#story: cultivate

[kaia001art]

Shen Jiu and the Pixiu (WIP)

So - i've decided to make a little comic of SJ/Mengyao scene of "Cultivate: Slow Life on a Monster-Infested Mountain (here)"

Since this will take quite a lot of time - and i am impatient - i want to post my WIP of it already.... its awful, but i hope it makes u smile @neonghostcat 😂

#i actually hab the first 2 panels rdy... maybe i show them too lol #i never made a comic and its itching in my fingers to oost every panel 😂 #its prob getting more pages too #i hope it makes u laugh 😂 #story: cultivate #kaia001art #kaia001 #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #mengyao #svsss #Shen Jiu #i def need a panel with Shen Jiu cuddling the pixiu and holding her like a baby

[bamboospirit]

This one was enjoying the stars. …But if a peach happened to slip and hit you, what are you going to do about it?’

- Cultivate, chapter 38 by @neonghostcat

I was going to animate Tao Ying patting SY on the back before that peach just so happened to fall onto his head, but it just didn't work out, haha. So back to my little doodles!

Did I draw this the moment I finished the new chapter? Yes. Yes, I did. I love that we can finally hear Tao Ying's thoughts, it's a lot more amusing now that it's not just leaves rustling in the wind.

#svsss #shen yuan #svsss fanart #fanfic fanart #svsss fanfiction #story: cultivate

[neonghostcat]

Beautiful work by @dlarri_ on Twitter! [Nitter alt link]

I love the so-soft colors and that beautiful sun-soaked glow! I also love how shy Shen Yuan looks, like he's about to give in and hide his face. It's so cute! 🥰 If you have a Twitter account, please go and show it some love there as well!

#svsss #scum villain's self saving system #scum villain #scumbag system #svsss fanart #liushen #shen yuan #liu qingge #mxtx fanart #fanfic fanart #gift art #story: cultivate

[zerooriginalityitsalljustcrabs]

a digital version?? it's more likely than you think. once again, REVAMPED fanart for @neonghostcat

#malfoy will never have more detail #its the principle #digital art #svsss fanart #liu qingge #shen yuan #liushen #story: cultivate #scum villian self saving system

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My Lawyer is going to Get Your Ass.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #nie huaisang #wei wuxian #lan wangji #elle woods #That's right. All this time I was building up towards this punchline. #The pink legal eagle Elle Woods is canonical to the PD-MDZS universe. This will make no sense if you are new around here. #The phone lwj pulls out of his bag of holding has one function. And it's to call Elle Woods. An omniscient and legendary cultivator. #The mandarin is very messy but probably self explanatory. I can only hope it is legible... #Referencing Danganrompa (Sore wa chigau yo!) and Ace Attorney was not on my bingo card for things I would end up doing- #-but it has happened and I am rolling with it. Even if it means a lot is going on in this comic! #the core joke here is that wwx finds himself in a impromptu court and gets a lawyer involved. #A lawyer AU fits these characters so well I am once again blinking long and slow at everyone who’s made an AU for it #Not a single whisper of story analysis in these tags today. It's pure whimsy on the menu. #I am placing a little treat outside of your door. It's a cold world out there and there is so little whimsy to be found.

[umeji-imeji]

So.......... I might have become obsessed with MDZS too I redrew my favorite book illustration, and added the color (original artwork by Marina Privalova)

#seriously all the book artwork was so good #and i simply loved the story #this scene #these two #my heart #lan wangji instant favorite #every time i finish the fifth book i want to start back from the first #to experience the evolution of wangxian again and again #so hello mdzs tumblr #i am new among you #how do you go back to normal life tho #mdzs #mdzs fanart #digital art #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #wangxian #lwj x wwx #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei ying

[fishfilletinacan]

My favorite thing to think about while reading mxtx is “can you imagine being someone normal.” Because seriously imagine you’re some normal guy farmer and you hear about the yiling patriarch, the guy that killed thousands of people like 15 years ago via necromancy is a. come back to life b. totally chill now? c. gay d. dating the most illustrious, well renowned, talented cultivator from the most conservative cultivation clan.

#I guess in both svsss and tgcf the common people literally write songs and stories about the main two don’t they… #mdzs #mxtx mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx

[disgracefulthings]

Shen Qingqiu: Like you, I also have a tragic backstory

Wei Wuxian: Oh, did you have an abusive family?

Shen Qingqiu: Nope

Xie Lian: Have you lived through poverty?

Shen Qingqiu: Not that either

Wei Wuxian: Then what?

Shen Qingqiu: One time I read a really bad story

Wei Wuxian: ...

Xie Lian: ...

