Attention danmei cosplayers!! Here is how to buy your cosplays from China — and for *WAY* cheaper than what dokidokicosplays sells them for (A thread):
Has anyone talked about how similar the core philosophies of TGCF and “Everything Everywhere All At Once” are ?
Small thread because I find their storylines and messages connected in more ways than one (spoilers ahead!)
I’m not saying it’s possible to colonize a genre of fiction but when you’re white and the main knowledge you have of a certain culture is from BL webnovels, and you exploit that small source of knowledge in your own works for profit, I think there’s an issue here 😭
If someone who’s not caught up with the Xie Lian VA situation asks why he sounds different in season 2 I’m gonna gaslight them by saying that he accidentally swallowed a bug that permanently changes his voice
This occurs in the novel but it seems like they skipped over it here
One of my favorite things abt Hualian is just how easily they get along + their shared sense of humor.. oftentimes I think authors, in the name of “romantic / sexual tension” or smth, make their characters fight, argue, or miscommunicate w/ each other to the point where you (1/3)
Mmm… Hualian Cinderella AU….. Xie Lian the scrap collector being transformed by Shi Qingxuan (fairy godmother) to attend an annual masquerade ball in Ghost City held by a mysterious man who hosts the dance in search of his beloved…
tgcf donghua fans, help me out? why is xie lian so certain that hua cheng means him no harm, esp after the heavenly officials were clearly rattled by the mention of hua cheng? is it a vibe check? is it the power of Cute? 🤔🤔
Remember guys, when you’re praying to the gods that TGCF’s CN version will include all the revisions and new content that MXTX mentioned, remember that you have to pray to both Xie Lian and Hua Cheng for max benefits
“How can I buy this book cover its sooo explicit” Y’all never did the trick where you had it delivered to a friend’s house and then snuck it into your room ??
A tiny part of me dies everytime someone comments “omg IRL (character)” “canon (character)” “biblically accurate (character)” underneath a white person’s danmei cosplay
What are you going on about
Someone walk me through WHY white people specifically feel the need to write *danmei*. You like the types of characters, tropes, fantasy setting, plots, writing style, gay romance. . . . so just write your own gay fantasy novel ? ? ?
“So which version should I consider to be canon?? There are good moments in the unrevised version that aren’t in the revised, but the revised also has new scenes!”
Here’s what you do. You combine both versions in your head for maximum gayness. Everything, EVERYTHING is canon now
wonder “do these two even like each other?”.. but I never got that feeling when reading TGCF. The reader easily picks up that XL and HC just *inherently* connect with each other and enjoy each other’s presence. It’s the smallest thing, but whenever either XL or HC says smth (2/3)
Guys we can’t keep retweeting / supporting AI “fanart” in danmei. It goes against the beauty of genuine art, including the very writing that you’re creating fanworks of
humorous and the other one laughs at their joke, I get a big grin on my face 😗 they just /get/ each other !!! Ok I’m done gn (3/3)
Also this is no hate to the “drama/tension” romance pairings bc many of my favorite ships are v much centered around that lolol
Like why would people think she isn’t trying her absolutely hardest to bypass the restrictions censorship places on her work? And why do people think the censored version is replacing every other version of TGCF out there ???
I'm honestly tired and annoyed with entitled international fans that cry about hualian not having any kissing scenes anymore as if there's no new hualian contents. mxtx added thousands of words worth of hualian scenes together but god forbid they don't kiss
“How do I explain the new TGCF covers to my parents!!” Pretend one of them is a girl simple as that 😪 they both have long hair, the cishets will not detect anything suspicious
Fellas, is it gay to gently cradle your friend’s head and waist in your arms as you lean their body against the table and stare at their patiently closed eyelashes 😯😮😧
This paired with the “I need a straight danmei” post is …
I need some of you guys to take a step back and remember that authors in China (and other parts of Asia) are fighting for their lives to write about gay romance without their works getting censored or removed 😭
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It was really so disappointing to see
Let’s remember that the donghua team, as grateful as we are to them, can have prejudices and should not be immune to criticism
I think we can all agree that yesterday's TGCF episode is a reminder that while we might love certain pieces of media and literature, they are not free from criticism when they use harmful tropes. Casual racism, sexism, and ableism, is found across many danmei novels, and beyond.
What do you mean we get amnesiac HC
What do you mean HC gets to see XL in red
What do you mean there’s a new scene where XL almost falls over from laughter at a joke HC made
IS THIS REAL. IS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING
Guys, people has found out that the drama Our Ordinary Days has "taken" TGCF's famous line
"To me, the one with infinite glory is you, the one who had fallen from grace is also you. What's important is that it's you and not the state of you"
Literally word by word copy past😒
TGCF SPOILERS ⚠️
“Last time, they spent eight hundred years running towards each other.
This time, it only took an instant to fall into each other’s embrace”
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An incredibly short animatic I made .. maybe I’ll do more in the future ?