#jiang chen icons

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six times ai di teased about chen yi's cr— crush vs the first time ai di realized he was the crush

Chiang Tien as AI DI & Chen Bowen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[bastardtrait]

Legacy superlatives tag game

hello babes I found this really old tag game that was being passed around simblr like almost 10 years ago and I thought it was funky and fun. I brought it back for the legacy girls. I'm tagging some folks who've got a few generations under their belt, so: @beebeesiims @simsandgiggles @natolesims @bearphase @akitasimblr but if you see this n u wanna participate please feel free to!! <3 I will be answering for Nova and Lucky bc they're both done as of October 2024.

Favourite heirs

Nova: HONESTLY I think my 9th generation heiress has officially dethroned Musica from gen. 2, like I genuinely feel like I went out with a bang.

Lucky: I love Iain from gen. 5 okay he's been through a lot. I put old boy through a victorian death trap of a story and he still made it out flaws and all.

more below...

Favourite spouses

Nova: this is really hard but I think it's Neveah from gen. 6 by @lizillasimming. I had genuinely so much fun with her and she even got her own solo adventure like hello? mother

Lucky: OOHHH this is really hard but I love Chen Ruiyang from gen. 4 mainly because he had the most fleshed out story between Magnolia and his generation and also bc he's hot like. yes daddy.

Favourite spares

Nova: hmm I guess I'll hand it to Crow from gen. 3 bc he appeared as a side character in the Luckys too! but then again Soma from gen. 8 is about to be in another save, so it's up in the air.

Lucky: Sara from gen. 3 thank u bye! actually, I loved Ibrahim too; gen 3 kids were just built different

Favorite side characters, if you do story-oriented saves (skip if not)

Nova: ok this save was really inconsistent with story lmfao but I'll hand it to ... idk Lim Shiyeon from gen. 3? she was not a good person but she gave us Delilah at least so.

Lucky: of COURSE it's miss Khadijah Daniel from gen. 3! she ran Finn's office like a naval commander. but I also have to give an honourable mention to Jiang Yuqi from gen. 4 because she's mother.

Mishaps during your legacy

Nova: let's discuss Salem from gen. 7 dying in a glitched out fire that the firefighters refused to save him from!!! damn!!! that shit pissed me off so bad bro

Lucky: umm it's obviously Shaw from gen. 7 fucking DYING BEFORE HIS GENERATION COULD EVEN START OMFGG.....like are u kidding me dawg!!! i had PLANS FOR U!!!!!

fuck man, 7th generations of my legacies are bad omens...

Largest number of children

Nova: oh let's talk about how Jericho and Day-Day from gen. 1 had four kids: TWO sets of twins in a row?!! i actually quit this save for the first time because of that AJDSIOFDSKF

Lucky: Franklin and Bayram from gen. 2 had three, and that's not even counting all their dependent animals. six chickens, two cows, and a llama! and one Sister Elisabeth.

Any surprises

Nova: that I even FINISHED THIS SAVE AT ALL. lmfao. I abandoned it like 3 times dude! but I'm nothing if not stubborn. and also that I ended up really loving my final 9th generation. I can't wait to post that one.

Lucky: that I pulled out all the stops for the story portion of gen. 6? tbh that was the most story for TS4 i'd ever worked on, and it was hard, I won't lie. but rewarding. and I'm terribly satisfied with the results.

Favorite family pet why this is question so low smh.

Nova: aw now come on, it has to be my baby Tango from gen. 4. a little stray that went up to Delilah to ask for a home...and she took him in...I love u Tango...

Lucky: now can this go to anybody but Cake Boss from gen. 4? the immortal dog so iconic she also appeared in TWO Nova generations? like hello?

