Ancient Devil God concept art vs Luo Yunxi 's Devil God in Till The End of The Moon
The way Xixi elevated hateful evil to being deep and philosophical. He is the original, the ancient devil. The oldest god that has seen the misery and contains the suffering of the world. He is beyond all beings, the sense of oppression brings you down on your knees, and the beauty that will make you offer everything willingly.
PLEASE STEP ON ME BEFORE YOU KILL ME THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
And to top it all, Xixi's appearance as Chu Mo (including Jiumin's cosplay) is 9 minutes. He did all of that in such a short timeframe. We wanted to offer our souls after and they even scrambled to made him a bracelet because of high fan demand lol
“no matter what happens you can’t leave me either” 🤔🤔🤔 so does jian yi know something will happen to him bc of his family or is he accepting his role as the son of a mafia family?
Es que miren nada más a este muchacho todo guapetón✨✨✨
Puede tener esa cara de "te callas o te callo" y entonces levantarte en sus brazos y llevarte a la cama cuál princesa aaah un golpe directo al corazón 😩💘
Y la forma en que le lucen las clavículas con ese pijamita 💓💓 además, no sé si son ideas mías pero, como que Old Xian le dibujo el cuello más gruesecito y da la sensación de que el niño embarneció aaaah me encanta!!!!♥️♥️♥️
hello xixi!! 2 is fine hehe thank u for sending!!!
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✦ my first bias: yeonjun nd hueningkai
✦ my current bias(es): it remains the same i am still a yeonkai stan <3
✦ my album and/or era ranking (or favorite of each): oooh i think my era ranking would be blue hour > run away > cysm > lovesong > gbgb > crown > loser lover !!
✦ how i got into them: i saw bighit were gna debut a new bg so i learnt their names nd faces when the initial teasers released nd i adored crown so it just spiraled from there FKDSKL i remember being in an after school club meeting watching a hyuka fancam and starting to cry it was so funny FKDSLKDF
✦ which member would be my best friend: i wld say soobin i feel a sort of kinship with him therefore he is my bestie
✦ something i associate with them (or with a bias/any member): oh god a lot of things but the funniest one is that when the gbgb teasers were dropping i kept calling yeonjun ryuk bc his fit was giving ryuk from deathnote (it absolutely was and i cannot be convinced otherwise) and that will stay with me forever those fits were so uglyfkdslfdkls
p1h <3
✦ my first bias: theo!!
✦ my current bias(es): intak, theo, nd keeho!!
✦ my album and/or era ranking (or favorite of each): ooh i wld say my era ranking wld be back down > doom du doom > scared > do it like this > siren !!
✦ how i got into them: they came to do a free concert and i decided to get into them properly so i could feel justified getting tickets and then i also got into their free fansign FKDLSDKFL and it has only continued to spiral after seeing them
✦ which member would be my best friend: omg probably jiung!! emotional support fool also he complimented me and for that i am forever indebted to him KFLDSKL keeho a close second bc we grew up vaguely in the same area and i think we would either get along super well or hate each other KLFDSLK
✦ something i associate with them (or with a bias/any member): idk if this is an association. but like intak takes such bad selfies FLKDSKL like hes so pretty and he takes such bad selfies (affectionate. it is endearing that he sucks at it KFSDKL) so sometimes when i see him i will immediately think of that one article where netizens were discussing idols who cant take good photos of themselves but are very handsome i think he retroactively belongs on tht list fklsdkfd
xiao zhan - winning outstanding actor of the year @ weibo night
XZ: First of all, thank you to Weibo Night for awarding me this honor. I have had very good luck in 2023. I have appeared in three dramas in just a single breath, and now I would like to express my gratitude.
Thank you Tencent. Thank you, iQiyi. Thank you for letting the character I played be seen by everyone. I also want to thank Mr. Cao Huayi from Xinli Media. Thank you to Ms. Yang Xiaopei from Xixi Film Industry. Thank you for choosing me at the beginning of the story. I also want to thank the directors and creative teams of the three works, it is your hard work and dedication that has made our work loved by the audience.
Today is also a very honored day. Being able to work with senior actors like Dan ge and Mali jie, who are so outstanding. And then we will both receive this honor, and in the future, I will work harder to be on par with you.
Lastly, I would like to express my special thanks to the audience who have always supported me. Your recognition and support are the driving force for me to move forward. I also hope that in the future, I will put out better and better works and characters, have better meeting with everyone.
