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why must everyone in tgcf have like four different names im literally having to keep notes of everyone’s different names in my notes app to keep track send help
@coffeebeanlove
me when u call me "princess"
Huacheng watches Xielian while he sleeps.
800 words.
Guys I can’t shut up about this show! My spouse just stares at me like I’m possessed. 😵💫
“Xie Lian is struggling with his impulse control. But is it his imagination? Or does Hua Cheng seem to be encouraging his deviance?
One shot. 2000 words.
Forgot to add this to the blog too
Guys I can’t shut up about this show! My spouse just stares at me like I’m possessed. 😵💫
“Xie Lian is struggling with his impulse control. But is it his imagination? Or does Hua Cheng seem to be encouraging his deviance?
One shot. 2000 words.
The Immortal Twins (Fic WIP)
"Would you like to hear a story?"
Xie Lian doesn't get a chance to speak before Nan Feng. "Fuck off." Then he makes a grunting sound, which Xie Lian has long recognized as his 'Fu Yao kicked me in the shin again' due to him making that sound only when Fu Yao did so.
The other Middle Court Official smiles pleasantly at the beggar. It's a smile that quite reminds Xie Lian of Shi Qingxuan, so full of warmth and life that it would take the coldest of hearts not to smile back. Sure enough, the beggar's somewhat frightened expression relaxes a little, the corners of his mouth quirking upwards, albeit with Nan Feng's rough language he still seems a little on edge.
"Sorry about him, and yes, why not?"
The beggar makes a gesture at the tin in front of him, and Fu Yao drops two coins in. Then he sits on the floor, and Xie Lian settles beside him. Nan Feng narrows his eyes at Fu Yao, who responds with an eye roll. Nan Feng's lips thin. Fu Yao crosses his arms.
Xie Lian truly finds their silent communication fascinating-since they never tap their temples when doing so, they are nonverbally communicating without the spiritual communication array. The only two others he's seen communicating so casually and silently are Mu Qing and Feng Xin. As Xie Lian always does whenever Nan Feng and Fu Yao visit him, momentarily he considers if in the last eight centuries or so, his old companions had truly changed enough to act out two completely different people easily, but he dismisses it once more. The dynamic of Nan Feng and Fu Yao carries some similarities to Feng Xin and Mu Qing, yes, but the two younger don't have the frankly ridiculous sexual tension he can't believe has only increased the past eight centuries he's seen the two older. No, they act closer to siblings, a relationship not easily faked, if at all.
Their silent conversation ends when Nan Feng twitches and finally sits, shooting a look even Xie Lian easily reads as 'shut up', crossing his arms. Fu Yao nods to the beggar. "Sorry, can you tell your story now?" He drops an extra coin in.
The beggar raises his hands dramatically. "Once upon a time, there was a Ghost King who despised the gods of Heaven."
Xie Lian perks up involuntarily, while both Fu Yao and Nan Feng twitch.
"This Ghost King greatly despised two gods most of all. He cursed them at every turn, but always they evaded him. Eventually, he devised a plan that would eliminate both, once and for all. He cursed the two of them to intertwine, causing one of the gods to be pregnant with the other's child."
Nan Feng's face goes carefully blank.
Fu Yao folds his hands behind his back. Xie Lian must've imagined the crack.
"The ghost king thought the two gods would abandon the child. And some versions of the story say so."
"And other versions?" Xie Lian prompts.
"Other versions say the god gave birth. Not to a child, but to two children, the first two children ever to be born completely of gods. One with the golden eyes and one with silver." The beggar's eyes have an almost manic glint in them. It would be off-putting to anyone else.
Xie Lian hums. "And-"
"I think that's enough."
Xie Lian rarely hears Fu Yao speak so brusquely. Usually, it's a tone he reserves for his ire at San Lang, otherwise never using it at all.
"Time to go."
Nan Feng stands up quickly, making a hand motion for Xie Lian to get up quickly, too. What's puzzling is how quickly Fu Yao gets up as well.
Xie Lian gets to his feet slowly, and brushes off his robes. He tips his hat to the beggar and begins to walk away, following the fast-paced Nan Feng and Fu Yao already walking off into the distance.
