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On the Run (1988)

A low-level cop and the female assassin who killed his ex-wife team up after the people who organised the murder (the ex-wife’s corrupt narcotics cop coworkers) try to take them both out.

The low-level cop is played by Yuen Biao, but it is not a martial arts film, or even a particularly fighty thriller. The assassin is played by Pat Ha, who has a very striking face.

The best thing in this movie is the assassin playing with Yuen Biao’s daughter when she inadvertently ends up babysitting. So cute! Maybe saying that implies I didn’t find much to like in this film, but I liked it lot. It was grittier than we were expecting, in a good way.

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Her Fatal Ways (1990)

The title sounds noir-ish, but this actually is a culture-clash comedy – a female PRC cop and a male HK have to work together! His dad is a Nationalist veteran! They all end up staying in the same house together, for reasons! The PRC cop and the Nationalist dad get into a patriotic song battle! The HK cop just wants to get some sleep …

The film is poking fun at the PRC officers a lot, but I feel like it did it without being too mean, and we see that the HK cop does come to respect her.

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thisbluespirit

Okay, I knoooooow I am being rubbish at all my other bingos currently, but if

allbingo's August theme happens to be irresistible, everything will be different this time, right? XD

(Tbf, the odds are rather better than the last few weeks anyway...)

But, I give you a Crime Classics Bingo Card made from titles from the British Library's crime catalogue:

Someone from the Past	He Who Whispers	Tour de Force	Fear Stalks the Village	Antidote to Venom
Family Matters	Foreign Bodies	Tea on Sunday	It Walks by Night	Green for Danger
Settling Scores	As If By Magic	WILD CARD	The Black Spectacles	Somebody at the Door
Twice Round the Clock	The Man Who Didn’t Fly	Excellent Intentions	Crossed Skis	Serpents in Eden
The Wheel Spins	Final Acts	Deep Waters	Not to Be Taken	Bats in the Belfry

I love it. I even got the source for The Lady Vanishes, go me! Any suggestions? (With the usual caveat of me probably doing something else anyway, heh.)

caramarie

Bungy Jumping of Their Own (2001, Kim Dae-seung)

What if true love is real but your love dies young and gets reincarnated as the opposite sex and then you meet them as your student?? What then??

This film is in two parts, showing us firstly the youthful love affair, and secondly the teacher driving himself crazy as he becomes convinced that his student is the reincarnation of his lover. It’s ambiguous at first, and the film could have taken a creepier route, but then it does make it clear that the boy *is* the reincarnation of the lost love. It’s still pretty creepy! But in the film people are more upset by the gay part than the student–teacher thing.

The youthful love affair part is somewhat undercut by Lee Byung-hun playing the same character and both ages. And while he did an admirable job in terms of playing a much younger character … he is still clearly a whole-ass adult. Lee Byung-hun is not a man who looks younger than his age!

The other problem is the film doesn’t sell me that much on the ‘true love’ angle, ie, why these two people in particular are soulmates. It’s just too generic a romance for that.

Anyway, the ‘what then’ ...

is that you go to NZ and jump off a bridge. A review I saw put it as ‘You can make your own ending coz the last seen is that they both went to new zealand and did bungee jumping??? not sure if with ropes.’ Which is what intrigued me into watching the film but I’m sorry to say … there were definitely no ropes.

Peppermint Candy (2000, Lee Chang-dong)

I can’t say I enjoyed this film, but I did get something out of it.

The film starts with a work reunion that gets awkward with the arrival of Kim Yongho, who is clearly going through a time and making everyone uncomfortable, up until the point he won’t get down from the train tracks and lets himself get hit by a train, whilst yelling, ‘I want to go back.’

( What then, does he want to go back to? )

lotesse

The sort of beauty that's called human (3321 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Owen Davies, Herne the Hunter (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Loss of Parent(s), Immortality
Series: Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
Summary:

“We have to go,” Bran said, his voice coming out hoarser than he’d expected. “Rhys called. Trouble with my da. A stroke.”

No more needed to be said aloud. They were going back to Wales.

actiaslunaris

i only felt the heat (10732 words)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Utsumi Kaoru/Yukawa Manabu
Characters: Yukawa Manabu, Utsumi Kaoru
Additional Tags: First Time, Timestamp, Pre-OT3, Explicit Consent, Non-Explicit Sex
Series: Part 4 of catch a fire (like lovers do)

Summary:

He thinks of her sitting beside him, listening to him read -- remembers the tension in her hands -- her waiting and waiting and waiting. Now reluctant to take when the time for waiting to end has come.

A missing scene from the last chapter of "'til they sparked".

