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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?

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Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng in Upcoming Summer

Upcoming Summer (盛夏未来) is a 2021 Chinese coming-of-age movie starring Wu Lei as Zheng Yuxing, wannabe DJ, and Zhang Zifeng as Chen Chen, A-student. The two high-schoolers get thrown together through a white lie she tells her parents after failing the gao kao. Zheng Yuxing was a no-show at the exam, and the two bond.

Does it have a happy ending?

ending spoilers

Well. If the happy ending is them being together at the end: no. If the happy ending is them becoming good friends: yes. It's a coming of age movie and as such fleeting and melancholy. I loved this movie, and even as a die-hard romance fan, this movie gave me everything I wanted.

Where to watch? You can watch it on Netflix here. (I did not manage to find it by title within Netflix itself, no matter what I selected as my preferences. If the link I gave here doesn't work for you, try googling for it.) (If you can't find it, dm me.)

Is it a rec? Yes! This movie is brilliant. The main characters all have secrets - and each one is slowly revealed throughout the movie. I'm not going to spoil any of them - although I suspect that I would get more of you to watch it if I did. *g*

But trust me on that one: you should go into it unspoiled. I did, and it shook me. I wasn't quite sure I had picked up on the hints or not, and whether I had imagined it all, so I went and watched the whole movie again the next day. I had not imagined it. The movie is very cleverly done. (It's admittedly a bit harder to see if you don't understand a bit of Chinese and are unfamiliar with cdrama tropes, and even then you can miss it.)

The movie plays with different expectations a lot. What parents expect of their children, what teachers expect of their students, what children expect of their parents, what people expect of life. What viewers expect of a coming-of-age movie. :) A lot of those expectations are challenged throughout the movie, and the characters have to reexamine their choices. (And the viewers have to rewatch the movie. :D)

The two students are very cute. They both act like 18-year-olds would, in my opinion. Opinionated, stubborn, looking for connection, hopelessly romantic. It all feels realistic. I'm in no way objective when it comes to Wu Lei. I loved him in this, that's no surprise. I didn't know Zhang Zifeng before this, but she's amazing, too.

My favorite character in the whole movie is probably Mrs Qu, the teacher. She's no-nonsense but caring at the same time (within the constraints of being a teacher in China).

I really don't want to say anything more about the movie, because any plot points I could mention are taking away from the experience, and there is not that much plot in the first place.

But what I should mention is that one of the major elements of the movie is music. Zheng Yuxing, wanting to become a DJ, has a very intimate connection to music and to the electronic music scene. Very unusually for a Chinese movie, the main songs are western songs, and they are used really well.

Coldplay & the Chainsmokers | Kidnap Kid | May Day

The two western songs:

Watch on YouTube

No superhero, no fairytale bliss, just somebody I can turn to, somebody I can kiss. I want something just like this.

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The friends we made a long the way. A journey you can't recreate.

The rest of the OST is by popular Taiwanese(?) band May Day (五月天). Here are two songs from the OST, one performed by May Day itself (and he sings in such a beautiful low register for this <3) , and one performed by Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng:

Watch on YouTube

Some pictures (hopefully not spoilery)

Peeking

Making a couple video

Upcoming Summer heart to heart

Heart to Heart

Upcoming Summer clubbing

At Zheng Yuxing's favorite club

Upcoming Summer sparks

Lots of beautifully lit shots

Upcoming Summer tunnel

More cinematography

Upcoming Summer festival

At the music festival

Upcoming Summer festival2

At the music festival

I have made a separate spoiler post about the movie. I'd love to see you there to discuss it once you've seen the movie.

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We owe nothing on this gas bill, no outstanding debt.

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I had a rough night and ran around less during the day than previously, but I did take a couple of pictures in the cold late afternoon.

( We hoped for something more. )

Not having dreamed memorably for months, I was amused that last night I was apparently trying to compose a journal post describing a pre-dawn view of the river which presented itself as the Charles, although in waking life it is not crossed with any rope bridges that I know about, nor have I ever seen a market running down its banks to the water. Then I was distracted by discovering the existence of living root bridges. I had never seen anything like them in a non-secondary world. I love that they are not a historical technology.

Music:: Jim Ghedi, "Wasteland"

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One: the Greens now have five seats on my borough council, up from none. ( Brief further local politics. )

Two: we took ourselves out on a walk this evening; A spotted a deer, we followed it further into the trees, and spent a fun little while following deer (&c) paths through what looked like... they might perhaps once have been greenhouses on half-brick walls? but with proper big trees growing up through them now and zero evidence of any glass or metal frames or anything remaining! Had no idea that was all in there; hurrah for Tiny Explore :)

Three: I have got my bike baaaaaaasically back to working order (I might need to replace the rear brake cable, which is tedious, but braking is actually extant), and am looking forward to taking advantage of the increased mobility it provides!

