i just wanna be your dog // 攻狗腰
danmei gongs who act particularly dog-like
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there’s no way he doesn’t like me // 自我攻略
a list of danmei characters who convince themselves their love interests are in love with them, and thereby fall in love themselves. this phenomenon may or may not be due to overconfidence.
— “he doesn’t hate me, which means he likes me, and isn’t liking me the same as loving me, which is the same as being madly in love with me, which is the same as being unable to think of anyone else but me?”
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the divine amidst the dust // 神在无间
characters who embody the benevolence and grace of the divine, even in a world muddied with mortal follies.
— “the figure of the divine in the unrelenting abyss of hell.”
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cultivation danmei
✧ [仙侠]: the most popular genre, its narrative is set in a mythical Ancient China. The key points in xianxia novels are the spiritual cultivation of qi to pursue immortality or transcendence, the existence of sects/clans, and the presence of supernatural elements/entities.
note: if there's any xianxia title missing please do let me know!
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wallpaper love // 墙纸爱
(n.) a homophonous play on the trope of 强制爱, in which one character (or both) has the intention of coercing the other into loving them. overlaps with the attic wife trope.
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