#zhen's ramblings

[zhenyeart]

I'm gonna try something different this Inktober 2024 as a challenge You write it, I draw it, send me a word prompt and number from 1 -31

gimme all your prompts and I'll draw em

[ashyybees-art]

How did I only just now fully process that it's only after Shen Wei took care of Zhao Yunlan while he was sick and let him lay on him/allow him into his personal space so intimately that Zhao Yunlan then started being so much more touchy and in Shen Wei's space towards him and even doing more intimate/caring gestures back.

Like, Shen Wei accidentally unlocked the door of affectionate Zhao Yunlan, and contents of said door came crashing out like it was packed full cause Zhao Yunlan in drama-verse is so closed off in terms of true affection towards others until then. 🥺

[dracocheesecake]

Potential spoilers for Kung Fu Panda 4 Below (but really just my headcanons/rewrite):

I imagine Han bring random urchins into the Den all the time. Just waddles in with a box or a basket or something:

"Hope you guys want kids, I got some more."

"Han, no! Please, not again-"

Han, already dumping the kid out of the basket like he's releasing a wild specimen: "Too bad. Everyone, give a nice warm welcome to our newest member- YOU PUT THOSE KNIVES AWAY!"

However he's usually the one who takes care of them. Teaches them how to avoid the guards, how to scam, steal, and usually steals things for them himself if they couldn't manage. Zhen was his most promising "student", and he was going to hand over the leadership of the Den to her when he decided he'd retire. They were really close, once.

Please imagine small Zhen clinging to his tail like this:

He actually has a soft spot for orphans, because he was one himself, and knows first hand that the Juniper City orphanages could be worse than just being out on the streets; corruption is everywhere in that place, and only got worse once the Chameleon took over.

[kitchenwizardkisser7]

[phoenixkaptain]

I just can never get enough of Shen Wei’s wavering control when it comes to Zhao Yunlan

(I got Zhen Hun vol 1 and I read it in three hours I was so excited)

Like, Shen Wei is so obviously obsessed. He stares at Yunlan constantly (as long as Yunlan is not looking). He can’t help but to look back when he leaves Yunlan. Yunlan is sick and Shen Wei helps him home, basically tucks him into bed, and cleans his entire apartment. Shen Wei is absolutely the type of person to smell Yunlan’s clothes-

But my favourite scene is definitely when Shen Wei helps Yunlan drink. Because he does very well! He and Yunlan drink an alcoholic under the table, and Yunlan is really only tipsy, meaning either Shen Wei did all the heavy lifting or Yunlan’s liver is inhumanly quick.

And with being drunk comes Shen Wei completely losing his last threads of sanity. He is a being born from darkness whose hunger can never be sated, and good golly it shows. Him basically trying to eat Yunlan has always been a highlight. The moment Yunlan shows resistance (full resistance instead of just hesitance), Shen Wei full on unpossesses his own body.

I’m fully convinced (I wasn’t on my first two reads, but I am now) that Shen Wei unpossessed himself. He is so talented. His entire body shuts down, Yunlan of course fucking panics, and Yunlan takes three tries to literally summon Shen Wei’s soul back. Man just unpossessed his own body. The body that he is attached to. Shen Wei has never stolen a body, this one is just his, and he manages to unpossess it.

It’s so great. Yunlan told him to stop and, like, he did. He really, really did. He stopped his heart beating and himself breathing and literally being in his own body. 10/10, Shen Wei is so good at following directions.

Yunlan, upon realizing that Shen Wei is the super intimidating, ominously cloaked figure who literally everyone on his team is fucking terrified of and who has worked with him for years and has only been sort of (very) obsessive over Zhao Yunlan: “I should probably stop flirting with him, because it’s a bit awkward.”

Yunlan, approximately five seconds later: “You threw yourself at me while you were drunk. I never knew how much you favoured me.”

