#the radiant emperor

[eunuchboy]

portrait practice with the general

#yix gallery #digital art #ancient china #chinese eunuch #the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #general ouyang #yuan dynasty

[macbethisms]

[wang baoxiang voice] well you see my older brother is in stupid love with general ouyang and if he just got his head out of his ass he would realize that what he really wants is for them to live happily ever after or whatever. now what i want to do to general ouyang is to psychologically torment him until he can't stop thinking about me as revenge for all the time i've spent thinking about him. also i would have sex with him if given the opportunity. wouldn't even pretend it was his idea. this is less weird

#wang baoxiang #the radiant emperor #general ouyang #they should study him in labs

[shoukohime]

babygirl the way you forsake your happiness on your relentless quest to vengeance, your complicated relationship with gender and the way you're covered in blood have bewitched me body and soul

#blue eye samurai #mizu #she who became the sun #general ouyang #jwqs #qi yan #the radiant emperor #clear and muddy loss of love #turns out I have a specific type of blorbo #i'm rotating them in my mind #1k #he xuan #beefleaf #tgcf #can't believe I forgot my original genderfluid revenge babygirl #5k #10k

[ash-and-starlight]

one day, in a thousand years

#I THINK I HAUVE COVID #oh to meet your love after a thousand years at a museum exhibit of your past lives #thinking about them makes me so sick so ILL DISEASED #I AM NOT IMMUNE #spc i’m cursing u forever for this wtf. WTF bro wtf #ouyang’s last thoughts were a desperate plea for esen to wait for him. #he has NEVER called him by first name he has NEVER asked him anything #and his last thought is asking him to wait #and esen does. bc he would have given ouyang anything he asked for #god i hope u get rawed so good it makes up for all the lost lifetimes u earned it #he who drowned the world #she who became the sun #the radiant emperor #general ouyang #esen-temur #(zhu also present in the golden imperial dragon and the golden light of gayness that brought them together again) #my art #not super proud of how it turned out tbh tbh it looks better in my head 😔😔 #would’ve stayed in the drafts if not for my need to feed this 4 ppl fandom #and if not for robin motivation nfngdjfb ty kissa you forever #id in alt text

[3cosmicfrogs]

Spring hunt.

#artfromthefrogs #he has been posted. #esen sun symbolism odyssey #esen-temur #esen temur #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #the radiant emperor #tre #swbts #hwdtw #art #this is not very symbolism. it ended up too realistic for that. #anyway im thinking to do a different sun symbolism piece that accompanies the ouyang bloody moon i did a while ago #oooo maybe with a baoxiang solar eclipse..... ideas ideas ideas however tragically i have 82459205 obligations first #anyway enjoy Him! i worked very hard on him! the things i do for 20 notes....

[spiderthread]

I needed to practice hands, so I did gay fanart about it

#the radiant emperor #zhu yuanzhang #ma xiuying #wang baoxiang #the third prince #ayushiridara #*punches ur gay little wrist to save ur gay little life* #hwdtw

[smokefalls]

A connection between two people existed only because of their shared belief in it as real. There was no such thing as a connection with only one end. There was no such thing as love, alone.

Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

#Shelley Parker Chan #He Who Drowned the World #The Radiant Emperor #quote #fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #queerlit #2023 reads

[ozymandien]

oh him? he's just a monk. no he doesn't harbor deep desires of greatness don't worry about it

#zhu my little bug (literally) #he's a praying mantis a cricket a cockroach... #i love her #AND HE HAS DIMPLES #i imagine she's the type to stare a lot at people. and it elicits an interesting reaction in them #with this polite yet knowing almost-smile and her piercing wide eyes #also i know she's described as ugly in the books and i respect that. but i want her to be just a bit alluring in a fucked up way. like #now. this took sooo long. for absolutely no reason #i redid it like 10000 times and still didn't feel 100% satisfied but today i decided to set it free #i hope you guys like it anyway! #:) #zhu chongba #zhu yuanzhang #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #the radiant emperor #shelley parker chan #fanart #myart

[eleni-anz]

father father father father father father father father why have you forsaken me? in your eyes, forsaken me in your thoughts, forsaken me in your heart, forsaken me

#general ouyang #she who became the sun #the radiant emperor #my art

[bleuarte]

Lord Esen in she who became the sun

And General Ouyang in he who drowned the world

#finished the radiant emperor duology in December #AND I’M OBSESSED #And I can’t suffer alone #the way Esen no longer existed in the world anymore but haunts and echoes the narrative is so… #:( #and the bracelet thing ): #ah #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #the radiant emperor #esen temur #general ouyang #ouyang #my art

[rabarbarzcukrem]

It's not a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice

Art credit: @teardew, @ash-and-starlight

#fgep #female general and eldest princess #lin wanyue #the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #zhu yuanzhang #mizu #blue eye samurai #moje

[deaddove]

#mods are asleep time to post cringe #the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world

[annie-handholder]

bro literally said:

#baoxiang is so funny #i love him #wang baoxiang #he who drowned the world #hwdtw #the radiant emperor #asoolapost

[ash-and-starlight]

soulmates not in the romantic sense of the word but in the way two people’s fates entwine again and again, in the way they’re a mirror of each other in ways nobody else would understand, in the way their actions shaped each other’s destinies, and are the only ones who can understand the particular way the other has been ostracized from society. soulmates whose presence resonates in each other’s soul as clear as a compass and yet through all this they just can’t fucking stand each other. soulmates (derogatory)

#i mean the hatred is pretty one sided but still. #he who drowned the world reading and i’m being normal #sooo normal about it guys im normal #never felt normaler #normla 👍 #zhu and ouyang horrible worsties era lets gOOOOO #the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #send post

[3cosmicfrogs]

oh 12.65 litres of blood clinging to the outside of my body, we're really in it now

#what happens when OP cannot figure out the esen sun symbolism #fine ill do ouyang moon symbolism then! #artfromthefrogs #blood tw #general ouyang #he who drowned the world #hwdtw #she who became the sun #swbts #the radiant emperor #tre #ouyang #art #this was supposed to be like a tarot format but it looked shite so (as usual) i scrapped a ton of work to make it look good #when zhu is trying to become emperor but youre too busy having the most tragic yaoi in china and also you must kill the khan #me when it turns out that killing the object of my affection means that he is dead.

[spiderthread]

why don't you let yourself be gently peeled off the ground and tossed across the back of a horse like a sack of potatoes by the most handsome man in china, then maybe you'll calm down

(+ bonus:)

#xu da #carrying one (1) soggy corpse #general ouyang #hwdtw spoilers #he who drowned the world spoilers #the radiant emperor #i forgot that xu da reties his hands before doing this but it's fine. it's fine sfkfhsf #ouyang: i want to grind zhu into a bloody smear in the dirt until there's nothing left #also ouyang: grinds himself into a bloody smear in the dirt until there's nothing left except Gay Thoughts #this was meant to just be a quick doodle but then i couldn't stop accidentally sort of taking it seriously and now here we are #pov the ruthless general who razed your childhood home (forcing you into a traumatic life of banditry) + almost killed your little brother #is simultaneously just a deranged little guy. and u can pick him up. #blood cw #ALSO….. thank you for the nice comments on the WIP - they gave me the necessary serotonin to push through 🥺💖