Who Shed More Tears
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Who Shed More Tears
Original fanedit by 优悠千道 on bilibili. Subbed and reposted with permission. Do drop a like on the original video if you can :)
i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today
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do your TME friends know you have this blog? Do they see what you post here? How do you feel about them reading through it?
yeah. they've told me they've learned a lot from my blog and they appreciate what I'm doing lol
shocked to know you have "tme" friends with how you talk about them
every day I put my TME friends in my industrial paste mixer
sorry @techne-makre , i just really liked this interaction
Having important conversations about guili with the sibling.
thinking about zibai changing the whole trajectory of zhongli's life. aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
guy who was just on teyvat for funsies and wanted to train and become stronger. knows 5000 AncientTM martial art skills and secret techniques. doesn't really care about teyvat and its workings as a world but befriends zibai by chance, who's both an angel and a lunar emissary. she loves humans very very much, something that's programmed into her being and not something he shares. the way the heavenly principles love is indiscriminate, humans as individuals are irrelevant and sacrificing some of them for the greater good is always morally correct. while working with the moons though, she's come to learn to love them individually, so when the HP mandates the destruction of lang-gan, she defies that order and sacrifices herself to save them.
zhongli!!!!! motherfucker!!!!! who made people (me) believe for years is one of the staunchest followers of HPs rules after he took on the job as an archon. who makes you think "ah what a tragic character. he keeps having to sacrifice his friends but he can't even properly mourn that fact because he simply has accepted the duty of Loving Humanity above all, and that always takes priority". who might genuinely feel very deeply for his friends but in the end he'll always let them go bc that's how his character is constructed, he's the One That Outlives Them All and Has Made Peace With That.
yes this fucking guy! actually has NEVER let go. all the shit he did in the past 4000+ years? was a tribute to her.
after zibai not!dies (thanks to the secret technique he taught her), zhongli embarks on a quest to maybe find a way to save her. or maybe that wasn’t the initial goal bc he doesn’t know how feasible it is. what he does is mourn her, grieve for her and commemorate her. zibai died because of her love for lang-gan's people, so lang-gan's people he will protect in her stead. he might not love them like she did but watching over them lies in his power. guy roams around teyvat and befriends guizhong. (hah! another subject he'll have to Mourn). watches humans struggle and try to survive the big upheaval. maybe starts to care abt humans a little bit.
anyways i bet zibai gossiped to him about teyvat's world order and he's very aware that there's something deeply wrong with teyvat. i am convinced that zhongli actively sought out azhdaha because of his identity (dispossessed dragon sovereign, defeated by the HP), he didn't just randomly stumble on that guy and he went to him with a very clear purpose. bc the dragons were part of the Old World, so he goes to him to ask if he knows more about the three moons that were destroyed in the war and if there's a way to go to the lunar palace, where a fragment of zibai's soul resides. either way, the contract he offers azhdaha is thus: i will take you to the surface world if you promise not to harm humans. if you do, i will seal you back into darkness. whether zhongli himself loves and cares about humans is debatable at that point, but ultimately irrelevant intially bc he's doing this for zibai. (inclined to think that he does actually care about humans at this point already bc it adds a very nice layer to the narrative structure where love is something that gets inherited and passed on (from zibai, to zhongli, to azhdaha))
the demon gods (archon) war starts. [insert azhdaha and zhongli positional tension here (i've talked abt that before, whatever)] guizhong dies. the place the two of them ruled over is called guili plains in their memory. azhdaha loses his mind and hurts humans, zhongli seals him away.
the archon war is won. zhongli ascends and makes a contract with the HP to protect and love humanity above all. by this point, that's what he's been doing anyways. we don’t talk about the fact that the HP killed zibai 😊 god. he names the nation he founds after the moon in zibai's memory. 璃月 (glazed moon), after 岩间琉璃…云间月… (jade amongst rocks, moon amidst clouds). and he names his constellations after the jade ritual tools that are used to communicate with the lunar palaces.
