#xue lin

[strechanadi]

Alina Cojocaru, Xue Lin, Christopher Evans

La dame aux camélias

photo Kiran West

#ballet #ballerina #hamburg ballett #la dame aux camélias #alina cojocaru #xue lin #christopher evans

[dramagifs]

Please turn back now.

#back from the brink #dailyasiandramas #cdramasource #asiandramaedit #cdramedit #hou minghao #tian yao #xue lin #mygifs #m:back from the brink #m:hou minghao #m:tian yao

[skysurfing]

what do you do when death starts courting you

#dipped for few weeks just to present characters nobody knows #anw theyre mine now #炼气练了三千年 #huangfu feng #xue lin

[atamascolily]

Thunderbolt Fantasy + text posts, part six.

#thunderbolt fantasy #wuxia fantasy puppet epic #lin xue ya #shang bu huan #xie yingluo #text posts #mie tian hai #sha wu sheng

[whoishotteranimepolls]

#kusuriuri #medicine seller #mononoke medicine seller #mononoke #lin xue ya #thunderbolt fantasy #anime #manga poll #manga #anime and manga #polls #anime poll #whoishotteranimepolls

[thecarelessvoice]

Guess who have a new hyperfixation?!!!!

#story of kunning palace #sokp #i just can't get this chaotic group of ppl out of my head #tried to make this as accurate as possible #it was a hard one :) #jiang xuening #xie wei #yan lin #zhang zhe #shen zhiyi #shen jie #xue dingfei #you fangyin #lyu xian #cdrama #tumblr meme chart

[melodious-tear]

#my journey to you #云之羽 #cdrama #xue tongzi #xue gonzi #lin ziye #chu zijun #long post #i'm not over them yet :))))) #:)))))))))))))) #my edit

[zhanglinghez]

EP.22 | My Journey To You 「云之羽」 (2023)

#my journey to you #lin zi ye #xue tong zi #xue chongzi #dailyasiandramas #cdramasource #asiandramasource #cdramaedit #samblr #useryd #userxlh #userhoshii #userjap #udeokmis #lextag #thoresque #*_mine_* #asian dramas #chinese dramas #cdrama #lester lin #young master xue #yun zhi yu

[groffiction]

The Yan Family Reunion (From SOKP Episode 33)

So, I am taking time to rewatch Episodes 33-38+Special of Story of Kunning Palace and I gotta say, the first reunion between Xie Wei and his Yan family is so important and emotional. The flashbacks of Xie Wei as he recites the vow he had given 20 years ago are incredible.

The whole vow that Xie Wei did as not quite 7 year old: "My Mother has passed away. My Father is unworthy. I hate that I have the last name that he's disgraced. I don't want such a last name. Thank God for your mercy. In a crisis, one sees one's true nature."

"I, Ju'an, dare not forget it. I'm willing to give up my old last name. Abandon my old name, and my old identity. No matter how hard it is, I won't change my mind."

The fact that Xie Wei came up with this when he was that young, after being traumatized by the massacre he'd seen by the rebel king, his father and aunt basically giving him up as a sacrificial lamb, and to only be saved by his said rebel king.

Just.... damn.

Then Xie Wei goes on to say: "I am no longer Xue Dingfei, much less a viscount of the Xue family. All I have is the Yan family's blood. And my name is Xie Wei. Not only do I live for myself, but also for the 300 loyal souls.

I vow to never let it go and seek justice for them."

The vow is raw, intense, and beautiful. It's like Xie Wei is unraveling all of his defense walls kept around his soul to bear his heart to his uncle and cousin. The only two relatives that he trusts. He lets them see just what has been hidden inside of him all these years. And understandably, both his uncle and cousin are moved to almost tears.

And then his uncle responds with something equally emotional: "Okay. It doesn't matter what your name is. You'll always be the child of the Yan family."

This whole scene made me cry. It was beautiful, raw and open. And his uncle accepting Xie Wei was epic. He didn't have to say much to get the point across to Xie Wei that he was loved. That he was cherished. That he was a Yan. And the Yans protect their own. Marquis Yan, in the limited amount of time that Xie Wei has known him, has not only accepted him, but has taken him under his wing like his own child. Marquis Yan is the father Xie Wei never got to have. And Yan Lin, bless his heart, accepts Xie Wei as his brother without any hesitation, not just a heroic cousin. Yan Lin is the brother Xie Wei never got to have. Such a beautiful scene. I cried so many tears for them. That Xie Wei finally got to have this moment - just ahhhh.

