#wu chuchu

[liobi]

there was a bit where i paused the show, turned to triss, and told them how the meeting between A'Fei and Chuchu would go down if it was a baihe show. Then we unpaused and Beat For Beat they met exactly like I said

back when @trisshawkeye and i were really just getting started on our cdrama rabbit hole, Legend of Fei was our first show after Untamed and I cannot tell you how glad i am that we went from a show with a complex villain to a guy who wanted a stash of literal lightsabers because we got to see the full gamut of cdrama antagonists right from the get go

[welcometothejianghu]

A little Legend of Fei In Real Life tonight, because I feel like looking at pictures of attractive people. (Skipping the two mains, because it's well-documented what they look like out of costume.)

Zhang Hui Wen / Wu Chuchu

Chen Ruo Xuan / Li Sheng

Zhang Xin Yu / Yang Jin

Leng Ji Yuan / Ying Hecong

Sun Jian / Yin Pei

Zhou Jie Qiong / Li Yan

Geng Le / Shen Tianshu

Guo Xin / Mu Xiaoqiao

Dong Xuan / Duan Jiuniang

[sassybluee]

for the fandom thing: legend of fei?

LEGEND OF FEIII!! Yesss! Thank you for the ask :P

Favorite Male Character - Xie Yun

Favorite Female Character - Zhou Fei

Least Favorite Character - Yin Pei... had so much potential and just got the cartoon villain treatment by the end

Favorite Ship - yunfei but a close second is the one braincell trio

Favorite Friendship - Wu Chuchu and Zhou Fei 🥺

Favorite Quote - It's been so long since I watched the show so my memory is fuzzy of the exact quote but when ZF is trying to get the medicine for Xie Yun and just telling master Tongmin she'll do whatever it takes as long as she can see him... my heart.

Worst Character Death (if any) - oh my god one char death that made me rly sad was the North Blade Master (Ji Yunchen I think was his name?) Idk he was so cool and gone too soon lmao.

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment - when Xie Yun finally sees Zhou Fei after being in a coma and ZF just missing him while he's awake etc. Just... UGH so good.

Saddest Moment - When Xie Yun "dies" (ZF thinks he's dead)

Favorite Location - Oooh I loved the little medicine valley sm

Send me a fandom and I'll answer...

[randomshenaniganery]

TGCF Donghua

okay so I've been watching this shit since it was released and I'm fully enjoying waiting for the weekly episodes and I wanna rant about it because I love it so much but I do have some minor gripes

Bad chuchu out of the way first

I am not happy with how generic and unoriginal the designs for most of the supporting characters. Like yeah they still look somewhat different but when the pool of named characters will expand it will get harder and harder to tell people apart if they keep on going with this route. Almost everyone suffers from same face syndrome which I know is rampant in current anime I just wished they allowed for at least more dynamic silhouettes, hairstyles, and color palettes. It feels like a more toned down version of the character design in the manhua. Lang Qianqiu in the manhua is so easy to recognize because of his outfit and pei ming looks more like the bastard he is etc. Don't get me started on the design for Kemo, the manhua felt eh I feel like Kemo was too pretty and too slim but in the donghua its just he's a straight up orc idk, i feel like they could've done better. Pei Su looks very generic, I think out of everyone he's the most generic looking of them all. SQX, Ling Wen and Jun Wu are the best designs for the supporting cast and I think Banyue is also okay looking cause you can tell her apart from the rest so far.

I am super disappointed in Qi Rong's reveal because it doesn't feel as impactful in the book. In the book the reveal of him looking like Xie Lian was so dramatic to me I was like oh my god is that his brother? A twin? a doppelganger? And then Qi Rong just kinda looks like that, tbh his voice actor and his clothes are fine I think they fit. It's just weird how he suffers from same face syndrome. If they made everyone look less like each other making Qi Rong look like Xie Lian would have been so impactful and a really cool cliffhanger but they couldn't do that because even fucking Lang Qianqiu kinda looks like Xie Lian with lighter hair. Also the Fang xin design is alright on the clothes but the mask gives off a bit cheap however I get that it can't be super detailed and it still does its job so I can handwave that small pet peeve.

Also censorship we couldn't get Xie Lian falling on Hua Cheng's lap and so them trying to make up for that was super awkward LMAO, they could have solved this by making SQX fall right on Hua Cheng's chair so that they could justify why Xie Lian grabbed Hua Cheng and throws him but they didn't... and it's so awkward...

