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Welcome to the HIStory3: Trapped 圈套 Community on Dreamwidth

Even the though the fandom is spread around on various social media platforms, I think there are enough people on Dreamwidth who have seen the show to merit a separate community to celebrate our favorite disaster gangsters and their disaster cop boyfriends.

This is a comm for discussing and sharing the love of Trapped 圈套 and its related content, including:
• All types of discussion, discourse, and squee
• Actor news and spam (RPS and speculation is acceptable)
• Fan works (fanfiction, podfic, art, icons, vids, etc.), including your own work, challenges, recs and fanwork finding, beta requests
• Episode recaps

You are encouraged to post content directly to the community so that discussion can happen in one central place.

The Community Guidelines can be found on the profile page.

To start things off, let's introduce ourselves, tell each other how we came into the fandom, and what our favorite things about Trapped 圈套 are.

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From:

doctorskuld

Hi everybody, and welcome! I'm Skuld, your admin for this comm. I decided to start this, because my friends suggested it on Twitter, and I think we have reached a critical mass of Dreamwidth folks who might want a comm to squee about Trapped!

How I came to watch Trapped
I watched it on Viki sometime around July 2019, at the insistence of

naye, who had gotten word of it via

xparrot and

gnine, as a low-key, short BL drama, where the characters are actually allowed to be out and gay because it's Taiwanese. We were told it has ALL THE FANFICTION TROPES, and boy, was that true or what?

My favorite scene in Trapped
It's a tie between Meng Shao Fei tripping over a tree trunk and falling into Tang Yi's arms (which was telegraphed way in advance, shown in slow motion, and replayed from three different angles), and Zhao Zi falling off the ladder into Jack's arms and into the swimming pool.

I don't think I'd howled as loudly with laughter and delight since Yuri!!! on Ice had aired in 2016.

I like Trapped because
It is absolutely unabashed about what it is. It's a trope bingo blackout that delivers on the relationships you came here for. It features larger-than-life disaster adults in silly situations, and they get their happy endings, with just enough left up to the imagination that there's plenty of sandbox space to play around in for fanfiction.

Oh, and Andy Bian and Kenny Chen are great kissers too. That helps.

You can also find me on...
Jack/Zhao Zi are my current OTP, so you may have already seen my Jack-centric The Divine Art of the Househusband series and my other fics in the same universe on AO3.

I am also found squeeing about Trapped on Twitter (buttonthemdown), and Tumblr (the-wintry-mizzenmast).

If you have any questions about the guidelines, would like to request additional tags, or want to say hi, drop me a line!

Edited Date: 2 Jan 2020 12:12 (UTC)

From:

bonibaru

How I came to watch Trapped
I was perusing Tumblr in April of 2019 around the time when I think episodes 3 & 4 (episode 2 on Viki now) had just dropped and the fansubs had gone up. A person I follow on Tumblr for another series linked to Florbexter's master post with the fansubs from Adam Uni uploaded to their G drive, plus, HD unsubbed episodes for download. I liked the premise, I looked at some gifs also on Tumblr from stebeee and other users, I followed Adam Uni on Facebook and watched and I was hooked. One of the few webdramas I have actually watched while it was airing in progress, and I really loved being back in a space where fans were screaming at each other in real time for weeks as episodes aired. There's a lot to be said for being able to binge a show all in one go but that sense of togetherness gets lost when you don't have 3-4 days each week when we're all stalking each other online looking for clips and spoilers and translations and just being able to shriek at each other about what the heck just happened. I made my first true squee post about it on April 26th here. I tried very hard to bring people into the fandom but everyone in my circle was still all about Guardian or not into Asian webdramas at all, so it was VERY LONELY FOR A LONG TIME. Then at the end of the series run the production company swept down all the fansites, the fansubs were lost, Adam Uni kept getting reported and taken down as fast as anyone could put the subs up, because it was going on Viki, so .... it's much easier to find and more accessible, now, thanks to Viki, and thanks to the episodes being restored to their full selves and not chopped weirdly into two uneven pieces each week - but I still have all those original fansubs in G drive if anyone wants to download them for posterity.

