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fierrochase-falafel · 1 year

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CQL music analysis part 1: Local homosexual lunatic over-analyses people singing (with spoilers)

The Untamed has 2 albums, one of which contains all the songs with vocals they had recorded for the show. While I recommend all of them, a few favourites of mine being Bu Wang (for Lan Wangji) and Woodland (for Wen Qing), I'd like to focus on the fact that only 2 of them are in the show: the classic Wu Ji and Yi Nan Ping.

It's interesting that Yi Nan Ping is the only song other than Wu Ji, the literal wangxian song, to actually appear in the show.

Considering the main characters of the show are Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, it makes sense that their joint song Wu Ji is the most well-known; especially when you add the fact that it appears at the end of every CQL episode. It also appears several times in the middle of the show (especially episode 50, where they played it about 5 times just to make it really sink in how close wangxian are). On the album it has a Xiao Zhan only edition, a Wang Yibo only edition, a chorus edition with both Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, and a Bibi Zhou edition- it's very clear that this is a song made up of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, whether by themselves or together they are singing to and about each other.

Yi Nan Ping, however, is labelled on the album as [Interlude], as opposed to the [Theme] of Wu Ji. It's 4th from the bottom of the album. The song is recognised as Jiang Yanli's song at large by fans, which makes sense because it's heard when Jiang Yanli is onscreen, but I am going to speculate as to why it was not labelled directly as Jiang Yanli's song despite it clearly reflecting her character. The only 2 vocal tracks being Wu Ji and Yi Nan Ping was very deliberate to reflect Wei Wuxian's closest relationships. The show centers around him ultimately, it's largely in his point of view and so we hear vocal tracks in moments where he feels the most intense. For Wu Ji, it shows his relationship with Lan Wangji quite clearly, as one of his closest relationships.

My theory with Yi Nan Ping is that the reason it's not labelled Jiang Yanli's song is because it represents the bond of the Yunmeng trio itself rather than just Jiang Yanli. Jiang Yanli's loving and caring nature is presented as that which brings the 3 of them together- when she first brings her brothers back from the Yunmeng woods, consistently when she gives them lotus and pork rib soup, when she dies to protect Wei Wuxian. The lotus and pork rib soup is kinda like a motif representing when they were kids and could just play with each other, and come back to drink her soup that tastes like home. None of the actors for the characters sing in this song, the song is more like a sisterly blanket Yanli has for all of them where it represents their bond together rather than their own voices. One could also intepret it as Jiang Yanli singing, and that bringing all 3 of them together. I think it says a lot about her that she doesn't have an individual song named as being for her, but the songs she is involved in uplift the ones she loves and it becomes 'their song' rather than 'her song'.

Wu Ji, compared to Yi Nan Ping, has both the voices of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji in abundance. Focusing on the chorus version, even if Wang Yibo says less individual lines (which is quite in character for Lan Wangji), his presence in the song is always felt. When I listen to Wu Ji, it's like Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are two halves of one tiger tally, the song incomplete without each other's voices pulling through. Wu Ji requires that which Yi Nan Ping doesn't: in the sense of the characters having to mutually acknowledge and be open about their feelings, singing them out loudly to the world together. Considering Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's relationship is frought with hidden feelings and miscommunication, Jiang Yanli's open love being what brings them together makes perfect sense- it's notable that the former 2 are only open with each other when they're forced to be at last in Guanyin temple (Wei Wuxian wouldn't have voluntarily told Jiang Cheng about the golden core operation, and Jiang Cheng never actually ended up telling Wei Wuxian why he ran away in the first place, resulting in his core loss). Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji though come clean within their first conversation after Wei Wuxian's resurrection, and have always put the effort to understand the other's position on important matters. In CQL, they're always as open about their feelings as they can manage from the get-go. Personally, I feel this sets up a dichotomy between Wei Wuxian's 2 closest relationships- that with the Jiang siblings and that with Lan Wangji.

Furthermore, where Yi Nan Ping reminisces about the past consistently (the most notable refrain in the chorus being, 'Can you still hear someone calling out “A-Xian”?', using the first online translation I could find by radishtears), Wu Ji reminisces vaguely about the past but always comes back to looking to the future (repeating, 'Why not soar high and free as a bird with the winds and waves, and sing this one song together to the world?', courtesy the genius lyrics translation). Yi Nan Ping is always a soft, comforting echo representing Wei Wuxian's past with the Jiang siblings and Wu Ji boldly looks to his future with Lan Wangji. They represent very different relationships and carry different connotations to a current Wei Wuxian, but they are the most important relationships to him to the point that they have vocal tracks directly present in the web series.

