"I think priest's romantic arcs are so well-written. Even though the romance isn't heavy, I feel her books have the most positive depiction of love. They fight by each other's sides rather than one forcibly owning the other. The love she writes is cherishing and respecting e.o."
I'm dying at this comment on SHL 😂
Pretty interesting. I'm purely watching it as a wuxia drama. I just kind of can't take the 2nd male lead's expression. Whenever he looks at ZZS, he smiles. What's he smiling about? Won't ZZS think this person is twisted
#山河令
#WordofHonor
The ending of priest's Lofter post 🥺
"There's a quote of Nabokov's I really like, and many existentialists have quoted it too. He said, 'Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.'
No matter how dark it is, when you're breathing, you're that light."
Fun fact: Wen Kexing and Gu Xiang's names likely came from this line of a poem:
客行悲故乡
kè xíng bēi gù xiāng
Loosely "a traveller misses their hometown"
故乡 (hometown) and 顾湘 (Gu Xiang) are different characters with same pronunciation
#天涯客
#TianYaKe
#FarawayWanderers
This comment 👌
"The greatest difference between priest and other danmei romance is that most people want to write about two people's love and then make up a whole bunch of tropes, but priest writes a grand story and it's just that in it two people have a relationship."
I still can't get over Zhu Yilong's dichotomy in playing Shen Wei vs. Ye Zun. Same face, same hair, same clothes - how???
(The text says "Shen Wei" and "Ye Zun pretending to be Shen Wei")
When WKX says if ZZS is gone one day, he'll hide somewhere and not see anyone, ZCL compares it to the story of Yu Boya.
Yu Boya was an amazing qin player who one day met someone who truly understood his qin playing - his soulmate, Zhong Zi. When ZZ died, YBY smashed his qin.
I'm crying. What ZZS said to WKX at the Puppet Manor is taken from these lines of an ancient love poem: "I can only hope that your heart is akin to mine / So this yearning won't be in vain" 😭😭😭
#山河令
#ShanHeLing
#WordofHonor
Everyone (including Gong Jun himself) clowning Gong Jun's singing reminds me of when he and Zhang Zhehan played a game where the losing party had to sing a song and Gong Jun lost and a comment said "who's this really punishing" 😂
I translated the second half of extra
#1
of #天涯客 /
#TianYaKe
/
#FarawayWanderers
aka how Wen Kexing cries his way into topping :)
! WARNING FOR SPOILERS FOR THE NOVEL !
zzs was talking abt gg to hell after dying, fried in a cauldron of boiling oil for 80-100 years, THEN WKX: going into the oil cauldron, wouldnt i be accompanying you, the two of us stuck tgt into one youtiao, wouldnt it not be fragrant and pleasing?
WHAT THE HELL
This comment 😭
"Zhao Yunlan to Shen Wei, Gu Yun to Chang Geng, Luo Wenzhou to Fei Du, are the main reason they were able to leave the darkness and embrace the light."
I'm crying at this post about WKX's character 😭
"Now I think that Wen Kexing read a lot of books not because his dad taught him and not because he naturally likes reading"
! Some spoilers about his past !
This comment on Da Ge Chapter 45 😂
"I told you guys ages ago that this woman is a liar. There's no such thing as the angst hitting rock bottom and there being no more angst later on, it's all fake."
Comments saying he always looks at the person talking to him and when two people talked to him at the same time he was like, what do I do?! 😂 but also 🥺
The way their names are incorporated 😭
云舒行客归
yun shu xing ke gui
shu = Zishu
ke + xing = Kexing
Also, in TYK, Zhou Yun was one of ZZS's fake names along with Zhou Xu.
#山河令 长明山海报
高山流水意,云舒行客归。
霜雪煮酒茶,四季寻常家。
#WordOfHonor
Changming Mountain
Lofty mountains and flowing water,
clouds unfold and the wanderers come home.
Boiling liquor and tea with frost and snow,
just an ordinary home in four seasons.
Sorry it's been a million years but here's an update for Da Ge!
Chapter 44: Drops the Fishing Rod into the Water
(Check my pinned tweet for how to access the TL Google Doc)
Da Ge status update: I'm still working on Chapter 44. It's just taking...a really long time.
Here's a preview with one of my favourite parts in the novel: