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Welcome to Topic Tuesday! Right away I want to stress that discussion posts are always welcome to the community, you don't have to wait until a Topic Tuesday rolls around, and then maybe be disappointed by the current topic of discussion. Whenever you want to talk about something, please simply make a separate entry to this comm, no matter the week, the time, or the topic. All right? *g*

The topic I picked for today is Failing Enthusiasm?. This is another prompt that was suggested to me on a post I made on Bluesky, asking for ideas.

Quoting directly: Have you ever felt your enthusiasm for C-ent failing? How did it made you feel?

As usual, if you want to talk about spoilers, please use one of these codes to hide them.

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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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Wishlist Wednesdays are intended as a catch-all for anything you'd like to ask for in a casual, low-stress setting. No need to create a separate entry to the comm (although you are always welcome to do that, too), just leave a comment with your request right here under this entry.

It can be anything. Are you looking for icons of a specific drama or actor? Do you need a beta for your fic? Do you want to know where to buy merchandise of something? You can ask for recs of any kind (fanfic, drama, novel, music, whatever), or even leave specific fic prompts that others might be able to fill. Or whatever else that you can think of. Right now we're still kinda experimenting with this format, after all.

Feel free to discuss wishes/requests in the comments. And if you want to fill a request, feel free to do so right in the comments, too, or make a separate entry to the comm.

And please also check out the previous entries!

Multiple wishes/requests are definitely all right, just post a new top level comment for each. It would make it easier for people who might be interested in helping you out. The only thing I'd suggest for now is that you hide possible spoilers in the usual ways:

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Wu Lei and Zhou Yutong in Nothing But You

Nothing But You (愛情而已, literally "Nothing But Love") is a 2023 modern cdrama. It has 38 45-minute episodes.

What is it? It's a noona romance set in the world of sports: between Song Sanchuan, a professional badminton player who later switches to tennis (Wu Lei - you might know him from Nirvana in Fire, or maybe from Sand Sea), and Liang You'an, a sports company sales person/executive assistant (Zhou Yutong). He's 22, she's 32, and basically the whole obstacle to their relationship is that she thinks he's too young for her. That sustains the tension for a very long time indeed. :D I personally find both of them very cute (and I say that as someone who was indifferent to Wu Lei's looks before).

Is it a rec? Yes! Yesyesyesyes! It's so, so good. Much better than I'd expected.

Where to watch? You can watch it on Viki or Youtube. Make sure not to confuse it with the 2024 drama of the same (English) name.

Why should I watch it?

The romance is very cute and all the storylines are rewarding and well-paced. I love everything to do with the age difference and how it's handled.

Many of the main characters are women, and I feel like the story is definitely told from a female perspective. All the women are encouraged to stand up for themselves and follow their dreams.

The men aren't idiots either, though, which is just fun to watch. Of the secondary characters, I especially like Sanchuan's stepdad. He always has good advice (which doesn't always match Sanchuan's actual needs, but I love that too), and while I don't know the actor, I got the distinct impression that he must be a popular comedian.

There's not a single 'evil' character (minus one very short exception in one of the later eps). Every character has their own valid reasons for doing the things they do. Some of those are callous or misguided, but nowhere near as cliched as I'm used to from other dramas, and overall, most of the characters are just wonderful all around. That doesn't mean that it's all fluff all the time - they all have their trials, and the conflicts are treated with sincerity. All the developments feel well-earned and well-paced.

more details and more caps of the cute couple at my journal

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dmbj_tombraiders, sign-ups have started! All official info posts run on Tumblr (heihua-exchange)

"Welcome to the Heihua Exchange, an an event dedicated to the pairing Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi from the 盗墓笔记 | Daomu Biji fandom. In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a seven-week long creation period.

This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons - books, movies, TV series, comics, donghua, etc. The gifts can be fic, art, video, podfic or some other form of creation you feel inspired to gift to your recipient, but all of it must be focused on the ship Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi."

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