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yingtan · 1 year
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YU CHENGEN for Condé Nast Traveller, December 2022
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movielosophy · 2 years
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Love Like The Galaxy~Are you done with all the lovey-dovey?
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kdram-chjh · 2 years
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Cdrama: Love Like the Galaxy (2022)
Gifs if Intro of cdrama "Love Like the Galaxy”
【Multi-sub】 Love Like The Galaxy EP01 | Leo Wu, Zhao Lusi | 星汉灿烂 | Fresh Drama
Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDvUn2Vm-EE
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mugunghwarp · 1 year
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Idade: 25 anos.
Gênero: Masculino cis.
Qualidades: Criativo, confiante.
Defeitos: Crítico, impulsivo.
Nacionalidade/Etnia: Francês/chinês.
Temas de interesse: Todos.
Faceclaim: Yu Cheng En - ator.
Twitter: MV97LE.
OOC: +18 ela/dela.
TW: Palhaços, cordas.
TW: Nenhum.
Leon Zhang nasceu no dia 21 de setembro de 1997 em uma família de imigrantes chineses que saíram de Shenzhen, China, e se instalaram ao sul da França, na portuária cidade de Marselha. Filho de um casal de comerciantes de tecidos, é o segundo de três irmãos, Aimé e Dore, e o mais singular entre eles. Desde pequeno a paixão pela história do segmento bastante tradicional e antigo chinês, realizando a partir da venda no varejo de tecidos, chamou a atenção e o inspirou a estudar mais sobre a história de suas origens.
Desde os 13 anos, no período de férias escolares, Leon ajudava os pais com as vendas e tentava compreender o contato vendedor-cliente. Sua boa educação e fala cortês fizeram com que fosse conhecido por ser um adolescente gentil e com grande potencial para o ramo dos negócios. Já aos 18 anos, iniciou os estudos acadêmicos e depois de 4 anos se formou com bacharelado em Moda. Antes de alcançar o profissionalismo que tem, Leon passou por poucas e boas graças às escolhas e opiniões que expressou com o desenvolvimento de sua maioridade, em busca de independência saiu de casa, se mudou e começou a trabalhar em diversos tipos de empregos. O último e mais rentável emprego que teve foi de modelo em uma agência chinesa, com uma boa aparência e carisma conquistou o público modelístico em pouco tempo. Leon estreou em revistas como Glassman, Oat e Madame Figaro antes de decidir que a carreira não era exatamente o que desejava exercer. Suas ambições sempre estiveram conectadas com o negócio da família. Com isso em mente retornou a Marselha, para a casa dos pais, depois de completar 23 anos de idade.
Com o passar dos anos, o negócio da família foi crescendo e três novas lojas foram inauguradas em outras cidades como Shenzhen, Cannes e, atualmente, Mugunghwa, local de origem do pai. Interpretando como uma antecipação de herança, cada um dos filhos da família Zhang ficou responsável pela administração das respectivas lojas. Leon, por sua vez, assumiu a liderança da empresa em Mugunghwa, no final do ano de 2022.
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asksythe · 10 months
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Is there any cultural significance or reasoning for Xiao Xingchen giving both his eyes to Song Lan, instead of just one?
I can certainly see there being plot and/or thematic reasons for it (like it makes a better parallel with Wei Wuxian who couldn’t give just half his golden core; it’s necessary for Xiao Xingchen to be completely blind for the Yi city tragedy to play out as it did; etc.) but I’m wondering if there is more to it then that.
Your insights on other bits of MDZS lore have been really interesting!
That’s a tough question. The short answer is: yes. It’s a cultural thing. 
The longer answer is that I’m not sure I can adequately answer your question... because I feel that I'm not qualified. It goes deep. This is reaching the DNA of Chinese culture and the value system itself. I would say it’s probably better if you read more Chinese classics or immerse yourself in the culture. This is one of those things that are immensely difficult to put into words. The best way is to experience it.    
But since you asked me, I’m going to at least give it a try. 
The reason that Xiao Xingchen gave both eyes to Song Lan and the true root of the Yi City tragedy includes three different cultural concepts: Jishi 济世 (the Chinese ideal of saving the world), Enyuan Yinguo 恩怨因果 (Karma and Karmic Debts), and the quest to find Dao 道 (truth). 
1/ Jishi 济世 
济世 Jishi is a Chinese term denoting a philosophical ideal pursued by certain classes or castes of people since ancient times in China. It means to sacrifice and save the world. It’s self-sacrificial heroism in the most ideal and purest sense of the concept, similar to our modern-day Doctors without Borders.   
This is Xiao Xingchen’s higher calling, his chosen purpose. Xiao Xingchen came down from Baoshan Sanren’s mountain at 17 years old with one purpose: to make the world a better place. He rejected no one who needed his help. He went out of his way to reject the invitations from the cultivator Houses to join their ranks and enjoy the wealth and privilege it might bring because he didn’t want to be distracted from a higher calling.
Using modern Western vernacular, Xiao Xingchen is a hero. That’s his religion and identity. That’s on top of a personality that already holds high self-responsibility. So is there any wonder he feels he’s responsible for Song Lan’s loss and must give Song Lan both eyes?  
