#chongqi

[zhu-yilong-laying-on-things]

[shijiujun]

重启之深渊疑冢 (2022) Ending Scene

Heihua working together again shortly after Hei Yanjing tells Xie Yuchen that he’s comfortable on his own in the village and wants to live out the rest of his life there without interruption

[taomubiji]

Restart Has Been Published

After NPSS started uploading Restart on his WeChat in 2017, the story of Wu Xie on his search for his uncle yet again has finally been published 6 years later. (x) The book is only the first volume and consists of 51 chapters.

[dmbjexchange]

HeiHua Exchange 2023 Guidelines

With a great deal of thanks and appreciation to @10yearpromise for letting us use their guidelines and instructions here and on AO3!

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Welcome to the HeiHua Exchange 2023! This is a fic and art exchange for the HeiHua (Hei Xiazi/Hei Yanjing and Xiao Hua/Xie Yuchen) ship.

In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a six week creating period.

This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons which feature Hei Xiazi and Xiao Hua (or which they could conceivably be in). It will take place here on AO3, so you need an AO3 account to participate–if you don’t have one, you can request an invitation code here. If there isn’t enough time, no worries - contact the mods on Discord or here on tumblr and we can send you an invitation!

Please read this post carefully before signing up.

Schedule

January 3: Signups open

January 10: Signups close

January 15: Assignments out

March 5: Assignments due

March 12: Works reveals

March 19: Creator reveals & treats deadline

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). Not even as a throwaway reference in a single line.

4. The minimum requirements for the gifts are 300 words for fic or one sketch on unlined paper for art (traditional or digital; no manips).

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 (but remember to mind your recipient’s do not wants!). You can also create manips and fanvids for treats.

6. This is an anonymous exchange: refrain from discussing your assignment in public. After the works are revealed, there’ll be one week anon period when 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, contact the mods before the deadline.

8. After the reveals, comment on your gift.

9. Most importantly: be excellent to each other!

Sign-up Information

Sign-ups will take place here on AO3, starting on January 3rd. 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 January 9th.

When signing up, you will be able to 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:

Novels: Daomu Biji / The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles

TV: The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note

TV: The Lost Tomb 2.5: Heavenly Palace on the Clouds

TV: Ultimate Note

TV: Sha Hai

TV: The Lost Tomb Reboot/The Sound of Providence

If you’re interested in a canon that is not currently a tag on AO3, such as the extras or the movie, you can say in your request details that you would like something in one of these canons. Please be aware, though, that the more obscure your request, the harder it will be for your gifter.

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 have to specify at least three genres that you’re interested in:

Action/Adventure

Angst

AU

Canon Compliant

Canon Divergent

Dark

Domesticity

Fluff

Humour

Crack

Hurt/Comfort

Porn with Plot (only select this if you’re 18+)

PWP (only select this if you’re 18+)

You will also need to specify at least one rating and and one Archive Warning that you are happy/comfortable with writing and with receiving.

Request

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.

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, it just lets your gifter know if you are comfortable receiving a gift with warnings or not.

Optional Details - 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. * Please note that fics featuring QPRs, ace, and/or aro characters are absolutely valid things to request in a ship exchange. * DNW (Do Not Wants): things that your creator must not include - squicks, triggers, characters or things that you simply don’t like. Remember that you don’t owe anyone an explanation about why something is a DNW, and that DNW are not meant to be taken personally. Just list the things you don’t like, “DNW: X, Y.” * 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.

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!

Offer

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.

Ratings - you have to choose at least one. This will help matching what people are comfortable writing with what people are comfortable receiving.

Warnings - you have to choose at least one. This does not mean that you have to create a gift with warnings, it's just for helping to match what people are comfortable writing with what people are comfortable receiving.

Optional Details - 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, with the possible use of 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 and genre, and avoiding any stated “do not wants”. If your recipient has not checked particular ratings or archive warnings, your gift must not be that rating or fall under that archive warning. Please make absolutely certain that you have not included or referenced a DNW.

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 (March 5th), 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 in addition to fic and art, manips and fanvids are also allowed. As with assignments, you must respect the recipient’s Do Not Wants (please ensure that you have double checked that you haven’t even referenced one of them), and while the optional details are optional, try to create something fitting the listed likes. One treat can only be gifted to one person.

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 and the Yu Cun Discord.

Extensions

If you think you can finish your assignment, but you need a day or two more, you can always ask the mods for an extension!

Multi-chapter Fics

If you are writing a multi-chapter fic for the exchange and don’t want to dro 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 on March 12.