it is at this point (fast forward 3600+ years) that zhongli gets introduced to the player. when the player first meets Zhongli, he is a consultant at a funeral parlour in liyue harbor. he is elegant, unhurried, and somewhat absurdly knowledgeable about everything. he also has no money. the first proper thing you learn about him, narratively, is that he has chosen to step down from his position as the geo archon and surrender his divine power — that he has decided, after six thousand years, that humanity is ready to stand on its own. it reads initially as a kind of graceful retirement. someone who has fulfilled his duty and knows when to stop.
then you get into the erosion stuff (him acknowledging that further following this path laid out by the HP where he has to sacrifice his friends for humanity) and about the tsarista contract stuff and hopefully after reading this word vomit, the first chapter of teyvat is thoroughly reframed in your mind <3
The Hazy Moon from When Lanterns Echo the Moon Lunan, HOYO-MiX
Bc I have forever Zhongli brainrot, I suddenly was curious about the song's name in Chinese which is 云楼烟霭月斜白.
The title is composed of five characters arranged in three units without connective syntax. Most literally rendered, it reads: "Cloud tower, misty haze, the slanting moon pale".
云楼 (cloud tower) occupies the celestial register of imagery. A tower so high it has entered the clouds is architecture on the threshold between the human world and the immortal realm. It evokes the jade terraces (瑶台) where the Queen Mother of the West holds court. Li Bai captures this quality in 云生结海楼 ("clouds rise and form towers over the sea"). Clouds are the classical emblem of all that shifts and cannot be held. The 云楼 is therefore a celestial structure already in the process of dissolving, a palace that belongs to a realm that is itself evanescent.
烟霭 (misty haze) compounds two near-synonymous characters (烟: smoke/mist; 霭: vaporous atmosphere) to intensify the sense of something dense and obscuring. In classical landscape poetry and painting, 烟霭 is the technique of making outlines indistinct, of suggesting that what lies beyond cannot be clearly seen or reached.
月斜白 (the slanting moon, pale). 斜月/slanting moon describes not the moon's phase but its position: low and angled in the sky, the moment before dawn. In Li Shangyin's 无题, "月斜楼上五更钟" (the slanting moon appears at the fifth watch) it marks the desolate hour when a dream-visit has ended and the beloved is again unreachable. In Zhang Ruoxu's 春江花月夜, the poem traces the moon through its full arc across the sky, and 斜月 appears at the poem's close. "斜月沉沉藏海雾,碣石潇湘无限路" (the slanting moon sinks deep, hidden in sea-mist) with infinite distances between the separated lovers. The 斜月 thus signifies the end of night, the approach of dawn, and the failure of reunion — it's the moon of exhausted waiting and imminent dissolution.
The addition of 白 (white, pale) strips the moon of warmth, bleaching the scene into something almost colorless and adds to the desolation.
The three units together enact a movement of progressive dissolution. The cloud tower with it's unstable form already dissolving, then being swallowed by the mist; what remains at the end is only the cold light of a moon that will also soon give way to a new day and disappear as well.
If I were to translate the song title a bit more faithfully than "The Hazy Moon" (which was chosen for brevity understandably), I'd go with "Cloud Tower Dissolving in Mist, Pale Moon Declining".
Ah also ofc. Zibai's name also contains the character 白 and her soul is trapped on the moon, so there's also that layer. It's also topical that the domain that we actually get to visit is bathed in the light of dawn ! Bc Zhongli and Zibai's soul fragment actually do not fail to reunite. Bites you bites you bites you
They meet here ⏬ In a celestial domain, high above the clouds, in mist. But not under pale moonlight
i miss zhongli so badly....man
In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
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You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic
everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters
being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.
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why would they open access to the server at 11pm bruh...i was planning on sleeping but now i want to play my vidya game
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why would they open access to the server at 11pm bruh...i was planning on sleeping but now i want to play my vidya game