#ye baiyi week

[barananduen-blog]

Top Nine TV Shows tag game

Was invited to do this by @lovesickfolly I'm going to do it with cdramas, bc that's what I'm into lately, but if anyone wants to do this, you can do it with any kind of show.

My top nine cdramas, in no particular order...

Before I begin, I should probably point out that I'm more "plot" over "ship." I like ships, but usually as a means to showing character depth; they're not the thing I tend to focus on the most.

What these nine have in common is:

good plot and writing - not just the plot, but the storytelling

3D characters who are also likeable

hooked my attention - my mind didn't wander while watching, AND I wanted to watch more than one episode in a row

memorable

I'm going to include another indicator, too. If it "got" me good enough to make me make fanart: 🎨lol I mean, I'm SLOW. If I was willing to dedicate days/weeks to make a drawing out of it, that's SOMETHING. lmao

1 - Word of Honor🎨

Martial arts adventures (+ a steampunk sect), BL.

This was the first cdrama I watched, and I loved it and it still has a special place in my heart. I rewatched along later with @ginsoakedgirl80 and it was as enjoyable to watch the 2nd time as it was the 1st.

Awesome story and characters, beautiful scenery. And it gave me my first two favorite drama actors.😆*cough* My fav characters were, in order: Ye Baiyi and the Scorpion King. My fav actors, the same two, but reversed; I like comedians, OK? XD

Just a word of advice to anyone planning to try this: I don't know why the opening scenes character-dump on you; most of those people aren't even that important. Just learn Prince Jin and Zhou Zishu (a few others will show up later, but you can learn them then), and then start learning names only once Zhou Zishu becomes a homeless drunk man.

2 - The Taoism Grandmaster (technically, I have a drawing WIP, but it'll probably stay a WIP)

If the Triwizard Tournament from Harry Potter and a Final Fantasy video game had a child in ancient China, you'd get this, complete with items shop before boss battles (the store ox is so cute!).

No but look, this is like my gremlin child. I'm not a fast watcher, but this is the only one which I binged so many episodes in a row, that it made me lose track of time, and before I knew it, it was past 2am on a weeknight and I had work the next day. I may have made it to 4am one of those nights; I don't remember. After it happened twice, I had to set an alarm. Have also watched twice+

Yes, the CG is bad, the costumes were cheap sometimes, and the plants did not pretend to not be plastic, but I love the story. It's well written and has so many details and ways things tie together. And THE CHARACTERS! They're all lovable dorks AND I LOVE THEM!

3 - The Legendary Life of Queen Lau🎨

Romcom.

AAAAAAAAA!! I love comedy and this was GREAT in that sense! Really had me laughing out loud every episode! This is one to watch more for the funny and ingenious situations than for plot, but it was SO enjoyable, I'd even watch them do slice of life. So cute, so fun, love it love it love it!!🥰 Another one that I rewatch whenever I need something uplifting and cute. Also, one of my two favorite OSTs. So uplifting and danceable!

Alright, those are my top 3. The ones I'm sentimental for. The stuff I squee over. But I have 16 starred on my list as excellent / recommendable, so let's have six more.

4 - Song of Youth

Case-solving; mini-cases and the one overarching one.

I loved the format of one case per couple of episodes, so it was broken up into smaller chunks. Super interesting and creative - each case was solved in an unconventional way, which was fun and engaging. All the actresses did a fantastic job. The jewelry, props, lighting, etc. were absolutely beautiful.

5 - The Blood of Youth🎨

Martial arts adventures with a group of friends.

Story: 💯Characters: 💯 Fights: 💯 Visuals: 💯OST: 💯

Xiao Se as the tired babysitter I love him! Wuxin! OMG Wuxin as the sassy fake monk who monologues before every fight and people just let him. I love him! (Wuxin spinoff, please! and I love his theme song!) The whole cast is gorgeous and acted wonderfully, so no sacrificing talent for looks; these people had both in spades. The supporting cast, too. OMG Baily Dongjun and the thunder guy!😍 It had funny moments. Mr. Sikong! The fights were SO creative... how many ways can you design a martial arts fight?? Way more than I thought! No two were similar; it was amazing, the creativity.

As an artist, I really enjoyed the cinematography... the scenery, lighting!! composition, all absolutely gorgeous. Those shots of Xiao Se with soft backlighting? Chef's kiss. And, as a photographer, I know they're not as easy to achieve as it looks. Alright, this one got 2 paragraphs already; need to move on, but watch if you haven't. It's on YouTube.

6 - Till the End of the Moon

Doomed love fantasy; watch them struggle against themselves and their destiny.

