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I'm currently rewatching The Untamed in its entirety! The liveblog tag for it is "masala necromancy wizard hour" for your blocking needs.
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Untamed rewatch Episode 18
Or, my sister and I give each other significant looks whenever golden cores are mentioned and my mom suspects nothing
-netflix why do you want me to think thatās a chicken. thatās a whole live ringneck pheasant. do you think i donāt know what one is?
-SONG LAAAAAAAAAAAAN
-ohhhh the way poor zichen trembles when they ask him what happened...
-i always wonder why song lan went to the temple alone that time...how might have things gone different if xingchen had been with him?
-love wwx gently making fun of his suicidal sibling. like, heās trying to cheer jiang cheng up and give him some hope, and heās also in a good mood because he found a way to save his brother. but, knowing about the golden core reveal, heās also trying to disguise his own apprehension. hiding everything under his playful persona like before, but itās more feigned than ever.
-hey wwx says yanli and wen ning were hanging out. wouldāve liked to see that
-wwx and wqās relationship is so interesting. I love that she already had the sleeping powder with her. they mustāve gotten thick as thieves during this whole little interlude. the inherent intimacy of trying to save someone elseās life together, and also theyāre the only one in on this huge lie youāre building together
-ācan you hide the truth the rest of your lifeā well he did! he successfully took it to the grave, itās not HIS fault he got woken back up!
-my sister also pointed out that wei wuxian probably wasnāt expecting his life to be much longer! i donāt think he really expected to walk away from the golden core transfer, and i wouldnāt be surprised if he had been passively suicidal this whole time.Ā
-wwx drugging yanli is legitimately incredibly awful. itās in character and I understand why he does it but. itās fucked up. itās fucked up!
-they found the cutest child in the world to be baby wwx huh
-Ah yanli really started calling him a-xian from the moment she met him huh ;_;
-god this flashback is just unspeakably cute
-wwx thinks his sister will be angry with him when she realizes what happened, but jc disagrees and says she never would. itās interesting, because i think wwx is always expecting, in the back of his mind, for people to be angry at him, even those who have shown him unconditional love like shijie (itās the abuse). on the other hand...I think jyl should get to be angry about this, tbh.Ā
-I want to know whether yanli and song lan talked on the way to lanling. and whether she was angry. and what song lan thought then about sacrifices made for a loved one without their knowledge or consent :) and how heās participating in one :)
-ah song lanās surprise when they bow to him is so adorable, sir I love you
-oooof song lan asking them to pass a message to xingchen and not being able to get the words out hits so, so different. I remember the first time we watched this my sister and I thought it was funny because we were like āAWW SONG LAN WANTS THEM TO TELL XINGCHEN HE LOVES HIM BUT HEāS EMBARRASSED.ā but knowing what passed between them...how could song lan convey the weight of his regret in a few words, through an acquaintance?
Ā -ānone of them cherishes their own livesā as usual wq is the only one with common sense. also fits with what i was saying about wei wuxian, but he doesnāt have a monopoly on suicidality here. unfortunately.
-this random MEANWHILE IN SUNSHOT interlude is funny, but lwj stepping on the wen flag is so spicy
-wwx telling jc not to be so reckless next time really hits difference too. there cannot be a next time for either of them.
-Itās so obvious this is wq when you know what to look for lol
#cql#the untamed#untamed rewatch liveblog#mine#i want the 'baoshan sanren' hat#and for all these siblings to just hug each other come on please just a LITTLE bit#and a pony
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so rewatching the scene with xue yang at the unclean realm for reasons and noticing the truly excellent background faces he is making through this entire scene while other people are talking
#xue yang#the sad queer cultivators show#the untamed#untamed liveblogging#(i'm not ACTUALLY doing the third rewatch yet but look i have to make my own screencaps)
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This little game of one-upsmanship is cute, and itās the only possible way these two know how to flirt. When your primary personality trait is being abrasive, even when you try to make nice itās gonna come out angry.
They would make a very spicy couple, I think. She would know just what to say to get under his skin, and he would have no choice but to fly into a rage. And then the sex would be super hot.