2/ Enyuan Yinguo 恩怨因果
恩怨 En Yuan. Yuan is resentment, spite, hatred, grudge. But En is a lot harder to nail down in English. It’s commonly translated as favor, but ‘favor’ has none of the cultural weight and encoded social obligation of En. The pure meaning of En is ‘a good deed done from the heart.’ A kindness. A mercy. A gift. 
For example, Jiang Fengmian taking Wei Ying into Jiangshi is En. Wen Ning saving Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying is En. Wen Ning reclaiming Jiang Fengmian and Yu Furen’s corpses and artifacts is En. Big En, comparable rebirthing an entire household. Wen Ruohan teaching Zhao Zhuli (later on known as Wen Zhuliu) and granting him a chance to prove himself is also En. Nie Mingjue doing the same to Jin Guangyao is the same level of En (granting critical knowledge and opportunity to completely change one’s life). Jin Guangyao taking in Lan Xichen and hiding him from Wen pursuers before the Sunshot campaign is En.   
因果 Yinquo = Karmic Bonds, the fruits that bloom from the seeds one sow. It’s also understood as a link between people’s life. Our lives collide, intertwine, and diverge like threads on a tapestry. We are each bound to each other by the threads of Karma and our debt to each other. This is yinguo. 
There is a deep-seated belief in China that a person’s life is a ledger. To live is to constantly add to and take away from the ledger. When other people perform En for you, that means you take from their ledger and add to yours. When someone takes from your ledger, a yuan/grudge is born. From the moment you were born, you were granted the greatest of En, the gift of life from your parents.   
In Chinese culture, it’s believed that one must try one’s best to square the ledger. One must repay En and reclaim Yuan. Entangled Enyuan eventually leads to tangled Yinguo, and that’s just a big headache nobody wants because it directly impacts your afterlife, your next life, your descendants, and sometimes even your ancestors that are already dead. 
To strive your best to repay En is seen as a virtue. Of course, not everyone is capable or even wants to reach this ideal. Like when we say it’s good to be honest, but being truly and completely honest in daily life is… a task, shall we say. Sometimes, it’s very hard to truly repay what you owe. And sometimes, your Enyuan with a person or with a House is so entangled that it’s either hard to really say who owes who, or hard to admit to the fact that you are the one in the reds.  
You are seeing parallels between Xiao Xingchen and Wei Wuxian because they both embody this ideal to the extreme. Both would take it upon themselves to repay. Xiao Xingchen paid with his eyes. Wei Wuxian repaid Jiang Fengmian’s En by giving Jiang Cheng his jindan, helped Jiang Cheng rebuild Jiang Shi using Guidao (Path of the Dead), gave up all his war achievements for the rebuilding of Jiangshi and left Jiangshi without a penny to his name despite being a major contributor to victory, and then… repaid Wen Ning, Wen Qing’s En to Jiang Cheng and Jiangshi in Jiang Cheng’s place when the other didn’t.  
In some ways, you can say that both Xiao Xingchen and Wei Wuxian are flawed in that they underestimate their own value and well-being and overestimate what other people do for them. You can even say that they are foolish because they pay for En that isn’t theirs to pay, and that eventually leads to their suffering and death. But this is just the kind of people they are. They are true idealists who genuinely believe in a Truth greater than mortal squabbles. They are pure, uncorrupted Daoists, the kind that holds the founding precepts of Daoism in their heart.  
In the novel, there are many examples of different people and how they see Enyuan Yinguo and how much value they put in them. 
We have Su Se, who was saved by Wei Wuxian twice but didn’t even acknowledge it. Instead, he saw that as a Yuan because he probably hated the fact that it showed how weak and insignificant he was. Yet Jin Guangyao merely remembered his name and gave him some support to create his House, and he was willing to be Jin Guangyao’s attack dog, going so far as to abandon his own House members in Fuma Cave when Jin Guangyao’s plan failed and using his life to buy time for Jin Guangyao in Guanyin temple. 
We also have Jiang Cheng, who was well aware that he owed Wen Ning and Wen Qing, but didn’t want to acknowledge it because he was poisoned with trauma and hatred at the hands of Wen Chao and felt that because of his relationship with Wei Ying, he was entitled to Wen Ning’s En. And yet he is rational enough to understand that admitting to owing this ginormous En and not repaying it is a huge stigma on House Jiang, and so even when he answered Nie Mingjue, confirming that the Wen remnants did have En with him, he answered in such a way that downplayed the enormity of En. Answering truthfully would have exonerated Wei Wuxian and the Wen remnants because the laws regarding Enyuan are so foundational that no one could have blamed the Jiang for saving the Wen remnants. But answering truthfully would have been admitting to his owing the Wen, setting House Jiang against House Jin, and turning House Jiang into a target of ridicule for other Houses because such an En should have been paid long before Wei Wuxian had to take drastic measures and jailbroke the Wen remnants from Quiongqi Path.   
We also have Lan Xichen, who effectively compromised his entire House and compromised his own judgment because he saw Jin Guangyao as having granted him a huge En (which is not wrong, per se). 
And then we have Jin Guanyao, who killed both people who bestowed En on him (Wen Ruohan and Nie Mingjue both gave Jin Guangyao critical knowledge, opportunities, and elevated him above his station. And yet when it came to Lan Xichen, despite his effectively pushing the Lan to death in the second Burial Mound Siege, Jin Guangyao still acted like Lan Xichen was in the wrong for not paying Jin Guangyao’s En even more than he already had. 
