#LOVE LIKE THE GALAXY

[academyofbrokenhearts]

He really did the period equivalent of "sorry, bitch, I'm a bit busy now, but I'll text you later, k?"

I take it back - despite the awesomeness of his cape swishing (truly superlative! Bonus for not bothering to remove his previous cape but just plonking this one on top. He clearly shares my grandmother’s belief that one must always dress extra warmly not to catch a cold) - no man who ignores a prepared for him imperial banquet, running an excellent chance of pissing off the Emperor is excellent husband material.

Heroine, marry him and risk having your husband becoming a head shorter and you being beheaded or enslaved some fine day not too far in the future!

From the safety of the screen and in the secure knowledge that my own head will remain attached, this is delicious however.

What a glorious fuck-you that was!

[deokmis]

Love Like The Galaxy (ep. 12 // ep. 20)

[nocassandra]

It turns out that my favourite relationship dynamic is between

Woman who knows what she wants to do and does it TM

And

Man who goes, 'That's my girl' and provides the occasional assist TM

[zhoufeis]

Shaoshang may not be what everyone considers as an obedient and amicable lady, but in my eyes, within the capital, in the entire world, she is the best lady.

星汉灿烂·月升沧海 LOVE LIKE THE GALAXY China, 2022.

[gusucloud]

"Winter is not a season; it's a celebration." A. Mishra

[canary3d-obsessed]

Bad Party Guests

Wang Pangzi, Tomb of the Sea

Mei Changsu, Nirvana in Fire

Wei Wuxian, The Untamed

Zhang Rishan, Tomb of the Sea

Ling Buyi, Love Like the Galaxy

[talea456]

Forced to be an emperor, only wants to read/write fanfic on AO3.

[nemainofthewater]

Reviewer 2 is the second academic to peer review a manuscript/academic journal article and they have a reputation of being incredibly mean and occasionally quite unfair

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[gingersnapwolves]

[goldenwoods]

Just got into Love like the galaxy two years late and I'm loving the writing of Buyi and Shaoshang's relationship. It's like if every cdrama trope got perfected into something that's both realistically flawed but also wholesome and non-toxic. LBY is the cold, high status male lead that's so common in this type of drama but he never consciously uses this to get close to Shaoshang. He found her interesting but never uses his position to play around with her, or 'ask' her to see him using stupid excuses knowing she couldn't refuse, instead he simply goes about his own business and simply shows more attention to her whenever he sees her in distress.

After Shaoshang gets together with A Yao, Buyi largely leaves them alone, and promptly goes about accepting that his love's gonna be unrequited without being a bother. Buyi never sidelines A Yao and never made any advances on Shaoshang while she was in a relationship. Even when helping her after she witnessed Zhaojun execute someone in front of her eyes, he comforts her in her immediate distress, promptly gives her space so she could do what she came here for (i.e. talk to Zhaojun), and only stepped back in when he realised that Shaoshang had been rendered unable to respond by the sight of the severed head.

LBY is by no means perfect: for instance, he just kinda forgot to ask Shaoshang first before proposing in front of the emperor, was too dense to think too much about the various difficulties that might have compelled Shaoshang to accept the fricking emperor's decree to marry, and was an overbearing terror in an attempt to care for Shaoshang's family after their engagement. That said: it's lovely that the writing made this a genuine plot point and character flaw for Shaoshang to call him out on, instead of making their early relationship problems a silly 'idk if he/she really loves me since we got together for xyz reasons' thing.

I think out of all the multitudes of male leads who're like 'I love a "feisty" woman', Buyi's like the person who fully showed that he wanted someone who's independent, has agency, and can speak and think for herself, not because he thinks a girl who can talk back to him is "hehe interesting" in the same way that they might think a little pet is interesting. He genuinely gets worried and uncomfortable when she becomes quiet and stops bothering to defend herself against insults, talks to her properly instead of conversing solely in teases and jokes, and improves upon her concerns instead of just going "aww she doesn't understand my love :((" until the narrative feeds them a life-or-death moment that emotionally blackmails them into reconciling.

[storge]

@asiandramanet December Bingo: Free Choice

Meeting you… is my blessing of three lifetimes. ↦ Love like the Galaxy (2022)

[dangermousie]

Nothing in the last few years of cdramas will ever be as jaw droppingly glorious as Ling Buyi’s “father’s” party which can be summed up as:

Dad: what did you bring me for my birthday present, son?

Ling Buyi: wholesale family annihilation, UNCLE!

If Hamlet was half as decisive and bloodthirsty, the play would have a happy ending and be about 30 minutes long.

[deokmis]

@userdramas event 13: team spirit ↳ Cheng Shaoshang's Harem Team

[spaceadvances]

Most galaxies don't have any rings of stars and gas -- why does M94 have two? First, spiral galaxy M94 has an inner ring of newly formed stars surrounding its nucleus, giving it not only an unusual appearance but also a strong interior glow.

A leading origin hypothesis holds that an elongated knot of stars known as a bar rotates in M94 and has generated a burst of star formation in this inner ring. Observations have also revealed another ring, an outer ring, one that is more faint, different in color, not closed, and relatively complex. What caused this outer ring is currently unknown. M94, pictured here, spans about 45,000 light years in total, lies about 15 million light years away, and can be seen with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici).

📷: Brian Brennan

[zhoufeis]

You must remember you were the one to captivate me first.

星汉灿烂·月升沧海 LOVE LIKE THE GALAXY Episode 30, China, 2022.

[rapha-reads]

Cheng Shaoshang: *is abused, neglected and vilified all her life to the point she's developed the most cunning, resourceful, intelligent mind and ways to protect herself and survive*

Her parents: *come back*

Cheng Shaoshang: *is still abused, vilified, disrespected and neglected*

Honestly I'm rooting for her to take revenge ln everyone at this point. Just, go apeshit, girl. You deserve it.

A Zhao Lusi character: *fucks shit up*

Me: yasssss girl, you dropped this, queen.