#character: cheng song

[movielosophy]

Love Like The Galaxy ~ Thank God her brothers are nice.

#they are all eye candies #Love Like The Galaxy #Love Like The Galaxy ep4 #cdrama #zhao lu si #zhao lusi #character: cheng shao shang #jiang yi ming #character: cheng song #zhao zi qi #character: cheng shao gong #月升沧海

[tbgkaru-woh]

The Untamed, but make it lesbian

#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #the untamed #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan xichen #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #jin zixuan #jin guangyao #xue yang #xiao xingchen #song lan #wen chao #wen #my art #genderbender #character design

[nangongpuye]

i did a thing

MDZS (novel) :

72 named characters

50 dead (including wen ning, song lan, and wei wuxian)

conclusion: 69% chance of death, with a 4.2% chance of conscious return to life.

MDZS (any and all media) :

77 named characters

55 dead

conclusion: 72% chance of death anywhere in the mdzs-verse.

TGCF:

44 named characters (clones and alter egoes not counted)

16 permanently dead

14 ghosts

16 gods

conclusion: 36% chance of permanent death, 32% chance of dying and becoming a ghost, 36% chance in ascending.

here's the percentage, but skewed with the ghost deaths: 73%

SVSSS (svsss only, no pidw):

41 named characters

12 dead, + 1 linguang-jun missing +1 shen yuan +1 shang qinghua

conclusion: 37% chance of death/missing, 4.9% chance of returning via transmigration

conclusion of conclusions: great mxtx, why did you have to do that to mdzs????? they're all dead......

#“average tgcf character dies 3 times a day” factoid is just statistical error. average tgcf character dies 0 times per day. hua cheng #who lives in the cave of 1000 gods & dies over 10000 times over the story #is an outlier adn should not be counted. #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #cql #the untamed #scum villian self saving system #svsss #not a poll #hua cheng #wen ning #song lan #wei wuxian #shen yuan #shang qinghua

[thedreamerstoryteller]

Don't go tonight

Stay here one more time

Remind me what it's like, oh

And let's fall in love one more time

I need you now by my side

It tears me up when you turn me down

I'm begging please, just stick around

I'm sorry, don't leave me, I want you here with me

I know that your love is gone

I can't breathe, I'm so weak, I know this isn't easy

Don't tell me that your love is gone

That your love is gone

#it's been a while #It's been a while since I posted something #Work and duties have absorbed me but Mysterious Lotus Casebook has always been stuck in my head #This drama has conquered my heart and soul #The story #the characters #Everything #Above all them #li lianhua #li xiangyi #feihua #I heard this song and it made me think about them #As always #mysterious lotus casebook #chinese drama #cdrama #lian hua lou #xiao shunyao #cheng yi

[daffodilsinspring]

GIVING TGCF CHARACTERS SONGS

Xie Lan - Wide Awake by Katy Perry

Hua Cheng - Riptide by Vance Joy

Yin Yu - Mary on a Cross by Ghost

Quan Yizhen - Make It Right by BTS ft.LAUV

Banyue - Let It Be by James Bay

Ling Wen - HWAA by Gidle

Jian Lan - Honeybee by Head and the Heart

Yushi Huang - Kura Kura by Twice

Pei Ming - Sunflower by Post Malone and Swae Lee

Shi Qingxuan - Four by FAKY

Shi Wudu - Every Shade of Blue by The Head and The Heart

Feng Xin - Beautiful by Treasure

Mu Qing - Sweet Night by V

Lang Qianqiu - Everest by Sam Kim and Akmu

He Xuan - When I R.I.P by LABRINTH

#lang qianqiu #character appreciation #tgcf #heavens official blessing headcanon #heavensward #tgcf headcanon #xie lan #hua cheng #yushi huang #ban yue #shi qingxuan #shi wudu #pei ming #ling wen #jian lan #he xuan #mu qing #feng xin #yin yu #quan yizhen #song recs

[justanotherclosetednerd]

Heaven Official's Blessing (quotes and official art) + a Taylor Swift song (Sweet Nothing)

#sweet nothing is hualian coded #tgcf #taylor swift #sweet nothing #mxtx #heaven official's blessing #hua cheng #xie lian #quotes #web weaving #I have a TS song for every character

[lucky-cat-13]

The Great Battle of The Untamed Couples

Round of 16, Bracket 5

#grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #jiang cheng #nie huaisang #song lan #xiao xingchen #xue yang #tournament poll #tumblr tournament #character tournament #bracket tournament #the untamed tournament #the great battle of the untamed couples

[pearliegrimm]

“pearlie, which mdzs adaptation character designs do u want to use for this drawing?” 

