Guardian drama resources: a poll

[trobadora]

You know how it goes: you're thinking about Guardian (as you do), or you're writing a Guardian fic, or someone asks a Guardian-related question, and there's this thing niggling at the back of your head that you can't quite pin down. Every time that happens to me, I'm so glad for this fandom's many resources - most of my fandoms can only dream of such a bounty! And there are probably many not everyone knows about. So I thought that would be worth a post/poll of its own.

Poll #26816 Guardian reference poll!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

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Trying to track down a specific scene, I generally start with ...

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galaxysoup's episode guide
9 (56.2%)

the scene discussions here on sid_guardian
1 (6.2%)

the episode discussions here on sid_guardian
2 (12.5%)

another reference (please share!)
7 (43.8%)

what do you mean, reference? I just search the Chinese transcript or the English subtitles for a key phrase
4 (25.0%)

I always remember perfectly what happens in which episode (please tell me your secret!)
1 (6.2%)

Once I start playing an episode to check something, I immediately get distracted by ...

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staring at Shen Wei's face
13 (86.7%)

staring at Zhao Yunlan's face
5 (33.3%)

staring at Zhu Hong's outfits
2 (13.3%)

staring at the beautiful cinematography
2 (13.3%)

staring at someone/something else (tell us who/what!)
2 (13.3%)

For secondary or minor characters, I refer to ...

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extrapenguin's dramatis personae/cast list
8 (57.1%)

the character discussion posts here at sid_guardian
2 (14.3%)

the episodes themselves
6 (42.9%)

other (please share)
3 (21.4%)

When rewatching an episode for a specific character, I inevitably end up ...

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making fifty billion unrelated screencaps
6 (42.9%)

watching five episodes in a row
7 (50.0%)

or ten
1 (7.1%)

or the whole drama, actually
3 (21.4%)

or something else equally unproductive (tell us what!)
3 (21.4%)

The map/floor plan I look up the most is ...

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cyberbrain's floor plan of Zhao Yunlan's flat (with reference to Shen Wei's)
8 (72.7%)

yue_ix's SID map
3 (27.3%)

Chu Shuzhi's map of the Hanga mountains
0 (0.0%)

another map/floor plan (please share!)
0 (0.0%)

who needs maps? I can navigate both Haixing and Dixing by memory alone!
3 (27.3%)

Most underappreciated Guardian resource:

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sakana17's clothes visual reference
3 (23.1%)

forestofglory's list of food and drink in Guardian
6 (46.2%)

yaaurens's Shen Wei and Chu Shuzhi Touchy Touchy lists
7 (53.8%)

other, see comment
2 (15.4%)

Finally, what's the resource you most wish existed?

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Comments

[trobadora]

Totally agreed on both your wishes, those would be excellent! The subtitles are great, but a transcript (that ideally would also include nonverbal action, and be in both Chinese and English) would be AMAZING. I wonder if a thing like that exists on the Chinese side ...

And OMG, any on-screen text translations would be so helpful! There are a few scattered around, but they're basically not findable unless you already saved them. Hm, that might make a good project, compiling everything that already exists and making a wishlist for what doesn't?

I can only imagine how much work the clothing reference must have been! But I would LOVE it if someone did it for other characters as well ...

[nnozomi]

I've been very slowly putting together a Chinese transcript including speakers (combining that ZYL/BY script findable online with transcriptions of the Chinese subs kindly provided by tinny and q, watching the actual episodes to figure out who's saying what), but the way I've been doing it is very much oriented toward "practicing Chinese and looking up all the words I don't know" and not so much toward, like, creating a usable resource in a hurry, so it could definitely be done better and faster. Anyway I'm only up to about episode 7, because it gets done in slow work periods. I wonder, as you say, if there's an existing version somewhere?

[trobadora]

Ooooh, that sounds excellent! Even if it's slow going, it's very useful! I hope you'll share at some point. :)

I don't know anyone who actually knows their way around the Chinese side of fandom, but I wish we knew what resources are out there!

[nnozomi]

Even if it's slow going, it's very useful! I hope you'll share at some point. :)
Not very useful right now but available to anyone who wants it (or prefers to do it more efficiently) any time... If I ever get, like, a 10-episode chunk done I will post about it. (Right now I'm in the middle of episode 7 and wow, Lin Jing has A LOT to say about his favorite webnovel, oh sweetie ;) .)

[trobadora]

Haha, Lin Jing is such a fanboy, yeah! And then he's so disappointed in the actual author! *pets him*

[nnozomi]

Because it's been a slow work month (April always is), I have a Chinese transcript of episodes 1-10 now! Mostly thanks to the original person who posted the BY/Z1L script on bilibili, and to people around here who grabbed the subtitles. Because I'm old-fashioned and untechnical it's just a Word document, with names of speakers and timestamps to indicate scene changes. Anyone who wants it can have it, but I'm not sure how to make it available?
(I'm working on 11-40 too, but the way I do it it's likely to take quite a while...)

[trobadora]

Oooh, that sounds fantastic! Yay for slow work months! :D :D :D

Hmn, if you have a gmail account you could upload it to google docs? That's the easiest way to share a Word doc, I think.