From March 12, at least one chapter is to be posted daily.

All chapters of the fic must be posted by the time of author reveals and end of treating on March 19 (If the fic is more than 7 chapters long, then this will mean that multiple chapters will need to be posted on some days).

Multi-chapter fics that are treats can begin to be posted at any time before March 19, but must also be fully posted by March 19.

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 we contact you on your twitter or tumblr, please leave your handle in the offer section of your sign-up.

Follow us here to avoid missing an announcement or a deadline!

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact us on Discord or here on tumblr.

[stupid-lemon-eater]

Fandom: 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV) Relationship: Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie Characters: Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi Additional Tags: Brief Panzi cameo, Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, tombs, Not Beta Read, Pangxie Week 2022, Autistic Wu Xie

Summary:

It was perhaps unsurprising to say that Pangzi’s first meeting with Wu Xie was… explosive, to say the least.

Pangxie Week let’s go let’s go let’s go!

[in-a-brown-study]

finished ch 71 so we're done for now.. npss just LOVES chen pi doesn't he? 😅 i actually found the story quite entertaining though

how long have they been crawling while hyj told the story 🥴🥴🥴🥴

the tl stopped at a cliffhanger.....i just MIGHT mtl the rest hmm

[mejomonster]

I am reading 19 days rn and is it just all about dumb gay friends? It's so funny djdjjd

[gaaebolg]

Commissioned art done for the lovely @.jayduph on twitter, thank you!

[rigelmejo]

Things Read 2023

I thought it'd be kind of fun to do a little collage of some of the things read in 2023. Because pictures entice and maybe one of these will look interesting to you, and maybe I'll just feel slightly more motivated the next time I try to read something.

First row: Easiest novels to read, I highly recommend if you're a beginner. 秃秃大王, 大林和小林, and 笑猫日记 (any book in this series).

Second row: also fairly easy, though maybe not for total beginners? (Unless you want). 小王子 (which was the first non-graded reader novel I read in chinese, and in retrospect I wish I'd started with the books above instead... but this was still readable as a beginner, I read it in paper form to stop myself from looking words up and it was still a doable read), 盗墓笔记重启 （幽默漫画）a very cute domestic side stories for dmbj set during chongqi, extremely easy to read if you know the character names. 他们的故事/Their Story by Tan Jiu, a cute slice of life girls falling in love story, it's setting makes it quite easy to read.

Third row: manhua that are a bit harder, but still probably very readable if you're not looking to work hard and sink into a novel. 19天, bl and funny af, set in school so common vocab but the jokes land better as u understand more, I also love the art. 破云  1 and 2, they're kind of hard to read in that this manhua has a page just for niche word definitions in the front, but it's easier to read than the novel it's based on. I thought it was a fun way to enjoy the story while I waded much more slowly through the novel version. Similarly, I've been reading the 烈火浇愁 manhua (not pictured) on and off since I can get further in the manhua than the novel before running out of steam. There's a lot of manhua on the Bilibili Comics app, and that's definitely an option if you're into manhua too if you like a novel premise but aren't quite ready to tackle the novel (or want to check out the manhua too). Also, sometimes on bilibili.com you can find videos of manhua with voice acting and music, which can be nice.

