Podfic of In Your Hands by Deriliarch

Part Two of the Peony to Lotus verse by Deriliarch. In part one, Flower of Another Kind Jin Guangyao is married off to Jiang Yanli as if to get him out of Koi Tower as fast as possible. Jiang Yanli decides to make the best of things.

Meanwhile, in this fic, Jiang Yanli and Jin Guangyao decide to begin courtship, slightly out of order. But exposing themselves to the possibility of being loved also means running headlong into all the ways they've been taught they are not worthy of it.

This whole series is a favourite of mine because I just want to see if the entire cultivation world could have been saved by someone being kind to JGY, and this is a lovely, warm, delighted and delightful look at that.

I was quite happy to podfic the whole series, but luckily there is already an excellent podfic of the first story Flower of Another Kind, narrated by Sisi_rambles so I decided to start with story number 2.

The music used is Delicate Tender Calm Beautiful Strings Heartwarming Music, by REDproductions on Pixabay

Chapter One is up here

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Working my way through Disney+ or actually working my way through Marvel and Star Wars, because if D+ had never absorbed those franchises, I would never have a lot of use for Disney itself.

Anyway, have now watched

1. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series - was okay but nothing special. Watched the whole series mainly to finally see Qui-Gon come back as a Force ghost. And Oh Boy, they really did make me watch the whole series for it, as it happened about three seconds from the end. Solidly entertaining, but never going to set the world alight. It was nice to see Ewan McGregor back though.

2. Thor, Blood and Thunder. I followed the Thor comics back in the 1980s and Journey Into Mystery (the Loki comics) in the early 2020s, and was a big fan of the first Thor movie (wrote a lot of Loki fic), but I didn't like this. Thor came across as a big self-absorbed jerk, and I personally don't really find Taika Waititi's humour very funny. So yeah, it was very colourful but would not watch again.

3. Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness - honestly kind of boring, but then I don't really care about the Scarlet Witch, or the snap or any of that post Avengers stuff. Again, very colourful and pretty, but did not engage my emotions.

4. Ant Man - I really expected not to like this one, but surprisingly I enjoyed it a lot. The hero actually was likeable and his band of quirky sidekicks were lovable. I liked Hope very much and was glad that she will get her own suit in the next one. And the ants were like being continually in the middle of a herd of puppies. Will now go and watch Ant Man and the Wasp.

5. Wakanda Forever - I watched this first in the cinema, but it was nice to be able to see it again. It benefits from being on the big screen but it's still a fantastic movie even without that extra element of grandeur.

I'm enjoying catching up on all the Marvel movies I missed when I stopped going to see them at the cinema. I'm not really enjoying the Star Wars content all that much because it all feels very cookie-cutter and unimaginative, which is a great shame for a franchise that began by blowing the competition out of the water with its vision.

Any recommendations for what else I should watch while I still have my month's free subscription?