Then finally, look at these Enyuan and consider the way it binds the various characters in both good and bad ways. 
So it’s a deeply embedded and very nuanced concept that manifests differently in different characters.  
3/ The Quest for Truth 道 Dao:
Dao/Tao 道: the truth, the path, the knowledge, the faith, the ideal, the natural order of the universe, that from which everything comes and that from which everything returns. 
What does Dao have to do with Xiao Xingchen? 
Well, because Xiao Xingchen is a Daoist. Remember when he reminded A-Quing to address him as Daozhang? That. 
He’s not the only Daoist in MDZS, either. The man who created Dao as a philosophy and spirituality, Laozi, is also the man who created the concept of cultivation in the first place. So every single cultivator in MDZS, indeed every single cultivator in xianxia genre, treads in Laozi’s footsteps, takes from his wisdom, and stands on his shoulders in their quest for heavens. 
The first sentence in Laozi’s definitive work on Dao, the Tao Te Ching, says: 
‘Dao that can be told is not Dao. Truth that can be named is not truth. Path that can be walked is not the right Path.’
The Tao Te Ching is a foundational Chinese Classic. It is the shortest but also the most complex and hard to understand. 
This first verse of the Tao Te Ching means: truth is not something that is fixed. Truth is nuanced. Knowledge is not something that can be given to you by words only. You must find this knowledge by yourself. Path is not something that anyone else can tell you. Your path must be walked by your own feet. Faith is not something that can given to you by someone else. You must find faith in yourself.  
So then, apply this sentence to Xiao Xingchen’s journey. Do you see it? Xiao Xingchen choosing Jishi is his journey to find and prove his Dao. Jishi is Xiao Xingchen’s Dao. 
Yi City is not a tragedy. Yi City is Xiao Xingchen’s tribulation and the unavoidable consequences of choosing to remain pure to the founding precepts of Dao while the rest of the cultivator Houses, including Nie and Lan, have long betrayed their origin. 
Even if, by some miracle, Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen never entangled with each other, there will always be a Xi City or a Zi City for Xiao Xingchen. Because it is a consequence and a price to pay to find the truth that he desires. And he did find that truth. Song Lan, who he had left in a decisive gesture of severing their Karmic Bond, returned and would likely spend decades if not centuries walking Xiao Xingchen’s path, waiting for the day Xiao Xingchen awoke. And A-Qing never left Xiao Xingchen, never gave up on him either. 
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Ugghh, such a heavy topic. I usually don't like to write too much on such topics because... it's hard to write and it's hard to read, and most people don't really have the patience to read. But it is a question. So I tried. In any case, have this fanart I commissioned from Nguyen Linh.
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sgdlr-asdfghjkl · 3 months
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Link Click Musical Masterlist 🔍🌟
#音乐剧时光代理人# <- 'Time Agents Musical' main tag, pictures tab - shows majority of stage pictures in chronological order, updates from official Encore Musicals show up here too.
Tips: 1) Visit the OP's profiles! They usually post more than the one photo you can see in a thumbnail. And it's easier to browse & save pics through the profile.
2) Even though you can scroll the pics tab indefinitely, without a weibo account you won't be able to easily access older posts, as they'll get buried under the user's newer posts (there's a roundabout way mentioned in my guide). So I recommend to visit this tag frequently, if you wanna be sure nothing is hidden away 🔍 Daily or once in a 2-3 days will be enough imo, it's not very crowded tag ^^
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3) ⬆You can also check videos in this tag, the orange tab has 10 most recent clips from the musical (other one has the most popular ones).
接着奏乐接着舞Musicals (Encore Musicals) <- official profile of a theatre that runs LC stage, they sometimes post photos/behind the scenes clips, whenever new actor debuts, there's a special guests or a cast member has a birthday. They also report when an actor goes on a health break. Tip: all LC actors can be found in the pinned post (you'd need OCR 'image-text' tool to copy their names from pics though)
Encore Musicals Bilibili account <- theatre's official profile on a major video-sharing platform (more bts clips)
动画师lan <- bonus link to studio LAN profile, that's where they post the mysterious animation frames~
兮兮兮辞_ <- profile of an executive producer of LC musical (she sometimes posts bts pics)
🌟Actors
their personal weibo profile & actor specific hashtag (the 'diamond tag', you find the most stuff here)
Lu Guang
Wang Minhui - @王敏辉Black 王敏辉
Wu Yihan - @音乐剧演员吴以瀚 音乐剧演员吴以瀚
Guo Hongxu - @郭虹��_GHX 郭虹旭
Du Guangyi - @杜光禕 杜光祎
Zhu Hanbin - @Keb_朱涵彬 朱涵彬
Fu Xiangan* -
Cheng Xiaoshi
Cai Qi - @超级蔡淇 超级蔡淇
Shu Rongbo - @舒荣波-Bobi 舒荣波
Ji Xiaokun - @原来是纪晓坤啊 纪晓坤
Teng Chunpeng - @滕春鹏tcp 滕春鹏 (cw: heel injury pic is the only post on his @profile ><, just visit the tag)
Ding Xingchen - @D丁星辰 丁星辰
Cao Muzhi - @曺牧之 曹牧之
Bai Zhuoming - @丿日亻卓钅名 白倬铭
Wang Yifei - @王逸飞_V 王逸飞
Jing Yanqiao - @井彦乔JING_ 井彦乔
*- actor hasn't debuted yet, couldn't find their tag, it will be updated
Qiao Ling
Cai Lu - @蔡璐_Katherine 蔡璐
Deng Xianling - @邓贤凌邓阿凌 邓贤凌
Wu Hanglu - @吴杭律 吴杭律
Feng Xinyao - @冯鑫垚smile 冯鑫垚
Xian Dongyue - @嘀嗒_强东玥 强东玥
Zuo Yiping - @左一平儿 左一平
Qian Anqi - @钱安琪麦麦 钱安琪
Lu Hongbin/Cheng Xiao
Zhang Jiahao - @张嘉豪music 演员张嘉豪
Li Zexi - @李泽熙Zenith 李泽熙
Xu Fangxing - @阿星-许放星 许放星
Zhi Bowen - @智小少总是不靠谱 智博闻
Zhou Bobo - @就叫我波波好了 周波波波波波
Zhang Zhiwei - @张智伟_
Song Yuanming - @教练 我zen勒想打球! 宋元明
Gaoer Jinbaoyin - @高尔金宝音 高尔金宝音
Lin Zhen/Cheng Xiao's mom
Hong Guo - @红果其实是洪果 音乐剧演员洪果
Liao Jingyuan - @廖婧媛LJY 廖婧媛
Guo Zhenyan - @郭珍艳Miki 郭珍艳
En Yu - @恩妤Ura
Shen Tian - @音乐剧演员沈恬 音乐剧演员沈恬
Yu Mengying - @于梦滢yummy 于梦滢
Zhu Jiayan - @朱佳艳Rio 朱佳艳
Zhang Ruishu - @_张睿姝_
Zou Ziyue - @-Zou醉是子月 邹子月
A few actors for supporting cast don't have a tag: bc 1) they haven't debuted yet and it was harder to find 2) seem to be newbie actors & have very small online presence
Tips: 1) Without a weibo account you can scroll through the actor's tag only up to abt 45 most recent posts. The actors perform in multiple plays (duh) so non-LC photos will show up too.
2) Imo the most optimal method, so the limits won't stop you is: go to the main 'LC musical' tag and see what's new. Try to recognise what was the cast lineup in most recent performance. If you've been paying attention to my posts, you'll recognise at least LG and CXS's actors ( •‿◡ ) QL too (sofa song and ending choreo videos usually show the other actors + LG introduces all actors after 'dive back in time', in the final bows).
3) Sometimes there are 2 performances on a same day, with different actors. So don't be surprised if you find mixed lineups under one date.
4) Mostly QL and Lin Zhen's actresses post behind the scenes photos on their personal profiles. Don't bother looking up the guys accounts, unless it's a holiday or their b-day >< From what I remember, only Wu Yihan posts abt his cat. Zhang Jiahao and Zhou Bobo post selfies sometimes.
5) Google translate, however broken, is enough to translate the captions, so use it for context✨Ppl sometimes give their reviews and list all cast members from the stage they've seen 🙏
6) You'll find more musical related clips under the actor's tag, than in 'LC musical' main tag. It's usually in an actor's fancam, but not always. Useful when you like an actor or there was a particular moment you want to see from a different angle🌟👌
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I'll try to add missing tags when the actors debut 💪 And if you find any mistakes or a broken links, please let me know 🙏 For those who read it all, here's a present ;>
光时 <- bonus Shiguang ship tag, they're just like us fr (but way more horny on main), there's lots of art, from cute fluff to nsfw djs >>
OKAY that's all I have🎉
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angry-roomba-army · 11 months
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LEGO MONKIE KID FANDOM I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOU
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JOURNEY TO THE WEST PDF
JOURNEY TO THE WEST PDF (ANTHONY C. YU TRANSLATION) VOLUME ONE
JOURNEY TO THE WEST PDF (ANTHONY C. YU TRANSLATION) VOLUME TWO
JOURNEY TO THE WEST PDF (ANTHONY C. YU TRANSLATION) VOLUME THREE
JOURNEY TO THE WEST PDF (ANTHONY C. YU TRANSLATION) VOLUME FOUR
EDIT: WU CHENG-EN IS THE AUTHOR NOT THE TRANSLATOR
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RED AND BLACK TOURNAMENT: ROUND ONE UNDERWAY
Polls will be released every hour throughout the day (10 am - 7 or 8 pm EST) for the next week
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Round one matchups under the cut!!
Bracket 1
Ruby Rose (RWBY) vs. Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)
Mello (Death Note) vs. Rhaenyra Targaryern (House of the Dragon)
Kuga Yuma (World Trigger) vs. Kiki (Kiki’s Delivery Service)
Clifford (Clifford the Big Red Dog) vs. Dracula (Castlevania)
Kai Satou (Your Turn to Die) vs. Ladybugs/Ladybirds (real life)
Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs. Kuro (Katamari)
Kate (Shadows House) vs. The Cat (Ghost Trick)
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel comics) vs. Red X (Teen Titans)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga/Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion Multiverse) vs. Naomi Armitage (Armitage the Third)
Alucard (Hellsing Ultimate) vs. Keith Kogane (Voltron: Legendary Defenders)
Lance (Sym Bionic Titan) vs. Panpeus (Gitaroo Man)
Six-Eared Macaque (Lego Monkie Kid) vs. Flick (Animal Crossing)
Watchdog (Jupiter-Men) vs. Crowley (Good Omens)
Eye of Sauron (Lord of the Rings) vs. Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter)
Razer (Jak X: Combat Racing) vs. Kieran Valentine (Monster High: Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love?)
