#not I’m reading tgcf

[sooshibaby-blog]

OOOOHHHH BROTHER

No wonder MXTX likes to ghost us

#xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #tgcf #mxtx #every day i’m grateful that it was mxtx that wrote tgcf #and not yall #with your lack of reading comprehension #and lack of knowledge on dom/sub culture

[hellomeloyellow]

They make me ILL

#tgcf #heaven official's blessing #hua cheng #hualian #xie lian #MFS got me to read I’m so upset

[navarice]

horror and psychological thriller in tgcf was done so incredibly well that if the beautiful and touching love story wasn’t incorporated into the book, I would be fully convinced mxtx decided to switch to another genre.

no one really talks about her fascination with the descent to madness and the morals surrounding humanity. at least one main character of each book goes through it. for lbh, it stemmed from the fear of abandonment and the emptiness that follows when the people you care most about decide you aren’t worth being chosen. for wwx, it was the outside in. society deemed him a monster so he had no other option available to him. no way to prove them wrong, and no way to convince himself he’s not either. anything he would do, despite his most well meaning, sincere, and self sacrificing motives, will always be twisted by the world who likes to paint others the devil. for xl…it was such a defeating combination of the two that it was near impossible for him find a way out. no family nor friend to turn to, no place to hide or run away, continuously forced to confront dilemmas beyond anyone’s capacity that sawed away at his already frayed sanity. worse was him having to confront godhood doesn’t mean omnipotent, nor does ascension mean free of suffering.

the way i choose to see it as this is her commentary on human nature, in both freedom and fallibility. ascend to heaven as a human, yet those in heaven are still human. wants, desires, fears, traumas, love, hate, selfishness, self-lessness, kindness, compassion, sacrifice, loss, hubris, duty, family, friends, hierarchy, power, and, above all, free will are all things that make humans what they are. are we wwx and xl? sacrificing ourselves time and time again only to have it all thrown back at our face? never once chosen or understood unless when it’s something short of a miracle? or are we the masses? afraid of the sinister, the disease, the wars? afraid for our young and old, for the talented and lame? for our lives and legacy? what are we, if not forever doomed to be helplessly flawed and hopelessly human?

the way she sees it, we have always been, and always be, both sides. because to her, they aren’t mutually exclusive, but rather each reflections of the other. both never wrong, but never quite right either. convoluted and confusing, mundane yet a tale as old as time.

mxtx writes her beautiful loves stories seamlessly. but she displays her talent best of all by weaving tales of hope and humanity into the threads.

#mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official’s blessing #mdzs #mao dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #svsss #scum villian self saving system #meta analysis #critique? analysis? obsession? idk either #I’m always reading too into it but #srsly someone admit her to a psych ward #or at least pay me for the damages #I wanted to make this a small analysis on how well she does horror #but then I had to get on my soap box #getting down now but man I’ve made so many of these things #the fandom fr does NOT need anymore stress #we just want everyone to be happy 🥲

[punk-weiwuxian]

danmei is literally so insane because every single couple has at least one motherfucker saying let me feed you and give you wine and protect you and be your home. i wont let anyone humiliate you hurt you kill you hunt you down ill take a beating for you ill take a curse for you ill die for you ill return to you ill return to you i’ll return to you and it FUCKS every single time

#danmei #mdzs #tyk #erha #qi ye #tgcf #wen kexing #lan wangji #chu wanning #mo ran #hua cheng #punk posts #i’ll take care of you. it’s rotten work. not to me not if it’s you #duuduejnejdjdjjsjs #okay i’m re reading tyk and losing my shit thank you for ur time

[yea-baiyi]

i’m actually obsessed with pei ming and yushi huang so much. like this aromantic misogynistic man slut with a string of broken hearts behind him is rescued by a quiet, humble woman who doesn’t think about him at all and he suddenly cannot cope. he’s shaking in fear hes choking on his words he runs out of the room whenever she’s near. he wants her to fuck him so bad it makes him look stupid. insane that mxtx just pulls this bit of characterisation at the last moment and then does not elaborate. i’ve got him in my head like this

#tgcf #pei ming #yushi huang #tgcf meta #sorta #meta stuff #i’m sorry like he’s just. i’m obsessed with him he’s so incredibly funny #pei ming is an absolute asshole and you think you know him as a character #and then mxtx just pulls this bit of characterisation at the last minute and it’s HYSTERICAL #the way he gets soooo overwhelmed once yushi huang is in the vicinity #he doesn’t even explain or try to make excuses he just leaves immediately #disaster man #i should get back to reading tgcf so i can do a meta on him #they’re the equivalent of cumplane for me in tgcf in terms of how hilarious and insane

[mxtxfanatic]

Amnesiac!Hua Cheng: I don’t like kids.

