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Masked team arrived.
Heh, btw I thought it's only five people since in the donghua there's only five.
Wang Mian- 王 mask. team leader (time based ability-agent of the time god, Chronos 0017)
Xuanwo- swirl 🍥 mask. (Inter dimension/transportation?)
Yue Gui- Cresent moon 🌙mask.(invisibility/stealth- able to disperse his body into moonlights particle)
Qiang Wei- rose 🏵️ mask. (Big hammer)
Tian Ping- Libra ⚖️ mask (gravity)
In the Donghua, they show only five because in the novel, the other two are not much a fighter and stay out of the battle. (Wang Mian said 5 is enough). I'm guessing they are the support type and we'll be getting their names and ability later.
Finally let the battle commence! (All the members level is lowered down to 'zhan' level).
#斩神之凡尘神域#slay the gods#Masked team#Wang Mian#Qiang Wei#Tian Ping#Xuanwo#Yue Gui#Chapter 73#Chapter 74#Chapter 75
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[CLIP] HaHaHaHaHa S3E7 Part 1 [2023.04.15] Guessing Song MuZi's Age Cut
Source (raw):
WeTV Official
Disclaimer under the cut
Translations may contain inaccuracies! Mandarin is not my first language, and I don’t have full cultural context cause I don't live in China.
Askbox is open to corrections if any!
Small request:
Please don't claim the translation as yours! 🙏🏼
#@ lu han. u ok bro? 😂#hahahahaha s3#hahahahaha#lu han#chen he#deng chao#wang mian#fan zhiyi#bao shi (gem)#song muzi#zhang xiaowan#clip subs
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Are You The One EP01
#are you the one#zefile#cdrama#cdramaedit#cdramagifs#cdramedit#cdramasource#asiandramaedit#asiandramagifs#asiandramas#柳舟记#hidden charm#zhang wanyi#cui xing zhou#wang churan#liu mian tang#cdrama edit#cdrama gifs
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Women of MDZS speedpaints/portraits from a few years ago...
#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#minor character appreciation#jiang yanli#a-qing#qin su#wen qing#baoshan sanren#cangse sanren#mian mian#wang lingjiao#yu ziyuan#jinzhu#yinzhu#gogomi art#i did a bunch of these just for practice#then i made a washi tape of them#and i still have so many lol#idk if people care about the ladies but they're all so good honestly#mostly anyway
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Cdrama: Are You the One (2024)
She is the only one he wants to marry 🥺 #柳舟记 #AreYouTheOne #ZhangWanyi #WangChuran #shorts
Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q_mz35lS5l0
#Are You the One#柳舟记#You Are the One#Hidden Charm#Liu Zhou Story#Liu Zhou Ji#Jiao Cang#娇藏#海棠笑春风#柳下正停舟#柳舟記#2024#Tencent Video#WeTV#youtube#shorts#short video#cdrama#chinese drama#Zhang Wan Yi#Cui Xing Zhou#Lord Huaiyang#Cui Jiu#Wang Chu Ran#Liu Mian Tang
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this small scene made me care about Jing Mie's death, well done writers, well done
#Till the End of the Moon#Wang Yifei#Wang XiChao#episode 37#spoiler#gdi I wanted them to team up with TTJ to defeat Di Mian#Si Ying#not my queen too ;_;#this is too early there are still 3 episodes ;_;
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It cuts you off after a certain point so I’m just going to silently cry for my lost ladies (I’ll probably rewrite them in again when I have time)
Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.
Begin.
#jiang yanli#^I completely agree with prev#Mian Mian#Morgana#gwenivere#Gwen Stacy#Wonder Woman#Ning Ying Ying#liu mingyan#sha hualing#qi qingqi#natasha romanov#stephanie brown#cassandra cain#Freya#gu xiang#tauriel#lady dís#helluva millie#maleficent#april o’neil#molly hooper#zhu hong#Wang Zheng#nyota uhura#death of the endless#major houlihan#freddy lounds#bedelia du maurier#alana bloom
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List of all 144 Espers in Dislyte (alphabetized)
Abigail (Frigga)
Adrina (Chantico)
Ahmed (Geb)
Ain (Ptah)
Alexa (Aphrodite)
Alice (Gullveig)
Alolin (Pazuzu)
Anesidora (Pandora)
Anna (Persphone)
Arcana (Hermes)
Archibald (Mictlantecutli)
Asenath (Nefertem)
Ashley (Heimdall)
Aurelius (Ullr)
Bai Liuli (White Snake)
Bardon (Baldr)
Berenice (Bastet)
Biondina (Poseidon)
Bonnie (Eris)
Brewster (Garmr)
Brynn (Valkyrie)
Camille (Hati)
Cang Ji (Cang Jie)
Catherine (Hela)
Cecilia (Isis)
Celine (Siren)
Chalmers (Idun)
Chang Pu (Yao Ji)
Chloe (Medea)
Chu Yao (Tai Yi)
Clara (Hera)
Daniel (Charon)
David (Jason)
Daylon (Sobek)
Dhalia (Calypso)
Djoser (Atum)
Donar (Thor)
Drew (Anubis)
Eira (Freya)
Elaine (Nyx)
Elliot (Thoth)
Embla (Ymir)
Emma (Jade Rabbit)
Ethan (Pan)
Everett (Tyr)
Fabrice (Freyr)
Falken (Horus)
Farrah | Aminah (Tiamat | Abzu)
Fatum Sisters (Nornir)
Feng Nuxi (Nuwa)
Feng Xun (Fu Xi)
Freddy (Fenrir)
Fu Shi (Suan Ni)
Fumitsuki (Kaguya-hime)
Gabrielle (Njord)
Gaius (Zeus)
Ginny (Hestia)
Hailey (Hephaestus)
Hall (Hodur)
Helena (Helen)
Heng Yue (Chang’e)
Hilda (Hypnos)
Hyde (Hades)
Ife (Meretseger)
Ikki (Tsukuyomi)
Intisar (Kauket)
Jacob (Jormungand)
Javid (Shamash)
Jeanne (Gerd)
Jiang Jiuli (Chiyou)
Jiang Man (Meng Po)
Jin Qiu (Ru SHou)
Jin Yuyao (Queen Mother)
Jin-Hee (Dokkaebi)
Kara (Serket)
Kaylee (Anuket)
Koharu (Ame No Uzume)
Laura (Neith)
Lauren (Heket)
Layla (Medjed)
Leon (Vali)
Leora (Athena)
Lewis (Ares)
Li Ao (Tao Tie)
Li Guang (Vermilion Bird)
Li Ling (Nezha)
Liam (Xolotl)
Lian (Jiao Tu)
Lin Xiao (White Tiger)
Long Mian (Ao Bing)
Lucas (Apollo)
Luo Yan (Yanluo Wang)
Lu Yi (Dayi)
Lynn (Hathor)
Mateo (Prometheus)
Mavis (Mictecacihuatl)
Mei (Kaya-no-Hime)
Melanie (Medusa)
Meredith (Scylla)
Mona (Artemis)
Narmer (Ra)
Nick (Magni)
Nicole (Nephthys)
Norah (The Muses)
Odette (Skadi)
Ollie (Osiris)
Ophelia (Thanatos)
Parmi (Ninsun)
Pritzker (Mimir)
Q (Eros)
Raven (Odin)
Ren Si (Black Tortoise)
Sachiko (Hare of Inaba)
Sally (Sif)
Sander (Set)
Sienna (Gaia)
Stewart (Dionysus)
Su Jue (Daji)
Tang Xuan (Sun Wukong)
Tang Yun (Six-Eared Macaque)
Taylor (Hercules)
Tevor (Sphinx)
Tiye (Nut)
Toland (Tezcatlipoca)
Triki (Loki)
Uday (Sopdet)
Unas (Shu)
Unky Chai (Yue Lao)
Valeria (QUetzalcoatl)
Wu You (Dijiang)
Xiao Yin (Azure Dragon)
Xie Chuyi (Death Guard Hei)
Xie Yuzhi (Death Guard Bai)
Xuan Pin (Jiutian Xuannu)
Yalina (Mamitu)
Yamato (Izanagi)
Ye Suhua (Shao Siming)
Yu Ran (Bai Ze)
Yu Xu (Jing Wei)
Yun Chuan (Yang Jian)
Yuuhime (Izanami)
Zelmer (Sekhmet)
Zhong Nan (Zhong Kui)
Zora (Amunet)
#I’m excited for the popularity poll thing we have coming up#I’ll probably repost this list with less characters when the first elimination round ends#dislyte
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Hello! In this amazing meta (https://www.tumblr.com/iamwestiec/721509969822908416/is-there-any-cultural-significance-or-reasoning?source=share) you referred to Wen Zhuliu's given name as Zhao Zhuli. I'm writing a series of fics centering him. I know he comes from the Zhao family , but could you please tell me about the Zhuli part (& how it does or doesn't relate to Zhuliu)? Many thanks!
