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i am thinking how much poorer, how much less colorful the world would be if art was only made by "professionals." if all the music, all the stories, all the sketches & paintings & craftwork of the world was created only by the small category of people able to make a decent living from their art. imagine if the only people allowed to create were the experts & the renowned & those aspiring to the top. what a grey world that would be. how much joy would be bleached away! i love you people who create for the sake of creating, i love you artists who do art for tiny audiences, i love you people who make things even just for one person, even just for themselves, even if no one's watching, thank you thank you thank you for decorating the world in which we all exist
#not a shitpost#related: the most powerful crafters alive are crocheters who spend 7+ years making an intricate table cloth no one is allowed to eat on#all that arcane magic into making a display object primarily for their own enjoyment#and that of the blessed few lucky enough to be invited into their home to behold what is by rights a sacred object#if you spend a certain number of hours crafting something u have the right to have it put in a shrine or museum of your choosing i think#you have imbued it with your Life Essence by sheer force of concentration and obsession it is Holy now#anyways. old ladies who knit/crochet/embroider etc are a thousands times more powerful and intimidating#than old white dudes who are obsessed with war memorabilia or whatever#i have nothing but respect awe and appropriate amounts of fear towards crafters. my liege
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Something that I’ve always loved about Hualian is that throughout the series, people had warned Xie Lian of Hua Cheng left and right, told him various horror stories, rumors of cruelty and malice, etc., and yet…Hua Cheng never once (as far as I can remember) tried to counter the accusations with words. He never defended himself or his actions to Xie Lian, never told him of the ways it was false or not as bad as it sounds.
At times, he even went as far as to do the opposite, one example being when Xie Lian said he’d heard rumors of eming (to which Hua Cheng responds, “like how it’s evil, forged from the blood of a living sacrifice?”); when Xie Lian brushed them off as only rumors that shouldn’t be taken at face value, Hua Cheng only smiled (in the donghua at least, we couldn’t see his reaction in the novel considering Xie Lian’s back was to him), and didn’t say anything else on the matter, not refuting or confirming whether it was true, nor proving the details that would surely paint him in a much better light than Xie Lian’s colleagues had.
He’s always let Xie Lian form his own opinions on things, and that includes himself.
Much like the novels themselves, Hua Cheng takes a very “show don’t tell” approach to things. He doesn’t need to tell Xie Lian he can trust him, that he’d never harm him, and that he has reasons for doing what he does. Xie Lian already knows this. He’s shown it to him in his actions. If he had to say the words for Xie Lian to believe him, he’d have seen it as a failure to live up to them. It’s very in character for him imo—he hates hypocrisy and hates when people say one thing and then do another. So it makes sense that he would simply sit back and trust that Xie Lian would see him for who he is.
It’s all very similar to the fact that they don’t say “I love you” throughout all eight books (which I absolutely adore and I’ll make a separate post on soon).
#The only thing he really says in words is that he is sincere#but that’s mostly just to assure Xie Lian that he’s not joking when he says flirty things and stuff haha#part of it may also be that he partially believes some of the slander about himself#like in the cave of ten thousand gods scene#tgcf#tian guan ci fu#xie lian#hualian#heaven official's blessing#hua cheng#tgcf meta
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it's been one of those weeks, pass the hualian
#life's been crazy but what's a forever constant is their love for each other#don't tell anyone but i'm trying to find the motivation to make a comic of hc w a prosthetic eye and xl helping with it#and a thousand other things i want to do with these two NOT ENOUGH TIME!!!#pray for me. atleast it's almost winter... and kafka says it's time to “sleep sleep sleep”#heaven official's blessing#tgcf#hua cheng#xie lian#hualian
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If I had a nickel for every time a danmei had a good white/light green character with an “evil” dark color/red character as their husband, I would have— a lot of damn nickels. Why does this keep happening??
#they’re color coded by who’s good (and pretty) and who’s bad (but usually hot)#I’m pretty sure this is used in like every danmei couple#I’ve tagged the ships from literally every danmei I’ve read so far (except fish sex I don’t think fish sex has the color coding like this)#bingqiu#wangxian#hualian#beefleaf#yanshen#ranwan#thousand autumns#scum villain self saving system#grand master of demonic cultivation#heaven official's blessing#dumb husky and his white cat shizun#mo dao zu shi#mdzs#svsss#tgcf#2ha#danmei#ballad of sword and wine#idk what the ship name is#shen zechuan#xiao chiye#moshang
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saw this on my tl and oh op is so right
credits to @/melondenden on X
#I've been saying he's such an artist since I first read the book ??#like please give me an ounce of that creative streak my king I'm suffering here#and the way i call the cave of thousand gods his secret studio lmao#paradise manor was just him being bored and silly to the point he decided to do an interior designing project#and i want to take him with me to go jewellery shopping#and asking for styling and makeup tips#gosh WHY ISN'T HE A REAL PERSON ???#tgcf#heaven official's blessing#hua cheng#san lang#tian guan ci fu#mxtx
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TGCF reread new finds #1
Xie Lian actively and consciously knows that he is attracted to HC the MOMENT THEY MEET in the Ox Cart. Like it’s not just blank gay panic, he knows.
