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Too pretty to be real!

There's also decades of fandom scholarship on this exact topic and it's frustrating to see people act like it's all brand new and do this very surface level analysis.

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Xiao Zhan staring at the camera

Xiao Zhan posing in an all black outfit

Xiao Zhan posing with a Gucci bag

Close up on Xiao Zhan's face

XZ for Gucci (heading to Fashion Week edition)

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Can't wait!

The Wuhou Temple is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Sichuan, haha.

People come to pay their very genuine respects (especially in Zhuge Liang's case). They leave personal letters, it's very sweet.

Using the wrong term is erasure of a distinct history, and it blurs all the differences in cultural context.

When a journalist or article describes Heated Rivalry as yaoi, we know they haven't done their research.

When "yaoi" is described as going back to Harry Potter, we know they haven't done their research.

When the AO3 is described as a "social media site", we know they haven't done their research.

This really, really bothers me.

Fujoshi is simply not the correct term when you're talking about a Western fandom. The two streams are distinct.

Just look at him haha

Forgot to add, the art of is mock covers with web novel/micro drama style titles.

The Cao Cao/Guo Jia one is "The Ruthless Lord of Wei Favours Loveable Fengxiao [GJ's style name]" and the one with Chen Gong is "After My Death He Who Is All Powerful Goes Mad With Regret".

The most famous mole in China 😂

曹操高陵惊现事业粉CP粉大乱斗🤣 - 小红书 3 亿人的生活经验，都在小红书

Source:

xhslink.com/o/4LiWLnEeU99

Photo from the Mausoleum

Closeup on a poster and lots of medication

Screenshots from a talk by a male academic

Printed fanart made with stills from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series

At the Cao Cao Mausoleum in Anyang:

1) posters lionizing his life's work
2) headache medication
3) screenshots from an academic's talk on how maybe he didn't proclaim himself Emperor because he couldn't forget Xun Yu's sad eyes 😂
4) shipper fanart from RoTk (1994) 😂

@hanzhonglang.bsky.social

Xiao Zhan in Tod's show announcement graphic

Photo of a person in a dark outfit with a leather belt.

Gucci's Weibo post with the show time

XZ features in Milan Fashion Week show announcements from Tod's and Gucci.

Gucci's doesn't name him, but if you know, you know.

(Both shows are happening on 27 Feb Beijing time.)

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Xiao Zhan applauding

XZ applauds your efforts

Rusty is a reliable writer of messy, fascinating queer people :D

That's why you see so many older buildings.

Dongbei people are hardy, passionate and friendly.

Their accent is often stereotyped within China as representing a lack of sophistication but also a kind of straightforward and bold approach to life.

The Dongbei region is an agricultural and industrial heartland with harsh and long winters.

Since the 90s many of the smaller cities and towns have fallen behind as the rest of the country raced ahead, with mass layoffs from formerly bustling factories and low wages.

I grew up in Dongbei, and yet I've always been afraid of winter. I don't like getting too close to other people and hiding myself away became a habit. Years ago, because of my fear of snow, I left for the South alone, thinking that if I went far enough, I could get over it. Returning home...feeling the bracing cold winds once again, this land is familiar to me, but it still makes me uneasy. By chance I met a new group of people. We bicker incessantly everyday, in a way that's inexplicable to me. I always thought I came here to heal others. The harsh winter I'd done everything to escape became a temporary refuge. Snow is still falling on this city. But when I see the smiling faces around me, it doesn't seem so cold.

Screenshot of his Weibo post

Photo of Xiao Zhan's character sleeping in his office

Photo of Xiao Zhan's character with a patient holding his hand

XZ Weibo post as A Small Town Remedy wraps filming

#xiaozhan #smalltownremedy

Especially when that's the only comment they apparently have lol

Happy birthday! Hope the weather doesn't last too long.

Screenshot from Three Kingdoms 1994 TV series

Eastern Han mural BM2, discovered in Zhucun, Luoyang. Preserved in Luoyang Ancient Tombs Museum.

Han dynasty stone relief found in Deng county, Henan

In 1994 Three Kingdoms, the court robes (朝服) worn by the officials are based on actual uniform worn in the Han Dynasty.

Civil officials wore black & a hat called "Jinxian-guan"(进贤冠) while military is red & a "wuguan"(武冠) or "wubian"(武弁)-hat, sometimes decorated with two pheasant feathers. -> (1/7)

People who comment on clearly labelled WIPs that haven't been updated for 5 years complaining about them not being finished: why do you think that's acceptable behaviour.

YouTube video by 肖战影音会DAYTOY•Xiao Zhan A Small Town Remedy Weibo updated: The wind comes to rest at the corner of the small town,

#ASmallTownRemedy releases preview video as it wraps filming:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRsW...

This looks so heart-warming (and nostalgic for me, a person who has lived in a shitty rundown smallish Dongbei city)

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I'm in the middle of this one and it's so good

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Haha I only really read novels on JJWXC and Changpei so no.

The smut style you describe is more familiar to me from Chinese fic tbh

Loooool

Honestly this kind of shit is so common in the smuttier novels that I don't even blink now.

This is extremely accurate