#dongfang hao

[huafanghua]

[jaggedcliffs]

I promised I’d show my love for Love Between Fairy and Devil by making some  memes, and I’ve finally made good on it

[joyburble]

The Swords

So I was watching, as you do, some videos by some very charming and passionate martials arts practitioners comparing and contrasting various designs of sword and their usage. And I remembered that I had vaguely, perhaps subconsciously, noticed something strange about the magical swords used in this show.

The first one we see is the Hellfire sword which Dongfang Qingcang materialises as he calls Shangque.

It's straight, with no curve to the blade at all, and both edges appear to be sharp. It's basically cross-shaped, with a large, decorated cross-guard extending parallel with both edges. And it has a fairly large roundish pommel, by which he holds it:

I think I semi-consciously noticed that this looks a lot more like a European longsword, except that it's not all that long. Chinese swords are usually curved, even if only slightly, are usually sharp on one side only, and usually have disc-shaped handguards. [Edit! see reblogs for information on jians, which are straight and double-edged but with tiny crossguards] They sometimes have pommels, but the kind you see in the Wuxia genre generally doesn't.

So I thought, is this one of the subtler ways in which they're setting out to make Dongfang Qingcang and the Moon Tribe seem a little bit foreign and therefore barbarous, "not-Han-coded", as someone on Discord put it?

But then I checked the other swords, and that's not it.

Changheng's is a bit ambiguous. It has a pronounced cross-guard, less elaborate but more fantastical - it seems to be thinking about morphing into a 16th-century European basket hilt, as that downturned curve wouldn't work to catch your opponent's blade, but it isn't quite there yet:

The blade also looks very straight, and we don't see the prop without the CGI for long enough to tell whether it's meant to be sharp on both edges. It might be more of a sabre, a design that pops up in martial arts traditions everywhere.

The third sword we see is Lady Chidi's battle sword, which is the same basic design as Dongfang Qingcang's:

As you can see in the closeup, it's cross-shaped, double-edged, straight, and symmetrical, with a pronounced pommel, a long hilt for two hands, and a large cross-guard parallel to the edges.

This shape is important, because scale is an optional setting for powerful immortal beings, and she will soon turn it into this mountain, with the cross-guard becoming a very convenient platform for conversation and sunbathing:

The other plot-relevant sword, in Episode 31, is the same cross-shape, with a really big cross-guard and a fairly pronounced pommel.

However! Intriguingly, to spar with Ronghao in the illusion-forest in Episode 32, Chidi uses a very simple blade, straight, but with neither cross-guard nor pommel, like a civilised Chinese lady:

It might be double-edged or single-edged, I can't tell, but it has virtually no hand guard at all, not even a round one like a katana:

But when in a later scene Ronghao confesses, it is her own, true sword she drops, as a sign that things are getting simultaneously more magic and more real:

In Ep34, she uses it to kill some unfortunate pikemen:

Meanwhile, back in Ep 16, Yannu's sword was the same plot-relevant shape, like Dongfang Qingcang's, and she holds it like a medieval warrior saint looking down from a Gothic arch:

He held it the same way when Shangque greeted him in Episode 2.

Danyin's sword, when she manifests it, is in a rather modest and perhaps youthful style. Still straight and symmetrical, but with a very small, sharply hooked cross-guard:

When Dieyi's whip-chain-flail-thing turns into a sword, it's even more European - it looks very like a rapier with a basket hilt! Kind of appropriate to her general look, actually, and her street-fighting personality.

When she changes stance we see this bonkers wiggly blade, which looks still rapier-ish (long, pointed, thrust more than cut), only insane. She doesn't use it like a rapier, though.

Ronghao's sword for killing is a curious design, still straight and with a pommel, but this curious sort of vestigial, bulbous thing that isn't really a guard of any kind. I don't know what's going on with this but the shape is a little bit like Theoden's sword in Return of the King. Not quite.

