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TIL the silvery salamander only has females and they reproduce by borrowing sperm from a different species! And 0% of the male's genetic material gets passed down!
That's so weird I love nature!!
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Back in... I want to say May? for Reasons I ended up watching all of Nirvana in Fire twice in two weeks. I regret nothing, all my choices were excellent, but then I was left with a lot of feelings about how I wanted to see Jingyan with his hair down. I am sometimes a simple soul. Also, it had been long enough since the last time I drew a full background that I forgot that they're terrible.
This is also the piece that caused me to realize I need to do a more detailed re-swatching of all my paint, because I did _not_ have a proper grasp on which colors lifted too easily, and would, hypothetically, force me to try to recolor a very detailed design in colored pencil, which is not the best tool for it.
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Qi Ye Week 2024
To celebrate the novel's 14th anniversary, join in Qi Ye Week 2024 from June 13-19th!
Seven days for seven lifetimes, there are prompts & challenges so all fans can take part.
For more info, check out the event Carrd.
*Mod isn't responsible for any unruly sable shenanigans.
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The Inu-Oh chapters
My final triptych for painting and image making
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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!
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You’ve made me blush, Shepard. Not an easy feat.
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Working hard on the business!!
I had a lot of fun working on this piece that fits well as a companion to this one! I really, really enjoy Wuxi and Zishu's side hustle and think about it a lot.
More musings on this piece below!
I have been thinking a lot about Wuxi and Zishu's relationship for the past few months--working on the translation of Qiye has given me a fresh look and new perspective on it which I feel like elaborating on for a bit.
While they come from very different place and are 5 years apart in age, Wuxi and Zishu seem to rather quickly relate to each other due to both being outsiders--to the capital and its codes. It's very sweet to see how quickly Wuxi seems intrigued and interested in Zishu, wanting to know more about him and quick to react when he's around.
Beiyuan is Wuxi's only friend so far, and I think it's very refreshing for Wuxi to find another person with whom he may be able to relate more on some regards, and whom he can look up to in terms of martial arts skills and craftiness. This is a personal HC of mine, but I sort of see Wuxi as having this sort of (fully platonic) "cool older guy crush" on Zishu.
Because of that, I feel like Zishu showing interest in Wuxi and going as far as to offer him to collaborate must have been incredibly validating and exciting. It was a way for Wuxi to be more independent, do something for himself aside from his own training, aside from his role as the young shaman of Nanjiang. Something for his own experimentation and profit--be useful, but also be shown respect and interest by someone he himself is interested in and respects.
I like to imagine that Zishu was already interested in poisons given his field of work and potentially learned a thing or two about that back in Siji manor--even potentially worked on some of his own, and was therefore more than excited to be able to figure out new things with Wuxi's help. On top of that, it must have been pretty fun and gratifying to work on this side hustle which in turn also helped gain some more control over the population (welp).
So yeah! It's nice to think more about what lead to the bond they have, and I can't help but think of how affected Wuxi must have been in TYK when he discovers Zishu's state several years later. Regardless of how helpful Zishu was when Wuxi worked to get Beiyuan out of the capital, he was a friend first and foremost and that alone must be a big reason why Wuxi is so determined to find a way to save him.
(that aside, the illustration was more fun to make than I initially feared. I usually don't like having to work on a ton of tiny details LOL but somehow the atmosphere here made it entertaining!)
(btw! I don't know if I mentioned it before, but in case I didn't: I transliterate "Wuxi" as such ((in one word)) because, him not being han, it feels more right to transliterate his name in a non-han fashion as well. It's unlikely that his family name is Wu and first name is Xi--rather, Nanjiang/Wasa names seem to work differently ((same for Axinlai and Nuaha)) than the typically han family name-first name model. Many thanks to Lianzi and the other members of the 7.0 team for bringing that up! That's it!)
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HE'S BACK, BABY
EA-NASIR IS HERE FOR US, RIPPING OFF CAPITALISTS
AS PER MY LAST TABLET
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