#ahhhhh i love tgcf

[kaurwreck]

OMG you also like TGCF???? I didn't know that!! Who are your favorites? What are your thoughts on my loves Hualian? Have you read any of MXTX's other books? Kisses!!

oh I love love love tgcf, loving tgcf literally changed the trajectory of my career. I love tgcf so much I co-wrote a series comprising almost 100k words of post-canon continuation. I love tgcf so much I have four tgcf-related tattoos.

hualian is love and light and healing. san lang is my smarmy baby boy, and xie lian is my sage king ferret rat prince. i wrote a fic about the degree to which they are baby boy/ferret rat prince here.

(unsolicited tidbits below)

Xie Lian woke slowly, leisurely, in the loving arms of his husband. His heart stirred with affection. His heart stirred with mischievous intent.

...

“Good,” Hua Cheng nodded, his shape rippling as he returned to the more mature form that he’d forged in the kiln of Mt. Tong’lu. “Then come to bed; you’re too far away and I want to be coddled. Didn’t you say you’d coddle me? I want it now. We can talk about my rewards too.”

my absolute favorite is he xuan, though, which is why my tattoo of him is my entire inner bicep. i tried to write a fraction of my affection for him into a post-canon character study in which hua cheng tattoos him (badly).

but I'm particularly fond of and will eventually finish my post canon wip in which he teaches mu qing sex ed (badly):

The Supreme Ghost King, Lord Black Water Sinks Ships, hissed at Mu Qing like a particularly curmudgeonly catfish.

...

"What do you know about matters of the flesh?" Mu Qing asked when He Xuan looked away to guzzle the complimentary tea the server placed before him. He Xuan proceeded to choke, but Mu Qing merely rolled his eyes. It was He Xuan's fault for drinking the tea as if he'd never been forced to behave in public. Then again, Mu Qing thought back to what little he remembered of Ming Yi and considered that perhaps he hadn't ever been taught how to behave after all. Mu Qing took a delicate sip of his tea and pitied Ming Yi and his terrible table manners.

...

The reality of what Mu Qing had done set in. He'd invited a god-slaughtering, divinity-snatching calamity to a meal solely to pry from him the secrets of the bedroom that Mu Qing had assumed others were graced with while he was dutifully cultivating on Taicang Mountain. His horror was matched only by his frustrated libido.

...

"And," Black Water Sinking Ships said at the crest of a great sigh, "I'm not teaching you how to have sex." "I should have known better than to ask you," Mu Qing huffed, adaptable as ever. "How could I expect someone like you to know anything of clouds and rain?" "Do you think I spent centuries in the Heavenly Realm yet can't recognize negging?" He Xuan retorted.

(if you haven't noticed, I only write post canon tgcf. except for when I wrote my 1943 san francisco diaspora tgcf noir murder mystery dinner party)

other tgcf beloveds: ling wen, yushi huang, pei ming, shi wudu, and jun wu.

and then yes! I have also read svsss and mdzs. I have also written fic for those two but not in any way that's reasonable enough to snippet.

kisses kisses, ty for such a lovely ask, it makes me so warm to think about tgcf!!!

#tgcf #hualian #he xuan #mu qing #heaven official's blessing #ahhhhh i love tgcf

[accio-victuuri]

xie lian is taken away by san lang from the heavenly capital 🦋

#NO PLEASE STAHP KILL ME NAO THIS IS TOO MUCH! AHHHHH I LOVE THEM!!!!! #the butterflies omg im cryingggggggggg 😭😭😭😭 #they invented love #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing

[yeonslayjun]

HELLO?!!?!??!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I AM NOT OKAY!!!!! AN UNDERWATER KISS?!?!?!?

AHH AHHHHHHHHHHHH HHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HUALIAN FIRST KISS I REPEAT HUALIAN FIRST KISS THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE AHHHHHHHHHHH

#AN UNDERWATWER KISS?!?!?!? #AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #I am fine #I am calm #I AM NOT FINE #HUA CHENG KISSED XIE LIAN AHHHHH #heaven officials blessing #hua cheng #hualian #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #mxtx tgcf #xie lian #hualian invented love

[officialladynoirette]

Xie Lian, the darling of heaven

#xie lian #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heavens official blessing #mxtx #lololol #I’m rereading the books in their physical copy instead of online #and just #I forgot how much I LOVE them #his teacher: ‘your future looks black’. Xie Lian: ‘you must’ve seen wrong. I only like to wear white’ #THis BEAUTIFUL MAN #I just love him so much #as a young prince he is just full of hopes and dreams and AHHHHH

[crowning-art]

I posted 727 times in 2022

That's 469 more posts than 2021!

