#Xuan Ji

[tempo-takoyaki]

Merry Christmas ('s eve) everyone! After finishing most of my work for this month, I wanted to make something fun, so here it is!

(Reminder that the version of the characters here are from my comic "summarizing tgcf without having read any of it" and so are inherently ooc)

Jun Wu has been left out...

[yea-baiyi]

love how tgcf seems like it’s gonna be an obsessive stalker fan love story but then it kicks in the door with xuan ji and yells stalker behaviour isn’t sexy it’s creepy and sad, compromising yourself to trap someone into marriage out of guilt or pity isn’t romantic it’s horrifying and pathetic

[incorrect-web-novels]

Jun Wu: Let's test something: describe your gender in a way that will baffle cis people but other trans and enby peeps will get. Yin Yu: I prefer to not be perceived by others. Qi Rong: Idk pick a slur Xie Lian: I drank too much gender juice i wish i was an abstract concept Lang Qianqiu: Ooblek. My gender is ooblek. Shi Qingxuan: none gender with left boygirl Hua Cheng: A shapeshifting shadow monster that takes the form of your gay aunt's wife Ling Wen: If gender is a performance then mine is the curtains which are drawn in to block stagehands switching props and the backdrop Yushi Huang: I'm a girl in a man way Feng Xin: When you order man from wish Xuan Ji: I'm gender fluid but not in a "sometimes a girl sometimes a boy" way. Sometimes my gender is Wesley from Princess bride, a sexy cowboy, pirate temptress and greasy gamer entity. Mu Qing: an old vending machine that only gives you coffee and lime soda Quan Yizhen: I'm a person Quan Yizhen: i don't know what i'm doing leave me alone Shi Wudu: Booby mcbeardy face Pei Ming: No matter who you are, if you have sex with me, it's gay Jian Lan: "Hi, I'm non-binary. Please refer to me with gender neutral terms." (Source)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

a god and a ghost walk into a bar

[idledee]

various 6yao doodles, + fried chicken from the fried chicken novel cameo

[izkph]

We're so back guys

[freyadragonlord]

I could write a fairly long list of reasons why Pei Ming SucksTM, but still I cannot help but feel a little bad for the guy.

Despite all of his bullshit, he has always managed to preserve some semblance of a moral code, and he never really crossed the line... Meanwhile, all the people he is close with? Out there committing the Most Atrocities Ever!

Like...

Rong Guang: Bro what if we, ahah, what if we usurped the throne and put you in charge?? Pei Ming: ... Bro what the fuck??? Xuan Ji: Beloved, I will betray my country for you!! Here's all of our secret strategies and plans!! Pei Ming: ??? No thanks! Pei Xiu: I may have been killing random humans for centuries to save my ghost lover... Pei Ming: Junior!! I believed in you!!! Shi Wudu: That's just humans. I actually stole the Fate of a future god and exchanged it with my brother's, ashtag #NoRegrets Pei Ming: ....... What the fuck is wrong with everybody??? Is it just me and Ling Wen now????? Ling Wen: ... Pei Ming: ....... please don't tell me Ling Wen: So remember that Very Cursed object we have in storage? Pei Ming: For Fuck's Sake

[auchrauch]

A commissioned piece 🌸

[motivationisdead]

Interesting that the first case we see Xie Lian solve is basically about how love and devotion can go wrong.

Xuan Ji loves and worships Pei Ming to the point of obsession but it’s a selfish love. She doesn’t really care about how Pei Ming feels or what he wants—only about forcing her own feelings onto him. Even to the point of hurting herself in order to try and force Pei Ming to stay with her.

It’s a great contrast to how Hua Cheng handles his own love and devotion to Xie Lian. Hua Cheng’s love is one without expectations or demands. He’s never needed Xie Lian to return his feelings or even know of them because to him respecting Xie Lian’s autonomy and choices has always been more important.

Where Xuan Ji’s love is selfish Hua Cheng’s is selfless.

[camzkoa]

ghost gfs

[jayktoralldaylong]

Hua Cheng is not the reward for Xie Lian's suffering. Hua Cheng suffered because Xie Lian suffered after all. Xie Lian was just lucky that someone....loved him that much.

