#heaven-bound

[mega-delicatelysuperbcollector]

SHE'S GOING HOME

My friend for thirty-six years, Thirty-five of them married this year,,, Valiant horse She’s run her course, Time to go Home it appears! – Spent most of her life in pain, From infant to adult she gained… Strength through faith That kept her safe, Despite the hurting that drained! – She is my longest friend, In hospice nearing her end…. To the arms of God She has faithfully…

[ifyoucandaniel]

No Paths are Bound vol.1 by @cataclysmicevie 🔥🖤

this has been in the works since last november.

i discovered a friend i’d met through bookbinding also loved mxtx and when we agreed to do an exchange i knew exactly what i was making. could i have made this less than 6 books? absolutely. so many mistakes were made with these books but all in all i’m very happy with how they came out and i’m so happy she finally has them!

the art on the dust jackets is by @/ RACCUN7 on twitter and the end page art is by @huaepiphany !! both artists were so kind to let me use their art for this project and it would not be complete without it!! 🖤

if you’ve never read this fic but you love tgcf then i cannot recommend this enough. this fic is one of my top 5 all time favorite things i’ve ever read and to this day i think about the character development and story probably more than the original story and if ever there was an oc i loved it would be ren song. i think everyone should read this and love it as much as me and i cannot wait to make my own copy sometime :) i’ll probably post some more closeups of the other books soon, but i just thought i’d share these!

[soulcatdoodles]

no paths are bound.

[budd-ie]

I don’t think Xie Lian ever really got the chance to feel human. When he was born he was the center of the world, and since he was young he wanted to be a god. There was nothing he couldn’t do and nobody who didn’t love him, he had massive privilege and he knew it, and at the time, he really genuinely thought he was omnipotent. His mind skipped mortality and went straight to expecting godhood. But even when this period of his life is over, what comes next is isolation. Now, he’s someone without heavenly appeal but with knowledge and experiences much beyond the understanding of mortals. He lives among them, takes the same jobs, eats the same food, has the same needs, he can try to help them, he can try to love them as he always has, but there’s still something that’s just not quite the same. He may understand their plight after living through poverty, but he’s never truly been the common person he’s always wished to save. He can’t grow old, he can’t die, nothing can kill him, his existence is something so beyond humanity but still so far from the god he dreamed of being. And so, he berates himself whenever he has strong emotions or slips up a little or says something kind of weird or misses little details, becuase he still sees himself as not quite human enough to make those kinds of completely normal mistakes. He pushes people away before he has the chance to hurt them, before they have the chance to learn to hate him. So when Hua Cheng finally comes into the picture, he’s trying to say it’s okay to be human, Xie Lian. It’s okay to want to save yourself too.

[vaggieslefteye]

CHARLIE & EMILY in 1x06 - "Welcome to Heaven"

[gaywerewolfsimp]

"I am forever your most devoted believer"

I also post some of my stuff on bluesky :))

[emotionaldisaster909]

Inside someone else’s memories, Hua Cheng whispers the same thing.

“I’m sorry.”

His hands cradle Xie Lian’s face, wishing he could speak to his god again.

Never before has the child prayed with the expectation of an answer, but god, how desperate he is for his love to look on his face one last time.

To hear his voice when he speaks, and give him an answer.

- “No Paths Are Bound”, ch. 30

Hua Cheng seeing Xie Lian through He Xuan’s memories, for the first time in hundreds of years.

[monhiio]

An arrangement no one is really happy with.

His occasional walks with his betrothed are as unavoidable as they are uneventful. She talks, he listens. He doesn't make the same mistake again of disagreeing with her on something, instead hes tasked with showing her around. A walk through the palace, a walk through town, through the market, around the city walls. He wonders if he can postpone the wedding for as long as he keeps finding places for him to take her. But then again Xianle is only so big, and he thinks suggesting that "Your majesty perhaps I can show her Yong'an first" would get his head cut off instead.

The Emperor and the Queen dont bother sending Xie Lian away anymore when theyre on these walks. And his occasional presence makes it all so much worse. Because he cant zone out when his Highness is there. Instead Feng Xins gaze follows him, miserable and pleading. that is until theres a tug at his arm and the sound of his fiancé clearing her throat, and hes forced to look away. Its absolute torture.

Part 1

Part 2

[lazycranberrydoodles]

fanart i did 5 months ago and forgot to post. lyrics from “siren” by kailee morgue🌊

[kaiteell]

"Don’t worry, your highness. You can pay me back next time."

[ao3screenshotss]

(context: the scene where they’re trying to figure out who cuo cuo’s father is)

[olreid]

emily.... <3

[yaoigoddess9158]

Let me spoil you bbg 🤭🤭

[ynkfva]

this will never not be funny

[chirpycloudyrobin]

call me insane or delulu but i want rebel!ivan to be an arsonist. the demolitions guy. the dude everyone goes to to get shit obliterated.

his special talent is apparently making fire using rocks. he's probably at least competent in alien tech or just tech in general bc he does the collar thing for till consistently since anakt garden days. combine those two together and u get a dude who can theoretically make things that make other things go boom :D

imagine he DOES get rescued by the rebels. death gives ppl new perspectives, and he presumably has already given himself closure from till ("tyfbtvomse", iykyk). he needs something else to make himself FEEL something again after living a life of complacency, malleability, and obedience that was only brightened by chasing after till's flame. imagine he finds it in the warmth of literal fires 👁️👁️

also it could be really sick to have scenes in r7 where ivan is scuttling around planting bombs in the area but we don't figure out it's him until we reach the climax of the vid and he makes shit go KABOOM as a distraction and we finally see a shot of him grinning like a pyromaniac, glowy red pupils and glinting snaggletooth and all

anyways i need to go touch some grass

[fireheartwraith]

I finished no paths are bound like a week ago and it has been all i've been able to think about. the thought about xie lian creating tapestries so beautiful athena would cry in shame yet being unable to see his own art. the knowledge that he cannot recognize his loved one's face but he knows the contours of their soul. the wu ming curse making hua cheng unable to tell his god that he’s here and alleviate the pain he's going through. the characters like zhao beitong and shuo being so dear to me if feels wrong when i read something without them. can't we all agree to pretend these details were always here?