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i am a firm believer of mobei finishing qinghua's strange jokes just to see him smile. its so fuckin hard to get that man to :D without the undercurrent of fear/mortal terror. "my name is qinghua with a b and im afraid of insects" "stop" "huh?? my king what-" "where's the 'b'." "... :0!! :D tHeReS A BeE?" he only mildly gets the wordplay. it makes sqh happy tho so he'll say the silly words for the magic man

THATS ACTUALLY SO CUTE

He heard how Qinghua talks when he's with Shen Qingqiu and although he has absolutely no idea what it means he knows it's some type of joke and it makes his Husband smile and laugh and HE'LL GO ALONG WITH THIS WORDPLAYS HE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT IF HE CAN SEE HIM LAUGH MORE!!!!

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Chuuya you're japanese

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i know this has been talked about a million times, but sometimes i think about how he xuan must have recognised xie lian immediately after he ascended for the third time. my man spent 12 years looking at xie lian's carefully sculpted face in the kiln, he would have been in hua cheng's private comms channel faster than ling wen picked up her scroll.

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crowd of thousands is a hualian song. once upon a december is a lan sizhui song. someone help me figure out the svsss anastasia song

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theres maybe a single brain cell pinging around in there . a few neurons are firing.

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PAUL people are dying Paul. come out Paul. move on now Paul. the world needs you Paul. stop moping in the basement Paul.

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Link Click Superpower Mechanics: Do their Eyes Change Colour??

Tl;dr: no.

I had earlier thought that this scene at the end of Season 1 indicated that - yes - Lu Guang's eyes do glow blue and is visible to the people around him even if people can't see Xiaoshi's yellow eyes during his dive.

I WAS WRONG YOU PROBABLY CAN'T SEE SHIT

If the eye colours were canon, then CXS's eyes should be visibly yellow when he's diving into surveillance footage since that's his own body. This would parallel the way Li Tianchen's possession powers work with respect to his change in eye colour.

However, we know from the ending of Season 2 that doesn't happen, we don't see Xiaoshi's eyes as yellow until after the reveal. Moreover, Tianchen's eye colours change multiple times at seemingly random, including before he manifests his powers which is nonsense! (And something imma make another post about at another time.) We don't even see Xixi's eyes so who knows what's up with her.

It might have been ambiguous back in Season 1, but by the end of Season 2 it seems that LAN has definitively settled on the eye colours being a show-don't-tell storytelling technique.

As to why Lu Guang always shuffled away to use his powers?

Lighting issues with seeing the phone screen clearly

He doesn't want distractions when doing his complicated time web analysis mumbo-jumbo, man's gotta concentrate

He's shy 🥺

LAN still hadn't decided back then (which is noncanon but I feel it's worth reiterating)

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This is. Like. Less than conjecture. This is a theory based on nothing but vibes. Buuuut. I’m thinking about Felix JFKSHCJDBCJND

My current theory is that his powers (if he has any. Cause again we absolutely do not know shit about shit.) involve being able to see through any pictures taken of him. Hence the modeling career.

Like I know this is the magical eyes show but there is just SO much emphasis on where he’s looking in that trailer…

…and I just think it has the potential to cause a lot of problems. If thats the case.

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Imagining a scenario where Shen Qingqiu clocks some of the lingering tension between the peak lords and Luo Binghe after they get married, and so looks up what all the rights & privileges of a peak lord's spouse are (because really only the ascetic peak has restrictions against marriage), and then just like. Heaps them onto Binghe.

Fine robes and ornaments in Qing Jing's style. A title. Appropriate authority over Shen Qingqiu's disciples and junior sect siblings. Technically Binghe is also entitled to use of his own residence, and there's a building on the peak that is at least nominally reserved for the peak lord's wife, but it hasn't been used in a long time and Binghe would cry if Shen Qingqiu even suggested living in separate buildings (and Shen Qingqiu would also not like it but shhh). So he doesn't get that, exactly, but Shen Qingqiu does have the building freshened up and aired out as a place where Binghe can house guests from the demon realms, or potentially his own personal disciples (should he desire to take any on one day).

Binghe accompanies Shen Qingqiu to peak lord meetings in his capacity as husband, rather than disciple, which means Binghe also gets to sit at the table instead of standing behind Shen Qingqiu's seat.

But really just, Shen Qingqiu making a point of doing everything extremely officially to really drive home that he married Binghe, and he expects Binghe to be treated with respect and not suspicion or derision or any of the other bad habits that his fellow peak lords have displayed. Not just with Binghe, but also towards the original goods in the past (SJ might have been a piece of work, but the fact also remains that most of what his sect siblings thought of him was inaccurate). SQQ scraping up every bit of political acumen he can find from all the books he read and PIDW itself and his own history as the son of a wealthy family, and being like, "if I don't want Binghe to be bullied, I must make it clear that he has my favor!"

Meanwhile everyone already knows Luo Binghe is Shen Qingqiu's favorite, like man they know it so much already, more than they'd like to, but it's not like they can SAY anything because actually putting the right hair ornament onto Luo Binghe's head and making the disciples address him as Shimu is in fact more appropriate than all the other ways Shen Qingqiu displayed his favoritism so far. It's just driving several of the other peak lords slowly insane because it's backwards! The order of things is all messed up! Shen Qingqiu can't truly expect them to start respecting this disgraceful mess of a relationship now, can he?!

Of course he can. Also Yue Qingyuan is backing him up. (Yue Qingyuan actually finds this kind of amusing, because it's very on-brand for both versions of Shen Qingqiu to get embroiled in a controversial mess only to retroactively go "oh yeah, respectability politics are a thing" and then just try and brazenly bluff his way through it.)

Meanwhile Binghe is very much enjoying himself. Could he stop anyone in the sect from actually mistreating him in a heartbeat? Of course. He could kill any of them, they all know it, and Binghe is not unaware of how to leverage that kind of fear into compliance, if not respect. But then he'd have to go stalking around being tyrannical all the time, and he does that enough as the demon emperor.

It's far more enriching to let people be rude to him and then hang his head and "nobly endure" the mistreatment, just to watch Shen Qingqiu's eyes narrow and his fan snap shut before he lets out some cutting remark and then lavishes another sign of his favor onto Luo Binghe. Binghe's wildest teenage fantasies were made of this stuff! He's living the dream!

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Mushroom body problems

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Im sick with covid again and in my fever fueled delirium Ive found motivation for shitpost reels

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"average wife gets 3 wifeplots a book" factoid actualy just statistical error. average wife gets 1 wifeplot per book. Spiders Qingqiu, who lives in a bamboo house & gets over 10,000 wifeplots each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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shen qingqiu being unreasonable as always 😞 poor binghe

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Pov: you have transmigrated to find the love of your life again only to find him screaming in the dark and laughing at nothing

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Head pats to show your human that you love them 💞

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Me, assuming beefleaf is a cutesy lesbian comedic relief b couple based on vague art reblogs seen out if context

The Black Water Arc, with a steel chair-

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"Can't two guys be just friends?" If they stop looking at each other like that then sure