TheGuildedJade

美真-literacy lover with a love for overanalysing things <3

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I had a thought, hear me out….

Hollanov x Whenever , Wherever! By Shakira

PitBabe x Good Luck Babe! By Chapel Roan

Those who see my vision will know 🙂‍↕️

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Danmei has COMPLETELY wrecked my perception of slow burn because what do you mean characters in western novels get together at the end of book 1, babes they shouldn’t even be holding hands until AT LEAST book 3.

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“Behind the mask, the one smiling at him had the fair and handsome face of a young man. His eyes twinkled with life, a smile curved his lips, and his expression was endlessly gentle and modest”

It was his own face.

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Newfound Danmei Problem:

Scrolling through Pinterest to look at fanart and having to decipher which character it is via context clues (*cough cough* the recommended searches) because it’s all gorgeous men with high ponytails and white/green robes

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Does anyone else absolutely devour every piece of fan art they see but can’t help but wish that some characters were drawn with more ethnic features??

Don’t get me wrong artists are so talented and under appreciated and can single handedly bring communities together, it’s just sometimes when I’m looking for fan art of certain characters (especially in Danmei-耽美) I feel saddened by the lack of ethnicity shown.

It’s probably just me being nit-picky about something that isn’t that deep, it’s just that as a Chinese person myself, these characters share the same background and sometimes I itch for that spark of representation only to feel like I’m looking at a white man in hanfu.

But I have seen many great works of art and representation so maybe I’m just looking in all the wrong places 🤷‍♀️