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halaboyz · 4 years ago

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–– BUSTED LIP // SEUNGYOUN.

pairing: vb player! seungyoun x gn! reader genre: fluff word count: 1.3k warnings: profanities, blood, no more that i know of + cliche !!

To say you were merely an audience in a nationals play of volleyball was an understatement.

You loved volleyball. You were a fanatic.

Watching your favorite team play right in front of your eyes.. Heaven. But like, literally right in front of your eyes. You had always wanted to avail first-row seats– behind coaches and players, and your friends had made your dreams come true.

“Change court!” The referees called out, and you immediately clutch your friends’ hands, getting ready to shout at the top of your lungs.

“Go Yibo!” You shout, landing you a wink from him the moment they had changed courts. Your senior, friend, and of course, crush– Wang Yibo, was every girl’s dream.

Handsome, athletic, godly, and every compliment word there is.

This is what you wanted the first-row seats for.

Though.. happiness only lasts once in a while. Now changing courts, you had needed to crane your neck in order to see Yibo play clearly, even having an effort of straightening your back to see.

Sighing, you pout.

“What’s wrong?” Your friend, Wooseok, nudged your side.

“I can’t see Yibo clearly,”

“Babe, thought you were here for the volleyball?” Your other friend, Sungjoo, chuckles. You waste no time glaring at the both of them, retreating your hands that were entangled in their arms.

“Of course she is,” Wooseok ruffles your hair, “When it begins once again you’ll see her immersed in the game all over again,” Wooseok whispers loudly to Sungjoo in front of you, intentionally letting you hear it as you hit his arm playfully.

“It’s starting!” You shift on your seat, biting your arms in excitement as both teams had scored a set. You focused, staying at the edge of your seat as you hear Wooseok mumble an I told you so, earning him another smack from you and light chuckles from Sungjoo.

Point after point, no one seemed to go low on their stamina and you had to admit, the team before your eyes– Yibo’s team rival, was good.

Definitely good.

There were countless relays that kept you on your toes, constantly cheering for Yibo once in a while if you weren’t that occupied with the ball in the air.

“One more point, Yibo. Just one,” You whisper, unintentionally skinning a bit of your finger caused by your fiddling– which, also, didn’t stop you from watching the nerve-wracking game.

“Yibo spike!” You shriek, shifting more at the edge of your seat as your face scrunched.

You thought it earned them a point– well, no. The opposing team's libero had quick reflexes enough to save the ball from landing on the floor and..

Well oh, well.

Sent the ball flying right at you.

It was true. What happens in the movies? Where you stay frozen at fucking vulnerable times? It was.

You were frozen. Silently watching the ball slowly making its way right on your face, with your mouth agape.

“Holy fu–” A player tackles you on your seat, jumping over the barrier with no hesitance. You widen your eyes at the sudden impact and groaned– not on his weight on you, but with your lips harshly clashing.

Your face scrunched at the man running his way back to the court as you faintly hear your friends finally burst out laughing in the background.

You stare at the retreating man in disbelief for two reasons.

“Did he just..” You sigh shakily, your jaw tightening as the man continued to play. “Tackle me... To save a fucking ball?” Your voice was quiet, yet so stern. “And.. fucking leaving to the court.. to play, like fucking nothing happened when.. he just fucking kissed me.” You nod in disbelief.

You were on your own thoughts on how to kill that man, Cho Seungyoun, as engraved in his jersey as you clicked your tongue, suppressing the annoyance and anger you’re feeling.

That didn’t stop the laughing stock from your friends though, well, not until you hiss and your finger found its way to your lip, blood seeing from it.

“Oh.. A busted lip!” Sungjoo cooed, handing you a tissue from his bag as he looked at your lip intently with a smile on his face.

The game was long forgotten for you and your friends, you just.. wanted the land to eat you from embarrassment, and to keep you from killing a player under a thousand eyes.

“You should go to the infirmary for this,” Sungjoo says, eyeing Wooseok and bursting to another fit of laughter.

“I am so.. fucking.. speechless,” You scowled while harshly getting your things, leaving the court and to the clinic where it was supposedly for players only.

Your friends tail you with an annoying smile on their faces, letting you huff yourself on the couch as the nurse approached you.

“Oh my.. What caused this? A ball?” She hisses with you as she touches your lip with a bud, seeing how swollen your lip was and how a bruise was starting to color your skin.

“Oh, interesting story,” Wooseok starts, “Another lip.” He snorts, obviously trying not to laugh once again.

The nurse quirks her brows, handing you an ice pack as she watches another form make his way inside.

“Seungyoun,” The nurse sighs, looking at the blood dripping from the man’s lips and trailing her eyes back to you, her eyes lighting up as she purses her lips in order to stop from laughing along with your friends who eventually walked out.

He bowed to the nurse before sitting in front of you who instantly glared at him, holding the ice pack intently over your lip.

“Hey.. uh,” His eyes darted everywhere– just not at your eyes that were already killing him. “Sorry about.. awhile ago,” The nurse hands him another pack, after observing that it wasn’t any better than yours.

You just stare at him, constantly moving in his seat and chewing the insides of his cheeks as the atmosphere turned tense.

“I can’t stay here,” The nurse mumbles, heaving a shaky sigh because of the uneasy tension between you and Seungyoun, trudging her way out of the clinic.

“Who won?” You break the ice, craning your neck at him.

“We won!” He excitedly shouts as his eyes turned bright, “I really thought when Yibo spiked that one, we’d lose.. but then here comes our great libero! Though he sent the ball flying out of court, my feet had their own instincts to run and fly to the ball, I didn’t even realize I jumped over the barrier and tackled you! After a long rally, they couldn’t block my spike, so! I really think your lips helped me!” He rambled, not letting his own words sink in as you watched with an amused face.

You threw the ice pack beside you lightly, scoffing as you let a smile grow on your lips.

Seungyoun’s eyes traveled to your wrist, where the entrance ticket was to see it was black, Yibo’s team color, not blue, his team’s color.

“Oh..” he stutters, embarrassingly curling himself to a ball.

“Is that oh because you realized what you just said or oh because you realized I wasn’t even rooting for your team?” You smirked, dabbing your lip with a tissue.

He lets your words get to his brain, remembering what he just rambled to you.

“Oh..” he scrunched his face, turning red at the embarrassment dawning at him. “Sorry,” he mutters and you can’t help but chuckle at how amazingly adorable this man was despite his height and intimidating muscles.

“It's okay,” You lean back on your seat, crossing your arms over your chest. “I could live with a busted lip,” You smile at him, your annoyance and anger long gone.

“Yeah, but I can’t,” You hear him mumble. “That was my first kiss and now I can’t help engrave that in my mind,” He says under his breath and if it weren’t for elephant ears, you could’ve missed it.

“That was your first?!” You gasp at him, and he immediately perks up which caused your stomach to burst butterflies.

Chuckles, laughs, and hisses because of your busted lips resonated in the room as Sungjoo and Wooseok watched the exchange between you and seungyoun.

“Bet they’re in love with each other in a month."

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setsailtomorrow · 3 years ago

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hello :) im not sure this is still sth you do, but i recently went through your yizhan fic recs again and do you have any new ones? im just too far down in that pit :D i'd take anything, AU or not, plot-heavy is good, any kind of smut is great, too, esp if it's sth new, sth that's not written about as much.

if you haven't that's okay, too, no worries. i just thought i'd try my luck since i really liked what you rec'ed so far. anyway, have a great day :)

hi anon! i love sharing recs so you are no bother at all <3

as for yizhan, i haven't been as active in the tag as i was when the other rec you mention was done. but i have read some good stuff and have some things to rec for you:

l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, 3k, E by gdgdbaby, neenya

Yibo sees the hot trend when he lands in Changsha on Monday night, while he's scrolling through Weibo on the ride from the airport to the hotel.

a collaborative work by two of my faves in the fandom! gdgd writing scorching hot and neenya illustrating <3 remember hysterical literature? yeah.

