#ZHU I SWEAR

[teartra]

Zhu : I don’t want to be great

Madam Zhang :

Me :

Zhu : I want to be the ✨greatest✨

[mengyan]

call me crazy but the way one of wen xiao’s flowers made it into pei sijing’s arrow-filled waters… she really planted herself amongst those thorns and made a home out of them…

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I'm losing hit points to psychic damage every time I watch another episode of Fangs of Fortune like some sort of Pokemon but I keep going back for more.

Me:

[saelterlude]

more link click musical doodles, bcs today is a slow day at work (du guangyi and zhu hanbin special ft. ding xingchen, shu rongbo and wang yifei)

refs here. starting from top left and to the right. (+video links bcs im slow with the next compilation lol)

zhu hanbin caressing shu rongbo's cheek (watch it here)

wang yifei lifting zhu hanbin (technically i dont have a video of this lg uppies. but i have this lg uppies)

du guangyi kicking ding xingchen (here! 00:47)

and du guangyi shooting shots effortlessly (here! 00:50 and here! 00:55)

[forerussake]

hold fast, dragon boy! this is your year ❤️

[toerrishumansodontbeone]

I Finished my Radiant Emperor Fic! Its mostly vaguely chronologically connected snippets centering on Zhu and Ouyang, but god am I glad to just finally have all of it out. Enjoy,

[rose-tinted-vision]

Hikaru no Go | 棋魂 (2020) ep.36

Ban laoshi and I have bantered for so many years, on the surface we may seem distant. but in reality, we care about each other very much.

[a-dotrivenitupontop]

that gorgeous brown eyes x staring into your soul twitter post

[rubywolf0201]

First lucky guest of the day is Zhu Yuan! And she needs to have a quick bite before going to the meeting. Oh and Seth is there too but it’s only Zhu Yuan there placing the order for both herself and Seth.

[inkyminx]

LMK Zodiacs

And a speedy timelapse.

[wrathyforest]

I wasn't in a mood for drawing, BUT I SWEAR THESE DUDES--- Teng Chunpeng and Zhu Hanbin's recent performance >:")

[saebaragi]

I woul destroy the whole world with my bare hands at any second if he wanted me to

[swkbiggestdefender]

azure: I miss the old you...

wukong: I don't I fucking hate that guy

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wukong: master piglet is being a d!ck

tripitaka: monkey...

wukong: i don't like using that word master but it's hard to describe him any other way...because he's such a d!ck

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tripitaka: where is my horse?

ao lie: sorry but I ate that thing

tripitaka: ...really

wukong & ao lie: I/he did

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wukong: hey ao lie since you ate a horse before and now you can shape-shift into a horse does that make you a cannibal?

ao lie: ...omg your right!!

Zhu Bajie: why can't you two be fucking normal

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sha wujing: I think you have a drinking problem..

wukong: the only problem is that I don't have a freaking drink in my hand right now

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wukong: master you should start threatening demons to keep yourself safe tell them "if you hurt me wukong is going to kill all of you"

tripitaka: ...aw I won't be doing that but thanks

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wukong: who ate my food! whoever it is I swear I'll-

ao lie: it was me I'm sorry

wukong: forgive them...it's okay it's just food let me bring you more if you still hungry

zhu Bajie: favoritism!

[youhideastar]

Fangs of Fortune: A Primer

I keep hoping someone funnier or better with images than me will write a primer for this show, but I haven’t seen it yet, so it’s looking like I’m going to have to be the propaganda I want to see in the world.

Fangs of Fortune is a 34.5-episode drama that takes place in Ancient Fantasy China, split between the human world and the Wilderness (home of the yao/demons). You can watch it on iQiyi or YouTube. There will be some spoilers below, mostly for early episodes; photos here are from official production stills/promos. As far as I can tell, Fangs of Fortune is a (successful) attempt to get a m/m romantic pairing past the censors by giving the dudes a(n also-queer) female love interest as well, which is neat. The show cares way more about the characters than about the plot, so I’m going to follow suit, starting with…

Zhao Yuanzhou, a.k.a. Zhu Yan

30,000-year-old suicidal Great Demon with suave DILF energy, sky-high self-confidence, and rock-bottom self-worth. 8 years before the show opens, he was possessed by malicious energy and killed a ton of people, including the only living relatives (father and brother) of this guy:

Zhuo Yichen

24-year-old swordsman and demon hunter (head of the Demon Hunting Bureau, in fact), who wears the most beautiful costumes of all time, has sworn to avenge his family, and happens to be in possession of the only weapon that can kill the aforementioned Great Demon Zhao Yuanzhou—if only he knew how to use it.

