#shiguang dailiren

[wrathyforest]

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical update 162

First week of 'Soul of basketball' event 🔥🏀, part 2

(Bai Zhuoming testing Wang Minhui's patience)

Official announcements: theatre will be doing 2 more guided set tours for the audience. If we get any pictures or trivia from it I'll inform you o7

Links in replies: bzm&wmh arguing during closing speech

The guide lady's name is Chen Xiaoyi (I think?). She is the Chief producer of LC stage 😇 I've added her weibo profile to the masterlist (I've also updated the navigation info a bit).

April 20th, night: Jing Yanqiao, Zhu Hanbin, Deng Xianling

Unexpected, crushing victory with 2:9 score for jyq vs. zhb 🏀

⬆ some extras from Deng Xianling's weibo :>

April 21st, noon: Bai Zhuoming, Wang Minhui, Cai Lu

This one was really fun ^^ wmh wore a dog hat and bzm was particularly cheery, bc he won the match, with score 15:12 🏀 he kept making fun of wmh for loosing, especially during rock, paper, scissors:

then he sung wrong lyrics ><

So bzm won🏀 And it was a source of 'serious' drama! In the closing speech wmh complained how bzm didn't want to pass him the ball and they started arguing to a point where Cai Lu had to step in 🙏 Look at him, so proud of himself...

then he laughed, doubled down and hit his chin on Cai Lu's arm ><

kbyee I gotta make another one asap 🏃‍♂️

[chubphoe-linkclick]

Hey so S2E9 'Three Stroires' was fucking bonkers

LETS TALK ABOUT IT

The episode is DENSE AS ALL HELL with things to talk about, the three main things being

The titles

The art style and style of storytelling

The dialogue (or lack thereof)

Lets speedrun some analysis notes of our three favourite members of the worst found family ever!!

Storytelling Styles

All three stories are emotionally driven and told in dramatic styles without realism, though all for differing reasons.

QJ mimics the over-the-top Shakespearean reminiscent of his wife, believing himself to be the main character of a tragedy. Though this style of story telling is obviously campy and corny, it's also presented in a way where it's not immediately clear to the viewers that this isn't actually real -- it's a fabrication of the canon within the canon as a reflection of QJ's delusions.

LTC mimics QJ, however, his disposition leads to him seeing everything as a Greek Comedy as opposed to perma-victim QJ's Greek Tragedy. It also reflects LTC ultimately leaning into and revelling in killing other people as part of his hunter ethos and evolution. LTC's style does not need to be realistic because LTC isn't looking for meaning in his story, but for an experience that's enjoyable and satisfying.

QJ and LTC's style complement each other with both being able to come together to tell a more cohesive narrative overall, although each does so by focusing on themselves more than anyone else.

LTX is a silent cartoon telling of her life story, quite literally the story that's gone untold, bar the words of the gossiping crows (people with frivolous and passing interest in her life writing their own stories about the events she goes through). Her story telling style is a reflection of her mindset and being trapped cognitively as a child for all time, and is further indication that her personhood wasn't allowed to independently grow since becoming an orphan.

LTX's story is outside of QJ and LTC's narrative because she cannot speak, and thus her story does not matter. No dramatisation of reality to paint a certain picture is needed, nor is her story seen or understood in either of theirs. Her story is insular and disconnected from theirs because her personhood is disconnected from theirs.

LTX's story is told through the lens of LTC and LX's worldview: that the world is made up of beasts and hunters. There is only ever one human character (likely LX himself rather than QJ, based on how visually loyal everyone else's designs are) while LTX watches LTC straddle the line between animal (his nature) and human (his will).

Story Titles

QJ's part being called the "Inevitable Tragedy" is a reference to how he is the creator of his own misfortune as it was never based in reality but his own unchecked paranoia.

LTC's part is called the Fortuitous Comedy is because it was fortuitous for QJ to find out about the twins' powers before anyone else via Tianchen's confession and subsequent laughter. It could also be due to LTC reaching his perceived hunter-status by the fortuitous case of Deng being Liu Min's first requested kill (for the same reason LTC hates Deng, no less).

LTX's title being the "Sibling's Fairy Tale" is rather self explanatory, much like the character herself if you took the damn time to talk to her. It's childish, stuck in the past (trauma), focused on her brother and the other light of her life: their late-mother. Another piece of insight that I remembered hearing is that fairy tales don't always have happy endings, but they always have a moral to learn from. In this sense, Xixi's story is thematically the most important because no character has put that moral into practice (confronting the worst aspects of those you love, refusing to look away from the secrets they hide while you stay in a peaceful dream with their softness).