His beauty was deadly like a sword, sharp and mesmerising. Xie Lian only met his eyes for a moment, then lowered his eyes in defeat.
MATE, normally wouldn’t you continue to be mesmerised and can’t peel your eyes away? That is, UNLESS YOURE WHIPPED. XL knows that SL's looks affect him to this degree. Defeat is the key word here.
Also
The distance between them had closed too fast. he suddenly didn't know what to do[...]Xie Lian blanked on the spot. He watched as the tall and slender youth walked away with his giant bag of junk as if it were the most natural thing in the world to do, and it made him mutter inwardly, Forgive my sins.
Making a rich young lad carry your things? Making him sleep in your crappy temple? That doesn't warrant the weighty thought? FORGIVE WHAT SINS Xie Lian??!!!
Many village girls saw (HC) and blushed [...] Xie Lian didn't know what they were going to ask, but felt instinctively that it must be stopped at once, and cried, "No!"
Jealous jealous boi! XL WAS POSSESSIVE after ONE night spent together at Puqi Shrine. Didn’t XL just say to SL that he will have no problem in the love department because girls will throw themselves at him? Yo, why are you cock-blocking? Everyone says HC is insane, no XL is equally insane for the other!
Also, when HC revealed that it's his real skin after the Banyue arc, XL instinctively poked him. Then
He looked at his own finger then hid it away, betraying nothing of his thoughts.
What thoughts XL ?!! Explain yourself right now!
Jumping back to OX CART scene, Xie Lian's character development was foreshadowed when they were talking about the gifting of ghost ashes.
Book 1: Xie Lian sighed. "It certainly is painful to think about, to have given everything for love and lose everything in return."
This is what Xie Lian is most afraid of! Like even thinking back to Xie Lian pushing Feng Xin away in Book 4, he definitely operated under that mindset. Love is a risk, it's something to be feared. Even now 800+ years later, he still feels that way and doesn't allow himself to get close to anyone. It just hits so much harder thinking that he operated under that for so many centuries.
Then Hua Cheng says
"What there to be afraid of? If it were me, I'd have no regrets giving away my ashes"
Which I think really changed the way that Xie Lian thought about love. Book 5 Xie Lian completely operates with Love is empowering and isn't something to be afraid of.
TGCF isn't about XL realising his feelings, literally from Book 1 it's about him wondering if it's worthwhile to act on them.
Three things, is this person worth losing cultivation over for?
He needs the reassurance that this person must reciprocate his feelings.
Then HC changed his perspective on love from FEAR -> EMPOWERMENT.
XL is soooo self-aware (unlike SQQ from SVSSS and WWX from MDZS), he's an unreliable narrator in the way that he doesn't reveal everything to the reader, especially his own feelings until he was absolutely sure that there really was both a physical and romantic attraction. I wanted to make this post to dispel the assumption for XL it was easy to forego 800+ years of cultivation. It was not? He ABSOLUTELY thought about it carefully.
#honestly without the thousand caves reveal these two gays would still be 👉👈🥺 at each other#I was inspired by grimbravado's tumblr#tgcf#mxtx#heaven official's blessing#also these are my own perspectives#take it with a grain of salt#hualian#hua cheng#tian guan ci fu#xie lian#feng xin#fenglian#TGCF meta
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i introduce you, to absolute insanity <3
bai rong x yushi huang
thank you for coming to my ted talk no I will not elaborate
this was an arttrade with guoshi.cos co-founder of this ship 👍
#art#mxtx#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#tgcf#thousand autumns#qian qiu#no i have not read ta.. i got vol 1 and 5 on my shelf though#yushi huang#bai rong#im insanely gay for them both.. so NATURALLY#someone give me a good ship name for them and ill draw them kissing next
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SHOP IS OPEN!