Umm…. it’s a goof. It’s my goof 😅 🙏. I meant to type Wen Zhuliu but made a typo and typed Wen Zhuli instead. Sorry if I gave you the wrong idea!
How about I write out what I know about Wen/Zhao Zhuliu instead?
Let’s start with the name!
1. The ancient, obscure meaning of a fairly common surname:
Wen Zhuliu’s birthname is Zhao Zhuliu 赵逐流. Zhao 赵 is a common Chinese surname. This is what most people would know it as. However, according to the Kangxi Dictionary (1716), Zhao 赵 also means ‘to repay.’ The Kangxi Dictionary attributes this ancient meaning to a specific legend in the Yunbu, an even older Song dynasty text published in the 12th century. This specific legend in the Yunbu is about Qi Huayi repaying Zhao (the kingdom) by giving Zhao the territories of Ganluo and Tongya. The legend is from a pre-Qin era (so in the BCE).
In other words, the Zhao surname is a discrete nod to Wen Zhuliu character being defined by his ‘debt’ to Wen Ruohan and his life as Wen Zhuliu being all about repaying Wen Ruohan’s ‘wen’ to him to the point of death.
Just like Qin Huayi repaying his debt by slicing off long-held territories and giving it to Zhao. Zhao Zhuliu gave up his own life and fate to the Wen, Wen Ruohan specifically, to repay his debt.
2. The name that signifies how out of place the person is:
Zhuliu 逐流 means ‘racing current’ or ‘chasing current.’
But liu 流 is also used to denote a ‘class of people,’ or ‘grades of people.’ Words like Shangliu 上流 literally mean the upper echelon / upper class. And ‘Zhu’ can also denote ‘separate’ or ‘separated,’ or ‘exiled.’
So Zhuliu 逐流 can also be understood as a ‘Class of itself,’ or ‘separated from the rest.’
Zhuliu 逐流 reflects Wen Zhuliu’s situation among the Wen, separated from the rest and a class of himself. Wen Ruohan bestowed the surname Wen on him. This should be an incredibly high honor, especially in this particular time period. It is an act that symbolically adopts and accepts Zhao Zhuli as kin, as blood, as inseparable relation. And yet Wen Zhuliu is effectively treated as a servant by the Wens around him.
He has no official authority of himself. He is neither retainer 客卿 (Keqing, a retainer can carry out missions, act in a House’s interest, and get a monthly payment and all sorts of benefits of being a member of a House, but has no power to decide a House policy. Su She, after being banished from House Lan, spent some time as a low-ranking retainer of House Jin. Mian Mian also worked to become a low-ranking retainer of House Jin before rejecting the actions of House Jin, taking off her House robes and abandoning her status as a retainer of Jin), nor elder 长老 (Zhanglao, an instated member of a House whose seniority or accomplishment allows him to become Zhanglao, and thus gains a say in a House policy and all sorts of diplomatic relations).
This confusion of Wen Zhuliu’s official position among the Wen is most glaring in his interaction with Wang Lingjiao. Wang Lingjiao may be Wen Chao’s favorite mistress. However, her official position is still either a female servant (as she was first introduced in the novel as Wen Chao’s wife’s handmaiden/close servant), or at most a mistress (not even a concubine as the concubine position requires specific rites not dissimilar to a kind of wedding to be carried out). If Wen Zhuliu had any actual official position beyond ‘honorary Wen,’ then Wang Lingjiao wouldn’t be able to just boss him around like that. Because the official position in a House is not something even the second young master of the House can disrespect without serious repercussion.
In terms of ability and personal integrity, Wen Zhuliu is also in a class of himself, especially when compared to Wen Chao and the bootlickers he surrounded himself with. Wen Zhuliu never once insulted another person for their background or social station. Wen Zhuliu also protested and refused to desecrate Yu Furen’s corpse, very much against Wen Chao’s order. During the Jiang massacre, he very obviously did not want to go through with it, going so far as to apologize to Yu Furen for his having to face her this way at all.