#jiang cheng x wen qing#tippy liveblogs the untamed#untamed episode 8#the untamed episode 8#the untamed rewatch#untamed#the untamed#mdzs#cql
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aaaaand then it became jiang chengās motto. except instead ofĀ āawkwardā we haveĀ āangry and insecureā
#twin heroes#twin heroes of yunmeng#twin prides of yunmeng#twin prides#jiang cheng#wei wuxian#jiang wanyin#wei ying#the untamed#untamed liveblog#ish#my rewatch on viki
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so the viki subs are uh. giving me an emotion
[ID: screenshot of Wei Wuxian talking to Wen Ning in episode 36, subtitled āIf you are precious, then it would be illogical not to love you.ā /]
#i mostly switched because even i could tell the netflix ones were doing me out of those good good period drama feels when someone uses a#slightly more familiar form of address#but I will take any and all additional Feelings tyvm#wen ning deserves to be loved goddammit#(netflix for contrast has 'who isn't interested in such a treasure?' which. aaah. I have too many feelings about wen ning + personhood#and none of them are coherent rn)#the untamed rewatch experience is just forgetting how sad you are about any given character until they reappear then rinse and repeat#the untamed#not really a liveblog but sometimes I have too many feelings
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gggGGGOD BABY JIANG CHENG LOVES WEN QING SO MUCH THEY DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER
#can you guess i'm in the middle of rewatching cql lol#looks like we're liveblogging#though that makes it REALLY hard to read subtitles. so liveblogging lite lol#the untamed#cql#jiang cheng#wen qing#jiangqing#text for ts#per aspera ad astra#i haven't actually read any of the fix-its yet bc i'm still working through canon trauma#but YOU BEST BELIEVE
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sarah watches the untamed: liveblogging adventures, part seventeen episodes 31, 32, + 33
(aka: everything hurts.)
okay iāve had snacks and put in eye drops so letās see if we can make it through the rest of flashback before my eyes revolt!!
episode 31:
i donāt think iāve mentioned it before but i like however it is they do zixuanās hair, with the little braid-thingie on the top in the middle, itās nice n_n
the lotus look so pretty in their Burial Mounds home!!!!
look seriously wuxian in the Burial Mounds with the remnants of the Wen clan (especially lil Yuan) is just so cute, heās so relaxed, having fun with his lotus, wwx is a GOOD BOY.
WANGJIāS LETTER IS SO SHORT HAHAHA idk why but i am amused
okay first of all the scene with Yanli and Zixuan and Baby Jin Ling is adorable and Yanli looks so happy, but also i verbally squeaked outĀ āOH MY GODā like four times at this face HE LOOKS SO HAPPY, IS THIS THE FIRST TIME WEāVE EVER SEEN HIM SMILE SO BIG? OMG T_______T
lol at these people gossiping and basically being likeĀ āuh Zixuan wouldnāt let the celebration be anything less than over-the-top grandā HE IS A PROUD PAPA :āD
ohhhh Wuxian made a special special present for baby Jin Ling!!
uh oh spooky music :(
HOLY SHIT AT WEN NING GRABBING THAT ARROW OUT OF THIN AIRĀ
but OF COURSE IT HAS TO BE UPPITY JIN THE ASS ugh i wish he would go away
oh dang baby wen ning snapped into Feisty Attack Mode :o
UPPITY JIN, GIVE THE BRACELET BACK >.<
THANK YOU FOR TELLING YOUR UPPITY COUSIN TO SHUT UP, ZIXUAN!!!!!!!!!!!
zixun smashed the bracelet wuxian worked on for a MONTH and i audibly gasped he is an ASSHOLE and he deserves this stupid curse
WEN NING WHAT NO
ohmygodohmygodohmygodwhatnonononononono
yanli being so devastated makes this hurt even more iām sad
all of this hurts so much, i was not prepared for this much pain, iām SAD
iām so distressed
omg no everybody went
first wuxian gets his family taken away, then becomes an outcast that everyone hates, then gets his found family taken away from him too, iām so depressed about everything, this turned so bad so fast ;nnnnnnnn;
and i keep thinking about how happy zixuan was (i took scrEEN SHOTS OF HIS HAPPY FACE) and how excited wuxian was to meet his nephew and iām so SAD, my eyes are watering ;n;
okay guess weāll move forward to what will be yet more pain, iām sure ;; episode 32:
have i mentioned that this hurts bc everything about this h u r t s
wwx alone in the forest crying and hallucinating yanli and being tormented by voices hurts
look i gotta find my joy where i can and i think itās funny that all these people are talking so bad about wwx but canāt freaking tell heās standing right behind them but also them saying wen ning and wen qing have been burned to ashes makes it STILL SAD
xichenās little head shake when jin clan leader scattered wen ning and wen qingās ashes and everyone starts chantingĀ āgreatā ;;;;Ā
oh my god i HATE THIS GUYĀ āeven if you were attacked first and zixun had every intent to kill you, you shouldnāt have been brutal and killed someone back! murder is okay but only when we do it!ā like dude. DUDE. YOU SUCK.