Zhao Yunlan is the best character ever. A hot professor acts really weird and is so obviously attracted to him and Yunlan is super into it. Shen Wei treats him like precious glass that cannot be allowed to even get dirty and also like he will die if Yunlan looks at him for too long. Shen Wei tries not to touch him but revels in the warmth left behind. Shen Wei bit him like thirty times because of his conflicting desires to both eat or fuck him. Zhao Yunlan is so fucking confused.

Zhu Hong suggests that Yunlan could sleep with her in lieu of payment and Yunlan is like “Okay :)” (because he thinks it would be nice to not need to have to pay her). Yunlan is openly bi to the point that him flirting with a hot professor surprises literally none of his coworkers (they just tease him because it’s funny).

Yunlan is positive that Shen Wei is attracted to him, because obviously Shen Wei is? Yunlan isn’t being vain or overly confident, Shen Wei literally caught him while he was falling off of the school roof and tended to his light scrape like it was Yunlan’s arm coming off. Shen Wei is so obviously attracted to Yunlan, but at the same time tries desperately not to show it. Zhao Yunlan is so confused. He is bummed when Shen Wei declines to meet with him and even more bummed when Shen Wei tells him he doesn’t want to go out with him and he is also baffled because he woke up to find Shen Wei literally watching him sleep less than a week later.

If I was Zhao Yunlan, I would also be confused.

Zhao Yunlan also is great because he’s the world’s best detective who comes up with half-baked theories and tricks people (well, mostly Shen Wei and Da Qing) into admitting he’s right. He cannot stand how useless Guo Changcheng is, but Guo Changcheng is his little good luck charm and he will be bringing him everywhere. Wang Zheng tries to die and he berates her like a little kid. The Emissary sends a spooky little guy to keep Yunlan from continuing forward, and Yunlan can’t bring himself to knock it aside, so he just steps over it. When it follows him, he eventually just picks it up. When it gets scared, he lets it hide in Clarity (his watch). He is disrespectful to the very idea of gods. He is unintimidated by the Emissary who literally everyone else is terrified of. He burns incense for the little messenger even though he didn’t have to.

There were some (a lot of) parts I didn’t really get, even during my second read. However, this translation makes a lot of sense! The underworld folk are fucking terrified of Shen Wei. Shen Wei is overpowered and answers to nobody and his very presence as the Emissary is enough to make most ghosts run and hide. They are so scared. Shen Wei is getting worse. If Shen Wei goes rogue, literally nobody can stop him.

Man, if only that mountain god, the one being in the entirety of history that Shen Wei was willing to listen to, was still around.

(They decide to get that mountain god back.)

Honestly, them wanting Yunlan to remember makes a lot more sense than whatever I thought they were doing the first two times I read it. They just need someone to hold Shen Wei’s leash, and they couldn’t have known that Zhao Yunlan is literally the worst possible choice for that.

(Zhao Yunlan doesn’t even care when Shen Wei tears his shirt (apparently with fucking claws) or bites him and he really doesn’t care what the Emissary does as long as Shen Wei lets him get his baby Wang Zheng back first. The mountain god, from what I recall, was more amused by Shen Wei’s darker tendencies than anything else. There is no one worse to hope will control Shen Wei, because there is no one else who is as willing as Zhao Yunlan is to sleep with the most powerful, uncontrollable being in metaphorical Hell.)

I’ll give them points for trying, but really, they didn’t do a very good job picking. I mean, there was literally no other option, but still. Shen Wei who retains some degree of his self control vs Shen Wei who is feral over Yunlan is a pretty obvious choice.

All in all, I love Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei. Yunlan thinks he might be coming on too strong, meanwhile Shen Wei would probably collect Yunlan’s hair if he thought he could get away with it. Shen Wei knows where Yunlan lives and lives nearby, he works in the same city, and he has stalked seen Yunlan on cases before, meanwhile Yunlan’s worst crime is sullying the professor in his head. I love them. They’re perfect for each other.

[habizuh-studios]

Hi....if you don't mind me asking, who are your top 7 favorite romantic relationship's couples in books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series (can be canon or non-canon) and your top 10 favorite characters ever from any media? Why do you love them all? Thanks if you want to answer my questions....