Four: spent the afternoon inhaling the new Murderbot. That's definitely a Murderbot.

Five: more rye-caraway-poppy bread, including an end-of-loaf with my mother's fig jam and the fancy goats' cheese I got to have with asparagus yesterday. (The nice shop human warned me that it was best before the 11^th, and was that okay? I explained that that Would Not Be A Problem. I am very much enjoying causing it to Not Be A Problem.)

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I have had a migraine this afternoon and evening, which is the warning sign I'm pushing my sleep schedule too much, again
I read the new Murderbot book, very hard to put down, enjoyed it very much
earlier this week fanf and I joined 20th wedding anniversary celebrations for atreic and emperor, who remain lovely people who collect lovely people around them, yay
last weekend Kodiaks lost to Coventry Phoenix 1-8, but I got my first ever WNIHL point with an assist on that goal. And then the next day we turned a 2-1 lead over MK Falcons into a 4-2 loss in the last ten minutes of the game and that hurt quite a lot. But also it was lovely to see some Hull camp friends on the MK side, both on and off the ice
I started watching Ted Lasso, currently half way through season 1 and enjoying it very much. The episodes are short enough and the people / plot engaging enough I'm managing to stick with an entire episode at a time without getting distracted
next week I'm seeing a 40th anniversary screening of Top Gun in the local IMAX screen. I got teased about did I remember seeing it on original release, which no, not quite, but it's very nearly 37 years since I first saw it on a tiny coach TV screen on a school trip to Germany. I still know most of the lines by heart

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My stupid bldg managers have now decided they are not going to just let tenants in who have lost their keys anymore, now we have to call locksmiths. I hate them.

Music:: Joy Division

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Sea kayaking!

Today we had an early breakfast, because we had to walk out the door at 8:40 to catch a bus to the place where our kayak tour would launch. The earliest option for breakfast at this small guesthouse is 8, which is what we'd requested, but we went into the breakfast room at 7:40, since the muesli and fruit and such were already out, and she'd said we could take milk from the fridge if we were making coffee or tea with the kettle and supplies in our room, so we figured the same would apply to taking it for an early muesli breakfast. She came in about ten minutes later and when we said we didn't need a cooked breakfast today, given our time limitations, she was having none of it! She pressed us ("You have to eat!") until I said I'd have one egg -- yesterday we had two each, plus baked beans and tomato and basically the full English™️ -- whereupon she brought out two eggs for each of us, plus toast, slices of cheese (Geoff's not a big fan of cheese and I didn't eat the cheddar because this was getting to be a lot of food! but I admit I delightedly chowed down on the Wensleydale with cranberries, mmmmmm), and sliced tomato and cucumber, not to mention trying to give us beans as well, but that we did manage to fend off. She's very enthusiastic!

Even so, we did manage to get out in good time, and walked down to the center of town to catch a bus to a stop called Ouaisne Junction, and if you think we had the slightest idea how to pronounce that, you're mad. We'd asked our host (who is from Latvia) and she took a guess as more or less "wash-neh," but when we showed the written word to the bus driver he pronounced it basically "way-nay" or "way-neh," so that's what we're going with.

Anyway, here on Jersey the buses only stop at a stop if a stop is requested, if someone on board presses the signal that they want to get off there or if someone is waiting there to get on; otherwise they just blow past it. Nor are the stops announced. So you can't just figure you want the ninth stop and count, and you can't always see the stop name as you blow by, and of course we have no idea what our stop looks like. Fortunately the local bus app can track you along a bus route map that shows the stops; it's supposedly also showing live tracking of the bus, but the "live" tracking is often a minute or two outdated, so our little location dot was often a stop or two ahead of the bus icon 😂. Still, I was able to track us and know when to signal that we wanted the next stop. Yet another way in which travel without a phone and a data plan just isn't really feasible any more...

We walked ten minutes from the bus stop down a country road to a lovely beach, and the van from the kayak company, towing a giant rack of kayaks, passed us on the way. We got there and meet up with our guide Derek, who was indeed the husband of Trudie who was our guide yesterday; we were already in bathing suits under our clothes, so we stripped down and got fitted with sleeveless wetsuits and windbreaker jackets and floatation vests and also helmets juuuuuust in case we dumped a kayak and landed headfirst on a rock, and put on the water shoes we'd brought from home (which we wear for lake kayaking there). There were supposed to be three other people on this morning's tour, but their ferry had been delayed, so it was just me and Geoff. And then we launched! The water was cool when we waded in to launch, I wouldn't have wanted to go swimming, but with the wetsuits and jackets -- and exertion -- we were perfectly comfortable.

