#meiling zhao

[angstylittleguy]

In Which Everything Goes Wonderfully Wrong Characters

-> writing masterpost

Aurora "Rory" Estrada

⋆ A girl that woke up one day and could hear the thoughts of everyone around her, whether she likes it or not.

⋆ She hates that she can't give the people around her any privacy, and she constantly feels like she's intruding and being disrespectful, as she has no right to hear someone's private thoughts.

⋆ Her head constantly hurts, her temples throbbing and no amount of Tylenol can fix that.

⋆ The only thing that can even attempt to battle the flood of voices, is music. Rory never goes anywhere without her headphones.

⋆ After she discovered her ability, her short-term memory declined as she was plagued with the thoughts of everyone but herself. She's started keeping a journal to help her remember things.

⋆ Despite all of the downsides to her ability, she has hopes of becoming a psychologist, and is going to college to get her degree.

⋆ Rory is the one who can sense people like her: people with unwanted abilities. Something about their thoughts are different, laced with an extra something that she didn't understand.

Dalton Richards

⋆ Dalton is disgusted with his powers.

⋆ He was a very private person, never sharing how he was feeling with anyone and he normally kept to himself, dealing with his thoughts on his own.

⋆ But now that he has these stupid abilities? All it does is draw attention to himself, and he's forced to wear his emotions on his sleeve.

⋆ His emotions controlled his height, and it terrified him.

⋆ At first it started with growing or shrinking a few inches, but as the days went by his ability grew stronger and his height changed more drastically.

⋆ When he was sad or upset, he would shrink down to where the smallest of objects would tower over him, and when he was angry his head would brush the ceiling and he would have to hunch over on himself to avoid breaking anything.

⋆ He was terrified of hurting people, and he had no way to control what happened to him.

Bennett Haltiwanger

⋆ Bennett was certain he had the worst power out of everyone.

⋆ Rory had called it the "Groundhog Day" power, and he hated that name. He couldn't think of a better one, though.

⋆ The first time he had discovered his ability, was in a terrible car accident. At first, he had thought it was all a dream, because he woke up in his bed at the beginning of the same day. He and his friends got into the car, Bennett brushing off the bad vibes™ as something from the weird dream he had. Then a car swerved into their lane, and Bennett woke up in his bed once again. The loop repeated over and over and over again, and did not stop until he survived to the next day. A day in which he could not convince his friends to leave the car, and he had to go without them.

⋆ His powers sucked, forcing him to relive a tragedy over and over again until he survived, and often times he could not save the people around him.

⋆ He started isolating himself from people to avoid being stuck in the loop, knowing that he would be the only one to walk out alive.

⋆ His ability scared him. He didn't know what would happen if one day he died from natural causes. What if he got sick? Or died from old age? Would he have to relive that day over and over again, even if there was nothing he could to do to avoid that death?

Josiah Lowell

⋆ When Josiah had discovered his ability, he thought it was permanent.

⋆ He had woken up one day and he had no reflection.

⋆ With absolutely no idea what to do, Josiah just stayed at home in his apartment until it finally wore off. Of course, at the time, he didn't know that it wasn't permanent, and the time that he spent locked away in his room was extremely panic-induced. It took eight days for his reflection to return.

⋆ When he was invisible, he couldn’t feel anything. It’s like his entire body was numb. Sometimes, he would even sink through the floor, as if he no longer held any matter and had the mass of air.

⋆ The invisibility came in spells, with no way to tell when it would happen and how long it would last.

⋆ He had gotten used to it for the most part, and learned to navigate his daily life without making too many changes.

⋆ And then he began to lose feeling in his fingers.

⋆ And his vision began to decline.

Meiling Zhao

⋆ Meiling liked to go fast.

⋆ She had run track and cross country in both middle school and high school, and when she was old enough she got her motorcycle license and began to drag race.

⋆ Needless to say, when she discovered her ability, she wasn't exactly upset about it.

⋆ She used it as often as she could, running around and doing daily tasks as quick as lightning so she had as much free time in her day as possible.

⋆ As the days stretched on and it felt like the sun set less often, Meiling began to feel her body growing tired from the constant usage, her muscles and limbs aching.

[amibean321]

Friendship ended with choices

Friendship has now started with Lovelink

[robininthelabyrinth]

#1 - Cangse Sanren shows up at Lotus Peir, with son in tow but no husband,  either shortly before or after JFM has died and Madam Yu suspects she's the reason for her husband's death. But she has no proof and she really does need help running the Sect and her kids are now attached and it's sort of nice to have a sparring partner who can actually keep up and the couple of times they ended up in bed together was better than when she was with JFM... but she still hates CS and makes sure everyone, especially that horrible woman, knows it. The kids all think their moms are the best and know they really love each other.  Ideally this is a continuation of "More Than One Way to Skin a Cat" but I would be fine with a stand alone.

Jolene - ao3

Spiritual sequel to Skin a Cat

Yu Ziyuan hadn’t thought her life would end up this way.

Of course, that had always been her problem, she supposed: she hadn’t thought. She had been the proud and arrogant Third Young Mistress of Meishan Yu, beloved and spoiled by her older siblings until she was both thoughtless and reckless, until she thought herself above the mere restrictions that bound everyone around her.

It had been Zhao Zhuliu that had goaded her on, back then, her cousin-that-wasn’t with the disinterested expression and strange obsession with the past, and her best friend Ma Meiling as well, all curved eyes and secret smiles. They had been night-hunting together, the three of them, and they had met up by ‘coincidence’ with a night-hunt led by the dashing Jiang Fengmian, who Yu Ziyuan had always been a little sweet on – it hadn’t been coincidence at all, of course, but on purpose. Ma Meiling’s father had wanted to introduce his daughter to some suitable young man who she disdained for not being rich and powerful enough for her taste, and she had boldly taken Yu Ziyuan and Zhao Zhuliu out to night-hunt instead, much to her father’s frustration. She had been the one to figure out that Jiang Fengmian was night-hunting as well and had taken them there, knowing as she did of Yu Ziyuan’s crush, and she had even played some tricks to ensure that that damnable wolfhound Wei Changze, always sniffing around Jiang Fengmian’s feet and barking to keep away the wicked, was obligated to go back to the Lotus Pier on some urgent task.

Jiang Fengmian, unexpectedly alone, had agreed to join them on their night-hunt.

Goaded on by her two best friends, swayed by her youth and impetuousness and arrogance, Yu Ziyuan had been far bolder than she ought to have been. She hadn’t regretted it at first, thinking it all in good fun; it was only later, far later, when her blood stopped coming and her belly swelled, that she learned the meaning of regret.

“You’ll have to marry him now,” her mother, the sect leader, had said, and sounded disapproving, even though Yu Ziyuan’s heart had instantly lit aflame in delight at the idea. To have Jiang Fengmian as her husband would be perfect, she thought to herself, would it not? Such a dashing gentleman, gentle and yielding as river water, brave and charming and so interesting –

Meishan Yu’s matchmaker returned with a polite refusal to consider their suit.

