#tgcf audiodrama

[emotionaldisaster909]

Be careful while listening to tgcf audiodrama in earphones

You can get a heart attack

Because sometimes

Hua Cheng

Would lean in

And whisper specifically in your ear

And you may just not survive

[emotionaldisaster909]

ALSO CAN WE- CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS CAPE

AND HOW FAFA PROBABLY PUT IT ON TO LOOK BIGGER

BUT OVERDID IT A BIT AND NOW HE ACTUALLY LOOKS SMALLER COMPARED TO THE SIZE OF THAT THING

AM I SEEING THINGS???

Or maybe it’s that big so that xie lian can fit in there too

TGCF Audio Drama｜Episode 12 Cover

[epherema]

I JUST LISTENED TO THE TGCF AD WHERE SHI WUDU GETS A TRACHEOSTOMY HELP ME OH NO I MADE QING XUAN REFERNCE. BUT I SWEAR SHI WUDU SYAING THE BLADE IS TOO DULL AND YOU NEED TO PUT SOME FORCE INTO IT AND THEN HIM LITERALLY CHOKING HIS LITTLE BROTHER AND SAYING U CANT LIVE WITHOUT IM FUKCING DESTOYED AND AND HE XUAN BELIEVES HE GAVE QINGXUAN A CHANCE- AM I DELULU FOR BELIEVING THAT HE WANTED TO TELL HIM AND GIVE HIM AN ACTUAL ACTUAL CHANCE?? QINGXUANS VOICE ACOTRS HOWLING AND SCREMAING I SWEAR I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE IM JUMPING OFF OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH

[supportershy]

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

TGCF audiodrama is back!!! With that knowledge I can distract myself from my exam results tomorrow

[emotionaldisaster909]

YEAH THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

Big vampire batwings to hide and hug and warm up his gege y-y

dianxia is also a big fan of fafa’s new jacket 🥰

little obsessed with this big ass coat bc it looks so cute and makes hua cheng look magnificent so

[moonbor-n]

TGCF Audiodrama miniteatro S2

"Devolver a los bebés a través de manos milagrosas"

[mxtxfanatic]

Okay what is going on with tgcf? You've made a bunch of posts discussing different versions of it and now the last paragraph of the ask you just answered is thoroughly confusing me. The novels are uncensored, except for the edited version of tgcf, but there's no sex scenes, but there is an uncensored edited version that exists? I'm not following what's going on with all this edited uncensored unedited censored stuff. I bought all 8 volumes of the Seven Seas set because I enjoyed mxtx's other works and now I'm wondering if I've wasted my money on a hot mess that's so censored that I have to squint to figure out if the couple gets together?????

I’m sorry 😭 The stuff only sounds confusing because of the recent stuff, so let me try to simplify:

All the 7seas official releases of mxtx’s novels are uncensored. By uncensored, I mean that they include vulgar language, sex jokes, queer romance, actual sex when applicable, etc. Out of all the books, tgcf is the only one that didn’t have a sex scene written for its uncensored version, so despite the 7seas release being uncensored, it still will not have a sex scene. The pining, makeouts, innuendos, etc are still there. Hualian still has an unambiguous romance.

Now for the edited vs. unedited thing: after tgcf was licensed and being published by 7seas, mxtx wrote and released a massive edit of the whole book, meaning that the 7seas release is the unedited uncensored version of tgcf. She released this edited version as a novel, but because of where she released it, the edited novel only exists in censored form, so without the vulgar language, some sex jokes, and an explicit hualian romance (though it is still implied). No one has done a full fan translation of the edited version of tgcf yet, but some individual chapters have been translated and others who can read the raws have posted their own reactions and lists of changes.

As for where you can find the uncensored edited version of tgcf: audiodramas are not beholden to the same censorship laws as literature is, so the tgcf audiodrama that began updating in July 2023 is the only place you can find this version. The audiodrama closely follows the book, so listening to it should theoretically be a 1:1 for plot with the (as yet unreleased) uncensored edited novel.

[lansplaining]

Since you watched Nivarna In Fire, can I interest you with the trivia that Yan Yujin is dubbed over by the same voice actor who voiced WWX in The Untamed and the MDZS audiodrama? And Lin Chen is dubbed over by the same voice actor who did Xie Lian in Season 1 of the TGCF donghua and JGY from the MDZS audiodrama? (And Xiao Jingrui is dubbed the same guy who did LWJ in the audiodrama, which is kind of insane because I really can't tell even when I try to listen for it.)

oh my god???? I have to go listen for this now? Lin Chen is XIE LIAN?????

[quetzalpapalotl]

As always, the TGCF audiodrama doesn't let me down. As much as I love Xie Lian being in pain, it's nice to return to the present and have some lighthearted fun with the heavenly officials being ridiculous as always.

