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Let me talk about BJYX for a while, here.
Oh man, well. I only have two main pairings right now, and they're both actual OTPs, which is a new experience for me? One is Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, known as WangXian. It's a canon pairing, which is also relatively new for me. What's not new is that it is a juggernaut ship, and there is just so much content for it. I'm not going to do that one because honestly, there is so much content in the WangXian tag that literally anyone could get into it by starting with Modern AUs.

So the pairing I'm going to write about instead is Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, who are the actors that play Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji.

I'll start with the individual actors, who are both amazing in their own right. They're both idols. Wang Yibo started in a Korean training program as a young teenager. (I think 13? I'm doing this from memory, so definitely a grain of salt here). He is part of the idol group UNIQ who has a ton of amazing stuff for the very small amount of time they were together and performing before Wang Yibo went off and became a superstar.

Xiao Zhan was actually just a normal guy, a graphic designer! Who worked in an office! And then he went on an idol show (XFIRE, I think?) and... I don't honestly think he won. I haven't watched it all yet, but he definitely at least got some opportunities, which eventually lead to Chen Qing Ling (The Untamed), which is what really blew up his career. I think it probably blew up Wang Yibo's, too, though he has had a much more steady trajectory - Xiao Zhan's looks like a stock market graph.

Wang Yibo is known for his dancing (though he sings too) and Xiao Zhan is known for his singing (though he dances too) and both of them are working very hard at shifting their careers toward more serious work. Because of their huge fanbase, they both have a huge number of ads because anything they put their name to sells like hotcakes.

So then onto The Untamed, which is a gay romance novel made into a Chinese drama with many episodes. 40? 41? 50? I can't remember. MANY. There are certainly many flaws with it, but the story is amazing, the show is pretty darn close to the story, especially considering censorship in China, and Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo are both amazing (as are many of the other lovely people involved in this show) with unbelievable chemistry.

But the thing that sold me on this ship is the behind the scenes footage of the two leads. They're so cute and flirty and I just. I just see it, okay? After production, the cast did a tour and fanmeets and there's so much amazing interview content from this time period. Honestly, you could spend weeks down this rabbit hole.

This is an amazing little fandom on tumblr - my main blogs for this information are [tumblr.com profile] rainbowsky and [tumblr.com profile] accio-victuuri. They post candies (theories about social media hints the two actors give) and all of the actors' ads and performances and photo shoots and interviews and it's a really positive environment. I hear the twitter environment is incredibly toxic, so I stay in the fandom through tumblr.

I will leave you with one last thing about these two. There's some top/bottom stuff around their ship name, which I absolutely hate - how does that matter, or is any of our business? - but they actually CALLED themselves YiZhan in an interview, so that is the neutral one. However, I still call them BJYX (Bo Jun Yi Xiao) colloquially, because it is SUCH a cute acronym. It includes characters from both of their names and the phrase stands for "everything I do is to make you smile". [tumblr.com profile] rainbowsky has a post about it (with links to other useful info) that says a little more, but honestly, they DO make each other smile and laugh and they're adorable together, whether they're a ship or just good friends, I don't care. They both make me happy, they clearly make each other happy, so all I want in the world is for the two of them to get everything they want, including each other, if that's on the list. >:)

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring feet in snuggly socks, a mug of hot chocolate, a notebook with 'dreams' written on the cover, and a guitar. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

on 1/4/23 08:39 pm (UTC)
mekare: Gilmore Girls: Lorelai Gilmore in a woolly hat in the snow (Lorelai snow)
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Awww that is lovely. Thank you for sharing the love and their cute ship name!

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