#dance of the lotus

[revision-comic]

The prologue to ReVision, a little Genshin Impact fancomic that was a long time in the making. Some notes:

ReVision began in a moment of incredible frustration with Genshin Impact's writing and lore. As it stands, now, I wouldn't call ReVision a rewrite. I am not a professional writer nor do I do not know the full plans for the story of Genshin Impact in the future and how it may impact my opinion on past writing beats. Consider this an AU.

World and character lore will be somewhat to vastly different, as well as the personalities of several characters. This was intentional. Again, imagine ReVision is what happened when I snuck into Mihiyo and moved all their plot furniture two inches to the left.

With that said, I hope you stick around to read the next installments of ReVision.

#genshin impact #revision #comic #0.0 #gemini found #observer #neverending peformance #circle of heartache #wind of the lion #the reeds remember #thus comes dusk #fish fear me #glorious astrologist #dance of the lotus #knight of honor #so below #heir to nothing #helliyue kitchen #heart of fire #onto next act #dust to mountain #just one spark #little lightning #jelly ears

[lotus-pear]

dazai stop rizzing up the enemy challenge go!!

#i'm convinced the whole meursault arc is just a massive hangover dream fabricated by dazai💀 #when your friend group is small but you're all gay and mentally ill #literally all i could think about watching dazai waltz around with sigma and flirting with him nonstop was fyo and chuuya just going :/ #while watching them through the security cameras #honestly they slayed sokouku could never #no better way to spend your last thirty minutes alive than ballroom dancing with the enemy against their will #dazai and sigma's interactions are the only thing keeping bsd fans (me) sane atp #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #sigma bsd #nakahara chuuya #fyodor dostoevsky #sigzai #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[mlc-melons]

Cheng Yi on wuxia fight scenes.

“my understanding of fight scenes, and i've talked about this with the director, is that a martial artist is a sage. if i fight you, why do i fight? i don't fight for the sake of fighting. it's more of a creative expression, it expresses a character's personality, it's a different state of mind. when the audience watches a fight scene, they (should) get why the character is fighting and what their state of mind is in that moment”

I first fell for Cheng Yi's acting in Love and Redemption. One of my favorite scenes is where Sifeng fights his evil self to escape from the Tower of Oblivion. He really doesn't stop serving face during fight scenes and treats it as another means of creative expression for the character. The desperation from Sifeng contrasting with the malicious glee from his evil self was just *chef's kiss*.

He does this in MLC as well where the brilliant fight choreographer + the actors were able to show the audience so many different flavors of fight scenes.

Winner-take-all (aka foreplay between 2 martial arts masters)

Clinical

Savage

Nonchalant

Self-indulgent

Cathartic

Contemplative

#mysterious lotus casebook #cheng yi #li lianhua #wuxia #give the fight choreographer a raise #tbh we were robbed in the LLH vs ZYF fight #CY is good at sword fight scenes and ZWH is trained in sword dancing #fight choreographer why no fancy sword dance fight between LLH and ZYF >:( #documenting the cultural reset that is mlc

[dozydawn]

#china pictorial #1978 #1970s #lotus dance #lotus #chinese #prc

[seventh-fantasy]

美人舞如莲花旋 a beauty dances like a spiralling lotus flower [x]

li xiangyi/li lianhua + sword dances | 莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook EP 9/34/40

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #asiandramasource #dailyasiandramas #cdramasource #asiandramanet #cdramagifs #cdramanet #cdrama #cheng yi #lhlgifs #jielin's edits #my posts #drama #do you know how painful it is for me to gif action scenes #as basically someone with ZERO patience for action scenes #bc it means i have to actually watch the scenes over and over to find what is gifable AND suits the composition #but god i LOVE his sword dances. they are beautiful and they are character studies of lxy/llh. so. #it guts me to leave out most of the other really cool sequences in fact #anw this was still very fun to make!!! haven't done blending since the first time i did #tried my best with the 2nd one lmao the fuckin' bamboo forest 😔 #also if you contrast this with the set i posted last night lmfao. duality of a man <3 #i'm begging everyone to watch that fmv. it's my fave lxy/llh solo fmv of all-time