Qi Rong is also hilarious, I think I get what they mean about him being kinder to Guzi in the revised version. I quite like it.

And finally!! My son Quan Yizhen showed up!!! He's perfect, has no idea how to interact with people, gets mad at his Shixiong being trash talked and beats his own followers! I love him so much.

The plays were hilarious, kudos to whoever wrote the hualian play

And of course, Xie Lian got his 3000 lanters o(TヘTo) it's what he deserves

[nutongzhi]

listening to tgcf audiodrama and i was like these are interesting choices cus the plot points were like not in the order i remembered and was quite confusing to be honest well i just realized i managed to put it in shuffle. why is that even an option

[emotionaldisaster909]

Also.

A question to the audiodrama.

Why during the dice shaking scene

Are there sounds

Of hualian

Gasping, sighing and wimpering-

WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING IN THERE???????

[pinkpeachesdiary]

About tgcf (Heavens official blessing)

A novel from MTXT, it's a global phenomon that gained adaptations in the form of: manhua, dongha (second season soon), audiodrama and live action (still in production)

We follow the story of Xie Lian (in the gif), a formor crown prince of the kingdom of Xian Le. As a formor martial god, he used to live on Earth until one day he ascended for the third time ( :0 ) and has to help the heavens to pay his debt caused by the damage of other heavens officials during XL ascending (have I mentioned XL is known for being extremelly unlucky?)

During the first arch we meet some other characters and get to know better the world of tgcf: The calamities and other officials

Pay attention to these names cause you'll see them a lot: Nan Feng, Fu Yao, Hua Cheng, San Lang, Mu Qing, Feng Xin, Jun Wu, Pei Ming, Ban Yue...

There are five original books, but they are a fast read when you're invested (like I was)

Without adding spoilers, you will see the mysteries of this world and their characters get untagled throughout the archs, you will be surpised with the character developments and the major plot twists

A soft bl story, their love story is definetely one of the most beautiful ones I have ever read about, it's really deep and true, (oh to have a relationship so faithful like theirs!)

But bear in mind that it's not all fluff, the characters stories are really complex, there are even some TW for major injuries, su!c!d3, g3noc!d3, and gor3. Rember folks, our xie lian is a martial god, he's super strong and is a specialist at swordmanship.

I guarantee, it's a balanced read (excpet book 4, oops) with amazing lore, powerfull battles, a little bit of comedy, romance and quite suffering.

*image from the manhua, available on billibilli

If you're interested, I don't recommend searching more about it on tags, otherwise you'll get spoilers!!

In the US there's already official publications of the novel, but not in south america (as I'm aware of). I believe plenty of countries in Europe already have their official books.

Hope you enjoyed it and that you'll become a fan of this amazing series!

*pardon me if I made some grammar mistakes :)

[mhaynoot]

[like not even done with ch2 yet]

finally reading the mdzs books which suprise! i haven't actaully read the books yet despite downspiralling HARD like an absolute fucking free fall into the fandom and fanfiction LMAO but like i watched the donghua, listened to most of the youtube available audiodrama, and read all the manhua already and finally finally finished tgcf so i could begin a new book series with no other attachments.

okay i really thought i was prepared for the books but i'm only like halfway through ch2 and oh my fucking god i'm about to lose it with the cultivation and gentry world jesusfuckchrist. all my foreknowledge does NOT make this an easy read, it makes it an infuriating one whenever i realise just how many shitty fucking rumours are just built to exonerate their so called righteousness and enforce their orthodoxy by creating the perfectly evil scapegoat. wei wuxian is just like - be, for real, a so much better person than i am cause i wouldve raised the cultivation world to the ground what the FUCK

"after wei wuxian's death, judgement of his character was no longer refutable. the discussions were mostly the same, and any small voice of dissent was immediately squashed."

despair for the voice of the contrarian.

i wonder who exactly spoke out or tried to contradict the popular opinions, rumours and slander against wei wuxian? I can vividly imagine mianmian speaking out, of course, even and especially after leaving her sect, probably wondering around, living her life and speaking out against injustice. but i also wonder how many nameless characters were there too?

[gaywatch]

Tgcf donghua s2 is in October!!!!! SCREAMING!! Also tgcf audiodrama, which the only current uncensored REVISED version (latest edited one) started airing today!! On Qixi too, most romantic ever?!!!

I literally found out about this ON STREAM today for TGCF Vol 5 djkasldjsklfjfkdskld

[mendimore]

The Danmei Series 01: Tf is Danmei?

Note: This is an effort to convert more unsuspecting fandom children into danmei because I need more people to talk to about this. Enjoy!

Danmei.

If you haven't heard of it before, HAHAHA, you are in for a ride.

