#love qi rong

[crimsonmonsoon]

If you can’t tell I am entirely obsessed with this guy

[popqorn]

I’M THE NIGHT-TOURING GREEN LANTERN! HOW COME NONE OF YOU RECOGNIZED ME WHEN BEATING ME, BUT KNEW IT WAS HIM WITH JUST ONE LOOK?!

[lazycranberrydoodles]

they are so in love and disgusting and also sarcastic bitches. follow for more / prev comic / next comic

[cabbage-shack]

I am LIVING for the head cannon going around that Xie Lian has actually lost it centuries ago and his beautiful husband, Hua Cheng the Crimson Rain Sought Flower Ghost King himself, is actually a putrefied abomination/horrific creature of the night and he just doesn't see it.

BUT! Why leave the other calamity ghosts out of this fun filled horror fest??

🤩

[hualian]

Hualian in Qi Rong's (low taste) style 🦋 | Heaven Official’s Blessing S2 Ep7

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Qi Rong saying 'Was he blinded by your holy light, or was it some other holy part of you?' will never not be iconic.

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

another reason i think that xie lian felt an instant connection on the ox cart is because he and hua cheng both grew up in xianle.

there are maybe 4 people still alive that grew up in that culture. based on my own experience, you can pick up on things like accent, cadence, references, and humor that suggest a person is from the same place as you without consciously noticing it. that sense of comfort and similarity probably played into their instant chemistry.

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

"Did you blind him with your holy light or was it some other holy part of you?!"

Xie Lian scoffs, looking down at Qi Rong with an air of placid arrogance. "I'm working on that."

And with that, the place falls uncharacteristically quiet.

Hua Cheng's eye widens, even Qi Rong stares incredulously, too shocked to even be amused, or disgusted or anything - he just gapes at his long lost cousin and the debauched words he just said.

And it is only then that Xie Lian realizes what slipped out of his mouth.

He looks at Hua Cheng for a moment, pure panic in his features, flushed as red as the other's robes.

"San Lang, I...uh... didn't mean that?"

Hua Cheng's stunned expression turns to disappointment before he can mask it. "...you didn't?"

"Uh...w-well...i..."

(He did.)

"Can we just get back to talking about how my parents died please?" Lang Qinqiu intervenes, rolling his eyes. "I do not want to know what my teacher's inclinations are!"

Qi Rong bursts into laughter so loud he almost pops a vein.

Xie Lian wishes he did.

Then canon proceeds as usual.

[emotionaldisaster909]

CAN WE TALK QI RONG?

And the fact that

Donghua team performed an OUTSTANDING JOB of a character study through animation

Like I’m watching him insult Lang QiangQui

And it suddenly hits me that I kinda understand and feel him???

Like Ke Mo

Even though he is wrong

He has a right to hate Yong An

Xie Lian has much more of it, but-

Have you ever thought that

We never get to know

How Qi Rong died?

Even though he didn’t care for XianLe, it was his only home

So when you see him talk about this-

You can see that underneath his arrogant hateful craziness

There is genuine pain

Which he HIDES BEHIND SMILES

HIS EXPRESSIONS KEEP SWITCHING

AND I APPLAUD THE DONGHUA TEAM FOR THIS DECISION

He laughs in one second

AND IN THE NEXT YOU SEE THIS

This GENUINE ANGER

and a RIGHTFULL ONE AT THAT??

No matter how deeply twisted everything about his mindset is

At its core it’s a lack of any established moral guidelines in his upbringing

And the worst coping mechanism of fighting pain, insecurities and fear of abandonment

By going batshit crazy in defense and grabbing onto everything that makes him seem “important”

Yet by doing so he succeeded in becoming so unimportant

That even his remaining family thought about him so little

That we never got an explanation of how he died

He definitely died alone

And at least for this

He has a right to feel angry

Because anger is just helpless pain

[iceywrites]

Hua Cheng when he saw Xie Lian slap Qi Rong: I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me

[cloud-hymn]

Xie Lian nearly losing a handle on his barely contained bloodlust every time Qi Rong breathes has been my favorite part of volume 3 so far

[mxtxfanatic]

Just for the record, I actually don’t hate any mdzs character. Mxtx’s stories are so well-crafted that I love the roles that every character plays. I love the chills and digust that Jin Guangyao inspires in me. I loved the hatred that Xue Yang causes to flare up in me when I reread the Yi City arc. I love the amusement I get every time Jiang Cheng lives up to his failed-hero role, doubly so when I remember that he is also a failed-villain because Xue Yang is actually the better version of him lmao. I love dissecting Nie Mingjue’s hypocrisy in what it means when Wei Wuxian thinks of him as an “upholder of morality.” I love the pity that I feel for Lan Xichen such that I struggle to commit to how I view him just like how he struggles with how to view those he loves. And the complexity and diversity of each character’s life experiences and autonomous choices is the icing on the cake that makes fans’ (me included) obsessions over them wholly understandable.

What I hate is feeling coerced into liking a character how fandom wants me to like them, especially if the “evidence” supporting liking said character is just popular fanon that the fandom has taken as gospel truth. The more I feel pressured into ignoring a character’s canon personality to adopt a fanfic version of them whose only similarity is that they share a name, the harsher I want to be with my critique of them. Don’t give me morally righteous!Nie Mingjue who totally would’ve defended the Wen and I won’t give you hypocrite!Nie Mingjue who deserved to be cut into pieces, just not by the person who did it. Don’t give me best brother, best jiujiu!Jiang Cheng and I won’t give you pathetic manbaby!Jiang Cheng who deserved to have Wei Wuxian’s golden core removed from him the hard way for his ungratefulness and for his sister to come back to life to bitch slap him for how he treats her son. Don’t give me best bro wangxian shipper!Lan Xichen and I won’t give you morally weak!Lan Xichen who deserved every bit of the psychological torture Nie Huaisang put him through for his inability to truly stand by any of his brothers, biological or sworn.

Don’t give me some “everyone is secretly good with no flaws” bullshit and I won’t feel the need to balance it out by listing every single one of their sins and nailing it to the door like Martin Luther. I like these characters. Don’t turn me into a hater, cause if you think I’m mean now? Lol

[starbiology]

more girls c:

[circotriste]

[gloriousmonsters]

Going through TGCF for the third time and I'm a little bit obsessed with Qi Rong's insect/insect hive energy. His lair is an underground series of tunnels and caves, his subordinates - drones, soldiers, if you will - all have to appear exactly the same and a significant portion of their time is spent in gathering 'food' and bringing it back to store in the nest for their king, who sits at the center protected where he can strategize and command. The hivemind vibes even bleed into how Qi Rong sees the Xianle rebels and his relationship to them - he sees it as a given that any 'true' citizen of Xianle would hold the same beliefs and serve the royal line, and therefore can (mostly) be treated as an amorphous power to which he plays the (again, protected and hidden) activating intelligence. Because he is the king, he is Xianle, he has the right and need to be served and is only obligated to direct the servants that become faceless and interchangeable in his presence.

Also he's as hard to kill as a cockroach, so there's that.

[hualian]

TGCF donghua censoring Qi Rong's foul language in episode 8 is SO hilarious tbh 😭😭

"Like father, like son, they're all scoundrels! We should've chopped off that Pei Ming's BEEP BEEP first and then Pei Xiu's BEEP BEEP"