hi okay i finally made a turtle blog because I don't want to sound crazy on main but I need to post about them.... main is @/chemicalarospec if you've seen me in likes :)
I had a dream that mostly had star wars characters in it but Lan Zhan was the protagonist and then Wei Ying showed up and their backstory had been changed such that instead of being dead for many years, Wei wuxian had been exiled, and nobody knew whether he was alive or dead. But although lan Zhan always told wei Ying he couldn't contact him back, and he had no idea if Wei was even still alive, he missed him so much he still texted him. On his phone. They had phones.
this may be a sign another yizhan phase is approaching. I feel like I've been seeing more of the people I followed because of this blog on my dash over the last few months? And it's pulling me back in. But who knows.
At the SMG Awards, veteran host Ni Ping and actor Wang Lei involve Xiao Zhan in their round of horse puns, the audience gets very excited and Xiao Zhan laughs adorably.
Has anything cute happened in the time I've been away from this blog? Haha
Not a big return but I've been seeing some of you on my dash more so they're in my mind a little again. Might rewatch the untamed. That's like a 20% chance knowing how much I watch TV but it's a chance haha
I have two requests. The first is: Could you provide the information about the first time when and how the news of XZ and WYB's relationship began circulating?
The second is: Could you give more information regarding the CTurtle's opinion on 'The Devil's Theory'?
Thank you, and have a good day.
thanks for the ask! Sorry I forgot about it for a month. I wrote most of this when I got it :P just didn't post
for your first question, i don't really think that's a characterization of how things happened that I could answer -- their relationship has never been "news", only speculation. People first paired them together in 2016, but that was not active speculation but just crackshipping. Bigger bloggers have posted information about the early days of them being shipped as active speculation. My understanding is that during filming, it was a very niche ship, but grew rapidly when CQL started being promoted/airing. Looking up the fortuneteller compatibility thing may help you get to posts with that history? (Someone ranked them as being very compatible out of dozens of ships, when very few people shipped them because the roles had only recently been announced.) people who have been around longer than me might also be able to answer this better
2. From what I can see on 小红书, it's a less popular theory over there, but not universally dismissed. http://xhslink.com/o/6oAd4QCUrsK
http://xhslink.com/o/5vsCF6xTE0P
I don't remember exactly what's at those two links but I think it's sufficient evidence some cturtles have devils timeline beliefs but don't get much traction 👍 since there's only 2 I don't think I linked this, but looking up bjyx timeline I remember seeing some that focus heavily on filming and after, just barely mentioning their first DDU. However the content of the timeline is overall more reporting facts than any speculation. But from comments I've read most cturtles do not bring up pre-filming potential relationship
"Too bad, because Wang doesn’t look that soulful when he cries—and he has to, in a couple of key scenes—and his stares are never as long or meaningful as Leung’s slight, seductive little smiles."
--amusing but very critical review of Hidden Blade
(TOO BAD! he SUCKS at crying and his stares ARENT MEANINGFUL. XD)
i was like 'hm maybe im overly hesisitant because i dont want to be wrong because i see being wrong as humilating and its one of my greatest fears" and then i saw a post sharing this Leaving MAGA website and i read this testimony and was instantly 'okay no yeah sourcing and being critical of information is super duper important' lol
something i remember from my early turtle days, is i found a question on some quora-like chinese site (zhihu? idk the name) "are wyb and xz gay" and the top answer was no, and the reasoning was all homophobic stereotypes, like, they don't dye their hair/only do it because management forces them to. after reading that i was like "well if these are the best arguments for them being straight, I'm going to think they're gay" haha
So, I finally decided to sit down and write it all out. I have screenshots from my main blog to actually accompany a lot of this :)
So, I don't remember where I was hearing about The Untamed when it broke into the West (my first thought is tumblr but i don't know anyone i was following then who would post about it -- i think actually Ao3?), possibly just seeing it on Netflix frequently?? this post says I had only "heard about the show in passing" -- regardless, in August 2021, I started watching The Untamed
This is particulary funny after seeing xz being trained in flute in the prep BTS.
Once school started my binging stopped and I believe it may have taken until the end of the school year, or perhaps winter break?? for me to finish (if I made any liveblog posts after this one, I deleted them.) I distinctly remember one of my mom's friends visiting with his daughter, one year older than me, and it turned out she also watched The Untamed, and she said you HAVE to watch it all over again after the end knowing all the twists, and to text her when I finished. I forgot to text her when I finished. I forgot to text her when she graduated. I forgot to text her when I heard what college she committed to. I remembered to text her when I heard she was spending the semester in Ireland. That text did not go through. o7 we are two ships passing in the night, etc.
On the note of seeing TU on ao3 -- I don't remember what I was reading/searching by to see it before I watched, but I think after I started watching I checked out fics -- I remember seeing The Untamed RPF tag and thinking, oh great, another case of actors being shipped just because their characters are shipped with the dynamics re-created wholesale (but hm, I would respect ship-actor shipping if it ever was actually the actors' dynamic). XD
But all of this? Did not lead me to turtledom at all.
Instead, our story starts the same year, in my public high school Mandarin class. My young, mainland Chinese Mandarin teacher who soon went off and married a rich Midwestern white guy, taught us about memes and slang in Chinese. Probably the most awesome thing that happened in my high school career? She taught us about 高富帅、白富美、矮穷矬、小鲜肉, and that 王一博 was an example of a 高富帅小鲜肉 (she may have mentioned others and my classmates only latched onto yibo. because he's the coolest, duh "liu laoshi he rides motorbikes too? wang yibo does everything!")
so a handful of guys kept Wang Yibo alive as a class meme. And at the end of the year, our replacement Chinese teacher was picked: "王老师? she can teach us to ride motorcycles!"
and then, this is the record I have:
I was very vague in this post, but I actually, lol, got screenshots of my youtube history that reveal what happened behind the scenes:
There was the late-summer August new youtube interest (how I got into Dan and Phil as well lol), a binge of hello.yibo85's videos. There was surprise at Wang Yibo being an actor in that Chinese show I watched last year -- and one of the actors in that "far-fetched character-projection" ship. An initial avoidance of ship videos because I didn't want to get pulled down the tinhat whirlpool. But eventually, I couldn't suppress my curiosity: how on earth was "bjyx" seemingly the ship name for "wang yibo" and 'xiao zhan"? what did it mean? aaaand that's how I ended up on rainbowsky.tumblr.com and got my turtle education (along with other blogs).
i swung back and forth on doubts, feeling deranged. At one point I looked into larry to see if I was just gullible (I ended up having to specifically search for an ex-larry blog to see larry cpn through the debunking lens lol) (what i learned from that is, don't read into coincidences that could easily made between any two people -- for example, similar clothing, in my recent research i have found shared clothing cpn for m/f yizhan ships.) But the more I dug into yizhan posts on tumblr, the more there were things that only made sense if you already believed. For example, a gaming CPN compilation (that didn't have much proof but I believed) was very convincing.
I put it out of my head off-and-on throughout the school year, but wrote little notes inspired by them that I collected in May 2023, where "I had completely stopped caring about them until this week, I remembered and watched a few comps." Forcing it out of my head was my way to stop feeling like I was getting sucked into a conspiracy, but 'unfortunately' when I came back, I only felt more sure -- and i did that few times i think lol.
After that school year, I wrote notes again in 2024 in January, July (i made a few posts about it that time), October, and then finally this summer I feel in deep -- wrote far more than just two sentences starting in June (probably due to downloading xhs for more than like 2 days and setting my algorithm onto them). (Remembering them usually led to checking the bjyx and yizhan tags here on tumblr, which ironically i haven't really done since i made this blog and started following other blogs)
I needed this, to be honest, at the end of last year. something to be excited about, something to just make me happy :)
the story in short: I watched The Untamed and nothing happened, and then a year later I looked up Wang Yibo because after my Chinese teacher told the class about him a few boys had become "fans" and continued to make funny jokes about him. the hello.yibo85 pipeline got me, i guess.
i hope your ship goes canon is basic. i hope your fifteen year long rpf conspiracy goes canon in a forty five minute video where they make fun of you the entire time is scary. it happened to me
what do other people think about wangyibo's current work? y'all may have realized i don't follow them very closely so i don't know much, but i am aware he has not acted in over a year, but he has filmed sport/adventure things, correct? but focusing on racing. What are you thoughts on what he's doing now and what he wants in the future?
i only have the observational thought on career that being a race car driver doesn't get as much attention as being an actor/idol can. of course, life isn't all about fame.
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