#wei wuxian: what about you? #shang qinghua: i lived in poverty AND my family never loved me #shen qingqiu: don't pity him! he's the villain of MY story!!! #wei wuxian #wei ying #shen qingqiu #xie lian #mxtx #mxtx svsss #mxtx tgcf #mxtx mdzs #svsss #mdzs #tgcf #scum villian self saving system #mo dao zu shi #tian guan ci fu #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #heaven official's blessing

[mokutone]

somewhere a switch flipped. suddenly you want to like people. you want to be liked. you want to be of use to these people who are becoming precious to you, not just for your own survival, but for their happiness

#my art #naruto #sai #sai yamanaka #naruto uzumaki #narusai #? #its one sided. sai just has an ambiguously intense crush #naruto as a story is just. every abandoned lonely boy falls a little in love with naruto uzumaki #who is also abandoned and lonely. but who cultivates love and hope #and who courageously allows himself to be loved when its offered. wah. #also sai is so fucking pale AHGAHGHAHGSDGHSDG

[mimimar]

your smile, my ghost

#mdzs #wangxian #my first wangxian wow.. i read this book more than a year ago but i didn't have a chance to draw them until now #i've been thinking about this story again nowadays #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs fanart #wangxian fanart #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #illustration #illo #artists on tumblr

[kaia001art]

Lololol i cannot resist to giv another sneak peek of the comic 😂 But this time not in high res...

I finally managed to take care of my balcony - and now i am outside with coffee, drawing and wanted to share my happy moment! @neonghostcat 🥰

Aaaand added candles 😁✨

#just me drawing on my balcony and having a good time 🥰 #i finally planted all the herbs and put out the crispy ones xD #and cleaned #and the evening weather is nice too #i like the wind #and the herbs smelling so nice #and doing art #with coffee #AAAAND i want to gove a sneak peek #damn i want it to be done so i can show it 😂 #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #drawing #shen yuan #svsss #story: cultivate #scumbag system #its a very cozy evening

[lazycranberrydoodles]

its prosecutor jiang wanyin!!!! oh fuck!!! / gifs + au rambling below the cut / follow for more mdzs x aa crossover stuff :3

all the gifs i made (poses traced off franziska):

hes so similar to franziska when you think about it. theyre both deeply insecure tsundere adoptive younger sibling of successful main characters. who carry whips. something something edgeworth choosing death and wwx actually dying also

his share code is HWFEFF if you wanna use him in a trial! you can't share backgrounds but heres the scenery from the donghua i used.

the easiest way to put custom stuff into objection.lol is to send it in discord and then use the link from opening it in your browser :)

a whole lot of AU stuff

the art im making is for if mdzs was an ace attorney game, playing from WWX's POV to solve various mysteries/cases over the course of the plot. so this scene would be from turnabout goddess, which would loosely cover the dafan mountain mystery.

cases include:

Turnabout Revenge (Mo Manor, quick introductory first case)

Turnabout Goddess (Dafan mountain, the good times flashback)

Turnabout Saber (the man-eating castle (omg hiii nhs))

The Blind Turnabout (Yi City arc)

Turnabout Deviation (the Koi Tower conference, Empathy on NMJ ala turnabout memories or beginnings. opening cutscene is his qi deviation)

The Blood-Soaked Turnabout (second Burial Mounds siege, flashbacks: Xuanwu, Sunshot, YLLZ, Nightless City massacre)

Turnabout Lotus Seeds (testimony about JGY, tree scene, golden core reveal, bathtub scene. opening cutscene could be JGS' death but that would make it canon rather than ambiguous)

Turnabout Confession (Guanyin temple)

the problem with splitting novel!mdzs into turnabouts is that flashbacks are a huge chunk of the book but they don't have mysteries/ cases to solve so they've gotta be lumped together with present day stuff. imo? many of the flashbacks would likely have to be abridged so they could be retold ala DL-6, SL-9, or the fourth grade incident, where characters talk about it over some pieces of art. this is really difficult when theres a metric ton of unspoken, complex, and signifcant history between every character lmao

there's not as much of a problem with the cql timeline but i have not finished it. so.

the opening cutscenes in ace attorney always show the murder and/or the murderer plotting. the first cutscene of the game would be MXY summoning WWX, muttering about getting revenge on his family (it would also be good for him to mention the yllz being dead because that's how the novel starts.) cut to WWX's POV as he wakes up covered in blood and the investigation segment begins.

for investigations of monsters (goddess, saber, etc) the cutscene would be a scene of some poor throwaway cultivator getting their shit wrecked.

it would be cool to make a breakdown for JGY but again I need to review that scene cause I don't know who I'd base him on. maybe Vasquez or Dahlia.

tell me your thoughts!! i'm working off of a mdzs summary/ skimming the novel because i don't remember it too well so if i get anything wrong please yell at me

Jin Ling's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost

#PLEAAAASE send it to me if you do actually use my animations in a case🥺 #here im adapting mdzs to aa gameplay rather than making a mdzs AU where they are lawyers #so jiang cheng is not a prosecutor in this hes just angry. and on the right side of the screen #that man has not graduated law school but then again no one in ace attorney has either #the names are based off of how ace attorney cases are either named after a distinctive item/location (bigtop bridge samurai etc) #or the main emotional/character type thing that happens (goodbyes reminiscence farewell) #the mdzs/aa au where the stories get blended (ie my tags on the nhs post) is very interesting but i would have to think about it very hard #and i dont want to . i would rather think about what the court record would look like (its full of severed limbs) #MDZS' EXPLORATIONS OF MORALITY MAKE ME CHEW ON ROCKS #urrgh i got carried away writing this post & wrote a couple hundred words comparing aa and mdzs' attitudes towards morality & public opinio #i could write an essay on this topic tbh. #can i call this an au? its the same story in the same universe just in a different format. hmm #mdzs #aa #art #mo dao zu shi #ace attorney #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #cql #the untamed #jiang cheng #jin ling #objection.lol #flashing image tw #pixel art #animation #my art #franziska von karma #i guess?? #mdzs aa au

[neonghostcat]

Cultivate anniversary

October 27th will mark exactly one year of me posting Cultivate.

