I love them, your honor. I think they should get to be soft and silly
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MY BOYS, I'M IN LOVE WITH THESE TWO
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Link Click Musical content part 45
(I'll link the clips in replies)
this photo goes incredibly hard 🔥
To see recent shenanigans of these two, I advise you just watch the clips I link below. TL;DW version: at the end of the 'sofa quarrel song' the trio stands on a coffee table. During one performance LG shoves CXS off of it (pic 1). Another day CXS has his revenge (pic 2,3).
Qiao Ling tries to mediate but fails. Intense rock, paper, scissors battle ensues...
My guess is, since Cai Qi as CXS has a history of cheating in this game (according to a script LG should win with paper) he tried to win this time again but 5d chess-ed himself. He prob thought LG would expect him to cheat (CXS using scissors to win with paper) and would change his hand to stone. So CXS picked paper to win with stone that was supposed to counter scissors that cheating CXS would pick to win with paper. y-yeah.. Anyway Lu Guang still followed the script and they ended up with a draw ><
I'm so invested in this encore-exclusive 'Rock, paper, scissors' Arc. Words cannot express how shiguang this silly bit is.
⬆ how Cheng Xiaoshi saw himself in rps battle (insert 'L's theme')
⬇ how it really was
ok then, have some other pics now
looking forward to their next performances ^^
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time travel recommendations for link clickers!
Good time travel stories are inherent to the genre of science fiction as a whole. I also find that in Chinese/Chinese-American sci-fi, time travel appears significantly. I think perhaps because so much Asian storytelling muses on the loss of tradition/past to an unfamiliar modernity, or overwhelming history being unresolved to this day. Other times I think simply put, time travel is about love and family and what artist doesn’t like to ponder that? Anyway, some Chinese/Chinese-American stories about time travel that I would love to recommend…
This story is not for the faint hearted. It deals heavily with Japanese war crimes against the Chinese during WWII, but it does remind me a little of Cheng Xiaoshi’s abilities because the story muses on a hypothetical technology that can enable people to intimately experience historical events only once, to devastating effect. Truly, this story is haunting (the kind that leaves you in a funk), but feels eerily reminiscent of Cheng Xiaoshi's timehopping potential. It is also serving as some inspiration for a potential CXS-centric fic idea I have brewing so if that does come to life I gotta give credit where it’s due.
What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu
This isn’t strictly speaking time travel as it is a speculative and unconventional travel through time, which in some ways imagines China’s modern history to have happened backwards. If you’re familiar with Chinese modern history, it is honestly pretty devastating to read, especially because in some ways one can see how it is reflecting reality despite being somewhat opposite of history. While I can’t find a copy of it online, it’s available in English in the anthology of Chinese sci-fi Broken Stars.
okay this post is low key a Ken Liu works appreciation post in disguise but if anyone has read my fic spinning silk , this is the short story whose pages imagine in which Cheng Xiaoshi would keep his mother’s photograph. if you know of any more that you would recommend please share!!
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SGDLR Audiobook, Ep 33
The audiobook and new arcs are my blessing. I really love the 5th story and the final scene just knocked the ground out from under my feet. It's so sweet, so sweet. I really wanted to write it down and keep. Basically this post is a copy of my thread from twitter for the archive.
Friendly reminder, I'm not a native speaker, there is also no subtitles. I'm trying my best, but I can't hear everything and probably made mistakes. Please keep in mind, I wrote it just for reference.
For context: The client in this arc is Nannan. At the end of the case, after some time Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang come to the amusement park where they meet Nannan. The three of them have a rather funny convo, Nannan is also very cute, I think he’s a little bit not able to “read the room” <'D
In the end, Nannan asks why they both came here today, and Cheng Xiaoshi first says that they are just taking a walk, but a little later he answers more honestly - that his parents also took him to this park when he was a child, that’s why he and Lu Guang came here.