However, when Chidi eventually attacks him, they both use their simple sparring blades again:

Anyway! I was surprised to discover how nearly all of the swords used in this particular show visually followed styles I am familiar with both from western drama and from western historical collections, and none of them, except the ones in that last shot, looked at all like the most common styles of sword you see in Chinese dramas.

Obviously the weapons function exactly like the costumes in that they're primarily artistic visual references to various moods and ideas, rather than functional objects, but I think that makes this choice even more interesting. I don't know how usual it is for this genre, or what it means.

I haven't found where, if at all, we see Xunfeng or Shanque use a sword, and it's long past my bedtime so I'm stopping there.

[palehorsemen]

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Love Between Fairy and Devil (2022)

Love Between Fairy and Devil lEsther Yux Dylan Wang 苍兰诀 iQlyi

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z_lcEyTxw7g

[feralplantwife]

I'm watching Love Between Fairy and Devil with my mom and we're 12 episodes in. She does want Dongfang Qingcang and Xiao Lanhua to get together... but is also convinced that Rong Hao and Changheng are in fact lovers on the DL 😂

[maxiel-on-a-flower-field-18]

For starters, seeing the title "Love between Fairy and Devil" will definitely let you say and think that it's a love story between a Fairy and an Evil Lord yada yada yada. But as you watched and understood the story as a whole, it conveys more than just the love story of the two protagonists. Remember how the war between the two realms and tribes started because of love that became hate and betrayal? The war also ended because of two star-crossed lovers who sacrificed everything for each other and thus proves how they both love and trust each other amidst the obstacles and the people around them trying to stop them from loving each other... and the fate that tries to break them apart. It started with love and ended with love.

Love between Fairy and Devil also shows how love has its own forms and ways. Love forms to friendship (Xiao Lanhua to Jieli, Shangque to Dongfang Qingcang, Dongfang Qingcang to Changheng, Changheng to Ronghao, Changheng to Danyin), to family (Xunfeng to Dongfang Qingcang, Danyin to Jieli), to leadership (Dongfang Qingcang towards the Moon Tribe, Xiao Lanhua/ Goddess Xi Yun towards the three realms), to your master (Xiao Lanhua to Lord Arbiter, Ronghao to Chidi Woman), and loving and finding yourself (Changheng). It shows how love is beautiful in different ways.

"Cang Lan Jue" literally meant "Parting between the Orchid and Cang" (some translations of the actual title includes Parting of Orchid and Cang / The Farewell of Canglan)in the novel and the drama never failed to show this one. Both Xiao Lanhua and Dongfang Qingcang parted ways for the decisions that they made and the fates that they defied. But even though they parted, they still found their ways to come back to each other. Proving that their love will never be dictated by fate. It'll find its way and they will not part anymore.

[pieckkk]

How i think Lbfad characters cursive writing looks like

[be-bi-do-crime]

i love it when infamously cold and heartless men that have people cowering in fear from a single glare fall in love and suddenly they’re smiling 24/7 and following their wives around hanging on their every word

[aylinaliens]

something i really enjoy about love between fairy and devil is that even the ‘despicable’ ‘annoying’ characters are so interesting that i never once had the urge to skip any of their scenes. watching them chaotically run around doing their little schemes that are sometimes successful is so funny like yes i don’t condone this but this makes for excellent drama and angst later down the line so go off bestie

[terapsina]

Can someone PLEASE tell me the correct way to write the names of the characters from Love Between Fairy and Devil?

I’ve tried to find on my own but every site I’ve checked writes them differently so I don’t know which is the right way.

Is it Xiao Lan Hua or Xiao Lanhua?  Dongfang Qingcang or Dong Fang Qing Cang. Rong Hao or Ronghao? Jieli or Jie Li? Changheng or Chang Heng?

Should I write them the way they’re shown in the english subtitles? Or the way they’re shown on Wikipedia? Or is there maybe a post on Tumblr here that already answered this question that I can be pointed towards?

[mudinyourshoes]

I love how I can see the specific miserable trap that each character is creating FOR THEMSELF. god they're all going to be so unhappy.

