#cdrama ramblings

[extraordinarilyextreme]

devotion not as worship. but as recognition. as "i want to stand with you, and beside you." as learning. as understanding. as "i want to know you." as "i am making the choice to get to know you." as persistence. as care. as "you are knowable." as "you are lovable." devotion not as idolatry. but devotion as mortality. as a reflection. "you and i, together. equals. partners." devotion as accompaniment. devotion as humanity.

#fanghua #mysterious lotus casebook #cdrama ramblings #im doing great yall i am i am i am #not a vase to be admired or appreciated from afar #not an object to be kept or sought after #not a god to long for and chase #you are human and a whole person #i am willing to be a human and whole person with you #with you #WITH YOU #BESIDE YOU

[psalm40speakstome]

Dongfang Qingcang: my emotions are dead, I can use hellfire, I feel nothing ever

Also Dongfang Qingcang: gave Orchid back her hair within minutes of meeting her because she was crying

#dongfang qingcang #love between fairy and devil #lbfad #my CDrama rambles #cdrama rewatch #cdrama #dylan wang #wang hedi #esther yu

[stormboundstars]

I do always love cdrama productions that are like. we will make our actors/characters the most insanely beautiful people ever. whether it's through costume design and hair & make-up (Love Between Fairy and Devil; Love You Seven Times; My Journey to You) or through storytelling– the way the character is framed in a shot/scene, angles, associated sceneries and motifs (Lost You Forever; In Blossom currently). actors becoming both art and artist. am I making sense

#currently watching in blossom and in love with both liu xueyi and ju jingyi ngl #cdrama #in blossom #newt rambles #love between fairy and devil #love you seven times #my journey to you #lost you forever #cdramas

[lyselkatz]

The sky is high and the sea is vast. Do as you wish, unrestrained and free.

天高海遠，任爾等自在縱橫

...☕?/commission

I wonder what happened to the kids after DFS freed them from the Dí Fortress, he certainly didn't stay around once his long awaited vengeance was fulfilled. He freed them and walked away. The kids wouldn't even know who he was.

DFS wouldn't want them to know anyway, wouldn't want anyone to know. He'd rather have HuaHua misunderstanding and hating him for his betrayal than explaining himself and exposing this deep secret past. Thankfully HuaHua saw past that!

Most of the kids probably needed medical (and psychological) attention, maybe some stayed around long enough to be picked up by HuaHua and XiâoBâo and taken into TianJi Manor. Or maybe WúYán was tasked with settling them anonymously but I don't think DFS would have wanted him to know either.

Aaaaanyway!

If I didn't have a crush on a-Fei already, that scene would have doomed me for sure! Seriously, YáoYao says so much with his eyes! My heart can't take it!!!😭😭😭 I'm also very frustrated because my arting skills can't do him justice!

And I actually screamed (internally) when he said that sentence during the song 天下 for the 2023 iQiyi Scream Night.

#mysterious lotus casebook #di feisheng #cdrama #fanart #lyselkatzcreations #lysel's ramblings #ugh! brain can't English properly today...

[thedreamerstoryteller]

Li Xiangyi and Di Feisheng are two legends, two myths, the two most powerful martial artists of the Jianghu, the heads of the two biggest sects. The Fastest Sword and the Demon King.

They are the characters of a story that everyone knows and tell. They are ideals. They are role models who embodies different values and different visions.

They are two faces of the same coin, opposite yet complementary. They are the sun and the moon. They are what people would like to be and what they would like to never be. They are hope and fear. They are meaningful and important names written in books and reports.

They are two abstract figures in the history of Martial Arts. The archetypes of the Hero and the Villain. Something to reach and something to fight.

But for Fang Duobing, beside and before all of this, they are and always be Li Lianhua and A-Fei.

The wandering physician with a sharp mind and silver tong and his old mysterious friend with an imposing look and a smug attitude.

The one who lives in a weird wheeled house with a dog, who can't cook (at least not so well), who grows his own vegetables and plants and just wants a simple and carefree life and the one who has appeared suddenly, who seems to not fear everything, who is straightforward, who seems always to have something to hide, who seems violent and hot-tempered but he actually isn't, who says he has no taste but it isn't completely true, who actually cares but does not want to show it.

For Xiaobao, before everything, they are his friends, the first people he has met in the Jianghu and he has trusted. When he discovers the truth about their identities, in his eyes they don't stop to be the myths and legends he has grown up with but they become real. They are real human people with strengths and weaknesses and he accepts them. This doesn't diminish their value, their roles or what they represent but in a certain way it makes them more reachable and tangible.

Can you imagine the faces of the people who sees this kid acting without restrains around these two legendary personalities who don't seem particularly bothered by his manners? I can and I can't help but laugh at that.

