#tgcf men

[judasgodness]

Green Flag x Red Flag (TGCF man)

Green: Xie Lian, Shi Qingxuan, Pei Su, Lang Qianqiu

Red: Hua Cheng, Pei Ming, Shi Wudu, Jun Wu

[honeyedknife]

sequel no one asked for

part 1

[its2shimaa]

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[muzsmoux]

Xie Lian:

Shi Qingxuan: Can we be girlies together? Please?? For the mission. We'd be sexie- I mean more effective at the task. As women. Specifically. You know like the ones with the soft, smooth skin and the pretty lashes and the big ti- I mean stronger yin energy. That would help us blend in better. As seamlessly as I'd blend your makeup BESTIE PLEASE-

[lazycranberrydoodles]

you’d think after 800 years he’d learn his lesson about taking afternoon naps. / prev comic / follow for more sleepy xie lian

[neeshachar]

On my 100th reread of tgcf (I'm halfway through the first book) I am only now realising how much of a romantic Xie Lian is.

I thought the only line that indicated his nature was during the seaside "what matters is you, not the state of you" conversation where Xie Lian said "there were very difficult times in my life where I imagined if someone could see me like that and still love me. I still don't know if there would be anyone like that". But this is way later in the 3rd book and before that I hadn't imagined Xie Lian wanting someone to love him.

But I am now realising its outright clear from the beginning. In the first quest, Xie Lian enters the tea shop and looks out the window, noticing how beautiful the scenery was and his first thought was "this would be such a nice place for lovers' chance encounters" and immediately after that he has in own meet-cute with the butterfly.

Later, as he is led out of the bridal sedan by Hua Cheng, he is constantly thinking how great a husband Hua Cheng would be, "considerate, patient, loving" etc etc. Xie Lian enjoyed playing the bride then. He was thinking "oh it would be so nice if this were real, and this man was my husband". You cannot tell me that Hua Cheng was the only one swooning at the hand holding.

I see so many posts and edits of Hua Cheng being whipped from the start, but honestly Xie Lian was falling in love right from Mount Yujun. He knows nothing of the man but from one romantic encounter he remembers the boot bells so fondly and decides "he was soft with me. I like him". I know it's mxtx's doing and all but there is still something to be said when the story is narrated entirely in Xie Lian's head that every interaction XL has with San Lang that onwards is painted so romantically. Xie Lian is a romantic, it didn't take him long to fall hard and love Hua Cheng on purpose.

[sweepingboy]

general nan yang in his glory (scroll down for the bonus!)

[duohensheng]

sorry but mei nianqing can’t convince me jun wu isn’t fruity. there simply isn’t a heterosexual explanation for all of that. xie lian’s whole title and branding is literally about jun wu finding him pleasing. like. i wasn’t born yesterday

[judasgodness]

"Alas, if Mu Qing had taken Hong-er—" nothing would have changed because Hua Cheng fell in love with Xie Lian before falling down in the middle of the festival.

"Oh because Mu Qing saved Hong-er from the army" lol Mu Qing expelled Hong-er from the army because Xie Lian praised his skills with a saber, which is also Mu Qing's weapon, and used the fact that the younger ones died early in the war as consolation so he didn't feel guilty and thought he didn't do anything wrong (remembering that he also said very humiliating things to Hong-er. And also remembering that he took out his frustrations on Hong-er because the social context he lived in made him see anyone as a rival or a potential rival).

It seems that of all the children in the army, Mu Qing was going to choose Hong-er to save, and even if it was in the sense "but he may have wanted to help, but managed to save only one, we don't know because there's no point of view" I still don't think it makes much sense. If Mu Qing had helped the army kids that would have been said, I don't see why MXTX would have taken away something so important that not only would it say a lot about the character, but Mu Qing would still be different in a way.

"Oh because Hua Cheng at least remembered Mu Qing right lol" he remembered Mu Qing and Feng Xin in the same way he remembered those 33 gods and Qi Rong.

Hua Cheng fell in love with Xie Lian for everything Mu Qing is not. He loved Xie Lian in every way for who he is, for the things he did, because he saw who Xie Lian is in both glory and fall, because Xie Lian was the only one to act when he wanted to save the common people and the only one who had the courage to ask him to live for him when Hong-er was helpless and had no reason to stay alive.

Not only would Mu Qing never do that, he even scolded Xie Lian for doing those things.

And Mu Qing would never stop the festival to save a child (I know it's mainly because of the social context since his safety would be at risk if he did such a thing, but it doesn't change the fact that it's not something he would do).

They really want Mu Qing to be Xie Lian, they just can't admit it.

Finally, I wanted to say that I don't care about headcanon, fanon, fanfics and such, what absolutely bothers me is when they treat anything non-canon as canon, and if you say it doesn't make sense because it doesn't fit the original/it's too ooc, you will receive criticism and attacks as if you were a criminal.

Furthermore, stop treating TGCF as if it were an incomplete work that MXTX handed over for you to improve. And stop invalidating her word just because what she created is not to your liking. It's okay to make fanfics and whatever trip you want, but don't want to treat what you create on top of the work of others as if it were the absurd truth, even more so if you don't want to receive criticism just because you don't know how to separate your fanfics from what it's already in the original.

Note: I did this analysis with a friend and there are phrases here that I just copied and pasted from him because I didn't have anything else to add or take away.

[fairsweetlonging]

the thing that sets apart hua cheng from most other devotee/worshipper-type relationships in other media is that hua cheng would actually throw himself on his knees and crawl across the floor if xie lian wanted to, he would demean himself without shame because shame comes from the perception that you have done something wrong or foolish in another's eyes, and hua cheng would never see his god's will as either, nor care for anyone's else's opinion

[nemiwont]

Behind every gay person is a gayer, more evil person

[buried-in-stardust]

I swiped across an SVSSS edit that went viral and just had to share some of the comments under it lmao:

*Mo Dao = MDZS, Tian Guan = TGCF, Zha Fan = SVSSS

*yuandan (原耽) refers to original danmei, danmei being BL (boy's love)

(The novel names MDZS and SVSSS also sound very much like stereotypical novels aimed at men)

[eng by me]

[lazycranberrydoodles]

i think the barbie movie would have a profound psychological impact on hua cheng

prev comic / next comic / follow for still more hualian barbie movie content because i am not done

bonus angsty version 🎉 i hate love expressions just a couple tiny lines on the mouth and eyebrows and it goes from silly to sad

:(

[jemkha]

Insecure martial gods, intentionally or unintentionally pushing toxic masculinity: …

Xie Lian’s (flower-crowned martial god, record number of female believers for a martial god, and stronger than all of the martial gods in heaven combined) honest to god response:

[sword-jam]

🍂 peaceful times in the leaves 🍂