#my Screencaps

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So I may have become a little obsessed lately with comparing the stuff that made it into the drama vs what was cut - a lot of things in dramas get censored out but sometimes they will still get released or leaked either via promo materials or fan photography.

The footage above is a reuters of the scene where DFS confronts LLH immediately after being cleared of Asura grass and llh tries to run off. Below are images of the expressions that do make it into the drama which are fascinatingly... different? And far less animated. These expressions are what you get because they chose to have CY be far more frozen appearing vs what was in the reuters, where he's still able to move his head a bit. I just particularly like this clip because it's one of the only examples I've seen behind the scenes of the 'over affectionate eyes' that I heard the director kept telling them to dial back on. Also just where are you looking, llh?

Below is promo photo from Xiao Shunyao Studios' weibo that is also seen used by iQiyi. It's DSF tortured and in the hot bath and he's talking to LLH.

This expression....

This loving expression does not make it into the drama at all. LMAO

I can't even guess where it would fit into it with the lines we're given -- was dialog cut? I have no idea. The closest is his sort of mixed-emotion, exhausted expression he has when saying "You're saving me unconditionally" but the vibe there is not the same as the one above.

And this last bit with the snow and rose petals during one of the bts videos - Cheng Yi narrates, saying something about how A'Fei "is also good at setting a romantic atmosphere!"

Except this is the deleted footage of DFS searching for LLH during the 3 months of the special episode. Reportedly not included due to his eyes/gaze being, again, too... something.

As if the snow wasn't romantic enough (Something something that old saying about white snow representing growing old together with your loved one), there's also pink rose petals. Both would be a lot already when taken individually - but they have BOTH flying across the screen. While the bereaved widow dfs wanders the street mournfully in search.

(Now I have to see if there are similar things happening with other characters as I rewatch lmao)

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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

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“there is a lion in my living room” - clementine von radics // ricky “jupe” park in nope (2022) dir. jordan peele

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HEARTSTEEL Skins Trailer bio cards for band members.

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Chris Marker, Letter from Siberia, 1957

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Miller's Girl (2024)

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ineffable husbands as this text post

[kingsandbastardz]

So I have thoughts regarding DFS' bone contortion skill.

Lemme wind this out slowly - we see here in episode 8, mini DFS (who is NOT played by the same kid as his child-self) starts cycling his inner power and flies up into the air, his clothing exploding into pieces and he lands... fully clothed in this navy outfit with his dao flying down for him to catch a moment later.

Weeping Guanyin does indeed...

dfs has control over his transformation - he chose not to look like his child-self and, instead, crafted this super cute child instead

...where did the second set of clothes come from? Was he wearing them before he changed into the child version? But the child's clothing exploded everywhere?? So... wouldn't this navy set have just gotten huge and fallen off?

So ok, let's move onto episode 12 at Caillen Manor where we see LLH and DFS questioning the crazy uncle. DFS is wearing fdb's borrowed clothes this light blue set.

He bone contorts himself into the dead Alliance member they're looking for. And you see as he advances, feet first and the hem of his robe which seems to have both patterned navy and black layers. Pull the camera back and you see... a dfs typical heavy belt.

Let's go back to episode 8 and look at DFS' post-bone contortion outfit. Patterned/textured navy blue with a heavy belt. It's the SAME OUTFIT.

Back to episode 12 at Caillen manor - they get their information and leave. DFS is back in the light blue outfit.

Next image - just to prove he's not transforming his clothes into that dead guy's clothes -- this is what dead guy was wearing. Bright dark-teal check pattern.

Just what is going on here? Both times he bone contorts - he changes into the same navy blue outfit? Is he hiding the clothes inside his bones? Does he just have a random set stuffed in his sleeves somewhere that he whips out every time he uses the skill?

I have a theory!

SO - really quickly - come with me to episode 38 where DFS is in his under layer, tortured and chained up in Jiao Liqiao's hot bath. Oh look at that lovel chain rack thing. I bet it can be raised and lowered~ I mean JLQ has a damn iron box in the floor above her room specifically to bind and trap strong martial artists di feisheng.

In the novel, he's hanging naked from the ceiling like a rib-rack at the butcher's, sliced up from months of torture (I think it was months? Much, much longer than the week or so in the drama).

We got the blood and Xiao Shunyao's nipple ring at least. But hear me out.

You know how c-dramas have to play things safe because they don't want to risk not being allowed to air if the censorship board gets pissed at them. So they often do symbolic things to represent other events. Like sex will be the camera suddenly cutting to a single flower in a vase, where a petal falls to the table and incense slowly wafting past. It'll be the gentle billowing of silk curtains under moonlight. Violent sex is like... blood droplets in water, a glass falling and smashing on the ground. Etc. you get the idea.

What if the grey underlayer DFS is wearing in JLQ's bedroom is meant to represent his state in the novel?

So if underlayer = unclothed.

Fully clothed means = ???

Here's a shitty 1 min sketch. Yes, all my effort went into his eyelashes and absolutely nothing else.

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boyfriends [wear their caps backwards]

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Bye.

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10 days of 2000s horror

May (2002) dir. by Lucky McKee

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BUILD A BOYFRIEND! WITH LISA SWALLOWS | LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)

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