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trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-12-28 10:50 pm

Picspam/Quiz: Hands

Two years ago, I did a picspam/quiz about shoes and ever since then I've been meaning to do one for hands as well. There are so many striking close-ups, so many iconic moments - but also many not so easily recognised. And some great visual parallels/motifs. So let's have some fun with this!

a hand pile


The challenge: identify who's being depicted, and which scene it is!
Hard mode: without looking at the comments first. :p

Sometimes it's easy to tell who it is, but not necessarily when; sometimes if you know who, you know what scene it has to be. Please post your guesses in the comments!

Without further ado (as usual, click for full size):

1. Hallows

1a)someone picking up the Sundial 1b)the Awl in someone's hand 1c)someone's hand reaching for the Awl 1d)someone lifting the hood off the Sundial 1e)the Sundial and Awl glowing in someone's hands 1f)a hand holding the Sundial


2. Fruit

2a)someone's hand setting down an apple 2b)someone's hands placing orange slices on a plate


3. Writing implements

3a)a pen, the wrong way round 3b)a writing brush 3c)left-handed pen on paper 3d)pen on paper on the floor 3e)two pairs of hands, two pens writing on paper 3f)someone writing on a whiteboard


4. Pendant moments

4a)A hand holding a pendant 4b)A hand holding a pendant


5. Drinking vessels

5a)A hand holding a bowl 5b)A hand holding a liquor bowl 5c)A hand setting down a teacup 5d)Hands holding a paper cup 5e)A hand hovering over a wine glass 5f)Hands holding a ring next to a mug


6. Small wounds

6a)a pricked finger 6b)a scratched hand held by another hand


7. Handholding

7a)a handshake 7b)handholding - one large, one small 7c)handholding - one large, one small 7d)handholding - one in black, one in white 7e)handholding, one coming from below 7f)handholding - one in black, one in white


8. Money

8a)someone opening his wallet 8b)bills changing hands 8c)someone holding out a bill 8d)one hand holding money, another pushing it away


9. Clutching

9a)hands clutching a metal railing 9b)hands clutching a stone wall


10. Miscellaneous

10a)a hand on a throat 10b)hands opening a food container 10c)a hand above the number plate of a car 10d)hands holding face masks 10e)one hand wrapping another 10f)one hand on another on a bed 10g)a hand on a tree trunk 10h)a hand holding up a megaphone


I'll post the solution next weekend. Good luck, everyone! Looking forward to some guesses! Or if you're not playing, enjoy the picspam! :)
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[personal profile] china_shop 2025-12-28 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, this was so much fun. There were a few I didn't know, but more that made me go "awww!" :D

1a) ZYL picking up the Dial and returning it to Li Qian on the rooftop.

1b) Sang Zan with the Awl in a flashback, but I can't remember context. Is he about to strip Wang Zheng's soul from her dead body?

1c) I'm not sure. Zhao Yunlan looking for answers when CSZ and co are kidnapped in the zero degree lab, ep 18/19?

1d) Pretty sure that's Zhao Yunlan in episode 14, just before Shen Wei shows up and suggests a different way to find the rest of the Hallows.

1e) Shen Wei signalling to Zhu Jiu in ep 19(?), during the blackout.

1f) CSZ about to exchange energy with unconscious GCC, after ZYL brings CC back from Dixing. Ep 34(?).

2a) Ya Qing antagonising Zhu Jiu. Not sure which episode, but it's while he's still healing from Shen Wei's energy attack.

2b) Awwwwwww, Shen Wei, because ZYL does like oranges. The scene where ZYL falls asleep on the couch. Ep 31 or 32 maybe?

3a) Zhu Hong interrogating Shen Wei, ep 4.

3b) Zhao Yunlan talking about being a character in someone's story, in ep 7, end of the web novelist case.

3c) Is that Zhao Xinci (or Zhang Shi) taking notes in the SID library during the Bao Laosan case?

3d) Bo Bi's little brother writing a suicide note in the fight club arc.

3e) Lin Jing and Cong Bo writing self-criticisms after shutting off the power to the whole city, just before suited!DQ rescues them.

3f) Shen Wei, definitely -- writing on the SID whiteboard? During Wang Xiangyang's treasure hunt?

4a) Shen Wei, either during the mugging or outside the SID after Lin Jing took readings of his life force.

4b) Shen Wei watching ZYL sleep on the couch, just after the oranges.

5a) Zhao Yunlan reluctantly chugging medicine in ep 3.

5b) Zhu Hong being drugged by her uncle in ep 12, maybe?

5c) Shen Wei placing a cup of tea in front of frustrated ZYL, during the Envoy reveal. Ep 12.

