#inferior by nature

[kukuandkookie]

*bounces up and down in hopeful excitement*

Hey hey HEY DANMEI FANS—specifically of modern/contemporary-based danmei!!!

The gift exchange event called Neon Tangyuan (set to end Feb 12, 2025 during the Lantern Festival so don’t panic because it’s not for Christmas!) just released their treats list!!!

You don’t have to be a participant to create treats, so if you have a modern danmei you wish had more art or fics, you can try checking the prompts and see if there’s anything from your favourite underrated modern/contemporary danmei that sparks your creative fancy!! There’s Saye, e-sports novels, Kiss the Abyss, Priest novels, 188男团 novels, and more (I’ve tried to tag some of them for more exposure but I didn’t get to tag all of them)!! 👀

I’m personally not affiliated with the mod team at all, but last time I checked, they don’t have a Tumblr, so I figure I’d share about it here. :D

(And yes, for me personally, I did absolutely take the chance to ask for 188男团 content hahaha. My obsession absolutely came at the right time SLFNKSSH. I’ve also got my fingers crossed this helps me ease into being eager to create again!!)

[fangjuexias]

Inferior by Nature Audio Drama || Insert Song, "(Love Letter) Through Time"

音乐组 - 演唱/和声：撬锁老羊LeO @SeaFoodMarketStudio 作词：李十二@一年有十二月/撬锁老羊LeO 作曲：撬锁老羊LeO 编曲：土土/O.J.橙汁@SeaFoodMarketStudio 和声设计：O.J.橙汁 混音：O.J.橙汁 制作组 - 监制：三个半、鹿陌初@鹿陌初 制片：景景@全力景_无尽mode 统筹：鹬秦@橘鸟是谁 海报设计：普通读者@普通读者TheCommonReader 宣传：翊雩 字幕：@OCIR·字幕组

人群之中 故事开幕 你转身 拨动时钟 冥冥之中 万千次重复 结局仍是最初

窗外的雨清楚 背对都藏不住 灵魂颤抖 触碰让记忆都复苏 写下死生的纹路 刻进肋骨

那���段颠簸的旅途 抓紧你掌心的温度 等日出曙光穿过云雾 兜转后 再改写 遗憾的情书

解记忆的锁 人海中相拥 命运的轮盘里 你从不曾离去

就借雨把你抓住 错过的追逐 让紧靠的轮廓缝补 在耳边轻声倾诉 这一刻抱紧我 把我驯服

那一段热烈的旅途 扣紧你拥抱的温度 留日落余晖送别辜负 兜转后 才发现 灯还在亮着朝朝暮暮 琴弦勾勒出归处 分别的过去也不算迷路 时间也 眷恋着 真相的情书

[lianchuann]

秉性下等

[lucky-draws]

I'M YOUR SHADOW!

[bellart]

Does anyone else appreciate strawberry blond Jason Todd

😭😭🤲🤲

[stagefoureddiediaz]

The Chris and water theming is still making itself known.

It’s making me wonder if that pool is gonna get built and Chris is gonna get into danger in it because Helena isn’t paying attention etc!

[kukuandkookie]

Might copy and paste the text here later from my Twitter thread where I expressed why I enjoyed it, but I recently read My Little Poplar and ended up liking Bai Xinyu and Yu Fengcheng quite a bit!

Yu Fengcheng’s eventual regret was honestly written really well, and the relationship between the two leads has good chemistry. 👌

Even better is that it features Jian Suiying, who I also have gotten weirdly attached to???

Like objectively the book Jian Suiying comes from, In Love With an Idiot, has its flaws. Or rather, it employs tropes that really aren’t for everyone, which includes the main couple fighting constantly (so it’s basically fighting and then fucking and then fighting and then fucking and you get the idea), and it gets kind of overdramatic at times, as some very angsty-type stories can be—whether they’re from China (known as “dog blood” stories) or not.

I even found it a little silly that so many were so obsessed with Jian Suiying, and yet…

Here I am now, sliiiightly obsessed with him. 🤡😂

It’s just that! As I mentioned on my Twitter, he’s so unique for a shou/bottom/uke character!! Before he met Li Yu, he was always the top, and he’s sexually confident and pretty intelligent and ruthless and…well, temperamental. He does admittedly have a charm to him that works and I find it pretty amazing the author managed to predict that, since so many characters in her novels adore him BDMGIHSKD.

Even his red flags give him charm, because while he is problematic, the red flags make him an intriguing character. The author does a pretty good job at balancing the different aspects of him that make him technically infuriating and yet also compelling.

His charm is further boosted by the fact there’s actually a clip of one of his VAs just trying to cheer you up if you’re sad?? Like hello??? 🥺

It is no longer a surprise to me that Li Yu ended up so obsessed with Jian Suiying. 😆

Also I’ll note now the last image is actually by the My Little Poplar manhua artist while the others are from the manhua adaptation of Jian Suiying’s own novel! I like how the manhua artist draws him quite a bit since it feels so him. I’ve seen fan art and they sometimes feature him smaller and thus not domineering enough, even though they usually show him with the same hairstyle—which makes for a fun tangent on its own since danmei designs can be a bit “basic,” so when one specific design becomes a recognizable look for a character, I find it pretty cool.

