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#EYDC2025 Day 30 I would say so, yeah! Lots of dramas that I really enjoyed this year plus a lot of 2025 dramas that I haven’t even completed so I still have stuff to watch even as the new year starts

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#EYDC2025 Day 29 My primary ones would be How Dare You, The Truth, and Blade of Vengeance, though idk of BOV will air by 2026 considering they just finished filming yesterday LOL

Poster for “How Dare You” with Wang Churan in red, holding a fan that reads “How are you?”, and Cheng Lei next to her, holding a fan that reads “Fine! Thank you!”

Poster for The Truth, with Gong Jun standing to the left taking notes on a notepad, Jiang Wu in a police uniform seated to Gong Jun’s right, and Sun Yi at the back in a projected camera recording entering a car.

Poster for “Blade of Vengeance” with Gong Jun in a black straw hat, a black mask, and black outfit standing in the rain surrounded by people whose faces are obscured by similar black bamboo hats.

#EYDC2025 Day 28 I need that censorship to loosen up a lot but I know that’s a very far dream... I want adaptations to be adapted properly, I want less productions to crash and burn bc of it, I want dangai actors to get the recognition they deserve…

#EYDC2025 Day 27 Half my posts about this is alr about Blood River but I am once again putting Blood River here fhdjddl Idk somehow I expected more people to watch this considering how popular TBOY was?

Poster of Blood River with the extended cast. From left to right, Li Hanyi, Tang Lianyue, Bai Hehuai, Su Zhe, Su Muyu, Mu Yumo, Su Changhe, Mu Xuewei

AAAAAAAA WHAT THE FUCK I NEED THE NEXT VOLUME ALREADY

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OHMYGOD Zhichun is the blade forged from the willing merfolk’s blood isn’t it

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Now at the bit where they’re talking about how Armament Spirits are made and man Priest is definitely good at horrifying worldbuilding

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#EYDC2025 Day 26 Honestly I don’t really have one yet? There are dramas on my ongoing/to-watch lists that I’ve heard people were disappointed in but I haven’t gotten to the disappointing parts of the story/haven’t watched them yet so 🤷🏻‍♀️

douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

[House of the Beast] Started this to take a look and decide if I wanna buy a hardcopy and it’s promising so far

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suddenly reminded of the time i was earnestly explaining the appeal of the takarazuka revue to a very proper, very elderly british lady and she stops me and says sweetly, 'i know, dear. i went to a girls' school'

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Sometimes you read a book and it’s really bashing you over the head with its message and I’m reading it like… I feel not woke enough for it FHDJDKDK

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Jowol | Marionette VTuber 📦🎀 @porcelainmaid.gg · 24/12/2025

To the influx of artists and people about to join in from another stupid move by shitty bird app, actually use this place. Genuinely, if you just make an account and leave, then there's no point. Try to post here whenever you can.

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⭐️ The cabbit of the stars ⭐️ @tommothecabbit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 25 Su Changhe/Su Muyu from Blood River. No, I will not be accepting objections on this front. Even the OST agrees with me. Like UGGGHHH their love for each other and their relationship is just written so well. No one’s doing it like them I’m so serious

Su Muyu holding an umbrella over Su Changhe who’s lying on the forest floor surrounded by corpses. The lyrics of the OST playing reads, “My heart no longer my own. No one can escape from love”

Su Changhe supporting an injured Su Muyu, with Su Muyu’s arm slung over Su Changhe’s shoulder. The OST lyrics read, “Mountains and rivers meet and apart, it’s you that I rely on…”

Three-screenshots.

Panel 1: Su Changhe holds up an opened packet of osmanthus cakes for Su Muyu to take from.
Panel 2: Su Muyu looks at Changhe then at the cakes with a smile.
Panel 3: Su Muyu takes a cake from the packet held by Su Changhe. They’re standing in the middle of an empty street at night and the OST reads, “Wind cries and cranes call, are you the one…”

Four screenshots.