I absolutely ADORED S2E9 "Three Stories" of Link Click and was a bit surprised to see the discontent here on Tumblr, and I totally understand the reasons why people didn't like it, especially in the context of the pacing of the rest of S2 (which I also have some opinions on but I won't talk about that here), but I also felt the need to just get my heart out why I love it so much. A bit of background, I'm Chinese American but have lived in and visited China numerous times.
Music and theater. As a western classical musician and an amateur Chinese opera singer enthusiast (I saw someone else post about the possible inspo this episode got from Chinese opera), I VIBED with the artistic direction of this episode SO much. The three-part structure was almost like a sonata/symphony (and remember that one scene where Qian Jin was air-conducting in a previous episode!!) or scene changes in a Chinese opera. Nothing needs to be said about the animation style that hasn't been said already, but I like how scenes from the three individual "stories" were interwoven and reused like leitmotifs. Especially that crazy, tortured laughter. Idk if any of the parallels were intentional on the part of the director, but it's what I got from it due to my personal experiences. I know that's a highly subjective takeaway though, which brings me to my next point....
Qian Jin's "tragic" backstory. I know a lot of people were upset that the extent of Qian Jin's tragic backstory was "oh his wife cheated on him", but I think the "basicness" of his struggles was the whole point (by the way, this segment displayed various attitudes towards work, family, marriage, individual pride, and life in mainland China so subtly but so well!). I also don't think sympathy was the main thing we were supposed to feel for him, although of course there is some. The whole "tragicomedy" aspect of Qian Jin's story is that it's not some horrible, terrible, rare thing that happened to him, but a common problem faced by so many hardworking but busy married men trying to provide for their families: infidelity. But Qian Jin sees himself as the main character of an elaborate play that rivals the great dramatic classics (which, funnily enough, often depicted very DRAMATIZED versions of a rather basic series of events). And his viewpoint is validated when....
Qian Jin meets the twins. That segment is still largely from Qian Jin's perspective, because we still don't really know how LTC and LTX even feel about him. But for Qian Jin, it's a stroke of fate and fortune that could only possibly happen in theater. He's very far removed from reality at this point. Reality is that a cop whose job it is to investigate violent crime comes across two kids who are the victims of a violent crime. Again, nothing particularly special or even coincidential. It's comical like that.
The fairy tale section. Unlike the first two, I think this segment is from Xixi’s perspective, which not only justifies the cartoony artstyle but also makes it heartbreaking, due to her childlike innocence. Like Qian Jin, she also perceives her reality as something it’s not, but unlike him, she doesn’t have delusions of grandeur of being a tragic protagonist. It’s just a little fox trying to survive in a forest full of predators and hunters.
All that tortured laughter. I’ve actually noticed in a lot of Chinese media that they like to use laughter as a way of signifying a person’s complete mental breakdown due to the tragedies they’ve suffered. It’s a very internal thing that has people on the outside going, “WTF?” In this episode we have a lot of characters crazily laughing together at the same time and it seems like they’re relating to each other, but in reality they’re all trapped in their own nightmarish hells and motivated by selfish purposes.
Back to the topic of Qian Jin, even though he (innaccurately) may see himself as the hero of his own story, it's not enough for him. He wants to use Cheng Xiaoshi to change the past. He wants to become the director of the play.
I know a lot of people were disappointed this episode didn't advance the plot, especially in regard to Cheng Xioashi and Lu Guang's storylines, but I was actually prepared for a backstory episode and couldn't have been more satisfied. Again, I have other opinions on the rest of S2 but at least standalone, I think this episode was nearly perfect. And I really wasn't expecting this, but it's really elevated Qian Jin to one of my top characters.
I’m so in love with the way Xixi expresses his care for Jian Yi because it’s so subtle yet deep. I can’t tell if physical touch is his love language or if he’s deduced that it’s Jian Yi’s love language and acts accordingly. Maybe it’s something he noticed when they were young.
In the middle school timeline he’s rather quiet and stoic but when Jian Yi really needs comforting, he doesn’t hesitate and it’s almost always a soft touch.
And the recent chapter showcases that brilliantly, once again.
So although he isn’t as flamboyantly affectionate or effusive as Jian Yi or He Tian, he still loves and cares deeply. I’m hoping we’ll get a Zhanyi kiss here soon as well.
I have a feeling that if someone were to ask HT how did he manage to get Mo he’s going to say something like “it was love at first sight, we just couldn’t stay away from each other knowing that we belonged together, there was nothing that could get between us”
And JY would interrupt and say “pff Mo hated his guts, Im actually still surprised that HT managed to convince him to look his way and stay with us long enough so he could get a chance with him… fuck HT stop hitting me”
Meanwhile Xixi is just staring at Mo who’s debating who to hit first