I think it was like Episode 2 of s2 that the animation feels weird, Mu Qing's face felt off to me idk what was going on it just felt like something went down but the next episode it was perfectly fine anyway.

Positives!!!

Something the manhua didn't have was Fu Yao and Nan Feng looking a bit like each other, that was so fucking funny and it's a great display of how much they hate each other and live rent free in each other's heads ong. I love that detail the donghua did I think that's smart.

The voice actors are so great in both dubs they're doing amazing (I haven't listened to the jp dub) I have no complaints I love their work

ONE of my favorite things about the donghua is being able to see Hua Cheng's expressions even when Xie Lian is doing something in the book so he wouldn't notice. I love seeing how pleased he is every time someone points out the intimacy with him and Xie Lian. Like in season 1 when Fu Yao is shocked/horrified that Xie Lian shared a bed with Hua Cheng, San Lang puts a hand on his chin and looks so fucking smug and happy. This happens a couple times in s2 as well someone will be like oh that's weird you're so like this with Hua Cheng and he becomes a smug cat it's great.

Another one I enjoy is during the beginning of the banyue arc when Xie Lian reveals to Fu Yao and Nan Feng that he's used to sleeping in squalor the camera goes to Nan Feng not revealing his face but clearly showing his guilt over what Xie Lian reveals. That's good shit.

Lan Chang picking a fight off screen, also cool, love seeing her. I like that she looks inconspicuous so for someone who doesn't know shit about tgcf they will not see *that* shit coming.

ALSO the men look kinda generic if they're not the mls but the girls are all gorgeous???? like the woman who was Hua Cheng's speaker, the girl who led Xie Lian further into the gambling den, XUAN JI, Banyue all the girls are unique without being so ostentatious and I love them. If you put them beside each other they all look like they're own thing but still on theme. From clothes, to hairstyle and colors it's easy to tell and that's good design. I also include SQX's female form cause she's gorgeous too.

The donghua I think adds to stuff I haven't read I'm not sure if this is because I have a bad memory but I don't recall reading a flashback of Lang Qianqiu and the failed robbery. But the message of that entire section was so fucking good. The way that what Lang Qianqiu said about 'maybe he shouldn't have intervened' and the sound effects UGh. It's so good, i love how the book tackles the morality of everything, breaking down Lang Qianqiu's firm positivity and believing in humanity but still promoting being kind and considerate through Xie Lian. This theme still carries on in the show and I think they're doing a great job.

GOD THE MUSIC in the donghua is so fucking good, I love it. The songs, the meanings, the beat it's all perfect I can't say anything more.

even though i'm disappointed in the character design choices the donghua is very solid, I love it a lot. It does come off as very expositiony sometimes but I think that's very prevalent in Chinese Wuxia and Xianxia. Probably weird for people who aren't used to the genre but to anyone who's seen something like it, it's not unbearable and it's kinda necessary because of how the book is written. Waiting for wednesday patiently whilst i draw huahua

There are so many fun details the Donghua adds that shows that they know the story and where it's going as well hinting at character stuff, it's so fun to spot those. Like Xie Lian's reaction to Hua Cheng biting the bun made me wanna claw my face that shit was good af.

[thelaithlyworm]

WIP meme

Thanks for tagging me @nemainofthewater and also @bladedweaponsandswishycoats

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Disclaimer: some of these are for fandoms that I barely remember and are unlikely to be continued, others are just vaguely sketched in ideas without much in the way of writing...

A Little House in Pingting (it was a c-drama called, maybe Exquisite Girl? something like that. interesting worldbuilding and i'm not sure why i didn't get to the finale)

A-Ning Stays For Lunch (Heavenly Palace, DMBJ)

An Imperfectly Articulated Knowing (Nirvana In Fire)

Bai Haotian & Li Cu Meet (Post-Reboot, DMBJ)

Banking Fire (Ashes of Love)

Black Coffee (Star Trek La Sirena)

Blackboard Notes: Crimson Spider Takes the Pearl (DMBJ)

Bright Soul (Nirvana In Fire)

Chuchu Rescue Fic (DMBJ, Reboot)

Cicada Season

Fei Liu's Marvellous, Wonderful, Never-Bad, Very Good Day

Hard Times At Wushanju (DMBJ)

Heat in the Belly, Like Burning Coal (DMBJ, Sand Sea)

If At First You Don't Succeed (DMBJ, Reboot)

Portraits of a Young Lady (Nirvana in Fire)