Paint My Life Red, 4k, E by airinshaw

Yibo is annoyed to have to get a decorator in to paint his new place, until he meets him and can't keep away.

moder au-ish. famous/non-famous is a trope i love and this was cute (and hot).

verse. chorus. verse., 7k, E by idrilka

‘It isn’t until later, as the gala winds down to a close, that Yibo comes face to face with Xiao Zhan under the cold, fluorescent lights of the men’s restroom. Xiao Zhan enters just as Yibo turns off the tap, hands still dripping with water.

There’s a small, ugly part of Yibo that enjoys the way Xiao Zhan’s feet stutter to a halt, surprise spilling all over his features as he looks over his shoulder like he wants to bolt. But Xiao Zhan is such a fucking adult about everything, so instead of running away, he plasters on a bland, camera-ready smile and says, “Yibo,” in an artificially light, level voice.’

Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan meet for the first time in months at the Tencent Awards. Afterwards, they clear up a few misunderstandings.

another fave author of mine. that bittersweet thing of exes to lovers that fit yizhan so well. canon compliant, or what you call rpf.

And They Were Roommates, 8k, E by ShamelessPeterPan

When Xiao Zhan’s best friend asks if her cousin can crash at his place for a while, he doesn’t expect that the most difficult thing about having a roommate is the giant crush he develops on the gorgeous man.

hot and cute and fun.

Xiao Yaojing, 12.5k, E by Eudoxia

Yibo goes to perch delicately on the armrest of their couch. She has a perfect view of the front door from here. Or, more accurately, the front door has a perfect view of her.

She sticks her legs out straight, crosses her ankles, knowing that it highlights how long they are and how nice they look in the stockings. The skirt on the dress is just long enough to hide the fact that the stockings are only thigh length, too.

Something to surprise him with, she muses, running a hand over the skirt and smoothing it down.

A smirk twitches onto Yibo’s face. She looks good and she knows it. Knows Xiao Zhan’s already hot and hard for her. Knows she’s going to get fucked and get hugged and is so looking forward to it.

She leans back on her hands, or, as much as she can while sitting on the armrest, anyway, and waits, counting down the seconds until she hears Xiao Zhan’s key in the lock.

we got some feminisation up in here. read the tags before you jump in.

Third Time's The Charm, 25k, E by PencilSketchS

If Xiao Zhan had thought the disparity between the first and the second time they met was dramatic, then the current circumstances were just too unlikely to be true. Xiao Zhan walks into the dance studio of Made in V as a member of X-Nine and none other than Wang Yibo is there to greet him.

Or: Childhood friends reunite, and Yibo has really grown into his little horns.

modern fantasy kinda. childhood friends with the canon age difference. i enjoyed this, very cute.

my future in your laugh, 31k, E by timelykey

Xiao Zhan gives him a look. ‘Is it so important that I like you better than adorable, sick children? You can’t let the sick childrenhave this one?’

‘No, I can’t,’ Wang Yibo shoots back, zero hesitation.

Or, Dr Xiao Zhan meets idol Wang Yibo and falls in love, four hospital visits later.

this one came out pretty close to my other rec, and it's so good it deserves to be read by everyone! famous/non-famous again, xz's character is inspired by the one he plays on OoL. this is all an au should be.

Under My Skin, 42k, E by OverthinkingThis

When Yibo clasps Xiao Zhan's hands in farewell, they feel sensual and nimble in his own. The hands of an artist. Yibo suddenly thinks about them leaving a trail of ink on his body, one that he could touch and look at, like a memento.

“Yibo?” Jackson taps him on the shoulder. “You coming?”

Yibo blinks. He doesn’t know how long he’s been holding Xiao Zhan’s hands and staring up into his eyes, but ah, fuck it.

“No,” he says. “I’m getting a tattoo.”

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OR: Xiao Zhan is a tattoo artist, and Yibo has never wanted a tattoo so badly.

we need more tattoo artist xz in our lives i think. this is very good but i will warn for some frustrating miscommunication. still, very cute and the famous/non-famous trope again.

The Scent of Happiness, 48,5k E by vesna (mrsronweasley)

He raises his head up at the drinks menu and that's when the guy behind the counter turns around and greets them both with a smile.

Oh.

Yibo is aware that he's staring, but he just. Can't stop. The guy is tall--taller than Yibo--with long hair tied loosely into a bun. Soft bangs cover his forehead, with longer tendrils framing the most beautiful face Yibo has ever seen on a human person. And Yibo has met a lot of beautiful human people.

this is not a new one and is pretty high on the "sort by kudos"-list, so you might have read it! i'm reccing because i was feeling the famous/non-famous itch and reread it recently. it's well worth a re-read.

forehead kisses, break my knees, 54k, M by kinkywrists

It’s been a really long time since they spent any time together, the reality of their tattered relationship sinking in as Xiao Zhan breathes in the still air. It had been easy to near-forget about Yibo, as bad as that sounds. When you no longer occupy the same spaces as someone else, when you’ve both got huge, sprawling careers and no longer need each other for anything, it takes no effort at all to fill the space with other things, other people. It sounds a little heartless when Xiao Zhan thinks of it like that, but Yibo has been the same, most people would be the same. As much as it felt like he couldn’t for the first few weeks after they split up, Xiao Zhan can live without Yibo. It’s just that he would rather not.

In the end, it’s Yibo who breaks the silence.

“Why are you here, Xiao Zhan?”

and we have reached "and they were exes" part of the rec (everybody cheers)! read the warnings, wy goes to rehab, xz realises what he might have left behind. it's intense, it's good. captures c-ent well, set some time in the future.

See you in Eorzea, 63k, E by sandorara

I (M 28) picked up someone (M 2x) in a video game and I think they might be famous. Please advise.

...yeah there it is again. famous/non-famous, they meet online. i liked that this didn't put too much emphasis on the not knowing. also, i know nothing about the game they play but i could still follow along easily!

Sometimes We Take Chances, 76.7k, E by brooklinegirl

"Everyone's buzzing that you canceled a meeting. Someone said you were sick." Xiao Zhan sends a weird worried face meme that Yibo doesn't recognize.

Yibo runs a tired hand over his face. He hears from Xiao Zhan once in a blue moon. There's been radio silence since they'd had what Yibo can only keep telling himself was a wildly ill-advised hook-up backstage months back. They weren't anything to each other. Why is Xiao Zhan asking about him now?

"Yeah", is all he sends back. He tries to line up words to say next, but his brain is thrumming with bewildered exhaustion. He's staring down, thoughts moving sluggishly, as the screen dims for a moment, Xiao Zhan's text coming in right before it locks itself.

"Your stomach again?"

Yibo does, then, definitely break into slightly hysterical giggles. Yeah. Yeah, Xiao Zhan, it's his stomach again. It's definitely his stomach again. Sure. Yes. Absolutely. It's a big stomach thing. Probably going to be a huge stomach thing.

you have to know, i LOVE this writer. for wangxian, for yizhan, their work is always outstanding. this is no exception. funny story: as i was reading this, pictures promoing yibo on sdoc4 came out and he was wearing some sort of sash thing across his torso. my brain went, "ah, the pictures to hide his pregnancy dropped". lol. that's how well this writer does her thing.

Under Pressure, 132k, E by augmenti 🔒

“There could be children, Yibo.”

“Good,” Yibo says. Forever, and a family with Xiao Zhan. He wants it, more than he’s wanted anything in his life, he wants to hold onto them. He kisses him hard, fisting Xiao Zhan’s shirt in his hand, right over his heart. His pulse is racing so fast, much too fast. Dangerously fast. The kiss is more of a fight, Yibo’s teeth catching on Xiao Zhan’s bottom lip as he pulls back, panting hard. “Give me your fucking kids before I die waiting, gege.”

read the tags. i took this one chapter at a time. modern fantasy, xz is a sort of tentacle monster, but mostly has a human shape. rut hits and eggpreg happens. this is a very wellwritten fic, with lots of emotions, angst and happiness. mostly there's so much love between the two. and it's very very lovely.

#fic rec yizhan #quite a few famous/non-famous this time around #i hope you don't mind that trope anon #it was fun to go through my ao3 history for these #turns out there were quite a few i wanted to rec #more long fic than i thought #i actually cut some shorter ones #let me know if you want more of those

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canary3d-obsessed · 4 years ago

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Restless Rewatch: The Untamed Episode 06 (first part)

(Masterpost)(Episode 05)

Warning: This contains spoilers for All 50 Episodes

Bad Boys Bad Boys What You Gonna Do

Nie Huasang’s brought his nuts, and someone’s brought wine, so the boys are drinking in Wei Wuxian’s guest house. Finally he gets to drink some of the Emperor’s Smile wine that he’s been doing all those product placements for.

