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the thought that in actor au, vein and lu guang's friendship would be built upon playful banter is cracking me up–

*vein cooking up food for everyone*

li tianxi: the food is yummy!!

vein: why thank you tianxi *smiles* I can make you more if you want.

lu guang:

lu guang: yeah i agree the food 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝔂

vein: ....don't you dare

lu guang: what? I'm not even saying anything bad I'm just saying the food is–

vein: stop-

lu guang: 𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝔂~

vein: biTCH IMMA WHOOP YOUR AS-

(did i tell y'all lu guang would be a pain in the ass? yeah i believe lu guang off set would be a bitch)

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his ass is not looking through that viewfinder

my piece for @linkclickzine ! leftover sales are open~

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"Lu Guang, wake up! Didn't you hear the bell?"

School AU for hktkparody1week.

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bridon gang at the movies (vein is watching terrifier 3)

comm info in pinned post !!

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They shall be boxed and shipped to me from ha0lin's hands >:)))

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some HHH trio in my favorite outfits of them, plus Liu Xiao's biblically accurate hat

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Drew more chibis

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More art I did for hktkparody1week!

Themes: Magician / Musicians / Ancient China

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L(G) + Cxˢ = they're doing very important research...

For hktkparody1week's Scientist theme!

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I don't wanna lose you I don't wanna hold back

Link Click Live Action "HOLD BACK NO MORE" MV

aka: if LCLA had an anime-style OP

director rambles below cut b/c this took so many hours:

I love this song so fucking much

This was much harder than my previous two MVs, because those songs (a) had a clear narrative and (b) only required clips from about four different episodes. On the other hand, for this one I really had to think about what kind of narrative I wanted to convey, and how I could incorporate clips from every story arc. Wish my editor tracked how many hours I spent on this...

I know that flashing through the episode title cards is not very anime-OP-typical, but I thought it was a cool effect, and I'd separately been wanting to study and think about the episode titles for a while. I love how they worked Stray Birds into this whole thing.

AFAIK they didn't release a "TV size" version of the OP, so I just fade out with the full version. I actually half-assed an edit that used the "proper" ending of the full version and it surprisingly didn't sound too shabby, but in the end it felt like the energy it'd built up to was too high for use here.

Although I wasn't too impressed when it initially dropped before the show's release, I think the main trailer is actually quite good in terms of what clips they used (it's well-spread out across the whole series) and how they edited them together (visual and thematic connections). But I do think the BGM they used for it is a little weak, especially in the latter half, and I'm also not a fan of ending on the fireworks like that.

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This is hopefully self-evident if you watch this with context, but I roughly organized this as follows:

intro: darkroom, first meetings, title cards (slow)

verse 1: LG backstory, as the lyrics suit his situation. in general the song seems to be from his POV, so he gets more focus here than CXS.

verse 2: various backstories, light-hearted. focused more on visual flow than lyric matching, but it thematically relates to the "tens of thousands" of faces CXS can wear through his dives (and so this section starts off with the shot of CXS in one such dive)

pre-chorus: "a demon in my view"—something lurks in the darkness behind you... and then "to the sun" is a very specific lyric match <3

chorus: every refrain of "i don't wanna lose you, i don't wanna hold back" is matched to a shot of shiguang; the rest are all shots from their missions. semi-chronological.

post-chorus: we do the title card thing again in double-time, which perfectly allows us to get all 24. then, series of quick shots that all relate to the central case, before ending on iconic shot of our trio. let me say it is such a pain to do quick shots but it's so satisfying haha

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Among many things that I'm bummed I couldn't fit in are the festival mask shots from the final arc. I would've loved an evolving OP where for the final two episodes, instead of the obscured shot of mask man, we get the reveal shot heh

I'm glad to finally make an edit that I can show people without risking massive spoilers :D if you watched this (and read all this nonsense), thank you!

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Really love all these designs sooooo much! <3 Had to draw them ^W^

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feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

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sending your friends terrible tumblr posts is a love language