Panel 1: Su Muyu is facing a powerful opponent, Zhuo Qing, who’s trying to make Su Muyu doubt Su Changhe. But Su Muyu says, “Between me and Changhe…”
Panel 2: Su Changhe arrived at the scene and with his Yama Palm descending upon Zhuo Qing. Su Changhe says, “Between me and Muyu…”
Panel 3: Su Muyu jumps back to make space for Su Changhe as Su Changhe continues to say, “…it’s absolute trust!”
Panel 4: Su Changhe lands in front of Su Muyu almost protectively, while keeping up his attack against Zhuo Qing.

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Merry Christmas Eve aka "Almost Christmas" day Today's the only day to legally post this

Screenshot of Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney saying "Almost Christmas" means it wasn't Christmas

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I honestly loved Su Changhe in billowing sleeves. He wore I think only three with wide sleeves while the rest were all locked with arm guards

Su Muyu in a red/black outfit with a gauzy black face veil

Su Muyu in a full white outfit after his showdown in Wushuang City

Su Changhe wearing an outfit where one side is black and the left side, from the shoulder seam onwards, is red.

Su Changhe seated on a horse in a black/silver outfit with billowing sleeves.

#EYDC2025 Day 24 (Part 2) Blood River gets two posts bc I have a particular obsession with Su Muyu’s and Su Changhe’s outfits

Su Muyu in a white and teal outfit during his stay in Nan’an City

Polaroid of Chang Huasen (as Su Changhe) and Gong Jun (as Su Muyu). They are wearing a black/red and teal/phthalo green outfit respectively

Su Muyu on a horse, wearing his green-black outfit with red trim

Su Changhe in a black outfit with red trim

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#EYDC2025 Day 24 (Part 1) First one is A Dream Within a Dream. The winter cloaks are to die for and the colour combinations are incredible. Also Li Shiliu’s outfit during his entrance with the hat tassels? Amazing

Nan Heng in a black and gold costume with the top of the cloak covered with black fur.

Shangguan He in a white/orange/teal outfit with the top of his coat covered with white fur

Song Yimeng in a green and gold wedding outfit and a headdress line with red flowers. Behind her is Nan Heng in a red and gold wedding outfit

Li Shiliu in a blue outfit with a blue cape (with red inner lining). His face is obscured a brimmed hat with tassels dangling around it.

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#EYDC2025 Day 23 haha… hahahaaha…. this one goes to Coroner’s Diary and I don’t mean that in a good way LOL I was using 200% of my brain keeping track of the family trees and still failing. I think I managed to keep track of the Qins pretty well but I don’t understand Yan Chi’s family at all

Poster of Coroner’s Diary with the four main cast (Li Landi, Ao Ruipeng, Shen Yujie, and Yu Cheng’en) in the forefront and the rest of the supporting cast in the background

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#EYDC2025 Day 22 I would argue that my fave dramas this year are all underhyped (esp internationally) so I’m gonna give this one to Trauma Code. It’s short, it’s fun, it’s entertaining. And according to my (former) nurse mom, the medical aspects were done decently.

Poster of “Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” with the main cast walking towards the camera and a helicopter flying in the background.

#EYDC2025 Day 21 This would be “Kill My Sins”. This drama dropped with very little promo and although the premise from the trailer was interesting, I was surprised by how much I ended up loving it.

Poster of Kill My Sins with Liu Shishi, Shawn Dou, and the rest of the cast against a background that looks like a red silk tapestry.

PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 20 Also A Dream Within a Dream. Like when she draped her cloak over him and it flashed back to all the times he did the same for her? I cried so hard, man. THAT’S how you do effective flashbacks that don’t feel redundant

Song Yimeng holding Nan Heng and crying out his name as he dies in her arms.

Shot of Nan Heng’s face as he passes away in Song Yimeng’s arms

Song Yimeng draping her winter cloak over Nan Heng’s body.

Flashback to Nan Heng draping his winter cloak over her as she brews medicine out in the open at night.

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#EYDC2025 Day 19 If there is one romcom drama that successfully delivered on the “comedy” aspect, it’s definitely A Dream within a Dream.

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 18 This is kinda hard to answer bc it’s not really the main genre of some of these dramas but do include elements of it so I guess I’ll go with “Action”.

Poster of “A Love on Turquoise Land” with Dilraba and Chen Xingxu’s faces lit with an orangey-red light

Poster for “Blood River” with Gong Jun in the front holding an umbrella. It’s raining and in the background are assassins bearing masks of the twelve Chinese zodiacs.