[jes12321]

Love Between Fairy and Devil pronouns HC

Xiao Lanhua: she/they/it

Dongfeng Qingceng: he/him

Ronghao: he/him

Lady Chidi: she/her

Chengheng: he/they

Shangque: they/he

Jieli: any pronouns

Daiyin: she/he/they

Xunfeng: he/him

Dieyi: she/they

[aphilosopherchair]

The historical and literary reasons the lover in Love Between Fairy and Devil's fate poem is Master Xiao instead of Master Gu or Master Qin. Antireq: Severe dairy allergy. Powered by a US National Security Agency innovation. Have fun comparing answers with besties'.

[zishuge]

If the Machete Ghost really wants to avenge his wife, his next target will be Dongfang Hao. Let's go. Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) | Ep. 23

[sombredancer]

Enemies/Rivals to Lovers recipe

(with the mild version aka Pride and Prejudice and the tragic version aka Romeo and Juliet) Step 1: The main heroes are on the opposite sides of any scale (the grumpy one vs a cheerful one, a kind and stupid one vs a cunning and vile one, a demon vs a god, a master vs a servant, people of enemy states or absolutely different cultures etc.).

A cheerful and funny little bird demon-yao Qing Qing and a grumpy and stone-faced deity of Netherworld Xue Qianxun Step 2: They are forced to communicate with each other without a chance to avoid it (e.g. an arranged marriage, being trapped somewhere together, working as a mole in the enemy camp etc.).

Asura King Xuan Ye plays out damsel in distress to get undercover into Heavenly Realm and his future lover Ran Qing is the one who "rescues" him.

Step 3: One party get impressed by unique character features of other (e.g. the person is the only one who isn't terrified by other's scary reputation, the only one who treats other party well etc.).

Even kings and princes are in absolute terror seeing Gwi - an immortal all-powerful vampire, and only Hye Ryung hates him so much that dares to bicker, scold and deny him. Step 4: One of the parties takes the first step towards another and that melts another`s heart.

Even if Hou Ling Changjin hurt Princess Bao Zhu for her miraculous blood, she still cares for him and doesn`t hold a grudge.

"You are injured!"

Step 5: Here come mutual pining, UST and moral sufferings "what is more important: to fulfil the mission / to be accepted by the society / whatsoever or to love?"

Gong Shangjue doubts if he can indulge himself being gentle with the girl he likes if she is an assassin from the enemy clan.

Shangguan Qian adds Shangjue`s favorite flowers into her tea and thinks about her mission of taking him down.

Step 6: It`s time to confess the feelings.

Leader of a diabolic sect Li Chenlan comes to save his beloved who hated him and tried to kill him and promises her to be her sword and shield. So romantic!

Step 7: The parties try to solve the problem that keeps them apart. If the problem is internal (it has something to do with beliefs and prejudice of a person), here it will be solved and «happily ever after» begins.

Despite of his low social status Hao Du ventures to participate in the competition, wins the right to marry the princess (who he is in love with) and dares to be honest explaining that he did it not only in order to save her from a Barbarian prince but because he truly wants to be with her. Step 8: If the problem is external (there is a large-scale conflict and the parties are just some insignificant participants of it), one of the parties sacrifices themselves to solve the problem.

Before saving the world by the cost of his life Demon God Tantai Jin engraves his name on his own tombstone placed next to his beloved wife's one, so in the future she could mourn him in a suitable place.

Step 9: In a satisfying story there is a magical reward of party's brave deed, which is a happy end.

Demon Lord Dongfang Qingcang sacrificed himself in order to save the girl he loved and died but his girlfriend (who happens to be a Goddess with abilities to resurrect the dead) nurtured a piece of his primordial spirit for 500 years and brought him back to life. Side note: If you want to add some chili pepper into your story, you can break this scheme any step from Step 4 on: pining could be one-sided, UST could never ever be resolved, characters could prefer their goals to love or maybe death or other circumstances would do them apart against their will.

The Wolf and Ma Zhaixing finally got together but the cruel world couldn`t allow it to last anytime long.

Bon Appétit! Your Enemies to Lovers story is well-baked!