Wei Wuxian (The Untamed/MDZS) vs. Giant Horse (Breath of the Wild)
Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Black Sonichu/Blake (CWC’s Sonichu)
Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon) vs. The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
Ada Wong (Resident Evil) vs. Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown)
Tophat (The Nightly Manor) vs. Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)
Parr Family/The Incredibles (The Incredibles) vs. Pioneer 9 (17776 and 20020)
Guilmon (Digimon) vs. Julian Devorak (The Arcana)
Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) vs. Sundancer (Worm - Parahumans)
HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Oddyssey) vs. Eas (Fresh Precure)
Harley Quinn (DC comics) vs. Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
Scorpia (She-ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Redcloak (Order of the Stick)
Scarlet Kingsnake (real life) vs. Hornet (Hollow Knight)
Maka Albarn (Soul Eater) vs. Toa Tahu (Bionicle)
Thorn (Scooby Doo and the Witch’s Ghost) vs. Litten (Pokémon)
Maned Wolf (real life) vs. Orko (He-Man)
Rebecca Rubin (American Girl Dolls) vs. Lucifer (Obey Me)
Death the Wolf/The Wolf/Lobo/Death etc. (Puss in Boots: the Last Wish) vs. Joker (Persona 5) Bracket 2
Miles Morales/Spiderman (Marvel comics) vs. Cynder (Spyro)
Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem franchise) vs. Sanguine (The Elder Scrolls)
Artegor Nexus (Galactik Football) vs. Beidou (Genshin Impact)
Barb (Trolls) vs. Mao Mao (Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart)
Wrathion, the Black Prince (World of Warcraft) vs. Vox Akuma (Nijisanji En)
Romeo (Minecraft: Story Mode) vs. Hua Cheng (Heaven Official’s Blessing/TGCF)
Sharkface (Red vs. Blue) vs. Ashley (WarioWare)
Carmen Sandiego (Carmen Sandiego) vs. Beatrice (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
Claire Stanfield/Felix Walken (Baccano!) vs. Deathgripper (How to Train your Dragon)
Default Mii Brawler (Super Smash Bros Ultimate) vs. Silver (Pokemon franchise)
Joui Jouki (Ordem Paranormal) vs. Banica Conchita (Evillious Chronicles)
Dreadking Rathalos (Monster Hunter Generations) vs. Black Widow Spider (real life)
Celestia Ludenberg (Danganronpa) vs. Gira/Kuwagata Ohger (Ohsama Sentai: King Ohger)
Garnet (Steven Universe) vs. Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Scott Summers/Cyclops (X-men) vs. Heather Chandler (Heathers)
Lon (Sendokai champions) vs. Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Darth Maul (Star Wars) vs. Defective Turret (Portal 2)
Easthies (Witch Hat Atelier) vs. Grim (Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)
Zagreus (Hades) vs. Freddy Kreuger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Black Rose Dragon (Yu-Gi-Oh!) vs. Marian Hawke (Dragon Age 2)
Michael Burnham (Stark Trek franchise) vs. Mapo Tofu (Food Fantasy)
Flapjack (The Owl House) vs. Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug (Miraculous Ladybug)
Red-winged Blackbird (real life) vs. Pucca (Pucca)
Overblot Riddle (Twisted Wonderland) vs. Quattro Bajeena (Mobile Suit Gundam franchise)
Pyramid Head (Silent Hill) vs. Lord Hater (Wander Over Yonder)
Sigmund Sinclair (The Reckoning) vs. Vash the Stampede (Trigun 98/Trigun Maximum)
Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½) vs. Valerie Gray (Danny Phantom)
Mephone 4s (Inanimate Insanity) vs. Regina (Doki Doki Precure)
Mordecai Heller (Lackadaisy) vs. Sideswipe (Transformers G1)
Satan (Lil Nas X’s Montero music video, and also Christianity or something) vs. Zealot Carmainerose (Epic 7)
Zero (Code Geass) vs. Yor Briar (Spy x Family)
Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy franchise) vs. Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill)
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The Worship of Red Son
Fans of Lego Monkie Kid, did you know that Red Son (Hong hai'er, 紅孩兒), this guy ...
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... is worshiped in Chinese folk religion? Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592) states that Guanyin (觀音) gives "Red Boy" the religious title "Child of Goodly Wealth" (Shancai tongzi, 善財童子) upon his initial capture and fake submission to Buddhism:
"Since you have received my commandments," said the Bodhisattva, "I won't treat you lightly. I'll call you the Child of Goodly Wealth. How's that?" The fiend nodded his head in agreement, for all he hoped for was that his life be spared. [1]
菩薩道:「你今既受我戒,我卻也不慢你,稱你做善財童子,如何?」 那妖點頭受持,只望饒命。
This is the Chinese name of an established Buddhist deity called "Sudhana". He is best known as a young cultivator from the Gaṇḍavyūha Sutra (c. 200 to 300 CE) who studies under 53 respective gods, goddesses, bodhisattvas, holy monks, and lay practitioners to achieve enlightenment. [2] He is commonly depicted as one of Guanyin's two disciples, the other being the Dragon Girl (Longnu, 龍女). For instance, here is a Malaysian religious statue of the trio in my personal collection:
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Here is a detail of the Child of Goodly Wealth (his right leg is not broken, just bent at the knee). Take note of the Monkey King-like curlicue band around his neck and the golden rings around his wrists and ankle(s).
