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Hi! When is your birthday?

my birthday is March 17th‼️ :))

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omg guys you have to stop woobifying xie lian he is a MARTIAL GOD who has very masculine motifs like flowers and pearl earrings. don't call the guy wearing a woman's wedding dress "wife" ://

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once xie lian gets a little bolder in post-canon married life he's the perfect candidate to do the "i want you to draw me wearing this...wearing only this (your ashes)"

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real

what you need to understand about hualian is that xie lian is as much of a freak for hua cheng as hua cheng is for him

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the mischaracterization of jun wu by western tgcf fans, an epidemic

to illustrate with a metaphor, jun wu resembles the duality of a crying-smiling mask. while most western tgcf fans already seem to overlook the smiling half completely, i notice a trend of reducing even the crying half into nothing more than “unadulterated hatred toward xie lian".

this often results in takes -- such as jun wu doing xie lian favours so he can make xie lian feel indebted or bestowing symbols of xie lian’s country to provoke painful memories -- that can only be explained with an "evil for the sake of being evil" tag on jun wu, takes that don't make sense when scrutinized within the context of jun wu's purpose.

so what was this guy's grand objective, anyway? he wanted xie lian to come to his side. (and to limit the scope of this discussion, we're not even going to open the pandora's box of the smiling side -- a yearning for validation of the crown prince of wuyong's dreams. that will be a post for another time.) honing in on the crying side, jun wu wanted xie lian to become the second white-clothed calamity, to agree that the common people suck, that they aren't worth saving, and that he should just give up on his dream.

what exactly does making xie lian feel indebted to him achieve? it's not like he expects xie lian to come to his side as a form of debt repayment. if the argument is that jun wu's actions aim solely to degrade xie lian or cause him suffering, this view feels like a significant mischaracterisation. jun wu isn't the type of antagonist who torments xie lian at every opportunity simply for the sake of cruelty.

likewise, reducing jun wu’s replication of the xianle palace to a mere attempt to inflict pain oversimplifies the nuances at play. the glamorous xianle palace stands in juxtaposition to xie lian's humble puqi shrine. i argue that jun wu sought to present xie lian with a tangible vision of why his path -- the path of grandeur and power -- was superior.

curiously, mxtx's pen name means "the smell of copper coins and the fragrance of ink" because she wanted to major in literature while her mother wanted her to pick economics, for the latter secured a more prosperous career. ultimately, they agreed on the best of both worlds, "holding a pen in one hand and coins in the other", the third path.

but jun wu had suggested that xie lian become his right-hand man (when preparing to greet the rain master), and from the deal he was willing to cut yin yu, we can infer that if xie lian really came to jun wu's side, he would've helped cover all of his crimes. they would pretend as if nothing had happened, just as jun wu did all these years, hiding behind glitter and gold, masking away all the decadence beneath the surface.

the gilded palace is a reflection of such a path. it's a reminder of what could've been -- if only xie lian kept "pleasing the gods", wearing the mask, turned a blind eye to the suffering. if only xie lian had chosen jun wu's path, the one beaten by so many who came before.

but that's inauthentic. that's not who xie lian is. xie lian rejects the mask because he wants to be himself. he'd rather live in shambles than accept the riches of the heavens, than choose coins with no soul. even if there is a wall straight ahead, xie lian will walk straight into it if that's where the third path leads, because he refuses to veer left or right, to choose either one of two (that's actually where the proverb that inspired the head-smashing scene originates from, by the way).

jun wu doesn’t act out of a simple desire to witness xie lian’s suffering. seeing xie lian in pain brings him no joy. after all, bai wuxiang once hugged him. half of what jun wu does serves to draw xie lian to his side, to mould him into the perfect successor who will follow his path. that, at least, is the crying half of jun wu's intent.

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REAL OMG DONGHUA YUSHI HUANG IS SO PRETTY ❤️❤️❤️ I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR HER VOICE TOO

donghua yushi huang donghua yushi huang donghua yushi huang donghua yushi huang donghua yushi huang

im so normal about her, trust

not easy trying to draw the robes of someone bending over backwards queen stand up straight please

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literally me rn

something something Wu Ming Wednesday

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just finished the extras

I can't believe I've read it all honestly

will never be the same person again 💔💔

okay, so I just finished reading tgcf (not completely, I haven't read the extras yet, but I have finished chapter 133) and I honestly couldn't be more satisfied with the ending

the way things ended was perfect and mxtx is a phenomenal author

hualian supremacy ☝️☝️ make sure to worship them together you guys <3

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Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

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y'all, i did NOT expect the tgcf extras to be THIS freaky ☝️😭

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okay, so I just finished reading tgcf (not completely, I haven't read the extras yet, but I have finished chapter 133) and I honestly couldn't be more satisfied with the ending

the way things ended was perfect and mxtx is a phenomenal author

hualian supremacy ☝️☝️ make sure to worship them together you guys <3

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honestly.... i think I'm starting to really like mu qing after his heart-to-heart with xie lian in chapter 127

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GUYS I FINALLY GOT THE LAST TGCF BOOK !!