Boys, get a bowl or something for your shells, were you raised in a barn?

Wei Wuxian hits on waxes poetic about the wine, and Jiang Cheng tells him to shut up.

Wang Zhuocheng’s raw-fish-eating face may have failed him, but his drunk faces do not disappoint.

Wei Wuxian teases Jiang Cheng about his list of standards for a chick: She should have natural beauty, be virtuous and caring, from a good family, not too talkative, with a gentle voice, and not too capable. Also she should not spend too much money. Drunken running ensues.

Cue Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin

(more behind the cut)

Much of the fandom has decided this list is a good fit for Nie Huaisang himself, and it sorta is. But he is both talkative and unvirtuous, what with all the current sneakiness, and all the eventual murders.

This also definitely doesn't fit Wen Qing because she's capable as hell.

This list is, however, a 100% a match for Jiang Yanli. Not in a weird, Jin Guangyao way--a lot of men want to marry a woman like their sister. In a gender-divided and generation-divided society, a man’s sister might be the only woman he’s ever known well. Jiang Cheng adores Yanli and she’s his ideal model of a woman, as opposed to his mother, who...isnt.

All these robes and talismans over the door do nothing to stop Lan Wangji from strolling in.

Okay so - Lan Wangji is the senior disciple of the Lan Clan, yea? There is no way that patrolling the guest area is in any way his job. He is just walking around here at night specifically to see what Wei Wuxian is doing.

I already did a gifpost of the boys and their totally nonsexual horseplay, over here. I’ll just add, for sad factor, that Jiang Cheng is play-choking Wei Wuxian when they’re all on the bed, and later in the running-and-crying episode he is gonna for-real choke him. Foreshadowing! or maybe just coincidence!

One fun thread running through the young-cultivators episodes is that Nie Huaisang is legit terrified of Lan Wangji while also having a major aesthetic crush on him. Look at how flustered he is here, trying to act sober while also checking him out.

Lan Wangji is shocked and visibly upset - what are you guys doing? This is not his busting face, this is, for a moment, his vulnerable and disillusioned face. He is super not used to what normal people are like.

Wei Wuxian doesn't lie or otherwise try to get off the hook, which has got to have Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang grinding their teeth in frustration. He invites Lan Wangji to join them for a drink. LWJ cites a the “no drinking on campus” rule and WWX tries to convince him to chill.

Then we have this lovely coordinated faint by the boys, to get out of going to get punished. Nie Huaisang has been practicing fainting in front of a mirror just in case he ever needs a skill like that in the future.

Wei Wuxian keeps trying to turn this into a date. Eventually Lan Wangji is so upset he admits he can’t take all three of them by himself.

Then the boys run away fake-barfing and Wei Wuxian hits Lan Wangji with a talisman.

Steal His Agency That’s What You’re Gonna Do

What Wei Wuxian does to Lan Wanji here is definitely wrong. But it's not entirely a disaster. It allows some crucial information to be shared between them, and it results in Wei Wuxian getting the utter shit beat out of him and never doing this again. I mean, he continues to mind-control his enemies and their eventual corpses, but he doesn't intentionally violate a friend or ally's autonomy in the future. Uhh not counting that whole golden core surgery-without-consent situation. And probably some other situations I’ve forgotten. He improves slightly, okay?

It’s important to note, incidentally, that the Lan rules about drinking and other “vices” should not be viewed through a Christian lens. The Lans are neither puritans nor ascetics (look at their clothes, furniture, and jewelry, for starters). Being drunk is forbidden probably because it’s a loss of self-control.

Speaking of self-control, mad props to Wang Yibo for being able to have zero physical reaction to fingers snapping in his face.

Drunk Lan Wangji

Under duress, Lan Wangji knocks back a cup of wine and promptly passes most of the way out.

Wei Wuxian puts Lan Wangji into bed not unkindly, but pretty much like a sack of potatoes. Compare this to how tenderly he handles Lan Wangji the next time he’s drunk.

WWX tells LWJ to call him Wei Gege, and giggles. Is this a term of endearment in this context? So far the various boys are calling each other -xiong, not -ge or gege. In Western media, men calling each other “bro” is basically saying “no homo,” but brotherhood and sisterhood in C-Drama is often a way of indicating stronger love than friendship, without saying whether it's sexual or not.

They finally start to have a conversation, and when Lan Wangji explains that no-one can touch his headband except, etc etc, Wei Wuxian stops trying to touch it. So at least he's not a handsy bastard in addition to all his other faults.

Wei Wuxian tells Lan Wangji that his clan is boring and women won't want to marry him. Lan Wangji says that's fine. On one level this is the show acknowledging that he's gay, but I think he's responding in a gender-neutral way; he doesn't want to marry anyone. Marriage, from his perspective, is the literal worst.

We don't know how he felt about his father, but he definitely loved his mother deeply, and she had a profoundly unhappy marriage, in which her husband did not provide companionship and her children were taken from her.

A note about all that: The dynamics of heterosexual marriages in The Untamed are not based on contemporary companionate marriage. Sex and reproduction is a wife's job in this world, and giving a gentry woman the option to choose her husband is radical. Wei Wuxian is the only one who dares say that Jiang Yanli should have a choice when Jin Guangshan casually tries to give her to his son in front of everyone.

OP made this today but will totally reuse it when episode 23 rolls around

So Lan Wangji’s parents' marriage was extremely problematic but not necessarily for the reasons it would be in contemporary terms. Having signed on to marry Lan Dad, Mom would have expected to live together and get laid regularly (important for health, in some traditional views, regardless of love/no love) and to have the company of her children. Instead, she was isolated. Lan Dad wanted to have it both ways and so even though he loved her and apparently hooked up with her sometimes, he didn't do his duty by her. She didn't love him but she did her duty.

Wei Wuxian continues to not get it, calling Lan Wangji dull and babbling about Lan Wangji’s parents until he realizes that LWJ is an orphan like him.

A nice shift happens here. Once the penny drops, Wei Wuxian doesn't ask a single additional question - he just sees - by reading Lan Wangji’s face - what the deal is, and shares his own story to show he understands.

This is the first time Wei Wuxian mentions being chased by dogs, which is kind of a big deal, because why was he left all alone when his parents died?

Why didn't anyone take him in before Jiang Fengmian found him? How isolated are independent cultivators in this world?

Tea Time

Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen are having tea, and the Lan Clan is so uptight they don't touch each other's teacups. I don't know what this thing is called so I'm going to call it a tea speculum.

Lan Qiren is back from the cultivation conference and says the red crack plague is happening over in Qinghe where the Nie clan lives. Lan Xichen fills him in on the water demon, specifically saying Wei Wuxian figured out the connection to the red crack dudes, and explaining who WWX is, as if Lan QIren hadn't already thrown stuff at him and threatened to eventually kill him.

Fun fact that I just noticed this week so didn't make it into earlier posts: In Episode 46, when Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are in the Jiang ancestral hall, WWX says he was often punished to kneel there, and LWJ said that they heard about this in Gusu.

So when WWX came to Gusu he already had a reputation as a troublemaker, and the Lan brothers were aware of it.

Busted and Beaten

A Lan snitch comes in to say that Wei Wuxian has successfully corrupted Lan Wangji, which really shouldn’t cause as much surprise as it does.

“Wei Wuxian got drunk”

“Lan Wangji got drunk”

Lan Xichen takes a moment to consider carefully whether Wei Wuxian is a good friend for his little brother and whether perhaps he was too hasty in throwing them together. Ha ha ha no he doesn’t.

On the punishment porch, Lan Xichen tries to lecture Lan Wangji in a calm way, but Lan Qiren wants to beat him and Lan Wangji wants to get beat. Wei Wuxian can’t understand why Lan Wangji doesn’t let him take the blame for the drinking.

Lan Qiren goes way the fuck overboard with this punishment because he's angry--losing control and losing his sense of proportion--and Lan Xichen is shocked. The drone camera watching from above is also shocked.

