Today's confession

[marycrawford]

I have stared at this gif of Zhu Yilong bumping his head and...stretching languidly?...while smiling?...approximately seventeen times.
Make that eighteen.
Okay, fine, nineteen it is.
Edit: FOUND!

Comments

[naye]

This is very relatable.

[marycrawford]

I keep going back to the standby outrage of WHAT EVEN IS YOUR FACE ZYL

[trobadora]

That's a lovely gif! Do you have any idea where it's from?

[marycrawford]

Alas I have no idea, I am still a babe in the woods when it comes to all their photoshoots/mysterious L'Oreal ads/weibo shenanigans - I just saw this on the zhuylspectrum twitter. I wonder if it's from some kind of cooking show?

[yantantether]

I have a vague memory of it being a bts vid from when he was filming My True Friend?

[marycrawford]

...if this vid should at any point find itself to your screen, please let us know? I mean maybe this is the only good bit, but...

[yantantether]

I think I only remember seeing this little clip, but I'll keep an eye out!

[marycrawford]

I appreciate it and also the communal wailing <3

[trobadora]

Could be! I'm not very plugged in either, especially when it comes to more recent stuff. But I'd love to know, if you ever do come across the source.

[marycrawford]

Yantantether upthread has a tip that it might be from a bts vid for My True Friend, so who knows, maybe that's it!

[yantantether]

Oh no. How does he look quite this subby after a minor kitchen mishap?

HELP

[marycrawford]

WHERE is the help, pls, there IS none, we are doomed to suffer <3 <3 <3 (I so appreciate this fandom, may I just say)

[yantantether]

What with this and the shoot where he's laid out looking imploring in water it's been kind of a WEEK

[marycrawford]

Man, agreed - it's like ZYL KNOWS Yuletide season is about to begin and started distributing helpful gifs early

[sakana17]

No, it is too adorable. This should not be allowed. If only because, you know, I have to do things in my life other than stare at this all day. ♥____♥

[marycrawford]

Saaame. So many photoshoots and ads and all kinds of things I have no business looking at! But man, it does brighten my day. :)

[winter_blossom]

Ahaha what is he even doing there?

I don't usually have this problem, cos as pretty as someone/something is, I've never been able to stare at the same scene/person/face for long... But then I recently stumbled across this gifset of Zhu Yilong as Luo Fusheng, and for the first time started to understand the suffering of people who're unable to tear their eyes away from things that nab their fancy XD

[marycrawford]

Oh that last one in the gifset! My goodness. <3

Yeah, this is unusual for me too - but man, the microexpressions in these gifs are killing me.

[winter_blossom]

Yeah, it's the micrexpressions that do a lot of us in, I think. Because, objectively speaking there are lots of actors - especially in China and Korea - who're better looking than Zhu Yilong (the guy who plays the protagonist in The Untamed, to cite a recent example). But this particularly combination of good looks, stellar acting and lovely voice is very difficult to come by. Usually it's one or the other, but by some luck we were gifted the entire package!

[umadoshi]

How is he REAL? (I ask for the millionth time.)

[marycrawford]

I think he was born fae or something, frankly.

[(Anonymous)]

here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76uo30BSGM

[marycrawford]

Aah you found it!! Thanks! Wow, it's really cool to see him break in and out of character like that.