“...yes.”

#MDZS #Mo Dao Zu Shi #魔道祖师 #im here to eat my words regarding a similar tgcf drawing i did #i said id never draw this many characters ever again #welp #special apology to song lan and jin zixuan who juuust didnt make the cut sorry kings #Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #Mo Xiang Tong Xiu #MXTX #WangXian #The Untamed #CQL #Chen Qing Ling #Wei Wuxian #Lan Wangji #Jiang Cheng #Jiang Yanli #Lan Xichen #Jin Guangyao #Nie Mingjue #Jin Ling #Lan Sizhui #Lan Jingyi #A Qing (MDZS) #Xue Yang #Xiao Xingchen #Nie Huaisang #Wen Qing #Wen Ning

[anulithots]

Random ask, do you love ChengGuang because somehow their dynamic remind you of SatoSugu and because both ships (can/have potential to) end up tragically?

Also, is there a certain story or fairy tale from your childhood that made you love storytelling.....

P.s

Hi, I'm new to your blog and until now your blog is the most unique one I ever see and your metas are so great (especially from a new fan of JJK). I've been a JJK fan for almost 3 years and I can't ever wrote metas even half as good as you...(Also because I know something in my mind but somehow can't wrote them down).

Thanks for this blog of yours....🌷🌻

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THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS MADE ME HAPPY STIM SO HARD I HIT THE TABLE /pos

Okie dokie, I shall address the ps first, because (a) thannkkkk youuuu and (b) there is a method to my madness.

As a storyteller, I see other storytellers often build characters in themes with the same sort of narrative logic, which can usually be predicted across stories (to a certain extent due to people's different storytelling styles, but it works fairly well regardless of which story you're looking at.) In knowing how to tell stories myself, I only have to work backwards to figure out the 'deeper meaning'

(ALTHOUGH, analyzing stories is only part of the fun. I see nothing wrong with reading/watching stories like poetry is read, with the words appreciated not for the content alone, but for the subsequent feelings imparted. Stories with ease of comprehension and that vicarious way of experiencing different ideas and concepts are - in my opinion - the ones that hold the true essence and wonder of storytelling.... mmm that was too fancy... hold on...

NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE ANALYZED IN ORDER TO FIND WONDER IN IT BUT IT'S FUN TO ANALYZE NONETHELESS.

There we go.)

In essence:

The themes dictate the characters, the characters dictate the plot.

The way I tell stories is to have a theme/question and use characters as different perspectives on that theme. The characters then get a backstory relating to that theme, one that 'teaches them' that certain perspective, which they will utilize to tackle the issues the plot throws at them. (the plot should also 'poke and prod' at the character's internal conflict to showcase and test the extent of it, but one can discern most internal conflict from the backstory.

Which is why JJK was sooo hardddd, especially for Itadori and Gojo - who get little to none compared to all the other characters - and even still, Gojo's takes some inference but someone could figure out his backstory... Itadori's? All we get is the faint idea of how his grandfather raised him.)

Usually for analyzing it's easiest to pick out the themes or main character conflict first (although themes can help figure out the main character conflict, so it depends on the story really.)

Take Link Click as an example. The overall theme/concept to explore is that of 'ambition and goals getting in the way of relationships and love, leaving one with the regret of loneliness'.

ANnnddd I have yet to actually write down my thots for Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi, but here we go. (characters have the basic structure of - perspective, and a desire and fear that contradict each other based on that perspective) :

Cheng Xiaoshi: he represents the aftermath of this, with his parents leaving him, and the loneliness and pain lingering through his every action. He then clings to the love he receives - and that often manifests when he possesses others - which causes him to never stop waiting for his parents to come back. Overall, his perspective is something along the lines of - 'the people I care about are the most important thing, and the ambitions and goals should support that'

(the best screenshot I have right now... I'm rewatching and will probably screenshot nearly everything.)