Lan Qiren has a few (very few) redeeming qualities, but his extreme rigidity and chronic resentment of anyone he perceives as bad are serious problems. His nephews are both struggling with complex moral quandaries as they get older, and he is absolutely no help to them in resolving their conflicts.

This is definitely...a style of parenting & teaching, but you can see how poorly it works, with Lan Wangji straight up saying “fuck it” after many years of conformity. Lan Xichen is devoted to the middle path and tries to be obedient. But he is actually not walking anywhere near the middle path, as he gets pulled into colluding with a murderer at the same time as getting dragged onto his brother’s carnival ride. These men need parenting that isn’t so, uh, fucking stupid. (Yes, grown adults still need good parenting; watch Go Ahead if you doubt me)

Wei Wuxian initially yells and falls down when he gets hit, but then he sees Lan Wangji is taking the beating without any reaction and he tries to do the same.

Aftermath

Jiang Yanli gently lectures the boys, blaming Jiang Cheng for Wei Wuxian's drinking. Jesus Christ, he's the younger sibling, could you just NOT, Yanli?

Both boys ask Yanli not to tell their parents. The boys bicker about who's at fault and then Wei Wuxian shifts to baby voice and starts whining to Yanli about the pain.

Yanli tells him to suck it up, and says after school she'll -- ok and I know this will be a surprise for everyone -- make soup for them. The boys immediately get back on the same team, which is team Please Put Meat In the Soup.

There's a nice character building moment for Wei Wuxian here. When he sees Lan Xichen he initially turns away to avoid running into him, but then he adults-up and goes to face him and greet him, giving him a half of a bow because of the pain, the pain. Rather than complaining about his punishment he meekly asks if he's broken another rule.

Lan Xichen tells him that he did wrong but that Lan Qiren’s punishment was too harsh, and then in what is one of my favorite Lan Xichen moments, invites Wei Wuxian to use the cold spring to heal, but doesn't invite Jiang Cheng to go with him even though Jiang Cheng also was beaten. Lan Xichen, Matchmaker Auntie Extraordinaire.

Then he answers Wei Wuxian’s question about his mom by saying she was just like Wei Wuxian and drove Lan Qiran up the wall. Jiang Cheng's reaction to that is really sweet. He does enjoy Wei Wuxian at the same time as being constantly irritated by him.

Lan Xichen does his patented “breaking off in the middle of saying something and leaving out a chunk of the story” maneuver, although this time he doesn't include a flute solo.

OP is mildly obsessed with Xuan Lu’s shoulders in this outfit. Also Yanli has an interesting sword, that's got some wood carving similar to Subian, but without the organic look, which OP only noticed because of screen capping Xuan Lu’s shoulders.

Club Ruohan

Wen Qing continues to be pretty and slightly evil at this stage, sending magic fire notes to her boss using this talisman that is definitely floating in the air and not just hanging from a string.

Wen Ruohan is in the mosh pit with his zombie groupies while he reads Wen Qing’s extremely vague status update and says "it all makes sense."

Reach out and touch faith

Soundtrack

Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

Writing Prompt

How did Wei Wuxian’s parents die?

Admin Notes

I’m going to start spacing out my “first part” and “second part” posts by a few days. I’ll update this post to link up the second part once I post it, and my masterpost is always up to date.

Also: if you want more of my original content but don’t want to follow my whole blog (not following is fine!), I keep a pinboard of fun stuff at the top of my blog. I try to post original content at least once a week.

Continued in the second part later this week!

#fytheuntamed #wangxian #the untamed #cql #the untamed gifs #the untamed meta #my gifs #restless rewatch the untamed #restless rewatch #canary3d #the untamed spoilers

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wang yibo - sina entertainment weibo account

When I met him, time paused, my heart beat faster, and I would fall for a look or a smile. Sometimes the heartbeat happens in an instant. Congratulations @UNIQ-王一博for becoming " #我The 520 Heartbeat crush# "! May everyone in the sweet 520 meet your crush, express love loudly, and go bravely and enthusiastically to your love! [520]

#wang yibo #awwwwwwwww

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theuntamer · 3 years ago

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I posted 2,905 times in 2021

69 posts created (2%)

2836 posts reblogged (98%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 41.1 posts.

I added 2,108 tags in 2021

#wangxian - 402 posts

#wei wuxian - 320 posts

#lan wangji - 239 posts

#jiang cheng - 231 posts

#meta - 201 posts

#wang yibo - 173 posts

#xiao zhan - 159 posts

#jin guangyao - 141 posts

#fanart - 129 posts

#lan xichen - 113 posts

Longest Tag: 135 characters

#me whenever wen ning is doing anything except dying but especially when hes committing treason: 👍👍 youre doing amazing sweetie 👏👏👏

My Top Posts in 2021

this entire exchange...

WWX:

JC:

WWX:

really, wwx? only once a month? sounds frustrating

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imagine what Lan Wangji's experience of Meng Yao is at this point.

> your brother's bf Nie Mingjue got a new apprentice who's actually Jin Guangshan's bastard son. he's very efficient.

> perhaps Xichen tells you bitterly or excitedly that Nie Mingjue is dating Meng Yao but you're not really listening.

> Meng Yao is coming to Cloud Recesses.

> Lan Xichen is hot for Meng Yao. now you've got stakes in this story. who is this overly polite weirdo? only YOU can get in your brother's good graces by being overly polite and focusing on the rules!

> whew Meng Yao left summer school early, which is good because finally you don't have to get secondhand embarrassment on his part because he seems to date not one but two sect leaders who are also dating each other! too complicated. on the other hand, Xichen is brooding in his room and missing his little twink. you think that's pathetic. you would never feel like this about Wei Ying if he left early.

> you hear that Meng Yao was kicked out of Qinghe. wild.

> when you reunite with your brother to assemble against the Wens, he tells you that Meng Yao had rescued him/helped him when he was on the run and they got "intimate". you keep seeing the moment of your love confession to your own crush via song title reveal play on loop in your mind's eye.

> finally you've cornered the enemy's army and your crush soulmate has completely exhausted himself by practising forbidden techniques and generally being badass and a total babe. you run up the stairs to catch him when he passes out and you see Meng Yao casually murder the powerful supervillain Wen Ruohan. what the hell, you would think if swearing wasn't forbidden.

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the untamed where everything is the same except zidian is a garden hose and nobody ever addresses this

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i can't believe this line was actually in the show sdfghjkl

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Get your Tumblr 2021 Year in Review →

#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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zhansww · 4 years ago

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Hey, I'm new to this side of the fandom. I was a MDZS fan but I fell in love with CQL and Xiao Zhan. I try to avoid rl cp's because of experiences with fandom. However, it's impossible to ignore WY's crush on XZ. I thought of the relationship as brotherly rivals/one-sided crush from yibo. Until I saw them on stage at the tencent awards, and with the release of all these bts vids it doesn't seem like a crush it seems very much mutual and acted on. SO here I am on tumblr checking things out

In the last 48 hours I have been all over yizhan tumblr and I really love your blog because you have a very rational pov. If you don't mind me asking how did you get into this cp? what makes you think they are still together after the ao3 incident? Do you have a preference for XZ or WY and does that make it hard being a CP fan? Is there a master list you can send me to? Sorry for asking so many questions, if any of them offend please don't anwer. Thank you in advanced.

