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DMBJ Official Art for Xie Yuchen (10/03) & Hei Xiazi (01/23)'s birthdays by - 晓泊21
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I can still see you
Happy birthday @cozyteademon! Thank you for introducing me to these boys (and for the caption)! I hope this next year of your life is gonna be amazing! With some luck maybe almost as amazing as you are! <<3
#dao mu bi ji#daomu biji#dmbj#盗墓笔记#the lost tomb#mystery of the abyss#重启之深渊疑冢#heihua#xiao hua#小花#hei xiazi#黑瞎子#hei yanjing#黑眼镜#xie yuchen#解雨臣#ji chen#季晨#季肖冰#ji xiaobing#mine#gif#gifset
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Iron triangle :D
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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡: 萤火虫×𝐃𝐌𝐁𝐉



【今歲長靑】 or 【今岁长青】 "May This Year Remain Evergreen" Series
✨ Official illustrations for 萤火虫×DMBJ Collab Merch in May 2025 (Coming Soon)
✨ Illustrator: 刘巴布 (Weibo)
✨ Source: 萤火虫动漫游戏嘉年华 (Weibo)
#dmbj#daomu biji#盗墓笔记#pingxie#瓶邪#zhang qiling#wu xie#wang pangzi#iron triangle#铁三角#dmbj merch#dmbj official arts#dmbj and pingxie archives#dmbj/px 2025
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omg I've been seeing these for a while why didn't I know it was part of daomu biji franchise???? whyyyyyy???!!?!??
I was hooked but even more so now! _(´ཀ`」 ∠)_
#and they're wearing uniform?!!#I'm fine#南部档案#the south bureau#daomu biji#盗墓笔记#zhang xincheng#张新成#ding yuxi#丁禹兮
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#redraws#fanart#dmbj#dmbj fanart#heihua#xie yuchen#hei xiazi#lost tomb series#盗墓笔记#daomu biji#hei yanjing#黑眼镜#黑瞎子#解雨臣#incorrect dmbj quotes
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NEW DAOMUBIJI SERIES STARTS TODAY SCREAMING!!!
Tibetan Sea Flower stars Chen Minghou (from DMBJ's Reunion: The Sound of Providence) who reprises his role as Pang Zi, Zhang Luyi (Three Body) as Wu Xie and Zhang Kangle (relatively new) as Zhang Qiling.
This series focuses on Wu Xie and Pang Zi as they find out more about Zhang Qiling and his family.
#dmbj#Dao Mu bi ji#the lost tomb#Tibetan sea flower#OMGGGGGGG EXCITED#zhang luyi#chen minghou#盗墓笔记#藏海花
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I'm reading DMBJ Vol. 10 - Sand Sea, and I just now realized the reason for something - in volume 1 when Xiaoge mercilessly killed King Shang of Lu, it was because he was the one who cause Xiaoge to end up in the situation he did. He was the reason Xiaoge's life was miserable from the moment he could remember.
Because the three thousand year old baby was all a little scheme set up by King Shang himself, and Zhang Qiling was the one who had to endure such hardship and pure despair due to this ancient man's selfish desires and ambitions. Xiaoge's merciless killing of King Shang was the closest to retribution a person could ask for -- yet, one could only wonder if it only made him feel all the more alone and empty in the end.
As they say, the thoughts, feelings, and emotions one feels after taking revenge are rarely ever fully positive.
This just solidifies the idea that Wu Xie was truly the one thing Xiaoge could see in a positive light, and keep close and protect by his own will and with all of his strength. Protecting him is the one thing he had true control over in his life. So in a way, protecting Wu Xie is his true form of retribution that maybe even he himself hasn't fully realized yet.
And this got me thinking: perhaps this is the true meaning of love -- protecting someone not because you have to, but because you can choose to by your own will. And to get something in return -- in this case, Wu Xie's continued support and gratitude -- might just be the thing that one would continue to love and live for.
The kind of pure human love, that isn't always romantic, doesn't come from appearance, whims, or desires, but from emotional and physiological understanding and comfort, and the interpersonal sharing of pain/hardship, and happiness/contentment.
#dmbj#dmbj meta#my meta#my rambles#zhang qiling#wu xie#pingxie#sand sea#盗墓笔记#daomu biji#dmbj spoilers
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He's right and he should say it.
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HEIHUA EXCHANGE 2025
