#Si Zheng

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Wanru's Journey (2023)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama “Wanru's Journey”

【Multi-Sub】 少年江湖 01 小骗子误入局中局 | Wanru's Journey 01（主演： 敖瑞鹏、邓超元、宗元圆）

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKs2HkdhrU

#Wanru's Journey #少年江湖 #I Don't Want To Be The Pugilistic Master #我才不要當盟主 我才不要当盟主 #Wo Cai Bu Yao Dang Meng Zhu #Shao Nian Jiang Hu #2023 #cdrama #Chinese drama #iQiyi #youtube #episode 1 #1st episode #Ao Rui Peng #Aaron Deng #Deng Chao Yuan #Zong Yuan Yuan #Si Zheng #Wu Yi Xun #Zhong Qi #Hu Cai Hong #Ren Yi Xuan #Wang Jun Zhe #Xuan Yi Hao #Pu Yu Tong #Wang Yi Zhou

[pybun]

🃏 Try your luck~ 🃏

#animal world #zheng kai si #super clown #tatters the clown #clown #oc #crossover #art #i forgot to give kai si an arm band rip #i was too busy recreating the decor

[movielosophy]

Please Be My Family ep 3 | Proposing

#If Xie Bin Bin proposing to me....i won't need to think #lol #please be my family #this might has similar vibes with Wang Zi Qi's the love you give me but the kids are really cute here #i mean my cup of tea #xie bin bin #character: song hao yu #zheng qiu hong #character: qi si le

[tetraterantula]

free character ramble ticket. :>

how did Glass become captain of the Bottlecap?

ASGHREHGOEWH CHARACTER RAMBLE TICKET

I love Glass sm she's one of the pillars of a major underground trade and piracy system! The Bottlecap is her flagship, but she's got many a ship under her command ^^

The Bottlecap itself is a stolen military vehicle! One of her first and major sucesses is a prison escape/raid from one of the most feared facilities in Macroly (Port Sies, which at the point in the story where Eri, Blair, and Zel meet has been completely overtaken by pirate command.) The Bottlecap was aquired then and it acted as a major escape route for several of the prisoners freed during that raid.

The pirate empire itself was formed over several years, through the use of strategic alliances with other crews, groups, governments and individuals, raids and blockades at oppertune times, and a surprising minimal amont of theft on its own.

Fun fact! There is a ship in a bottle model of the Bottlecap that used to be in the captains quarters of the Bottlecap until it was moved to a safer location (Glass's office, on land)

#actual post #original character #Glass would be so good at civilisation type games #Also if you wanna know more about cool pirate ladies you should look up Zheng Yi Sao #who is a major inspiration for Glass ^^ #TYSM FOR SENDING ME THIS #SORRY I HAVENT RESPONDED TO UR OTHER ONE YET IDK WHAT TO TALK ABOUT FOR THAT ONE #also port sies mention yayy if you dont know where that is its um somewhere in the north of Macroly its kind of overrun with pirates though #ask

[zhanyes]

That extremely attractive couple and the equally cute sibling/in-law

#19 days #jian yi #zhan zheng xi #zhanyi #They are so fucking attractive #little sis is so cute with that hair #ALSO JIAN YI IN A HAT IS SOMETHING I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED #zhengxi be looking hot as fuck as usual

[5water-kohaku]

And these guys need more wallpapers! They totally deserve it...! Well, Ge Nie has enough, but I’m talking about Ying Zheng and Li Si here. xD

#9 songs of the moving heavens #qin's moon #wuxia #donghua #chinese animation #3D animation #天行九歌 #Nong Yu #Moya #Baifeng #Ying Zheng #Li Si #Ge Nie #Bai Yifei #moon #birds #crow #swordsman #ice

[yo-soy-la-justicia]

MGS reconoce a ZZX como alguien fuerte y cree que es un poco cool, a su parecer Xixi sería más cool si no pasara tanto tiempo con JY😹

MGS recognizes ZZX as someone strong and thinks he is a little cool, in his opinion Xixi would be cooler if he didn't spend so much time with JY

#zhanmo #headcanon #my most personal headcanon #lol #19 days #zhan zheng xi #mo guan shan #creo que empezaré a publicar los pensamientos que tengo del zhanmo #porque si no hay contenido entonces yo seré el contenido (??