29 posts created (4%)

698 posts reblogged (96%)

I tagged 109 of my posts in 2022

#gdt - 42 posts

#tgcf journey - 19 posts

#tgcf spoilers - 19 posts

#xie lian - 17 posts

#tian guan ci fu - 17 posts

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#heaven’s official blessings - 14 posts

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#hua cheng - 14 posts

#shi qingxuan - 8 posts

Longest Tag: 134 characters

#i woke up early to finish this cuz i knew i would be busy so it’s safe to say i love u more than u can imagine if i sacrifice my sleep

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Harbinger lore:

Pantalone is "entirely based on currency and ego, for he has the highest regard for his intelligence, but at every step he becomes the butt for every conceivable kind of trick or joke" in the Commedia dell'arte

So I headcannon him as a capitalist who sees workers as livestock but recognizes that cows produce the best/most milk when they are comfortable, and that the Pants jokes are a Neverending scar in his personal life

Thank you for giving me a chance to bully Pantalone as I anxiously await bullying him in-game

See the full post

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#4

In which the beefleaf arc broke me to pieces and the only way to cope was to draw it out T-T

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#3

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#2

What are you thinking?

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My #1 post of 2022

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #Ahhhhh nearly missed posting this #But lol love the way it reflects my year #genshin taking over completely #and of course #tgcf coming back so hard #lol tgcf will still be my top tag cuz i have so many things to draw for it #and theres gonna be a new edition to my fandom list next year! hehehe #looking at you orv and twisted wonderland of course lol #i wrote a lot last time in tags lol #but ya #interesting to see how this year went

[foxyjoy-art]

Thoughts on tgcf season 2 ep 1, especially an animator sneaking in some SVSSS crumbs for the people?

Ahhhhh!!! I missed the donghua so much 😭 I loved it so far. ep one felt very long but very short at the same time. The SV crumbs were GREAT

I'm so ready for the dice shaking scene and then hopefully we also get to see E'ming soon

[fallloverfic]

TGCF donghua season 2, episode 4 thoughts

Overall a really fun episode :3 Spoilers below (also book spoilers for folks coming solely from the donghua)

Another five seconds of Yin Yu (via reference) and my boi Quan Yizhen getting a shout out, love them. Quanyin fans thirsty but we push on in the desert.

Hua Cheng and Xie Lian playing the gambling game together is so cute T-T Hua Cheng holding Xie Lian's shoulderrrrr

This was so cute T-T He comfort his gege T-T

And then this shotttt ahhhhh (Hua Cheng's hand is so much larger alkdjladaj bless, Xie Lian needs the big hands to cradle him)

(Hua Cheng trying to keep his cool SO HARD. Hua Cheng @ Hua Cheng: BE COOL, BE COOL, WE GOT TWO TOUCHES TODAY BE COOL -screaming-)

This was everything. Hua Cheng: everything for you gege (in or out of bed)

T-T I cry over them. I'm totally normal about them T-T

(Also considering in this episode that the official English subs are still ass and there's a point where they don't even bother subbing an ENTIRE Xie Lian line, that we get stuff as good as the above is a miracle).

I know it was there before, but it was interesting to see how much taller Shi Qingxuan's male form is than Xie Lian. It was really cute. Their friendship is so adorable! When Xie Lian helps Shi Qingxuan up off the floor T-T When Shi Qingxuan was like "you're not the one making trouble for me/you're not a burden/you're not the problem" because Xie Lian is so used to thinking of himself as being the one to drag others (Feng Xin, Mu Qing, everyone he cares about) down, I just T-T Their friendship ends me. Also Shi Qingxuan clasping Xie Lian's hands to toss the dice to encourage him I am T-T I cry over them T-T So much T-T

Shi Qingxuan carrying Ming Yi ends me alkdjalj BEEFLEAF FANS FEASTING TODAY!!! Beat up Ming Yi -eye sparkle- that head snuggle. Shi Qingxuan's >:3 face.

Ahh this is gonna hurt bad later.

Overall a wonderful episode with some nice art :3

...Excepting one particular part of the episode that was a whole on what the fuck in a bad way, and this person and this person did a better job dealing with that than I could.