Welcome to the Heihua Exchange, an an event dedicated to the pairing Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi from the 盗墓笔记 | Daomu Biji fandom. In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a seven-week long creation period.
Heihua Exchange on x/twitter | AO3 Collection |
This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons - books, movies, TV series, comics, donghua, etc. The gifts can be fic, art, video, podfic or some other form of creation you feel inspired to gift to your recipient, but all of it must be focused on the ship Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi. Since this exchange will take place on AO3, an AO3 account is required in order to participate – if you don’t have one, you can request an invitation code here. If there isn’t enough time, please contact the mods so we can send you an invitation.
The mods decided on the schedule of the exchange based on the results of a poll ran with this express purpose and we have done our best to ensure that the overlap with other DMBJ exchanges like the Pingxie Exchange and the Rarepair Exchange will be minimal, as much as that's possible.
Schedule
August 5: Sign-ups open
August 18: Sign-ups close
August 20: Assignments out
October 12: Assignments due
October 16: Work Reveals (and deadline for pinch-hits)
October 23: Creator Reveals (& deadline for treats)
Rules & Guidelines:
1. Your creation must focus on HeiHua. While background ships are fine (unless listed as a Do Not Want), HeiHua must be the primary focus. 2. You will be expected to create a gift matching your recipient’s request. Filling any specifying prompts is not obligatory, but try to create something you honestly think your recipient will enjoy! 3. You must not include anything that your recipient has listed as a DNW (Do Not Want). 4. The minimum requirements for the gifts are 500 words for fic or one sketch on unlined paper for art (traditional or digital). 5. After the matching is done, all the requests will be made visible to everyone to allow for treating! There are no minimum requirements for treats. You can also create manips and fanvids for treats. 6. This is an anonymous exchange: please refrain from discussing your assignment in public. After the works are revealed, there will a period during which the creators remain anonymous before the creator reveals. 7. If at any point you need to drop out, just click on the “default” button on your AO3 assignment page; we’ll find a pinch hitter to create a gift for your recipient instead. If you need an extension to finish your gift, please contact the mods before the deadline. 8. Make sure to leave a comment on your gift, within the first 24 hours if possible.
Sign-Up Information:
Sign-ups will take place on AO3, ending on August 18th. There, you can fill out details about your request and offer. You can edit your sign-up at any time until the sign-ups close on on August 18th.
When signing up, you can choose fandom and genre tags, as well as specify any additional details.
You will have to select the DMBJ canon you’re interested in creating and receiving a gift in. If a fandom you want is not there, you can specify that you request it in the description:
怒海潜沙&秦岭神树 | Explore with the Note & The Lost Tomb (TV)
沙海 | Tomb of the Sea (TV)
盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei
盗墓笔记2之云顶天宫 | The Lost Tomb 2: Heavenly Palace on the Clouds (TV 2021)
盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV)
终极笔记 | Ultimate Note (TV)
This does not mean that you’re limited to requesting or creating a work during the canon timelines for those series/books. It’s just to mark which canons you’re familiar with to allow for easier matching: some participants might have a preference for a particular canon era, some might not be familiar with all the versions. You still have to choose your preferred canon eras even if you want to create or receive an AU.
You will also have to specify genres you’re interested in:
Action/Adventure
Alternate Universe
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Angst
Canon Compliant
Crack
Dark
Domesticity
Fluff
Humor
Hurt/Comfort
Porn With Plot
Porn Without Plot
You can include requests for other media forms if you have any, for example music genres you like or if you prefer a certain art style.
🍜 Requests
Fandom - you have to choose at least one. If you’re willing to receive a gift in any canon era, you can just click “Any”!
