#liveblogging tgcf

[toffeecoco1]

forever obsessed with the way hua cheng didn’t really intend to enter xie lian’s life. he just wanted to see him. check on him. was pleasantly surprised to have such a nice chat. i get the feeling that he just wanted to make true on the promise he made as a wisp—“I want to protect them. […] then I won’t let them know I’m protecting them either.”

then when they arrived at puqi shrine, he had every intention of leaving—he already did everything he intended to. it’s xie lian who invites him in and asks him to stay at the shrine.

#i just. bshdhjdjf fhnggggg #they’re so #hua cheng loves him so much #but xie lian is the one who pulls him close #tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #rewatching tgcf #tgcf spoilers #liveblogging tgcf

[torchstelechos]

Alright, fuckers (affectionate)! I am stuck in bed due to a fever and have nothing better to do than read Heaven Official's Blessing, so I'm going to liveblog my thoughts on it while high on medicine/sickness.

Background/notes on some things before I do so,

1.) I have read the first book and some of the second

2.) I have seen every episode of the donghua that Kictor has posted a reaction video too

and 3.) I have been spoiled about some relationship scenes and random stuff. However this is a MXTX series so being spoiled means basically nothing in the long run.

Last but not least, I am doing this for fun so if I say something not accurate or fucked up please note that I am LITERALLY sick and allergic to most common cold medicines lol

#tgcf #heaven official's blessing #look me in the eyes LOOK AT ME #This is silly zone only do NOT spoil anything for me further than I have already been spoiled goddamnit #liveblogging tgcf #Teehee lets see how far I can go in this series before I die from my cold

[protect-namine]

yo I don't read the manhua but is it true?? did we finally get one (1) panel of yin yu??

#mine musings #liveblogging tgcf #wait i just realized we won't even see his dace until they're in the mountain 100k words later....... #RIP yin yu fans. it's me i'm the fan #very qyz of me i guess

[radiantmists]

he xuan spending years trying to break out of the kiln: -_-

the massive xie lian statue in the corner:

🙂

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #i imagine this was before he met hua cheng too #so he probably had zero context #he's just fought(/ate?) his way through the whole gauntlet of mt tonglu #beat the mountain spirits. convinced the kiln to close. started fighting everyone inside #and there's just a mountain-sized statue of... some guy? probably a god??? #genuinely a bit impressed that whatever goes down in the kiln during a normal ghost king ascension didnt fuck up the statue at all #...imagine if it had and hua cheng found out that he xuan had damaged his masterwork #tgcf liveblog

[unforth]

I take 8 points of psychic damage every time Crunchyroll subtitles gege as "Lian."

#unforth rambles #tgcf #tgcf liveblog

[veliseraptor]

jun wu's ending will never not drive me absolutely insane. it's just...nobody's asked to forgive him or forget what he's done, but he's not being punished, either, and xie lian's deeply symbolic gesture of passing on the bamboo hat (representing the compassion he received at his lowest point) is so heavy with meaning.

jun wu is finished but he doesn't have to die and he doesn't have to suffer, or at least the narrative isn't lingering on his suffering - to the contrary! it portrays his defeat as a relief even to him. he doesn't even have to be imprisoned in eternal isolation - mei nianqing is there to stay with him explicitly as a friend.

it's such a compassionate ending for a main antagonist and it murders me.

(anyway once again mxtx's rejection of the punitive impulse and truly jun wu is the apotheosis of that and feels a little like mxtx banging the reader over the head with it as a theme. or maybe that's just me.)

#dysfunctional gods and ghost kinks #lise reads tgcf #webnovel liveblogging #jun wu

[raylin-creates]

What the hell did Hua Cheng do for He Xuan that he can get away with all this?? I know part of it is for taking care of his fish but that can't be all of it!

#raylin liveblogs tgcf #tgcf volume 7 #tgcf chapter 122

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

So Ling Wen is like...the HR of the Heavenly Realm, right?

#original thots #tgcf #gonna need a liveblogging tag for this #yall tgcf ppl tell me if im wrong

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Me: idk if I want to dive back into reading the whole two million word novel……that sounds like a lot rn…

Me several minutes later: I’ll just read this one million word alternate canon fic instead.

#help I am 310k into this fic and it’s barely getting to the banyue arc #no paths are bound #tgcf #hualian #Caitie speaks #tgcf liveblog

[toffeecoco1]

fy: do you know what he was doing before he ascended?

xl: what?

nf: massacring cities.

fy: not every official in upper heaven is easy to get along with. no one can be trusted.

nf: well… a few of them can be trusted >:(

fy: do you mean yOuR general??

feng xin is trying so hard to unsubtly become xie lian’s friend again 😭 and mu qing is being a menace 😭

#i love them #incompetent little guys #they love their best friend sooo much!! and are incompetent about it #tgcf #xie lian #feng xin #mu qing #fu yao #nan feng #xianle trio #liveblogging tgcf #but also like?? when fx and mq aren't Fighting #they actually communicate so well together LOL

[thatswhatsushesaid]

mxtx gets it

this is why the most popular ships should always be removed from tumblr poll tournaments

#ray reads tgcf #okay NOW i am done liveblogging for the day. i'm done. i mean it

[protect-namine]

quanyin the realest ship of tgcf my god I'm still not over them

#mine musings #liveblogging tgcf #honestly. honestly mxtx's best ship yet #yin yu the most character ever

[radiantmists]

it took me a minute (read: several days) to pin down why i liked this comment in the epilogue so much, but i have it now.

the whole book has given us a lot of xie lian's journey to understanding how much he's loved, and shown us his struggle with that, as well as his realization of how much he loves hua cheng in return. but what we barely get glimpses of is the monumental realization hua cheng was having, that xie lian loves him.

because, pre-canon, the last he'd seen of xie lian was when he was going around as white no-face, threatening to disperse wu ming just for calling him the wrong name. and hua cheng loved that xie lian, and dying for him was his greatest honor, but im sure he was under no illusions that xie lian cared for him in return.

and even after he'd gained eight hundred years of confidence, become the mischievous flirt we meet as san lang, its clear that he's so desperately afraid of coming on too strong. i was red-stringing like crazy trying to figure out why he didn't tell xie lian he was wu ming after the cave of ten thousand gods, but in retrospect I think it was that simple: not wanting to overwhelm him, not wanting to ask for too much.

and we see this cracking at the very end, with his genuine surprise that xie lian would be just as upset over hau cheng jumping into the lava as he was over xie lian falling.

but the transition from the barely dawning realization of "i would be your stepping stone, but i know you wouldn't want that" to the trust and confidence of him having become a spoilt-rotten bully because he knows that xie lian will give him what he asks for, that he actually *loves* to give hua cheng whatever he wants?

i love that for him, i love that for them, and it makes for a wonderful ending.

#tgcf #tgcf liveblog #well not technically but i think it makes a good cap on this #hualian

[unforth]

People who know more about Chinese culture and history than I do! Can anyone who knows TGCF give me an idea why Lang Qianqiu is dressed this way?

I am very curious.

#unforth liveblogs #tgcf liveblog #tgcf #lang qianqiu

[veliseraptor]

now that's what I call girlfriend material

#lise reads fgep #webnovel liveblogging #i think i'm going to go read vol. 8 of tgcf in bed now #just for more webnovel to close out my night

[raylin-creates]

Watching season 2 of the TGCF donghua right now :D

I have a feeling I am not prepared to see the Fangxin arc animated.

#tgcf donghua #tgcf donghua season 2 #tgcf season 2 #raylin liveblogs tgcf donghua