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📍Tokyo, She/Her.
Manchester shusshin, jovial nihilist, cdrama enthusiast, singer, philosophy graduate, fashionista, degu mother, girl ENTJ, actual radical leftist. 🌿🦄
Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄

Day 25: sweetest couple

Has to be these angels. My children. Nobody made me giddy like them this year. 😌 They were epic but also cute as hell.

#EYDC2025
#legendofthefemalegeneral
December 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I have come into possession of a box of old Nintendo Hanafuda cards.

Did you know these cards were Nintendo's first product in 1889? I learned this today.

Anyway I'm gunna be a koikoi pro
December 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Day 24: fav costumes is easy because, you know me, I'm obsessed with Tang Dynasty aesthetics.

And I don't care much for historical accuracy in fiction, but I do appreciate when the costumes are accurate to the time period because it just adds a layer of appreciation

#flourishedpeony
#EYDC2025
December 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My student made these Christmas wagashi - how cute are they!!?!
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'm skipping day 22 because I rarely hear about dramas until they're airing

Day 23: a drama that made you think

I think Feud is a nice #makeuthink drama because it's constantly perspective-shifting and revealing new layers and makes you question what and who you should doubt/trust.

#EYDC2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I've been invited to do another little lecture at a local association (about the UK). This time I think I'll do the history of immigration to the UK but go back way further than anyone expects, the moral of the story being that no Brit is a pure Brit and immigration is in everyone's history. 💁🏻‍♀️
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
OMFG I just realised that Jin Zhao from Speed and Love is the same actor as FURONG FROM SHEN LI.

IM SCREAMIIINGGGG HOW DID HE GET SO SEXY 😂😂😂😂

Wearing black, never smiling and having blood on your face is really the formula isn't it
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Day 21: a drama that surprised me

I had no idea what to expect of Shadow Love but honestly (and I say this with love) wtf was that 😂

In episode ONE Cheng Lei is an angsty prince then a blue naked superman then a CHILD (??? still don't know why) then a househusband.

What a wild ride.

#EYDC2025
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Day 20: a drama that made me sad

Honestly nothing made me absolutely bawl my eyes out (like Lost You Forever last year) but I found the mother/daughter relationship in The Glory very moving and the whole drama very emo (in a good way)

#EYDC2025
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Days 18 and 19: most watched genre and a drama that made me laugh

My most watched genre is always historical/wuxia romance. 😌 Xianxia second.

And THIS GIRL was so hilarious to me omg I love her so much girl let's touch fish together 💕🐟 #whendestinybringsthedemon

#EYDC2025
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Days 16 and 17: best actor and actress

Repetitive but I feel like Song Zuer should be my best actress bc she burst back onto the scene so explosively.

And /my/ best actor this year has to be Cheng Lei coz he just killed it in everything and... idk, took so many baths I guess

#EYDC2025
December 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
OKAY BACK ON THE TRAIN

Imma skip days 13 and 14 because I choose dramas carefully and never find them /boring/, and I don't pay attention to directors

But day 15: fav poster

has to be PoB with Manman looking at us from the background! So striking and summative of her sharp character!

#EYDC2025
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
When I was maybe 15, 16, I was an obnoxious new-atheist capitalist. Before uni I grew out of that and developed a whole bunch of empathy.

Anyway it's alarming to see men all over the place, often in positions of power, who are still stuck in the gross phase I grew out of as a teenager. 🫠
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Happy to inform that he seems to have flown away by himself and we're now theorising that maybe he was drunk on berries (there was berry juice at the scene) 😌
We found a little injured mejiro-kun 😭 Put him in a bush with some honey water.
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We found a little injured mejiro-kun 😭 Put him in a bush with some honey water.
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I've been crazy busy and tired so i need to catch up on eydc but it takes brain power so maybe later 😭

Anyway I'm watching Fast and Furious Bangkok Drift

...I mean Love and Speed
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A person is coming today to value my MIL's kimonos.

There's an entire closet of them. 😵‍💫
December 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Day 12 : A platonic relationship I loved

I love a good supportive sisterhood, a solid girls'-girl, and Mudan and pals from Flourished Peony were maybe the best example this year.

Everyone lift up your friends!!

#EYDC2025
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We've decided to eventually move into my MIL's old apartment. It's huge, 10 mins from Shibuya station, and there's no mortgage on it. 😵‍💫 Can I give up work and be a housewife now? 😂
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Day 11 : a drama that taught me something new

I'd like to thank The Best Thing because I learned a lot about traditional Chinese medicine and how it can be integrated with modern medicine and that was genuinely very fascinating. Fair play to the government TCM propaganda initiative. 😂

#EYDC2025
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Day 10 : a drama I rewatched this year

I actually hardly ever rewatch shows,

but this year I rewatched Shen Li from 2024 because it makes me so HAPPY and turns me into an obsessed freak and sometimes you just need that, u know. This show is my crack.

(Everyone watch Shen Li)

#EYDC2025
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I missed a day coz I was too busy so here's a TWO IN ONE

Day 8: a standout secondary character

....can only be Xia Jingyan from Fated Hearts!! What a tragic freak!!! Love him! ❤️😭

And day 9 is supposed to be older dramas I watched, but I only first-watched 2025 shows this year 😶 oops

#EYDC2025
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Day 7 : FAVOURITE CHARACTER???? I'm supposed to choose just ONE? 😭😭

I'll probably make my own sexy-character ranking later so this time I'll choose a character I just resonated with for her political prowess and unwavering self-respect and that was Manman (Prisoner of Beauty).

#EYDC2025
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
二次会カラオケ is literally my favourite thing in the world

I sang Boa メリクリ 🎄
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I hate my stupid brain because why am I like "no I can't wear that to the work xmas party, I wore it to the work xmas party three years ago"

I'm stressed about an outfit repeat from THREE YEARS AGO???? Girl stop
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM