#happy birthday zhang zhehan

[fourseasonsfigs]

Happy Birthday, Zhang Zhehan!

It's now 5/11 in China, and it's time to celebrate our beloved Zhang Laoshi!

We love you! May your birthday be as bright and as beautiful as you are. All the best wishes today and always 🍊❤️🥰🌛⭐️❤️💙

[jeriafterdark]

For Zhang Zhehan, on your birthday

I know today is supposed to be a happy day, and I just feel very.. Emotional, I need to write this down.

It’s your birthday today. 

So much has happened this past year. Last time on this day, you had a grand celebration. You sang, and laughed, and loved, and everyone celebrated by your side. You were light that I could drown in, laughter that warmed every fiber of my being, and the future was far beyond the horizon. Everything was where it belonged. Everyone was where they belonged, by you, supporting you, lifting you up. And in turn, you lifted us up, too. In your words, your songs, your actions, your passion, I doubt there was a soul who wasn’t affected by you when they saw you. That year, you made a promise to those you loved, to always be there for them, to not let any of this change you. And as fans, we promised to walk beside you as much as we could, to bask in your light, to be inspired by you to do good. 

A year later, so much has changed. But those promises are unbroken. 

A shadow darker and deeper than any of us can comprehend overtook you, and us. Nefarious organizations and individuals colluded to bring you down, to cause you harm. And it was and, still is, devastating. I can’t pretend to know how you felt.

It’s not my place to weigh your suffering. And I don’t want to assume what you’re thinking right now, how you might feel with the constant barrage of slander and deep-seated ill will directed against you. All I know is what I’ve seen from you in the past. I may have only found you last year, but I’ve had time to digest your works, your talent, your sincerest hopes and dreams that you’ve kindly shared with us. I know that you’re a person who is kind and gentle, but also strong with a will of steel. Tempered through your many trials and tribulations in the industry throughout the years. 

I know that you’ve fallen many times, and once, it was also a life-changing trauma. A permanent injury. But you didn’t let it consume you or change you. Because at your heart, you believe that kind people will always do the right thing. And I believe that too. You are kind, through suffering and despair and injustice, I believe - I choose to believe - that you will only do what’s right. That you always follow the light.

Some may say that there is no justice in the world, it’s not real. It’s just a made-up concept. Some may say that trauma changes you, and they may be right. But I believe that a truly kind person will only become kinder. And kind people will have justice. I have to believe in it if it is ever to be realized, don’t I? It’s not just some fantasy, some childish ideal. I know your penchant for reading and maybe you’ve read Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather. In it, a woman talks to Death himself. She asks about how humans need fantasy to make life bearable. And Death says, “Humans need fantasy to be human. As practice you start out learning to believe the little lies.” And she asks, “So we can believe the big ones?”

Death says, “Yes, Justice, Mercy, Duty, that sort of thing.” And she exclaims that those aren’t little lies, they’re not the same things! And Death says, “You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet- you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some… some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.”

“You make us sound mad,” she replies.

Death: “No, you need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”

If the universe doesn’t make sense, and bad things happen to good people, then it’s up to me to decide on the better path, the choice to believe in the kindness and goodness of you. It’s not naiveté, or ignorance. I simply choose to believe in the facts and evidence, that you and your kindness can forge on, fight back, regain your career, and pursue your passion in acting again. And justice will come. It may be now, next year, or in the future, and I reckon with the reality that it may never come, but there’s no harm in believing in the good in people. It doesn’t cost anything. And you’re part of the reason I still believe that. Always.

My wish for you is that you find calm and happiness. That everyone can see you as the person you’ve shown the world for the past decade. Past the lies and the forgeries. It’s a fairly simple matter to stop and give up, but I don’t think that’s an ending any of us wants. Especially you. You’ve already shown us your fighting spirit, over and over again. And it’s a simple thing to support you. Even here, across the world, across the boundaries of nations and languages and culture. It’s easy to see the beacon of light that you are, even if you must stay silent. Thank you for all you were, are, and will be.

It’s your birthday today. Happy birthday, and may you be safe and happy wherever you are, basking in the light.

[la-muerta]

Zhang Zhehan Ranyi Music Update 4 - 10 May 2023

Primordial Theater Concert - Resurrection

[wanderingfandoms]

Happy Birthday Zhang Zhehan!

You shine. You are gold.

[sheepandpencils]

Two drawings I did for Zhang Zhehan’s birthday on 11 May. He is a source of light, of beauty, of inspiration, and of joy.

I cannot wait for us to see him again once justice has been restored.

[mkchronos]

[madetolove]

Nail art inspired by Word of Honor costumes #2: Zhou Zishu's Greyish-purple robes.

Pictures taken from @canary3d-obsessed’s costume posts, with permission. Full original post is here.

[ashenlights]

Continuing the mobage au series with Xiao-Zhe this time! 

[lanwangji-was-here]

Happy birthday Zhang Zhehan. I hope you're happy, healthy and safe.

