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ataraxixx · 2 months

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wulian save me

#ajax art #tgcf #ti guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #hua cheng #wu ming #hualian #wulian #tgcf book 4

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mooncakebun · 2 months

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Probably the last post for the week since this whole ordeal of falling back into TGCF hell made me lose a dangerous amount of sleep 😆

work in progress

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nolsdoods · 1 year

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do u ever think about how ruoye was the only thing xie lian had for 800 years

#xie lian #tgcf book 4 #i was just sad thinking about how all xie lian had for 800 years is ruoye #i drew this in november and never posted it oops #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hob #heaven official's blessing #tgcf spoilers #i guess?#kinda hate it now but i thought it would post it ghgjgh

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wayward-inspiration · 4 months

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"There was only a small bit of haunting ghost fire, blazing unceasingly as it flitted about." 天官赐福

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Book 4 is hauntingly tragic

#tgcf #tgcf fanart #tgcf spoilers #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #myart #new style as always #tgcf book 4 #tgcf vol 6

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flowinlikearivah · 9 months

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antithesis

#tgcf #xie lian #tgcf fanart #xie lian fanart #tgcf spoilers #tgcf book 4 #book 4 spoilers #tgcf arc 4 spoilers #mxtx #tgcf art #rivart #tian guan ci fu #white calamity #white no face #white clothed calamity

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mystiquill · 3 months

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one person… just one person was enough

#tgcf #xie lian #hualian #tgcf book 4 #tgcf fanart #xie lian regaining his faith in humanity is so !!! man i love him so much #my fav quote from tgcf

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living-realusion · 4 months

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you don't understand how much i love hualian. they have become my everything in such a short amount of time idk wat to do with myself anymore

#tgcf book 4 #heaven official's blessing #reading tgcf #booklr #hua cheng #hualian #mxtx #xie lian

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tianshaguxing · 3 months

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Wuming lost him once again

#wuming #wu ming #tgcf #天官赐福 #tgcf book 4 #i'm not crying you are

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ilovereadingandstuff · 2 months

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“Top, bottom; isn’t it all the same?” Hua Cheng asked.

Hua Cheng is switch.

He would bottom if his gege ask him to.

He would top if his gege wants that.

#hua cheng #bottom hua cheng #top hua cheng #hua cheng x xie lian #hualian #tgcf book 4 #mxtx tgcf #hua cheng switch #crimson rain sought flower

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winkk-koo · 3 months

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"That was crazy, I've never actually experienced that sort of atmosphere at a game before, it was absolutely electric"

-Me after reading the black water arc

-Anyway here's a sketch of Shi QingXuan chained up because it happens to him a lot-

-Poor guy. Hope he's alright-

#black water arc #beefleaf #ming yi #shi qingxuan #tgcf #mxtx tgcf #black water sinking ships #black water submerging boats #tgcf shi qingxuan #wind master #tgcf spoilers #tgcf fanart #tgcf donghua #tgcf book 3 #tgcf book 4 #fanart #mxtx fanart #mxtx #anime

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mimimar · 2 years

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he no longer believed anyone, and he no longer believed in himself

TGCF book 4: the white-clothed calamity

1 • 2 • 3 • 3.2 • ( 4 ) • 5

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jemkha · 5 months

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Rereading the Mulian breakup while listening to Lucy Dacus “Night Shift” is a form of self-flagellation, so I drew it:

#xie lian #mu qing #mulian #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven officials blessing #heaven official’s blessing #heaven official's blessing #fanart #my art #Tgcf mxtx #lucy dacus #night shift #Tgcf book 4 #tgcf volume 6

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citronverveine · 1 year

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xie lian and identity issues

this is something i'll probably want to expand on more as i give it more thoughts later but right now i'm just. thinking.

i'm thinking of xie lian in book 2 who has to realize that he is not as invicible as he thought. he is powerful yet he cannot do enough. he is not enough. he cannot save his country, he cannot help the common people, if anything he makes it worse.

i'm thinking of xie lian in book 4 who has to get used to a life with no title, no riches, no priviledge. he has to live as no one, and if people find him out he will not be celebrated like he used to be, he will be captured, beaten, or worse, who knows.

i'm thinking of xie lian after being stabbed 100 times, so disconnected from his destroyed body that he can't recognize himself. i'm thinking of xie lian becoming white no face, hiding his face and seeking revenge, turning his back on everything he was before.

i'm thinking of xie lian after wuming's death, after changing his mind and not cursing the Yong'an people but causing the death of his last believer in the process. the distance between what he would have wanted to be and what he ended up being, doing.

i'm thinking of xie lian in mount tong'lu learning about the past of white no face and starting to think they're the same person. thinking maybe he was the one doing all this. thinking this was all meant to be.

it's just, like. young xie lian was so ambitious, and rightly so; everyone told him he could achieve anything, be anything, he ascended so early, was so powerful and so loved so early on. he started high, only to jump from heaven and land terribly low, in a 6-feet deep hole, unable to crawl out of it. the distance between what he was and what he ended up as. i know the war took a couple years to end but the change was still probably very brutal for him.

especially during his first banishment. at first it could have been alright. he had his parents. he had feng xin. he had mu qing. everything was new and unfamiliar and wrong but he had them, he knew them, they were familiar at least. even if xie lian had failed they were still with him, they still loved him.

and then mu qing left. and xie lian's view of relationships started to shatter. and then he was against mu qing on the land of cultivation and he was the one being humiliated and rejected. and then he was losing himself with the stress of white no face, becoming crazy with anguish and despair. and he couldn't provide enough for his parents, and he was afraid feng xin would leave, and he couldn't recognize himself. how had he fallen so low? how had he failed so much?

and then the temple. he wanted to fight white no face, to get rid of him once and for all. but white no face broke him without even lifting a finger. he shattered his faith in the goodness of the world by showing him how cruel it could be. and afterwards...

just think. being tortured for a whole night, used by hundreds of people for their own benefit, left torn open and raw without care. but you heal and you recover and your body hides any trace of that event. did you really go through it? did it really happen? did it happen like you think it did? was it really that bad? was the pain that severe? your body hid it all. you'll never know. the only thing you have are you memories. but can you trust them?

anyway. after that, xie lian comes back to his parents and feng xin. he steals. he doesn't care. he's angry, he's raw, he's weak. feng xin leaves. his parents leave. he's alone.

he's completely alone. he doesn't even have himself anymore. his old self is dead, his old self was nothing, his old self was naive and stupid. xie lian trying to kill himself even though it's useless is symbolic of him completely leaving his old self with his parents and what was familiar, to become someone else entirely. to abandon this part of himself.

it's explicit as white no face that xie lian completely rejects his previous identity of crown prince and god. he does not want to be called that. he does not want to be reminded of it. he hates this past self so much that being associated to it makes him feel humiliated and ridiculed.

only that old part of him is not entirely dead. xie lian still hesitates, deep down, to release the spirits. a part of him still wants to believe. he wants to be proven wrong. he wants the world to give naive xie lian another chance. it's the bamboo hat man that does that for him.

i just think the distance between xie lian, his body, and his mind, is very interesting. i didn't mention how he is completely disconnected from his body even 800 years later because i feel like it's more dissociation from the self than an identity issue (struggling to connect your thoughts to your actions and/or associate them with your perception of self, or even simply not having any definite perception of self especially when you are traumatized) but. i'll definitely make a post about that some day.

that was a bit long but i just. wanted to put some thoughts down. thx for reading up til here ??