Film and Television

Thoughts on Fanfic: androgynous beauty, flaws, and resonance.

Thoughts on The God of Cookery: a bowl of rice that marks a change, and breaking past appearances.

Thoughts on Gold or Shit, pursuing success, and improving oneself.

On Frieren’s sense of time, and whether what passes is insignificant or precious.

Thoughts after Pandora's Box: love as a theme, smallness, and the scope of a work.

Thoughts after A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella: the value recognized only after loss, and Sun Wukong's human side.

A letter about You Are My Glory.

Reflections on the manga and television adaptation of The Long Ballad

A rabbit and a prisoner: two tunnels, two kinds of freedom.

The mortal-life realizations in Renegade Immortal and the secluded life in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: two kinds of mortal hearts on the path to immortality.

A film about literary romance, surface-level compatibility, and the passage of time.

Starting from a video about blending with the dust, this reflects on Han Li's Dao heart, character writing in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, and letting go of the self.