Genre - you have to choose at least three tags.
Relationships: Relationships indicated with '/' are strictly romantic, while relationships indicated with '&' are strictly platonic. You must pick at least one and the tag 'Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi' is required for this field.
Ratings - you have to choose at least one. This will help your gifter know what you like and are comfortable with when they're coming up with ideas to fill your prompts.
Warnings - you have to choose at least one. This does not mean that you will receive a gift with warnings, but it just lets your gifter know if you are comfortable receiving a gift with warnings or not.
If you are not comfortable receiving a work with one of the AO3 warnings (Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death (MCD), Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex), please choose 'No Archive Warnings Apply'.
'Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings' is for when you are comfortable receiving a gift with any/all the archive warnings but you don't wish to specify which one.
Description - here’s where you can go into more detail about your perfect exchange gift! You can include:
General Likes: your gifter may, but doesn’t have to, include them. This isn’t a place for detailed prompts, just general themes you enjoy, like getting together or established relationship.
DNW (Do Not Wants): things that your creator must not include - squicks, triggers, characters or things that you simply don’t like. You don’t owe anyone an explanation about why something is a DNW, and DNW are not meant to be taken personally. Just list the things you don’t like, “DNW: X, Y.”
Please list if you have any audio or visual triggers (such as flashing lights). This could be in your DNW or could be separate. Please also list song/music DNWs (e.g. "please no lyrics that use the n-word" or "please no lyrics in [specific language]" or “please no [specific genre/s of music]”).
Prompts/specific ideas: if you have any prompts, you can also put them here! You can be as general or as detailed as you’d like, but remember that while your creator will try to make the best gift for you, filling a specific prompt is not obligatory. You can include a crossover prompt (with other DMBJ verse or other canons), but make sure it’s not the only prompt you have.
For vid prompts, please list things like genres/styles of music you like (or like in videos), vibes/tone/theme you’d like to see (e.g. “angsty amnesiac Xiaoge”, “Fuba crack”, etc.), and things like that.
If you chose novels as one of your fandoms, you can use this field to list the ones you’re familiar with, such as ‘Books 1-4′ , ‘main series only′, ‘main series + specific extras’, etc.
The requests will be made publicly visible after matching is done, so that others will be able to create treats (additional gifts) based on them!
🍜 Offers
Fandom - you have to choose at least one. If you can create works for any canon era, you can choose “Any”!
Genre - you have to choose at least three tags.
Relationships: Relationships indicated with '/' are strictly romantic, while relationships indicated with '&' are strictly platonic. You must pick at least one and the tag 'Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi' is required for this field.
Ratings - you have to choose at least one. This will help matching what people are comfortable creating with what people are comfortable requesting.
Warnings - you have to choose at least one. This does not mean that you will receive a gift with warnings, but it just lets your gifter know if you are comfortable receiving a gift with warnings or not.
If you are not comfortable receiving a work with one of the AO3 warnings (Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death (MCD), Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex), please choose 'No Archive Warnings Apply'.
Description: - in this field, you can tell us more about the kind of works you like to create, for example if you really prefer established relationship, feel best with certain kinds of AUs, or like writing darkfic. We’ll take it into account when matching! By the same token, if there’s something you really don’t want to write, let us know here as well.
