Fallen petals in the middle of the stream

[extrapenguin]

Since this week seems to be all about YouTueb videos, here's a song I found and enjoy:

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芒種 ("Grain in Beard"; 6th to 20th of June), sung by 趙方婧 Zhao Fangjing. The video is just clips of various actresses in period dress, but I'm getting a lot of femslash feels and, yes.

(I suspect the subs were done with google translate or equivalent. Ex:
Hanzi:
若佛說~~~~~（無牽無掛）
放下執著~~~~~（無相無色）

Subs:
Buddha said (be free of love)
let it go (be free of love)

EP can use a dictionary and knows some grammar:
As Buddha said (be carefree)
let go of attachments ([we're] colorless without each other)

...so, yeah. Some stuff might be inaccurate.)

Comments

[extrapenguin]

This is so gay, like everything between 1:07 and 1:22, wow.
Exactly! Hands-on swordplay teaching! Cheek touching! Words cannot describe how UNF I am. Can this be a drama already? The plot doesn't need to be super strong, just have 4+ women interacting with each other femslashily in maximum *licks screen* mode!

[ratbones]

YES. There must be an audience out there beyond just us for f/f sexual tension plus swords. Please somebody make this drama! Please I'm so hungry.

[extrapenguin]

Yesss! Surely it must exist? I have asked some better-placed friends in the NIF fandom, though I think F/F + period drama might be a touch niche. If nothing else, at least we can stare at the video some more?

(damn, I need a F/F icon or three dozen)

[extrapenguin]

Update: at least some of the clips in that video are from some ... fanmade web serial thingy on bilibili? Here's what's probably a fanvid. Here's something that's probably an installment? Actresses are @圣微ViVi for the demonic cultivation master and 唐糖genki for the disciple. Oh, and there's this tropey BTS footage. ... the question is, am I going too deep down this rabbit hole, or not deep enough?

[ratbones]

Okay, so it wasn't all just us wearing slash goggles, clearly. Thank you for feeeeeding me, this is exactly the cheese I needed. Back-to-back badasses! Coughing up blood! My kingdom for engsubs! Although I suspect we won't find any, even at the bottom of that rabbit hole. *pouts*

[extrapenguin]

You know, it's 14 minutes long and the Chinese is pretty simple, so ... do you want me to engsub it? I make no guarantees on the quality of the translation, though at least it should be grammatical English.

(I'll see about tracking down source clips for the other two-character interaction scenes, too, but this one was a seriously delightful find to start with, unf. And they did that with zero budget, too!)

[ratbones]

penguiiiin <3 No pressure but that would be fab, you're the bestest!

Yeah, I'm seriously impressed with the cinematography and costumes and generally how good everything looks. Here's hoping there's more like this lurking about, but even if not, ~whee~ this is good stuff.

[extrapenguin]

Okay it's easier than I expected (!) and I have the first 6 minutes already. The timings are bullshit, but, hey, I think this should be done by the weekend? Anyway, the little disciple is Ye Xiaoqi and the cool and badass master is Xiao Rufeng. And the boob collision scene's music is even more !!! than I recalled from the first watchthrough!

[ratbones]

Yaaaay I'm so excited, I'm glad it's going well! I'm certainly not going to complain about timings, as long as it's readable I'll just be grateful. boob collision scene, AHAH. Their dynamic is super cute, Ye Xiaoqi's giggle is infectious.

[extrapenguin]

After I posted, I subbed up to 8:30. 60% done! Projected schedule: finish up translation on Thursday, get the timings and sanity checks done on Saturday. Xiao Rufeng/Ye Xiaoqi is such a wonderful ship.

[ratbones]

I am hypedddd to squee about this ship over the weekend. Everything going well still?

[extrapenguin]

Yes! In fact, everything went better than expected on the back half, and the translation is done! I'm currently fixing the timings. Should be up within an hour?

[ratbones]

Omg yay, that's awesome!

[extrapenguin]

And done! Has a 480p .flv and a .srt file with only slightly dodgy subtitles. Come squee with me about Ye Xiaoqi colliding with Xiao Rufeng's boobs!

(I'll make an actual DW post about it soon)

[ratbones]

I HAVE WATCHED IT AND I AM ALL OF THE EMOTIONS

i'll signal boost when i've picked myself up off the floor

THANK YOU <3 <3 <3

[extrapenguin]

♥ Yes good! Here's the DW post with some advertising and links!

[ratbones]

Did and done! Aww, you have a new icon. This ship is unfairly adorable -- the noodle scene had me cooing out loud.