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scorbleeo · 2 months

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Drama Gossip: The Spirealm (致命游戏)

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It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it. Lin Qiushi soon found that a sense of disharmony and incongruity began to pervade everything around him. Then, one odd day, he pushed open a door, and he discovered that the hallway he was familiar with turned into a boundless corridor. At both ends of this corridor were twelve, identical iron gates. Thus, the story began.

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I do not consume everything that has the 'entering a virtual game with real life consequences' plot-line but when I do, I more or less will enjoy them. The Spirealm is exactly that plot-line and after just finishing 19th Floor (another Chinese drama with similar concept), I was expecting more and hoping for lesser disappointment.

This drama did not disappoint at all. Lets first talk about the roles and the cast. Brilliant job on the casting, everybody pulled off their role so wonderfully, it felt like they were made for their roles. As for the characters these actors portrayed, wow. I haven't been obsessed with a fictional Chinese character in such a long time but Ruan Lan Zhu is so easy to be obsessed with. The writing was brilliant because I very quickly grew attached to the main people and when shit hit the fan, yeah, I felt everything as if I was a part of them.

Spoilers going on from here so if you haven't watched the show, go and watch it now, please?

As I was saying, I was so attached to some of the characters, I really, wow... Say Li Dong Yuan first. I actually already was spoiled with his death, I even knew which door was going to cause his death yet when it happened, I physically gasped. Then his farewell scene came about and goodness gracious, Xiao Zhuang's reaction was absolutely heart-wrenching. It really did not help that right before getting stabbed, the door Dong Yuan went through for Ling Ling was one of the most entertaining and comedic doors.

After that Zao Zao's death? She was already trying her best in the real world, she tried her best in the spirealm. She gave one of the best speeches ever. Yet that chandelier... I never hated chandeliers as much as I do now.

That's the thing about The Spirealm. This show has plenty of heartbreaking scenes but at the same time, it has a bunch of hilarious scenes too. You really can go from laughing one second and then depressed the next. Exactly like when Cheng Yi Xie sacrificed himself for his brother? One second I was laughing at Lan Zhu begging for Ling Ling's forgiveness and suddenly I was pissed but before I could even get real mad, I was hit with a broken heart. This may sound like a complain but the roller coaster of emotions made this drama ten times more interesting than other dramas.

Moving on to the game or doors or levels (however you want to call them). I really, really enjoy shows with this concept but many a times, the stakes just aren't high enough. Not The Spirealm though. I mean, look at Dong Yuan, Zao Zao and Yi Xie. They are part of the main leads and that world did not go easy on them. As much as I hate that they died, I really appreciated the high stakes in this drama. It made watching the show so much more worth it.

Anyhow, despite thoroughly enjoying this drama, I have so many questions. First things first, did I miss the significance of the necklace Lan Zhu gave Ling Ling during the first door?

Also (this is not that important by the way), when the time comes, the players have no choice but through the door. We've watched Ling Ling enter his doors plenty a time. Now tell me how did Wu Qi survive?

I may be someone who loves an ambiguous ending but if the theory that everything was not real is in fact real, I hate it. Yet, everything being a part of Ling Ling's dream or "hallucination" does make sense, as much as I hate it. Remember where Ling Ling walked into upon completing the first door? He entered the door in the middle of the road and exited it into his house? The discrepancies started right from the beginning. Which (if I did not miss anything) might explain the lack of significance behind the necklace. It will also explain why Ling Ling's time between each door is never long yet Wu Qi's not worried about his next door when he witnessed Dong Yuan's death? Or that Chen Fei's advancement is so much slower than Ling Ling. Furthermore, I'm supposed to believe the crew learnt about a mysterious man who helped Xiong Qi reunite with Xiao Ke in the spirealm and they did not investigate more?

I really do hate the everything was not real theory but I also cannot deny it's the most reasonable one. There was another theory I chanced upon on Douyin a while back and have since forgotten most of the information. However, I like that theory a lot even though it was quite farfetched. Long story short, the user theorised that after Lan Zhu walked into the portal and cleaned the program, Ling Ling woke up and regained consciousness after being hit, right? That's not reality but the 12th door and the door god for this last door is Lan Zhu. That was all I remember but the user did provide explanations and timestamps for their theory and upon reading it, it did make sense too. Therefore, if I ever come across that video again, I will link it here.

In the meantime, let's wallow in the conclusion of The Spirealm. It was a quick and short ride but an extremely memorable one.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5)

More productions from China here: 19th Floor (19层) | Under the Skin (猎罪图鉴)

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ao3feed-xicheng · 8 days

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by gameover3636 Song lan look at them and said sharply,"this marriage will not happen........The person whoever lan wangji marries die....that is, first partner of lan wangji will die....." Lan yi become very sad and tensed over his only son's life. Lan yi,"Is there any solution for this? Song lan,"no.....his fate was already written, whomever he marry first will die..... Who can change his fate?? Wangxian English fan fic ❤️💚 Yizhan ❤️❤️ Words: 9984, Chapters: 6/?, Language: English Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF, Wang Yibo - Fandom Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Lan Qiren, Lan Yi (Modao Zushi), Madam Lan (Modao Zushi), Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Xiao Xingchen, Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Lan Huan | Lan Xichen Additional Tags: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji Loves Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Top Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Bottom Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Omega Verse, Horoscopes, Astrology, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, Top Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Omega Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, POV Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Get a Happy Ending, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji and Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Are Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui's Parents, Hurt Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Reconciliation, Bottom Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Top Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Love, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Destiny, Fate, Yiling Laozu Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Trust Issues, Lost Love, Oblivious Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Has Self-Esteem Issues, Married Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, The Untamed (TV) Compliant, Canon - Modao Zushi & The Untamed Combination, Mo Dao Zu Shi & MXTX | Fanfics en español's Wangxian Week, Top Wang Yi Bo/Bottom Xiao Zhan | Sean, BJYX | Wang Yi Bo/Xiao Zhan | Sean is Real, Protective Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Good Parents Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji and Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji is Bad at Communicating, Pining Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji via https://ift.tt/EIwL2Xt

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #xicheng #jiang cheng #lan xichen #mdzs #cql

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nemainofthewater · 2 months

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Completed 'Surname' Polls

This is where I take several characters from different Chinese media (mostly cnovels and cdrama) and run a poll on which one is the 'best'. What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

NB: the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often they will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

This post is for the polls which have finished running and can no longer be voted in (since I have realised that I'm quickly approaching the limit for hyperlinks in the original masterlist).

