LOLLL thursday
Apr. 23rd, 2020 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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BFF stayed up too late talking to her husband, who is a gregarious extrovert who is currently not talking to people at work because it’s a hospital and he’s trying to socially distance from the other doctors and is thusly starving for adult conversation, so she threw herself on the grenade of sleep deprivation to try to help him cope… and me?
well, I stayed up wayyyy too late because I didn’t realize that MZDS is 570,000 words long and i was reading the fan translation and kept blindly clicking to the next chapter because surely it was nearly the end and oh fuck it’s 1am.
So uh. BFF’s loopy as hell and I’m a zombie, and hers is a noble story of sacrificing herself for love and mine is that I couldn’t back off the xanxia smut.
(I share with you the observation that yes, absolutely, the TV series is waaaay more gay than the novel even though the novel has canonical homosexual sex in it because the novel is told largely from WWX’s super oblivious POV, so every one of LWJ’s Gay Panic moments are interpreted as “wow he’s really mad for some reason, what a meanie” and the more ambiguous things are presented like “i wonder if– no, no, this is definitely not a gay thing, LWJ is definitely not gay for me, he’s only humoring me for strange reasons” up to and including the point where there have been actual, undeniably homosexual kisses and such up to and including explicit humping with orgasms, while the TV adaptation lets us just watch LWJ pine right out there in the open. I’m only sad there won’t be kissing, but I’m not even that sad about it, I don’t think kissing could even convey it. Though if there’s no kissing they definitely won’t have the episode where WWX is night-hunting with a blindfold on to be a lil shit and suddenly someone randomly pins him to a tree and kisses him breathless and vanishes and he can’t figure out who it was and tears the blindfold off and finds LWJ nearby and LWJ is inexplicably furious at him because WWX wouldn’t know Gay Panic if it literally kissed him up against a tree?)
Anyway, you can see, I am extremely focused and doing Great this morning and for some reason while MathMom and I [the anon ask yesterday called her that and I’m realizing that’s a much better nickname than BFF] keep spacing out and losing the plot, the kids are bravely soldiering on and assigning themselves their own homework tasks for some reason.
I put Lil Miss 5 to writing a letter, and she chose to write one to her grandparents, and I started out helping her and then had to go help MathMom who couldn’t figure out a 1st grade assignment (the teacher clearly assumed the kid would know what to do with the worksheet, so the instructions only addressed how to physically manipulate the online interface and did not explain what we were supposed to do with the screenful of letters, cartoon images of commonplace items, and the title “Word Puzzle” and absolutely no other information to be gleaned). So I came back and helped her spell a few things for the rest of the letter and as I was folding it into the envelope I deciphered that what she had written was,
Dear Grandparents, why didn’t you write to me while the virus was happening, love [Baby], hearts hearts hearts hearts
Which is a fair fucking point! MY mother has written to these two children, to whom she is not related, THREE TIMES EACH, and their own grandparents– they have SIX grandparents because of a divorce on the paternal side– have written to them a grand total of once! (Dr. F’s mom sent easter cards.) SO ANYWAY. But had I been paying attention I would have perhaps gently dissuaded her from quite such a savage missive. Or maybe I wouldn’t have written out a translation, but I’d already begun it before I realized what it said. (She’d spelled it YDYNDU RTEITOME and then I’d helped her so it then said WHILE THE VIRUS WAS HAPPENING!. impeccably.)
BFF stayed up too late talking to her husband, who is a gregarious extrovert who is currently not talking to people at work because it’s a hospital and he’s trying to socially distance from the other doctors and is thusly starving for adult conversation, so she threw herself on the grenade of sleep deprivation to try to help him cope… and me?
well, I stayed up wayyyy too late because I didn’t realize that MZDS is 570,000 words long and i was reading the fan translation and kept blindly clicking to the next chapter because surely it was nearly the end and oh fuck it’s 1am.
So uh. BFF’s loopy as hell and I’m a zombie, and hers is a noble story of sacrificing herself for love and mine is that I couldn’t back off the xanxia smut.
(I share with you the observation that yes, absolutely, the TV series is waaaay more gay than the novel even though the novel has canonical homosexual sex in it because the novel is told largely from WWX’s super oblivious POV, so every one of LWJ’s Gay Panic moments are interpreted as “wow he’s really mad for some reason, what a meanie” and the more ambiguous things are presented like “i wonder if– no, no, this is definitely not a gay thing, LWJ is definitely not gay for me, he’s only humoring me for strange reasons” up to and including the point where there have been actual, undeniably homosexual kisses and such up to and including explicit humping with orgasms, while the TV adaptation lets us just watch LWJ pine right out there in the open. I’m only sad there won’t be kissing, but I’m not even that sad about it, I don’t think kissing could even convey it. Though if there’s no kissing they definitely won’t have the episode where WWX is night-hunting with a blindfold on to be a lil shit and suddenly someone randomly pins him to a tree and kisses him breathless and vanishes and he can’t figure out who it was and tears the blindfold off and finds LWJ nearby and LWJ is inexplicably furious at him because WWX wouldn’t know Gay Panic if it literally kissed him up against a tree?)
Anyway, you can see, I am extremely focused and doing Great this morning and for some reason while MathMom and I [the anon ask yesterday called her that and I’m realizing that’s a much better nickname than BFF] keep spacing out and losing the plot, the kids are bravely soldiering on and assigning themselves their own homework tasks for some reason.
I put Lil Miss 5 to writing a letter, and she chose to write one to her grandparents, and I started out helping her and then had to go help MathMom who couldn’t figure out a 1st grade assignment (the teacher clearly assumed the kid would know what to do with the worksheet, so the instructions only addressed how to physically manipulate the online interface and did not explain what we were supposed to do with the screenful of letters, cartoon images of commonplace items, and the title “Word Puzzle” and absolutely no other information to be gleaned). So I came back and helped her spell a few things for the rest of the letter and as I was folding it into the envelope I deciphered that what she had written was,
Dear Grandparents, why didn’t you write to me while the virus was happening, love [Baby], hearts hearts hearts hearts
Which is a fair fucking point! MY mother has written to these two children, to whom she is not related, THREE TIMES EACH, and their own grandparents– they have SIX grandparents because of a divorce on the paternal side– have written to them a grand total of once! (Dr. F’s mom sent easter cards.) SO ANYWAY. But had I been paying attention I would have perhaps gently dissuaded her from quite such a savage missive. Or maybe I wouldn’t have written out a translation, but I’d already begun it before I realized what it said. (She’d spelled it YDYNDU RTEITOME and then I’d helped her so it then said WHILE THE VIRUS WAS HAPPENING!. impeccably.)
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Date: 2020-04-23 05:42 pm (UTC)(ugh, I have failed at any writing to anyone; but I did manage an Amazon delivery of a birthday present for the nephew who turned six this week. So not complete failure)