Before this it was Ming, before that it was Manchu clans I think?

[petronia]

Now my parents are onto a Spring and Autumn period drama (read: I have trouble picking up plot threads on the fly the way I usually do because the characters' mindset is too long-ago, like Renault's Ancient Greece). Pretty sure this is what paleaswater was talking about, unless there's another one this season that's like IN YR DAILY CHINESE HISTORY LESSON, DEPLOYING BL FICTION PLOT TWISTS. >_> Could always go upstairs and check the back of the DVD box but that involves walking which is just silly.

The production values and acting in these TV series keep getting better and better... I wish someone would sub them, they'd be fun for the Rome crowd I think. (In English that is, they're always subbed in Chinese as it's a bit like watching Shakespeare only not as readily comprehensible. XD;)

A note on the FFXII Ultimanias, before I start translating: these things do ratify certain pairings in their character/script analysis. Vaan/Penelo is treated as canon (Penelo->Vaan, rather, nothing's said about the other way around =_=), Balthier/Ashe is sort-of canon (in a "We'll always have Paris Phon Coast" sort of way), Balthier/Fran is the exact same big fat MAYBE provided in-game. None of the other possibilities are on the radar.

(Randomly, the one pairing that's a total gimme from canon that I've yet to see anyone write: Vayne/Cid. Yes, I realize this is because it exceeds the creepiness cutoff of basically everyone in the world.)

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[mithrigil.livejournal.com]

The idea of Balthier being any straighter than a paper-clip perplexes me.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

He doesn't even strike me as all that gay! I guess because it's Japanese media, and the Japanese really push their metrosexuality. XD (One doesn't even realize how many unspoken cues one relies on until, say, one is shopping for clothes in Asia and keeps getting confused because being surrounded by a sea of pink is no guarantee that one is in the women's section.)