If you want to see the currently live polls, they can be found here

Finished polls: Cao/Wei/Guo/Chen/Ye/Qiao/Yu/Xue/Tang/Jiang/Su/Gao/Mei/Lin/Wu/Sun/Liu/Di/Zhang/Ying/Mo/Li/Song/Yan/Xiao/Pei/Hua/Xie/Mu/Qi/Shen/Lan/Fang/Luo /Huo/Xu/Wang/Ming/Fan/Yuan/Feng/Bai/Jin/Meng/Yun/Zhao/Wen/Zhou/Yang/Shang/Yue/Sheng/Ouyang/Lu/Ling/Hu/Gu/Ding

Shi/Hong/Zhu/Yi/Cheng/Zhan/Xia/Cui/Chu/Lei/Ma/Liang/Jing/Zhi/An/Nie/Hao/Qin/Han/Guan/Zhuge/Jia/Ning/Xiang/Huang/Fei/Ruan/Dong/He/Baili/Long/Duan/Zhen/Wan/Qiu/Dongfang/Du/Bi/Jiao/Zhong/

#best surname #masterlist #poll

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welcometothejianghu · 1 year

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Psych-Hunter (or, as we have taken to calling it, House Haunters), is a very silly show. It has all the doofy charm of a USA Network shoestring-budget wacky buddy detectives series. It has some great aesthetic ideas, and then it just wanders off and gets real invested in the most damp-toast heterosexual romance ever. All of the teenagers are in their thirties. The main character jingles everywhere he walks, like a belled cat. I choose to interpret the setting as Dragon City, 1929. How do you say "Characters Welcome" in Chinese? It's that.

Anyway, I want to look at pictures of the actors when they're not in their weird steampunk outfits, so you're going to join me.

Neo Hou/Hou Minghao/Mr. Tuff Paws - Jiang Shuo (and I'm only going to do a few pictures of him, because he's Kind Of A Big Deal, and knowing what he looks like out of costume is no great accomplishment (even if it's genuinely impressive how quickly he can go from Didi to Rough Trade))

Liu Dong Qin - Qin Yi Heng/Dr. Qin, Medicine Woman (Does he get extras because I think he's hot? Listen: yes.)

Zhu Xu Dan/Bambi Zhu - Yuan Mu Qing, who looks so much better without the hideous bangs they use to pretend she's like twelve years old or whatever she's supposed to be

Zong Feng Yan - General Yuan Zhen/Moustache Dad

Xiao Xu - Bai Kai/Moustache Cop

#in real life #psych hunter #psych-hunter #house haunters

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djinmer4 · 1 year

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MDZSxTrojan War Crossover

Someone was pointing out that Agamemnon killed his kid to go to war while Odysseus couldn't do the same to his to get out of going to war, and someone else noted that's why Clytemnestra shanks Agamemnon when he comes back while Penelope remains faithful for 20 years.

So I started wondering who goes in which role and the first thing I thought of was that of course Jiang Fengmian would have to be Agamemnon. Conversely, that makes Nie Mingjue as Odysseus, the character who ends up stopping because he won't kill his own brother.

Of course, if Jiang Fengmian is Agamemnon, that makes Yu Ziyuan as Clytemnestra, Jiang Cheng as Iphigenia (the child Jiang Fengmian would willingly sacrifice) and then puts Jiang Yanli in the role of Electra/Orestes. Possibly Madame Jin as Helena, since she and Yu Ziyuan are sworn sisters. And if Madame Jin is Helena, Jin Guangshan is Menelaus.

Nie Huaisang becomes Penelope/Telemachus. Wei Wuxian gets to avoid the whole Jiang family fiasco in this one, but on the other hand, he gets the role of Achilles, so he's doomed anyway. And if Wei Wuxian is Achilles, then Wen Ning becomes Patrokulos. Briseis is A-Yuan?

The Yi City gang becomes Troy. Song Lang and Xiao Xingchen are Hector and Andromache, Xue Yang is Paris and poor A-Qing is now Cassandra.

Xue Yang/Madame Jin is kind of mind-breaking but aside from the fact they start the entire conflict, it's not like Paris or Helen actually have big roles in the saga.

Su She gets Ajax's role and Mianmian gets to be Aeneas, who leaves the whole conflict behind. Not too sure about everyone else.

#the trojan war #crossover #mdzs

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movielosophy · 2 years

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Love Like The Galaxy~ Come closer.

#we love the humor in this drama #Love Like The Galaxy #Love Like The Galaxy ep23 #cdrama #zhao lu si #zhao lusi #character: cheng shao shang #guo tao #character: cheng shi #zeng li #character: xiao yuan yi #tong lei #character: empress #bao jian fen #character: emperor #he also played emperor in a dream of splendor #月升沧海

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cnovelartreblogs · 2 years

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How to Survive as a Villain (1 post)

#how to survive as a villain

Alternate Titles:

穿成囚禁男主的反派要如何活命

穿越成反派要如何活命

Chuanyue Cheng Fanpai Yao Ruhe Huoming

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To Be or Not to Be

How to Survive as a Villain

This Villain Emperor’s Gotta Charm the Male Lead to Survive!

Author: 伊依以翼 | Yi Yi Yi Yi

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Characters:

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Ships:

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#mod post #tag wrangling #how to survive as a villain #yi yi yi yi

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parlerenfleurs · 1 year

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J'ai publié 1 910 fois en 2022

C'est 1 200 billets de plus qu'en 2021 !

289 billets créés (15%)

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Les blogs que j'ai le plus reblogués :

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J'ai étiqueté 1 804 billets en 2022

Seulement 6% de mes billets ne comportaient pas de tag

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Longest Tag: 140 characters

#(i still haven't finished 2ha and since it is licenced now i have no idea if things turn out better after the goodnight mo ran moment ahhhah

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n°5

Big fan of how Tianlang-Jun thinks his son and nephew are getting it on with the same guy at the same time and is like: This is fine :) I'm totally accepting and full of tolerance. I love humans! :)

And he means it.

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I don't know if I'm reaching with that one, but it is established rather quickly that Lan WangJi is determined to mirror Wei WuXian's actions in his first life back at him when he has the means (for instance, the carrying on his back thing, or teasing him with "I do not know" as a call back to the "whatever" moment).

And just as it was a mystery to me why Wei WuXian, during the Yiling date, would entice A-Yuan with toys only to not buy him any, setting him up for disappointment, but I came to understand that it was actually a setup for Lan WangJi to buy it so that A-Yuan would like him (!!!), there is a kinda similar situation that crops up in the present, that was puzzling me but became clear to me on this re-read.

When they come out of Yi City, Wei WuXian is quite depressed and despondent. He has just witnessed Xiao XingChen's sad unlucky fate, and it reminded him very strongly of his own. And the juniors are all sad too, and want to burn paper money, and, sure, HanGuang-Jun is lenient and will let them express their emotions, but he's not that lenient, to let them do something improper/impolite like doing this in front of someone's house, when it is considered unlucky.

Yet, he does nothing, until Wei WuXian snaps out of his state and asks him if he's not going to do anything about it, to which Lan WangJi responds why don't you do it yourself.

And I think it was purposeful. Normally he would probably have told them - look at Lan SiZhui, that boy wasn't left to this own devices, someone taught him was what socially acceptable and didn't let him blunder through needlessly offending people until he figured it out himself.

But he saw the state Wei WuXian was in, and sought to distract him from it, by letting him notice and then handle the juniors' actions.

Clever HanGuang-Jun! He learned all of Wei WuXian's subtle tricks and is using them too!