That had been the first time Jiang Fengmian had betrayed her.

Yu Ziyuan’s face had gone pale as ash, her stomach churning. She’d politely asked the matchmaker to confirm that he had passed along the necessary hints of her condition, a condition that Jiang Fengmian was equally responsible for, and he confirmed regretfully that he had, and in rather blunt terms, too. She had been angry, then, furious, but for the first time in her life, her family did not indulge her temper. How could they? Their beautiful daughter, their third child, and soon to be a mother herself…if she were a common woman, she could have changed her hair and lied, given her child a surname not her own and claimed a dead man as her husband, but she was Yu Ziyuan, who was well-known not to have been wed.

There was no such way out for her.

She had to marry Jiang Fengmian. Only a marriage would legitimize the bastard she’d borne for him, the beautiful little girl she called A-Li – only a marriage could eradicate her shame.

(Later, Ma Meiling visited her, Yu Ziyuan wanting her best friend with her to help with the aftermath of the birth even though she was herself unmarried, and she did not understand the way Ma Meiling’s eyes curved up in a strange satisfaction, or why she was so determined to extract a promise from her that their children would wed in the future, once they were both married. She didn’t understand then, anyway; understanding was something that would only come later, much later, when Ma Meiling somehow managed to win the matrimonial race of her generation and wed the rich and powerful Jin Guangshan as his legitimate wife, and came back to the by-then wed Yu Ziyuan to remind her of the promise they had made – her best friend had had her eyes on her prize even as far back as that, and it turned out that giving Jin Guangshan a reason to get his claws into Yunmeng Jiang in a way that wouldn’t stink of politics was an attractive dowry that no one else had been able to match.)

It had taken nearly four years of increasingly desperate pursuit for Yu Ziyuan to finally wed Jiang Fengmian, and he’d spent most of those years chasing another woman, that beastly Cangse Sanren who had no sect and no family that could be reasoned with, but whose backing was Baoshan Sanren’s immortal mountain, utterly unshakable. Yu Ziyuan had nursed what she believed to be a completely reasonable grudge against the woman: why must it be her fate to love a man who loved another? Through her own stupidity and willfulness, she had cut off all her other options, leaving her no one else, while Cangse Sanren had all the choices in the world. Yu Ziyuan, who had never known pity or humility in her life, was reduced to praying that the immortal mountain’s doomed disciple would voluntarily choose to have pity upon her and leave her the man she had once so passionately wanted.

And then, as if by a miracle – she did.

Yu Ziyuan had thought her prayers had been answered: no more Cangse Sanren, with even Wei Changze gone in the bargain, and Jiang Fengmian coming to her door to wed her at long overdue last. She went to live in the Lotus Pier, bringing her beloved maids Jinzhu and Yinzhu with her, and she brought little A-Li as well, who was now properly called by all around her as little young mistress Jiang, Jiang Yanli, the way she always should have been.

Sure, her husband still dreamt of others, calling out the names of Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze in turn in his sleep until Yu Ziyuan forced him to spend his nights in his own bed, but at least he visited her as regularly as clockwork, always the dutiful husband, and soon enough there was a little boy to keep Jiang Yanli company – her precious Jiang Cheng, whose birth was unquestionably legitimate, the heir to Yunmeng Jiang.

And then things went wrong again.

Rumors spread that Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze had a boy of their own, and Jiang Fengmian abruptly (and publicly) became so excited that the rumors immediately added on that the boy wasn’t Wei Changze’s but his– that that was the reason they never returned to the Lotus Pier even for holidays, afraid lest Jiang Fengmian take him back, recognizing him as his own. No, not just taking him back, but acknowledging him and making him the proper heir to boot, for Cangse Sanren’s Wei Wuxian was older than Yu Ziyuan’s Jiang Cheng, if only by a handful of days. The rumors spread, and Jiang Fengmian did nothing to dissuade them, no matter how much face it lost for Yu Ziyuan, no matter how she felt so humiliated that she barely dared leave the Lotus Pier even to visit her family.

That had been the second time Jiang Fengmian had betrayed her.

And then, after years of that, another set of rumors had spread: that Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze had finally met that promised doom at last, and that their child was orphaned.

Yu Ziyuan had looked at her Jiang Cheng, her sensitive child who was so much like her, and went to Jiang Fengmian’s doorstep, throwing aside all dignity and honor to kneel at his feet. “Do not bring him back,” she begged. “Go and rescue him, find him a home – but do not bring him here. If you do, they will say you want him as your heir, and A-Cheng will live with the shadow of another person’s child over his head for his whole life, always striving and never enough. Do not do that to him. Please.”

It hadn’t worked.

Jiang Fengmian chided her for her unseemly jealousy, and went ahead and did what he wanted anyway: he’d sent his disciples all over the cultivation world, turning it topsy-turvy as if he’d just smashed open an anthill, trampling carelessly over the sovereignty of other sects in his desperation to find the child he actually wanted, the one he wanted far more than the two Yu Ziyuan had given him. It was a political nightmare, left entirely to Yu Ziyuan to deal with while her husband was off gamboling through the countryside, and she knew the entire time that everyone who came to her to complain did so with smirks behind their sleeves, whispering to each other that there must be something wrong with her to be so beautiful and powerful and yet so unwanted by her husband.

That had been the third time Jiang Fengmian betrayed her.

Her grudge grew.

Yu Ziyuan hated everything to do with Cangse Sanren, who had had her pick of the world when she did not, and she hated Jiang Fengmian too, even though she still loved him with the desperation of a woman with no other choice. She retreated more and more into her own space, her courtyard that she decorated like her childhood home in Meishan Yu, kept to herself and her maids and her things until those around her started calling her Madame Yu instead of Madame Jiang.

(Ma Meiling wrote to her with an admonishment that she needed to make people stop doing that, lest there be any rumors that could cause trouble with their children’s future marriage. Yu Ziyuan burned the letter, just as she had all the others.)

She hated – she hated – she hated –

And then the lady herself appeared in the Lotus Pier, child in tow.

“Your husband is dead,” Cangse Sanren told Yu Ziyuan, who stared at her without understanding. “I am sorry.”

Yu Ziyuan had been the mistress of the Lotus Pier for years and years now. She mechanically went through the motions of being a hostess, inviting Cangse Sanren to stay for as long as she liked without really meaning it, and finished out the day as usual, arranging training and putting things in order, before returning to her quarters to process the fact that she was a widow now.

(Zhao Zhuliu’s marriage proposal arrived within days, scandalously early, though perhaps that was explained by the fact that he signed his letter with the surname Wen now; he’d been snatched up by them when his clan had met their downfall. Yu Ziyuan burned that letter, too – a disgusting power grab, and obvious, too, as if Zhao Zhuliu hadn’t had every opportunity to bring a suit when they were young if he’d actually been interested.)

It took her a month to actually comprehend that it had happened.