Basically, Danmei is a Chinese fiction genre (the name directly translates to indulging in beauty)that features m/m relationships.

Mendi, isn't that just bl? Yes, but specifically Chinese.

Well, Mendi, what difference does that even make? It's all the same thing.

No. It is not.

...Okay, it is a little bit.

BUT, danmei is its own genre for a reason. China, just like any other country is rich in culture. I acknowledge this may be a bit biased, but I am overjoyed that Danmei is flourishing. But, anyway, let's talk about it.

If you have heard about Danmei media in the West, even just a little, It's pretty likely that you came across one of MXTX's works. MXTX or Mo Xiang Tong Xiu is the pseudonym for a popular Danmei author on Jin Jian Wen Xue Cheng (jjwxc) a popular web novel site(a whole lot of Danmei authors publish their work on this site).

MXTX has three novels, and if you hear about the MXTX fandom, it refers to the enjoyers of all three of her novels. These three works consist of Scum Villain's Self Saving System(svsss), The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation(aka Mo Dao Zu Shi, or mdzs), Heaven Official's Blessing(aka Tian Guan Ci Fu, or tgcf). The first of their works to become very popular was mdzs, which has several adaptations(basically any adaptation you can think of). If you were into cdramas at all around 2019, you might have heard of The Untamed. The majorly successful live-action adaptation of mdzs. Or maybe if you are in the anime/donghua community, you heard about the mdzs donghua adaptation. And if you were a fandom child who found Ao3 at the right time, you might know of "Sexy Times with WangXian" which broke Ao3 with the number of tags it had and forced Ao3 to have a tag limit, or a fanfic of the lead actors of The Untamed making Ao3 illegal in China.

Have I scared you? Sorry. Truly, the mdzs fandom is not as problematic as it sounds. I started my own Danmei journey with mdzs, and it holds a soft spot in my heart. I also have way too many opinions on the adaptations and how new viewers of mdzs should approach it to get the maximum emotional value, but that is a discussion for another time.

Anyway, Heaven Official's Blessing, also skyrocketed in popularity when it came out. It has its own donghua that you can find on Netflix with a fully English dub. As well as an extremely beautiful manhua and audiodrama. But of course, I encourage you to read the novels first, especialy because these adaptations are not finished, unlike mdzs.

Scum Villain is the heavily underrated middle child as far as adaptations go. It absolutely does not mean that it is bad. It isn't. I don't wanna get into the debate about how someone isn't a true mxtx fan if they haven't read it, and how it's so much better than the other books. I personally disagree with the last statement. I do also hold a lot of love for Scum Villain, Shen Qingqiu is one of my favorite MCs of all time, the premise is a lot more relatable than the other two, but it's pretty clear that svsss is Mxtx's oldest work. She has definitely been improving. Obviously. go read it, especially if you enjoy her other two works.

But, before you come at me for only talking about one author out of ALL the Danmei out there, I would like to point out that MXTX works are probably the most accessible in the West in regards to Danmeis. They were the first to get a full English translation and along with 2ha (The Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun, another very popular danmei written my an author under the name Meatbun), I was able to see them perching on their own little stand in Barnes and Noble.

So, you may have noticed something. I talk a lot about the web novels. maybe if you're into bl or yaoi, you will notice that a lot of those adaptations are in the form of graphic novels. Why is it that there is more emphasis on the actual novel? I know I know, why do these people want to make us actually just READ words instead of look at pretty pictures of pretty people. Disgusting. I understand your pain. I actually do not have anything largely conclusive to tell you why this is, but based on my observations here are two contributing factors: 1. it's easier to hide subtext, specific cue words, and satire in text media(I mean it's pretty clear when a character is desperately holding on to another character, yelling "My, love, when will you return," when you skim through a manhua, then if there are just a bunch of words), this also means its easier to hide from censorship; 2. the Chinese language itself is very poetic and if you have interacted with Chinese people, the number of references and idioms will drive you nuts as a language learner, in manhua form it can lose some of its humor and imagery, particularly with Danmei because a lot of the subject matter and the nature of the romances is kind of idealized and poetic; 3. Danmei is actually very plot-centric, the romance is often like a little cherry on top of the mounds of story, drama, and character, and so when you see even manhua or donghua adaptations of the stories, I would say that often quite a bit of the depth gets lost for the characters and the story, it's the same as what happens with a lot of blockbuster films. I'm sorry but book >>> movie almost every time.

Of course, there are options for you if you are stuck on graphic novel-style stories. Chinese manhua generally has a distinctly pretty and clean style. It does depend on the artist, obviously, but if you are a huge fan of pretty art, I tell you Manhua knows what's up, just give it a shot.

Anyway, all this yammering and I haven't talked about the actual content.