Considering the Jiang massacre probably wasn’t even in the Wen’s original plan in the first place, and only happened because Yu Furen decided her ego was bigger than the lives of everyone else in House Jiang, down to young disciples not even 10 years old. Had the Wen truly wanted to wipe the Jiang out, Jiang Fengmian (who went to House Wen to ask for the swords back right before the massacre) wouldn’t have been able to get back to Lianhuawu in the first place. Wen Zhuliu probably wanted nothing to do with the whole ordeal and only went through with it because Wen Ruohan ordered him to take care of Wen Chao.
3. About Wen Ruohan 温若寒:
If you are going to write extensively about Wen Zhuliu, then you probably will want to know about Wen Ruohan as well. As I said before, MXTX character names tend to foreshadow or hint about certain things in their characters, their positions, or their story arc. Wen Ruohan is no exception.
The word Han 寒 signifies his status as the last leader of House Wen. Why? It’s all to do with heat.
The surname Wen 温 means ‘Warm,’ or ‘Warmth.’ Yet the name Han 寒 means ‘freezing.’ So Wen Ruohan can be understood as ‘warm like freezing.’ In modern Chinese slang, cold also means ‘dead.’ So saying things like I’m going cold, or it’s cold, are also ways to say ‘I’m dead,’ I’m dying,’ ‘He/she is dead.’
The middle part of the name Ruo 若 is also very interesting, because while it can be understood as ‘As,’ or ‘like,’ the ancient meaning of Ruo is ‘god.’ Specifically, Ruo is the name of a sea god in Zhuangzi (5th century BCE), one of the oldest and founding classical texts of Chinese culture and Daoism. In Zhuangzi, it is said that there is a sea god in the North named Ruo. One day, after a particular incident, Ruo said: “You cannot speak to a toad stuck at the bottom of a dry well of the vastness of the ocean.”
So the word Ruo in Wen Ruohan’s name is another discrete nod to the character’s status in relation to those surrounding him, that as a god who has much better foresight and vision. When you really look into the details of the novel, you will find Wen Ruohan really did tower over the rest of the cultivation world not only in terms of power (he was the strongest cultivator in the cultivation world) but also in vision. His plan to unite the cultivation world and lay down actual laws and rules of conduct is eventually enacted and seen as necessary and natural to the development of the cultivation world. His plan to build Supervisory Offices ended up being plagiarized by Jin Guangyao and given a different name (Far-seeing Towers). In the novel, Jin Guangyao won high praise from regular people, other Houses, and even Wei Wuxian (after resurrection) for the Far-seeing Towers. You can say that if it weren’t for the other Wens (specifically Wen Ruohan’s own sons) being morons in executing his plan, and for the existence of Wei Ying (who was effectively an entire army during the Sunshot War), then Wen Ruohan would have had a very different ending.
4. Other Miscellaneous things:
Since you want to write a story about Zhao/Wen Zhuliu, you can dig further into history, particularly the Zhao Kingdom, which was one of the seven Kingdoms of the Warring State Period. Zhao and Wei were historical peers, as they both belonged to the same seven kingdoms and were embroiled in the same events of the period. (You can check my post on the historical basis for WWX for that)
Another avenue would be… to look at Wei Ying himself. Because Wen/Zhao Zhuliu is a mirror image of Wei Ying, especially in Wei Ying’s first life. I haven’t really dug deep into the history and genealogy of the Zhao Kingdom, but I’m not gonna be surprised if there’s an actual historical basis for Zhao/Wen Zhuliu in there, the same way there is a historical basis for Wei Ying.
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#the untamed#theuntameddaily#cdrama#lan wangji#wei wuxian#mian mian`s family#wang yibo#xiao zhan#cql#mdzs
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NAKU 🫵
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Mdzs for the shipping grid? 👀👀👀
YESSS here we are! v surprised at how strong my opinions are for this fandom but probably shouldn't be sldkfjlksd
**I COMPLETELY FORGOT THE YI CITY CREW ON THIS BUT I DON"T WANT TO DELETE THE IMAGE AND RE-ADD IT INKLDSFHKLDSJ so
- xue/xiao compels me and is in the middle of the makes sense line - song/xiao is closer to makes sense but compels me a bit less - song/xue/xiao is somewhere in between them.
further explanations of all other pairings under the cut!
quadrant by quadrant bc my explanations are Long for this one
out of the way: wang/xian undoubtedly peak! xuan/li v cute, love em. xi/yao is my favorite of the possible 3zun pairings, they're just too juicy and such good narrative foils to wang/xian...
nie/yao is also fun to me because of how much tension and strife they have.
