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Hello

Love love love your mdzs art and also your word of honor art

Your character design is beautiful

Thanks for existing <3

thank you so much! ♥ thank you for existing too and making fandom spaces good!

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hiee!! 😩 how are you doing? first of im sorry for spamming 😭 but how can one stop when your art style is SO MAGNIFICENT AND BEAUTIFUL. and your ships?! oh my god you're always putting out ideas that i can 100% relate with and i feel so heard bcs of u 🫶 im truly glad to find accs i can relate with (esp cql/mdzs stuff). i jus wanted to tell u that finding ur acc made my day better and i hope that u continue with ur art (bcs it's truly beautiful) and have a great day/night ahead! ♡

ah never apologize for a "spam" this makes me so happy! working with side characters can be so rewarding, i know how happy I am when i find a niche creator for stuff i like or stuff i immediately thought of while watching/reading the source material :D feel free to share headcanons if you have any! If we are like-minded, I love getting inspiration from all places :)

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hello! i'd been thinking about asking this for so long (i found you via chengxuan art that is so so beautiful btw) and found the courage to ask this when you said you don't like wangxian (i just think.. they need to have more substance to last because in my opinion they won't last). but. what do you think of jiang yanli? i sort of dislike her mainly for the way fandom depicts her.

Oh I'm trying to barely interact with anything that has Yanli in it, in the donghua she was okay at best but in the show she was easily my least favorite character. No texture, no flavour. I REALLY love the trope she was supposed to portray, maybe that's why I was so disappointed and extra harsh, but then seeing how much the fandom loves her and dislikes/ignores Zixuan (and if he exists, he's a trophy husband for her idk they're so ducking boring to me together, both are bottoms) it just added to the distaste 😅

But! I have my own Yanli that I wanted her to be and I will happily ship her with jzx or nmj in that variation. Even the ladies, which was kinda hard as I felt no sapphic connections in MDZS apart from yu ziyuan and madam Jin who we never saw interact

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Ignore the haters, you are iconic and one of the best Fanartists on Tumblr

Oh I've seen the artists on here and in the fandom and I'm far from the best, but I'm just happy to be here! Wish more people had that direction, it just speaks of their comfort and privilege when they can pick and choose who to fight WITHIN THEIR OWN people 😅😅

I ignore lot of what comes my way but these serious terms that are just being thrown around (racist, homophobe) can be incredibly damaging to someone's reputation and these people KNOW it. It's this callousness that just makes me angry with spaces that are supposed to be fun but I don't want to bend for these people so sadly I will have to keep proving then wrong in case someone comes to me to "fact-check" :')

Really sorry this shot keep appearing on y'all's dashes, I will always try to sprinkle art in-between, I'm just currently balls deep in a paid art project I despise and have 0 time for other drawings 😭

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“People who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying” fuck that happy birthday no.3 most handsome lad Jin Zixuan!!

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My fandom cancellable qualities are not liking WangXian, tgcf, top!yby, top!Zoro, fusehound and astarion

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“People who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying” fuck that happy birthday no.3 most handsome lad Jin Zixuan!!

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few updated pictures for prints :D

#rongye #ye baiyi #nielan #rong changqing #lan xichen #nie mingjue #xie wang #xieye #yexie #jin zixuan #jin guangyao #jin ling #mdzs #woh #my art #oh and #su she #suyao #my b

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understanding that I come from Overwatch/Apex fandoms could maybe clear it out for people better in how and why draw this way in danmei too. the shade of someone's skin has absolutely no relevancy if the character is "good" or "bad", "delinquent" or "classy"

Hi I really don't want to seem rude but I've noticed something kinda worrying in your art. Everytime a character is described as like elegant and graceful you draw them pale. And if they're wild or rough or a rulebraker you draw them darker skinned. And I don't think it's intentional at all but it feels iffy and its a noticeable pattern that I've asked other people about and they've seen it too. We all have some subconscious biases and I wanted to help make you aware of yours