If you chose novels as one of your fandoms, you can use this field to list the ones you’re familiar with, such as ‘Books 1-4′ , ‘main series only′, ‘main series + specific extras’, etc.
In the optional details of your offer, you can also name people you don’t want to be matched to, for example your regular beta, and we will do our best to avoid matching you!
The offers will only ever be visible to the mods; never to anyone else.
Your Assignment:
You will be matched to create a gift for someone who requested at least one of the fandoms that you offer, with as many similar genres/likes as possible. This exchange will be hand-matched, after using AO3’s matching algorithm to first generate the potential matches.
If you have any issues when you receive your assignment (you have a question about it or think there’s an issue with it), contact the mods as soon as possible. Do not contact your recipient on your own.
You will have to create a gift for your recipient, fulfilling the minimum requirements of fandom, genre, and ship, and avoiding any stated “do not wants”. Filling exact prompts is optional, but try to create something matching your recipient’s likes that they will enjoy!
You will have to post your gift to the exchange AO3 collection before the due date, using the “gift this work to” option to give it to your recipient. Your work will remain in the collection only visible to you and the mods until the reveals happen. Remember to tag your work appropriately or use the “chose not to warn” warning.
💚 Treating:
Treats are additional gifts for the participants! To allow for treating, the requests will be made visible when matching is done. You can create treats at any time until the creator reveals! There are no minimum requirements for treats, and every form of media is allowed in addition to fic, art, gifs, edits, vids, etc. As with assignments, you have to respect the recipient’s Do Not Wants, and while the optional details are optional, try to create something fitting the listed likes. One treat can only be gifted to one person. For the assignments fics, art or videos are allowed; for treats any form of media is acceptable. You can do anything you want if it isn't on a DNW list.
🖊️ Pinch Hits
In case someone needs to drop out, we will look for a pinch hitter to complete their assignment. Pinch hits will be posted to this tumblr or our twitter/x account. You do not need to be signed up for the exchange to claim a pinch hit, but an AO3 account is required.
🕑 Extensions
If you think you can finish your assignment, but you need a few days more, you can always ask for an extension. Please contact the mods (@tiesanjiaoshenanigans or @lunanoc) via tumblr or discord.
🗒️ Multi-Chapter Fics
If you are writing a multi-chapter fic for the exchange and don’t want to drop the entire fic at once, these are the posting guidelines for it:
Multi-chapter fics that are assignment fills must be fully written and at least the first chapter posted by the assignment deadline, ready for the fic reveals.
All chapters of the fic must be posted by the time of creator reveals and end of treating on October 23rd.
Multi-chapter fics that are treats can begin to be posted at any time, but must also be fully posted by October 23rd.
Other Important Information
Make sure to check the email you use on AO3 frequently during the exchange, as it will be the primary means of communication. We might contact you if there is an issue with your sign-up or if your gift creator has a question for you. If you’d rather be contacted on your discord or tumblr, please leave your handle in the offer section of your sign-up.
There are no penalties for dropping out or failing to post a complete work, but finishing a multi-chapter fic or making sure to drop out timely are highly encouraged to make sure your giftee will receive a complete gift in this exchange and make sure everyone has a nice time with the exchange!
Follow this blog to avoid missing an announcement or a deadline!
If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact the mods here on tumblr, discord, twitter/x or though email.
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Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: 重啟之極海聽雷/Reunion: The Sound of the Providence/The Lost Tomb Reboot/this thing has too many names

