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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.

#aah thats good #thank you for your insight op #link click

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

#hell yea #let srb shoot his shot #shu rongbo #du guangyi #link click musical #link click

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The secret wish is to write a fanfic that someone loves so much they make fan art of it, or to create a drawing that someone creates an entire fic based off of it.

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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lucy's lockwood

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« I was waiting for his hit. That he'll get angry as last time. That there'll shine this hatred in his eyes that will justify my guilt. Justify that I don't deserve any of that. I wanted this. I already felt the heat on my cheek and ringing in my head.

But the silence and emptiness in his glance, when he got up to just leave, hit so much stronger. »

confession

#fucccckkkkkk #it hurtsss #the confession indeed #link click

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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

#lets goo srb supremacy!! #in this house we love our soft grandpa dgy #and lg would let cxs win like this #best recreation #he simba-ed him #link click musical #link click

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link click musical list pt.6, (longer bcs i keep accidentally posting these early, gotta make up for the short pt.5)

also hi, this one took a while bcs i keep getting sad over not finding a Wang Yifei-Zhu Hanbin LG uppies clip :')

(pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.4, pt.5 here)

81. 24/03/2024 night, Zhu Hanbin wore his shirt inside out lol, there's a good chance it was like that the whole performance since LG actors don't change costume. Also, I love how Zi bowen shouted his name, it's cute.

82. Cai Lu's short vlog, includes Guo Hongxu and Ji Xiaokun karaoke, JXK being bad at basketball, and chilling in the dressing room.

83. 28/03/2024, Cao Muzhi getting manhandled by Cai Lu (I drew it hehe) and also giving the biggest laugh when he won first round of RPS against Zhu Hanbin plss.

84. 01/04/2024, Wu Hanglu bullying Bai Zhuoming, Du Guangyi being aggressive, and BZM being confused and overwhelmed in RPS. If you're asking why DGY shouted his line, it's bcs BZM and WHL were too busy bickering to beckon him to the couch like they're supposed to do. Also, they sing 'Dive Back in Time' together.

85. 29/03/2024, Wang Yifei, please stop bullying Wu Hanglu, don't squish her, look at her, she's tiny. See? Now she's bullying you back.

86. 05/04/2024 night, piglet is back!! Wu Yihan, Cai Qi. WHY ARE YOU BOTH SO MEAN TO THE PIGLET?? WYH does not let CQ play around with RPS (by not doing them at all)

87. 05/04/2024 night, bonus to the performance above. WYH does not hug in "Pursuing Light" for once.

88. 06/04/2024 day, New Cai Qi pair unlocked with Guo Hongxu. Awkward eye contact and GHX just assumes he won RPS when he didn't lol, don't you know CQ cheats? Also, Zuo Yiping looks so short between them, helpp.

89. 30/03/2024 night, Wu Yihan going *finger points* "whos singing the sofa song?", and Qian Dongyue's birthday!

90. 13/04/2024 day, I think, Wang Yifei scared Guo Hongxu with that overly enthusiatic jump hug.

91. 13/04/2024 night, Jing Yanqiao 21st birthday!! Let's go! There's actually a full video of your encore now.

Also, #90 and #91, both GHX and JYQ caught off guard by WYF and ZHB's mic cupping habit during 'Dive Back in Time'

92. 06/04/2024 night, I can't find a clip showing Wu Yihan drinking vinegar, but I can show you Cao Muzhi being cute as he walks across the table. And saying 'be careful' in 'Dive Back in Time' bcs something happened with WYH offscreen, i think he hit a camera.

93. 06/04/2024 night, nevermind! Shimmer to the rescue! Here is Wu Yihan drinking vinegar! (he Du Guangyi-ed himself (#19 and #31))

94. 14/04/2024 day, Guo Hongxu has successfully been influenced to cup their mics. Also, I'm now declaring that Guo Hongxu and Wang Yifei is the perfect disgruntled cat-oversized puppy duo, just look at their hug.

95. 14/04/2024 day, another POV of the performance above so you can see Wang Yifei nod approvingly once GHX uses his method.

