The words we said goodbye

[clevermanka]

From Twitter:

• qikiqtarjuaq, Yes, this manip is devastating. Also, I want those frames for my next pair of glasses.
• Aside from the fact that he's promoting a product called "Lost Cherry" (don't even have to make this shit up) I love how the Tom Ford cologne ads show just a hint of Zhu Yilong's beard under the skin. So. Hot.
• Zhu Yilong looks menacing as fuck with that mask in these am here for it.
• This Pizza Hut Bai Yu gif doesn't load on desktop, but it's worth going to mobile. SCREEN DOOR. HURRICANE.
• If this isn't the perfect What The Fuck Did I Just Read face. Oh, kitten.

I'm serious about those frames. If anyone finds them (or something nearly identical) please send me a link. I'm willing to pay a lot for glasses that look good on me and I think those would fit my face really well.

Ramping up the angst again on Ghost Story. (Sorry, y'all, it's gonna be a rough ride from here on out. Still some sexy times, but to use an expression I've seen bandied about quite a bit in this fandom, the rest is pretty much knives all the way down.) So I've been going through my music collection and remembered the rough times I got through thanks to the help of Sugar's 1992 Oh jesus, y'all I bought this CD, with my own money, when it came out, in nineteen fucking ninety-two anywayyyyy, 1992 album Copper Blue and whooo buddy if this isn't a Weilan song. Full lyrics on Genius.

All the things I haven't seen
Once the final curtain has been raised
The act we act is wearing thin
The act we act under my skin
The words the words we said goodbye
The words left choking in my mind
The act we act is wearing thin
I think we wear it out again

Time to start writing some ouch! *cracks knuckles*

Oh! Heads-up, tomorrow's another Guardian collection on my Tumblr because this fandom's prolific as fuck. Stuff's queued to post every hour from 10am to 2pm CST.

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

Did you also see how the cologne Zhu Yilong is promoting is literally the exact one that Zhao Yunlan wears in the Guardian novel? Because, uh, that's also a thing.

[clevermanka]

[winter_blossom]

This little tidbit is so perfect, I can't even! <3

[winter_blossom]

You know, it's a shame about those ads. He looks so freaking good in them but the stuff he's promoting have weird names or suggestive shapes or some manner of nonsense most of the time and I'm too busy being embarrassed for him to appreciate his beauty. But yes, he does look amazing in that cologne ad! *Aggressively bans the ridiculous names/shapes from her mind*

[clevermanka]

I find Chinese advertising very very odd, and I frequently get secondhand embarrassed watching them. It's a fascinating observation of cultural conditioning.

[winter_blossom]

Yeah, but what culture, though? I mean, I live in (South) Asia myself, and they would never advertise something like that in my country - especially the shapes, which tend to be universal, though most of our people wouldn't know enough English to be critical of (some) names - "Lost Cherry" would definitely not ping for the average citizen and therefore will make it through, for example. And I don't recall seeing this kind of thing in Japanese ads (though only what I've seen in dramas and such, so hardly comprehensive). Is it a China-only thing, I wonder...

[clevermanka]

All cultures! LOL! We're all affected (sometimes in very weird ways) by the values of the system(s) in which we were raised, even when we consciously reject them. So interesting to me!

[winter_blossom]

You know, I was just thinking about this comment of yours, and what it is, specifically, that embarrasses me about Chinese advertising (yes, I like to waste time thinking about pointless things, why do you ask? ^^)

My country is ultra-conservative so everything is carefully vetted (they pulled a deodorant container from the market because its shape was "unsuitable," there was a big fuss over a bodywash commercial because it showed too much for the model's body through the shower cubicle glass, etc.) And then there're the ads from the western side of the globe that I see on cable which are very over-the-top and obvious in their sexuality, to the point where they amuse the hell out of me. But somehow it's the veneer of innocence that these ads project, like they're feigning ignorance, that bothers me, rather than overt prudishness or in-your-face obviousness. Huh. You learn something knew about yourself everyday, I guess XD

[clevermanka]

It's not pointless thinking if you're learning things! Even about yourself! =D

[trobadora]

Thank you for all those links! ♥

"Lost Cherry" (don't even have to make this shit up)

WHO COMES UP WITH THIS STUFF OMG. *stares*

Zhu Yilong looks menacing as fuck with that mask in these am here for it.

