#MLCWatchParty, episode 14:
Damnit, I have once again fallen foul of the guzhuang principle that a woman with her hair in a topknot is indistinguishable from a man. 😅
“Why do the subtitles keep saying ‘he’? I’ll check the Chinese subs.”
“Why do the Chinese subs say 他?”
“Wait, why is everyone calling this character Guan-xiong?”
“… oh right.”
trans headcanon (potential)
#MLCWatchParty, episode 14:
Anyway, Li Lianhua clearly knows what’s going on and prevented Fang Duobing and some equally clueless guards from searching Guan-xiong’s laundry bag or whatever, after which Guan-xiong pulled him aside for a quick word…
Transmasc Li Lianhua, anyone?
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 15
#MLCWatchParty, episode 15:
Su Xiaomeng is awesome (apart from the whole, believing that she can get engaged to someone without their knowing, by giving them a gift) and I wish she was going to join the team and travel along with them! She can act, she can crossdress, she’s cleverer than everyone else our heroes have met on this case, and she winds up Fang Duobing. A+, I want to keep her.
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 15, bodily waste
#MLCWatchParty, episode 15:
So, Dong Ling survived in the secret room because someone smuggled him in mantou, but WHERE DID HE POOP? I bet we'll never find out, hmph!
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 15
#MLCWatchParty, episode 15:
I called it that Butler Jin was another half-sibling of Jin Mantang! How funny that this whole case has been kicked off by a philanderer named Jin with many illegitimate children! Is Jin 金 just a really adulterous name in China?
#MLCWatchParty, episode 16:
1) I'm enjoying Li Xiangyi using Fan Duobing as his display board for exposition, and Fan Duobing just naturally accepting this as his position.
2+3) HELLO Master Shi, what a fucking entrance!
4) Opal Skull can join the team too? 🥺 It is a good thing!
#MLCWatchParty, episode 16:
1) Yeah, okay, I ship it.
2) Good heavens, Li Xiangyi is pretty when he's suffering.
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 16, fashion crimes
#MLCWatchParty, episode 16:
Great. I have found a guzhuang costume style I dislike even more than the horrible denim-jacket robes half the Long Ballad guys were running around in. What is going on here? (Not you, Jiao Liqiao, you have many other problems but style is not one of them.)
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 16, fashion crimes
How did that collar even happen???
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 16, fashion crimes
@Betty @villainousfriend tfw you wanna wear ruffles but ruffles are too Girly so you must wear the overlapping rectangular flaps of shame instead
Mysterious Lotus Casebook episode 16, fashion crimes
@Satsuma @villainousfriend I was just thinking, like. Was the costuming department going "shoot, we have an extra sixteen feet of this curtain tie, and no fabric left for the lapel!"?