Possible Su Nan & Wu Xie friendship (DMBJ, Sand Sea)

Purge (Star Trek La Sirena)

Scheduling (DMBJ)

Scratching at Oblivion (DMBJ, Nausicaa of the Valley of Winds)

The Fall and Rise of Bai Shan, Hapless Grad Student (DMBJ, Mystery in the Abyss)

The Humperdinck Variation (Princess Bride)

The Lone Dumb Husky and Cub (erha)

The Most Mysterious Thing (DMBJ, Reboot)

The Pleasant Night Has Come (that one where hou minghao played a dragon)

Xiao Bai Deals with Death (DMBJ, Reboot)

Yanyou and Runyu After the End (Ashes of Love)

tagging (if you choose to be tagged) @procrastinatorproject @regionalpancake @jazzfic @bean-in-dice @foxofninetales

[minnarr]

Thank you for tagging me, @nemainofthewater

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I'm excluding multichapters that are partially posted and things I'm just not thinking about anymore, but here's some I'm either actively working on or still really want but they're on the backburner. I've done pretty okay finishing some wips this year! there's some that were on the list for a while that are now finished and posted!

MiSa Liability

please leave me alone (shanjiang/buyi/shaoshang)

qjx meet the kid [i published the fic this doc was made for but there's a sequel in progress in it] 

zhou fei and wu chuchu play house

tagging @deepestbluesky @rainsfalling @bisexualshakespeare @bladedweaponsandswishycoats

[dailyasiandramas]

[lunarriviera]

i have finished reboot & i am sad

it's bittersweet—i mean, it was time to be finished with it; i've been watching it literally over the course of the pandemic. but enough! all things must end, even the arduously dragged-out conclusion of a whacked-out chinese tomb raiding drama featuring poisonous gas, hordes of insects, zombies, hand crabs, flying carnivorous clams, and "coffin dew," which like all the rest of those things does not exist. ruminations and pictures and spoilers behind the cut!

1. so why is this xie yuchen the most boring xie yuchen out of all of them? i don't even know this actor's name because i never bothered learning it. also when the hell did he become a doctor and do sketchy operations on people without anaesthesia? he's wearing pink, he's rich, he has the same name; but there the resemblance ends. this is not the xiao hua we know and love. where is my bitchy swishy opera-singing organized crime boss? no wonder there's no chemistry between him and xiazi; this guy barely has a pulse. sorry to this man. nice sweater, tho.

2. i was trying to prove that pangzi says "that's not your xiaoge" (which he doesn't, those are bad subtitles; he just says "that's not xiaoge") and instead captured this adorable picture of drunk bai haotian. xiao bai gets a bad rap—mao xiaotong is adorable and sweet and��honestly kinda hot when she's not trapped in a bowl haircut and overalls. i appreciate that wu xie, busily dying of lungs, doesn't have time or patience to explain to her why he's not available, but zhu yilong plays it wisely straight down the middle, face impassive. ship it or don't, he seems to be saying; i don't care, it's not up to me anyway—the viewer can read it however they want. (but wu xie does manhandle her on more than one occasion and that's also kinda hot.)

3. admittedly liu sang is very very pretty but i still don't want him in my pingxie, like mint in my chocolate chip ice cream. no thank you please. i have always considered myself a multishipper, a live-and-let-live fan; but this fandom has taught me i'm monogamous and i guess there's nothing i can do about that. still. look at liu chang's beautiful features. he made me care about jinx beyond just his function as a whump magnet, and that's an achievement. someday maybe his ouxiang will give him the hug he deserves.

4. speaking of beautiful just look at these total idiots. i'm going to miss their stupid faces. xiaoge drinking water, so he can be sober enough to take his drunk husband home and put him to bed. wu xie so plastered that i have inadvertently captured the one (1) image of the most beautiful man in the world making a derp face.

BONUS: whatever this beautiful cranky bitchy "doctor" has going on. which definitely involves feelings he still has for wu xie, after what happened in germany. (you know what happened in germany.)

and that's it, that's a wrap. in the meantime zhu yilong has been in cannes being absolutely heart-stoppingly fucking divine, and i will bet you a hundred flying carnivorous clams that the next time he's there, his film will be in competition. the condé nast cover story didn't hurt. with each entrée he cements his reputation and, more importantly, protects himself from the increasingly nasty sweeps of china "cleaning up" c-ent. i honestly don't know what there is to clean up anymore; there's almost nothing left. immortality and the live-action of tgcf not being released; justice in the dark just abandoned not even halfway through. this doesn't end well.

at least as far as lost tomb goes, though, i've decided i'm proceeding backwards—so next i'm watching sand sea/sha hai, because i want to spend time with mob widow wu xie (qin hao has won me over via gifset) and ji chen's xiazi. until then, pouring one out for li jiale and chuchu. and wu erjing i guess. 干杯!