On the dynamic between Zhao Yuanzhou and Zhuo Yichen, which is the driving force of this show, I can’t do better than this post and this post – please go read them, you will not regret it. In the meantime, please enjoy some homoerotic violent hand-holding.

Zhao Yuanzhou shows up at the Demon Hunting Bureau very sexily and offers to teach Zhuo Yichen to use said weapon, if Zhuo Yichen will (a) swear to kill him with it once they’re done, and (b) in the meantime, let Zhao Yuanzhou join the demon hunting crew. Specifically, he demands to be paired up with this lady:

Wen Xiao

Scholar, demon hunter, Zhuo Yichen’s sort-of foster sister, and technically the Baize Goddess, guardian of the Wilderness… but when her predecessor as Baize Goddess died, she couldn’t complete the transfer of her powers to Wen Xiao, leaving Wen Xiao unable to do the job, and sickly to boot. Wen Xiao compensates by being smarter, more socially adept, and more mentally healthy than everyone else in this cast… although I will grant that’s a low bar to clear.

While recruiting a crew to go after a pesky water demon, Wen Xiao runs into…

Pei Sijing

Stoic archer who recently retired from demon-hunting after she had to kill her own brother; target of Wen Xiao’s very persistent affections.

Here they are being cute together:

Congratulations, you have now met the polycule! There are also two comic-relief teenagers (with obligatory difficult backstories) and two villains, one of whom is boring and will be ignored, and one of whom is Zhao Yuanzhou’s human-hating mall goth demon ex-boyfriend Li Lun, as seen below:

There is not really an overarching plot: in general, the plot is driven by the desire to get Wen Xiao fully powered-up as the Baize Goddess so that she can fix stuff that has gone wrong in the Wilderness, but after a certain point, most plot arcs are driven by problems caused in the previous plot arc. The writers are way more invested in putting the characters in Situations that will crunch them up against each other in interesting ways than in having a coherent plot or worldbuilding. Fortunately, they are very good at writing these characters reacting to each other in Situations, so it works out.

Why should you watch this show? First, it is delightfully gay and there is great fic for it, which you will get more out of if you’re familiar with canon (but don’t let that stop you from diving in now…). Second, the writers are really good at building compelling relationships between characters, romantic and otherwise, and in particular, they have a gift for writing two-character dialogue scenes and cute banter. Third, damn, this is maybe the most visually beautiful show I’ve ever seen in my life. The costumes, in particular, are unbelievable.

Are there downsides? Yeah, candidly, you are going to spend a chunk of the first third of the show sitting through long flashbacks that I call The Ponderous Tragic Backstories of the Het Guest Stars when all you want to do is get back to the main characters. Don’t worry, the whole show is not like this. It happens four times (three toward the beginning and once toward the end). And at least even the Ponderous Tragic Backstories of the Het Guest Stars are still very pretty to look at.

Anyway – check it out! Ask me if you have questions! Correct me if I goofed on anything! See you in Queer Poly Ancient Fantasy China!

(Edited to correct the number of episodes, thank you, @kandadze!)

[trendywaifus]

PUBSEC !

SPECIAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION RESPONSE TEAM

ONE SHOTS

jane & zhu yuan — from the start !

jane — got me geekin !

FICS

jane — you’re my violet in the sun !

DRABBLES

jane — ‘can’t quit you, you’re like drugs !

jane — ‘swear i tried to clean up !

jane — ‘too much shared between us !

jane — ‘saved my soul like jesus !

zhu yuan — she’s. .frustrated ?

zhu yuan — gotta take this call !

qingyi — wait a minute, this isn’t tea !

THIRSTS

jane — home early !

zhu yuan — my big girl !

zhu yuan — too much girl !

[forerussake]

me: watching reboot

reboot: ‘here’s a 1 second shot of just the tips of wu xie’s fingers :)’

me immediately: ‘that’s a body double.’