[sea-chest]

So everyone said Stede was a terrible pirate last season because he was soft and nice to his crew and cared about The Finer Things and talked about feelings

Then we meet Zheng Si Yao, Queen of Pirates, who has a crew that love and respect her, who are well fed and well cared for and she talks about feelings. And she is absolutely thriving at piracy!

Unlike Stede, she is also ready to do the whole stabbing and plundering thing, but she very much is also soft. The duality of woman. I love that.

#ofmd s2 #zheng si yao

[t-taxiansgf]

LMFAOAOAOAJ

#zhao lu si #zhao lusi #rosy zhao #wu gang #ren xin zheng #sun tou tou #gen z cdrama #gen z #cdrama

[binging-asian-dramas]

Love of Thousand Years. 6

Story: 4

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: Jun Jiu Ling (cdrama) ; Love and Redemption (cdrama)

Where to start with this Xianxia drama. The scenery is quite breathtaking gorgeous and the characters are written pretty well making the acting okay. I love Zhao Lu is silly dramas, serious dramas she sometimes miss the marks in and in this she’s ‘meh’. Despite that, nothing will make the up for the all over the place storyline. It starts off with a couple of episodes in not that bad, a tad bit complicated to follow but eventually easy to fall into. Unfortunately with each episode going forward the writers seemed to add in more confusing aspects with more unnecessary storylines making it harder to follow. For me the glue that was holding everything together was the chemistry between the main leads.

#Love of Thousand Years #cdrama #viki #zheng ye cheng #zhao lu si #rosy zhao #liu yi tong #jiang yi yi #wang meng li #dai yun fan #historical #xianxia #romantic drama #comedy #fantasy #slight love triangle #action

[blakbonnet]

S2 Spoilers from the articles so far

- Lucius has a brooding, bitter arc

- Mary and Anne are murder wives, literally, retired and plotting new ways to kill each other everyday and keeping the relationship fresh

- Ed and Stede go on a double date (possible the chair smashing scene)

- the phrase "snuffed out" was used for tealoranges in one of the articles, make of that what you will, hints of possible poly Jim x Olu x Archie maybe

- Izzy redemption arc, meaty storyline

- Pirate Queen Zheng Si Yao vs Prince Richard (Errol shand) is the major background story

- Episode 6 is major! Romance and otherwise and has loads of emotional tears shed

- "Susan" Ruibo's character (Queen Zheng) is a bit of a frenemy and really lauded for her part

- The crux is romance and Ed and Stede's romance in particular

- The only major complaint seems to be that it's very fanservice, so okay lmaoo good

- Very suicidal Ed in the first few episodes but some of it is balanced by humour but again, fairly dark

- Ed does seem to be doing direct violence and is pretty down in the dumps, raiding everything he sees, killing bystanders etc

- Reunion is pretty early on (ep 3 maybe) and there's plenty of banter between Ed and Stede

- Archie is a super fun character who looks up to Ed a bit and has great chemistry with everyone else

- Toxic workplace style discussion about Ed's management

- Ed plays mindgames with the crew when he's not maiming them apparently and it's pretty angsty and funny

- Stede is working at Spanish Jackie with the crew cause he's broke af

- Stede's major plot is getting to Ed and finding Ed and he writes him a love letter every morning while fantasising about him at night in the form of wild dreams absjsjd

- Stede has a bunch of bitchy moments and one liners

- Swede has found true love with Jackie

- Ed cuts more of Izzy's toes (at least 2 more)

- Izzy mediates Ed and Stede's relationship

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #MAJOR SPOILERS #I'll edit as I go along

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Wanru's Journey (2023)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama “Wanru's Journey” 

【Multi-Sub】 少年江湖 01 小骗子误入局中局 | Wanru's Journey 01（主演： 敖瑞鹏、邓超元、宗元圆）

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKs2HkdhrU

#Wanru's Journey #少年江湖 #I Don't Want To Be The Pugilistic Master #我才不要當盟主 我才不要当盟主 #Wo Cai Bu Yao Dang Meng Zhu #Shao Nian Jiang Hu #2023 #cdrama #Chinese drama #iQiyi #youtube #episode 1 #1st episode #Ao Rui Peng #Aaron Deng #Deng Chao Yuan #Zong Yuan Yuan #Si Zheng #Wu Yi Xun #Zhong Qi #Hu Cai Hong #Ren Yi Xuan #Wang Jun Zhe #Xuan Yi Hao #Pu Yu Tong #Wang Yi Zhou

[pybun]

so theres this falsely advertised clown...

