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hi hello!! i too got dragged into 莲花楼 hell bc of you lmao specifically your post about llh at the end being a ghost!! and then i watched the opening ep and just. fell head first in rip. love when a narrative is haunted by the main character no matter whether they're alive or dead
omg it was the ghost post that did it, i'm so glad there's other people here enjoying these themes with me <3 we are all on the same wavelength. and i'm so glad you're liking the show!!! it really grabs you quick and then before you know it you're building a house in brainrot territory hehe
#also for the record you're the third person today i've apparently had a confirmed hand in convincing to start watching mlc this is wild#normally no one really follows suit if i yell about my blorbo media#but it seems i've persuaded a total of a very much nonzero number of people to get on the mlc train#extremely proud of my influence jfjfjskkss#mysterious lotus casebook#ashton answers#ruiconteur
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Hello! May I ask you a question regarding MLC?
On ep 38, we see the wedding chamber is named "雨伏風關", and upon seeing the subs "Never ending Winds and Rain", my mind inevitably went to clouds and rain which is, ahem. I wouldn't put it past Jiao jie tbh to name her wedding room Never Ending S** but turned out It's actually a reference to a Du Fu poem https://baike.baidu.hk/item/闌風伏雨/4666705
And the characters are in reverse??? I do not have nearly as enough knowledge in Chinese language to parse out what this means.
Is it a normal idea to name a wedding room Stormy Times to begin with?
Or does it have a different implications when the characters are reversed?
Thank you so much for any brainstorming you can offer, much love! 🥰🥺
hello my friend,
going to be perfectly honest; i did not pay much attention to the names of each of the locations while watching this show. however, i'm willing to bet that the characters on the plaque of the wedding chamber aren't in reverse - it's just that chinese historically is read from right-to-left instead. so it's still 阑风伏雨 as per the line from the poem.
to my knowledge, 阑风伏雨 is typically used as an idiom these days - and indeed it would translate to "the unending wind and rain." it seems it once specifically referred to "the wind and rain during autumn and summer."
as per that baidu page u linked, it seems its equivalent (阑风长雨) came from Tang dynasty poet Du Fu's 《秋雨叹三首》 (Three Laments About the Autumn Rain), and specifically the second part:
阑风长雨秋纷纷，四海八荒同一云。
去马来牛不复辨，浊泾清渭何当分？
禾头生耳黍穗黑，农夫田妇无消息。
城中斗米换衾裯，相许宁论两相值？
apparently it was written during a year when it rained for more than 60 days - pretty dire times! people didn't have food to eat, the heavy rain destroyed their homes, the crops failed and couldn't be harvested... and then the chancellor/prime minister(?) Yang Guozhong happened to find some seedlings that had survived and were growing well, so he proclaimed to the emperor: “雨虽多，不害稼也。” (Despite the heavy rain, the crops are not harmed.)
so...... i'm kind of blanking on how that fits into the context presented in LHL. @ruiconteur & @difeisheng, any thoughts?
BUT another search showed me that the specific character-for-character phrase is also used in Qing dynasty poet Nalan Xingde's 《菩萨蛮·阑风伏雨催寒食》 (The Endless Wind and Rain Ushers in the Hanshi Festival):
阑风伏雨催寒食，樱桃一夜花狼藉。刚与病相宜，锁窗薰绣衣。
The endless wind and rain ushered in the Hanshi Festival;
Overnight, the cherry blossoms were scattered into disarray.
Such a scene was most fitting: recently ill, I was reminded of the springtime of my youth - that which had gone and could never return.
After locking my windows, it was time now that I dried my embroidered robes by the brazier.
画眉烦女伴，央及流莺唤。半晌试开奁，娇多直自嫌。
In my husband's absence, I could only trouble my female friend to draw my eyebrows.
But she was not around either, so I had to ask my maid Ying to call for her.
When she arrived at last, I was so afraid of seeing my sickly complexion in the mirror that I hesitated for a long while before daring to open the trousseau.
Yet to my surprise, I appeared delicate and lovely - I was happy for a moment, then wondered for whom I was dressing up as my husband was not here to see it. At once, embarrassed, I resented my own beauty.
that is SUCH a rough translation; let me know if you want me to clean it up in the future.
typically (given the wuxia context/general historical framing) i'd assume the Tang dynasty poem is the one they're referencing, but i feel like the later Qing dynasty one fits more here with respect to JLQ?