Poster for “19th Floor” with Wei Zhemijg and Sun Qian standing back to back with a wall between them. They are surrounded by grey concrete walls and wearing matching grey shirts + black pants.

Poster for “Study Group” with Hwang Minhyun punching towards the camera and pencils and bits of wood are flying around him

PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 17 I procrastinated on this bc I wasn’t sure if movies counted but you know what? Whatever. I give it to Tan Jianci. He was too good in his role as Li Qi in Sound of Silence.

PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

[The Company] I started this last night and the premise is insane fhdjddkdk Wdym your only friend died and you find his reincarnation (?)

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 16 Definitely Wang Yinglu. I haven’t watched Twelve Letters yet but my mom did so I saw bits of it and man, her acting is really insane. Plus she really showcased her range this year with Twelve Letters, WDBTB, I am Nobody S2 and Yummy Yummy Yummy.

Wang Yinglu in Twelve Letters where she plays Ye Haitang. This is the scene where Ye Haitang gets physically abused by her father. Her hair is a mess and her eyes are red with tears but she is also angry.

The same scene as the first picture but here Ye Haitang’s father has left and Ye Haitang is sitting on the floor angry and shocked (?).

Screenshot of Chen Duo and Feng Baobao’s fight in the water in I Am Nobody S2

Another scene from I Am Nobody S2. Feng Baobao standing on the hood of a car peering back at the driver after she crashed it to a stop.

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#EYDC2025 Day 15 This one hands down goes to "Legend of the Female General". Specifically this moon poster, although the dark one with both of them in armour is also really good.

Poster of "Legend of the Female General" with He Yan and Xiao Jue in hanfu, holding up a painted moon. The background is a beautiful painted scenery with a blue sky and mountains in the distance.

Poster of "Legend of the Female General" with Xiao Jue in black armour and He Yan in white armour. They are both holding their swords up as though in the middle of a battle.

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#EYDC2025 Day 14 Zhou Munan LOL It's not that he's new to me bc I did watch TBOY/DY but he caught my attention this year in particular bc of how well he wrote the women and relationships in BR. Also bc he's retconning TBOY SO HARD LMAOOO x.com/blackkrabbit...

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#EYDC2025 Day 13 I don't think I have one that I found WHOLLY boring. If I dropped it, it's because I actively had issues with it. If it's on-hold, it's because I got distracted by a more interesting drama. Sometimes there would be boring scenes but there's no drama I can wholly say bored me.

#EYDC2025 Day 12 Oops super late but it's Su Muyu and Mu Yumo. I love that they canonically shut down any speculation of romance between them. They're really family. Also the scene where Mu Yumo and Bai Hehuai help Su Muyu revealed an unexpected side of Su Muyu which I love haha

Su Muyu carrying away Mu Yumo while Mu Yumo wields his umbrella and deflects Tang Lianyue's attacks.

Mu Yumo telling Bai Hehuai that the success of their plan "depends on the tacit bond between Muyu and me."

Mu Yumo telling Bai Hehuai that she and Su Muyu have cheated death together so many times.

Su Muyu holding Mu Yumo's spider and being disgusted because he knows he has to ingest it to ingest the medicine on it.

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

[The Vendetta of An] Guess I’m starting this bc my mom got interested LOL

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(Ep 10) I love that when he helped her remove her clothes (when she was wounded, we didn’t have any fuss about her showing skin in front of a guy

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 11 Hmm I guess this one goes to “A Dream Within a Dream”. They used a lot of jokes, memes, poetry, and cinema in the show, which are highlighted in the thread below. It’s quite fun to read about x.com/tiff_ilosoph...

Screenshot of tiff_ilosophy’s thread about the jokes and references used in ADWAD

PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Ooh I didn’t know he was in that one but that’s on my to-watch list!

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I loooove all this about Sheng Lingyuan experiencing the modern world and having Xuan Ji explain to him. One of my tropes

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PhiLi @phili08.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#EYDC2025 Day 10 I do watchparties with my friends which is when I tend to rewatch dramas. Right now we’re rewatching Word of Honor.

Word of Honor poster with Zhou Zishu in blue and Wen Kexing in red