773 notes - publié le 11 septembre 2022

n°3

In a way, in MDZS, Lan Sizhui is the key and answers to the big moral questions in the story: was it all worth it? Was it all worth it when Wei WuXian lost so much, even his life, when the Wens almost all died anyway, when there was so much collateral damage?

The narrative says: yes, it was worth it, because one child survived, and thrived. Look at that lovely, loveable young man! He is the reason all this was not for naught.

But what I find interesting is, Lan Sizhui is not even that exceptional, he doesn't make a big difference in the world, does he? He's still young, but despite his really good character and keen mind and aptitudes, he's not a genius, he's not renowned, he's not a Hanguang-Jun or a Yilling Laozu. He's just a kind, good-mannered, well brought up young man. Anyone would be happy to claim him as a son or a disciple or a son-in-law. But he's not some big game changer. Even though being a cultivator sets him apart from a good chunk of the normal population already, in his habitual context he's a normal kid. He makes friends, acts silly sometimes, hasn't slayed any Shuanwu of slaughter, got easily led into a trap by a trail of beheaded cats. A normal kid.

And that's important, because this reward is as the sacrifice Wei WuXian made. He didn't make some grand gesture for important people. He did what was right in his view, no more, no less. It wasn't for some greater good, even less for fame. It was simply what was right. And if you do what's right you're not really adding up and subtracting the wins and losses as in a giant thought experiment of the trolley problem. There probably would have been ultimately less death and suffering had Wei WuXian let the Wens to their misery and death quietly. There wouldn't have been a Lan Sizhui, but there would have been a Jiang YanLi, a Jin ZiXuan, and many people that got killed when they attacked him would have lived. But it wouldn't have been right, and so Wei WuXian doesn't think about it that way, and the narrative doesn't either. It tells you life is complicated, and sowing violence reaps more violence, and you can't always "win". But if you do your best, if you keep doing what's right, even if you are only human, and make mistakes, and everyone is against you, it still counts.

It counts. Not for the greater good, not for fame, it counts. Because the whole point is Lan Sizhui gets to live, and grow up, and be a normal kid and have a good life, and that's enough. He doesn't need to be or do anything "more" than that.

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n°2

It is lovely in MDZS how Wei WuXian essentially has the “male” role, in that he is the one pulling on Lan WangJi’s figurative pigtails, the one to give him flowers repeatedly, the one to say he’s pretty out loud and in his head all the time, and the one trying to get him to pay attention to him.

Lan WangJi, meanwhile, gets teased, looks pretty, receives flowers, gets embarassed, defaults to ignoring his crush to appear aloof and keep control, his chaste modesty is being scandalously transgressed via super-meaningful Lan ribbon and cold pond shenanigans, and he secretly keeps all the tokens of Wei WuXian’s affections

And also kisses him forcefully against a tree (but even then in the text and Wei WuXian's view, he's a "shy maiden") and fantasizes about shutting him up in a very specific way

Socially also, Lan WangJi is the pure and treasured daughter niece/sister, thematically, while Wei WuXian is the handsome devilish rake who "corrupts him"

And I find it hilarious how they both subvert everything I've mentioned above (by virtue of being extremely well-written characters who aren't confined to one stereotype but feel like real, complex, subtle people instead), especially after Wei WuXian's resurrection when their dynamic changes to become extremely funny more balanced

1 690 notes - publié le 16 août 2022

Mon billet n°1 en 2022

The power dynamic between Bingqiu is so complex and unhinged.

On the one hand, Shen Qingqiu is the Shizun, and Luo Binghe the disciple. He still pretty much serves and defers to him as such. Shen Qingqiu is the master, the elder, the superior, in a way that can never change in a culture so steeped in respect for such hierarchies, and where reversal or equalization is simply not a thing. Shen Qingqiu himself still refers to himself as "this master" for most of the story (even post canon? I can't remember), and the one quality he appreciates in Luo Binghe (at least that he says aloud) is his obedience. In both their minds, he's very firmly the one who raised and trained Luo Binghe - though with very different connotations depending on who you ask.

On the other hand... well... Luo Binghe plays the obedient puppy-ish disciple, but he pretty much cute/pathetic-bullies his way into anything he wants, because Shen Qingqiu is weak to him and can't say no. So Luo Binghe plays submissive, cries a little, then gets to top Shen Qingqiu into next Sunday in the most unfillial way imaginable lol. Also, and I cannot stress this enough, he's the most powerful person in the world, he doesn't have to serve anyone in a humble cottage. He literally has an empire and is a ruler, but he plays housewife and meek disciple to this one spoiled guy who gave him the correct manual once and head-patted him with abandon.

Also let's not forget that, to Luo Binghe, Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan are pretty seamlessly the same person. This serial head-patter is also the guy who poured hot tea on him and would string him up to beat him and made him sleep in the woodshed like a particularly miserable Cinderella. To him, one day, his cruel master deemed him worthy of his love after he made him go through many trials, and then slam-dunked him into the abyss, and then self-destructed to save him and then turned out to be alive and avoiding him like the plague and then sulked because Luo Binghe did not properly ask his hand in marriage. Luo Binghe may be the most powerful man in the world and have Shen Qingqiu wrapped around his manipulative golden little finger, BUT the grip and ascendant Shen Qingqiu possesses over Luo Binghe's psyche is unparalleled.

BUT the other side of this equation is that Shen Qingqiu feels so guilty, and loves Luo Binghe so much, he can't bear to make him unhappy and folds like a wet paper towel any time there is the merest hint of tears - which is a conscious strategy on Luo Binghe's part! Shang Qinghua told him acting pathetic works, and it does, and so he milks it! Who knows how much of it is real? Not me. Not Shen Qingqiu either, who also does not care that he's being manipulated. He knows he's being manipulated! But it works anyway!

Because what are you going to do when a cute puppy makes sad eyes at you?? Not give him the bit of meat???

You're his master but he owns your heart so that's your fate, now. He's huge and could maul you but he loves you too much and prefers to act spoiled. He sits when you say sit, comes when you say come. You tell him no but he climbs into your lap anyway and you are helpless to stop him so you pet him. It's messy, full of pathos, possibly unhealthy. You're both living your best life.

That's Bingqiu.

1 736 notes - publié le 18 octobre 2022

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#année en revue #mon année tumblr 2022 en revue #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #lol at my own blog being in the top five of reblogs #see I thought I talked way more about Scum Villain lately but apparently mdzs still steals the crown #though my number one post is the one about bingqiu #Also I talk way more about personnal stuff than I expected #also also just noticed this is in french but it's fine the template is the same for everyone you all will understand

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hundredthousandtimes · 2 years

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Lol it has been a long time since i have been here! But anywhooo. What are shows you are exited to watchin the future and gif maybe to? Estonian anon

Hi!

The one that I'm most excited about is Till The End Of The Moon (2022). The pictures shows fabulous costumes and the storyline is in my alley. I don't know how much they changed the storyline, because in the novel the male lead was abused, and because of this he is a villain at the beginning, who spreads his misery to others so he is essentially the villain of the story. Cdramas usually don't do redemption arcs, so I don't know how will they portray him, but I will definitely watch it for Luo Yunxi if nothing else.