5d) Ah, I'm going to kick myself about this one. Is it... Tan Xiao at the SID? (My second and third guesses are Guo Changcheng and Lin Jing. ;-p)

5e) Da Ji's husband poisoning her wine, ep 26ish?.

5f) Sha Ya in the interrogation room with Lin Jing.

6a) Shen Wei in ep 4, proving he can get hurt.

6b) Shen Wei in the street, facing off with the Crows during the Merit Brush arc.

7a) WEILAN FIRST HANDSHAKE!! Ep 1.

7b) Tan Xiao and Zheng Yi. Flashback, tending her wounds??

7c) Shen Wei and Zheng Yi, ep 13, as he takes her away.

7d) Is that Sha Ya and her girlfriend, as the Envoy is taking them back to Dixing?

7e) Zhu Hong and Zhao Yunlan in Zhu Hong's dream. That's ep 31 or 32, I think?

7f) Awwww, the twins! Ep 40.

8a) Shen Wei being mugged, ep 7.

8b) Zhao Yunlan about to be stabbed by Ding Dun, ep 16.

8c) I don't know.

8d) Is that from the bribery case Cong Bo was reporting on?

9a) Li Qian, ep 2, after she gets out of hospital.

9b) Is that Zhao Yunlan climbing over a wall in Dixing, having stashed the Hallows? Ep 38/39? I'm really not sure.

10a) ZYL using GCC's hand to measure the wounds on Lu Ruomei's neck, ep 1.

10b) Shen Wei bringing food to Li Qian at the hospital, ep 2.

10c) CSZ planting a bug on Li Jiaqi's car during the water kidnapping case.

10d) GCC going through ZYL's desk drawers, just before impersonating him to ZXC, ep 15.

10e) CSZ wrapping his hands for the fight with Ye Huo, ep 18.

10f) Shen Wei at ZYL's bedside during the Merit Brush arc, when ZXC is kidnapped and ZYL groped the Hallows for info.

10g) Da Qing climbing a tree to find his way, on his way to the Snake village, ep 38.

10h) The Dixing bartender in the street, rousing a crowd to go and storm the palace, ep 39.
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[personal profile] china_shop 2025-12-28 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes -- thanks! It's ZYL grabbing his wrist, going, "Why aren't you healing?"
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[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-12-29 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh yay, I'm here for a quiz, and I definitely enjoyed the picspam too. :D :D :D ♡

Without looking anything up at all:

1a) it's one of the first episodes when Li Qian lost her necklace, but idk who is picking it up

1d) Zhao Yunlan, idk when exactly

2a) Ya Qing, clearly at Zhu Jiu's place, but that doesn't mean I know which scene it is xD

2b) Shen Wei making oranges for Zhao Yunlan, before finding out that he's asleep ♡♡♡

3a) Zhu Hong interrogating Shen Wei

3b) Zhao Yunlan playing with the brush in Shen Wei's office?

3c) probably Zhao Xinci, but idk when

3f) Shen Wei, idk when exactly

4a) obviously Shen Wei, lol, just don't know when

4b) Shen Wei watching Zhao Yunlan sleep, covered with his jacket ♡♡♡

5a) Zhao Yunlan with the cold medicine from Zhu Hong

5b) Zhu Hong, but idk when

5e) Da Ji's husband trying to kill her?

5f) Sha Ya?

6a) Shen Wei pricking his finger on purpose! ♡

6b) Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan, when ZYL freaks out that SW is not healing?

7a) WEILAN FIRST MEETING ♡

7b) Zheng Yi and Tan Xiao?

7c) Zheng Yi and Shen Wei when he takes her away

7e) Zhu Hong and Zhao Yunlan in her dream

7f) Shen Wei and Ye Zun reunting after the ending

8a) Shen Wei giving money to the muggers

8c) Xiao Guo? no idea

8d) this looks like the scene with the minor characters that Cong Bo was watching

9a) Li Qian, but I think she has multiple roof scenes :P

10a) Xiao Guo touching the dead body because Zhao Yunlan is making him, in the first episode

10b) Shen Wei with the food he brought for Li Qian to the hospital

10f) Shen Wei tucking Zhao Yunlan in and judging him for touching the Hallows he's gonna nearly sit on his hand after that

10g) Da Qing when they're lost in the forest?

