*Loving Vincent* from 2017 left me speechless. Every frame is an impressionist oil painting. Literally a moving painting. An absolute delight.

Another model of positive masculinity

“Pillars of white jade; steps of green jade;

Beds of coral; blinds of crystal;

Colored glass carved and set in kingfisher green lintels;

Amber decorated and set in rainbow-colored ridgepoles.
 
Its extraordinary beauty and profound serenity cannot be fully described.”

And the footnotes are all gold 💎✨! Here’s what this person’s name means, here’s a close homophone. Here’s the pass rate of Tang imperial exams. This area is associated with a genre about exiled courtiers. Here’s how Tang road networks work. Sun Tzu said “when birds fly up, someone lies in wait”.
🤩🤯

(Not sure how accurate this three year old thread is www.reddit.com/r/japan/comm... but they’re saying the majority of Japanese college students‘ tuition is paid for by parents; and top colleges are public and cheap but less selective ones are private and pricey?)

Just read your Atlantic piece on this, wow 🤩🤯! Thank you for writing it!!!

Ah, a note. Thunderbolt Fantasy mostly plays straight the trope where women are either ❶ demons or ❷ "good wife, wise mother"

Even though we have amazing literal demonesses, badass warriors, and questing maidens, they mostly fall into the “in the end, evil” or “in the end, a caregiver” category