#mysterious lotus casebook #chinese drama #li lianhua #li xiangyi #cdrama #chen yi #di feisheng #fang duobing #fang xiaobao #xiaobao #xiao shunyao #zeng shunxi #joseph zeng #i love them #I love this drama #A little nonsense #I can't get over this drama #senseless ramblings

[kingsandbastardz]

Xiao Shunyao containing multitudes.

Even if he's technically using similar facial expressions, the vibe is different - and not just because of the costuming. Actors have to be malleable, I guess, so they can believably disappear.

#xiao shunyao #my royal ramblings #shui long yin #the advisors alliance #the locked room #cdrama: 7 - the neighbors

[soiledtaste]

this is very belated because i wasn't even sure i was going to do this post but i do enjoy hearing everyone's thoughts when i do. here's what stood out to me last year both favorites and just standouts

kimi to nara koi wo shite mite mo

last twilight (sans the ending)

kiseki: dear to me

moonlight chicken

my beautiful man 2

only friends (not perfect but still enjoyed it)

bokura no shokutaku

the eighth sense

pit babe (i have no words as to why i enjoyed this as much as i did. i blame the cast, why they got to be so good)

the sign (i still haven't watched the finale because i don't want it to be over)

unintentional love story

taikan yoho

kimi ni wa todokanai

tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna

shigatsu no tokyo wa...

@morathicain @gunsatthaphan @starminesister @bilights @pearloftheorient @untouchabyeolman @nocturnalgrimoire @desire-for-madness @haymaepunk @pharawee @taikanyohou @firstkhaoo @ceciolla95 @deshimango @nohshinwoos @thasorns & all

hope some people i follow don't mind me tagging because i've been in such a drama slump as of late that maybe hearing from others about dramas i missed might motivate me to get back into them

#about #ramblings #2023 #dramas #kdrama #cdrama #jdrama #thai series #kimi to nara koi wo shite mite mo #last twilight #kiseki: dear to me #moonlight chicken #my beautiful man #only friends #bokura no shokutaku #the eighth sense #pit babe #the sign #unintentional love story #taikan yoho #kimi ni wa todokanai #tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna #shigatsu no tokyo wa...

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

You know what annoys me to no end?

Lads with friggin EYELASHES like this:

Don't mind me, I'm just jealous! 😆

Also, someone should cast ZànZàn and ZYL as blood relatives!

#zhu yilong #zhu zanjin #xiao shunyao #cdrama #chinese actors #EYELASHES #lysel's ramblings #家人們誰懂啊!

[terapsina]

People who have watched a lot of C-dramas. Please help.

I spent a solid amount of time being obsessed with Love Between Fairy and Devil, and am now in a mood to watch something that would scratch a similar itch.

Some research has lead me to two options.

The one with the ship made up out of 'The Silly One and the Grouchy One' but gay:

Or 'Two Chaos/Order Ships for the Price of One' one:

#love between fairy and devil #lbfad #the untamed #the starry love #cdrama #cdramas #terapsina rambles

[extraordinarilyextreme]

Commenter 1: Only after I went to watch did I realize, no matter if it's Ultimate Note, Heroes, or the currently airing Mysterious Lotus Casebook, in the end, it seems the only one left is Zeng Shunxi, all alone. That's so wretched. Commenter 2: Wu Xie: "My life is lucky."

#zeng shunxi #mysterious lotus casebook #heroes #ultimate note #dmbj #莲花楼 #说英雄谁是英雄 #盗墓笔记 #worst thing ive ever seen i literally burst into tears #wu xie 😭😭😭 #and great now im having wang xiaoshi feelings again #他是使挽留之人，可到最后，他却挽留不了任何人... #ZSX why are you always playing characters who are left behind #my heart cant take it anymore #cdrama ramblings

[psalm40speakstome]

“The plants have enough spirit

to transform our limited vision.”

Rosemary Gladstar

Honestly this was just on my teabag but it felt so them coded I had to

#and yes my brain is still #with the #them so that’s part of it #love between fairy and devil #lbfad #dylan wang #wang hedi #esther yu #yu shuxin #my CDrama rambles #rosemary gladstar #quote #quotes

[ruanbaijie]

just staring at my screen going 'what now' because this show has veritably, thoroughly wrecked me

#*ramblings #lhl #mysterious lotus casebook #hands down one of the best cdramas i've watched in a long time #if not of ALL time

[rapha-reads]

Feng Lanxi's dedication to single-handedly destroy Huang Chao's entire army just because they dared bloody up Feng Xiyun's armor is like, GOALS. Know what I mean? Get you a man that's so entirely dedicated to you he'll conquer the world just to give it to you kneeling down at your feet.

