danmei connoisseur

[thisvenerablewan]

What I’m learning from reading danmei is that the only way to tell another man you love him is to literally die in front of him and then he’ll figure it out

[lilapplesheadcannons]

All MXTX novels are just about one outwardly put-together, inwardly screaming mess of a man and his emotional support war criminal.

[stardust-falling]

SVSSS fandom really needs to learn what “white lotus” really means because I feel like that would clear up a lot of arguments tbh.

Hint: it probably doesn’t mean what you think it means.

[mysteryteacup]

#but basically a white lotus has a pure and innocent exterior and a manipulative inside#uses perceived helplessness and innocence to their advantage to get what they want from people#LBH is not being seen as pure and innocent and good! he’s seen as being that way to get SQQ’s attention and approval#vs black lotus where he doesn’t care about being subtle and nice to get what he wants#where his intentions aren't actually bad but they appear that way because of the way he goes about it#and his reputation#it’s more complex than this but basically the way you read ‘white lotus’ changes the whole perspective of a lot of things

[eyes-of-nine]

pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

[kyuhudraws]

seperate Qi Rong bonus to this post.

[danmeiconnoisseur]

sometimes i feel like no one else understands qi rong

[scentofmint]

Slavic AU

He's Baba Yaga

[crimson-chains]

This was a lot of fun to work on!! :D Some ghostly kings~~~ Who is your fave? ^^

[itoendme]

i realized the other day that jin guangyao from mdzs and ogata hyakunosuke from golden kamuy are very similar characters

they're both

born as the illegitimate son of a wealthy influential man and a sex worker

abandoned by their father

murder their father and step-brother

want to hold the same position as their father to prove that they're worth of it

changes sides of a war/battle when it's convenient for them

good at manipulating people into trusting them (especially ogata ppl literally know he's a serial traitor and trust him anyway)

good at acting pathetic

[crimson-chains]

Saw some cool outfits from Dior when I was in New York! Wanted to draw Hua Cheng and Xie Lian wearing something inspired by it ^^

[ancestor-qirong]

I can see this happening lol

[foggygloves]

WOE ! Xianle Cooking Be Upon Ye !

[emotionaldisaster909]

CAN WE TALK QI RONG?

And the fact that

Donghua team performed an OUTSTANDING JOB of a character study through animation

Like I’m watching him insult Lang QiangQui

And it suddenly hits me that I kinda understand and feel him???

Like Ke Mo

Even though he is wrong

He has a right to hate Yong An

Xie Lian has much more of it, but-

Have you ever thought that

We never get to know

How Qi Rong died?

Even though he didn’t care for XianLe, it was his only home

So when you see him talk about this-

You can see that underneath his arrogant hateful craziness

There is genuine pain

Which he HIDES BEHIND SMILES

HIS EXPRESSIONS KEEP SWITCHING

AND I APPLAUD THE DONGHUA TEAM FOR THIS DECISION

He laughs in one second

AND IN THE NEXT YOU SEE THIS

This GENUINE ANGER

and a RIGHTFULL ONE AT THAT??

No matter how deeply twisted everything about his mindset is

At its core it’s a lack of any established moral guidelines in his upbringing

And the worst coping mechanism of fighting pain, insecurities and fear of abandonment

By going batshit crazy in defense and grabbing onto everything that makes him seem “important”

Yet by doing so he succeeded in becoming so unimportant

That even his remaining family thought about him so little

That we never got an explanation of how he died

He definitely died alone

And at least for this

He has a right to feel angry

Because anger is just helpless pain

[welcome-to-the-shit-library]

hey so we put your morally grey character in a fandom. yeah half the fanbase makes them into a perfect angel who did nothing wrong and the other half depicts them as a cartoonishly evil villain who hurts people for fun. no we dont know how to explain that people can do bad things for good reasons or good things for bad reasons. sorry man

[anyanary]

I’m completely normal and not feral about them

[pillow-boi]

Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang c0mmish! 🪷🌿

[mediocretosubpar-soup]

something, something beefleaf parallels

He Xuan gains power when he can no longer change anything on behalf of his loved ones, he cannot save them, he cannot prevent their suffering. It's already happened.

This is mirrored by Shi Qingxuan who learns the truth when the wrong has been done. He can't fix it. He cannot repent the people who were wronged are long dead.