• Chapter 6: A New Journey (epilogue)

GetBackers headshots since I finished rewatching the anime a bit ago with a friend. Some of these men were impossible to draw!! Had to redraw Akabane 3 times and I'm still not sure if I captured him well.

For my birthday I bring you: my art and comics PDFs for free on Kofi ✨

If you ask yourself "Why get the PDF " I have a couple of reasons:

I put a lot of effort into making some panels better, and it has fewer typos than the comic I posted.

With the way social media deletes things randomly, I really don’t want these comics to disappear into the void… If I could print them I would but meanwhile, this is the best way I have to preserve them and for you all to enjoy them.

Extra content! Since I develop ideas for YEARS, I like curating and organizing my ideas/drawings so the whole project feels cohesive, has some behind-the-scenes process, and looks rad af.

I don't like putting fanart behind a paywall but I'm not gonna lie, sometimes getting paid for a bit of hard work is rewarding and any tip means a lot to me.

ALSO......

and many more!!

My pieces for the fic After School Paranormal Club by sleepthief, made as part of the TGCF Minibang 2022.

Summary: 

"Hello, my name is Hua Cheng and there's a demon living in my right eye." It's his good grades, art talent and creative video pitch that got him the principal's okay to set up the After School Paranormal Club. But there really is a demon living in his right eye. And it's in love with gege!

High school AU in which the creepy goth kid is in love with the school's most popular jock. Pining ensues, as do curses, demons, hormones and midterms.

Consider: TGCF… but metal.

Heavenly Damnation is a metal music modern AU fic series based on the novel Heaven Official's Blessing by MXTX.

Written by: Yabanned. Art by: Tiiracotta.

It counts with a Spotify playlist.

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Part 1: Withering Lotus

Xie Lian is a talented multi-instrumentalist who had a meteoric rise as a metal star when his band, White Lotus, released their first EP and got the attention of the prestigious label Immortal Records. When he became the youngest artist to sign with them at the age of 17, he felt that he had the world in the palm of his hand. Three years later, though, a song he wrote tore everything down: he lost his contract, his career, his friends and his family. Vetoed and blacklisted, he was forced to live on the move, as far away from the offices of his old record label as possible, picking little odd jobs related to music in order to survive.

After eight years, a bureaucratic nightmare forces Xie Lian to come back to the capital. He tries his best to go unnoticed, yet he receives two unsettling requests upon arrival: a man in red wants his permission to cover a song he wrote, and a man in white wants him to inherit his mask.

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42649482

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Part 2: Rotting Waters

The story of Heavenly Damnation continues!

During the mid-autumn festival, a fateful encounter allowed Hua Cheng to take his all-time idol Xie Lian away from the grasp of Immortal Records —the most important label for rock and metal music in the country— who were trying to coerce him into signing up for a nightmare. Retreating with him and some members of his own band to a vacation home away from the Capital, Hua Cheng now must make the best out of the couple days they’ll spend together to gather what he needs in order to save Xie Lian’s music. The task isn’t easy: Hua Cheng can’t tell Xie Lian about his plans without breaking his trust and scaring him away, there are more interests at play, and back in the Capital, Jun Wu loses no time summoning Feng Xin and Mu Qing, Xie Lian’s former band mates and friends, to set a snare in which he can catch Xie Lian as soon as he returns. Dishonest debts, broken feelings and stolen songs start to surface in the muddled waters.

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46928263

Chapter 4: Something for Xie Lian

This story is complete! Right in time to alleviate the void left by the ending of season 2 of the donghua (what will be of our Wednesdays now?)

One of my goals for 2024 is to write in a more relaxed and spontaneous way, and here's my first step in that direction.

Summary: After a series of unfortunate events, Xie Lian’s old friends allow him to crash their couch for a few weeks. Upon arrival, Xie Lian is amazed by the amount of online shopping Feng Xin and Mu Qing do, and even more by the extremely awkward timing of the local postman who brings their parcels. How is it possible that this man only rings whenever Xie Lian is in the shower?!

there’s wip (active development) and wip (stuck in development hell) and wip (oh you’re not even getting funding for this one)

Reminder that capitalism is the death of art

I wanted to make something for Xie Lian's birthday but couldn't figure out what. Then I read the newest update of "At Night I Rose And Fell" by PaidSubFics at like 4:30am of July 16th and this image got branded into my brain.

Another animal portrait commission, this time of the one and only Mötti! Get to know him on @motti-the-cat

Do you want a drawing of your beloved pet, your favourite animal or creature, or a character you like in animal form? Order via KoFi (if you want to discuss it further, and/or pay via Wise, my inbox is open).

Anime Opening: GetBackers Song Title: Yuragu Koto Nai Ai Artist: Naomi Tamura