Other episode thoughts for season 2 (didn't start till episode 3):

S02E03

S02E04 (you are here)

S02E05

S02E06

S02E07

S02E08

S02E09

S02E10

S02E11

S02E12

#TGCF #Heaven Official's Blessing #Heaven Official's Blessing spoilers #Xie Lian #Hua Cheng #Shi Qingxuan #Ming Yi #He Xuan #Yin Yu #Quan Yizhen #good ep #Hualian #Beefleaf #the tumblr post maker is ass btw #fallfthoughts

[bonesblubs]

Hi! I just wanted to say that I love your art and have been coming back to look at it pretty regularly since I first started following you! I'm re-reading tgcf (I got to read the whole thing before it went to print, now I'm buying all the books and reading as I go) and that always sends me down the fxmq rabbit hole. So. I've been looking at your art like every day. Thank you for sharing your amazing art and for all the fxmq, esp. mq, it makes my day!!!!

Ahhhhh my pleasure!!! I hope your reread has been fun,,, I miss reading them (there’s been a gap in the books coming out and I’m going through withdrawal), but it was actually well timed cause I’ve really had to focus on work if I want to pay the bills haha

But very soon we’ll get our next one!! I can’t waitttt

#ask box #not art

[sophia-sol]

Recs round-up for the month of March, 2024! This month below the cut we have:

1 Nirvana in Fire fanwork

2 TGCF fanworks

3 CQL/MDZS fanworks

5 SVSSS fanworks

1 academic article on the gendering of trans voices

2 short stories

1 novella

1 Nirvana in Fire fanwork:

Go Forward Slowly, by burnt_oranges

a post-canon jingyan/mei changsu nif fic in which jingyan discovers that mcs survived after all…and never let jingyan know.

jingyan is uh. not handling it well, the loneliness and responsibility of being emperor. and this only makes it worse!

anyway it's a venue for lots of real good angst, and I definitely cried at one point!

I also really appreciate the use it makes of various secondary characters who are also important figures in jingyan's life

many feels. I love these characters. there IS a happy ending.

31k words in length

2 TGCF fanworks:

Never Look Away, by dkwilliams

hualian fanvid of the TGCF donghua set to Vienna Teng's "Never Look Away"

ahhhhh it's just very feelings!!!!

audio is song-only

youtube video includes lyric captions

3:16 in length

Ten Feet Behind, by thetrickisnotminding

tgcf quanyin canon divergence au where quan yizhen finds the coffin containing the guoshi fangxin

a fun look at a different way for xie lian and hua cheng to meet again, and for quan yizhen and yin yu to meet again!

9k words in length

3 CQL/MDZS fanworks:

in the tall weeds, by cordial

sangyao fic set during the qinghe era of jgy’s life

a look at trans man meng yao and his experience of his gender, and nie huaisang experimenting with transfemininity

a beautiful look at the complexities of identity, the precarity of position, and the connection between jgy and nhs

1k words in length

A Good Fit, by nirejseki

canon divergence fic where young Meng Yao goes to the Lan Sect to learn cultivation as a guest, instead of trying to be accepted into Jin

I had a lot of fun with the route this fix-it took!

and I enjoyed that it included friendship between Meng Yao and Su She <3

5k words in length

Practical Mythology, by metisket

a fun cute look at a cql wangxian time travel fixit au, where wwx is the alarming immortal who fixed the burial mounds and will grant wishes to deserving people, and lwj meets him for the first time at 8 years old and decides he'll marry him

I enjoyed the look at how this au has changed things for all sorts of different people across the cultivation world, and the ways in which wwx both is indeed extremely powerful and also is someone who still has his blind spots and emotional vulnerabilities

lots of different povs throughout the fic which is fun too!

17k words in length

5 SVSSS fanworks:

Oversharing is Caring, by Prudabaga

bingqiu fic where during the trial in jinlan city, sqq is given a truth serum that comes with a side of lowered inhibitions

nobody is prepared for the kinds of truths sqq wants to share (thoughtful and detailed list of who's hottest)

or, tbh, for the truths that come out by the wayside

funny and cute

4k words in length

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, Prudabaga

another bingqiu fic about the jinlan city encounter going differently, this time because lbh has visited sqq's dreams

and sqq has a Totally Very Straight Of Himself tendency to have sexy dreams about lbh

hard for lbh to believe that sqq wants nothing to do with him after that! (he's still very confused tho)

love this for them

26k words in length

right from the start, I gave you my heart, by nex_et_nox

sqq is hit by an obedience curse! uh oh, it's time for the mission to jinlan city!

fun sqq & sqh interaction, and sqq's first meeting with lbh post-abyss going very differently than in svsss

sqq absolutely out here making his own life harder on a regular basis

lots of fun with this trope!