I'm excited for Immortality too, but it's adapted from a bl novel so I'm not sure if it will air. And the novel has a lot of trigger warnings, and because of chinese censorship they need to erase these happening in the story, so I'm curious how will it affect the storyline. But I hope for the best.

i'm also excited for Love Never Fails (2022), but because of the recent tax evasion scandal on Yuan Bingyan(female lead) I'm not sure if it will air at all. They took it off from the airing schedule, but I read that the issue was resolved and it wasn't as bad as some news sites made it out, but who knows with the chinese government.

I will also watch Snow Eagle Lord (2022), the costumes look really nice and I would like to see Xu Kai in more xianxia, wuxia type dramas.

The last one my must watch list is Fox Spirit Matchmaker (2023). They announced yesterday the actors for the main characters. I'm intrigued, because I like Yang Mi and though I dint't like Word Of Honor as much as everyone else, Gong Jun was great in it. They both look gorgeous, though I don't know about their chemistry.

Others I will consider watching are:

Longest Promise (2022) for Xiao Zhan

Love And Sword (2022) for Xuan Lu

Meet Me In Your Sound for Caesar Wu and the visuals

Chang Feng Du (2023) for Song Yi

Wonderland Of Love for Xu Kai

Back From The Brink (2022) for Zhou Ye and the storyline

Novoland: The Princess From Plateau for Feng Shaofeng and Peng Xiaoran and the storyline

Song Of The Moon (2022) for the visuals

Zao Zuo Shi Guang for Meng Ziyi

If I can get a chinese subtitle version on these and I either like the drama or the visuals I will make gifs.

#ask #answered asks #anon ask #anticipated cdramas

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ao3feed-xicheng · 10 days

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jungwookjins · 3 years

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Hi! I'm introducing some friends to the untamed and making some notes on where the netflix subs don't give enough information/good translations, according to the fandom. I saw your translation of the 'to die by your hand' scene and it KILLED me, so I was wondering if there are any other particular scenes you think it's important to note a different translation? Thank you so much if you can!

ooh so there aren't any scenes i can think of where the translation falls so so short of the actual emotion and meaning as much as that one, however there are definitely some less dramatic instances.

in general, i would say that mandarin (and a lot of other languages from what i've heard) has a lot more inherent emotional depth than english, so in translation, a lot of the subtitles sound very emotionally neutral or ambivalent when they really aren't.

the instance of this that sticks out to me the most is during the confrontation between wei wuxian and jiang cheng at the guanyin temple (ep 48, ~9 minutes in) where wuxian says to jiang cheng「都不要放在心上了」(dou bu yao fang zai xin shang), which the subtitles translate as "please don't keep it in your heart," which i'm actually not really mad at as a translation, but it's just not a phrase used much in english, so it sounds slightly awkward/doesnt convey the emotional context of that phrase.

so for context, mandarin has multiple ways of saying, loosely, "don't worry." there's「不要擔心」(bu yao dan xin), which is probably the most common and versatile to say it, and there's「不要放在心上」(bu yao fang zai xin shang), which is the one wuxian says to jiang cheng. (there's other ways too, they're just not rly relevant here) the literal translation of it is "do not put it on your heart," which the netflix is pretty close to, but ofc that doesn't tell u much abt usage. the way i've explained it in the past was, say u made a mistake at work and were beating urself up over it.「不要擔心」is something your coworker or boss might say to you to essentially say "hey it's no big deal, don't worry about it, ur fine;" it can be very casual. whereas, once you get home and start talking abt ur bad day at work,「不要放在心上」is more likely something your parent/sibling/partner/other loved one would say to you as they put a bowl of ur favorite soup in front of u. it has a level of inherent familiarity and deeper desire to comfort the person ur talking to than「不要擔心」. (note: i say inherent bc「不要擔心」doesnt have to always be casual/relatively emotionally neutral, it can be said w emotion ofc but the words themselves do not carry as much emotion as「不要放在心上」.

other than that, i’m not remembering any other specific scenes rn (if i remember smth, i’ll rb w the addition and @ you), but one thing that happens throughout the show is translation discrepancy when characters are addressing each other. for example, when wuxian and jiang cheng talk to yanli, the subtitles always have them both addressing her by name, but in chinese, family members often dont address each other by name, like my younger brothers both call me 姐 (jie), which means older sister. jiang cheng calls yanli 阿姐 (a-jie) most of the time (the 阿 at the beginning is just a prefix used in front of names and other forms of address to express familiarity, it’s the same character used in a-yuan). wuxian calls yanli 師姐 (shijie), which is what you call a senior female fellow student studying under the same master/in the same school/etc.

(rest under the cut bc this got rly long)

nie huaisang calls mingjue 大哥 (dage)/哥 (ge); 哥 means older brother and 大 means big, so 大哥 is often used for the eldest brother (esp common if there are multiple brothers). an interesting thing is that wangji does not call xichen 哥 or any variation of it, rather he calls him 兄長 (xiong zhang), which also means older brother but is a term of respect and much more formal, so that’s also a reflection of their characters and upbringing. 兄長 is not in common use nowadays but 哥 very much still is.

after nie mingjue, lan xichen, and jin guangyao take their oath of sworn brotherhood, they also change their forms of address with each other. for example, guangyao calls xichen 二哥 (er ge), which means second older brother (since xichen is the second oldest) and calls mingjue 大哥 (like huaisang does). (i feel like i vaguely remember guangyao being called 三弟 (san di), which means third younger brother, by someone but don’t remember if it was xichen or mingjue.)

(also impt to note that in chinese culture, familial terms as forms of address aren’t strictly reserved for family (whether that be blood or found). for example, in a casual setting, you can address any woman who is your parents’ age or between their age and your grandparents age as 阿姨 (a-yi) (or name + 阿姨), which is the term for your maternal aunt, and you can address any man of the same age range as 叔叔 (shu shu), which is what you’d call your paternal uncle. similarly in a familiar/casual setting, you can call women older than you but younger than your parents 姐姐/name + 姐, like the daughters, who are all younger than me, of my parents’ friends call me jessie jie-jie. and you can call men in the same age range 哥哥/name + 哥, like how wang yibo calls xiao zhan, zhan-ge. the same applies for people younger than you, with which you would use 妹妹, younger sister, and 弟弟, younger brother.)

another example is that jin guangshan calls jiang fengmian 江兄 (jiang xiong), 江being his family name ofc and 兄 meaning brother (same character as in 兄長, which wangji calls xichen), since they’re of the same age and status and their wives are sworn sisters. xichen, on the other hand, calls fengmian 江宗主 (jiang zong zhu), which means sect leader jiang. in the subtitles, these are often just translated as “you,” when they’re talking directly to him.

so in general, there is a lot of information abt characters’ relationships, level of familiarity with each other, age, etc that is contained in their forms of address that just doesn’t come across in the netflix subs, since those default to their names like 80% of the time.

hope this helps!! if u (or anyone else) have other questions/scenes ur wondering abt, feel free to ask, i’m always down to talk translations. and if you want to see more of my beef w netflix subs a;lskjdf, all of my cql gifsets with dialogue on them have either been translated from scratch by me or i’ve edited the netflix translations, and i usually put some notes abt my translation in the tags. any sets that i’ve translated from scratch are under my translations tag, though most of these are actually for word of honor/shan he ling and not cql.

edit: check my reblog in the notes for some more additions!!