Desire: For his parents to come back mostly, but also to experience that same love and comfort again. He often tries to vicariously experience this through helping others. Fear: That others - like his parents - will leave him alone, and he can't face his overwhelming fears and emotions on his own.

He's silly and jovial yet also quite strategic (he figured out what's-the-brother's-name's powers with a word alone, and upon a rewatch, he does often try to deduce how to find whatever it is they are looking for, yet his trust for Lu Guang and the overwhelming emotions from possession 'dilute' that a bit.)

Lu Guang: ... his is more unknown, so I won't be doing a full analysis until I have more information, buuuut there's a lot you can get on a rewatch of his 'moment by moment' reasoning. He wants to protect Cheng Xiaoshi at the expense of everyone else, and he doesn't like it when CHeng Xiaoshi is in danger/is upset with him.

But my random musings for his perspective are something like: 'stick to the plan, for it's the only way for things to turn out okay, even if others and their emotions get hurt along the way.' (Cheng Xiaoshi is the exception to this. ALSO Lu Guang then becomes a REALLY GOOD foil for CHeng Xiaoshi alkajdfkjalsdf the analysis I will do of them later aljkflaksdfjas)

(I get to use dividers eeee)

Okay now for your first question.

Do I like ChengGuang because their dynamic reminds me of SatoSugu and they both end tragically?

... Initially.

(They both got that 'kuch kuch hota hain' (did I spell that right?) basketball scene.

(yes my mom wanted to show me all the classic Shah rukh khan - did I spell his name right? - movies and yes I liked the first half before female love interest got.... docile? More 'oh she'll be good wife material yada yada' and blah blah blah they should argue over basketball more... and yes I think the classic structure of the classic movies - being full of backstory and such - are better than the modern ones. At least the Dunki movie brought that back.

Anywho, my point:

If you got a tragic ship, they need to play basketball apparently. No I do not know why this is a thing.)

But to be honest... I kind of like ChengGuang better than SatoSugu, which is my own personal preference really. (Also the platonic ship in my story reminds me of ChengGuang, whereas SatoSugu reminds me of the way I cling to other people)

I like the way SatoSugu were each other's comfort people, the only ones who could understand each other, and how they both teased and comforted each other.

But they got... so little time together...

I do LOVEEEEE them a lottt, but like.... ChengGuang...

They get to tease each other and be around each other and aljdfaklsdfsadf they are just so comfortable in each others' presence and IDK they give more of a queer platonic vibe than SatoSugu does and er, I just love them a lot.

I would list my reasons but that would take too long.

So instead, enjoy the beginnings of my screenshot collection:

(I reached my image limit)

To be clear, I don't think narratively one is better than the other, and I don't like ranking things I like; I'm just weak for fluffy character dynamics of any sort and Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang, and Qiao LIng have my favorite character dynamics ever. (Not shipping Qiao LIng and the other two. ALso also... 'Cheng Xiaoshi, his sister, and his queer platonic bf get traumatized while breaking all of time and space' is now my favorite 'trope' and akldfjaksldfjaskdnfskdlfj.

BUT YES THE FACT THAT THEY ARE TRAGIC AND TRY TO COMFORT EACH OTHER THROUGH THAT is MY EVERYTHINGGG KLDSJFLKSDJF. THEY LITTERALY BROKE TIME AND SPACE FOR EACH OTHER.

Okieee after all that writing, we get to the second question!

What stories made me love storytelling?

I don't know if there's a story that got me into storytelling per se per se, because I've been doing it since I was little... perhaps Wings of Fire?

But the stories that most heavily inspired the stories I want to tell are these:

Song of the Sea was my childhood. It has ~ siblings ~ and ~ whimsical magic ~ and the soundtrack is all my comfort and nostalgia. The animation and the gentle pacing and the absolute wonder this movie is.