to sum it up: i don't really know why the wedding chamber is called that either. tbh it just sounds like an elegant literary name. (are clouds and rain a euphemism that i'm not aware of?? lol i really did not think in that direction at all) anyway i hope this was at least a little bit interesting <3
#bean-in-dice#ask#mysterious lotus casebook#thank u for the question! this was rly fun; my brain is just kind of fried#my translation#but super rough tl so if anyone wants to use this ill clean it up for u later on lol#莲花楼
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Okay I'm halfway through the MLC concert (thank you @ruiconteur!!) and feeling Pretty Normal (note: she is not feeling normal) and Zeng Shunxi sings this song "Love of a Lifetime (一生所爱)," with lyrics like "Being in love but not being able to be together / Maybe I should believe it’s destiny (相亲 竟不可接近 / 或我应该 相信是缘分)" and "Lover, upon separation, will never return (fading love) (情人 别后 永远再不来（消散的情缘))" am I missing something about the meaning of this song or about c-drama concerts in general or to whom Zeng-Sunxi-as-Fang-Duobing is supposed to be singing this love song to or??? Anyway back to eating glass
#mlc concert#mysterious lotus casebook#this concert sacking us over the head with fdb/llh#censorship what censorship#fang duobing#li lianhua
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Title: Lucky Thirteen
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Summary: Private Investigator Magnus Bane has finally gotten a lead on his mother's murder more than a decade after the trail has gone cold, and he'll be damned if he's going to let some gorgeous stuck-up FBI agent swoop in and take him off the case.
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not to bring up the wei qing discourse again, but i was reading your yiling wei au again and i thought of an explanation that better fits both canon and chinese naming traditions, and i'm pretty sure no one brought it up during the discourse itself. iirc you cited madam jin as a reason to change wq's name, but the thing is that when you use furen (madam), you're supposed to attach your husband's name, which means that madam yu is actually the odd one out skdhskf. an argument could be made for how it symbolises the fraught tension between yzy and jfm, but yeah.
however, your name still stays the same. so madam jin's name would have stayed the same. she just would've been referred to as jin-furen. you can see this with jyl, who's referred to as jin-xiao-furen (young madam jin). also, i'm pretty sure cultivators keep their name regardless of their sect (see: su she and luo qingyang). it's just that most of the disciples we see are clan (familial) disciples, not sect (outer) disciples, which is why their family name is the same as the sect name.
so what i initially thought, upon reading your au, was that wq changed her name to emphasise her declaration of loyalty to wwx. family names in chinese culture is incredibly important, and to change your family name is to essentially turn your back on your ancestors. so what i read was wq turning her back on the wen legacy and declaring her loyalty to wwx in a way no one can refute. even marriage can be written off as political, but the changing of a family name hits a lot harder and more irrevocably.
her marriage to wwx, then, would've been inferred from her position in the entourage and her proximity to him.
btw, if you're comfortable with it, could you publish this publicly so more ppl are aware of this? it's okay if you're not skdjjs but i know a lot of cql fans don't have a lot of knowledge of chinese customs and stuff so yeah this might be helpful
hi! it’s nice of you to point all this out, but it was where i was going to begin with
my point with madam jin wasn’t that she changed her name after she got married because she got married. i’ve written people getting married in the untamed universe before i made that tumblr fic, and i didn’t have them change their name, because i was aware that that isn’t really a thing in chinese culture. and tbh i find character name changes to be a little jarring as a reader, so i avoid them when i can.
my point with madame jin - and at the time i thought she had a jin last name that she used outside of the madame title but i’m pretty sure that’s incorrect - and others is that in canon it seems like people are running around with clan family names without actually being part of the main family. this could just be because of messiness of the drama or because i’m just bad at keeping track of everyone’s names
so how i handled this in lynchpin was i had it being a thing where people take on the clan name while they’re apart of the clan. except for the jiang, who are little rebels.
so it would be like, for example:
birth name: wei ying; courtesy name: wuxian; clan name; jiang wuixan
so like, anyone could refer to any disciple in gold “young master jin” without knowing their real name. and people could either use their clan name or not, but most would as a sign of status and allegiance, but doing so wouldn’t be giving up their name
I UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT CANON
the point is that i thought it would be interesting and a fun and useful convention to throw into fic. even though it’s not historically accurate, i think that that’s fine because there’s no historically accurate way to address large governing clans of magic knights because those didn’t exist
so when wei wuxian clarifies wen qing’s name is now wei qing, it’s to show he’s gone against the jiang practices he grew up with and in his clan people use a clan name.
it’s significant for the wen especially, because there’s a reveal in that universe (that, in all fairness, i never got to because after everyone got so upset about it i really didn’t feel like getting into) that they give up their birth name wen to only go by wei.
i’d had this scene that i really liked where someone claims all the wen have to be killed and wei wuxian was just like “what wen? there are no wen here. there are only wei.” but again, this whole thing caused so much drama that i just wasn’t interested in getting into it again
even though i didn’t go into that, when we see wen ning later in the fic, he’s going by wei ning
it was never about wen qing getting married. that’s why she’s introduced first as madame wei - to show that’s she’s married to wei wuxian, the clan leader of the wei - and then wei wuxian gives her name as wei qing. they’re signifying different things. if the point had just been to show they’re married and her name is wei now, he wouldn’t have clarified her name in front of everyone, since people obviously already know who she is
jiang yanli is in the same fic, married to jin zixuan, and i don’t refer to her as jin yanli. it wasn’t a marriage thing
did i expect that everyone who read my tiny tumblr fic would have also read my 100k monster fic and know i was bringing in similar ideas?
of course not.
but i also hadn’t expected everyone to jump down my throat about changing her name because she got married when i at no point ever claimed that was why she changed her name, nor had i had literally any other married character change their name
i thought i could just do what i usually do and go on to fill in worldbuilding and reveal in other installments so i didn’t feel the need to go into a deep dive of my motivations from page one
anyway
thank you for the information. i like the idea because it’s similar to the idea i already had. great minds think alike.
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hello! i'm here from the ask with your posting times cause it just so happens to fall right in the middle of school 😂 every day is an exercise in self-discipline just so i don't drop everything i'm meant to be doing in class just to read the newest chapter
LOL I AM SORRY! I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER TIME! XDXDXD I was just trying to do it at a time that was like, easy for me to remember so I wouldn’t forget by accident (my memory sucks, it’s possible). I figured if I just posted right before I made dinner, it would remind me every day like, “dinner time--oh, I need to post.” So that’s what I started doing orz
I know for some people it’s at a bad time, and I’m sorry about that, but I do hope you’re paying attention in school because it is very important -nodnod- Hope your classes are going well!! <3<3<3<3<3
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also i saw your posts about the mxtx tls and yeah,, :(( we're rly taking the L here aren't we
YEAH LMAO.... LIKE THIS RLY IS THE WORST TIMELINE
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@idiotandahalf tagged me to share 9 movies I watched for the first time this year
Fun fact about me: this was a struggle because I almost never watch movies and when I do it's usually a rewatch lol
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hello since you're the one who got me into 莲花楼 i thought you might be interested to know i am now obsessed enough to start fansubbing it. yes despite the ongoing semester and the coursework that has literally piled up in the past week alone 😭 anyway this show is a gem ty for the (unintentional?) rec!!
omgggg the brainrot got that intense huh? well a fansub sounds very cool, and 加油 on that amidst your other things!!! also you're welcome for the accidental rec via my inability to shut up about this show jslkdfjs i'm so glad you enjoyed it and that there's one more of us around here yelling about it
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Last movie: either Nimona or Barbie, i think
Currently watching:
【异人之下】 I Am Nobody (2023)
【九义人】 Faithful (2023)
わたしの幸せな結婚 My Happy Marriage (2023, anime)
Other stuff I've watched this year (i added this for my own records 😆):
【云之羽】 My Journey to You (2023, 24 eps)
【灼灼风流】 The Legend of Zhuohua (2023, 40 eps)
【长相思 第一季】 Lost You Forever - Season 1 (2023, 39 eps)
【莲花楼】 Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023, 40 eps)
【安乐传】 The Legend of Anle (2023, 39 eps)
【追光的日子】 Ray of Light (2023, 30 eps)
【长风渡】 Destined (2023, 40 eps)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022, film)
【满江红】 Full River Red (2023, film)
【护心】 Back from the Brink (2023, 40 eps)
【不良执念清除师】 Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023, 12 eps)
【无眠之境】 Desire Catcher (2023, 30 eps)
【东栏雪】 Dong Lan Xue (2023, 30 eps)
【长公主在上】 Her Royal Highness (2022, 27 eps)
【光渊】 Justice in the Dark (2023) 😭 (all 8 episodes...)
【猎罪图鉴】 Under the Skin (2022, 20 eps)
Shows I dropped this year/didn't finish (also added for my own records):
【玉骨遥】 The Longest Promise (2023)
【古相思曲】 An Ancient Love Song (2023)
【九霄寒夜暖】 Warm on a Cold Night (2023)
【君子盟】 A League of Nobleman (2023)
【月歌行】 Song of the Moon (2023)
【浮图缘】 Unchained Love (2023)
Currently reading: 杀破狼 by priest (VERY VERY SLOWLY) but mostly academic papers
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ruiconteur July 25, 2020 at 12:09AM
by ruiconteur
dandelions choke a garden but at least they’re there.
Words: 173, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion
Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier | Dandelion
Additional Tags: Poetry, Free Verse, Friendship, sometimes you just need to keep someone company to be a friend, you don’t have to contribute anything else, just listen to them and be there for them, doesn’t matter if you’re functionally useless in every other aspect of life, and i just think that’s beautiful
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excuse me why did none of you tell me that at the mlc concert they had wang herun and xiao shunyao recreate the malewife moment onstage and then they redid it with chen duling + zeng shunxi and chen yihan + cheng yi
#girl we're reaching new levels of fanservice here i#GOOD FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED THO#and thank you tumblr user ruiconteur for my entire life in sharing this recording#mysterious lotus casebook cast#mysterious lotus casebook concert#ashton originals
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i was tagged by @eldritch-elrics to do this cat picrew! thanks for the tag, this was adorable
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im so sorry you have to deal with all those racist anons hhh i hope you're doing okay!! tysm for your post as well! the way you laid out the different forms of racism in c-media was so clear and concise and i really really appreciate it. take care!
thank you!! im glad to see people responding well to it :)
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