[ginsoakedgirl80]

I'm feeling like doing a public service today, so if you want to watch the mess that is Fighting for Love for Wang RuiChang or because of two women get married for plot reasons, I got the what to skip for you since I was stupid enough to watch the whole thing

For starting out: This drama is about Mai (Zhang TianAi), who is a poor orphan who wants to avenge her parents, living in Shengdu, the capital of Nanxia. She watched them get killed by henchmen and her adoptive brother Chen Qi 9 years ago. To move freely in the world, she disguised herself as a man since then. My Drama List is not representing her life well since she is in fact not roaming the martial arts world when we meet her but doing petty crime to fund her life and revenge quest. For plot reasons she saves the life of male lead Shang YiZhi (Zhang HaoWei), a silly son of a Marquis. He invites her to stay at his house where he sees her back when she takes a bath and finds out that she is actually a woman because heavens beware of a man falling in love with another man. He doesn't tell anyone that she's female though so it's funny to see people react to him being overly protective of Mai. (Seriously the amount of times his attendant steps out when those two hang out. Mu Bai is an ally)

His father, a general, dies from a bad medicine prescription upon returning from the border. His mother is the sister of the emperor and fears for his life so she uses her sisterly influence to send YiZhi to the border to take over his father's army. We also find out that his mother is actually his aunt because he is the son of the late crown prince. This is why the emperor wants to kill him, though he doesn't know his real identity. See the emperor is a paranoid cuckoo bananas dude and likes to have cleavage and dance and get people killed and look at the sun through his fingers.

Also for all the things this drama probably cut to get to the 36 episodes they really HAD TO keep in every time the 700 sliding doors between his living and office quarters are opened and closed to emphasize how removed from the world he is. The things those sliding doors operators have seen!

Meanwhile Mai travels to a border city to meet a man who knows where Chen Qi is. To get into the border city, she steals a passport from Chang YuQing (Wang RuiChang) who is from the enemy country Beimo and happens to be on a spy mission.

So if you only watch for Wang RuiChang, enter at episode 3 at 35:00.

But be warned, his character is minor and if there was ever any more backstory to him shot to explain his motivations, his sworn brotherhood with Cui Yan and the trouble of the Chang family at the court of Beimo or why Chen Qi hates the Chang family, it was all cut (or I already forgot about it). I told you this drama is a mess.

This is also a good time for the people who want to watch for the two women getting married (spoiler alert: it's one sided love and a marriage to proof that Mai is a man) because YuQing and his army sack the city and this is when Mai rescues teenager Xiu'er (Jiang YunXi) as a promise to a prison guard. Xiu'er got a crush on her and has no clue that Mai is a woman until they get engaged. For Mai she is someone who needs to be protected and she wants to marry her off to her bestie before.

Also pictured next to Mai feminist icon Tang ShaoYi a true dage who got no problem with Mai being in the army once he finds out and just wants to be bros with her.

Mai finds out that Chen Qi is actually the marshal of the Beimo army that is attacking Nanxia's border so she decides to enlist to fight him on the battlefield. Her father actually taught her battle tactics and she read the art of war so obviously she rises through the ranks despite going absent without leave and other things that would get you executed if the general of the army wasn't in love with you.

Plot (which I won't spoil) that includes Wang RuiChang sometimes more and often less happens until ep 22, when Yizhi gets summoned back to the capital and Mai joins him with his other trusted guys and Xiu'er (she is an afterthought mainly). This is also when the screenwriters or the editors lost any interest in Beimo apart from some captive prince stuff, so if you are only watching for Wang RuiChang you can skip ahead after his (great) scene in ep 22.

In Shengdu too much time is spent on Yizhi and his court stuff, like I want this to be about Mai doing cool army stuff not some badly written and edited succession to the throne plot. She does use her plotting skills for him to survive because dude is a silly jerk who is not worthy of her and yet she loves him. sigh.

queer intermission

Due to something that happened before ep 22 the rumor that Mai is a woman spreads in her army causing unrest which leads to Xiu'er proposing marriage to her.

(THEY NEVER SHOW THE ACTUAL DIVORCE???)

This is shampoo commercial territory. Just that for censorship reasons Xiu'er emphasizes that Mai is too important for the army and therefore the whole country to get executed just for being a woman and also she still owes her for saving her life back in the day.

Tang dage gets it with her reasoning.

They're having the cross-cupped wine on camera but not the bowing to heaven, parents and each other to not piss off the censors.