OHH my god thank you so much for this ask!!! hmm let me think about this- here they are in no specific order! spoilers for svsss, tgcf, zhen hun/guardian, and omori!

bingqiu (SVSSS, canon) -> mainly i love this one because first of all it's canon and second of all i adore the dynamic- not between teacher and student ofc, but like the fact that shen yuan literally died on accident and still made it his lifes purpose to go against what is basically a god to make binghe's life better and the fact that binghe adores shen yuan for it even without knowing it just bc he showed him kindness!! it's so amazing and that's the tl;dr

cumplane (SVSSS, not canon) -> okay i mainly like this one because shang qinghua and shen yuan are the only two transmigrators which strengthens their bond and their avid shitty novel reader/writer dynamic is so interesting to me. i also think they can work together really well, especially considering that you could stretch it so that shang qinghua is kinda like binghe in the sense that they both kinda. are pathetic and will cry so they can get what they want but can be secretly manipulative (obv binghe has the more "favorable" traits and is more exaggerated since he's the protagonist) and shen yuan and mobei jun are kinda like the. icy cold kundere/tsundere ahh beauty thingies. ehhh

hualian (TGCF, canon) -> sorta similar with bingqiu with the whole god and kindness thing but!! i adore the fact that they literally saw each other's whole (not whole but most of their) lives and lived through part of it together and saw all of their faults and still loved each other. it's like you fall in love with the one who saved you and they fall in love back hundreds of years later and then they find out that their lives are literally intertwined. and their dynamic is so fun too hehe

lang qianqiu/xiao mengyou (TGCF, not canon) -> ngl i really like the way their personalities and roles work together. lang qianqiu is brash and prideful but still really kind and noble and he's a prince,,,, xiao mengyou is more mellow and keeps lang qianqiu's impulsivity in ccheck and he's the servant,,, and they seem to trust each other more than anything as lang qianqiu involved xiao mengyou in where he buried the guoshi after defeating him which is really personal to him but he still chose to do it and augh!! it's all really sweet- not to mention that they probably grew up together <3

guo changcheng/chu shuzhi (ZHENHUN, not canon) -> okay i mainly ship this one because i love love love love LOVE guo changcheng and he's closest to chu shuzhi BUT their dynamic is also really cute!! pathetic loserboy who literally does things out of the kindness of his heart and nothing else despite having all of his good karma go somwehere else x cold-ish mean-ish zombie who doesn't really understand but softens with him........ tbh it's honestly similar to hualian if you stretch it. and obviously you need to understand their characters and shit. BUT OH!! theyre so cute!!

zhao yunlan/shen wei (ZHENHUN, canon) -> reincarnation. okay this is kind of similar to hualian in the sense of living live(s) together but this is different because reincarnation. basically shen wei watches zhao yunlan throughout his lives and even gets with him a few times despite his vow not to get close after zhao yunlans first life as a god(ish, i dont remember but i think that was it) saves him and makes him divine/immortal :> they dooo have a little issues with communicating (shen wei hides a lot from zhao yunlan, but since it's from his perspective, it makes a lot of twists and shit) but in the epilogue they promise to talk it all out, so that's sweet <3

sunflower (OMORI, not canon) -> okay this is sunny x basil and the main reason i ship them is because i think that from a young age their friendship was super super close and i ADORE friends to lovers- another thing is the trauma bonding. the experience they went through together is something that cannot be replicated with literally anyone else and it's really special between them, and it also showed that basil would do almost anything for sunny to be safe and that's beautiful and allat :> also they look good together and in the true/good ending, when they tell the truth (their traumatic experience) it's like. another thing. they will always be together type shi......