i like nie/lan the least of all possible 3zun pairings just bc i like the conflict jgy brings to the table LOL
even though zhui/ling is the most popular junior pairing i... am not a huge fan of it? they're not blood relatives at all but both are still family to wwx in ways that make me feel weird about them romancing each other. in no war/wens are good aus i'd be more into it...
jingzhui isn't on the chart but they're also both inner lan clan members. so. weird to me! i like ling/yi best. they banter a lot but still get along well as friends
i can see why people are compelled by wen ning and wwx. i love their fucked up codependency too. i just don't see it romantically
i also see why people might ship cheng/xian, i just sincerely think their relationship is most compelling as siblings or pseudo-family due to the social class tensions.
chang/mian is quite rare just bc both characters are so minor but like... god can you imagine all the jiang cheng & wwx parallels. pointing. those are their dads
sang/cheng is like... most of the time it feels very pair the spares-esque. BUT. they both have a lot of similarities underneath the surface and if people tap into that i do like it. BUT (again) i just really prefer it platonic. jiang cheng is like peak "this man is aroace and does not know what either of those words are" to me. celibacysweep and all that
sang/yao. honorable mention to my favorite fucked up ship that literally nobody ships (including myself!). i can't like em romantically, only enjoy the dynamic, but it's so fun to think about. like spy x spy but worse.
and finally stuff that i don't like
no real reason for sang/yu, i just don't see em that way. i'm too novel-only to like wen qing/jc.
LWJ/anyone else feels too much like blasphemy. similar to shipping hua cheng tgcf with people who aren't xie lian LOL
AND FINALLY. THE MDZS SHIP I LIKE LEAST. <3 </3 xi/.cheng
this is like peak pair the spares to me. they're literally coworkers. they're just two people who lead clans and only talk business with each other. they aren't friends, they don't even make smalltalk. their relationship is the equivalent of sometimes bumping into a linkedin connection at the grocery store. come on. COME ON. they have zero personal ties except for the fact that their brothers are deeply in love and have a torrid romance spanning decades
for lxc especially this just feels like such a weak ship to me bc you have TWO whole other people he has fascinating, actually existing dynamics with (nmj and jgy), and xi/yao especially has so so so many parallels to wang/xian. 3zun ships have so much angst and what-ifs and there's so much more meat to it.
see also my thing about jc just... honestly i cannot see him romantically working out with anyone. nobody. whatsoever. this is a man for whom romance is not the solution, ever
so i can't. it literally drives me crazy. i cannot make sense out of xi/cheng whatsoever it doesn't compel me one bit and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say i hate it when there are other ships right there ahahahghdskljfdslk
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Cdrama: Are You the One (2024)
😍 Are you the one Cdrama #cdrama #chinesedrama #柳舟记 #AreYouTheOne #张晚意 #王楚然 #zhangwanyi #wangchuran
Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sPdvt6mHDP8
#Are You the One#柳舟记#You Are the One#Hidden Charm#Liu Zhou Story#Liu Zhou Ji#Jiao Cang#娇藏#海棠笑春风#柳下正停舟#柳舟記#2024#Tencent Video#WeTV#youtube#shorts#short video#cdrama#chinese drama#Zhang Wan Yi#Cui Xing Zhou#Lord Huaiyang#Cui Jiu#Wang Chu Ran#Liu Mian Tang
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rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there’s a pattern! Thanks @dual-domination and @bladedweaponsandswishycoats for tagging me! <3
“Commander,” said Ivanova’s comm. (A Field Telepaths' Guide to Types of Rogues Babylon 5, Ivanova/Talia Winters) (Next line is a bit longer: She needed a drink. She needed rest. She needed her comm to stuff it for all of the two hours of regulation rest that they were required to have even when they were working back-to-back shifts, so she could actually take that rest and not suffer sleep brain.