Once they are in the bridal chamber/tent someone spies on them and sees Mai without her binder so he gets killed. End of wedding. Why is Xiu'er in the army camp in the first place? During the border defense arc she heard that Mai got wounded and went to tend to her and never left.

Xiu'er is plot relevant again in ep 32 and is in the final episode but apart from that she is little more than Mai's attendant.

Mai continues to wear male attire most of the time, after she stopped being undercover, apart from the time she actually had to be in the harem and hated it.

end of intermission

ok back to the Wang RuiChang scenes

What is relevant for getting what is going on once you jump back in:

Yizhi's mother didn't go through hiding Yizhi from the emperor for Yizhi to not become emperor so she throws him into the struggle for the throne against his will. He does not want to do that and just be with Mai. (the good old putting the greater good above ones personal desires it never gets old. Of course his mother wins by guilt tripping him into becoming emperor by getting herself killed.) People get kidnapped, people get killed. Mai becomes the master of the emperor's grandson.

Yizhi's mother had made an agreement with the prime-minister that he would help Yizhi to the throne and in turn Yizhi would marry his daughter further increasing the prime-minister's influence in court. (like me you will think dude you are already having the highest office under the emperor what is your deal, well he wants his family to be the rulers of Nanxia eventually. dude likes to draw tigers in his spare time so you know his deal)

So who do we need to show up? Yuqing! So Mai can be implicated as a Beimo spy by the prime-minister. Luckily Yizhi had killed Yuqing's sworn brother earlier on so Yuqing had a reason to sneak into Shengdu to make an attempt on Yizhi's life at the beginning of episode 30 (it was only 8 episodes without him but it felt like eons).

We do get a little of him being cheeky in ep 31

He leaves in ep 31 and shows up again in ep 35 (starting ~min 15) and 36.

ep 31-35 So after Yizhi married the prime-minister's daughter and she becomes empress, Mai was devastated and went on a bender. The prime-minister turns the court against Mai so she loses her general job. She asks Yizhi for the mansion of her father and lives there, wallowing in lovesickness, grief and childhood trauma until Yizhi sends the edict to make her his honored imperial consort. She reluctantly lives in the harem but hates being locked up (she is a general gdi), dealing with the jealous empress and also refuses Yizhi so they strike a deal that allows her to live outside. More palace stuff happens with the prime-minister.

When the Beimo army invades again, she is the most capable to do it, so she gets her army back and sets off to fight against Beimo in episode 35.

I think there must have been more filmed and then cut for length because some things are alluded too that would have required some scenes beforehand. Ultimately this drama feels rather lifeless and is just going through the motions apart from some characters adding some sparkle.

The ending does make sense, gotta love that she didn't let herself get locked up in the harem for that loser.

I need to stop watching ascending to the throne dramas that are not well written, why do I keep doing this to myself? Oh right, because I thought that this would be about a female general and ignored that he is the son of the legitimate crown prince. Of course he had to become emperor xP

[foxpunk]

10 FANDOMS 10 CHARACTERS 10 TAGS tagged by @leejihye thank youuu <3

ORV / one of yoohankim would be the easy and obvious answer so i will say jung heewon my beloved...

FFXIV / don't dO THIS TO ME i love all of them...i'm only in the shadowbringers patches but uhm. y'shtola has my everything. if we're talking about the character i'm most crazy about though it is definitely foulques.

D.GRAY-MAN / lavi will come back one day it may have been over 10 real life years now but know he will pLEASE HOSHINO-

SUBNAUTICA / robin and al-an are a set...to me...oh who am i kidding the hot robot alien gets my vote…al-an…my wife…

DUNGEON MESHI / you'd think it's laios cause of my icon but actually it's kabru <3

VILLAIN INITIALIZATION / YOU KNOW I GOTTA PICK MY BOY YE ZIMUUU but everyone else is a VERY close second...jiang xiao is one where i love every single panel she's in she rules. also like. ling chen is LITERALLY a catboy cmon now

SSS-CLASS REVIVAL HUNTER / genuinely hard to choose they're all incredible characters for different reasons. gongja is such a perfectly fucky wucky lil guy though

YU-GI-OH!! / kaiba lives in my brain 24/7 rent free top floor penthouse suite room service jacuzzi tub complete service etc

TIME TO ORBIT: UNKNOWN / god they're all sooo good but of course i'm biased towards Aspen, our lil pov buddy. just a totally normal person on a totally normal spaceship! :^) (PLEASE read time to robit please please please-)

DEATH NOTE / L, zero contest.