Xie Lian and I, at the same damn time: Since fucking when???

#tgcf #human reads tgcf: revisions! #i just know the man who comforts guzi autonomously isn’t saying this #i just KNOW the man who only answers the prayers of children isn’t saying this! #and I’m not going crazy either #cause xl heard him say this and was like ‘tf??? why didn’t *i* know this???’ #sir got his memory deleted and forgot he likes kids smh

[antithcsis]

"Your Highness...do you know why I refuse to leave? My beloved is a brave, noble, gracious special someone," Hua Cheng continued. "He saved my life, and I've looked up to him ever since I was young. But I wanted to catch up to him and become even stronger for his sake. Although he might not remember me well—we never really talked—I want to protect him.” He gazed at Xie Lian. "If your dream is to save the common people, then my dream is only you." Relying on his memory, Xie Lian asked with a trembling voice, "But...you won't...be able to rest in peace...like this..?" "I pray to never rest in peace," Hua Cheng replied.

"Your Highness, I understand your everything," Hua Cheng said quietly. "Your courage, your despair. Your kindness, your pain. Your resentment, your hate. Your wisdom, your foolishness. If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the bones you need to trample on your climb, the sinner who endures the agony of a million knives. But I know you won't allow it."

just fell to my knees in the middle of walmart

#‘i understand your everything’ i will jump off a bridge right now #they are so in love with each other you don’t understand i’m sobbing #reading hua cheng disappear right in xie lian’s arms was heart breaking #i will never get over them #this is truly the prime example of ‘love that lasts a thousand lifetimes’ #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #tgcf #heaven’s official blessing

[yumemiruuuu]

#literally started 2ha right after i said i don’t want to read anything other than tgcf #2ha good tho so far #the cover art got me #it’s always the cover art i stg #don’t judge a book by its cover? oh hunny if only you knew what I’m capable of… #2ha #the husky and his white cat shizun #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #xie lian and chu wanning could topple the universe with their cooking

[marvelousartcatastrophe]

I really liked TGCF (obviously… obsessing over Qi Rong still) and I want to try MDZS but I’m put off by sex scenes. Like I want to read it because I know it’s probably really good but I don’t want the smut to ruin it for me.

#art catastrophe #I’m asexual by the way #sex scenes are just not it #kinda gross tbh #I knew the donghua was pretty censored so I have watched a few episodes of that and I sorta like it #I’m currently reading a ballad of songbirds and snakes so I actually can’t jump into it rn anyway #I have a rule of only reading one thing at a time and I’ve been so busy I keep forgetting to read it #an iron widow and fourth wing are also on my reading list #so it’s not like I have nothing to read I just see the Mxtx fandom appears to like mdzs more than TGCF and I wanna see that for myself #svsss idek if I’m contemplating on cause nothing has drawn me to it #svsss #mdzs #tgcf #mo dao zu shi #tian guan ci fu #scum villian self saving system #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu

[wiklm]

hi guys today i drew hualian and cried abt it

#they are so first time by hozier #i listened to it the whole time i was drawing and it made me cry #hualian + hozier is a LETHAL combo #i’m SICK IM SICK i hate them (affectionate) #don’t look at hcs face too hard ok i don’t know what i’m doing ever #omg guys i like tgcf too!! maybe one day i’ll post enough on here that ppl will know all my interests #i’m still waiting for book 8 to come out so i can read the last 2!!! i’m so excited #anywayd. i hate them #and they make me miserable #tgcf #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #wiklm art!!

[amethystroselily]

I don’t ship feng xin and Mu Qing bc I think it’s just so much funnier if it’s genuinely platonic. Like imagine being that fundamentally intertwined with some guy you hate and weird intense emotion of it all isn’t even bc of sexual tension, one of you is just genuinely that bad at expressing that they want to have friends and the other is kind of dense.

Kind of like how Hua Cheng can devote his entire life to the person he loves romantically but gets real weird about friendship. Like he’s out here hyping up He Xuan and helping him in ways he would never help anyone else but Xie Lian, and actually even kind of siding with He xuan over Xie lian when it came to the revenge plot. But whenever he talks about it he gets so cagey. Like oh he just owes me money. And you keep helping him even though he doesn’t seem to be paying much of it back??? Ok. Sure.

So I think characters being weird about desiring friendships is just like a theme in this novel. (And I think Hua Cheng and Mu Qing are supposed to be parallels)

(Also, Mu Qing actually does kind of have to keep that chastity vow unlike Xie Lian. And breaking it would not represent the same things for him. For Xie Lian it’s freedom, it’s a release from this purity culture he got trapped in from a young age, he chose it and he doesn’t have to care what anyone thinks about it bc he has someone who always support and protect and love him. For Mu Qing it would probably represent the loss of autonomy and power he worked so hard to gain. Mu Qing didn’t just stumble into cultivation through means of birth the way XL did, he had to choose it and work very hard to keep choosing it. Giving any of his power away would not represent freedom for him, it would probably make him feel powerless to have to rely on other people like that. IDK I would have to reread tgcf to see if I’m fully right. I have no idea what I’m talking about I think.)

#I’m not like viscerally opposed to the ship or anything though to be clear #this isn’t hate. it’s just another perspective #mu qing #feng xin #tgcf #god I need to reread tgcf #there’s so much symbolism and amazing use of themes that I just didn’t catch when I first read it like three years ago #xie lian #analysis?????

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Me: huh weird how He Xuan and Shi Qingxuan have awfully similar names..

Later, me: …oh

#I’m literally incapable of not looking up spoilers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #it was an accident #no seriously this time it actually was an accident #I was struggling to keep track of the names since the eng dub mutilates them so badly so I went to the wiki to see them for myself #but in order to figure out who was who I had to read some of the descriptions… #so yea 💃💃 oops #he xuan #shi qingxuan #heaven official's blessing #hob #tgcf #mxtx tgcf #tgcf spoilers #beefleaf

[yaoigoddess9158]

Somehow trying to read TGCF, LOTM, and TCF at the same time and it is NOT working out (probably just going to read one at a time)

#Idk if I have the patience to finish one before I start the other though 😭 #so sad </3 #oh well at least I finished ORV #I put these in the order I’m reading them #I barely even started LOTM and TCF lol #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #lord of the mysteries #trash of the count's family #tgcf #lotm #tcf #got through 20 chapters of LOTM and only 1 of TCF #btw

[confused-bat]

Will rereading tgcf and then reading no paths are bound (the fanfic) mentally kill me: probably.

Am i doing it:

FUCK IT

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #no paths are bound #well fuck my life but i love both of these so much #(i started no paths are bound on Friday but i love it do much already) #so i say fuck it and i’m reading both #time to get canon and fanfic mixed up #HOLY SHIT THAT MEANS AT SOME POUNT I WILL SUFFER WHITE CLOTHED CALMAITY TWICE IF I CATCH UP #MAYBE I SHOULD RE THINK THIS

[yea-baiyi]

the key to understanding hua cheng’s appearance and how he occupies space is that he’s a transmasc goth who’s committed to red and silver as his aesthetic. ok. the layered hair the outfits the boots the chains. he doesn’t shave off his eyebrows and redraw them only because he is a shapeshifter and so his eyebrows grow the way he wants.

#tgcf #hua cheng #my visions n delusions #my hyperfixation demon #anyway footnotes: #the red is because it’s the colour of the eye he was rejected for. the name his mother gave him. the token of his saviour. #and also because they told him he was unlucky well fuck you. fuck you the colour of luck will always remind you of me now #the silver is interesting bc i read about the miao ppl which apparently hua chengs mother was meant to be member of #and only women wear those extensive silver jewellery particularly the neck cuffs #men wear smal pieces but the cultural practice is in women wearing them #so. trans hua cheng is so real so canon #but also he’s literally just a goth ok my entire vision board for him is just #glam rock and goth icons #i had a whole thing detailing his aesthetic in much longer detail but you’ll have to wait for if i ever finish this thing #tbh i might not end up posting a long headcanon piece because i’m really writing this in bits and pieces #turns out a lot of my headcanons are just extensive textual analysis that i internalised? and now i’m writing details turns out it’s a meta

[salvatorelizzie]

xie lian is such a beautifully complicated character. i was trying to tell my friend about tgcf and the characters and stuff but i found it so hard to fully explain xie lian? he was a crown prince that ascended to godhood but fell for protecting his kingdom. he’s a martial god but doesn’t have worshippers and won’t fight unless there’s no other options left, but loves weaponry and the practice of martial arts. nothing i say feels like it can explain his character without going on a two hour tangent that’s not gonna make sense to someone who hasn’t read the books.

#even the story itself #every way i try to summarise it feels like i’m depraving it of it’s key elements #lizzie reads tgcf #tgcf #xie lian