(I got the book recently and aijfaskdfaksldfaklsdf askdfjasdkfjasdfl, I love it so muchhhh)

What to say about the Little Prince? It's a masterpiece. The soundtrack is also all my comfort and nostalgia. The back and forth between the original book and the 'current timeline', the themes and the whimsy interwoven throughout, it's my everything.

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Thank you so so much for the ask!

#link click #character analysis #song of the sea #the little prince #noorie infodumps. be very afraid #noorie answers asks #answered asks #cheng xiaoshi #lu guang #qiao ling #shiguang dailiren #shiguang

[yeyayeya]

Ok ok, listen

If, IF, Eternal Faith ever releases, I am HOPING that the characters get their own themes songs like they did with The Untamed characters. I know I shouldn’t compare one with the other, as I know damn well that they’re both completely different and all that, but you know? What if

The Untamed handled the MDZS characters quite differently, but both of them have the same director, so maybe, just maybe, they get their own character songs? I know TGCF isn’t as music based as MDZS is, but PLEASE.

Because if so I am going to go incredibly INSANE if they actually do that.

Ok but if we are being real, this is only if the show releases, and who knows if the characters would even get their own songs

#yeyarants #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #eternal faith #ok but imagine? #hua cheng and xie lian?? #mu qing and feng xin? #HE XUAN?? SHI QINGXUAN??? SHI WUDU??? #no please I am on my knees begging #and this is only if it ever sees the light of day #I need all of the main characters to get their own songs #it’s so I have something to cry to :) #do NOT even get me started on Yin Yu and Quan Yizhen #I’m going to go fucking insane #and my girls Ling Wen Yushi Huang and Ban Yue? please #ok but I feel like Ban Yue and Pei Xiu will get their own song together #probably #and Jun Wu? #imagine #also Qi Rong #and Lang Qianqiu #like just imagine if they did #I am hoping they do that and I am living in denial that Eternal Faith releases

[movielosophy]

Love Like The Galaxy ~ Don’t worry, Niao Niao, you have us

#god this mother #i'm so mad #what's the point of being tsundere to your own child?? #i think yang yang needs to be slapped too she really enjoys the attention #even though shao shang won't blame her I would! #Love Like The Galaxy #love like the galaxy ep6 #zhao lu si #zhao lusi #character: cheng shao shang #zeng li #character: xiao yuan yi #xu jiao #character: cheng yang #jing yi ming #character: cheng song #zhao zi qi #character: cheng shao gong #guo tao #character: cheng shi #peng yang #character: sang shun hua #月升沧海

[dangerous-advantage]

i refuse to believe mxtx has not listened to at least one or both of the songs 'viva la vida' by coldplay, and 'pompeii' by bastille. i refuse

#this isn't even me like vaguely connecting lyrics to characters like i love to do (see 'third eye' and 'third eye (demo)' for hua cheng) #like istg i could make a full analysis post about how these two songs (especially the latter) #relate to xie lian and bai wuxiang respectively #i could do it right now #and NO this post was not brought about by my ardent desire to have an actually GOOD mash-up of those two songs #that combines elements of both while keeping a fair balance between both songs. #like come on PLEASE i *need* to listen to a mash-up where the person doing it confidently puts together the respective bridges #it CAN be done and if you do everything else at least semi-well and it sounds smooth then you WILL have created a masterpiece #i would do it myself but i have neither the means nor ability #anyway. didn't mean to ramble off on that tangent. #jk i totally did lmaoooo #this post is about tgcf btw. if you didn't pick up on that. lmao #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #xie lian #bai wuxiang #this post is so vague i feel bad tagging anyone else lmao #hob #heaven official's blessing

[endless-nightshift]

Orange juice by Noah Kahan but it's Jiang Cheng about Wei Wuxian.

13 dead and 43 injured. I'm feral and I might not recover.

