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clevermanka ([personal profile] clevermanka) wrote2020-04-11 09:54 am

Like minds

Guardian/adjacent:
We're all imagining what he's looking at down there and we're all imagining the same thing.
Okay so [personal profile] yue_ix posted a followup to the pics of Jiang Mingyang and let me say (I do not say this lightly) Sweet Virgin Mary Mother of God. This one especially? I just... just prepare yourselves, okay? PREPARE YOURSELVES. I WAS NOT.
This wink is devastating.
Thirty seconds after I posted on Twitter about having a breakthrough on Deconstruction, I had a flash of inspiration for a Zhubai AU based on Table 1 of this so that's a thing that might definitely happen on my next short-fiction break while I write Deconstruction.
Remember earlier this week I mentioned the Zhubai Hitman AU that I said I'd probably never find again? Well bowlerrootx collected all their Zhubai stories. \o/

Untamed/adjacent:
Yunmeng trio in colors.

On the topic of the Untamed, [personal profile] solo mentioned a dislike of exaggerated cowardice in a comment expressing surprise at the likability of my baby boy Nie Huaisang. That usually bugs me, too. Even as a kid I couldn't stand Scooby Doo because Shaggy was SO ANNOYIING. And idk if it was something I picked up on through NHS's early characterization, but early on I suspected his ineptitude was a front. I thought maybe it was just he really didn't want to be clan leader or something? Which, you know, turned out to be kinda correct but BOY HOWDY did I yell at the big reveal. Of all the characters in the drama, NHS is the one I'd want to hang out with in real life. I knew it from the moment he showed WWX the bird he'd caught. His ready access to porn and willingness to share it sealed the deal. Seriously, anyone who could develop and maintain a friendship with teenage JC and WWX at the same time is a master at social navigation. I know lots of people house him as Ravenclaw for very legit reasons but I can't see him as anything other than just my type of Slytherin. GOD I LOVE HIM.

The only way I can express my relief that Fatal Journey was so good is through interpretive dance. It kinda tore up my fave headcanon (which was that NMJ helped train him become a master fan fighter so he could escape the curse of the Nie swords) but that's fine, whatever. That happened in the other universe...
undeadrobins: (Untamed: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian)

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2020-04-11 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm about halfway through Fatal Journey at the moment. It's sooooo much better than Living Dead, even if Wen Ning and Lan Shizhu are two of my favourites.

I'm not sure about NHS yet, but I'm still early on in my rewatch.
goss: *fangirls* - Starfire Raven (*fangirls* - Starfire Raven)

[personal profile] goss 2020-04-11 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
pics of Jiang Mingyang

WHOA HOTNESS O_O

bowlerrootx collected all their Zhubai stories.

How have I never read any of these? Zhubai Hitman AU sounds AMAZING. <3

anyone who could develop and maintain a friendship with teenage JC and WWX at the same time is a master at social navigation

HA! You are CORRECT.
yantantether: Zhu Yilong's hand feeding Bai Yu a lollipop (Guardian Zhubai lollipop)

[personal profile] yantantether 2020-04-11 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
a Zhubai AU based on Table 1 of this
SCREAMING
solo: (CCL Pretty Wei Ying)

[personal profile] solo 2020-04-11 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
NHS is the one I'd want to hang out with in real life. I knew it from the moment he showed WWX the bird he'd caught. His ready access to porn and willingness to share it sealed the deal. Seriously, anyone who could develop and maintain a friendship with teenage JC and WWX at the same time is a master at social navigation.

I see what you mean. He is generous and would always have the best stashes of everything cultured. I think he manages the friendship with JC because he seems to non-threatning to anyone's ego. :)

I'm really glad Fatal Journey wasn't as crap as the other one. \o/
no_detective: default lydia icon with "End OTW Racism" bar added (chu chillin)

[personal profile] no_detective 2020-04-11 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
as ever, so very thankful for your twitter links <3

altho i don't think there is ANY WAY TO BE PREPARED for those pics of jiang mingyang, HOLY SMOKES.

calystarose: Callisto from Xena & a rose (Default)

[personal profile] calystarose 2020-04-12 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
my brain just whited out at the Yunmeng trio thread

anyway, guess who has just watched the first two eps of Guardian, this gal! :D

ty for your links!
calystarose: Callisto from Xena & a rose (Default)

[personal profile] calystarose 2020-04-13 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to actually go back through your posts because I'd muted the tag awhile back. I did that with CQL and we see how well that worked :D :D

I am not sure? I just found an English Sub playlist on youtube, um this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvpAVnYN4lb2Gfz6Feq3KA1r5trkUxMU-
calystarose: Callisto from Xena & a rose (Default)

[personal profile] calystarose 2020-04-13 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
oh thank you! :D
tinny: Bai Yu teaching Zhu Yilong the miao miao song during the Happy Camp stream (guardian_zhubai miao miao)

[personal profile] tinny 2020-04-13 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
Nice wink!

So all the tropes on one table are meant to be done in one story? Oi, tough! Good luck!