11k words in length

cleanse your life of me, by ambrorussa

svsss au where sy transmigrates into yqy instead of sqq

the fic is in two parts: first, from sy!yqy's pov as he tries to change events within the parameters the system allows him, and then the second from og!sqq's pov follows where the first part left off, with sqq trying to deal with the fact that yqy is so different now from the one he remembers.

the two parts are different in tone and both excellent, both really fitting the kind of character and person the pov character is, and what it is they want the most. I loved it!

endgame ships: liushen & qijiu

11k words in length

Scenario: Fix-It Fic, by lettered

bingqiu fic where due to System shenanigans sqq travels back in time to when he first encountered lbh in jinlan city post-abyss

sqq does his best to make things go differently this time, within the parameters of the genre "h/c fic" which the system tells him he is now in

I'm just! so delighted by so much about this fic!

and I love how the fic plays metatextually with its own fourth wall in ways I haven't really seen much in svsss fic before!

fic is a WIP; as of my initial rec on mastodon there are 14k words; satisfying to read as is

1 academic article:

"Transgender voices: Insights on identity, embodiment, and the gender of the voice" (2018, Language and Linguistics Compass)

this free-to-read academic article is an overview of the features of a voice that lead people to read that voice as a particular gender

it pushes back against the traditional view of male vs female voices, of pitch being the main deciding factor in gendering voices, and of a voice's gender being immutable

it's a pretty accessible read, IMO!

16 pages in length; 12 pages if you discount the list of references

2 short stories:

The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics, by Adam-Troy Castro

really more of a prose poem than a standard short story

about the experience of being a robot given unfair orders under unbreakable laws

a satisfying read and I loved the structure

2k words in length

Afflictions of the New Age, by Katherine Ewell

A sci-fi short story about an elderly woman hundreds of years old, making use of every life extending treatment she can, but her grasp on time and on memory is no longer good

Focuses on her relationship with her family, with her home aide, with her fear of death, with her experience of the confusion of past and present

Evocative melancholy wistful tone, really effective!

At the end of the story I'm left with many questions, but in a good way

4k words in length

1 novella:

On the English Approach to the Study of History, by E. Saxey

huh, in the end I'm not entirely convinced I LIKE this novella but it's odd and compelling and interesting for sure

about the academic study of history in a context where a very specific subset of people have access to a very specific subset of historical figures to ask them directly about what they remember

asking questions about who's an insider vs an outsider in academic study, about the values of different approaches to history

ultimately I think it turned too much into a story about the fantastical elements in the narrative and didn't engage as deeply with the themes as I thought it would at the beginning

but it's still a very interesting and well done story and I'm glad I read it!

22k words in length

#sophpost #recs #rec #fic rec #monthly recs

[abigail-nicole]

tgcf liveread 11

being part 11 of live-readthrough of TGCF Tian Guan Ci Fu Heaven Official's Blessing, officially licensed in english translation here, buy it. the twitter thread I kept returning to because keeping memories of the first time you read something you love is important! You never get the chance to read a book for the first time except once. this is a tautology but also like, savor it, which I did with this livetweet. originally tweeted 4/2/2020:

bring down the tax brackets of the whole Neighborhood he xuan. Lolol

I love Ruoye so much

I have very little to say a lot the action scenes here except it’s so lovely to see hualian supporting each other in battle

Ahhhhh I had feelings about qi rong is he finally gone?????? No?????????!!!!!

Im so invested but so sleepy anyway TOMORROW with Chapter 229 Adroit Dice. I also love reading things in translation because when’s the last time you read the word adroit? Translating is fascinating for word choice & authorial intent. Anyway hualian forever gnite

But in general, in tgcf: xie lian is like *shocked emoji* and hua cheng is like *smirk emoji*

A) hua cheng dragging all the martial gods followed Immediately by B) shi qingxuan dragging pei ming specifically

Boyfriend & Uncle united in dislike of blockhead friend

this IS ominous, especially since it’s the first time in 878990000000 words that hua cheng ever rolled poorly, and a very clever way to signal to the audience that Shit’s About To Get Real

