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[tinyreviews]

Tiny Review: Raise the Red Lantern 1991. Peek into a 1920s Chinese noble house.

Songlian isn’t a likeable character. In fact I don’t think she is a protagonist. I don’t think there is a protagonist. 

The setting itself is the centerpiece. Everyone is just furniture and devices to showcase a curious, archaic culture.

Of how rituals and customs and use of “the old ways” to govern an extended Chinese household.

Even the old master is deliberately portrayed without focus on his face, like though he is the authority, he is just a piece of the furniture for the household.

Raise the Red Lantern is a 1991 Chinese period drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. It is an adaptation by Ni Zhen of the 1990 novella Raise the Red Lantern (originally Wives and Concubines) by Su Tong.

[i-guess-im-into-this-now]

Shen Qingqiu: Some people are so beautiful that they are irresistible to both men and women... it's not gay to be attracted to them. There is literally nothing else you can do.

Xie Lian: You are so right. Or if you happen to have to kiss them to exchange spiritual energy, it doesn't mean you have feelings for one another.

Wei Wuxian: True. Also sometimes guy friends just need to get naked together and touch one another and make each other climax. Just normal friend stuff.

Shen Qingqiu: ....

Xie Lian: ....

Shen Qingqiu: ....exactly. You guys get it.

[xeliibee]

Lil sketch ✨️

[yueyie]

Look I got an appl….

[madarahime-art]

preparing for full mdzs arts so quick meme sketch last art in 2023

[goldenstage]

alternative storyboard for the season one opening sequence. taken from the official donghua artbook.

i decided to make a slideshow-like gif with the thumbnails

[kibutsujidemon]

"This is exactly what Jiang Cheng has been dreaming for...ah... JCs dream that never came true"

[lavender-phoenix-flames]

The posts about jc wanting to raise sizhui as his own doesn't only frustrates me but it is also hilarious cuz this man can't even raise jin ling without being physically and verbally abusive, he seethes at the very mention of a wen and you think he will raise wen yuan as his own cuz he like a son to wei wuxian so by your logic he is sizhui's 'uncle' now.

What a cruel joke are playing on a child whose whole family got slaughtered by the very seige lead by jiang cheng and the levels of suffering his Xian gege had to go through cuz of jc. Sizhui is polite but that doesn't mean he would tolerate someone like jc.

[zestys-world]

RIP Jiang Yanli you would've loved the junior quartet

[luanna801]

Jin Guangyao is really out here like "I am going to get a good grade in Accidental Incest Husband, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve".

[lunakagayake]

Today's the exhibit, wish me luck (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠)

Have a lil Wen Ning for now

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Eric “Bitty” Bittle/Jack Zimmermann- Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

Jack Alston/Alan Ross- A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

Kong Hongjun/Li Jinglong- Tianbao Fuyao Lu/Legend of Exorcism by Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Xuan Min/Xue Xian- Copper Coins/Tong Qian Kan Shi by Mu Su Li

[yunmeng-jiang]

every day i wish there had been a better solution for the qin su marriage problem.

in my fix-it fics i either have some other sect leader claim that he was actually madly in love with her this whole time and sweep her away for jgy's sake, have her mom confess earlier, make jgy decide to tell her for her own good and have them work together, or not give them a chance to meet and fall in love in the first place (i guess i could also make qin su have a miscarriage, but that's really sad and awful and not my preferred option at all), but all of those require tweaks to the circumstances, sometimes early on so they don't meet or jgy feels safe enough to talk with her or another confidant, or sometimes later like madam qin finding out they're pregnant before the marriage prep is too far along and telling one or both of them right away so they can make other arrangements.

with the situation being what it was, jgy didn't find out soon enough to do anything that wouldn't involve either marrying her anyway (and he didn't think telling her about it would do anything except make her upset and depressed) or leaving her essentially a ruined woman with no prospects and an illegitimate child who would inevitably grow up fatherless, which is pretty much exactly what his dad did to meng shi. this would be a crueler option than pretty much anything else, and given that he clearly still cares about her, he couldn't do that in good conscience. jgy tries his best to protect the people he loves, unless there is literally no other way for him to survive.

it's one more example of jgy being faced with a situation where the only choices are bad ones, and making the decision that he thinks will hurt the fewest number of people. metatextually, it's one more example of women in fiction being shoved aside and not given agency in their own lives, and getting killed off instead of surviving and growing as people like the male characters are allowed to do. it's just a tragic situation all around and i wish there had been something they could have done.

[vytichka]

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Okay… but.. but hear me out.

Heavenly calamities, sometimes known as tribulations, are encountered at key points in someone’s cultivation. If a person passes their calamity, they can ascend as a god.

Calamities usually (but not always) involve powerful storms, and from what we’ve seen do not actually have anything to with someone’s spiritual energy, as seen by Hua Cheng who was extremely weak and also dead when he faced his.

Wei Wuxian gave up his core for his brother, was captured and tortured by Wen Chao, and then pushed into the burial mounds surrounded by resentful energy where he fought for three months against zombies while dehydrated and starving.

I’m just saying, this could absolutely have been a heavenly calamity and since he survived, Wei Wuxian could have ascended.

Wouldn’t a god!Wei Wuxian au be so deliciously angst ridden?? Wouldn’t it be such sweetly bitter sorrow to watch as he has to watch from afar as his loved ones are subjugated and slain.

God’s aren’t allowed to interfere in mortal affairs. It’s just such a shame he’s never been one to break a single rule in his life, isn’t it??

[lost-sheep]

And if the time for you to return my love Never comes Know that I will not begrudge you Though it is painful Just don't deny me The opportunity of loving you