I just have a lot of feelings!!

the yin yang master: dream of eternity

dihua + touch/hands | 莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook ep 20

@nutcasewithaknife

No one is doing it like this divorced married couple.

Area Man Turns 30

18 seconds of shirtless Cheng Yi (plus his good doggo butler)

word of honor 山河令 — episode 31

My tribute to Andre Braugher, thank you for Captain Raymond Holt ❤️✨

i mean, i guess i could be normal, but consider: passively suicidal outcasts who find a person to serve as the foci for their devotion until they somehow obsess themselves into better people

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 7.07 | Ding Dong

I lost him, Eddie. No, You saved him. That's how he remembers it. And now, it's his turn to do the same for you.

I am in this picture and I do not like it but only because I’m missing my other half 😭😭😭😭

Cheng Yi using weapons with his left hand.

He has fight choreography where he switches his sword from one hand to the other (both right to left and left to right).

Why didn't you come into my room if you heard me crying?

— evening sun, jane kenyon

xie lian (tgcf) and li lianhua (mlc) have really similar arcs and i love them both.

both 'start' their journey into the jianghu/public life as proud, arrogant and powerful swordsmen who each feel the need to take on a lot of responsibility to 'look after' the world they're in.

both start with impeccable aesthetics and beautiful sword dances

xie lian breaks the heavenly rules to return to the mortal realm to defend the kingdom of xianle. li xiangyi defies public opinion to sign a peace treaty between sigu sect and jinyuan alliance. both are incredibly arrogant in their physical and political ability to achieve their goals, and it takes a devastating event to occue before they begin to doubt themselves in their grief.

they both have a group of close friends (who trained together and took on the same cultivation paths) at the start who they thought they would go through life and death together forever and ever. they brought these friends along with them in their meteoric rise to fame. yet circumstances pull them apart, their friends deserted them, and they are left alone to face the challenges thrown their way.

once again they take on the burden of all the deaths they think they caused in that One Catastrophic Event to retreat from public life and live a relatively slacker life under multiple fake identities.

xie lian: general hua, feng xin guoshi of yong'an, white no face

li xiangyi: li lianhua (quack miracle doctor)

yet their sense of justice and righteousness pulls them time and time again back into the world they left behind (xl's 3rd ascension + llh solving cases with fdb)

actually, ignore with that sense of righteousness part. they both got pulled into the start of canon events because they were coerced into it (xl's massive debt from his destructive ascension + fdb threatening to report llh to baichuan court)

throughout the main story's timeline, they both willingly subject themselves to punishments that limit their abilities (cursed shackles and bicha poison), and even refuse to get rid of them when given the chance to be freed/cured (xl's second ascension and wangchuan flower).

their personality changed a lot from what people knew in the past, and there's a lot of resistance to their new, maturer old grandpa selves. but they bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience to help the plot chug along merrily while reuniting basically everryone in their generation in a minefield of fermenting unresolved trauma.

also, everyone looks at them and thinks they're the most harmless guy in the group when actually it's just their immense self restraint/guilt that's holding them back from being the entire world's nightmare and taking their rightful place at the top of the world. they could totally do it but choose not to.

special:

they also both have a tall dark and broody guy in red whose speciality is murder and ignoring social conventions in front of everyone the MC used to allies with who has been obsessed with them for a Long Time and recognised them On Sight even when everyone else was still a bit unsure. they both have a special little pet name that only xl/lxy can call them. anyone else who tries would probably get eviscerated

*fdb is a notable exception

so anyway i think llh and xl would be really good friends.

— Kang Yohan, The Devil Judge (2021)