#animal world #zheng kai si #super clown #clown #art #i watched this movie at least 3 times

[movielosophy]

后浪 | forgiven

#the relationship between tou tou and her shifu #后浪 #aesthetics #hou lang #gen z #cdrama #zhao lu si #character: sun tou tou #wu gang #character: Ren Xin Zheng

[ficsficsficsallfics]

Do they remember an umbrella

Jian Yi - No and if he did it’s probably the broken one

Zhan Zheng Xi - Yes but gives it to sis if she forgot

Mo Guan Shan- Yes

He Tian - Yes but throws it away to share with Mo

He Cheng - Has people to remember that

Brother Qiu - Is people

She Li - Water sizzles off him so doesn’t need one

#19 days #old xian #mo guan shan #he tian #tianshan #he tian x mo guan shan #jian yi #zhan zheng xi #jian yi x zhan zheng xi #zhanyi #he cheng #brother qiu #qiucheng #he cheng x brother qiu #she li

[nonsensicalramblings79]

L'albatros and parallels in OFMD

1.4k word meta

If you haven’t read my other posts about why I’m talking about albatrosses in the first place, as well as the literary significance of referencing them, read those and come back! All of this will make the most sense if you read all of the parts I’ve written – I’ve split them up for ease of reading, because holy shit this is long.

This particular post is what I will deem as less likely to be supported by canon than the one talking about The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but I still want to get this out because regardless of whether it’s intentional or not, L’albatros sums up a lot of what I feel Ed is thinking regarding his life and his place in the world.

For future reference, I’m writing this on 10/8/2023, so I’m only working with season 1 and the first three episodes of season 2. More than likely, extra information concerning my theories will come up when new episodes are released – I’ll see about reworking these posts then if necessary.

TWs: suicidal ideation, depression, isolation, canon-typical mental health problems

MAJOR OFMD SPOILERS THROUGH S2E03

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Just like in my post about The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I’ll clarify that yes, this is anachronistic – this poem wasn’t published until 1859. I also don’t care: Oluwande is wearing crocs, Stede’s “corpse” is crushed by a piano whose maker won’t exist until 1863, Blackbeard’s got his whole leather-daddy getup, Zheng Yi Sao won’t be born until 1775 – OFMD plays fast and loose with historical accuracy, and I am never going to dismiss an OFMD theory because the ~timeline~ doesn’t match up.

L'albatros is a poem written by French poet Charles Baudelaire that describes the plight of the albatross – a mighty king of the sea and sky, with massive wings that dwarf other seabirds (no, for real, these things are gargantuan – its wingspan is wider than most humans are tall) – who is well suited to its environment, but only its own environment.

The poem is originally in French, and while there is an English adaptation of it, when I quote from the poem, I’ll be drawing from the original text and translating it. I think that method best captures the original intent of the word choices.

So, the poem starts out by describing a common pastime of sailors – catching albatrosses that fly alongside their ships, bringing them down onto the deck and keeping them from flying away (how exactly they do this is not made clear in the poem). The poem describes the downed birds as pitiful, clumsy, and ashamed/shameful (French: honteux). Their great big wings trail beside them as they try to walk, dragging like oars. Here are the first 2 quatrains, if you want to try to read them or translate them.

Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’équipage

Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux de mer,

Qui suivent, indolent compagnons de voyage

Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.

À peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,

Que ces rois de l’azure, maladroit et honteux,

Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches

Comme des avirons traîner à côté d’eux.

