All of my friends got into MDZS/CQL, and I was tempted to join them but ended up not doing so bc of study/workload. Now that you're posting about it, I know that I have to check it out as soon as my online classes are over. Also gotta finish reading your fics from this year, which will doubtlessly be wonderful <3
ima be honest, i had NO intention to get into cql. i got 15 eps in and i was like, well this is okay, feels very destiel/johnlock and whatnot but i’m not about to go back down that path. then i found out the guy who plays lwj is in a dance competition show, and said dance competition show was available online, for free, translated into english, so i thought yeah okay this will be something nice and relaxing to watch while i recover from grad coursework.
but then sdc3 turned out to require some of the highest emotional engagement i’ve ever had in a tv show. and then i ran out of episodes and went back to cql, which turned into CANON KIDFIC complete with EXTREME LOYALTY KINK, and by ep 33 i was sobbing, and by ep 43 i was sobbing some more, and i honest to god have never watched a show that felt like a straight injection of dopamine into my brain. it’s not like cw shows where you know when you’re watching it that the showrunner hates you, personally, and wants you to suffer. cql is more like “we want to stay close to the canon material but, yk, censorship.” and also the original danmei is, uh, spicy.
now some kind positive neural loop has been created in my brain where every time i see any cql related media at all i get this mild spark of joy, like oh right maybe love does exist somewhere, and for a second the world doesn’t seem so horrible.
so here i am! unapologetically obsessed with this thing i thought i would never ever be interested in
ps i highly recommend when you get into it, watching the fansubs by @suibiansubs rather than the netflix subs. @jiaersubs on twitter has the sdc3 fansubs
pps i wrote a lot of weird stuff this year, so i hope you enjoy!
















