#lost tomb lewks

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Another mini round here! David has been wearing the same yellow OPs for ages now so I'm scraping the barrel a bit. That's fine! Send me photos of David Tennant wearing sunglasses that AREN'T those ones and I'll ID them if I can! Also, if anyone wants links to somehow purchase these I can start adding them to posts. Ok sunnies time

BIldaddy!

Thanks SeraphCrowley on xitter for pointing out that these, too, are Rigards. Because of course they bloody are lmao. This particular style is called "Niteowl", but they're part of a whole line of Rigards collaborations. This particular style runs in the $700+s but the less ridiculous ones of the same style are more like $500.

Here's an uncertainty with my favourite Crowley

Look, I'm relatively sure these are Persols: the bridge is a perfect match AND these are supposedly "women's" sunnies, which goes with the whole femme situation here! BUT! BUT...

something about the shape seems off to be Persols and the other possible option is that they are OLIVER FUCKIN PEOPLES lmao

The Persols are a mere $250ish...I lost the link to the verryyyy similar OPs but they were obviously about double that. The more searching I did on these, the greater lust I developed for them so uh watch out I guess.

EDIT: on further comparison, those are ABSOLUTELY Persols. Here's the meme which shows the temple screws which made me sure:

Ok on to more Crowley lewks!!

Except not exactly!

These are the (exact??) same style that Vincent Price wore in the 1967 "Tomb of Ligea" and I cannot tell if they are dupes or the actual glasses. I'm leaning toward dupes, since the sideshades appear slightly narrower on DT. But!! I would certainly not put it past the production team + David Tennant, Fellow Sunglass Addict to actually find the originals for this scene! He has the sunny disease and it makes us do things!

That's it for nowwwww, I'm gonna start digging to figure out what brands of standard glasses David's worn (because the Prada vibes are just vibes, I has no proof) but that's so much more difficult for obvious reasons so it could be a while 😎

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Lost Tomb Reboot Lewks: Part 14

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for both seasons of The Lost Tomb Reboot and also vaguely for Daomu Biji in general

For Look 72, Wu Xie strips out of his jacket and shirt so he can use the shirt as a makeshift air filter. Underneath he’s wearing a tight black a-line undershirt and a black bulletproof vest. 

Welcome back, Wu Xie’s bare arms. We’ve missed you.

So have Huo Daofu and Xiao Bai.

Look 73 is a spare, unpretentious tee shirt and jeans combination that Wu Xie accessorizes with the looming spectre of death, the amorphous fog of the afterlife, and the shades of his departed loved ones. 

He looks chilly in this outfit; he needs a hoodie. Preferably a hoodie with Xiao Ge in it. 

(more after the cut!)

When he comes out of this interstitial space he’s added the lifesaving accessory of a nebulizer mask. My son had one of these as a baby, that had a duck face on it.  Wu Xie’s mask is a sensible orange color. I am sensing a missed opportunity here. 

Look 74: When he feels a little better, Wu Xie switches into this absolute crusher of a look. 

Featuring a beautifully fitted, butter-smooth brown leather jacket, and his trademark chaps trousers, he is ready to get back on the adventure trail in a big way, impending death be damned. 

This is a good outfit for having a tragic conversation with your beloved real uncle while your shady not-really-uncle won’t give you guys one fucking minute of privacy to say your goodbyes. 

He accessorizes this outfit with the blatant theft of a motorbike with a sidecar, which he uses to hold his backpack, and of a cool motorcycle helmet. 

He looks a bit like Qin Hao (Sha Hai’s Wu Xie) here, doesn’t he? He’s got that harder look in his eye, reminding us that he is still a relentless motherfucker when he needs to be.

If you’re hoping for any scenes in which Zhu Yilong is clearly actually riding this motorcycle, incidentally, don’t hold your breath. 

I have seen Zhu Yilong on a moving motorbike in Granting You A Dreamlike Life, so I believe he could be filmed on a motorcycle where his face and the motorbike’s moving wheels are visible in the same shot, but TLTR does not give us this level of motorcycle fanservice, alas. 

Anyway, Wu Xie completes this outfit with a greyish, brownish button-up shirt with a tabbed buttonhole detail at the collar, and a belt with an intriguing quick-release buckle.

And backpacks; lots of backpacks. 

Much later, we will see that this is a great a good look for bonding with fellow members of The Unnecessary Thigh-Strap Club. 

Look 75  is everybody’s orange jumpsuit.  It is the same jumpsuit on everybody, but each person wears it a little differently.

The collar has three stripes below the closure, which creates some visual interest and plays up the different ways the characters wear it. 

Liu Sang and Xiao Bai both wear it with the collar zipped up. Later, Liu Sang can use this structured collar to accentuate all the blood that’s going to be on his face. 

Wu Xie wears the color open and popped, perfect to set off some intense gazing

And Pangzi wears it to get comfy with his favorite cuddle buddy. 

Look 76 is Xiao Bai’s awesome pumpkin-and-green ensemble that she wears at the campsite in Thunderville. 

It’s utilitarian enough to fit right in with the rest of the team, but bright enough to give it a feminine touch. The jacket has a deconstructed hem, giving it a casual vibe and showing off her ass.

Xiao Bai’s clothes usually have some kind of interesting tailoring detail, while always being very practical. It’s a nice, consistent way of showing her personality. She enjoys being cute and fashion-forward, but she is a woman of action first. 

Bonus Look 1

This Look belongs to Liu Sang, the third member of the Unnecessary Thigh-Strap club. I am not complaining about any of the unnecessary thigh straps. 

Bonus Look 2

This look is just Xiao Bai running in a wetsuit. I’m not made of stone. 

[jockvillagersonly]

🌸 Bai Haotian in those hecking cute overalls appreciation post 🌸

Bonus:

[canary3d-obsessed]

Lost Tomb Reboot Lewks: Part 13

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for both seasons of The Lost Tomb Reboot and also vaguely for Daomu Biji in general

Look 66 belongs to Ah Ning, who has chosen, for this adaptation, to go with short hair, heavy makeup, and all-black clothes, but with a bit of a club vibe, rather than her more usual tactical vibe. 

The short hair is a weird choice. The whole schtick with DMBJ adaptations is that you have to tell who's who by their costuming and styling, since the associated actors toss roles back and forth faster than Wu Xie and Xiao Ge on a date with Liu Sang. 

Hot guy in a hoodie? Xiao Ge. Slightly dorky but ridiculously charismatic guy who dresses like Joey Ramone? Hei Yanjing. Man who's too old for fluffy bangs and puppy-dog eyes but is working the hell out of them anyway? Wu Xie. Ponytail, gun, and a whole bunch of disposable sidekicks? Ah Ning.

Ah Ning, Lost Tomb 1 version, with her signature ponytail & disregard for human life.

For this look, Ah Ning has gotten rid of her long hair, henchmen, weapons, and the part of her shirt that normally would cover her belly. This is an outfit that says "I am finally ready to fuck Wu Xie." 

Unfortunately she decides to accessorize this outfit with a giant deadly snake. 

This snake, unlike the equivalent snake in uhhhhhmmm a different DMBJ show that Ah Ning might theoretically die in, does not appear to be poisonous or have an unusual instant-kill-you ability. It just squeezes her a little bit, and the boys don't make any attempt to revive her, even though not-breathing is a super survivable condition, if it's corrected quickly. 

This non-poisonous snake accessory is all about killing a woman so that men can feel manpain, and I am kind of offended that this version of Ah Ning went out like that, after being a badass in every other adaptation. 

(more after the cut!) 

The hypothetical other show where a version of this scene perhaps also happens does correct this, by having her talk about her acceptance of the risk of death, and by having the fucking snake be POISONOUS. I am not naming the show because where’s the fun in that? If you watch TLTR first, like I did, you get to be worried about Ah Ning in every other show she’s in, which is exhausting but also kind of fun. (I don’t mind women dying in fiction, as long as their deaths are an important part of their own stories, rather than just being important for the growth of the men around them.)

Thanks to poor accessory choices, Ah Ning and her snake necklace go the same route as Ye Piaopiao and No-Longer-Mute Chick; fortunately Xiao Ge didn't fall for Tattoo Artist Ah Tou or she'd be in the morgue with the rest of them.

Look 67 is young Wu Xie's jungle adventure outfit, featuring a bright white popover jacket with cream color sleeves from Scotch & Soda’s Club Nomade collection. Scotch & Soda have have thoughtfully printed their name on the string so that those of you who share Wu Xie's clothing tastes will know where to shop. You know who you are. 

You would think highly visible bright white would be a bad choice for a jungle adventure, but apparently snakes in these parts are only attracted to goths.

Wu Xie is also wearing wired ear pods, which did not exist whenever this flashback supposedly happened, but if we're cool with sentient crustaceans and clams that can incapacitate a ruthless trained assassin (clams got legs!), we can be cool with ear pods.

