The salt is first.
Shi Qingxuan wakes up on a beach, in the shelter of a tide pool lined by rock and draped with seaweed. The salt is crusted on his lips and in his eyelashes, and it hurts when he blinks his dry eyes open.
The light hurts as it reflects off the sand and water, and his vision swims in blue and green. The rocks scrape his hands, and the razor edge of a barnacle leaves a red slash over his palm as he struggles to crawl out of the tide pool’s embrace. There’s nowhere to wipe his hand free of salt and blood and sand except for on the formerly pristine fabric of his robes, but he’s past the point of caring about unsightly stains, so he does it anyway before lifting the same hand up to shield his vision from the glare on the water.
Midday, on a beach that’s… somewhere, though he can’t exactly say where. The shapes of mountains loom inland, peering behind dreary clouds. This must not be the far south, which has white sand and shady palms under which to drink wine, and Shi Qingxuan really, really could use some wine right now given the dryness in his mouth.
He shouldn’t drink another drop again, should he? Except that he also wants to—wants to drink so much wine that he forgets everything about the Young Lord Who Poured Wine, and everything about the depths of the black ocean abyss. Thinking about it is going to make him scream again, and his throat is already hoarse. Another result of the salt, he supposes.
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Happy Valentines!! Heres the preview for the piece I drew for the tgcf cookbook zine!! Come check it out if you want good food, fics, and art! Preorders are open until February 26th!!
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"A CAT FOR MU QING"
2.4k words | PG
My piece for "Heaven Official's Kitchen", a P4P TGCF Cookbook Zine featuring FengQing and Mu Qing's childhood memory
Kudos to the mods and the whole team of artists and fellow writers who have made this Zine come to life. I hope you guys will enjoy this little story. ^^
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Hey, remember that TGCF cookbook zine I participated in last year? I got into a MDZS one being run by the same mods! ^_^
Can't wait to share the dishes I've been pulling together for this one, and the other contributions are shaping up to be pretty awesome as well!
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Project site I still refuse to call by its new name
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The tgcf cookbook zine is so beautiful I am in love! I need to make so many of these recipes why do they all look so good?? Also I uh... Have too many tgcf pins for my ita 😅
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Free Danmei Zines: A Masterpost
A masterpost of links to danmei zines available for free download, including upcoming P4P zines that will release a free digital version.
I made this because I can’t keep track of them all using my own brain. I’ll keep adding to this as I find more free zines.
MXTX ZINES
Everlasting Zine: a Hualian zine.
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
Centuries: a TGCF zine.
Carrd | Twitter
Solstice Zine: a TGCF zine about summer.
Carrd | Twitter
Heaven Official’s Travels: a TGCF zine with a travel and lifestyle theme.
Twitter | Tumblr
Proud Immortal Culinary Way: an SVSSS cookbook zine.
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
Lianhua: an SVSSS zine.
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
有心有情 / With Love: an MDZS zine.
Website | Twitter
Second Chances: an MDZS zine about Xiyao.
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
There’s Something So Wrong With Lan Wangji: an MDZS zine about Lan Wangji.
Twitter | Tumblr
MDZS Seasons Zine: an MDZS zine about the seasons.
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
Ocean of Stars: an MDZS zine about Xuexiao.
Website | Twitter
XiCheng Zine
Carrd | Twitter
MXTX Ladies Zine: an MXTX zine about the women characters and the four seasons.
Carrd | Twitter
Night Haunt: An MXTX Horror Zine
Website | Twitter | Tumblr
Full Bloom: an MXTX zine with a flower theme.
Twitter
We Didn't Know Whether To Laugh Or To Cry: an MXTX non-dominant hand art zine.
Twitter | Tumblr
MXTX Furby Zine
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
Daylight Moon: A SangCheng Revenge Zine
Website | Twitter
Seasons of Love: an MXTX 2023 calendar about the 3 main couples (not a zine, but I thought it worth adding it here).
Carrd | Twitter
PRIEST ZINES
Priest Major Arcana Zine
Carrd | Twitter
Sweet Universe: a Priest zine.
Issuu
Hallow: a Guardian zine.
Carrd | Twitter
#2021_프리스트_생일합작 a Priest zine in Korean (you can find the creators through the hashtag on Twitter).
Website
Guardian: After Dark: a Guardian horror zine.
Twitter
MEATBUN ZINES
Kitchen Tails: An 2HA Food Zine
Twitter | Google Drive
The Ties that Bind Us: A Ranwan Anthology
Carrd | Twitter
Bloom in Adversity Zine: an 2HA zine.
Twitter
OTHER DANMEI ZINES
Four Seasons: a WOH zine.
Twitter | Tumblr | Google Drive
Florecer en la adversidad Zine: a general danmei zine in Spanish.
Carrd | Twitter
Wind, Waves, Wishes: a general danmei zine about mermaids.
Carrd | Twitter
Qian Qiu Zine 2021: a Thousand Autumns zine.
Carrd | Twitter
Night Spring: A Thousand Autumns Zine
Carrd | Twitter | Tumblr
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The TGCF cookbook zine I got to take a part in is opening leftover sales this weekend: August 26th at 9AM PST!
If you missed the initial sale and want to snag either the cookbook (which includes my Love for All Seasons Stew recipe, even if the photo sadly had to be left out for formatting reasons) or any of the lovely merch (such as the lovely tea towel also sporting my Love for All Seasons Stew, along with several other dishes from the book!) you can keep an eye on the update sales on either their twitter site-I-refuse-to-call-by-stupid-rebranded-name (@tgcfcookbook) or IG (tgcfcookbook)
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Scrambling to all my socials because I delayed in doing preorder promos annnnd today’s the last day so “>>
I recently participated in Heaven Official's Kitchen, a TGCF cookbook zine! This was my first time applying to a zine, let alone participating, and the experience was so fun and everyone’s contributions (whether it be food, fic or art!) look utterly delectable and I can’t wait to see the final product!
Today’s the last day for pre-orders, so go go go if this is something that catches your fancy! You can see other previews besides mine on their socials.
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