Reunion (I'm just going to call it that) is a 2020 action drama about the most specialest little babygirl in the tomb-raiding world, his two husbands, and the cadre of assorted weirdos they pick up as they try to follow a set of directions left by a dead (?) man in the thunder.

Imagine if someone showed you the Mandalorian, and you were like, gee, that was a neat little sci-fi one-shot! because you'd never heard of Star Wars. That was basically my experience watching this show, having no idea that the Lost Tomb franchise (DMBJ) was even a thing. Turns out that not only is there a whole big continuity out there with these characters, but that Reunion takes place a few years after the main story's resolution. Don't worry, though -- Reunion doesn't spoil you for that resolution. It doesn't spoil you for much, period. Look, DMBJ has a weird relationship to endings, okay?
I have written a more thorough where-to-start guide for DMBJ as a whole, so if you want to consider other entry points, well, that information is there for your consideration. Yet it is my opinion that this is the best entry into the overall franchise, and a fun thing to watch just in general, and I'm here to make my case for both of those.
The rest of this rec will assume that you have no familiarity with the DMBJ series. That's okay; you don't need any. All you need is to trust my five reasons you should watch this.
1. Old Man Yaoi

As you begin this show, you are introduced to the Iron Triangle. That's them in the picture up there. Left to right, you have: Xiao Ge, magically tattooed immortal hottie who just got back from ten years in [scene missing]; Wu Xie, our protagonist, who's just a little guy and it's his birthday; and Wang Pangzi, the literal best.
(And yes, Wu Xie is in his 30s and Pangzi is in his 40s, which is not technically old man anything, but ... look, if you watch, you'll see why I think I'm justified in calling it that.)


They are extremely married. They are a disaster trio of disasters so disastrous that no one else should ever be subjected to their chaos. They're going to make sure lots of people are, though, don't you worry about it. Sometimes those people even deserve it.
However, because the show (tragically!!) decides that Xiao Ge has somewhere else to be like 95% of the runtime, most of the relationship you get to see is between Wu Xie and Pangzi.



I'm saying this now as an old gay nerd who just this year celebrated her 15th wedding anniversary: I have never, never felt so represented in media as I have watching Wu Xie and Pangzi interact. There's a little wake-up song they sing together near the end of the show, and it just ... it packs so much character development into thirty seconds. These boys have been living adjacent lives for so long that they've made up their own little shared songs about the mundanities of daily living. That is just what happens when you marry your best friend and then decide to get old and weird together. Ask me how I know.
Look, if you want to know whether this show is for you or not, watch to the end of the first episode, to the part where Pangzi flips over the table. If your heart is filled with joy (as it should be), keep going.

Love makes a tomb-raiding syndicate family.
2. A fun-filled action-packed romp of nonsense!
If you're familiar with Hellblazer canon, this will make sense to you: Reunion is Dangerous Habits. If you're not familiar with Hellblazer canon, try it like this: Reunion is a terrible place to start because it plays on your extant affection for a character who gains a terrible status effect almost immediately. It's a also great place to start because it throws you right in the action with measurably high stakes and gives you a reason to build that affection very quickly.

I'm also going to warn you right off the bat: The plot of this show got cut to ribbons by censors.
See, the DMBJ books, being books, are allowed to get away with supernatural shit! So you've got zombies and ghosts and curses and monsters and immortality and all your other standard ooky spooky semi-urban fantasy trappings. But the DMBJ adaptations, being live-action, are heavily regulated in their content. This is why, in the early Reunion episodes, our heroes are menaced by human-looking creatures that are actually ancient mannequins made of leather that are piloted, mecha-style, by evil clams. Because evil clams are more scientific than zombies. I guess.
So yeah, the plot of this book already had to get mangled into a more "science"-compliant shape even before it made it to filming. The real problem is that a whole lot more of it got cut after it was all filmed and put together. I have read an explanation of what the actual storyline was supposed to be, and yeah, if you know what you’re looking at, you can see (and hear) the scars where major elements got hacked out with a weed whacker.
Therefore: You cannot expect this plot to make sense.

But that's okay! You're not here for the plot to make sense! You're here to watch some characters you love run around through ridiculous and sometimes beautiful labyrinths, trying to solve puzzles you're never given enough information to understand, all in search of the resolution to a mystery that had half its guts torn out before you got to see it -- and you are here to love it. If you have ever laughed and cheered your way through a Mission: Impossible film without pausing to care too much about the plot holes it’s dodging left and right, you are in the correct frame of mind to appreciate this. Just believe that whatever engaging nonsense the show tells you is correct for the time being and go with it.
You cannot watch DMBJ and care about the laws of physics. You simply cannot.