The show conveys flashback-Wu-Xie's youth and naiveté by having him smile sweetly, not watch Ah Ning take her clothes off, and not attempt CPR after she gets lightly squeezed by a snake.

Looks 68 and 69 belong to Not Ah Ning, who is played by Liu Yuqi, who also plays Ah Ning. Her makeup is much softer and prettier as this character than as Ah Ning; this character’s job is to be pleasing to men, whereas Ah Ning’s job is to get male underlings killed on the regular, so I guess that makes sense. 

This outfit is an amazing body-hugging soft green jumpsuit with raised quilty detailing on the arms and shoulders. Her jumpsuit perfectly matches the couch she's sprawled on, which is her subtle way of telling Jiang Zisuan that she is a nice comfy place to have a lie down. 

She accessorizes this look with her usual soft wavy brown hair and a scattering of gold finger rings. I think she also accessorizes this with ass pads, because Ah Ning does not appear to be draggin’ this wagon in her scenes. I checked. For science.  

When the first outfit doesn't work, she ditches the subtlety and goes for a Chanel-style suit in black, white, and red, with a with a black leather bustier underneath. 

Unfortunately this is a wasted effort, because the Jiang Zisuan she tries this on is actually Wu Xie in disguise. 

Wu Xie only likes girls if they are 1. secretly manipulating him while acting like a tiny adorable sidekick, 2. trying to kill him repeatedly while adventuring together, 3. planning to kill him as soon as the roads are clear but willing to bone in the meantime, or 4. are a skin effigy with a sentient crustacean in their head.

Sorry, Not Ah Ning; this was a good effort. 

Look 70 features Wu Xie in a white thermal shirt, dark blue jeans, and fake facial hair. This is a good look for sitting with your not-quite girlfriend and wondering how you both managed to have romances with Bai Yu in parallel universes. (OP recently watched Love O2O, which is a trip for fans of DMBJ, Guardian, or feminism)

Fortunately Wu Xie doesn’t know that his second-favorite doctor/Zhan Rishan’s girlfriend also had a romance with Bai Yu or his mind would be entirely blown. 

This is a soft, comfortable look, perfect for torturing someone, with help from your first-favorite doctor, by pretending to poison someone with nicotine, all so you can have a few moments of quality time with a cigarette before said doctor takes them away again. 

Wu Xie's cigs are stored in a buttery-soft leather case that completely covers the brand name of the cigarettes, so apparently cdramas don’t go in for ciggy product placements. 

Wo Xie wears this outfit with a silvery-metal watch with a black leather wrist strap. The watch appears to be round, and it probably tells time. (If you’re new to the Lewks series: I lack watch knowledge and that’s not likely to change.)

Wu Xie finally peels off his fake facial hair so we can see his pretty face again, only to replace the facial hair with an entire fake face. Fortunately, this face, belonging to actor Wu Lipeng, is also pretty. 

Look 71 belongs to Wu Xie, initially (for this outfit) played by Wu Lipeng until his inevitable unmasking. So many actors have played Wu Xie, this whole disguise thing is barely worth blinking at. Wu Lipeng does a nice job changing his mannerisms to play Wu Xie, and this whole schtick eventually gives us Zhu Yilong's delightful performance as Wang Meng, so even though we eventually get way too much of not-Zhu-Yilong in the role, I’m good with it.

This outfit features black jeans, black tactical boots & gloves, and Ah Ning’s coin bracelet, although it’s mostly hard to see the bracelet. The outfit’s main feature is a possibly-leather jacket that’s been molded into a hideous and disturbing voronoi pattern. 

This jacket is probably very expensive and took a lot of work to craft, but it makes him look  like he’s wearing a Glad Force Flex garbage bag. I mean, I guess that's cool. 

This outfit is good for several episodes worth of adventures, including getting tied up and being sassy...

...and underwater cave exploration, which is totally a thing that a person with critically damaged lungs can do.  

This outfit is good for homoerotic wrestling...

...and also for heteroerotic wrestling.

This is also a good outfit for being gently cradled in the arms of your doctor, while you massage your throat in order to swallow what he's putting in your mouth.

The fingerless gloves are useful for helping Xiao Bai get out of not one, but two different situations in which she stepped on a trap without realizing it, requiring Wu Xie to get down on the ground and have a tense encounter with her foot. 

Scenes like this are where costuming really makes a difference. In this shot, we we watch a stunt hand (Zhu Yilong has never had that long of a thumbnail in his life) hold a wire steady, while a stunt foot is pulled out from under it.  

This shot includes a lot of visual texture and interest, from the hatch lines on the palm of the glove to the cross-striping of the boot lace. The complexity of this glove and this boot help to hold our attention when they’re in the frame, allowing the tension of the scene to build, instead of dissipating when the viewer runs out of things to look at.

Bonus Look 1

Carrying all that tragic baggage has given Jiang Zisuan spectacular arm muscles.

Bonus Look 2

Zhu Yilong with not-fake facial hair. 

Daaaaaamn.

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Lost Tomb Reboot Lewks: Part 12

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for both seasons of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 61

The first look is Wu Xie’s road trip outfit, which includes this grey and white jacket. It has a contrasting elastic waistband, cuffs, and neckline, and slanted pockets. 

This is exactly the sort of jacket that my 5th grade science teacher would have worn in 1979, and she would have slayed in it.  She awakened something in me and it wasn’t love of STEM. (Spock was responsible for my love of STEM, and various other awakenings in 5th-grade me) I’m sure it would still look great on her, because she is probably a silver haired foxy granny now, and that’s who this jacket belongs on in the current century.

Wu Xie should never have gotten within a mile of this old lady jacket.

To clarify, I’m not being gender-essentialist here; I’m being ageist. If this jacket had some contemporary detailing or interesting features to offset its last-century vibe, the way Bai Haotian’s green roller derby jacket does, it would be fine even though I’m not a fan of this sort of collar in menswear. But it’s just a nicely-made old lady jacket. Mary Berry could bake a nice cake while wearing this jacket. 

Note: Liu Sang could wear the hell out of this jacket, of course, because that man can wear literally anything and make it look like it’s made of spun pheromones.

(more after the cut!)

Wu Xie eventually improves this look by taking the jacket off and giving the camera operator a nice long look at his ass. He’s wearing dark jeans and a long-sleeve white thermal shirt, which is a great improvement. 

Look 62

The granny jacket is contrasted by the blessed arrival of Huo Daofu’s daddy jacket, and the rest of the clothing that Huo Daofu is wearing with it.  This is a dark green jacket with a nipped in waist, military styling, and invisible stitching that says "obey" You can't see it, but oh, it's there.

He's wearing this jacket of domination with jeans so tight they appear to be made of paint. I approve of these jeans so much that I might need to take a break from writing for a moment. 

Instead of shoes he’s opted for a pair of tall riding boots, just in case anyone failed to get the message.

He finishes off this look with gold rimmed glasses, pomegranate-toned lips, and an air of authority so strong that even Pangzi does what he tells him to with minimal back chat.

Later the jacket comes off, so he can wrap it solicitously around the shoulders of a person who is already wearing a perfectly good jacket.  OP looks up “service top” in the dictionary.

Underneath, Huo Daofu is wearing a grey houndstooth waistcoat. Shen Wei’s tailor would gnash his teeth in envy, if he saw the cut of this vest. This tops off a warm-toned brown shirt worn with a silver-toned watch. The watch is...round, and it tells time. He’s wearing a brown belt with his black jeans. Huo Daofu is great at combining warm and cool, formal and casual, in a single look. 

Look at this dapper bitch. Slaying this hard has got to be against his Hippocratic oath.

This jacket-free look is combined with hip posture so provocative that it sends Wu Xie into a hasty search for the last scraps of his heteronormative assumptions. Xiao Bai does her best to help.

Look 63

The beards. 

OP's family of origin is full of hairy visigoths, so Pangzi's beard is a style I've encountered before, alas. We call this a [US] Civil War beard. This one is terrible and lopsided, but at least it covers a lot of Pangzi’s face.

Wu Xie’s fake facial hair isn't terrible, but isn't great. You can tell it’s fake because everything about Zhu Yilong is inherently lovely, and this isn’t. 

Also, it's a ridiculous idea for a disguise. Wu Xie's close-trimmed chin patch and mustache are nice style, very typical for a Chinese dude. They let Wu Xie’s lovely facial structure continue to do its thing while they just provide a bit of an accent. But this is a problem, because they don't change his appearance in any meaningful way; his cheekbones are still visible from orbit. 

He’s wearing this facial hair and cap with the same vest he wore earlier to practice slingshot. This time he's accessorizing with a simple tan jacket, with an interesting buttonhole detail... 

...and with an attractive human IV stand.

Doctor doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you you loving me.