>>BROWSE HERE<< Preorders will close on July 19th! Shares/Reblogs are super appreciated~ 🥰💖
#my merch#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#svsss#scum villian self saving system#tgcf#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#the untamed#moshang#bingqiu#hualian#wangxian#qian qiu#thousand autumns#wushuang#peerless
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Happy April Fool's Day!
#summarizing tgcf without having read any of it#myart#xie lian#san lang#hua cheng#hualian#tgcf#tian guan ci fu#heaven official's blessing#hov#season 2 or not season 2? that is the question#I did something simple because I'm on my period and in the middle of moving out but i had to draw unhinged xl in a bunny girl costume#it was crucial to my well-being#ah I also tweaked my main lineart brush it feels a thousand times better now
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I asked for 6 characters on tw*tter to make fanart of and I ended up with.... 24 LMAO
this was really fun! I might do another one in the future...
#soritarts#yuri!!! on ice#the dumb husky and his white cat shizun#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#mo dao zu shi#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#mistakenly saving the villain#misvil#adventure time#liu yao#thousand autumns#sasaki to miyano#nu carnival#love between fairy and devil#voltron#free!#scum villian self saving system#svsss#trigun maximum#chainsaw man#doodle#fanart
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Pondering whether I should start treating 7 seas danmei translations like pokemon and y'know buy them all.
#danmei#the ballad of sword and wine#qjj#case file compendium#bing an ben#guardian#zhen hun#peerless#dinghai fusheng records#mo dao zu shi#mdzs#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#heaven official's blessing#legend of exorcism#remnants of filth#yuwu#riverbay road men's dormitory#run wild: sa ye#stars of chaos#sha po lang#the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish#canji baojun de zhangxin yu chong#2ha#erha he ta de bai mao shizun#the husky and his white cat shizun#scum villian self saving system#svsss#thousand autumns#you've got mail: the perils of pigeon post#qiang jin jiu
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the great thing about hua cheng’s devotion is I straight up cannot get enough of it. I will reread fics hundreds of times just to hear him describe the sheer depth of the adoration he feels for xie lian. it’s therapeutic to hear about how much love someone can be capable of
#call me xie lian I guess#I just want to sit there and listen to him talk about all the things he’s done and will do for his highness#like for hours#please bro there’s a reason why the cave of ten thousand gods is my favorite part of the entire series#tgcf#hua cheng#hualian#bruh#heaven official’s blessing
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All 24 danmei chibis with most of my favourite characters from 2ha, SV, TGCF, MDZS and QQ.
⭐I added all png files to my ko-fi, so they can be downloaded there for free and used for personal use e.g. as emotes or stickers.
Since I won't be printing and selling merch anytime soon, I thought it would be a good option for anyone who's interested to be able to download the stickers and print them out for themselves.
There's two versions. Compared to the sticker set the emote ones are smaller and more cut for better use as emotes eg. on discord. Both sets have a png of each single character (and additionally there's a png with all in one in the sticker set).
#svsss#tgcf#mdzs#2ha#qian qiu#the husky and his white cat shizun#scum villains self saving system#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#thousand autumns#heaven official's blessing#mxtx fanart#zimtameise art#zimtameise danmei
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y'all would not believe what i got into
#tgcf#tian guan ci fu#heaven official's blessing#hua cheng#xie lian#hualian#bean told me they were rinniki coded (to which i remembered an's tgcf rinky) and i was sold#i am a very simple person#i see two people horribly in love making it everyone else's problem and i'm irreparably emotionally attached#they're also the funniest guys ever by the way#spoiler if you haven't read it>#but personally if i was hua cheng and they found the cave of ten thousand gods i would go and die another time#man's a real trooper
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First part of the #sixfanartschallenge 🎨
#artists on tumblr#digital art#illustration#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#tgcf#tgcf hua cheng#the apothecary diaries#maomao#Kusuriya no Hitorigoto#sousou no frieren#frieren fanart#frieren: beyond journey's end#frieren#tgcf fanart#wen kexing#word of honor#final fantasy xiv#ffxiv estinien#estinien varlineau#yan wushi#thousand autumns#6 fanarts#6 fanart challenge#drawing challenge#this was so hard#but a lot of fun#❤️#part 2 is coming next week
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This was fun!! Put a bit less effort into this one than my usual, sleepy,,
#tgcf#mxtx#mdzs#wei wuxian#wei ying#xiao ce'an#xiao chiye#wuming#hua cheng#yan wushi#jun wu#mei nianqing#thousand autumns#heaven official's blessing#the untamed#sLEEPY#THIS took longer than I planned tbh#coryscribbles
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