#gu changge

[lexsssu]

NEW HUSBANDO JUST DROPPED for me at least

I PRESENT MR. GU CHANGGE

IVE ONLY KNOWN HIM FOR A FEW DAYS BUT I LOVE HIM SO MUCH ALREADY AOSDCNAOISDCFALSDMF

HIS SMILE

MY MAN KNOW HOW TO DRESS ALL PROPER

HE’S AN SSS CLASS MANIPULATOR

VV INNOCENT SMILE

I CAN GET LOST IN HIS EYES

HE CAN HAVE MY HEART

I WANT HIS HANDS AROUND MY NECK

MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM MLEM

i wuv him your honor

[ashenwren]

10 characters from 10 things

thanks @vishcount​ for tagging me! this took me a while to get to but I got to it eventually :D ah this got kind of long  - I wasn’t expecting for this to end up as an essay but thinking about why I like my favourite characters is just too much fun ^^

Am going to tag @psychic-waffles​ @palimpsest-mind​ @jockvillagersonly​​ and anyone who sees this and would like to! I hope you’re all doing well ^^ no pressure to do this as always and no need to write about the characters too - I just like to ramble ^^;

1. Lan Wangji, The Untamed/CQL, MDZS

Lan Zhan, Hanguang-jun! He’s just so morally good and righteous. He goes wherever the chaos is, always helping those in need without any thought of merits or his own reputation. I love his quiet personality and his kindness, and his whole journey about learning the difference between rules and morals. He had so much pressure on him growing up as one of the Twin Jades and as the son of the previously disgraced sect leader Qingheng-jun and I imagine he had a pretty lonely childhood trying to live up to all these expectations. 

Other honourable mentions from CQL/MDZS: WWX (of course!), LXC (him closing his eyes and sighing slowly as everything falls apart around him just resonates with me)

2. Zhou Zishu, Word of Honor

Zhou Zishu has just taken over my entire brain lately. I was debating whether to use a gif of him in his “softer” days, but in the end, I chose one from his Tian Chuang days instead. He had the role of sect leader thrust upon him when he himself was still barely a child, and suddenly became responsible for the lives of all his juniors. He tried his best to do some good by founding Tian Chuang, but then realised how utterly futile it was - he was doing more harm than good, and was arguably responsible for the deaths of all his juniors. He just endures so much grief and tragedy during his life and I loved that he was able to escape that life and just live day by day as a nobody, wandering the jianghu. He’s such a prickly kitten but is just so soft on the inside ^^

As he says to WKX,  “Life is just about 3 meals a day. Why do we worry about eternal sorrow?”

Other honourable mentions from WoH: Ye Baiyi (I love this snarky grumpy grandpa. He’s just so tired of these kids running around jianghu) and Wen Kexing (so cute, yet so unhinged, and an even more tragic childhood. His relationship with Gu Xiang makes me cry)

3. Wu Xie, DMBJ, The Lost Tomb Reboot (+all the other DMBJ dramas and adaptations)

Wu Xie! Look at his face! I’ve gotten so attached to him as a character, and he was the reason why, after watching the Lost Tomb Reboot, I just inhaled all the other dramas and books! I love his whole story arc so much. He starts off as the naive and innocent Tianzhen, but he’s forced to adapt as he slowly learns more about this whole multi-generation mystery that has entangled the Mystic Nine. His cleverness becomes more cunning, and as we see in Sand Sea, he becomes pretty ruthless in order to see his plan come to fruition. But despite this hard side to him, he’s still good to a fault, always believing the best in others even when he knows they wouldn’t afford him the same mercy. I also love his wit and snark ^^

Other honourable mentions from DMBJ: Zhang Qiling (wow I just realised I like all the tragic characters), Xiao Hua (such an interesting mirror to Wu Xie. I also loved seeing the head of the Xie family side to him in The Lost Tomb 2. Like ZZS, he also had power thrust onto him at a young age, and he had to be cunning to survive the power struggles), Huo Xiuxiu (my favourite DMBJ girl! not that we had too many choices though haha. She’s clever in her own right, and as we see in the books, solved a lot of these mysteries alone before Wu Xie was even aware they existed)

4. Li Changge, The Long Ballad

Technically I haven’t finished The Long Ballad, so I can’t comment about Changge’s character arc, but I love her personality so far! She can fight, but isn’t exactly superhuman in her abilities (one of my pet peeves with how people write female characters is that they tend to equate a “good female character” with one that is physically strong and can defeat all men regardless of relative strength/size. While those characters can be fun, it does get a bit dry after a while). Instead, she’s extremely intelligent and an expert in military strategy and tactics which I found pretty refreshing. She may be set on getting her revenge, but she also genuinely cares for the lives of her people.

