Introduction/Friending Meme

[shadaras]

Hello and welcome to Ghost Valley!

This is a community for everyone who loves Word of Honor, Tian Ya Ke, and related topics (actor RPF, Qi Ye, etc.), and we're excited to get to know everyone who's found their way here!

(Basic comm rules can be found here.)


Please introduce yourself so that we can learn a little about our fellow fans! Share how you learned about this fandom, a favorite scene or character (and maybe a bit about why you like them?), which adaptation(s) you know, or any other fun facts you have about your relationship with Tian Ya Ke or Word of Honor. :)

If you make any fanworks—gifsets, meta, twitfic, fanart, more formal fanfic—feel free to mention what you make and where you post it. This can be part of your introduction, or you can simply post directly to the comm about your work! Promo yourself! There's so much content out there, and it's great to get to know the creators behind all the splendid work. :)


And optionally, if you'd like to expand your Dreamwidth circle and have more WOH/TYK people on your reading list, here's a basic friending meme – just copy the template and paste it into your comment:

<strong>DW username:</strong> <strong>Usernames elsewhere:</strong> (ao3, twitter, tumblr, discord, etc.) <strong>What you post about:</strong> <strong>Your other fandoms:</strong> <strong>Post frequency:</strong> <strong>Access policy:</strong>

Comments

[narie]

Yes, absolutely. And for me, it's also fascinating to see how they've explored the softer sides of themselves only in the context of imbalance in relationships, if you will - I don't doubt the relationship between A-Xiang and WKX, but she is his responsibility in some ways, and the same is true for the debts ZZS feels he owes to all his dead shidi.

The show muddies this up a bit, what with making WKX ZZS's shidi, but I think in the end both canons convergence - they are peers, there's no obligation between them, or debt, and it's just a whole different space in which to explore their ability to care and accept care and I am feral for it.

[trobadora]

The show muddies this up a bit, what with making WKX ZZS's shidi, but I think in the end both canons convergence - they are peers, there's no obligation between them, or debt, and it's just a whole different space in which to explore their ability to care and accept care and I am feral for it.

Yes! And I think the shidi thing actually ends up supporting this in its own way? Because WKX is ZZS's shidi from way back when they were little children, unlike the many shidi who died when he was actually in charge of the sect. So it takes him back to a time without that imbalance.

[narie]

Yes, agreed - it takes longer to get there while ZZS is all 'yes good I can die and you can carry out my legacy and keep Siji Manor going' but once he accepts that Wen Kexing is not synonymous with Zhen Yan, their relationship really settles.

And yes, there's definitely a comfort in not having failed Wen Kexing (tho if you think about it too long it's more about just... not having been the one to fail Wen Kexing). They're peers of the same generation, which outside each other is something they don't have (have never really had, in WKX's case; I think there's a bit more nuance in ZZS's), and that changes the tone of their relationship a lot compared to all the other ones they have, even if they never really got to develop that bond when they were children. It's just so good. The not having experienced sincerity line kills me every time.

[trobadora]

not having been the one to fail Wen Kexing

Ha, yeah, this. And totally agreed, it's so beautiful. ♥