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some random thoughts about blood river

1) genuinely so curious about who muyu and changhe's shifu is because wdym they're not allowed to say her name??? is she connected to blood river and if not how in the world did she teach them

2) lianyue and yumo's loveline is both infuriating, understandable and hilarious at the same time. infuriating because it's like she's barely making any progress and it almost seems one sided one except for some moments, understandable because obviously lianyue doesn't have time for romance while someone is flying around with his shixiong as an evil zombie and hilarious because the poor guy has managed to anger both of yumo's big brother figures who clearly think he should be prioritising yumo's feelings even if his shixiong has been kidnapped

3) absolutely obsessed with the protective streak changhe holds for his inner circle, yumo is his little sister so he made sure she'd be out of the way when he was about to clash with muyu, the concern over qingyang and xuewei's disappearance and ofc the way he'd written off the tang lingzhun faction the second he found out xuewei had been abducted

4) the langya wang guy doesn't seem like he's going to live long but at the same time i don't really believe changhe has given in to the first prince group mainly because yes he's profit driven but he's also shown to hold grudges, he doesn't just let go of slights and especially not ones as big as those the xiao yong people have managed to do

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when the prince of langya showed up late to their meeting and went, "sorry, i had a matter of the heart to attend to 😌👆" and changhe went "well that's alright then" after all the drama about them leaving and waiting, i was immediately like, well of course he'd approve of that, that's exactly what he and su muyu think lianyue should be doing with yumo

#blood river #cdrama #暗河传 #tales of dark river

episode 29 of blood river is convincing me more than anything of a su muyu/su changhe/bai heihuai ot3 being possible. i wasn't into it before this but now i can see it. i'm picking up what they're putting down

#cdrama #暗河传 #blood river

su changhe being so easily pleased by a little bit of praise and performing parlor tricks to distract the girls until they reacted was insanely cute 😭

#cdrama #blood river #tales of dark river #暗河传

modernvictories

one of the things that i find most tragic and sad about su changhe is how matter-of-factly people treat him regarding how humble his origins were; he brings up the prince of langya here as a comparison but you can also see him talk about it briefly with other people (righteous sects wrt their standing, su muyu and his backstory pre-becoming a nameless): everyone knows to some degree that su changhe was destitute and came from basically nothing!

and he is so conscious of that in so many ways (and people realize that about him in a way that i think that he does not realize in its entirety) — all of these scions of very reputable and famous families make fun of his spending in a very noveau riche vs old money kind of way, and i think bai hehuai even says it herself that all men who come from nothing that suddenly come into money act like this, buying things and spending money lavishly — and i think it is sad and demonstrates that in a way, similar to how blood river can never really shed its history as an assassin sect, su changhe can never really escape his origins and will always be perceived as an "outsider" or inferior in that sense.

and we can already see how deeply that affects him when it comes to members of blood river telling him "nameless can never be true members of the family". even when he's cavalier about how he's regarded (here and joking about how he has twisted charm, roguish ways etc.) combined with how openly and deeply his entire ambition and hunger comes from yearning for the light... and how he so deeply admires su muyu, someone who went through the same things that he did but came out profoundly different, i just find it deeply sad and tragic that he interacts with and alienates himself from a "good" reputation even jokingly; ex. when the female tang clan member pointed out that she didn't realize he was the sentimental, loyal type, su changhe later twists it into -> didn't you hear that i wasn't the type of man to keep my word?

deepbluewithyellow-deactivated2

Yeah that's right and therefore, awfully tragic.

Another point of view on his manner of spending money could be that, he understands his lack of proper emotional display and manners when interacting with others, so he falls back to the easiest (and most shallow) way to navigate and strengthen relationships: spending generously for others (he does get excited at the sight of money but we see him on a spending spree when it comes to his close circle of people: helping everyone avoid eating Su Muyu's cooking, settling down Su Muyu's younger martial sister in Nan'an and buying sweets for his subordinates).

modernvictories

i think that's definitely the case! su changhe isn't the type to hoard money or be profit-minded in the sense that money is his end goal (he remarks to su muyu during the pawnship arc that money is the most important tool for blood river in its attempt to reach the other shore!), and very much uses it as a way to express his care and affection for others. even in the new years scene, you can see that he leaves a silver tael behind while su muyu only leaves five copper coins (all su muyu has), and su changhe teases him for it — very much indicative of the way that he rewards kindness with money and likes to spend on other people.

