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@userdramas event 10: emotions

Vengeful Ling Bu-yi. (Hell's Comin' with Me by Poor Man's Poison)

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[dangermousie]

My Dearest looked at Scent of Time and said "hold my beer." This is honestly how you show so much in so little.

We finally get a proper flashback as to how Ryang Eum came to be with Jang Hyun and it's a doozy. Because RE was being kept (yes, the way it sounds) as a child (!!!) by some psycho noble. And said noble got jealous of attention from someone else so was branding a small kid (!!) and we see teen Jang Hyun, a fellow servant there.

The way he asks this shows what this household is like in one short sentence - that cruelty and insanity are just routine.

And then as the master keeps torturing his small child abuse victim, something in JH snaps and without any warning, and completely calmly, he smashes the man's head in. I cheered.

No wonder RE is forever JH's - he saved him from hell, the first time anyone did. And this sequence is so telling about so many things and the basics of JH's character are already there - even here, JH offers RE a choice, even here he's calm and competent under pressure and has a plan and he is someone who is patient but then whatever arbitrary line is crossed and he will just do anything to take the offender(s) down - the teen who likely murders their master for abusing his slave (if he's caught, a horrifying fate awaits), is the man who hunted and killed a troop that murdered the grandpa who sheltered him in his house, the man who tracked GC alone to that island while sick with the freaking plague etc etc. He can be teen or adult, poor and powerless or wealthy and powerful, but there is a core of pure absolutist steel in him.

You know what I truly love? This flashback shows that despite his present silks and fans, there might not be a drop of noble blood in JH. And regardless of that, he's more competent and full of humanity than the bulk of nobles we meet. I love the narrative expectation that no, of course, he's a fancy noble because when we first meet him, this is what he presents as. And then.

Once again, it makes me think of this writer's previous Rebel. Where the King finally meets his foe Hong Gil Dong and is appalled when HGD says that no, he's not an illegitimate scion of a noble house or anything else approaching blue blood. He's a servant and son of servants, not a drop of blue blood. And the King refuses to believe it. Because he can believe a political challenger or an illegitimate son of aristocracy with a grudge against not being given the place he thinks the noble part of his blood entitles him to, but someone with no blue blood at all? He can't.

(It also makes me think of my favorite scene in cdrama Ever Night, where the Emperor and his court assume our ML on his revenge quest is the son of the general wrongfully murdered with his family and household, and ML reveals no, the general's son is long dead, he's the son of the porter and maid of that house who also got slaughtered in the household as part of general murder spree, not targets or anything but collateral damage. Why can't a servant's son seek revenge, he asks, and you feel the narrative stutter gloriously.)

Anyway, this drama is EVERYTHING!

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Tagged by @heyyo-heyyo

3 ships you like (people I love together, canon or otherwise)

Dongfang Qingcang/Xiao Lanhua (Love Between Fairy and Devil)

Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (TGCF)

Yuuri Katsuki/Victor Nikiforov (Yuri on Ice)

First ship ever: I'm not ever sure how to answer this, because I'm certain there's ships that I supported as a kid, but I can't really recall feeling strongly about them. They'd probably be like... Disney movies or something from a book I read, but I'm just like /shrug I don't remember. So, Zelgadis Greywords and Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune from the nineties anime, The Slayers. They're the first thing I was into fandom for, ship wise. And they're still one of my all time favorite ships.

Last song you heard It was Joji's Glimpse of Us. I looked up the lyrics for someone in a GC.

Favorite childhood book(s)

My favorite book as a grade schooler was The Dolphins and Me by Don C Reed. It was about a guy that worked at Marineland in the 70s/80s, and his interactions and relationships with the dolphins that lived there. I read it a lot, and it made me cry each time. It wasn't the great American novel or something, but for child me it meant a lot. Somewhere I have a signed copy of it.

Currently reading

JWQS, still. I'm so slow.

I'm also terrible about buying books and not reading them, so I have several on my shelf I'm mid-reading, but I feel like it would be dishonest to list them here because by mid-reading it's 'I read the first chapters five years ago and might get back to it.'

Currently watching

Cdramas: White Cat Legend, Love and Redemption. I'm kind of watching A Journey to Love, but it's been slow going. It's really good, and I like it a lot, but for some reason I'm just not hooked. I want to finish it for my princess Yang Ying though.

Anime: The Apothecary Diaries, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Also watching Spy x Family season two, but very slowly. I like to just pop on an episode when I'm in a sour mood because it always cheers me up.

Not really watching any western shows ATM. I'll be back on my Doctor Who shit in May though.

Currently consuming: I had a little strawberry pie pastry for breakfast.

Currently craving: Food? Super basic, but I really want chipotle even though I had it YESTERDAY. For something to watch? I want another fun xianxia. There's so many in the pipelines that I hope are great. What I want to see most (outside of Eternal Faith which will never happen), is Lost You Forever S2 though.

