#cql playlist

[lryghe]

MDZS thoughts; wangxian

Out of all the MXTX couples, I think Wangxian is definitely the most polarising,  especially when you consider how like-minded Hualian are, and how mutually ridiculous Bingqiu are. It’s interesting to think about, because even through character design, Bingqiu’s christmas tree themed robes and Hualian’s red and white complimentary robes, Wangxian falls outside of that, their black and white robes always being a direct contrast to each other in the most basic form. But after deeper consideration, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are shown to be incredibly similar in the ways that draw them together (with of course, some fundamental differences). This post will contain spoilers, but why would you be on Tumblr if you didn't want to get spoiled?

I think a good place to start this would be with ‘righteousness’, because it pretty much explains the other points I had planned to make anyway (e.g. loyalty, isolation, duty). It’s a running bit throughout MDZS that Wei Wuxian is just a depraved evil demonic cultivator, but that’s the beauty of the statement, because it contrasts his actual, very noble personality. The way in which he presents his righteousness is where the majority of the problem arises though, because Wei Wuxian is a true and staunch defender of people he deems less fortunate, and those people also happen to be the ones which everyone else is venting their hatred at. His defence of the Wen’s was truly admirable, but even through his friendship with MianMian, or his obsession with being friends with Lan Wangji, his dedication to doing what he believes is right is unmoving. And this drives people away from him, casting him aside as a traitor and eventually leading to his own demise, but he stays true to what he believes is right, which is protecting those who need it. 

Lan Wangji is much of the same type of person. Lan Wangji has always been (and I quote) ‘righteous, perfect, and void of worldly desires’, the very pillar of how everyone else should act. He not only holds everyone around him to impossibly high standards, but lives by them himself, which drives a wedge between him and everyone around him. People are uncomfortable with the staunch and unyielding standards of righteousness that he holds people to, which leads to them pushing him up as this impossible standard that they should be trying to emulate but they just end up saying ‘really, who can be like Hanguang-jun, he’s always been perfect!’. ‘It’s lonely at the top’ is something that is so perfectly applicable here, because Lan Wangji’s desire to uphold the standards of righteousness to protect those who cant protect themselves divides him from the general populace, placing him firmly as unreachable, above all the rest. 

Both Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian’s unyielding righteousness and nobility is one of their greatest strengths and a very admirable character trait to have, but it also ends up being their greatest tragedy, because it isolates them from all that they love or could love. It even pushes them away from each other, because Lan Wangji is trying so desperately to pull Wei Wuxian to his side and make him adhere to the only way he can understand others (through his impossible standards), but Wei Wuxian is unmoving in his defence of the Wen’s, helping them when no one else will. Unstoppable force meets immovable object? 

Of course, there are so many differences between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian but really, those are all pretty surface level. Wei Wuxian’s mind works a million miles per hour, thinking of countless solutions and strategies, whereas Lan Wangji adheres to the traditional problem solving solutions. Wei Wuxian is loud and vibrant, and Lan Wangji is stoic and cold. Wei Wuxian wears black, and Lan Wangji wears white. Simple observations can tell you how they differ, because they obviously aren't the same and it would be weird if they were. These differences are important to consider, but their similarities are crucial to the development of their relationship too.

Words: 671

Reading time: 2 mins

[bokvshou]

friendly reminder that i have a chengxian playlist laying around. just saying.

[astrophyllitely]

The Rite of Spring: Part One: Adoration of the Earth: Introduction - Igor Stravinsky The Curse - Agnes Obel Gnossiene No. 1 - Erik Satie Turning Key - Vena Portae The Devil's Carnival - Champs Le carnaval des animaux: Aquarium & Personnages à longues oreilles - Camille Saint-Saëns Mary - Agnes Obel Sleep - Soap&Skin After the Fall - Chelsea Wolfe Son, You Are No Island - Torres Familiar - Agnes Obel Metamorphosis No. 5 - Philip Glass

listen | read

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

I have been slowly constructing this playlist of songs that remind me of the fractured relationship/deadly revenge plot between Nie Huaisang and Jin Guangyao because I think it’s one of the most compelling parts of the relentless tragedy of mdzs, and I think I have actually been collecting inspiration for the eventual character study of both of them I’m probably gonna have to write.