honestly shout out to wuxian for calling this freaking dude out on his hypocrisy and being likeĀ āoh so yāall can kill me whenever you want, but i canāt defend myself? cool story bro, youāre a dick.ā
tbh i donāt remember who this guy is, just some minor clan leader or something, but he irritates me so much i hope he dies somewhere >.>
wx crying and laughing at the same time hurts
meng yao smiling when jin clan leader says they canāt let wx leave alive gives me mild chills, why is squish like this, he keeps doing little things that make me nervous
the way the spooky black smoke/spirits (?) donāt attack jiang cheng/his clan ;; i donāt care what anyone says, wx is good boy at heart ;; (also love how theyāre likeĀ āquick huddle together like penguins!! theyāre not attacking us? cool letās just....stay in huddle. no need to break huddle and help anyone else. stay in huddle. huddle good.ā)
wangji!
wangji pleading for him to stop, MY HEART IS GOING TO BREAK
oh god yanli no no no, go back no no no
thereās...another flute player??? oh NO
itās honestly impressive that xichen can fight in that thick overcoat with the super sleeves and heās so fluid while fighting too (we distract from the sad in any way we can okay thx)
YANLI NOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOO
fyi itās hard to read subtitles through your literal actual tears
iām in pain okay episode 33:
haha haĀ Ā ha...Ā Ā Ā ha................................
i would like a refund back to times when this show didnāt make me cry, please
WUXIAN??? coughing up blood?? DD:
wangji is distraught and so am i
āLan Zhan. Let me go.ā it hurts, this entire scene hurts
honestly the way wangji callsĀ āWei Yingā and the distraught look on his face just...have i mentioned that everything hurts
okay weāre flashing back to the future now, please let me see sizhui, i need his cute face and healing energy bc i have endured SO MUCH PAIN IN THE LAST COUPLE EPISODES thanks
wangji looks so different without his hair up in the little bun thing on top of his head, not bad different but so different!!!! heās so pretty ;n;
wangjiās unconditionalĀ āyes I believe youā ;AAAAAA; <3
BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!
oh hello shirtless wangji
SIZHUI MY SWEET ANGEL CHILD every time i see sizhui on screen, i just kinda coo softly at him in my head, i love him
wangjiās hair piece is SO ELABORATE in the present with the front and back/side pieces, i keep staring at it
wuxian and sizhui chit chat time!!
XUE YANG ohhhh theyāve got an idea
sizhuiās lil baby smile at wuxian when wxās likeĀ āheehee finally i wonāt be controlled by all these rules!!!ā oh sizhui, thank you for your healing energy
wangji and wuxian are so pretty i keep getting distracted and missing part of the subtitles so then i gotta rewind constantly i am a MESS
WUXIAN BEING SO OFFENDED OVER HOW BAD AND INACCURATE THE PORTRAITS OF THE YILING PATRIARCH ARE HAHAHAHAHAĀ
hi jin ling!
āhe learned all of his father/uncleās defects and none of his motherās strengthsā HAHAHAHA
i shouldnāt laugh but the FACES WUXIAN MADE when the pupper showed up XDDDDD also Fairy is such a cute pupper omg!!!!!!!
