#cmedia

[2700lagostas]

Martial God Asura (Xiuluo Wu Shen) - Episode 08

#animationedit #donghuaedit #martial god asura #animangaboys #anisource #fyanimegifs #dailyanimatedgifs #animationsource #cmedia #xiuluo wu shen #flashing #2700lagostas #2700gifs

[xiaoshengnu]

wallpaper collage of xiaolanhua by yours truly ;)

#Love Between Fairy and Devil #xiaolanhua #dongfang qingcang #can lan jue #c drama #wallpaper edits #fan edits #collage #orchid #xianxia #cmedia

[pangzi]

Hou Minghao for PowerCircles

#hou minghao #neo hou #dmbj cast #c actor #cmedia #p: weibo

[yibo-wang]

YIBO OFFICIAL UPDATE

#yibo #he looks so handsome #i cannnot #wang yibo #Chineseartistinc #cmedia #cpop

[999-roses]

here's a... ship? trope? Thing. that I don't 100% get but find fascinating. full respect for folks out ther making art and content, and generally engaging in this... genre. trope.

【和尚的爱情】 [The Romantic Love of Monks]

Monks. The Chinese Buddhism flavor of monks, where they shave off all hair, denounce worldly possessions and family ties, and join a monastery. Specifically, these guys are committed to celibacy. Yeah on a logical level I'm like yeah, ok, this is a particular flavor of star-crossed lovers trope. But, I still, I.. it's too wacky funny to me. I.. I can't with the shiny cue-ball heads, PLEASE.

and there's. so much gorgeous art created. for this. uh genre? (Unfortunately it's typically m monk x f lead, and my limited exposure has yet to bring monk-flavored BL to my attention. I'm 100% certain it exists out there though.)

Anyway here's some popular media renditions of this, er, genre-trope. Please pray for my soul as I descend:

From Journey to the West, Tang Monk/Queen of the Kingdom of Women (西游记 - 唐僧/女儿国国王) (my rating: famous and classic, but there's something off about every rendition I've seen)

the 3rd installment of the HK Monkey King film series basically circles around shipping 唐三藏 with 女儿国国王. The Chinese movie title is 西游记：女儿国. There's some re-imagining/writing revisions from the source material, Journey to the West. The AMVs are spicy and the music is fire, and holy heck does the script/director want them to get together. The movie is corny, 孙悟空 is downright unhinged, the cg parts are too much, the pacing/tone is all over the place... a lot of this movie is weird. It's got mixed reviews but all the youtube comments love it idk.

ok but also... that second poster/playbill 💀🤣 (the text at the top is a pun on 好运来 -> 好孕来) (to explain: the mpreg is canon in the og jttw, if you drink the waters from 母亲河 you get pregnant. That concept gave me nightmares as a child.)

and here's a wonderful cover/mix by JJ Lin. The original song 女儿情 appears in 1986 Journey to the West :

the song is POV the Queen of the Kingdom of Women in full pining mode for Tang monk. And the mix-insert of 菊花台? Seamless lyric inclusion. chef's kiss. I think someone else singing an arrangement based off of JJ's made it into the 女儿国 movie mentioned earlier.

2. Green Snake/Fahai (青蛇/法海) (my rating: based)

There's the recurring retelling insisting on pairing Green Snake with the Fahai, the Buddhist monk that traps her sister White Snake in the pagoda in the traditional telling of 白蛇传. Here's a fan AMV on youtube & a fan AMV on bilibili. Both take clips are from the 1993 HK movie 青蛇. Honestly? This is the ship I endorse the most and have the least issues with (love 妖x人/妖x仙 dynamics but also in some retellings 法海 is also 妖). Regardless, the 1993 film is a masterpiece, I wholeheartedly recommend a watch (and in Canto if you can find the original audio. I don't like the mandarin dub's audio mixing).

3. Faithful to Buddha, Faithful to You (不负如来不负卿). (my rating: cursed) UMMM this one is wonky with age and time travel making it questionably problematic so uh, you're warned.

This story started off as a webnovel and later got a live action series (afaik live action isn't finished?). For some unknown reason I watched it when the first season was airing... and... Forget that whole "getting together with a sworn-to-celibacy monk" thing being taboo, now we're time traveling and meeting said monk when he's 13 to become his tutor, and a few months later in your time, you time travel again to when he's 26. (FMC doesn't have feelings for him until she meets him when he's an adult but. Girl. This is still too weird okay?)

