#I think its zhou

[scopeiguess]

Ferrari are gonna need another tittle sponsor if they sign newey

#ferrari #ferrari hp #f1 #formula 1 #no cuz like #they got hamilton #and newey #now #an allat #yknow #honestly #i hate the ferrari hp #but who asked me #charles leclerc #lewis hamilton #also nico to sauber? #lets go #get that bag #king #you deserve it #nico hulkenberg #fred vasseur #forza ferrari #whos leaving sauber #I think its zhou #thats sad #adrian newey #to ferrari #miami gp 2024

[sollucets]

hook hottie ✨🪝

#word of honor #zhou zishu #blood cw #injury cw #gore cw #(out of an abundance of caution) #rowan gifs #this is half a vaguepost. you see #its actually completely fine to post things for shallow reasons. so we are posting impaled zhou zishu on main #i did warn everyone that 'episode 30 zhou zishu is the hottest he ever is' is an opinion i hold. after all #i think it is the combination of complete and utter disdain & oozing blood & messy bun that does it for me #ghost post (scheduled)

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

《山河令》 WORD OF HONOR (2021) | Episode 20

Dear, the kiss that steals your breath Will steal your soul instead When night is all that's left So wait, keep your heart inside My hand won't keep it safe I'll just feed on dreams and smile as hope slowly dies –The Rigs, Run Baby Run

#my gif #okay so the way wkx doesnt think these times can ever return #not just that things change and will naturally turn into memory #but also that he feels like he won‘t ever get another chance at being as happy as he was then #simply because hes Changed now #and he knows Bad Things Happen (to him) (because of him) #it reminds me of the nails reveal scene (‚i found u bad its too late.‘) #only much worse because so much more of wkx himself is revealed #so the stakes are higher #and he and zzs are so much closer #he inevitably needs to reveal what happened to zhen yan #but how can he? when hes convinced zzs will turn his back #if he ever finds out The Other Side of him (master of ghosts) #hes like working with a deadline #hnnng #wen kexing #zhou zishu #zzs #wkx #gifset #word of honor #wenzhou #山河令 #shl #shan he ling #also this is dedicated to Spare Me by staringatstars #which im currently rereading again and its having me Feel Things #about wkx & his yearning to sacrifice himself if the odds are against him #also: hii!!!!!! my first gifset!!!!! i know its not perfect but thats fine (tears of labour streaming down my face as i smile bravely) #priestnet

[damixnpriest]

NO. 24

#zhou guanyu #listen...... i hate it #i think its the worst thing ive ever made but i must power through #because after like six months of having 0 drive or creativity i woke up this morning like i must make this #and it does not look like i wanted it to #but i still did it #also...... he is so Lovely and i must honour that #edit**

[hiemaldesirae]

one of the major problems i find with online discourse about antagonistic characters and storylines sourcing from novels is that some people cant see past what is said to what is meant- and that other people can, but in their perception of the implied lore, make overdue assumptions of plot and character.

for example: in svsss, it is heavily implied that qiu jianluo s/a'ed the original shen qingqiu, thus shaping his outlook on society in general: females are safe, males are not. this leads to point against him in the form of his favouritism for ning yingying, the only (afaik) female qing jing disciple and his habit of finding comfort in brothels. this is misconstrued by the original protagonist in the novel pidw, leading to a false misconception held by our protagonist, shen yuan, that shen qingqiu is a lecherous paedophile.

as the reader, there are a number of context clues given to tell us how that is not the case-- mostly found in the extras-- and are meant to challenge the worldview, make us realize that like shen yuan, we as the audience only know as much as the author will tell us. did shen jiu hate luo binghe specifically because his name reminded him of qiu jianluo? was he jealous of the potential luo binghe had? or was he merely looking for a target to take his anger out on?

it is not mentioned, therefore we do not know, and should not make assumptions on the canon behaviour of this character towards someone else.

however, this is often not understood by the overall fandom: either they completely look past the context clues that tell us, this character is more than they seem and instead jump straight to demonization without first considering context and setting, or they overcompensate for someone by making excuses to justify behaviour we do not have explanations for.

this is the reason why we have people who constantly demean and bully others in fandom: they cannot read or think for themselves past what is clearly shown to them and refuse to challenge the idea that the author may be deliberately feeding unreliable information to make a more interesting story, and it doesnt help that there are people attempting to justify behaviour that is specifically written to be bad.