The phrase: “Mu Qing was certainly behaving oddly”

my brains: RED ALERT: PROB JUN WU INDISGUISE DO NOT TRUST!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is another great signifier that Shit’s About To Go Down, & emotionally, because all our associations of E’ming (& therefore Hua Cheng) being upset are emotional not physical danger. because there is so little that could physically endanger Hua Cheng

also everytime xie lian pets e’ming im subconsciously screaming BUT EVERYONES WATCHING ARE YOU REALLY GONNA TIUCH HIS DICK RIGHT HERE LOLOL “strokes the hilt” mxtx did this on purpose

Feng Xin being like “ugh stop being so in love ugh gross”

wait....the 33 heavenly officials who mocked xie lian in book 4... SAME 33 HUA CHENG DEFEATED??? He takes carrying petty grudges to a new level i LOVE it

Hua Cheng shattering a sword with one hand: sexy

Everyone blaming mu qing immediately: hilarious

Xie Lian deciding not to solve all his problems with self harm & suicide: that’s GROWTH

also lol @ feng xin here

Using dead bodies as surfboards on a river of lava: creative, structually unsound, implausible, & also a hilarious visual

Hua Cheng and unconditionally supporting his partner I’m melting into the floor

An endless broken bridge over a river of lava is both metaphorically & literally doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Lolol @ xie lian roasting mu qing TWICE here

This is an interesting bit of insight. Most of this is very Shown Not Told in the text and this is the first time Xie Lian has acknowledged these things aloud to us. the Xian Le trio relationship taking on all cadences and nuances over a thousand years, every friend/enemy/annoyance/worship/dislike permutation

oh no n I’m having Feelings about Mu Qing!!

feeeeeelings !!!!!! also the phrase “bones dissolving into air” v cool

Ruoye, who before had been able to stretch exactly as long as needed.... still stretches exactly as long as needed to CREATE DRAMATIC TENSION Lololol

I really thought there’d be more sex in this book. Like........any sex

Inner sailor scouts here 600% mu qing & feng xin as mars & venus

soft <3<3<3 melting

HEART IN THROAT

HUA CHENG MISSING???? IN DANGER???? INJURED????

Xie Lian holding his breath so he won’t have to hear how close he is to crying oh my god my tiny heart cant take it

Mu Qing & Feng Xin commenting offhand about how much xie lian loves hua cheng makes me explode into silver butterflies

ANIME FIGHT ANIME FIGHT WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ANIME FIGHT!!!

Hua Cheng, the only one who could’ve been a god & chose to be a ghost king. What a hipster. Heaven is too mainstream, too country club for Our Goth King

Literally they got the final boss down to 50% health and it changed forms & restored its HP

well OKAY FINE EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO PICK MY HEART OUT OF THE SHREDDER

"The one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matter is 'you', and not the state of you. No matter what's happened in the past, I will never leave you. You can tell me anything." .... "You told me this yourself."

A LOT OF WORK DONE BY THESE TWO SENTENCES HERE!!!!

IVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED FOR A CHAPTER TITLE

my BABY my CHILD my FAVORITE WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUOYE!!!!!!!!!

This is the best anime series finale I’ve ever seen

BIG tw cw for abusive dad jun wu

.......continued next time on tgcf liveread part 12

#tgcf #tgcf liveread #The one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matter is 'you' and not the state of you.

[shijiujun]

Favourite Xie Lian smiles so far | From light to dark <3

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #天官赐福 #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #tgcf spoilers #ep 1 #AHHHHH I LOVE IT WHEN HE SMILES

[silverstark]

Is there anything better than re-reading a thing you love?

#personalpost #ahhhhh #I've been craving a re-read of everything. MDZS TGCF SVSSS and 2ha. #but I didn't feel like I had time #today I re-read a bit of SVSSS and i love them i love BingQiu I love SQQ #I kind of want to re-read MDZS but I'm scared of what will happen to me if I do.

[ifeelfreewithoutmyshoes]

I feel like as an aro person I should be exempt from feelings about eternal love and devotion….

#I saw an animatic of hua cheng and xie lan #I don’t want this #ughhhh #I can’t get over for how fucking long hc has loved xl #holy shit #ahhhhh #I wanna reread the novel now #bc they’re so soft #but it’s long as heck so not gonna happen #but still ahhh #me #aro #tgcf

[crowning-art]

TGCF SPOILERS FINALE!