Do not, however, let me give you the impression that the shoddy plotting is accompanied by equally shoddy performances. A major part of this show’s incredible watchability comes from how the cast is shockingly good. There are some serious heavy hitters among the actors. A major part of why this Wu Xie and Pangzi are my favorite together is the incredible chops both Zhu Yilong and Chen Minghao have, to say nothing of their real-life affection for one another. (See that scar on Wu Xie's neck? That scar is there because Zhu Yilong commits to the bit.) Effortlessly charming Mao Xiaotong turns potentially irritating wunderkind Bai Haotian into a perfect precious weirdo baby. Wu Erbai's entire second-season character arc could have been unintentionally comedic, but veteran of queer cinema Hu Jun sells even the undignified moments as relentlessly tragic. And of course Baron Chen absolutely kills it with...
3. This giant fucking loser

This is Hei Xiazi. That's not his name, but it's close enough. Allow me to do a dramatic reenactment of my watching his first scene:
[camera pans over to him]

me: Ugh, I recognize this kind of wannabe badass character design. I hate his type. He's self-important, hyper-masculine, and just a big jerk, and the show thinks he's soooo cool. Barf.
[thirty seconds later]

me: Oh no. I was so wrong. I love him forever now.
This is because he is (as indicated above) a giant fucking loser. Yes, he's a good fighter who knows lots of things. He's also a wet potato chip of a man. Sure, he can get you into a headlock, but he can also annoy you into submission, and that's honestly more fun for him. My wife has used the phrase “Vash the Stampede-coded” to describe him. My wife is not wrong.

And the kind of ridiculous thing is, being such a loser is what wraps back around to making him cool again. He's a loser because he just doesn't fucking care. His masculinity is the opposite of fragile. You tell him to wear a dress and makeup, he'll do it -- and sure, he'll complain, but only because he enjoys complaining. He has no dignity. He’s tits-out. He's gender. He's the worst and also the best.
Hei Xiazi is a major character in the other installations, to the point where he and his boyfriend (more on him later) even have their own movie. But of course, I did not know this on my first watch, so I kept expecting the show to explain his whole deal. It does not, but you don't really need it to. He sees better in the dark. He doesn't age. He's a thug for hire. There, that's all the bio you need.
One of the things that makes him great is that he is the least sexually threatening person ever. Across all the properties he's in, he spends a fair amount of time with women -- sometimes in very close quarters -- and they are perfectly safe around him. I actually wrote a whole post about it once upon a time (warning for tiny spoilers for a series that isn't this one) wherein I claim that not only Xiazi but Reunion in general is the television equivalent of the shirt that says I RESPECT WOMEN SO MUCH I DON'T HAVE SEX WITH THEM.

That said, this loser does get a sort-of romance plot here -- and honestly, I find it very cute! It's not even the only instance in this series of a bisexual guy in a long-term same-sex relationship getting a girlfriend, and I like that other one too! Look, the handle of my DMBJ sideblog is @katamaricule because I joked that Wu Xie treats polyamory like a katamari, and if you don't move fast enough, you're going to be rolled right up into his gay little cuddle puddle.
This is not a show for exclusive ships; this is a show for inclusive ships. The Jiumen Association is a polycule. You don't even have to know what the Jiumen Association is to know it's true.
4. The power of friendship
This show has a lot of characters.

I'd say the supporting cast is divided into three categories: characters who have been in previous installments, characters who have not been in previous installments, and characters who probably should have been in previous installments (or at least mentioned) but who were only created for Reunion so we have to pretend like we've known about them all along.
There is no way to tell which is which -- which is part of my argument that this series makes a good entry point to the franchise.
Take Huo Daofu. Huo Daofu is a brilliant doctor masquerading as a donut stand operator who treats Wu Xie with all the cold disdain of a man confronting the person who left him at the altar years ago. On the one hand, yes! We do know Huo Daofu from a previous series, and we've known he's both a doctor and a bitch. On the other hand, oh, we have no idea why he's like this about Wu Xie, and we probably never will. The show just treats it like it's for an excellent reason, and you know what, from what you know about Wu Xie, it probably is.
Consider also Jiang Zisuan. One of the show's principal antagonists, Jiang Zisuan turns out to be the brother of ... well, let's just say it's someone whose having a brother really should have come up before this. It has not come up. (And that's even before we get into the issue of his surname.) His stated identity as that person's brother is so bizarre that my favorite interpretation is that he isn't actually that person's brother -- all the flashbacks we see are just his delusions about a relationship he's completely invented. But there's no way you'd know how fucking weird this is on your first run.

