Will you hold me tight and not let go?
by Laure S
I decided to try making a short comic with the artsyle I use for my own webcomic and because I wanted to give a try at a CQL!wangxian proposal. ( I’m no writer but it was sweet to imagine.)
enjoy!
Part 1\2
behind the scenes moments that i think about a lot (1/?)
With this, I hereby crown WYB the king of flirting.
PSA about Kadian
Disclaimer: All fictional….yadada the usual drill
I want to make a post about kadian since a lot of people have been talking about it recently, trying to decide whether it’s real or fake. I want to offer the perspective of someone that speaks Chinese and goes on Weibo everyday so doesn’t need to rely on translation.
1) Kadian is a thing in general. If you don’t know already, the “kadian” I’m referring to is posting a social media post at a specific time so that the numbers can mean something. From the broadest perspective, kadian is real thing. A lot of companies like to kadian their spokesperson’s birthday (i.e. a chips commercial today just kadian 8:05 to represent WYB’s birthday). So people do take note of when they post Weibo.
2) Using numbers to represent words in Chinese is real. Chinese words have a lot of homonyms. So using numbers that sound like certain words to mean something is definitely a thing. The best example is that 520 is a couples holiday because 5 sounds like “wo = I”, 2 sounds like “ai = love” and 0 sounds like “ni = you” so it’s call the “I love you” holiday.
3) WYB likes to kadian. This is also true. First, he said during ttxs that he likes to remember special date and time. Second, many of his post, especially recently in Weibo and Oasis ends with “21″ or “20″, which can sound like “ai ni” or “love you”. It’s too frequent to be a coincidence. So WYB does care about when he post Weibo. However, it doesn’t mean every Weibo he post has to be a kadian post.
4) It’s really easy to come up with words that correspond to numbers. I think this is the main point I was trying to make. Since Chinese words have a lot of homonyms, it’s super easy to just come up with a word that makes sense to represent a number. For example, sometimes, the number 4 can sound like “death”, “time”, “wet”, “lion”, etc. There are also different intonation so basically every sound can have 50+ words with the same pronounciation. So when you see someone translating kadian numbers, just be very wary.
The more generally accepted kadian words are:
1 = has 2 different pronunciation of the same number (yes, Chinese is weird). One is “yi = ni =you” and the other is “yao = want”.
2 = er = ai = love
3 = san = zhan
4 = si = shi = life
5 = wu = wo = I
7 = qi = wife
8 = ba = bo =WYB
0 = ling = ni
21 = er yi = ai ni = love you
20 = er ling = ai ni = love you
13 = yi san = yi sheng = whole life or yizhan (thank you @midnightsvoid for pointing it out)
23 = er san = ai zhan = love zhan
14 = yi si = yi shi = one life or whole life
17 = yi qi = together
18 = yi ba = yi bo = WYB
27 = er qi = ai qing/ ai qi = romance/wife
2018 = er ling yi ba = ai ni yi bo = love you WYB
1328 = yi san er ba = yi sheng ai bo = love you whole life WYB
1821 = yi ba er yi = yi bo ai ni = WYB loves you
But trust me, if you were to point a gun at my head and tell me to come up with a coherent sentence in Chinese from a string of any random numbers, I can probably do it.
5) Be careful of looking at the hour time stamp. Weibo will show time depending on what time zone you’re in. Sometimes people forget and screenshot their own timezone so the hour is off. Make sure you go back and translate to the timezone that’s correct in China if the hour # is significant.
Also, there are 60 minutes in an hour. Unlike the minute, a significantly much shorter time and you really have to be deliberate, 1 hour is a very large window. Which also means there is a lot of room for Type 1 error aka false positives. Sometimes, 11pm at night (23 o’clock) is just when you’re about to go to bed and post something.
Personally, I think both WYB and XZ does kadian and are pretty conscious about when they post something. But I don’t think every post is that way and not every post is bjyx-related. That being said, I’m not here to tell people how to interpret kadian. I just hope that this post can help people better understand kadian and what pitfalls to look out for.
Anonymous asked:
i want to get into mdzs, but i have no idea where to start or in what order or even where! help?
wangxiians answered:
ur asking the most chaotic mdzs consumer because i did everything out of order 😭 after watching cql i read the last 20 chapters of the novel, and then season 3 of the audio drama and THEN went back to read/listen from the start gfhdjfhdjshf.
there’s pros and cons of every adaption and ppl have different tastes depending on if you prefer written, audio, or visual media so i’ll make an overly simplified list of pros and cons/where to access them (i’m guessing you’ve watched cql but in case you haven’t i’ll still include it in this list :3)
i’m not galaxy brained enough to write intricate meta about the differences of each adaption so bare with me 😭
novel
pros: the original material so it’s the truest form of mdzs, complete, very complex and enthralling plot about morality, not censored, covers really dark themes extremely well
cons: the only complete english translation is occasionally a bit uncomfy to read (ignore the author’s notes lol), the author writes terrible sex scenes </3
where to read it: full english translation can be read here
donghua
pros: IT’S SO PRETTY, like the animation studio’s style is breathtaking, also closely follows novel canon with some minor alterations due to censorship and time constraints, lwj’s voice actor is the same as cql!
cons: it’s still incomplete, it can be a bit hard to follow in the beginning if u haven’t read the novel
where to watch it: for free on the wetv app or on youtube
donghua q
pros: it’s currently airing!!, it’s the cutest thing u will ever watch, they’re all 5 minute bonus stories, it’s adorable
cons: there are none
where to watch it: for free on the wetv app or on youtube
manhua
pros: follows the novel almost identically except for the few times when censorship struck (the artist still gave us the kiss tho, bless them), weekly updates every monday morning!!, the chibi panels r always so cute
cons: still ongoing and probably won’t be finished for a year or so, can be hard to follow if u haven’t read the novel, the official english translation is a bit awkward (fan translations r better but idk if there’s any up to date ones)
where to read it: the original can be read here (only first 25 chaps r free), the official english translation can be read here for free but there’s also a paywall (as of rn chapters 1-99 r free)
audio drama
pros: complete!!, follows the novel plot, extremely well produced!!, wwx’s voice actor is the same as cql!, has heaps of extras, everything about the production quality is just *chefs kiss*, the audio drama is so underrated as an adaption and idk why bc it’s so well done
cons: it can be a bit strange at first to listen while reading subs (if u don’t understand chinese) but u get used to it, the fansubs can get a bit annoying during certain scenes
where to listen to it: the official version can be found on the missevan app (no subs and gotta pay), and all the fansubs can be found in this discord!, heaps of the extras r also on youtube
bonus bc i love the audio drama: listen to this and also this extra…. it’s domestic asmr and what convinced me to listen to the ad properly 🥺
drama
pros: completed very easy to get into, very pretty, probably the easiest version to get into for someone who hasn’t read cnovels before
cons: it’s the adaption with the biggest plot changes (due to various forms of censorship)
where to watch it: netflix (paid), wetv, viki, youtube (all free)
drama ~special edition~
pros: occasionally contains extra shots that didn’t make the original cut, the ending is edited differently just to spice things up
cons: they condensed 50 episodes into 20, i still don’t understand the purpose of why it exists ????
where to watch it: wetv and youtube
is this list helpful in the slightest? probably not 😅 tldr; there’s a version for everyone no matter what your favourite medium is
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