Many things set a lot of Danmei apart, content-wise. Chinese fiction has its own fantasy genres of wuxia and Xianxia. Wuxia, translating directly to martial hero, is a low fantasy genre that centers around martial arts in a historical au including sects, master-apprentice relationships, cool fights, etc. It has a lot less supernatural or magical elements, and instead often focuses on what is feasible with the human body alone. Xianxia on the other hand(translating directly to immortal Hero), can vary with very cool magic systems and worldbuilding based on Daoist and/or Buddhist influences. Xianxia is high fantasy and often includes supernatural themes, immortality, spiritual cultivation, etc. It may include mentions of the three realms. where you can ascend to godhood, haunt the mortal realms being unable to find the land of the dead, or go through the cycle of reincarnation.

Danmei can be based in some Chinese historical settings as well, separate from wuxia and can be from ancient times or during the more recent period of militant china, often with some emphasis on Peking opera.

Of course, Danmei has plenty of works set in contemporary or futuristic timelines as well that are similarly unique in their own way.(right now I just started Little Mushroom, and I really enjoy the futuristic worldbuilding so far)

Additionally, I mentioned before that Danmei is in fact very plot and character-centric.

Ha, yeah right, Mendi. Plot. The plot is romance, that is the genre, what plot could there possibly be.

Well. A whole lot.

I gave you a little taste with the mentions of some cool worldbuilding, but you will get a taste of insurmountable joy and boundless despair, reading some of this stuff. Many of your favorite tropes appear often, from enemies to lovers to pretty guys with long hair falling down cliffs(ok that is just an MXTX thing, I don't care if you think my taste is basic because i love MXTX, the stories are good). Also, you get a dose of east asian ideals and culture. For Asian Americans like me, it was very refreshing to feel somewhat understood in a way that I didn't see in Western media. The emphasis on family relationships, age hierarchies, reputation, and the way your asian aunties will gossip about you both right in front of you and behind you and have no sense of boundaries, and dramatic-ass idioms(iykyk). The way that these relationships are built is through the plot, and that is something I miss sometimes with a lot of the romances I've read. There are plenty of points of interest, from being do-gooders trying to be a good person and then getting roped into and wrongfully blamed for some elaborate scheme, or a hefty, intricate revenge plot based on some deep hatred and a not so healthy does of body horror. You will have a blast.

So, now that I have sold you on danmei content. Let's talk about another factor why you may not already be a Danmei enjoyer.

Danmei is enjoyed by many women in China and internationally, which also means there is a lot of controversy regarding the fetishization of m/m relationships. While I agree that this is a problem, I disagree that enjoying a gay romance is fetishization. it can be, but it more than often is not. Just like how I can enjoy a poetic, well-set-up, straight romance, I enjoy a lot of really beautiful Danmei stories in much the same way. For a lot of Chinese women, Danmei allows them to remove the societal constraints put on women in a relationship. it's a way of escapism, this might also be a reason as to why a lot of these romances are so poetic, even if tragic at times. Having the stigmatism of fetishization might push more heteronormativity into media. As long as you can enjoy the romance healthily, appreciating the characters as characters, and the plot as plot, and not specifically enjoy the fact that the relationship is between two gay men, you should be in the clear. The fact that some people are driven away from these stories because of the stigmas around boy's love saddens me. You don't have to be a connoisseur or anything, but if the sole reason you reject a piece of media is because it has a gay pairing in it, that is pretty homophobic. Although I will say, there is a difference between not wanting to read it because it's gay and not wanting to read it because you don't want to read smut. I understand some Danmei has smut, and some people aren't comfortable reading that, ok. But if you are intrigued by the premise, I would say just do your best to skip the smut scenes, if you really don't wanna, ok, but I think for things like smut, you can really get away with not reading it usually. Also if you think all danmei has smut, you are sorely mistaken. There are plenty of Danmei fics with no smut, and a lot of the adaptations sometimes don't even have real romance, which is sad, but if that is your concern, seriously don't. Also, in regards to censorship, if that is your issue. Unfortunately yes, it is an issue, but, there are plenty of options in the Danmei world, I'm certain you will find something.

Anyway, some of this is just my opinion, I am still actually relatively new to Danmei, I have read my fair share, but if this encouraged you to get into some Danmei, I have fulfilled my mission.

I will be back, probably talking about mdzs adaptations next time or some recs or working on some reviews, but I hope you enjoyed!

NOTE: About MXTX official translations, I have heard some mixed reviews. I, personally, read all three of the works as popular fan translations online, so I have not reread the full official translation. I have heard there are some distinct changes, including smushing some of the chapters together, which is something I am not sure about. it's unfortunate, but its only something to keep in mind. The novels should still be faithful to the original story.