Then there's our friendly little support himbo, Kanjian, who shows up to all occasions with two tickets to the gun show and not a thought in that beautiful head. (His name just means "vest," which is par for the course when it comes to the author's naming conventions.) He was a lot more menacing in the last series (where they kept putting sleeves on him, geez), where most of what we learned about him is that you can loan him out to other tomb-raiding families. Now he's a golden retriever with great aim and a slingshot. It's an upgrade.

The trick is, you cannot be surprised when someone shows up and the show treats them like you should know who they are, even when there's no possible way you could know who they are. I mean, for heaven's sake, Liu Sang arrives in the middle of an obvious beef with Pangzi, the origins of which are never satisfactorily explained, while also having a giant do-I-want-to-fuck-him-or-do-I-want-to-be-him crush on Xiao Ge, which is also never satisfactorily explained. Whatever, you just roll with it. He's got good hearing, a bad attitude, and questionable taste in idols. Now you're good to go.
(I should throw in a special note here that Liu Sang is many, many people's little meow meow, and not undeservedly. For a fuller explanation of why that is, please consult this other post I made.)

Part of the fun of this big cast is the adorable interactions you get. All the characters have appropriately big personalities, and the show loves letting people you wouldn’t expect bounce off one another. It’s not your typical action-hero show where nothing happens without the protagonist in the room. There are lots of exciting combinations and tons of charming dynamics! Unlikely friendships form all over the place! Enemies become allies! Allies become friends! Friends become friends with other friends! Some friends become enemies again! You'll need a scoreboard to keep up!
This is not to say the show treats all its characters perfectly or equally -- one of the precious few main female characters doesn't even get a real name, for heaven's sake, and the less said about the brownface racism, the better. It is, at its heart, a dude show for dudes made in China, with all the troubling decision-making that implies. Where it does deserve credit, though, is in understanding that its supporting characters are actual people with personalities apart from their function in Wu Xie's narrative. Sometimes the show just asks "what if [random character A] and [random character B] had to interact?" and has fun considering the answer! Which is almost always a delight to watch, and sometimes even breaks your heart.
5. Amazing rewatch value!
And by this I mean the experience of watching this show is remarkably different once you have any understanding of the rest of the DMBJ universe.
For instance, there's a point where two characters are scuba-diving past some submerged coffins, and one character tells the other whose coffins they are. Working only on information Reunion has given you, you're like, oh, that's where they buried the guy who built this creepy place, that's a little weird. Once you recognize that name from other series, though, your reaction is far more, excuse me, they did WHAT to WHOSE corpses?
Or another point where a character you've already met is on a train, and there's a handsome gentleman who just happens to be riding with her. He hands her his business card! Aw, that's sweet, he seems like a nice guy! Well, no, Xie Yuchen is not nice, but he is one of our allies, and he's Hei Xiazi's boyfriend, and a lot of what he's doing hits real different when you have a fuller grasp on why he's doing it and for whom. (Honestly, a major reason to watch Reunion first is so you're not fully and appropriately upset by how your black/pink gays merely have one teeny tiny scene together.)