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Xiao ShùnYáo 肖順堯

2024 Lunar New Year gala (2/3)

龍拳 dragon punch

#xiao shunyao #chinese actors #lunar new year #mysterious lotus casebook #shui long yin #hero legends #till the end of the moon #the blue whisper #the advisors alliance #cdrama #chinese variety shows #dancing yaoyao

[ruibaozha]

From what I understand, your advice is that we shouldn't stick to just one version of a story or consider it the true version. And that a story has several versions. And these versions do not make one less than the other. Like, we can choose one version of the story as long as we understand that there are more versions.

Hello!

Yes this is precisely it. It’s very easy to assume that one way a story is told is the only valid version, but it also neglects how it historically was shared and retold - regardless of if deities are involved. Of course people are allowed to express favoritism, myself having moved from Wuhan, I prefer Wuhanese storytelling.

Did you know there’s roughly 360 different types of regional Chinese Opera that coexist? And with such a large variation in a specific area of performing arts, there’s bound to be more variation in nearly anything else.

Myself and the study of Nezha/Nalakubara has led me down many many different rabbit holes into how he was spread across east and southeast Asia. He appears in India, China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Tibet, and very likely many other places I have yet to know. It would be very ignorant of me to assume the Chinese Daoist method of worship to be the only acceptable kind - and downright shameful to dismiss how other countries worship him.

It’s a lengthy answer, but I hope I was able to convey my feelings and personal thoughts properly.

#nezha #li nezha #lmk nezha #monkie kid nezha #nezha 2019 #the legend of nezha #nezha reborn #nezha lego monkie kid #third lotus prince #chinese religion #chinese mythology #chinese folklore #chinese literature #chinese opera #chinese culture #chinese dance #chinese history

[difeisheng]

gotta love the official mlc weibo posting the thirstiest edits on main

followed by them dropping the act completely. but still ;)

#for the record if you've heard this song before #it was probably from that one dance performance from the two women who had a lot of tension between them that still knocks around here #mysterious lotus casebook bts #mysterious lotus casebook cast #wang herun #cheng yi #li xiangyi #jiao liqiao #video #ashton originals #li lianhua

[momosandlemonsoda]

WIP Wednesday

Here’s some from the next chapter of the rock star au:

#mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #fang duobing #rock star au #dance the silence down #my fic #writing is a bullshit hobby #llh is having a pleasant wallow in unhealthy coping mechanisms #and then fdb shows up #👀

[azuresapphire7]

One of my favourite things about Li Lianhua's character has to be his sword dancing. First off, I love how it looks. It's so fluid and elegant, but also kind of untamed, so it's really entrancing to watch. But mostly, I love how Li Lianhua seems to process his emotions through dancing. He dances when he feels overwhelmed with grief, with betrayal, with anger, but he also (as we've seen in the past with Li Xiangyi) dances when he's at his happiest.

When you think about it like that, it hurts even more that he destroyed Shaoshi. He's throwing away one of the only outlets he's ever had.

#mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #li xiangyi #swords #sword dancing #sword dancing as the only more or less functional coping mechanism Li Lianhua has ever had

[shentunans]

#this is just PingXie on stage #my gifs #mysterious lotus casebook #cheng yi #zeng shunxi #it’s just so beautiful ;_; #mysterious lotus casebook concert #dmbj cast #joseph zeng #li lianhua #fang duobing #stand by for the queue #this is my favorite moment of the whole concert next to the dancing #ShunXi legit trying not to laugh though don’t worry mate I was laughing with you #曾舜晞 #成毅 #李莲花

[madamadragon]