( Commentary/Notes. )
( Story. )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Pierre Henry - Astrologie

actiaslunaris

Save us, Utsumi (Yukawa, Kusanagi, and Utsumi):

[Bluesky] [Tumblr]

Screencap redraw (Yukawa Manabu from a scene in Chinmoku no Parade):

[Bluesky] [Tumblr]

sholio

I FOUND OUT WHAT HAS BEEN EATING MY GARDEN

I became even more convinced it was a moose after discovering this morning that some of the remaining pea vines were decimated in the night, evidently from the tops. So I was out there this evening picking the rest of the broccoli (so far untouched) ...

And all of a sudden, with no warning, a GROUNDHOG exploded out of the broccoli plants at my feet. (Definitely a groundhog/woodchuck. Not a marmot, not a ground squirrel. A groundhog. We do have them in Alaska, and this isn't even the first one I've seen here, but it's certainly the first one I've caught in the act of SHAMELESS GARDEN BANDITRY.)

They're reddish colored and large, about the size of a big cat. I screamed, because I was not expecting LARGE MOVING THING IN THE BROCCOLI. I'd had no idea it was there. It spend past my feet and under one of the cars and vanished.

So the culprit has been identified, and it's definitely coming back every day now. They can dig and they can also climb (jerks), so building a groundhog-proof fence would be a heck of a job. I asked Orion for ideas. He asked me if I mind if he pepper-sprays my garden, because he has some expiring bear spray and he wants to find out what using it is like just in case he ever has to use it for real. I'm like, sure, why not. I gave him some guidelines (don't spray anything I plan to eat, lower leaves only, etc) and went into the house to be out of the literal line of fire.

Shortly I heard coughing and sneezing and he came into the house eventually to report that bear spray is highly volatile and prone to floating on the wind. Good to know. A few minutes later, *I* was coughing and sneezing too, because it turns out it also sticks around on clothing and skin. (I didn't get it nearly as bad as he did, just a coughing fit and some running sinuses, but COME ON.)

He has now thoroughly showered.

And that's the story of how we bear-sprayed ourselves while trying to bear-spray the garden.

(He reports that bear spray tastes like very spicy food. Apparently the active ingredient is capsaicin, so it's not toxic. I didn't get enough of it to actually taste it.)

I guess we're about to find out if groundhogs enjoy spicy food.

sholio

1. SOMETHING IS EATING MY GARDEN. I don't know what; my guess is either a) moose (we know there's a cow-calf pair hanging around; we've caught them occasionally on the driveway game camera), or b) a porcupine. Which would never have been on my radar as something that would eat a garden if I hadn't seen it in the backyard a week or two ago, absolutely going to town munching on raspberry bushes and fireweed. I feel like the way that the garden is getting decimated is consistent with something low to the ground that's pulling down pea vines and similar, and also doesn't eat too much in one go. But after we put up loose wire fencing around one of the beds, it apparently got into it anyway and ate a bunch of my lettuce and some of the remaining pea vines. Porcupines can both climb and dig, so it's possible a motivated one could get over loose fencing pretty easily - but the damage pattern this time could also have been something leaning over and eating from the top. I CAN'T TELL, but it is really annoying because it's taken out nearly all my peas and a bunch of the salad stuff. I picked some broccoli tonight even though I didn't need to use it yet, because my broccoli heads are just about fully crowned and I'm going to be incredibly annoyed if I wake up tomorrow to find that they've been devastated as well.

2. I got to pet puppies today! One of the people in my TTRPG game group has a dog (a Great Dane) that had puppies, ELEVEN of them - the 101 Dalmation jokes write themselves - and invited us over after gaming to pet them if we wanted to. They're about 3 weeks old, eyes open and toddling, but still potato shaped and incredibly soft and pleasant to hold. Puppies. <3 (I miss having a dog, although I don't want a Great Dane for a number of reasons. Handling someone else's puppies is delightful, though.)

3. Summer of Horror authors revealed, including my very unsurprising offering. I continue to be delighted with my deliciously spooky/romantic gift!

4. The Biggles prompt fest is also going delightfully.

aurumcalendula posting in

vidding

Title: Just To Ask A Dance
Fandom: The Old Guard & The Old Guard 2
Music: Just To Ask A Dance by Heartworms
Summary: 'think I'll die/ when you die, I'll die, a mutual sigh/ with your hand in mine'
Notes: Premiered at DC-Slash 2025!
Warnings: quick zooms in the source, flickering lights, blood, violence

AO3 | bsky | DW | tumblr | YouTube

aurumcalendula

Unfortunately some stuff came up and I wasn't able to catch any of DC Slash's online convention this weekend. I am looking forward to checking out the vid premieres once they're posted!

thisbluespirit

Things continue much as before. I wanted to make a post, but I haven't quite the brain for reviews or the like, so here are two random quick things:

1. Back when we were all making top 100 lists,

osprey_archer did a picture books one, and there was a discussion in the comments about US vs UK picture books, so I did a UK one, with the best/most popular/influential picture book illustrators I could think of (up to 2010 when I stopped being a children's librarian and, indeed, anything much), but it took ages to try and make sure I wasn't missing people and put all the covers on, and then I kept forgetting I'd made it.

It's here for those who like clicking on books in a list.

(I apologise for the lack of 2010s and 2020s; but I have not kept up at all! Also I included picture books only for the most part, with a few honourable exceptions, so this means there are very few early reader type books & no comics, but there are picture books for older readers. It needs to be an unorthodox size and shelved in the kinder boxes! Also, I focused on illustrators not authors. Plus a tiny handful were just personal favourites, but it is my list. ;-p)

2. I was talking about Outrageous, the U&Drama/Britbox TV series about the Mitfords last time. It continued to be excellent and it finally occurred to me that I could link the trailer, which would be helpful:

Watch on YouTube

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vidding

Title: Bad Moon Rising
Character: Peter Hale
TV Series: Teen Wolf
Music: Bad Moon Rising cover Mourning Ritual feat. Peter Dreimanis
Length: 3:29
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

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sholio

I really enjoyed this David Dastmalchian interview and also this adorable associated piece of fanart from the part of the interview in which he basically starts channeling Gurathin.

And some of my stuff on Tumblr:

Something I noticed rewatching the first episode

Random thought on bookverse!Gurathin

Oh, and I posted another fic a few days ago, Old Familiar Sting, which is pretty much all about characters working through the aftermath of Corporation Rim medical trauma.

sholio

I thought it might be fun to run a Biggles July prompting free-for-all over at

bigglesevents. Because we haven't had a prompt fest in a while! (Of course I'm posting this at a time when most of the Biggles fandom is asleep.)

lotesse

Not time’s fool (9611 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Digory Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Lord Rhoop (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Romance, Sailing, Prophecy
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

lotesse

The Great Feminist Exhaustion from Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study (and comments) : "feminist exhaustion, which applies to the generations of women who understand their progressive, aspirationally intersectional, progressive world view as feminist … and find themselves utterly demoralized by a long, damaging fight that now seems to have lost ground."

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE by Yanis Varoufuckice:"Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America."

lotesse

The sort of beauty that's called human (1927 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Owen Davies, Herne the Hunter (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Loss of Parent(s), Immortality
Series: Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
Summary:

“We have to go,” Bran said, his voice coming out hoarser than he’d expected. “Rhys called. Trouble with my da. A stroke.”

No more needed to be said aloud. They were going back to Wales.

sholio

summerofhorrorexchange revealed today! I got an astonishing 15K(!!!) Biggles fic (!!!) which I won't be able to properly start reading until tomorrow, but I cannot WAIT, it looks amazing and I'm dying to read it!

Obligatory reminder that I have a fic in the exchange as well. Deeply mysterious, hid my tracks amazingly as usual. And there is a lovely selection of other horror fic as well!

Earlier today, before all of that, I posted yet another Murderbot TV-verse fic, System // Handshake (2500 wds, gen, post-canon). Summary is spoilery for the finale; it's loosely springboarded off another fic I'd read earlier.

There's also this seriously adorable short interview with the whole Murderbot cast (link goes to Tumblr) in which they talk about playing the Bitter/Sweet game from the show on the set. HOW ARE THEY SO CUTE, I DIEEEEEE

And, longer and more serious, but I really enjoyed watching this David Dastmalchian interview; he talks about the show, as well as some of his other projects (Dune; comic book writing) and is so adorably excited about the show and invested in it.

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Blasphemous Rumours

Two films by Alfred Cheung

On the Run (1988)

Her Fatal Ways (1990)

[vid]: Million Sides (Gurathin) - Murderbot

allbingo Crime Classics Bingo Card

Two Korean films in which men look their age

Bungy Jumping of Their Own (2001, Kim Dae-seung)

Peppermint Candy (2000, Lee Chang-dong)

fic: The sort of beauty that's called human (Will/Bran, G for now, 3/?)

Fic: i only felt the heat (Galileo)

Artwork I've done recently.

Trivial life stuff follow-up

Trivial life stuff (and fandom)

New Vid: Just To Ask A Dance | The Old Guard movies

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A post

New Vid: Peter Hale Fan Video - Bad Moon Rising

Fic! New fic! By me!!!

A few Murderbot things

Biggles prompt fest

fic: Not time’s fool, Narnia, Caspian/Lucy, 6/?

linkspam: feminist exhaustion, working at ICE

fic: The sort of beauty that's called human (Will/Bran, G for now, 2/?)

Summer of Horror and other fun things

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