Alternative Mediums in the Guardian Wishlists

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We're in the final sprint! Who else is excited!?

I've seen some fellow fans be surprised at the non-fic, non-art medium requests within the wishlists, so I figured I might share the overview I made for myself to ease anyone less familiar with this fest into creating during this last week <3

Meta is requested by china_shop, ishipallthings, jayswing101, Justacoyote, LaCommunarde, Locketofyourhair, mekare, Miss-Ingno, MoonRaccoon, Shadaras, tehfanglyfish, Trobadora, yaaurens

Poetry is requested by ForErusSake, mergatrude, Shadaras

Picspam is requested by china_shop, jayswing101, Justacoyote, Locketofyourhair, marycrawford, mekare, mergatrude, MoonRaccoon, mumble (mumblemumble), sakana17, tehfanglyfish, yaaurens

Gifs are requested by ForErusSake, jayswing101, marycrawford, mumble (mumblemumble), sakana17, Shadaras, tehfanglyfish, Trobadora

Icons are requested by mekare, mergatrude, Miss-Ingno, MoonRaccoon, mumble (mumblemumble), sakana17, tehfanglyfish, Trobadora, yaaurens

Memes and Mixed Media are requested by Miss-Ingno, tehfanglyfish

Recs are requested by marycrawford, mekare, Miss-Ingno, MoonRaccoon, tehfanglyfish, Trobadora

Fanmix is requested by mumble (mumblemumble)

Fannish Recipes are requested by mekare

Music is requested by mumble (mumblemumble)

Fannish Resources are requested by Trobadora

There's of course also fanvid and podfic and similar requests, but these are the main "unusual" ones I took note of! I hope this helps everyone who's considering creating a gift or two :)

GUARDIAN REWATCH - Episode 36

[trobadora]

Beginning of episode: Lin Jing meets Guo Changcheng at the Inspectorate checkpoint
Ending of episode: The SID team arrives back at the SID at last and finds Lao-Li

Important scenes/developments:

• Lin Jing slips Guo Changcheng a note
• Zhao Yunlan makes Cong Bo hack the Inspectorate. Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei and Cong Bo witness:
• Professor Ouyang and Minister Gao discussing the serum
• Ye Zun visiting Minister Gao and demanding he give up Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei
• Vice Minister Guo being arrested
• Zhao Yunlan decides to have a worldwide livestream
• Guo Changcheng and Lin Jing meet in a bathroom
• Zhao Yunlan is on everyone's screen telling them Dixingren are people just like them
• Ye Huo joins forces with Chu Shuzhi at the locust tree
• Fourth Uncle and Ying Chun listen to Zhao Yunlan's speech on the radio
• Lin Jing and Guo Changcheng receive Zhao Yunlan's coded message to steal the serum
• Flashback: Lin Jing and Zhao Yunlan agree on making Lin Jing the SID's spy
• Minister Gao and Zhao Xinci listen to Zhao Yunlan's speech
• Lin Jing and Guo Changcheng are caught by Professor Ouyang; Lin Jing gets away but Guo Changcheng is injected with the serum
• Li Qian helps Guo Changcheng escape with the Hallows
• Lin Jing is captured by Ya Qing and eaten by Ye Zun
• Ye Zun talks about his plans with Mi Lu
• Chu Shuzhi and Ye Huo make plans at the portal
• Flashback: Chu Shuzhi remembers being saved and recruited by the Black-Cloaked Envoy
• Flashback: Chu Shuzhi is about to refuse teaching Guo Changcheng, but Guo Changcheng reminds him of his brother
• Zhang Shi helps Guo Changcheng and talks to him about the Guardian Lantern; Zhao Xinci breaks free and pulls a gun on him, but Chu Shuzhi rescues him
• Ye Zun's vanguard arrives in Haixing, the Nightmare Master among them
• Chu Shuzhi confronts the Nightmare Master; the rest of the SID arrives and joins in
• Guo Changcheng shows his power for the first time with the Nightmare Master
• Three of Ye Zun's vanguard are trying to enter the SID; the team fight them and the Envoy convinces them they've been duped
• The team enter the SID and find Lao-Li

( Thoughts )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite scene in this episode? Your favourite line? I can't choose between Zhao Yunlan's livestream and Ye Zun's appearance at the Inspectorate, both of which I love to pieces in completely different ways and for completely different reasons. *g*


• Anything that surprised you in this episode? Anything you didn't remember at all?


• Regarding Ye Zun's appearance at the Inspectorate and his delightful(ly extra) outfit, which suits him so much better than his fake Professor Shen outfit did: given that this is what he chose to appear in here when he's not impersonating anyone else, do you think this is his preferred style? If Ye Zun survived and eventually ended up living in the modern day, would he dress like this? :D


• "You can't hurt me," Ye Zun says after Professor Ouyang tries to punch him, then passes his own hand through Prof Ouyang's head, "but don't worry - I can't hurt you either." And then he promptly goes to sit down in Minister Gao's desk chair. Is that an inconsistency, or is it a deliberate contradiction on Ye Zun's part as he's being as deliberately unsettling as possible?


• Does Ye Zun really think there's a chance Minister Gao will hand over Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei, or is he just trying to sow discord?


• How did Lin Jing know to tune into Zhao Yunlan's broadcast at the right time, and to expect a coded message? If he and Zhao Yunlan could communicate enough for Zhao Yunlan to let Lin Jing know about that, why couldn't he just tell him directly to steal the serum?
  
  And speaking of, why is Zhao Yunlan asking Lin Jing to steal the serum? Is Zhao Yunlan already considering using it on himself? (Is this his own version of Shen Wei's failsafe?)


• Given that the serum is now being distributed, who do you think it's being used on - and how much choice did those people have in being given it? (Professor Ouyang, considering what he does to Guo Changcheng, doesn't seem to care much about consent ...)


• How well do you think Guo Changcheng and Li Qian know each other? (He calls her Student Li Qian, which seems pretty formal, but she just calls him Changcheng, which is rather familiar, so I feel like we're getting mixed messages here ...) If they're friends, how do you think that happened?


• What do you think Chu Shuzhi means when he thinks he used to be Dixingren? Especially given that a few episodes ago, his happy ending dream involved living in Dixing with Guo Changcheng ...


• Zhang Shi explains that the reason the Hallows were lost "decades ago" is because the Guardian Lantern was extinguished. When did that happen? When Shen Wei arrived in the present 20+ years ago, the Hallows were already lost. And Dixing in Chu Shuzhi's youth, ostensibly 100 years ago, looked very much like present-day Dixing. Also, we know from Wang Zheng's backstory that the Mountain-River Awl has been in Hanga territory for over 100 years, and from Li Qian that the Sundial was a family heirloom. How does all of that go together? Any theories?


• In this episode, we see Zhao Yunlan casually shoot a man who is already restrained (the Nightmare Master), and then later he shoots another man behind his back without even looking! What do you think has changed for him, that he's now so cavalier about killing?

Let's talk about episode 36!
Come and talk about this episode - anything from favourite scenes or lines of dialogue to notes/questions about continuity or translation, most gorgeous (or angsty) smile, or anything else that strikes your fancy! And share links to your own and/or others' episode-related meta, picspams, and fanworks, new or old!