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The bands/rings are very similar to those worn by Nezha in Monkie Kid (more on this below):
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Here is a stand alone statue of the Child in my collection. The curlicue-style neck band is not included:
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While the rings are likely connected to the kinds of adornments historically worn by South Asian religious practitioners, Journey to the West states that Red Boy/the Child's ornaments serve the same function as Monkey's golden headband. They are used to further submit the stubborn demon:
Dear Bodhisattva! She took the fillet and waved it at the wind once, crying, "Change!" It changed into five fillets, which she threw at the body of [Red Boy/the Child], crying, "Hit!" One fillet enveloped the boy's head, while the rest caught his two hands and two feet. "Stand aside, Wukong," said the Bodhisattva, "and let me recite for a while the Golden-Fillet Spell" (Wu & Yu, 2012, p. 251).
好菩薩,將箍兒迎風一幌,叫聲:「變!」即變作五個箍兒,望童子身上拋了去,喝聲:「著!」一個套在他頭頂上,兩個套在他左右手上,兩個套在他左右腳上。菩薩道:「悟空,走開些,等我念念金箍兒咒。」
I should note that this is not a case of later believers copying details from the novel. It's actually the reverse; Journey to the West simply gives a fanciful origin for the rings that have been associated with the deity for centuries. For instance, here is a Japanese statue from the 13th-century.
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This is where it gets interesting. Some modern practitioners worship the Child of Goodly Wealth in his Red Boy form, as evidenced by these circa 1970s drawings from a Singaporean idol maker's shop (photos by Keith Stevens/courtesy of Ronni Pinsler of the BOXS project). Notice how they are strikingly similar to Nezha:
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They are so similar, in fact, that modern statues of Nezha and Red Boy are easy to confuse. Here is a prime example. The figure on the left is Nezha in his "Lotus Prince" (Hualian taizi, 蓮花太子) form. [3] The leaves on his shoulders look just like those from the first Red Boy drawing above. The one in the middle is his "Wrapped Stomach" (Du wei, 肚圍) form, which shows Nezha wearing a baby's stomach apron. And the last is Red Boy. He wears the same apron and even stands on a fire wheel just like Nezha (refer back to the second Red Boy drawing).
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Update #1
This website notes how someone added a spear to their Child of Goodly Wealth to make Red Boy.
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Update #2
An informant states that more recent practitioners consider the Child of Goodly Wealth and Red Boy two different deities:
[H]ave to wonder just why wu cheng en decided to hybridise existing buddhist figure sudhana with red boy, these days many devotees subscribe to pov that shan cai and red boy are two seperate individuals with shan cai statues unarmed and red boy statues wielding weapons
They also directed me to this (likely custom) statue of Red Boy. I love the flames shooting from his mouth:
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Note:
Original source changed slightly.
His spiritual journey is summarized in Fontein, 1967, pp. 5-14.
After sacrificing his life, Nezha's physical body is replaced with a divine one constructed from a lotus. See Creation of the Gods (c. 1620).
Source:
Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vol. 2). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fontein J. (1967). The Pilgrimage of Sudhana: A Study of Gandavyuha Illustrations in China, Japan and Java. The Hague: Mouton & Co.
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mxtxfanatic · 7 months
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You know, the whole jc stans being shitty debacle is one of the reasons i hate the live action and the donghua so much. Because most of those rabid “jc is a tsundere and the best bro” people came to the fandom because of one or both of those adaptations.
The donghua is beautifully made, but it’s filled with yunmeng bros propaganda and a lot of JC bias (also the reason why a lot of people actually believe lotus pier burnt down and madam yu is such a badass)
And the live action is a trashcan on fire that somehow has even more of the same yunmeng bros, jc is actually tofu hearted bs.
I think the fandom was doing so much better before those adaptations came out and to be honest I really wish they would have left cql with the original wwx/wen qing romance so it would be much easier to distance mdzs from it
I have a thing where I read through ao3 fics from oldest to newest, which means I started with wangxian fics from when the fandom first started, and you are absolutely right. I didn’t pay attention to it when I first started reading (on account of the fact that I thought I’d never fall into the actual material or fandom lmao), but whenever I go back to the earliest stuff, there’s a marked difference in how Wei Wuxian is portrayed, how wangxian is talked about and interact, and Jiang Cheng never shows up, especially not uninvited or untagged. All the “gray morality,” “wwx has low self-esteem,” “best jiujiu tsundere jc” bullshit simply does not exist in the earliest fics, at least not en mass.
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Round 2 is Up Right Now!!
