I'M CAPTAIN KIRK

same list because I'm lazy

Pollux: again, without hesitation. He's a dick though so he will spend most of it in cat form alarming the drunks
Castor: she does not... do parties unless she's undercovering for a heist
Felici: both pre- and post-Sindri felici would absolutely, and would be the same amount of drama-causing the entire time
Aodh: they're so bad at parties. don't even try.
Momo: he might even be capable of not writing an article about it if he has exactly the right amount of fun- not too little, not too much.
Maggie: SHE LOOOOVES PARTIES HERE WATCH HER DANCE
Fufu: yes but she spends the entire time preying on the jerks and by the end of the night the club is half-full and she's put on noticeable amounts of weight
Jetski: he will come. it's the wrong environment for him and he doesn't know what's going on but he's trying so hard, guys, he's trying
Vivien, original flavour: why do you insult him in this manner
Vivien, slutty ihop flavour: see above. this is the last time he goes out partying with literally anyone even tangentially connected to this group
Fuse: just... just see above.
Paddy: pathologically incapable of turning down a party
Nottie: gets so drunk he literally raises the roof, and then collapses it, and then laughs

I regret to inform you that if i used the same list, the answers would be largely the same as who would sleep with asher
so, different list

Vibs: you know how he is with noticing flirting, but then maikel is absolutely the sort of person who'd just ask upfront i think, so yeah. He'd be vibs about it though
Poly: i mean, duh. does maikel want a sex toy closet pass
Khoi: why would you even ask this. Look at him. what have you done
Baz: UGGGHHHHH uuuughhhh UGH yeah okay he GUESSES
Decimus: mate what why'd you even ask that you wanna besmirch my honour or something mate? Dunno why you picked me to ask this like the brothel's just over there, mate, you don't gotta think about it with girls- <-- he does this all the way into the bedroom and throughout the sex
Jet: he knows enough walking disasters to know this isn't one he wants to let around the kids. Maybe if he happened to be in an entirely different city and leaving soon, though
Servius: kind of ashamed of myself for putting him in this list tbh
Throttle, all variants of: if you're really lucky she might adopt him into her pack of horrorshows.
Haimon: I don't know why the answer is yes but it kind of is. I think it might be scientific curiosity
Vyrdulti: there is no way Maikel could ever be clean enough to meet his standards.
Dove: she would literally rather die
Roger: well, he's usually down for a laugh-
Aeron: for shiggles. multiple times.

 

don't bring him into this world it's not for him

 

of course i say all these things about jetski not being good at wild parties and then i remember that canonically i absolutely had it that the pedalo-bots' only respite from the permanent customer service hell they were stuck in was occasionally going absolutely fuckwild with home-brewed moonshine and orgies

but also like i'm not sure that really makes any difference as to how bad jetski is at parties. i mean look at him

 

dhjffgjhDFGKHDF
no, the kind of disaster he's okay having around the kids is fanaris

oh my god
the idea of khoi and maikel in the same area
devastating. rip khoi

 

exactly
the difference is night and day, clearly [citation needed]

he would never recover

 

thoughts upon rewatching the first few eps of the Untamed having read a chunk of the beginning of the novel now:

-i haven't read enough of the novel to know what they took from later on and what they made up wholesale, only that some stuff is weirdly out-of-order or padded
-now i'm aware of the honorifics often used in names, i can hear them in the dialogue and it's odd. hearing wwx whine 'wanji-xiong!' when he's not paying attention to him is adorable though, as is jiang yanli going 'a-xian! a-cheng!' and them just folding because can't say no to big sis
-the budget really ran out for the lake scenes in ep 5 huh
-is the romantic tension they're setting up with jiang cheng and wen qing in the novel? wen qing hasn't even shown up where i've got to in the novel so i have no idea. have decided that i don't care and i kinda ship them anyway though, inevitable approaching tragedy be damned
-is there a way to make riding swords not look kind of dumb in live-action? i think it would probably take something of a bigger budget but also can't help feeling you're always fighting a losing battle with that. it's grown humans balancing on thin bits of metal in the air and there's something just intrinsically silly about that.
-somehow they made the mo household storyline gayer than it is in the novel. don't see wwx sadly playing grass flute and thinking about lwj in the novel now do you
-relatedly, i know why they changed 'wei wuxian now looks like mo xuanyu' in the novel to 'mxy now looks like wwx' in the show (to explain why they had the same actor play wwx in the flashback...) but it's interesting how it changes the interpretation of what mxy did and how he planned it and so on. i actually like both versions, they both have fun implications, but the novel's version mostly has implications for wwx (namely, he's shorter than lwj now and this amuses me greatly) and the show's version has implications for mxy, and i have decided that since everyone in the novel is so mean to mxy all of the time that he is my poor crazy gay dead son and any implications will be grasped with both hands

 