#it could be romantic or platonic #both work #both make me feral #if i had the brain to make animatics or an edit i would but im at work rn so :P #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #grandmaster of demonic arts #wei ying #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #music #character songs #noah kahan #orange juice #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian x jiang cheng #wei wuxian x lan wangji #wei wuxian & jiang cheng

[haunted-radishes]

Character song that I desperately need to put out there: Heart's Content by Brandi Carlile for Chengqing

Maybe you thought I hung the moon, maybe we thought we were Johnny and June, maybe we thought it was just us two, maybe we spoke too soon. We never lie and we don't tell tales, we bite our tongues and our fingernails, we fall in love and we don't fall out, maybe we speak too soon. Here's you and me, and in between, we draw a line but we can't see where it's bent, we scratch our heads, and race against the heart's content Maybe we hurt who we love the most, maybe it's all we can stand, maybe we walk through the world as ghosts, break my own heart before you can. ... Maybe we know how the story ends, maybe it's not even about us, we both retreat to opposing stands, and love lives on without us

Hhhhhhhnnnnnnngggggggggg......

#chengqing #jiang cheng #wen qing #songs #character song

[daffodilsinspring]

GIVING TGCF COUPLES SONGS

(CANON&NON-CANON)

Xie Lan&Hua Cheng - A Thousand Years by Christina Perri

Feng Xin&Mu Qing - Blue by Troye Sivan ft.Alex Hope

Pei Ming&Yushi Huang - The Dawning of Spring by Anson Seabra

Yin Yu&Quan Yizhen - Fools by Lauren Aquilina

Yushi Huang&Ling Wen - Good News by Ocean Park Standoff

Banyue&Pei Sue - Story of My Life by One Direction

Shi Qingxuan&He xuan - Let's Hurt Tonight by One Republic

Jun Wu&Mei Nianqing - Iris by Goo Goo Dolls

#ban yue #he xuan #shi qingxuan #jun wu #mei nianqing #pei su #xie lian #yushi huang #character appreciation #hua cheng #feng xin #mu qing #yin yu #quan yizhen #ling wen #pei ming #tgcf #tgcf headcanon #heavens official blessing headcanon #heaven official's blessing #song recs

[lian-fang-zun]

Very late promo on tumblr, but here's the AU fic I finished for the MDZS WIPBang event last year!

(Note: Full 22 chapters are up, but the link is for the first chapter)

🌟 Basic idea: Cardcaptor Sakura AU with Meng Yao as the main character.

🌟 Sort of a sequel to the canon CCS story in-universe, set about 100 years into the future

🌟 Category: General audiences

🌟 Rating: Gen

🌟 Fandom: MDZS

🌟 No Archive Warnings Apply (although noted in tags that certain near-death incidents and fairly mild violence do occur on certain chapters of the fic)

Other details below the cut --

🌟 Character tags: Meng Yao, Nie Huaisang, Kero/Kerberus, Jiang Cheng, Song Lan (Song Zichen), Xiao Xingchen, A-Qing, Lan Xichen, Yue

Qin Su, Luo Qingyang, and Lan Wangji also pop up as recurring relatively minor characters

🌟 Relationship tags: Meng Yao + Nie Huaisang + Kero/Kerberus friendship, Meng Yao and Jiang Cheng (Rival to friends to possibly something more), background Songxiao and past Song Zichen/Lan Xichen

🌟 Word count: 154,892

🌟 Accompanying artwork's artist: Chris

🌟 Beta: 2chi

🌟 Summary (also on AO3):

Meng Yao was just an ordinary 14 year old junior high student in Jin’an district of Qingdao, adopted by his mother’s friend Sisi after his mother’s death. That is, until he accidentally stumbled upon a peculiar book. Tasked by the Guardian Beast Kerberus (Kero) to reseal 19 magical cards called Sakura Cards before disaster befalls the world, Meng Yao must now find a way to successfully reseal the cards’ spirits, aided by friends.

On the surface, this task seems fairly straightforward. But unbeknownst to Meng Yao, there is more to resealing the Sakura Cards than it seems…

#lulas's writings;; #mdzs #cardcaptor meng yao au #cardcaptor sakura au #crossover au #greatest thank you once again to everyone (esp my WIPBang team) who helped and encouraged me to finish the fic! #(artist beta and readers alike!) #and to all the kind comments I got on the published fic as well! #meng yao #jin guangyao #nie huaisang #kero (cardcaptor sakura) #jiang cheng #song lan #xiao xingchen #(almost forgot the character tags whoops;; )