Poll: Dixing (drama)

[china_shop]

Poll #33025 Dixing

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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Where in canon-era Dixing would you most want to visit?

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the palace
0 (0.0%)

specifically, the palace archives
7 (36.8%)

the Sky Pillar (Ye Zun in residence)
3 (15.8%)

the Sky Pillar (post-Ye Zun)
0 (0.0%)

the bar
6 (31.6%)

just wander around the streets, maybe windowshop
12 (63.2%)

Ding Dun's fortune-telling stall
2 (10.5%)

other
3 (15.8%)

Fifteen years after the end of the drama, what does Dixing have? (Check all that apply.)

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more than one bar
17 (81.0%)

a police force
6 (28.6%)

schools
19 (90.5%)

hospitals
16 (76.2%)

public transport
6 (28.6%)

private transport (bicycles?)
9 (42.9%)

shops
14 (66.7%)

a local fashion industry
12 (57.1%)

a museum of Dixing history and culture
13 (61.9%)

newspapers
9 (42.9%)

air conditioning
5 (23.8%)

a state-run lottery
2 (9.5%)

the Internet
8 (38.1%)

citrus orchards
7 (33.3%)

at least one boyband
14 (66.7%)

a tourism industry
11 (52.4%)

a politically and emotionally charged war memorial
14 (66.7%)

a tacky nightclub called The Pillar on the site of Ye Zun’s former imprisonment
12 (57.1%)

other (please specify in comments)
2 (9.5%)

Please comment with your Dixing headcanons or nifty worldbuilding you've seen (or created yourself!) in fanworks.

Comments

[china_shop]

I chose the palace archives because I'd love to dig around and see if there are any records from early, post-ancient war era Dixing where they talk about Shen Wei and Kunlun. (I'm assuming in this scenario that I have a temporary "reading languages I don't know" power or babel fish or something. ;-p)

Alternatively, if Wu Tian'en didn't mind, I'd love to visit his house and see what a private residence is like. (Not that they'd all be the same, but you know.)

In conclusion, I feel like a Dixing boyband would be amazing. :D :D :D

(Uh, full disclosure, I copied the second question from an old Guardian poll I did.)

[facethestrange]

"I chose the palace archives because I'd love to dig around and see if there are any records from early, post-ancient war era Dixing where they talk about Shen Wei and Kunlun."

Ooooh, I would've never thought of that, what a fantastic idea! :D :D Still wouldn't really want to be in the palace myself, lol. Says the person who wants to be in the vicinity of Ye Zun's pillar.

I definitely voted for the boyband too. :D :D

"(Uh, full disclosure, I copied the second question from an old Guardian poll I did.)"

As someone who has never seen the other poll or a million of other past posts, YAY! :D

[china_shop]

Still wouldn't really want to be in the palace myself, lol. Says the person who wants to be in the vicinity of Ye Zun's pillar.

Hee! I'm telling myself that the archivists are all scholars who venerate the Envoy and watch the goings on in the rest of the palace with a disapproving eye. ;-p (Also, I like the idea that one or more of them correspond with Shen Wei on matters of Dixing history (because he's writing a textbook about it for when they finally open a school). :D)

I definitely voted for the boyband too. :D :D

Meanwhile, Sha Ya is off rolling her eyes and doing her indie thing. ;D

<3 <3 <3 <3

[facethestrange]

"Also, I like the idea that one or more of them correspond with Shen Wei on matters of Dixing history (because he's writing a textbook about it for when they finally open a school). :D"

AWW, I love that, and it's another thing that is now my headcanon! ♡

"Meanwhile, Sha Ya is off rolling her eyes and doing her indie thing. ;D"

Heeeee. :D OH, but having boybands would mean they'd probably end up building some huge stadium stage for them, so Sha Ya can perform there too. :D

[china_shop]

AWW, I love that, and it's another thing that is now my headcanon! ♡

<3 <3 <3

OH, but having boybands would mean they'd probably end up building some huge stadium stage for them, so Sha Ya can perform there too. :D

