#wudi

[kingsandbastardz]

here u go, ask for trying times: give me your pitch for shipping wudi, i've got maybe one foot on that ship but i'm curious on your thoughts (gl on the all-nighter!!)

I survived it, sorta. The deadlines keep trucking om 😭 So here's my thoughts:

It's really unfortunate that we don't see enough of Wuyan but I do think we have enough of a framework to draw some interesting conclusions about them both relationship-wise. So here's to me heavily analyzing the 5 minutes Wuyan is on screen! LMAO:

Service as show of devotion - Chooses to act like and appear as a lower rank personal servant to dfs even though he clearly has a lot of power to draw from to get things done and dfs tells him he sees his rank as being much higher

Of everyone that focuses their attention on dfs, he's the only one that doesn't want to own or control him (master di - slave, jlq - wife, llh - 主人, fdb - wants to be in charge)

Despite knowing he was massively outclassed, still put himself in lxy's path at donghai

Shared experience: both survived the Donghai battle together and both have matching chest scars courtesy of lxy. They also worked side by side for years to accomplish the same goals

Llh is presented as knowing dfs the best - but imo, that means wuyan knows even more. Wuyan knows all the why's that llh doesn't know

We don't see much general conversation but considering how relaxed dfs is around him and willing to winge about personal things - he seems like he's actually capable of communicating well with dfs lmao

Pure headcanon here, but I want to say he and dfs learned or figured out how to hide their chi at a high level together. DFS uses it all the time and seems to be undetectable even to llh - wuyan seems to be undetectable to the world - I mean i think his name means something like "without presence"? He comes pre-labelled. So I think it's something martial-skill related that would give additional meat to dfs' respect for him

Guards dfs' secrets - how dfs truly feels about all the mengzhu stuff and rankings etc. Don't know if he knows anything about Di Fortress, but anything he does know about dfs' background it's not going to be a topic of conversation

He pays attention to dfs' preferences and knows how to deliver them in the form he prefers (see jlq who doesn't know his preferences and hates that dfs doesn't like what she prepared for him)

As a personal guard, in the early days when dfs was weaker, he likely went with dfs to any secret meetings with llh, hid his chi to keep guard, and was privy to what went on between them. Likely is the only one that would know this information - which is also why he fully understands why dfs is obsessed with llh and supports him. And listened to him mourn him for however many years (I assume he's the one providing clean clothes and food during seclusion so that's 10 years of crying he's been privy to)

Is willing to extend his top level standard of service to the ppl dfs cares about

He acts like he's a nobody, and he's not a pretty face, but everything points to him actually being a very, very competent and high-level guy in his area of expertise? So a good match to dfs. His martial skill isn't comparable, so he can't fight him like lxy, but he can do all the things dfs doesn't like to do - like the organizational stuff, dealing with and managing ppl, etc.

Headcanon again: i can really see them having an experimental phase in their youth together. Like something where dfs and him kinda decide to test things out and then maybe deciding the timing was bad or they weren't into each other like that at that time or whatever. But deciding to remain friends instead. And continuing to build jinyuan alliance together and everything else. It's like best bro + work spouse rolled into one -- with the wild result that they come out even stronger at the end of it. Think lxy + zhan yunfei but they see each other and work together every day. Successfully. With some extra headcanon and a small stretch you can probably position him and dfs as foils to lxy and shan gudao? (Sadly not enough info about the formation of daily workings of JA back then)

headcanon continued: They have to have good communication because they negotiated or figured out how to navigate their Situation and have clearly been at it for awhile - with one being a 'servant' and with the other one having ptsd issues with servitude/slavery. In the waterfall scene we get to see dfs mildly checking in and essentially being all, "Uh, you still good there? Remember you can change things up any time you want. My opinion of you is still A++ fyi" and Wuyan essentially signalling he's fine by continuing on as always.

Wuyan is the last person alive that remembers who dfs was before Jinyuan Alliance and the development of the Di Mengzhu persona. He helped craft that persona.