In fact, one of my favourite details in My Little Poplar was watching Yu Fengcheng be very frustrated with how much Bai Xinyu looked up to Jian Suiying. 🤭

Also just seeing him show up always made me go “yay!” because it’s so fun getting to see him again, especially as part of his story aligns with My Little Poplar (as in the plots of both novels happen somewhat concurrently).

Similarly, the manhua adaptation, My Beloved Fool, has a really nice art style and I really like that the artist always lets Jian Suiying shine by really dressing him up. He and Shi Qi from Trap a Vicious Dog (another series I want to ramble about on why I’m enjoying it so far) are two manhua protagonists I know of who are like…confident smart corporate bosses that get stylish fits almost every manhua chapter, which is a nice detail ahaha.

My Beloved Fool has recently hit the heavy angst section of the novel so it’ll be depressing to follow for a while since you’ll just watch Li Yu fall apart as Jian Suiying suffers absolute hell. 😔

Someone even uploaded the first season of the vomic version of the manhua on YouTube. 👀

Similarly, I’m really excited for the My Little Poplar manhua to get to all the good bits of the story there, since Bai Xinyu develops a lot as a character and I find Yu Fengcheng’s regret especially well done. But evidently it’ll take quite some time to get there; first we have to get past the military bullying alfndkfjjss.

Anyway the actual reason I started typing this out before I spiralled into another huge ramble asjakfl is that I found In Love With an Idiot and My Little Poplar audio dramas on YouTube!!

I’d heard some In Love With an Idiot audio clips from something that some fans had shared to YouTube before, but it sounds like those clips were from a completely different audio drama than the one I landed on. I’m especially excited about the My Little Poplar one. Even if it’s not extremely high quality (I think Bing Xing Xia Deng aka Inferior by Nature aka The Selfish Gene has admittedly spoiled me because it was so high quality 😆), it’s still fun hearing these characters come to life aurally.

Even more so since iirc I saw a Twitter post saying the My Little Poplar and In Love With an Idiot got taken down officially, so they may only be accessible via online reuploads right now. I can’t find the post to confirm, but if true, I’m glad someone preserved them. 🙏

Update: I did find the other version��s VAs of the In Love With an Idiot audio drama! Except it’s maybe a…sequel? Where a Li Yu of the past transmigrates 5 years into the future when Li Yu and Jian Suiying are a couple?? It’s on MaoEr FM…and it’s for free. 👁️

In fact, I could totally ramble about the Bing Xing Xia Deng audio drama—which I already have for a friend, so I can just copy and paste that long-ass (slightly more incoherent because it’s a lot of fangirling) wall of text here haha. I am currently very obsessed with that series too because it really is high quality and I like how it evolved the novel it’s adapting, but my friend is the expert on it so I feel a bit more shy about sharing my thoughts sometimes.

Welp that went on quite a number of tangents but yeah. I’ve enjoyed these novels and I’m very happy they got audio dramas and that they are still out there to be enjoyed after everything. 🥺💕

OH and final note but…the fun fact about the 188男团 aka 188 Group, which is the overall series Jian Suiying and Bai Xinyu belong to (so-called because it’s 10 novels that share a universe and all feature (scum) gongs of 188 cm) got sort of made into an “actual” 男团, aka a boy band/group! I found the couple (?) songs they released and some fan songs and it’s nice seeing them all “singing” together alfjskfjs.

An English translation can be found here!

An English translation can be found here!

Me when I spy Jian Suiying, Li Yu, Yu Fengcheng, and Bai Xinyu especially in the MVs: 🥺

[fangjuexias]

Inferior by Nature Audio Drama || Theme Song, "Lover Who Is Sinless"

演唱/和声：撬锁老羊LeO@SeaFoodMarketStudio 作词：李十二@一年有十二月 作曲：徐一 编曲：黄路云/徐一@乐馨音乐 和声设计：徐一 吉他：洪施锐@乐馨音乐 制作人Producer：徐一 混音、母带Mixing、Mastering：O.J.橙汁@SeaFoodMarketStudio 音乐制作Production Company：杭州乐馨文化艺术有限公司