[bizarrequazar]

2022 Candy Year In Review

As a way to cap off the year, I thought it would be nice to go over all the LLD candy from 2022! There were a ton of little ones (read: kadians, matching clothing, possible hickies, sunset photos, etc.), so this will just be focusing on the larger notable ones. They’re all dated and in chronological order, because I’m me.

Remember to take these with a grain of salt. Enjoy~

January 23rd → Gong Jun’s studio Weibo posted his 2021 year in review video, completely leaving out August despite him having had two livestreams, a song release, and a reality show air during that month.

January 29th → Gong Jun posted a commercial for KFC to his Douyin where he rips dates off a calender that has 1 and 5 missing. (No one talks about this one but it’s one of my favourites. 🥺💕)

February 14th → Gong Jun posted a commercial to his Weibo at 11:29, then posted two photos of himself to Weibo at 13:14 (kadian for “forever”), then posted the same to his Instagram at 13:15, using the kadians to make the sequence “Gong Jun forever Zhang Zhehan”. The photos had been taken at Xiao Yu Hill in Qingdao at almost the exact location that Zhehan had taken photos at in 2018.

His Weibo post had the caption “Happy Valentine’s Day [11 husky emojis]”, the same caption he had used in 2021. Some people noted that “Zhang Zhehan” is eleven letters long, and interpreted the use of the same caption as a way of saying that nothing has changed.

March 5 → Gong Jun posted a vlog with Nancy Mulligan by Ed Sheeran as one of the BGM, a song about a couple eloping during the Northern Ireland conflict. Fans found that one of the top comments on the song on Netease is “When China allows homosexuals to get married, I will play this song at our wedding,” and the song has widely been adopted by the gay community for its message of marrying and growing old together despite societal rules.

April 26th → (Purely rumor, take with a full spoon of salt.) Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan were supposedly seen together at the entrance to the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing. Reportedly they saw someone take photos and Zhehan stepped forward to pay the person off, only for Gong Jun to stop him and say to the photographer, “Do whatever you want.” The following day was Zhehan’s lunar birthday.

May 6th → (Instagram cw) Guo Yunfei, the casting director and actor of Duan Pengju from Word of Honor, posted a photo of himself making the LLD handsign with the caption, “I hope the ‘waves’ (浪花, langhua) like it. I know what happened recently, but what can I say or do? … I hope everyone can be sincere and kind, have a safe future, and live up to your friendship.” This was the day after the Instagram was deactivated.

May 11th → Zhehan’s birthday. The post count on Gong Jun’s Weibo went up by two despite nothing new appearing, indicating that he had posted privately.

May 17th → (Again, purely rumor.) Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan were supposedly seen together near Liangma Bridge in Beijing’s Chaoyang district. According to this one, Gong Jun asked the fans who photographed them to delete the photos and they willingly complied.

May 20th → Kangshifu released a mini-movie for 520 starring Gong Jun and an actress who looked strikingly like Zhang Zhehan, including a scene where she wore an outfit almost identical to one Zhehan wore during his 2021 birthday concert. The film included drawn illustrations of the two lead characters, one of which was found to have been directly traced from a photo of Zhehan from the Word of Honor concert. One of the lines included on the teasers leading up to the release was “I didn’t hide you away properly. It’s apparent in every drawing of mine.”

May 23rd → Gong Jun posted photos from a photoshoot for L’Officiel magazine to his Weibo—completely innocuous until people discovered that the caption, “✈✈✈～​​ ”, auto-translated to “对对～​​ 我爱你～ ​​ (Yes yes~ I love you~)” in the international app. This was later confirmed to have been an intentional Easter egg. Interpret it as you will~

June 9th → Gong Jun posted cooking photos from when he had been visiting his family during the previous month. It was noticed that there was one more set of chopsticks than there should have been if it was only his family. As well, it can be seen that Gong Jun was cooking the cilantro separately from the rest of the dish—Zhehan is known to not like cilantro. June 9th is May 11th on the lunar calendar.

(There were so many little things throughout May and June, you could tell Gong Jun was giving Xie and co. the middle finger. A thread I made of all the ones I’m aware of can be found [here].)

August 1st → (slight knives in this one) BEAST posted an article to their WeChat about their Qixi product line, in which they included the lines “Remembering that we couldn’t spend the previous Qixi together as we were at different places I even secretly childishly cried, and was angry at him. He promised that he’ll give me a surprise next Qixi.” and “Love is separated by the mountains and seas / The mountains and seas can be flattened”. The latter was written on a banner Zhehan had recieved from a fan during the Word of Honor concert; Qixi 2021 was August 14th.

September 5th → VogueFilm released an interview Gong Jun had done with them where he talked about his morning routine, wherein he said, “If you have a problem with your knees, don’t do running, cycling, etc. Even though they seem easy, if you don’t master the technique well, it will actually affect your knees” Photos of his food included a jianbing, which a few weeks earlier he had said his “ahyi” made for him, as well as eggs prepared in a way unique to Jiangxi.