OKAY NOW ON TO FAVORITE CHARACTERS!!! also in no specific order!!

shen yuan -> okay i really want to study him under a microscope. like this man- he's hilarious and reads the prn for plot. literally the only man who has done so, LMAO- not to mention he's just so!! like he downplays his achievments but in actuality he does a lot for the story, for others, and just for everyone in general but he downplays it all because??? BECAUSE WHY??? idk i just like that!! he's humble and we love that!! we also love his denial!! like- idk man he's just a sweet guy who could insult you back into the stardust that you came from if he wanted to!!!! and he's funny!!! personality and his humanity (like he makes mistakes and doesn't communicate and is like, kinda flawed but that's what makes the story the story) >>> and he's cute what who said that

luo binghe -> ngl i have a teenie weensie thing for the mc's of media i ✨consume✨ so he probably caught on. he's also so so sweet and nice but he could and would defeat you in a heartbeat because of his stallion protagonist core. he's just a sweet little kid with so, so much trauma and i love that for him. his personality is really chefs kiss to me <3 he was changed by kindness and i think that means a lot. ik i talk about humanity and kindness a lot in this post but augh it means so much to me. plus he would do anything for his shizun and tbh i would too. i would also do anything for his shizun. shen yuan save me shen yuan- also +1 for orphan

lang qianqiu -> bro lang qianqiu is literally the most underrated character ever, he literally has almost 0 FANDOM i'm not even joking. try to find one lang qianqiu centric fic i fucking dare you. anyway he's really sweet too and he's a prince and noble and he has a bit of pride and a tiger and he's just so nice and he has trauma and he's great. i made a post basically rambling about him here if your curious! +1 for orphan

guo changcheng -> pathetic loserboy. pathetic kind loserboy who really does good for the sake of doing good and no other reason other than the fact that doing bad is bad and he can't idle away doing nothing. he's one of the side/main characters of zhen hun and his pov is always so fun to read. he's so so human and in the whole SID you have all these different characters representing different things and he's the only human but he also acts like it? like he makes mistakes and he embarasses himself and allat but he still does good and that's so. mmmm!!! he's also orphan core!!! +1 for orphan

sunny -> his trauma >>> probably one of the realest characters ever lmao, this is half a joke but my point still stands. none of this supernatural trauma is happening. it's all in his head. and his humanity is also so nice! i also rlly like his kinda quiet personality, i think it really suits him and it provides for so much good and juicy angst. also inherent kindness is a plus. him living in his own head is so nice to me and idk why, he just wouldnt be him without it lol. no idea where his dad is but his mom is technically still around even if his sister isn't.

xie lian -> ohh boy. his trauma is so thick it can fit two books. also his love. inherent humanity shit i already mentioned but this is basically the moral of tgcf. your kindness mattered. it did not change your life for the better (immediately), but it mattered. you trying mattered. and he's also a scrap collector!! he's not a doormat but he's polite and he does things for the sake of getting them done. his inner voice is so snarky at the most random times and it makes you laugh. he is truly one of a kind and i think reading the book makes your insight on him so much better because oh my gaush. trauma and humanity galore. +1 for orphan

feng xin -> he's so sun core but not in the normal sunny way. sun core in the way that he burns himself out to give light to others and everyone else takes it for granted. he is also just so warm and kind and he tries really hard!! he is an archer and i love that for him, archers need more love and i like the fact that he's the archer and not his rival even though one would think it makes more sense, lmao. feng xin is also such a good foil to hua cheng and a beautiful childhood friend for xie lian, and his loyalty is almost UNMATCHED. we have no idea how his upbringing was either, all we know is that he was friends with xie lian, trained a lot, and probably lived in the palace. i don't headcanon him to be an orphan, but you never know...

kel -> hoooo kel is so amazing. he's the sun- not only is he warm and bright and infectiously joyous and funny and tries to bring everyone together, but also in the way that feng xin is- burning himself up and hiding everything other than happiness so that everyone around him can be happy, even if it's just for a little bit. he's not the favorite child and he has so much going on but he hides it and tries dealing with it even when not everyone realizes it and that's so good.