Additional Notes

QJ caring for the twins in Part II is a reflection of LTC being gaslit about reality (reinforced by QJ's fatherly love being absent in LTX's story), as well as a reflection of his sense of self and human autonomy only beginning and flourishing due to the circumstances QJ provided

LTX's story suggests that most of the time she spends with LTC involves her napping in some form, or that most of her time in general was slept away as if she was trapped in some strange dream.

The only betrayal even hinted at is LTC's betrayal of LTX's morality, a twist that literally shatters LTX's childlike world and forces her hurdling into reality. This is the only betrayal because the twins are the only two who have trust in one another among the three.

Someone else made a point about how even when the foxboy picks up the bow and arrow, he remains a fox. In LTX's eyes, her brother can act as a hunter but he's still a beast and that's not a bad thing.

The fact that most people are 'beasts' and there's only one human in all of LTX's worldview really is some solid symbolism and messaging, especially considering LTX is socially classified as an undesirable a la her disabilities. It's peak reclamation and pride in Oneself.

[anulithots]

link click people, convince me to watch it. /not forced

For context: I already got hyperfixated on Jujutsu kaisen. I like stories where there's complex themes, moral dilemmas, and character dynamics. I know about the white hair x black hair with ponytail ship and how those pairings are always so close to cannon without actually being cannon and I'm prepared to cry. (I've been through this before with satosugu)

[misakarose]

T i m e is a hypocritical construct...

[silverquillsideas]

"what was the point in delivering all those messages if we didn't end up saving anyone?"

(season 3 please let them be happy 😭)

[kokoasci]

00:05

[kimdokjas]

LINK CLICK - shiguang in s2 + tumblr happy birthday maryam ♡ @justapieceintheirgames

[ova-kakyoin]

cheng xiaoshi (the impulsive one) after he thought lu guang was dead: i want to bring him back but he always told me death was something that couldnt be rewritten and if it was it would have really bad consequences but i really want to change things so he doesnt die what do i do?

lu guang (the responsible one) after cheng xiaoshi dies: honestly? fuck the timeline

[justheblueberry]

i was going to do something else that was deep and poignant but the brain said nah

[wrathyforest]

So. That's it. That's how it was. 36:0 Shu Rongbo & Du Guangyi's outstanding basketball performance 🔥 XD

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical update 163

First week of 'Soul of basketball' event 🔥🏀, part 3

(sports anime arc nobody expected)

Let's go!

April 21st, night: Wang Yifei, Guo Hongxu, Deng Xianling

🏀 Match resulted in 16:19 score, ghx won and set a new highest score 🌟 he was very humble about it:

⬆ Deng Xianling was being very cute :>

⬆ Wang Yifei and Deng Xianling leaving the theatre bc I love their style (Dengdeng's fits are usually this cute tbh)

April 22nd: Shu Rongbo, Du Guangyi, Cai Lu

On Monday the theatre's score board got updated an just... look:

'How did this happen?' you may ask... Well, we've established Du Guangyi isn't trying to win. Look, he's proud of his 0 points ⬇

But how does the baby, cast's honorary little brother, Shu 'Shmol' Rongbo Bobi score mf 36 points??

Thanks to our kind twitter correspondents (Bō and Fanny 🙏) we know exactly what went down ☕

So srb told dgy that he had just one performance this month (his only chance to gather points 🥺) so dgy let him win and even helped. How exactly? Apparently Du Guangyi just picked Shu Rongbo up and he slamdunked all the points like:

I had to at least try reconstructing it bc I CAN'T WITH THEM 🥺😭

dream team 😭

👏👏👏

applause for the current leader

[jukinthebox]

its just that cheng xiaoshi refused to go back in time to save lu guang because he KNEW just how much it would hurt lg to risk the timeline for his life and EVEN THOUGH cxs has altered the timeline in an effort to help people before he stopped himself FOR LU GUANG’S SAKE. but the MOMENT lu guang loses cxs he goes back in time to save him IMMEDIATELY because the pain of him being gone outweighs any morals or feelings of guilt he could possibly have.

they would sacrifice everything they stand for FOR EACH OTHER

[stray-tori]

in honor of 2k on twt, i forced them to smooch

[chodzacaparodia]

Lu Guang to Cheng Xiaoshi

[yaepyep]

Our guitarists in their newest outfits~

+ other function to lg's tiddy strap🤭