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Interestingly, the 20 episode "Special Cut" version of Untamed on youtube is not just a faster paced digest version for the impatient overseas audience, but actually includes many small added scenes, mostly consisting of deep and passionate looks exchanged between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji. Even though the added scenes are subtle, over the ( Read more... ) -
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The remaining three clans - the write up is a little rought, but I figured it's probably more useful to post them and get over with it rather than to keep on dragging my feet. I want to talk about the characters and the names next, which is a lot more interesting ( Read more... ) -
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Since I found the playlist for Untamed still on youtube, I rewatched the first two episodes again. In hindsight, having seen the entire series, I realized how packed with details and clues they were. And how utterly confusing and inexplicable they would have been to anyone who just started watching. It is as though the first two episodes are a ( Read more... ) -
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Just noticed now, Untamed is still available on youtube, for whatever reason Netflix has not made youtube pull it.
The entire playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMX26aiIvX5pYn98zge18X88sfeYbnhTr -
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I meant to finish posting about the remaining clans yesterday, but this weekend is actually the live farewell concert series for the TV series, so I have spend the all my time glued to Weibo watching snippets and reading live repos instead ( Read more... ) -
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Maybe a little background is in order. The genre that the series Untamed belongs to is known in Chinese as 仙侠，which is kind of like Wuxia, but with an added magical element, so that the characters may have certain super natural powers, or can acquire them by following esoteric or occult practices. The seat of this occult power manifest itself in ( Read more... ) -
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As usual I have still not gotten around to sending out my card and gifts yet, but at least I managed to post before the new year.
While chatting with flemmings, I just realized the it's been eight years since our little circle were all watching Woxinchangdan here on LJ, and fangirling about uncle Ming. Piglet is eight ( Read more... ) -
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In honor of getting a fancy new phone(a nexus 6 which is about the size of a paperback), here are some pictures of my garden.
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After wasting countless hours staring at pictures of slope garden and other horticultural porn, I did a little sketch of the slope. S said how about some rock steps and more trees, so I added a few, and now I have the start of somthing like a plan. And since crepe murtles do so well here we thought we'd plant a couple on a little ledge. I have ( Read more... ) -
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When we were house hunting, S was set on having the house on an elevation, being old-fashioned about things like flooding and drainage and such. And boy did we buy a house with elevation. Our front yard is a 15ft high slope with 100% grade(45 degree incline for those of you who do not read landscaping books for entertainment), and covered with ( Read more... )