#last bit was a bit salty but i really am tired of seeing discourse on my fav little guys #some texts follow different standards than you think #i cant count the amt of times that zhou ying threatened to beat xi ping for insolence for tai sui but the moment any of that happens in sv #its all oh poor innocent bingy... he didnt deserve all that #like yeah. he didnt. but thats how it was at the time. sorry that pidw was written with modern values and thus sj is villainized #for being an ancient chinese teacher doing what he did #but thats... not his fault?? #ugh. fandom morals make my head fucking hurt #thats why i dislike svsss fandom. every time i go into sj tag my head starts throbbing and i have to hold myself back #ran rambles #svsss #but also generally #fandom #fandom discourse #original shen qingqiu #shen jiu

[mercisnm]

Susan Hart (Ripper Street) x 三姐 (一代宗师)

Honestly if you can tell the why behind this "ship" I will hand you at least one cookie

#the squirrels in my brain must have downed a bottle of amphetamine today #yeah i know ripper street was set in an earlier time period but that's the least of questions you are probably asking yourself right now #also its a kong kar wai film that surprisingly i don't think i like but it's still very stylistically interesting to watch #what matters is zhou xiao fei and her darndest look okay #anyhow you can blame braz for infecting my brain with the jozefa/darian ship and you can blame my brain for the rest #sometimes i draw things

[lunarbunnievt]

Winston proceeds to not send these two out on a mission together ever again

#Marge voice: i just think theyre neat #Junkrat #Mei overwatch #ovw #jamison fawkes #mei ling zhou #meihem #THIS WAS JUST A DOODLE IM SORRY ITS SLOPPY 🤧 #mei is just as bad as Junkrat on the field i dunno what ur talking about

[diomedesbrokeit]

The pinnacle of motorsport once again relying on duct tape

#zhou guanyu #to be clear I don’t think f1 is THE absolute pinnacle of motorsport #but it’s still lauded for its engineering #I don’t think I said that correctly #f1 #formula 1 #jeddah gp 2024

[cinammonelles]

Sketchbook is full so here's a little ts sketch dump :>

Bonus Xi Ping I literally don't remember drawing

#do y'all ever think about how that scene in ch 207 is the closest we get to seeing shiyong cry #yeah. #anyway um. i kinda forgor how hands worked for the 7th one so pretend shiyong is clasping bai ling's hand with both of his own👍 #tai sui #tai sui art #wei chengxiang #zhao qindan #bai ling #xi ping #zhou ying #qiu sha #the third one was my old bai ling design btw #zhou ying stole his hairstyle while i wasn't looking :( #i started this sketchbook like a month before i started ts and after the first 10 or so pages its pretty much 90% tai sui lmao #i hope i have the strength to lineart the remaining sketches someday so i can post them #tai sui spoilers #my art #🍀 #太岁 #pipi novels

[zhuhongs]

just found out the lead singer of taiwans biggest death metal band is also an active parliament member since like 2015.... and is still active as a death metal singer. he's a pretty standard taiwanese center left anti communist from what i could gather. which like as a leftist i dont really agree with but i also dont know enough abt taiwanese politics to like make a full judgement. though he seems to be a standard liberal nothing remarkable, radical, or new, not overtly horrible but just bland. but that was something i definitely did Not expect. apparently he's very pro indigenous rights and self determination for indigenous people but being in a centre left mega party like the DPP does not seem like the best way to achieve that. But yea, just thought I'd share

#chthinic collabed heavily with collage last year and ik natsuki (lead singer of collage) is very pro indigenous rights and posts abt it a #lot of instagram and i really appreciate the amount of political stuff on her platform. its all very progressive tho v much limited to tw #so idk. i kind of got the cibe of some groups that see taiwanese indigenous issues as seperate to the larger issue of colonialism and #indigenous rights all over the world to conflicts such as palestine. where some other groups have a lot more of the collective consciousnes #and idk. my view is limited and i didnt see that much but when i go back i def wanna look for more political groups in tw and learn about #the political landscape there for leftism. theres a lot of potential in tw imo #chthonic* natsuko** #edit: overall i think that like.. i get the spirit but i feel like for many taiwanese the identity of tw has been everyone united agaisnt #china which i can understand from the perspective of the indigenous ppl that had their land colonized by the japanese then had to share with #the fleeing kmt settlers. but like i dont think that its the best approach to say only china bad rather than big governments threatening to #take your land by force is bad. because idk my take on china and tw is that regardless of the historical claim or wtv. taiwans indigenous #people have been there long before the han ever stepped foot. and china isnt all good as seen in its treatment of the uyghers and tibetans #but is overall not nearly as bad as the west paints it to be. china is neither fully a communist paradise. and has many capitalist undertone #s influence the government ever since deng xiaoping came to power. personally i never fully agreed with mao. i think mao was a necessary #figure in the beginning and let power go to his head and i believe zhou enlai always shouldve been the founder of the PRC #fuck the kmt.. never liked the kmt and it seems as they are also slowly losing favor in tw also. and like... hmm #i need to do more reading tho. none of this is like 100% set in stone how i feel bc theres a lot i dont know

