#shiblings

[mariauri]

another old art! actually it might be one of my very first tgcf fa ever 🥹 i checked and it's from september '21!

my dearest shiblings 🥹💙💚 i love them so much. the most beautiful (and tragic...) family bond in this novel 💔

[cloud-hymn]

I think the thing I find most frustrating about swd and the fandom’s perception of the fate switching is he is such a victim or narrative circumstance. Because if hx wasn’t as loved as he is, if swd and sqx were lovers instead of brothers, if swd had a more likable personality, etc etc etc no one would say that his actions weren’t justified. Like there is nothing anyone could say to convince me that if Hua Cheng did for Xie Lian what swd did for sqx the entire fanbase wouldn’t call it tragically romantic instead of monstrous.

[rainydayrina]

[oliverplague]

Hi! I have started drawings on dakimakura with  Shi Wudu , but unfortunately this order was canceled. I could finish them if you support me on my https://boosty.to/oliverplague or hipolink.me/oliver_plague/tips ^^

[bonebreakjack]

More Reversal TGCF AU with the Shiblings

Someone found Shi Wudu in his abandoned temple thinking they caught him in a scheme...

They should have minded their business....

[fun-mxtx-polls]

I have a theory to test...

(For people who have read both TGCF and MDZS)

(Reblog for sample size, please!)

[nootcatt]

Gossip Shiblings

[fortune-maiden]

Having so many shiblings thoughts today ;w;

[cypherptqueer]

🪻𝐒𝐡𝐢 𝐐𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧🪻 [𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭]

I heavily dislike categorizing complex characters into black or white scales. There are more interesting ways to look at a character, to understand their pain and motivations, their trauma and their convictions, to sympathise with them without justifying their crimes.

It's just my personal opinion but I don't think anyone in the Blackwater arc is "morally correct". They are all driven by what they think is right. They are all just...awfully Human.

I felt awful for Shi Qingxuan throught the arc. During the climax of the arc, when the final confrontation begins, his wounds are still fresh and there's this strange sort of innocence--or rather child like quality to his words. Like a baby taking its first steps and falling down hard, scrapping its knees and wailing. Like a baby bird venturing outside of its nest for the first time without its mother's protection, scared to know the world outside... And tragically being plucked from the sky by larger bird.

There's bizarre humanity, a raw pain behind his words and actions. Even though what he's doing is probably going against his own morals. It's also ironic, he held Pei Xiu accountable for his actions, pei xiu who's actions were also driven by his deep care for Banuye and crticized Pei Ming who wanted to protect his kin. And now... He can't do the same when its his own brother.

Why? Because he loves his brother. Despite everything... He loves his older brother.

I can't blame him, no matter what... I can't bring myself to blame him. Sometimes love makes us do things that goes against what we know is right.

He had just learned of the truth, that his life was built upon an innocent man's fate. He had just learned that his dearly beloved protector had gone to inexcusable lengths to give him the best life he possibly could.

Despite all the pain, blood, suffering and lies... He loves his brother more than anything else in the world. There lies no being in the heaven, hell or earth that he loves more than Shi Wudu. That alone makes him go against everything he knows is right...

This is not an analysis, this is my thoughts and maybe love for Shi Qingxuan. I have nothing more to add, atleast for now.

[ninjagoplatonicgroupnames]

Dragon siblings = Lloyd/Nya

Named such since Lloyd is part Dragon, and when Nya was merged with the sea she was a Dragon.

[princessofxianle]

still doing the injury thing ?

If so, peeling skin on your fingers. You know when an extremely annoting tiny bit of skin right above where you nail starts is detaching, and for some reason despite being a very shallow wound it hurts like hell when you pull it off ?

hangnails are the bane of my existance, i always pick at them until they bleed so...

Injury: multiple peeling and bleeding hangnails

Assigned to: Shi Qingxuan

1) something about this being around fingernails makes me think this would drive sqx CRAZY bc im willing to bet he religiously manicures his nails

2) i also think he (like me) picks at them too bc his physical presentation is a massive insecurity of his and hes an anxious lil guy

3) and the idea of him running to Shi Wudu going "GE!!! My finger is bleeding again!!!" and swd begrudgingly (but lovingly) helping him apply salve and bandages to the bleeding parts

[mxcaadle]

"الصلاة قرة عيون المحبين, وسعادة الخاشعين "

إنَّ الصلاة هي قرة عيون المحبيبن كم أخبر بذلك إمام المصلين وخاتم المرسلين وسيد ولد آدم أجمعين . فعن أنس بن مالك رضى الله ��نه قال : قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : «حُبِّب إليَّ الطِّيب, والنساء, وجعلت قرة عيني في الصلاة» (قال الشيخ الألباني: صحيح, ينظر: صحيح سنن النسائي) وقرة العين كناية عن الفرح والسرور, فأخبر صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه حبب إليه شيئان : الطيب, والنساء, ثم قال وجعلت قرة عيني في…

[cloud-hymn]

Nobody talks about the double meaning of:

“Everything I have today, I fought for! I will fight for what I don’t have. I will change my fortune if fate denies me! My fate is up to me and not the heavens!”