Fourth row: some novels I'm still in progress with lol. I read 盗墓笔记 books 1, 2, and half of 3 in 2023. I'm continuing along, and maybe eventually I'll get to sha hai. If you plan to read/watch more in the tomb raiding or supernatural genre anyway, I highly recommend reading. dmbj is not that hard to read, new words usually pop up early and then are repeated enough that you learn them within a few chapters, which makes the following chapters easier and easier. By the time I was through book 1, I switched from looking up unknown words to looking up no words and just guessing from context and it went fine. npss also writes in an easy style to read once you get used to a few wordings/slang. A lot of the words I learned from dmbj were helpful with other supernatural genre stuff I read, since I like to read that kind of stuff. 撒野, both harder than I thought it'd be and easier. It is very doable of a read as far as following the main idea of the plot, after you've read a few other novels (like row 1) or gotten comfortable with daily life words. It does some beautiful stuff though with the writing style, and detail, that's more noticeable upon re-reads. I've restarted this novel like 4 times because each time I picked it up again my reading skill had improved, and the writing felt different upon reading. If you can watch chinese shows with chinese subtitles you can read this without looking words up, but if you do encounter unknown words this was a novel I found the unknown words were frequently useful and worth learning. I'd say it's very approachable, it's just the chapters are quite long so it's always a painful reminder of how slow my reading speed is. It's about two teenage guys who meet and fall for each other, and it's also about their families and personal struggles and very character focused which I love. After this novel, I plan to check out the other novels by this author. And of course, still, 镇魂. Look, I keep reading the whole first arc, then taking a break, then re-reading the whole first arc. I need to stop being a perfectionist about understanding and catching every detail, and just move forward. I've read my print version about 2 times to the end of the sundial arc, and the web version about 2 times. I've yet again reached the end of the sundial arc as of December 2023, and hopefully I just move forward at this point. I wont say it's an 'easy' read, but I will say I picked up so much of my initial reading vocabulary from this and Tian Ya Ke, that priest's preferred writing vocabulary and particular way of phrasing sentences is more familiar to me than any other author's. So now I have a much easier time reading priest's other novels. And in the case of Zhen Hun, I know 98% of the words more or less on any given page. So yes, it's a bit silly I keep combing over to try and understand more details. (In my defense, I've been combing over the AUDIO my last read through, to try and get my listening vocabulary comprehension closer to my reading vocabulary level - I figured it was a good novel to do this with since I know nearly every word reading-wise in the sundial arc at this point). Anyway... when will I finish reading Zhen hun? Ask me when the last official english translation book is published. Because I'm waiting to read the english until I finish it in chinese first. So no doubt when the english is totally out I'll probably rush through anything I didn't finish so it's easier for me to compare. (You'd think I'd do that for Sha Po Lang and... lol you're not wrong... that's why I haven't started reading SPLs official english translation yet... I want to dig out my chinese print book and compare). Tldr: Zhen hun is one of the easier priest books to start with, all things considered. Or Tian Ya Ke. I started with both, and they're still easier reads to me than Dage and Sha Po Lang and Can Ci Pin.

Special mention:

I also read 2 pingxie fanfictions, 半夜衣寒 and 寒舍 by 夏灬安兰. The first story is shorter by far, both are around as easy to read as dmbj or a bit easier, and they're supernatural au in everyday life so a lot of the words are applicable to either the real world, or to books in genres like dmbj.

I also read/watched many a voice-acted manhua video on bilibili over the last year. Bilibili algorithm recommends me tons of bl, and supernatural mystery stuff, so I'd click on manhua compilation videos when bored and use the voice acting speed to get myself to read faster than I would if I were just reading the manhua in silence. I found a pretty cool horror manhua, but upon making this post I checked bilibili and the compilation I saved was deleted. If I find it again I'll post a link. It was a college student who just moved to the city, and he meets this ancient guy who may be a demon/guardian sort of thing, and the city is just full of haunting and awful deaths and misfortune going on. It was both scary and full of comedy, which was fun.

[zhu-yilong-laying-on-things]

[shijiujun]

A Summary of Heihua Bromance in 重启之深渊疑冢 (2022)

[taomubiji]

Restart/Chong Qi Book Might Be Published in December

I've been delaying working on Restart related stuff because of the drunk rewrite so hopefully, it will come out in December. 🤞

[su-gege]

So Ji Chen and Ji Xiaobing actually had dinner with NPSS yesterday, which was NPSS's birthday! Now I'm convinced Hua Ye Qian Xing is happening and we'll be seeing more of this heihua duo in other Daomu Biji Chongqi adaptations 😊🥳

Also, 启子's douyin featuring the movie's easter egg today couldn't be more timely 😎

[dmbjexchange]

Small-Med Exchange Assignments Out

Assignments for the Small-Med Ship Exchange are now out! Please let us know here or on Discord if you have any issues with your assignment.

To make up for assignments going out late, assignments are now due on June 25th, with works reveals on July 2nd.

[stupid-lemon-eater]

Fandom: 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV) Relationships: Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie, Jia Kezi & Li Jiale (DMBJ Series), Kan Jian & Wu Xie (DMBJ Series) Characters: Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi, Jia Kezi (DMBJ Series), Li Jiale (DMBJ Series), Kan Jian (DMBJ Series) Additional Tags: Humour, Crack, Fluff, Alluded to mistreatment of an animal, Dogs, Crack Treated Semi-Seriously, Established Relationship, Wu Xie can talk to dogs, Pangxie Week 2022, Not Beta Read

Summary:

They had been having a nice lunch as a group when Wu Xie got distracted by a potential new friend.

[in-a-brown-study]

we're having lots of mentions abt the broze gate lately im getting anxious

wdym "in a precarious position" ⁉️ pls be alright

oh? i wasnt expect this lol okay but i'd love some new bits abt mystic nine

i love wx & hyj duo they're a breath of fresh air🛐