#and point goes to clj

[wanghedi]

Historical/historical fantasy cdrama obligatory scene of lighting floating lantern ✅

[a-shoebox-named-meap]

Your local mountain/moon buddy here.

LOVED what you responded with. That trio would inadvertently wreak so much havoc based on temperament alone. And they all carry weight from parental/circumstance expectations. your multi marriage/divorce is big brain fr. 30000 years is a long time and he would absolutely be confronted with a few marriages of convenience or diplomacy or what have you. I also have lots of thoughts bout his conflicted emotions wrt his brother.

today I was wondering, there’s usually a line or threshold we reach when we go from this was enjoyable to I’m writing meta in my head while I cook dinner. What is that point for you; is it plot or character based or something else?

greetings, buddio :) i appreciate the feedback haha, always happy to spread the aroace xunfeng agenda. but yeah i too have a lot of thoughts about xunfeng and his brother. AND im a big fan of xunfeng + xiao lanhua as in-laws. that 500-year (or however long it is) period where dfqc is missing from the world is positively ripe for in-law headcanoning. and dfqc is quite the conversation starter

to your actual question. this one made me think really hard haha, i had to like.. think back on every one of my fandom fixations and ponder what made them interesting enough to keep playing with in my head. my thoughts haven’t fully condensed but my current conclusion is that the key features are Fun Worldbuilding and Unexplained Things. and these two things can go hand-in-hand, as they do in clj/lbfad, where there’s a lot of worldbuilding tidbits that are not fully depicted or elaborated upon.

take clj/lbfad and a few other things i’ve been historically obsessed with: percy jackson, how to train your dragon, avatar the last airbender, mdzs and tgcf. none of them are set in the world as we know it, which is where my mind starts to run wild about the fictional universe and its rules and its possibilities. in clj/lbfad we’re introduced to a handful of warring entities and a war spanning many millennia, but only in broad detail. people can do magic, but they don’t all do the same magic. we know there are different races and tribes, but we only know plot-relevant information about their cultures and their relationships with each other. the story has laid the groundwork of their universe and dropped a lot of crumbs. but it leaves a lot of holes to fill in, and that’s where my mind goes.

similarly, my mind also tends to run wild with characters and plotlines by latching onto the things about them (history, feelings, personal life, etc.) that we are left uncertain about, especially canon timeskips. for example, i think about the possibilities of xunfeng and shangque a lot more than dfqc bc i started off wondering what on earth those two were doing and thinking and feeling for the 30,000 years dfqc was imprisoned. we know full well what dfqc was up to and therefore i am not interested. changheng has some potential, but i have a decent guess about what he was probably up to. but there’s a gold mine of possibilities sitting untapped in xunfeng and shangque. they dropped more crumbs about xunfeng though, which is probably why i gravitate to him the most. (for all we know shangque was just hanging at the bottom of the sea the whole time, but he seemed to stay reasonably up to date about current events, so there’s that.) there are two other major timeskips in the show — the shorter period when xiao lanhua is gone and another when dfqc disappears a second time — and i’ve found myself thinking a lot about what all the characters are doing and what conversations they’re having in those times when a central character is missing. besides timeskips, all this also applies to precanon and postcanon when the canon has left some things open-ended (mdzs, atla).

i tend to be drawn to certain fanfics for the same reasons. two of the biggest fics i’ve seen play heavily with worldbuilding and Offering (alternative) Explanations For Things are Embers by Vathara and No Paths Are Bound by Cataclysmic_Calamity. their level of detail and the tight weave of their plotlines is hella impressive, but these are two really exceptional examples that come to mind. countless fics of this variety out there <3

thanks for the question! very thought provoking :0 would love to hear other ppl’s input about this

[shijiujun]

Literally my one and only long post on TTEOTM ending:

Luo Yunxi and Bai Lu really gave stellar performances if they don’t win every award out there especially for Luo Yunxi who played every single nuanced version of sad, depressed, happy, sinister, vengeful, longing, pining and devotion out there like who else could?!

Also like the ending really left big question marks on Ye Qingyu and GYJW and YBC demon you know like???

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CGI was damn amazing and production etc. was top-tier, but danggg will yall pls fix that ending?! Also a fun note that TTEOTM sold up to 13M RMB worth in merchandise DURING the airing period and broke some records I think 

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BE or OE or HE and does it matter?

Yes appreciating BEs is one thing and BEs are certainly great for certain plots and shows, BUT-

We’ve seen this BE in xianxia and sometimes wuxia/historical as if writers are dumping set BEs in just for fun, it’s almost always the same formula and not every show requires the same treatment? At this point we’re all certain none of the xianxias maybe a bit of the wuxia/historical too are going to end well (Immortal Samsara, Novoland, One and Only although I’d say O&O was perhaps deserved) or we get OEs (Winner is Love, LYX’s previous xianxia), or we get the split-second HEs (omg where do I begin, Eternal Love, CLJ, Pillow Book, The Blue Whisper, omg the list goes on) - I’m almost expecting either full BE or the guy to die and then turn up when the female lead turns around on a street or at home or whatever hundreds of years later cuz he comes back but you may or may not see him on screen

TTJ for one, based on his character and personality, was trying so hard to make things work, to give and give and give to the people he loved and the people who gave to him - sure, the writer wrote it as a BE and i respect that, but they also wrote the HE i.e. it’s canon, and the show not giving us that for whatever reason is depressing because the moral of the story is TTJ suffered so fucking much and led such a tired life just for a few happy moments and still was the sacrificial lamb. Yes he was happy too or whatever, he understood the circumstances, but is it so hard to give the canon HE ending to it and giving him the ending he truly deserves for all that he’s done?!

Also it was a strangely cut ending for a BE/OE whatever that was, like three stitched frames that faded out into each other, like I don’t know what the editors were doing but oomph an undeserved ending is one thing, and undeserved AND weirdly cut ending is another thing

And yeah if we read it as him being in the clam then yes it’s a mild HE but leaning towards an OE, and if we count the audio drama snippet sure HE, but no that don’t count!!!!

I feel pretty calm after the initial confusion since we already knew it was likely going to be BE BUT this calm is at the expense of watching TTJ suffer 10,000 times in the past 40 episodes we’ve been desensitized for the last death like don’t tell me yall aren’t tired of this show as much as you love it I AM EXHAUSTED MENTALLY - the “ok” i feel probably isn’t because it’s really ok because if we chose, we’d probably think he deserves his rest and happiness after 500+ years of suffering with happy days he can probably count on one hand 

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Read the novel for the HEs: This is literally the only thing that’ll save you unless Youku gives us a good video cut tomorrow or end of the week you know?! You’ll truly see what TTJ deserved and we know he didn’t deserve this because WE DON’t EVEN HAVE TO WRITE THE FIX-IT OURSELVES IT LITERALLY EXISTS?!?!?!

But TBF, personally, I have slightly different feelings on the novel because Susu didn’t seem to love him as much at the end as she did in the drama, the drama did that beautifully

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TL;DR Tantai Jin deserved better, and the us who suffered with TTJ deserved better just on principle!!!

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