Arranged marriage, the gay version

the them.....

Ye Baiyi stared at him, at the face he knew better than his own. At the smile that never failed to make his heart race, at the eyes that held more stars than the night sky. He could feel his lips tremble and his nose start to run. His throat was tight and his voice was raw, and he wiped his sleeve over his damp cheeks and said, "Changqing."

"I'm here," answered Rong Changqing, just as he'd promised.

"Ch-Changqing," Ye Baiyi said again, hating the wavering of his voice, the wobbling of his jaw, the shaking of his entire body--but unable to make it stop, unable to help himself.

"I'm here," said Rong Changqing, arms coming up to embrace Ye Baiyi very carefully. The touch was so welcome, it was almost painful--it felt so good to be held that it almost hurt, and Ye Baiyi could not stifle the sob that came from the depths of his heart.

"Changqing-ah," he wailed, only this time it was muffled by Rong Changqing's robes, and so no one else but the pair of them could hear the broken sound, or Rong Changqing's soothing murmurs of, "I'm here, Yiyi. I'm here."

Falling (With Style) on Ao3 !!!

i made this lil comic for my wonderful friend!! it's a scene from her story (which she published anonymously bc she's really shy lol) ANYWAY it's really REALLYYY GOOD, u should DEFINITELY read it!! it made me OBSESSED with rongye, there's not too much content for them overall but i just!! really love them!!! ye baiyi deserves happiness!!!

(megan i'm going to link u here even tho u don't have tumblr, tá grá móra MÓRA agam ort, i hope we'll be allowed meet again soon my dearest darling 💚💚💚🥰🥰🥰)

Guess who the hell read a book all night instead of sleeping

This is also a gift for @cremechees and @bespectacledfanmaiden thank you so much for the translations and the arts I love them!!!!!

[ID start: a digital drawing of Luo Mingchuan and Yin Biyue from Villain's White Lotus Halo. Luo Mingchuan is wearing light blue and white hanfu. His black hair is styled up with a black crown in a high ponytail. Yin Biyue is wearing white hanfu. His hair is white. Both are holding each other's hand, smiling brightly at the screen. The background is light pink decorated with soft pink flowers. // End of ID]

lol i forgot how to draw apparently it's really sad, my problems are never-ending _(:3」∠)

anyway here's wonderwall ye baiyi

Another screenshot redraw and something that I noticed happens a lot. Poor Wen Kexing, he tries so hard to take care of Zhou Zishu

one of my favorite scenes in all of word of honor is episode 14 at exactly the 2min mark where ye baiyi shows up and is like "you're my idiot students idiot stupid idiocity is generational anyway strip my Immortal Daddy sense tells me you ill as fuck" and zhou zishu is like "you want me to STRIP in the middle of the HOTEL LOBBY???" and YBY is like, "god millennials these days" and then they fight and YBY rips a piece of ZZS's undershirt off and the camera pans to it gently fluttering in the wind like it's the last love letter of a jane austen char got from their beloved with news they died in the war as they gaze over the cliffside over the stormy ocean and then BAM Wen KeXing shows up like a jerry springer guest from the side door and is like "UNHAND MY BELOVED THE REASON MY HEART BEATS EACH MORNING WHEN THE SUN RISES" and catches ZZS by his tiny waist to dramatic spin for extra fruit flavor and YBY is like "who the fuck invited this twink?" and then they fight and it explodes a river and shit and ZZS is like "omg you're gonna wake up the whole neighborhood!!" and YBY is like "I'm literally to Daddy to be dealing with this shit just strip so I can diagnose your martial arts cancer" and WKX is like "MY BABY HAS CANCER???" and tries to strip ZZS himself and ZZS is like "what in the fucking 90s shojo manga by Yu Watase Fushigi Yugi shit is this we're in a CLAMP manga stop pulling at my clothes!!!!" and then just to be extra dramatic and Gay (tm) ZZS rips open his own shirt to reveal *gasp* three nipples nails of martial arts cancer and YBY is just like "damn bae you fucked" and WKX has a complete Gay Breakdown

I say now is the time I start updating my tumblr gallery again... I've been slacking...

More TYK design studies! Here, specifically, an evolution of Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing throughout their lives, to see what stages they got through to reach who they are during book canon.