*round 2*
*Rules for propaganda/propaganda submissions*
*original bracket*
Pyromancy (fire):
Round Two
Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon) vs Caleb Widogast (Critical Role)
Fintan Pyren (KOTLC) vs Muhammad Avdol (JJBA)
Lup (Adventure Zone) vs Leo Valdez (Riordanverse)
Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
Axel (Kingdom Hearts) vs Zuko (Avatar)
The Pyro (TF2) vs Fireboy (Fireboy and Watergirl)
Taranee Cook (W.I.T.C.H.) vs Lavagirl (Sharkboy and Lavagirl)
Agnes Montague (Magnus Archives) vs Blaze the Cat (Sonic)
Electromancy (lightning, electricity):
Round Two
Urbosa (Legend of Zelda) vs Garnet (Steven Universe)
Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon) vs Jiang Cheng (MDZS)
Frankie Stein (Monster High) vs Cure Milky (Precure)
Enel (One Piece) vs Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS) vs Pikachu (Pokemon)
Static (DC) vs Storm (Marvel)
Audrey Redheart (Wandersong) vs Larxene (Kingdom Hearts)
Killua Zoldyck (HXH) vs Misaka Mikoto (Toaru)
Luxomancy (light, holy):
Round Two
Borsalino (One Piece) vs Glimmer (She-Ra)
Stella (Spiritfarer) vs Yuri (Kamen Rider Saber)
Shallan Davar (Stormlight Archives) vs The Signal (DC)
Luz Noceda (The Owl House) vs Rose Lalonde (Homestuck)
Ori (Ori) vs Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
Gabriel (ULTRAKILL) vs Apollo (Greek/Roman Mythology)
Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) vs Iridessa (Disney Fairies)
The Radiance (Hollow Knight) vs Amaterasu (Okami)
Aquamancy (water):
Round Two
Linh Hai Song (KOTLC) vs Cure Mermaid (Precure)
Sea Fairy Cookie (Cookie Run) vs Mermista (She-Ra)
Shin Mouri (Yoroiden Samurai) vs Watergirl (Fireboy and Watergirl)
Percy Jackson (Riordanverse) vs Irma Lair (W.I.T.C.H.)
Sailor Neptune (Sailor Moon) vs Nya (Ninjago)
Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe)
Hahli (Bionicle) vs Chaos (Sonic)
Katara (Avatar) vs Aquaman (DC)
Cryomancy (ice):
Round Two
Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach) vs Aokiji (One Piece)
Shiva (Final Fantasy) vs Mei (Overwatch)
Frozone (The Incredibles) vs Abbey Bominable (Monster High)
Ice King (Adventure Time) vs Cirno (Touhou)
Periwinkle (Disney Fairies) vs Zane (Ninjago)
Leif (Bug Fables) vs Juline Dizznee (KOTLC)
Iceman (Marvel) vs Gray Fullbuster (Fairy Tail)
Sapphire (Steven Universe) vs Frosta (She-Ra)
Umbramancy (darkness, shadows):
Round Two
Shikamaru Nara (Naruto) vs Pride (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Dr Facilier (Princess and the Frog) vs Dark Matter (Kirby)
Noob Saibot (Mortal Kombat) vs Tam Dai Song (KOTLC)
Nico di Angelo (Riordanverse) vs The Knight (Hollow Knight)
The Darkling (Grishaverse) vs Goro Akechi (Persona)
Manuela Dominguez (Magnus Archives) vs Megumi Fushiguro (JJK)
Midna (Legend of Zelda) vs Princess Luna (MLP)
Roxy Lalonde (Homestuck) vs Darcy (Winx)
Phytomancy (plants, vegetation):
Round Two
Briar Moss (Emelan) vs Keyleth (Critical Role)
Cure Flora (Precure) vs Isabela Madrigal (Encanto)
En (Dorohedoro) vs Bulbasaur (Pokemon)
Poison Ivy (DC) vs Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Layla Williams (Sky High) vs Shiozaki Ibara (MHA)
Fern the Human (Adventure Time) vs Rosetta (Disney Fairies)
Meg McCaffrey (Riordanverse) vs Venus McFlytrap (Monster High)
Flora (Winx) vs Alinua (Aurora)
Aeromancy (wind, air):
Round Two
Sampo Koski (Honkai) vs Hay Lin (W.I.T.C.H.)
Smogmella (Yokai Watch) vs Kushala Daora (Monster Hunter)
Rashid (Street Fighter) vs Shi Qingxuan (TGCF)
Aang (Avatar) vs Berdly (Deltarune)
Michael Crew (Magnus Archives) vs Zoya Nazyalensky (Grishaverse)
Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) vs Yosuke Hanamura (Persona)
Windsinger (Flight Rising) vs The Big Bad Wolf (Fairy Tales)
Tulin (Legend of Zelda) vs Sage Harpuia (Mega Man Zero)
Geomancy (earth):
Round Two
Rika (Pokemon) vs Earthshaker (Flight Rising)
Richter (Lilo and Stitch) vs Rochelle Goyle (Monster High)
Iggy (JJBA) vs Leona Kingscholar (TWST)
Toph Beifong (Avatar) vs Sander (Dislyte)
Pohatu (Bionicle) vs Gaara (Naruto)
Isaac (Golden Sun) vs Evvy (Emelan)
Alhazred (Wizard 101) vs Tumblemon (Digimon)
Sandman (ROTG) vs Dino-Rang (Skylanders)
Ferromancy (metals):
Round Two
Tachihara Michizou (Bungou) vs Kurapika Kurta (HXH)
Scrapdragon (Paranatural) vs Daja Kisubo (Emelan)
Zoe Blecher (Sleepless Domain) vs Peridot (Steven Universe)
Magneto (Marvel) vs Tinkaton (Pokemon)
Karl Heisenberg (Resident Evil) vs Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Golden Queen (Skylanders) vs Metal Shark Player (Mega Man X)
Ramsey Murdoch (Epithet Erased) vs Rex Salazar (Generator Rex)
Jesper Fahey (Grishaverse) vs Millions Knives (Trigun)
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yingtan · 1 year
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Yu Chengen 余承恩 By C Nan for ELLEMEN Fresh China, Nov. 2022
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movielosophy · 2 years
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Love Like The Galaxy~ These love-indulging scrolls are bad influences on the ladies.