Look 64

This look belongs to the man that Jia Kezale’s wife has replaced him with. We have to infer his look based on his shoes, and that he is presumably in the same league as the extremely hot Jia Kezale. 

Based on these shoes, which are very nice, if a little weathered, Huarache-style loafers, this other man in her life also presumably wears linen trousers and a guayabera shirt. 

*mentally pictures this person* 

ok, I guess I don't blame her. 

[Image, and shirts, from cubavera dot com]

Look 65

After having his IV fluids, Wu Xie goes for a nighttime motorbike ride, because he apparently needs to go way up on a hill to see that the hotel he’s staying in is circular.

So, what is with the Ultraman motorcycle helmet? Does it have any padding or insulation at all? Why doesn’t it cover more than 40 percent of his head and face?

And shouldn't it have a chin strap?  How does it stay on in a crash?  I mean yes I know this is a show with sentient crustaceans...yeah, never mind. I’m sure that’s a super effective helmet. 

Once the rain starts, his mustache and beard look better. Still not great, but better. Here he looks like he’s cosplaying as Zhou Yunlan.

Now he’s wet and lying on the ground because...oh, hell if I remember. Just look at him, poor moist snookums. He needs a blankie and a hot tea and a hurt-comfort fic about him and his doctor. 

This look gives the newest members of the polycule an opportunity to demonstrate their devotion, as they haul him off the motorcycle and over to a wall, and then continue to stand in the rain, for some reason, instead of going indoors. 

I gotta say, when a producer decides to pour water on Zhu Yilong, they  commit to it.

Speaking of commitment, here’s Huo Daofu holding his hand up over Wu Xie’s face like a tiny umbrella. 

Bonus 1

Look at the yellow duffle coat on that kid. She looks beautiful and classic, and the mustard yellow color just pops so nicely in this scene. 

The mustard yellow also visually marks her allegiance to gold-dragon-wearing Xue Wu. 

Bonus 2

This look is Wu Xie’s antique-scheming outfit, but now he is wearing the Sunglasses of Manpain. They belong to Pangzi, but Wu Xie is wearing them while he waits for Pangzi to collect his angst from the morgue.

These sunglasses are good to wear while contemplating the fact that, despite the many differences in narrative tropes between Chinese and Western media, the one where a female character is hurt and/or dies merely to further a male character's emotional development remains a constant.

That said, this is a nice small signifier of their relationship, as he puts these glasses on Pangzi, allowing him to hide his feelings, while hugging him, allowing him to express his feelings.

[canary3d-obsessed]

Lost Tomb Lewks: Reboot Part 11

(LTL Masterpost) (All Canary Masterposts)(Part 10)

I’m making my post titles more specific because I’m loving the clothes in The Mystic Nine and in Ultimate Note, so I expect I’ll continue this series with other shows when I get to the end of Reboot Season 2. 

Look 56 is - surprise! - a cozy sweater. This one is a deep, huggable brown in a sort of waffle stitch (OP is not a knitter; knitters pls feel free to elaborate in comments). He wears this with loose blue jeans and...shoes. This show doesn’t feature his feet often enough for proper shoe commentary. 

This is a perfect look for pacing and talking, half to yourself and half to your buddy, as he gets absolutely, completely baked. 

Wu Xie is doing his pacing while he gazes at an enormous pin board filled with pictures linked together with red string. The red string board is becoming one of my favorite CDrama tropes. I’ve seen it in Detective L, Mystic Nine, that new show with Wue Xie number 2 Psych Hunter, and probably a couple more shows. It’s a thing in older American detective dramas, too, but not in modern ones and not nearly as often. 

It does look cooler than a whiteboard with magnets, but it seems like a lot of work. For this pin board, Wu Xie Wang Meng had to cut a bunch of red string and print out a bazillion cell phone pictures, which someone managed to take during all of the running around & death defying action. All so Wu Xie could theorize that everything connects to...some random point in the middle of the board? I don’t know who these guys are in the middle picture, but I don’t think they’re responsible for all of the rocks in the other pictures. 

If you change your mind about a connection, and move a pin, do you have to re-loop all the string to keep everything taut? What if you need to move an end pin when you’ve already cut the string? Perhaps OP is overthinking this. 

This look is a comfortable one for lying on the couch when you’ve exhausted yourself with string management. 

(more behind the cut!)

I love the aesthetic of this apartment. It appears to be full of furniture taken from Wu Xie’s study in Wushanju, but because it isn’t mixed in with the fancy older antiques, the vibe is totally different. The furniture is midcentury modern, with a lot of warm tones and leather, which matches Wu Xie’s clothing choices. This quality of furniture subtly reminds us that these guys are antique dealers. Even when they’re down and out, they have discerning taste.

The textiles, cushions, the throw blanket on the table, are all colorful, tactile, and comfortable, matching Pangzi’s clothing and overall vibe. Overall the space is a nice mix of both of their looks, which is appropriate for an old married couple long-term roommates. 

He completes this outfit with a olive-green hooded jacket with lots of flaps and pockets. 

Side note: their buddy  Jin Wan Tang (on the left) might be officially gay? Unlike the blatant subtle queer coding that appears in a lot of CDramas, this character (and that one guy in the Rain Village section) seems flamboyant in a stereotypical “gay best friend” way. But I’ve only ever seen one acknowledged gay character in Chinese cinema--the very stereotypical tailor in Kung Fu Hustle--so I don’t know if the semiotics are the same as in western media. 

Anyway, I dig his mix of business suit and funky jewelry, and I share his appreciation of shirtless Xiao Ge (in Season 1, not today, sorry).

Look 57 is actually a rerun of Look 45, but it’s one of my favorites, featuring a beautiful soft suede jacket in a warm camel color. This time we get a much better look at the jacket, so I’m featuring it a second time. (Previously he wore this to hijack Li Jiale’s truck.) The jacket features detailed tailoring, with pleated pockets with flaps and buttons, and a nice strong collar and lapel that contrast with the softness of the material. 

Under this lovely jacket he wears a cream colored sweater, jeans that fit really well for a change, and work boots. 

This outfit is good for mournfully looking at a heap of smashed ceramics. 

It’s also good for struggling through a gas attack designed specifically to destroy your unhealthy lungs...

...and make you hork up blood, because it’s not a Zhu Yilong show if there’s no mouth blood, and it’s been at least a couple of episodes since we’ve had any. 

This look is perfect for going to visit your snippy ex-boyfriend while you’re unconscious, so he can bitchily save your life. 

“Hey, Canary,” you might have thought up above, “with all these above-the waist shots, how can you tell his jeans fit well?”

This. This is how. 

Oh and hey, we finally get a really good look at his shoes. His shoes, people. 

Look 58 belongs to bitchy doctor/chef Huo Daofu. 

He’s wearing a white double-breasted chef’s coat featuring contrasting piping and buttons. It is perfectly fitted, which will will learn is true of everything this man wears. 

Over the jacket he’s got an immaculate work apron, and under it he’s wearing a thin grey turtleneck sweater with ribbed collar and cuffs. He wears turtlenecks a lot. Whoever is giving him hickeys, it’s not Wu Xie any more because he hates Wu Xie. Hates him! 

Cue endless tender medical care and eventual deep abiding friendship. Also possibly shacking up, it’s hard to tell how many people really live in Wushanju at any given time. 

The first part of Look 59 is a deep olive-green long-sleeve tee shirt worn over a grey undershirt. 

It’s a shirt. It’s green. 

He looks really fucking good in it, okay? His arms are beautiful even when they’re covered up.  This shirt needs three gifs because...it just does.

Look 60 is Bai Haotian’s awesome green satin roller-disco jacket. 

The styling is straight out of 1979, which is long before she was born, making this a fun retro throwback. Or possibly she borrowed it from her grandma. The collar and cuffs have sporty black-and-white ribbing.

The jacket has nice contemporary details to give it a fresh look. These include suns, moons, and mountains (I think) running down the arms in a contrast stripe, and the words “magical altitudes” in embroidered sections on the back and chest. 

Wu Xie’s Look 59, Part 2 is also featured in these caps. He’s put a strangely short waisted grey jacket over his nice green shirt. Other than the short waist, it fits nicely. 

Those jeans, on the other hand. Wu Xie’s ass deserves better treatment than this. Paging Xiao Ge

Periodic reminder: Xiao Bai is absurdly, absurdly pretty. 

So is Wu Xie.

Bonus Look 1: Okay, Xue Wu is a bad bad man but damn, his clothes are always amazing. He favors emphatically Chinese looks, but always  with contemporary tailoring details, so he doesn’t look old fashioned. For his daughter’s wedding he’s wearing a deep blue suit with blue embroidery and this cool gold collar pin. 

Bonus Look 2 is Wu Xie in his favorite blue marl sweater. Or he has a few blue marl sweaters. Anyway, this time he’s lying down and resting his eyelashes while he wears it. 