#sorry this got so long ;lakjsdf but this was legit rly fun to answer #ive been meaning to make a gifset w my translation for the guanyin temple scene for so long but havent gotten around to it #mayhaps i will this weekend #(also as a disclaimer: like with any part of a language the forms of address used can differ regionally #for example ik some chinese people use 姨媽 (yi ma) instead of 阿姨 for their maternal aunts #my family is taiwanese-chinese and i was born and raised in the us so that's the background/region my knowledge is coming from)#u kno what i'll put this in some main tags too bc i feel like this is good to know #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #answered #nbvagabond #mine #okay to rb #my translation #<--i dont have a better tag for this rn so

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babygray-dam · 2 years

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Reading Challenge 2022 (2/20):

How to Survive as a Villain by 伊依以翼 (Yi Yi Yi Yi)

After committing suicide, young CEO Xiao YuAn transmigrates into the body of a villain of a historical stallion novel. Will he be able to gain the goodwill of the hero, Yan HeQing, and avoid death and torture? Can he change the fate of the Northern Kingdom and the people around him?

It starts up just a fun little read. XYA is generally a happy, poem-spouting, talkative guy, with a smile that hides a lot. Maybe the willful obliviousness of his feelings towards YHQ might annoy some readers, but I thought that was part of the story’s charm.

After 50 chapters or so, the story turns from budding romance comedy to tragic historical, and there was a section of chapters where I couldn’t stop crying. A few of the interesting characters die, often violently, and XYA never really avoids the torture. Eventually, though, the story slowly returns to more lighthearted waters.

The romance? I liked it a lot. The pair, after the heartbreak and the multiple “I didn’t know you were you” parts, are sweet and silly and quite horny for each other. I love it when there’s no non-con. I think there was one scene of dub-con, midway through, but it was just the one. A much better track record than some other BL, that’s for sure.

#reading challenge #reading challenge 2022 #how to survive as a villain #yi yi yi yi #i went looking for stories like the villain has something to say #'reborn villian. hopefully with revenge'#and found this #read it in a week #i reccomend it #it was nice #there's also a manhua #might read it in the future.

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dangermousie · 3 years

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2020 End of Year Post - cdrama edition

This is only going to cover cdramas that aired in 2020; if I had to make a post about all the cdramas I watched this year, I would still be doing it in three months...

Overall it’s been a fairly decent cdrama year (certainly better than the very lacklustre kdrama year.) It’s no miracle that 2019 was (so many excellent dramas!) but overall pretty solid.

DRAMAS WATCHED

(In order of liking from least to most as opposed to pure quality; I am including if I’ve seen enough to make up my mind; yes I realize that’s inaccurate, but that’s my list)

44 The Legend of Jing Yan - the worst cdrama I have seen this year, and possibly the worst drama of 2020, period. The hero and heroine were both uncharismatic, incapable of acting and saddled with such shrilly moronic characters, the only suspense was how they haven’t both perished long since from forgetting to breathe. Nor was anyone in the rest of the cast much better; the screenplay was written by a lower mammal and the cinematography was the best a third-rate wedding cinematographer could offer. Stay the HELL away from this one.

43 Unicorn Girl - the only unicorn about this bland yet irritating piece of pap was the fact that I was supposed to believe the leads are hockey players.

42 Autumn Cicada - I like spy stories, Allen Ren, and Republican Era settings. I can tune out Communist propaganda with the best of them. Yet, the propaganda ate the story to such a degree that there was nothing left; pre magic change Pinocchio was less wooden then this narrative.

41 You Complete Me - no you do not.

40 Skate into Love - the only positive thing I can say about this is that at least it’s better than Unicorn Girl, if for no other reason that only one of them is supposed to be a hockey player.

39 Irreplaceable Love - how do you make a story about fake siblings with a mad mother falling for each other boring? I don’t know, ask the makers of this.

38 Eternal Love Rain - I hate to rain on their parade, but these two actors cannot act, have about as much chemistry as a piece of bread, and are trapped in a story perfect for entertaining the mental abilities of the leads of Jin Yan.

37 For Married Doctoress - ummmm, you could do worse I guess. It only made me break out in mild hives. The sadistic ending did make me laugh though.

36 Dance of the Sky Empire - why you get Xu Kai and waste him in this insipid mess of a story is beyond me.

35 Love Designer - it’s inoffensive except to my sense of entertainment. There is nothing wrong with it but oh God is it bland.

34 Love a Lifetime - It felt like a lifetime watching this, but I didn’t love it. The story is incoherent, the actors have no chemistry and it’s all an epic waste of time.

33 Love is Sweet - so sweet it gave me diabetes. I like Luo Yunxi and Bai Lu, but there is literally no plot. I don’t need to sink into a plotless morass to watch pretty people engage in PG-rated make-outs. I am an adult with access to stronger stuff if I am thus inclined, though to be fair they could get x-rated and I still wouldn’t be able to sit through so many episodes of plotlessness for that.

32 Fake Princess - I love Zhao Yi Qin, but the guy needs to pick better projects. The female lead in this one has the voice and personality that can strip paint but the story is also doing nobody any favors.

31 The Changan Youth - I lost my brain checking this out. I had to go and read a dense treatise on medieval coinage or Mayan farming to try to recover it.

30 My Dear Destiny - kinda cheesy fun. It honestly shouldn’t be as low except it really feels like community theater.

29 Handsome Siblings - why is the Nic Tse version so good and this one so bad? True mystery for the ages. Chen Zhe Yuan is the sole reason this isn’t lower, because that kid tries SO HARD to make this drama bearable and almost succeeds. I can’t wait to see him in Sha Po Lang which actually will give him something to do.

28 In a Class of Her Own - see my comment on The Changan Youth. But at least Song Weilong is gorgeous to look at.

27 General’s Lady - inoffensive, pretty and so utterly pointless.

26 The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion - those two leading actors are a no go to me but at least they considerately acted with each other instead of ruining two dramas for me. It’s very pretty though.

25 Jiu Liu Overlord - it’s a mess and I bailed, but I placed it this high merely due to the fact that Lai Yi finally gets a leading role and he’s sexy as fuck and I am shallow. Whoever styled Bai Lu should never work again except at a circus, however.

24 Cross Fire - not my genre and Luhan will always look too much like my cousin for comfort, but it’s a surprisingly gripping and dark drama. I liked it!

23 God of Lost Fantasy - if you want to watch a mediocre wuxia/xianxia, this is not a bad choice. Probably better than Legend of Fei actually, because at least it doesn’t have an A-list cast to waste and gives us Sheng Yilun himbo and shirtless.