I'm currently over at a friend's house so I can't read it yet but I'm so very excited 🤭

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Not to be a Debbie downer during these amusing, light hearted times, but I recently left a group chat where some of the people in it had the wildest fucking takes and now I really just need to rant about it before I go insane. So, uh, rant about society and women below (crude language, I guess?)

I'm sick of people sexualising breasts. The whole point of breasts is to feed babies and make sure they have the necessary sustenance to survive. That's it. They aren't there for sexual pleasure or men's entertainment or any other bat shit ideas for it. Get it out of your fucking head that they are something scandalous and wild - and yes, people don't want to show their breasts or anything because society has framed them to be linked to modesty and sex rather than anything else. The fact that we can't picture a life where that is normal is because we have never lived that life - people have never been given the chance because god forbid people with breasts don't cover them up!! Scandalous!! They must be a whore trying to tempt me!!!! Fuck that shit. AND, AFTER I EXPLAINED THAT BREASTS WERE SEXUALISED, ONE OF THESE GUYS tried to be like "hm, I disagree" and I said "all due respect, I don't think you have thr necessary experience to disagree" and he said "what experiences would I need?" And I was like "???? HAVING TITS???"

Linked to this is a comment one of the people in my group chat made being like "oh, what are your guys' opinions on the new Halloween trend" and, although I don't know what it's about, it was described using the phrase of women wearing "nipple covers and body paint", implying they are shirtless. And what do I say to that?? We don't get a fucking opinion!!! It doesn't fucking affect you in any way that is actually fucking remotely important so shut the fuck up! You wouldn't be saying shit like this if a cis guy was doing the same "trend" so why make a big fucking deal about it now?? Awh, are your sensibilities being offended? 🥺 Is baby too pathetic to see that he is the problem 🥺🥺?? Shut the fuck up. Keep your nose out of other people's business and stop commenting on shit like somebody else showing off their body. It doesn't fucking concern you and your stupid beliefs don't fucking matter here. "B-But they're just doing it for a reaction"- once again SO WHAT?? It's not your body, and you don't own these people. Get a grip on yourself, you fucking dumbass.

Finally, let's talk about how the same guy said that he wouldn't date a woman with a high body count because "it shows that she's not loyal" and like...hello??? What the fuck do you think a body count is? Unless someone has cheated whilst in a relationship with someone, body count doesn't even remotely come into play when deciding a relationship. Body count is about sex, and who someone sleeps with outside of a relationship is none of your fucking business. If they want to tell you then great, woohoo, whatever, but it actually does not fucking matter. "Oh, what if someone has a body count of fifty by 22" was this from someone who was cheating? No?? Then who fucking cares. A person's body count does not fucking define them - come on, this is the BASICS of a healthy relationship. Are you implying that someone who has a high body count cannot possibly want to settle down with someone eventually? (Because that's what he did) Would you tell someone who didn't want to have kids but now does that they aren't allowed to be a parent because, at one point in their life, they didn't want kids? Bro was saying "oh, if they can prove that they want to settle down then I'd date them" and I said "how would someone prove that??" and this motherfucker said "by not sleeping with other people like they have for the past five years" LIKE THAT ISN'T THE DEFINITION OF A RELATIONSHIP. LIKE, LIKE HE WAS MAKING SOME SORT OF GRAND STATEMENT. Motherfuckers are so dumb I swear to god.

And god forbid you point out how much of an INCEL they sound like, because nooo, they could never be an incel, they're soooo respectful of women, as if I haven't been having to deconstruct their views on women for the longest fucking time. I give up with that shit. Fuck. Them. "Oooh, I want my woman to have never slept with anyone else and to only ever sleep with me" this isn't the fucking nineteenth century. People don't give a shit about that anymore. Get your head out of your ass and learn to be better or fucking suffer.

GOD. I'm so sorry but I had to get this off my chest, it has been plaguing all of my thoughts since it happened and I'm just really glad I left that groupchat (even if I didn't explain to them how fucking stupid they were for the trend comment)

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IM ALSO CRYIGN

惊鸿一瞥，百世沦陷 我的心上人，是一个金枝玉叶的贵人 我从很小就喜欢他，已经喜欢了很多年 费尽千辛万苦，才追上去

GUYS I AM CRYING!!!!!! NEW FOOTAGE FROM TGCF DONGHUA AND NEW LINES OMG

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OH MY GO D

Heaven Official's Blessing donghua → Four Famous Tales and Four Great Calamities 🦋

Four Famous Tales:

The Crown Prince Who Pleased The Gods

The Young Lord Who Poured Wine

The General Who Broke His Sword

The Princess Who Slit Her Throat

Four Great Calamities:

Crimson Rain Sought Flower

Night-Touring Green Lantern

Ship-Sinking Black Water

White-Clothed Calamity

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Heaven Official's Blessing new short film PV to celebrate 4 years of the donghua 🦋