October 14th to 20th → Gong Jun stopped having an umbrella shield him from photographers while going to work and took full advantage of it by wearing clothing associated with Zhehan for the next several days. Details can be found in my post for that week, look for the 🍬 emojis.

November 2nd → During a livestream for Hsu Fu Chi, Gong Jun mentioned multiple of his other endorsements and at one point walked off set to grab his LockNLock thermos, which he then drank from on camera for exactly five seconds while the host was made to wait. On the same day, his studio posted a douyin with the song 隆里电丝 by 盛宇DamnShine, which includes the lines “Some people will become your friends / or your zhiji / Some people will fight with you to the end / as long as you're happy (开心就好)”

November 17th → A photo from 2021 that Gong Jun’s studio posted as part of his time train series included a blurred out red and blue smear that was possibly a photo from the Word of Honor concert being used as his phone’s wallpaper.

November 28th → Gong Jun posted a photo of a handwritten note saying that he wouldn’t be doing a birthday livestream the following day. Something that was possibly his hexagon ring appears to have been deliberately placed behind a glass of water in the photo.

December 17th → Gong Jun posted travel photos from Yunnan, which included two photos of a figure from behind wearing a hoodie that completely covers his head. There is debate over whether this person was really Gong Jun, especially as the shoulders seem to match Zhang Zhehan’s stature.

What’s your own favourite candy from the year? If I didn’t include it here, please feel welcome to add it as a reply or reblog! 🍬🍬🍬

[fourseasonsfigs]

Happy Birthday (Fat Body)

Here we have the return of Gong Jun's and Zhang Zhehan's respective birthday finest!

You've seen these outfits a number of times before - the white and green outfit Gong Jun wore for his birthday livestream in 2021:

And Zhehan's black and green outfit he wore for his birthday broadcast, also in 2021:

The "fat body" style is a fig style variation with a larger head and body, designed for extra cuteness.

The main problem with the fat body style is that sometimes the extra material in the head makes them even more top-heavy, and prone to tipping over. These, however, balance alright, which is even more remarkable because Zhehan tips to the side.

Gong Jun is making Zhehan's hand sign, and Zhehan is flashing the LLD sign. Too cute!

If you're curious about the hand signs, here's the two versions, plus more of Zhehan in his birthday outfit:

This second one is easy, but the LLD one is a little more challenging to do!

I'm very used to the white polystyrene boxes, so I was a little bit worried when I got some slightly softer black ones. But no issues at all - these two arrived safely!

You can see the really cute oversized heads here (and ears!).

Zhehan has a bit of a (also cute) lean forward and off to the side. I would not have thought he could stand up, but it's not a problem! It just looks a little precarious.

You can see here how Zhehan has one foot that's a bit shorter than the other. Happens to many of us!

This is a great view of Zhehan's spikier hair!

He looks adorable leaning forward, I don't know why, he just does! Actually maybe I do know why, it's the same head-first kind of thing that toddlers do, so it's pretty cute here!

Oh no! I just realized he's missing an earring! What the heck. It's the hanging one, too. Huh, I don't recall seeing this earring anywhere..it's there on the box photo, but where is it? I'm going to have to search through my whole unpacking area.

Here we are back around again. I love the moon and stars in their eyes! Sometimes we get their own individual moon and stars, and sometimes we get the reflection of each other's, like we do here. Zhehan is looking at his star and Junjun is looking at his moon!

You can now see why Zhehan is both a bit tilted and leans - he has a big dollop of extra resin on his left foot. I tried to see if it would come off, but nope, it's quite firmly part of his foot.

We get the bonus of a nice shot of the tops of their shoes!

Very cute, individualized boxes and box art.

Wish me luck as I search up and down for that earring! I'll come back and update this post if I can find it.

Material: Resin

Fig Count: 435

Scene Count: 30

Rating: Many happy returns!

[link back to Master Fig Index for more posts]

[zhangzhehanoclock]

💙 生日快乐，张哲瀚！💙

Happy 32nd Birthday Zhang Zhehan!!!

Thank you for everything you have shared with us, for your positivity and kindness, your warmth and your heart. It is a gift to be alive now, and an honor to have 'met' you in this life. I treasure every precious memory, and look forward to any there will be in the future!

You are a good person. The best person. You deserve to shine bright again.

Wishing your day and all the ones ahead to be full of peace and happiness! Stay safe, healthy, and strong. Love from haizhe and juzipi all over the world! 🪼🍊

We are still here. 💙

[la-muerta]

Zhang Zhehan Ranyi Music Update - 10 May 2023

Primordial Theater Concert setting sail.

[brilcrist]

Happy Birthday Zhang Zhehan

Hope endless light is shining upon you and happiness are always around you.

We are still here, cheering n waiting.

Hope to see you very soon💙

[jeriafterdark]

Happy Birthday, Zhang Zhehan! 1/3

Will post two more later!! We hope you are living well!

[cudzinec]

Happy birthday, Zhang Zhehan, wherever you are! Come back soon!