Is Yanli or Jiang Cheng rough rulebreakers? Is Wen Ning elegant and graceful? Jin Guangyao is described as elegant and I have him with tanner skin. Mian Mian and Ouyang Zizhen, also described as beautiful and elegant and charming, both I draw with darker skin. Su She with lighter skin despite being a "rule breaker" and a coward. YQY is darker, SHL is pale- elegant but a rulebreaker, we have a situation in the rules! How does that logic apply to wenzhou who are both chaotic and elegant? My Xiao Xingchen is sometimes darker skinned, sometimes paler, does that say anything about him I should be aware of? If there's more than one exception to the rule, is it really a rule? I understand where the concern comes from but I said multiple times that I just draw what looks pretty to me palette-wise, what just "fits", hell, that changes even from art-to-art, I draw JZX with brown hair, with blonde hair, with curly hair, with straight fair hair, with pale skin, with sun-kissed skin. Sometimes it's not even a skin color, but instead it's a white or blue or yellow or green or red because I love bold colors and contrasts. I'm just having fun with different characters and different palettes and it bothers me that people went as far as to call me "insanely racist" to prove their point and ignore mine, the artist's, when all I want to do is draw hot characters that have diverse palettes and are not all just snow-white. I never stated why some are darker that would be grounded in stereotypes, people made that up and made it a fact. I base my works on the actors as closely as I can and sometimes the argumentation is purely ridiculous (like bleaching hair, this is a fantasy setting with golden and blue eyes canonically on our characters) I can admit when I do wrong, in the past I struggled with bigger bodytypes and tried to work on that (only to ironically end up in fandoms filled with lean characters, but at least there's NMJ), but this is something I can't really "work on" as there's not malicious or ignorant intent behind it. I'm sure those who want to keep spreading those opinions will ignore anything I have to say and those who don't see it the way you do are already tired of this discussion. But I will have this post as something to link to if anyone tries to bring this up again because I find this behavior so gatekeepy and frankly won't support it or bend to it, not to mention that it's trying to destroy a working class' small artist's reputation, like who are we fighting here.

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patreon is strating to get tighter on NSFW artists, so is ko-fi, twitter is ambiguously filtering it, tumblr adult filters may as well allow naked statues only and imgur and other picture hosting sites are no longer holding onto NSFW uploads so links for AO3 are also breaking, what the fuck are we suppossed to do

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Hi I really don't want to seem rude but I've noticed something kinda worrying in your art. Everytime a character is described as like elegant and graceful you draw them pale. And if they're wild or rough or a rulebraker you draw them darker skinned. And I don't think it's intentional at all but it feels iffy and its a noticeable pattern that I've asked other people about and they've seen it too. We all have some subconscious biases and I wanted to help make you aware of yours

Is Yanli or Jiang Cheng rough rulebreakers? Is Wen Ning elegant and graceful? Jin Guangyao is described as elegant and I have him with tanner skin. Mian Mian and Ouyang Zizhen, also described as beautiful and elegant and charming, both I draw with darker skin. Su She with lighter skin despite being a "rule breaker" and a coward. YQY is darker, SHL is pale- elegant but a rulebreaker, we have a situation in the rules! How does that logic apply to wenzhou who are both chaotic and elegant? My Xiao Xingchen is sometimes darker skinned, sometimes paler, does that say anything about him I should be aware of? If there's more than one exception to the rule, is it really a rule?

I understand where the concern comes from but I said multiple times that I just draw what looks pretty to me palette-wise, what just "fits", hell, that changes even from art-to-art, I draw JZX with brown hair, with blonde hair, with curly hair, with straight fair hair, with pale skin, with sun-kissed skin. Sometimes it's not even a skin color, but instead it's a white or blue or yellow or green or red because I love bold colors and contrasts.

I'm just having fun with different characters and different palettes and it bothers me that people went as far as to call me "insanely racist" to prove their point and ignore mine, the artist's, when all I want to do is draw hot characters that have diverse palettes and are not all just snow-white. I never stated why some are darker that would be grounded in stereotypes, people made that up and made it a fact. I base my works on the actors as closely as I can and sometimes the argumentation is purely ridiculous (like bleaching hair, this is a fantasy setting with golden and blue eyes canonically on our characters)

I can admit when I do wrong, in the past I struggled with bigger bodytypes and tried to work on that (only to ironically end up in fandoms filled with lean characters, but at least there's NMJ), but this is something I can't really "work on" as there's not malicious or ignorant intent behind it.