There is no grand amazing world altering moral lesson at the end of TGCF, though some may say staying on the path of good and righteousness no matter what evil comes your way. However, in truth, Xie Lian stayed good because he couldn't bear to be evil. Hurting people has only ever hurt him. The way he so deeply regrets what he did in the past, it shames him because seeing his enemies suffer would have never brought him satisfaction. The same way Bai Wuxiang had to keep finding new enemies to fight because revenge doesn't make the pain go away and won't bring back what was lost. It's not a revelation that revenge is bad or a waste of time, but that it won't change how broken you are inside.

Xie Lian stayed true to himself but the reason he's so happy at the end of TGCF is not because of that. Hua Cheng would love him no matter what he did after all, and Hua Cheng knew Xie Lian so well, right down to the worst he was capable of, he knew Xie Lian would never hurt people, but it ended up boiling down to Hua Cheng choosing Xie Lian over and over again. Through the pain and suffering and sorrow. After everything, Xie Lian was just lucky.

It's painful, knowing that that's exactly how life works. Xie Lian was lucky that there was someone willing to fight for him and by his side for 800 years. Xie Lian was loved and adored the way everyone deserves to be loved and adored. A home was created for him and his pain did not feel meaningless at the end.

But what about Qi Rong? The neglected child who didn't get his happily ever after, except in headcanons? He didn't ask to have bad adults that never corrected him. He didn't ask to.crave attention so much that he'd rather be tortured than ignored.

What about He Xuan who lost everything for something that was never his fault? Getting revenge didn't get that back, it just made him lose more. Where is the home and happiness that He Xuan deserves once and for all?

What about Bai Wuxiang..... The version of Xie Lian that never got a Hua Cheng. That just kept suffering till he went mad.

What about Shi Qingxuan who had luck for majority of his life but will now live and die in insignificance, once again through no fault of his own. Or is he at fault for never asking his brother how he took care of the problem?

What about Ling Wen who loved and killed but never stopped loving. Who went to great lengths to revive her lover just to lose it all. What about Ling Wen who achieved so much but has lost one of her best friends and won't get the one she loves?

Unlucky. That's just it. Things didn't work out for them.

In the grand scheme of things, whether you're evil or good, sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. Not all bad guys 'reap the consequences of their actions'. Not all good guys get a happy ending. Xie Lian was lucky, and I'm so happy for him. But every time I remember the others....it brings me to tears.

[habizuh-studios]

A1: Little Guy (Xiao Mengyou); When Lang Qianqiu praises him A2: Gu Zi; When looking at his father after Qi Rong possesses him A3: Shi Qingxuan; Trying to figure out ways to make Ming Yi wear a dress A4: Mu Qing; Trying to say the... f-f-f word A5: Yin Yu; Realizing he has more work B1: Xuan Ji; When Pei Ming flirts with her for the first time B2: Hua Cheng; When the Xianle Quartet finds the Cave of 10,000 Gods B3: Xie Lian; Trying to figure out whether to laugh or cry B4: Feng Xin; When Xie Lian calls Hua Cheng by affectionate pet names B5: Shi Wudu; Looking at those incest stories the mortals make C1: Jian Lan (Lang Chang); When they figure out CuoCuo exists C2: Banyue; Being so, so tired. C3: Yushi Huang; When Heaven actually needs her for once C4: Pei Ming; Trying to figure out that boundaries exist (when women aren't interested) C5: Ling Wen; Realizing there is more work D1: Jun Wu; On the inside when Xie Lian gets accused of impregnating a woman D2: Qi Rong; How he feels when he calls Xie Lian a Dog Fucker D3: Ming Yi (He Xuan); When Shi Qingxuan tries to make him crossdress D4: Heaven's Eye; Realizing where the evil qi in Xie Lian came from D5: CuoCuo; On a daily basis ------- I tried my best!!!! All different TGCF characters with the appropriate scenario... this was way harder than I expected.

[glumarkoj]

[minghao-bao]

“New bride, new bride, new bride on the red marriage sedan……Eyes brimming with tears, passing the mountain’s mound, under the veil do not hold a rising smile……”

[zazzander]

They

Just

Work

[idledee]

everlasting spring