22 Renascence - the insane cuts (it went from 70 eps to 36!!!) made a fairly cheesy story into a total mess. But I had a good time until I finally bailed mainly because of the male lead (Chen Zhe Yuan yet again carrying a not-good 2020 drama on his shoulders; the guy should be nicknamed Atlas) and the insane but in a fun way story. The female lead (both the character and the actress) were not up to par but oh well.

21 Legend of Fei - only this high because objectively there is nothing I disliked it. But there is nothing I liked either. The most uninspired drama on the list. If you could eat cardboard, this is what it would taste like.

20 Ever Night 2 - compared to EN1, it’s a waste of film. On its own merits, it’s not very good (the cast replacements are uniformly inferior and Dylan Wang is so wrong for Ning Que I cannot even put it into words; the script is useless.) But it had some parts I loved so very VERY much (all the shippy stuff was perfection) so I don’t feel too bitter.

19 Castle in the Sky 2 - a lovely if not too complex fairy tale. It is inferior to its prequel because it doesn’t have Zhang Ruo Yun who elevated it, but it’s still a solid bit of fun.

18 The Great Ruler - it’s very high fantasy, very pretty, and surprisingly involving.

17 (tie) Legend of Two Sisters in the Chaos - the secondary couple steals the show but the rest is not too bad if not too involving.

17 Legend of Awakening - a solid bit of fun with a seriously BDSM streak (theme this year apparently - but come on, the lead’s powers only activate when he’s in extreme pain!) It’s a bit generic and the costuming is done by a blind person, not to mention the OTP is a NOTP, but the rest of relationships (romantic and platonic) are wonderful (I live for the found siblings story in this one) and I like most of the characters.

16 Consummation - a rare modern cdrama I liked; a sweet coming of age story (and love story) even if wrapped in a pretty weird virtual reality concept.

15 Oops the King is in Love - this is how you do a low budget, sweet, silly piece of fluff. Our heroine pretends to be a eunuch and crosses paths with a powerless young king and they are adorable, even more so than the drama.

14 Song of Glory - pretty solid, though draggy and I didn’t love the toothpaste filter. But A+ cast, excellent leading couple chemistry, Li Qin being a BAMF and a leading man (Qin Hao) who is actually an adult.

13 And the Winner is love - objectively kind of a mess (and the heroine has the brainpower of a gnat), but the OTP chemistry is excellent and Luo Yunxi fighting and flirting with a fan as finally a leading man is worth the price of admission.

12 Miss S - snazzy and snappy and stylish and whatever else starts with S.

11 Eternal Love of Dream - I don’t know if it would work for you as well if you weren’t a hardcore shipper for this OTP in Three Lives but I was and this was such a darling, wonderful, shippy delight; plus I love this type of high fantasy.

10 (tie) Maiden Holmes - solid and sweet and a wonderful OTP. Proves that functional doesn’t have to mean boring. If you watch one cross-dressing drama this year make it this one.

10 Qin Dynasty Epic - srs bsns history epic. I am not far into it but it’s so good and smart and visually stunning (if you love battles, this one is for you.)

9 Love Lasts Two Minds - I adored this so much more than I should objectively have, but it’s so beautiful (and no I am not just referring to Alan Yu’s face) and the OTP has wonderful chemistry and the story is solid, and the whole trope of her memory being wiped but falling for him all over again while he’s constantly and utterly devoted is a fave; plus he’s in pain and semi-dyng for most of it so sluuuurp (happy ending, don’t worry)

8 To Love - yes, a modern drama is this high! But it involves intensity, tragedy, genuine adults and sexiness that is Lin Gengxin. And there is an actual plot and darkness OMG!

7 Legend of Xiao Chuo - so beautiful, so fun, so full of gorgeousness of Shawn Dou. Plus, Liao is a rare setting for a cdrama and there are a lot of characters and stories I liked a LOT. Less ship content than I wanted but more than I expected.

6 The Romance of Tiger and Rose - so so delightful. I was literally laughing out loud. I have no idea if it will work as well if one isn’t a seasoned watcher of period cdrama/reader of web novels, with bonus for watching/reading Goodbye My Princess, but it was a complete delight for me (and yes, I shipped for real, as well. Best of both worlds.)

5 Twisted Fate of Love - Jin Han gets a leading period drama role! And he’s enjoying it to the hilt, excellent as a smart, twisty bastard who is also charming and so madly in love with heroine. Sun Yi is beautiful and tough and her chemistry with JH is on fire, the story never drags, and it’s so twisty and fun and just awesome.

4 Love In Between - the most underrated drama on this list. It has no big names or big budget, but it’s wuxia that’s clever, driven, tragic, hopeful and so beautifully shot. Three separate (amazing) OTPs, a leading man who is so not typical (a doctor who cannot fight and who never acquires this ability) and who is intense and smart and damaged, a heroine who puts her quest ahead of her emotions, an unhealthy degree of involvement by yours truly. This is a drama Fei should have been.

3 Love and Redemption - such a lovely, addictive, utterly romantic fairy tale. I was obsessed with it for a reason. All the tropes you love and some you didn’t know you did, a star-crossed OTP to the nth power (and a secondary OTP I hardcore love), a twisty yet coherent plot, some insane chemistry and so much whump and hurt/comfort they must have bought blood packets in bulk.

2 Go Ahead - yes, I can’t believe it either. A contemporary slice of life cdrama made it this high on my list. But the way it feels so real, the found family perfection, the characters I love and loathe, the perfect cherry of a wonderful OTP that hits my narrative kinks on top, and just a perfect storm of loveliness all around with this one.

1 The Wolf - is that any surprise to anyone who’s checked out this tumblr for the last couple of months? Tragic, intense and gorgeous; so romantic and angsty and passionate it made me lose my mind (though some of it was gone the moment the camera panned to Darren Wang) - all my favorite tropes and then some; this is a drama that may not be perfect but it is 100% and then beyond perfect for ME.

FAVORITE DRAMA

The Wolf - I have seen objectively better cdramas; even this year. But it has been literal years since I have been this hardcore obsessed, this utterly pleased, this emotionally catered to and devastated at once. A beautiful dark fairy tale that manages to own me despite the storytelling gaps due to censorship, it took me for one of the biggest emotional roller coaster rides of my drama watching career. Visually gorgeous, poetic, intense, and so romantic it took my breath away, this is not just my favorite cdrama of 2020, it’s my favorite drama this year period, and the one cdrama this year to make it into my permanent Top 10 cdramas list.

WORST DRAMA

Legend of Jin Yan - see my write up for it for why as I refuse to waste more time on this stupid mess.

FAVORITE MALE CHARACTER

Wolfie, The Wolf - he is such a haunted, tormented, complex, dark mess; loving and violent, severely damaged and with a hidden yearning softness, longing and aloof. And the amount of charisma and sheer masculine sex appeal Darren Wang brings to the role is insane and not something I see much of in a cdrama. Plus, that character arc with its rapid fall and slow painful redemption is A++++

Runner Up: Sifeng, Love and Redemption - has a male lead ever loved more utterly and selflessly, suffered more thoroughly and beautifully, and managed to have such chemistry with both his leading lady and his leading man (that his leading lady temporarily turned into) at once? The answer is no.