It's difficult for me to wrap my mind around this. The idea of "Wow... been an entire year?" conflicts directly with the idea of, "Wait, it's only been a year?" (Granted, I'd been writing it off and on for awhile before I started posting it, so that does mess with time perception... but still.)

I have to laugh that I've spent the last year getting excited about the idea that once I finished the fic I could sit back and get to read in the SVSSS fandom for a bit before starting to write again (thinking I would finish the rest off over Christmas and have several months of guilt-free goofing off) and yet... because of IRL being such a PITA this year, all I've been able to do is stay afloat by writing one chapter a week most of the time. I never got to get ahead and finish it as it developed... cultivated, if you will... into a bit of a monster of its own.

Zero regrets, though.

The story is a different beast than it would have been if I'd written it entirely behind closed doors, but I love the way it grew based on the reactions of the readers.

The way the reactions (and fanart) of readers brought certain characters (Mu Qingfang especially) more into the story than they were originally intended. (With full pleasure on my part - you know I love writing the platonic relationships as well as the romantic!)

The way reader speculation made me connect the dots on two unrelated pieces of information LONG before I would have connected them on my own. (Sometimes just because the reader said something off-hand and it sparked a connection in me, and sometimes just because they're clever, clever beans who figured something out even without as many clues as I had.)

The way I went ahead and pulled the trigger on some things I wasn't so sure about because enough readers seemed positive enough about the initial hints it might go that way for me to commit to it.

You all indulged me this entire way, continuing to read even as I made the story longer and longer as I put more and more things I liked into the plot. (And so many of you did more than indulge me, but egged me on.)

Cultivate isn't (quite) over yet, but in all sincerity and to the fullest depths of my heart: thank you for reading. Thank you so much for commenting or creating. I don't think I can say how much it's meant to me and how much it will always mean to me. 🥰

#author blog #story: cultivate

[themiracleofteddybearmanifestos]

I love MXTX cause she'll write the most intricate, heart wrenching, beautiful, insanely intelligent, well written stories and then write her own Wattpad fanfics about them and slap em on as extras

#mxtx #mxtx mdzs #mxtx tgcf #tgcf #mdzs #heaven official's blessing #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #tgcf novel #mdzs novel #honestly i aspire to be like her i should write fanfics about my own stories thats so funny

[noinobonoto]

I think the saddest part about Wei Wuxian's abuse by Madam Yu isn't the whipping or the kneeling or the belittlement... but the way she treated his parents.

Wei Wuxian's parents are dead. He is an orphan. He also lived under the same roof as the man who knew and was friends with his parents, especially his father who used to be his servant.

And yet he knows almost nothing about them, he knows as much as a bystander about who Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze were. The only things he has is a foggy memory or two and other people's gossip. All because of Madam Yu.

He can't mention them, he can't talk about them at all or ask about them because he will get punished, because Madam Yu hates their (mainly his mother's) mere existence and makes it everyone's problem. And it's so funny too, that she is always the one mentioning them in the first place, always to insult them. Wei Wuxian grew up in a place where his parents were badmouthed all the time, where he couldn't mention them or learn anything about them from Jiang Fengmian because Madam Yu made it impossible.

It's just so sad.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #madam yu #jiang fengmian #cangse sanren #wei changze #now that i think about it... is it the same or different changse in their names?? #should i write them the same way? #i have no clue and it's almost 5am #you may think wwx isn't too phased he barely mentions his parents at all so he can't feel too badly #but imo it's precisely because of madam yu's treatment that he acts like that #every so often i remember how wwx felt warm inside when he heard xxc mention the story of cssr and cry a little #he would've inhaled any information if he had the chance to #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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Hair Revealed. Heir Rejected.

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #Finally I can reveal what was under his little kerchief this whole time. #or rather was was lacking under his kerchief this whole time. #The hereditary hair has been revealed! What a twist I'm pretty sure everyone saw coming! #Apparently in the Audio Drama it's *Some Random Cultivator* who kicks Meng Yao's soft little body down the stairs like a ball #and NOT JGS or JZX - as would be more dramatically relevant #so having one of those two give a funny like like “No doubles” is inaccurate. #And what IS PDMDZS if not the most accurate representation of these characters and story? (this is in jest. I'm aware of the irony) #Our poor little yao yao is....a poor little meow meow..... #I hope he doesn't show up bloody and full of vengeance! #Next time on PDMDZS: Meng Yao has a knife and a license to kill