#MoDu

[lush--lush]

"I'm not the person gazing into the abyss. I am the abyss."

[thatlazybones]

Happy bday Fei Du!! 🌻💛

[bladedweaponsandswishycoats]

Happy new year, by which I mean especially happy anniversary to Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou putting a ring on it.💍 In case you forgot:

[unforth]

LOSING MY ENTIRE FUCKING MIND OVER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

[Id: a screen capture of the Seven Seas Instagram announcing that they've licensed Modu by priest]

[mothceg]

some requests with cuties

[drawulan]

Danmei couple arts!

Please, consider commissioning art from me! You can feed a starving artist that way 😸

I also draw NSFW 🔞💦!

(Reposts are highly appreciated)

[acequinz]

Modu drinking game: take a drink every time Luo Wenzhou finds Fei Du attractive but pushes the thought away cause it's Fei Du.

[stayuntilthefoglifts]

Best turn of events (wearing your (future)boyfriend's clothes is always welcome).

[purposelynana]

Seeing discourse about SMYM not venture enough towards the romance. It didn't reflect on the tv ratings because Thai audiences seemed to appreciate it. Meanwhile the international audiences sounded a bit dissapointed.

Me?

SMYM reminds me a lot of dangai, when the romance is never on the forefront because duh China. But that's the weakness because when you make romance as your main plot point, after the couple get together the chemistry, the story, all of them kinda fizzled out. Dangai despite all the kinds of restrictions, keep making me watch it, because the romance just lurking underneath all of the fiasco that was happening. The romance acted as a bonus. Not the main course.

To see SMYM is to see Dangai. To read Modu. To think that, first of all this is a thriller show. Detective show. Not a queer show. Then maybe you will less dissapointed. I kinda feel that I become less subjective to rate BL shows by not taking it as a BL show. I am more appreciate by a show that's not trying to be a BL show. Especially come from Thailand, where the number of BL shows that consistently good from start to finish is just not that many.

Now can Thai adapt Modu, for fucks sake?

[liberty-or-death]

There was no one at the ferry in the wilderness; save for a small boat that lies on the water leisurely. "野渡无人舟自横" - The meaning of Fei Du 费渡 and Luo Wenzhou 骆闻舟's Name. (Wei Yingwu 韦应物- Chuzhou’s Xijian 滁州西涧）

I’ve never analysed a priest related meta so here’s a first for me I guess.

It’s a known fact that Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou’s names were censored when the Modu adaptation was released.  The names just stuck out to me so I did some research and WOW, their names were from the same line in a poem (OBVIOUSLY).

And it's a very famous poem too, which is probably why their names were changed because everyone knows what Priest was trying to imply.

So anyway here it goes ~

Their names arise from from Chuzhou’s Xijian 滁州西涧 written by the Tang Dynasty Poet Wei Yingwu 韦应物 (lmao this dude's courtesy name was Yibo XD) .  Chuzhou’s a city located in the Anhui Province. 西涧 Xijian refers to a river located west of Chunzhou. When the poet was the governor of Chunzhou, he frequently visited Xijian and thus, it inspired him to write this poem.  Wei Yingwu has a reputation for writing poetry based on scenery so here's one of them!

独怜幽草涧边生，上有黄鹂深树鸣。 

The only thing I like is the lonely grass that grows by the stream that runs through the valley, and the orioles that cry out in the deep undergrowth.

T/N: 独怜 is a very interesting word. 😍. It can be broken down to 独 (unique, alone) and 怜 (pity, love).  So in this case, most people would interpret this as something was so unique and the poet loved it, or it could also mean something that was  lonely and pitiful 🥲

春潮带雨晚来急，野渡(DU)无人舟(ZHOU)自横。

In the evening, when the spring tide rises and the rain drizzles, the water in the Xijian river becomes increasingly turbulent.  There was no one at the ferry in the wilderness; save for a small boat that lies on the water leisurely. 

"野渡无人舟自横" is a very famous line (Tang 300!) and it has inspired many to draw based on this line alone.

Drawn by Zhang Pin in 1963.

And another painting by Pan Tianshou in 1964

To fully understand this poem, we have to start from the poet’s background. Wei Yingwu came from a rich family, and when he was 15 years old, he was the aide of Emperor Xuanzhong.  In the early days, he was unruly and the villagers under him suffered.  During the An Lushan Rebellion, Xuanzhong fled and Wei Yingwu lost his job. Wei Yingwu then put his mind to studying and eventually, he became an official.  It was said that his past turbulent experiences in his life (the An Lushan Rebellion in particular) inspired his poem. 

As a bonus point, you’re absolutely right  if you’ve read modu and found the vibe of this poem to be very familiar.  Because Priest has used similar imagery throughout the novel.  For example, in Chapter 95:

He was like a traveler walking through the desert, his body utterly broken. And Luo Wenzhou and this tiny house was like a bottle half filled with water that fell from the sky.  Even if it contained arsenic, or if the cold broke apart his fingers one by one ... he could not give it up. - Translation by yours truly. 

[flower-of-the-desert]

MODU IN ENGLISH FINALLY YESSS THANK YOU GOD 🥳🥳🙌🙌🥳🙌🙌🙌🥳🙌🙌

[moduevent2024]

Welcome to “Mo Du Christmas Event 2024” ✨

It will be on December 24, 25, 26, 30 and 31. Fanart, fanfic, editing, any type of original work is allowed 🌻

[brazilian-whalien52]

Novels I personally think Wei Zhi Yuan would read

[shijiujun]

GUYS MODU LA IS OUT?!?!?!

光渊 Guang Yuan | Prest’s 默读 Silent Reading Live Action - First 8 episodes surprise drop on Youku with seemingly quite significant plot changes, it’s almost a sci-fi piece now.

[unforth]

So I got a fairly steep ShanGo shipping bill and had no idea which of my outstanding orders it'd contain...and the answer is...most of them. Including one so old I'd forgotten about it. 🤣 I think the only things NOT here are 2ha Vol. 4 and Global Examination Vol. 2.

Includes:

My wife's anniversary present (not pictured, for obvious reasons)

TGCF coaster and Xie Lian (who is enormous??)

Very very naked Yanshen (I didn't pay for their clothes 🤣). I ordered these well over a year ago, I'd almost forgotten! (Lookit Shen Qiao's beautiful eyes 😭)

TGCF manhua vol. 3

Legend of Exorcism manhua vol. 1 (it came with SO MUCH STUFF?!?! man I hope they release Dinghai Fusheng Records in print too...)

Copper Coins manhua vol. 1, which I haven't read the manhua or the book of yet, but I find manhua much easier to read at my current skill level so I'm gonna give it a go...

...aaaaand lastly, my thank you gifts for leaving feedback on my previous orders.

I'm not positive who is on the right (Chu Wanning, Shen Qiao, and Shen Qingqiu seem most likely? I'm inclined toward Shen Qiao) but I love the adorable Yanshen pin, and I'm completely obsessed with the Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou.

Anyway, all in all a really wonderful ShanGo haul, this is WAY more than I was expecting. My wife brought the box in and I was like...oh. it's enormous. 🤣

Thank you @shandian-go !!

[drawulan]