Guardian fic & Cdrama
Jul. 12th, 2020 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotNo Sunday snippet but I wrote a bit of Guardian fluff last week:
turn the lights off, carry me home (2867 words)
"I don't need to be indulged," Zhao Yunlan told him.
"Naturally not," Shen Wei said.
Zhao Yunlan grinned back at him. "I like it when you do, though."
It felt good to be putting words down, and hanging out with the characters wondering what they were going to say next, I hope I can manage it again soon! (I signed up for Camp NaNo this month but it hasn't been happening, I've decided to just let it go for now and relax and write when I can...)
The sister and I have been watching The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty -- we're a little less than halfway through and loving it so far. It's got a big enough budget to look great, with good pacing and fun comedy while knowing how to bring the melodrama at the right time, and the characters are all a lovable mess.
It's the classic "talented misfits meet up, team up and then they solve crime!" set in the Ming Dynasty (late 1400s China). The two leads are both marvelous badass squishes with hearts of gold, and then the third of their trio is...kind of terrifying, like Mei Changsu with less of a conscience. But then the other two have consciences working overtime -- one is a soft-spoken, wildly honorable ex-soldier imperial guard with PTSD, amazing cooking skills, and a big empty house that quickly gets filled up with lunatics in need of a home; the other is a broke and brilliant, idealistic young government official who is a total brat and kind of a hedonistic glutton, up until the point someone he cares about gets in trouble and then he stops eating or sleeping and pulls out all the stops to help. And he starts caring about people in about ten minutes. So yeah, they're adorable. And they get an adopted daughter who is basically a sweets-eating super-computer, plus a mad scientist doctor, a Mongol princess (chief?) and her loyal retainer, a baby goat...
It's like Nirvana in Fire in that it's mostly Imperial court drama with wuxia elements tossed in to keep things exciting, though it's lighter in tone than NiF. And like Guardian and The Untamed, it's an adaptation of a danmei novel that they turned the major relationship from a romance into "brotherhood," though so far this one isn't exploiting the romance angle so much, as the emphasis is more on the found family overall. Plus there's been some bits of nice h/c so far and Tumblr gifs have promised more to come, so we're looking forward to that! (Want to see bad things happen to Tang Fan because he's got so many people who are going to be Not Happy with anyone who hurts him...!)
(Also Sui Zhou's actor (Fu Mengbo) is like a Chinese version of Kris Holden-Ried, who played Dyson on Lost Girl -- he's got the exact same low calm voice, it's spooky to me how similar they sound, even speaking in completely different languages?)
turn the lights off, carry me home (2867 words)
"I don't need to be indulged," Zhao Yunlan told him.
"Naturally not," Shen Wei said.
Zhao Yunlan grinned back at him. "I like it when you do, though."
It felt good to be putting words down, and hanging out with the characters wondering what they were going to say next, I hope I can manage it again soon! (I signed up for Camp NaNo this month but it hasn't been happening, I've decided to just let it go for now and relax and write when I can...)
The sister and I have been watching The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty -- we're a little less than halfway through and loving it so far. It's got a big enough budget to look great, with good pacing and fun comedy while knowing how to bring the melodrama at the right time, and the characters are all a lovable mess.
It's the classic "talented misfits meet up, team up and then they solve crime!" set in the Ming Dynasty (late 1400s China). The two leads are both marvelous badass squishes with hearts of gold, and then the third of their trio is...kind of terrifying, like Mei Changsu with less of a conscience. But then the other two have consciences working overtime -- one is a soft-spoken, wildly honorable ex-soldier imperial guard with PTSD, amazing cooking skills, and a big empty house that quickly gets filled up with lunatics in need of a home; the other is a broke and brilliant, idealistic young government official who is a total brat and kind of a hedonistic glutton, up until the point someone he cares about gets in trouble and then he stops eating or sleeping and pulls out all the stops to help. And he starts caring about people in about ten minutes. So yeah, they're adorable. And they get an adopted daughter who is basically a sweets-eating super-computer, plus a mad scientist doctor, a Mongol princess (chief?) and her loyal retainer, a baby goat...
It's like Nirvana in Fire in that it's mostly Imperial court drama with wuxia elements tossed in to keep things exciting, though it's lighter in tone than NiF. And like Guardian and The Untamed, it's an adaptation of a danmei novel that they turned the major relationship from a romance into "brotherhood," though so far this one isn't exploiting the romance angle so much, as the emphasis is more on the found family overall. Plus there's been some bits of nice h/c so far and Tumblr gifs have promised more to come, so we're looking forward to that! (Want to see bad things happen to Tang Fan because he's got so many people who are going to be Not Happy with anyone who hurts him...!)
(Also Sui Zhou's actor (Fu Mengbo) is like a Chinese version of Kris Holden-Ried, who played Dyson on Lost Girl -- he's got the exact same low calm voice, it's spooky to me how similar they sound, even speaking in completely different languages?)