THIS IS SO GOOD!! The story is great, excellent plot and pacing. Characters are 3D and always surprising. Gorgeous costumes (Tantai Jin's especially! And the clam clan makeup!), sets, and special effects. THE SOUNDTRACK IS EMBEDDED IN MY BRAIN IT'S SO GOOD (🎶favs: "Use my Body as a Shield" or whatever it's called, I keep seeing different translated titles for it; "Reborn" instrumental; and "Holding on to a Thought" instrumental).

7 - The Blue Whisper

Fantasy romance and adventure. Merman. Animal-spirit people. Angst, treason, and undying hope.

Gosh this drama is so beautiful. This, Till the End of the Moon, and Blood of Youth are up there as the top 3 visuals in dramas I've completed (there are others that have stunned me visually, but haven't been able to watch in full). Excellent story, too. It's a tearjerker, but it's SO GOOD!

8 - My Uncanny Destiny

Romcom. "Would you still love me if I was a worm?"

Lots of fun. Very enjoyable and bingeable.

9 - Guardian, the one with Bai Yu and Zhu Yi Long

Modern urban superpowers type of thing, which is a genre I like, and the story is so good! By Priest, the same author for the Word of Honor novel. Never a dull moment. Tearjerker warning, but so good. Excellent theme song, too, btw. (I don't have any screencaps that aren't a spoiler, so that's what this is XD)

I ran out of slots, but I'll list the other seven in my Excellent and Recommendable list. Order is just as I watched them:

The Untamed

Legend of Fei

A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College

Be Reborn (modern, heist/police)

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

A Familiar Stranger (mini-drama; watch the movie version)

Reset (modern, action, investigation)

PS: I've been here one month, and have done two tag games and they both had the number "9" in them; is this a tumblr thing?

[minnarr]

ten first lines

tagged by @leenik-geelo and @rainsfalling (thank you!!)

1. There’s a whole group here from Taihu Sect, puffed up in their uniforms. (first sight, word of honor, sort of luo fumeng/zhao jing, 3/4/24)

2. “Don’t move,” Wen Kexing grumbled, pressing humid kisses into Zhou Zishu’s shoulder. (No Shortage of Nights, word of honor, wenzhou, 1/13/2024)

3. “And don’t come back!” Zhang Nianxiang fumed, following it up with a solid kick that sent the last of the boys sprawling onto the street. (The Road Is Never Lonely, gen, 12/31/23)

4. The days of Ye Baiyi’s long seclusion varied little. (Here Comes Trouble, gen, 12/31/23)

5. Someone sat down across from Gao Xiaolian’s desk. (The Demon General's Wife, word of honor, gao xiaolian/gu xiang, 10/27/23)

6. Gu Miaomiao slipped into the room they’d taken at the inn on silent feet. (secret weapon, word of honor, gen, 8/18/23)

7. Siji Manor’s front courtyard was so full of people, Gao Xiaolian almost didn’t recognize it. (take a little time (walk a little line), word of honor, gao xiaolian/ofc (also gxl&deng kuan platonic marriage), 5/26/23)

8. Somewhere outside, the sun still shines. (Carve Out My Heart, word of honor, yue feng'er/rong xuan but primarily horror, 5/1/23)

9. Ye Baiyi came into the house on Mount Changming like a stormcloud. (take a look at what we've made, word of honor, rong changqing/ye baiyi, 4/5/23)

10. Zhou Zishu had been spending a lot of time outside his own house the past few weeks. (sample of one, qi ye, wu xi & zhou zishu platonic kissing with bg wu xi/jing beiyuan, 4/5/23)

what I've learned is that I need to write fewer first lines about people's status vis a vis being inside places, and also carve out my heart is still a banger

tagging (no pressure) @orchisailsa @antique-forvalaka @monsterbookworm @stifledlaughterao3

[fourseasonsfigs]

Voyeur Beauty

Today's post is a fig set that commemorates some Word of Honor filming shenanigans!

The scene that these two were having fun filming was actually a cut scene from the Siji Manor arc. You'll remember Gong Jun taking a healing herbal bath post-Ye Baiyi encounter.

Here we have the filming set-up for this scene and Zhehan peeking at the goings on through a folding screen. Zhehan is the Voyeur Beauty of this fig set's title!

Let's roll the footage here, shall we:

I love this scene because they're having so much fun! Zhehan is teasing Gong Jun and they're both laughing and having a great time.

Here's a few more stills of Zhehan peeking through the screen (pre-Gong Jun taking off his robe).

There's a fun video of Gong Jun laughing and washing his foot in the water, which is exactly where the fig maker took the inspiration for his fig. Unfortunately, I'm restricted to one video per post, so here's just a very blurry screenshot:

So cute! He looks up and laughs after this, a big happy laugh, and right there, there's our fig.