Me and 10 cuties who have been keeping up with my crazy TGCF journey after i finally finished it 2 years later lmaoo

*Note that clown in the center is me and everyone knows why after seeing my wonderful, beautiful, RIDICULOUS AND OUTLANDISH theories throughout the read lmaoo

Without further ado...the finale!!

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Goushi really swooped in during the LAST TWO SECONDS of this huge novel and really just stole everyone's heart, huh? I love this dude

In the last second, a hand caught Feng Xin’s boot, and Feng Xin caught Mu Qing’s boot. When he looked up, he cried, “WHAT THE FUCK!!! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!! GUOSHI OLD SIR, PLEASE DON’T EVER LET GO, ALRIGHT!!!”

YOOO FENG XIN ACCEPTED HIS CHILD OH MY GODDD DJJDJDJDJF T-T THE CHARACTER GROWTH

THE WAY THE TABLES HAVE TURNED AHHHHH its now Xie Lian who has Jun Wu pinned and nailed down to the ground with a sword djdjdjjdjjd low key, Xie Lian really needed to do that....yknow....therapeutically lol

I love this so much cuz ya, at the end of the day, it's tiring, it's exhausting keeping up a facade and forcing yourself to be someone who u know really isn't you and I feel Jun Wu despite all he's done was very heavily a product of his situation.

“I just genuinely really miss Your Highness,” Guoshi said. “I miss the once-Kingdom of Wuyong,

I miss our people, and I miss the days before we ascended. That’s all.”

“…”

Guoshi then added, “It’s been so many years, Your Highness. Just watching you makes me tired. Very tired. How about you? Are you not exhausted?”

And yes, I get that there was still a bit of inherit evil within him which got amplified thanks to the wuyong problems but like at the end of the day, he's just a sad little meow meow

AND THEN

AND THEN

“…Have I been defeated?” Jun Wu sounded a little lost.

After a moment of silence, Xie Lian took off the bamboo hat carried on his back, took it in his hand, and covered it over Jun Wu’s face.

DJDIFNIFJFJFJFJ DO I EVEN HAVE TO SAY IT AGAIN??? HJDHDHFHFHF U KNOW WHAT IM GONNA SAY AND UGH ITS ALWAYS BACK TO THE ✨️THEMES OF KINDNESS AND LOVE✨️ BRB gonna cry some more AGAIN

Ahh I remember pointing this out a while back but Hua Cheng was always the ONLY one who really helped ground Xie Lian when he was lost and confused. Like the split emotions he kept feeling of not knowing whether to laugh or cry, all gone even when he's told the craziest news yet, aka Wu Ming identity

All of a sudden, thousands of emotions, millions of words swarmed into his head. There was gratefulness, there was shame, there was heartache, there was wild joy, but above all else, there was incurable love.

Lol u guys don't even get it, there were so many parts that were my fave here and I was trying my best to not post the whole chapter here cuz i loved EVERY part, the way Xie Lian leaped into Hua Chengs arm at the end, the cute Xianle trio bickering, just everything T-T

WTF U MEAN LIL BREAK I DO NOT NEED THIS RN PLZ DONT OH MY GODOHMYGODOHMYGOS HUA CHENG DONT U DARE DIE OH MYGOD

All of this:

Hua Cheng’s long and slender fingers gently combed through Xie Lian’s mussed hair. “Then, Your Highness, do you know why I refuse to leave this world?”

Xie Lian couldn’t understand why Hua Cheng could still be so calm at a time like this, as he was panicking so hard he was trembling. But, while feeling lost, he still simple-mindedly asked,

“Why?”

Hua Cheng replied quietly, “Because I have a beloved who is still in this world.”

Hua Cheng said quietly, “Your Highness, I understand your everything.

“Your courage, your despair; your kindness, your pain; your resentment, your hate; your intelligence, your foolishness.

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. But, I know you wouldn’t allow it.”

They really did invent love, I can't think of anything else to say to this 😭

HIS EXPRESSION MY HEART CRACKED INTO A MILLION PIECES AT THIS WHOLE SCENE BUT ESPECIALLY AT THIS LINE

Hua Cheng’s gaze was gentle and blazing, that remaining eye filled with love, and it gazed at him silently.