From the way the series treats the persistent absence of Wu Sanxing, Wu Xie's third uncle, I absolutely, 100% assumed that he was a completely new character to this installment of the series, an extremely long-lost relative that we've somehow conveniently managed to never talk about before now. So imagine my gobsmacked surprise when I went to watch a different series, set much earlier in the timeline, where the opening scene prominently features Wu Sanxing as an actual character in the present-day narrative! ...Well, sorta. Look, there's a lot of fuckery with his identity in earlier parts of the story, and fortunately you need to know none of it to understand Reunion. But when you do, it suddenly makes a lot more sense why Wu Xie talks about someone who was a major part of Wu Xie's adult life like he died when Wu Xie was nine.

AND THE FLASHBACK SCENE WHERE A-NING GETS KILLED BY THE SNAKE, AND YOU'RE LIKE, OKAY, AND THEN YOU WATCH ULTIMATE NOTE AND IT WASN'T LIKE THAT AT ALL look, I know there are kinda reasons for this, different production companies and all, but seriously, what the fuck

All of which to say is that the experience of watching Reunion the first time is, hey, this self-contained romp is a lot of fun! The experience of rewatching it after watching any of the other DMBJ installments is a transcendently wonderful head-clutching avalanche of one moment of recognition right after another.
And here's the thing: You will watch more. Reunion is a gateway drug. If you are interested enough to make it through all 62 episodes, you're going to be interested in watching more. Which is great. The English-speaking fandom needs more people. Come down into the tombs. It's great down here. We've got snakes and arguably unintentional homoeroticism. Join us. Join usssssssss
Are you ready for an aventure?
There are a couple different ways to watch the first half, but there's (weirdly) only one way to watch the second, so for both of them, I'm going to send you straight to iQiyi: Season 1 (32 episodes) and Season 2 (30 episodes).
And just so you’re ready when Reunion is done, here’s how you find the rest of the DMBJ series, in the absolutely non-chronological order in which I, personally, think you should watch them:
The Lost Tomb 2 (AsianCrush, YouTube)
Ultimate Note (iQiyi)
The Mystic Nine (iQiyi, Viki)
Sand Sea/Tomb of the Sea (Viki, WeTV, YouTube, also YouTube)
Also, there's a lot of movies and side series and other pieces that are worth seeing, and even a couple of full series I've left off the list, and you can just slot them in wherever. And maybe we'll get Tibetan Sea Flo-- IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE! And someday maybe I'll actually have time to watch it! What a concept.

They're so perfect. Perfect triangle. Perfect boys.
#dmbj#重启#重启之极海听雷#盗墓笔记#Reunion: The Sound of the Providence#the lost tomb reboot#rec post#i made this
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Well… I started watching one of the series "The Lost Tomb" and ended up getting completely stuck in it.... and have already watched almost all the series :D
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Happy Birthday to Xiuxiu!

🍬 DMBJ official illustration for Huo Xiuxiu's birthday on May 3, 2025
🍬 Source: 八一七稻米节 (Weibo)
So cute~~
#dmbj#daomu biji#盗墓笔记#huo xiuxiu#xie yuchen#wu xie#zhang qiling#wang pangzi#dmbj official arts#dmbj and pingxie archives#dmbj/px 2025
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this part absolutely broke me (⊙◡⊙)
#tibetan sea flower#藏海花#adventure behind the bronze door#wu xie#zhang qiling#pingxie#the lost tomb#dmbj#盗墓笔记#grave robbers' chronicles
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"Jealous? Pft, of course not. What made you say that?"
#daomu biji#dmbj#heihua#dmbj fanart#incorrect dmbj quotes#hei xiazi#xie yuchen#黑眼镜#黑瞎子#解雨臣#盗墓笔记#grave robbers chronicles#lost tomb he xiazi#lost tomb xie yuchen
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Ding Yuxi and Zhang Xincheng filming The South Bureau, 1 December 2024 [x]
#ding yuxi#zhang xincheng#the south bureau#southern archives#zhang haixia#zhang hailou#南部档案#盗墓笔记#张新成#丁禹兮#zhang haiyan#dmbj
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