My favorite scene in Trapped
Aha! I answered this in the past! There are two, and they're both Tang Yi & Shao Fei (sorry Jack/ZZ - but I love your scene on the stairs in ep 19 / ep 10 ... it is a very close 3rd; the ominousness of Jack's shadow following ZZ up the stairs at night, and we all still weren't 100% sure Jack wasn't going to turn out to have been feral all along, and something terrible might be about to happen to ZZ .... whew. It was a big relief).

Scene 1:

"There will be other scenes in #HIStory3 that will get all the attention but honestly, for me, this is the perfect one. The comfort, the caretaking, the sweetness, the softness, the everything. This is intimacy. This is connection. This is love. https://t.co/hXm4k0yMg4"
—May 14, 2019

Scene 2:
The first love scene between Tang Yi and Shao Fei when they've gone back to Shao Fei's home after the hospital. The chemistry between Jake and Chris is soft, tender and believable and I love how much they respected what these two characters were about to go through, and how to bring out the connection, and the TRUST.

SF’s in-the-chair seduction of TY is all about connecting: hands are touching but eyes are open, they keep eye contact, their intimacy in this moment is powerful, gentle, and direct. TY invites SF to seduce him as a test: to see how far SF is willing to go, but also as a way to judge his experience level and his tastes. TY then pushes SF a little more. When they're out of the chair, Tang Yi does not have Shao Fei trapped against a wall. Shao Fei has room to back off if he wants to. Tang Yi brings him in, holds him up, holds onto him, but never presses him back, gives him the option of space if he needs to take it. But Shao Fei doesn’t take it. He leans in, and he listens, he lets himself be touched and treasured, and he trusts Tang Yi. Tang Yi pulls him in, increases the skin to skin surface area by removing the shirt, takes away the eye contact but by doing so invites SF to learn how much you can *feel* when you come in closer and close your eyes and listen, and touch, and touch again.

I love the dichotomy and range of physicality, connection and emotion they go through in just 5 minutes, seizing the moment, being present and trusting. How many times am I going to use the word trust? A LOT. Because the only way the two of them could have survived being together - literally, I mean actually survive, since they were both targets in one way or another - was to see and to feel and to trust each other, whether their eyes are open or their eyes are closed. Yes the kissing is hot. The actors are hot, all the skin is hot. But the connection is the thing that kept them both alive.

I like Trapped because
There's not enough room in this comment box to say, so: Shao Fei and Tang Yi are two sides of the same coin who are just trying their best.

You can also find me on...
If a social media platform exists, I'm probably on it, and if I am, it's under this name. I am most active on Twitter daily and on Dreamwidth several times a week. Oh! And I am

bonibaru on AO3, also. My fics and my fanvids for Trapped and other fandoms are all there.

Edited Date: 2 Jan 2020 15:05 (UTC)

From:

doctorskuld

I cannot imagine how much fun it must have been to watch Trapped while it was happening, particularly since the last few episodes were such cliffhangers!

The comfort, the caretaking, the sweetness, the softness, the everything. This is intimacy. This is connection. This is love.

That scene was so, so sweet. I was actually surprised that how intimate and soft that scene was.
...and how Zhao Zi totally slept through it.

The first love scene between Tang Yi and Shao Fei when they've gone back to Shao Fei's home after the hospital.

That was scene was amazing! I swear I felt some tingling down my spine when Tang Yi bent to kiss the bandaged bullet wound.

I think you're onto something about the TRUST, which was something that the director really wanted to bring out. It is special, it's the first time that both Tang Yi and Shao Fei are letting themselves be vulnerable with each other present, in the moment. It was very, very nice.
...even up the point where Shao Fei escapes, because it's a little too much for him. XD

There are so many powerful, emotional scenes between those two.

I remember finishing Trapped and thinking to myself, "Good thing that TangFei are my main OTP!" ...and then a few weeks later, having written the first of the Househusband fics, I went, "Oh no, I was so wrong about myself."

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