Watching #HandsomeSiblings and thinking about the whole "martial arts world" of it and #WoH versus the (I think?) "cultivation world" of #CQL. In Handsome Siblings & WoH, nobody talks about golden cores, & 'cultivation' is all about martial arts. Obvs I'm working with translations, but when they talk about losing their fantastical abilities, they talk about losing their martial arts abilities. And online reading isn't clear if golden cores are a thing in martial arts world but

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Also about #HandsomeSiblings: I kept thinking about #CQL. E.g.:

- The hair ornaments of the masters of Yuhua Palace make LWJ and LXC's guans look minimalist

- Hei Zhizhu is the Ghost General!Wen Ning of HS - can kill you but is SO BABIE

- Now I see why ppl say that the way WWX/LWJ in CQL behave is romance coded. Basically they act like HW/TX & JXY/SY do except with less hugging

- Is it a rule that the hero in white has to always hold a hand behind his back & be stoic???

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Not me thinking how cool it would be if Wei Wuxian discovered he had relatives srill living, and they're a clan of thugs and the head of the clan is the leader of the Twelve Zodiac bandits.

#handsomesiblings #cql #mdzs