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When you're alone in a fandom and can't find other fans.
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Being caught down a rabbit hole of a huge Asian series that no one has heard of and no one understands your pain.... Siiiigh.
Prickly Android
Aww
ʙᴇᴄᴋ 🍂
Boy that struggle is real
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Isolation in a city.
BethampHATamine
Which series?
kikibug13
aaww
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BethampHATamine : Grave Robbers Chronicles
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It's a huge messy series apparently, but has a lot of fans..... Just not in the language I know. Lol.
kikibug13
I know someone who is a fan!
kikibug13
it's a bit too horrory for me but I gave it a try because of Zhu Yilong who played one of the characters in one of the series
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Really? It's... So huge. I got down that rabbit hole thanks to Yang Yang playing the first season.
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Yeah, the horror aspects at the beginning was.... Seriously horrifying. Especially cause I watch it alone in my room at night. XD but then in gets milder, and become more The Mummy trilogy sort of horror and less The Ring.
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But.... I would not honestly drag people into this series. It's a huge media mess. I think I spent a month ranting about it to my friends.
kikibug13
I know some of the translations of the novels are on amazon so at least it's got official stuff
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But somehow I think it's so big that at some point the main male characters were voted China's number one couple.
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Yeah. In the same way if Harry Potter got only 5 books translated and the rest dropped. Lol.
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I'm not kidding that this series is a href media mess.
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Huge^
kikibug13
look, it's better than to rely on fan translations for all of them.
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100% rely on fan translation on this.
kikibug13
yes but they can be. Slow at some points.
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Apparently the official ones leave out whole paragraphs. Lol.
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And the official ones dropped the project 7 years ago.
kikibug13
sob
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Yeaaah. Like it's so so so messy that trying to get the complete story was a nightmare itself.
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9 books main series, 8 books filmed into TV series, out of order... And no one filmed the finale despite the sequels are filmed. Main story is separated into 4 "seasons", with a different cast of actors each time, with cliffhanger endings each time, but the continuation does not continue from the cliffhanger and instead does random reset moments to start.
kikibug13
/wry given the current backlash against m/m stuff, we might not get it for now either.
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It's not m/m though! I need squint to see the m/m personally.
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Doesn't help that the AUTHOR likes leaving projects undone.
kikibug13
lmao probably doesn't, no
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Yeah, main series done. Sequel 1 abandoned. Sequel 2 abandoned. Sequel 3 is... Done? I think?
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So yeah. Like, I can't even in good conscience drag another friend in to become a fellow fan.
kikibug13
/nods I have honestly tried, it's not my cup of tea despite the actors whom I love
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It actually gets easier in the long run. Becomes a lot more Indiana Jones style later. IF you want to try again with someone so it's less freaky, I'm down for rewatching.
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But yeah, forewarned the complete utter mess the media around this.
kikibug13
kek most cn things are a mess
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I can honestly say this is messier than anything I've ever had the misfortune of running across.
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It got to the point where I went through all the books in order to resolve the cliffhangers of the very last season, only to discover some of them are TV only and books don't even mention them.
BethampHATamine
Oh, wu Xie and friends. Me and some friends have been watching that.
BethampHATamine
We’ll start the Mystic Nine in September.
kikibug13
:> wu xie and friends.
BethampHATamine
Though of course Zhang Rishan is the best boy.
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I just finished the main books. Starting Tibetan Sea Flower right now. Planning on finishing that then watch Sea of Sand and Restarts.
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Though I was thinking of starting Mystic Nine too......
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Half thinking of picking up Zhang Qiling somewhere. >.>
BethampHATamine
Wu Xie just started on The Last Voyage <,<
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There's a Wu Xie somewhere? Really??
BethampHATamine
Yep
BethampHATamine
Can I summon my friends?
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I've been debating on how rp-able Qiling is.
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Yes. Please.
BethampHATamine
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Finding out there's people in this rabbit hole is very..... Fuzzy???
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Really?
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Small world.
BethampHATamine
The internet is 12 people in a room sometimes, honestly.
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Anyway.... Yeah, I haven't started Mystic since I LITERALLY finished book 9 just last night/this morning.
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HELLO DID I HEAR THE GRAVE ROBBERS AKA DAOMU BIJI
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Yes. I am considering picking up Xiaoge but thought this series has no English fans.
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hi there i srsly am into this series like i RP wu xie and Hei Xaizi and Zhang Rishan and I have a Zhang Qiling account havent done much with him
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also i write fanfics
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we have a couple discords for english peeps
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:-o
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anyways i am gonna run for a few but will get back to talk more DMBJ
BethampHATamine
Alec here is my guide to the whole wtf of it all.
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Yeah, I keep thinking Qiling is hard to play in an RP setting. May I add you?
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YES, wtf is pretty good summary. XD
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SᏋPH : you can add me
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I honestly can't tell if I knew you before or not. Your name feels familiar, but.... Anyone who watched Gundam Wing might find that too. ^^;;
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welll. i used to do a lot in gundam wing like forever ago then fell into trigun and then i found this weird little show called guardian
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Well... I did used to play Wolfwood.
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i kept a lot of my old gundam names since why change them
kikibug13
OH HERE YOU FOUND EACH OTHER
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Lol, this RP world and plurk is reaaaaaally so small.
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Elendira the Crimsonnail was my fav to rp
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Everyone knows everyone else or are just 1-2 people away from knowing it.
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but yes i need to pop out for a bit so bbiab
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I'm awake, I'll stay awake for next.... oh.... 4 hours. So if you return then.
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:-o Maybe I might be able to find watch buddies at these ungodly hours of the night for this series. Lol.
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Okay, knowing there's pre-existent fans, and not people I dragged into this.... makes it so much better. I WILL feel guilty dragging any friends into this series.
BethampHATamine
It’s a trip.
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It really is.
Jay
yeah, i briefly considered xiao ge, but I'm already trying to get an only somewhat antisocial kind of shy character to get more cr, so i figured xiao ge would not be a good move for me
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Especially how they decide to film this series and nothing.... connects.
Jay
right?@
Jay
so damn frustrating
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Yeaaaaaaah. Xiaoge is really the king of antisocial, and I already play antisocial characters as a type.
Jay
I'm reading the books now, but stalled out on... the one with the dumbass college friend and the huge tree (2 or 3?) when i had to come help the kids out
BethampHATamine
Xiaoge can join Adrian just perching on the barge’s mast
Jay
yeah, me too
SᏋPH
After watching the series, you'll be disappointed in the books.
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Except it's absolutely necessary because it's the ONLY one with an ending. LOL.
Jay
yeah, i am, but i want more details
Jay
lol
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You won't get more.
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I finished the main series books. Well, final book, the one where no one freaking filmed after all these years, you will. It's like.... info avalanche dump.
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Eehhhhhh. I don't know if I want to try another game though.... I'm already struggling to find my RP motivation for Noctium lately.
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I found that the tv series actually fleshes out the books reaaally well, despite how messy they were, and how random they like to add characters and events in.
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But still absolutely needed to be read for congruency.
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/looking up username possibilities
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and back
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WB
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/now owns two new dreamwidth accounts
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SO. we say in the dmbj discord our lovely writer san loves to dig pits inside his pits and then he had a nervous breakdown and some things are just lingering
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oho?
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also here's my Wu Xie:
https://ragsnbone.dreamwidth.org/
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I'm very unoriginal. https://xiaoge.dreamwidth.org
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aww it fits tho!
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he kinda is the type who doesnt see a reason why to talk
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i wouldnt say antisocial as much as wounded slightly feral large cat of some sort
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I still wonder how in the world he managed to disguise himself as Professor Zhang before the underwater tomb.
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He was a chatterbox in that personality.
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He outtalked Fatty.
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XD he did it was great
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but yeah i think he can talk if he truly has to - like for a role - but he often doesnt need to a lot of the time
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also he is kinda jaded at times and feels old and outside the world of normal people
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then he meets that ridiculous kid with the big eyes in TLT
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Yeah.... but he doesn't give off the "I'm tired and don't really want to say things" vibe though that a lot of immortals do in other shows.
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He feels more like "I have no interest in saying more, you can take it or leave it."
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zhang rishan has the tired vibe but more of a 'this grandpa is just tired of the kids'
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that he does
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it could work in the right setting like more of a guide role or something similar
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Yeah... Qiling doesn't give the tired feel, but instead, very focused and direct. And lost puppy.
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Mystic Nine shows more of Rishan, right? Cause his cameos in the main series isn't really there at all.
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yup
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M9 is his puppy phase. Sha Hai is his 'tired grandfather gonna beat some kids'
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I love how the TV has so much more characters to play with.
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fun fact - he is mentiuoned in the M9 book
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at one point foye's wife asked him why he's named 'big fXXXX mountain'
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since that's what his name means kinda.
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I thought it's sun and mountain
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it's all on the tone of the area. in the one dialect its that he corrected her
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Or day mountain, depending on the interpretation of the character.
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Ahhhhhhh
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XD
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I need to find screen caps to make icons.... I am reminded why I don't like picking up new characters. T_T
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which xiaoge do you want to use?
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Now here's a question.
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yang yang is lovely but his part is so short
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I was thinking the exact same thing.
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I don't think I can get a full icon set with Yang Yang even though he's a great Xiaoge.
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cheng yi has that pouty look and he has no shirtless scene
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I'm not even going to consider the second one. He's a pouty
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..... LOL.
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same thought!
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I AM NOT ALONE.
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UN's xiao yuliang is also in sha hai
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Though I thought the second Wu Xie was a good cast.
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he's decent does a lot of long leggy looks
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second wu xie wasnt bad yes just CY pouty
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he was ok just why does he always look like hes pouting
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EXACTLY.
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then there's huang junjie of reboot
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It went from cool, collected, to "I'll just sit here and pout". I think it's his babyface.
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yeah he has such a soft face
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meanwhile hjj is the most emotive he does small smirks and small smiles and then the eyes on wu xie
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I haven't watched Reboot, so I'm not sure. But I do like the third season's casting choice. He's no Yang yang, but he pulls the microex....
