#chenqing ling

[dolphelecat]

Prompt

So I have this weirdly specific scenario I want to read a fic about.

So Person A gets trapped in, like, a lantern or an enclosed table lamp. They don't remember or experience this. For them it's like they had a nice dreamless nap and then woke up. They just look like a light inside the lantern/lamp.

However, whatever rules trapped them there keep them there for a very long time. If the people involved are mortal, it will be sometime after Person B dies. If the people are immortal, it's long enough that it's a disconcerting amount of time for the people to be apart.

So Person B has this little lantern/lamp and tends to it and takes care of it, talking to it as it's the only bit of Person A they have, possibly with no expectation of ever seeing Person A again but still caring for them the best they know how.

Luckily, Person A gets out a LOT earlier than expected. It's short enough that the two can have a happy ending, but long enough that Person B was nicely traumatized.

A bonus scene is sometime after this, Person B is compromised -- just woke up from a nightmare or sick/injured and delirious, etc. -- and they can't see the lamp/lanter and freak out, and Person A has to calm them down and comfort them.

If you write this, no matter the fandom or pairing (I'm sure I'll regret that later), please send it to me.

Thanks!

[dkniade]

(Wrote this some months ago)

I’ve always known that The Untamed is not a direct translation of 陈情令’s title… BUT IT SUDDENLY DAWNED ON ME THREE (?) YEARS LATER THAT THE DRAMA’S OPENING THEME SONG IS 无羁 (Wu2 Ji1)

羁 refers to a horse’s bridle.

Meaning The Untamed is actually a translation of the main theme’s title 无羁 instead of the drama’s.

By the way, it’s also the same Wu (无) in Wei Wuxian (魏无羡)’s name. And while it doesn’t use the same hanzi character and meaning as Lan Wangji (蓝忘机)’s Ji (机), it’s the same pronunciation.

Meanwhile, the drama’s title 陈情令 (Chen2qing2 Ling4)…

陈情 means… “give a full account (of something)”, in this case likely a confession of one’s feelings/actions (be it hostile or romantic or platonic or something else). It’s also the name of Wei Wuxian’s dizi/flute.)

令 in this context is likely 小令 (xiao3ling4) as in “short tonal poem” (a form of Chinese poetry) or one could simplify it to “verse”. (Fitting since Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian both play instruments which likes alludes to 高山流水, a story of a qin player and a listener who can see in his mind the qin music’s intended imagery. The term 知音 / zhiyin can mean “heart’s accompaniment”, literally being “understand the sound”. By the way, the imagery of an unseen Instrumentalist in the distance is very common in traditional Chinese poetry so the instrument-playing Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian’s make quite the poetic imagery.) Alternatively 令 could also mean ”order”/”decree”.

In English prose—

From a romantic angle, 陈情令… can mean “Confession Verse”, “Short Confession Poem”, etc. Or, from a non-romantic angle, “Monologue” seems to work too (even if it’s a more loose translation)

(WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE UNTAMED’S VERY LITERARY CHINESE TITLE CAN BE INTERPRETED AS “LOVE LETTER”)

But if 令 is taken to mean “order” or “decree” along with 陈情’s ambiguous meaning, then 陈情令 could also be roughly interpreted as ”Guilty Confession Order”.

Bringing in 令’s “verse” imagery together with the “order” imagery, and the various meanings of 陈情…

陈情令 as “Open Letter Order” in prose?

[viterbofangirllovestheuntamed]

[screaming-starfruit]

Just a small observation in The Wind Rises In Luoyang 👀

Source: Weibo

[dies-first]

Jingyi what the fuck bro do it again

Based on that scene from dbz!!

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[domino-waki]

it's my boyfriend's brithday, he can girlboss, gaslight, gatekeep as much as he wants today and every day

he stole him bf's ribbon

[lan-gaypanic-wangji]

I have no idea what I'm doing anymore.

Wei Wuxian's Shoulder Angel, which is a tiny Lan Wangji with tiny wings: You're not just gonna let him die like that, are you?

Wei Wuxian: My shoulder angel.

Wuxian's Shoulder Devil, which is Wuxian's Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever, with little horns and a tail: Don't listen to that guy! He's trying to lead you down the "path of righteousness". I'm gonna lead you down the path that rocks!

Lan Wangji: Ah, come off it!

Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever: You come off it!

Lan Wangji: You!

Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever: You!

Lan Wangji: You!

Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever: [smirking] You infinity. [Lan Wangji growls in frustration] [to Wei Wuxian] Listen up, big guy. I got three good reasons why you should just walk away. Number one: [points at Lan Wangji] Look at that guy! He's got that sissy, stringy, music thing.

Lan Wangji: We've been through this. It's a guqin, and you know it.

Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever: All right. So, that's a guqin... and that's a dress!

Lan Wangji: Robe!

Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever: Reason number two: [does a one-handed handstand] Look what I can do! Ha, ha! Ha!

Wei Wuxian: But, uh, what does that have to do with anything?

Lan Wangji: No, no, he's got a point.

Wei Wuxian: Listen, you guys. You're starting to confuse me, so, uh, "begone"! Or, uh, you know, however I get rid of you guys.

Lan Wangji and Resentful Energy Demons or Whatever: That'll work.

[serendipityunderstarlight]

*walks towards the stand*

*taps the microphone*

Hello hello

Has anyone thought of

An Addams Family AU for WangXian?

Thanks.

*walks away*