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tavina-writes · 3 days

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due to answering the ask I just got, I was reminded again of Gu Long's "On Wuxia" essay, translated here on Wuxia Wanderings which is a really fantastic resource by the way!

More specifically, the passage where Gu Long writes about Jin Yong (both of them tremendous greats in the wuxia genre btw) is just so...kind. There's something so wonderful about the way he talks about how he feels about the genre as well as Jin Yong himself.

I was initially reluctant to talk about contemporary wuxia authors, but I can make an exception for Jin Yong. Because his influence on this generation of wuxia fiction is unmatched, and for the past eighteen years or so, no matter what author you take, all of them have been influenced by him to some degree. He merged together the strengths of each major author and school, and not just from wuxia fiction, but also from classical Chinese literature and modern Western literature. in order to create his own unique style that is succinct, tidy, and lively! His novels are tightly plotted, large in scope, yet the endings match up with the openings, and the characters within are lifelike and vividly portrayed.

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Most importantly, he created the current style of wuxia fiction that almost no one has been able to surmount.

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When I myself first began writing wuxia novels, I was basically just imitating Mr. Jin Yong. Ten years of writing later, when I was writing The Sword and Exquisteness and Legendary Siblings, I was still imitating Mr. Jin Yong. I believe there are many wuxia authors in the same situation as me. On this point, Mr. Jin Yong certainly deserves to feel proud.

I'm not entirely sure I have a meta essay about this, just thinking about the way that like, even someone like Gu Long who was also truly one of the wuxia greats of all time, had such admiration for Jin Yong and his work, and how so much of the time in fandom when I've talked about it people don't know his work really well! They might love MDZS or erha or works that have come after, but we all stand on the shoulders of giants in many ways.

I also remember something a friend commented when we were on the thread on spcnet.tv forums mourning Mr. Jin Yong's passing in 2018, that's really stuck with me and that's the line of "I feel like, in [his] stories, the women are always braver." and maybe that's what I was thinking of when looking up this essay due to the ask I just answered.

#meta #my meta #gu long #jin yong #wuxia

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nagabajuungu · 1 year

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Word of Honor: Classic Gu Long’s Elements in Wen Kexing

Any wuxia fan must know Word of Honor is a derivative work in this genre, and I even drew some parallelism from Jin Yong’s works, especially The Smiling, Proud Wanderer: the plot, the characterization, and even a little bit of the romance (though, of course, not entirely). But I recently sort of realized (quite all of a sudden) that there are also some classic Gu Long’s elements, particularly in Wen Kexing. I found that his character design (not necessarily his personality, though) was modeled after Chu Liuxiang in Gu Long’s kind-of-detective series and Jiang Xiaoyu/Xiaoyu’er in his Legendary Siblings.

Anybody knows Chu Liuxiang must remember that the elegant hero wields a hand fan, has (though, in Wen Kexing’s case, not actually lives in) a huge ship, has three maids and one of them seems to have a crush on him, also, and this is important, has a best friend who loves drinking wine (although here Zhou Zishu is not exactly his best friend, if you just know what I mean).

Wen Kexing’s upbringing―deliberately written so, me thinks―is so similar to that of Jiang Xiaoyu/Xiaoyu’er: they both lose their parents, are taken into a valley full of evil people, and raised/surrounded by them until they both reach adulthood. So here I firmly believe that the Ghost Valley and the Ten Great Ghosts were modeled after the Villains’ Valley and the Ten Great Villains, respectively, in Gu Long’s Legendary Siblings.

These findings are quite interesting, and I suspect there are more and more in Word of Honor similarities to or prototypes of wuxia classics, either it’s by Jin Yong or Gu Long, or any other classic wuxia author, for that matter.

#word of honor #shan he ling #shl #wen kexing #wuxia #jin yong #gu long #woh

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killingdoll · 1 year

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Bromance in Wuxia (武侠)

Upper: Hua Wuque & Xiaoyu’er from 绝代双骄

Lower: Fu Hongxue & Lu Xiaojia from 边城浪子

#bromance #wuxia drama #the handsome siblings #bordertown prodigal #zhu yilong #hu yi tian #chen zheyuan #绝代双骄 #边城浪子 #c drama #gu long #胡一天 #朱一龙 #陈哲远 #傅红雪 #路小佳 #花无缺 #小鱼儿

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silveremulsion · 1 year

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Legend of the Bat (1978)

#Legend of the Bat #shaw brothers #ti lung #chor yuen #wuxia #gu long #Chu Liu-Xiang #kung fu movies #martial arts movies #hong kong movies #film #70s movies

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beautifulworldbeaitifulboy · 3 months

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#三少爷的剑 #三少爺的劍 #Third Young Master's Sword #武侠 #武俠 #wuxia #古龙 #古龍 #Gu Long #fanart

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luzity · 1 year

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first vs last appearances

#their growth...... means so so much to me #toh spoilers #toh #the owl house #watching and dreaming #luz noceda #gus porter #willow park #amity blight #hunter #mine #*all #i was going to do vee but no room D:#okay there was one specific hunter shot i wanted but text was in the way :(#long post #long gif post

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rileyclaw · 1 year

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emerald trio: enigmas to all, but most especially amity blight

#like have u ever had someone step on ur back after a long day of being hunched over.#its HEAVENLY #the owl house #toh #emerald trio #toh s3 #gus porter #willow park #hunter toh #this comic is dumb. i just want to draw dumb things. crawls into a cardbox box in a rainy alleyway so pitifully #amity blight #toh comic #fanart #my art #need someone to do this to me rn actually ive been hunched over all day drawing #fsghdjfhsjdfs

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soldrawss · 7 months

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🧹🐺🧛‍♀️ Trick or Treat!⚡💀😈

#my art #toh #the owl house #toh hunter #toh willow #toh huntlow #toh winter #huntlow #vee noceda #luz noceda #amity blight #gus porter #willow park #please like this #it took me so long to make #and im hoping tumblr doesnt shit on the quality of it

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k-star-holic · 11 months

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Confessions of Lee Sang-woo, Parents Tell Their Hearts (Hope TV)

#Burial #Confessions #Lee Sang-woo #Gu Long

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henrycavilledits · 4 months

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HENRY CAVILL as Gus March-Phillipps THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE (2024) dir. Guy Ritchie

#the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare #henry cavill #gus march phillipps #hcavilledit #henrycavilledit #filmedit #perioddramaedit #long post #gif #nancy

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owoesies · 1 year

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hello i made a comic and its. 32 drawings long. i will add on the others with reblogs, but here's part 1 basically!

#the owl house #toh #hunter #camila #gus #comic #god this took so long #why did i decide to do this.

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tizzymcwizzy · 2 years

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what do you do when you look into your father's eye and all you see reflected back at you is a damned, broken boy

it's finally finished,,, man i spent so long on this holy cow djdbhdgbf i first started this back when clouds on the horizon aired and only just finished it, but im really happy with it!! :D ive never done something this complicated, and at that paint it all as well

also here's some closeups and the full background,