the funny thing about tgcf is that both xl and hc obviously think of themselves as the romanced femme in their ya novel dynamic. xl thinks he's the dainty maiden who gets romanced by the daring charming male lead. hc thinks he's the poor damsel who was saved by the wealthy but kind lord and spends the rest of her life pining after him.
both of them are 800 year old men who love fighting and beating people up. xl is a literal beefcake. they're still living their best femme lead lives.
do you ever become obsessed with a character and you just go "of fucking course its that one" at yourself because you are so incredibly predictable
NIE HUAISANG DESIGN EVERYBODY GIVE IT UP FOR NIE HUAISANG
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He has the elaborate Nie braids and also he has the anime hair vent pieces in the front of his hair that are just completely down and in his face. All this fucking braiding and for what! Useless as a career
I saw the frilly sleeves in an animatic once and I fell in love immediately
You can't really see the one by his right eyebrow in either image but he has four moles/beauty marks on his face. Getting inauspicious with it.
I basically kept the face structure of his actor in CQL because that was a solid as fuck cast and I'm attached
Idk if you can tell but esp on the fullbody one I drew the body sketch out and then put the robe on and I did not in fact draw him particularly slight! And I'm quite happy with how the big vertical panels and frilly sleeves make him look like he is I think I'm cooking
The fujoshevik keeps commissioning socialist realist paintings of sweaty men in factories and cosmonauts holding each other tenderly
"Came back wrong" trope but actually the character came back right. A character who, when they were living, hid and changed so many parts of themself around others to appease them and, when they died and came back, they stopped doing so and started living as who they always have been. But everyone thinks they came back wrong because of how different they are
love relationships between fictional ppl over 50. you skip all that teenage hormonal shit and go straight to what counts: war crimes and making each other worse
i am not usually a sketches & doodles poster but i want to put more mdzs images into the world so doodle dump from 2nite :3
wei wuxian spinny skirt + vague modern au design
a-yao has a Nice Day.
actually even if jin guangyao really DID base the guanyin's statue in that temple of himself (like wwx falsely thinks at first) I would only appreciate it. he deserves a personality cult.
I love him but every time I read JGY, my mind ends up labelling him as Jiggy, who’s just a little guy with some cool jiggy vibes 😎
Sect leader ✨Jiggy✨
tfw I can't draw characters with beards and masculine characters at all👹