For the ultimate thing I want every single day of my life? Ice Adolescence. :(

Tagging: @eldritch-bisexual, @circumference-pie, @sassybluee, @2014federalbudget, @glasscasse, @zelinxia, @quadsuki, @starrygazingpie, @xiaohuayaos, @takemetogusu

[saebaragi]

i wake up early so i feel all the feelings before 10AM, my texts on the gc be like:

8 a.m: i had an anxiety attack watching cdrama last night lol

8:30: i'm going to set (friend)'s boss on fire i'm so serious

9 a.m: guys look at my new fish!!! [photo] [video]

9:30: i'm being invalidated!!! on pride month!!! this is illegal!!

10 a.m: anyone's up for taking down the government and capitalism with me at this fine afternoon?

[monstatrbl]

Does anyone wanna be in a Meteor Garden 2018 group chat??

I'm obsessing over the show and I need someone to fangirl with!!

Edit 1: there is a Twitter gc and a discord server so just send me a msg with ur @ or ask for a link and I'll add you 😊

Edit 2: it's getting tiring/hard to msg everyone who likes this post so if you are interested just msg me directly!!!

Edit 3: I'm really sorry but rn the Twitter gc is full but you are still welcome to join the discord one or if there is enough interest I shall start a second Twitter gc!

[guqin-and-flute]

You made that textpost meme of pre-GC transfer jiang cheng with "you are 0% magical" and i just wanted to let you know that in the past few months "0% magical" became an everyday descriptor of cdrama "i am sick" makeup among my friends 😂

AHAHA I’m honored, that’s perfect 😂😂

[alwaysfortracer85]

Fr, like I am a literal nugu not even active on twt anymore. A bunch of creeps are stalking my acc and reporting on me to that blue checkmark wannabe cdrama acc and they get pressed lmao. Anyways, let all potatos stay together. As for mtjj, this CC is not loved and supported by all mtjj and that is 100% OK, my approach is not for everyone. But mtjj fandom information support system is pretty good, with gcs where there are plenty of mtjj ready to provide relevant info. Big mtjj acc answer comments under their tweets explaining things. Jiejies cc and twt acc are more needed for fans of actors who are not popular enough internationally and that is why they didn't attract fans ready to create updates accs and explain and clarify things. WYB can't relate

[therukurals]

I have loved none but you. -Persuasion  Insp.

[ID: Six gifs of Shaoshang and Buyi from Chinese drama, Love Like the Galaxy. Gif 1: A close up of the pair, blended together and on the bottom a scene of Buyi walking towards Shaoshang. Text reads "I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach" Gif 2: A shot from the side as they look at each other, and overlaid is a shot of his hands on her wrist bringing it closer to him. Text reads "You pierce my soul." Gif 3: A blended gif of the two, Shaoshang on the right has her eyes closed with a tear down her face. Buyi is on the left staring into space with a dead look. Text reads "I am half agony" Gif 4: The two are hugging. Text reads "half hope." Gif 5: A shot of the pair, Shaoshang is on a horse and Buyi below her. There is an overlay of his hand with a string bracelet as he adjusts her stirrups. Text reads "Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever." Gif 6: A close up of two scenes that fade into each other. They are hugging as their hands are on the Life Gate acupressure point. Text reads "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it." /END ID]

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This week, a hot new bombshell enters the villa.

[ID: 4 gifs from Chinese drama, Love Like the Galaxy. Gif 1: Lou Yao is holding Shaoshang’s face in his hands. They both smile. Gif 2:  Ling Buyi looks annoyed. Gif 3: Yuan Shan looking annoyed. Gif 4: Huangfu Yi looks from Buyi to Yuan Shan contemplative with  math equations flying around him.  /END ID]

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“Being the emperor alone is such a waste of Your Majesty’s talents.”

[ID: 9 gifs from Chinese historical drama Love Like the Galaxy. The emperor in the first gif says “In the future, when Buyi and Shaoshang have many children and live a harmonious life, they will be grateful for my lies.” The empress and consort Yue who are on either side of him exchange a glance. The empress says “ Heng, you were the Majesty’s childhood sweetheart. What features of his attracted him to you?” Consort Yue says, “His Face.” It moves to a shot of the emperor looking smug and stroking his beard. Consort Yue says, “He used to be the most handsome man in Feng County.” The empress says, “In my opinion, he is the most shameless man right now!” It goes then to a zoomed out shot of the emperor with his wives. /END ID]

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This week on The Tang Dynasty Bachelorette

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@creatorsofcolornet​ event 5: team colors ;

a song that sings not of life or death but of the tiniest gesture like the least perceptible sign of acquiescence, a song that is less than a song  - Alejandra Pizarnik ‘Night Shared in the Memory of a Flight’

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I do my little dancy-dance

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If she can give me a kiss, I will die with no regrets

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As fragrance in the opening bud, some secret lies Concealed in budding smile of this dear damsel's eyes .

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"I have to pay my respects to the one who lost.”