Languid Lotus

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[languidlotus]

Arcana's Tracker

(First drawing done in watercolour and coloured pencils. Second in Ohuhu markers and coloured pencils. Find my art here.)

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Currently watching:

Cdrama ~ Fangs of Fortune ~ Kill Me, Love Me ~ Snowy Night Timeless Love

Total Cdramas I've finished: 72 Total Cdramas I've made art for: 68

(I make art for every cdrama I finish. Eventually.)

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Art

Art WIPs

~ The Princess Royal ~ Heroes Future Art ~ Story of Kunning Palace ~ Dashing Youth ~Melody of Golden Age

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My tags:

#arcana's art #arcana's gifs #arcana's 10/10 #arcana's watchlist #arcana's unfortunate bl rickrolling

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

雀骨 (Sparrow Bone) starring Hou Minghao and Aimi releases new studio photos

[zhoudadudugongjin]

the five hottest things a fictional man can be are 1. highly intelligent 2. terminally ill 3. emotionally unavailable 4. full of trauma and regrets 5. lying about their identity

[languidlotus]

[tiredgrandfather]

[agendratum]

gay gay homosexual gay

[languidlotus]

These two are so cute. <3

Added to this, I am just choosing to see queerness everywhere, because the crown prince and Luo Mingxi could totally be read as acting out and (reluctantly) pursuing An Le and Di Xiyuan because they think they have unrequited love going on between them.

From the very first episode you could totally read the 'they're fighting over An Le' that the show is going for as 'they're mad the other is showing a beautiful woman attention'.

And, look, a crown prince who is constantly asked to marry (a woman) fixating on someone from his youth whom he's probably never going to be able to marry? A great way to avoid being pinned down in a relationship he doesn't want.

Han Ye has known An Le for like a day here. At this point he's still steadfast in his wish to marry Di Xiyuan. And yet he gets mad at his aide for this.

In fact, all of this is from the first three episodes. Where he's known her for a day or two at most. And he's completely stoic for most of this show.

And yet... I'm really enjoying this 'tragic lovers kept apart by the rules of their time and An Le's whirlwind personality' take, to be honest.

[minnarr]

LEGEND OF ANLE + MINISTER-ZONING 1/?

in the words of @deepestbluesky:

it's just SO FUNNY TO ME that 'minister zoned' is such a relevant concept for multiple characters throughout the series

BONUS:

[zhoufeis]

☆ taking a trip down memory lane ☆ [og] in cooperation with @baifengxis

THE TRIBE, New Zealand, 1999. Please, Amber. I don't know why I doubted you. Of all the people in the world, you're the person I trust and respect the most. When I lost you, my world went grey and flat. When I found you again, all the colors came back. These last few months, it's been the thought of seeing you, of touching you again, that's kept me alive. Amber, you are my purpose. I love you and I'm so sorry.

[goblinkingsart]

Comfort V/VI

[thatswhatsushesaid]

speaking of microexpressions that contain multitudes, is there any scene in mysterious lotus casebook that more effectively illustrates how differently li lianhua and fang duobing both nevertheless manage to convey profound love and grief with each other?

(apologies for the clumsy editing in the last screenshot, i just could not grab a screencap of this moment with the subtitle that worked for me. so i stole the caption from a split second before this moment and slapped it onto this one.)

i think what makes chengyi's delivery so devastatingly impactful here is his gentleness, which works because while i'd never describe li lianhua's verbal interactions with fang duobing as rough or callous, he tends to try to protect or spare his feelings through obfuscation and avoidance where possible (i will come back to this subject later, i have Thoughts). understandably, that isn't an option here because he has run out the clock and is out of time, and he has no cards left to play except the one that will hurt the most: the truth, which no amount of tenderness can blunt. because the truth is that he's going to die, has actively been dying, and there is (in his opinion) nothing fang duobing can do to stop it.

try asking fang duobing to accept that tho. lol. lmao even.

[languidlotus]

[eunuch-enjoyer5]

he is so beautiful 😍

[palehorsemen]

[movielosophy]

周生如故 - Zhou Sheng Chen, I’m here to marry you

[dangermousie]

Hideously disfigured, monstrous looking!

Hide your children!!!!

someone drew on his face with a sharpie.

he could walk into any bar on the planet gay or straight and get a crowd following him home.

[languidlotus]

Cdramas: "These absolutely stunning people are UGLY. Look at these intricate or barely noticeable patterns that make no one want to be near them. Horrible." 'the ugliest swordsman in the land'

'She had a deformity on her face that made no one want to marry her.'

Wild.

[heymeowmao]

千朵桃花一世开 | The Blossoming Love E30 ° Wang Duo as Fate

[languidlotus]

Mysterious Lotus Romance Tropes?

(Sssh, nobody tell the censors.) The amazing thing is, these are just some of the tropes I could have included. (And just one example, because Fang Duobing does these things a lot.) There are many, many more.

Feeding loved one? Check. Constantly asking how they are? Check. Giving loved one medicine? Check. Being forced to watch as loved one is abducted? Check. Panicking because they think loved one might be dead? Check. Frantically searching loved one for injuries? Check. Getting jealous (because of attention from possible romantic interests)? Check. Family teasing the main characters about their relationship? Check. Shielding loved one from (possible) harm? Check.

There are so many! (In fact, if anyone wants to suggest scenes from other shows (preferably with the episode number) for the above scenarios so I can make a part 2, please do!)

Dramas involved: Mysterious Lotus Casebook (every even gif) Love Between Fairy and Devil (1) Stand by Me (3) My Journey To You (5) (13) Destined (7) Love Like The Galaxy (9) (17) (25) Love You Seven Times (11) (21) Who Rules The World (15) The Legends (19) Till The End of the Moon (19) (23) Novoland: Pearl Eclipse (27)

@fan-man-huaisang @wuxia-vanlifer

[languidlotus]

Fang Duobing isn't the most tragic character in Mysterious Lotus Casebook, obviously, however he sure is still tragic. Like, his childhood and his father and everything is bad enough, but then you have the entirety of MLC basically being:

"I've found a true friend whom I'll be travelling the world with forever!" "Wait, no, scratch that. I've been drugged and abandoned in a field by said friend." "Okay, now we're true friends and we'll be travelling the world solving cases together." "Whoops, no, drugged and abandoned again." "I swear, this time we'll be true friends and..." "Fuck, he just told me he just pretended to be my friend and that he actually thinks I'm useless. He got me locked up by my family and everything." "We're back on that true friends stuff now and..." "Damn. He's been lying to me all this time about some huge and life changing things." "So, I saved him and chose him over my lifelong dream even though he's a wanted criminal and might have killed my father. Soulmate shit is back on!" "Unfortunately, soulmate has actually been dying all this time. Fuck." "No problem, his old master cured him! Time for lifelong travel together! Everything is fine!" "He lied again. Still dying." "We found the flower that will save him! Justice prevails!" "You'll never guess what happened next..."

And that's just some of the bombshells he has to deal with throughout the show and it's just the Li Lianhua related stuff. Poor boy had his dreams crushed A LOT.

[xiaobaosnoona]

This moment is too beautiful. I have a lot of feelings about it, but my words don't work.