The Way Home

Posting this here just for the way didi absolutely destroys that exquisite calendar, probably fully aware everyone watching this is wincing inside. SORRY TO MESSIKA, DON'T GIFT THIS LITTLE ANIMAL PAPER GOODS AGAIN. » xhslink.com/o/3q2CcxURoqu

Happy anniversary to this super normal photoshoot, which I continue to be normal about. 😌🍓✨ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Posted a picture of a bag of chips to XHS and it's doing NUMBERS.

In 全糖可乐 news, MBQ is on winter break from BFA and ZKL had his last brand event on Jan 10, so I assume they haven't left their marital bed since... Jan 11. Their socials have been fed with presumably prerecorded content on an almost daily basis, and today ZKL's studio added to the fun. Skilled hands!

It's the 24th here, so happy anniversary to 歸棹 | The Way Home! I love you very much, you sweet little show. 🥹 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

tfw your bestie watches Your Show and Gets It on a molecular level 🥹 IS THERE A BETTER FEELING IN THE WHOLE WORLD

Look at my sweet boys. 🥹🥹🥹 I love them a normal amount. » xhslink.com/o/1m8CZC3u9PQ

I was reminded of these today and I just need you to know, because it's kind of hard to see at first, that this is MBQ's right hand and ZKL's left hand doing the ✌️✌️ and those are ZKL's knees kind of. Bracketing MBQ. You know, like bros. Good pals. Just posing for pics in the usual manner.

Still/again/always deep in my The Way Home feelings. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Ma Boquan in Paris for Valentino.

Randomly revisiting this, five months later, and Zhang Kangle is about to shoot an esports drama with Zeng Shunxi and Ma Boquan will attend Paris Fashion Week as a jewelry brand ambassador. Not to jinx it or anything, but. Things seem to be okay? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The sugar colas out in full force for this T Magazine event MBQ is attending tomorrow. With a liddol ponytail? 🥹 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Every single moment I've seen of ZKL and MBQ together has seemed incredibly private, as in something I should NOT be witnessing, but I do have to admit I watched ZKL in utter shambles about that tiny ~gege~ from MBQ a hundred times already and I WILL watch it another hundred times. #thewayhome

I've been going through ZKL's and his studio's Weibos (for very normal and hinged reasons) and oh gosh, he loved #TheWayHome so much. The Studio made 25 posts about it during filming (incl. reblogs of ZKL's posts), and ZKL constantly posted pics and reblogged official promo things as it was airing.

He does clean up nice. Randomly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Imagine Zhang Kangle just falling in love with you at work. Imagine having to deal with that face while trying to film your gay little drama. Happened to my good friend Ma Boquan. (xhslink.com/m/7IGXqkr1tIF)

I may have stopped posting about #TheWayHome and 全糖可乐 quite so much, but for the record. Mentally I'm still here.

I just want you to know that ZKL and MBQ just did a brand livestream together in which they all but confirmed--through a series of cutesy games, messages from and to fans, and a couple of "skits" in which they, without prompting, ended up softly gege-ing each other--that they're in a relationship.

Feeling emotional about the #TheWayHome babies in this Chili's tonight. 🥹 Gosh, look at them. I love this stupid little show.

If you're wondering how things are going over in #TheWayHome RPF land: ZKL and MBQ have signed on as brand spokespeople for a skincare company, you know, TOGETHER, and MBQ's XHS post about it (from about an hour ago) is currently closing in on 80,000 comments. I'm sure this will end well. 🫣

Not that there's an audience for this, but I think I'm gonna compile a list of all* the scenes that were cut from #TheWayHome, and try and slot them into the available canon. (* that I'm aware of, which is probably only a fraction of the missing material) Anyway, off to a great start.

Randomly remembering the time the cousins got alley-married. #thewayhome

I'm still not over this, by the way. Never over this. Figaro just fully doing a young gay couple shoot and making a whole BTS vid set to "there is a truth and it's on our side" lyrics, LIKE THAT'S A NORMAL C-ENT THING TO DO.

Oh hey, can you imagine if Zhu Yilong had gotten his Thermos deal right after Guardian and they made a special promo item and printed a lollipop and glasses and, uh, an ice cube ring and a feather pendant on it? Shiseido just did that to sell sunscreen with Zhang Kangle, so I guess this is fine now.

I am, by the way, still trying to get people to watch #TheWayHome. At this point the RPF fandom has far outpaced the incest ship in terms of popularity and, you know, sheer unbridled madness, but I'm not giving up! It's an 8 hour commitment, just watch it.

Right after this, they show ZKL a truly unforgivably cringe clip from when MBQ was a tiny little baby actor, which I am still trying to scrub from my mind. But for these nine seconds, life was perfect. #thewayhome

This is the face, just to let you know, of a sweet boy who just got 100 RMB from his cousin for school supplies and is now asking for some additional money for new sneakers. Which he also gets. Then he skips off to school. That's the scene. IF you were wondering. #thewayhome [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Completely randomly, my favorite thing about this clip (other than everything) is that ZKL is holding it together pretty well the entire time, and then the MOMENT he glances over to MBQ, he breaks. Anyway, I feel normal about them. #thewayhome

Oh hey! Remember how I said my wholesome little drama about brothers was getting a wedding shoot? Haha. I mean, obviously it's not a BL, we're just dealing with some themes of family and reconciliation and coming of age and whatnot. IT IS AIMED AT TWEENS. Anyway, I just got up and I'm in tatters.

I thought that this would be a silly little high school drama, and one aspect of it would be the bromance? But no, it seems to be 100% about this baby boy being unhealthily obsessed with his cousin who was cast out of the family years ago? Not sure about the details, but the obsession is real. 😳 [contains quote post or other embedded content]