4. 少林降魔 Vanquishing the Demon (2020) (my rating: spicy [purely based on seeing an AMV])

this movie is solidly xianxia, and it looks pretty enough I'll watch it eventually. But, waow, this AMV clip. I think it made me understand how this genre!trope fits solidly into hopeless romantic/star-crossed lovers territory.

I'm probably missing a bunch of other pieces of media there's a looot of AMVs with clips from either CG donghua or video game cinematics but UM yeah hello. I didn't know this was such a thing. I'm not explicitly out there searching for BL monks okay *old man hacking cough* but I hadn't really found any... yet. The end result of my dive is... I guess I now find monks just a little sexier now, FML

#和尚的爱情 #cmedia #chinese media #sino #this is a no-kinkshaming no-shipshaming no-antis zone thank you #jttw #white snake #monks #cw mpreg #my journey into forbidden monk love hell #im so so sorry. about the monks but also about exposing anyone to mpreg 💀 #okay yeah it's insanely star-crossed lovers type tragic 如果来生 like no 唐僧。你成佛，没得来生，你的爱情得全给苍生。你们俩永远不会在一起 #i legit forgot about the mpreg in the 女儿国 chapter of 西游记 💀💀💀 #insert jokes about 吃唐僧肉 #re:MK3 ok i would die for morphling-fish gf #青蛇1993 is so pretty tho UGH #also. the next installment of HK 西游记/monkey king movie series is 火焰山 so that's exciting if the- #-writers/directors who are sooo ready to ship jttw characters do the swk-nmw-tsgz polycule 👀 tho im p sure they'd just do love triangle smh #+ my poasts

[mistiwysteria]

I just watched the 2013 movie 我想和你好好的 (love will tear us apart) after finding it for free on youtube. I’d never heard of the movie before and knew nothing about it besides a few comments saying how unexpectedly the movie progressed, but I loved it. I liked how liang liang and miao miao weren’t presented as anyone special, they were both just normal young people who made do with what they had, who happened to come together and came apart again. 

but what I really like was the fact that they didn’t villainise miao miao for her attempts to control the relationship. sure she tried to control liang liang, she was paranoid and borderline abusive but neither was her behaviour completely unfounded; her job as an actress contributed to her insecurities and liang liang did sneak around her back instead of confronting her behaviour in a honest and constructive way- and then later went as far as to meet up with his ex on the regular. while this does not excuse her abusive behaviour, it humanises her. 

maybe I haven't been watching many movies recently but I was actually quite surprised how fast paced it was. the speed in which liang liang and miao miao’s relationship went hurtling downhill was quite jarring and a little exaggerated but to be honest I actually quite appreciated it for what it was. it’s like that idea in literature where you highlight the fact that the piece of literature is actually just a piece of literature in order to emphasise the point you’re trying to make. what I took from the movie was how easy it was for what seemed to be a totally normal relationship to become so toxic, that abusive behaviour is not the evil rootless thing that it’s often presented as- it is awful, but it’s never totally black and white- miao miao at the end of the day is still a human being. 

#我想和你好好的 #love will tear us apart #not to say that abuse is okay tho! #and if you feel that you are in an abusive relationship #get out asap! #even though miao miao in this movie does recognise her mistakes #not everyone will #don't wait for them to change #pleas pleas put yourself first and get out! #cmedia #2013 #chinesemedia

[blorbocedes]

if anyone is curious, nico's leaf jacket is LV and 2000 euros 😭😭😭

you just know he's stunting on the rest of the commentators at sky in their office wear

as per dug up by @legobrickcow

#nico Rosberg fashion #pic from cmedia provided by Rin #nico Rosberg

[rongzhi]

hi very sorry to bother you with what is basically a vent but i NEED to tell somebody and i have no asian friends in fandom

anyway feel free to ignore this if you dont want to read >>>>

(incoming racism in fandom talk!)

do you ever see read fanfic or look at fanart of asian characters done by white people and go uh thats super racist???? ngl being chronically online sucks sometimes because i do actually want to participate in fandom stuff but also white people are..... so racist..... and it is constantly showing whenever they make fanfic or fanart or wtv. and that sucks.

