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Word of Honor Against No Homo - 10:1

Hi guys, so I know this has gotten some traction but I don’t think enough people are watching this because this is the gayest serious historical china drama ever to breathe in public without censorship slapping it in the face, so y’all get to enjoy full on with me - it’s really rare because they’re not even like stuffing a het. romance, they WENT IN FULL ON KNOWING THAT THIS WOULD BE GAY AF OKAY THEY ARE REALLY FOLLOWING THE BOOK

In fact, they made the show even gayer than the book, I don’t even know what to say. It’s naturally comedic without being absolutely cringey and adheres to the original novel really well so far (with added tinge of gayness). Gong Jun smiles a bit too much but it’s still really enjoyable to watch, and Zhang Zhehan carried the first episode on his own pretty well. Main leads honestly have huge chemistry on screen at the very least, and if you can get past Zhang Zhehan’s sadass hobo look as disguised Zhou Zishu for like I think at least… 10 eps maybe, you will enjoy this a lot. The set looks a bit cheap and the filming doesn’t look as sophisticated or crisp as some of the ones you’ve seen before definitely, but I don’t think this impacts the content much.

SO here goes friends, at this point you should just go and watch it to understand why this is the show being called “HOW THE FUCK DID THIS EVER GET TO AIR” because there is no way anyone made it through Episode 3 going like NO HOMO because it was SO HOMO

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Background/Novel:

Okay so this is based on Priest’s danmei/BL novel called Tian Ya Ke / Faraway Wanderers, which was what it was originally called for the show until they changed the name like last month out of nowhere to Word of Honor / Shan He Ling. It’s relatively shorter and less complex as most of Priest’s other novels are, which makes it a really, really good read.

You can check out the carrd here but basically Zhou Zishu is an the leader of an assassins’ guild/sect of sorts, and he’s basically about to die soon in another few years (less than three). His background is a bit complex so I won’t get into it, but he disguises himself as a beggar/hobo of sorts and just starts to hobo around literally, drinking alcohol day in and out as he awaits death. He meets Wen Kexing, who is the leader of a demonic cult/sect and he’s looking for a particular item that was stolen from him - an item that would supposedly help others to gain immense power immediately, so a lot of supposed righteous sects are fighting over the item right now, but that’s not the point.

The point is, this entire story is about infatuated Wen Kexing, who literally falls in love with Zhou Zishu at first sight and he meets him while ZZS is in his beggar disguise. WKX can tell from ZZS’s bone structure and outline of his back that he’s a handsome man, and insists that he’s wearing a disguise. The disguise that ZZS uses is special, because the mask feels real so WKX can’t tell why it such a man with excellent bone and facial features would look so ugly. Insists basically that ZZS is handsome and then follows him from then on, while serving out his own agenda and dealing with the righteous sect people.

ZZS on the other hand has to deal with his impending death, and also still is put to work because of WKX’s involvement and a larger scheme happening behind the scenes. Along the way ZZS falls back in love with WKX subtly hahahaha (anything is subtle compared to WKX’s grand gestures dammit)

*A continuation to Qi Ye / Seventh Lord but not necessary to read that first if you wanna start with Tian Ya Ke - the characters from Qi Ye turn up but no need to know their backstory basically.

Where to Watch:

Youku (subs coming out 26 Feb onwards) | Youku on YouTube - 36 episodes in total and premiered on 22 Feb

What You Are Missing Out On in the Live Action:

Immense gay, basically. Gosh I don’t even know how to put this, but Wen Kexing is such an infatuated, lovely man. You basically get him waxing poetic 24/7 about meeting ZZS and that it’s fate that they meet (WKX literally follows him around), literally that’s the entire damn show. A lot of frickin innuendo as well?!!!

