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brush_and_lantern's October theme: Harvest Moon, ~700 words of Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan about festivals of youth and their remembrance and forgettance.
Announcements banner, pt 2: I'm signing up for Writing Rainbow: Orange with the crackiest of sign-ups (it includes asking for a Nirvana in Fire/Vorkosigan saga crossover with Mei Changsu & Miles Vorkosigan with the freeform "Worst Dinner Party in the World", in addition to a bunch of Guardian stuff).
25. What do you love most about the drama?
It's science fiction about aliens and basically an impassioned speech for tolerance for these aliens amongst us. I am a sop for such narratives, it turns out! We have space aliens and time travel and people being friends across species boundaries and people befriending each other and an interspecies queer couple at the very center of it! Did I mention the aliens yet? :P Tonally, it's also actually a pretty cheerful show, especially at the start, and well-lit, with a minimum of "this is grim srs bzns, which you can figure out from the fact that we didn't have a lighting budget" eye-rollery.
(As a side note, basically all the changes from novel to drama that they made ended up with a product more to my interests, save the censoring of queerness and the fact that the ending was sad. I also think that a lot of the weakest bits of writing were where it tried to hew to the novel's plot – axing Ye Zun and having the Regent be the "final boss" would've made for a better show, imo – where the novel-plot blocks had nothing to hang on due to censorship deletions, but as my knowledge of the novel is mostly hearsay, summaries, and unwanted intrusions into fic that's tagged as drama-only, this is more vague waffly vibes. And making it a show about corruption, even corruption of alien bureaucrats, might've been too much for the censors.)
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brush_and_lantern's October theme: Harvest Moon, ~700 words of Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan about festivals of youth and their remembrance and forgettance.Announcements banner, pt 2: I'm signing up for Writing Rainbow: Orange with the crackiest of sign-ups (it includes asking for a Nirvana in Fire/Vorkosigan saga crossover with Mei Changsu & Miles Vorkosigan with the freeform "Worst Dinner Party in the World", in addition to a bunch of Guardian stuff).
25. What do you love most about the drama?
It's science fiction about aliens and basically an impassioned speech for tolerance for these aliens amongst us. I am a sop for such narratives, it turns out! We have space aliens and time travel and people being friends across species boundaries and people befriending each other and an interspecies queer couple at the very center of it! Did I mention the aliens yet? :P Tonally, it's also actually a pretty cheerful show, especially at the start, and well-lit, with a minimum of "this is grim srs bzns, which you can figure out from the fact that we didn't have a lighting budget" eye-rollery.
(As a side note, basically all the changes from novel to drama that they made ended up with a product more to my interests, save the censoring of queerness and the fact that the ending was sad. I also think that a lot of the weakest bits of writing were where it tried to hew to the novel's plot – axing Ye Zun and having the Regent be the "final boss" would've made for a better show, imo – where the novel-plot blocks had nothing to hang on due to censorship deletions, but as my knowledge of the novel is mostly hearsay, summaries, and unwanted intrusions into fic that's tagged as drama-only, this is more vague waffly vibes. And making it a show about corruption, even corruption of alien bureaucrats, might've been too much for the censors.)
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