He feels awkward talking about it. But Nannan, who was also abandoned, understands Cheng Xiaoshi. Nannan even asks Cheng Xiaoshi “did he find anything” - Cheng Xiaoshi shakes his head negatively, then Nannan replies “neither do I”. And says that he still remembers that day he was abandoned, right down to what color his mother's dress was. It can be said that they understand each other, their traumatic experience very well. The final scene: Afterwards, Nannan leaves. Cheng Xiaoshi looks at his back, standing still, until - Until Lu Guang brings the lollipop to Cheng XIaoshi’s face, pokes at his cheek with it. Cheng Xiaoshi: What are you doing? Lu Guang doesn’t move, still holding the lollipop in his hand, his face doesn't express anything. After Cheng Xiaoshi doesn't receive any response from Lu Guang, he takes the lollipop from him, indignantly pulls off the paper wrapper and puts the lollipop in his mouth. Surrounded by soft morning light, Cheng Xiaoshi almost see Lu Guang‘s smile. But before this smile is captured, Lu Guang hides it. Lu Guang: There aren't enough memories from the past, let's make some new ones He doesn’t wait for Cheng Xiaoshi’s reaction. After these words, he starts walking away without turning his head towards Cheng Xiaoshi. Cheng Xiaoshi didn't expect Lu Guang to say that. He freezes in place, doesn’t know how to react. Until Lu Guang turns to him, looks at him - by the narrative, at that moment they are both drowned in tender sunlight. Then, Cheng Xiaoshi thinks - that’s right, to make new memories. Cheng Xiaoshi moves, walks towards Lu Guang, walks towards “new memories.” Cheng Xiaoshi pesters Lu Guang with questions. He asks about where Lu Guang has got the lollipop. Then, assuming it isn’t from the nearest kiosk, asks again - does it even open or not right now? Lu Guang doesn't give him an answer. It all ends with following: Cheng Xiaoshi: Do you have more (lollipops)? Lu Guang: No Cheng Xiaoshi: Then I'll buy you one. Lu Guang, embarrassed, raising his voice: Don’t! Stop talking! Cheng Xiaoshi laughs back.
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1) Width. Add it.
2) Width. Just. Yeah. If you want to draw a really big guy - do it. The third guy is ok, but it's just a small guy with belly!
3) Gravity! More fat - more soft - gravity goes brr.
4) Basic shapes and clothes would definitely help you to draw a big comfy soft guy!
Miaou
/cackling/
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Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time.
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Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.
Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name
Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”
Patterson died 5 December 1995.
Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.
Merry CCP Day!
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Man, the AU you mentioned about LTC possessing LG and causing damage with his voice and hands that he'll wake up to has not left my brain. I do have some questions, if you would maybe expand on it a bit!
Do you think this is a bit of a role swap, in a way? Of LG being the one possessed instead of QL after what happens with Liu Min and Emma? In that case, what could happen? LTC would have access to his memories, to CXS's vulnerabilities and fears that LG is well aware of, and coming back right after Emma's death might have CXS in a position where only words could do immense damage, without even mentioning the knife he might or might not have access to.
I feel CXS might recognize it's not LG even if LTC tried to act like him, right? But it would not make what he says sting any less, or would not make a sudden stab any less surprising as he comes back from a dive with his guard down, I guess. Ah!!
He might be possessing LG in a completely different context, too, I guess! Although he would need LTX to be around for it to be done remotely, right?
Please forgive my rambling, even just as a concept, I'm very very curious to know what you considered for that idea. Thank you for your time!
Thank you for giving me an excuse to expound on an indulgent au that I dream of whenever I have trouble staying awake during my jet lag aksjsksksk.
I admit that when I have my sleep-affected stories in my head, it is effectively Whump Without Plot so I didn't really have a logical reason of why Lu Guang would be possessed. However, if we were to make a rhyme or reason for it, it would likely be to make Qian Jin's capturing of Cheng Xiaoshi quicker. Since CXS was targeted by the antagonists because they wanted to take advantage of his abilities, after all.
(Which of course is what happens vaguely in the canon, but shhh)
But in an AU where CXS doesn't recognize LG is being possessed (or, even if he does find something odd, isn't in a position to question it), he would easily follow Lu Guang anywhere no question. So he would be an easy mark as long as the baddies can use LG to take him somewhere else.
As for my indulgent AU in which it's a completely different context, maybe baddies want to separate CXS from LG for whatever reason, make him run away from LG and make him more vulnerable to the baddies' attacks, whether to capture him or something else. In which case, they can use LG and force him to push CXS away even if it's just for one vulnerable night. And since LTX's abilities are such that she can see all the memories of a person, it would be at least enough to glean what LG's usual personality and talking style is like to make his possession seem at least believable. And as you say, if it's on such a night that CXS is perhaps already vulnerable--maybe a bad dive, or a hard reminder about his parents--really, it's about saying something hurtful to CXS that he already kind of believes about himself that would make him less likely to question whether or not LG actually means it.
