#Love Like the Galaxy

[deokmis]

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

[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.

[nemainofthewater]

The most versatile of accessories, a fan can be:

-A fashion statement for the discerning gentleman

-A sign that you're a gentleman and the person talking to you is a pleb

-A way to whack people on the head when they do something stupid

-Something to hide behind when a sleeve is too conspicuous

-A weapon (????)

Oh, and I guess it can keep you cool as well if you want to be boring.

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[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.

[dangermousie]

Something that struck me extra on this LLTG rewatch - how subtle yet unmistakable the narrative is about the fact that being sheltered and spoiled as a woman is a recipe for disaster.

NN, ill-educated STEM feral child, gets how important marriage partner choice is more than all the rest of them, properly brought up in womanly virtues.

No, I don't mean she yearns for true love (she gets it, eventually, but that is not what she hopes or looks for) - but what she gets and a lot of the rest of the young women we see do not, is that you want a husband you can like and get along with, who can let you be yourself (and who is also acceptable socially because she's pragmatic.)

That is why her first choice, until it's OBE, is Yao - he's sweet and he's a friend and she knows she'd be the boss in that marriage. All the ladies in the capital swoon for Ling Buyi but she is never consciously swayed. She doesn't realize he likes her and she's not someone to build fantasies/pine for someone she can't have (in a way, knowing the man likes her is a necessary precondition for her to be even able to open her heart - she's spent too much of her childhood fruitlessly yearning for familial love to want to repeat that in her marriage.) Yao openly adores her so this allows her to consider him as a partner (that is why Scholar dude never had a chance btw, his courtship style is negging and NN is the last person that would work for.)

In fact, even after she knows Ling Buyi likes her, she is NOT excited to marry him because she doesn't want someone too high a status compared to her and someone as strong-willed as him because what she sees, and a lot of the rest of women looking for husbands in this story do not, that if there is a huge status disparity and a man is used to getting his own way, there is a risk of having yourself subsumed. A lot of the latter half is the two awkward, scarred by various trauma young people navigating boundaries of their relationship and what is OK for them and what is not (Ling Buyi IS used to barking orders, NN is overly defensive about even the slightest suggestions - they eventually meet in the middle and it's lovely but it's even more lovely that the drama shows it takes work and conversations and compromises.)

The thing that she gets, perhaps because she's a pragmatic survivor, is how the choice of a husband is the most important thing for a woman in that society. Her life fully depends on that, even more than of e.g., an Austen heroine, because in addition to those hurdles, this is a polygamous society (so how many other women brought in and how husband treats the legal wife versus concubines etc also is an issue) AND a society where if your husband goes down, you and your kids will be executed/enslaved along with him. We see how badly wrong marriages can go - Yao's eventual wife's first marriage is a great example, where she marries a man who abuses her and kills her family. Or even that one woman who marries a general who dotes on her and is a great husband, but commits treason and is executed (and she's only spared by the grace of the emperor.)

And the fact that all those women swoon for Ling Buyi and want to marry him SHOWS how the sheltered/spoiled thing has fucked them up. Remember princess whatever? She is dead set on marrying Ling Buyi and it's insane to me. Yes, he's good-looking and quasi-son of the emperor who dotes on him (since it's safe to do so, he's outside the dynastic fight) but that's great for about three minutes and boasting at parties. She is so sheltered from reality, she does not think what it would be like to be married to him. I don't mean his revenge quest since nobody knows. I mean if he was exactly who he appears with no other goals. Ling Buyi dislikes her and makes it known. He's rude to her (he's rude in general. Hell, he's rude to his parental family, openly! And emperor lets him get away with it), he clearly looks down on her and at a couple of points he genuinely threatens her and her family with murder. He's not charming or gentle or considerate. THIS IS NOT A MAN YOU WANT TO MARRY OMG!!! It has clearly not occurred to her to think past being carried into this house, envy of all her girlfriends - day in, day out with a rude, violent man who is the emperor's favorite (so you can't really seek help from your family if he doesn't treat you well), who dislikes you and who is entitled to take other wives.

Anyway, I love NN and her pragmatic mind and that she makes Ling Buyi EARN her consent and her loyalty and her love. (But then she is ride or die for him, isn't she?)

[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

[storge]

@asiandramanet December Bingo: Free Choice

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

[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

[gusucloud]

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

[deokmis]

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

[zhoufeis]

I shall not live without you.

星汉灿烂·月升沧海 LOVE LIKE THE GALAXY Episode 41 - Episode 53.

[nemainofthewater]

Have you ever watched a love triangle and known with a bone deep certainty that no matter the final/offical pairing, they could solve so many problems by all getting together?

Alternately, has the drama got three protagonists and all of them have amazing chemistry with each other?

Do you just think it would be funny?

Instead of choosing between love interests, help to vote between OT3s!

Propaganda, examples, and write-ins are absolutely encouraged!

[wulufan]

2nd outfit for Weibo TV & Internet Video Summit 2023

[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.

[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.