Anyway here it is so far.

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

guns & horses by ellie goulding is INSANELY lan wangji coded

[a-name-that-was-buried]

when "you were my brother" and "you promised" means "i forgive you for everything even if i didn't want to, except when you left me"

playlist for the beloved twin heroes of yunmeng

[dottie-wan-kenobi]

I spend A Lot of time making character/ship/etc playlists to help me figure out The Vibes

for MDZS (and a little bit of TGCF) I have almost 70 playlists so I thought I'd share them!!

I have tons of MDZS characters and ships (platonic or romantic), and even some families (like wangxian and their little radish), groups, and sects with plans to make more

if anyone ever wants to ask about my song choices I'd love to explain :D

[trans-xianxian]

post w all of my cql playlists (part two, relationships) :^)

wangxian

sangcheng

yunmeng bros

yunmeng siblings

wei wuxian and jiang yanli

wei wuxian and wen qing

wei wuxian and wen ning

link to part one

[ilgaksu]

CHARITY COMMISSIONS

So, after about two years of them being closed, I’m opening discounted charity commissions to support Palestine!  I don't really take these anymore due to health and just being way too busy, so this is your shot, etc. To commission me, please send me evidence of donating to a charity supporting Palestine. Please read below for further details

Commission Slots: 

I'm going to take 3-5 slots 

Each slot will be at a discounted* rate of 15 USD each.

Each slot includes 1k words. 

1k words means, whatever you want, the word count will be 1k total, or as close to it rounded down as is possible, it won't be rounded up

You may ask for a mini accompanying playlist at no extra cost

If all slots are taken and there is still interest, I’ll waitlist and contact people if I am able. This might not be possible, obviously, but just saying.

Turnaround time is around 4 - 5 weeks. I need to prioritize previously committed charity commissions/projects and their deadlines

*For reference, my usual commission rate is 20 USD per 1k.

Fandoms I'm best equipped to write in right now are:

Mysterious Lotus Casebook, DMBJ**, MDZS/CQL, TGCF, TFC/AFTG

Voltron, Haikyuu!!, The Raven Cycle, Six of Crows

basically sans Harry Potter if you see it on my AO3 I will consider it.

What I will NOT write 

non-con, underage, medical situations, pregnancy,

**if you are commissioning for DMBJ, I'm not comfortable writing Xiao Hua as cis, considering my body of work. 

If you aren't sure about your idea, let me know, and please have a second option in mind as I reserve the right to veto it.

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[stoopid-turtle]

I've seen people theorize as part of the devil's timeline (which I don't really subscribe to, but am curious about) that ggdd were pretending not to know each other beforehand when they started filming CQL and that that would explain why they got more familiar over time but also so quickly in the BTS. To me this would explain a couple things (like sharing phones so soon) but creates so many more questions that I have a hard time buying it. Mainly: I 100% understand why they wouldn't want to tell fans/the world at large any more details about their personal lives/relationship, since it's not our business, but I can't figure out why they'd like... act in front of the whole rest of the cast as strangers. I don't *think* it would make it seem like one gave the other any advantage in the casting process, but what do I know? And I can't think of a lot of other reasons for acting that elaborate/long-term. I was wondering if you had any takes on this?

Also! I wanted to say thanks again for your posts so far and I respect that it's not something you plan to keep doing, but I was (hoping) wondering if you were thinking about sticking around in the fandom as more of a spectator? I'm also a new turtle as of like 5 months ago so it's nice not to be the only one still going 🤯 over some of the BTS in 2023 when it's ancient news to everyone else. Thanks again for your hard work on your posts and timeline!

Hi!

Do they share phones really early? The earliest I saw was 7.7, though I'm not especially eagle-eyed. Beyond that instance and dd using gg's phone while the cast ate lunch on 8.2, I didn't notice either of them sharing phones in the videos I saw.

I guess I'm the odd one out bc I don't think they became familiar unusually fast. It seems like a reasonable timeline for the age they're at, from my experience. So I don't see the need to have an explanation for that since I don't see anything out of the norm in how their relationship progresses.

