#sound of the desert

[gizkasparadise]

Favorite chinese drama female leads?

going to include taiwanese drama female leads as well!

top 5 cdrama/twdrama female leads!

chu xuanji, love and redemption. she doesnt understand any of the senses until she collects them in a mirror like shikon jewel shards. she's martial arts deadweight unless she's the god of war, in which case she gets her own ass-kicking theme song by the prince of mandopop. she wants a nap and snacks. she tried to fight heaven in a parking lot. she loves her man. she doesn't know what love is. she is a man. she is the moment.

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huang yu xuan, someday or one day. she's grieving, but she'll kick your ass over it. timetraveler and transmigrator. her boyfriend has custom bobbleheads of them in his car because they're a certified One Of Those Couples. inspires soft pastel drawings of first loves running the rain. she'll tell you how to ask her out but you have to wait approximately 20 years and one other boyfriend for it to work

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jin yu, sound of the desert

was literally raised by wolves? but that doesn't stop the #hustle. opens up a business empire through 100% cunning. manages to get both hu ge and eddie peng totally in love with her, nice work!

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xiao qian/qianqian, the romance of tiger and rose

a writer who's lost the plot. agent of chaos under the guise of storyboarding. total shitstirrer who has a taste for the dramatic. knows the best way to poison herself is set to a string quartet and fireworks display. i love her.

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feng zhi wei, the rise of phoenixes

i havent finished this drama because im a flop. but she's playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. best dressed because her eternal not!boyfriend is a machiavellian weaver of secrets but also perhaps fabrics

honorable mentions:

li jianjian, go ahead. art bro who survived the worst mother in law ive ever seen

su "piggy" cancan, wait, my youth. a loveable dumbass who DIDNT CHOOSE THE SCIENCE TRACK IN A YOUTH DRAMA

awu/wang xuan, monarch industry. a respectable lady who is so, so tired of the men in her life (barring her husband)

xiao lanhua, love between fairy and devil. a little orchid fairy who's Doing Her Best

[marblegroves]

Charoite! Neighborhood menace and naughtiest troublemaker on the block ⚾️

My design idea for a desertduo fusion for @chrisrin ‘s au! ^^

[axolotlsprout]

Grian sounding all protective made me soft and Scars little Hypno....🥺

Grian to Scar: I thought you were the negotiator! How did you end up taking such a bad deal!? Who took advantage of you like that!?

Scar: I was desperate

[isa-ah]

oh yeah here’s smtn me and boy made lol

[ganondoodle]

you know, i had a totk thought (uh oh)

soemthign thats really bothering me about the whole "actually, ganondorf didnt like the guy appearing out of nowhere marrying a hylian and just saying yep das our kingdom now and we can mine it barren under your nose and also i got laserbeam pebbles that i totally wont ever use on anyone come join me or die just bc of all of that but mainly bc the guy brought some weird tech with him that he dont like" - thing is that ......... we see almost not a single tech thing in the past (and for that matter see nothing of the oh so perfect and peaceful paradise hyrule was before big evil desert man didnt want to join our paradise- like what is the point about making the whole point of the game be -we need to restore hyrule to this paradise it once was- when you dont even see it or get to care about anything of it)

it might sound like a weird hangup but no really, the most we see is like two servant constructs, thats it, when they 'prepare for war' im pretty sure all you see is some lightly dressed ( ... is it just me or does their whole get up look alot like native american/other indingenous people too ... i still dont know how to feel about that- kinda adjacent to some of the sonau armor, the battery one i think??, also having that look...) hylians with spears, where the heck is all that tech?? is it implied to be all down in the mines hollowing out the underground (for no real reason either bc .... theres only two sonau left and no one else seems to want use nor need the tech otherwise there should have been more traces or soemthing left of it -unless it all just magically appeared out of nowhere in mostly prime condition while all shiekah tech jsut vaporized for bs non reasons just for it to be in tha game but oh dont you see its always been there lmao- so whats the point really????)

or up in the sky as most battle constructs are and they cant get them down in time bc *gestures vaguely*

or is it intentionally kept out of view bc idk seeing an army of robots on raurus side he can send out on a whim might not make him look as oh so good and perfect as they want him to look when he already got laserbeam pebbles (most of which hes been hoarding until ONE falls into hands not under his control) ?? like it just ... feels weird?? so many battle constructs that can even be a threat to link are jsut fully functioning strolling around in the present still, why wouldnt you want to use any of them to battle gan and if they DID why wouldnt you show that (no the 3 second unicorn cutscene doesnt count bc its just .. gan and his monsters isnt it) ?? (also ... why isnt there a big like battle ground , like fine you dont have to animate an army of monsters and robots clashing but... wouldnt it be cool to have you discover a giant flat plain in the underground (that magically got put under ground like gan just decided to stroll down there to get sealed lol) and its the only mostly empty field in the game littered with thousands of monster bones and dead constructs intermingled?? just to give it all a bit of weight?? evidence that it happened?? cool ass discovery????)