He's gonna be back for sure. The red string and the ashes are still there....but it's still soooo saaad

LMAOOO the heavenly officials became homeless fr I'm dying lmaoooo

ROUYE IS BACK YESSSS!!! AND UGHH XIANLE TRIO!! IM SO HAPPY THEY R TOGETHER AGAIN!! I MISSED THIER SHENANIGENS SO MUCH

Xie Lian rummaged around his sleeve and fumbled out a white silk band that was torn in half, and said joyously, “Yeah, finally, the material to fix Ruoye is found! I’ll go patch it up right now!”

However, Feng Xin stopped him. “Patch it up? You?! Forget it, what can you patch? Ask someone else to help you.” Then he turned his head and shouted, “MU QING! COME GET TO WORK!”

Pei Su and Banyue were really an underrated duo this whole book, especially with the way they guarded Ke Mo and the other ghosts lol

Pei Su and Banyue were sitting at the entrance, both of their expressions blank.

Feng Xin divorce arc lmaooo Finally it came to an end...and in a really nice and mature way. I really appreciated the way MXTX wrote Jian Lan's whole character, like she also grew as a person and is def underappreciated

However, Jian Lan withdrew her smile. “What you’ve said are all things of the past. What was love once doesn’t mean it’ll last. I’m not interested in being a charity case and a nuisance.”

And Xuan Ji! Everyone really grew up huh? (*sobbing incontrollably*)

Still don't like Pei Ming smh overgrown man child fr U go Yushi Huang for showing him whose boss!!

GUZIIII MY HEART NOOOOO I really respect LQQ for doing this

so I could only…gather a bit of the soul particles of the Green Ghost and keep them in a lamp. Now he shows up in front of me every day hugging that lamp, asking when the soul within the lamp will grow bigger! I really…”

And Guzi! Fret not! Qi Rong will be back cuz his ashes aren't destroyed!!

THE PEARLS ARE BASICALLY A GIFT FROM THE INLAWS THAT HUA CHENG HAS NOW DJJDJDJDJDJDJFJDJD

A moment later, Xie Lian nodded slowly. “It’s mine. It’s a pair of pearls my father and mother gave me when I was young.”

Lol Ling Wen's punishment thooo and the subtle hint that Ling Wen may have acc cared for the dude despite everything kinda warms my heart

Ling Wen gave a small laugh. “Your Highness, don’t say it like I would do anything for him. After all, I’m cold-blooded and recognize no loved ones, so why would I do anything like that?”

“Is that right?”

“Let it be.

I love love love the way the passage of time was described here God I don't know how to explain it but I love it

People came like the tide, then left like the tide. Mount Taicang regained its deserted lonesomeness.

Atop Mount Taicang, there used to be an enormous field of maple trees. They were all burnt down by that massive fire, but reborn after a thousand years. They were no longer the same ones Xie Lian leapt through to train once upon a time, but the landscape was the same.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASAASASSMXKXKXJXNCJXNX AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

With three thousand Blessings Lanterns rising along with the night behind him, that man turned back and gazed at him. Robes redder than maple, skin as white as snow; between the brows of a face so handsome it couldn’t be stared at, there was still that wildness and a feral aura, a proudness that couldn’t be cut down.

There were no words. Both started walking towards the other.

A step, another step, each step faster than the next, then finally, they started running.

He ran forward whilst tears fell and stayed behind him. Xie Lian voiced this in his heart: he believed.

He believed that this man would die for him again and again, and would be reborn for him over and over. Even if he fell into the depths of hell, he would break through the abyss for his “belief”.

Last time, they spent eight hundred years running towards each other.

This time, it only took an instant to fall into each other’s embrace.

DID I CRY HERE? U BET YOUR FUNKY LIL BEAN I DID And u don't get get AGUHH it took 1000 pages for them to get to where they were AND ONLY ONE PAGE TO MEET AGAIN THE ABSOLUTE POETIC METAPHOR HAS ME LOSING MY MIND u have to read through 244 chaps to see them trying to get to each other and when they finally do..it takes less than a page for them to reunite again I AM CRYING RN

The grand final banquet in Puqi shrine, with windmaster and the fellow beggars, he xuan secretly eating with them, fengqing arguing and bantering (flirting basically -_-), heaven's eye, hualian, the heavenly officials dropping by, just everyone finally living a happy life

What a story! Like what a story! Unbelievable!

This is how it started and this is how it ended

However, if people worship the divine statues of this one god and one ghost together, then there will be a miracle

Cuz their whole story is a miracle but that's the point! U can't give up! Xie Lian's story IS inspirational despite being fictional! Believing in your principles and doing the right thing, showing kindness no matter the circumstance, and growing from adversities, honestly I had so much to say but I read the post script and lmao MXTX said EVERYTHING I wanted to say!

