穿越千年才找回跟你在一起的回忆

Coming from a country with very heavily censored literature and media, and therefore has to resort to media from other regions for some form of representation and validity, I have to say it’s genuinely upsetting how some non-Chinese danmei/bl show fans are reacting to the news about censorship.

If your entire conversation about censorship in C media is centered around your inability to read your favorite book or your favorite donghua ship not holding hands for as long as you want, then honestly you are an entitled person who should consider keeping your opinions to yourself. By making this conversation about games, danmei and donghua and/or live action adaptations of those novel you are opting to shift focus from queer kids who actually live in China, now losing a form of representation and maybe being pushed further back into the closet or even lgbtq+ activists whose projects might lose traction and resources due to the heavy censorship.

You can be upset about your games, books and shows, this is not saying that it’s a bad thing. But to make a nation wide attempt at silencing queer voices about a couple of web novels and TV shows is to completely undermine the true scale of censorship laws and the effect it will have on the country’s queer community.

get me a lwj please

"come back to gusu with me" is so funny, I'm depressed

lwj: i desperately want to burrito blanket this man. i have never craved anything the way i crave the right to bury him in rabbits until he stops looking so stressed and i honestly don’t know what to do with that. i was told his sister gives him soup but he doesn’t look like he’s getting enough soup. …i…could give him soup.

wwx: oh you wanna lock me up? you wanna lock me up???????? fucking try it I’m feral I’ll bite you

The Untamed and its pretty snow scenes.

JAY .:. BLESSED-CURSED MV — shooting sketch

-ˋˏ🍁 ° 🍂 S t u d i o  G h i b l i  :  A u t u m n 🍂 ° 🍁ˎˊ-

“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”

Yeah no I'm no longer a zhehan stan acc. There's no way the visits to Yasukuni Shrine and Nogi Shrine were purely coincidental.

For the folks who are detached from the intergenerational trauma of Japanese colonialism, here are some history facts from 1937-1945 World War 2 that personally impact my decision:

- The bataan death march. I have family who experienced this.

- The history of comfort women and girls: Grassroots activists from South Korea, China, and the Philippines are still fighting TO THIS DAY in order to get reparations for the enslaved women forced into prostitution. There were children who were kidnapped. Its too traumatizing to share more detail.

- Japanese occupation and bombing of my city from 1941-1945

There are multiple recent sources stating Zhehan's involvement in these insensitive acts and I cannot bring myself to believe he didn't know any better. Yes, people are sensitive to this news because we continue to mourn the events that occured less than 80 years ago. History may be of the past but the past impact our present day realities.

Whether or not you continue to support Zhehan is your choice. What I find disappointing about this discourse is the disrespect regarding Chinese people's anger. The context is heavy.

WORD OF HONOR: PRESENTING THE ROMANCE THROUGH TRADITIONAL WUXIA TROPES.

There is a reason why to the Chinese audience, WenZhou's relationship is indisputably romantic. It's because there are very specific visual cues used to show romance in wuxia, and WOH uses the exact same visual language on WenZhou. These tropes are blatantly recognizable from the wuxia/guzhuang dramas we all grew up watching.

1. Fated meeting in a peach blossom forest.

Although in this case, fate has a name and it is Wen Kexing.

2. Sucking poison from the other's shoulder.

Worth mentioning that in the book, the wound was on Zhou Zishu's arm. The drama deliberately took it up a notch and chose the more tropey version.

3. When the disguise (usually the female lead disguised as a man) is removed, the love interest can't stop staring.

Later on (ep 13) there is a scene where Zhou Zishu is trying on a fake beard that looks exactly like the ones female leads use to disguise themselves.

4. Spinning together in mid-air during a fight, the love interest's hands on the other's waist. Slow motion. Eyes firmly locked together.

Usually male lead saving the female lead. For example, there is a very similar scene between Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv from Condor Heroes. In fact, if you've seen it, you'll recognize similarities between the visual cues used for the two couples.

5. Martial siblings falling in love.

Yes, this is a common thing in wuxia. And no, it is not incest, nor does it make the dynamic any less romantic. What the hell. Martial siblings are often coded as romantic in wuxia, and there are actual examples in the show itself: Wen Kexing's parents were shixiong/shimei and Gao Xiaolian eventually married her shixiong, Deng Kuan.

6. One of them getting kidnapped (usually the female lead) by their sect/family and the love interest swooping in dramatically to save them.

And yes, riding on the same horse.

7. One of them is from an evil/unorthodox sect and it causes problems for the couple. The person is hailed as a villain and the other one challenges all of jianghu to stand by their beloved.

Their confrontation with Ye Baiyi is also a good example: Zhou Zishu defending Wen Kexing despite him being the Ghost Valley Master and choosing to die with him instead letting Ye Baiyi kill him alone. Going against the jianghu is a common trial for lovers in wuxia. Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv went through something similar as well.

8. The male lead fixing the female lead's hair and putting a hairpin on it. Then she looks at her reflection on bronze mirror. This usually happens the morning after the wedding night

This is a very blatant romance trope in guzhuang, so much that I instinctively went "they got married??" when I first saw it. A lot of us were surprised this even made it in. They even had a lingering shot of Zhou Zishu smiling at a bronze mirror!

9. Falling off a cliff together, or one falling and the other jumping in immediately to save them.

WOH gave us both versions. The first one was before they found Senior Long (which also gave us another common trope: the couple spending time in a cave while the other is injured/knocked out) and the cliff scene in the latter episodes where Zhou Zishu jumps in after Wen Kexing.

10. Dual Cultivation to save/heal the other.

Know who else cultivated in a cold place and also ended up as immortal lovers after going through trials and tribulations for each other? Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv again! (Yes, I am a big fan of Condor Heroes) arguably the most famous couple in wuxia. If you've seen the wucai bros reaction series, they all clapped and said "It's just like in Condor Heroes! They are immortal lovers!"

There is honestly a lot more, depending on how detailed you want to get. The point is that it wasn't just the flirting, the hugs, or the poetry. Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu's relationship itself was presented in the visual language of traditional wuxia romance, but this time in a love story between two men. WenZhou was written in the language of love.

Nothing that happens is ever forgotten, even if you can’t remember it. Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.