This is mostly a spot for me to scream about c-dramas, especially Guardian and MDZS/CQL/Untamed. I also engage in unabashed randomness. She/her pronouns. Flamingwell on AO3
The way Zhu YiLong goes from acting as YeZun pretending to be Shen Wei but going way *wink wink nudge nudge* with such dialogue as “where is my little Yunlan? 😊” and the “do you like my new outfit uwu I wore just for you uwu.” The smirking, the sweet smiling laced with malice, & the tongue (thrice the damn tongue)..
But that isn’t all because you can tell he is then White Robe Envoy pretending to be Black Robe Envoy when he burns the treaty. He is wearing a mask - his face his mostly concealed. A genius.
look, I want a Meng Shi Lives AU for many reasons, but at least partially because I think if NMJ met her it would... not necessarily solve things, but I just feel like he'd struggle to hate JGY with the same veracity once he sees firsthand how much he loves his mum. and if NMJ showed Meng Shi even the tiniest ounce of respect and or basic kindness, or if Meng Shi happens to think he's a Very Nice Young Man, then...... JGY can't very well kill someone his mum likes, can he???
LXC is just happy there soaking up all them wholesome mum vibes ✌
This is in regard to the Guanyin Temple scene with Lan Xichen, of course. Coupled with zzj’s interviews about his interpretation of “die with me” (he said he wanted to experience a last moment of warmth before he died, plain and simple) this sheds a very important light on JGY’s feelings and intentions towards LXC in the temple…..
Go here to see the whole video of his rehearsal and witness zhu zanjin’s absolutely heart wrenching EVERYTHING - gaze, tears, intensity, delivering the guanyin temple lines in his own voice, etc. it’s transcendent, truly.
(Btw source: this is from the newly released DVD Limited Ed of the Untamed Concert Nanjin & Bangkok 2019)
"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)
Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".
Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH