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The Bionic Life

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

The Bionic Life (2023, China)

Directors: Leste Chen, Ko Zhennian & Hsu Chaojen

Writers: Song Xuan, Mai Jia, Wang Yuxiong, Li Yaixin & Luo Xiaorui

Mini-review:

I love Song Weilong and I was really looking forward to seeing him in a sci-fi drama, but The Bionic Life didn't fully meet my expectations. While the show proposes a lot of interesting questions and themes, it never delves in them as deeply as it should. And it definitely doesn't help that the world-building is so half-assed. I did enjoy some of the episodic cases and the overarching mystery, mainly due to the main characters and the cast, but I wish the writing was stronger. Tbh, if it wasn't so short, I think I wouldn't have finished it.

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical update 178

(criminally underdocumented yet eventful week + important announcements🌟)

Official updates: (first, let me mentally take your hand, okay?) So it was announced that on June 20th Ding Xingchen is going to graduate from the LC musical cast, meaning this will be his last time performing as Cheng Xiaoshi.

I've researched this extensively, so I can assure you, that even though it's sudden he's okay 💕 It was a matter of scheduling, apparently he has other work scheduled and couldn't stay in Shanghai (thanks Elara for help with research).

I promise to prepare a post focused on him, bc I will be missing my little brother Xingchen so much ;w;

Oh! Remember to check weibo tommorow (main tag + wmh and ghx tags should do). It will be 200th performance day 🎉We don't know what they are planning so it can be full of surprises >>

Links in replies: the latest Sapphire Pyro's yt video (go watch it please! it mentions both of LC musicals and I was a consultant 🥰) + srb&wyh encore to bless your eyes

June 9th, night: Shu Rongbo, Du Guangyi, Zuo Yiping

Not much is known abt this performance, but Du Guangyi is glowing as always :>

June 10th, noon: Shu Rongbo, Wu Yihan, Qiang Dongyue

The bois were finally reunited 🥺💖Wu Yihan was so giddy. He missed a line in 'Pursuers of Light' and laughed so much he had to sing with his back facing the audience. Shu Rongbo turned him around and pinched his back when they were hugging (no hiding on his watch >:[

June 10th, night: Cao Muzhi, Wu Yihan, Qian Anqi

I couldn't find videos from then, but lots of pictures thankfully 😌

^ They are so siblings 🥺💕

^ Wu Yihan turned away again, Cao Muzhi was trying to move him but he got a side hug instead ><

June 15th, noon: Ding Xingchen, Yang Haoran, Yan Lehuang

I don't know what they were doing except:

Housekeeping note: We (@wrathyforest and @/_Setsuna_iro_ on twt) are making another postcard to hand out to the actors (Cai Qi, Wang Minhui & Deng Xianling). So I'm asking all the LC musical fans to comment a name of your country and we'll include it somwhere on a postcard. To send them love from all around the world 🥰

Sorry for lack of details about the performances, these lineups don't get enough coverage 😔

Byebye 💕

[cinemairon]

XueXiao crossover doodle with a scene from Xiao Lu he Xiao Lan

Just a sudden idea in ink and pencil, I know it looks crappy, but the scene was fitting them too well to pass.

[saelterlude]

lc musical clip list pt.4! i'm calling this one, the birthday special!!

(pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.5, pt.6, pt.7 here)

Why is this the birthday special, well because of this:

51. 28/02/2024, Happy BDay Guo Hongxu! I don't usually upload promovid but uhh he's so cool in this one so, here. Sidenote, Shu Rongbo is very hyper and cute this performance. And Qian Anqi's cute english plss i love her.

52. 03/03/2024 night, Happy BDay Zuo Yiping! Watch also, Cao Muzhi penguin walk across the table, Wu Yihan please watch your steps and don't poke other people's cake!!

(funny coincidence, I happen to watch a Santa Lucia/Mio Fratello clip of Cao Muzhi-Wu Yihan just a couple days before this)

53. 10/03/2024 night, Happy Bday Shu Rongbo and Wu Yihan!! Hehe the way Qian Anqi knocks their heads together and insisted to sing them happy birthday is so cute. Wu Yihan said 'Happy Birthday' before their customary Guiding Light hug. And pls someone translate (or at least transcribed) the closing speech for me, there's a lot of laughing involved, I'm curious. Also, have this bonus stage door clip.

Some funfacts. Since last year they play in the same 4 musicals including Link Click and out of those 4 plays they shared 2 roles. Shu Rongbo played a total of 9 roles while Wu Yihan played 7. (Yes, I am at that level of hyperfixation)

54. 11/03/2024, HBD Teng Chunpeng! LMAO It's you, so of course your promo video would be great! His face during the sofa choreo though. And why are both him and Du Guangyi stomping and jumping on the table so hard. You menaces, please you're gonna break it. The couch trio is also looking cute behind them.

Moving on from the birthdays starting with this special one,

55. 11/03/2024 Valentine's day special, <- Official ver. Forgive my language TENG CHUNPENG DU GUANGYI YOU FCKING TEASE! YOU GEM OF A HUMAN BEING! Have this fancam with the superior angle.

(This makes Du Guangyi the first and only actor who have played all 3 roles in that scene. Congrats!)

56. Special Encore rehearsals/BTS! Special mentions to Teng Chunpeng's fashion sense, Wu Yihan's cute act, Ding Xingchen's falling wig, Zhang Jiahao's IDGAF mood, and Wang Minhui's violent tendencies.

57. 26/02/2024, when I say Cai Qi and Wang Minhui have the best dynamic, this is what I meant.

58. 29/02/2024, watch Ji Xiaokun and Guo Hongxu's "Oi!" "Oi."

59. 01/03/2024, Look at them stumbling through singing "Guiding Light" and it's a Wu Yihan-Shu Rongbo duo which means hug! Also Wu Yihan, why are you a menace at holding hands, this time with Zou Ziyue.

60. 03/03/2024 day, why is there a piglet??? Why are you seasoning the piglet??? Why are you stepping on the piglet?? Why is the piglet bowing?? piglet??

61. 04/03/2024, Bai Zhuoming being extra sassy and playful on the couch makes me so happy. Of course Cai Lu also becomes playful in response. Typical Guiding Light mistake also causes Wang Minhui to crack.

62. 07/03/2024, Guo Hongxu putting up the wrong foot and stumbling on the sofa choreo.

63. 07/03/2024, same performance as above, Ji Xiaokun being annoying <3. When other pairs hug, they wrestle.

64. 10/03/2024 day, Mooom! Cai Qi and Wang Minhui are fighting instead of doing rock-paper-scissors again.

65. 09/03/2024 day, uuuhh Wu Yihan sitting on the counter like that with those lights and shadows during Guiding Light is creepy.

66. 09/03/20204 night, love me some Du Guangyi shenanigans, the way he just gives up on the handshake and walk off the table plss and him teasing Deng Xianling during the closing speech. Speaking of, she brings out the bat and forces their arms to form the heart. Then there's Bai Zhuoming being cute and the little shimmy dance he does.

67. 09/03/2024 night, bonus to the one above. Du Guangyi last minute adlib was unexpected but very enjoyable. Also, I love the contrast between his and Bai Zhuoming's tutting.

That's all for now!

Bonus clip with Bai Zhuoming! The song "Number 7" from "Fan Letter" musical is really good, I'm obssesed. But special performance where they're joined by their alternate cast? And his alternate cast is, Shu Rongbo? Even better!! They're kinda in their own world too. Here's a close up. Their voices go so well together!

(I swear they're playing something on that paper, and that makes it 3 musicals I know where they share the same role. Is it time I made a venn diagram?)

so at which point do i admit this brainrot is slowly but surely turning from linkclick focused to actor focused?