I headcanon ZZS as this little smug genius and tried to keep this unimpressed, self-satisfied smirk throughout, with I hope a noticeable shift for the last two.

5 y.o., still living at the Zhou estate, with his family. He's a bit of a weak child (pulled from ZZS saying he didn't have nearly as good a constitution as ZCL does), but quite smart, already with a knack for spying on people.

10 y.o. has joined Siji manor, proud and smug and feeling superior for having been chosen by QHZ and being hella good at what he does.

15 y.o. is now freshly appointed sect leader, and I think it's going well enough, that he's quite feeling himself there.

20 y.o., has now been working for HLY for a bit more than a year, roughly.

25 y.o., right after the ending of Qi Ye, right after the war, right after he pretty much got his very personal bad ending. I feel like he's quite numb, can only survive through floating above everything and just focus on work and some distracting, meaningless things.

29 y.o., TYK canon after unmasking.

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With WKX I wanted to represent, without being too on the nose, the progressive loss of humanity.

5 y.o., still living with his Jianghu heroes parents. Quite a happy and playful child, more interested in having fun than studying. Probably a natural at many things, however, such as learning his father's sword techniques (unlike the arts of healing lessons that he probably didn't pay much attention to)

10 y.o., has been in the valley for a few months already, surviving.

18 y.o., is a servant for whom is currently the Ghost Valley Master.

21 y.o., is now the GVM himself, has successfully lead a coup against his own master and then won what was basically a battle royale for the throne.

26 y.o., is now a seasoned GVM, has been in this position for much longer than average, is working on his plan.

30 y.o., TYK canon.

For reasons, it's quite important to me to have this overview and to consider in detail each of their progression since I think it participates heavily into how I understand them as people. The followings were already posted in my previous post with all the design, but since it's thematically coherent I will add the families and some details about them:

The Wen family, especially the parents, were Jianghu heroes in the best wuxia tradition. Wen Ruyu had to look a like Wen Kexing, and Gu Miaomiao be this pure, strong, energetic heroïne. As mentioned above, I like child WKX to be a very fun and energetic child himself-- he likes the colours his mother wears, likes to run around and look at beautiful things. I found that the two buns were a cute addition to his design. He's about 3 y.o. on this illustration. The Zhou family is meant to look plain and normal, as ZZS himself-- little parenthesis: although I do like to draw ZZS as handsome, I think he isn't much more than that; I think that it's fine to consider that he looks rather plain, especially next to people like WKX or, obviously, JBY or YBY. Since ZZS seems to have a fascination with heroes in the book, I like to imagine that he was naturally the least heroic of the brotherhood; both his brother and sister being a better match than himself (although ultimately they are all fairly normal people). I liked to have his mom be the originator of his height (I think he should totally be the tallest of the brotherhood, btw).

That's it! Thank you for reading!

wip folder ask game!

tagged by @theleakypen (on main but shhhh)

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

i’m also putting my list under the cut bc there are a lot

the only ones included are ones that i do intend on publishing someday, whether the near or distant future and does not include fics that are going to be perpetually in drafts

drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, romeo

nong time travel spiderman meme

breakfast club fanfic

k fckn lives but with more trauma

kiss of death au

love handel is surprisingly plot relevant

sxj @ stab yby

sanji & chopper make cookies

regent!sora

(robin) and then of our forgetting

(luffy)

elizabeth swann in a straw hat

lang dianxia soft smut

and then i have two chaptered wednesday fics split into multiple docs, so you can ask about the fic as a whole or about a specific doc/chapter:

wednesday time travel

01. it’s not a phase mom

joel & wednesday

art shed convo

wednesday little siblings au (not all chapters have anything worth sharing written, or will be spoilers for when the whole fic is written)

00. Prologue: One for Sorrow (Rhea Galpin)

05. Cock Robin (Xavier Thorpe)

13: Thirteen Beware (It’s the Devil Himself)

tagging: not 21 people lord almighty. but anyway: @myhamartiaishubris / @jianghuchild, @toppingjeffsatur, @rocknghorss, and any other writerly mutuals that i have forgotten due to a case of the back-to-school goldfish brain

