ch 75 - hi i think im a little in love w wq actually.
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ch 60 - finally maybe settled on “ridge of mass graves” as my translation for 乱葬岗 (I have issues with “burial mounds” lol)… but would like to hear thoughts! how do we like it 😗
ch 95 - to celebrate maotuan's uncensored panels, here's part of the same scene in the novel 🥰
ch 58 (3 scenes) - hadn't fully realized how similar both jiang parents were in their treatment of jc and wwx in this chapter until now... riperoni #豆腐男子翻译
ch 111 🔞 - based on this paragraph alone I'm certain that modern au wwx owns a he/him/hole shirt and wears it on the regular #豆腐男子翻译
extra (朝暮 / together, dawn 'til dusk) - domestic wx is just tooooo cute 🥺 #豆腐男子翻译
ch 111 wangxian 1 - lwj's flashback to when he learned of wwx's death... a-yuan... the wen brand... I will never get over this scene arrgrggh im eating rocks!!!!!
ch 1 rebirth - this has truly been a long time coming. one day I'll post the full chapter. unfortunately, today is still not that day
ch 111 wangxian - father son banter 💙 happy birthday bestest boy lan sizhui!!!! 🥳🎉 #蓝思追0112生日快乐
ch 75 - this scene was the first thing I thought of when I saw this meme lmfaooo
ch 100 confession - happy valentine's day to wangxian and wangxian only ♥️ (1/2)
ch 100 confession - 💧💙 (2/2)
ch 79 loyalty - honestly posting this mostly bc of the sheer number of proper nouns in this one passage lol... feel my pain o>—<
ch 113 mxtx author's note - (tl'd apr 2022) - wanted to share this to emphasize historical inaccuracy != author's lack of knowledge. know the rules to break them well
ch 126 yunmeng / dreaming of the clouds - sorry to all good cook wwx truthers but he's definitely thrown dry noodles into a pot without adding water before
ch 44 - jingyi's iconic chicken wing moment
ch 94 yearning (tl'd apr 2022) - idk kinda obsessed with lwj being so internally 🙂 the entire time wwx is screaming his head off and also how mesmerized wwx always is by lwj's tiny tiny flicker of a half-smile
ch 47 - jin ling was so real for this
ch 71 - tl'd aug 2022 - (1/2)
wwx: I would love to go back to gusu sometime to drink emperor's smile again :)
lwj: come back to gusu with me
wwx: no :)
ch 71 - the girls are fightinggg 😭 (2/2)
ch 126 - this is exactly what I mean. also lwj is so whipped smh
ch 89 - the way wn destroys jc during core reveal. HE DID NOT STUTTER!!!!
oops correction to above: should be "lips still stained with blood" (wwx is currently bleeding from all facial orifices lol)
ch 97 - as usual lace is right. from now on we must all imagine jgy's "two rooms?" moment and lxc's baffled shovel talk in light of the fact that everyone at guanyin temple can clearly see under construction spotlights the aftermath of wwx's neck being utterly mauled by lwj
ch 84 - the way lwj tries to play the SAME TRICK on wwx that he did in xuanwu cave is making me insane. he's like no I definitely did not just gently hold you in my arms no way I've been standing at this window serenely gazing at the moon this whole time yup love the moon haha 👍
ch 112 wangxian 2 - wwx doing terrible sexy hgj/yllz roleplay is truly the best lmfao..... he's such a menace
ch 117 incense burner 1 - very rough tl bc no time to edit but I was reading this yesterday and. I had to. bc. like. first of all wy my baby. second of all lz canonically slightly curved cock?????! help
ch 71 parting - he just wanted things to stay as they were :(
1) the jianghu is not subject to imperial court law 2) this is never invoked in mdzs, even by those who wanted the wens dead 3) if this were true, why didn't they just kill them to begin with then
your entire premise is flawed & even your source wikipedia says this was rare btw
I assume the qin dynasty punishment referenced is 连坐 - if a family harbored a “criminal” all 10 neighboring families would be killed; used for tyrannical control over the masses so ppl would report their neighbors; not the most moral law ever and I’d say irrelevant 400y later
wwx actually explicitly & derogatorily refers to their treatment of wn as 连坐 “guilt by association.”
jianghu ethics allows for retribution of injustice—but these wens didn't harm anyone in the war. aka why they try to deny this by resorting to burden of proof logical fallacy
I've been quiet on this but feel the need to say something, as I've seen a few of this person's metas on my tl. while the cultural aspects are generally ok afaik, they're propagating fanon by asserting their meta as fact when there are numerous inaccuracies about mdzs in them
I don't like making these posts bc I can't control what people do after but please do not harass anyone etc etc.
1) wwx does in fact receive his guan. he has a 冠礼 coming of age ceremony before gusu study arc, bc mxtx decided to move the age from 20 to 15 in mdzs. this is why everyone has a courtesy name already (取字 happens in the same ceremony). also, culturally a mentor can conduct it
I tl'd 放下 as "put down" but I do feel like there's a 放下 / 放 "let go" double meaning that's lost... ie when jin ling says "this is my dad's sword. I won't let go!" later. might change wwx's line to "let go of the sword" instead
one moral of mdzs is to not forcibly adhere to societal expectations or get caught up in what others think of you; rather, accept that everyone is an individual/idiosyncratic. this aligns w/ 1 interpretation of 无为 wuwei—a daoist concept—which is to act as comes naturally to you
when your behavior is influenced by outside pressures dictating how you are "supposed to" or "expected to" behave, that's not 无为 wuwei. that becomes behavior with intention, and that intentionality (or 为) causes you to act in a way that is counter to your most natural self
it's most interesting to see how this plays out in lwj's character development, because I think he adheres to a different interpretation of 无为 wuwei during wwx's first life (I will refer to him as first-life lwj)
#豆腐魔道#ch1 it is still shocking how clear the worldbuilding is in the first few chapters of mxtx's novels vs how bad some adaptations are at it (except audio drama which is perfect). im looking at u cql / tgcf donghua
#豆腐魔道#AN rip mxtx's author's note. ppl wildin out here literally dming randos to send them links to mdzs and she's like guys. Guys. pl s stop i am begging. this is the 3rd (!) time ive had to say this
unhinged stans are unfort a universal phenomenon that transcends borders
back when I first tl'd this I thought 琉璃 referred to colored glaze (a glass) aka the modern usage. but if we're talking ancient china, it's a gem—veluriyam in pali (the term 琉璃 liuli is actually a loanword from this), vaiḍūrya in sanskrit—or chrysoberyl, cat's eye, cymophane
some also say vaiḍūrya / 琉璃 is lapis lazuli, and seems to be used to refer to lapis a bit more commonly—esp in translations of the lotus sutra (where vaiḍūrya / 琉璃 is one of the seven treasures of buddhism). however, there is some contention about which it is
in mdzs, lz's eyes are described as "light as 琉璃" every time. and lapis is of course an intensely deep blue, so it's very unlikely mxtx is referring to it