HONORABLE MENTIONS / all the blorbos from my friends' and partners' brains are top tier everyone go appreciate @marcmorrigan's art and read @waterloggedsoliloquy's comics right neow

TAGGING: @warriorspork @blazednarancia @zlink @waterloggedsoliloquy @cteranodon @buqbite @1864th @kkomaism @wh0rehound @omegazoro + anyone else who wants to do this legit just say i tagged you i would love to see your blorbos...

[mydaylight]

Everybody should go watch this masterpiece of a fan video on Nian Shilan, Consort Hua (Hua Fei), by Empresses Éternelles on Youtube, it's too good!

(sidenote, but recently I found out that Jiang Xin, the actress that portrayed Hua Fei was one of the actresses who kept her own voice in the final cut and was not dubbed by a voice actress - along with Lan Xi (Shen Meizhuang), Chen Jianbin (Emperor) and a couple of others; Sun Li and Ada Choi were both dubbed. I think it was the right call as Jiang Xin's delivery of the lines is really powerful and it completed her iconic portrayal of the character)

[killerandhealerqueen]

Bl (or in my case, Bromance) actors question game

Tagged by @brazilian-whalien52​!  Thank you for the tag, I’m so sorry I’m late with this

1. Your Favorite Bromance actor(s)

Okay, so we all know who it is, right?  We all know.  It’s these two

They have my fucking heart

2. An actor that deserves a lead role

Ian.  I mean, Killer and Healer is really where he got to shine as a main, since most times he’s either like...a supporting character or the fucking second lead.  Stop putting him as the fucking lead, you bastards (the only time I’m okay with him being the second lead was in Love is Written in the Stars because he like...kind of got his own romance.  So...there was fine)

3. Two actors with insane chemistry 

These two bastards

Also these two

(Where is my S.C.I. season 2 you bastards?!)

4. Actor that deserves more attention 

He’s such a versatile actor...I want to see him in more

5. The hottest/prettiest actor in your opinion 

They are very pretty to me and I could stare at them for hours

6. An actor that you don't understand why they are so famous

I mean, he’s okay...and I’m sure people in the cdrama fandom are gonna come for me, but I just don’t...idk, like his acting?  I’ve really only seen him in The Journey of Chongzi but even then...he really didn’t show a lot of facial expression and I like it when my actors show a lot of expression on their faces.  Makes it more enjoyable to me.  (He’s not even really that handsome...I’ve seen better)

7. The actor with the Best Voice 

I love his normal voice but his subbed voice is like...so iconic.  The minute you hear it all I can think is “That’s Jiang Yuelou”.  But his singing voice is really pretty

Same for him.  His normal voice is so deep you’re like...holy shit, my guy.  But have y’all heard him sing?  Jesus fucking Christ.  His voice is heavenly.  And deep.  Best of both worlds

8. What is your favorite scene that really showcase an actor ability 

Jiang Yuelou really had me fucking fooled here on the first watch like...boy why you treating your boy like this?  What are you doing?

And then this scene...fuuuuuuuuuck me.  We don’t speak of this scene but this scene...kudos to Zijun and Ian cuz fucking hell that scene must have been hard

And this scene, where Jiang Yuelou basically made himself from drinking and crying so heavily because he thought he killed his beloved Chen Yuzhi

9. A drama that was saved by their cast acting ability 

Psych-Hunter.  Honestly, the drama could have been really good if we just took out the useless female lead who was literally only there for romance reasons.  She did nothing to move the plot along.  Ming Hao and Dong Qin were the only things keeping me from dropping the drama (the cases were interesting though so I wanted to keep going.  Would have enjoyed it more if the girl wasn’t there)

10. Actor that you wish you could steal their style 

Gimme their style, fuck.  I wanna pull off these off so bad, especially Mao Zijun’s second outfit

Tagging: @ahhhnorealnamesallowed​ @nineninepetals​ @marulo​ @hyperbolicgrinch​ @fourth-quartet​ @zzzhoonie​ @dramaloverrants​ and anyone else who wants to play

[nemainofthewater]

One day left, and currently Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu are in the lead 22.2%, then Di Feisheng and Li Lianhua with 16.7%, and Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji in third with 14%. A very tight race so far!

