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Watching Heaven Official's Blessing with my Mom - season 2
For the record, she's 70, I'm 40. I introduced her to the Donghua because I knew she'd love it.
"I think your husband* has a few screws loose." (About Shi Qingxuan trying to turn Xie Lian into a woman.)
"Be nicer to him. I'd drop you at once." (About the Earth Master being rescued, then carried.)
"Are you sure this is your husband?" I confirmed this. "Oh honey, I think your husband is gay." (Same as above, pretty much only a blink later.)
She had an eye-rolling contest with Mu Qing when he and Feng Xin fought while Xie Lian was under arrest. She would have won.
"Oh, but he's whipped." (About Hua Cheng helping to free the prisoners in Qi Rong's lair. She believes he might not have bothered. I'm a bit on the fence about this, knowing how he made Eming - and more to the point, how he did not. But I can hardly tell her that.)
There was no verbal response to Qi Rong aside from an exhausted "Pitiful." She observed him with the same expression she might use on a particularly slow dog.
"Now there's a guy you know never got laid." (She said this when Shi Qingxuan threw her breasts at Feng Xin. I was howling with laughter, she thinks it was in agreement, but it was obviously a bit more hysteria-tinged.) She also noted my husband is a brat. I can't argue with that.
She asked me if Xie Lian killed that guy at the end. I told her if she wants to know that she'll either have to be VERY patient until season 3 comes - or be moderately patient and read the books where that answer doesn't come at once, either.
*I told her that on the fuck - marry - kill list Shi Qingxuan is number two. I told her that fuck is Pei Ming because that man has experience. The way Xuan Ji clings to him, he must have some skill, too. Kill is Shi Wudu, but I did not say that to her, just that it's a character she hasn't met. She knows I dislike the Water Master, but she doesn't know how much. I didn't give that answer lightly, in my defence. There are very few characters I resent enough in TGCF, if any, but I had to name someone.)
Watching Heaven Official's Blessing with my Mom
The highlights so far after season 1:
'Why is he scared when someone mentions butterflies?' (I ... honestly can't answer that. Yeah, their wings can cut stuff - or people - but still, it seems so excessive.)
'Idiot woman, have some self respect.' (About Xuan Ji. Not how I would have put it, but I share the sentiment.)
'I want a little ribbon like that.' (About Ruoye, obviously. I tried to explain to her that she might reconsider eventually. She has since produced a white silk band from God-knows-where in her house and keeps fondling when we watch.) 'Aw, come on, how bad can it be?' (Worse. I offered to lend her the books after season 2.)
'I like that snake. I want one.' (She's a biologist.) 'Okay, maybe not that many.' (The scene where they pour down into the sinners' pit.)
'Are we going to see those two women again? They seem fun.' (Wind Master and Earth Master in Banyue arc. I told her yes. I managed not to look like I want to cry.)
'Isn't it a little early to be giving him a ring? Waiiiiit. ARE THOSE HIS ASHES?' (We had a death in the family recently and burning your ashes into a diamond was a VERY present topic of conversation over the past couple of weeks, but I feel so stupid now because I only got that one when HC says if the place where they're kept is destroyed he doesn't care anyway.)
Edit: I'm forty, she's seventy. I swear she knows more anime than me and this is the kind of story she totally digs.
Again and again and again and again do it again
Redraw of that amazing witch hat atelier art
This amazing art !!!!!
What actually happens to Beefleaf in Canon?
I feel like there are a lot of misconceptions about what happens to Beefleaf in canon. Most of this misconceptions are due to the deceptive way in which the story is constructed, which has the objective of increasing the perceived terror leading up to the confrontation against Black Water, to maximize it during the very confrontation and, in order to do so, temporarily gives the reader false information about Black Water, that is rectified later in the story, sometimes even after the end of the Black Water arc. Some of these misconceptions are actually encouraged by the author as a mean to create fear in her characters, before being disproved.
Due to the structure of the story, what actually happens in canon may be lost on a first reading, but it becomes more obvious during a second reading, when one can revisit older scenes, knowing He Xuan’s identity and motivations.
In this meta I will examine:
When does He Xuan substitute the Earth Master?
Xie Lian’s deduction
Ming Yi’s Face
When does He Xuan discover about the traded fates?
Xie Lian’s deduction
Why did He Xuan infiltrate the heavens?
What did He Xuan want for Shi Qingxuan?
The escape from the Water Master’s palace
Shi Qingxuan’s corruption
He Xuan hurting Shi Qingxuan
Was He Xuan really going to trade Shi Qingxuan’s fate?
The MDZS parallels
About He Xuan’s characterization
He Xuan’s goodness and his fight against tyranny
He Xuan’s diet
He Xuan’s bearing
The “Not your best friend” gag
As this meta’s focus is on misconceptions, Beefleaf’s romatic troping won’t be examined in here, unless relevant to the meta’s scope.
So, let’s get right into it!
Continuar lendo
the three tumours are the mean girls of heaven official’s blessing
shi wudu: he may seem like your typical selfish, back-stabbing, slut-faced, ho-bag. but in reality he is SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT
ling wen: that’s why her hair’s so big...cause it’s full of paperwork secrets
pei ming: one of the dumbest gods you will ever meet
and it’s all narrated by he xuan
People saying that Hua Cheng apparently has no interests outside of Xie Lian is so wild to me.
He is a sculptor and painter, he rules Ghost City, clearly has fun at the Gambling Den, pretends hes not friends with He Xuan (when they clearly share SOME form of camaraderie for him to LIE to XIE LIAN about it), is very well read (he would have to be, to defeat literature gods) and finally, clearly has fun with aesthetics/visuals, both in his residence and his clothing/powers (he didnt HAVE to go with a butterfly motif, he picked his aesthetic and IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH XIE LIAN).
He is a powerful ghost king who lords over his city and he loves it. Xie Lian also loves it (simp)
You know who didnt have any interests or opinions outside of Xie Lian? Wu Ming. Wu Ming followed him and didnt care about anything but him. And he didnt manage to stop Xie Lian or change his mind, a random guy with a bamboo hat did. In a way? That was a lesson for him. So he goes to Mount Tonglu, and slowly, over the centuries, he becomes his own person. By the time they meet again, he is fully his own individual.
Seriously, just because the guy is madly in love, doesnt mean he doesn't have a life. Dont take that away from him, just for a ridiculous 'hualian's relationship is unhealthy, actually' take.
Edit: thank you @ignite-the-moonlight for pointing out that he collects rare items as well
(TGCF chapter 207) just like newlyweds~
when i first heard about tgcf i thought it would be a cliche romance between like moral xl who sees the good in hc even though hc has done evil things and like it would be like a bad boy/good girl dynamic. but then xl nearly wiped out an entire country out of anger and the worst thing that hc has done has been like. challenging gods to a fair duel x.x
Imagine your 800 years old crush suddenly visiting your ghost city and you need to act cool and mysterious but actually you’re just screaming internally at high volume
Only like ... 60% of them were actually legible lbh
tgcf art dump 👍
i keep thinking about how much i'd love to read tgcf from hua cheng's perspective but then i realize so much of it would just be
"gege!!! gege looks so radiant today... holy shit it's gege!!! FUCK YOU mu qing, FUCK YOU feng xin, ill fucking - holy shit is that gege???"
how can one man be so badass and also such a clusterfuck. no wonder xie lian loves him so much