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Where have these gut-wrenchingly beautiful photos been hiding? l see why the producers of “The Long Night” sought him out to play Jiang Yang—circumventing his agency’s disinterest in the project and taking the offer directly to Bai Yu He absolutely embodies the transcendent grace of a man who’s already lost his life but is somehow still living.

Bai Yu behind the scenes of Guardian

frm. 镇魂 Guardian

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Its English title is now “Cesium Fallout,” according to AvenueX. I really don't care what they call it, I just wish the movie would eventually come to a US streaming service! They never do. (With the exception of Z1L’s Lighting Up the Stars, for which I’m eternally grateful!)

Official stills for BYs upcoming movie Burning City #白宇焚城 🔥

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And now I too must sacrifice myself so that my true love’s people will have at least a bit of light to see as they live out eternity trapped in their hellscape forever home. You’re welcome, Dad.

Your son,

Zhao Yunlan

i stand by my cancelled wife who ripped my godhead out of me and shoved my soul into the reincarnation cycle so he could take up the burden of guarding the seal and ultimately sacrificing himself to reforge it in my place

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Thank you, Marron for unearthing these amazing pix! I’ve never seen them before. Y O Y has this drama never been released? 🥺 Do you think it’s too late now?

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Yunlantern!

I haven’t had the brain power to write since surgery but I finally had some energy to draw! So here is a picture of Zhao Yunlantern. Enjoy!

ps: I will probably make this into a series. Pendant of pining, merit brush, awl and sun dial :D

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EN subbed vid (Oct 19): Yu Hua approves Zhu Yilong’s image as Ma Zhe - after watching Only the River Flows, he can’t accept it if the role is played by another person

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earlier today the most amazing @onlyzhuyilong posted those recent unedited pictures of long-ge at the xsdt press event in hong kong. and i mentioned sth in the tags about how his watch was excessively loose in those pictures.

the watch in question:

well, i think the watch thing has well and truly pushed me over the edge into insanity. i have spent the past hour and a half scrolling through my folder of pictures of long-ge to compare ones in which he wears watches, to figure out why this watch is that loose.

now i don't wear watches myself bc i hate how they feel around my wrist, but google has told me a watch should be loose enough to be able to squeeze the tip of your index finger under the band, but not so loose that you could then move it around. long-ge clearly breaks that important watch rule in the above picture, but why?

my first idea upon delving into his watch pictures was that his watches with metal bands appear a bit looser in general than the ones he has with leather bands, but pictures are deceiving, and it's not exactly provable without, yaknow, flying out to china, somehow getting past his body guards, grabbing his wrist and sticking my finger in between his wrist and his watch (and then doing that on multiple occasions without getting a restraining order filed against me) ((for legal reasons, this is a joke, i am not actually insane)).

anyway.

exhibit A: leather bands

exhibit B: metal bands

(note that some of the metal band watches may be the same ones and some may even be the same exact one he wore yesterday, but i cannot for the life of me tell some of them apart.)

on this adventure, i also realized that he has definitely worn this exact watch before in the press tour but i just didn’t notice it then:

i also entertained the possibility for a hot moment that he wears his watches tighter around his wrist when playing a character but wears them looser out of character, but i have not been able to prove such a thing either.

so, after all this i still do not know why that watch is so loose. was this one hard to fit? (i know nothing about watches) did he have no opportunity to get it fixed? does he just not like the feeling of the metal tight against his skin as much? (but then why wear watches with metal bands at all?)

in short, this excursion has gotten me absolutely nowhere, except that i am now pretty confident that if you gave me a bunch of pictures of random people’s wrists i could easily pick long-ge out of the stack. but i have no answers to any of my watch questions.

instead i want to leave you with a suggestion:

the watch is loose bc it’s trying to impress his pants

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I can’t express how much this meant to me. How much this entire book meant to me.

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Just so.

It seems it's the five-year anniversary of Guardian's airing, and it's been a year and change since I started this ridiculous blog, so this seems like a good time to write down a thought I've been having, and that thought is this: When I first thought about doing making a Tumblr to chronicle all the Guardian weirdnesses that caught my eye, I wondered, oh no, as I watch more c-dramas, will I then feel obligated to do this kind of deep-dive analysis for them as well?

As it turns out, the answer has been ... no. Not because I wouldn't enjoy it, mind you, but because nothing else I've seen has inspired in me the level of head-clutching befuddled awe that Guardian has.

At first I thought it was just that everything else I was watching was a period/costume piece, so of course we're not going to be dealing with random English in odd locations or jackass vehicle choices. But then I started watching some things set in the 20th and 21st centuries, some that are even filmed in Dragon City Shanghai Film Park, and ... nope. There are peculiar choices here and there, sure, but nothing even approaching the level of Zhao Yunlan's inexplicable apartment swing. Plenty of shows have fake books, but how many have fake bookcase walls? Think of how many objects in the main SID room alone I not only can't explain but can't even identify. And that's even before we get to what the hell everyone is wearing.

Truly, the more I watch other things, the more I realize what a unique gem of chaotic wonder Guardian is, 50% heartbreaking work of staggering genius, 50% dumb as a guinea pig in a roller skate, and I'm happy to have all of you fine internet people to share it with.