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 10

(Masterpost of LT Lewks) (Canary’s Pinboard of Content)(part 9)

Warning: Mild spoilers for season 1 and 2 of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 51 is Wu Xie’s diving wetsuit, which is a thing of beauty. Wu Xie is a thing of beauty wearing it. Look at his chest muscles! Look at... *fans self*

This is a good outfit for swimming.

It’s also a good look for lifting an impressionable young woman up off the floor by her waist, pressing her against the wall while you continue to hold her up by her waist with your intriguingly strong arms, and looking at her like this...

...in order to convince her to stop being in love with you lying to you about stuff.

(more after the cut)

Look 52 is Wu Xie’s hoodie of age-appropriate-relationship contemplation. Hilariously, when Wu Xie says he’s too old for Bai Haotian, Pangzi uses his May-December relationship with Xiao Ge as a direct counter example. 

He wears this grey hoodie with a blue denim jacket and grey./stone color jeans. 

This is a good outfit for manspreading while you contemplate the bottles of Nongfu spring water on the table and the larger bottle on the counter.

You know, the US theoretically doesn’t have much censorship, and yet we have the travesty of Destiel and the even worse tragedy of Queliot; meanwhile this show that had to turn every zombie into a crustacean to please the censors....

...managed to give us scene after scene of two men sharing a domestic life, and occupying significantly coded roles within that life, and they get away with it simply by having them occasionally talk about chicks. 

Look 53 is, uh, the white tee shirt that Wu Xie is changing into here. 

Ok I should just be focusing on Zhu Yilong’s shoulder blades in this shot, and I AM, but I also have to remind everyone that THERE IS ONLY ONE BED and it has two pillows side by side.  

Look 54 belongs to Bai Haotian, who wears this adorable overalls getup for their visit to the weather station.  

This look features artfully torn overalls, sturdy work boots, and (eventually) black fingerless gloves, like everyone else in the group likes to wear. Under the overalls she’s wearing a plaid shirt with a round standup collar, which gives the look a feminine touch and offsets her lovely pixie face. 

This look says, I am an adorable potential love interest, and I am also a competent and self-sufficient member of the team, who is absurdly pretty in an interesting tomboyish way. The best word for Xiao Bai’s style in English isn’t actually tomboy, but a stolen French word, gamine, which was used a lot for Audrey Hepburn and Jean Seberg, back in the day. (Before OP’s time! OP is not that old).

I’m frankly shocked at how well this show managed to integrate a interesting and pretty female character in to the group without 1. making a romance inevitable 2. making a romance impossible 3. spoiling any other ships 4. making her a damsel in need of rescuing.  I mean, yes, she does need rescuing at a couple of points, like every other character--that seems to be the basis of all the relationships in DMBJ. But Liu Sang, not Xiao Bai, is the official “pretty person who is constantly in danger.”

Look 55 is Wu Xie’s weather station outfit, which features a strap-on leg bag that is personally trying to kill me with its sexy, sexy strap placement. One strap is around his delicious thigh and the other is worn directly above his junk low across his pelvis. 

This look features a smooth light tan jacket with a high collar and hood, and large side-zip pockets. He wears it with a tan button-up shirt, jeans and his usual boots & gloves. His backpack has a bunch of useful-looking stuff tucked in and around it. I like the way the group always carries a lot of stuff and you see them digging things out of their gear when they need to. These are people who are comfortable living on the road.

This outfit is perfect for improbably spry tree scissoring climbing

This is also a good outfit for having a zoom call to introduce the newest member of your polycule to your long-distance collective boyfriend.

This outfit includes rain pajamas that go over the whole getup to protect it in a downpour, which is actually a pretty practical, if dorky, look.

The rain pajamas are perfect for when you decide to be a complete chowderhead and get hit by lighting.

This show has so many crustaceans improbable elements that I didn’t notice exactly what Wu Xie was doing, the first time around. What he’s doing is crouching inside a metal cage that is wired to a lighting rod on the roof. 

90% of Xiao Ge’s live-saving moves with Wu Xie are probably just catching his eye and then slowly shaking his head, to prevent him from doing stupid shit like this. 

Rather than dying, Wu Xie just gets a burn on his hand that can be easily treated with Nongfu Spring Water. 

Bonus Look 1

This bonus belongs to villainous antique dealer Xue Wu, who continues to have excellent style with strong traditional Chinese elements. This casual soft shirt has an awesome dragon wrapping around the shoulders and over the chest and back.

The dragon’s head is accented with sequins that sparkle as Xue paces around in his lair office. 

Bonus Look 2

This bonus is the adorable look on Bai Haotian’s face after she jokingly gives Wu Xie a teeny tiny scrap of swimsuit to wear, before admitting she brought a wetsuit for him. 

I imagine the producers had this same laugh at the audience because they enjoy toying with us. 

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 5

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Content)

Warning: Spoilers for The Lost Tomb Reboot Season 1

Look 21: belongs to Liu Sang, and it’s one of my very favorites. Liu Sang’s actor, Liu Chang, has the face of a pre-Raphaelite nymph...

...and a body built like a brick shithouse. 

The very slender plot explanation for this epic bod reveal is that Liu Sang is changing into his working kit, and Pangzi is razzing him for having a tattoo-in-progress of a qilin, to match his idol. But the tattoo is not nearly as interesting as...everything else about his torso, frankly. 

This look features a six-pack you could shred cheese on, eye-catching trapezius muscles, and prominent clavicles. Liu Sang’s exquisite physical presence provides an interesting contrast to his bitchy demeanor and selfish personality, which are prominent at this point in the story. 

Later he will get whumped into a proper sense of Wu Xie adoration being a beloved and devoted part of the team and many viewers’ favorite boi, but that process hasn’t started yet.

Liu Sang’s watch is fancier than Wu Xie’s watch. It’s...round, and it tells time.  

(more behind the cut!)

As befits a professional model an antique dealer, Liu Sang’s working outfit is flattering and cool, with a snug olive green coat with black detailing, and khaki pants that are either dark blue or darkest grey.  Like everyone else on the scene, he’s got shit kicker boots and tactical gloves to go with the rest of what he’s wearing. Unlike everyone else, his hair has auburn highlights, which go well with the warm tones of his skin. 

In later episodes we see that the jacket has a big X on the back, which looks cool and is a bold choice for a guy who is headed into dangerous places with companions who don’t like him. 

While underground, he accessorizes this look with a whistle, used for mapping via sound waves. Not to be objectifying on main but...

OP might have given the whistle its own gifset, over here.

Product-placement Interlude: This orange drink looks refreshing and delicious! Just like the sort of thing everyone would like to drink, pass around, discuss, and point with.

Look 22 is Wu Xie in his spelunking gear, but this time with “oh crap, I’m blind” eye coloring. 

This look is a good one for when you are getting ready to become possessed or crazy or being overtaken by a crustacean allergy so that you try to kill your bro with a shovel. 

It’s also a good look for when your bro wants to troll you about your good looks by waving fire in your face. 

Excellent fourth-wall break, Pangzi. We do love Zhu Yilong’s eyelashes out here in fandom land. 

Look 23 is Princess Mute’s blue hanfu. It’s a bit worse for wear, after centuries underground and floating around in the water, but it’s still got a nice color and it looks ethereal and pretty when she’s being pulled up out of the tomb. Too bad she has to go spend her future days in a crate. Princess Mute is one of my favorite crustaceans characters in this wacky show.

Look 24 is Wu Xie’s black undershirt. We’re meant to believe he’s wearing this under his other shirt and that it came out of the tomb looking this good.

It looks like it might be machine-knit rayon, based on the sheen and the small folds and wrinkes in the fabric, as opposed to the larger folds you see with something made of cotton. Anyway it’s got a nice fit and it looks comfortable.

Look 25 is Wu Xie’s party outfit, which is hard to see, like every damn thing in this show, but has some interesting details. The jacket has a darker color for the placket and around the collar, with triangular insets at the shoulders.

It has flap pockets and at the waist it has straps with buttons in place of a belt, reminiscent of a vintage miltary or marching band uniform, although I can’t recall the locale or era.

This outfit is suitable for kicking back with your friends and family. Wu Xie is an interesting hero, because he is extroverted, friendly, fast-to-warm-up, and rarely in a bad mood, even when dying.  In this scene he plays pool, sings, drinks, roams around chatting with friends, graciously receives heart eyes from Liu Sang, and then sits down for a long, friendly talk with his uncle.

It’s nice to see a hero whose troubles are primarily situational, and who isn’t struggling with a hidden dark side. I don’t personally relate to Wu Xie as much as I relate to an obviously traumatized character like Liu Sang, but Wu Xie is a lot of fun to watch and to root for, and it’s clear why his friends value him so highly.  