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kdram-chjh · 1 year
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Cdrama: Hello There (2023)
Trailer: Jin Moxi x Meng En | Hello There | 公子贵姓 | iQIYI
Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3w6V-whte0
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fincalinde · 11 months
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qi rong! i kid, i kid. how about jc.
I will ignore your cruel taunting and focus on my viniferous darling.
a song that reminds me of them
I don't think I have a personal anthem for him, but En Fortapt Bror (A Prodigal Brother) by Rotvelt would probably go on the playlist if I made one, just for this bit alone:
Kan ikke ta det tilbake Kan ikke få du gjort Jeg vil ikke ha tilgivelse Det vil ikke vaske det bort
Can't take it back Can't get you done I don't want forgiveness It won't wash it away
what they smell like
If we're getting poetic, like lotus fragrance and ozone.
an otp
No one in the cast is right for JC but I do think he wants and deserves a suitable wife so I like the idea of reading something where he's in a relationship. His problem is that he needs just, so much therapy before he can make an effective life partner for anyone. He features in this postcanon AU I wrote and that's a reasonable depiction of how I think things could shake out for him after many years have passed if he's worked on himself. Basically, I know his extracanonical list of qualities he requires in a wife is meant to be humorous, but I tried to incorporate them into an OC while also making her a match for him.
I dabbled in reading Sangcheng because I am a slave to @starwife and like, in theory, many many many many many years postcanon who knows what might happen? And mightn't that be interesting? Sadly I have come to the conclusion that it's too much of a stretch and isn't my cup of tea. Pls forgive
a notp
I was racking my brain to think of a JC pairing I kneejerk hate beyond the general 'well, he isn't really compatible with any of the characters we meet' stance and then I realised I had forgotten Xicheng exists. Pause for audience laughter.
What can I even add here? It's based on nothing and it's not even like there's the intelligence of a thoughtful resistant read behind it. The laziest possible pair the spares approach taken by people whose reading comprehension is so poor they think JGY is an irredeemable cackling villain and WWX is a noble woobie. Thankfully it's easy for me to avoid and therefore ironically ends up irritating me less than bad Xiyao in practice.
favorite platonic/familial relationships
I love his relationship with his mother. She's just horrendous to him and I don't think he ever has any concrete evidence she loves him until their final moments together, but what I find most interesting and realistic is that he seems to understand her. He can see why she is who she is, which doesn't in any way mitigate the damage she does but is an important part of their dynamic because it's an element of why he defends her and it contributes to how he internalises her criticisms.
My favourite JC and YZY moment is this:
Jiang Cheng was stuck between his father and his mother. After a moment of hesitation, he moved to his mother’s side. Holding his shoulders, Madam Yu pushed him forward for Jiang FengMian to see, “Sect Leader Jiang, it seems that some things I have to say. Look carefully—this, is your own son, the future head of Lotus Pier. Even if you frown upon him just because I was the one who bore him, his surname is still Jiang! … I don’t believe for one second that you haven’t heard of how the outside people gossips, that Sect Leader Jiang has still not moved on from a certain Sanren though so many years have passed, regarding the son of his old friend as a son of his own; they’re speculating if Wei Ying is your…”
YZY emotionally, verbally and sometimes physically abuses her son. She is failing him as a mother and as a mentor. But she is not failing him as badly as JFM is failing him, and everything she says here is completely correct. And when JC and WWX talk about it afterwards, JC is also correct. WWX and LWJ kill the Xuanwu of Slaughter and no one cares or gives JC credit for his less glamorous contributions. His own father prefers WWX and doesn't even like him, and that is appalling.
WWX means well by trying to gloss over it, but it's an open secret and pretending it's not true is harmful. YZY is also going about it all wrong, but she's the only person who calls JFM out directly for failing his son. Pot, kettle, but there's a reason why when JC is stuck between his parents he ends up going over to his mother's side.
a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with
I'm going to go radical here and say I don't personally enjoy or want to read any postcanon Twin Heroes reconciliation. The novel is pretty final about how things end up for them, and it's my belief that they are both far better off not being in each other's lives any more. It's sad because they were close as brothers and love each other so deeply, but ultimately it's for the best. They both appear to be in agreement about this.
the position they sleep in
Probably looks all super cool and handsome when he sleeps, but unfortunately not quite as super cool and handsome as WWX.
a crossover au i’d love to see them in
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Can you imagine.
my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn
We all know I'm MDZS first in almost everything, but I'm not a huge fan of JC's hair in the official art. Besides, it cracks me up that JC is far and away the most stylish member of the cast in CQL, and yet there's no indication that it's actually an interest of his. CQL NHS wearing his same basic bitch grey and white yet again while CQL JC swaggers past in his shoulder pads owning the entire world—amazing. How could I pick a favourite? I do like his official photo look though, because the gold looks great with the purple.
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