Like, if a possessed LG were to say that CXS is cruel and dishonest, I think CXS would be a bit ? about that. But if LG were to call CXS, idk, clingy and burdensome, which arguably (at least in my headcanon) CXS has wrestled with in his own self-image already, that would make him a bit more likely to believe those are LG's words. Because CXS is already struggling with those worries that he is so, and hearing it from his best friend who knows him most deeply would feel like confirmation ...
(and if he doesn't believe it's LG, then possessed!LG would just knife him and drag him to the baddies we get the best of both worlds lol)
Of course, in the way that Chen Bin was able to sort of gain some sense of self when he was possessed because he was being forced to walk off the edge of a building but the love for his unborn daughter gave him some consciousness to, while unable to resist, have sentience, I can imagine that Lu Guang's love and care for his best friend and seeing the way that he was being used to hurt him would give him some ability to try to resist, or at least be conscious about what he was being forced to do...which is perhaps even worse....
Witnessing his own body and mouth hurting his best friend but unable to stop it...
Whump without plot is so good tho, my brain delights on any kind of whump, particularly towards Cheng Xiaoshi because he bounces back so quickly, he's so so strong that for something to actually take him down or make him falter, it needs to be big. This guy even got up and tried to fistfight a trained ex-cop after getting shot, he's a riot and I ADORE him.
And what better way to hit him than using one of the two people that he undeniably loves and are basically his pillars? LTC using LG's knowledge about his best friend to harm him is so tasty from an angst point of view, particularly because of how staunch he is over shielding CXS from as much as he humanly can, even against his wishes. He knows at this point exactly what haunts his friend in such painful detail that it makes it a great tool to harm him with.
I also do feel if LTC ever had access to LG's memories, he would know so much more about their abilities, he would know exactly what Lu Guang did, he might be convinced even harder than what he wants is possible because it's been tried already. Kidnapping the time traveler now sounds like the BEST option.
(Also, emotional manipulation AND a stab? Yes, you speak my language)
God, Lu Guang being aware in any capacity during all that would be such a horrible experience for him. I don't doubt he might be able to snatch some of it back, enough to be halfway aware, considering everything he's done to save his best friend, but being a forced spectator as his own voice and hands cause the exact things he's been trying to avoid Cheng Xiaoshi from facing would be such a painful, heartbreaking mockery of his abilities. Again, he is unable to do anything but watch, and now he can't even communicate with his friend through it.
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thinking about how all the scenes/imagery of Cheng Xiaoshi seemingly dead or unconscious are all exclusively in the OPs and not in-universe and how that effectively emphasizes his doom in the narrative even more
These tags are Killing Me™, and honest to god I'm terrified, because even while pinned down, kicked, beaten and even shot he found a way to get up, he ALWAYS got up. He always brushed it off and bounced back.
So I wonder what happened, how badly was he hurt or how long did he fight for before he just.... couldn't, anymore. What the hell happened in those woods.
It's gonna haunt me until season 3 drops, it's gonna be some long 2 years....
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Link Click Musical content part 34
(I don't think anything happened today so we're using my backlog)
head empty.
clueless..
betrayal. but f*ck it he ballin.
crushing victory.
also-
*double vine boom sound*
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The manhua is showing the fascinating side of Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi's relationship where LG clearly adores CXS BUT doesn't fully trust him to follow the plan so he actively HIDES some stuff - YET he also falls back and lets him handle it in really dangerous moments. I desperately want to know how he was before their tragedy. I daresay he actually used to trust his partner the way we see CXS trust him (albeit with a bit of a rebelious streak), but now he has secrets that feel impossible to share, and he's fumbling. I NEED the full story
#lu guang the person you are#dont you ever love someone so much#fear for their safety so much#you accidentally set a wall between you?#bult entirely out of your adoration and love#your desire to see them safe beyond anything the world can do to you two#but it is still a wall#there's a distance#a disconnect#it's all your fault#link click#god they make me so#yeah#shiguang#guangshi
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welivantt
im your man by mitski
No one will ever love me like you again
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they're so gentle to each other i want to cry