Let's raise a glass

Or two

To all the things i lost on you

Happy Valentine's Day with our favorite trouple❤️

#mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #cdrama #li lianhua #cheng yi #mlc #di feisheng #chinese drama #fang duobing #xiao shunyao #zeng shunxi #happy valentine's day #with our favourite trouple #difanghua #i want a fic with their date for valentine's day #i bet they are so cute #fang duobing will bring flowers #li lianhua will cook some dishes #and some sword dances #and di feisheng will bring some wine

[lotus-pear]

chuuya going "naak beech mein nahi aati hai stupid" before kissing dazai djdjsjjjsks

AREEEYY KYA BAAT HAI THATS SO CUTE IM SOBBING😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺 these losers are gonna be the death of me

#eyes were not loading for a second so i thought that said naach and i was like??? dance???? #it threw the entire translation off😭😭 #lotus’s asks

[tiny-breadcrumbs]

Fang duobing may be well known as a notorious fanboy from his weekly kpop random play dance vlog with su xiaoyong and the princess, but not many know when the night is gloom, with a drizzle outside of the window, and their secondhand room heater buzzing in the background, he will play some old love song from his mom cd collection. A ballad, slow rock, country music, and jazz.

Sometimes it will turn into a small karaoke time. Another day, like that one, li lianhua will sneakily dim the light and Fang duobing will pull A-fei from the comfort of his couch to a slow dance in the living room. The older man usually let out a snort but he will never refuse. It always be a pleasant experience, to each one of them, something warm and sweet. Di feisheng know his move and graceful enough to lead the step, for all the rough work that man do, he have this gentle touch hidden beneath many layers of scowl and glare. It makes fang duobing a little bit giddy when he stare.

It is late at night, warm tickling his skin, seeping through their fingers and crawling near the tip of his ear. The smell of soup wafting in the air, li lianhua leaning in the counter with amused smile, hand still holding a ladle, dripping. The note of violin flowing sofly, their swing, easy with grace perfectly in sync. We should do this more often, fang duobing think.

#My braincell is in their delulu hour #DIFANG SLOW DANCE IN THE LIVING ROOM ANYONE? #mysterious lotus casebook #fang duobing #di feisheng #li lianhua #modern au? #difang #tiny fic

[lightphieric]

I’m going to be radically honest for a second here like. I have naturally big boobs, and I don’t always know what to do with them. I don’t know how to dress myself properly. Sometimes I’ll buy a low cut blouse cause it’s cute but then I’ll wear it and. Everything will just be out there. And I’ll still wear the shirt anyway because, you know, it’s a cute shirt and I want to wear cute things!

Anyway. I just know that if for whatever reason, I got kidnapped by a Zero, it would be on the day of a poorly-conceived fashion disaster, and then all the fan artists would be like “Ew her outfit is bad and I’m fixing it” and I don’t like that thought.

#zero escape #hazuki kashiwabara #lotus 999 #alice vlr #clover field #mira ztd #I know uchi outfits can get a big extreme but why do redesigns always have them in like. a full turtleneck #I especially relate to lotus canonically being dressed for a dance class #I did not have a traditional dancer’s body! but I tried to dress like the other girls in the class anyway #and it was. a problem.

[seventh-fantasy]

江湖风波恶 楼里莲花清 (the outside world of jianghu is perilous and it is pure as the lotus within this tower)

lotus tower is his body

(never beating the i'm thinking about lhl with reference to nezha 1979 allegations)

anyway.

#i just wanted to have llh in the nezha rebirth lotus dance pose #bc. clearly i've been thinking about Things #(and mark u know i am tagging u in any lhl/nezha content) #sorry i literally only have unpolished doodles </3 #if i was a Serious Artist i would have also drawn more poses but unfortunately i'm not </3 #江湖风波恶 楼里莲花清 is subbed as 'i prefer solitude to venturing into the perilous world' #which gets the meaning across but. is totally different in expression #this tl i did is NOT meant to be accurate. nor is it polished. but should be smth closer to the og line #莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lhl #rin doodles #my posts #i might have been awake for too long today i have never drawn this much lhl #its like almost 2am now I might wake up wanting to delete this lol #i drew these on my phone...