and even before he had the type of money he has now, he still scraped his resources together to make su muyu his umbrella!!

at the same time though i wonder if su changhe's more overt attempts of kindness would be taken well (e.g. in ways that didn't make him self-conscious lol) because whenever he is nice, for example, bai hehuai is like, what are you scheming? 🤨 which is definitely more of a joke, but might make him self-conscious anyway instead of him being able to brush it off more easily compared to if it came from a stranger

#cdrama #blood river #tales of dark river #暗河传 #su changhe

one of the things that i find most tragic and sad about su changhe is how matter-of-factly people treat him regarding how humble his origins were; he brings up the prince of langya here as a comparison but you can also see him talk about it briefly with other people (righteous sects wrt their standing, su muyu and his backstory pre-becoming a nameless): everyone knows to some degree that su changhe was destitute and came from basically nothing!

and he is so conscious of that in so many ways (and people realize that about him in a way that i think that he does not realize in its entirety) — all of these scions of very reputable and famous families make fun of his spending in a very noveau riche vs old money kind of way, and i think bai hehuai even says it herself that all men who come from nothing that suddenly come into money act like this, buying things and spending money lavishly — and i think it is sad and demonstrates that in a way, similar to how blood river can never really shed its history as an assassin sect, su changhe can never really escape his origins and will always be perceived as an "outsider" or inferior in that sense.

and we can already see how deeply that affects him when it comes to members of blood river telling him "nameless can never be true members of the family". even when he's cavalier about how he's regarded (here and joking about how he has twisted charm, roguish ways etc.) combined with how openly and deeply his entire ambition and hunger comes from yearning for the light... and how he so deeply admires su muyu, someone who went through the same things that he did but came out profoundly different, i just find it deeply sad and tragic that he interacts with and alienates himself from a "good" reputation even jokingly; ex. when the female tang clan member pointed out that she didn't realize he was the sentimental, loyal type, su changhe later twists it into -> didn't you hear that i wasn't the type of man to keep my word?

#cdrama #暗河传 #su changhe #blood river #tales of dark river

su changhe in ep28 of blood river is so annoying 😭 him going "su muyu said this, su muyu would do this, su muyu thinks—" constantly and then making a big deal about how he's the patriarch of blood river and doesn't have to listen to su muyu and going as matter of fact i doesnt want to listen to su muyu!!! when called out on it. him going "i PROTEST against su muyu. i DERIDE su muyu. i SNEER at su muyu. i SCOFF at su muyu—"

and then following it up with the ultimate "i yield to su muyu!!!!" with all of the fake put-upon delight of the cat that got the canary. awful terrible man and su muyu loves him

#cdrama #blood river #tales of dark river #暗河传

i thought they were holding hands 😭

#blood river #tales of dark river #cdrama #暗河传

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#designated survivor: 60 days

just watched the fiery priest (season 1 and season 2) and i surprisingly really liked it; i tried to get into it a while back but it didn't click with me, which was also the case with the same writer's vincenzo (which i know comes highly acclaimed but was definitely not for me).

this time around i ended up getting really immersed in the characters and got really attached to them... season 1 was superior to season 1 in a lot of ways, in my opinion, and i didn't really enjoy season 2. i wish that the series had more character-focused beats in general, especially the emotional kind (!) but i enjoyed it for what it was in the end.

#the fiery priest

she is so unbelievably gorgeous...

#cdrama #echoes of the self #sebrina chen #chen yao #照镜辞

sebrina chen is so incredibly gorgeous as the empress in echoes of the self but the scene where she confronts quan yilun as li yan in front of the throne were so much fun — her expressions as she talks when li yan draws close and puts the tip of his spear on her shoulder!

#cdrama #照镜辞 #echoes of the self #how do you get over your ex stabbing you to death though #even if he looks like quan yilun i am NOT getting over that #sebrina chen #chen yao

the first few minutes of echoes of the self and the FL is already strangling her stepmother, killing her step-grandfather, and arresting her father. i'm all in

#cdrama #echoes of the self #照镜辞 #and then she kills her evil stepmother. wonderful

echoes of the self starring sebrina chen and quan yilun is premiering on the 19th !! so excited

#echoes of the self #cdrama

well yes, that is how getting your heart pierced with a blade usually works

#cdrama #a moment but forever #念无双

i know this is supposed to be a serious scene but this frame of liu xueyi just standing there like🧍while everyone gets attacked by the evil red demonic energy is genuinely taking me out

#a moment but forever #liu xueyi #cdrama

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