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#i guess tgcf is just missing that glue for me?
cosmic-carpals · 1 year
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realizing on book 3 of tgcf that i actually don't enjoy it.....tragic
#maybe its just cause i read book 1 last summer and book 2 a month ago but#it feels like there isnt something tying it all together or an overarching plot??#like with mdzs we have the corpse mystery that goes from like chapter 1 to the guanyin temple#and the story of how wwx becomes the yllz and dies interspersed with that#and with svsss what holds it together is pidw and the divergences from it & the system point total stuff#i guess tgcf is just missing that glue for me?#is it just the rise and fall (and rise and fall and rise) of xl?#if mdzs' only overarching Thing had been the rise and fall of wwx it would have been less good i think the post-resurrection plot rly#also ties that together#which is why i liked the untamed a lot less#30 straight episodes of the rise and fall of wwx#anyways maybe there is some glue that i just forgot about because i read the books some time apart from eachother#but i pulled multiple all-nighters reading mdzs and svsss online (yes i subsequently bought all the books)#i couldnt put them down#but i just cant pick tgcf up#maybe it's cause sqq and wwx were more fun to read?#idk idk#but then also it could be because tgcf is much longer so book 3 is really not that far into the story#from what i hear the themes are interesting! i liked the ghost groom mystery in the first bit! but it just isnt doing it for me#it just feels like a bunch of one-offs that aren't Connected except for being about the same characters#anyways i'm not gonna bother buying the rest its 2ha and yuwu season in this house#area woman posting
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crowning-art · 4 years
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TGCF SPOILERS
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Uhhhhh.....UUUHHHHHHHH
My god
Dear lord
Omg
I miss book 1 man. Where's all the cute, fun stuff? Where's Hua Cheung being annoying to Mu Qing and Feng Xen? Where's the idiot trio being idiots and not discussing something important? Where are my super cute and romantic hualian moments?? I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS
When Jun Wu said this to Xie Lian:
"You can't save everyone."
Xie Lian slowly straightened up. "Whether I can, I won't know until I've tried. Even if the heavens say I must die, if that sword doesn't pierce my heart and nail me dead to the ground, then I am still alive, and 'til my last breath I will struggle to the end!"
That is some very dreaduk foreshadowing i sense....
Yong'an's drought wasn't the main problem! Just like the family of three, it was basically just a catalyst for Xianle's destruction and whatever the white-clothed calamity had planned djdjdksk Oh how nice would it have been if the only problem was a lack of water...but the problem is just so deep
Lang Ying literally made a deal with devil smh. Someone should have given him a Snickers. He's just not himself when's he hungry lmao
The cute idiot trio moment was so precious, but noooo Lang Ying just HAD to ruin it
I LOVE how excited Xie Lian gets whenever he starts taking about the Martial arts! Makes sense why Hua Cheung wanted to gift him an armoury later on!
Hua Cheung is acc so precious!! Poor boi literally held on so strongly and did everything Xie Lian told him to 😭😭 I'm wondering who those flower demons showed him to seduce him, buut I think I might have a feeling who it is. Poor boi tho, having to listen to Xie Lian literally hurting himself and he can't do anything snsjdkdkd
The strand of hair tied around Hua Cheung's finger by Xie Lian and red string of fate...dare I say...connected?
Omg Qi Rong!!! I literally can't stop laughing at him 😂😂 This guy got kidnapped! Tortured! Injured! And like 2 second into being rescued he starts cussing, and Xie Lian Is just so done with him lol
Next to him, Qi Rong cussed.
"Rubbish! Do you know who cousin Crown Prince is? He's a god of heaven! If he's not right, what, you think you trecherous dogs are in the right?!"
And Xie Lian's just like OMG shut up for one second
Another one of my fave Qi Rong moments lol
Those things crawled and emitted a thick, glue-like body fluid, and So Rong was crying at how disgusting they were. He stomped on the head of one that looked weak and noticed that creature wasn't exactly scary.
He said dejectedly. "So they're not that impressive?"
So I totally forgot about the white-clothed calamity lmaoo but it totally makes sense that he's involved in making Yong'an stronger.
Ugh the torture Xie Lian had to go through in the cave. I felt so bad for him. I was literally like shut up demons, for like 2 seconds skskdkdkkd I was like nooo when Xie Lian stabbed himself but welp, I guess he's fine for now
I love how MXTX wrote that lust and the desire to kill are intertwined. It reminds of how in psychology, we learned that sometimes the body confuses fear, desire and other similar feelings and seeing it applied here is pretty cool
Oh no. The human face disease. Oh no
And that's it for now! Haha...I'm gonna finish book 2 tomm and UGH I cant WAIT to get back to the calmer present tbh
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