96. 14/04/2024 night, just a shortclip of Wang Minhui putting Cai Qi in a headlock.

97. Event clip, mostly just explaining the basketball event itself but I wanna show you all Du Guangyi being bad at basketball in the last 10 seconds.

(speaking of event, the theatre is gonna count which actor scores the most during basketball scene/"Faith of Friendship". me and the musical brainrot gang over in the lc 18+ server are doing bets on which actor is scores the most by the end of the month)

98. 19/04/2024, poor Deng Xianling just wanna tie her shoes, stop bothering her lol.

99. 19/04/2024, same performance as above. English boy Teng Chunpeng is very excited abt basketball.

100. 20/04/2024 night, have Jing Yanqiao, shamefully losing 2-8 to Zhu Hanbin

101. 21/04/2024 day, Bai Zhuoming won the match, he teases Wang Minhui about it the whole encore to the point he messed up the entirety of RPS song lol. (Also, they got 15-12, they were conspiring together)

102. 22/04/2024, Shu Rongbo getting startled by Cai Lu's leg and Du Guangyi adding to the leg jenga is very precious, I wanna draw that. SRB also won basketball 36-0 bcs DGY is a softie granpa, I guess we knows who wins this month.

(and no, as much as i favored him, i did not bet on srb :') )

(also, did i wait for the 22nd so i can get at least 1 srb video this post? yes.)

*Please give a big round of applause to @shimmeringweeds for all xhs clips. I could not navigate that site at all.

Bonus time! Made a list (here!) of Zhu Hanbin and Jing Yanqiao performances the other day, thus that's the bonus clips you're getting for this part. Please check them out, they're really cool.

But I guess I might as well add this funny video of Cai Qi and Cao Muzhi performing 'Mia Famiglia' from Apollonia musical. It's gold, just for the fact that CQ acts as if he's in a drama while CMZ acts as if he's in a comedy.

#oh my god #ive reached 100 clips #i should make a post highlighting mh favs #or something #zhu hanbin #zhi bowen #cai lu #guo hongxu #ji xiaokun #cao muzhi #wu hanglu #bai zhuoming #du guangyi #wang yifei #wu yihan #cai qi #zuo yiping #qian dongyue #jing yanqiao #wang minhui #deng xianling #shu rongbo #link click musical #link click #lc musical list

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Be reborn chinese drama episode 25

whump scene ,, rescuing Wan jie from the sunken car and performing CPR on him

#be reborn

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God, the relationship between Captain Luo and Wenjie is just *chef’s kiss*.  I love me a good father-son dynamic

#very trueee #flawed father and son dynamic #they are #i love them #i need more of them

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Be Reborn ~ No matter what you’ve been through, the best way to get rid of dark past is through hard work, so you can stand in the light.

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im here to spread the word, more people needs to watch be reborn, thanks.

i love zhuang wenjie, i need him to be whumped to the ground over and over again.

#hi im only on ep6 rn #but i watch all that in a day #so yknow #watch me finish this 26ep series soon #and write fics filled to the brim #just whumping zhuang wenjie #be reborn #my thoughts

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This Bender quote fits Reigen insanely well lmao

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He's in-cat-pacitated! 😹

A follow-up to my last piece for the final, free day of Shiguang Fluff Week!! 🤭❤️

intothefrisson Twitter/Insta

#ahjabsks #the cutest #nyanguang and sleeping on cxs lap #tru cat behaviour #i love it #link click

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i miss the bad guys. like they really took the only good thing about zootopia (furries) and made it infinitely better by Not being copaganda

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A Strip of Regret

Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi sees a photo booth on the way home from his very first date with Lu Guang. It's normal to want a cute photo of a day like this isn't it? So how did it go so embarrassingly wrong?

For Shiguang Fluff Week 2024 Day 7: Free Day!

Posted later than I usually do bcs I got sick and forgot lmao.

Aah, this has been fun. I have never done something like this before and I'm happy with what I managed to do. The prompts are great, and this fandom really need the fluff.

(That said, Shiguang angst week on September?)

#shiguangfluffweek2024 #shiguang #honestly this fic? #crackfic #my fic #link click