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In reply to those who commented variations of “Kick a guy while he’s down” on the latest chapter of the Happy SongXueXiao Roadtrip Story… ♥

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I love how the pacing/plot reveal of the untamed relies heavily on the assumption that you, the viewer, will not understand or remember shit about the first two episodes

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Nie Huaisang + The Onion headlines

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So You Want to Watch The Untamed

A couple people mentioned some interest in a masterpost like this pulling together some resources for people looking to get into The Untamed show and feeling daunted for one reason or another. Here’s a few links to things that might be useful:

This fairly comprehensive and spoiler-free cheat sheet including information on terminology, characters, and some background cultural information.

This is a more visual chart of relationships/affiliations between the characters with some character information.

Wikipedia’s episode summaries (spoilery by nature, but helped me keep some things straight while I was doing my first watch-through).

Here’s another primer with a pretty good rundown, though I’m personally annoyed by some of the editorializing/tonal choices in it, fair warning.

Some information when it comes to The Deal With All the Names.

Here is a Wiki (uses more novel/donghua canon, but still potentially helpful).

Breakdown of the different sects/clans.

It is available to watch on Netflix, Viki, and Youtube. I personally prefer the second, but you’ve got Options.

If you’re interested in reading the novel, you can read a full translation in one place here (there are also alternate translations of sections of it; old list but it’s got some starting places and you can also search around); there are also adaptations to the form of a donghua (animated series) and manhua (like a comic/manga series).

Hopefully this helps! I’m deeply invested in dragging people into more of this.

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I’m taking a break from Tumblr until the repeated sponsored posts with the creepy clown are gone. I get that Tumblr has to pay bills but they have choices about what content to force in front of users, including paid users.

@staff

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The Untamed as text posts (14/?) 

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tumblr text post meme: yi city arc edition

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This is how the interrogation went right

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Xiao Xingchen is naive, a stupid, trusting, blind naive idiot.

And that’s terrifying, once you grow to care about him. As though the world isn’t a cruel, filthy, brutal place. As though things like him aren’t so, so breakable.

The Bright Moon and Gentle Breeze steps serenely into that dirty, dangerous world, never even realizing he should be careful, or afraid. Sometimes you just need to hold him tight and shield him from all the dark truths he could never handle. You can take on its hardships and pains for him, you’re used to them, as filthy and cruel yourself.

So he won’t have to. So the bright moon may remain pure and untainted.

So he may remain safe.

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Sooo, it appears to be *checks watch* Xue Yang feels-o-clock again!

I’ve been listening to his theme song a lot today - whenever I wonder if I’m taking my usual villain-sympathies too far and reading in things that simply aren’t there, those lyrics make it very clear that, no, all other deceit aside, this one thing was undeniably true. Because the character song is supposed to be his words, not the smile he puts on for everyone else. That’s his raw pain and regret. (And love.)

He’s a horrible, horrible little monster, but the one time he grew to love someone, he really did so wholeheartedly. In a poisonous broken way that was always doomed, but wholehearted nonetheless. And the tragedy of it all will never fail to break my heart.

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“[I] do contest/As hotly and as nobly with thy love/As ever in ambitious strength I did/Contend against thy valour.” -Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene V

rough screenshot redraw from the Donmar production of Coriolanus!

Happy Birthday Xue Yang!!! thanks to @mdzsnet  for giving me an excuse to celebrate the best boy!

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I love that some powers in the untamed are seen once, not explained, and then never mentioned again. Wwx stopping time to steal a guy’s peanuts? Slapping an entire mind control paperman on lwj and forcing him to call wwx gege and then get drunk? Xue yang just….making himself a whole ass new face out of???

Effervescent

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MDZS Tropes [15/?]: Xue Yang

insp.

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Nie huaisang a little sus

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I don't know if I should laugh at this...

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I FOUND IT

Wei Wuxian’s stages of life