I'm sure those who want to keep spreading those opinions will ignore anything I have to say and those who don't see it the way you do are already tired of this discussion. But I will have this post as something to link to if anyone tries to bring this up again because I find this behavior so gatekeepy and frankly won't support it or bend to it, not to mention that it's trying to destroy a working class' small artist's reputation, like who are we fighting here.

#also if you want to put someone on the spot with explaining themselves come off anon #idk why we can't have that decency at least #also i couldnt upload half the example art cause it's nsfw LOL #i noticed that in my danmei ships i do like drawing couples with contrasting skins #whether its paler top or bottom i dont care #but i guess its my version of other people's height difference preference

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If/when I ever get a job can I commission you to draw my oc's pls

I am extremely busy right now so I wouldn't be able to take on commissions right away anyway. OCs are case-to-case scenarios, but by default I'd say I do OCs too, I just can deny them for time or complexity reasons

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Hi I just wanted to say I’m a big fan of your art especially your coloring it’s so pretty c: and I’m so excited about the mdzs book jackets! But I have some questions, when I was ordering them I noticed there was an option for svsss that was sold out, please tell me that’s a future endeavor and I didn’t miss out on them, it would break my heart if i did :c also will the jackets come pre folded or have guide lines?

thank you ♥ Yes, those are prepared for future release, I wanted to let people know they are planned without them being purchasable yet as I'm extremely busy at the moment! If there were any SVSSS ones, people would be aware as I would be post them here ♥

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I want to eat your nmj chomp chomp

he's quite the fine wine, i need him to singlehandedly re-populate the nie clan

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The way you draw hair is just so beautiful. It looks so flowy and ethereal 🥹💛🥰

thank you, hair is so much fun!!! and so are robes! though sometimes i miss showing a little leggy, that's why in my re-designs i go for vastly different silhouettes so i always have a design for whiechever pose i'm in mood to draw :D

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I'm back with the measurements :) and some additional pics.

While you could maybe make wiggle room for the first 4 books, there's no way it can be adjusted for the 5th, since it's so thin.

(L/W/H)

Book 1: 21,8/14,9/3,5 cm

Book 2: 21,6/14,9/3,6 cm

Book 3: 21,6/14,8/3,6 cm

Book 4: 22,1/14,8/3,4 cm

Book 5: 20,8/14,1/1,5 cm

germany what happened, where's your sense of symmetry 😭😭 thank you so much for the info!! seems like the width (in spine) is 1.2 cm wider than the english release for the 4 volumes and 1.4 thinner for the 5th volume than the english release... those are big difference which i don't think i can accomodate for, not in this batch at least :( maybe later i could release re-measured versions for other releases digitally or made-to-order, but it's hard to say if there's be enough interest to validate the effort, this round of merch i have going on right now is already struggling to find interest :') thank you for the info, truly! I will see if I can use it in the future for the german fam ♥

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Another German here to compare the sizes of the German and English editions of MDZS! Sadly your covers won't fit as the German publisher cut off the different volumes at different points than Seven Seas did (Vol 1 ends with Song Lan's reveal of "the person behind you", Vol 2 ends with the burning of Lotus Pier etc) resulting in four rather thick books and a very thin Vol 5. Plus, German editions tend to be thicker in general because of the average word and sentence length. Truly a shame, your covers would have looked beautiful with the sprayed edges the German edition has. I will get at least a few for my English copies though :DD

Oh that's incredibly useful info, thank you! Maybe if I have made the bend of it more ambiguous, it could fit despite the few milimeter differences :') I will test out some stuff later. If it won't be too much of a bother, could you measure the thickness of the spine? i think the rest of the book will probably be the same (21cmx15cm per front/back page). I will see if the difference is not too great and if I could make a visual wiggle room for different editions