The third quatrain essentially describes, from the perspective of an onlooker, how utterly stupid this bird looks. He is gauche – a word you might recognize from its English usage – which is translated as “awkward,” but I would argue that in the case of describing humans, this word also can be translated as “socially inept.” That’s important, I’ll come back to it later. The bird is veule – a word that translates directly as “weak” or “spineless.” He, who was so beautiful just a short time ago, is now comical and ugly.

Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule !

Lui, naguère si beau, qu’il est comique est laid !

Continuing the third stanza, the sailors poke and prod at the albatross, making fun of how he has been crippled by having landed on the deck of the ship.

L’un agace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,

L’autre mime, en boitant, l’infirme qui volait.

The fourth and final quatrain makes a link between the author of the poem and this albatross that he observed. To me, the wording here is really what drives home the connection between Ed and the poet/the albatross, so I’m going to translate each line.

               Le Poète est semblable au Prince des nuées

               The Poet is similar to/like the Prince of the Clouds

               Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer

               Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer/bowman

               Exilé sur le sol, au milieu des huées

               Exiled on the earth/soil/ground, in the midst of jeers/booing

               Ses ailes de géants l’empêchent de marcher.

               His giant wings keep him from walking.

Quick clarification - I’ll admit that there’s a huge assumption that I’m making in that the writers of OFMD decided to reference this specific poem in this extremely tangential way, despite the albatross here representing something entirely different than its normal meaning in literature. For the sake of argument, I’m going to assume for the rest of this post that they did do that, and that this poem exists in-universe over 100 years before it was written in real life. Ok? Ok! :D

So at this point, if you’re familiar with Our Flag Means Death, you may have guessed that the connection I’ve drawn is between the narrator of this poem (the Poet) and Ed. In my mind, at some point in his life, Ed has read this poem, and he has also heard that little factoid about albatrosses spending their entire lives away from shore (and read my first post if you need clarification on that!). And over the course of his life, and especially the past several months, he’s come to associate himself with the views he’s cultivated of the albatross – never meant to leave the sea, never meant to be a part of life on shore (“polite society”), and he would look stupid and silly if he tried. This is a view he’s held since childhood – as we see with his conversation with his mother in S1E06 –

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We’re just not those kinds of people.

…

And it’s a view that Stede had started to put a dent into during their time together. Where Ed says he’s not a good person, Stede vehemently defends his good character. Where Calico Jack says pirates don’t have friends, Stede tells him that he’s his friend. That Ed wears fine things well, that he’s quite sophisticated. All things that Ed has never allowed himself to believe could possibly be true – until he met Stede, he never even considered that he could “land” – and for a few precious weeks, Ed believes him.

And then Stede leaves. After Ed has laid himself bare, more vulnerable than he has ever let himself be in his life, after Ed has exposed who he really is – the only person who has ever wholly accepted him leaves. And Ed is left floundering, like the mighty prince of the sky trying to walk on the deck of a ship. That fourth quatrain brings a lot of scenes from the show to mind – here are some examples.

The Prince of the Clouds, who haunts the tempest.

The one who is exiled on the Earth.

In the midst of jeers. (recall the use of the word “gauche”? I believe that in this case, the “socially inept” definition applies even better than the simple translation of “awkward”)

His giant wings keep him from walking.

The way this poem describes the plight of the albatross is nigh on exactly how Ed is supposedly seeing himself post-breakup. He just was never meant to have the kind of life that he wants; he’s extremely good at one thing, and one thing only – violence. He will never have any other life.

This is why I think Ed has read this poem – because he references the albatross as a “bird that never lands,” and in the poem, this bird just so happens to also be seen as stupid, ugly, and gauche when it is put into any situation other than what it excels at. And regardless of whether this is actually intended to be a canonical reference or even if it was completely unintentional on the part of the writers, this poem holds a special place in my heart because of how well I believe it captures Ed’s emotional situation.

So, thanks for making it this far – I’d love to hear some feedback if any of you have anything to add! As always, my inbox is open, feel free to DM if you want to do any reciprocal info/opinion-dumping about the beloved Pirate Show!!

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ofmd s2 meta #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd blackbeard #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #literary analysis #albatross #metaphor #our flag means death #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death meta #our flag means death spoilers