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I was thinking about how in modern AUs XL is often portrayed as liking to wear things that are typically considered “feminine” (skirts, heels, makeup, etc.) while HC is more “ masculine”

When in reality… am I the only one to think that the one wearing heels and make up would be HC? He’s canonically very careful of his appearance and the way he dresses, always wearing make up and carefully chosen jewellery, he has his own style, etc. He also gives off (that´s only my personal opinion though) massive non-binary/gender fluid vibes

So. Idk. But I think he would have an androgynous and refined style while XL would stick to something basic (maybe gender neutral) like baggy pants and sweatshirts. And crocs.

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Finally reading TGCF and found these oldies! I love themmmm 🥰

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Don't you like how TGCF, the novel where MC's image is still considered "pure" and worthy of religious faith even after being brutally physically mutilated, martyred, tortured, but an ounce of self gratification, of expressing sexual desire would "taint" that image and cause him to lose power, where MC could only ever be happy after letting go of the "proper" ways of his cultivation method to live a fulfilling married life, gets praised for being the "pure" danmei novel because there is no explicit sexual scenes in it due to strict censorship on any sexual content in china that could lead to authors facing actual jail time, despite severe body horror and cruelty, basically everything crude you could come up with being depicted in the said book. How some dipshits actually are audacious enough to announce that they prefer the censored "untainted" version of hualian because it shows how "pure" their love is. Then say that they didn't like the extra's implications right after that... because eww!! Kinky.

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"all hua cheng's overprotectiveness is actually--" im gonna stop you right there, hua cheng is not overprotective. bro literally does nothing overprotective.

he actively lets xie lian do shit he shouldn't and just does his best to warn against it and only intervenes when it's an actually significantly serious life or death situation that he has no way of meaningfully assisting with and the only time he actually gets angry and physical with xie lian is when he has reason to believe that xie lian is about to lethally injure himself on purpose.

he has a scene where he literally tells xie lian not to bother saving someone from certain death, shows xie lian he can't help him save that guy, again reiterates strongly not to try it because it would be nearly impossible, but then just lets him do it. and when feng xin is surprised, hua cheng makes it clear that he doesn't actually think he knows more than xie lian and does not want to control him

'overprotective' is in the same vein as 'stalker' ie labels that people slap onto hua cheng without thinking for a moment about who he is or what those words mean

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I love how so many fics where Hualian have a kid, the kid is a girl. Hua Cheng is girl-dad coded.

Search your feelings. You want Hua Cheng to have a staff of seamstresses working tirelessly to ensure that the little girl never wears the same clothes twice. Man goes on quests to find exotic flowers just for his daughter to rip them out of the ground in a tantrum. Xie Lian comes home one day, and Hua Cheng is laying on the ground, complaining about how annoying people are while their daughter gives him the absolute worse makeover. Hey asshole. Your shins scoffed my baby girl's shoes. Apologize for not being clean when my daughter kicked you

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Luo Binghe: Shizun, it's been 5 years. I missed you

Shen Qingqiu, screaming internally: please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me, fuck, fuck, he's going to fucking kill me

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Lan Wangji: Wei Ying, it's been 13 years. I missed you

Wei Wuxian: Huh? Wei Ying? I never heard of the guy. Did you not see me flirting with men? I bet Wei Ying has never done that

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Hua Cheng: Dianxia, it's been 800 years. I missed you

Xie Lian: Do I know you?

Hua Cheng: ...

Hua Cheng: No.

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Bonus

Mobei-Jun: Qinghua, it's been a month. I missed y-

Shang Qinghua: HOLY SHIT MY KING, YOUR UNCLE IS GOING TO KILL ME!!

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Listen, I love that Hua Cheng is revered as such a terrifying dude when this man is an 800-year-old virgin who named himself Flower, uses butterflies of all things to fight with, carries around an umbrella his crush gave him that one time, has his crush’s name tattooed on his damn arm, and made rain an important part of his character all because it was so Pivotal to Xie Lian’s downfall and rebirth. He gave no fucks. He’s in love with his gege, and everyone should know it.

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I didn't ask if it made sense to keep going. I said I'm going to kick your twisted evil ass.

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"No." The King gawked. "No? Why? I am offering you the Hand of my daughter to slay the Dragon that roams the Lands! A man would kill for such an opportunity!" "Because I will not hurt an innocent animal that just follows his migratory pattern. And I am already married."

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I am flying to Asia now. Be back in 20 hours.

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I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.

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If Sherlock Holmes was Isekai'd to a fantasy world he would just deduce the rules of this world and get back to solving crimes. He'll find an elf girl sidekick,name her Watson, and pretend like nothing happened.

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the way early hualian interactions are peak comedy though. HC aka supreme ghost king telling XL that he's scared of the ghosts. and then that wow he's impressed that XL scared them away. XL confidently pretending he can read palms while thinking ''thats all bullshit.'' HC aka ghost town owner sighing cause he's gonna have to sleep on the road or in a cave probably.

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the Evil King's daily routine💕🪞💘

✨yaaaayy another fairytale au, another day of Yin Yu dealing with his masters crush on the prince✨

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Y’know I give Hua Cheng a lot of shit for being a simplord like I don’t talk about Xie Lian being just as bad enough.

Like you know this guy cannot go ten minutes without mentioning his husband. He is the most annoying wife guy in a twenty mile radius. Hua Cheng can do no wrong in his eyes. He could bite of Feng Xins finger because he thought it was funny and Xie Lian will fully tell Feng Xin he shouldn’t have antagonised someone more powerful than him.

Hua Cheng could show up at the door to Puqi Shrine menacingly standing at his 6’4 self covered in blood and Xie Lian would just be like “Oh my poor sweet San Lang, was today a bad day let me make you some soup and get you cleaned up.”

Like he is living his Mafia AU Mob Wife Fantasy and we all need to support him in that.

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