“A strong person and a waterfall always carve their own path” (03/13/23) 🇨🇭 #GoodVibesOnly #RhineFalls #Switzerland (at Rhinefalls - Europe's Largest Waterfalls) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqSg3GXu4CW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Back when I was watching cql but hadn't touched mdzs someone--(was this you @rhinefall?) said the show had really overemphasized the pseudo-familial, fraternal elements of the story, at the expense of wangxian.
(Which I found deeply off-putting ngl because it makes it sound like the show made up a lot of the meaty content there, which it did not. Its major invention in that area is jiang cheng's crush on wen qing.)
And it's like. Looking over them both. I can see where that statement is coming from, in that The Untamed frontloaded jiang cheng, gave jiang yanli extra appearances, and generally expanded the ratio of page/screen time for the backstory in order to let that carry more of the obvious narrative arc. Since the romance arc could not play out as in the novel, due to censorship.
But being able to compare them now, I honestly feel like what cql actually wound up exaggerating most was...wei wuxian's relationship with lan wangji???
Because. They had to take the romance out. But they also had to make them love each other or there's no point. Which means wangxian had to be friends.
Which in turn means that in the live action version teenage and young adult Wei Wuxian consistently pays attention to, focuses on, confides in, and routinely interacts with Lan Wangji very much on purpose, as part of a relationship he values, considers strong, and is making an effort to maintain.
Postcard Friday pays tribute to all the men and fathers out there this week. Yesterday was Father’s Day here in Germany, but the informal term for that day is Männertag. And in tradition, men hang out with friends, enjoying a good beer, but also performing stunts and causing trouble. 😉 This postcard of a bridge spanning an arm of the River Rhine near Rhinefall, Switzerland represents a place of…
Last chance to see The Rheinfall before it disappears into a private collection as it has SOLD, . . But you can still see it this Saturday at An Evening with Kurt and George starting at 18:00 at the Kunstbehandlung Müllerstraße 40 München . . . . . . #acrylicpainting #painting #waterfall #gay #Switzerland #gaymen #swissalps #swiss #Rhine #muscle #art #painter #whatido #rhinefalls #rhein #rheinfall #romanticism #gaystagram #instagay #newwork #gallery #galleryopening #gaysofinstagram #bodensee #gayartists #beard #vernissage #allegory #beefcake #artforsale (at Kunstbehandlung München) https://www.instagram.com/p/CngnBAdtNyB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Rules: Make a new post and post the latest line in your WIP & tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).
Tagged by @missoyashirou
i was tagged sometime in july; this took me forever because first i was working on a thing for an exchange, and then all my drafting was being done on the Word Processing Only little 4GB flash-memory laptop where tumblr is forbidden. and then i'm like, i feel like it is not quite in the spirit of the game to pick my own time??
but i left it long enough that i was abruptly reminded of its existence when i reopened a tab today, which is random enough imo.
The sight of that fury was almost worth the feeling of another duty closing its collar around her neck.