Almost made the cut - Feng Xi, Twisted Fate of Love, Han Shuo, The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Qing Ci, Love in Between.

FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTER

Xiao Qian, The Romance of Tiger and Rose - so funny, so much the reason this drama was such a delight. I adore her beyond words.

NEEDS TO BE MURDERED

Murder Daddy, The Wolf - I am sad the censors robbed us of seeing him die on screen. He was fully human but nonetheless managed to be the worst monster in a drama full of literal ones.

Ling Xiao’s Mom, Go Ahead - I hate her so much I don’t want to look up her name. She abused the kid, the disappeared and came back to abuse him some more. I mean she literally gave her child mental health issues. She is the WORST.

FAVORITE SHIP

Xing’er x Wolfie, The Wolf - are you kidding me? Who else could it ever be for me? They destroyed each other and saved each other, sworn enemies and childhood lovers, soulmates and epic messes, they couldn’t live with or without each other. The longing, the passion, the intensity, the angst, the epicness. LIKE THERE ARE NO WORDS!!!!

FAVORITE SECONDARY OTP

Si Yuan, Shen Manqing, Love in Between - I loved them as much and often more than the main OTP. So much angst and passion and a happy ending! She is a seeming sect darling (except the sect is horrible and also sexist so her only worth is as a marriage candidate) and he’s an information broker who is actually one of the members of a destroyed sect that’s blamed for the massacre of her family. That chemistry and yearning is insane. The scene where she touches his face when he’s unconscious was in serious running for my favorite scene of 2020.

NOTP

Legend of Awakening - I have never seen a couple that didn’t just have no chemistry but exhibited actual revulsion towards each other before watching Chen Feiyu and Cheng Xiao try to act as lovers in this one. It was almost entertaining to be honest.

FAVORITE SCENE

It’s a tie and both are from The Wolf. One is a sequence where Wolfie marches to the walls alone, seeking death at Xing’er’s hands and the whole sequence with the battle and rescue follows. The other is the intercut between Xing’er going to her wedding and Wolfie going to his execution, and the auto-da-fe being intercut with her wedding.

BIGGEST CRUSH

Wolfie, The Wolf - Ummm have you seen this tumblr lately, it’s basically a drool shrine to the man.

BEST SCENE STEALER CHARACTER

Yelü Yansage, The Legend of Xiao Chuo - I have loved this actor since The Myth and he continued to competently steal every scene he was in.

NEEDS A SEQUEL

To Love - come out of the coma, dammit!!!!!!!

NEEDS A DIRECTOR’S CUT

The Wolf - duh. It started out as 59 eps and got cut to 49. I reaiize some stuff is never gonna get put in due to censorship, but some of the stuff that got cut got for time reasons because they were deluded and hoping to get a TV broadcast so ep count had to be under 50. I mean I doubt the censors would care if they kept scenes of Wolfie building her a swing or whatever. I really really want a director’s cut the way Goodbye My Princess did even if like with GMP it’s only three extra eps. Hell, I will take extra three minutes, as long as those three minutes are Darren Wang shirtless or with a sword. Ahem.

NEEDS SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

The Song of Glory - it’s a fairly solid drama but honestly it didn’t need to be as long as it was and kind of got draggy and I got lost interest. (I could have gotten snarky and said all the dramas I didn’t like needed scissors taken to them in their entirety but decided to play nice.)

TOO MANY SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

There are a number of dramas I could complain about with regard to this (hi there, darling The Wolf!) but this award goes to Renascence - poor Renascence was never going to be a masterpiece, but it had the potential to be a bit of good cheesy fun until it had its run time cut by more than half and became an incoherent piece of insanity.

TROPE THAT NEEDS TO DIE

Dumb shrill innocent heroine who can’t tie her shoes - see basically all the cdramas I didn’t like this year.

FAVORITE TROPE WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF

Male lead torture - I mean it’s always open season on that in cdramas, but between Love and Redemption, The Wolf, Love Lasts Two Minds, Love in Between and so on, it was a banner year!

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Legend of Fei - what a waste of that cast; what a waste of our finite time on this Earth. What a waste of my intelligence to hope for something better and stick with it for a dozen eps. I have had stale wonderbread that had more personality than this drama.There is absolutely nothing that stands out about this drama in any way, from half-dimensional characters, to actors who are sleepwalking, to a plot that moves at the speed of an arthritic snail, to uninspired cinematography and direction, to lack of any chemistry between anyone in the cast. If paint-by-numbers was done by a group of particularly linear robots, it might come across the same way as this drama.

BIGGEST GOOD SURPRISE

The Wolf - honestly, I did not expect it to come out AT ALL EVER let alone to become my favorite drama of 2020. I was not familiar with the leading man (hahah), I liked Li Qin but wasn’t yet obsessed with her, and Xiao Zhan was excellent in The Untamed but I was hardly going to follow him from drama to drama (and I don’t do SLS any way.) And the trailer was enjoyable but unlike seemingly everyone, I didn’t think it was going to be some epic masterpiece. And then it came out and while it wasn’t objectively an epic masterpiece, it pulled out all the favorite tropes, shippy and narrative kinks from the deepest darkest recesses of my id. And I fell harder than I have in years.

2020 DRAMAS I HAVEN’T SEEN THAT I MOST WANT TO WATCH

None. Covid Year gave me PLENTY of time

BEST NON-2020 DRAMA I’VE WATCHED IN 2020

Novoland Eagle Flag and Joy of Life - they are in my Top 10 dramas from anywhere now. They are quite different except being smart and giving me protagonists to obsess over.

ETA: Also The Untamed because @idlewilds3 pointed out I actually watched it in 2020 even though I didn’t think so because this hellyear has lasted about three decades.

MOST ANTICIPATED IN 2021

I am gonna limit it to dozen and leaving out ones that aren’t necesarily supposed to air next year (Joy of Life 2, Love in Flames of War, Novoland Princess from Plateau.)

Monarch Industry, Novoland Pearl Eclipse, Silk Washing Stream, Dream of Changan, Sword Snow Stride, Wu Xing Shi Jia, Ancient Love Poetry, Immortality, The Long Ballad, Mirror Twin Cities, The Imperial Age, Fall In Love

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Hi! For the renouncement au: Can we get pre-confession wangxian accidental baby acquisition? Basically I just want a lot of WWX being conflicted because he doesn’t want to do that to LWJ (per the ficlet in this verse about the marriage bed and not having more babies) and LWJ trying to convince WWX that nothing would make him happier

The child was an accident, Lan Xichen tells him.

Something no one could have predicted, something Wei Ying would never have done, if he knew what would come of it. A mistake, an incomprehensible fluke of magic and curiosity and cultivation, especially when the cultivator in question lost his golden core nearly twenty years ago, but a mistake Lan Wangji wants more desperately than he has ever wanted anything other than Wei Ying, nevertheless.