Hello there and welcome to this side of the fandom~ 😄

Thank you so much for liking my blog. It’s always really humbling for me to read such praise //// About me, trying to think rationally when it comes to YiZhan; that is something that is very important imo. These are real people that I am making such a bold statement of, after all. It would be a disservice to them and to myself if I didn’t at least try to judge what they have in an unbiased, reasonable way. On that note, I know that a lot of cp fans fell in love with YiZhan so they just believed in them first and looked for evidence second. For me, it was quite different. I became their fan in late summer 2019. It didn’t take me long to come across cp fans who actually believed that XZ and WYB are a couple irl but I just rolled my eyes at that and dismissed most of their so-called evidence. Me, I wasn’t even sure if they were genuine friends at that point. The first thing I found out about that gave me a clue was the theory that XZ gave Yibo the ox-head necklace he was wearing back then (from June 2019 until August 2020). The lip reading is what made me believe it and I thought “oh so they are friends in real life, too. how cute”. But this was around the same time that Yibo started hiding the necklace which is something that gave me pause but that I explained with “he must be annoyed with cp fans, assuming it’s a romantic gift”. It basically kept going like this for months. I found excuses for anything that confused me at first, I really didn’t want to budge from my belief that ggdd are good friends. The more I found out about them individually and about certain theories that actually made sense, the more that belief crumbled. Until weibo night 2020 which was when I had to concede that assuming YiZhan are friends just doesn’t make sense. I still remember how oddly defeated I felt. I think it’s such a bittersweet thing. They found love but they are unable to share it, to love freely. I feel for them. And I am rooting for them so badly. That was when I started to believe. I wasn’t certain until May 2020. On the 20th, a flight to Shanghai showed on gg’s schedule and dd was set to fly there on that day, too. Other than dd’s arrival at the airport that morning, no one saw either of them that day at any of the places where fans waited, hoping to see them. There were photos of them on the 21st in Shanghai but not the 20th. And then of course, there was dd’s own confirmation that he spent that day with XZ in his weibo story. To be clear, I don’t think that any one thing about YiZhan is or should be enough to make one certain they’re a couple. For me, that particular incident was the final straw, so to say. It’s what made me completely sure about their relationship. I haven’t had any doubt since. I guess this also kinda answers your second question about what makes me think they’re still together after what happened last February. There are other hints that they (and mainly Yibo) dropped last year that let us know they are still very much in love. I elaborated a bit on that here, you can also check the posts I have in this tag for actual examples.

I don’t have a preference. It’s still so funny to me when bxg say they have a bias between XZ and WYB. I genuinely can’t relate. Ehm, I could imagine XZ-biased cp fans to have it harder, though, cuz bj/yx fans are sort of representing this cp’s fandom as a whole and generally speaking, the bj/yx fandom doesn’t seem to be able to separate wang/xian from bj/yx which leads to them, willfully misinterpreting gg’s character and ggdd’s dynamic just to fit their misguided idea of what a queer relationship between two men should look like irl. You may not know what exactly I’m referring to cuz you’re new but I don’t doubt that you’ll see soon enough :/ Personally, I prefer zsww and lsfy fans. With bj/yx fans, I barely ever know what I’m getting beforehand.

I assume you’re referring to a master list of all of XZ and WYB’s content over the last years or so? I think this site might be good but it’s all in Chinese so I don’t know for sure. Hmmm.... this thread might be a start. Also, these yt accounts: BXCnSub, Prime110W and wenwen1111. I'd recommend viki and Youtube for watching their shows. Sorry I can’t be more helpful. I remember coming across an actual master list a few months ago but I didn’t save it. If I should find it again, I’ll link it. Sorry. >.<

#ask #halobey

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roseymess · 3 years ago

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Hello love!!:) hope you are doing good!!:) may I please participate in your askgame 🥺☺️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Initials: d

Favourite emoji:🥺

Prompt: "You are mine! You belong with me"

Idol: Wang yibo(Chinese actor) (if this is allowed love🥺🥺)

Thank you soo much!:)) sending you lots of love and happiness!:))☺️❤️❤️

Hi!! Thanks for requesting 🥰🥰🥰

Wang Yibo is terrifying. Like he really intimidates a lot of people. And he actually enjoys it. He likes being feared and he likes when people bow down to him. He also loves how women die to be with him,even some men and how everyone wants to be him. But he doesn't pay heed to all these. His main attention comes to you,one of his intern in his cast. You are an inspiring photographer and you are responsible for his next few shoots. Your innocent aura and passionate spirit really caught his eye. And he is a hard to please man. So he himself was shocked when he saw how much attracted he was to you.

Later a day,he saw a guy being too close to you. You were also laughing and having a good time. He didn't like what he was seeing. You had a hopeless crush on Wang Yibo but you knew you could never date him. So it definitely took you on a cloud nine when you saw how defensive he got about you from Day 2 of your shoot with him. He would talk to you,he wouldn't really let you be with other members of the cast or staff. He kept you to himself. So decided to test your luck. And here you are being fun with another guy. Soon he left and you were left alone with Wang Yibo.

Wang Yibo immediately yanked you by his wrist. "What were you doing with him? Are you dating him? Are you interested in him?? He is too young for you" and he bombarded you with questions. "Why do you care sir?" You asked. "Because i don't like it. You are mine,you belong with me! And I don't like seeing my girl with someone else" he said. "Yours? Since when? When did you ask me out sir?" you asked. "Well Miss,would you like to go out with me?" He asked , knowing full well about your answer.

"No" you said. He was baffled. "W-what?" He asked. "Well sir,you are not the only one with high standards here. So maybe ask me again with a different style and I might" you said and as you were walking away,he pulled you and picked you up,bridal style. "Well Miss, would you like to be my girlfriend and care to go on a date with me? I would love to get to know you better" he said,this time, genuinely smiling.

"Yes,I would love to"

Hope you liked your scenario. Take care 🥰🥰

#kpop ask game

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bucksblr · 4 years ago

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tagged by @leonzhng thanks for making me dig through my most embarrassing crushes 😭✋

i’ll tag @highwarlockkareena @yibobibo @lan-xichens @purplexedhuman @aheartfullofjolllly @lanzhansmiles @nyx4 i feel like i tag you guys in everything i am so sorry please ignore this if u don’t wanna do it !!

putting this under a read more for reasons

MEN 2010 – 2016

literally nothing more embarrassing than falling on the same type of white man over and over again (with the exception of minho from shinee bless his heart)

tommy joe ratliff → he was the bass player for adam lambert during his glamnation era (think of songs like for your entertainment and if i had you) idk why exactly i liked him so much but i just did.... however i searched him up again quite recently and found out he’s one of those republicans that says the dumbest shit on twitter so Big Yikes

harry styles → “baby you light up my world like nobody else, the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed, and when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell...” and BOOM 13-year-old me was sold for well over two years

louis tomlinson → basically i liked harry most until around 2013 when for some reason i started to like him a little less, and i got more focused on louis tomlinson, and although i didn’t like one direction anymore louis tomlinson always had a special place in my heart

ashton irwin → so ashton is 5sos’ drummer, i discovered 5sos through one direction & i stanned them until late 2014

harries twins → the harries twins (jack & finn) are basically the reason i started spending a lot of time on youtube, they were funny and pretty and they just had good videos in general, so for almost two years i’d watch their content regularly

choi minho → my first steps into kpop happened bc i was watching videos on youtube (most probably the harries twins) and suddenly i saw the sherlock mv in my recommended videos so i clicked on it and then 14-year-old me proceeded to fall for minho like an idiot

brooks twins → still youtubers, the brooks twins were 3/5 of the janoskians (jai & luke brooks, beau brooks, daniel sahyounie, & james yammouni), an australian youtube comedy group that was active from 2011-2018 though i was only around from 2012-2014 (when jai brooks was dating ariana grande)

jc caylen → surprise! another youtuber! jc caylen was part of o2l (our2ndlife) a youtube collaboration channel on which each of the 6 members posted videos on a certain day in the week (mondays with connor, tuesdays with ricky, wednesdays with sam, thursdays with jc, fridays with trevi (my 2nd favorite member bc she participated on the x factor), saturdays with ricardo, and then they had surprise sundays every week) and i remember how much joy jc & the others always brought me with their silly videos

misha collins → up next, you might know him as the gay angel that was sent to superhell after confessing his love to the homophobic hunter on supernatural, it’s misha collins! basically misha was a huge source of comfort for me, and i even went around calling myself emmisha for almost two full years (cringe)

henrik holm → he played even bech naesheim in skam and my crush on him reached that level of ridiculousness where i actually tried my hand at learning norwegian (i can only remember how to introduce myself and some curse words i would make a great first impression on him)

MEN 2016 – 2021

min yoongi → okay so my baby steps into kpop happened through shinee’s sherlock, but i only got really invested when yoongi dropped agust d 1 because Holy Fuck y’know??