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tawnysoup · 4 months

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The one eyed Siffrin Wink™

#i wanted to know how it'd look so i animated it (a still image doesnt rly do it)#i ended up going way cleaner than i usually do for animation so it took a couple days #but im really pleased with him - im quite proud of my style matching - just the lineart is too thick but thats ok #little scrunko winks for u #what mischievious thoughts are they having? probably sadder ones than u'd think #my art #my animations #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #animation

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barksbog · 2 months

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panther chameleon plushies!!!

based on the Amilobe locality of Furcifer pardalis

magnetic little hands for to grab things

soft

funny eyes

doesn´t need high humidty or complex care!

teddy joints for to move their little legs

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adopt one from my bog

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#i´m honestly really proud of these #the eyes are quite complex and i didn´t think i could pull them off but i did!!! i will post a quick tutorial later how they are done #also thanks to palaeoplushies for letting me steal her idea of using trim for little spikes #the paint job is one the more complex ones i´ve done and i hope people like it because i would love to do more like this #plush #plushies #plushblr #chameleon #panther chameleon #furcifer pardalis amilobe #handmade

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flockofteeth · 1 year

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its dangerous to go alone. here, take these bilbies

#bilbies #australian wildlife #bilby #dammit i was gonna blaze this i thought it was 10 bucks but apparently its 20 bucks in nzd and i can't justify that 😭#quite proud of the alt text on this one lol #australia #cute animals #it me #excellent creatures #creature feature

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sunnyirry · 3 months

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Pinterest got her oh noes....

#steven universe #peridot su #I don't normally post wips here but im quite proud of this one hehe #fanart #my art

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wasyago · 3 months

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on a lunch break

#hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #my art #sketch #wanted to make the chair resemble one of them safari cars but i think because i went with the funky colors it doesn't read well...#it's still a bit more bulky and rough looking so it's fine #also. if i had a nickel for every time i drew a character eating cup noodles....... it's like. a comfort thing apparently #altho to be fair i was thinking of scar eating something more of a mashed potatoes than noodles 🤔#i associate cupped potatoes with train travel so that's why #btw really like how this one turned out. the pose the colors im quite proud of it

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woolieshubris · 4 months

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1 million people die to carhammer explosions every day!!! be careful out there folks

#i spent the last 10 minutes making this gif in after effects im quite proud of how it loops perfectly #avewy #🚗🔨⚒️💥

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icantdothistodaybruh · 10 days

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#I'm very proud of myself #thank you Klimt I quite literally couldn't have done it without you #their clothes took me forever but looking back I think it was worth it :')#sebaciel #kuroshitsuji #black butler #ciel phantomhive #sebastian michaelis #my art

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fagidarity · 2 months

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they’re off on a lil adventure :]

#.png #last life #martyn inthelittlewood #last life martyn #mumbo jumbo #last life mumbo #redwood #ahasbands #sdvau #trafficshipping #fanart #im still working on the next chapter so here. a lil treat #im not great at pixel art but ive been improving a lot lately i think #so im quite proud of this :]#tumblr is gonna wreck the quality of this but. well what can ya do

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motherhenna · 8 months

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Moon-kissed child of Hircine: / Accept mine proffered blessing do / So thou wilt never flee or rue. / From faun to fear-bringer, / Nadir to night-singer / Even the odds and return those who huntest thou to basest parts / Hearts and all.

My Skyrim Dragonborn, Vakna True-Thunder shortly after turning an unlucky band of highwaymen into a three-course meal. Wanted to make an illustration alluding to her history with lycanthropy and the Daedric Prince of Prey over the course of a decade. After all, where is the sport in hunting an unarmed prisoner on the run--a young messenger for the Jarl of Windhelm himself who had yet to see even her sixteenth winter? The pursuing Dominion jailers and hounds never had any intention of playing fair, blood moon or not, so Hircine offered the desperate girl the power to even these odds and make his forest a proper hunting ground once more. And in years since, she has certainly never let this power go to waste.

#please reblog and tag y'all this took like 12+ hours over the course of three days to finish #and I'm quite proud of how it turned out #plus I always love an excuse to draw Vakna shirtless lmao #skyrim #elder scrolls #skyrim oc #elder scrolls oc #TES oc #skyrim dragonborn #werewolf art #female werewolf #hircine #tesblr #also I know I abuse the blue/red color scheme constantly #but it just looks so cool #plus those are very much her colors #my art

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spicyraeman · 2 months

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almost merged this with the sketch layer

#my wips #im so proud of this sheart #so when I tell you i was about ready to quit life when I realized #shitting absolute bricks hoping I had enough undos

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strawbie-doodle · 3 months

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havent drawn all of them in a WHILE ✸

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carolinanadeau · 4 months

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"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

#I honestly think that one of the most enriching and rewarding parts of writing fanfiction is getting to #fully flesh out and explore a character who gets some but not-quite-enough characterization in canon #unless the character is REALLY minor there are always so many threads to pull out and weave into something new #you can even deconstruct the marketing materials! oh this character is only described as 'beautiful'? wonder how she feels about that hmmm #my original post #writing #fanfic #I'm just really proud of what I've been able to do with Miss T. it's almost all right there in the script and lyrics if you'd only look!

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reliand · 6 months

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