Seriously! YES.

If this isn't the perfect What The Fuck Did I Just Read face.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure I make the exact same face sometimes when I hear the kinds of questions he gets asked. (I don't look half as good doing it, but still.)

[clevermanka]

You're welcome!

I'm so glad someone else is here for menacing Zhu Yilong. Ugh. WRECK ME.

[trobadora]

I'm so glad not to be alone with that, too! YES. ♥

[clevermanka]

Another thing we see eye-to-eye on?

Bai Yu: I want to pin him to the floor and destroy him. Take him apart over and over. (screen door, hurricane)

Zhu Yilong: MAKE ME FORGET MY NAME.

[trobadora]

Hee! Almost 100% accurate. :D

(I don't generally think of myself in that context. [tmi] Honestly, all my fantasies are third person. [/tmi] But other than that, OMG YES THIS.)

[clevermanka]

[winter_blossom]

Can I just say that I love this conversation you guys are having? I mean, people are always like, "Zhao Yunlan is super hot and Shen Wei is super cute!" And I'm like, "But... Isn't it the opposite? (Well, not exactly opposite, but you know what I mean) Am I being a weirdo?" Good to know I'm in good company after all XD

[clevermanka]

[trobadora]

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. ♥

[extrapenguin]

Zhu Yilong looks menacing as fuck with that mask in these am here for it.
Aw, to me he just looks like a grumpy puppy. I want to pat him on the head.

And yes, that is a very "WTF did I just read?" face. Understandable, given the sorts of questions people ask him.

Oh! Heads-up, tomorrow's another Guardian collection on my Tumblr because this fandom's prolific as fuck. Stuff's queued to post every hour from 10am to 2pm CST.
♥ Gifsets and promo images only, or will there be (links to) other stuff as well?

[clevermanka]

Mostly gifsets, but also some fanart (lots of fanart) and at least one fanvid that I remember.

[minoanmiss]

whoa that is a lot of beauty

[clevermanka]

[ranalore]

PH!Bai Yu would be an ideal match for Time Engraver!Zhu Yilong, he looks like he's wearing some kind of slightly left-of-center, fantasy uniform. Investigating time crimes, maybe?

Aside from the fact that he's promoting a product called "Lost Cherry" (don't even have to make this shit up)

Advertising is so often such a gorgeous art form in service to a frankly absurdist objective. Fragrance ads are extreme examples, but after working at an ad agency for a few years, I sometimes appreciate their lack of subtlety. At least a fragrance ad won't try to guilt you into buying it by signalling that you're harming your pets or loved ones if you don't, or shame you into buying it because you don't dare show your face in public unless you're wearing it (I'm sure they would, but other cosmetics called dibs). And the suggestive names, shapes, time-lapse blooming flowers, rippling fabrics and undulating leathers, are all absolutely purposeful. And, I mean. Zhu Yilong is fully, sedately clothed and looking seductively, yet respectably enough at the camera. He's not spouting half-coherent monologues and driving into the desert to bury fifty pounds of jewelry. He's doesn't spend even part of the ad wet, with semi-transparent, clinging clothing. He doesn't have mostly-nude models draped over him or surrounding him. By U.S. standards, it's barely G-rated.

If this isn't the perfect What The Fuck Did I Just Read face. Oh, kitten.

He makes the most amazing faces. That's one of the things Hotpot With Zhu Yilong made me appreciate, all the variations of WTF those microexpressions are capable of conveying.

[clevermanka]

Zhu Yilong is fully, sedately
The fact that I read that as "fully sedated" even though I knew that wasn't what it said made me lol. Seriously, though, the...is there such a thing as serene lust?...well, whatever it is he presents in that ad makes me more inclined to buy it than I am anything I'd see in a standard glossy mag ad in the U.S.

He really does have a startlingly amazing face .

[umadoshi]

another Guardian collection on my Tumblr because this fandom's prolific as fuck

Ooooh! ^_^

[clevermanka]

And I don't think there are any repeats from previous collections.

[qikiqtarjuaq]

Pizza Hut!Bai Yu with his apron that looks like a skirt and his well-fitted uniforms is just... a lot.

[clevermanka]

It is a very fine-fitting uniform.