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Yu She: I am going to jump into the frozen pond to shame my spermdonor!
Steward Feng: Young master Zhong is getting a concubine! A tall, muscular, old concubine!
Yu She: He dares!
reading Those Years in Quest of Honour Mine after erha 4 is like taking a big breath of fresh air after staying in a stuffy room for too long.
This novel is delightful! I'm actually laughing reading it!
The comedy of Yu She abducting Lin Si and threatening him with torture, just to get to Zhong Wan's childhood name, that's inspired.
Also, there's plot (very political but I'm still mostly following so far), side characters (Xuan Congxin my beloved) and one of the best premises I have read so far (Oh, you're spreading rumours about me? Alright, I'll make you act out scenes from romance novels about us then).
villains are hard to design. making them ugly is dangerous, depending on what traits you choose to frame as monstrous or undesirable, you could very well end up saying something fatphobic, racist, anti-semitic, etc
but if you make a hot villain then people will get thirsty and demand redemptions and refuse to acknowledge their evil actions, no matter how despicable
paying extra attention to costume changes on my rewatch for fic writing purposes (i was a little sloppy about it in my first 飞花 fic, simply too horny to bother double checking) and found this little gem in episode 11 (ie the ep that puts li lianhua into a wedding dress):
beforehand he's just wearing one of his usual 青色 color scheme. note that before this he'd just gone to di feisheng's room, where fang duobing interrupted their... mhmm... case discussion plans
(they looked rather put out at being interrupted, mind you)
then of course they do the wedding dress thang, but it gets all wet. side note: di feisheng is very interested about the bruise on li lianhua's neck. hm. after they interface with the guo house people, there's a cut to li lianhua being dry, and another costume change:
fellas that is not the green robe. that is li xiangyi colors.
you cannot convince me that di feisheng didn't pick out li lianhua's clothes. thank you 《莲花楼》 costume designers. you're doing god's work.
After shoving Hansel in the oven, the witch turns to Gretel - who is currently fending the witch off with a gingerbread chair - and says:
“I can’t believe you thought a trail of breadcrumbs would save you. I mean, honestly, this is a forest! It’s full of animals. Honestly, the very idea that a dumb shit like you thought you could get the better of me is absurd.”
Gretel hits her in the face with said chair. To be fair to the witch, she takes the chairshot like a champ.
“Ow!”
“Did you know,” says Gretel, “that crows are capable of facial recognition?”
“Eh?” Says the witch, clambering to her feet and pulling a candy cane sledgehammer off the wall. “What’s that got to do with anything?”
“Not only that,” Gretel continues, “but they can remember both friends and enemies. And they’ll often follow people they remember as friends.”
The two fence with their sugared weapons for a moment, before the witch knocks the chair out of Gretel’s hands.
“Enough with the bird facts! Honestly, this whole attempted escape has been utter clownshoes. Get in the fucking oven!”
She seizes Gretel by the collar. Gretel immediately sandbags, letting her whole body go limp. This eminently practical defense forces the witch to try and deadlift her. Which is hard, as the witch often skips leg day.
“For example,” Gretel says, as the witch struggles and grunts, “if you feed crows a lot of breadcrumbs, they’ll probably start to see you as a friend and follow you in the hope of more food.”
The witch stops. Outside, she hears the thunder of wings.
“They’ll even bring you shiny things they find as presents!” Says Gretel, as a corner of the gingerbread ceiling is suddenly cut away by a large crow with a knife in its mouth.
“Oh shitballs.” Says the witch, as the crows descend. “I hope you know this is a great unkindness.”
“Technically,” Says Gretel, “It’s a murder.”
One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.
But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:
To like a character means to accurately understand their flaws. Modern au Nie Huaisang would use chat gpt to write his essays for him, and I don't have to like that fact to know that it's true.
personally I love all the lan sizhui & lan jingyi acting as translators for lan wangji moments/headcanons/fics but also the idea of either of them going “what hanguang-jun is trying to say—” and jiang cheng interrupting with “kids, I have been translating lan wangji’s face since before you first picked up your swords. thank you for trying to make this conversation family friendly but we both know hanguang-jun’s eyebrow twitch just called me a cunt and his jaw clench told me to go to hell”
it's a shame you can't Cool, Silent, and Mysterious your way to being very close to people. we are unfortunately going to have to embarrass ourselves for this
i just love him so much i don't know what to do with my feelings. here, have a gif of my obsession. at least making gifs gives me a reason to stare at his face for hours on end.
A little thing I enjoy is that Dongfang Qingcang is smaller than most of the rest of the men in the cast. Not only is he shorter, but he's also not as broad. By no means is Dylan short (he's decently tall), but he's just not as big a dude.
Cangyan Sea Boy Band pic, and everyone in the image is notably quite a bit larger than him with one exception.
ZLH is of course several inches taller than him, and he's broader too. DFQC is given a lot of clothes by the costume designers that make him look bigger. Notice the second robe in the first pic, whereas Xiao Run is only in one layer.
Comparison when they're both holding Xiao Lanhua just to show HOW MUCH bigger Changheng is.
And with Shangque! He's not wearing a second robe in this short, so you really got an idea of his actual frame size.
The one character he seems to be very close to size in is his brother, which makes sense!
I don't think they deliberately cast these actors based on my observations per se, but the idea of DFQC not being a big man, but being the most powerful in the three realms appeals to me. And it also appeals to me because he wears SO MUCH clothing, and it tickles my blorbo rotating brain to imagine him doing this partially because he knows he's not large, and he wants to be visually intimidating.
I especially think of that massive armor. He doesn't just wear it on the battlefield. He wears it in meetings with advisors and with the two kings. There is no reason for him to wear it there except presence. Yes, it could be ceremonial, but he's also in the throne room without it from time to time.
Even on the battlefield, no one else in the series has armor that huge, that cumbersome. I'm ignoring the impracticality of it because none of the armor in this show is practical, but I really like the idea that he chooses that armor not only because it's intimidating, but because it makes his (not very imposing on its own) figure look much bigger than it is.
Also remember that Dongfang Qingcang became Moon Supreme as the equivalent of an ELEVEN YEAR OLD? He no doubt had to make himself look stronger than he physically appeared at first.
In conclusion:
