#but if he's not feeling it in the Donghua he's not feeling it!

[ultramarine-spirit]

Hi, I heard that the donghua Athy will have prophetic dreams instead of being a reincarnated person and that Lucas will probably remain in his adult form all the time( I hope this is not true I want to see baby Lucas but considering the first pv, i think it will probably be true, hopefully not). I fear that their dynamic will change and Lucas is gonna catch pe*o allegations now 😭 even though they were two adults pretending to be kids.

The first thing is pretty much confirmed, going by the donghua's summary, but the details are unclear. I don't know if the "LP timeline" was only a vision or something more, it's too early to tell. As for Lucas only staying in his adult form, I don't know what makes you/people think that?

Lucas was introduced in his adult form in the novel and manhwa, and he is wearing the same outfit in the PV, so it seems to me that that'll be his introduction scene. I guess we'll have to see if he keeps his younger form, but the donghua's summary confirms that they will fall in love, so I doubt the chinese team will suddenly make it weird? (Especially when chinese media is heavily censored, which is likely the reason the plot was adapted to be less violent). Let's also remember that Lucas used his adult form multiple times in the manhwa, so if people disliked that, um, it's nothing new?

I know you mean no harm, but part of me feels like I shouldn’t even address this possible "discourse" because it's way too dumb. Some people have called novel and manhwa lucathy problematic before, for multiple reasons, all of them idiotic, so I'm sure they'll find a reason to dislike the donghua version too. I don't care, and you shouldn’t either.

We should just cancel Claude for the 1000th time.

Almost all isekai/time travel manhwa have an odd aspect since more often than not the protagonist is (mentally) way older than her love interest. No matter what, that's an element the writer can't avoid, but I think lucathy is one of the few pairings where this doesn't happen, because of their circumstances (Lucas slept for centuries so his body's age and his mental age are very different, plus he is a magician. There's no reason to think this will be different in the donghua. And Athy has her whole reincarnation thing. We'll see how that plays out.). Despite all of this, you have no one calling athykiel or other manhwa ships (I could give plenty of examples but I'd rather not) problematic because Athy/the FL is (at least) a (mentally) 30+ yo woman thinking a teenager is attractive. That's because manhwas are not that serious. Unless we are talking about the Princess Mint one. That one was weird and I don't like it.

#that last part is a joke please don't start claude discourse #but lord i would rather take Jennette discourse than this #that was also a joke do not send me your Jennette hot takes #this is not @ you anon. i'm just talking to the void #i think i sound kinda harsh here but wmmap discourse is so 2020. we've been over this. there are opinions too dumb to even address #wmmap #wmmap donghua

[shijiujun]

SIR WHERE ARE YOU PUTTING YOUR HANDS ON DIANXIA?!

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #天官赐福 #tgcf donghua #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #HIS HAND TOUCHES THAT WAIST FOR JUST THAT BIT #LONGER LIKE HE JUST HOLDS AND CARESSES #GETTING A FEEL #SNEAKY HUA CHENG #tgcfedit

[maalidoesart]

me and the devil

#currently rewatching the last scene with them and it will never not hit both in the donghua and the untamed like damnn #i have alot of complicated feelings about them but fanart needed to be drawn !! #two lf my favorite characters ever their story makes me wanna scream #i still wonder how true Jin Guangyao’s id never harm you actually was bcs i do think he cared for lxc but he’s also sich a manipulative dude #art #fanart #drawing #xiyao #xiyao fanart #魔道祖師 #the untamed #cql #cql fanart #the untamed fanart #lan xichen #jin guangyao #mdzs #mo dao zu shi fanart #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #illustration #tw blood

[twistedappletree]

#mdzs #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs donghua #mdzs crack #mdzs meme #mdzs shitposting #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wei ying #lan zhan #hanguang jun #wangxian #he always looks so grumpy when WWX makes him feel things lmao #like ‘how dare????¿¿?’ #when they were younger ofc #older wangxian is so openly corny it makes me wanna barf #i love it #gif #twitter #apple memes 🍎

[endless-nightshift]

Heaven officials blessing version of this. They fill me with joy <3

#'active suicide risk' xie lian was the only possible choice im sorry #i seriously debated switching Hua Cheng and Shi Qingxuan #cause lets be honest HC definitely needs Xanax when XL does anything remotely dangerous #but based on everything that happened to Shi Qingxuan i figured they would need it more #im so serious about mu qings placement #he would piss everyone off immediately to the point that hes the first choice to be cannibalized in the event of a planecrash #feng xin is self explanatory if feel #bi king #as for ming yi.... #ifykyk #you know? #hehehehehe #i love his placement #so many layers #tgcf donghua #mxtx tgcf #tgcf #tgcf spoilers #heaven official's blessing #heaven officials blessing #heavenofficialsblessing #heavens official blessing #tian guan ci fu #xie lian #hua cheng #feng xin #mu qing #shi qingxuan #ming yi #ship sinking black water

[briebysabs]

Lu Guang is a hypocrite and that’s okay (great even)

I must stand ten toes for this man because I’m noticing the slander that went on in September and I cannot allow it. I know I’m six months late but just bear with me. We are introduced to Lu Guang as a rational, stoic, sort of wise protagonist. The brains of the operation if you will (although Cheng is clever in his own right but that’s a whole other discussion). Qiao Ling and Captain Xiao describe him as more mature. Shiguang’s relationship is strong but it’s structured, especially for their work, to where Cheng has to depend on Lu Guang. Should only do as he says and not do anything impulsive.

And it gets to a point where Cheng doesn’t know what to do without him and when LG isn’t there he relies on his past words to guide him. The thing is, we’ve seen that CXS can come up with great plans and make good decisions without Lu Guang’s voice in his head. Like how he caught Min Liu or planning how save Lu Guang from Li Tianchen. But the story has built LG up so much to be a reliable character so it can’t be untrue. But then the s2 finale happens, Cheng gets shot and Lu Guang loses his mind.

And then the ending basically tells you that he’s been winging it and gambling this whole time. Experimenting with god knows how many timelines, simply using his knowledge from the previous one to see if he’ll get lucky this time. Lu Guang has been playing a crane game. So in a story that is all about mistakes, guilt and regrets. Of showing the imperfections of people. Of showing the struggles of moving forward, of being satisfied with the present. Of sacrificing your sanity, your voice, your desires, and happiness for the people you love. How is this bad writing?

Link click has been tricking the audience to believe Lu Guang is an infallible character.

But Link Click was never about perfect people.

What he’s trying to do is no different from Li Tianchen, one of our antagonists. And I love CXS to fucking pieces but this show raises the question of a life’s value. LG is trying to save Cheng and so refuses to change the past for anyone else. Bc it may alter things and doom CXS in the process and ruin all he’s worked towards. But then you ask yourself, is CXS’s life worth more than the twins' mother? Is it worth more than Chen’s mother? Is it worth more than Emma?

It doesn’t matter because it is to Lu Guang. It’s like the question if your sibling and a mailman are trapped in a burning building but you can only try to save one. Unless they’re the absolute scum of the earth, chances are and possibly even despite that, you’re going to pick your sibling. That don’t mean it’s objectively more valuable than the mailman or you didn’t have sympathy for that person, they have loved ones, hopes and joys too. “Lu Guang is a hypocrite, selfish, unreliable, and a liar” yes he is. Because there is something called ‘flawed characters’. It’s okay for your protagonist to not be the best person. It’s okay to write a protagonist whose trauma has defined some of their actions.

If you’ve been forced to have someone you love die in your arms over and over, why is it surprising that you would lie to them? How is it surprising that you’d try to keep secrets? That you’d set things up to be in a position to control the situation? That’ll force you to plan better so maybe, just maybe things will be different? You think Lu Guang lacks self awareness and doesn’t know what this makes him? Of all things you can call LG, he’s not delusional. He knows the weight of his actions.

Link Click has and always will be a story about people. Where our emotions and choices take us. Lu Guang isn’t a robot so why would he be an exception?

Plus everyone should’ve been knew Lu Guang was sus anyway. Idk how that’s mischaracterization, there’s proof of him lying and keeping secrets from CXS in s1. It doesn’t ruin anything it recontextualizes what we were shown back then.

#anime #manga #donghua #link click #shiguang daili ren #lu guang #link click s2 #cheng xiaoshi #shiguang #defense #sort of #manhua #time agents #sgdr #lc #I think some people need to rewatch s1 for real #LEAVE HIM ALONE HE’S IN LOVE #but seriously why did ppl feel betrayed #the reveal makes his action have more logic behind them other than he’s rational #copy paste from twitter

[add1ctedt0you]

"Can't you see the look on jiejie's face?"

#In the first gif I was like: jc it's cute that you are waiting for wwx but don't leave jyl when she's sad #Then I saw how much he turned around and understood that sect heir jc was checking that all jiang disciples were with them #Anyway. While donghua!jyl is always dissociating and novel!jyl has jfm and wwx's vibes 'smile. your problems will disapear' #Cql!jyl seems so sad. not seen. not loved #And then someone validates her feelings!(jc saying to wwx to shut up about jzx because jyl is sad) #But he doesn't do that in front of her :( #Honestly. Cql!jyl is sad in a way I didn't expect #*mgifs #Cql #yunmeng siblings #Also. I must say that a jyl who shows her emotions and a jc much more responsive emotionally are valid interpretations of the text tbh

[verycharismaticdragon]

Do you know why everyone and their mother keeps saying that Sheb Qingqiu's secluded cultivation lasts for a year or 3??? Last I checked, wasn't he only in the cave for several months??