Let's see if I end up looking anything up and get more. :D :D
china_shop: Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan crouched down, stroking a black cat, on a gree background. (Guardian - meet cute)

[personal profile] china_shop 2025-12-29 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
7a) WEILAN FIRST MEETING ♡

Snap! :D :D :D
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[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-12-29 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Heeee! *high five on the unbridled enthusiasm for this scene* :D :D ♡♡♡
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[personal profile] nnozomi 2025-12-29 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the hands-with-orange-slices image so much, there's so much gentleness and care in that one still <3
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[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-12-29 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of these are so easy to look up (like the Li Qian ones) that I'd have a few more if I went through the episodes, but I am proud of what I already got off the top of my head. :D :D

Lol, I literally have an icon of this scene, but I only found it after I checked the list of pendant scenes (which I feel like is basically cheating because there are so few of them xD).
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[personal profile] autodach 2025-12-29 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, a Quiz!!! I love it! Thank you so much!
Here are my guesses:

1a) This is the sundial being picked off the university rooftop after the altercation with the shadow man. I’m guessing it’s Zhao Yunlan picking it up.
1b) The Hanga Tattoo is a big hint. This is Sang Zan, in the scene where he’s standing over Wang Zheng’s body in episode 11 (which I just so happened to watch yesterday, heh).
1c) Tan Xiao in the SID lab trying to steal the hallows in episode 12 (yes I watched 2 episodes yesterday).
1d) These are Zhao Yunlan’s hands. I don’t know for sure when, but I hazard a guess it’s episode 28, where he takes the dial out and faints.
1e) On the roof during the mid-autumn festival. The hands are Shen Wei’s.
1f) Episode 34. Zhao Yunlan takes the dial, just before Ye-Zun-as-Shen-Wei arrives.

My Zhao Yunlan Hallows fondling spreadsheet really helped me for these. It’s not cheating, it’s benefitting from previous work!

2a) Ya Qing, when she’s with Zhu Jiu in his warehouse lair.
2b) Shen Wei! He’s cutting fruit for his hubby, who turns out to be already asleep, aww.

3a) Zhu Hong when she interrogates Shen Wei.
3b) Zhao Yunlan playing with Shen Wei’s office supplies at the university.
3c) That could be Zhao Xinci’s shirt; no clue when this is.
3d) It’s the illegal boxing ring guy writing his “suicide note”. I forgot his name.
3e) Cong Bo and Lin Jing writing self criticism at the Supervisory office (or whatever it’s called).
3f) Shen Wei, at the secret evil lab. Writing on Li Qian's board.

4a) Shen Wei. Maybe when he’s wondering if he should tell Zhao Yunlan the truth (just after the undershirt scene).
4b) Shen Wei. I think it’s after he cut the fruit for Zhao Yunlan.

5a) Looks like snake medicine for a sick Zhao Yunlan.
5b) Zhu Hong, in the snake village, being poisoned by her uncle.
5c) Shen Wei makes Tea for Zhao Yunlan. They are in his office and Zhao Yunlan demands answers regarding Heipaoshi’s identity he’s very much not getting at this point.
5d) At the hospital. I think it’s Dr. Cheng’s hands.
5e) Doting husband preparing the anniversary present for his wife Da Ji. I forgot his name.
5f) Sha Ya being interrogated by the SID.

6a) Shen Wei pricks himself to prove he can bleed. Now he needs a tetanus shot.
6b) It’s Shen Wei’s hand, but I don’t know when.

7a) It’s Zhao Yunlan’s first meeting with Shen Wei.
7b) Tan Xiao and Zheng Yi in the flashback that explains their relationship.
7c) Heipaoshi takes Zheng Yi to the faraway realm of around the street corner.
7d) This is a hard one. I’m guessing Sha Ya and Hua Yuzhu.
7e) Zhu Hong and Zhao Yunlan in her dream.
7f) I’m not crying I swear. It’s Ye Zun and Shen Wei, leaving together for the next life.

8a) Shen Wei being robbed in the alley.
8b) Zhao Yunlan. And -wild guess- Ding Dun who is charging him for palm-reading.
8c) No idea.
8d) No idea.

9a) Li Qian on the university rooftop. I think it’s after her grandma’s death.
9b) Wang Xiangyang. On the rooftop being evil with his evil companions.

10a) Zhao Yunlan makes Xiao-Guo touch the murdered student’s dead body.
10b) Shen Wei brings food to Li Qian at the hospital.
10c) Chu Shuzhi places a tracker on the Li family’s car, during the Butler Wu episode.
10d) Zhao Yunlan’s office, but I don’t know who.
10e) Someone’s getting ready for an illegal boxing match. Probably Chu Shuzhi.
10f) Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan, after the latter fainted from touching the hallows (again).
10g) Da Qing in the snake forest.
10h) It’s my boy, the bar owner! He’s announcing something to the people of Dixing.
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[personal profile] china_shop 2025-12-29 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
5a) Looks like snake medicine for a sick Zhao Yunlan.

Do you think that was snake medicine? I thought they'd got it from the hospital.

10h) It’s my boy, the bar owner!

Awww! :D :D :D