We spent a good two hours paddling along the coast, with almost constant (and fascinating) narration from Derek. He pointed out Nazi fortifications (including what we'd thought was a seawall along the edge of our launch beach, but nope, it was an anti-tank barricade) and caves that were inhabited by Neanderthals for thousands of years, and different kinds of seabirds (many of which are experiencing population crashes) and geological features and formations, and told us lots of stories about life and resistance during the Occupation (which his mother lived through). The wind and water were active but not too strong or choppy; paddling was quite manageable even for us lake-kayaking amateurs.

Exxxxxxxcept when Geoff didn't see a barely submerged rock in front of him, bumped it, momentarily grounded his kayak, and then tipped and dumped it and himself trying to get unstuck! But Derek had walked us through how to get back in before we even put the kayaks in the water -- these were sit-on kayaks, so they didn't fill up with water or anything -- and he paddled over, righted the kayak, and steadied it for Geoff to hoist himself back into (onto) it, while I hovered a safe distance away. Geoff was drenched, of course, but not even bruised, and the helmet was not needed, and it was warm and sunny enough that he didn't get chilled or anything, and mostly dried off pretty quickly.

After two hours we returned to our launch point, stripped out of all our borrowed gear, and said goodbye to Derek with many thanks; both this and yesterday's walk were great experiences, well worth their cost, and we plan to leave some glowing Tripadvisor reviews. The beach had perfectly acceptable public toilets, which I ducked into to change out of my swimsuit into the bra and underwear I'd brought with me, a bathing suit not being particularly comfortable as everyday walking clothing; Geoff's suit, of course, functioned fine as walking shorts. Derek had told us the pub next to the beach had excellent beer, but we wanted food more and also, having had a very pricy though tasty dinner last night, didn't want to pay their prices, so instead we got a couple of sandwiches from the beach-shack cafe, plus a few handfuls of the trail mix we hit a grocery the other day to put together, and that did the trick just fine. Geoff had filled a water bottle at the guesthouse this morning, but unfortunately I really dislike the taste of the tap water there, so I only had a swallow.

Then we walked along the long wide sweeping curve of the beach in the opposite direction from where we'd kayaked; we'd gone south and east around a point, and now we walked north and west, passing a variety of people enjoying the beach, a group gathered and getting ready around a rack of canoes whose towing van identified them as Healing Waves Ocean Therapy, pretty cool! and also a number of waterfront hotels, one of which Geoff just looked up as I'm typing this and informed me costs about $400 a night, jeepers.

We ended up at St Brelade's Parish Church, which had a beautiful stone ceiling inside, and very warm and welcoming flyers and info posted, and also a vast and fascinating graveyard around it, with stones as old as [illegible] and as recent as last year. There was also an older side chapel building with partially preserved paintings on the ceiling that the posted info said dated from 1375 and 1425, mostly too faint to fully appreciate but including a beautiful and well-preserved (or perhaps well-restored?) Annunciation.

By that time we were pretty wiped, so we walked up to the main road and waited only ten minutes or so for a bus back into the center of St Helier, the capital, where we're staying. No need to paranoically track our progress when we're taking it to the end of the line! We wandered homeward through a big shopping area, and I seized the opportunity to check the backpack options at the local outdoors supply store, but my ideal unicorn backpack remains sadly mythical. We weren't terribly hungry, but stopped at the same nearby cafe we went to before, where we split a really good teriyaki salmon bowl, and Geoff got a pint of a draft beer he'd liked the other day and I tried a bottle from what Derek had told us is now the only craft brewery still operating on the island. The brewery is unappetizingly called Stinky Bay, but the IPA I got of theirs was delicious.

Then we staggered home at about five-thirty, showered (unfortunately both the water pressure and the hot water supply could be better here, but it's a functional shower and that's what we needed), and started writing up the day. And here we are!

If you're enjoying my trip blog, you might also enjoy Geoff's, which is at https://geoff-hart.com/fiction/Channel-Islands-2026/index.html -- he sets up the outline in advance, so click each day that has actually happened to see his writeup. Eventually he'll probably post some pictures, which I won't be doing (except maybe after we get home); I'm the logistics officer of our trips, but he's the photographer.

Tomorrow is Liberation Day! Our plan is just to head into the center of town after breakfast and try to find a place from which we can watch the ceremonies and reenactments, and then hopefully there will be festivities and whatnot. Also hopefully it won't rain much; today's weather was spectacular but it's not going to last.

