#Devil venerable also wants to know

[owlmaya]

so i’m reading the chinese edition of dvawtk and the censorship made me really sad, so here’s me compensating for it

[miyusketchdump]

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know sketches

[solacestea]

the devil venerable and his wif- cough, i mean loyal subordinate

[allpiesforourown]

Ranking danmei love interests by how crazy they are

HUA CHENG: challenged and indirectly killed 33 gods for insulting Xie Lian

LAN WANGJI: publicly tried to defend the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation after Wei Wuxian started a bloodbath that killed approximately 3,000 people. Injured 33 Lan elders in order to protect him

LUO BINGHE: (under influence) attempted to end the world because he was insecure his shizun liked their sect more than him

MO RAN: (under influence) Spent years torturing, blackmailing, and abusing his shizun over a misunderstanding

YIN HANJIANG: where the fuck do I start

[notringl]

Yin Hanjiang wished to be someone like Wenren È, but he could not. After eighteen years, his temperament was already formed. He would always be a dark and twisted person.

[cheerkyuuu]

felt the urge to draw some cutesy wenrenjiang instead of like, yknow, doing homework

[kav3h]

tfw when ur boss keeps asking u about romance and it’s getting increasingly difficult to hide the fact ur in love with him

[cn-alastair-lite]

[koipalm]

ok very quick sketch of what they look like 2 me

[luanniao]

Yin Hanjiang would

[spockandawe]

A new project: Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know! Oh man, so I've been leveling up in straw marquetry as fast as I possibly could. And it was VERY much with this goal in sight. Maybe not this book specifically, but my intention has been very much to bring this back around to books! And this one had a LOVELY vibe to go with the story, there's something so magnificent about Wenren È et al, this was a great vibe match for the story. I started reading this in 2021, stalled for some reason, and I'm SO glad I came back now!

Especially as more and more of my faves get official licenses, those serve great as practical books, and I get more freedom to make my preservations of fan translations an extravagant expression of my love for the story and work that went into translating that. I got into this hobby assuming none of these novels would ever get official translations, so it's definitely something I've given a lot of consideration to over the last few years, and I think this set articulates it really well!

And oh man. I knew this was ambitious, but I still flew PRETTY darn close to the sun. I set this up so that each character had a nominal inch to work with, felt good about it, then opened up font previews for the text and immediately broke into a cold sweat. But with patience and lots of fresh knife blades, I got there! Cutting these pieces took some delicate wrangling, assembling them took more, and after all that, I still had to finish the cases and case in the books. But I made it work, and man, I think it really, really paid off

Did I tape my very first cutting template upside down? Don't worry about it!

And I was pleased with the straw marquetry on its own, but I have to say that attaching the boards for the cases took my delight ALL the way up to the next level. The effect is everything I could have dreamed of, which is amazing for a story that I loved so much. This is 1000% something I need to repeat, and it will probably take more practice before I reach the level I dream of, but SOMEDAY I'm gonna be doing pictorial straw marquetry on book covers. I might take a detour to more wall projects, and inlays with other materials, but soon! It's coming! And in the meantime, I'm so excited to share this with you, I think it turned out absolutely fabulous

[owlmaya]

my favorite old man, the love of my life, the apple of my eye, the reason i get up in the morning and what keeps me going throughout the day

[danmei-action]

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[otpadsis]

damn he really wants to know

[allpiesforourown]

Goodnight please read devil venerable so people know what the hell I'm on about

[notringl]

"The Dao was dispassionate yet held compassion and such was the cosmos."