Look 26 is Liu Sang’s new glasses, which are gorgeous, and are perfect for giving Wu Xie heart eyes. Liu Sang is much too young to need this much lens real estate [says middle-aged OP from behind her large trifocal lenses] but they look great on him.

More Lewks coming soon!

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 7

The Warehouse 11 Special

(Masterpost)

Warning: Spoilers for Season 1 of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Rather than intersperse an endless series of slightly-different Warehouse 11 outfits throughout the series, I’m going to cover them all in one long post. Wu Xie spends a LOT of time in various Warehouse 11 uniforms. but at least he doesn’t spend three episodes chained to a pillar; I’m looking at you, Shen Wei. 

Out of curiosity, I made a swatch of all of the colors used in these looks. It’s actually a pretty good range. They’re not very exciting colors, but the baseline blue-green color of most of the uniforms is flattering. 

Look 31 is the Transport Driver uniform.  This starts off being worn by future friend Li Jiale, who becomes a temporary enemy when Wu Xie tasers him into unconsciousness and steals his clothes and truck. Some people can’t take a joke. 

This uniform is a rich blue with maroon detailing on the chest pockets and a striped ribbon across the chest. It features a closely-fitted hat and a blue and white arm patch. 

The arm patch features a swirly design similar to traditional cloud, bat, and butterfly embroideries; perhaps it’s meant to represent one of the various bugs that will try to kill Wu Xie during his time in the caverns of Warehouse 11.

Look 32 belongs to Bai Haotian, aka Xiao Bai, who is such a delightful character she almost makes up for the other two major female characters in this thing.  Not only does she not suffer in order for a man to have feelings about her suffering, but when she is rescued from danger by the man she loves, it does not lead to making out or other intimate moments. So refreshing!

Her uniform is not particularly refreshing, but it is different from Wu Xie’s, and she looks cute in it. This look features fitted dark trousers (it’s hard to tell from the lighting if they are black, green, or blue), a jacket in Pantone 5473C with a collar and pocket flaps in 5477C. Sorry for busting out the Pantone refs but I can only type “green” so many times. 

Xiao Bai’s jacket has pleated box pockets over the boobs, which look fine on a person with small boobs. As long as they don’t try to actually put anything in the pockets.  The jacket is fitted through the shoulders with a reverse pleat in the center back. She wears it with a white shirt, suitable for writing on.

(More behind the cut!)

Xiao Bai accessorizes this look with pink underclothes that she hides as quickly as possible, while Wu Xie politely avoids looking quickly checks them out.  

Look 33 is Wu Xie’s Level 1 Uniform. It’s Pantone 5473C with pointed pocket flaps in 5477C and a white-and-5473C striped band across the chest and back. 

It features a close-fitted cap that matches the shirt, and dark cargo pants.

It’s got an inverted pleat in the back and military-style straps on the shoulders. Everything fastens with snaps with shiny black dome covers.

Like all Warehouse 11 indoor uniforms, this has a badge on the chest that’s somewhere between a yellow brass and a green bronze color, depending on how it catches the light. The drivers don’t seem to have these badges. 

I actually kind of like Wu Xie in a hat. 

Wu Xie wears this uniform with black lace-up work/hiking boots. I don’t know if these are part of everyone’s uniform or if it’s a BYOS kind of place. It’s mostly too dark to get a good look at anyone’s feet. 

Look 34 is Wu Xie’s Level 1 uniform with a black tee shirt and socks. 

This is a good look for kissing your own biceps and saying “welcome to the gun show, ladies!” lying down under the stars with a girl and talking about constellations, in a nice twist on a classic romance trope.  

I normally don’t project ideas about friendship onto strangers who work on or star in TV shows, but I really feel like this camera operator understands me. 

Wu Xie accessorizes this look with a water bottle with a picture of his boyfriend on it. 

Wu Xie: If you have one Wu baby and one Zhang baby that will provide a new generation for all three of our families. I promise you’ll like Xiao Ge. He’s...very talented.

This look goes well with having a beautiful face and a loving camera operator & director of photography. 

I could wish the lighting designer was less fond of green, but the plot demands it, alas.

Xiao Bai’s outfit also goes well with having a beautiful face. Her haircut does, too--it’s super cute and flattering. 

Look 35 is Wu Xie’s testing outfit for the first test. It’s his level one uniform, untucked, with dark glasses and fingerless gloves. 

And his tongue. 

OP did not speed up that gif on purpose; she captures everything at that speed, honest.

Look 36 is Wu Xie’s Level 8 Uniform. When they gave him this, did he think “oh, different uniforms for different levels, I wonder which level Xiao Bai’s uniform signifies? He did not. Neither did OP.  

This uniform features a jacket in the green/green color scheme, with two pleated boxy pockets at the waist and one on the right side of the chest. The collar is an open triangle lapel instead of the two-part suit collar featured on Xiao Bai’s jacket - his jacket is tailored more like a work shirt. It’s worn untucked and doesn’t have a waistband. The white-and-green striped ribbon that was over the chest on the level 1 uniform makes an appearance here as tiny tabs on the pocket flaps.  He wears a brown button-up shirt underneath.

I gotta say, the costume department really did a great job designing a whole range of uniforms that have repeating motifs, coloring, and detailing, while changing up how everything is put together.  

All the uniform variations take me back--WAY back--to when I was a girl scout in the 1970s. My troop mostly wore badge vests or sashes over normal clothes but we all liked to look at the glamorous uniforms in the catalogs.

Actually the girl on the floor looks really sharp. Which is probably why she’s keeping away from the nerds on the left. 

Look 37 is Wu Xie’s second test outfit. Yeah, we’re going out of order, to break up the sea of green with some smooth, glowing skin.

Zhu Yilong has nice arms, and whoever designed this sequence thinks so to. Particularly when considering the clothing item Wu Xie puts on over his undershirt.

This lil’ vest would be right at home at International Mister Leather Twill. What on earth is the purpose of a vest with pockets that you wear under an outer shirt with pockets? Other than to give you more time to show off your arms while dressing?

It features black panels on the upper chest and back; one flap pocket closure and one strap pocket closure, a...zipper? down the front? With black fabric on either side.

He wears it under his untucked level one shirt. There is no way anybody wears these vests under their shirts for normal wear - the pockets would keep anything over it from laying flat.

Look 38 is the Supervisor outfit worn by Jia Kezi.

It’s all one color--Pantone 5473C--and has rounded puffy pockets on the chest with rounded flaps, rather than the square ones featured on Xiao Bai’s uniform of the flat chest pockets of the level 1 uniform.

It has a covered placket and a high band collar, with the same close-fitted cap featured in the other uniforms.

He looks really good in this cap, which shows off his beautiful eyes and eyebrows better than his floppy hair, I think. He accessorizes this look with warm-toned skin, a cleft chin and sculpted cheekbones.

Look 39 is Wu Xie’s level 14 uniform, which shows that he’s a director now. 

 It looks exactly like Director Ding’s uniform. 

and, oh hey! It also looks exactly like Bai Haotian’s uniform. 

Her entire disguise was to change badges and remove her tie. 

Look 40 is the last Warehouse 11 uniform. It belongs to book author/screenwriter/producer Nan Pai San Shu, who gets to wear a brown vest and shirt instead of green & green, and whose badge says he’s Level 18. As befits the creator of this endlessly entertaining world and these delightful characters. 

More Lewks coming soon! Including several that are not green!

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 3

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for Season 1 of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 12: This look is wet Xiao Ge again, with his shirt off again, but this time he’s being put on display like a hanging pig carcass in a meat market, and I am here for it.

We’re examining this look a little out of order because we gotta have the good shit before the “keep reading” cut, am I right? Some of you aren’t watching this show yet and you need to know what you’re missing. Admittedly it isn’t all hot boys with their tiddies out, but they give us three bare-chested men within about 10 episodes, bless them. 

Xiao Ge accessorizes this look with inch after luscious inch of neck, and an adam’s apple you could hang your coat on.

...what?

It’s a look. We’re looking. At the look. 

(More after the cut!)

Look 13: Xiao Ge did bring some clothes today. It’s hard to see exactly what he’s wearing a lot of the time, because he’s always in dark colors. This look has a dark hoodie with a black mock turtleneck and black trousers. 

It’s a simple outfit, but it suits him very well; the high neck of the shirt sets off his throat and jawline nicely.  

Look 14 belongs to A-Tou, the woman who’s checking out Xiao Ge’s...tattoo. 

This look features layered tank tops, denim short shorts, a workshop apron, and geta sandals. Apologies to Japanese speakers if I just said “sandal sandals.” She’s loaded up with exquisite tattoos, and her hair is in braids or twists with an occasional ring in them. I don’t *think* her hair is pretending to be textured Black hair; I’d like to believe that’s just a terrible white-people trend but I’m sure there’s an SDC video or two that prove otherwise. 