如果我将你注视 我要一双手抓住 灵魂 空荡荡

也曾被希望垂怜 可我仰望时只有一张 怯懦 的脸

琴声呜咽 谁逆流而来 看见 我似小丑云 似秋叶飘散

是谁醒了 是你不舍 挣扎着挽留着 没人能是完人 所以敢要 我余生

是谁错过 是你走过 圣人能不能犯错 固执太多 最恨的也是最深爱的人

WU~

———MUSIC———

如果我想到明天 如果我还有时间 亲吻 黎明前

翻页等不来结局 你该拥有最忠诚伴侣 永不 分离

少年轻狂 你同我过去 擦肩 动心得太早 相爱才太晚

是谁醒了 是你不舍 情愿一起坎坷 也好过人世间 旁观喧嚣 剩一个

是谁错过 是你走过 圣人不苛责犯错 遇不见你 可怜我宿命委屈 没结果

神说爱世人 若你能做一��神 你会不会 只看我这世人

是你醒了 是我不舍 我见过你笑颜 也难忘你闭眼 怎么甘心 一瞬间

是谁疼了 是谁哭了 是我与我最深爱 兜兜转转 年少该相见恨晚 成双人

[lianchuann]

me: I need a stable mental health.

also me: *bought bxxd audio drama*

I was actually planning to buy another audio drama but it’s not like I have the time to mtl it so I decided to buy bxxd in the end. I was even considering to buy saye but I don’t have any money left for my hyperfixations.

N e way, the audio drama is really good!!

[brionysea]

i always read the tags on my posts and an aspect of arcane that a few people seem to be missing is that they want you to think for yourself. an explicitly stated goal of the writers is to start a conversation and get people thinking about the moral implications of their characters' actions. you can still side with jinx. you can still side with zaun. it's fine. all the oppression didn't go away just because they humanised piltover, because humanity is still capable of cruelty and neglect, and the council no longer being a faceless enemy doesn't change that. if anything it makes it more real. that's why jinx is doing what she's doing. they have not inherently condemned fighting back and at this point i seriously doubt that they will. i say the following with all gentleness and sincerity: you have a brain and you are free to use it. this is not the kind of show to spoonfeed you moral lessons. please please please exercise the freedom to make up your own mind

[petorahs]

N isn't "good at battling" because he hates the very concept of bringing harm to pokemon while Kieran is good at battling because he wants to inflict as much pain as possible to the protagonist lol

[jaunty-skeletons]

lbh sees his father, tianlang-jun, as a rival. airplane has proclaimed himself the father of the protagonist, as well as everything else in this world. ergo, using my brilliant skills of deduction, i have seen a future where our darling bing-mei views the villainous shang qinghua as his rival in the realm of love.

he doesn’t see him as a rival for shizun’s affections - it’s fairly obvious that shang qinghua and shen qingqiu have no intention of cultivating any sort of relationship beyond being “frenemies”, and they’re both too distracted by their respective demon husbands for that anyway - but he does understand that they are both deceptive and conniving Worms with the ability to utilise pathetic crying and who in no way deserve to be married to the men that they somehow managed to capture. luo binghe prides himself on being the ultimate servant/husband/cook/provider/emotional-and-physical-punching-bag/cheerleader for his shizun, so seeing his martial uncle do all of these things either equally or More successfully than he does them sparks some competitiveness within him.

oh, shibo spent 40 years enduring beatings from his beloved? well this disciple begs for beatings and enjoys them (he’s not jealous that sqh got so much attention without even asking)

shibo has been cooking meals and providing medicine, shelter and aid to mobei-jun in secret since they were teens? like a forbidden romance with a childhood sweetheart that survived the trials of time? luo binghe has also been in love since he was a teen, thank you, and he didn’t take Half as long as they did to get together with his shizun. they even got married first! (it doesn’t matter that shen qingqiu hadn’t also loved him since he was a teen, that’s completely irrelevant and also the disciple hadn’t been born yet so even if it did matter he has an excuse for that)

binghe has never run away from his shizun and caused him a month of emotional pain, binghe has never provided inadequate resting places such as an Outer Disciple’s Leisure House for his beloved, and binghe has certainly never requested that his raison d’etre lower himself to fulfill a task that clearly belongs to binghe and make food for him!

honestly, shang qinghua is lucky that he doesn’t know about this competition - shizun would have to find a replacement friend because this one qi deviated after finding out how bad he was losing. oh, to live such a sad and unsuccessful life as shang qinghua :( binghe can’t even bear to imagine it!

[ellisbian]

rewatching bnha s3 and especially the pro hero provisional license exam arc (i think it is the one since it began after the train camp arc, i’m not good at remembering arcs ok lol) , and i’m hanging on the “the greatest two of the classes have failed it?” of kaminari referring of course to todo and bakugou. now, i guess he was referring only to the practice one, but it seems to me he implied at the theory too? so in the course classes they have to study, and now maybe i’ve missed it but if i’m not wrong we don’t never know what grades these kids have in the classes aside when they get in action training their quirk (and that’s obvious for the genre of this story) , we know obviously that deku is intelligent, with momo, iida, todoroki and bakugou too but now i really want to know what grades they get in the theories, and their approach to it in more details

[abrahamvanhelsings]

imagining the things graham gore could and would have done to edward little's cervix had he lived a little longer

[mortiflyer]

cursed clay season to blessed grass season pipeline