- GOD 'Jing' everyone was confusing for me the first time I watched NiF - P audacious of the Emperor to give the kid an entire name - technically, by real identity and blood, should Changsu be a person of higher status? The Emperor's sister took a formal demotion, and he's the Emperor's nephew. So is Jingrui, but Changsu is older. - I wonder if historical dramas give undue time to codex books vs scrolls, simply bc we're still comfortable with the codex today? - 'donned in' feels like English tourists on holiday saying things loud and slow, with a Spanish accent. Older/formal English as an awkward second language: one cannot be 'donned in part-worn, casual robes'. Clad in, maybe. 'To don' is exclusively the action of putting on, not a descriptor or resting state of wearing. - Jingrui is from a G&S plot. - Idk how to feel about Feiliu's position as mentally handicapped in a vague way. I'm a bit uneasy with it, though not sure of any particular quality of the depiction that makes me so. Maybe it's just that it's not handled quite according to frameworks of good or poor representation I'm used to, and it's such a hotly politicised thing, so I'm not sure how to read it and can't reconcile it neatly into categories I'm sure of. - YUJIN! AYYYYYY.
And last time, I said:
- Here in chapter 2 the emperor made a decent judgment of Solomon (is that a familiar enough coordinate this writer would know it?). Don't get comfortable, he will never make a good decision again. - Reading this after watching the series has the weird effect of making you feel LIKE Changsu. You know the Marquess of Ning is fucking awful before everyone else in the room, it's v weird. - YUJIN, MY FAVOURITE SON! Well, one of. I used to just call him Tigger before I properly learned his name. - was Xie Bi this central in the first ep of NiF? If so, I don't remember it. Duchess Mu apparently pushed to the fore at this juncture for the tv version only. - how did people KNOW this novel was where it was AT? the opening gives very few fucks about your interest level. We've just spent 2 chapters... having some congee, which Fei Liu did not like.
Chapter 2
- P audacious of the Emperor to give the kid an entire name
- technically, by real identity and blood, should Changsu be a person of higher status? The Emperor's sister took a formal demotion, and he's the Emperor's nephew. So is Jingrui, but Changsu is older.
- I wonder if historical dramas give undue time to codex books vs scrolls, simply bc we're still comfortable with the codex today?
- 'donned in' feels like English tourists on holiday saying things loud and slow, with a Spanish accent. Older/formal English as an awkward second language: one cannot be 'donned in part-worn, casual robes'. Clad in, maybe. 'To don' is exclusively the action of putting on, not a descriptor or resting state of wearing.
- Jingrui is from a G&S plot.
- Idk how to feel about Feiliu's position as mentally handicapped in a vague way. I'm a bit uneasy with it, though not sure of any particular quality of the depiction that makes me so. Maybe it's just that it's not handled quite according to frameworks of good or poor representation I'm used to, and it's such a hotly politicised thing, so I'm not sure how to read it and can't reconcile it neatly into categories I'm sure of.
- YUJIN! AYYYYYY.
And last time, I said:
- Here in chapter 2 the emperor made a decent judgment of Solomon (is that a familiar enough coordinate this writer would know it?). Don't get comfortable, he will never make a good decision again.
- Reading this after watching the series has the weird effect of making you feel LIKE Changsu. You know the Marquess of Ning is fucking awful before everyone else in the room, it's v weird.
- YUJIN, MY FAVOURITE SON! Well, one of. I used to just call him Tigger before I properly learned his name.
- was Xie Bi this central in the first ep of NiF? If so, I don't remember it. Duchess Mu apparently pushed to the fore at this juncture for the tv version only.
- how did people KNOW this novel was where it was AT? the opening gives very few fucks about your interest level. We've just spent 2 chapters... having some congee, which Fei Liu did not like.