kim namjoon → oh man i remember thinking namjoon was cute and a very good leader and then BAM he dressed like THAT at the 2016 mma’s and i fell in love. hard

park seojoon → i started liking park seojoon whilst i was watching hwarang (you guessed it, i watched it bc of taehyung), although he wasn’t my favorite character by far, but he was very silly off camera & i liked that (i’m not that into him anymore tho </3)

kim seokjin → OH BOY LET ME TELL U i liked seokjin from the very beginning (i got to know bts in late 2014) and i always liked seeing him perform and be himself and god once i realized i had a crush on him it just hit me like a mf truck, and he’s still one of my favorite people to this day

jung hoseok → god fake love era hoseok really hits different.... also yes i know i have all of bts’ hyung line on my list BUT bts was a really big part of my life for almost 6 years soooo honestly they deserve it i still think they’re great guys

choi san → when ateez made their debut in 2018 i immediately fell in love with san, he was such an amazing dancer and he captivated me right from the very beginning, to this day he’s still my bias in ateez uwu

xiao zhan → AND THEN, OCTOBER OF 2019 HAPPENS AND I WATCH CQL AND... i fall in love with xiao zhan, something i’d never expected would happen bc when i watched cql for the first time i wasn’t as invested in the story, but i really really really liked xiao zhan and one thing led to another and now here i am as a xfx

wang yibo → the thing is, i’ve known yibo since eoeo except i didn’t know cql yibo was uniq yibo (bc i’d forgotten his name) and when i looked it up i can tell you my jaw dropped to the floor bc holy shit????? also he is very silly and i love him loads ok

lee minho → ah, the man who has been my skz bias since 2018, not only is minho my bias i also kin him (there’s a lot of aspects of myself that i see in minho and vice versa) and he’s very comforting to me

bang chan → honestly, it was only a matter of time before i’d fall for bang chan, i knew the moment i got into skz again that i’d start biasing him and, well, here i am, double biasing chan & minho

WOMEN

this list is shorter bc i’ve in general always had less crushes on women than on men??? blame society forcing me into thinking i was straight for a LONG time

ariana grande → remember the 2011 layout of twitter?? where u could not only have an icon and a header, but also a background and ur twitter page was smack in the center of ur screen with the big ugly menu bar at the top??? yeah ariana grande was always my background for my l*rr* st*l*n*s*n layouts

perrie edwards → this was right around the time she was dating zayn & little mix was breaking out into the spotlight, yeah i just really loved her

andrea russett → okay so remember o2l?? andrea russett was kian’s girlfriend for a pretty long time and they always did videos together and i always thought she was super pretty

lily collins → maybe i don’t like clary in tmi all that much but i sure liked the way lily collins looked

alona tal → MY BISEXUAL AWAKENING, it’s only when i saw alona tal in spn that i realized, fuck i might be gay

park jihyo → i discovered twice (my 2nd jype group after day6) through the like ooh-ahh mv and red-haired jihyo really did something to my heart (i just rewatched it and god zombie bang chan is so mf cute)

kim jisoo → when bp made their square two comeback i was immediately smitten for red-haired jisoo in playing with fire, it’s also when i realized she was my bias out of the four members

shin ryujin → the reason that i have blue hair is partially bc of ryujin and her amazing intro in wannabe :D

xuan lu → her portrayal of jiang yanli was SO ON POINT and she’s just such a kindhearted wonderful person wow i want her hand in marriage

lee yoobin → god i’ve known dreamcatcher from back when they were still called minx and ever since i’ve always looked at dami that bit more than the rest, i was also able to see dreamcatcher live in october of 2019 and the whole experience was just so amazing !!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

there’s a whole lot more than just these 10 but i wanted to fit the evolution into one (1) slide as best as i could lmao

peter pan → this movie came out in 2003 (?) and he’s honestly the first fictional character i remember ever having a crush on

legolas → i was really doubting between placing haldir or legolas here but i only really got a vague haldir obsession when i was like 14

zuko → LOOK. ZUKO IN ATLA? HOT. ZUKO IN LOK? HOT EVEN IF HE’S AN OLD MAN.

will turner → man was annoying sometimes but i really liked him and his relationship with elizabeth was cute

jo harvelle → gosh i can’t believe she’s the only female character in here???? yeah she was one of my two spn faves and i’ll never forgive the screenwriters for the way they killed her off

castiel → does your fave ever get sent to super hell for being gay? no? well. mine did

kili → fili and kili’s storyline tore my heart out, spit on it, and then laughed straight in my face, KILI WAS LITERALLY MY FAVORITE DWARF

howl → i only watched this movie for the first time in 2020 so i kinda fucked up the tl cause i watched cql in 2019 but shh, anyways howl with his blonde hair was good looking but howl with his black hair just hits differently. i want a howl

lan jingyi → MY BABY BOY, TINIE LITTLE BABIE WHOMST I MUST PROTECT ok no but seriously this kid. i love him a lot

mu qing → BARK BARK. that’s all (that’s not all i love him a whole lot and it hurts me to see so many people misunderstand his character and only see the bad parts of him when they can forgive others for fucking up (eg. xie lian himself & feng xin) but bc mu qing doesn’t deal well with emotions suddenly he’s the bad guy??? i s2g if ppl are gonna do to him what they did to jiang cheng in the tgcf la i will RIOT)

#thanks for the tag hanyi my hands hurt now </3 #tag game

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huigusu · 3 years ago

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Getting to Know You

thank you for the tag @susuwatari-kompeito @jingyismom @yibobibo @nyx4 @lanwangiji @veronaprincess 💕💕💕 i’m so sorry this is a month late, it was great reading yours and knowing more about you!! 🙌

why did you choose your url?

i’d just finished cql and wanted something significant from the narrative when i started this blog, especially from lwj’s pov 💗

any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

only one, a wangxian sims blog that hasn’t been updated in a while! i love the sims but real life has been getting in the way 😓

how long have you been on tumblr?

since 2011!

do you have a queue tag?

yes omg it’s a boring one though, just “queue ❤” 😅 thought i would keep it general

why did you start your blog in the first place?

because i watched cql and felt a new obsession creeping up on me haha but if you mean my very first one, it was for kpop (SHINee) back in the day!! ✨

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because lwj looks beautiful in it 🥰 and i’ve gotten used to it! kind of like how i recognise everyone by their icon

why did you choose your header?

because that was where lwj realised that his views aligned with wwx’s in cql :’) and it’s in gusu, to match my url!

what’s your post with the most notes?

it’s this domestic wangxian set which i was really surprised by because it started getting traction quite a while after i posted it 😊

how many people do you follow?

154

have you ever made a shitpost?

no i think it’s not really something i’d do, but i laugh a lot at some of those i’ve seen!!

how often do you use tumblr each day?

because of work it’s sadly become like once a day for a short while 😭 miss being on here more

did you have a fight/argument with a blog once?

no and i hope never to!

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

i don’t, usually! like to keep this blog mdzs and xiao zhan wang yibo focused

do you like tag games?

yes!! i’m really glad that people think of me and i wish i had time to do them more quickly 💓

do you like ask games?

i love to see people’s answers!! if i see one that someone has reblogged i’ll definitely try to ask them something 😄 haven’t done one myself but it looks fun

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

i don’t know how to say who is! everyone’s made this fandom tumblr space very supportive and wonderful 💕

do you have a crush on a mutual?

all of them!! and i really mean it haha i admire everyone in different ways - for their character, their skills and so on 🤗

tagging (some new mutuals too, please don’t feel obliged 😚): @lanwuxiann @lzswy @tracer85s @xiaosean @cloudylotus @qinghe-s @lanyuan @xiejie-liubo

#about me #tag game #trying to catch up slowly!!#thank you for tagging 🌸

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sanstropfremir · 4 years ago

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it’s the episode 8 review!!! how many episodes is this show supposed to even be?

the stages from the episode feel like such a grab bag.... i still don’t understand why they didn’t put all the skill stages together, and then did the normal two episodes of the third round. i guess it makes sense that they didn’t want to have six stages in one episode and then three in the other two, but eh.

feeling kinda average on these as a whole, there’s a lot of good elements going on here but probably because of my own preferences (i don’t listen to ballads or blackpink) none of them really hit all the buttons. hopefully this will be a shorter review because i'm only going to do a quick rundown of the vocal stages; i dont really have that much to say about them because they are (intentionally) not very stage picture focused. i'll do the normal stage breakdowns for the other two though, even though i won’t rank them because we still need to see the other four!