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stop it
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XD
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Though I suppose I could use fanart ones too.
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https://64.media.tumblr.com/32b64703bc3084fe986004463b5cf0ce/c8c63a7789f357ea-28/s400x600/34a77eb7f914cad9c06ba7be4485be1e2a0a2887.gif
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reboot those two
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i do use z1l's wu xie
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even tho i am rping him from sha hai
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but i think i have some screencaps and can get more for icon making
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Canon point wise, I might just start with him with amnesia instead of picking one for ease of decision. But sometime between the 10 years gap might be a good choice.
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while hes behind the Gate
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?
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Yes. Cause mid series is too complex to take him.
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true
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Though I suppose the other choice is the amnesiac moment mid series after the Snake tomb.
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Before the whole Banai story happens.
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could also use the post gate and pre-reunion since at that time he is wandering and taking more time finding lost zhang branches
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bringing them together the iron triangle also hasnt fully retired and only do that after reboot/reunion
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My problem, I haven't finished Sand Sea and Tibetian Sea Flower, so I have canon gaps for myself. Or 10 years.
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the sand sea novel is incomplete. the tibetain sea flower is where we learn the most about xiaoge's past
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Yeah, that's what I'm getting. I'm a few chapters in.
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As far as I know, Tibetan is also incomplete?
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so much toilet jokes in sea flower too
SᏋPH
With Fatty, you get toilet jokes everywhere.
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the drama version of sand sea is probably decent the writing doesnt ver off too badly
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yeah fatty has so many bathroom jokes
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and i believe it isnt finished - he was writing sand sea and sea flower and had a huge breakdown
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Yeah.... but figured it's still better to read/watch them in chronological order than to skip. Even if I will probably end up cursing the cliffhangers.
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I cursed so much when I finished Lost Tomb 3.
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UN ended in such a bad place.
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Ultimate Note? they had to stop where they did because they didnt have the rights to dramatize the next book
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Ugggggggh.
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they did a good job on the books they were able to dramatize tho
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Though you can see they tried to incorporate it.
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they hinted at his next step and all
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With the whole 'model' idea.
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yup
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But throwing Black Glasses in there, and the cliffhanger or him made me want to strangle someone.
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true though a little dongeon like that isnt one to truly end him
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hes a snarly raccoon hes hard to kill
SᏋPH
Yes. It's weird how the series kept giving people roles when they really don't appear yet.
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It's like.... "You're not supposed to be in this for another 4 books, but hey, we'll throw you in now just to be cool."
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i think that its in part because of how popular the series is. like its so big that they actually had their own airplane service for 817
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how many IPs can boast that?
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Okay, maybe you can answer me, WHAT IS 817
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the day that wu xie and pangzi went to the Gate to welcome Xiaoge home
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august 17th
SᏋPH
I thought it was a fan group?
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it's a big celebration for the fans and a big day to welcome xiaoge home'
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Ahhh. Cause I came across vague info for it, but can't seem to find what it actually is.
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Mainly cause I haven't gotten there yet.
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I'm still lacking 10 years.
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yeah there is a lot of stuff
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Yeah, seems like the only one I can bear to use is the UN Xiaoge.
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so xiao yuliang
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Yeah. I can't do pouty face. And Yangyang simply did not show enough.
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and you havent seen hjj's reboot xiaoge
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Yup.
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and you havent watched sha hai/sand sea yet?
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But if I want diversity of expressions, I think UN has more than reboot?
SᏋPH
Nope, though I think he only cameos in there?
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yeah he only appears in flashbacks
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its wu xie's mob widow
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phase
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That won't be enough for an icon set
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Though. TO BE FAIR. It's not like his expression changes that much.
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I mean, he IS called Men you ping for a reason.
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empty flowerpot XD
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O.o Is that how they translated it?
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Boring oil pot was what I gathered.
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yup that's one of the ways it is
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basically pretty but nothing there
SᏋPH
It's funny how neither of us even mentioned the movie. XDDD
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time raiders? i love it but it's like 'Wu Xie is telling a more romantic way of how he met xiuaoge'
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so steampunk AU meetcute with monsters
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the makeup was unfortunate
SᏋPH
I kept thinking "Why did you turn into Squall (FF8)?"
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The sword was kickass though.
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Huh, reboot version actually smiles.
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it was great and i loved that the Note was big enough to fill an entire cabinate
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yup
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hes comfy around wu xie and pangzi so he shows more emotions
SᏋPH
That's...... refreshing.
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but when they arent there he will go back deadpan
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it's a nice way to show that he has found his people
SᏋPH
I either wait a month to start making icons for him with reboot, or I stick to UN.
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reboot is so good when it's good. like they film a lot of the tombs like a horror movie
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and then you get domestic living with pangzi and wu xie
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......... That NEARLY made me stop watching the series.
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XD
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yeah it gets creepy
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it does have some problems mainly a huge section of the story was cut out and they had to glue together the pieces
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