5. Shen Wei/ Black-Cloaked Envoy, Guardian

These two characters are technically the same person, but also pretty different? I like how, as the Black-Cloaked Envoy, Shen Wei tries to maintain this fragile peace and order between humans and dixingren. He remains fair and impartial, despite being labelled as a “traitor” by his own people, yet he also has this very compassionate side to him that leads to exceptions to the rules. He doesn’t follow rules blindly and still manages to be both fair and kind in his judgements.

Other honourable mentions from Guardian: Ye Zun (do I just like ZYL’s face? maybe. He is just so crazy and unhinged. I also sometimes think about how differently his life could have turned out if he was never separated from Shen Wei when they were younger),  Zhao Yunlan (I envy his easy charisma and people skills ^^; but he is also such an interesting character because he may be so charismatic and smiley on the outside but at the same time, is slow to trust on the inside).

6. Boya, The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

Boya just has the best costume! The bow and arrows, the sword, the flute and the cape! Okay, but jokes aside, I liked seeing him grow as a character and overcome his prejudice of demons and spirit guardians to the point where he was willing to become one himself. In this <2hrs movie, he basically has his whole worldview turned upside down (his views on demons for one, but also on the princess too, who he thought he knew so well), and he dealt with all these changes admirably.

7. Tang Fan, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty

I just started watching TSOMD and to no one’s surprise, I love Tang Fan already (as Vishie says, I have a type XD) Again, I can’t comment too much on him because I’ve only just started TSOMD, but he’s just such a loveable disaster.  He’s so clever but also such a menace and he loves his food way too much. But from what I’ve seen so far, he’s also fair and kind (like when he saves Dong’er or refuses to take bribes). I keep seeing him as Wu Xie in some type of Ming Dynasty AU ^^

Other honourable mentions: Sui Zhou (wow his eyerolls at Tang Fan are legendary), Pe Huai (this guy is insane in the best way. I just watched the episode where he casually chugged bottles of poison just to solve one of the cases, and he still managed to stay conscious while listing his symptoms).

8. Ao Bing, Ne Zha

This was a while ago, but Nezha was my first foray into Chinese films/dramas and when I first realised how pretty chinese historical/fantasy costumes are! Ao Bing is another tragic character with so much responsibility on his shoulders. He’s also a dragon so + points for that! 

9. Finrod Felagund, The Silmarillion

Going far back now because I’ve been so fixated on CQL/MDZS and DMBJ that I haven’t really come across any other dramas or characters that i really loved. It’s been almost 2 years since I read The Silmarillion, but its still one of my favourite books. I think it was the first book that genuinely made me cry tears? It was so beautifully tragic and Finrod’s story made me so sad. He was powerful yet so kind, and was one of the first elves to befriend Man and share knowledge. It’s just so tragic that it was his kindness and sense of honour in keeping his promises that ultimately led to his own end D: (Also no picture here sadly because there’s no real official face for him? And I am hesitant to just repost others’ art ^^;)

10. Wei Wuxian, The Untamed, MDZS

Okay okay, I cheated and added the same thing twice, but I can’t not include WWX in one of these character things! He’s the reason I fell in love with The Untamed and all of MDZS in the first place. He’s so kind and righteous and stands up for what’s right even when it leads to so much pain and suffering for himself. I love his character arc so so much, and I just really feel for him. 

One of the quotes of his (from the book) that comes to mind is “My mom said you have to remember the things others do for you, not the things you do for others. Only when people don’t hold so much in their hearts would they finally feel free.”