vocal stages

sf9 + tbz + ikon

not much to say here other than wow, that’s RED. glad to see some more specific use of spotlighting and i always love when they light things on fire. i do wish they had fill lit with a brighter amber so we could actually get a bit more detail on their faces, especially because there’s six of them. i appreciated the simple blocking and only using one of the ‘stages,’ this stage didn’t need to be anything complicated and it wasn’t. i don’t love spinning camera shots because they make me a bit ill, and i'll forgive the constant cutting because it's a vocal stage and there isn’t any other real movement that we should be paying attention to. not my favourite of the two, i found it visually a bit too repetitive and complex at the same time. always love a crushed velvet suit though, so bonus points for that.

atz + skz + btob

i was braced for the worst and i dont know what kind of miracle happened but it was listenable! like i said, not a ballad fan but i could listen to eunkwang all day. i love a good plinth for a ballad stage, they’re one of my favourite devices in kpop design and i especially love it with a good groundlevel fog. glad they kept it black and white for the first half of the stage, it was in line with the blooming flower projections, and it made a very clear colour arc. they kept the visuals clean and simple with very little blocking at all, a very smart choice for this stage. not sure why they decided it would be the chanel time stage, which i disapprove of because i don’t like chanel, but i do love eunkwang’s shirt with the cameo buttons and the massive turnback cuffs, very 17th and also 19th century. i know they never do it because they dont read on stage normally but yes absolutely more thin chain pendant chokers on men, thank you! i also liked that there was emphasis on a more traditional lighting scheme, there weren't any crazy concert effects, just some good directional beam spotlights and the rear stacks in the climax.

third round stages

ikon

costume

the first look for them is definitely my fabourite of theirs so far. there’s enough variation in the jackets that the base layer of tshirt and jeans don’t look too repetitive. and i do love a good statement jacket. my favourite is probably donghyuk’s because i'm a sucker for fringe always.

i don’t like the backup dancers costumes, but given the way i’ve reacted to every other all black outfit for this entire show i don’t think anyone was surprised about that. these ones particularly irk me because they’re very matte; there's pretty much no texture or pattern differentials to define the shape of the limb, which makes them disappear when theyre all grouped together (mostly on the women). i think they probably were intending to make a statement/emphasis on the hands because of the sleeve cutoff point, but there were so many arm movements that were just totally missed because the costumes were just black voids. most egregious parts are here, with the female dancers up center. i can barely tell what the movements are unless i’m paying specific attention to them because there's so many black shapes. maybe it was the point for it to be an indiscernable writhing mass, but it wasn’t my vibe.

don’t love this styling on lisa. i hate peeptoe shoes in general but peeptoe boots are the worst offenders. they make you look like you have duck feet, no matter who you are. especially with a flat cutout like that. a universally unflattering shoe, and i would know, i worked in a shoe store for two years. this whole look is just pg-13 rihanna cfda awards 2014 and really nobody should try to run up against rihanna.

also i have to mention this because it’s actually really bothering me, but lisa’s backup dancers are serving very allgemeine ss looks and i do not like it. generally when we see ‘military’ uniforms in kpop theyre usually modelled off older styles (pre wwii) of western uniforms that usually aren’t in circulation, and they’re usually non-matching and embellished in ways that are deliberately not military. i know logically that it's a budget constraint+they’re backup dancers+current trend thing but the clean lines with only button detailing and the all black and that specific harness shape? it hit my brain the wrong way. i mean, technically those uniforms are designer because hugo boss did them, but the uh..... girlboss move didn’t land for me.

this is my PERSONAL OPINION please for the love of all that is holy do not come yelling at me about this. it’s all under a cut, you chose to read the post.

set

very glad to see some busy kitschy sets! this is a massive build, since there’s essentially three full sets here: the temple, the jungle, and the first tiny room. and all of them are very heavily decorated.

the starting room is just five walls on casters (wheels), that have been set into place with the cameraman and ikon inside at the start, and then once they exit the walls can be easily struck and rolled off set. simple, smart, and convenient!

i missed it the first couple times around but glitching out the projections in the temple for a split second was a neat little trick.

the silver and polygonal nature of the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a bit disconnected from the gold and the aesthetic of the rest of the stage for me. the difference between the original room set and the jungle tracks, but the cat head isnt able to make the same leap for me. i'm also not a fan of mixing metals so maybe that’s why.

the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a fun physical transitional device; i'm a big fan of tunnels and small transitory spaces like that and if they’re well dressed like this one they do so much for establishing place and mood.

i'm very sure i’ve seen this style of polygonal animal head with laser eyes before....i cannot for the life of me remember where or for what. i know wang yibo did a panther stage for sdc3 that had a human formation panther with green laser eyes, i wonder if i'm just crossing wires.

OH nevermind it’s because it looks like the witcher medallion. wires were definitely crossed.

lighting

using purple/teal lighting for the jungle was a smart choice because purple is the direct compliment to the gold and also is much more flattering on humans than green. green is one of the colours that humans can see the most variations in, so when something is green when it's not supposed to be (like human skin), we register that very quickly and associate it with unease and sickness. you know how old fluorescent lights have that greenish tinge that kinda makes you feel ill? it's your cone cells and your brain recognizing that you’re looking at things that are not supposed to be green.

very clean colour arc, i love to see it.

sound

it’s.....fine? i don’t listen to blackpink and have no opinions on their music other than it's not my type. i dont really know what the thematic connection to the visuals is, which is not strictly necessary in a lot of cases, but i don’t particularly care for the conflation of ‘savage’ and a (presumably) precolonial religion that’s assembled from stereotypes of real colonized cultures. you can come at me about how ‘it's not that deep’ all you want but i am here specifically doing an in depth analysis, and i gotta point it out. i'm not here to pass judgement on you if you didn’t realize or don’t care or whatever, i'm just saying that it's important to consume content with a critical eye. what you do with that information is your own personal choice, but you should be aware of it at least.

staging

they took a big risk eating popcorn right before singing, and we definitely got some residual mouth noises of them trying to clean out their teeth. eating on stage is difficult in general because you have to make sure it's not going to dry out the performers mouths, because they dont have access to water and it takes WAY longer to chew and swallow something than you would expect. there’s a LOT of testing that goes into making stage food and guaranteed it’s not made out of what it looks like or what its supposed to be; i worked on a production of amadeus were we did literal weeks of testing amalgams of different desserts to make sure that salieri could actually eat the ones onstage without totally drying him out, because fun fact about that show, salieri doesnt leave stage like, at all, so there was no way to get him water. poor bloke.

i thought the blocking of this was really smart. the long take from the ‘normal’ room and transition into the jungle was super slick, even if that weird circle the camera did while pointed up at the ceiling was unnecessary and pointless.

bobby’s ‘acting’ was extremely funny and that’s the only way people are allowed to act surprised now. edvard munsch scream style only.

the pacing is a bit off and this time it wasn’t mnet’s editing that fucked it up. as fun as it is to have a feature, clearly she wasn’t allowed within proximity of the rest of them for covid or other yg related reasons, but it made for some extremely long transitions, especially the one out of her verse. it kills the momentum of the stage in that beat, even though they manage to pick it up after.

this is a very simple little narrative arc that’s easy to follow and doesn’t require any extra explaining. which is exactly the kind of arc that groups should be doing at this stage in the game. this is a good formic step up for ikon!

i thought the turning off of the monitor at the end was fun and a good callback to them watching the videos at the beginning of the stage. a nice clean way to make it circular.

skz

costume

FINALLY something different on the skz boys! these were mostly fun eboy looks for them, and i like it on the basis that it's not the same as the last set of costumes.

bang chan out there with his thigh OUT and a (fake) bridge piercing? LOVE to see it. great work.

