shattered Sounds of Spring) - 黛青塔娜 (Daiqing Tana)《水龙吟 Whispers of Fate》

It seemed rough from the get-go, but I was going to give it the benefit of the doubt, in part because it was recommended to me by a Very Offline Person whose opinions I respect, but also because it presented what appeared some compelling dynamics among its four main characters:

Because that looks like the juice, right? And of course neither flavor of gay is going to be textual, but when has that ever stopped me? As such, despite some early hesitation, we pressed on to see where it was going with that.

Alas, it has played out like this:

Thus we have been disappointed not only by how straight it is, but how lackluster the straightness is. There's such potential in the setups, but they just become those boring dude fantasies where the girl will do anything for her man and thinks about him all the time and cries about him constantly and will commit herself entirely to his cause, and he gets to rescue her heroically like twice and call it a day.

I'm especially disappointed by Liu Ran, down there at the bottom. I love her actor from the Disguiser, so I had hopes that she'd turn out to be a canny, resourceful woman who leverages period-appropriate femininity to survive. Nope! Beyond her initial (promising!) scene, she has exactly one thought in her brain, and that is to make her husband fall in sappy Hallmark love with her. Said husband is trying to keep the empire from burning, and she's like, but don't you want to stop doing icky serious man business and try this soup I made? It tastes terrible because it's wacky when pretty girls can't cook, tee hee! Like half her dialogue is her repeatedly calling "二郎!" after a man who really wishes she wouldn't. She basically just annoys him into finally giving her a few distracted crumbs of affection. And this is portrayed as a heartwarming love story! Barf.

Arquitectura de la antigua China

Recintos amurallados, pabellones elevados, columnas y revestimiento de madera, tejas amarillas vidriadas, jardines, una cuidadosa aplicación del urbanismo y el uso del espacio son características esenciales de la arquitectura de la antigua China, y muchas de ellas aún cumplen un papel importante en la arquitectura moderna de Asia Oriental. Los arquitectos se vieron influidos por ideas de la India y el budismo, de donde son originarios, pero, a lo largo de los años, China mantuvo una constancia sorprendente en la apariencia fundamental de los edificios e inspiró gran parte de la arquitectura de otros Estados vecinos del este asiático, en especial Japón y Corea. Pese a que en la actualidad se conservan pocos edificios de la antigua China, es posible reconstruirlos basándose en modelos de arcilla, descripciones de textos contemporáneos y representaciones artísticas como pinturas, murales y vasijas de bronce grabadas.