But this new revelation is something Wei Ying might not want at all, if his husband’s refusal to listen to a blessing for children at their wedding reflects his feelings about having them. And Xiao-Yu is still so small, too small for even the most basic infant classes in the Cloud Recesses, and Lan Wangji has never even held a baby--at least not a baby too young to walk or crawl, not like Lan Yu--what if he drops the child, or hurts it, or--

You must put first things first, Wangji, his uncle told a six-year-old Lan Wangji once, when he gathered up his practice books and scrolls for his lessons and forgot his brushes and inkstone. The brush and inkstone come first, and then you can think about your books.

And to Lan Wangji, Wei Ying will always come first. That will never change as long as he draws breath, which is why he rushes back to the jingshi to find his beloved rather than going to the rabbit field to sort his thoughts out in solitude.

He finds his husband sitting alone in the dark, perched in the middle of the chuang bed with his red inner robes spread out around him like the plumage of a crimson bird, staring into nothingness as he presses a hand to his lower dantian as if uncertain whether he should believe the news Lan Xichen gave them earlier that evening. But Xichen is a healer second only to Wen Qing and Baoshan Sanren, and Lan Wangji has never known him to make a mistake--which means that the two of them will have to face this new uncertainty together, and sooner rather than later.

They have less than half a year to wait before the little one will be here, after all.

“Wei Ying?” Lan Wangji dares to say, after climbing onto the bed beside him and taking Wei Ying’s cold hands in his. “Talk to me, sweetheart.”

“I was going to divorce you,” is what Wei Ying says next, shaking him down to the core as he turns to meet Lan Wangji’s eyes. “I was certain you had forever renounced your chance of love by marrying me, and that I would leave you the moment you found someone you could really be married to.”

Lan Wangji feels his blood run cold. “Wei Ying, no--”

“I was going to,” his husband whispers. “And then you kissed me in Qinghe last autumn, and I--I couldn’t hope you would fall in love after that, Lan Zhan, even if it meant you would never fall in love at all! And I promise I didn’t know this could happen, or else I would never--never have--”

“I told you I loved you,” Lan Wangji says thickly. “I have told you so every day since then, and kissed you every day since then--and is this child not half mine? Does...would it make you unhappy, to have a child with me?”

“No, a thousand times no!” Wei Ying protests, bolting upright. “But Lan Zhan, you’re so good, too good, so of course you convinced yourself you were in love with me after our brothers married us off! You must have thought I deserved someone to love me like that, even though I didn’t, even though the way we were before was enough--and I know you’ll never let me leave you for your sake now, not with this baby coming, and I’m so sorry, Lan Zhan, I’m so sorry! You deserve so much more than this, than me, and now--now I can’t even--”

He covers his face with his hands and bursts into tears.

“I didn’t mean for this to happen, Lan Zhan,” he sobs. “I didn’t know.”

For his part, Lan Wangji is sitting frozen at Wei Ying’s side, a single sentence echoing back and forth in his mind, and then he understands; because Wei Ying had not understood, even after what passed between them in Qinghe, which means that this misunderstanding can only be Lan Wangji’s fault, as usual.

“Convinced myself I was in love with you? For the sake of our marriage?” he repeats hoarsely. “Wei Ying, I have been in love with you for the past twenty years.”

Wei Wuxian goes quiet and peers out from between his fingers. “Wh-what?”

“I fell in love with you the day you crossed blades with me on the roof, xingan,” Lan Wangji croaks. “I fell in love with you when you argued with Shufu during lessons. I fell in love with you when you drew a portrait of me instead of copying lines, and again when you bowed to Lan Yi with me and vowed to protect the shards of the Yin iron. I fell in love when you saved my life in the Xuanwu’s cave, and when you clung to my hands while Jiang Wanyin and I were carrying you out, and I fell in love every day I spent hunting for you when you were in the Burial Mounds. I fell in love when I saw your eyes open after the battle with Wen Ruohan, and when you drank for me at that banquet at the Jinlintai, and when you carried Wen Qing and Wen Ning away from Qiongqi Dao and took them into Luanzung. I fell in love when you shouted at me in the rain and unveiled my cowardice for what it was, and I fell in love when you refused to stay no matter how I tried to plead with you!

“Wei Ying, I fell in love when I saw you take A-Yuan into your arms for the first time, and when you kept your vow to revive Wei Ying. I fell in love with you every day we spent apart, and again when I wrote that accursed letter to invite you to Jin Ling’s full-moon ceremony. I was in love for every moon I spent in mourning, and for every laugh I heard from Sizhui’s lips, and for every glimpse I had of Jin Ling until you returned. I fell in love when I first heard his courtesy name spoken aloud, and I fell in love again with every lash laid on my back after I protected A-Yuan from the Jins. I fell in love with every year I spent unable to leave my bed, with every bite of food Xiongzhang had to push between my lips because I could not move my arms--I have never known you and not loved you, even when all I knew of you was your face and your voice, Wei Ying, I--”

“I want this child,” Lan Wangji begs--and he is weeping too, now, enfolding Wei Ying in his arms and rocking him back and forth behind the faint shadow of the bed curtains. “I want you like I want air to breathe, sweetheart! I wore nothing but mourning robes when you were dead, and I raised Sizhui as a father who had lost his wife--because that was what I was, even if you never loved me in return! I have never been happier than I was the day I met you again at Dafan Mountain, because you were alive, and well--I love you, Wei Ying, Wei Wuxian, as I have never loved anything in all my life, and never will again!”

“Lan Zhan,” Wei Ying cries. “Lan Zhan, I’ve hurt you, I’ve spurned you, and for nothing but the sake of my own pride, so how can you--”

“Never that!” Lan Zhan shakes his head. “You were afraid, and all the world was against you--what right did I have to speak, if it was not to beg for forgiveness and a place on the single-plank bridge at your side?”

“Lan Zhan, don’t do this, not for me, or I’ll…”

“Ask me.”

Wei Ying blinks at him, wiping tears from his swollen cheeks as Lan Wangji pats his nose with a damp handkerchief. “Ask you what?”

“The question I never answered,” he says roughly. “The name of the song I sang to you in Mount Muxi. The song you played after Mo Xuanyu brought you back. Ask me, Wei Ying.”

“What...what is its name, then?”

“Wangxian,” Lan Wangji sobs, tracing the two characters on Wei Ying’s hand until his fingertips go numb. “I was eighteen when I named it, my love. It has always been yours, always.”

And then--

“Kiss me,” Wei Ying pleads. “Kiss me, please, please--”

Perhaps it was always meant to be this way, in the end.

Perhaps they were always meant to become one like this, when they were already joined in every way two could hope to be together. Perhaps these words were never meant to be spoken aloud until after their love had taken living form, until after they had married, but they are spoken now.

And that, in Lan Wangji’s eyes, is all that matters.

#wangxian #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #wangxian arranged marriage au #renouncement verse #my fic

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