[reinaka42]

❝Bloody rains lay kisses on his scars❞ ➳ 山河令 / 忘川风华录 Wangchuan gifset — 5/?

[ameliarating]

writing pattern tag game

thank you to @lu-sn for tagging me!

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there’s a pattern.

There is something about nausea that Song Lan cannot stand, the way his stomach feels as if it is curdling and pleating, the way he can feel his old food wake up inside him, the way his saliva grows hot and angry in his throat, filling his mouth. (from Knots)

Pete can hold his breath for five minutes and thirty two seconds underwater, but normally he doesn’t have to. (from Deep Dive)

A cultivator in white kneels by the body of a man in black. (from Remains)

It’s not the violence that bothers Pete. (from Civil Hands)

He’d had a tail for a while. (from Lex Talionis)

Baoshan Sanren descended her mountain. (from Three Treasures)

The man was Xue Yang. (from A Wiser Fool)

As a child Wangji tells you secrets and slips polished stones into your sleeves. (from Scholar's Rock)

He found Xingchen. (from Restoration)

Xiao Xingchen is sick. (from Lover to your Nightmare)

Okay, so it looks like, with a few exceptions) I have a penchant for starting fics with short, declarative sentences. Not very surprising, as I like to alternate very long and very short sentences, and it's often easier to set the tone with a shorter one.

Fun meme! Tagging @veliseraptor, @silvysartfulness (who I encourage to do this with chapters and not just fic as she has been slaving away a long time on a multi-chaptered fic), and @gloriousmonsters

[coreofgold]

Late to the party but Baldur's Gate 3 owned me and the lack of motivation hit hard. However, finally getting toward doing the starter call! There's no cap so like and comment for as many starters as you like. It might help break me out of the slump.

Agastuma Zenitsu-blind date with Jake Wheeler (0-??)

Aloth Corfiser-going with Kieran Hunter (0-??)

Anya Forger-going with Diana Holland (0-??)

Astarion Ancunin-Blind date with Freya Beauchamp (0-Freya vcndetta)

Ban Yue-going with Sylvie Slytherin (0-??)

Beelzebub- going with Gu Soo Oh (0-??)

Ding Tao- blind date with Alex Mercer (0-Xiao Chiye mvsicinthedvrk, Shen Zechuan masqce, Qi Zhuyin masqce)

Dizzy Tremaine- going with Sam Maek Jong (0-Jester circleofstarrs)

Gil Legume- going solo (0-??)

Hua Cheng- going with their husband Xie Lian (0-Xie Lian mvsicinthedvrk)

Ignis Scientia- blind date with Nico D'Angelo (0-Nico irresistiibles)

Jeremy Smith/Bonnie- blind date with Daniela Dimitrescu (0-??)

Julian Alfred "Jaskier" Pankratz- going solo (0-Yennefer mischiefxmuses)

Kaoru Sakurayashiki- going solo (0-??)

Kili Oakenshield- blind date with Lorelai Gilmore (0-Lorelai spellbcok)

Lan Jingyi- going with Belphegor (0;-Wei Wuxian mvsicthedvrk, Anya spellbcok)

Lan Xichen- going with Nie Mingue (1;-Jin Guangyao masqce, Nie Huaisang irresistiibles, Nie Mingjue)

Lang Ying- blind date with Beth Corcoran (0-??)

Legolas Thranduilison- going with Bloo Kazoo (0-??)

Lu Ten- going with Jae Yoo (0-??)

Luis Serra Navarro- blind date with Derek Hale (0-??)

Luo Binghe- going with Shen Qingqiu (1-Shang Qinghua irresistiibles, Ning Yingying irresistiibles, Shen Qingqiu)

Markl- blind date with King Clawthorne (0-??)

Michael Afton- going solo (0-Charolette mischiefxmuses)

Montgomery Gator- blind date with Tylor Tuskman (0-??)