I'd be remiss (REMISS, I tell you!) if I didn't use this thinly-veiled excuse opportunity to sidetrack a bit, and add what is one of my all time favorite BTS photographs. This is from the other bathing scene, in Episode 22:

This "Ultimate Puppy Dog Eyes, Gong Jun Edition" is not a fan edit. This is a poster from the 《 梦华· 入画 》 photo card set:

But back on track! Back to Siji Manor and our two playful actors.

The figs arrived with a wooden screen, Wen Kexing's bathtub, and several extras - a small pouch, a bookmark, and a card.

The opened screen (ignore me trying to figure out how the little wooden stand pieces work!), the bathtub, and the backside of the free bonus items.

Here's the screen properly assembled, and Gong Jun in his bathtub.

I decided to stain the wooden screen the same color as my Siji Manor wooden model kit, since I didn't like the plain unfinished color looking different than the set.

This is Varathane's Colonial Maple wood stain. There's a whole other story about how I laboriously color matched the Chinese stain color for the Siji model for one here in the US, which I won't get into now. It looks very orange here, but trust me, it's the right golden color.

And here they are, post stain! I had to glue the stand bases to the frame as they were not at all secure, and moved around at the slightest breath of air.

One of the things I noticed with the wooden Siji Manor model, and therefore what I knew was going to happen here, was that all of this soft model wood warps. I live in dry climate, and something about the air here just pulls all the moisture out of the wood. Since I knew it was going to happen, I immediately put it under a heavy block to press flat once I received it, and left it there for several weeks. But, it still warped slightly anyway. You'll see when I spin these figs around for the different angles. I'll probably replace this screen at some point with a toy folding screen, to be more consistent with the BTS footage, but that's for future Lelanthe to figure out!

Alright, I'm trying something new here - since we have a bit of a scene set up, I put the figs on a turntable and just rotated them around that way. I'm hoping the pics are better quality and more consistent in terms of placement. We'll see how it goes!

They certainly blushed Gong Jun's chest!

I love the detail on Zhehan's hair and his beaded leather hair tie.

It doesn't look like Zhehan should balance all that well with the way he's leaning forward, but the fig is decently stable. He's got to get a good peek and tease in, after all!

You can see how the screen isn't exactly straight. Nothing to be done, unfortunately!

Zhehan's expression is so cute! He's such a rascal, as my grandma would say. He would be so much fun to be on a set with.

You could see how the cloth on the side of the tub was removable. I left it on because I thought it was a nice detail!

I love Gong Jun laughing in this - he looks so happy in the BTS!

Ah this is my favorite angle, it's so cute and we get both their faces. I'll have to position Zhehan a little better on my display shelf so I can see more of his face poking through.

Oops, I see I kind of positioned him sideways in the bath! I'll make sure to center him in the bath when I put him on my shelf.

You can see how he fits here - there's plenty of room for me to move him around so he's centered with the largest curve of the bath is behind him.

You can really see the warping on the screen here. Ah, such a bummer.

Gong Jun's legs are so cute here! He sits well in the tub - he wobbles around a bit if you say, pick him up and move him, but it's not because he's off balance. It's that there's sufficient room for him to move around in the tub so he's not squeezed in there.

I always love it when the costumed figs have their pants and boots on, when you'll never see this little detail on the shelf. Such a nice touch.

Such cute box cards! I love the flowery Siji Manor theme.

The theme is carried over to the boxes as well. What a cute, fun, happy set! I love it.

Material: PVC (figures and bath) and wood (screen)

Fig Count: 401

Scene Count: 28

Rating: Pure joy!

[link back to Master Fig Index for more posts]

[aiyexayen]

wip ask game

tagged by @treemaidengeek (thank you for tagging me!)

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

my wips:

sky bridge I'm Not Inclined To Resign To Maturity

hello dolly

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

[unrevealed lbfad minibang fic]

rarepair week

han ying/a-xiang

a-xiang/han ying/xie'er meetup

xie'er/jiang cheng

ye baiyi & han ying

best friend squad

dual timelines zelda fall

the river and the highway

three immortals

jiang cheng qi deviation

[unrevealed dzzs exchange fic]

healer's hands

jiang cheng/wen xu

zishu/qianqiao mask

Long Way Home

painted in gold

the wens fake their deaths

dnd campaign

wei wuxian/ye baiyi Soup

xichen/yanli

get off on my voice

han ying acceptance

link fucks

zelda crack

xixian A Little Bit Sideways

chengling goes with wen kexing instead

chengling reconciliation with

harbor

long long long story chapter 3

mo xuanyu is a baby ghost now

wulswh river orgy??

