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DONKEY SKIN 1970 ✬ dir. Jacques Demy

#i used to have a crush on the prince from this as a kid #my mother still teases me about it #even tho i don't even remember what he looks like now #movies

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 Dongfang Qingcang - Fashion Icon [3/5]

#YES #THAT's my favorite one #i love the sunburst sleeves and the red accents and the belt #and all the patterns work so well together #honestly one of my favorite looks out of all cdramas i've seen #cdrama #lbfad

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dongfang qingcang - episode 26

#bookworm supreme #lbfad #cdrama

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Too Far and Snakey

#lumione #lucius malfoy #hermione granger #hp #art #fan art

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 Dongfang Qingcang - Fashion Icon [2/5]

#oh that’s my second favourite out off all his looks #it looks so soft #lbfad #cdrama

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Doug Jones as Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water 05/??

#sexy fish-cat man #sorry #movies #the shape of water

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we don't talk about this parallel enough

#tomione #hermione granger #tom riddle #hp

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#sigh #fandom

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Love between Fairy and Devil, dir. Yi Zheng (2022)

I will change her fate for her.

#lbfad #cdrama

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 Dongfang Qingcang - Fashion Icon [1/5]

#he absolutely is #lbfad #cdrama

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀

#oh i love this #i don’t think I’ve ever seen a show that has more parallels than lbfad #lbfad #cdrama

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Fox Spirit Matchmaker is actually about chicken.

All they talk about is chicken, and all the ML does is roast chicken, make chicken soup, eat chicken, serve other people chicken, etc.

#yep #was just joking with a friend that if ML needs money so much he just should open first ancient chinese chicken bbq place #fox spirit matchmaker #cdrama #text

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The wonderful thing about LBFAD to me is the subversion of the tropes that you usually only get in fanfiction and the fact that it doesn’t drag and it’s not over the top.

We have enemies to lovers, but with a clever twist that the female lead doesn’t know that it’s enemies-to-lover for about the first third of the show.

We have slow burn, but it doesn’t drag so much that you lose interest and there’s this shimmering attraction and chemistry from the 2nd episode on.

We have misunderstandings but they don’t last for more than 1-2 episodes because DFQC and XLH actually do have good reasons for those misunderstanding and conflicts considering their positions and how new they’re both to the feelings. And they both think about their feelings and each other’s feelings and try to figure it out, instead of just acting out of stubbornness and anger. And, yes, they can both be petty and unreasonable and jealous, but they never purposefully hurt each other because of it.

We have ‘I would break up with you to save you’ but it’s written so well, that it doesn’t seem like a completely stupid selfish decision AND the best part – the other person doesn’t buy it.

And all those tropes and subversions, they doesn’t drag. My problem with many Asian drama, especially cdrama, is that suffering is kind of fetishized for my taste? Like it goes on and on and on, and the few moments of happiness aren’t enough to make up for it. Especially in cdramas, it’s sometimes an everlasting circle of pain and love-hate where the ML and FL just keep hurting each other. To the point that I just end up thinking that they should not be together.

LBFAD in contrast is a beautiful example of gradual character development for both of the main leads. And just as their emotional awareness and emotional intelligence develop, so do their relationship.

#lbfad #love between fairy and devil #cang lan jue #clj #text #mine #dongfang qingcang #xiao lanhua #cdrama

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LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL 1.30

note: both dfqc and xlh say 我不服 (wǒ bù fú). there isn’t really a direct translation for this, and it can be interpreted as “won’t accept it”, “challenge it”, “won’t back down”, “refuse to obey”. I translated it here as “refuse to accept it” to capture the emotions of not just “not accepting” the hand that fate had dealt them, but also the defiance, anger, and desperation towards fate which later led them to do what they each did

#thinking about how at their core they are actually quite similar #this is one of my fave couple tropes; #characters who look sort of opposites attract on the surface #but they're not that at all #they're quite aligned #<- prev tags #this #this is a huge reason why i love canglan so much #they're actually very similar #and that's what i like in most of my ships #they may act and express themselves differently #they may have fights and disagreements #but on the deepest level they're quite alike #cdrama #lbfad #text #fandom

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Listen, I was never bothered by age gaps, I don’t have a problem with 1000+ years old vampires/elves/demons/etc. dating high school and college students. With Chinese immortals who are all centuries and millennia old and die and reincarnate and die again and get revived it’s even less of a question

But this line…

#fox spirit matchmaker #cdrama #text #mine

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if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

#me #i have so many of them tbh #fandom #text

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Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 Dongfang Qingcang smiling at Xiao Lanhua

#lbfad #cdrama