guardian bingo!

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Suits	Snacks	Hair	Crow Tribe	Longevity Dial
Action / Adventure	Sang Zan	Dragon City University	Snake Tribe	Dijun Booklet
The Regent	Home	Free Square	Undercover	Awakening
Misunder- standings	Cooking	Motorcycle	Black-Cloaked Envoy	Mystery
Zhao Yunlan	Zhao Xinci	Legends	Case Fic	Happy Ending

[ lighter squares: fics | darker squares: gifs ]

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Good luck with your card! :D

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Thanks! I'm used to prompts but it's the first time I'm doing a bingo card so we'll see how it goes~

[elenothar]

Super neat! (I'm illustrating this with an icon of Shen Wei's sartorial choices, which are also super neat)

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Responding with my expression of admiration for the neatness. I bet Zhao Yunlan doesn't even own an ironing board, he'll have to bring hiss own.

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I'm pretty sure he has to bring pretty much all his domestic equipment - cleaning, cooking, ironing... the only thing Zhao Yunlan has is alcohol and fitness equipment. And instant noodles, so probably one (1) pot.

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…I'm now recalling that novel description in which Zhao Yunlan actually does have fancy cooking equipment in his apartment, just all still in their packaging. Unclear which one is more Shen-Wei-facepalm-worthy. Did he also have to bring his own dishware over for dinner? Probably.

[elenothar]

... I need to finish reading the book one of these years

Everything in the packaging is absolutely more facepalm-worthy, he can't even excuse it with living frugally then.

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HAH finally found the line I was thinking of after strategic searching, it's in chapter 25. He's even got an imported oven, they're just all in brand new condition.

And I need to reread it at slightly less than breakneck pace one of these days, which is a possible undertaking if only because the chapter count is closer to 100 than 150 (or god forbid 200 /stares at TGCF)

[elenothar]

The thought of what ZYL might do with (or to) an imported oven boggles the mind...

I've got the Chinese novel waiting on my shelf just in case I ever get enough vocabulary to read a real book (currently looking a bit unlikely, but you never know).

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For the record I am obliged to say that I do not recommend Priest's writing as a first novel to read. Or possibly even the fifth. The style is beautiful but not exactly what I'd, uh, accessible.

On the other hand Guardian is still an easier and shorter read than other Priest works so if you ever decide to embark on it let me know and I'll happily come along. My brain refused to spit out anything besides 奉陪 for a while back there, which to digress is a beautifully succinct word for how 奉 adds a(n?) honorific dimension to the otherwise mundane accompaniment of 陪. This is a horrifically-constructed paragraph because the coffee hasn't reached my brain yet but I've been wondering if it'd be fun/enjoyable for anyone besides myself if I started dissecting novel paragraphs on the learning comm.

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Don't worry, I've already been warned. It's really more of an aspirational thing, the same way 'getting a book published one day' is aspirational - not technically impossible, but pretty unlikely.

but I've been wondering if it'd be fun/enjoyable for anyone besides myself if I started dissecting novel paragraphs on the learning comm

I'm absolutely certain there'll be several people who'd be very interested in that, me included. So if you have the time and inclination, please do! Half of it will probably go over my head, but I'd still find it fascinating.

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…so I actually ended up doing the thing at the comm already but in a fill-in-the-blanks exercise style because you can apparently get me out of school but you can't get the school out of me, etc. Which is a different kind of interesting compared to actually parsing continuous text (vs these disparate sentences), but if I figure out how to make a halfway-coherent post out of taking the Big Language Hammer to a full paragraph… hmm.

[elenothar]

My brain is already mush for today, but I'm looking forward to having a look tomorrow!

Cheering on the potential Big Language Hammer XD