#liveblog between fairy and devil

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Dongfang Qingcang 🤝 Jin Guangyao

having your pastel blue-clad love interest go “but he’s still your dad tho!! 😕” when you talk about killing your shitty awful dad who viewed you purely as a tool

[veliseraptor]

shangque............

[amedetoiles]

i can’t believe i’m barely a third into this show and i’m already this ridiculously emotional. these recurrent snippets of his father forcibly burning away dfqc’s emotions while he’s screaming that he’d rather die aS A CHILD - the cruelty of it all??? dfqc looking at shangque swearing loyalty to him to the end of their days and not understanding it because he can’t. xiao lanhua’s ploy to escape but also saying i’m going to heal you! i’m never going to give up on you! his father told him emotions are weakness, a burden, but here he is choosing again and again to take off the ring and feel them anyway because it’s her! it’s her! what the fuck what the fuck

[historicalasiandramas]

Bro is so traumatized that his fiancée died that he made an alternate reality where she's alive and they do chores together.

I feel that

[elvencantation]

wait the body switch happens right away??

[thefantasticone]

episode 3 now and omg his appearance, holy fuck, so badass

[mount-everwhite]

Soooooo yeah. I've definitely joined the Dongfang Qingcang obsession club

😳🥴

[lynne-monstr]

me watching episode 14, so proud that shangque got to have the braincell for long enough to fetch the ring. he's not the brightest crayon in the box but you know what, he observes and he learns and I'm proud of him.

[lemon-natalia]

Nona the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 31

quick note first of all, would anyone be interested in me also doing a liveblog for 'The Unwanted Guest' as well as these remaining chapters?

and after three books we’re back on the Ninth where this all started. Kiriona’s putting on a bit of a show with the ‘Home sweet home’ thing, but it really can’t be pleasant returning to somewhere she spent an absolutely horrible childhood trying to escape, and without Harrow no less

this might genuinely be the first time there has ever been a dog on the Ninth, i don’t really see the cult of goth priests being big on pets

‘then again, i’m not sure of John period’ yeah me neither, quite frankly even after a book which spends half its page time detailing his backstory i’m still unsure about what exactly his plans and powers are

‘a string of fairy lights wouldn’t have gone amiss’ honestly given Harrow’s general penchant for interior bone design, i think she could be persuaded if the fairy lights were made out of actual bone somehow

ohh holy shit there was a good moment while reading that description of Gideon surrounded by corpses with blood on her sword that i fully thought that she’d come back to the Ninth on some weird revenge mission and just straight up murdered Crux

‘My lady, you have come home to us … at last’ why is this making me feel things for Crux of all people. like he has no idea about Nona, or that Harrow’s lost in the River, or anything she’s been through at all. all he knows is that she left for the First, became a Lyctor, and never communicated or came home again

oh great we’re returning to possibly the creepiest part of GtN with the weird ‘devil’ things. between the duel of the Third and Sixth and possession of Colum Asht, the second half of that book is suddenly becoming very relevant again. while Nona’s been living in a combination slice-of-life/war drama, Kiriona’s life seems to have taken a sharp turn into zombie apocalypse novel. fun!

i’m very intrigued about the little pieces of John and Gideon’s relationship that we get here, notably i think (if i remember correctly) that this is the first time she’s mentioned him as ‘Dad’, seemingly completely sincerely, unlike calling him ‘Pops’ at the end of HtN. and apparently he falsely reassured her that the devils were confined to Antioch, but Kiriona seems to have fully believed him and sounds genuinely upset that he apparently lied about it

wow Crux literally cannot stop hating on Gideon even when he’s actively fucking dying. on one level i can admire the commitment but dude, this level of beef with a literal teenager is ridiculous

‘there was a figure there - dark robes with a pale face’ okay i really can’t figure out what is with the weird stalker figure here. is it Nona having a hallucination of Harrow? just a strange description of one of the nuns?

Pyrrha apparently painted a mint green nursery here a long time ago, i assume for Anastasia’s kid, which would explain the weird remark about helping deliver a baby back in chapter 10. also this implies a version of the Ninth which was at one point not quite so dedicated to the doom-and-gloom-bones-and-death aesthetic, which feels inconceivable to me

well hello Aiglamene long time no see, this is a slightly more welcome return than Crux at least. ngl i really wasn’t expecting to see all these characters from the beginning of GtN again, but it’s interesting to catch up and see how little has really changed there despite all the events of the series

ohhh my god. this is not how i expected a reunion between Aiglamene and Gideon to go. Aiglamene seems so genuinely shaken by the fact that she’s dead, and the fact that she’s apparently very angry at Harrow on Gideon’s behalf, like !! she definitely seems to care about Gideon a lot more than she ever actually let on to her

‘Nona was deeply horrified to see actual walk-around skeletons’ i think Harrow would be mortally offended that anyone in her body could find skeletons horrifying

actually yknow what i take back what i said in GtN about Palamedes, Paul should absolutely not be a therapist with this bedside manner

‘You can’t take loved away’ uh, excuse me for a minute i need to sit in a corner and cry my heart out for a moment. this moment really feels like a summary of a lot of themes in the whole series

ok the final nail in the coffin for my emotional wellbeing at the end of this chapter is that Pyrrha did actually get a birthday present, one that she’ll never be able to give her. here i am completely distraught over cheap moustache rides what have you done to me Tamsyn Muir

istg at least some part of Nona needs to live on. like c’mon Gideon died at the end of the first book and she’s still kicking, Nona can do it too. once again it is nearly the end of a Locked Tomb book and i am in severe denial about probably permanent character death

[starcrossedrose]

@solembum22

@firstdove15

[poorlittleyaoyao]

me every spring as I make poor choices in the gardening section of the hardware store

[gingersnapwolves]

geekyhistoriansunite said:

Totally understandable.  You should be able to enjoy your media at will, only live post when you feel the utter need to (Love Between Fairy and Devil if you ever watch it). Heavens know we joy it but its not as much fun if you're not enjoying it too (seriously, you should watch it even if you don't liveblog).

Yes, that is on my list! Currently I want to watch Moonlight Chicken and The Glory, and then Love Between Fairy and Devil is next on the list after them. By then I may feel more up to liveblogging, it’s easier with C-drama where the episodes are only 45 minutes.

Also on my list are Love in the Air (I know nothing about this show other than that it looks super horny), Who Rules the World (I just like Yang Yang), and A League of Nobleman (though the jury is out since I’ve seen things that make me feel like the ending might disappoint me) and probably like 6 other shows that I’m forgetting XD

[amedetoiles]

listen i was all ready to rank dfqc’s father as worst father of the year right up there with jiang fengmian and now what am i supposed to do with this knowledge that he actually loved his son and played kick ball and gave him hUGS?? that in order to save their people it seems, he had to make dfqc powerful enough even if it meant dfqc would have no emotional connection that’ll prevent him from killing his father to ascend the throne. that dfqc might still love his father and their people even if he doesn’t understand what that means anymore. and their tribe? loves him too????? enough to be angry that he unintentionally abandoned them??? LET ME LIVE

[historicalasiandramas]

CLJ Liveblog ep 32

It's so funny how Orchid and Siming both break someone out of jail and fall in love with them. Like shifu like disciple 🤣

It's also really funny that both Orchid's future husband (platonic) and soulmate (romantic) go see Siming. She knew they were coming and left signs specific to each of them.

Now onto Ronghao. Oh it's soo delicious that he still thinks his devotion to his shifu is still pure. He demands to know why an evil god is there. Like beloved? That is your evil warlock patron. Where else did you expect him to be???

And FINALLY we get to see Danyin and Jieli together!! I'm not a huge fan of storylines that show that a person who grew up without family has biological relatives alive somewhere else but here we are. More importantly, Die Yi said that Ronghao raised Jieli. That would explain why she's able to sneak around so much.

I prefer to think of Orchid and SQ as her siblings because Jieli is THE most sapphic coded woman in this show. I am so used to her grunge look that if they put her in white Shuiyuntian robes, I WILL faint.

Speaking of looks tho, Cangyan doctor, tell me your makeup secrets! Why are Moon Tribe fits so cool? I'm so sorry that nobody in that room listened to your medical advice.

[elvencantation]

SKY WHALES MY BELOVED!!!!

[thefantasticone]

episode 2 and xiao lanhua's actress has the range