A month to realize that she was free of having to put up with Jiang Fengmian’s thinly veiled indifference and sporadic passion, with the way he played hot and cold with her, with the way he loved his children only when they resembled him and not her – a month to understand that Madame Yu was now the regent of the Lotus Pier, mistress of it in truth rather than merely custodian in her husband’s absence, and that the rumors that had been shoved into her face time and time again had all disappeared as soon as everyone realized that she finally had the power to really make them stop it if she wished.

(A month to start to wonder if Cangse Sanren had been the one to kill her husband, and to eventually realize that she didn’t really care one way or the other. Knowing Jiang Fengmian, he probably would have preferred to die by his beloved’s hand above any other way, anyway.)

A month to realize that Cangse Sanren really hadn’tleft.

“You said as long as I liked,” Cangse Sanren said over breakfast, licking her fingers like some sort of wild savage. “I find that I rather like this place after all.”

Yu Ziyuan tried to find a politic way to explain that that wouldn’t work – that there were still questions about her Wei Wuxian’s parentage, that he was still older than Jiang Cheng, that he was also more talented in many ways, brilliant and a good cultivator and all the rest, as well as being more temperamentally similar to the Jiang sect’s motto than either she or Jiang Cheng were…it would only cause problems to have Wei Wuxian here, and that was putting aside Yu Ziyuan having to deal with Cangse Sanren, who she’d always hated so much.

(Cangse Sanren, disgustingly perfect with her crow-black hair, soft as feathers, and her lovely black eyebrows, her shining eyes that curved with humor and her white teeth that she bared at any who challenged her – Cangse Sanren, with her soft curves and lush figure that would fit so well into a man’s arms, gentle as a butterfly alighting on a flower, nothing at all like the sharp lines and angles that were Yu Ziyuan’s type of beauty. With her delicate grace and hearty laugh, not delicate at all, and the fierce and unyielding way she fought, never giving up, bold and unassuming, a walking contradiction that tempted the viewer to contemplate her at length, unable to get her out of their mind…)

But when she explained, Cangse Sanren laughed as if Yu Ziyuan had said something clever and intelligent, as if she’d said something funnyand witty in a way she’d never been in her life, either as the spoiled and indulged daughter that had so incorrectly thought she made friends effortlessly or the abandoned wife who’d had no friends at all.

“I like you,” Cangse Sanren said, unbothered by the world or the way Yu Ziyuan gaped at her in disbelief. “It won’t be a problem. Who cares what the rest of the world says?”

Yu Ziyuan had lived her life in much the same way these past few years, resorting to it out of sheer desperation: if the world was going to disdain her, she would disdain it right back, secure in her place in the world, the legitimate wife and mistress of the Jiang sect, even if she didn’t have any of the private matrimonial joys that should have been hers. She couldn’t exactly open her moth and disagree with such a statement now.

Anyway, it wasn’t actually that bad, having Cangse Sanren around. The other woman was like a tiger unleashed in a city, a bull surrounded by porcelain; she was blunt and straightforward, arrogant almost to the point of shock, carefree and lively and ridiculous – she would say the most bizarre things as if they were commonplace, and only laugh when scolded, as if she knew the scolding itself was meant for her benefit, as if she would take the affection within it and ignore the actual restrictions.

She was wild and free the way Yi Ziyuan had been, once.

Back when she’d been happy.

Yi Ziyuan found herself bristling when others criticized Cangse Sanren as naïve or stupid, found herself snapping at those that mentioned that inevitable doom that was said to hang over the heads of the disciples of the immortal mountain as if it were a mere joke and not a woman’s life, a woman who was a mother just like her. She found herself inviting Cangse Sanren to sit beside her time and time again, putting her in the place that she herself used to have – she justified it to herself by noting how well they worked together, how the sting left by Yu Ziyuan’s sharp tongue could be smoothed over by Cangse Sanren’s good humor, how Cangse Sanren’s blunt recklessness opened gateways that could be exploited by Yu Ziyuan’s cleverness and political skill, the combination of the two of them infinitely more powerful than either alone.

Their children got along, too. Jiang Cheng blossomed in the presence of a friend like Wei Wuxian, who was courageous and bold and everything the Jiang sect hoped to teach their children to be – they competed with each other in both wildness and cultivation, and if Jiang Cheng was a little poorer in cultivation or in studying than his genius friend, he was still rightfully proud of being the Jiang sect’s young master, secure in the love of his mother and his sister and even his three puppies that Wei Wuxian was madly jealous over. Jiang Yanli loved them both as if Wei Wuxian really had been her brother, rightfully born, and she indulged them both far too much; if Yu Ziyuan might before have seen it as the same weakness and foolishness that had once led her younger self into perdition, then Cangse Sanren saw it as a girl playing with two real-life dolls, and in so seeing managed to remind Yu Ziyuan that she, too, had once wanted a pudgy-faced little brother to play with.

Her adopted sect was prospering, her children’s inheritance secure; her children were happy, her own vicious temper soothed…the only thing that galled Yu Ziyuan was having to admit, even if only to herself, that Jiang Fengmian had been right all along about Cangse Sanren being quite so ridiculously wonderful. She’d nursed that grudge of hers longer than either of her children put together, and it was hard to let go of it, even in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

She’d hated the woman, hated, hated, hated –

Yu Ziyuan woke up one morning and stared at the ceiling and wondered how she’d gotten to where she was. It wasn’t the life she’d dreamt of as a child, nor the wrecked dream she had resigned herself to in her adulthood; it was something new, something wholly unexpected…how had her life ended up this way?

“Isn’t it too early in the morning for you to be worrying already?” a warm voice whispered in her ear, Cangse Sanren rubbing her soft cheek against Yu Ziyuan’s shoulder like a cat marking her territory. Underneath her robes she was just as soft to the touch as those curves had always suggested to the eye she’d be, her clever fingers like feathers when they danced against Yu Ziyuan’s own creamy skin, and she was just as shameless naked as she was clothed. “Let me distract you.”

“You can’t distract me every time I worry about something, that’s not how that works,” Yu Ziyuan said, even as Cangse Sanren threw aside the blankets and settled between the legs Yu Ziyuan was willingly spreading for her, the two of them bathed in the sweet light of midmorning – Cangse Sanren liked to sleep late and rise late, and she’d dragged everyone around her into similarly bad habits. “It’s not any way to live, anyway.”

“Isn’t it?” Cangse Sanren asked, and laughed. “Why not?”

Luckily, she then busied her mouth with other, more interesting things before Yu Ziyuan was forced to admit that she didn’t really have a good answer to that. Lying here as she was in Jiang Fengmian’s bed and his role, with his would-be-but-never-been lover by her side, with all the pleasure and joy that she’d wanted and never gotten out of her marriage, with all the power and influence she could ever have wanted and now all the freedom, too…

Why worry indeed?

“Fine,” Yu Ziyuan said, arching her hips up. “I’ll worry later.”

[kokokabana]

𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞

✧ Sheng Zhao and Tomas Antol ✧ Prince ✧ interests: romance, photography, animals, fashion, parties, travel, sex, reading

Unlike in other stories where they try to hide their Royal blood, this prince has no shame in spoiling you with what comes with born into the royal family. However, this comes with responsibilities from which he wants to run away with you.