...I haven't seen a fic use that timeframe in quite a while - am I the delusional one??

Having intensively cultivated for several months, he could freely control his spiritual energy and had risen one level above his original cultivation base.

... nope, still as I remembered from the official book, page 85 in my copy. Even my old Exiled Rebels translation puts it as, "several months." Last I checked, 12 (or 36) months is far too many to simply be considered "several", so what am I missing? It just- throws off the timeline so badly and greatly increases the amount of time poor Binghe is stuck in the woodshed, for what?

Okay, so the 3 years thing comes from the donghua, no need to look further. It's one of those things that directly go against canon but have stuck in people's minds, similar to 'the washerwoman was the one to pull baby Binghe out of the river' and 'Shen Qingqiu fainted dramatically several times early on in his transmigration'.

Then, I don't believe I have seen 1 year myself, but if I had to guess, it may come from the fact that Binghe is 14yo prior to SQQ entering seclusion and 15 once he leaves. That said, an entire year makes zero sense considering what we know of the timeline.

Which is where I confess that I tore out some hair over the length of SQQ's seclusion when constructing the timeline for Transmigrator Time Traveler, because for me 'several' months means 3 to 5, but given all the facts, SQQ's seclusion had to last somewhere between 6 and 10 instead. (I went with 9 in the end, for the fic, cause I've read that 9 is a significant number for spiritual practices cultivation is based on? the source was a little vague so i don't know how true that is, but I needed a number.)

Nevermind, to the aforementioned facts. MXTX confirmed the date of the first chapter publication - Sept.21 - to be the date of SQQ's transmigration. (Small note: I'll be using modern months, even though SV's world uses lunar calendar, because it's easier to gauge weather and stuff. For characters in the novel, they might see those as different months/seasons, but that doesn't really affect our purpose here.) Luo Binghe’s 15th birthday - which Shen Qingqiu missed in seclusion - is in winter ('coldest day' which I after some research came to hc as jan6, though that's not particularly relevant, because...) Demon invasion happened on a 'hot day' (SQQ mentions it in relation to how SHL is dressed) - which puts it in May at the earliest, August at the latest. So these are the 'borders' we are working with.

Now, to my actual calculations. We know SQQ spent some time on the Peak after transmigration, before the Skinner mission that led to him going to seclusion. So I'm gonna say that happened in October at the earliest, December if you stretch it (though I feel like his tatas would freeze off if the Skinner left him half-undressed in December...) - but definitely not later, cause Binghe’s birthday has to happen off-screen. So if we take the longest possible time frame, October to August, we get 10 months. The slimmest possible window - December to May - gives us 5 months, but between the aforementioned boob hypothermia issue and the fact that May is a bit of a stretch for the 'hot day', I think that 6 months is the shortest you can go.

Which, again, doesn't align with my understanding of what should be described as 'several' months, but what can you do... tbh, im not sure MXTX thought all that hard about the timeline, which is understandable as a writer - but as a fan, frustrating

So yeah - definitely less than a year (and absolutely not 3, donghua), though the math gets fuzzier after that.

#that said im pretty sure that donghua's 3 years is to save on Binghe models... he def has different ones pre and post seclusion #but im pretty sure that demon invasion and IAC binghes have at the very least the same head. not sure about if the clothes are a recolor too #still... feel like they couldve handled it more gracefully. like for example not mentioning the time frame at all 🙄 #svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #svsss meta

[radiantmists]

man especially having now read the flashbacks i think about how hard xie lian always tries and how many people have told him that he tries too hard, that he never should have bothered and that doing so made things worse, or even more commonly just hating on him for not fixing things or being arrogant or whatever they think his problem is. and some of those people are probably even coming from caring places!

but before hua cheng, had anyone ever sat next to him and said, you tried and that's good, it matters that you cared, you did your best. nobody could have done better than you.

how badly must xie lian have needed that?

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #the donghua is making me emotional #this arc made me emotional in the books but what can i say people crying in my ears makes it worse #GOD the way xie lian loses his temper for a /half a minute/ bc he's spent centuries in silence about this #got stabbed through the chest and buried alive to preserve lang qianqiu's heart #and now it's all destroyed #and then the second he realizes that he did something as mild as shout at the person responsible #he breaks down apologizing?? #and like. its funnier with the romance parts later but its the same thing #xie lian is still human he can't stop himself from feeling or reacting to things #but he can hate himself for it. he can apologize for ever mildly inconveniencing someone else with his humanity #i don't think he internalizes what hua cheng says here at all #but. at least someone SAID it #at least someone told him what he did mattered and what he intended was worth something #after all that time #and like. you wonder how he can be so cheerful all the time usually despite all the shit that happened to him #but it's because he thinks he deserves every bit of it!! #i feel for hua cheng on a spiritual level i would also move mountains for this poor man if i could

[in-sane-ity]

🥹

#aaa i made this after my first watching #but i always forget to post stuff on tumblr so uh Hi #so many feels #:') #Lan Zhan is so cute #this might not be the best example but I love how he smiles so much in the donghua it made me so happy #i love them #them #babies #WangXian #screenshot #screenshots #feelings #mdzs #mdzs donghua #donghua #mo dao zu shi #mine #founder of diabolism #wei ying #wei wuxian #wwx #lwj #lan wangji #lan zhan #love #the untamed #CQL #chen qing ling #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[oddishblossom]

You weren’t the first to call me that anyway. It’s true that I had no mother to teach me, but I’m not inferior to anyone! On the contrary, I’ll make you open your eyes and realize that I’m so much stronger than all of you!

11.21 Happy Birthday Jin Ling ☺️💛

#mdzsedit #mxtxnet #mdzs #theuntameddaily #jin ling #魔道祖师 #mdzs donghua #mo dao zu shi #my gifs! #flashing tw #ahh i love jl so much he’s like a son to me ☺️ #he’s one of my absolute favorite characters and ​i feel like i haven’t made enough sets for him! i need to fix that

[melonnade]

TGCF novel spoilers!!!

I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID NOT PUT THE E’MING/HUA CHENG EYE CONNECTION TOGETHER EARLIER. Dude is literally missing an eyeball and carries a sentient sword with an eyeball embedded in it. Their eye colors actually match, and here I was thinking it was all just for the aesthetic. The sword likes the people he likes and dislikes the people he dislikes and this whole time I thought it was just a cool sword???

#so ashamed smh. shaking sobbing throwing up. #the actual shock I felt when I got to that part #how did I not put 2 and 2 together #is it actually that obvious? it feels so obvious in hindsight #I thought he was just edgy #anyway I just need to scream into the void about this #tgcf spoilers #heaven official’s blessing spoilers #tgcf #hua cheng #tgcf novel spoilers #oh wait. same eye color in the donghua* #I don’t think that’s the case in the novel #but still.

[twistedappletree]

me: ☹️

me after hearing luo binghe say “shizun”: 🙂

#idk it just makes me feel good LOL #I literally watch that luo binghe saying shizun vid on YouTube like 10 times a week for serotonin #it’s so cute and funny in the donghua too like #every time he says it I’m like SQQ THE BABY IS TALKING PAY ATTENTION TO THE BABY #AKDHAKJDK #apple babble 🍎 #svsss #svsss donghua

[xinyuehui]

LINK CLICK S2 New Character

#时光代理人 #shi guang dai li ren #link click #time agents #chineseartistsinc #dailyanime #dailyanimatedgifs #fyanimegifs #anisource #chinesemedia #animeedit #donghua #anime #chinese anime #caps #chinese animation #s2 trailer #qian jin #this guy is clearly gonna be evil but hes lowkey sexc(?????) cant do this anymore help me #luguang didnt even appear in the new trailer im feeling complicated #*VERY LONG SCREAMMM INTO THE VOID AHHHHHHHHHHHH*

[saveyurisnecktie]

Why is the pacing in this season so. Like that.

#Like 2 seconds of Hualian isn't worth the 20 minutes of standing around expositing #I feel like this season just isn't translating well from book to screen #Why are we spending 3 whole episodes standing around in qi rong's lair #If they're animating the whole series like shouldn't they pick up the pace??? #Some parts are like almost unwatchable? #Why was that flashback about the thief so long why would viewers care about that? #And the message that comes out of it is Xie lian saying “oh treat your subjects well” but he already said that in another episode so??? #Imma delete this I'm just ranting to myself lol #tgcf #tgcf spoilers #tgcf donghua

[multifandomworshipper]

Xie Lian : Sometimes, the only way to get to know and understand a person is by penetrating through those deeper walls that lies underneath their smiling face.

Quan Yizhen : I see.

[The next day]

Quan Yizhen : Thanks to your advice or I might have never known how Pei Ming really feels. That man has so much pain and anger in himself and yet his shit-eating grin never faltered until I stabbed him in the heart.

Xie Lian : You did WHAT??

#mxtx #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #tgcf donghua #heaven official's blessing #incorrect mxtx #xie lian #dianxia #quan yizhen #pei ming #well ig Pei Ming might be feeling some raw and bloody emotions atm #at least he made an effort to get to know Pei Ming :/ #incorrect tgcf