#sarah watches the untamed#sarah watches#ep 31 and 32 are very depressing#and ep 33 STARTS very depressing#so honestly i'm super grateful the rest of ep 33 is fairly lighthearted in comparison lol#okay now i need to rewatch the first two episodes so i can remember what's actually going on in the present day timeline#bc tbh i forgot half of it#it's been a hot minute and i was SUPER CONFUSED when i first watched anyway HAHAHA#also i was going back and looking at some of my past liveblog adventures#and i think it's hilarious how much more i ramble now#like all the dumb thoughts that pop into my head show up in their original form now#oops
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Okay I just switched to the viki translation and OH MY GOD does this make a big difference. Netflix translates wwxās keeping within 2 meters talisman asĀ ābondingā orĀ ābindingā. Viki translates it asĀ āno clothesā orĀ ārobe sharingā. Iām glad I have this extra insight
#episode 10#untamed liveblog#I stopped in the middle of an episode like a week ago so now I'm rewatching
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my professional review of the untamed: it good
#mine#liveblogging#if course it has its flaws#the last in episode in particular i had issues with idk why#also it couldve been shorter maybe i think idk#so in my head its 8/10#but in my heart its 100/10 for how much it made me feel#its definitely worth watching#and ill probably rewatch parts of it quite frequently#now im off to cry over the soundtrack#my posts#liveblogging the untamed#dramablogging
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Btw I finally started my Untamed rewatch and am liveblogging a good bit of it on the sideblog.
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Untamed rewatch Episode 20
Wei Wuxian is back, and would like Jiang Cheng and Lan Zhan to know that heās completely, totally fine, and not torturing people to death to cope or something
-my mom says wen chao is really good at looking crazy lmao
-I GASPED WHEN WWX SHOWED UP WITH THE FLUTE HEāS SO HOT
-god I love this music itās so eerie and evocative
-the way itās shown that jiaojiao and wen chao are being tormented by the spirits of people whose deaths they were responsible for...thatās so spicy. shout out to wei wuxian and his deeply twisted, horrific, but powerful sense of justice lmao.
-the scene where lwj and jc investigate all the dead wen cultivators is nice and spooky. I love the horror aspects of this show
-my sister pointed out that when someone tells jc that a woman hanged herself inside the office, he mightāve reacted as he did because he thought it was wen qing :(
-my mom complained about Netflix not translating the seal script on the talismans but my understanding is that itās not language, as such
-oh I forgot about jiang chengās conversation with wen qing here. this is gonna hurt.
-āyou have saved me after allā she has more than you know, jiang cheng
-hearing her very deliberately call him sect leader jiang is such a punch in the gut, both cause itās a reminder of the fact that this manās whole family is dead now, and because sheās drawing attention to the political situation that means he canāt reasonably help her. I think at this time in his life, jiang cheng really mightāve done everything in his power to protect her and her family, but thatās a narrow window of time, defined by the unstable situation of sunshot, his inexperience as sect leader, and the fact that heās lost so much. once wei wuxian comes back, I think jiang cheng steps more fully into his role as sect leader, until the idea of protecting the wens is unthinkable.
-āyou can save me but you canāt save them allā fuck this hurts so bad looking forward. another way jiang cheng is shown up by his brother - wei wuxian did manage to save wen qingās family. but it didnāt and couldnāt last, just as she predicted.Ā
-āhe bled from all the holes of his headā is such a cool and gross thing to say lol
-okay again wen zhuliu is funnier on a rewatch. he hates this so much.
-the problem with the soundtrack here is that you sometimes canāt tell whether the flute is meant to be diegetic or not
-god the slowly ratcheting tension of wwxās entrance... *chefās kiss*
-when he starts playing, the background fades into the burial mounds for a few moments, and wei wuxian just smiiiiiles...fucking superb you funky little necromancer.
-love this random ghost lady we never see again
-oh boy. oh man. the first time I watched this show I spent episodes 14-19 yelling variations on HUG YOUR SIBLING GODDAMN IT, so when we got The Hug I broke. I think I may have actually cried.
-oh god, an arrangement of the lotus pier theme plays during The Hug
-just as wwx reaches up (slowly, uncertainly) to return the embrace, jiang cheng pulls away
-āhow could I have been in the burial mounds? no one can survive that placeā thatās as close as youāre going to get to a cry for help huh
-wei wuxian is so much...stiffer, less relaxed. his movements are more controlled, his gestures less expansive than they were pre-burial mounds. he does a little bit of the brat act when lwj talks to him but it looks artificial. he smiles earnestly when jiang cheng talks to him, but it doesnāt last long.
-āas for my temperament, Iām in control of my own mindā famous last words, my dude
-this argument is. oof.