« 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

#1 Texting

#1 Texting

✧ Prince Sheng Zhao/Tomas Antol, heir to the throne of Pallay, at your service. → 🙄 | 😳!

✧ Wire me an insane amount of money | I need hard evidence! → gets you 🤔

✧ of course 🙄 | in the meantime, I’ll play along → gets you 🎉

✧ Maybe your brain thinks I’m lying, but your heart knows better → 😮 | 🥹!

✧ How could I? I’m in favor of people finding love where they can. → 🤔 | ❤️!

✧ Do tell! 🌶 (gem scene for 120 💎) | Royal life doesn’t really intrigue me

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#2 Texting

✧ You’ll have to take that risk! | I give you my word → gets you 😘

✧ 1st CG for 180 💎

✧ Nice to meet you too! → 😄 | 🥹!

✧ i’m up to see what happens 🥹 | that’s a lot of pressure! 😬 → gets you 😄

✧ Can we meet? Like right now? → 🤔! | 😂

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#3 Texting

✧ That should be my driver, right on schedule! → 💋! | 😮

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#4 First Date

✧ Lol, as if you don’t know exactly how fancy it is | 😮🎉🔥! → gets you 😏

✧ Please do! (gem choice for 150 💎) | No, thank you. I can handle it from here.

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#5 Texting

✧ Hey there! You make it home ok? → 🥹! | 😂

✧ You could have palmed the “doctor” card 😉 | You don’t need an excuse to talk to me 😊 → gets you 😂

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#6 Texting

✧ No, this is perfectly normal when dating me 😏 | Sounds like I’m doing well for a commoner → gets you 😘

✧ I think you should come and visit Pallay! → 😊! | 🫢

✧ Stop, I can’t take the wait! 😭 | I’ve got a few suggestions of my own 😜 → gets you 🔥

✧ This is too wholesome, I can’t take it! → gets you 😂

✧ I know you’ll get along. He’s the best. → 🙏! |🤔

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#7 Texting

✧ Tell me about Meiling! (gem scene for 120 💎) | I want everything to be a surprise 🥹 → gets you 😈 (a lot of background info about royalty family but also their childhood. lots of dialogue)

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#8 Texting

Nothing.

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#9 Texting

Nothing.

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Unfortunately, this guide won’t be continued. I actually found him too arrogant after what he said on the first date, even after he recognized and apologized for that. Idk man, just not my vibe or type either

just don’t be shy and be like “omg I can’t accept this”! they love to spoil you! So chose 🔥 when they send you something expensive instead of 😳

[dear-indies]

so disappointed to read about olivia munn, do you have a list of alternative fcs for her? please <3

Natassia Malthe (1974) Chinese Malaysian / Norwegian.

Cristen Barker (1975) Chinese / Irish and Norwegian.

Kimberly Barker (1975) Chinese / Irish and Norwegian.

Michaela Conlin (1978) Chinese / Irish.

Mylène Jampanoï (1980) Chinese / Breton.

Ase Wang (1981) Chinese Singaporean / Swedish.

Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe (1981) Chinese / Scottish.

Christina Chong (1983) Chinese / English.

Janel Parrish (1988) Han Chinese / Irish, English, German.

Katie Cockrell (1988) Chinese / English and Irish.

Kellie Cockrell (1988) Chinese / English and Irish.

Phillipa Soo (1990) Chinese / English, Scottish, Irish.

Catherine Li (1991) Chinese / White.

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English.

Elizabeth Lazan (?) Chinese Singaporean / English and Italian.

Faye Kingslee (?) Chinese / Irish.

Jennifer Lee Wiggins (?) Chinese / Irish and English.

also:

Celina Jade (1985) Hongkonger / English, Irish, German, French [including French-Canadian].

Melissa O'Neil (1988) Hongkonger / Irish, possibly other.

Adrianne Ho (1989) Hongkonger / French.

Other suggestions:

Christina Chang (1971) Chinese Filipino / White American.

China Chow (1974) 43.75% Chinese 25% German 25% Japanese 6.25% Scottish.

Karen Olivo (1976) Dominican Republic and Chinese / Puerto Rican [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other].

Gwendoline Yeo (1977) Chinese Singaporean.

Chipo Chung (1977) Mberengwa Zimbabwean / Chinese.

Bérénice Marlohe (1979) Cambodian and Chinese / French.

Cecilia Cheung (1980) 75% Chinese 25% British.

Meiling Melançon (1980) Chinese and Japanese / French.

Lauren Lim Jackson (1981) Chinese, Filipino, and African-American.

Gemma Chan (1982) Hongkonger / Chinese.

Chloé Zhao (1982) Chinese.

Ali Wong (1982) Chinese / Vietnamese.

Fala Chen (1982) Chinese.

Constance Wu (1982) Taiwanese. 

Li Jun Li (1983) Chinese.

Michelle Ang (1983) Chinese Malaysian.

Jessica Matten (1985) Métis, Saulteaux-Cree, Chinese, and British.

Jessica Lu (1985) Chinese / Japanese

Adesuwa Aighewi (1988) Nigerian / Chinese.

Malese Jow (1991) Chinese / English, Scottish, Cherokee.

Samantha Win (1991) Chinese / White Canadian.

Allison Teng (?) Chinese.

She's Chinese-Vietnamese / White so here are some suggestions!

[psqqa]

Nirvana in Fire Character Reference Sheet Roughly in the Order Those Characters Are Introduced

For @howdydowdy, as promised, and for anyone else who, like me, is terrible at names and needs some kind of “Who?? Ohhh right. That guy.” reminder.

Basically, my Nirvana in Fire Journey started with me watching half the first episode, being wildly confused, realizing I was in over my head re: names and thus deciding to go back to the beginning and watch it again But Taking Notes This Time. I watched the whole show with a notebook and pen at my side. I figured I may as well spare you all the labour by typing it up. 

As more information was revealed, I often added it to a character’s initial note, but by and large I’m leaving those extra notes out so you can experience the joy and confusion and anguish of New Information yourself. The exception to this is generally a person’s name, title, and position. E.g. Duke Qing’s name, Bai Ye, isn’t mentioned until a number of episodes after he’s first mentioned, if I recall correctly, but knowing that the person named “Bai Ye” is the same person called “Duke Qing” is exactly why I took these notes for myself in the first place.

Basically this isn’t intended to be a character guide that lays out exactly who a person is, their relationships to the other characters, and their place in the story, but rather something you can look at whenever someone mentions a name that jogs your memory just enough for you to be able to place to person. Which is why the notes tend to be either the context in which the person was introduced or the relationship through which they’re introduced.

Some names and notes are inherently spoilers, but hopefully by virtue of the fact that this is broadly in the order a character is first mentioned/introduced, you can avoid spoilers simply by not scrolling down too far. For those persons where their name or an alter ego comes in significantly after their initial introduction and is a spoiler, they are listed a second time starting with the “new information” and with the note in italics indicating their original entry (there aren’t a lot of these, don’t worry).