(also also i cannot let go of ganondorf apparently being sooooo anti tech but then clamgan uses the shiekah stuff??? shouldnt he also be against that then or is that suddendly fine bc- oh woops sorry, forgot clamgan is actually just something, not connected to gan at all actually, i mean why else would miasma turn into malice only to turn into miasma again haha none of that is connected actually what is a calamity anyway? also im sorry to bring this up again but i just cannot let go of the ppl in the present being so obsessed with using sonau tech in every part of their life now- they just lived through an apocalypse of a barely understood strange tech but CLEARLY this other even less understood strang tech is not dangerous at all lets make CARS OUT OF IT and what theres no danger in miasma and that tech existing at the same time LIKE SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE THAT IDK SEEMS LIKE A BAD COMBO--- oh sorry forgot that ceased to exist in both the world and peoples minds for *gestures vaguely* plot reasons- why why why are monsters mining the sonanium?? they dont even work with the yiga no that is also completely disconnected we dont wanna draw and interesting connections after all- whats the point if it means nothing but to be a loot box for the player-- actually, so much of totk is just a so built around throwing you into a box of toys with no substance to it- listen i know games are kinda like toys but if it doesnt make sense and offers you nothing interesting to think about even slightly whAT IS THE POINT)

[ryllen]

my builder looks so similar with haru, i started to think they are long separated twins

[seralyra]

I can't get the menacing way Scar said "Give up Grian or we'll share you." to Joel during the chase with Scott and I think Martyn in Session 7 out of my head.

Scar is so obsessed with Grian this season. From trying to bring the server against him and the Bad Boys in the beginning. To constantly seeking him out during the AFK session and coaxing him into joining the Family.

He tries to destroy Grians other bonds to get him back on his side. And even during his latest Hermitcraft stream he tries to get Grian back as his ally.

Scar really decided to be the deranged ex-lover this season and is going all out on it.

[avianscurse]

not me going insane over the fact that Grian instantly recognized Scar's voice when not even Jimmy, the one being spoken to, recognized it

[niko-jpeg]

He’s not a huge fan of the woods.

[ashinaisshin]

To be completely honest, this Dendro Vision isn't of much help to my research... However, there's no denying the effectiveness of elemental powers when settling a physical dispute, so it still proves useful at times.

[dangermousie]

And now I am reading the novel Sound of the Desert is based on.

Or at least Huo Qu Bing parts (I will always be amused that Tong Hua wrote this novel because she’s a HQB fangirl and wanted him to have a happy ending at least in fiction since he never got it in real life. So this is RPF 😝)

I remember when the drama sat on the shelves forever because even in those much more lax times censors had fits at the thought of great national icon ditching the empire to go live happily with his family elsewhere. Tangren finally said fuck it and changed all the names (which would probably not be enough today but back then…) But yeah it’s Huo Qu Bing RPF and that makes me happy!

PS too bad The Fated General didn’t try that - just change all the names and let me get my bloody HQB epic I want! Though it probably won’t fly as a fix nowadays unlike a decade ago.

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

The best part about the whole thing is the fact that Grian literally tells Scar "I think we're soulmates, all for Scar to completely ignore what he said for the allay, and then, as if that scene didn't sounded like something straight out of a comedy movie, Grian gets damaged and screams off-screen in Scar's POV and both get damaged, all while proximity chat adding to the comedy of it all.

[holdbeast]

Damn, why is all the good HSR lore locked behind NPC conversations? Was I really supposed to grill a random shopkeeper in Exalting Sanctum to figure out that the Luofu’s role in the Xianzhou Alliance is basically to be the Trailblazer ship?

Apparently yes!!

Luofu’s bringing in immigrants from other Xianzhou ships (not the least being Baiheng, Yingxing, Fu Xuan, and Sushang). They’re welcoming outworlders. They help planets that were afflicted by abominations get back on their feet. They’ve got trade and cultural exchange.

So that’s why pushing them into an alliance with the Astral Express makes sense. They’re probably the only ship in the fleet that would have welcomes the Astral Express in the first place, and no, that’s not because of Dan Heng.

It also explains a lot about why Jing Yuan decided to become the General. He really is living his dream of travelling the stars and seeing new places - just, with more stress and responsibility than a Galaxy Ranger would have.

[thatcoyperson]

Ive decided you guys can have some MS paint doodles I've made recently