#story of kunning palace #sokp #zhang ling he #xie wei #marquis yan #yan lin #so many emotions making me cry even now #i am so happy for them #xie wei deserves all the love and hugs that he never got in the past #fuck the xue family

[aptericia]

Super quick chibi Lin wishes you all a happy 2024! Or at least an ✨interesting✨ one…

#my art #thunderbolt fantasy #tbf #lin xue ya

[enwie]

I was originally first introduced to the series through the takarazuka play, and there's an interesting small change it does with the ending that I like to think about.

At the end of season 1, Lin offers Shang the red umbrella, just like the one Shang took from the buddha statue in the beginning, which Lin used to emotionally wrangle him into the whole mess.

In the anime, Shang initially accepts the umbrella, but later discards it when it starts raining. As he throws it away, it lands on the buddha statue, shielding it from the rain. The story comes a full circle, Shang has paid back any and all debts he might've had. His conscience is free (of Lin's hypocritical judgment).

In the zuka version, Lin makes the same offer of gifting the umbrella, but Shang refuses it outright. He already got into so much trouble just from borrowing the umbrella from the statue in the beginning of the show, he doesn't want to risk whatever mess this one might get him into. If he's going to get wet in the rain because of it, so be it. He'll live.

What, then? The zuka version ends with Lin being the one that places the umbrella on the statue to protect it from the rain, and the story... comes a full circle?

The anime doesn't give a particular reason to believe this but thinking about it, Lin, in the beginning of the story, wasn't just waiting for some passing stooge to pick the umbrella up. He was the one who'd planted it there to begin with. After all, it's his trap and it's exactly something he would do.

The story comes a full circle.

#thunderbolt fantasy #lin xue ya #shang bu huan #I just think the end of season 1 is so so satisfying #but it took me a few watches before I realised that it's never explicitly said the umbrella was Lin's #because the way I had interpreted the takarazuka version was so firm I didn't even question it

[strechanadi]

Alina Cojocaru, Xue Lin, Christopher Evans 

La dame aux camélias

photo Kiran West

#ballet #ballerina #hamburg ballet #la dame aux camélias #xue lin #christopher wvans #alina cojocaru

[frobby]

I'm an official fucked up little guy apologist I think

#I'm just gonna tag a few faves #eunyung baek #yukio okumura #lawless of greed #Lin xue ya #vnc vanitas #princess tutu fakir #Just like....everyone in twst #Everyone in epsilon phi #reo niiboshi #I couldnt remember reo's last name so I had to look it up #no home #Sarazanmai #epsilon phi #princess tutu #Twst #Blue exorcist #servamp #thunderbolt fantasy #WILLIAM #THIS WAS SITTING IN MY DRAFTS SO LONG I FORGOT #william james moriarty #yuumori #moriarty the patriot #kisshu

[dobadgerseatsnakes]

Thunderbolt Fantasy season 2 end credit-- LIn Xue Ya

#thunderbolt fantasy #lin xue ya #everyone's favorite pipe bastard

[atamascolily]

Thunderbolt Fantasy + text posts, part 4

#thunderbolt fantasy #wuxia fantasy puppet epic #shang bu huan #lin xue ya #mie tian hai #sha wu sheng #juan can yun #dan fei

[theseasasleep]

Story of Kunning Palace E03 (semi-live reaction)

So, it's our heroine's fate to always be crushed on by the spoiled Princess? LOL

There's no way a young woman who climbed all the way to Empress can avoid most of the path to that fate. In most of the webnovels of this type I've read, reaching that type of pinnacle means you have a fate with it, regardless of the ultimate outcome. The best Xue Ning can do is flip the script on circumstances while doing her best to skirt around the thornier aspects of future events.

1st Life: the Princess thinks back to her first encounter with Xue Ning with humiliation, embarrassment and rage

2nd Life: the Princess will think back on their first encounter with pride, happiness and warmth

So far so good. Although I totally get why she'd want to avoid tangling with a temperamental royal who she had a terrible experience with.

...

I really like how this show is shot. Sometimes you never know with cdramas if you'll get a cheap or pedestrian directing style or a dramatic and/or compelling one.