[astranauticus]

a handful of chinese songs that give me big robit energy

translating cpop songs is like my second favourite hobby so it's frankly surprising I haven't made this post sooner

Him - Floruitshow (马 - 福禄寿)

I've talked about this song on here before but this is the 3.7 song for me

the second chorus is definitely MR-SN but i like to think of the first chorus (Let me take a good look at your visage as we count down the time till the curtains’ close. Forgive me for holding back my voice so soon, do you know, in your graceful escape, all I see around me is disaster?) as VR-LA during the flashback sequence

specifically 'all I see around me is disaster' because yeah not wrong

'This time I’m not here to bring you home' just kills me like the please please take care of yourself because I can't be there with you anymore of it all

'Oh spring, oh warm sun, please come sooner, grant him a smooth and safe journey' same point, just the desperate plea for the universe to protect VR-LA because he can't do it himself anymore

How can I make you stay - Floruitshow (我用什么把你留住 - 福禄寿)

(conveniently I have actually done a full translation of this song!)

definitely one of the Maxim songs of all time

"You’ve believed that you can let your life pass in numbness, but [...] why do your tears fall in the moment of letting go?' YEAH because we've seen so many times how Maxim keeps trying to convince himself that he can stop just caring but it never works

'You say don’t fall in love, yet you’re unwilling to let go' same point, this man is in such denial about how he just can't stop caring

specifically the second verse feels a lot like Maxim waiting for VR-LA to return from Tu'narath

'You stay silent, holding onto starlight as you wait through your darkest hour. Your mind is struck, when familiar murmurs pierce your ears once more' aaaAAAAHH

the bridge (?) as a conversation between VR-LA and Maxim, VR-LA inviting Maxim to see the beauty and wonders of the world ('Do you want to see the sea of flowers blooming?', very 4.5 wedding invite honestly) but Maxim's trauma just would not allow him to take that risk ('If none of them come back, then who should I live for?')

fun fact the second version of the bridge in my translation ('You must stay to see the flowers bloom' onwards) is exclusive to that live performance of the song so it's not in the spotify version i linked here. as for which version you think fits Maxim more.. well.

Borrow - Mao Buyi (借 - 毛不易)

finally banging out a translation for this song was kinda the inspiration for me to make this post actually

the tldr of this song is that it's an unnamed/unidentified speaker asking to borrow various small things for the sake of somebody else (like 'an inch of frozen sunlight' to provide warmth in a cold world) so you can probably see where i'm going with this

'A simple ‘we have plenty of time’ etched into the soul to prepare for the chance of forced separation' ouch ow okay

'Those blown apart by these winds will say that they never loved deeply' / 'There is a sincerity that cannot be blown apart by this wind' DX-TR betraying the old crew vs VR-LA fighting through so much just to get them back

'There are tears that cannot be washed away by this rain' this line just haunts me. like in general

'An acre of land for him to call home, an ordinary life for him to live' as MR-SN watching over the old crew like I can't be there for you but I hope you will find peace and a home...

#rolling with difficulty #rwd starship #rwd professionals #my feel good hobby! as opposed to art: my feel bad hobby /j #im actually learning to play how can i make you stay on the guitar right now its a lot of fun but ow my fingers #ive also found a score for him but its super outside my skill level so we'll see how that goes #bmadd11 my beloathed #/also/ working on a little something based on that song but that wont... come into play for at least the next few weeks so #its an absolute monster of a project and school has started so i dont have high hopes for getting it done soon #i dont think i got to mention this on the actual post for borrow but ive literally been spinning that song in my brain since like 2020 #genuinely. i've been thinking about how to translate that song for upwards of 3 years #grammar is just weird sometimes #i was gonna include let's go wandering by bibi zhou but i couldve SWORN i wrote a translation for that song before i just cant FIND it #spent 30 minutes hunting for the doc in my drive thats 30 minutes of my life wasted #but 'lets go wandering with a smile because we carry our home in our hearts' just fucks severely #also considered including forget your sorrows when the flowers bloom by zhou shen #bc im not gonna make a cpop post and *not* try and subject more poeple to zhou shen #but like that songs vibe is too... cottagecore to really make a good point there im just obsessed with one specific line #'If my memories are stolen and I forget all my love; I'll say to you “Hello!” #post amnesia vrla to the old crew??? the 'i dont know you. id love to get to know you again' of it all???? #did this instead of my programming homework :|

[simayeeet]

they do civil war, china

#i watched the barbie movie and i have gone through a spiritual journey #dynasty warriors #idk what is this exactly but i was thinking about the ken fits #sima yi #guo jia #zhuge liang #zhou yu #no reason i just wanted to put some dudes in silly outfits #guo jia is the most kenergy character #sima yi and zhou yu have the ken beef with zhuge liang #what even is guo jia's hair color its not blond exactly but i end up making it look like he's got mustard hair #maybe it is mustard #mustard ken looking butt