like to give an example ive seen fanart of asian characters drawn with literal yellow skin and nobody said anything about it. it was so wild tbh. looked like a racist caricature from the 1800s or some shit

also ao3 is absolutely wack like sometimes idk whats going on with that site. lets just say the site creators definitely did not have antiracism as one of their goals when founding it because UHHHHHHHHH

engage with chinese cfandom instead of western cfandom for the same wack ass drama but minus the "i can't be racist! i think asians are hot!" racism and unapologetic cultural ignorance ✨

#text #answered ask #but anyway it does suck and is frustrating and i was in a small cfandom but i still saw Enough to basically write off ever engaging again #for my own peace of mind i do not generally value the contributions of western cfandom like it can be Nice. #but the way white ppl talk about cmedia i (turns up music volume) whatever you dont get it #sorry i don't have any good advice for you i am the fandom ignorer

[tianshiisdead]

All the Chinese American movies being about trad mom VS westernized daughter is crazy where is my mom who wants western approval/to fit in/for her daughter to fit in VS annoying China obsessed daughter who hates white people and LARPs as mainland Asian online

#diary #normie mom vs cmedia pilled daughter

[seventh-fantasy]

mum was asking for a cdrama to watch for the first time in years. and the only condition she had was "no guzhuang" 😭 ... unlocked a repressed part of my memory when i was more modern dramas than guzhuangs (lol who was that?? what changed me?? actually, hlht, i think) like mum like daughter really

#actually i think my last memory of us properly watching the same drama is shanshan... which has been 10 years wtf #also when shanshan is a reason you're watching cdramas you'll have a special relationship with modern cdramas #(i grew up with mythological cdramas but... shanshan was the real gateway) #my mum and i are the anti-thesis to intl cmedia fandom lol #i still love my 职场 workplace/modern romance tbh. unfortunately 90% of them suck #but i rly have became so much more endeared to guzhuang looking back now. it used to be more like it's ok but i dont actively seek for it #so much has changed and also not much at all #also the first thing that came to my mind was 救星 for the rec 😭 #btwn me 疯狂安利ing 救星 to several ppl and literally on my 3rd zsx drama this year. ppl are gonna start thinking im a zsx fan #what. #my posts

[krispycreamsicle]

xiao xingchen for the char opinion bingo? 👀

@dual-domination also asked for xxc

daozhang gets an honorary bingo because i said so <3

he's such a fucking mess and i love that for him. the kind of guy to keep a rock for a pet and eat bugs. he rolls around in dirt. collects criminals and makes them his family. can't be bothered to ask his patient turned house husband for his name. hands down has the best smile. can't be trusted to go grocery shopping alone. can (mostly) domesticate a serial mass murderer. truly an anomaly and should be studied closely

#ashinlae #dual-domination #ask #ask game #daozhang my beloved!! #there's so many daozhangs in cmedia but xxc is The daozhang #the blorbo i think about most besides xy

[2700lagostas]

#animationedit #donghuaedit #dailyanimatedgifs #cmedia #throne of seal #shen yin wangzuo #animationsdaily #animationsource #animangaboys #2700lagostas #2700gifs

[pleuvoire]

i love in chinese webnovels when the pov characters go on indignant rants in their own narration full of exclamation points

#it’s so fun #i like when cmedia fanfiction emulates that style also

[pangzi]

Hou Minghao for PowerCircles

#hou minghao #neo hou #dmbj cast #c actor #cmedia #p: weibo

[yibo-wang]

WANG YIBO :: ONE AND ONLY WEIBO UPDATE + NEW POSTER

#wang yibo #LOOK AT MY BOY GOOO #one and only #yb:update* #cmedia #chen shuo

[999-roses]

aight I finally sat down and finished watching live action Hikaru no Go and I kind of lost it when I saw the status under 褚赢‘s 围达 Online Go profile read ’你是我的眼‘ after 褚赢 disappeared forever/right before 时光 deleted the profile 😭😭😭😭😭 also 时光 sings a lil line out of that song too 💔

#is it really spoilers when the manga's done (not sure if the live action show follows the manga. sorry) and the show's been out for years? #cmedia #<- well i guess its not exactly chinese media but eh the live action was a chinese adaption #like 《你是我的眼》 is a bit corny when my parents sung it to each other during karaoke but the song itself & its lyrics 💖💔💖💔💖💔💖💔 #edit: typo wrong wei