I will readily admit that some of my handwritten notes are just a name and then a blank space because apparently I just never actually added a note for them. I haven’t bothered adding those people here. Yes it’s because I’ve forgotten entirely who they are, but I’m pretty sure that means you’ll be okay if you immediately forget who they are too. (That being said, I get the sense there are actually relevant people missing from this list. As the show carried on and introductions became less frequent, remembering them became less difficult.)

The List

Lin Xie –> Commander of the Chiyan Army

Lin Shu –> “Xiao-Shu” –> Lin Xie’s son –> Mei Changsu --> Chief of the Jiangzuo Alliance --> Su Zhe

Lin Chen –> Young Master of Langya Hall –> NOTE: The “Lin” of Lin Chen and the “Lin” of Lin Xie & Lin Shu are both written and pronounced differently. These people are not related.

Northern Yan’s 6th Prince –> Now Northern Yan’s Crown Prince

Minister Xu –> Da Liang’s envoy to Northern Yan

Prince Yu –> Xiao Jinghuan –> 5th Prince of Da Liang

Xiao Xuan –> Emperor of Da Liang

Empress Yan --> Prince Yu’s adoptive mother

Consort Yue --> Crown Prince’s mother

Grand Empress (Dowager) --> Emperor’s grandmother

Xiao Jingxuan --> Crown Prince of Da Liang --> metonym is “Eastern Palace”

Zhuo Dingfeng --> Master of Tianquan Manor

Zhuo Qingyao --> Eldest son of Zhuo Dingfeng --> guy on the horse and later the guy helping the old couple on the boat and later also the guy who calls Xie Yu “father-in-law” (I am telling you this specifically because I am not bad at faces but this guy added so much confusion to my life that was cleared up the moment I realized these people were the same person. And also because my mother is terrible at faces and for like 15 episodes every time he showed up in another random place I would say “that’s horse and boat guy” and she would say “wait what? really???” So I’m assuming at least one other person will share in this struggle)

Xie Yu --> Marquis of Ning

Qin Banruo --> Prince Yu’s strategist

Duke Qing --> Prime Minister --> Bai Ye

Ji Ying --> member of Double Sword Sect

Li Gang --> member of Jiangzuo Alliance

Fei Liu --> Mei Changsu’s bodyguard

Yan Yujin --> Son of Empress Yan’s brother

Xiao Jingrui --> Eldest son of Xie Yu

Mu Nihuang --> Commander of the army in Yunnan --> Princess of Yunnan’s House of Mu 

Xie Bi --> Second son of Xie Yu & Xiao Jingrui’s younger brother

Mu Qing --> Mu Nihuang’s younger brother

Xia Dong --> An officer of the Xuanjing Bureau

Nie Feng --> Xia Dong’s late husband --> Vanguard General of the Chiyan Army under Lin Xie

Meng Zhi --> Commander of the Imperial Guards

Xuan Bu --> From Da Yu --> stronger than Meng Zhi

Gao Zhan --> Emperor’s chief eunuch 

Fei Changshi --> Prince Yu’s guy out looking for Mei Changsu

Prince Jing --> Xiao Jingyan --> 7th Prince of Da Liang

Concubine Jing --> Mother of Prince Jing

“Xiao-Xin” --> Attendant to Concubine Jing

Grand Princess Liyang --> Xie Yu’s wife & Emperor’s sister

Eunuch Zheng --> Eunuch who is mean to Tingsheng

Prince Qi --> late Crown Prince of Da Liang --> Xiao Jingyu

Tingsheng --> servant boy caught reading

“Lao-Wei” --> Mu Qing’s subordinate of some kind

Wei Zheng --> member of Chiyan Army at Battle of Meiling (and survived)

Sima Lei --> member of Royal Guard --> Consort Yue’s preferred suitor for Mu Nihuang

Liao Tingjie --> Son of the Marquis of Zhongsu --> Empress Yan’s preferred suitor Mu Nihuang

Baili Qi --> Mu Nihuang suitor from Northern Yan --> A favourite of the 4th Prince of Northern Yan

Lady/Madam Zhuo --> Zhuo Dingfeng’s wife

Xie Qi --> Zhuo Qingyao’s wife & Xie Yu’s daughter & Jingrui’s sister

Consort Hui --> bullied by the Empress

Young Lady Zhen (I think is what my handwriting says) --> servant being sneaky at late dowager empress’s palace

“Wu-momo” --> older servant with the Bad Wine

Consort Chen --> now dead --> son was a rebel

3rd Prince of Da Liang --> Xiao Jingting --> Prince Ning --> disabled

6th Prince of Da Liang --> no ambition 

9th Prince of Da Liang --> too young to fight for throne 

Former Crown Princess --> late Prince Qi’s late wife

“Qi-momo” --> Grand Princess Liyang’s senior attendant

Gong Yu --> window lady who works with Mr. Shisan --> a musician

Mr. Shisan --> member of Jiangzuo Alliance --> connection to Lin family

Minister Lou --> Lou Zhijing --> Minister of Trade/Finance/Revenue/other words that mean “money” --> Knows about the corpse well --> Crown Prince’s faction

Zhang Jing --> Owner of corpse well house (Lan Mansion) at the time the corpses ended up in the well

Shi Jun --> Servant at corpse well house at relevant time --> has record book

Magistrate Gao --> Gao Sheng --> The Capital Magistrate

Princess Xuanji --> ruler of a previous dynasty --> founded the “Hong Court”

Minister Qi --> Qi Min--> Minister of Justice --> Prince Yu’s faction

Minister He --> He Jingzhong --> Minister of Personnel --> Prince Yu’s faction

Minister of Public Works --> Prince Yu’s faction

Minister Chen --> Chen Yuanzhi --> Minister of Rites --> Crown Prince’s faction

Minister of Defence --> Li Lin --> Crown Prince’s faction

Bai Xun --> Duke Qing’s brother

Lie Zhanying --> Staff Officer under Prince Jing

Qi Meng --> One of Prince Jing’s men --> fights Fei Liu and commits Great Offence

“General Bian” --> One of Prince Jing’s men

Shen Zhui --> Acting Minister of Finance

Princess Qing He --> Shen Zhui’s mother

Cai Quan --> Works at Ministry of Justice --> Did well-received report on the Bing case 

Han Zhiyi --> Works at Ministry of Justice --> worked on Bing case

Zhang Jianzhen --> Works at Ministry of Justice --> worked on Bing case

Wei Yuan --> Works at Ministry of Justice --> worked on Bing case

Yuan Shiying --> Works at Ministry of Justice --> worked on Bing case

Qin Yue --> Works at Ministry of Justice --> worked on Bing case

Tong Lu --> Vegetable cart guy --> brother of one of the corpse well girls 

Qiu Zhe --> Son of Count (Duke?) Wen Yuan

He Wenxin --> Son of Minister He --> dislikes Qiu Zhe 

Grand Prince Ji --> Emperor’s youngest brother --> Owns hot springs

Yang Liuxin --> A dancer

Hong Xinzhao --> Has “understanding girls”

