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[branchandroot]

I feel a need to poll Guardian extended fandom about something.



When you look at this image from that hotel photo shoot, your first response is:

Poll #22994 Honestly...

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My first thought is...

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Hands, hngh.
5 (33.3%)

Oh hey, bondage.
2 (13.3%)

What's that flower-print thing behind him?
0 (0.0%)

Blue-screen, ask me later
6 (40.0%)

clicky!
7 (46.7%)

Comments

[krait]

My first thought was, "What is he holding?" At first glance it looked almost like someone's tie; the shape wasn't quite right, though, and it didn't line up with his own tie and there wasn't the parts of a figure where a figure should be if the tie was around someone else's neck, and frankly I still don't know what he's holding.

[branchandroot]

To be one hundred percent honest, I think it's the wrap-around strap of some luggage, and the photographer pretty much went "we need something that'll foreground your hand, here hold this!".

You really have to wonder how often, on these impromptu-location shoots, they have to pause for Zhu Yilong to finish laughing and manage to look appropriately serious again.