Basically if you are into themes like fealty and devotion and the sort of comfort you can get from a long time friendship where they've seen each other at their worst. Where they've figured out how to communicate and operate/exist together seamlessly while making allowances for each others' needs and interests. This is it!

They could be queer platonic, they could be sexual, they can be any permutations of anything and it still doesn't change the basis of their relationship which is years of trust, communication, hard work and shared experiences.

Like imagine teenagers - one holding the other guy's hair up while he vomits blood and bile into an alley. Where they patch each others' wounds in the shadow of someone's doorway after getting their asses kicked but somehow also saving each other from getting killed that day. They're the ones that figure out how to kill together. How to hide together. They figure out how to teach others to kill and hide together. They build power with their joined hands and with it they gain the money and prestige that allows them a comfortable place to sleep and full bellies. They give this same thing to others. They build it up so well people can afford to do normal ppl shit like fall in love and get married.

These are things they likely wouldn't have thought of when they were engaged in a battle royale in the street. It's them, their circle of friends, against everyone else in the world. And even when all their friends are now dead - they're still alive. They're still together. They'll see it through.

Maybe one day they'll find their way into each other's beds - the future is ever changing. But whether they do or not doesn't matter - they already have each other. They've survived this much together. Anything else is just icing.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bronze & Crystal Sword,

Warring States Period and Wudi Period of Han Dynasty (c. 4th-2nd century BC),

Chinese bronze sword with turquoise studded, gold inlaid rock crystal hilt.

Length 22.83 in / Width 3.15 in /

Collection & Credit: Cardale Auctioneers

[archivingbarca]

fcbarcelona: President Joan Laporta, Aitana Bonmatí, and Lamine Yamal

(ig, 29/10/24)

[dark-heart-555]

Why do some people bring their morals with them to read books. Like yes I'm very happy for you that you have your morals in order but I would like it very much if you would stop pushing it down my throat. So what if I enjoy the mc even if they go stabby stabby in all directions every other scene . Yes I'm aware that in reality it's not acceptable, but listen Karen it's not reality. Some of us would like to enjoy the book and the universe that the author has so kindly gifted to us so can you please for the love of God stop raising Issues over things that you have received warnings over before you even started reading the book. If it's not to your taste or above your ability to remain indifferent to then quit and read something else. Let my baby mansplain, manipulate and malewife in peace please .

[governments-babygirl]

Xiao wudi is making me go crazy like wdym the man is suffering from having a one sided crush on the girl since 4 episodes now kskskkskskks😭😭 ep7-10 he's just a loser in love and wdym he faints when she confronts him lmfaokkkoooo kskskskkskssk

[misguidedaffection]

[kakusboyfriend]

So hard to come up with a background for Commensal though bc Rudy wasn't exactly a bad person or a good one before mutating. He was just some guy who made a bad choice. We know next to nothing about his background, and it adds to the charm of him having to live this new life through the memories, skills and experiences of others.

It would be interesting if Commensal was a horrible person before being dropped in a vat of biohazardous sludge. If he had the idea that needing others makes you a, excuse me for a moment, parasitic no life who should be trying harder, I think his situation would make him far more miserable.

He's not hurting anyone (I'll get to that. I'll get to that.) by taking what he needs to survive but he feels so dirty. Oh I'm going insane.

Merry Christmas.

[romanceyourdemons]

okay i FINALLY got the hanshu in from interlibrary loan (falls to me knees. why is so little of it available in english.) and first off it’s super interesting to see how ban gu’s style differs from sima qian’s, but more relevantly ban’s very year by year chronicle style really emphasizes how much the fucking yellow river was changing course. it feels like every other year we hear “the yellow river burst its banks. famine and cannibalism ensued.” if i was the emperor and i heard that for the fifth time in my reign i would simply descend into a life of carnal pleasure, or possibly walk into the ocean

[sioster]

Hedgehogbur dump post

[kakusboyfriend]

Rudy voice

Superman vs The Parasite~

why yes I am a Rudy Jones Parasite appreciator

[andrepatten]

Land in Sicht #54 am 27. Juni

Das vorletzte Mal LAND IN SICHT. Kommt am 27. Juni vorbei im Kulturraum405!

