Dear Missy

tl;dr a somewhat frothy, highly character driven modern cdrama. I enjoyed it a lot, though there were quite a few bits that were frustrating. Relatively light, not very plotty, very beautiful outfits, that sort of thing, but has enough serious, insightful conversations and character moments that it felt satisfying and not just like candy.



The premise: as teenagers, Shen Siyi and Lu Ke were inseparable best friends, until they had an argument and didn't speak for years. Now, they are working together for the same magazine. They and their close group of friends live through the trials and tribulations of youth in Shanghai. (You know it's Shanghai bc they cannot resist showing you shots of the Bund...)

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Danmei reading group

I've been very bad about writing outside twitter -- I may try to gather up the interesting tweets I've made for posterity? (I certainly have a lot of... food pictures haha)

But I realized I forgot to post here about a reading group I put together -- we're doing 4 chapters of 我嗑了对家x我的cp (I ship my adversary x me) a week. The intention was to peer pressure myself into reading in Chinese, since poetry club was doing a good job of forcing me to read Baike. Anyway, we started last week, so if anyone is interested in joining, just comment or DM me!