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May Day this year was spectacular and beautiful and badly needed.

The weather was absolutely perfect: a deep blue sky with only a very occasional wisp of cloud, with a slight breeze and pleasant temperature.

One of the things that needs to be gauged carefully each year is when to show up. Show up too late, and it is impossible to find space on the curb to watch the parade. Show up too early, and it can be a very long time to wait (with no convenient porta-potties nearby). This year, I judged it perfectly. The parade started at 12:00 noon, but I had picked my spot and was seated in the shade by 10:30 a.m. Some years, I have been content with a blanket on the curb, but this year, given the problem I've been having with my hips, I decided to bring a foldable camp chair, an excellent decision, and I was entirely comfortable.

I brought a mini picnic for myself and my reading tablet, and spent part of my time reading and part of it watching the crowd. Bicycles and unicycles zipped back and forth, and entrepreneurial vendors trundled wheeled carts past the gathering crowd, selling food and drinks, pinwheels, and balloons. Eventually, people in costumes started drifting by: an elderly couple dressed in silk robes, carrying walking staffs hung with ribbons and crystals, a tuba player striding quickly on his way to join a band at the parade starting place, dressed in a colorful costume with sunblowers stitched to his trousers. I saw a man in a gorgeously sequinned dress skate by on rollerblades.

Eventually, both sides of the street swelled with a huge, excited crowd, and the parade began, an extraordinary explosion of color. All the floats were human-powered, and all the parade participants were brimming with joy, calling out to the onlookers, "Happy May Day!" Women dressed in fluttering chiffon, silks, feather boas, and ribbons carried poles mounted with papier-mache bees, teasing the children in the crowd, lowering the poles so that the bees 'gathered nectar" from the flowers they wore in their hair. Bicycles tricked out with cardboard painted as colorful alebrijes, fire horses, dragons, and beetles streamed by. A float representing a snow plow named "Abolish Ice" pushed cardboard federal ICE cars ahead of it with its shovel. A huge loon towered over the crowd, flapping its wings. Aztec dancers danced down the street (some of them did the entire parade barefoot), shaking jingle belts and tamborines, beating drums, and smudging the crowd with clouds of burning sage. Several bands marched by in motley costumes, and the Southside Battle Train revved up the crowd, led by a Tyrannosaurus rex that cheerfully snapped its jaws at the crowd. A newly married couple marched by, accompanied by cheering friends and family, carrying a banner introducing them to the onlookers. Hari Krishna adherents, chanting, a huge trans flag carried by people of all ages, people dressed up as locusts and whistles and lotus flowers, members of a boxing gym, representatives of the postal union, protesting against ICE, and more.

When the parade had passed by, the crowd gathered their chairs and blankets and streamed into Powderhorn Park. After the usual couple of hours' delay, the Ceremony was held at the edge of Blanket Hill, culminating in the rowing of the Sun across the lake to raise the Tree of Life on the shore.

A small group of friends gathered in the spot where we have assembled for years. To my delight, Fiona, Alona, and M were there. M grinned and chortled and flirted with everyone and did her dogged best to eat every speck of dirt around herself as far as her little arms could reach, a wreath of flowers in her hair.

A perfect May Day and a perfect day.

Background: a perfectly blue sky. Upper Right: A woman in a hat and sunglasses (Peg) smiles at the camera. A sign just below her face reads "L♥ve wins." The End. Upper left: an Aztec dancer in full regalia. Center: A loon rampant spreads its wings. In front and slightly to the left of the loon: the May Day Sun. Lower portion: The May Day Tree of Life spreads its arms wide, upheld by a crowd dressed in red.

May Day

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There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

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The last of the Varsity ice hockey games between Oxford and Cambridge universities is tomorrow evening, at Cambridge Ice Arena, at 5pm. I will be playing for Cambridge Huskies B against Oxford Vikings C.

Will it be high quality hockey? No
Will it be entertaining? Absolutely
Will I fall over? Obviously
Will I get in a fight? Maybe, if someone touches my goalie

My goalie is one of the Men's Blues, who put on goalie pads for the first time on Tuesday. Generally the squad is the people who couldn't play Varsity for Huskies or Women's Blues, plus the aforementioned novice in goal and an experienced goalie skating out. Our attempt at an entire forward line of goalies was regrettably thwarted by people having other commitments.

The results of the other Varsity games this year were:

Cambridge Narwhals v Oxford Vikings A: won by Cambridge
Cambridge Huskies v Oxford Vikings B: won by Oxford
Cambridge Women's Blues v Oxford Women's Blues: won by Oxford
Cambridge Men's Blues v Oxford Men's Blues: won by Cambridge

So this is both a not very serious game, and vitally important to win the best of five.

