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Planet of Mimics Blog

PoM Blog is the default personal blog of Planet of Mimics. It collects Ciel Z's non-work writing: life fragments, private interests, reading and media notes, small essays, viewpoints, fictional sketches, and longer articles that do not belong to engineering documentation. Updates are irregular and intentionally lightweight.

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博客 / 个人笔记

拟态星球博客

这是 PoM（拟态星球）的默认个人博客，用于收纳 Ciel Z 所有非工作相关的写作：生活碎片、私人兴趣、阅读和影音笔记、小随笔、观点、虚构短文，以及不适合放入工程文档的长文章。不定期更新，保持轻量、私人和可随手翻阅。

作者Ciel Z 范围个人写作语言英文 / 中文更新不定期笔记许可CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

My Indie Masterpieces on Steam

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Game

A private Steam shelf of indie and indie-adjacent masterpieces, grouped by genre, design flavor, atmosphere, and memory.

A24 Suspense and Horror Films

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Movie

A note on A24's darker shelf: the films that trade in dread, strange silence, body panic, folk terror, and that slippery feeling that reality has tilted just a few degrees off-center.

Favorite Science Fiction Novels

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Fiction

A private science-fiction reading shelf led by Philip K. Dick and Robert Sheckley, followed by Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Le Guin, Lem, Bradbury, Herbert, Gibson, Liu Cixin, Butler, Wells, Verne, Delany, and more.

Christopher Nolan Films

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Movie

A private film shelf for Christopher Nolan's major directed features, sorted newest first from Oppenheimer back to Following, with concise plot summaries and public HD poster links.

Agatha Christie and Her Novels

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Fiction

A light-lavender long-form note on Agatha Christie: life, timeline, Poirot, And Then There Were None, Miss Marple, stage legacy, poison craft, archaeology, and why the Queen of Crime still structures global mystery reading.

Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos

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Fiction

A hidden shelf for H. P. Lovecraft's life, major stories, cosmic horror worldview, and the beings of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Megalophobia Art Exhibition

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Art

A visual note on megalophobia, and on that peculiar shiver certain enormous things can cause: towers, creatures, hollow spaces, and scales so large the body reacts before thought has time to catch up.

Hwang Jung-min and His Films

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Movie

A note on Hwang Jung-min's hard-won warmth, streetwise masculinity, and major films from New World to Ode to My Father and Veteran.

Choi Min-sik and His Films

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Movie

A compact film shelf for Choi Min-sik: Oldboy, I Saw the Devil, The Admiral, and the severe screen gravity of a Korean cinema titan.

Omakase Sushi Visual Almanac

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Food

A practical omakase almanac covering sushi neta, sakizuke and otsumami, origins, seasons, price index, etiquette, and ordering memory notes.

Junji Ito and His Horror Manga

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Manga

A bilingual note on Junji Ito: the strange elegance of his horror, the career line from Tomie to Uzumaki, and why works like Hellstar Remina and Gyo still feel both grotesque and uncannily literary.

BERSERK

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Manga

A bilingual note on Kentaro Miura's Berserk: Guts, Griffith, Casca, the Golden Age, the Eclipse, its etched black-ink craft, and the work's continuation by Studio Gaga with Kouji Mori.

Warm Future Art

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Art

A long visual note on future art that chooses gardens, repair, children, animal, neighborhood markets, soft machines, and everyday tenderness over cold dystopian spectacle.

The Origin, Present, and Future of the Universe

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Cosmology

A dark academic note on cosmic origins, the Solar System, Earth-Moon-Mars, black holes, quasars, great scientists, unsolved mysteries, and where universe research may be heading next.

Tal Ben-Shahar and the Happiness Course

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Psychology

A note on Tal Ben-Shahar, positive psychology, Harvard's happiness course, Happier, academic schools of well-being, and practical training methods.

Germany Map, Rail, Cities, and Siemens Notes

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Travel

A practical Germany travel map page with major cities, sights, rail logic, Munich and Nuremberg maps, Siemens locations, airport routes, and travel reminders.

Switzerland Map, Rail, Cities, and Siemens Notes

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Travel

A Switzerland travel map note with cities, scenic rail, Lucerne as one of my favorite European cities, Zurich/Zug maps, Siemens notes, airport routes, and travel reminders.

Fan Zhendong and the Questions He Leaves Behind

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Sport

A bilingual note on Fan Zhendong: profile, major achievements, career timeline, the turn toward Germany's Bundesliga, and broader reflections on fandom, institutional discipline, individual dignity, and China's age-cut labor culture.

StarCraft and the Korean Progamers

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Game

A StarCraft note covering Brood War and SC2, Korean esports history, Boxer, Nada, Flash, the great old legends, and why Serral stands first in SC2's global hierarchy.

Rumiko Takahashi and Her Worlds

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Manga

A note on Rumiko Takahashi's elastic comedy, romance, folklore, and the long Chinese afterlife of Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, and more.

JYP, K-pop Craft and the Producer-Performer

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Music

A music note on Park Jin-young: singer, songwriter, producer, JYP Entertainment founder, and a useful doorway into Korean pop's training-machine era.

Starships and Space Station Art

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Art

A long visual note on the design lineage of starships and orbital habitats: where these forms came from, how they moved from rockets to lived architecture, and why so much space art still oscillates between engineering sobriety and romantic longing.

Black Mirror

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Series

A bilingual viewing note on Charlie Brooker's anthology: the show at its sharpest, its recurring worries about screens, memory, work, and consent, plus an episode route for different moods.

Backroom & Liminal Space

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Art

A bilingual visual note on liminal spaces and the Backrooms: why ordinary corridors, waiting rooms, and empty malls can feel wrong, how the internet turned that feeling into a shared horror grammar, and where to look next.

Steampunk Art

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Art

A visual note on steampunk art and the particular pleasure of its world: brass, steam, leather, gears, Victorian excess, handmade machinery, and that old dream of a future imagined through the past.

In Memory of Charlie Kirk

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Politics

A bilingual memorial note on Charlie Kirk: his rise through campus conservatism, the arguments he carried into public life, the controversies he sharpened, the debates that made him visible, and the shockwave left by his 2025 assassination.

Kim Sae-ron and Her Films

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Movie

A warm remembrance of Kim Sae-ron: her child-star debut, major films, achievements, the sadness around her death, and the fragile light she left on screen.

A Practical Guide to Common Medicines

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Medicine

A long-form household medicine note organized two ways at once: first by symptom, then by drug name. It tries to connect everyday usefulness with regulatory literacy, clinical evidence, drug history, and the companies that shaped the modern medicine cabinet.

Graphic Design and Core Principles

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Design

A note on graphic design: history, visual hierarchy, typography, grid systems, color, aesthetics, major designers, design ethics, and practical critique methods.

Robotics and Its Core Principles

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Robotics

A robotics note covering history, founders, kinematics, dynamics, control, perception, industrial and collaborative robots, end effectors, special robots, humanoids, and company links.

Logic and Its Major Schools

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Logic

A note on logic: its history, formal principles, major schools, proof/model/set/computability/type traditions, and external research gateways.

Zhouyi, Fuxi, Bagua, and MBTI

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Philosophy

A note on Fuxi, the Zhouyi/Yijing, Bagua, modern research, AI-era meaning, MBTI comparison, astrology mapping, and a positive birth-date interpretation tool.

Othello / Reversi: The Black-and-White Game

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Game

A note on Othello, one of those deceptively simple games that turn fierce very quickly: black and white discs, quiet positional traps, tournament history, and the strange aftertaste of knowing the 8x8 board has already been weakly solved.

Funny Balls: Crazy Bumper Balls

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Game

A Funny Balls-style puzzle: move colorful little balls across open paths, make five-or-more same-color lines, unlock rare white magic balls after clearing enough pieces, and chase a local high score before the board fills.

Sunless World and Fallen London

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