1. WKX praising ZZS’s handsome look while ZZS is in his ugly disguise - At this point, ZZS’ face hasn’t been actually revealed (there’s way more, WKX goes like “you’re so handsome” at that face like a few times every episode)

2. Get someone who looks at you like WKX looks at frickin ZZS

3. ZZS deadpanning and rolling his eyes whenever WKX turns up ‘coincidentally’

4. Found family where WKX and ZZS co-parent two kids (Son & two dads, and daughter below) - SEE HOW HAPPY ZISHU IS?!!! AND HOW HANDSOME HE IS WITHOUT THAT HOBO LOOK? It’s a miracle WKX saw through his disguise

5. Innuendo - Cut-sleeve (WKX REALLY CUT OFF ZZS’ SLEEVE HOW DID THIS GET PAST CENSORSHIP)

6. ZZS calling WKX ‘Lao Wen’ and WKX calling ZZS ‘Ah Xu’ like over and over again

7. WKX acting cute (hiding behind his future husband and a fan while delirious from poison)

8. WKX deadly and gorgeous and when he holding a fan

9. MANY HANDS MANY TOUCH

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Basically, please fucking watch Shan He Ling / Word of Honor. The levels of gayness make you wonder if censorship was a dream.

heya sweetheart!

I DO read voltron fic! oodles and oodles of it!! 

there’s SUCH an abundance of klance content, but it’s definitely a filtering process bc it’s rich as hell territory

I just had a quick hunt through my bookmarks, and I’ll slap ‘em all down below, but jsyk it’s quite a hodgepodge of aus and canon compliant stuff, different ratings, popular and slightly lesser known, series and oneshots, mostly klance but some shklance written (and read) before we knew shiro’s age. Many of these are absolute treasures, I genuinely hope they move you and shock you and entertain you like they did for me 💕 (My favourites bold and italicized!)

Echo a Spark by usernicole

Lance learns to stand on his own two feet.

a sequel to A Light in the Dark

Aprovechar el Sol by speaks

When team Voltron finally pushes the Galra out of this sector of the galaxy, Allura surprises the paladins with a visit home for the first time since leaving Earth three years ago. Everyone fights over who gets to bring Keith home with them. Lance wins.

Which would be fine, if Keith wasn’t desperately trying NOT to be love with him.

Other by TangoDancer

Alfonso watches his brother break down, alone on the porch at night, listening to a nameless person’s steady heartbeat. He watches, and he feels resentment stir into his gut, against the universe who took away his little brother and gave back this broken parody of him. Against himself, for not having stopped it somehow. Against Voltron for choosing him, and the empire for starting this war in the first place.

And against this mysterious person, for keeping an essential part of his brother’s soul with them, and making it impossible for him to be happy with them the way it used to be. The way it should be.

(Lance’s family struggle to come to terms with the man their son and brother has become.)

Cut to the Feeling by usernicole

“Let’s do it again,” Keith says breathlessly. “Here and on every planet we come across. Let’s get married on every planet we can.”“Are you joking?” Lance asks, incredulous. “You really want to get married to me on every planet we land on?”“Yes,” Keith says, voice high pitched and shaky with residual adrenaline. “Yes. Every planet. If it feels like this every time, let’s get married ten, twenty, a hundred times.”

“Let’s break records. I want the universe to see us and be jealous.”

Or: Five times Keith and Lance get married, and one time they don’t.

Bodies Without Bones by constellationqueen

They’re heroes, but they’re empty. Maybe they just need to talk about it.

and, we dream of home by mothpoem

“Then come see me,” Lance murmurs, and it makes Keith’s heart pound behind his breastbone. “Us, I mean. Once a week or something? Like mental health check-ins. We can just hang out, or…or go on low-priority, low-stress missions? Scouting, or flower-picking for Coran, or supply runs. Dumb stuff. Just…so we know how you are. I don’t want…I mean, we all miss you. And I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but…it feels like you’re not…not okay, Keith.”

Well, Keith thinks, a little weakly. He never really stood a chance, did he?

“Okay,” he says, right away. No fight. No refusal.

His life is a hell of a lot easier when he lets himself cave under all the ways he wants Lance’s luminous attention, and company, and friendship. All the ways he wants Lance, full stop.

i want your heaven and your oceans too by mothpoem

“Not—not that you’d be my rebound! I mean, you’d be helping me take my mind off of this guy, but to be a rebound, I’d have to have dated him first, I think, and he doesn’t even know I like him, so. You wouldn’t be a rebound. At worst, we become badass partners-in-crime with a grudging respect for each other, at best, we’re soulmates for life and this is fate trying to help us find happiness. So. Um.” Lance swallows and looks up at the Blade of Marmora soldier through his lashes. “What say you?”