#who rules the world #cdrama #feng lanxi #hei fengxi #feng xiyun #bai fengxi #heifengbaixi #as the joke goes amongst my friends: i have standards #and they are high #like hei fengxi/lao zhan/wei kuxong high #rapha rambles #rapha watches shows

[kingsandbastardz]

There was some sort of Sunday WIP thing that @randomingoftherandomness tagged me in but for the life of me, I can't find the post anymore. I'm just going to throw a piece of story on here as an incentive to continue writing lmao:

Mysterious Lotus Casebook: FangDi pairing in inception but not sure when I'll finish this because my brain's been mired in existential sadness and ghost stories and I haven't found anything fun enough to pull me out of that creative mode. As you can see, the tone of this thing is my 4am insomnia-drunk attempt at the romance genre. But... all I'm ending up with is goofy comedy.

Feel free to comment, but this is a first draft regurgitation, so keep that in mind.

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Pear Blossoms In Spring

“Ah, this is the Iron Head Slave. Remember?” says Li Lianhua the Lying Liar gesturing to the tall, leggy beauty blocking their path. “His name is a-Fei.”

The iron head slave is still lying dead not too far behind them, his feet sticking out from under a bush -- but Fang Duobing isn’t about to argue. He is too busy feeling as if all the air is being sucked out of his lungs, causing his vision to narrow and the world to spark in bright white light. Is this what love at first sight feels like?

A-Fei sighs and stares off into the trees as Li Lianhua continues to babble. Fang Duobing doesn’t hear a word being said.

“—which is perfect, You’re taking Ge Pan to Baichuan Court, so I’ll be taking him to Pudu temple to find another old friend of his,” Li Lianhua says.

“You speak so much nonsense,” a-Fei mutters, his voice is grating and viperish - and dripping with a fascinating blend of resignation and arrogance. He turns on his heel and stalks away.

“So rude,” Fang Duobing says admiringly, entranced by the perky sway of a-Fei’s skirt as he strides down the path in front of them. Both Ge Pan and Li Lianhua look askance at him.

*

Fang Duobing loved wild, powerful animals. The more willful and temperamental the better. He'd grown up with needles stabbed deep into his meridians, the taste of copper blood and vomit on his tongue, and the acrid poison of immolated oil belched from the monstrous machines rolled out from his mother's workshop. Was it any wonder that the first thing his young fingers reached for would be the glimmering scales of a black python? Or the bloodied, silver fur of a chained, snarling wolf?

#mlc wip #writing practice #writing practice for fake royals #difang #fangdi #where fdb can't decide which animal to compare dfs to but whatever it is he likes it #i write both comedies and tragedies and in true cdrama fashion there's no telling which way this story will end up #my royal ramblings

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

"Personally if you felted a big fluffy hedge and had some glasses on the ground by it and his twinky limbs sticking out I'd be into it" - @blackswan-wildgeese

Guardian Bingo Fest's bonus prompt for March is 'Take A Leap' and I'm swapping my B5 'fake dating' prompt for this.

Despite several suggestions of various people being yeeted from various places "Professor Shen being yote off that roof" was the one that truly spoke to my permanently unserious soul. And this is why you should have friends that encourage your interest in crafting being used for shitpostesque purposes. I have spent half the time making this cackling to myself and if that's not a sign I made the right decision, I don't know what is.

The design changed and got slightly more complicated because what if Shen Wei had had to commit to his lie so much that we got a very different shot than what we actually got:

Proportions and perspective are definitely way out but oh well. :D

#guardianbingofest #guardian #shen wei #i am so sorry sir #hei pao shi #has never been ungraceful in his life and here i am spreading slanderous lies #zhenhun #hand embroidery #wool felting #needle felting #guardian cdrama #twabbbiih made a thing #i hope you realise i am forcing you to have this when I see you next despite you not being all that into the show btw #dude 'fell' from a FIVE storey building and his glasses didn't even break #the sid were so right to be suspicious of him from the get go #once again i have rambled #im sorry i didn't come through on the arms but fuck me the shoes were hard enough i am NOT fucking with hands when i can't even draw them #i say as i work on a different thing that is specifically hands in great detail... #love yooooou Al <3 <3 <3 hope you like #this was made with the intended audience of 2

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Having watched the DMBJ/The Lost Tomb franchise early on my deep dive into CDramaland is adding an extra layer of fun to so many series!

Love And Redemption 琉璃 is Xiâo Hua being pissed at YaToú for frolicking with Xiâo Ge (unless it's Zhang BùXùn since Dòu Chéng is his bestie) Wú Xié is her reluctant pet.

#love and redemption #the lost tomb cast #dmbj cast #cheng yi #yuan bingyan #liu xueyi #bai shu #han chengyu #the lost tomb 2 #the mystic nine #cdrama #lysel's ramblings