Cool Stuff I Saw: February 2023

[phanero]

Still trying to get my footing in 2023.



Literature

- Listened to a reading of this horror short story called Gulls by Tim Pratt. (Link)

- An interview with Ken Liu on translating the Three Body Problem. (Link)

- One Hundred Thousand Whys is a pop science book for children in China :P (Link)

Technology

- I saw this calculator with an electronic writing board. (Link)

Chinese History

- The Last Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Bing, was only seven years old...he and his eunuch jumped to their deaths :( (I was told it was his eunuch but Wikipedia also makes no note of whether his attendant was a eunuch) (Link)

- I was doing research on toilets in Ancient China. (Link)

Korean Culture

- I read an article on South Korean host bars. (Link)

Internet

- I learned of this Instagram account called Humanitarians of Tinder. Basically people posting pictures from their...voluntourism trips. (Link)

- I was looking up a colour palette generator. (Link)

- Lmao freaky tweet. (Link)

- A story of a Japanese man trying to befriend the American family. (Link)

- Story about an engineer talking to a little girl about drones. (Link)

Fandom

- LMAO recommended not to trade Twitter handles at concerts in case you have the other person blocked. (Link)

Sports

Soccer

- Some threads on the Manchester City investigations by the EPL. (Link 1) (Link 2)

Animanga

- I learned about Naito Rune, who was a huge influence of the kawaii aesthetic in Japan. Apparently he also made contributions to gay magazines (and later came out as gay himself). (Link)

- I recently watched The Wind Rises and had questions so read an article on the historical accuracy of the movie. (Link)

Video Games

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift

- I have trouble figuring out what to do with my Hume non-generic characters so I was researching Parivir/Seer. (Link)

Chinese Entertainment

- I thought it was really interesting that Miss S was available on CBC Gem. (Link)

Lay Zhang

- Yixing replying to fans on Weibo :P (Link)

Korean Entertainment

- EXO and NCT Dream together KILLED ME!!!! Apparently they performed on the same music shows when Exo was promoting Lotto and Dream was promoting Chewing Gum. I am DYING that Yixing is being so attentive to Chenle and Renjun. I think Yixing is generally very caring towards the younger Chinese trainees and idols. And then we had Dream dancing Lotto with Exo! I'm just so endeared. (Link)

- This is crazy, Irene is so tiny compared to the Neos. (Link)

- So many SM artists went to Aespa's concert. (Link 1) (Link 2) (Link 3)

- Apparently Kibum is close with both Renjun and Chenle now :P (Link)

Exo

Baekhyun

- Some cute Baek photos from his W photosohot. (Link)

Suho

- Two kinds of Junmyeon in Ribleaf's drawing style :3c (Link)

- Junmyeon dolls available at Yikanbi....I really love the Suhobar doll with the green hoodie a lot... (Link 1) (Link 2)

NCT

- There's been this fanart saga going on on NCT Twitter about Jaeminbun bullying Tyongya ^^;; (Link 1) (Link 2) (Link 3) (Link 4)

- Rumours on what the new NCT Tokyo unit will look like. Apparently it will be a nine-member unit with 6 Japanese members and 3 Korean members. I guess there are quite a few Japanese trainees with SM. (Link)

Haechan

- Donghyeok bear plush performing Better Than Gold :3 I love the set up with the other plushes as audience members <3 (Link)

Mark

- Mark's had some really pretty hairstyles in his recent concert appearances. (Link)

NCT Dream

- Jaemin smothering Chenji in attention and love. (Link)

- Yo Dream chanting :P (Link)

- Dream spelling out Beatbox by posing :3 (Link)

- Dream partying with NoMark twerking. (Link)

- Dream making a heart :3 (Link)

- Extremely adorable Dream keychains! (Link)

- This dance move in Best Friend Ever seems so fun :P (Link)

- Mark being sentimental about the Dreamies <3 (Link)

- Mark babies the dreamies soooo much (Link)

Chenle

- Bottle flip pro (Link)

Jaemin

- Demon Jaeminbun. (Link)

- Jaemin's usagi-chan + neko-chan introduction for TDS2 (Link)

- Fanart of Jaemin's usagi-chan + neko-chan introduction :P (Link)

- Someone's Jaeminbun nail art :P (Link)

Jeno

- JENO'S OUTFIT!!! I think this was at the Dream Show 2 in Osaka. (Link)

- Lmao fanart of Jeno's outfit XD (Link)

Chenle x Jaemin

- Chenle hugging Jaemin <3 (Link)

Chenle x Jisung

- Teasing Jisung is special to Chenle. (Link)

- So I...found a lot of threads about the Chenji size difference ^^;; (Link 1) (Link 2) (Link 3) (Link 4) (Link 5) (Link 6) (Link 7)

- Chenji thoughts. (Link)

- Lmao Chenji edit. (Link)

- Finally found a screencap of that time when Chenji measured hands and we saw how much bigger Jisung's hand was lol. And this was when they were still babies. (Link)

Chenle x Mark

- Apparently Mark has silently agreed to be Chenle's son ^^;; (Link)

Chenle x Renjun

- Chenle helping Renjun take his necklaces off. (Link)

Haechan x Jaemin

- Jaeminbun making friends with Strawberry Teddy Haechan? I'm guessing it's Haechan since it's a bear :3 (Link 1) (Link 2) (Link 3)

- Jaeminbun sleeping under Gomdo's bed lol (Link)

Jaemin x Mark

- I didn't know this but apparently Jaemin made Mark kiss his booboo on his cheek when they were trainees ^^;; Extremely Jaemin. Now pair this with Jaemin/Mark at TDS2. (Link)

- Hug at TDS2 <3 (Link)

Jaemin x Renjun

- Jaemren at TDS2 <3 (Link 1) (Link 2)

- New meme dropped lmao. Jaemin when his evil gay little schemes playing (Link)

- Jaemren in Best Friend Ever (Link)

Jaemin x Mark

- Jaemin scentin Mark >3 #JustJaeminThings (Link)

Jeno x Mark

- Markno are creeping up on me...boring corny dads ship (Link)

Jisung x Renjun

- Fanart of Renjun having a stuffed Jisung toy uwu. Renjun thinks Jisung is so cute :3 (Link)

- Fanart of when Jisung took Renjun's picture on the Best Friend Ever set <3 (Link)

WayV

- WayV gradient chart on energy levels lol. (Link)

Winwin

- Winwin's spinning. (Link)

- Winwin being shy and cute when he was still with 127 ToT (Link)