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the others' art and 'zhou shen event calendar' (additional variants being 'zhou shen event calendar: special edition' and zhou shen event calendar: concert edition') tags are self-explanatory. i use the 央视频/CCTV app, Weibo or WeChat to watch most events.
deadass i think u can still buy tickets for this one right now if you want. the 1399r tix are now 693r? i think that's all you have to know about how this event is doing re: the world's most perplexing controversy. (it will probably be streamed on weibo tmr!!)
for those curious (esp @ryoulan!), this event was Some Bullshit. given all the drama that happened before the actual day (here), you'd think that the organisers would at least want to put on a good show to stick it to everyone who got refunds? lol. lmao, even. he sang 6 songs (2 at the start, 2 in the middle, 2 at the end) and like. ok whatever. milking him for all he's worth, whatever, it's your money. there were some weird issues with the rising platform which i can't tell were planned or not? there's one part of the show where it drops quite quickly into the belly of the stage and he steps off in the nick of time. it looked kind of dangerous but idk 🤷 nothing confirmed
that alone would be enough for a hotsearch, but bigger issues awaited. @ the middle section, the technicians deadass played the wrong audio for 缝合? im serious zs had to stop after the first few lines and say Wait Haha. This Is The Studio Version, Not The Background Track! Can We Start Over Please?? i'm speechless. who DOES this. and the worst part is still to come.?.??.?.?.?
@ the last 2 songs, it started to pour. he is wetter in these videos than u will normally ever see him, even when it rains during his concerts. there was another hiccup w his rising platform (it rose up a couple inches so his head poked up onstage, and then ?? went down again??? before rising back up the whole way). not really important. what dumbfounded me tho was when zs (after very obviously trying his best to shake the Ten Million Litres of rainwater off his mic) got to the 大鱼尾巴, his mic???? stopped working?????
HOW does this happen. imagine your event being so cursed that your most popular singer's mic fails at the most important part of your most famous song oh my god 😭😭😭😭 what the actual fuck
Regarding that last post about ZS and the director saying weird stuff about him....
what happened? not on weibo so can't really look it up (wouldn't know where to start)
why is there an event (and what event is it?) if the director don't like him?
if you can't (don't want to) explain, do you have a link that I can google translate?
please and thank you! <3
hi anon!! unfortunately i cannot supply you many answers because to be honest i am still so confused as to why He Would Say Any Of This myself. the long short of it is that around the time this 大鱼海棠 event started ramping up its publicity, 大鱼海棠's director came out of nowhere with this personal essay of a wb post which i am STILL trying to make heads and/or tails of. here are screenshots of it on my main and yes u may need google translate bc it is 9 million words long. deadass it is longer than the 2025 yangshi cny setlist do u know how long it has to be to achieve this.
he just goes on and on and i don't really get his point but in the mess that was ?? that post?? he did say words to the effect of 'zs was my third choice for 大鱼. i wish Wang Fei sang it instead' WHICH. ok???? firstly this is not new i think a lot of people knew this. secondly WHOOOOO let him say that. me when my event attendance is 85% this fanbase which i will piss off completely unprompted. i will die if i don't bring up random fandom discontent from a decade ago and say Hey I Really Supported This. who did he think he was appealing to what did he think he was doing
as u can imagine, a very large percentage of shengmi demanded refunds and tix sales tanked. sucks 2 suck i guess
deadass i think u can still buy tickets for this one right now if you want. the 1399r tix are now 693r? i think that's all you have to know about how this event is doing re: the world's most perplexing controversy. (it will probably be streamed on weibo tmr!!)
^ my favourite art prints + favourite 物料 otherwise!!
going in, i had really really really wanted to get my hands on at least one armband.. i would've snagged more than the two i have now if i had seen any!! and the ZS thing is a 蓝管 stand (some guy's 伸手, if you can believe it) (looking at these pics, i think i should've included that zs photocard with the butt squishy that i was gifted @ day 1 whahdh) (sentimental value)
+ my own 物料 (21 pairs of earrings (x) + 9 bracelets (x) + ~30 magnets which were 伸手)!!! i went to shenzhen having resolved that i wouldn't bring anything back which i had set out with hhahsha and i didn't let myself down!!! did save one bracelet, though, because i figured it would be smart to have a backup in case any of the charms on my own go missing.
he's doing comedy now!!!! but you could argue.. he's always been doing comedy 🙂↕️ they weren't kidding when they said 脱口绣和TA的朋友s3 would be the 歌手 season.. catch it @ 12pm on the 26th and every Friday onwards ^^
made a mini ver of one of my outfits for the 小姑娘!!!
