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its wu ming Wednesday

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🦋💕 butterfly kisses for a ferret gege

also lil bonus foxy cheng 🦊

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Triple update month?? It’s more likely than you think. Happy reading! Mind the CWs in the author’s note for chapter 9.

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its wu ming Wednesday

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Wulianverse Part 6 is Out!

unassailable sweetness is now here for your reading pleasure!

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Fic Update!

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Baby Hong‘er discovering his love for butterflies, regular and not-traumatized edition

Daily Fafafox doodles, day 12! Today he is little baby and if you look at the not-traumatized version, you can gaslight yourself and pretend that nothing bad ever happens to him!!

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Daily fox fafa doodles to spread my foxy hua cheng agenda!

I wanted to draw fox Hua Cheng and looked up references, but then I blacked out and suddenly there were over 60 fox pictures saved on my phone

I couldn’t decide on one so now I’m drawing one a day until I get bored of it. Hope I can find some fellow fox ghost king enthusiasts!

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Eating gege’s food

Daily FafaFox doodles day 6! I need to sleep!

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It's like the Princess and the Frog except it's the Ghost King and the Stoat hehe~ 💖 this is an older art but eh I think it turned out pretty well considered I rushed it so y'all get silly Stoat!Lian kisses yippee

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The Honghong-er/Lang Ying Jr. parallels of early canon are really obvious, but I think the Honghong-er/Xiao-Ying parallels are super slept on. A woman/child shunned and mistreated because of their appearance, who Xie Lian is the only one to show any respect, dignity, or kindness to? The parallel literally writes itself. Through Xiao-Ying we are introduced to Xie Lian as a kind and respectful person, who cares about people regardless of a their status or physical state. Then in Book 2, we see Xie Lian with Honghong-er, 800 years before he ever met Xiao-Ying, and we learn that Xie Lian has always been this kind of person. It's a masterful bit of writing that tells us a lot while doing very little.

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Considering pre-coffin LQQ and prince XL are meant to be similar/parallels, Do you think JW was ever interested in LQQ the way he was with XL?

I think he was, at least somewhat, but JW immediately lose interest after the Fangxin Coffin thing.

Why would he be?

What about Lang Qianqiu would grab Jun Wu's attention? By the time we meet him, he's the Martial God of the East, but when he was a kid, what would have distinguished him from every other Crown Prince of Yong'an that came before him? Every other Crown Prince of the neighboring kingdoms? Prior to the Shangyuan Procession being interrupted, Jun Wu's attention was caught on Xie Lian because they were both born under the same star- a complete quirk of fate. Lang Qianqiu doesn't have that, nor any other significant event prior to the Gilded Banquet that would have caught Jun Wu's attention. If Jun Wu was at all interested in Lang Qianqiu (which, if we're comparing it to his level of interest in <17 yr old Princelian, was frequently asking after him and looking to meet him, iirc), I can only see it being because he is being taught by Xie Lian. But I do agree Jun Wu isn't particularly interested in Lang Qianqiu after the Gilded Banquet Massacre- nobody ever comments on Jun Wu showing Lang Qianqiu any noteworthy attention, like he once did Xie Lian. I just don't see why Jun Wu would have cared about him before that point, either.

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note to my followers

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the cover art of the tgcf audio drama season 3 finale!

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and for bwx, too- how delightful! this bastard's stalked xie lian for eight hundred years, pulling the strings behind the scenes to make him suffer. he knows everything! nothing's off the table! except for the fucking statue in the kiln! he followed xie lian all over the damn place, but he could never go inside the kiln while it was occupied, not without giving away that there was someone out there that could control the kiln. and why bother? eight hundred years, and only two men made it out. what could either of them have gotten up to in a maximum of forty-nine days that he would care about? so he never bothered to check the kiln, the very seat of his power, and this one lapse in knowledge sees him pancaked by the bigass hand of the finest statue of xie lian that's ever been made, before it delivers the object of his obsession back into the arms of the man he loves. it's wonderful. it's the one place jun wu assumes he's in total control, and it blows up in his face.

s3 of the audiodrama ending on xie lian breaking out of the kiln reminds me just how beautiful that entire scene is. and the audiodrama itself really did it so wonderfully. hua cheng's unsteady breathing, filled as he is with panic and self-loathing and rage that the love of his life was ripped from his arms and trapped inside a murder volcano with his abuser, and that even after all this time, there was nothing hua cheng could do to save him... only to discover that in creating the statue of xie lian inside the kiln, an act of love and devotion that hua cheng surely never expected xie lian to see, that he never expected to be of any value, that he made simply so it would exist, was the crux that allowed xie lian to break free of the kiln. that something hua cheng created centuries ago, something he never expected to ever come back to him, was what saved xie lian... it's really quite delicious.

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His first syllable was still echoing when in an instant, he was pulled into an embrace from behind by a pair of hands. Xie Lian stiffened at first and looked down, but when he saw it was red sleeves and silver vambraces circled around his waist, he relaxed. A deep, forlorn voice came above his ears, "…I was going crazy!" Hearing this, Xie Lian hurriedly turned around, and cupped those cheeks with his hands and soothed, "Don't go crazy, don't go crazy, I've already come out!"