Xinliu & Xinyang --> Brothel sisters --> their younger brother was murdered by Qiu Zhe

Princess Consort --> Lanjin --> Prince Yu’s wife

Zhou Xuanqing --> renowned scholar

Li Chong --> former Imperial Tutor --> former teacher to Lin Shu

“Brother Zhao” --> Canal transport guy --> Jiangzuo Alliance

Lin Xiangru --> famous literary envoy

Marquis Yan --> Yan Que --> Yan Yujin’s father & Empress Yan’s brother

Lin Yueyao --> Prince Qi’s mother --> Consort Chen

Zhen Ping --> Jiangzuo Alliance --> sword challenger

Xia Qiu --> An officer of the Xuanjing Bureau

Xia Chun --> The most senior of the officers of the Xuanjing Bureau

Prince Jingli --> Consort Hui’s son

Yuwen Xuan --> Prince Ling --> A prince of Southern Chu

Yuwen Nian --> “Niannian” --> A princess of Southern Chu --> student of Yue Xiuze

Yuwen Lin --> King of Southern Chu --> Yuwen Nian’s father

Ouyang Chi - Head of CApital Patrols

Xia Jiang --> Head of the Xuanjing Bureau

Li Chongxin --> Schoolteacher assassinated by Zhuo Dingfeng 

Jun Niang --> former member of “Hong Court” under Princess Xuanji

“Miss Liu” --> Granddaughter of former Chief Secretariat Liu Cheng

Wei Qi --> The general at Jiaxing Pass --> was Xie Yu’s lieutenant for years

Su Tianshu --> Chief of Yaowang Valley --> 7th on the Langya Rich List

Su Xuan --> Su Tianshu’s adopted son --> Wei Zheng

Yun Piaomiao --> Su Xuan’s wife 

Concubine Xiang --> Prince Yu’s birth mother

Zhu Yue --> Head of the Review Court --> Prince Yu’s brother-in-law

Cheng Zhiji --> Elder Master of Feng Hall --> 75 years old

Princess Linglong --> A princess of the Hua Kingdom --> Princess Xuanji’s sister --> Concubine Xiang

Grand Princess Jinyang --> Lin Shu’s mother & Lin Xie’s wife --> Emperor’s sister

Yao Zhu --> Official Fan’s servant who knows The Secret

Official Fan --> Harbouring Xia Jiang

[loveisland-stan]

Love Island - S3 - MC Tag

No one asked my to do this, But here I am anyway

FULL NAME: Tiffany “Tiff” Xiuying Zhao

HOMETOWN: East London, England.

AGE: 22.

STAR SIGN: Cancer

OCCUPATION: Instagram Model. And she just made her move over to YouTube as well

SEXUALITY: Bisexual Babie! (but leans more towards men)

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: British/Chinese

LANGUAGES: Mandarin is her first language but learnt English once she entered school

IMPORTANT PERSONALITY TRAITS: So. Many. Walls. Over the years she has built up a tough and cold exterior, with a “here for a good time not a long time” attitude. Will deflect most things off of herself and tends to steer drama as a defense mechanism. For those brave enough to break down her walls, they will discover that she’s actually the sweetest, most caring, most selfless person ever. Anyone who can achieve this (few and far between) instantly becomes a ride or die and she’ll do anything to keep this relationship. Be it platonic or romantic. 

STYLE: Instagram Baddie™ Prefers a tactical silhouette (Cargo pants, combat boots with a tight crop top). Master stylist (How she got her instagram following) She can dress anything up with a pair of heels and some accessories and somehow it works? 

ABOUT MC’S FAMILY: She lives with her parents (Lijin and Meiling) and her younger brother (Liuwei, English name is Tom) Her parents are first generation Chinese Immigrants, but her and Tom were born in England. Family is her #1 priority. Her parents own a tiny restaurant that barely covers the bills, her and Tom worked there as soon as they could. But now that she make decent money off of Socials, she gives a lot of it to her parents. She was bullied a lot when she was younger for being Chinese, which resulted in the many walls that she built up and trying to westernize herself. But now that she is much happier with herself, she embraces her culture wholeheartedly. 

HIDDEN TALENTS: Is a very good cook from the years in her family’s restaurant. But will only cook for you if you are very close. Also learned Shaolin Kung Fu as a kid, and will beat you up if needed. 

CELEBRITY CRUSHES: J-hope of BTS, Michael B Jordan, Sophie Turner, Dev Patel, and Keira Knightley.

FAVORITE DRINK (ALCOHOLIC AND NON-ALCOHOLIC): alcoholic: will do anything for a shot of Hennessy, also love a good bottle of rice wine non-alcoholic: Match Boba Tea. 

FAVORITE TV SHOW/MOVIE: Love Island (of course), Skins, Killing Eve, Friends, and Sex Education. (huge Harry Potter fan, but that’s a secret)

FAVORITE DISH: Her mother’s Bao is the best thing on this planet and don’t fight her on that. 

FAVORITE VACATION SPOT: Never has time for Vacation, but if she had to pick she’s say Xi’an China because that’s where her grandparents live. 

IDEAL DATE: Says she likes to be spoiled, but truly only wants to hangout in sweats, eat take out, and watch cheesy movies. (But wouldn’t mind an occasional spoiling)

WHO’S HER INSPIRATION: Her Parents

BEST FRIEND: Seb

LOVE INTEREST (FOR NOW): Camilo (but she’s keeping AJ on the back burner)

PICTURE OF YOUR MC AND FACECLAIM: Keeps her hair black and in straight lob. Uses her makeup to emphasize her monolids and embraces what the Good Lord gave her. Face Claim: Chailee Son

[chilled-ice-cubes]

Thoughts on Princess Xuanji & Mei Changsu

I finished Nirvana in Fire and one of the characters I felt intrigued by the most was Princess Xuanji, who only ever appeared in flashbacks for approximately thirty seconds. Despite this, her actions have enormous influence over the setting of NiF.

What do we know about Princess Xuanji?

She was the princess of Hua Zu, a kingdom which was attacked and sinicized by Da Liang.

After she was captured, she worked within Da Liang to destabilise it and get revenge.

She earned the trust of a high ranking member of Da Liang (Xia Jiang) and used him to push forward her agenda.

All of this sounds very familiar; in fact it’s exactly what Mei Changsu does throughout the show. His family was betrayed by the Emperor and the country, his desire for revenge leads him back to the court and he uses Prince Yu to gather support for Prince Jing as well as weaken the Crown Prince.

From what we know of Princess Xuanji from Qin Banruo and Xia Jiang, she was a master strategist and her followers (Hong Xiu Zhao) were immensely loyal to her. The parallels with Mei Changsu continue; Jiangzuo Alliance’s undying loyalty seems to be similar to the kind she inspired among Hong Xiu Zhao.