...

The show is still building its foundations and I'm just so eager to jump into the action!

*fight sequence starts 1 minute later* AND HERE WE GO!

Dude is more pissed off by the damaged qin strings than the assassination attempt! HA!

Xue Ning, as hostage: *minimize connections to minimize involvement* Mr. Hostage-taker, sir, I know Xie Wei only through the grapevine...

Xie Wei: MISS XUE NING, PLEASE DON'T SELL OUR CONNECTION SO SHORT! YOUR FATHER AND I ARE GREAT FRIENDS! IN FACT, YOU ARE MY LIFE SAVIOR!

Xue Ning:

...

Take me instead.

Mmm. Something about the silky oomph with which he said that line combined with his expression... Okay, okay, Zhang Ling He. It took three episodes but you got me: the character of Xie Wei is now officially attractive to me. All he had to do was low key deliver a line that just vibrates with high key threat.

Man, what era are my hormones in? Between finding my mojo over one ML threatening to tear an offensive man's tongue out and fixing my posture when this one is nothing but velvet menace, I need a name for it. I need to know. Should I be worried? Scared? Aroused?

oh. oh. he's so sexy... okay, now you're just showing off; put the murderous sexiness away

Not this man calling her out, leaving her neither a fissure to hide in or a crumb for modesty!

I... I can't wait until he's incandescently in love with her because I just know, I just know it will be so magnificent I won't know what to do with myself.

Girl, while you are absolutely right to defend your current relationship with Yan Lin and right to say it is a flirtation that is undeserving of such rude scrutiny... you (and us) know that man speaks no lies. You are trifling with Yan Lin and you would have done him plenty of harm without the benefit of literal 20/20 hindsight.

That being said, I see @dangermousie point: kicking off a relationship trying to gin up, stoke and maintain fear in the other party is an excellent way to receive future comeuppance in the form of watching the woman you desperately love side-eye you as she lavishes protection and support on her other suitors.

...

I like Yan Lin. Not too sorry to say that. Hopefully Life No. 2 keeps him off the rapist track.

It's nice seeing Xue Ning enjoying festivities. The impression I have of her first life self is that while she reveled in being "wild", she likely didn't really allow herself to enjoy being young and with friends, too busy being hungry.

Dear. God. That seamless transition from earnest Yan Lin in Life No. 2 waxing poetic about his first impressions of Xue Ning to embittered Yan Lin in Life No. 1 waxing poetic about his first impressions of Xue Ning with the exact. same. words. Add to it the implied threat of sexual violence in LIfe No. 1!!!

Chills.

*gagging* Did I say I like Yan Lin? Show, it's going to be hard for me to keep that opinion if you keep flashing back to that.

Me during the Life No. 2 Ning x Yan kiss scene:

I want no part of it.

All right, dude, are you telling me you raped her because she plain text told you she planned to marry someone who could help her achieve her goals?! She didn't sell you out to the devil... Or refuse to shelter either you or wounded family members... but because when you were at your lowest, like the bitch she admittedly is... was..., she told you the truth and cut ties? I mean, that's reason enough not to warn her a coup is coming for her ass in Life No. 1. There's no reason for rape, ever; even if she lit your dog on fire, you can't rape her. Just WTF, guy?!

...

Not that it excuses any of her horrid behavior but I can see how lonely Xue Ning is in what should be her familial home. That cozy scene between her parents and half-sister where in her absence there is only affection and warmth and in her presence, only awkwardness and discomfort.

She lived a childhood in poverty and exile being spoken and looked down upon; returned to her parents' home to find herself being shunted as second-born (in an era where hierarchy matters) and defective instead of receiving proper homecoming. I can see why the attraction of her sole dream, her ultimate goal - becoming Empress - would become all-consuming, especially if such a dream sustained her in exile and fueled her defiance at home.

...

Oh, jesus christ, Yan Lin, don't be an idiot! Don't believe in an enemy soldier during wartime, like...?!

...

So Xue Ning might have accidentally sold Yan Lin out to the devil.

But in her defense, that wasn't her intention. Just to watch him. Like a politics-minded creeper.

Me to Ning as she reads her former coachman cum spy to filth: GET HIM.

#post #tv show: story of kunning palace #teevee #cdrama #xie wei #zhang ling he #gif #references tv show: the office #xue ning #yan lin