She rounds out the look with a bunch of different jewelry, including this awesome ring. 

The ring, people; I’m showing you the ring on her index figure. Just ignore the shoulder in the picture. 

In a US or UK tv show, a woman this quirky, edgy, and sexy would be a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, slated to be a love interest or possibly an emotionally-unpredictable sidekick to one of the male characters. 

This woman, on the other hand, is a master tattooist, mural restorer, and acupuncturist, and her role in the story - her entire role - is to be a fucking expert on stuff, and display her expertise. THAT’S IT.  She’s still 100% female coded; Pangzi catcalls her, like an asshole, the moment he meets her. She pays him back by making him eat a piece of human skin. I adore her. 

Bonus Look: Speaking of Pangzi, he pretty much always wears a similar outfit when he’s out and about, which is a colorful tee shirt, often with a hilarious cat on it, and some kind of tough guy jacket, with cargo pants and boots. At home he generally wears harem pants, likes pink, and sometimes puts on an apron to do domestic stuff. I don’t know if he reads as gender-bendy in a Chinese context, but it’s pretty cool if that’s what’s happening, particularly with a big tough guy. 

Look 15 belongs to “Black Glasses.” So, this lewk. I’m divided on this one. On the one hand, it’s a pretty uninteresting Joey Ramone type look, with black jeans, black leather belt, coat, and gloves, and a weirdly low-cut tank top. 

On the other hand, the person wearing it is Baron Chen, who is made of pure distilled sex. (for evidence of this, see my Bromance gifset) So, I’m going to say this is not a great outfit, but it would look just fine tossed over the chair next to my bed.  

Look 16:  Finally, another Wu Xie look! 

Um. Wu Xie, why are you wearing a fuzzy blanket?  Pangzi bought that, didn’t he? 

Admittedly Wu Xie looks adorable in this blanket because he is fundamentally adorable, but this blanket is going to make Xiao Ge cry. This blanket says, I am concealing a deadly illness beneath a veneer of cheerfulness and blue fuzz. This is a death blanket. 

Fortunately Wu Xie will get out of this blanket soon, and into a handsome spelunking outfit, suitable for lingering gazes...next post. 

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 8

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for Season 1 of The Lost Tomb Reboot

We’re done with Warehouse 11 looks, hooray! Onward to...the hospital.

Look 41 is a set of white and blue hospital pajamas, that are either provided by the hospital or that Wu Xie packed knowing he was going to be hospitalized on his trip. I assume these aren’t his camping jammies.

These are good for consuming reluctant spoonfuls of recrimination soup while your besties look at you with eyes full of disappointment and hurt. 

Wu Xie: This is EXACTLY why I didn’t tell you; will you knock it off?

These, like the dark blue pajamas seen in the first episode, are something my Dad would have worn in the 1970s. Are old-man pajamas fashionable in China now? Wu Xie’s day clothes are all very soft and comfortable, but his PJ’s are boxy and kinda stiff.

Look 42 is a comfortable travel set, with a simple tan shirt and nicely fitted dark cargo pants. 

This is a good look when your controlling uncle is forcing you to hit the bricks just because you have a terminal illness that you’ve been concealing from him. Some people can’t take a joke. 

Pangzi is wearing a flattering combo of cargoes, a grey shirt with interesting buttons with a Hawaiian shirt over it. He’s got a lot of chunky wood jewelry. He looks good in this outfit.

One of my favorite things about The Lost Tomb Reboot is how much ground travel we see. It really gives you a sense of what the adventuring life is like, and how these friends have become so close. They spend days and days and days together, whiling away the time on trains and buses, in between occasional terrifying risks. 

(more after the cut)

Look 43 belongs to Qi Jin and the archaeology team, who are nearly all outfitted with versions of late Mao-era clothing. The real-world timelines in DMBJ shows are sorta confusing, and Uncle Sanxing’s age changes from show to show, so it’s hard to tell when these sequences take place, but based on the clothes overall I’m guessing around 1975. 

Women’s clothing in China during that time was similar to men’s clothing, and hairstyles were practical and work-oriented. The band-collared “Mao jacket” is what we tend to see represented in Western media, but open-collared jackets with lapels were also popular. 

This outfit is an attractive example of that look. Most of the team is wearing similar jackets in various colors, with Sanxing wearing a different style of coat in deep brown. 

It’s nice to see the same type of costuming respect and attention brought to this historical period as is generally shown to more glamorous periods in China’s fashion history.  Overall the team looks great, with a combination of historically appropriate styles in flattering fits and colors. They look serious and hardworking, but also fresh-faced and appealing.

Outside of time and place, Qi Jin just looks like a beautiful girl with a very flattering haircut and a slightly butch fashion sense. *fans self*

Look 44 belongs to tattoo, accupuncture, and map-reading master A-Tou, who continues to be hot and continues to not be anybody’s dream girl. She’s got a giant dinosaur dangling from one ear and is wearing a white trench coat and tee shirt to do this medical procedure. She’s wearing gloves, so that’s medical-ish, anyway. 

This look does not include any fucks because she is all out.

It’s a little disconcerting, but also very refreshing, how not-warm she is with ChuChu. She’s all business, telling ChuChu to make her decision; not making it for her, not patting her shoulder, not being sisterly in any way. She’s there to do a job and not make friends.  

Look 45 is Wu Xie’s truck-hijacking outfit, featuring a cream-colored sweater--probably the one we saw already, when he visited Wu Erbai, but the lighting here is so different it’s hard to say. He’s wearing it with a beautiful tan jacket that looks to be suede or nubuck. 

Underneath, he’s got a black tee shirt, and he finishes out the look with jeans and well-worn brown work boots. 

This is a good look to wear when you’ve got limited lung capacity and want to do an absurd amount of strenuous physical activity, including tree-climbing...

lying in wait over a roadway...

Leaping onto a truck and holding on for dear life...

And tasering future good friend Li Jiale before swapping seats with him in a moving truck. 

As a longtime asthmatic I find all of this super plausible, and plan to do similar on my way to the grocery this evening. 

Bonus Look 1

Qi Jin wears this pretty sweater-and-blouse combination to go on a terrible, depressing date with the boy she doesn’t want, so that she can cry about the boy she does want.

This combination is feminine and a little bit dressy, while retaining the simplicity that’s appropriate for the period. The ruffled blouse, pearl buttons, and long pointed collar are typical of 1970′s women’s clothing, and the rib-knit sweater sets it off nicely.

Bonus Look 2

We’ve seen Wu Xie wear this blue sweater before, but this time he’s accessorized it with nice loose grey trousers, and a pillar. 

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 1

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Content)

Handsome fella Zhu Yilong, for T China Magazine

Meet Wu Xie, grave robber legal antiques dealer and attractive protagonist of the Lost Tomb Reboot (aka Reunion: Sound of the Providence). He’s played by ridonkulously handsome actor Zhu Yilong. OP can’t wait to see how good he looks in the casual tomb raiding fashion this show is going to feature!  

...are you fucking with me, show? 

Show: how about you endure this look for minute after horrifying minute, and find out? 

Okay. Fine. Sigh. Meet Wu Xie, a pajamas-in-the-daytime-wearing slob with struggle hair. 

Whoops, wrong picture. 

Look 1 features pajamas my late Dad, who was born in 1927, would have loved, with grey felt slippers and a striped robe. The robe, a loosely structured banyan, is actually pretty good.  It has a nice textural stripe and black lining which shows when the sleeves are rolled up.

(more after the cut)

This look also features hair that is as scary as any of the other special effects in this show. This is a good look to wear when you ran out of fucks several years ago and have none left to give.

This first look includes a “smoking cessation stick” that he chomps on instead of smoking. This prop says “I am going to have a fateful doctor visit very soon.”

Overall, this getup says “we need you to think of this guy as Wu Xie, not as the dozen+ other hot guys that Zhu Yilong has played, so he is going to look like garbage until you are invested in his story.” This actually worked pretty well for me, a ZYL fan who is new to the Lost Tomb series.  

Note for other new viewers: I jumped right in with Lost Tomb Reboot, and I was not confused. You might have trouble understanding the story if you have never seen Indiana Jones, played Tomb Raider, read H. Rider Haggard or his dozens of imitators, or encountered a story in which a clue leads to a tomb and old friends reunite to solve a mystery. 

Look 2: This is baby Wu Xie. He is adorable in a soft sweater, plaid button-up shirt, cute bowl cut, and a little swamp coat olive jacket. 

This kid is fuckin’ adorable. I want to see a kid’s comic book about the adventures of baby Wu Xie.

His outfit gives me hope for grown-up Wu Xie’s fashion sense. 

Look 3: For the third look, grown up Wu Xie puts on clothes. Good work, buddy. We’re all pulling for you.

There’s nothing wrong with this denim jacket, but there’s nothing special about it, either. 

Look 4: Oh thank god.