Design: Mario Frank

[chungledown-bimothy]

I see what she's going for, making childhood memories and all, and it is really sweet

But I'm pretty sure he's also having some kink epiphany moments 😳😅

[scarletlich]

Did Hua Cheng name his house after Xie Lian's famous saying?

There's a pretty widely circulated post in the tgcf fandom saying that Hua Cheng named his manor Paradise Manor in direct reference to Xie Lian's famous saying "Body in the abyss, heart in paradise". This is a misinterpretation due to translation. Hua Cheng likely did name Paradise Manor after the famous saying, but the "paradise" in paradise manor is meant to be the opposite of "abyss".

Paradise Manor in the original text is 极乐坊, where the phrase 极乐 ji2 le4 is translated as paradise. Actually, this is a translation of Sanskrit Sukhāvatī, and in Buddhism it is often translated as the pure land, or the land of bliss, in which the faithful may be reborn.

Xie Lian's famous saying is translated as "body in the abyss, heart in paradise", and the important translations are the word choice of abyss and paradise. Paradise, here is a translation of 桃源 tao2 yuan2, which literally means peach [blossom] spring. This is a direct reference to a text written during the Eastern Jin Dynasty by Tao Yuanming (陶渊明) called 《桃花源记》 "The Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring". The text tells a tale that takes place during the reign of Xiao Wudi 孝武帝 (376-397 CE) of the Jin Dynasty, in which a fisherman finds a mysterious cave with a peach blossom spring in it, in which a population of people had lived there since escaping the turmoil of the Qin Dynasty several centuries prior, and who were so removed from the world in their little community that they had never heard of the Han Dynasty which followed the Qin, or the Three Kingdoms period that followed, and certainly not the Jin. Thus I would argue this phrase 桃源 should be translated as heart in utopia and not heart in paradise. At the very least, this paradise is NOT the same paradise as Hua Cheng's paradise.

But, it's not a baseless belief that Hua Cheng named his house after Xie Lian's motto, and this is where the abyss comes in. This is a translation of 无间 wu2 jian1 which refers to Avīcinaraka, also Sanskrit and also a Buddhist concept. This is a level of hell in which those who have committed the ten unforgivable crimes are reborn, and it is sometimes translated into English as interminable, or incessant, because the suffering hear has no gaps -- it is incessant. In that way, 极乐 and 无间 the paradise and the abyss between Hua Cheng and Xie Lian form a more direct parallel, both originating as Buddhist concepts describing where a person may be reborn based on their behavior in their past life, and this is a clearer paired set of concepts than the two being compared in Xie Lian's original motto. So I believe it truly can be said that Hua Cheng named Paradise Manor for Xie Lian, but not in the way that those who only read the English might think -- those two "paradises" are actually very different concepts.

[dark-heart-555]

BEEFLEAF

Y'all ever think about He xuan staring at Shi qingxuan and contemplating eating him ..... like literally just taking a bite out of him to check if he taste as good as he smells. Then just looking away when Sqx looks his way.... because he doesn't need to eat him immediately, he can always just take a bite later.

[gravity-what]

After much work, the first set is done! Omi’s progression from Wudai to Post-Dragon with all the accomplishment steps in between!

Some definitions I went with as far as each step was concerned:

五帝= Wudi = five emperors

職 = Shoku = duty/profession

专家 = Zhuanjia = expert/specialist

Tashi/Tasshi = Apprentice Master in Karate and Tibetan word meaning "good fortune" or "auspiciousness".

Additionally: each Dragon starting at Shoku level gets their own unique dragon emblem which I’ve drawn out here! (The colors change to become unique at Zhuanjia though)

Raimundo obviously gets the same one he already has in the show which, thankfully, already looks like a wisp of air~

[misguidedaffection]