Their reactions are abnormal. It's a pity that Xie Lian doesn't have anywhere to place the legend-if it is one. Without the names of the gods, or the ghost king, or even a simple possible time period, he can't discover more with such cryptic and little information. And he would-only so he'd know why his friends reacted as such and be able to help them. The story itself is extremely vague and far-fetched, but anything can happen with Heaven.
The beggar's voice disappears behind him as Xie Lian gives chase to his friends, but not quickly enough for him to not hear.
"They're called the Immortal Twins."
It's that time again everybody! Time to surrender to the forces of Circadian Rhythm and fall deep into slumber. If you are so inclined and capable, snuggle close to your loved one, whoever that may be. I wish you pleasant dreams and a bright morning after!
NOTE: The art is not mine, the link for the image will be posted below. It is connected to a user, but they may not have drawn this art.
P.S.: The username credited to the image is in Japanese.
TGCF audio drama official art 🦋🌸
I am reading through the TGCF manhua, and I found this little beauty! Naturally, I did NOT create the image...I simply cropped it! All credit for the actual artistry of the image is given to the one who drew this cuteness! (I cannot remember who that talented artist is though...)
Artist: Starember
Thank you @unforth for the help with the artist's identity!
Perfect description of tgcf's first kiss(es)
Contrary to popular belief, he’s trying really hard to prevent this old man from getting pregnant right now
Just finished book 3 and feeling 🤪🤪
new official hualian art from the tgcf revised edition <3
Yeeeeeesss look at that, gimme all the great quotes
I do think there is a balance in the message though. These people who ascend or fall are human, but how much of their humanity do they lose? Over hundreds of years, how much do they change, try to leave behind - or remember, or vow to never, ever forget, to never let go of?
Just the ability to choose to hold onto or let go of things, of beliefs or obsessions, that's so human of them - but humans aren't supposed to be eternal. Xie Lian has to suffer things that regular humans never do, to live through death (or fatal injuries), through generations of change, through the rise and fall of kingdoms, through his own strengths but also his very many weaknesses.
Jun Wu and Hua Cheng have held onto and lived consumed by their resentment and devotion respectively, having to actively fight off anything that would contradict these things. A single lifetime of living with betrayal and heartbreak can break a person, but Jun Wu's resentment is so powerful that it essentially reshapes the entire world because of how it grew and amassed and never stopped tormenting him. Hua Cheng's devotion was so powerful that he gained an actual foothold to reshape the world almost as effectively as Jun Wu - enough to oppose his reign. These kinds of devotion are impressive specifically because they lasted so long, enduring so much, enduring things that shouldn't be human.
Xie Lian, Hua Cheng, Jun Wu, and many of the other gods have held onto who they are without any desire to change - regardless of the right or wrongess of these beliefs they refuse to change. It takes a great deal of effort, but in the end Jun Wu is the one who has to stop, who has to change after 2000 years of obsession. Even after he remade the heavens and got revenge on everyone, he still went this far.
It's natural to want to stay a certain way out of habit, because staying the same is comforting, but even so the world moves on without you and you inevitably change despite your efforts. But these gods spend hundreds and thousands of years without change. Jun Wu got everything he wanted but he continued hating even when there was no one left to hate - in fact he seemed to foster another round of gods to continue hating, just now they're under his thumb.
These people are fundamentally human at heart, but how much of that humanity remains once they've lived lives that can't be called fully human anymore? They are human, but they also can't be, but they can choose to try to stay human, or they can choose to be warped into something else.
And when they find out they chose wrong, they can choose again - but only if they remember that they are human, and humans have the power to keep chosing and changing.
Totally random but, as much as I generally love the TGCF fandom, I’ve noticed that it always mildly annoys me when people refer to, say, Hua Cheng or Xie Lian as not being human, when it’s kind of a major thing that they are still human. Maybe I’m being annoying here but, there’s a reason one of my favourite quotes from TGCF is ‘When humans ascend, they are still human; when they fall, they are still human’. I kinda feel especially strongly about this in regard to some of the ghosts because, well, you wouldn’t look at a human corpse and say “No! That’s not a human! It’s a corpse!”, yeah, obviously it’s a corpse, but it doesn’t cease to be human just because it’s dead, it’s just a dead human.