They have the same motivation—revenge and they are both successful in attaining it. (Princess Xuanji through the downfall of Prince Qi and the Chiyan army; MCS through Xie Yu and Xia Jiang’s fate.)

In fact, Princess Xuanji might have been successful in destroying Da Liang as a whole. If Lin Shu had died at Meiling, Jingyan would never be able to attain power. Prince Yu and the Crown Prince’s conflicts would weaken the country and the attack of Da Yu towards the end would be the final nail in the coffin.

However, it’s because Princess Xuanji caused the downfall of the Chiyan army that the stage was set for MCS to get Jingyan to power and make sure that Da Liang stays stable for at least the next few decades.

So Princess Xuanji is in fact the person who had the greatest influence on the world of NiF as a whole.

[bobasheebaby]

I've reached the point where all I care about is TRR Series (specifically Liam) and Sheng Zhao. So. If the rest were to disappear one day, I wouldn't even notice. I'm sorry it came to this, but that's the situation and how I feel. ❤️

I’ve reached the point with Choices where I am mostly just retrieving my daily free diamonds. I’m three weeks behind on TRH and even further behind on OH.

Sheng has me annoyed as fuck but I still love him. He’s clearly dense as hell but seriously why is he blindly believing a woman he can’t stand over the person he matched and fell in love with?

Sheng: WHEN WERE YOU GOING TO TELL ME YOU WERE FROM MEINEKI?!

Me: I didn’t know but you need to chill cause Meiling and you are clearly idiots who can’t see how this works in the favor of your country. Why don’t you take a deep breath and then we can talk like adults.

[angstylittleguy]

meet my OC with Super Speed, Meiling Zhao!

She's a third year college student at the Franco Dale Learning Institute majoring in Communications.

Meiling is honestly only going to college because she feels like she has to. Her passion lies in drag racing and she makes a decent amount of money from it. Her discovered ability of super speed helps her to ensure the win, and the body aches and pains are worth it when she's earning a couple thousand every race.

Link to the navigation page for more info about Rory and her friends Here

[donghuanewbsunite]

No.7 Cherry Lane / Ji Yuan Tai Qi Hao / 繼園臺七號

It is 1967, the year of the leftist riots, with violent clashes between anti-colonial demonstrators and police erupting in Hong Kong's streets. For Ziming (Alex Lam), however, a more personal revolution is about to begin. A student at the University of Hong Kong, Ziming accepts a gig tutoring Meiling (Zhao Wei), the daughter of Mrs. Yu (Sylvia Chang), a single mother and exporter of luxury goods to Taiwan. Amidst stimulating discussions of Brontë, Proust and Cao Xueqin, Ziming will find himself drawn into intimate entanglements with both Meiling and Mrs. Yu, leading him toward an education no academic institution could possibly provide.

[Synopsis from Toronto International Film Festival]

Genres: Historical, Romance, Drama

Official Site

[pd101c]

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Wenian Culture Girls Introduction Video

[reseau-actu]

La Chine est passée d’un bouillonnement culturel radical à un marché de l’art étroitement cornaqué par les autorités.

Correspondant à Pékin

Sept Mao bedonnants, fusils à baïonnette à l’épaule, mettent froidement en joue un Christ décharné. Les statues grandeur nature accueillent le visiteur dans l’entrée de l’atelier des frères Gao, tel un coup de poing. Au mur, un photo-montage sarcastique noir et blanc place le «Grand Timonier», tout sourire, en compagnie de Hitler, Staline ou Ben Laden. Comme un blasphème lancé à la Chine communiste, au cœur de Pékin.

«Mao n’est plus là, mais le régime continue et a accouché d’une superdictature», explique Gao Zhen, coiffé de son chapeau de feutre noir, dans le lobby de son atelier. L’artiste de 63 ans et son frère Qiang, qui ont exposé à New York et Paris, ne peuvent plus présenter leurs œuvres au vitriol dans la Chine du président Xi Jinping, à qui Emmanuel Macron rend visite, cette semaine. Il faut désormais prendre rendez-vous pour observer ces créations taboues dans leur appartement, niché au cœur de «798», une ancienne friche industrielle au nord-est de Pékin, cœur de la création artistique au début des années 2000 qui est désormais sous la tutelle étroite des censeurs. Il est loin, le temps où les soldats en uniforme montaient la garde devant l’atelier pour interdire l’entrée aux visiteurs, lors d’une épreuve de force en 2007.

Les œuvres de combat ont laissé la place aux selfies

Aujourd’hui, les couples d’amoureux flânent aux terrasses des cafés qui ont bourgeonné auprès des galeries, dans ce quartier désormais branché que devrait visiter mercredi, au pas de charge, le président français, lors de l’étape pékinoise de son périple. À «798», les œuvres de combat ont laissé la place aux selfies sous les bannières des grandes marques de luxe, et la plupart des créateurs ont quitté les lieux, rattrapés par le prix des loyers, et la pression des autorités. «Le quartier est devenu un lieu touristique comme la Grande Muraille ou la Cité interdite, nettoyé de toute radicalité artistique. Cette évolution illustre celle des relations entre l’art et le pouvoir depuis une décennie. Désormais l’art contemporain est un produit de consommation et une carte diplomatique du régime», juge Gao.

L’inauguration, mardi, d’un nouveau site du Centre Georges-Pompidou à Shanghaï, sera l’un des points d’orgue du déplacement d’Emmanuel Macron, en quête de projets concrets pour affirmer une coopération franco-chinoise culturelle sensible dans un contexte politique délicat. Le musée dessiné par l’architecte britannique David Chipperfield s’installe le long de la rivière Huangpu, dans le quartier «culturel» du West Bund, qui veut s’affirmer comme le nouvel épicentre de l’art contemporain chinois, alliant étroitement croissance économique, appétit culturel des nouvelles générations, et contrôle politique étroit.

Reprise en main

«Shanghaï supplante désormais Pékin en termes de marché de l’art contemporain, et de nombre d’acheteurs», juge Olivier Hervet, représentant en Chine de la galerie Hadrien de Montferrand, basée dans la capitale et à Londres. Cette translation vers le sud incarne l’évolution du secteur, au diapason de l’enrichissement de la seconde économie mondiale et de sa reprise en main politique, passant d’un bouillonnement culturel radical au tournant du siècle, à celui d’un marché en croissance étroitement cornaqué par les autorités, avec des ambitions mondiales. Le long du Huangpu, Beaubourg rejoint les projets muséaux d’ampleur de collectionneurs privés, tels le Long Museum et le Yuz, dans ce quartier en plein re-développement qui vise à offrir une nouvelle frontière culturelle à Shanghaï, temple de la finance et de la consommation.

La reprise en main idéologique de la société, entreprise depuis 2013 par le Parti sous la houlette de Xi, impose de nouvelles contraintes draconiennes aux créateurs. «Ils veulent faire de la Chine un laboratoire impeccable, et nous, les artistes, sommes des bactéries», juge Fang Qi, artiste quadragénaire à la longue chevelure poivre et sel, qui a été expulsé cet été du quartier de Huantie, à Pékin où s’étaient réfugiés nombre d’ateliers, à une encablure de «798». Le 9 juillet, des vigiles ont débarqué, expulsant les artistes et faisant fi de leurs contrats de location, au nom de la modernisation urbanistique de la capitale.