The world of the dead. Who could say what all the souls in the long line of dead souls thought as Lyra and Will led them out. There were murmurs of course. So everyone could hear those immediately around them. What everyone thought, that was beyond everyone’s ability. (Long Distance Relationship, His Dark Materials, Lyra Silvertongue/Will Parry)
Zhang Rishan heard who had come calling at the Xinyue and did the only thing he could. He closed the door. (Zhang Rishan closed the door to his office: What else could he do after all, Daomu Biji, Zhang Rishan & Zhang Qiling)
Yoo Jaeyi’s first thought was she was only a high school student. Wasn’t she too young to be dealing with this? (Missing Persons Flyers, Beyond Evil, Yoo Jaeyi & Lee Dongsik)
The first few times Shen Wei woke up from a nightmare where the entire weight of the world was resting on his shoulders until it crushed him, he thought nothing of it. After all, he had had the weight of the world happen to him, all those years before, and then he had been the only one around to carry it. It made sense that now that he finally had someone to share the weight of the mountains and rivers with, now that he had Kunlun back to himself lying beside him in bed, only now was he releasing stress born from those years of carrying it. (Pangu Split Heaven and Earth and Then Himself Too, Guardian - novel, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei & Gui Mian)
It all started when a fellow professor saw Shen Wei stretching after having a particularly awful day. Apparently the other professor recognized it as a qigong stretch. Shen Wei did keep track of things enough to be aware of the qigong fad that had appeared lately across both Dragon City and China in general. Ok, maybe a little longer ago than lately, but in the grand scheme of things, within a human lifetime, and a young human lifetime at that. But he had been unaware that someone would put together his moving his energy around with qigong. (Qigong Class with Professor Shen, Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)
“Chief Zhao, there is a young man here to see you. He appears to be human. But… you’ll have to hear him out,” Zhu Hong announced when Zhao Yunlan entered the office one morning later in the year in 2015. (Loss of Soul, Daomu Biji, Guardian, main cast & main cast)
“Babies! I’m telling you! They are literal babies!” Pangzi ranted at him. (Younger Than We Were, Daomu Biji Sha Hai, Zhang Rishan & Wang Pangzi)
“You know, my husband isn’t allowed to make tang yuan anymore either. That’s why both of those good-for-nothings are in the other room and not allowed in here while they are made,” Mama Zhao explained to Shen Wei. She pinched off another bit of the filling and rolled it into a ball. Shen Wei followed her and took each ball to pop into a ball of dough, which he quickly smoothed up and over the filling. (Tang Yuan with Mama Zhao, Guardian, Mama Zhao & Shen Wei)
They should have been suspecting a trap. The tomb was too easy to get into. Admittedly, it was far out in the middle of nowhere. But in terms of actually being able to find it and climb into it once there, it was pretty easy. Tombs like that tended to have traps. (Revitalizing the Zhang family, Daomu Biji, Zhang Qiling, Zhang Rishan, Wu Xie, Zhang Haike)
So I like to start mid scene/mid-action, and then go back and explain/scene-describe what's going on (or just move forward from the mid-scene point). Other than that, I don't know. I tend to try to match the mood I am trying to go for, usually unsuccessfully. I should go back and read the source material more before redrafting in the future.
Whoever wants to do the ask meme can! Take this as your invite!
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So! Some more about that Guardian/DMBJ crossover! (The one where we roll with Wu Xie’s Reunion looks.)
Shen Wei is completely neutral about having a doppelgänger. He was startled at first, sure, but after a through background check to ascertain that Wu Xie wasn’t Gui Mian’s illicit offspring or anything, he basically just shrugs and moves on with his life.
Not so much Wu Xie.
First of all, for a long time he only ever knew Shen Wei as the Ghostslayer (as did all of his friends), who never showed his face and when he finally met Professor Shen, it was on accident.
See the Iron Triangle is at Dragon City University to ask a professor (friend of a friend of a friend of San Shu) about this ancient text they found, which could have been a clue on their latest quest. And, well... people keep giving them these looks. Really weird Looks.
...And then this man passes them. A man who looks exactly like Wu Xie. Sure he’s dressed more formally than what Wu Xie normally prefers but otherwise looks exactly like him. And he just looks Wu Xie in the eye, nods and walks away.
Wu Xie flips his lid. That man obviously knows him because he wasn’t surprised about their creepy resemblance at all and Wu Xie HAS HAD IT with these goddamn switcheroos and stolen identities and lookalikes and what the FUCK is going on THIS GODDAMN TIME? Did he not do a through enough job with the Wangs? Are they coming for him? For his loved ones? Can the universe cut him some slack already???
...Meanwhile Shen Wei spends like five seconds mentally kicking himself for forgetting to act shocked and then forgets about the incident. Truth is, he just had to grant e-mail sending privileges to a student whose puppy kept destroying her hand-written essays. Which of course means that Shen Wei will have to deal with e-mails for at least the rest of the semester (or until the stupid beast learns some manners) so he was in a bit of a Mood.
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