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

deeply enjoy that the novel can also be read as a commentary on the fallacy of information. we have zzs as the main narrator who adds to this nuance by being a former spymaster and leader of a bunch of proficient investigators. hes very intimate with the process of verification of information, and even his vast databank of knowledge and his abilities of filtering and sorting the "true" from the "fake" is tested throughout the novel through many instances and events. its especially interesting because he makes a major mistake, almost from the very start, that he resolves only after a very long time, and only after overcoming personal weaknesses. his personal weakness at recognizing truth vs decept reveals itself in the inability to meet personal events with a human perspective; he is basically functioning like a person with two lives, and most of the time, he at least acts as if he is regarding wkx, suspected master of ghosts, from the professional business grounds of the retired leader of shadows rather than from the perspective of a person with an adventurous life and wishes of his own. in this lies the danger to misinterpret and to refuse to confront what is truly going on. if zzs cant 'find' the "true reason" for the ghost master following his humble retired self, he is going to do his utmost to make up one (on the basis of his personal and professional experience with such situations), instead of considering at least once the admittedly unlikely chance that wkx might like him and is even deeply sincere about him. this doesnt signal anything less but that we, as the reader, should not irrevocably trust even the one person who is in most stories the most trustworthy; the main narrator. instead, we are advised to reserve us the right to doubt and think for ourself, to look critically upon even zzs, which only circles back to the novel's theme of the fallacy of information. it even lends to the novel's dialogue with the human right to form your own opinion and your own thoughts and come to your own conclusions, no matter how much they might diverge from norm or mainstream or traditions, and no matter how tempting it might be not to.

#tian ya ke #just thoughts im having while im continuing my reread #zhou zishu from tyk #zhou zishu #this has me wondering if zzs's struggle with himself regarding trusting in wkx's display of sincerity #can also be read as his general struggle with being a person with a life of his own and private opinions in service of no other than himsel #one of the things he learns is that is okay to have desires and its okay to Be a person #oftentimes that reveals itself in the novel's question of morality as a concept and the conditions for receiving love and care #'are villains and ppl whove done bad stuff deserving of love and care? do they need to earn it?' #but i think it also comes true here where zzs essentially needs to find a way to be human again #going from having lived a life with a truly atrocious work/life balance to a life that is fully and entirely his own #(i always think that zzs taking the nails has a lot to do with reclaiming ownership) #(and also with 'detoolifying' himself; hes turning himself into a cripple he is 'useless'. this gives him the justification #he needs to live according to his own personal whims and desires.) #updating my tags to find my insane chat with geneticcatalyst again-> #bouncing thoughts back and forth #the mutual tag #geneticcatalyst

[iamnotmereally]

so funny to me how they got so much closer. ik it was for filming purposes and continuity errors but i like to think one of them just scooted over to lie next to the other

#word of honor #wen zhou finally touch grass #i love this scene sm lol #also weird thing. my posts dont show up on woh tag if i tag it as wenzho- yknow like what? #also. the reason i do think its continuity error is because when wkx gets up they are back in the og position (i think)

[fanghuas]

oh but Han Ying secretly painting portraits of his Zhou Zishu 😍😭🥺

(I think either @rainsfalling or @jingbaeyuans or both had some excellent thoughts on HY + drawing. So I'm pinging you both in case this is relevant to your interests 😅)

Han Ying is mortified when this is found out, years later in Siji manor, both because he did it in secret and because his skill was nowhere near sufficient to capture ZZS' beauty, omg zhuangzhu don't look 🙈

Zhou "don't perceive me" Zishu is secretly both flustered and touched.

And now, of course, HY is allowed to draw him openly to his heart's content. He's gotten quite good, but he still insists that nothing short of perfection is good enough for ZZS.

#asks #anon #hanzhou #every day I am so fucked up bc THEY #I think zzs is especially 🥺🥺🥺 bc like...if he was going to guess #he'd assume the portraits would be of him as zhou-shouling #and there's a fair bit of that #but it's also him smiling. relaxed. with his hair down #hy didn't get to see him like that often and he was absolutely enamored #zzs I think hadn't quite processed that hy saw this side of him at all back then #bc the worse things got the more he switched entirely to zhou-shouling #its giving him some big feelings that his ying'er saw him even then

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

repost of my old drawing that i fixed up a tiny bit!! zzs's forehead was bothering me a lot, not sure i've totally fixed it, but it does look a bit better i think!!!

#birb still draws #birb reposts art from the old blog #wenzhou #wen kexing #zhou zishu #woh #shl #word of honor #shanhe ling #山河令 #woh fanart #shl fanart #lol i never know what to tag these anymore #dey gon kith #needs a bit more work she does but i think its better than before!! #is this still an art blog? #survey says #YE