(rather long) process notes and show commentary under the cut ^^:
if the srrx hoodie that i made in jan was motivated by greed, this one was motivated 👍 also by greed 👍 90% of these projects are motivated by greed
and tbh i had nothing else i wanted to make!! had the idea of a mini ver of this outfit at the very start of the year when i was overseas and i figured if i had anything else i wanted to make by june i wld go w that.. turns out that i didn't...
so a smaller project this time it was ^^ this only took 2 days of sewing. in total, i made 4 pieces! a pink turtleneck, black pants, a black vest and the jacket //tbh 2 days was all i had, anyway 😓
^ much more diverse in terms of fabric than my other projects, as you can see!! fabric tangent incoming:
at the very least i wanted the same materiality in the mini jacket as the irl one, so the sleeves were faux leather (far left) + the breast panels/detailing were the black/pink fuzzy fabric 2nd and 3rd to the right. tbh the ribbon was the hardest thing to source! in the end i literally saved an image of a plain roll of pink ribbon, drew black stripes on it, ran it through tb image search and crossed my fingers. good thing something came up!!!! my alternative was buying plain pink ribbon and embroidering stripes on it which wldve taken. forever probably. and also wldve looked messy as hell
the black/pink fuzzy fabrics were leftovers from my biaobiao bag last year!! but they weren't really pants/sweater material so i decided to get a pair of socks for the turtleneck and a handkerchief for the pants. good thing my 小姑娘 is small so there was no need to worry abt buying large pieces of fabric.. altho now when i see cute socks i face the dilemma of should i be keeping these for myself.. or making keke clothes 🤔🤔
speaking of socks, they were actually thicker than i expected!! which was fine in the end but that did add to a minor issue which i will talk abt later. the vest was part of an actual turtleneck whose sleeves i cut off earlier this year bc #sleevelessturtlenecksaremypassion. slash heich jay it really was just a cheap turtleneck i liked better w/o sleeves 👍👍 actually, i thought this would be the hardest fabric to work with?? little did i know
4. fabric tangent over!! ok first i made templates. and i rlly do mean 'made templates' bc everything other than the pants i either modified from ones i already had or made from scratch myself!! for instance one of my 小姑娘's outfits already has a green vest, so i traced that onto paper + cut it out + did markings and modifications after putting keke in it hahaha //the jacket was the modified top half of this jumper design ^^ except that the front and back were one piece of fabric rather than separate panels
5. remember how i said that i thought the vest fabric would be the hardest to work with. that was wrong. the actual hardest fabric to work was the turtleneck/socks 😑 and my measurements ended up being off the first time around so i had to redo it entirely. as you may be able to see in p1/p2 i folded my turtleneck template a LOT smaller hahah but it fits rlly well now!! and i'm super super happy w how the collar folds over like an actual turtleneck
6. afterwards, i made the (?) vest i think. irl, this is a cardigan! but i decided to forgo the sleeves because of the issue i mentioned before which i will leave for the very end of this post where it is most pertinent 🙂↕️🙂↕️ i thought this thing was going to be harder than it ended up being because i thought it would be hard to hem the fabric and this thing is 95% hemming, but it ended being no problem at all!! i just made a copy of my template, folded the fabric around it + hemmed it + tore the paper out when i was done.
7. the pants were also super simple however i had absolutely no idea what i was doing. templates and tut were from @/杨咩咩 on xhs ^^ it relies the very last fold to form a coherent pants shape but bc i cld not visualise this i ended up hemming at least 2 areas that ended up being folded into the pants HAHAHA
obligatory show commentary time!! during this project i finished 歌手2020. as u may know this was my first time watching it all the way thru bc normally the turkey makes me ragequit
OHHHH MY GOD
FUCK 歌手20
ohhhmygod. awful television. 真服了😭😭
firstly the music was soo unremarkable.. ofc there were some very impressive performances (misia ily) but overall after watching all 12 episodes i just cannot really pick out any non-zs performance i Really really liked
i have downloaded more non-zs songs from zs' first 这！就是原创 ep than i have from all 12 歌手20 eps. thats so awful. mangou do better
i mean there were some nice hxy performances?? and i liked xjy's 半途而废 stage?? but come on
bored out of my skull
i thought misia was great!!! WHAT a powerhouse omfg.. and i also loveddd jike junyi!! singing Mad Man Killer with the guy who got homosexuality banned in china was so fucking funny my 女神
and finally mao laoshi 💔 both zs and i needed you 💔 save us mao laoshi 💔💔 because now i must address the turkey in the room
OH MY GOD
FUCK THAT GUY
FUCKKK THAT GUY 😭😭
OHHHMYGOD
i can't stand his voice. and i can't stand his face either that one song where he INSISTED that there only be one (1) one camera angle w no cuts or anything was pure torture omfg i dont WANT to look straight at your face for an entire 4 minutes
JESSIE J 😭😭😭 JESSIE J I NEED YOU TO KILL THAT GUY
also bringing fucking li yuchun on as your duet partner was just not serious. be fucking for real with me rn. and xjt duetting w fucking JJ???? JAY??? JAY???? what the hell
speaking of that how the hell did xjt get into the top 4. and not zs btw. geshou is fucking fake
ALSO 😭😭WHY WAS SUPER VOCAL THERE
SUPER VOCAL LEAVE ME ALONE 😭😭😭
i did like all the 这！就是原创 artists/refs tho!!!! leonardo decaprio pointing meme moment. 原创 celeb cast was great 🥰 even tho the songwriters were so much better there than on 歌手
especially 不透气的房间 :((( i don't want to repeat anything said in my may music repo bc this post is long enough but oh my god 歌手 why do you suck so much ass 😟
i have now started Offer3 and currently i like it less than Offer2 hahaah 双北 i miss you 🥲 yixuan ding hui qiuyi i miss you.. tbh i fell in love w offer2's cast/law firm setting and related activities w an immediacy and intensity that surprised me!! and i have yet to feel the same for the doctors hahaha but you know
it's better than 歌手
8. ok back to sewing talk haha this is a rather long post i'm afraid 😅 finally, the jacket!! this jacket was my 白月光
^ if you were not familiar!!
i got my own last november (x) for shenzhen/the following holiday ^^ it's a very nice jacket (as expected of a 同款) and that means i Cannot wear it in the tropics (way too hot) but it is my favourite piece of clothing
9. the jacket itself was decently easy to make!! however. it is crazy detailed and i was committed to recreating as many of those details as possible, so that took a lot of time (it was completely hand-stitched!)
10. for instance, the cat paws were 2 sizes of pompoms that i cut in half and glued to clear sticky notes (bought them to annotate one of my lit texts last year but i've mainly been using them to make stuff like this haha), which i then coloured with highlighter and attached to the sleeves
11. finally, that issue i mentioned above! the thing abt having so many layers in one outfit is that the fabric becomes harder and harder to drape and control. that's why i made a vest instead of a cardigan which would've added yet another layer around his arms!! but the sweater is still quite thick + the leather sleeves of the jacket are ofc rather stiff, so in the end i sewed a piece of wire into some black fabric and then attached that to the collar so the entire jacket is easier to manipulate/drape/position ^^ hashtag #cheating
and with that, you've made it to the end!!! thank you so much for reading ^^ isn't he cute
the cards r a set colours-wise bc they r for my parents' bdays!!! last years' were yellow/purple
i had a concept in mind for the blue so i made it first! didn't have one for the red, but i like the way both of them turned out 👍 tbh i have many more blue supplies than red ones which accounts for some of the difference in designs, but working w limited options for the latter was very rewarding!! i'm someone who loves maximalism (as u might be able to tell from the blue card/my other collages) so being forced to simplify while still creating smth satisfying was a challenge ^^