-Iām not clear that it wouldāve helped, I donāt think wwx trusted him enough, but if lwj could have just said āI care about you and I want you to be okay, I donāt think youāre in a good placeā in so many words...Mm. But he would have to be a very different character. lan zhan is so defined by what he canāt say, what he doesnāt know how to say, and what he does say that gets misinterpreted because heās expressing himself through the prism of the inflexible rules he was taught. concern on lan wangji looks too much like disapproval for poor neurotic wei wuxian to take it gracefully, and they both suffer for it!
-like, whatās happening here is that to lan zhan, wei wuxian is visibly Not Okay and is using resentful energy, which is fucked up, and jiang cheng is too thrilled over having his shixiong back to really notice. so he points out that resentful energy is really dangerous for the person who uses it, because heās afraid for wei wuxian. and wei wuxian, on a hair trigger because he just barely survived three months of torture and sensitized to anything that even looks like disapproval by his shitty adoptive parents, interprets this as an insult - how dare you think I canāt handle this? how dare you see I canāt handle this, how dare you see that Iām suffering? and so he gets nasty and cutting, and lan zhan, who iām absolutely sure doesnāt understand why wei wuxian is angry with him, gets angry right back. and wei wuxian says the most cruel thing he can:Ā āthis is an internal measure of yunmeng jiang, itās none of your concern.ā or, the way heās intending it: i donāt care about your opinion and i donāt care about you.Ā
-and lan zhan, unable to deal with it anymore, walks out, which we know he does when heās angry, to go turn the words over in his head. this...honestly gives me autistic lwj feels. heās trying so, so hard to reach out to wwx when thatās a really hard thing for him to do! he has a hard time relating to people! and he gets rebuffed in a way that makes it clear heās failed to be a friend like he was trying to be and he doesnāt even know why. (which is not just on him, wwx is Not being forthcoming) and that sure is..an experience. which i have had.
-(iām also imagining he picked up this method of handling his anger from xichen, personally. just walk away, wangji. donāt fight, no matter how much someone hurts you, no matter how wrong it feels :ā)
-lwjās expression when he listens to them killing wen chao reminds me of the rain scene ._.Ā
-yanli as a medic feels kind of stereotypical but sheād be good at it
-the way yanliās face changes when she hears wwxās voice...i kind of havenāt liked her performance (mostly, i think, because sheās been given so little to do) but this little moment...wow
-my mom really wants to know what happened in the burial mounds! we had a conversation about dizi (wwxās flute) vs xiao (lxcās flute) also because. i looked it up lol. I might make a meta post since thereās some interesting details
#cql#the untamed#untamed rewatch liveblog#meta#mine#wow i had a *lot* more to say about the wwx/lwj argument than i thought i would#hopefully i'm not just saying things everyone has already picked up on lol#the more i think about him the more my autistic lwj headcanon solidifies
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so this time around this line really hit me because like. I mean, I know Iāve been writing a lot (in fic) about Jiang Chengās Super Complicated Wei Wuxian Feelings, and how he struggles with the fact that he still loves Wei Wuxian even when he would really not like to, and here itās like - heās both saying why donāt I? why canāt I?Ā
and like, okay, I donāt know what the line actually says not in translation, but based on this subtitle (and on Netflix, itās the same), itās not justĀ ādonāt I have the right to hate you?ā butĀ āwhy am I not able to hate you?ā
and just. ouch.
#jiang cheng#the untamed#untamed liveblogging#and NOW i am done#the sad queer cultivators show#FOR NOW#will be finishing this rewatch on wednesday night
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but it isnāt as easy as all that.
This question just brings up all the frustration thatās still eating Lan Wangji alive, and he stalks off without answering. Was that the reaction Lan Xichen was going for? (A moment ago, heās taken note of how tightly Lan Wangji is clutching his sword.)
Either way, his stalking off in itself is an answer. And Lan Xichen knows it means something is about to change for his brother, and probably in a good way.
That is the face of a man who has poked the bear in just the right spot. He may even be a little excited for the change and growth that Lan Wangji is about to experience, painful though it will be.
#lan xichen#tippy liveblogs the untamed#untamed episode 3#the untamed rewatch#untamed#the untamed#mdzs#cql
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god i love vikiās subtitles
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