-is this how they got the 'lwj is such a lightweight he will fucking pass out from one drink' scene into the show without it ending up in the extremely gay place it ends up in in the novel
-there's gege again it always shows up somewhere. admittedly two out of three danmei novels i've read have been by the same author but even the one that was by someone entirely else had it show up

 

-godspeed to the script writers who managed to make the drunk scene kind of gay anyway

 

-two stupid boys standing in a cold pool five feet apart because the chinese censors won't let them be gay
-it's odd that... what i recognise from the novel is dead on so the show can't be making up the info it's dropping about things, but it sure is doing it faster, harder and in a different order than the novel. I feel like i'm simultaneously being spoiled on the show by knowing some of the novel and being spoiled on the novel by knowing some of the show. and the fact that i haven't finished either of them makes me mad about all of it because i can't tell how all the pieces fit together in EITHER MEDIUM

 

-honestly god bless those scriptwriters. 'they can't be shown to be outright gay for each other, but we sure can have lwj say explicitly that the only people allowed to touch the headbands are parents and SOs and then the very next day, while not even drunk, agree to lend wwx the headband's protection without even apparently considering arguing about it'
-they are also cowards for not letting wwx explicitly only really like rabbits as meals

 

-boy they sure are? playing up jiang yanli and her Betrothed whose name i persistently and repeatedly forget as Actually Being Sweet On Each Other whereas the novel had the dude straight-up tell wwx and jc to their faces that he didn't want to marry their stinky sister who wasn't anything special. then again, jiang yanli wasn't with wwx and jc that first time at cloud recesses in the novel, or if she was she was never mentioned since male and female students are segregated in the novel.
-honestly the show's depiction of those three's dynamics as a family is so fucking cute though, and something the novel is definitely missing as of where i got up to. i'll take it.

 

-i'm sorry, the Tortoise of Slaughter is not a menacing name, no matter how menacing and slaughterous it might be as a thing. fuck me.
-it's always a good sign when a crazed old man laughs madly and informs you you'll end up just like him. nothing bad can ever come of this
-convinced that wwx and lwj ended up in lan yi's cave of sadness and beribboned bunnies because of gay resonance. by god lan yi was gay for baoshan sanren

 

paces
i'm tired and coldy and a bit overstimulated and therefore my tolerance for the kind of stresses that both versions of this story provide is low. i was reading some of the novel anyway but i'm right in the middle of Let's Have An Extended Flashback About Xue Yang And The Development Of His Weird Murder-Crush On Xiao Xingchen and the sense of dread is weighing on me. I could go watch the show again because I'm not quite at the point where it stops rigging up the plot and dives into Everything Going Terribly For Just, Like, Everyone, but i'm not so far off that I won't hit it within like three episodes and anticipating it is also stressful.
I wish i wasn't so sensitive to this shit it makes me both annoyed that it gets in the way of me enjoying stories and also makes me feel obscurely weak as a human being

My brain wants to go and watch the HOB donghua again but brain we're meant to be watching that with some friends tomorrow and you know how you get about randomly deciding something you really enjoyed is boring now because it's happened too much. i don't care that you want the pretty boys. why do you have to watch the pretty boys now rather than read about them? we have like three fanfics we've randomly found that we could sample instead of going back to the pretty pretty boys we've already seen once

 

note that none of the fanfics are anything to do with HOB or GDC. i just randomly found them while blogwalking on tumblr.

also entirely unrelatedly, my brain just mumbled 'my dear dudes, prudes and nudes' to itself

 

finished the xue yang flashback and hmm

 

hm

Spoiler

well, i'll believe xue yang is dead if and when i see more than just an arm, or when the novel ends without him making a nuisance of himself again, i suppose. either is quite likely i think, but then so is him showing up in some manner once more, even if he's not technically alive. it's not like we didn't just see that, provided there's someone around who knows what they're doing and your soul isn't too fucked up, death doesn't have to put a crimp in one's lifestyle at all.

also i stan a-qing, all my homies stan a-qing, i'm kiss her

 

there was a translator's note in this translation i'm reading much earlier on that said that MXTX had stated somewhere or other that everyone in the story except wwx and lwj was intended to be straight. i generally have no interest in peeking behind the curtain of any media, so i don't go hunting down author statements on things as a rule, so i have no idea how accurate this is, but also: if MXTX wrote Xue Yang as having only a platonic sort of interest in Xiao Xingchen, however fucked up, I am a hamster. This is a romance novel, by someone who knows very well how to write romance; clinging on to a single piece of candy for a fucking decade because it was the last thing someone gave you before they stabbed you and killed themself is not a platonic gesture in this context

 

gently considers the potential of shipping jin ling with either lan sizhui, lan jingyi, or just both of them

 

can't believe lan wangji just announced their engagement while drunk

 

thoughts: my ideal clothing is a) full cowboy or b) swishy swooshy robes such as they wear in the untamed