quick update

[extrapenguin]

Before I go back to the wordcount mines:

1. I procrastinated on exchange fic by doing the first cut of vexercises exercise 4 (side character study – in this case, Li Qian) way ahead of schedule. It still needs coloring, frame-level timing finetuning of some transitions, and maybe some additional effects like mirroring footage, but I have 1 minute and 8 seconds of it. (I was very naughty and added 8 seconds of runtime because it worked better for the song.)

2. Food update: Chongqing chicken failed due to my total lack of dried chili peppers, significant misremembering of how many fresh chili peppers I had, and bad deep frying technique. Deep fried things also didn't reheat well, so probably not repeating that one. As my mandarin orange peels are still drying, I made beef and mushroom (and paprika) stirfry, and succeeded in thickening the sauce with corn starch! It was very satisfyingly clingy.

3. I have rediscovered the adorablest of Guardian bts gifs:

Will perhaps make this month's brush and lantern fic inspired by that.

Comments

[undeadrobins]

Oh! That gif 💕

[extrapenguin]

It's adorable! (So adorable I iconed it, in fact!) I wish we'd gotten a proper hug in the show, but as they say, that's what fanfic is for...

[riventhorn]

they're so cute and soft there <3<3<3 Shen Wei is every bit the helpless!professor here, lol.

[extrapenguin]

ikr? He is the most helpless and least suspicious of professors, and also enjoying the hug. (If only he'd gone for the theatrical swooning/Yunlan-clutching to prove his harmlessness. All the hugs!)

[nnozomi]

Ooh, Li Qian vid! Looking forward to seeing that.
omigod that gif, the combination of "I got you, babe" hands and "HOME SAFE in his arms" smile, oh dear.
also, I need to go through and copy-paste all your recipe links at some point...mm...

[extrapenguin]

My weekend's booked with other fannishness, but color grading after that! And maybe some extra effects. The background music is Battle Beast - No More Hollywood Endings, should you wish for a sneak peek of sorts.

omigod that gif, the combination of "I got you, babe" hands and "HOME SAFE in his arms" smile, oh dear.
I know??? It's just, ahhhh oh my god. If only we'd had this in HD and for, like, five seconds... Oh Shen Wei. He deserved way more Kunlun cuddles than we saw. And Zhao Yunlan definitely deserves to get his babe, though that did actually happen on the show.

Food and recipe links should all be gathered under the tag of cat: food! I wish you happy cooking.

[lannamichaels]

Such an adorable gif :D

[extrapenguin]

I know? It's so cute.