I call this episode of WOH the chicken episode. Episode 28. For the rest of my life, I will associate this episode with a fantastic chicken scene. In the photo, ZZS watches as WKX orders ZCL to kill a chicken. ZZS has his left arm in a sling, it's a souvenir from the fight with YBY. ZZH is wearing my favorite ZZS winter clothes. Royal blue robe with white fur inserts. It's hard not to notice the red pimples on the clothes, which I understand to be a reference to the WKX person. A seated ZZS indulges in his favorite activity, sipping wine. I like the surprised expression on the face of the ZZS. ZZH is a master of showing emotions with a face. A slightly raised left eyebrow, a focused gaze and pursed lips. The ZZS master wonders how his two students will solve this problem. He's a master, after all, and he's injured. The conversation between ZZS and WKX is perfect in this scene. ZZS is the head of the family here. Because family is not always a tower of blood or a formal relationship of two people. Family is love, trust, respect, understanding of the other person. It is also the art of compromise. ZZS and WKX learn to create a family. They make mistakes but still want to learn. In this scene ZZH showed us different faces of ZZS. It turned out perfect for him. An excellent master who creates a home for his students. I think that ZZH will also create such a beautiful family someday.

I've got a new printer so I have a better control over how my artprints and postcards come out color-wise (THANK GOD) so I've went and re-did few pieces for my upcoming merch batch. Are there any artworks you'd like to see included? Whther they're print-ready or not, I can always finish/re-visit those pieces and adjust them :)

Incorrect Word of Honor

YBY: What's your martial arts skill called?

Wen Kexing: It's called "I'm Gonna Whoop Your Ass Because No One Touches My Man."

Cat AU B-plot (because I can’t leave a silly fluffy AU well enough alone) where WKX volunteers at a big-brother type charity for kids with troubled backgrounds. (This is part of his court-ordered community service he received instead of prison time for crimes he committed when he was ~18 and involved in some gang stuff. He would have been tried as an adult because things got pretty bad, but his sentence was reduced because he helped the police but the gang leaders he was working for. YBY is his parole officer.) He’s matched as a mentor to ZCL who recently lost his entire family in an accident where he was the only survivor. ZCL is living with his wealthy but busy politician uncle who enrolled him in the program in hopes it would help with the grieving process. But WKX is so far completely at a loss as to getting him to open up and talk about it. ZCL has barely spoken at all since the accident, and is pretty shut down and robotic. But one day WKX brings him back to his apartment for snacks where cat!ZZS gives him a snuggle which finally opens up the floodgates. 

geez i cant believe i had so much fun sketching that wenzhou lovechild it ended up this much

even MOAR yby doodles~

am probably too late for yebaiweek but.......actually every week should be yebaiweek. sorry i dont make the rules.

just a couple silly lil doodles of ye baiyi and rong changqing growing up together. we got a nose boop. we got cloud watching. we got running away from the consequences of their actions. and mourning taishifu when he passes away ;A;

in my head canon, ye baiyi is heart-broken, bc taishifu was the first person to ever care for him. after he's gone, yby is completely devoted to rcq, whom he addresses exclusively as 'changqing-ah', bc that's what taishifu called him. and yby does whatever taishifu does. even after taishifu is gone.

(that's why he let zhou zishu and wen kexing go. bc it's what rong changqing would have done. bc it's what taishifu would have done. if they're both gone......then ye baiyi will act in their place. it's what they would have wanted ;A;)

Leave it to Ancestor Ye ⭐

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Transcript under the cut

“Zhang Chengling asks: Where do babies come from?”

Cao weining: You’re just a kid yet already thinking of this?? (shy) Ehe...

Gu xiang: You shouldn’t be thinking of this yet! (Cao-dage say something!)

Wen kexing: You see, when two people are deeply in love with each other... (A-xu let’s do it tonight)

Zhou Zishu: (No, I have a headache) Continue that and you’re sleeping outside

Ye baiyi: Tsk, kids these days don’t even know basic knowledge. Here, let Ancestor Ye show you *holds toys of wkx and zzs kissing, like yby’s actor on the concert’s bts, except toy wkx is lying on toy zzs*

Wen kexing, angeru: Who TF gave you permission to teach my child, huh old monster, f*ck off

Ye baiyi, smug: I’d like to see you do better

Zhou zishu in the background: ( ¬ ¬ )

Chengling in the background: (・・)