zhao yunlan -> also got infected my main character disease. not to mention he's sarcastic and funny and literally THE rizzler. he's also really genuine and a smart worker, he's kind even if he doesn't show it in his usual way and does NOT run his department corruptly despite being a part of the government!! i knowww it sounds bad,,, but he's still so cool! not to mention his time as kunlun,,, that opened a whole other can of worms that i dont really feel like yapping about rn. he's not an orphan but his dad is sometimes posessed

kaveh -> where the fuck do i even begin. bro is an architect and an ARTIST, thats the main thing, but he's still smart and empathetic. his trauma is so amazing like genuinely it's so well done, i think he's super real especially for all the creators out there- his empathy and drive and guilt is what drives him to destroy himself in the end even when he needs saving and he's trying so so so so so fucking hard. he's so babygirl he's just a little guy. tf you mean he's 25+ not to mention his personality! i feel like in genshin (i dont actually play so idk) everyone's personality varies by what dub/sub your listening to. i know they translated some of his lines so he sounded more rude/snappy in english? which was a weird decision imo, but he's still so lovable so artistic so smart and so <3333 +1 for orphan

ALSO all of the character designs are amazing!! i love looking at them they are all so well done :D thank you so much for the ask!!! i cannot thank you enough for enabling me to YAP!!!

[unforth]

So...what version of Guardian is the official English based on? Cause like...the entire "summoning a ghost army" thing is just...missing from the hospital sequence? My memory is bad but I didn't think it was SO bad that I could hallucinate a scene from when I read the fantranslation or read something in the new one then forget I'd read it within 48 hours?

I'm. So confused.

(Overall the official translation is great, imo one of the best translations 7seas has released so far, and I say that having read nearly all of Guardian in two different fantranslations...and that's part of why I'm so "uhhhhhh" right now)

[scoutaloos-rp-hub]

So..

After getting my bearings again for a bit.. damn this site has changed a LOT from what I remember back in the day.

For anyone interested: Ever since I left I lost my Grandpa, dropped out of Uni, got an apprenticeship which I've just recently had my written finals for so I can get a proper job in the future (how the system works in my home country), picked up fandoms, kinda dropped from the 101 Fandom as the show has pretty much been killed off by Disney and no matter how much you enjoy something, everything fades away eventually. I started writing a full long term fanfiction for a character I created for World of Warcraft and became obsessed with different things at different times. (Very random recollection of the last couple of years I know)

I did miss my time here and recently have been craving getting back into Roleplay as I have had a lot of fun with it over the years, so...

I am back!

(and honestly.. I'm surprised there are still so many people on my follower list, asumption being i wasn't the only one just going dormant...)

While I do wanna get back into RP I don't think I will be reviving my old blogs as I don't really have the muse for either of these Characters anymore... its just been to long, maybe one day they'll pop back into place but for the time being I'll leave them to rest.

HOWEVER:

The WoW character I mentioned, well... I may or may not have had inspiration for her a lot recently so..

Meet my Vulpera OC, Vayreena, a world traveling alchemist and adventurer (who's usually not THAT good at the latter) and because my brain obsesses over thing WAAAY to quickly and WAAAY to much... After seeing a certain recent movie, I couldn't resist going for seconds...

(Still a WIP tho, and I'm still not 100% sure how I'll do the design but its there and it's up)

Yes I know she's received.. mixed results.. but I just couldn't help myself. (I'm also not going to be having any icons for her for the time being since the movie isn't gonna be avaiable digitally for like another month for me

Both are avaiable for interacting, but bear with me.. I'm very rusty and work a full time job now so replies will likely be a lot slower than they were in my past.

[thor-is-trans-and-pan-he-told-me]

i just know that shen wei is always having a gay panic when zhao yunlan is around

[dollettecxre]

1232 words of plot pls send help

[zhenyeart]

[ashyybees-art]

One of my favorite details of the Guardian drama-verse is that Shen Wei's definitive color in the present (outside of being the Envoy) is blue because that was Kunlun's definitive color 10,000 years ago. And 10,000 years later they've switched that color they each wear. (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )づ♡

[dracocheesecake]

Pangolin 🥺

He just a widdle guy 🥺🩷💖🩷

Warning for spoilers for those who still haven't seen the movie yet:

OK but serious: along with the Chameleon he had so much potential especially with the relationship he had with Zhen. Seriously, imagine during that scene when Zhen and Po were underground, he pulls Po aside for a moment:

"Look, you've given us a little wisdom, so here's some in return: you keep that one (Zhen) at arm's length- further, if you can manage it. And don't let her see your back, unless you want a dagger in it."