That's probably why I take the Devil's Timeline as interesting speculation but not much more.

But your main point is definitely a sticking point for me too.

Spitballing it, maybe they wanted to hide the nature of their relationship at first until they realized it was a gay-friendly set. But even then, why act like they don't know each other at all? They have a reasonable explanation for how they'd be acquainted: they met on DDU a year before. I'm not sure why they'd play coy.

Of course, behind the scenes industry stuff is always a wild card. We don't know what we don't know, and maybe gg and dd had a good reason to pretend they didn't know each other at all. I'm not well-versed enough in c-ent to even have a guess as to what that might be, but I assume it's possible.

At the same time, they later seem open about their relationship on set, even having couple fights and flirting while surrounded by cast and crew. So why hide things at the beginning?

I've been watching through some more of the daily bts on another playlist, and gg and dd act how I'd expect 2 reserved people to act on the first few days of working together. Of course, that's real subjective to assess, so somebody else could come away with a completely different impression of how they're acting. But, personally, I don't see anything that needs any explanation.

re: your second para: I'll probably go back to lurking. I have a primary tumblr acct that I use to lurk on a bunch of fandoms. I already followed the bjyx tags and a lot of the turtles on that acct before setting this up. I definitely plan to keep up with the boys, but I don't foresee posting that much in the future.

(I reserve the right to give in to my impulses and hunker down for the long-haul, though.)

I always get to a fandom late! I missed all the excitement when the bts first came out, but I still feel hype when I come across new-to-me stuff. I'm happy to enthuse with others!

[neuxue]

so I'm cycling along a beautiful empty road in the northern hills of [redacted], listening to a random playlist of Zhou Shen songs because I have excellent taste. and it's not my playlist so I had briefly glanced over it before putting it on shuffle, and noticed that Xue Yang's character song was on there but I didn't really think any more about it.

and for a while I'm paying more attention to the scenery and the road than to the songs.

but all of a sudden. a new song starts. and I hear.

眼中拂尘，手中残魂 // eyes beholding a horsetail whisk, hands holding a ruined soul

me: hold on I know my lyrics comprehension is not great but did he just say hands holding a what now--

握一颗糖暖这孤身 // clutching a kernel of sweetness to warm this lonely self

me: a ruined soul... a sweet... holy shit is this desolate lovely melody Xue Yang's character song??? Is this where they went with--

羽化星辰 // take wing [figuratively: to pass away] into the stars ['xingchen', pronounced the same way as Xiao Xingchen's name]

and that's when I slammed on the brakes and came quite literally screeching to a halt in the middle of this empty road, frantically pulling up the lyrics as they continued to deal body-blow after body-blow.

anyway. all this to say. to those of you who told me literally years ago to go listen to the CQL character songs?

I get it now.

[rosasappho]

i almost made a playlist with mitski for clear i need to watch cql or something it’s getting too bad

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

Thank you for the tag @kimalysong~

1. Three Ships: Wangxian(Always and any adaptation), EdelBurt(Looked at some fanart for it), ShadAmy(My friend shared a comic of it this morning with me)

2. First Ever Ship: That I can say was the earliest? SeiUsa (Seiya/Usagi) when I was six... makes sense now that I'm older lol.

3. Last Song: Complete Mess: 5 Seconds of Summer (No this is definitely not part of a playlist for Wangxian hype!!!)

4. Last Movie: Top Gun: Maverick (my mom wanted to watch it... and planes are cool)

5. Currently Reading: Seven Seas Translation of Volume 5 (3???) of Tian Guan Ci Fu.

6. Currently Watching: ... Bob's Burgers

7. Currently Consuming: Nothing, but I debated on licking the spoon of the flan mixture I made, but my brain said, "No, bad!"

8. Currently Craving: Curry

I taaag... @monstertit, @chai-chahiye-yr, @preludianstaves, @krynnibear, @sienne-k, @halenhusky309, @mathi-cql, @the-last-d-boy, @aseandbacon (I know you are here get over here!!!!)