Shen Wei- blind date with Arnold Novak (0-??)

Shi Mei- blind date with Fabian Prewett (0-Mo Ran tragcdysewn)

Taka- going with Apollo (0-??)

Vax'ildan Vessar- going with Lee Yeon (0-Percy mischiefxmuses, Ellie circleofstarrs)

Wen Ning- going with Danny Phantom (0-??)

Wu Xi- going with Jing Qi (0-??)

Xiao Xingchen- going with Xue Yang and Song Lan (0-??)

Zhang Chengling- going with Louis Duck (0-??)

[pureu-pi]

Shipping Game

Saw this shipping game a while ago so thought I would join in.

First ship: Chihiro x Haku (Spirited Away)

First OTP: Mirafreed (Mirajane Strauss x Freed Justine) (Fairy Tail)

Current favourite ship: Thatcher Davis x Ruth Weaver (The Mandela Catelogue)

Ship since first minute: LuLin (Lu Bixing x Lin Jingheng) (Can Ci Pin/The Defective)

Ship you wished had been endgame: Don't actually have one now I think about it...if I had to pick one though...Maebara Keiichi x Ryugu Rena (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni/When They Cry)

(I think I would have cried if they were endgame)

Ship you wished was canon: FengQing (Feng Xin x Mu Qing) (Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing)

Ship that most of the fandom hates but you like: Any combo of the Yi City Quartet (Song Lan, Xiao Xingchen, Xue Yang & A-Qing) (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)

You don't watch the show but like the ship: XiMeng (Mo Xi x Gu Meng) (Yuwu/Remnants of Filth)

Ship that you wished had a different storyline: MuLian (Mu Qing x Xie Lian) (Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing)

(Need more content for them T_T)

Favourite ship that is endgame: (putting two ships here because I can't choose!)

WangXian (Lan Wangji x Wei Wuxian) (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)

Araragi Koyomi x Senjougahara Hitagi (Monogatari Series)

Tagging: @bleppities @biblenabading @muqingssaber @paljuresji @autheane @sofyflora98 @tearyphoenixx @sadghostgirl511

Feel free to pass this on :-)

[wangxianficrecs]

You in me, you are mine, my everything by BriaPia

You in me, you are mine, my everything

by BriaPia

M, 24k, wangxian

Summary: “Hanguang-Jun, oh thank the gods,” the disciple exhaled, she was one of the new recruits the sect had accepted, Lu Chen he remembered was her name, a little older than it would be considered appropriate for a new disciple but that had never stopped the sect leader before. “It’s sect leader Song, he’s requesting for your presence at the main hall.” One small switch in Wei Wuxian actions resulted on many changes in the life of several others. The smaller of them being Lan Wangji leaving Gusu Lan.

Mojo's comments: I just love it when Lan Wangji takes a look around his sect -- after they've beaten him nearly to death and are disrespecting wwx's memory AND little a-yuan -- and decides, "I'm done with this shit." So off he wanders, with his new son, to hook up with song lan and xiao xingchen and found a new sect. So it is this new lwj, with no forehead ribbon, who clocks wwx at dafan mtn after he's called back as mxy. Lan xichen, having made a few egregiously poor choices 13 years prior, is lurking around, trying to make amends; jiang cheng is an angry grape; and young lan jingyi is just happy to get to see his old friend once more.

canon-divergence, temporary character death, somebody lives/not everybody dies, lan wangji leaves gusu lan, 33 lashes, 13 years, lan brothers enstrangement, brotherly feels, pov multiple, non-linear narrative, past and present, getting together, love confessions, light angst, single parent lan wangji, happy ending, @briapia95

~*~

(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

[cinemaronin]

Wisdom Tooth (2019)

日光之下 Wisdom Tooth (2019)  directed by Liang Ming cinematography by He Shan

[icons-dramas]

[krispycreamsicle]

Thank you for saving me.