chengxing i guess

carried by wind

When The Sunshine Is Brighter

roleswap totk 1

roleswap link gets demise'd

i tried to keep it to actual works with actual progress and not empty docs with just half-baked ideas of which i have so so many more 🥲

tagging anyone who wants to play and also with no pressure: @rustycreekspoon @sundaeserenade @ahhhnorealnamesallowed @bladedweaponsandswishycoats @littleredruns @cloud-somersault @iamwestiec @lifeinconfusion7 @theleakypen @deepestbluesky @minnarr

[idlebeks]

Fresh batch of fic recs

Fics that have caught my attention and made their way into my good reads pile over the last week or so. Some older, some newer. A mix between Guardian and Word of Honor this time. I've put an asterisk next to my favorites from the batch.

Word of Honor

See It In Your Closed Eyes by Alipeeps, k_lynn

“It’s alright,” Zhou Zishu says, “It’s fine. You’ll be fine.”

Wen Kexing gives a shaky little laugh, “The more you say that the less I believe you, Ah Xu.”

“Be quiet and keep your eyes closed,” Zhou Zishu snaps back.

An attack leaves Wen Kexing temporarily without his sight and dependent on Zhou Zishu's care. Neither of them takes easily to vulnerability. They find a way through.

*Mine by incendir

Rec comments: The summaries for this series are fairly sparse. This is an A/B/O universe where the hyper competent and fed up empress Zhou Zishu uses warlord Wen Kexing to kidnap himself out of a bad situation. Wen Kexing does not mind at all.

slithered here from eden by novembersmith 

Zhou Zishu reluctantly allows life to infect him again.

proceed reluctantly by fmo

What if Word of Honor, but with a slight flavor of Advance Bravely?

Gu Xiang, the barista, needs a decoy boyfriend to prevent her overprotective big brother from discovering and scaring off her actual real boyfriend. Innocent customer Zhou Zishu doesn't get a chance to opt out of this plan.

And then somehow Wen Kexing ends up sticking around, making sure that Zhou Zishu isn't making moves on his sister . . . which involves more stalking and cooking than you might expect.

*dear heaven by foreverstudent

In a darker world where the Combined Six Cultivation Method fails and the snowy mountains become the burial mounds for his shifu and shishu, Chengling trains his martial arts under Ye Baiyi to be able to do only one thing: go back in time and save his found family.

The Arrangement by kestrelsan

“You didn’t tell me you had a marriage arrangement with the Ghost King of Qingya,” Helian Yi said, when Zhou Zishu arrived at the throne room.

*Nurture by TK_DuVeraun

The only way Zhou Zishu is going to properly reestablish Four Seasons Manor is if he has a child of his own. Conveniently, he has no intention of doing either.

A Good Bargain by Neery

The Window of Heaven captures the Ghost Valley's master. Zhou Zishu is put in charge of interrogating him.

But Wen Kexing has a plan of his own…

*you're the trouble that i always find by sundiscus

“Do you know him?” Jin Wang asks.

The ringing in Zhou Zishu's ears gets louder. “No, Wangye,” he says.

At Zhou Zishu’s voice, the prisoner freezes.

Or: Jin Wang tries another way to get Zhou Zishu back.

It's All That I'm Made Of by etymologyplayground

Zhou Zishu clutched his soup and said nothing. There was something he wanted to say, but he figured he should eat first and maybe that would make him less insane, and maybe then he'd think better of it.

He did not think better of it.

Guardian

*redux by synonemous

Stand-alone alternate takes on how Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan could have gotten together in the show.

The Mortifying Ordeal of Telling the Truth by BlackwaterVial

Shen Wei loses the ability to lie. It goes about as well as you'd expect

Turn The Page by leonidskies

Shen Wei was Dixingren. Shen Wei had lied.

The SID are called to extract a book that no Haixingren can touch. A few weeks later, definitely-not-Dixingren Shen Wei picks it up unknowingly.

Trapped between memory and the moment by laireshi 

There's no first in their relationship.

Catnip and Memories by nightwalker 

“Is this the family you had planned for yourself, Xiao Wei?” he’d asked, voice little more than a hushed whisper in the dark. “An eccentric soldier with a candy addiction and a cat that tries his best to eat us out of house and home?”

Soar No Higher by sakana17

Shen Wei trembled a little at the words, expressed so frankly, so openly. His heart was already free, it could soar no higher. He could only bring the taste of those words to his own lips in a long, cherishing kiss.