[beefsleaf]

spotify is MEANINGLESS without the cql OST. if wuji mp3 isn't in my top 100 playlist then what's the point. What's the POINT

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Cripes. WWX continues to be the demonic cultivator who cursed my dick. I have basically done nothing but read MDZS/CQL fic for the past week. I made a playlist, because I'm at that phase of obsession. (Which is an infrequent phase! Even at the heights of hyperfixation I'm not normally a playlist-for-your-ship person!) I am neglecting my prompts in order to write MDZS fic. I am dying. I am considering making another playlist for a different ship. I am bathing in acid and embalming my own corpse. I have lotus root in the fridge to make soup with. Augh.

[agendratum]

ok so it’s been 3 thousand years and i had the tabs with the tag games opened this entire time so it’s finally time to actually reply to them, and i’ll put them all in one post cause i think my brain won’t let me tag that many people rn

10 characters, 10 fandoms, 10 tags 

tagged by @kissporsche thank you!! now forgive me i will be desperately trying to remember any type of media that i know and characters in it that i might like (my mind - empty)

1. kinnporsche - pete (yes i will also start with an obvious one, idk if anyone noticed that i love pete but now you know that i love pete)

2. word of honor - gu xiang (sorry wkx for being second in my heart, but i think he would understand)

3. the untamed - nie huaisang (apparently currently in the moment, but fav cql character is always a tough question)

4. the devil judge - jung sunah (i support bisexual rights and i support bisexual wrongs)

5. tgcf - shi qingxuan (ignoring all the spoilers, they can’t hurt me if i don’t see them)

6. legend of fei - a-fei

7. the locked tomb - dulcinea/cytherea (listen-)

8. advance bravely - li zhenzhen (i had to)

9. love in the air - sky (he is my son and i haven’t even watched it ksljadsa)

10. svsss - shang qinghua (based on the first book and memes)

i did it, i remembered fandoms, now moving on to

tropes tag game 

tagged by @braceletofteeth thank you!!

found family or soulmates || slow burn or established but complicated || enemies-to-friends-to-lovers or best friends-to-lovers || love at first sight or get back together || morally grey character or unreliable narrator || sunshine character or sarcastic character || self-sacrificing or teamwork || fire-forged friends or childhood friends || description-heavy or dialogue-heavy || fluff or angst || high school au or college (professors) au || flower symbolism or color symbolism || hero from the start or reveal the hero near the end || body swap or gender swap || bed sharing or clothes sharing || magic au or human au || de-aged or future fic

🍂🍁 AUTUMN EDITION 🍁🍂 

tagged by @misspoetree thank you! so smart of me to be doing this in almost the end of november oof

tea or hot chocolate, cozy books or halloween movies, plaid or corduroy (had to look this word up wow), foggy mornings or twinkly nights, orange or black, pumpkin or apple pie, wool or velvet, picking fruit or carving pumpkins, libraries or coffee shops, cinnamon or peanut butter, spooky or cozy halloween, candles or fairy lights

put your playlist on shuffle 

rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. no skipping! 

also tagged by @kissporsche thank you again!! the only issue is i’m currently using like three different services to listen to music so to keep it fair (to myself) i’m gonna take turns shuffling my likes/playlists on all three of them for this one ooof

1. fifteen minutes - mike krol (i know this is from steven universe klasjd)

2. dark (x-file) - (G)I-DLE

3. sorry, i love you - stray kids

4. clear ft. mothica (shawn wasabi remix) - pusher (i don’t even know if the title is correct for this one)

5. give me your tmi - stray kids

6. mirror mirror - milli, f.hero, changbin of stray kids (i knew this one before and still didn’t realise that this is what us danced to on the tour, can you believe it)

7. twisted - MISSIO

8. taste - stray kids (did it actually shuffle the songs tho?)

9. scream - dreamcatcher

10. love stuck - mother mother

okaaay, do i’m gonna tag some peeps here, but obviously only do it if you want, and only the one/s you want to do, no pressure, you know the drill: @vegasandhishedgehog @greenwitching @braceletofteeth @trueplainhearts @t4tvegaspete @sugarbabywenkexing @yilinglaozuhot @the-rat-king-shriggy @guzhu-furen @petesvegas