I'm still getting used to my new skates so I'll be playing this (and my other game for Kodiaks on Sunday) in the old ones.

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Leaving the jewelry store this afternoon with a couple of options for repairing the clasp on my necklace which has finally broken down beyond my abilities with needle-nose pliers, I got back into the car just in time to catch an interview with a geophysicist that not only tipped me off to the 1859 Carrington Event which sounds like the science fiction of its day with its spark-throwing wireless sets and tropically lapped auroras and telegraphers communicating through atmospheric influence alone, it introduced me to the Pangaean block of the Piedmont Resistor which seems to lie beneath most of the Eastern Seaboard, just one more piece of deep—two hundred million years down to the mantle—strangeness underfoot. I may never have heard of the United States Magnetotelluric Array and I understand its utility to the fragile electrical grids we have made to stand between the crochets of solar flares and the conductivity of the earth, but in a country that preserved any care for knowledge its map of melted, sutured, fractured time would be its own payoff. I love how much is banked and shifting beneath the surfaces we interact with, from earth and sea to the structures of the universe. I have missed so many meteor showers this year.

Music:: Pylon Reenactment Society, "Compression"

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Zhao Yunlan sprawled on a couch, grinning at his phone. The background shows a purply sky with stars. Text reads "Slo-Mo Rewatch. Guardian - half an episode per week @ sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org."

Hello, Guardian Rewatchers! Thanks so much to everyone who's been part of the discussion, or has been reading along. ♥

Come join us for round 4 of the Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch. We're watching half an episode a week (about twenty minutes) so we can talk and squee about our beloved 镇魂 | Guardian drama. With the fourth batch of episodes, we have nosebleeds and aggressive nose-wiping, Zhao family backstory, and Chu Shuzhi in a singlet! We also get trapped in an Absolute Zero laboratory, and the SID celebrates the Reunion Festival!

For those who remember our last rewatch, this time we're aiming for a lighter touch. Posts are on the minimalist side - a brief summary, one quote, one screencap, maybe one noteworthy detail and some discussion-starter questions. Minimalist comments are more than welcome, too!

We're looking forward to some fun discussions as we revisit Haixing, Dixing, and the SID – and of course you can always drop in on any of the previous discussions at any time.

Fans of the novel, the drama, or both are very welcome! You don't have to keep up with the rewatch – it's absolutely fine to dip in and out. We want to hear what you think! Those of us who participated in the Readalong or are otherwise familiar with the novel are likely to compare and contrast the two canons, but it's 100% okay to focus purely on the drama.

Please consider hosting a post or two! Comment with a date from the schedule below! Posts should ideally be made sometime on the Friday or Saturday, in any time zone.

Schedule for round 3
Weekend of 15 May - no new post; catch-up time!
Weekend of 22 May - no new post; explore the 520 Day collection time!
Weekend of 29 May - episode 16 up to 23:53
Weekend of 5 June - episode 16 from 23:53
Weekend of 12 June - episode 17 up to 22:31
Weekend of 19 June - episode 17 from 22:31
Weekend of 26 June - episode 18 up to 23:38
Weekend of 3 July - episode 18 from 23:38
Weekend of 10 July - episode 19 up to 20:18
Weekend of 17 July - episode 19 from 20:18
Weekend of 24 July - episode 20 up to 22:26
Weekend of 31 July - episode 20 from 22:26

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Wrote this one up in advance so I was more likely to post on time this week; looks like it worked!

This week's Minimum and Medium moods are: Scared, Thoughtful, Working

This week's Maximum moods are: Curious, Predatory, Bouncy

And we're off of Angry derivatives! Which is a little weird, since you might think Predatory would fit there, but whatever. Curious seems like a pretty straightforward mood to work with here; a good head tilt can do wonders to express curiosity. Bouncy also has a lot of fun literal potential; what a great opportunity to show your subject literally bouncing up and down! Predatory is a little rougher, I'll have to admit. What, or perhaps who, does your subject prey on? My Fancy Rat is wearing a vampire costume, and my pigeon is sneaking up on a sheaf of wheat, but it's one of the other moods I skipped for my clouds.

How do you plan to approach Predatory? Do you have something in mind, or do you need to do some digging and/or brainstorming? What about the other moods? Got anything lined up? Need some more work? Let's talk about it!

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another excellent and busy day

2026 52 Card Project: Week 18: May Day

Check-In Post - May 8th 2026

May Seven Seas Reader Survey

My latest Guardian fanworks

Varsity! (one last time)

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