eight immortals // 红土在，八仙就在
in honour of the truly superb movie 八仙! all wishes come true, and the fact that you can see hints of the binquan/quanbin cp even in a c17th text
— “either we await death on our knees, or rise to become immortals!”
created by ruiconteur
last updated September, 2026
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Guess I’ll read classical Chinese 🤷🏻♀️ Oh, things I do for more Binquan content 🤷🏻♀️
real 🤝 i just bought the ebook of 东游记...... let's see how good my classical chinese actually is lol
That’s so coool! I really wish I could read hanzi so that I would understand all the cultural context of the text I’m reading (those that are often got lost in translations), but so I still get so intimidated to even to learn the basics
that's fair!! i think chinese is one of those languages where the initial learning curve is rly steep, but i do think it's ultimately very worth the trouble in the end (i might be biased, but i personally think chinese is a language with a greater potential for beauty, imagery, wordplay, etc than eng)
I see the obsession continues and I'm here for it 🙂↕️
i currently have like 20 ao3 tabs open for them, and that's not even counting the fics i've already saved/read on lofter 🤩 although i do prefer the rarer version of this pairing so i have less good food to eat ripp
Ao3 be working like crazy for you 🤣 also saving lofter for future references 😈
i should clarify that i've only been reading chinese fic for this movie lmao (i read one eng fic and got turned off by certain translations). ao3 chinese fic is pretty much 70% pwp and the rest usually has smut too, whereas lofter fic mostly ranks 0–1 on a spice scale due to censorship
Oh yeah no, I'm saving for when I finally get to learning Chinese. I fully expected you to talk about Chinese fics, since it's only been recently available in english
there are quite a few eng fics alr apparently! kinda surprised by that but oh well
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