⬆️ DO NOT INVITE THIS MAN TO YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY. HE WILL RUIN YOUR SPECIAL DAY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

So fucked up for Nirvana in Fire to mostly be a show about people sitting around and just talking while simultaneously being one of the most compelling, heart-wrenching, complex, character-driven shows to ever exist. Fucked up. They're just sitting or standing and talking about policies and rituals half the time. Why is every single character fully fleshed out. There's like fifty of them. Genius

《 琅琊榜 》Nirvana in Fire (2015)     ⤷ Liu Tao as Mu NiHuang

↳ Our wife Mu Nihuang for @orchisailsa

found some LangYaBang / Nirvana in Fire pics on Pinterest too funny not to post here.

I have been in a love/hate relationship with this video for 2 years, making sure it was perfect, but I'm so happy and proud of how it turned out. This is my first Nirvana In Fire video, and hopefully, I will be making more.

This video is dedicated to @not-saying-revolution-but after she made me a gifset from Guardian.

Drama: Nirvana In Fire (琅琊榜) Song: This is War Artist: Thirty Seconds to Mars Edit: imsorryandthankyou

where have you gone now? / let's go together

(Lyrics from Fearless/无畏 by Ma Di)

Hu Ge Cat Boop!!

Happy Pride! I’m thinking some Nirvana on Fire for me

Yujin wishes she’d been born a boy.

If she was a boy, maybe her father would pay more attention to her. If she was a boy, people wouldn’t give her so much grief for spending all her time with Jingrui.

If she was a boy, she wouldn’t be engaged to Lin Shu.

“He’s mean,” she complains, because it’s true. She’s thirteen and has had quite enough of all the other noble daughters telling her what an excellent match her father has made for her.

Lin Xie won her hand for his son in a card game before she was even born. Her father put as much effort into that as he did for anything else involving her.  

Jingrui pats her on the back sympathetically. “Maybe he’ll be less mean when he’s older.”

“Men get meaner as they age,” she tells him, because that’s what Aunt Yan had told her. “It’s a good thing you’re a crybaby – that means in twenty years you might still be nice enough to get a decent wife.”

He puts her in a headlock, even though she’s taller than him, because he’s a son of both a political and a martial family and he has the muscles to prove it.

Lin Shu is going off to war tomorrow. She thinks of going to say goodbye, but figures that it’s a waste of breath. Maybe he’ll get some niceness beaten into him on the battlefield, like Lin Xie had.

At least her in laws are nice. She should probably go to keep Xiao Jinyang company, since she’ll be lonely with her husband and son gone, and Yujin’s future is likely dependant on how much her future mother in law likes her.

Yujin already knows that Lin Shu will be no help at all once she’s married to him.

She hopes they only have girls. It would serve him right.

Yes I know this isn't all the princes that is on purpose

Okay so sometime in ep 18 or 19, Commander Meng and Mu Nihuang try to argue that maybe, JUST MAYBE, Mei Changsu should let Jingyan know his identity bc then maybe they wouldn’t have to do so much sneaking around and lying to Jingyan all the time and also idk maybe it would be important to the man who has literally never gotten over your death??? But MCS shoots this down, explaining how 1) it would distract Jingyan with ~feelings~ and we can’t have that! 2) it would give Jingyan leave to not listen to me 3) I’m going to die anyways 3) sneaking around and lying is very important to the whole get the throne business and we need Jingyan to have plausible deniability etc etc. MCS is VERY clear that under NO circumstances are they to tell Jingyan that he is Lin Shu. His plan is: put Jingyan on the throne, get justice for Meiling, and die quietly in a corner without causing Jingyan further pain (this last is not spoken aloud, obviously). On re-watch, there are two big flaws in this plan: 1) Jingyan isn’t stupid!! Mei Changsu will have to actively misdirect him at all times to keep his cover from being blown, which is not possible because unfortunately MCS is NOT an emotionless automaton. This is proven in, like, the literal next scene. 2) Jingyan, who has loved Lin Shu for a lifetime, might just be capable of loving Mei Changsu too, which should surprise no one because he is, in fact, STILL LIN SHU.

My sister made it for me!

《 琅琊榜 》Nirvana in Fire (2015)  

Their relationship is such an interesting mix of silliness, dramatic moments, and attentive care

“I don’t want him to be alive in my heart. I want him to be alive in this world.”

Nirvana In Fire 瑯琊榜 | Episode 40