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Welcome to evaporate! More info about this journal can be found in my userinfo, but the gist is that I'm boring, my posts are boring, and if you are here you are probably here for fic, which is locked along with everything else.

To be added, comment here just to let me know you're a real person and not a serial adder. I don't need anything of substance; a "I'm real! :D" would suffice. :)

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If you only want to be friended for fic and do not want me reading your posts, just say so and I won't add you to my filter. Otherwise, you're added automatically, and... well, I might be busy, but I am a pretty fast reader, so you're probably going to be read. Just a heads up!

COUPLE Matching bracelets? (Well, not entirely - Kyuhyun's is rimmed with black and Zhou Mi's in white, though... that might make it worse...)

How do you even SPOT these things? ==; THOUGH. Can I just say: I'm trying to contain myself from squeeing -- because honestly, it's a dumb bracelet, why would you wear it otherwise, and wow. Wow, I just. That is some mad stalking. Props. (And eeeeeeeeee omg)

Seriously I am going to stop lurking the QMi Baidu bar now. Except not really because it is A+++ entertainment.

( Zhou Mi UFO reply translations because he's fucking adorable and because I can )

11/10 Fei Chang Bu Yi Ban Event

So the filming took place yesterday but it's not going to air until... I don't know when, hopefully soon, because judging by the fan accounts this thing was fucking epic and freaking hilarious and possibly involves Kyuhyun tied up with yellow ribbon.

OH, YOU THINK I'M JOKING.

( Well, I kind of am. But not entirely. Here, have a picture to prove it. )

God, so like, I've been slumped over my desk pretty much all day. I feel like total crap. After dragging myself over to the campus center for lunch and dragging myself back I haven't actually moved from this position. My left leg has fallen asleep, like, four times.

Anyway I spent pretty much this entire weekend watching/listening to random interviews and stalking Baidu bars and I've more or less figured out the stupid split issue behind Kyuhyun's Chinese name. That is, his name is Guixian, and everyone sane (see: interviewers, emcees, Siwon) who talks to him calls him that, except Zhou Mi and Han Geng, who are both utter morons and use Kuixian. I dunno why, they just do. When an emcee uses "Guixian" Geng will immediately switch over, but otherwise I think he defaults to "Kuixian." I don't think Zhou Mi ever calls him by his actual name lolol

I've been trying to make an iPhone wallpaper without success for the past couple of hours because Photoshop keeps crashing. Google tells me this is a display card issue, and in response to this I respectfully thumb my nose at Adobe.

Also f(x) remains the cutest girl band like, on the planet. :|

Someone give me something to do fskaljf I am so bored. And in pain. And.

Hi fandom!

Kyuhyun's Chinese name is most assuredly 圭賢. SM Entertainment corroborates this in all of their printed, online, and DVD info. He has written out his name in an interview. All those blinky flashy fan signs? 圭賢. 11,000,000 Google hits? 圭賢. I think we can be pretty sure that that is his name.

圭賢 is pronounced "Gui1 Xian2" 100% of the time and the first character looks the same in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.



His name is not, in any way, shape, or form, "Kuixian." This only works if his name is 奎賢 (Kui2 Xian2), which, if you will note in the image above, Kyuhyun thinks is wrong (this was an interview broadcast in Taiwan, and the mistake was only made once and only on this show). As evidenced by the adorable little "--X/圭--O" he's written next to it. and anyway, if you had to choose between having 圭 or 奎 in your name, 99.9% of people would choose 圭. Because 奎 is the obscure name of one of the stars that make up the Pisces constellation (alternately, quinine!). And 圭 is, you know, jade.

If you want the "K" in there somewhere you want the Wade-Giles romanization (Kuihsien), which, by virtue of being the Wade-Giles romanization, makes no logical, linguistic, or common sense.

In conclusion, I submit that... I have no idea why the hell it is that fandom thinks Kyuhyun's Chinese name is "Kuixian." But I'm going to go eat jello now.

Yours,

Me.

Elaine Pluta FP'96 elected first ever female Mayor of Holyoke! (Yay alums! Speaking of alums, Lynn Pasquerella '80 is our college President-elect and she seems totally fabulous. She had dinner in Abbey the other night :3)

Incumbent Clare Higgins beats Michael Bardsley for mayorship of Northampton! (Only in Northampton would the mayoral race be between a lesbian and a gay man, just saying. I love the Pioneer Valley.)

I'm ignoring all other election results because most of them make me really fucking sad.

Also, if Carly Fiorina beats out Barbara Boxer in 2010 I will legit set California on fire, place of birth and worldly belongings be damned, okay? Just so we're clear. Unless my dad moves us to Taiwan, in which case I will set California on fire with my mind.