Li Lun lives in my head rent free

The costume fantasy drama Liao Zhai (聊斋) has passed the review and received its broadcasting license.

The leads are Zhang Miaoyi and Chang Huasen.

Director: Sha Weiqi

This scene in ep 2 sums it up. Does it make sense for ML to mysteriously teleport from the outer wall at the exact moment FL need him? Or her plan to be adopted sister to somehow work? (In the novel she marries the kid which at least makes sense.) No, of course not, it’s bonkers. But was it entertaining to watch? Yes.

ML continues to aesthetically bleed all over the place:

(He also has earring trauma and even autocorrect is not buying that and trying to convert it to “warring.”)

I full on laughed at this:

It made me think of the old Soviet joke: “Will there be another war?” “No, but there will be such a fight for peace that no stone will be left standing.”

Also I think we were supposed to think dad was noble to beat up ml for trying to kill a man wjo snuck into dad’s tent at night (!!!!) because it turned out man wanted to beg for medicine but I am left thinking that the bad guy was right to kill dad in life 1 because he really truly was too stupid to live - if you tell your bodyguards to stand down when a random dude sneaks into your tent at night you will end up dead asap and should not be a general but perhaps a wandering monk.

This was neat tho:

So was the weapon teaching scene mmmm

I think it would have hit way harder if Chen Duling was capable of serious chemistry with a man (only time I’ve seen her come into vicinity of that was with Joseph in Veil) but the tropes are troping so we are good.

Exhibit A:

Girl, me too...

Exhibit B:

people always say that internet spaces are americanised because the users are majority americans.

and i do always wonder how much of that is "there are actually a majority of usamericans" and how much is "usamerican cultural markers are a default for many online spaces, and non usamericans are often indistinguishable from usamericans unless you're actively looking".

so here's an incredibly unscientific poll reblog for reach or whatever