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical update 161

First week of 'Soul of basketball' event 🔥🏀, part 1

(chill start with Du Guangyi 😌 lots of bonus videos though!)

⬆ Days we'll cover🌟

Official announcements: Reminder from an urgent update, we got a detailed lc stage set tour* 😊 We also got another video! Where LG actors answer the question 'If there was a Time Photo Studio irl, what task would you entrust?' (parallel to the vid with cxs's actors).

Links in replies: stage set tour, LG actors answer the question + my twt thread with translations 🌟, Cai Lu's 2 new clips from rehearsals 🙏 + Metablue's video about composing 'Friendship's Faith' (found by @saelterlude <3

* thanks to a set tour (and @shimmeringweeds translation <3), now we know the mystery drink from encore is not a vinegar but a plum juice!

Aside from that, Encore Musical's weibo is keeping a score record of basketball matches:

I will delve deeper into some individual scores, because we (musical brainrot gang from lc discord) are doing our own bets on who wins. We're invested and so should you, trust me 😤

April 19th: Teng Chunpeng, Du Guangyi, Deng Xianling

Nothing out of usual during the match, Basketball God tcp just doing his job 😊 At 'You can forget about it' Deng Xianling was having a hard time tying her shoes ><

Listen, I am sorry for potential 'clickbait', they just look like this ;w;

April 20th, noon: Ding Xingchen, Du Guangyi, Cai Lu

Basketball match was a tie this time. Also, puppy hat made a comeback thanks to dgy :>

a boop

⬆ this picture of Shen Tian was apparently taken by Ding Xingchen :>

see ya :]

[admirableadmiranda]

I actually think both XXC & NMJ’s storylines parallel WWX’s in some ways. All three of them end up dead—WWX’s body is ground up, NMJ’s body is dismembered, and XXC’s soul shatters, and all three have storylines that straddle the boundaries of life and death. XXC’s soul might be healed, NMJ’s body is pieced together and becomes an undead fierce corpse, and WWX comes back to life from the dead in another person’s body.

I mean, again it's possible to draw these lines as yes, you point out the similarities, but NMJ's storyline, which is usually where the parallels are meant to be, goes very differently from Xiao Xingchen and Wei Wuxian's.

Wei Wuxian and Xiao Xingchen both stand up against a great sect who has just massacred most of a smaller sect and say "No, this is unjust. This needs to stop. You are not immune to morality just because you have power," end up being pushed down for lacking the rank of the oppressor, giving up a key part of themselves to someone they care about dearly and being hurt by that person for it, retiring to a place where many would dare not go, living in peace for a time before someone comes in presumed peace and then proceeding to break them and attempt to shatter their spirit to prove that their aggressor (Jiang Cheng and Xue Yang) is the one in the right and they are wrong, before they die outright with their reputation in the mud.

Nie Mingjue on the other hand has the power to stand up against injustice and does not, choosing to blame others for not standing up first, participates in punishing the innocent for daring to share a name with a previous aggressor and holds every slight forever, he shares much more in common with Jin Guangyao, the difference between them really is that while Nie Mingjue has black and white morality, Jin Guangyao has no morality at all. And they both end up dead for the ways that they treat people with those morality levels. So while yes, deathwise Nie Mingjue seems to fit the pattern, the parallels only line up there.

As an added finisher to this discussion on parallels, I would like to note the difference in their final endings. Xiao Xingchen's soul is tattered and broken, but his friend comes back for him and A-Qing spends both the rest of her life and her death trying to get justice for him, and Wei Wuxian believes that with time and the love of his friends that he will recover eventually. And of course, Wei Wuxian is offered a new body, gets to clear his name and move forwards with the man he loves and who loves him unconditionally at his side, both of their endings are very hopeful and while it isn't perfect yet, subtle indications point to things continuing to improve for both of them as they are no longer standing alone against the dark.

Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao on the other hand are both sealed away in death, in the same coffin mind you, to fight each other in hatred until there is nothing left of them. Their ending is unreservedly bad and tied to each other. They lived in hatred, they killed each other with their hatred and now their death is consumed in hatred.

Applicability is not writer's intent. And parallels need to run on multiple lines before they are more than happy coincidence.

[saelterlude]

Don't mind me just compiling my favorite lc musical clips so I don't lose them. No particular order. pt.1 (pt.2, pt.3, pt.4, pt.5, pt.6, pt.7 here)

(Mostly fullcam fancam because I prefer those to focused fancams)

24/01/2024, Ji Xiaokun's birthday, very cute and wholesome, Guo Hongxu got very excited introducing him

5/12/2023, Shu Rongbo and Du Guangyi singing the sofa song together

15/01/2024, Ji Xiaokun tries hogging the sofa, Guo Hongxu and Cai Lu disagrees

29/12/2023, I mostly like this one bcs its zoomed out and you can see how the room spins but if you're curious, it's also the one where Shu Rongbo drags Wu Yihan to the couch

13/01/2024 noon, I found their first performance a bit stiff so it kinda catches me off-guard when on their 2nd perf Wang Yifei slaps Zhu Hanbin's ass

22/12/2023, short one of Wang Minhui hating on a bubble gun

21/11/2023, Xian Donyue yeets Shu Rongbo across the room

30/11/2023, Overthink and Dive Back in Time special performance by Fan Ka and 白鲨Jaws. Also, Teng Chunpeng being hyper

28/11/2023, Ding Xingchen being cute, also he shared some smol kicks and punches with Du Guangyi

28/11/2023, same performance as the above but extended and fullcam, DXC, DGY and Li Zexi shares some funny high-fives, also it's Qian Anqi's birthday.

15/11/2023, Cai Lu introducing the cast after "Qiao Ling Jie save mee" -Guo Hongxu, also Ji Xiaokun is being cute here

23/11/2023, Wang Minhui focused but offscreen, Cai Qi is really having fun singing Dive Back in Time

07/01/2024 noon, have I mentioned how much I love that Cai Qi and Wang Minhui now plays their rock paper scissors legit? They got genuinely frustrated over it and it's funny

21/01/2024 noon, Ji Xiaokun and Deng Xianling armwrestling. Also Deng Xianling struggles reaching the table bcs Ji Xiaokun's dramatic ass pushes the sofa

26/01/2024, Zhu Hanbin focused but I'm just happy I finally found a Jing Yanqiao clip

31/12/2023 night, was hesitant to include this one bcs Wu Yihan was having a hard time, but he did still great and that should be appreciated

17. 24/12/2023 noon, Shu Rongbo and Wu Yihan being cute with the plushies. Also Shu Rongbo accidentally stabbed himself with Xian Dongyue's headband

18. 22/01/2024, Guo Hongxu gotta forcefully remove Shu Rongbo's leg off his. Also Shu Rongbo's laugh when he won rock paper scissor pls he's so cute

19. 30/12/2023 noon, Du Guangyi looks so happy poisoning Shu Rongbo

20. 11/11/2023, the first ever. Wang Minhui and Cai Qi still did the tutting facing each other

21. 25/01/2024, have this one of Cao Muzhi looking very dazed and out of it at first for some reason. Also Zhu Hanbin gotta change the dialogue a bit bcs he unexpectedly won with rock instead of paper

22. 15/01/2024, Guo Hongxu flustered bcs of Ji Xiaokun with a professional camera

I will add more to this list as they come, probably semi-frequently. Especially since Cao Muzhi's birthday is tomorrow so I wanna search a clip of that, as well as one of Bai Zhuoming bcs how come I have none of him? And of Fu Xiangan as soon as he debuts.

Also thank you to @chocolatexiaoshi for helping me complete the schedules!

[mengziyifan]

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