Because yeah swd is talking about switching sqx’s fate all those years ago but he’s also talking about the fact that he knows he has just successfully goaded hx into killing him. hx gave swd two choices and swd said fuck that and manipulated hx into choosing the third option that he wanted. Literally the last thing he ever did was change his and sqx’s fate and that is so sexy of him.

[rainydayrina]

A little fic based off the SWD transphobia claims because i think they're wrong.

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Shi wudu had always been a proud man. His image itself had an aura of respectability about it and he was rather happy to wave around his athority like a fan.

So when his disapproving gaze met shi qingxuan's altered form at a festival, most chalked it up to pride and reputation. Having your brother running around in womens court robes certainly wasnt a casual event for a man like him, surely it was a matter of imagine, and he was happy to let them all believe that. after all, a cracked vase is filled with gold, and this vase had certainly cracked.

But the truth was, had anyone else decided to fumble around with their gender, he wouldn't have batted an eye at all, this innate disgust he held was not of humiliation but of concern.

His darling brother, the one he had spent his life protecting, the one he sacrificed for, the one he spent countless hours learning to braid and style feminine hair for, just to keep him disguised and out of harms way.

His brother spent most of his mortal life wrapped up in women's clothes solely for the sake of survival and to shi wudu, these were chain and he could no longer bear to watch his brother drag around the chains of his old life.

"Qingxuan, we need to talk" his voice holds a deep authority, something he couldn't help

Deep in within the confined walls of temple FengShui, lies a storm, both water and wind are needed to form such a thing. Yelling and dancing around the issue in an intricate waltz, one they had done before, neither side wanting to give in and show their golden cracks. It goes like this every time and with nothing settles, old scars only rub to make new wounds.

He couldn't understand, he couldn't bear it, he couldn't make sense of any other reason Qingxuan would do this and finally thr truth came pouring out and the vase was broken.

"Qingxuan! You DONT have to keep doing this!" A fit of rage, a fit of failure because he feared he had. A man of his position didnt have the luxury to cry and still you could hear in his voice the welling in his eyes."Are you scared still? You don't have to be scared anymore..." his voice was raw and wavering"Ge took care of it..... you dont have to be afraid or hid anymore, Ge fixed it all, youre safe now... Qingxuan, youre safe now"

A soft hand hand on his brothers face, the hand of a mother, of someone who raised kin, who has bleed for someone and starved for someone and given their life for someone

And now it was Qingxuan's turn to not understand. Had their brother really thought that's what this was all about, hiding? They felt frustrated and weak by the idea that this was only a way to cope, it was far more."GE, I LIKE THIS!!"

They shout, trying to burn it in wudu's brain "This is real..... its me, and for once in my life im not afraid anymore. I know im safe, i know ive been saved.... Ge, i do it because i like it, because im not one thing anymore." They spill out a jumble of emotions, teary and soul bare"Im both.... and im neither and im everything and im just ME!"

They softly look up to meet their brother's gaze, expecting that scolding look they'd seen so many times, only to immediately be caught up in an embrace.

Qingxuan had hardly ever been hugged. As a child, she was kept at arms length, cared for physically but not always emotionally. She always felt unsatisfied. And by the time they reached the heaven's, shi wudu had a reputation and couldn't hold him anymore.

Qingxuan was the type to clung to anyone who showed them attention but this was different, with their face buried deep into Ge's shoulder and hot tears on the silk robes, their soft voice broke the silence.

"Ge.... do you still love me??"And the water tyrant only pulled him closer, petting their hair

"You're the only thing i love" he murmurs "the only thing i care about and the only thats important. Ill sacrifice everything for you again and again" "but dont let that get to your head, okay"

The soft sounds of laugher and the room is flooded with warmth "Qingxuan, if you want to..... be a woman sometimes, its okay with me, just promise two things, the first is that you'll tell me if anything is wrong" he speaks gently Qingxuan nods, that was an easy promise, when things got tough, they couldnt help but talk anout it

"And the second?"

"DON'T EVER, and i mean EVER, let pei ming flirt with you"

A break of silent....

"Ewwwww!! Geeee!" Pulling back to playfully shove him"Like I'd ever, im not interested in someone who is ⅓ tumour....." they whine but they laugh all the same.

And the vase is lined with gold.

[fatratinatophat]

Shiblings I drew on a Dandy's World Whiteboard Fox I found on Reddit- forgot how annoying it was to use Whiteboard Fox so this is all I drew

[bonebreakjack]

inspired by the Audio Drama, I always wondered what kind of conversation went down between the Shi Brothers when when Shi Qingxuan woke up from passing out at his place of ascension?

I doubt it was pretty

Shi Wudu did what he could to keep Shi Qingxuan safe but does Shi Qingxuan see if it was worth it?

I felt that this song went very well for the both of them