[missfangirll]

☆°･:*:･｡★ Videos ★ ｡･:*:･°☆

★ 陈情令 | The Untamed ★

☆ Nothing More (Xiao Xingchen) ☆ Memories (Xiao Xingchen/Song Lan) ☆ Der Weg (Xiao Xingchen/Song Lan)   

★ 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook ★

☆ Never your friend (Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua/Di Feisheng) ☆ Coming Home (Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua/Di Feisheng) ☆ Nothing’s Like Home (Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua/Di Feisheng) ☆ Homesick  (Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua/Di Feisheng)

    ★ 盗墓笔记 | The Lost Tomb ★

☆ Read my Lips (The Lost Tomb Restart: The Grave in the Abyss, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Saving Grace (The Lost Tomb Restart: The Grave in the Abyss, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Never Again (The Lost Tomb Restart: The Grave in the Abyss, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Like Real People Do (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Ugly Heart (The Mystic Nine: Qing Shan Hai Tang, Yan Sanxing) ☆ The Storm (The Lost Tomb Restart: The Grave in the Abyss, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Unstoppable (The Lost Tomb Restart: The Grave in the Abyss, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Someone you loved (The Lost Tomb: Sand Sea, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) ☆ Someone you loved (ver.2) (The Lost Tomb: Sand Sea, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) ☆ My Clan (The Lost Tomb & The Mystic Nine: Zhang Family tribute) ☆ The Anthem (The Lost Tomb: Sand Sea, Su Nan) ☆ The Kill (The Mystic Nine: Qing Shan Hai Tang, Yan Sanxing) ☆ Poker Face (The Lost Tomb, Zhang Qiling) ☆ Material Girl (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi) ☆ Always been you (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Kan Jian/Liu Sang) ☆ With Iris (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Iron Triangle) ☆ A Thousand Years (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Kan Jian/Liu Sang, Reincarnation AU) ☆ Say Goodbye (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Wu Xie & Wu Sanxing) ☆ Two (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Pangzi) ☆ Runaway (The Lost Tomb, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) ☆ Stay Alive (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) ☆ I will not bow (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Liu Sang) ☆ Counting stars (The Lost Tomb: Sand Sea, Liang Wan/Zhang Rishan) ☆ Seven Wonders (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Flatline (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ I’ve been blind (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Rock Bottom (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Where do lovers go? (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) ☆ King and Lionheart (The Mystic Nine, Fo Ye & Zhang Rishan) ☆ Time well wasted (The Lost Tomb 2, Wu Xie/Xiao Hua) ☆ The Last Snowfall (Tibetan Sea Flower, Zhang Qiling) ☆ Behind the mask (Tibetan Sea Flower, Zhang Haike & Zhang Haixing) ☆ Warriors (Tibetan Sea Flower, Scorpion Team) ☆ You look good in white (The Lost Tomb Restart: The Grave in the Abyss, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ All about that bass (DMBJ tiddie tattoo appreciation) ☆ Nice to meet you (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Wang Pangzi/Ye Piaopiao) ☆ Foolish One (The Lost Tomb: Reunion, Hei Xiazi&/Chuchu) ☆ Accidentally in love (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua) ☆ Pieces (Tibetan Sea Flower, Zhang Qiling/Wu Xie) ☆ 99 Problems (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Wu Xie) ☆ Glitter and Gold (The Lost Tomb, Zhang Qiling) ☆ Dear Future Husband (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, Hei Xiazi/Xiao Hua)

     ★ 镇魂 | Guardian ★

☆ Favourite Song (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Eternity (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Shallow (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Come to me (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ I’ll wait (Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng) ☆ Alone (Ye Zun) ☆ Die for you (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ We won't be falling (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Fear of the Water (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Silence (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ We found love (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Enough to go by (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ All the love that I ever needed (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ These old wheels (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) ☆ Someone to stay (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)

     ★ S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery ★

☆ True Love (Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao)

               ★ 天官赐福 | Heaven Officials’s Blessing ★

☆ Coming Home (Xie Lian/Hua Cheng)