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I'm always the kind to finish books within a day or two but I really didn't want this one to end (hence two years to read it) but God the whole experience was so incredible and tbh, I started documenting my thoughts for myself just so I can reread them later and laugh lmao but then a bunch of you guys kept up with it and it genuinely became such an exciting thing to look forward to after reading as well!!

Special shout out to @silvia-moon and @maause who were there from the beginning!! I loved every comment of yours and had a blast reading them every time 🥰

Ahhhh IM GETTING SO EMOTIONAL LIKE THIS LONG WINDING JOURNEY HAS FINALLY COME TO AN END 😭 (borderline tearing up while writing this post) but alas! Every banquet must come to an end (haha see what I did there? Hahaha....😭😭😭)

And of course there are the extras! But those shall be read some other day! In the meantime, I'm so so excited to get to drawing all my fave scenes!! I can't wait to get to that!

Until then,

Farewell 😊

#tian guan ci fu #tgcf #heaven’s official blessings #hua cheng #heaven's official blessings spoilers #tgcf spoilers #tgcf journey #xie lian #hualian #ch 240-end #Acc tho #what a journey #i cant wait for a reread #i wont be documenting that tho lol #ahhhh i know i already said this but thanks to all the cute ppl who kept up with this!! #i seriously had such a delightful time! #to the repeat likers of my posts #the commenters #the private messagers #silent readers #i love you all #wow #just a perfect finale #now i just gotta patiently wait for the final few vols to get the physical copies! #gotta pass this down to MY future generation some way lmao

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I prefer the dark concept over the white one 👀 fun how we're opposites in this haha

I hope today's photos won't kill me for real now. I meant afford to have a heart attack, there's too many groups coming back now that I have to keep track of. A heart attack would be very counterproductive.

I hope you also had a good day/night ☺

Smooch ❤

How are we doing after teaser pictures no3? I'm losing my mind over here! Look at them! Look at the boys! Oh my god!

Smooch ❤

Ps: I saw you know mdzs and wow it's one of my favourite things! I haven't watched all of the animation but I read the novel and I watched the live action like 5 times lol

HELLO MY PRECIOUS SMOOCH ANON I'm sorry I took so long to answer this T____T I love how we both thought today's pictures wouldn't kill us XD but they did 😭😭😭 I absolutely LOVED today's pictures, the JEWELLERY!!!!!!!!!!!! Sf9 look so so so good for this comeback I'm SO EXCITED 😭

ALSO AHHHHHHHHHHH mdzs is also one of my favourite things 🥺🥺😭 and funny enough, I also haven't watched all of the donghua XD I've also read the novel and watched the la, I love mdzs so so much ;_______; have you read mxtx's other novels?? If so, which one is your favourite ;o;

I hope you're having a lovely day or night, I'm sending lots of smooches 💖💖💖💖💖💖

#answered #precious smooch anon 💖 #AHHHHH YOU ALSO LIKE MDZS that makes me so happy T.T #as much as I love LOVE mdzs ... #tgcf is my favourite XD #yay for all sf9 teaser pics being revealed!!!!!!!!! #have a good day or night angel :") !!

[vrishchikawrites]

If WWX ascends after the siege (i tell you its also something i looked for in the fandom at first because damn its a big fk u to the cultivation world NMJ and LXC being like we f-ed up he innocent etc more invesgations the regrets? De-licious...except theres no such fics QAQ) WWX gets experiance of what an actual person who's bad at showing feelings is (i think he saw that with Wen Qing already but Mu Qing would be a bigger eye opener for him) and also! Hualian Fengqing WOULD adopt this guy 1/2

After finding out everything WWX goes through, it would remind them of Xie Lian (who all of them adore and love the fk out of) so seeing this baby martial god going through something like that? You bet they're gonna show him love and appreciation and he's gonna become part of their found family(and look! Hes what? 20? 22? While the tgcf cast is..800+ omfg I CAN-)such as adorable dynamic,on a sadder note, ghost fires of wen remnants trying to make sure a-yuan issafe before movingon,calamity!wq2/?

Ahhhhh, all of this sounds very lovely. I really want to read baby martial god wwx now ;_;

Also, love the idea of CalamityWQ because it fits so well too. She would totally rock that. My understanding of that is still a bit limited tho, so we'll see!

#reader asks #plotting with readers