6 and 7 ? :D
hi!! this answer comes so late and im really really sorry about it, work has been incredibly busy these past few days and i didn’t get the time to sit down and reply to you properly until now
i hope you are still around to see this and thank you so so much for asking!! just like the previous message i got about this ask meme im just gonna go and assume you meant 19 days!!
6. Favorite pairing:
this panel is so fitting to answer this question it feels so satisfying sfjksg
but yeah i don’t think this is going to come as a surprise for anyone, i feel like the state of my blog is enough of an indication of which is my favorite pairing in 19 days, and you know, i didn’t want to be predictable in answering these, but what else am i supposed to do, just sit here and pretend i don’t wail dramatically while wandering my apartment at 3 a.m. wrapped in my bed sheet and holding my phone like the equivalent of 18th century fully lit candelabra as soon as i think about them???? i mean i could, but mama raised no liar
i feel like i already talked many times about why i like and ship them so much, and i don’t wanna turn this into one of my usual essays, so instead of analysing them and trying to explain why i think they are an amazing ship, im just going to be sentimental for a moment and admit that while there are tons of reasons for them to be my favorite pairing, they also just simply make me incredibly happy. there are very few ships i ever liked in my fandom life that made me so excited and look forward to new content so religiously as tianshan does, they make me want to write and be creative and share thoughts and feelings with people to the point of probably being embarrassing and annoying, which is also the reason why i came back after two years of being MIA, it’s really so hard for me to contain myself about them because there are just so few things that make feel so alive, and maybe it’s actually sad that one of those things is a 2D pairing, but hey, life is too short to pretend we don’t like things that brings us joy
so yeah, catch me at age 70 still bawling my eyes out about them
7. Least favorite pairing: this is kinda hard for me to answer because while there are ships i don’t really like (see any pairing with she li as of now), i also don’t particularly mind them?? maybe it’s because i actually don’t see that much content about ships that aren’t tianshan and zhanyi (would personally do with more qiucheng tho, just saying *coughs* i mean what), and we also know they are the two canon pairings, so it doesn’t really bother me to see people enjoying different ships as long as everyone is being repectful of each others
i don’t want to leave this unanswered, tho, so if i had to pick one… [ponders the two choices she has] …i guess im going with he tian/jian yi, if only because i enjoy their friendhsip as it is. i also have to admit i can’t really see the appeal of it, maybe because i don’t think he tian was ever in love with jian yi to begin with, i just feel like he saw in jian yi someone who could understand him in some way and help him navigate through the darkness, like he tian calls it, but jian yi never was and never could have been what guan shan is to he tian, and i think this was made abundantly clear by now imho. also for he tian and jian yi to happen you would have to break up both main couples, which would break some of the characters’ heart, no matter how you imagine it going, and that’s something i never want to see happening
it was also kind of weird to me to see some people bringing back this ship after chapter 292 just because he tian seemed to be resting his head on jian yi’s shoulder, when it’s obvious to me that he was talking to guan shan anyway, so yeah, i guess at this point it just doesn’t make much sense to me, and like he tian himself said: