#this was a really hard chapter

[bloopitynoot]

Reading TGCF: Chapter 33

For those who don't know, I am reading TGCF for the first time and sharing my thoughts!

If you have not read it, there will be spoilers! Consider this a warning.

Also- if you want to follow along, I am aiming to post updates daily. You can find all the posts in the tag Bloopitynoot reads TGCF. You can also check out the intro post for context on my read BUT if you followed along with my SVSSS read, the rules and vibe are the same.

I was really exhausted yesterday because it has been A Time. We had Charlie's appointment, but I have also been super busy with work and union things.

Charlie update: For those who didn't know, my sweet boy Charles had some super concerning bloodwork a month ago and his specialist appointment to get him checked out was Tuesday.

His appointment was 4 hours long they did a full blood panel, physical exam, and an ultrasound. Thankfully he doesn't appear to have any masses. They found a little heart murmur (they were not so concerned about it right now) and his liver did look darker than normal. They suspected he has a liver infection (our boy is on anti-biotics). In two weeks we will follow up with another blood test and see how his levels are.

But for now better than I thought to be honest. I was so scared it was cancer or fully liver failure.

Taking a breath, enjoying a comfort black tea

Let's get into chapter 33!!!

Oh buddy, over here neglecting prayers for his sad rain side quest. p73

Okay, but could he not give the rain hat to someone else, like Mu Qing or Feng Xin and have them do it while he took care of his own prayers? p74

ooof. And then in Xianle, they're just imprisoning refugees, because they make the land look less aesthetic. So gross. p75

Fuck. Again I am struggling with the themes ins this book. All these people blaming their issues on the refugees, poor, and non-citizens of xianle is so awful. I hate this rhetoric so much. It's too real right now. p78

Ah, my question from earlier was answered. The hat requires a shit-ton of spiritual power (probably why only he can really do it) p81

Expelling the refugees is just horrible. p83

Xie Lian is just running himself ragged with his day divided into thirds. Do heavenly officials have to sleep? p85

This is so dark. I literally had to put the book down and walk away for a second. The entire scene with the kid being ill and his father climbing the wall really fucked me up. :( p87

This chapter actually has me a little unwell.

I don't even have any comments

This was incredible hard to read. I can't help but drawing parallels to the the state of the world right now and it is really messing with me. Especially with the social othering and dehumanizing people based on their status as refugee or "other"; I can't.

[forgettable-au]

FORGETTABLE-AU (Page 57-60)

* That was a long entry...

[BEGINNING] [PREVIOUS] [CONTINUE]

[lucky-fy]

For the Laicion nation (aka, me and three other people)

I had this illustration commissioned (a big thank you to @lunehowls) for my werewolf AU Laicion fic (still a WIP).

The general pitch is as follows :

AU in which Laios never got to meet his sister again, putting his life on a whole other path, a more desperate one. A military deserter with barely a coin to his name, Laios hitches a ride on a boat to one of the elven continents, where he learns about magical tattoos that binds one’s soul to a wolf’s, effectively making them artificial werewolves. Illegal magic be damned, this feels like the answer to… everything.

In the process, he learns about the existence of an illegal fighting ring in one of the elven cities, where beastmen gladiators gather. Freshly tattooed and without anywhere else to go to, Laios decides to head there, where he meets Lycion, an elf and artificial werewolf gladiator. If they first bond over a simple shared meal, by spending time together (sharing the same room in the barracks, maybe the same bed? gasp) they find that they have a lot in common, notably a shared distaste for the body they were born in, a dysphoria partially remedied by becoming a werewolf.

They bond :)

NB: I commissioned another piece, go take a look :D

[bronzeplates]

guys holy shit they made a danganronpa game where i dont despise anyone in the cast, how the fuck did they do that

[ferngle]

Ok so I read "Reaping what you sew" by @/thetriggeredhappy a week or so ago. Definitely did not get the feels. No tears were shed... anyways-

[beausprouts]

Drew my stupid wife on a sticky note while at work bc green

[vampire-in-the-corner]

Armand & Daniel’s relationship, Queen of the Damned

[feralriverwater]

Wanted to draw my favorite babies from Poppy Playtime

[dusty-pistol]

[Poppy Playtime Chapter 4 Spoilers!!!]

Even though it came out like 2 days ago...

[Text-less version under the cut!!!]

[lydiannettelizabeth]

Pjsekai magical girl au where all the leaders are recruited by miku to be magical girls send tweet

[mossymage]

The Heart Starts Singing

“Hua Cheng’s instrument sang, sang as a freezing gale would sing off the face of a frozen lake: sharp and clean like a knife, tenacious in the way that only nature could be. He wielded the violin and bow as though they were extensions of his pale hands—”

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If you haven’t been reading along to @mild-pepper-spray ‘s fic “The Heart Starts Singing” YOU NEED TO FIX THIS!!

She just posted the masterpiece which was the final chapter, and it was so incredibly moving!

If you like Hualian modern AUs that wind music, grief, and falling in love together, I really can’t recommend this fic enough! Also— Hua Cheng playing the violin… obviously an enticing enough concept to inspire this entire drawing hahaha.

[psink]

I really think it's a shame that Akechi and Kuusuke didn't get to meet (edit #5)

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[o-sunny-day]

CAINE DOODLE DUMP!!!

Plus some depression from “Willard!” by Will Wood. That song is so Caine oh my god-

Im obsessed with the idea that The Digital Circus was supposed to be this grand game that just ended up falling through because of creative differences, and Caine was basically left to rot- like yeah that’d explain…*vaguely gestures* everything about him

They didn’t know what they had made

Also Bubble isn’t in the posters because I fully am committed to the theory that Caine made him himself after going crazy over being alone for forever

[outsockk]

spam

[buwheal]

Merry (Kris)mas

[rotomicity]

TGCF art from 2021 which were very experimental and very much something out of my comfort zone but am still so satisfied with

(gonna ramble more under the cut 👉 )

My main inspiration for these were definitely classic storybook illustration styles and the watercolor-like illustrations included inside the tgcf books which depict hualian's daily slice of life routines as seen below

I wanted to capture that feeling of warmth i got from reading but i also went with the storybook look because their relationship (and by extension broad strokes of the entire plot) really did feel like something out of actual myth or legend; i'm chinese indonesian and was raised surrounded by chinese culture + values so tgcf felt VERY familiar to me, it threw me back to my childhood reading or listening to tales about chinese deities, i'd say the storybook image definitely came into my mind pretty quickly bc of this

I find this style somewhat hard to replicate now but if i could or have the time to, i really want to continue the 'companion pieces to chapter titles ' concept i did with the last 2 pieces (which are of the same chapter title but i was just indecisive 😭😭), i even had 3 more planned based on my favorite titles before burning out back then