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waterscrollI finished watching The Untamed in an all-night watching binge on Sunday night/Monday morning and immediately wrote my Jiang Cheng feelingsplurge in fic form, What Things Cost in a Broken World (mostly Jiang Cheng introspection, rated T, no warnings). Because damn, his last scene gave me lots of feelings. I may write some of them in tl;dr meta form here as well, but not today because I'm exhausted.
I'm going very slowly through the novel and kind of having a hard time because it's so close to the drama and but the characters are different enough that it feels very uncanny valley odd. I think I'm going to have different favorite characters and ships in the MDZS novel than I do in the Untamed drama - in the drama I love Jiang Cheng beyond all reason but I don't think I like his novelverse character as much. I also have very strong feelings about dramaverse Lan Xichen, who is a different person in the novel. I'm going to continue with the novel, because it is very good, but it might be better if I try to keep the canons separate in my head.
In other fannishness, I've started watching the Scum Villain Self Saving System cartoon. It is hilarious and cracking me the hell up. Very recommended. I think I'll have to read that novel too, eventually.
I'm going very slowly through the novel and kind of having a hard time because it's so close to the drama and but the characters are different enough that it feels very uncanny valley odd. I think I'm going to have different favorite characters and ships in the MDZS novel than I do in the Untamed drama - in the drama I love Jiang Cheng beyond all reason but I don't think I like his novelverse character as much. I also have very strong feelings about dramaverse Lan Xichen, who is a different person in the novel. I'm going to continue with the novel, because it is very good, but it might be better if I try to keep the canons separate in my head.
In other fannishness, I've started watching the Scum Villain Self Saving System cartoon. It is hilarious and cracking me the hell up. Very recommended. I think I'll have to read that novel too, eventually.
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Date: 2020-10-14 01:53 am (UTC)Isn't the Scum Villain animation great? I was a little dubious at first but it totally won me over. I hope they get renewed to finish the story. It's pretty similar to the book so far, the only significant change I've really noticed is a lot less references to sex, the...uh...original 'original novel' Immortal Demon's Way is cheesy porny fantasy rather than just cheesy fantasy. But Shen Qing Qui has plenty of other cheesy things to roll his eyes at :) I'm curious to see what they do if they do get to animate the part of the story where Luo Binghe's interest becomes less subtextual.
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Date: 2020-10-14 03:47 am (UTC)the...uh...original 'original novel' Immortal Demon's Way is cheesy porny fantasy rather than just cheesy fantasy
Good to know! That adds another layer of hilarity to the proceedings.
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Date: 2020-10-14 04:23 am (UTC)Yes! Two examples that come to mind: Immortal binding cables are implied to be tied like shibari. So any time Luo Binghe sees Shen Qing Qui tied up (and it will happen again, lol) he's repressedly Thinking Things.
Spoilers for episode 5
In the 'original' novel a pretty girl gets poisoned with No Cure and asks for sex with Luo Binghe as her final request, which Magically Cures Her. Shen Qing Qui is the only person who knows this and is very pissed off because obviously he's not having sex with Luo Binghe, why is all the worldbuilding so terrible.