Does Netflix hate me?

 Last night, I logged into Netflix and saw a red "Leaving Soon" banner on the thumbnail for The Untamed.

I...

How can they do this to us?

First they took down Season One of Heaven Official's Blessing, leaving us with no option but to either never revisit it or to suffer through the unwatchable Crunchyroll/Funimation subtitles.  (This was likely forced on them by Crunchyroll/Funimation, of course, but still felt like a stab in the back anyway.)

And now they're going to take away The Untamed, too.

I know it's not the greatest adaptation around, and because of its runtime reading the novel is significantly faster than watching the whole show, but...I still love it anyway!

But they're taking it down.

Leaving us with only the ghastly Youtube subtitles.  The ones that use "childe" for "gongzi."  Despite that no one's used "childe" seriously since Lord Byron, and he was being purposefully archaic!

I kept saying it all through my rewatch, that we need a good and proper domestic Blu-ray release.

That has become even more important now.

If anyone happens to read this who has any social media accounts, please start sending social media messages to any company that seems likely to be willing to do a domestic Blu-ray release of The Untamed.  (My money, personally, would be on Shout Factory, as they do a lot of sentai, kaiju and I think also martial arts stuff, so they're used to working with subtitles on long projects.  Also to more niche releases.  (Someone also needs to get on them to convince Disney to let them do a Blu-ray release of The Owl House, too...)  But approaching Seven Seas (who handle the novel and the comic adaptation) and getting them to partner with a Blu-ray publisher of their choice would also work.)  Unfortunately, I don't have any social media accounts, and my heart problems (which coincidentally have been going nuts today) forbid me from even thinking of getting any.

I feel like I could moan about this for days, but I need to turn in and get a good night's sleep, since lack of sleep is one of the factors making my heart act so crazy.

IWSG: good grief

 

    Ugh, somehow I haven't posted anything since last month.  I keep starting posts and not finishing them.

    Which kind of feels emblematic of everything I'm doing lately.  Though I guess in the case of my writing it's more like being stuck in a rut of editing and waiting to edit but not doing much in the way of writing.

    Though I did at least write a very brief short story over the last few days.  Nothing exciting or special or even good, but...at least it was writing instead of editing or working on compiling my resource document on supernatural beings in Chinese mythology.  😅

     I think my rut will probably naturally break once cool weather finally arrives.  I just don't work well in heat.

    At least, I hope it will.

    Hm.

    Not much of a post.

    But I can't answer the suggested question, because my policy on scary things is to avoid them. 😅  Though I have read Dracula a few times.  Not sure if vampires apply, though, since the question was about "ghostly" stories.  I don't usually read things with ghosts.

    Um.

    Okay, depending on what the ghosts are like.  I mean, technically Hua Cheng is a ghost.  (Technically?)  But Heaven Official's Blessing is not really what I would call a "ghostly" story, despite how many of the cast are ghosts.  There are ghosts in Mo Dao Zu Shi, too, but they're not really all that large a part of the plot.

    That's a thought, though.  Rereading Heaven Official's Blessing for Halloween would be a trip.  🤣