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I always tend to brush off topics about love life in a conversation. I don’t know, maybe because I’m bitter or because I haven’t experienced it first hand. But it makes me sad these days. As i grow older, I try my best to live a life for myself and not try to revolve it around the idea of having someone to grow old with - a love life. But sometimes, it gets lonely and it left me wondering how it feels like to fall in love with someone. Don’t you think it’s sad that a person doesn’t know how falling in love feels like? I don’t know.. at some point in my life, I thought to myself - “ I accept it, I’m gonna live my life alone and I’m going to be happy.” But having mental health issues make it so harder than I imagined it would be. Endless lonely days and just.. aloneness, nothingness.
do you ever feel sad sometimes when you finished reading a book or when you finished watching a series or movie that is really great, and you have to go back to reality again? I always tend to be sad when I think about real life and fictional life. You know when you read a book and you somehow feel like you get to live a different life inside it. Like in fictional world you get to have best friends that are so great and so nice but after reading it and it comes to an end, you go back to being alone and friendless? Books, movies and series - basically the fictional world somehow became my emotional support system. It helped me go through a lot of struggles and gave me strength to go on.. because if you think of it, what if your fave, author release a new amazing book? You have to survive and live on to be able to read it and be part of it. That is basically how I perceive the world these days…
I just can’t understand why I always feel this way. I can’t do anything at all. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep and I can’t work. It gets so fucking hard every single day. I don’t know what to do anymore..
we accept the terms and conditions we think we deserve
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Hey, if it's not too much trouble, could you talk to us about the prefixes and suffixes used on the show? Like, why does everyone call Yan with an A-prefix? Why is Zhuo Zhi and Lu Xia always called with their family name but Mu Siyang sometimes just gets called Siyang? Subtitles don't really show us how these conventions are used and I'm curious~
Sure I can!! Real life has been A Lot these days (…months) but I’ll try to make a post about it! It’s a good idea to have one somewhere in the worldwide web, isn’t it? I’m low-key surprised there isn’t one already - not that I know of, but in this tiny fandom I’m pretty sure I’d know if someone had made one.
I’ll give you a quick answer here but stay tuned for a proper post as real life allows me!
I have no idea if there’s a linguistic reason for that, but in Chinese, when you call people, you never call them just one syllable. “Xia” or “Zhi” sounds… wrong. Idk. Language quirk. “Siyang” or “Jiale” are a-okay because they’re both two-syllable names: “Si + yang” and “Jia + le”. However, “Lu + Xia” and “Zhuo + Zhi” both have two syllables, so full name it is.
By that rule, you can’t call Yan Zhiming just “Yan.” But as you know, there are prefixes in Chinese (and suffixes too, but those are more common in historical dramas.) A- is one of them. It can be used by someone older just because they’re older, or it can be used by someone the same age as you to indicate familiarity. “A-Yan” is two syllables, so it’s fine to call him that. You’ll notice second and first year students don’t call him A-Yan, though - he’s older, so it’d sound weird af at best and outright rude at worst. They call him xuezhang - a term of respect to someone who’s in a higher grade than you at your school (similar to but more specific than Japanese senpai.)
op, I’m not sure about this, but Yan is Zhiming’s family name, isn’t it? If it is, why does he gets addressed with A-Yan but Siyang gets to be addressed by his given name? Is it to show that the main players feel closer to Mu Siyang than to Yan Zhiming?
@alternatefandom Yes, in Chinese, family names come first, so for Yan Zhiming, Yan is his last name. For Mu Siyang, Mu is his last name.
There’s a chance there’s some layer I’m unaware of, but as far as I know, it’s pretty much just personal choice?
Having said this, it’s been a while since I last watched the show but if I recall it right, almost every one of the club members calls Siyang “duizhang” - meaning “team captain” or the Chinese version of Japanese “buchou.” I think among the club members only Dachi and Zhuo Zhi call him Siyang, which makes sense because they’re his closest friends. (Of course, this only applies to canon era. For flashbacks before Siyang is captain, he would probably be called Siyang by everybody his age, or maybe Mu Siyang if they weren’t friends with him.)
Preemptively answering the logical follow-up question: what do people from other schools call Siyang, then, if he’s not their captain? There may be exceptions (I really should rewatch this!!) but the default would be Mu Siyang. The most neutral way to call someone is always by their full name.
Op, I like you, you’re very… informative! 😅
is anyone else like……. exhausted? just way too tired? mentally and physically? and you look at other people your age who seem to be doing fine and you feel so dysfunctional and broken because normal adult tasks and responsibilities just feel way too overwhelming and you can’t cope and
yeah.. I’m beyond the valley of exhaustion.
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