They look down at their hands for a moment, fingers twisting together in deep thought. Then they’re pulling their gloves off, revealing pale, half-bruised knuckles of the human variation, and their mask is dissolving, giving way to big blue-purple eyes and an achingly familiar jet-black cowlick. “Who,” says Keith Kogane, in that low-pitched rumble that makes Lance’s stomach roil in the good way—holy fuck—“is this guy you’re trying to get over?”

I’ve read all of these and they’re super good, enjoy! 

(btw all of these fics have really similar summaries for some reason??)

-Rotem

What You’re Fighting For by httpstiles (1/1 | 4156 | Teen And Up)

Matt had rationalized it in his head, but now he can’t look at Keith and think it was all that simple. Matt knows what happened the day of the fight, and he knows there were limited options, but he can’t help but wonder about what’s really going on in the boy’s head.

OR

Matt thinks certain things about Keith’s self-sacrificing acts, tries to talk to someone about talking to Keith, then can’t remember how he was almost blown up.

five times someone didn’t know keith and lance were dating, and one time everyone did by Shorty (1/1 | 4319 | General Audiences)

Keith shrugs nonchalantly. “I’m still mad about the whole ‘babe’ thing.”

…

Or, exactly what the title says.

(this one is technically klance from an outsider’s POV but the teammates don’t know they’re together? does that count?)

Soft Touches by Speeps (1/1 | 3183 | General Audiences)

Where the small smiles, the lingering gazes and the soft touches leave the team wondering if there’s something going on behind the scenes.

OR

Soft Klance ft. Oblivious Teammates

Other by TangoDancer (1/1 | 11,878 | General Audiences)

Alfonso watches his brother break down, alone on the porch at night, listening to a nameless person’s steady heartbeat. He watches, and he feels resentment stir into his gut, against the universe who took away his little brother and gave back this broken parody of him. Against himself, for not having stopped it somehow. Against Voltron for choosing him, and the empire for starting this war in the first place.

And against this mysterious person, for keeping an essential part of his brother’s soul with them, and making it impossible for him to be happy with them the way it used to be. The way it should be.

OR

Lance’s family struggle to come to terms with the man their son and brother has become.

(mentions of torture, blood, ptsd, major character injury)

Onward by Vialana (1/1 | 5124 | Teen And Up)

Team Voltron get glimpses into Keith and Lance’s developing relationship.

here it is!

-Rotem

Other by TangoDancer (1/1 | 11,878 | General Audiences)

Alfonso watches his brother break down, alone on the porch at night, listening to a nameless person’s steady heartbeat. He watches, and he feels resentment stir into his gut, against the universe who took away his little brother and gave back this broken parody of him. Against himself, for not having stopped it somehow. Against Voltron for choosing him, and the empire for starting this war in the first place.

And against this mysterious person, for keeping an essential part of his brother’s soul with them, and making it impossible for him to be happy with them the way it used to be. The way it should be.

OR

Lance’s family struggle to come to terms with the man their son and brother has become.

Can I cry now??

SERIOUSLY READ THIS 

disney is heavily monitoring pirating, probably partially cause they’re just disney and cause the show is so new

people have been getting notices from their isps that they have infringed copyright by illegally streaming or downloading content without permission from the owner. they had the file name and date and time and everything of the downloads. 

i BEG you to BE FUCKING CAREFUL. use tor, use onion browser, use a FUCKING VPN but BE AWARE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING. 

im not going to tell you to stop, because. you can glean from this post how i know this is happening, but i do urge you to password share when you can because it’s infinitely safer and also a way to protest against disney for their greed. 

Just check this out...

Pretty sweet, right?

Also...

a nice wallpaper.

Can I cry now??

“Dude, you haven’t gone outside in a while.” “Yeah, last time I went out I got this wicked sunburn.”

“Are you still up?” “Yeah, I started bing watching this show on Netflix.”