Show: I was totally fucking with you! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Mercifully, in the back half of the episode Wu Xie gets a haircut and a shave and puts on beautiful soft clothing in deep tones to set off his porcelain skin, all of which which transforms him to a degree not seen since Bette Davis in Now, Voyager.

Wu Xie literally winks and laughs at Pangzi the audience after this reveal, which is pretty great.  

This show has a surprising seriousness in many moments, but it also has a self-aware playfulness that is really enjoyable. (See also: Crustaceans)

This look features the skinniest of skinny-leg trousers with hiking boots... 

...and a moss-green cotton or linen-cotton shirt. It has a bit of a distressed look to it without being actually rumpled. He’s got a white tee underneath and he’s topped it all off with a thigh-length open cardigan sweater in a waffle stitch, and a black leather backpack with a large top flap. 

Everything about this outfit is good. It’s handsome, soft, textural, and manages to look comfy and tidy at the same time. 

Sweater paws are totally appropriate when they are caused by an actual sweater.

I am a fan of eyebrows and foreheads, so normally i am sad when a man has a lot of bangs, but this wavy, tousled hair is a nice look for him.

Look 5: This look is a thin blue marled sweater worn without any extra layers. The open neckline, and the soft drape of the fabric, are perfect for setting off Wu Xie’s warmly-lit skin and interesting neck and forearm infrastructure.

This is a good look for listening to tapes of your uncle’s shitty garage band.

Incidentally, f you’re an artist looking for drawing references of ears, this is the show for you.

Wu Xie wears this sweater during several scenes where we just watch him listening to cassette tapes, so adding visual interest is important. Being pretty is an excellent start. Whatever he’s doing with his hands here is a good next step.

Surrounding him with gorgeous antiques is also a good strategy for keeping the scenes interesting. The cinematography and set design of this show is top-notch.

Wu Xie mixes this look up a bit by adding the banyan robe on top of the sweater. 

Then he runs out in a rainstorm with a tape deck because he saw Say Anything one time too many. 

Part 2 coming soonish! Follow my tag #lost tomb lewks for more in this series (or, you know, follow @canary3d-obsessed for this plus other stuff). 

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 9

(Masterpost of all the Lewks) (More Canary Content)

Warning: spoilers for Season 1 of the Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 46 is Wu Xie’s job interview outfit for his first sanctioned entrance to Warehouse 11. Before he goes inside, though, he spends some time outside eating sunflower seeds or some other seed that requires a person to show off their lip and tongue skills while eating them. I appreciate this snack choice.

This outfit features a blue chambray button-down shirt with a dark blue cardigan sweater with a deep v-neck. The cardigan has a black trim feature that’s set off from the blue by some kind of shiny material, so it has a clear border between the blue and the black. It’s a nice detail that gives this sweater a bit more structure and formality than some of his cozier looks, but it’s still comfortable. 

He wears it with blue jeans in a very flattering relaxed fit. I’m partial to traditional blue jeans on men, and Wu Xie looks great in these.

This is a good look for doing pushups to get a job. I couldn’t decide which angle I should make a gif from so I made two for your enjoyment. 

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Here is Wu Xie and his butt making an offering of incense to the company founder. 

Look 47 Is a bit more formal, while still being 100% soft and touchable. Wu Xie wears this ensemble of dark jeans, a dark green button-down, and a medium grey jacket to run some errands around town.

He wears this outfit with shining brown boots, that have a firmer structure than most of the beat-up shit-kickers he’s been wearing before this. These feature a high-domed, polished toe box.

This is a good look for gazing mournfully at the boarded-up door of the home that your dick uncle has locked you out of. This is a also good outfit for going to the doctor, bringing along your roommate just because you like to go important places together.

Ok, how the hell did this show manage to give us two unmarried men living together for *a decade*; one of whom is a small beautiful dapper fellow, the other of whom is a burly guy who wears pink, does all the cooking, and frequently professes his undying affection?  Living together, sharing income, sharing meals, casually eating out of the same dish with the same chopsticks, and, once they get this apartment, literally sharing a single bed? 

Complete with legs-in-the-air wrestling on that bed?

I mean...HOW

With the jacket off and the shirt untucked this look becomes a casual, get kicked-out-of-your-home ensemble. The shirt is a dark green with a slightly variegated color that gives it depth and texture. 

There’s a blue fabric on the inside of the cuffs, which shows when the sleeves are rolled up, in one of the many small tailoring details that speaks to Wu Xie’s good taste and to the wealth of his family. 

This is a good look for doing your monster girlfriend’s hair for her. 

Look 48 belongs to Bai Haotian. It’s a blue and green casual shirt with loose-fitting tan overalls. It’s a cute ensemble, very girl-next-door.

This outfit is perfect for looking alarmingly young to your much-older, already-reluctant date. 

Look 49 is Wu Xie’s first slingshot-practice outfit. 

“I followed my heart”

This features a suede jacket with a rib-knit collar, and a grey marled shirt or sweater underneath. 

The grey top has a waistband, which suggests that it’s a sweater, but it’s hard to get a good look at it. It either has a white collar or - more likely - is layered over a white tee shirt. The camera isn’t lingering on this outfit the way that it should for me to get a proper look at all the details. 

Yes, Kan Jian and his bare arms are in this sequence. No, I’m not writing about any of his looks. His arms are terrific but his clothing choices take me back to 1985, and not in a good way. n/m there is no good way to experience 1985

Look 50 is Wu Xie’s second slingshot-practice outfit. 

This features a blue chambray shirt and a dark blue vest, with a boxy cut and chunky buttons that contrast with a couple of old fashioned tailoring elements, like the angled cut of the opening at the bottom, and the flap pockets.

I swear I’m not trying to feature a gif of Wu Xie’s crotch, I’m saving that for a future post but this is the only good look we get at the awesome little leather bag he’s got attached to his belt. It’s cool; decidedly masculine-coded while being, essentially, a purse.

This is a good look for having a triumphant training montage while “Eye of the Tiger” “Iron Triangle” plays on the soundtrack.

Bonus Look

Wu Xie wears this nice chunky grey open cardigan with a shawl collar over a white tee shirt for a little private blood spitting.  

We don’t get to see the whole look but it’s a nice sweater.  

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Masterpost - Lost Tomb / DMBJ

All my original content from the world of Daomu Biji aka The Lost Tomb aka Grave Robber’s Note aka...

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Overview & Internal Chronology of the ENGSUBbed TV shows as of May 2021

Lost Tomb Reboot Lewks

Here’s where I’ll link up the Lewks posts as I make them. For The Lost Tomb Reboot I plan to look at all of Wu Xie’s outfits, and anybody else’s that are interesting or cool.

Now also on Ao3!!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 

Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 |Part 15 (NEW)

Fanvid

Whump Magnet Liu Sang

Gifs and Memes and Whatnot

Featuring: Wu Xie

Nobody Has a Machete 

I’ll Carry You, Too 

Acceptability Review Meeting, LTR Ep 10-12

Smiling

Face-Blood Grandmaster

Pillar Hugging

What's Your Type? (also ft. Zhang Qiling)

Crustacean Attack

Wu Xie Waggles His Tongue

Hidden Relationships

Featuring: Zhang Qiling

Physical Perfection 

Wet Xiao Ge

Featuring: Liu Sang

Liu Sang & Huo Daufu in Hua Mei

Liu Sang Listening (Hua Mei) 

Liu Sang Ear Whump

Liu Sang and his Mapping Whistle

Liu Sang’s Ancestor

Featuring: Zhang Rishan

Zhang Rishan Takes a Bath (Tomb of the Sea)

Pangzi Meets Zhang Rishan (Tomb of the Sea)

Other Stuff

Tomb of the Sea Lingering Questions 

Link to Ping Yao’s Past w/Engsubs

Wu Xie in Science Land

Actors/Actresses

Stuff featuring actors from DMBJ but not DMBJ stuff

Liu Chang 

Makeup Application Livestream

A Chinese Ghost Story Mobile Game Photoshoot

Zhu Yilong 

Thirst. Literal Thirst (Water commercial)

You Look Like a Kiwi

Upset, Wet (To Dear Myself)

Restless Review: To Dear Myself

Baron Chen 

Hallway Kissing (Bromance)

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 4

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Amusements)

Warning: vague Spoilers for Season 1 of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 17 is this gorgeous knife. 

I’m not a “knives are sexy” person, or I should say, I never WAS a “knives are sexy” person before.

I do have a strong affection for my Alaskan ulu kitchen knife, which is a godsend for anyone who is arthritic (me) or who is an upper-limb amputee (my family member) or is hemiplegic (different family member), but that’s as much attention as I’ve ever paid to a knife. 

Until now:

(*whisper* lick it)

Ahem. 

