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pots and kettles on a double date 💕

Ahem! Now that I've got your attention, did you know that our boy Wu Xi is currently in the @/crown-and-scarf-tournament, competition for the title of the most beloved leader? And did you know he is currently losing by a very small margin (with 49.4% of votes for him)? he won another round since then, but is now having a real tough time? Well, now that you do, you can go and vote for him here. Love and snakes on planet Earth 🐍💚

[Lord Seventh] Wuxi and Jing Beiyuan in watercolor pencils.

I found you bc of MDZS a while ago and stayed bc of your beautiful artstyle. I had no idea TYK existed but your fanart does make me curious, mind if I ask why do you like it?

Thank you for your question! You asked about Tyk, but I'll also be talking about Qi Ye since Tyk is it's sequel.

To simplify, I tend to divide media I like in two categories: it's message driven story or character driven story.

The first one is like a book or movie that influenced you greatly but you never felt like illustrating it or searching for any additional fan content. The message is more important than characters translating it.

(For example, I really love "Perfect Blue" by Satoshi Kon, but for me it's not just Mima's story, but a process of a young woman figuring out her struggles and fears in general, everyone can be on Mima's place).

The second category, it's all about characters. They are the main attention and main driver of the story. I wouldn't really be interested in a story if it wasn't about That certain character I'm emotionally attached to.

Af for Qi Ye and Tian Ya Ke... It's a bit of both?

In these dilogy main characters are secondary characters of their own stories, which should've made them closer to being concepts carrying a certain message rather than being individuals. But that's not the case! They do have personalities! And I'm more than interested in them!

And the way characters themselves see more in each other is so poetic and romantic...

In tyk (and qi ye), if main characters didn't meet, they still would've been a part of bigger story, playing their roles and translating author's message. But they happened to meet by chance and become individuals to each other

Another catching thing about these novels is that a lot of moments are left unspoken. I probably would've liked to see them (the novels themselves are short), but imagining it myself is challenging in a good way.

The same actually goes for mdzs XD, my fav mdzs works are those that plays around evens that weren't shown in the novel.

Btw. the absence of certain scenes might even be for the better because it has a potential to make us closer to those characters who also haven't witnessed them

That's it ^⁠_⁠^

🥀Inspired by movie poster for «Yi Yi» (which is totally different Yi Yi, but anyway)

back to my Jing Beiyuan obsession <3

I actually have had these laying around for awhile and idk any way that I tried to finish them didn't feel right to I instead did some experimenting with value and stuff, making it moody i guess. and rambling as usual. still thinking about making a zine tho...

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so i started reading Qi Ye

only 20 chapters in and already hooked, i feel the fixation settling into my bones like lead

stay tuned while i read and doodle away my sanity

the prince of nan’ning everyone

Wu Xi _(:_」∠)_

Seeing the ring was still there, Wu Xi soundlessly laughed. "If I really can't take you with me, just carry this with you, and you will always be able to find me."

a little comic of the ring scene in ch 65 that I made for V for the DZZS server exchange

"more than a dozen years of lo-, loyal service... and when the time comes for my reward his majesty won't even see me off?"

I've been having thoughts about first life jby and it's manifesting through messy sketches

post trolley problem stress disorder like someone said on twt

wip

using a limited color palette while being a noob is shit. this drawing looked like ao oni in a white wig for like an hour.

Hot take: Wu Xi and Jing Beiyuan are such an odd couple because they don’t really understand eachother (like WenZhou do).

Hotter take: But like? They do? Wu Xi sees through Jing Beiyuan’s affectations to his deepest motivations and understands how much he feels bound by duty and circumstance, and even accepts the ‘worst’ parts of him.  While Jing Beiyuan knows exactly who Wu Xi is and later what Wu Xi wants (him) but just doesn’t necessarily approve because of said duty and circumstance.  Superficially, yeah there are misunderstandings (planned and unplanned), but they are actually very connected past even all the karmic trappings of “life.”

Hottest take: The grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one, but the grumpy one and the sunshine one aren’t the ones you think they are.

Jing Beiyuan, Wu Xi and sable design that I completed recently...

Xiyuan first meeting and... other xiyuan doodles haha

Xiyuan and Lu Ta sketches!!!

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