Set during episode 35, and assumes a passage of time of at least a month during the ancient Haixing scenes.

[ao3feed-xicheng]

Can I get you anything? Coffee? Tea? Me?

by Liebing Cross over fic of all my favourite ships! Wangxian Wenzhou Yexie Xicheng Coffee shop AU in which Wenzhou, Wangxian and Yexie all meet on a date and we follow each couple through to the end of their evening. Spoiler alert, they are all already in love. We then rejoin them a few weeks later when we find out about the secret xicheng wedding! Words: 5274, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 4 of Woh and Untamed crossover fics Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Wen Kexing, Ye Baiyi, Xie Wang (Faraway Wanderers), Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu, Xie Wang/Ye Baiyi, in the final chapter mentions of xicheng but it is lesser than the other 3 ships Additional Tags: Fluff, cross over fic, meet cute, lots of meet cutes, coffee shop AU, Modern Setting, WangXian, Wenzhou - Freeform, Yexie, Xicheng in the last chapter, Soft, Sweet, Funny, Flirting, Kissing, hand holding, Falling In Love, xicheng are married, wangxian are re-meeting, wenzhou and Yexie are new meetings, lawyer Zhou Zishu and Lan Zhan, Yebaiyi is the muscle, Coffee Shop Owners Wei Ying Wen Kexing and Xie Wang, Mentions of sex that happens off screen, mentions of past abusive relationship for Xie’er, mentions of living in the streets for Xie’er, mentions of baskets of thank you condoms via https://ift.tt/ThIaCcz

[snarkspawn]

yea I'm late but I swear I started it on day 4: white

[hattedhedgehog]

The Immortal of Changming Mountain. I love Mr irritable hot grandpa from Word of Honor and I'm very happy that he gets his own character celebration week! He deserves it.

[Image description: 

A diagonally split posca marker illustration, depicting Ye Baiyi from Word of Honor. In the first section he is depicted in blues, greys and whites with black hair, making his way morosely through the snow. The Changqing sword is on his back and he is completely alone. In the second section, he is sitting in a bustling vibrant marketplace, eating noodles. He dressed in more elaborate robes and has white hair now. He is smiling to himself, knowing that the food he is enjoying is bringing him closer to death and his departed loved ones.]

[tbgkaru-woh]

#yebaiweek DAY 1: SWEET/FAMILY 

We know little about Ye Baiyi's mountain family, but even less about the rest of his life. What about his blood-related family? Their relationship, their status in society? Could that have any imprint on his personality or the people he chose? (feel free to reblog-reply, reply or answer in tags ♥) (YBY week main post: https://tbgkaru-woh.tumblr.com/post/701466501228724224/ao3 ) (YBY week twitter account: https://twitter.com/YeBaiWeek ) (YBY week AO3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/ye_baiyi_week_2022)

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

even MOAR yby doodles~

am probably too late for yebaiweek but.......actually every week should be yebaiweek. sorry i dont make the rules.

just a couple silly lil doodles of ye baiyi and rong changqing growing up together. we got a nose boop. we got cloud watching. we got running away from the consequences of their actions. and mourning taishifu when he passes away ;A;

in my head canon, ye baiyi is heart-broken, bc taishifu was the first person to ever care for him. after he's gone, yby is completely devoted to rcq, whom he addresses exclusively as 'changqing-ah', bc that's what taishifu called him. and yby does whatever taishifu does. even after taishifu is gone.

(that's why he let zhou zishu and wen kexing go. bc it's what rong changqing would have done. bc it's what taishifu would have done. if they're both gone......then ye baiyi will act in their place. it's what they would have wanted ;A;)

[19silvermirrors]

Yexie Week day 7 - Returning Hope🎐

[melodious-tear]

What will once be the weary wanderer’s last resting place? [...] God’s heaven will surround me there as here, and at night the stars hover over me as lanterns for the dead.

– Heinrich Heine, Where?

[orchisailsa]

Fic: “Some Like it Hot" 8.6K | Rated E | YeWen w Bonus ZZS | Voyeurism & Exhibitionism | Modern AU | Top WKX | Bottom Ye Baiyi | Drag Queen!YBY | Filth and Depravity

[femwenzhouweek]

FEM WENZHOU WEEK INTEREST CHECK OPEN 

The interest check for the Word of Honor event dedicated to fem!wenzhou is open! please, feel free to give suggestions and ideas for prompts! let's have a great time! 

Form closes on 21/9 at 11PM (GMT+2)

Link to the form is on the content source! (or message us for the link)

[ace-trainer-risu]

it's a real fuckin tragedy that word of honor didn't come out in the age of flower crown edits and "i've got your flower baby" emoji memes.