Le dirigeant le plus autoritaire depuis Mao

Rentré de France en 2014, ce diplômé des beaux-arts dont les pochoirs géants jouent avec les motifs des billets d’euros, a testé de près le recul de la liberté artistique. L’an dernier, les censeurs retoquent une installation, lui demandant de retirer le gyrophare monté sur une Audi noire, recouvert de l’inscription «Folice», le «F évoquant Fake (faux)». «Dix ans plus tôt, j’avais pu exposer le même concept en utilisant une voiture de police chinoise. J’avais même pu rouler avec dans les rues de Shanghaï!», se souvient le père de famille francophone. L’anecdote témoigne de la mise en ordre de la société entreprise par le dirigeant le plus autoritaire depuis Mao, visiblement avec l’assentiment d’une majorité des habitants du pays le plus peuplé du monde, au nom de la stabilité. «Les nouvelles générations sont apolitiques. Les artistes rebelles, c’est terminé!», regrette Fang.

Le constat est nuancé par certains professionnels, qui pointent un engagement persistant des jeunes créateurs. Ceux-ci n’attaquent plus de façon frontale le régime mais questionnent le sens d’une société obsédée par l’argent, l’ordre, et la puissance des technologies. «Les artistes sont devenus plus malins face à la censure, et il faut apprendre à lire à travers les lignes. La scène s’élargit de tous côtés, et même si le commercial se taille la part du lion, des créateurs explorent les questions sociétales, l’environnement ou la mainmise des réseaux sociaux», juge Hervet.

Corps rampants

Les pionniers contestataires du mouvement des «Étoiles», lancé en 1979, prisé par les collectionneurs occidentaux et à l’origine d’un boom économique frénétique du secteur au début des années 2000, ont laissé la place à des jeunes artistes aux profils et intérêts variés. «L’atmosphère est plus répressive, mais certains artistes sont toujours engagés, de façon plus subtile», juge René Meile, de la galerie suisse Urs Meile, promoteur du trublion Ai Weiwei. À l’image des corps rampants dans la glaise de Zhao Nengzhi, dont la nouvelle exposition à «798» exprime les angoisses d’individus écrasés par l’époque dans un langage universel pouvant aussi s’appliquer à la réalité chinoise.

Le Centre Pompidou devra lui aussi se plier aux règles complexes de la censure, où les créateurs jouent avec les limites de façon oblique. «Beaubourg ne pourra montrer tout ce qu’il souhaite», prévient Fang. Les frères Gao ont déjà eu l’honneur d’être exposés dans le grand musée parisien, mais doutent que leur photo, pourtant apolitique, soit un jour accrochée aux murs du site de Shanghaï. «Cela m’est égal, ce n’est plus mon époque», sourit Gao Zhen, dans son atelier en désordre, encerclé par les cafés branchés.

[angstylittleguy]

In Which Everything Goes Wonderfully Wrong

A collection of one-shots involving a group of people with unwanted abilities trying to find a way to make living a little easier.

Characters:

-> moodboards and introductions

Rory Estrada // Mind-Reader. (art) Bennett Haltiwanger // Time Loop. (art) Josiah Lowell // Invisibility. (art) Dalton Richards // Size Shifter. (art) Meiling Zhao // Super Speed. (art)

Excerpts (in chronological order):

In Which Everything Goes Wonderfully Wrong: An introduction to Rory's mind reading ability and how she used it to find people just like her. The Elevator: part 1: The first meeting between Rory and Bennett. He seeks her help when he finds himself trapped in a time loop. The Elevator: part 2: The second part of Rory and Bennett's first meeting. They work together to end Bennett's time loop. Claustrophobia: The awkward first meeting between Rory and Dalton. She discovers him having a major growth spurt in an empty lecture room at their university and gets trapped in the room with him. (Coming Soon) Boundaries: After meeting Dalton, Rory finally convinces him to meet Bennett, whose excitement and curiosity is too much for Dalton to handle. Broken: The first time Dalton shrinks in front of Bennett. The experience leaves him injured and mistrusting of Bennett, who doesn't quite understand what he's done wrong. (Coming Soon) The Rift: After Rory rescues Dalton from a too-curious Bennett, Dalton reveals his newly-formed opinion of him, which leaves a divide in the group. The Sink Incident: Bennett and Dalton are hanging out when Dalton experiences a shrinking spell and falls into the sink. Dalton's Drawings: Bennett finds Dalton sulking under his bed nearly 5 inches tall, all because he got upset over something he drew. Familiar ground is reached between the two boys. Rory's Journal: Rory has a conversation with Dalton about their abilities and she worries about the effect they are having on her memory. (Coming Soon) The End of a Loop: Bennett is finally free from a time loop that lasted nearly seven months, and after those months of repetition, he has to learn how to live with a choice he can't redo tomorrow. Like A Moth to A Flame: Bennett has a nightmare about his abilities. (Coming Soon) Pushed Too Far: Dalton and Rory have an argument about his abilities, triggering a growth spurt that leaves both characters feeling bad about what had just transpired.

Tag Navigation:

-> all In Which Everything Goes Wonderfully Wrong posts

-> stories featuring Aurora "Rory" Estrada

-> stories featuring Dalton Richards

-> stories featuring Bennett Haltiwanger

-> stories featuring Josiah Lowell

-> stories featuring Meiling Zhao

[bobasheebaby]

👑 anon

So. The shit finally hit the fan. I wish I had more options to put that stupid bitch on her place. Not satisfied enough with the options the game provided. I understand the need to show MC that she's mighty and all (in her head but wtv 🙄) yet I fail to see the factual use of her actions. Maybe only if she was testing MC to find out if she can be easily scared or if she's a worthy opponent. Either way, the fact that Sheng brought MC to Pallay and into Zhao's private and secluded property should've been enough indication for Meiling that MC is not a simple bimbo/one night affair or whatever you want to call it. If Meiling thinks that Sheng is weak, guess what? My MC is feisty and definitely NOT a doormat to anyone in Pallay, including Mr./Crown Prince/Soon-to-be-King Sheng Zhao! My MC had a huge fight with him and called him out on his bs just before the Meiling/Jin incident, well... to the extent that the game allowed her, but still, you get the idea. And now I wish there were Lovelink ff writers to adress this "episode", hmm...

I might end up rewriting this shit cause seriously I’m like how stupid is Meiling? Everything that she’s admitting to MC through a server she hacked?!

But of course she told Sheng that MC might come after her. I seriously want to slap Sheng, maybe he will see how stupid he’s being after.

I kept wanting to shove my phone into his hand. Like I have fucking PROOF. Contact Lovelink and bury this bitch!

Ugh. It’s a mess and it’s breaking me! Am I a fool who cries when fictional characters break up with her? Yes I am.