They could build it in a defunct volcanic crater, maybe. :D :D :D

[trobadora]

They could build it in a defunct volcanic crater, maybe. :D :D :D

That is such a delightful visual! :D

[facethestrange]

"They could build it in a defunct volcanic crater, maybe. :D :D :D"

Damn, that would be so pretty and atmospheric, and the right shape and everything! :D :D No idea if it would make acoustics excellent or terrible, I know nothing about that. xD

[china_shop]

Eh, they can solve acoustics with engineering and/or dark energy powers. :D :D :D

[trobadora]

one or more of them correspond with Shen Wei on matters of Dixing history (because he's writing a textbook about it for when they finally open a school)

YESSSSSSSSS, that's an excellent headcanon! :D

[china_shop]

:D :D :D

[trobadora]

I'd love the palace archives post-canon, but I'm not getting anywhere near that place while the Regent and/or the Attendant are around. Unless Shen Wei can be convinced to play bodyguard, but probably not even then. *g*

Visiting Wu Tian'en is a fabulous idea, excellent thought!

[facethestrange]

"I'd love the palace archives post-canon, but I'm not getting anywhere near that place while the Regent and/or the Attendant are around. Unless Shen Wei can be convinced to play bodyguard, but probably not even then. *g*"

SAME. (Well, I guess I would go with Shen Wei, but why risk it.) Why the hell do I still want to go to the Ye Zun pillar tho, lmfao. /the question that everyone who wants to go there should ask themselves xD

[trobadora]

LOLOLOL! Ye Zun appreciates your dedication! :D

[facethestrange]

This post of all things is what just made me make myself a Ye Zun icon. xD *TWIRLS*

[trobadora]

Hee! :D

(I really want a Dixing icon, but I haven't found the right one yet.)

[facethestrange]

I would have so many Guardian icons if my icon spaces were not all taken, lol, but I still have about 1-2 that I'm fully ready to delete. :D

[trobadora]

I have a premium paid accout mainly for the icons - and I still bought extra icon space because I never delete any! I have 305 total, and if I counted right, 65 of them are Guardian or related fandoms. *g*

[facethestrange]

Hee, YAY! :D I won some dw points at some point, so back in 2023 I had a paid account for a few months, with 130-ish icons. :D And then I basically stopped using dw, so I still have enough points left for one month, but I'm not using them up because I'm not on dw enough. But maybe I'm going to think about that, since I live in this comm. xD

[trobadora]

♥ ♥ ♥

[china_shop]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[china_shop]

See, I think the Regent and Attendant are too busy scheming to bother going to the archives, and I'd be quite safe. I could always hide in a back room or in the stacks if someone scary came in. I'd be more nervous in the streets with the palace guard patrolling and occasional public executions. /o\

Visiting Wu Tian'en is a fabulous idea, excellent thought!

He's seen different stages in Dixing's history, too!

[facethestrange]

"I'd be more nervous in the streets with the palace guard patrolling and occasional public executions. /o\"

Okay, yikes, that's a really good point too. (I feel like I would make everyone facepalm so hard if I were a character who considers all these possibilities and then goes to the damn PILLAR instead. xD)

[china_shop]

(I feel like I would make everyone facepalm so hard if I were a character who considers all these possibilities and then goes to the damn PILLAR instead. xD)

LOLOL! What is it that draws you there (other than Ye Zun's voice creepily whispering inside your head)? The vibes?

[facethestrange]

"(other than Ye Zun's voice creepily whispering inside your head)"

Lololol. :D That's a very good question, ngl, like, I may have a thing for Ye Zun, but when he's just a disembodied voice it's not his top look. xD But probably still that, and definitely the vibes (I like vast, thundestormy looking places, which is probably known after I related to novel!CSZ's excitement about the ghost army xD), and also just to see what happens? :D I feel like Dixing is really, REALLY not the place where you do things just to see what happens. Oh well. xD