This is a kukri, a traditional knife of the Gurkha people in Nepal and India. It’s similar to a machete but it has a downward-curving blade, which means you can slash downward forcefully without bending your wrist. It’s excellent for cracking crustacean shells heavy chopping, as well as combat. Wikipedia doesn’t know why there are notches near the base of the blade but sure does have some theories. 

The handle looks to be a mix of metal and ivory. Hopefully antique ivory, or ivory from a properly-compensated voluntary donor. [That is a joke, the ivory trade is bad, don’t kill elephants, etc.] The case is topstitched leather with snaps to keep the knife from escaping.  Did OP just spend an hour learning too much about knives? She did. Does this mean she’s going to also make an effort to learn something about watches, a critically overlooked area of her menswear commentary? It does not. 

Look 18 is a classic explorer’s rig that looks like it came out of the Banana Republic catalog back in 1987 when the name “Banana Republic” still kind of suited the clothes sold there. (Google it and be startled) This look features dark brown trousers that are comfortably loose but still well-fitted and flattering. The shirt is two warm tans--a dark one for most parts, and a lighter one through the chest and inner arms. This gives it a nice depth and keeps it from looking bland. This outfit also features Wu Xie’s watch, which...is round? and tells time.

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This look features the first of many, many, many times that a character will shine a flashlight directly into the camera. Which makes it painful to watch the show on my tablet in the dark when my bedmate is asleep. Knock it off, characters!

Side Note: Wu Xie’s room has some good features. He’s got a giant bulletin board holding framed photos of all the adventures in which he was played by a different actor. This makes it easy to move his photo collection when his uncle decides to be a dick about the rent. 

Wu Xie’s bed is big and comfy-looking, with a variety of patterns and textures; appropriate for a person who’s planning on dying, or having an increasingly complicated love life, or both. This bed has room for a 100-year-old boyfriend, a 20-year-old girlfriend, and a thousand-year-old crustacean-brained princess, as long as everyone’s friendly. 

It also has a padded headboard, which is so important when you are dating a paper-mache person with a fragile head. This padded headboard also has curved head/neck support things that look just the right size for a person to grab onto with both hands and hold on for dear life. It looks antique, which means Wu Xie bought it for the aesthetic value and definitely not for fucking, right? Definitely not. For fucking. 

Wu Xie tops off Look 18 with the handsome swamp green coat from their recent tomb adventure, now completely unmuddy thanks to the world’s greatest dry cleaner, and with a strappy, practical backpack.

This warm-toned outfit and the buttery colors of the room are perfect for having an intimate, deeply truthful conversation...

....in which you gently crush your dear one’s heart into powder.

Look 19 is Xiao Ge’s blue hoodie and black pants combo, which we finally get to see in the full light of day. 

The hood is good for hiding in when you want to cry. 

This hoodie looks black in low light, but is actually navy blue with black piping, placket, and zipper. 

The ensemble features black trousers with an eye-catching vertical silver-toned zipper on the front pockets. Black boots and black tactical gloves round out the look.

Side note: each of the Iron Triangle guys has his own backpack style. Wu Xie’s is an olive green expedition pack. Pangzi’s is two-tone canvas and leather. 

Xiao Ge’s is black tech fabric, and features a chest strap to keep it from shifting around when he is kicking asses. The black straps coordinates well with the black piping on his hoodie. 

This outfit is a good one to wear while you exchange tender gazes of pure unconditional love with the guy who is crushing your heart into powder. 

I don’t need to look at Pangzi I know what Pangzi looks like and anyway I glanced at him already today.

Did OP slow these gifs way down purely to keep from giving anybody eye strain? She did. OP is considerate of your eyes. Speaking of eyes, awww. Xiao Ge sure is bros with Wu Xie, you guys. 

Look 20: Liu Sang! Liu Sang! Liu Sang!

Actor Liu Chang, a man who can wear literally anything and make it look fucking amazing, makes his entry onto the scene in a good, but understated, suit. 

Most of the suit is a charcoal grey, but it has a single light grey lapel and pocket flap, to keep things interesting. He’s wearing it with black Oxford shoes that have a small red, white, & blue tab poking out the back. So he’s dressed conservatively, but with a bit of flair. 

He’s accessorized the look with perfectly fine, but not very interesting, black wirefame glasses that he’ll replace with cooler ones after some time underground. He’s got a cartilage piercing in his left ear with a flat black oblong earring. Because of his extreme hearing, he’s wearing noise-cancelling earphones. 

This look says, “normalize the use of adaptive tech.” These are probably - in real life - not as effective as the larger over-ear headphones a lot of noise-sensitive people use, but their sleekness and elegance match the rest of Liu Sang’s accessories and clothing. 

Because of his noise sensitivity, Liu Sang pukes as soon as he gets out into the crowded street. He vomits neatly into a drain, however, in the way of someone who’s used to managing this symptom and isn’t going to let it spoil his outfit. We stan a neuroatypical king. 

More Lewks coming soon!

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Lost Tomb Lewks, Part 2

(Masterpost) (More Canary Frivolity)

Warning: mild spoilers for both seasons of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 6: Wu Xie busts out the clean & preppy look for a visit to his Second Uncle. He’s just a rich boy from a rich family, spare him his life...

I really appreciate what the camera operator is doing for us here but I don’t feel like these jeans entirely do Wu Xie’s ass justice. Unfortunately, not every show can bespoke-tailor Zhu Yilong’s trousers onto him as if they were made of paint. 

This look features a cream-colored sweater with cable knit detailing down the front and ribbed raglan sleeves. Underneath he’s got a collared blue shirt with the collar tucked or buttoned down inside the sweater. Tight black jeans and pristine white kicks round out the look. 

This outfit says, very relatably, “I am one person with my friends and another with my family.” One thing I like about this show is how it engages with the difficulty of balancing family obligations and one’s own life path. Wu Xie is pretty successful at being true to himself, his uncles, his friends, and the Wu legacy all at the same time, but he has to push back against a lot of demands in order to achieve that. 

Look 7: Uncle Wu Erbai gets to show off his fashion sense in this introductory scene, as well, wearing a shirt with a band collar and a double-breasted grey suit. His glasses are a combination of gold-color metal and brown plastic rims. Overall his looks says he’s a trendy, but not flashy, rich guy in later middle age.

Look 8: Bad guy Xue is an asshole, but he wears a couple of pretty good outfits. This one features a clever twist on a tangzhuang jacket. The shape and frog fastenings of this jacket are like a normal tangzhuang, but the lapels and collar are cut like a western style suit jacket - but tailored to be worn up, not folded back like a western lapel. This creates an interesting neckline detail, in which the notch and open vee show off the clean cut of the standing shirt collar underneath.  

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Look 9 is a good one for having a classic jump scare while exploring. The main part of this outfit is a practical olive green coat that we’ll be seeing more of. It’s got a good face-framing popped collar. 

It’s hard to see, but this outfit has a dark brown shirt with with a lighter-colored pocket on the front. The clothing in this show is full of interesting details, but the camera doesn’t consistently pause to examine them, being more interested in story, mood, and character development. Stupid camera.

This look includes adorable driving gloves with a nice pierced-dot pattern.

This is a good look for being wet, and admiring your wet boyfriend platonic life partner true love sworn brother soul mate adventure buddy fuck buddy lover friend.

This episode introduces Zhang QiLing and his first hoodie, but it’s so dark throughout his initial scenes that there’s not much to say about it except 1. it’s a hoodie 2. with a beautiful man inside it.  We’ll look more closely at his hoodies later in the series.

Look 10: Fortunately the show wastes no time unwrapping QiLing’s torso, and pouring buckets of water on him so that Wu Xie we can admire his bod, which is entirely worthy of admiration. OP has put these lightning gifs in slow motion for the good of any flashing-sensitive brains out there. And for no other reason.

This is a good look for....uh...this is a good look.

Look 11 appears out of context at different points in the show, when Wu Xie sits at his tasteful table and writes in his tasteful deckle-edge journal with his tasteful fountain pen. The show does a great job giving each character a distinctive and consistent style. Wu Xie’s is always subtle except for his monstrous first look, with an emphasis on soft textural elements & a narrow range of earth tones. That go well with blood. 

This look features a soft marled cardigan over a thin sweater that looks like lambswool or cashmere. Something that can handle a very fine gauge machine knit, is soft, and throws back a nice glow when the light hits it. It has a tiny horizontal stripe. This sweater pairing is either grey, brown, yellow, or green; the scene lighting is warm and has a yellow cast, so it’s hard to say how much of the color is actually inherent in the clothing. 

Look at his lovely translucent ear.

Wu Xie is wearing this look to write in his own Grave Robber’s Note, or his diary, at any rate.  If he wants to have someone to pass it along to, he’d better get busy, literally.

This is a good look for contemplating your obligations to the future of your family, and wondering if now is a good time to talk about polyamory with your two favorite Xiao’s.