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a goofy doodle from a scene in this monday's chapter of The Waves are Rising and Rising! da-ge your titties are too distracting pls put them away for poor lan xichen's sake!!
It's finally done! After one year of creating the original sketches, I finished this comic project!
I remember having a strong cinematic visual of this scene in my mind, where it's raining and Wei Wuxian is with his hair undone. And this is the outcome hehehe
I had so much fun with this! It was such a great experience to play with the expressions, the gestures, the movement, the angles. It was a learning experience for me.
I hope you enjoy the final piece as much as I enjoyed creating it!
you know that thing that’s like “if breaking a law is punished by a fine, the fine is basically the price you have to pay to disregard that law”? Like, okay, this parking spot is not Off Limits, it is just a spot with a $100 price tag?
that’s how lan wangji views rules. there is no real intrinsic sense in him that it’s wrong to go against them, just that enduring the punishment is the “cost” for doing the thing. It’s not like “I want to do a Thing, the Thing is against the rules, therefore, I must not do the Thing,” it’s just, how much am i willing to suffer in order to do the Thing? when he gets frustrated with wwx for breaking the rules, it’s mostly because wwx isn’t doing the appropriate cost-benefit analysis for his rule-breaking.
this is what you get when you raise people under strict conditions where the “why” for following the rules is “because i said so.”
songxiao at baixue for new year... they'll go inside in a minute ok...
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(a little late because i was sleepy yesterday... but thank you everyone for the prompts/suggestions!!! i've posted them below the cut too)
@shockingheaven @bitterfrosts combo (~ ̄▽ ̄)~
@demonicvulcan rest assured they will be staying up all night and snuggling all morning <333
@heyholmesletsgo i wish i had time to draw a dragon as well ; - ; i hope they have a nice time and that the dragon appears from the river to save a-qing one day in return * - *
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Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen stand close together, exchanging kisses under the blossoming branches of a plum tree. They are lit by the glow from the windows of the room behind them, where others are gathering at a dinner table inside. The colour is loosely painted, bright orange light dappled among the pink petals and gilding the edges of the scene.
I care about canon interpretations of characters, until it comes to Nielan. Then, I literally don't give a fuck what canon has to say—
Nie Mingjue and Lan Xichen were childhood friends. They grew close during their teenage years. Lan Xichen was there to help Nie Mingjue through his father's death. He felt a deep sadness when he witnessed Nie Mingjue become sect leader so young, their friendship grew cold as growing up and responsibilities pulled them apart, and Lan Xichen had the painful realization that he was not able to keep him. Yet, things stabilized, and Nie Mingjue would lose that stern front as soon as he was with Lan Xichen. Then the war started, and they worked together seamlessly, like two sides of a whole. Absolute trust and faith in each other, a comfort in times of strife, a shoulder to guard, and lean on.
That's absolutely how it was to me, no questions asked.
#lwj be like: I'm still not talking to you but I WILL stare directly at you 〰 wwx's dramatics don't work on lwj because lwj is actually ten times more dramatic ✳