Tag propaganda under the cut (NB: some of these fit into several categories so I have chosen one or the other to put them under). Because there is so much propaganda (!!!) there will be another tag propaganda post in the reblog with the write-in candidates

Ming Lou and Wang Tianfeng

#ohhh very many good answers#though of course the correct on is Ming Lou and Wang Tianfeng#kidnapping your ex’s youngest brother to train to become a soldier spy#and then deciding whether or not he’s going to die over a game of card#while you and your ex glare at each other and speak so vaguely that the audience has no idea what’s going on#but YOU know what’s going on because you two have too much shared history#anyway I’m normal about them#the disguiser by @jianghushenanigans

#ohhh tough call#i think i have to go with the disguiser because of the sheer. uh. *energy* of the casino scene#(the groupwatch consensus: this is one line-change away from becoming the porn-parody version of the show)#but mysterious lotus casebook is such a strong contender#also a plug for li yingliang and shen zhiheng in snowfall. i don't think szh *knows* they're divorced#but he is *incredibly* committed to matching lyl's weird energy by @sinni-ok-sessi

Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan

#went with the princess royal#but disagree with hei and xie as being divorced#they clearly have something else going on#no in dmbj the divorce couple is dr huo and wu xie#i mean#he just glares at wu xie and then says hes there to see him die#all the while of clearly keeping him alive#so so divorced by @1ebilcat

#li rong and pei wenxuan are incredibly divorced by @sharkbeneaththelotus

Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng

#guys vote for zhancheng#they're divorced before they even married#which makes them most divorced of all time#mdzs#polls by @qiaowanmian

#jiang cheng and lan wangji#that tea scene in the first episode will always be iconic#love them by @retronation

Li Lianhua and Di Feisheng

#poll#mysterious lotus casebook#dihua#divorced energy represent by @exitvelocities

#DIHUA SWEEEEEEEEP#JC and LWJ just hate each other and always have??? by @harocat

#poll#mysterious lotus casebook#vote dfs & llh! by @omgpurplefattie

#voted di feisheng and li lianhua of course#polls by @lena221bee

Chen Pingping and the Emperor and Fan Jian

#dfs and llh have#“i missed my chance once and now your life's been ruined and you won't try again and i can only stay near and hope” energy#fan jian chen pingping and the emperor are like.#“forced to be together because our wife died and now we have to take care of her unhinged son.”#and for svsss your honour it's a terribly messy divorce they both refuse to think or feel about by @yoyoyo-idk

#wu xie and huo daofu are a good write-in but oh my god this poll is so incorrect right now it's giving me hives#jiang cheng and lan wangji should be on this list lmao they're not divorced they just hate each other. what are you ON#the horrible old men in joy of life should be SO MUCH HIGHER#dihua are acceptable in the lead but imo they're less divorced than the emperor/fan jian/chen pingping#given that they basically get remarried by the end by @silver-grasp

Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan

#this was a tough choice but i had to vote Yue Qingyuan and Shen Jiu in the end#the divorce with the highest fallout in the jianghu#Di Feishing and Li Lianhua are not divorced or married but a secret third thing in my mind by @noswordinourlake

#Zhancheng aren't divorced they're PTA moms who hate each other#vote qijiu by @mushroomrice

#oh it's gotta be qijiu#svsss by @mikkeneko

#okay i voted for yue qingyuan and shen qingqiu because they are SO DIVORCED#but also why isn't Nieyao on this list? XD by @vergoftowels

#while I totally agree with qijiu#this is nieyao erasure by @mostlikelytofangirl

#zhancheng was calling my name#but there is NO ONE more divorced than qijiu by @dages-big-naturals

Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan

#was torn between fan xian's dads and jfm/yzy but ultimately it came down to how I genuinely got confused as to the latter's inclusion#because I thought they were already divorced so it was kinda a cheat to include them. I immediately realised my mistake but like#I think the fact I made it in the first place speaks volumes#(that said: fx's dads can definitely up the divorcee vibes next season. especially the cpp-emperor angle)#the disguiser#the untamed#mdzs#word of honor#mlc#jol#guardian#oh also! zxc and zs didn't get enough airtime to score highly here but I would legit watch a series of them bad parent/good parenting zyl#whilst zyl has no idea why his dad is giving off such confusing signals#also dfs/llh give off huge exes vibes but like... in the way that they're five minutes from getting back together#so I kinda discount them for that reason#meanwhile prince jin/zzs tv series-wise comes off somewhat one-sided tbh. or at least one side is vastly more invested than the other#(from what I've heard of the books it's a lot clearer there though)#oh! almost forgot. write in candidate: li bing/qiu qingzhi (white cat legend) by @muninnhuginn

...so is this fight off? No, no, no reason, just you guys seem like you have your own thing going on and I'm feeling pretty invisible-

Oh no, now they're pointedly ignoring each other. So do you guys have a History (tm), or-

ohgodisthattongue

No need to throw things, I'm going, I'm going! Let me know when you get over your 'thing' and I'll come back then

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[aworldforastage]

audio fandom hours: The Return of the Cambrian Period/寒武再临 Trailer drop!

After a few very slow weeks on Mao'er FM, we get surprised with this star-studded production from Tencent and Voice Gem, with 马正阳/Ma Zhengyang and 郭浩然/Guo Haoran in the lead roles, and a absolute feast of side CPs:

Yuan Mingzhe/袁铭喆 as Liu Feiyu + Wen Sen/文森 as Tang Yanqiu

Zhao Yi/赵毅 as Chen Shao + Dao Mei Si Le/倒霉死勒 as Wu You

Liang Dawei/梁达伟 as Shen Changze + Shen Lei/沈磊 as San Ming

Zheng Xi/郑希 as Chu Xingzhou + Jiang Guangtao/姜广涛 as Rong Ran

Yang Zai/羊仔 as Mu Fei + ... another version of himself as the Demon Pine Tree?

The iconic Ji Guanlin/季冠霖 is also here (as Dai Kuilin), 斑马/Ban Ma-laoshi is playing cat who can't talk yet, and Shan Xin/山新 is playing a young male character.

The production value sounds fantastic in the trailer, though that doesn't always transfer into the drama proper. But we have high hopes because so far, this show looks like nothing if not expensive. It will air Fridays starting on Dec 22.

Fans have been getting antsy with Mao'er because it has not announced any new danmei dramas after a lot of shows finished airing in November. This trailer is a pleasant surprise and has racked up 40K+ views in just 12 hours. It certainly knows how to get people excited, bringing back familiar CPs and exciting new pairings.

I'll probably wait for audience reception to the AD to decide if I want to read the novel first, but it's something to look forward to in 2024!

[lesyah]

jiang cheng’s immaculate phantom entrance to the Opera

[mondlevan]

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Ai Di manhandling Chen Yi for @grapejuicegay (& me)

Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

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talking abt Dislyte but it’s actually just me liveblogging my thoughts abt chinese folk figures in the Dislyte universe

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[bestwitchsam]

#ShangChi 9.3.2021

[killerandhealerqueen]

Jiang Yuelou...

Sir, why are you looking at him like that...

I too, am shook, Chen Yuzhi

“Don’t move?”  Don’t move?!  DON’T MOVE?!

Jiang Yuelou, you are confusing your husband

Do you not see the confusion in his eyes?!  They just scream “Jiang Yuelou, what are you doing?”

The look of concentration...he must make his husband look pretty

Zhao Moqing is not happy

The face of “Can I help you, bitch?”

The realization of “Ah, yes, it is...”

DID YOU JUST FUCKING WINK AT HIM?!

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