And then when Zhen comes back to them to get their help to free Po, that's when we find out what actually happened between them: Zhen didn't just run off with the Chameleon, as portrayed (much more pleasantly) in the first flashback; she actively betrayed the Den, turning them in and putting them under the Chameleon's power so that to escape her brutality they were forced under the streets to survive, all so Zhen could get a more comfortable life for herself (which isn't so comfortable, but that's another story).

Han and the other thieves don't go with Zhen at first, but then rush in later to help her later on- revealing they still see her as family (and because they think if they bring down the Chameleon, they can take over the city). Also just...I needed that emotional scene between them.

Some drabbles on said scenes might be incoming if I can get my thoughts straight.

[mirrorgrets]

popping the biggest bottles when lxh 2 drops and i become the most annoying person about xiao hei and wuxian when it drops

[phoenixkaptain]

God I miss novel WeiLan.

Novel Shen Wei: “I want to literally eat you whole so that I have you with me for the rest of eternity. I couldn’t bear to be apart from you so I’ve stalked you for hundreds of years and I have a locked room full of pictures of you from all your past lives. I only started working closely with this part of the police because you became the chief. I can and have killed for you and I have broken so many rules, but since I’ve decided that I’m the ultimate power, I’ve also decided the rules don’t apply to me and so I will continue to break those rules.”

Novel Yunlan: “So, you do like the curtains?”

[habizuh-studios]

Hello 👋 So, I saw that your main fandoms are : TGCF, SVSSS, Guardian, Link Click, and Love Bullet. Are those 5 in your top 10 favorite media ever? Can I ask what made these series special to you (that made you love them)?

Hi!! Thank you so much for the ask!! Yes, as for right now, you're right- those are my top 5 favorite media at the moment :)

I'll go in order with this, hold on (Tl;DR beneath every part :>)-

TGCF was the first danmei fandom i've ever got into. it helped me connect with my friends more since they introduced it to me which i think changed the timeline LMAO- and it's such a good story!! i think it's slightly different from mxtx's other works? but that's alright, because without spoilers, there's so many interesting characters/character concepts, settings, backstories, and a very good romance!! t is quite long so you get a few revelations before the final boss (and the plot twist for that is SO GOOD!!) and it leads for a big payoff in the end. it's totally worth re-reading for the sake of foreshadowing and re-living all the funny/angsty/whatever moments

SVSSS is SOO FUCKING GOOD. the most rereadable danmei ever, imo. it's so hilarious and tragic and tragically misunderstood... the characters are to die for and the fandom is wonderful. there are so many tropes and opportunities for the fans to explore it more and i think that's really beautiful........

Guardian is also so good imo!! it's probably in my top 3 w/ tgcf & svsss- i love the themes of humanity, i'm always a sucker for those, and guo changcheng is SOOO AMAZING. it's really lore-heavy and political, but the small moments are so cute toooo,,, and it's so rereadable! the extras were amazing, probably my fav extras ever, and i really enjoy the way the sid work together- like found family, hehe

LINK CLICK. holyy shit link click. rahhh.. IT'S SOO GOOD!!! tragic doomed yaoi, time travel, murder mystery, found family, deeath, time loops, exploring abuse, noodle lesbians, AUGH. it's so amazing i could ramble about it forever but im soo tired rn but omg you should watch link click it's so fucking good anon it destroyed me

Love Bullet; although it's new, i REALLY LOVE THE CONCEPT!! the characters are so intruiguing and there's so much potential for lore, themes of moving on, grief, love, etc.... the artstyle is soo wonderful and the manga artist did such a good job,,,, seriously everyone's dynamic is so fun and it's just a really good read :D totally re-readable too, and available online if you need! but i reccommend supporting it. it's arhhajehthjteh

that's all i feel like typing rn but thanks for the ask :>