all of his siblings think he’s “corrupted” when he’s just vibing with humans

he is my favorite qing jing disciple oKAY

design by @berriecherry, u draw him exactly like how i imagine him!!!!!

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the "weekly" tgcf twitter dump uwu

super loving your art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;;;

Omg thank u so much!

its mostly goofy, but i love them nonetheless

*During a group project*

Xie Lian, Ling Wen, Pei Xiu, Yin Yu, and Yushi Huang: *does 99% of the work*

Qi Ying and Feng Xin: *has no idea what’s going on*

Hua Cheng: *supplies the materials and praises/flirts with Xie Lian 24/7*

Shi Qingxuan and Banyue: *helps but makes a mess*

Pei Ming: *helps, but only so he can flirt with whoever caught his attention*

Qi Rong: *actively tries to sabotage the project and fails miserably*

He Xuan: *only showed up for the snacks*

Mu Qing: *does another whole project by himself again due to a misunderstanding*

some misc scum villain sketches from a while ago i have more i just gotta find em

this started out as redraws from the donghua but then i got distracted lol

For fun

...I made a compilation of various reactions to Xie Lian's cooking.

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Quan Yizhen is the epitome of head empty, no thoughts. Hualian kissing? Yeah, that was definitely the necessary way to transfer spiritual powers. See, the divine statue became stronger! Buried in a wall? OMG SHIXIONG! Told to turn into a martial god sword? Sure, don’t know what’s going on but might as well. Jun Wu assigns the western domain to the martial god of the west? No idea why.

As always, MXTX said it best:

“There was not a single point where he’d figured out what was happening.” tgcf ch. 203

Finished heaven official’s blessing and I really enjoyed writing an analysis on helluva boss I want to make this a regular thing because it’s fun so here’s my thoughts on

Heaven Official’s Blessing

Spoilers (duh)

I think it’s incredibly impressive when someone can make an overarching narrative in which different seemingly disjointed events are significant without A) putting a giant exclamation mark on top saying “REMEMBER THIS IT WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER” and B) Significantly over or under emphasizing the importance of the scene in the moment. Each event stood on its own and I liked that.

There were several janky sentences and word choices but that’s a translation issue, this writer clearly knows what she’s doing.

Characters were a lot of fun and distinct, my favorites were Feng Xin, Pei Ming, Qi Ying, and Ling Wen whenever they were on the page I was like Ah yes, these pages are gonna be enjoyable and I was right, they’re all delightful (cept the brocade immortal stuff, but like I don’t care, Google assistant is fun) Xie Lian and San Lang are delightful, love them, and San Lang is so effed in the head it’s enjoyable to try and imagine what unhinged thing he’ll do next

Tbh there isn’t much plot breakdown I want to do with this series because it knows what it is, it’s a fanfic ass book with good times, trauma, gay fluff, and fights. Need I say more? That’s not a detractor, it’s a strength. Be what you are and own it because a house with a house’s foundation is a great house but slap a building on that house’s foundation and it fails in both regards.

The only aspect I’m going to analyze is the narrative voice the books are written in because holy crap is it super impressive. Xie Lian is a super mature (or ditzy, depending on your point of view) character, he doesn’t dwell on things, doesn’t hold grudges, doesn’t really care that much about people’s histories or even their present, doesn’t focus much on externals and it comes through in the way the book is written. I noticed this when throughout the books San Lang would do fucked up stuff like make it rain blood and kill a pit’s worth of people and Xie Lian kinda didn’t really seem to care and at first it pissed me off, why isn’t the author letting consequences occur because of these peoples’ actions, but then as it held consistently throughout the book and other people kept being super concerned about stuff, like Pei Constantly asking after Shi Qingxuan (I don’t know how to spell their name, it’s so hard to keep track I’m so sorry) or people bringing up Banue, I realized this is just Xie Lian, other people in the book are regular people like me, this one guy is just experiencing things, going “Well, ain’t that something” and then just moving on. Honestly iconic, but also I was halfway through book six when I realized. Especially since whenever they do flashbacks Xie Lian does all normal stuff. He describes settings he’s in, he mentions events that happened a few pages ago, he tells the reader how he feels, it’s after he experiences all his shit he goes through that this all kinda slips away. In “present” scenes he’ll reference things as they come up but like in the flashback after Mu Qing leaves they talk about it a few times and I find that aspect of acknowledgment to be noticeably absent in the “present” scenes. After the black water arc there is a complete lack of discussion about the frankly trauma inducing event that just transpired but sure Cie Lian, you and San Lang have to not hold hands for the billionth time. At first I thought is this author high but then I realized what shes doing is characterizing through prose which is IMPRESSIVE AS HELL. This may be a point I noticed and am now misremembering the entire series just to bolster my take and if that’s the case then I shall sheepishly shrug and say I’m sorry. I’m not rereading 8 books to write a tumblr review. Maybe if I ever start a YouTube channel

I don’t know, I just find it to be an incredible feat of actually good writing when a story is being told through the lens of the main character and you can characterize that character by simply reading the story and seeing how it’s written, not even through dialogue and action. It’s kinda like the Great Gatsby or a Separate Peace, and it’s super cool that a book like this can accomplish the same thing that makes those classics great. There isn’t as much symbolism or analytical potential but those books wouldn’t be nearly as impactful as they were without great execution, which this book pulled off in spades.

MY MONSTER CHARACTER MEME FOR TGCF! 25 CHARACTERS! Heres a clear one if anyone wants to take a shot!

I can't believe

That it's finally me and you, and you and me

Just us, and

Two sentient weapons with a praise kink

A sus ghost boy

A kid

The body of his father possessed by my shitty cousin

And

Two hallucinating elemental masters

#domesticity

till the end of the moon

“are you going to kill me?”

Thought of the funniest thing

Okay, imagine Hua Cheng and Wei Wuxian swapped places one sudden, and random day. The day Hua Cheng got swapped into Wei Wuxian's body was when he had to copy down books for a whole month. But if they got stuck with their own abilities, then Hua Cheng in WWX's body would struggle writing, making the punishment longer.

MEANWHILE, Wei Wuxian has to deal with, in his mind, boring and stressful things. Managing a city? Trying not to get killed by gods? He would lose it.

I mainly made this post just to watch poor Hua Cheng suffer writing for so long, I can see him holding back tears (Bonus if it is E-Ming instead), as Lan Wangji looks over the papers in silence, unable to read anything.

Sometimes a family can be a ghost king, his heavenly scrap-god husband, their daughter in a jar, their diseased son, a sentient puppy sword, and a needy yet kinky sentient silk bandage.

@aysekira has been sending me Youku press conference posters and some of them are aaaaa!!!

Liu Shi Shi and Shawn Dou in Kill My Sins:

Xiao Zhan looming Monte Cristo style in Zang Hai Zhuan:

Chen Feiyu and Wang Yinglu mutually moisturizing in Xian Yu:

The Double (and yup, FL is bleeding AGAIN! I think she and Sifeng from L&R should have a bleed-off at this rate.)

Tian Shu Li Ming:

The Grand Princess:

The Story of Pearl Girl (which is giving me ptsd vibes of TLB which is not a good thing or perhaps it is since despite my issues with that drama I adored LYN x ZLS in it.)

Shi Qingxuan: There are three chairs and five kids! What do you do?

Xie Lian: Get two more chairs

Mu Qing: Cut each chair in half to make six

Qi Ying: Make them fight for their seats!!

Feng Xin: I would never be near children in the first place

Pei Ming: Get rid of two kids

Hua Cheng: *Has already made two chairs for Xie Lian*