     ★ 苍兰诀  | Love between Fairy and Devil ★

☆ I used to rule the world (Dongfang Qingcang & Xunfeng)

    ★ KinnPorsche ★

☆ Half a Man (Vegas/Pete) ☆ Poison (Vegas/Pete) ☆ Would you come home (Vegas/Pete)

     ☆ﾟ･:*:･｡★ﾟ You can always send an ask! ★ ｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ ☆

[thatlittlemouse]

the mute village part of the restart novel was a nice little story, with a fun framing device of being told by multiple people over dinner, I literally cannot understand why it became THAT in the drama (deep sigh)

but anyway, the ending has a few hei xiazi thoughts that I thought were interesting

When the incident in the past happened with chuchu he felt bad about it and lingered a while around her to make sure she's okay, and then later when he met her he still felt somewhat indebted to her

Even if reluctantly he wanted to help her and didn't want her getting hurt again

It seems that he gets soft hearted sometimes, but doesn't really like it. If there's an emotion clouding his judgement he prefers to get rid of it

If relationships are born from cause and effects, he feels most at peace when he closes that loop and leaves that relationship and the emotions tied to it behind

(he feels the most calm when his heart is like a desert? that's depressing actually)

That still begs the question to me about what the people currently in his life are to him, does he also want to close whatever debts he has with them and leave eventually? Or is this mindset mostly applicable to "regular" people since having them in his life wouldn't work out well anyway

Of course my heihua brain is chewing on this, what is xie yuchen to him in this context

After he says goodbye, he gives xiao hua's contact info to her, as someone who is a source of information and an avenue of contact to him

He's definitely someone in his life who he won't or can't get rid of 🧐

In my mind they're an exception to each other when it comes to a lot of things, since they're two people who prefer to not get attached, but I think they're very special to each other, anyway I lost track HEIHUA AM I RIGHT

(also there's a scene earlier where he goes like "these kids are so troublesome" and lists su wan, li cu AND wu xie lol, xiao hua is not in the kids category I guess ;))

[agendratum]

[baifengxis]

reasons to watch legend of fei  ♡ 3/∞ girls + blades

[ohsehuns]

Legend of Fei | Xie Yun’s identities & getting exposed

[shit-lords-of-ren]

Legend of Fei characters as John Mulaney gifs

Zhou Fei

Xie Yun

Wu Chuchu

Li Sheng

Li Yan

Yang Jin

Yin Pei

Ying He Cong

Bonus Xie Yun:

[orchisailsa]

Okay but can we just stop for one moment to talk about Wu Chuchu, and acknowledge exactly how ride-or-die this girl is? 

Like, a month or two ago her life was completely normal. She was a completely, totally average teenage girl. But she has now lived to see her parents murdered, her brother lost and presumed dead, and literally just saw someone WEARING HER OWN FACE running through the town, distracting the terrifying crime syndicate martial arts sect that is actively chasing her down to murder her for her jewelry.

I can’t say for sure, but I’m really not sure that I, at seventeen, could handle all that. Like at all. In any way. I’m pretty sure I would have been absolutely catatonic after seeing someone in a flawless ME SUIT staring back into my eyes in the midst of provoking a well armed group of terrifying gangsters.

But she holds it together. She learns. She grows. She resolves to stop being a damsel in distress and -- even though she is alone and scared out of her god damned mind -- she keeps her shit together and she freaking DOES IT. I’m not even talking about later when she becomes a super valuable martial arts historian/scholar. I mean RIGHT NOW, when she bodily flings herself in front of a woman who she knows a) could kill her with literally one flick of her hand and b) is seriously, deeply mentally ill and highly unpredictable, to protect Xie Yun, who is obviously more well trained and physically capable than she is (even now, when we haven’t learned anything much about his health issues).

I just think it’s important to acknowledge that at this point in her story she... isn’t special and strong and well trained. She has no martial arts training at all. She’s led a very sheltered life as a young maiden and the eldest daughter of a respectable family. But that doesn’t stop her from keeping her wits about her and stepping up to defend her friends when she knows she needs to do something.

THAT IS SO HARD. She’s a kid who probably never had to kill a cockroach on her own before. I just want to applaud her.

I love Chuchu and I love stories with strong female characters and I FREAKING LOVE when people who aren’t magical, gifted, or touched by fate can still somehow manage to step up and grow and evolve and be badass -- especially in a wuxia story like this where supernatural powers of strength and speed and healing are so prevalent in the world building of the universe.