(copy-paste every thing i’ve said about backup dancers wearing all black)

the backup dancers that were dressed as bystanders/extras were great! they should have kept that with all of them because it would have given a little more shape to the choreography and establishing what function the backup dancers were supposed to have.

set

that is meant to be a giant rice cooker on stage, right? i think so because it's a god’s menu mashup? if that's not a rice cooker i have NO idea what its supposed to be

there’s only two large setpieces here, which was a smart way to go. i LOVE the subway car doubling as the truck, even if the truck itself makes no narrative sense. what a fun way to double the use of a single big piece. you’ll be able to see the way it moves in the full cam but it splits down the centre and there entrance doors at the back with attached stairs that bang chan and the dancers use to climb up.

lighting

not a whole lot happening here. i like the cool white leds in the subway car and the contrast with the more warm tones of the outside, which is good atmospheric establishment, but i can't discern a visible arc.

not a fan of these projections; they’re in line with what we’ve seen from skz so far, which is: extremely literal. i dont think they’re that distracting, but they’re not to my personal taste. they really should have kept the comic panel theme that they did for changbin’s first verse, because that was inventive and fun to watch! and a great atmospheric indicator! i would love to see a bit more experimental projection use but it's hard when they don’t have a lot of time to build these stages and the lighting team is definitely working remotely.

sound

i love that they made the choice to do some actual talking, it’s a good gimmick and it works for the deadpool/comic book/fourth wall break theme, but australian accents take me the fuck out i am so sorry i cannot listen to either felix or bang chan speak english without laughing uncontrollably.

i don’t like this arrangement but i'm not surprised about that, given my predilections. i'm also tired of skz shouting STRAY KIDS in every performance they do. i know on music shows it's probably more relevant and yea producers tags are a thing but we’ve been watching this show for nearly two months at this point. we know who you are, you can stop yelling. be more creative with it!

staging

my biggest issue with this stage is that it doesn’t have a payoff. there is an arc here: they’re stealing the truck, but why are they stealing the truck? who are they stealing it from? who are they fighting against? it's kind of important in a stage where the theme is stealing and fighting someone that you tell us who that is. in both of ateez’s previous stages were they were both stealing (rhythm ta) and fighting (wonderland), they made sure to show us who the villain was. there needs to be tension for a big blowup climax to actually pay off. whether it be against a a balloon arm kraken or a fascist government. this stage could have reached that next step if they’d just done a little bit more exposition.

there were a lot of fun choreo moments here, and this is probably my favourite choreo of theirs so far. i thought the whole first bit in the subway car was excellent and a very fun play on those viral videos that we used to see roll around every so often of dancers doing routines in subway cars.

did it need the guns? not in the slightest. more on this point later. i could talk more about weapons and weight here, but i’ve done that several times already.

like with the tbz game of thrones stages, theyre relying a little too much on the audience's preconceptions of the source material in order to carry the theme. the guns are there because deadpool likes guns, but they don’t actually use the guns for anything? the most we get of the stealing segment is felix and the safe, which admittedly is a great bit with him leaping over and under the ‘laser’ lines (theyre likely led strips). because comic books are by nature procedural and deeply tied to narrative, it's unsatisfying when there’s no tension and no payoff.

HOW did we manage to get two stages that are blackpink covers with remote/tv static gimmick and durags? i know the slot machine of kpop tropes is not very big but surely the probability of hitting triple sevens on this one was pretty low. i’m pretty meh on both of these stages overall. skz was unsatisfying but i loved the choreo in the subway bit so that bumped it up a little ahead of ikon’s in my personal preferences, but i'm reserving my actual rankings for next week. assuming we get the other four stages next week and they dont do something stupid and only show two. which they very well might. i’ve stopped trying to understand why mnet does things the way that they do.

as always the ask box is open, drop your comments/questions/personal opinions, i love to hear ‘em! but don’t be rude just because some of this is touchier subject material.

#kingdom #ateez #btob #ikon #sf9 #the boyz #stray kids #military uniforms are a weird one and i always find it a bit....(squiggly face emoji) when they get used in kpop stages #everybody is one of the exceptions because its used as a direct critique #but this is a very personal opinion as someone who has done a lot of historical research on military uniforms in particular #so im hyperaware of that kind of thing #be cool about this one people please and thank you!#im so glad this came in under 3k #kingdom review #kpop analysis #text #ive had to write a lot of deeply critical art practice analysis in the last week and i would like to sleep

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yibo-wang · 4 years ago

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thank you for the tag hanyi @leonzhng some of these are highly embarrassing but I was young and dumb 😂

New tag game: post pictures of your first ever (fictional/celeb) crush to the latest one and tag five others to continue the game

Also I agree with you, sometimes I cant distinguish if it's a crush or just a fav character so I'll merge them both.

Under the cut because 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

In a sorta chronological order:

Trunks (dbz): fhjf ig Trunks was my first ever crush lol, but yeah looking back now i think i have a thing for characters with swords.

Videl (dbz): went back to watching dbz again and yeah she was definitely my bi awakening even if I didnt know what that was then

Fawad Khan: this was when my cousin got me hooked on humsafar, I got to see him from afar tho and ig that invoked the crush feelings more ??

Harry Styles: ah yes the 1d era, lasted for a really long time I'm pretty sure it's still there.

Bucky Barnes: also one of the longest crushes, Bucky is just I really really love Bucky. Comic Bucky was my first intro of him and then catfa came and like the way sebastian stan portrayed him👌👌 I'm pretty sure it wasnt even a crush (it was love)

Jhope: (I forgot to add the picture) but Jhope was my fav (still is) from bts. Literally a ray of sunshine and I love him so much!

Taehyung: bias wrecker fjfk, but this was after I watched Hwarang and I really loved his character

Alec Lightwood: ahhh I loved Alec in the novels and watched the show for him too. Mathew Dadario played him so well, also archery is incredibly sexi

Isabelle Lightwood: ngl I didnt have a crush on her until the show because have you SEEN HER IN THE SHOW?!!

Castiel: Cas is more of a favourite than a crush but damnit am I not in love with baddass warriors who would do anything for humanity (*cough* dean *cough*) but anyway this antisocial, terribly awkward, extremely hot with an angel blade, literally an angel, you really cant blame me for it

Charlie Bradbury: I think charlie was the first openly lesbian character I'd ever seen in a show (when I actually started to understand stuff) and I'm extremely bitter over how they killed her off but Charlie was such a nerd and a genius and just kind and funny and badass and yeah I love her

Healer: my first kdrama I think?? But yeah he's very hot fifkf

Kang song joo (dr. Romantic): I think it was extremely sexi how he knew his stuff. That scene from the show where he's practicing doing the stitch in under a minute 👀👀👀

Jackson Wang: I blame sdc because it showed me what a huge dork this guy is and I am weak for dorky guys who are skilled at what they do 🤷🏻‍♀️

Seulgi (red velvet): okay but with seulgi, I saw a picture of her on tumblr and one of my moots introduced her to me and then it was just me listening to her music and watching dance videos all night long. She's really really pretty!

Lee Joo Young: I watched itaewon class and loved her acting. She's so cute and tiny 🥺💛

Earn (2gether): lesbiearnnnn let's go! Earn is definitely my second favourite after TineWat. She's just, I love her alot.

Yoongi: a babie but also the duality of this man.

Bright Vachirawit: putting how he is extremely attractive aside, bright is such a kind soul and literally the sweetest. I really wish the world treats him better, he deserves so much love 🥺💛

Wang Zhoucheng: finishing the untamed, I did not realise what a dork this guy was irl. His douyins are so cute and I am still not over the Harry Potter one like wzc??!! Cutie certified 10/10

Xuan Lu: I think we've established that I want her hand in marriage

Wen Qing: I forgot to add her picture but Wen Qing can step on me okay? Like I would so anything for her no questions asked. Miss Doctor Boss Lady can do anything.

Wei Wuxian: SUNSHINE PERSONIFIED. SEXY FLUTE BOY. ABSOLUTE GENIUS WHO HAS ZERO BRAINCELLS!

Xiao Zhan: 💖💛💜🧡💙🐱

Yibo: alright so in this essay i— fjfkg everyone knows my love for him so I'll just finish this off here 😂

tagging: @gremlinmetawin @purplexedhuman @morksuns @candicewright @nyx4 @wei-gege @veronaprincess @aheartfullofjolllly @manhasetardis (if you want to 💛 djfjf ik childhood crushes can be embarrassing lmao XD also ik hanyi tagged some of you but I'd love to see yours hehe)

#.#tumblr games #im missing some even from this but like it was getting too long

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