The War Gods of Bai Zhan and Hyrule: Qingge is a gorgeous pretty boy who's physical badassery is just balls-to-the-wall insane = canonically insanely talented Link who is a gorgeous twink.
My Magical Sage/Shizun: Qingqiu loves researching beasts! He falls into all the wife plots, but can be wicked smart and talented (especially magically) = Zelda also loves researching her special interests, and she's classic damsel in distress who is actually badass and a magical glass cannon who guides Link.
Hotter than Hell and OP AF: Binghe is very specifically rehydrated TotK Ganon, because they both have demonic vibes, they're powerful enough to be nukes, and EVERYONE is thirsting for them. Also, they both have super long tresses of untamable curls.
Imagine Bingliushen in Hyrule, or Link, Zelda, and Ganon in a cultivation setting. Gender fuckery and/or shenanigans welcome. The similarities work with both the original PIDW flavors or SVSSS flavors, imo.
Themes to explore:
1) Gerudo Binghe only feeling safe around women (& maybe dismantling the comphet and exploring outside the gender binary in Gerudo society)
2) Qingqiu or Zelda prioritizing their studies and the things that bring them joy over their "destined" roles
3) For Qingge or Link, the toll of being in a skill class of their own and being silent and/or stoic about it
4) PIDW Binghe is most similar to Ganon, so what if Ganon's secret stone was more like Xin Mo, especially re: the drawbacks and demands of such immense power? What if Xin Mo created an effect like Gloom?
5) What if Liu Qingge as Link was the one to keep fighting Calamity Ganon in BotW and Shen Qingqiu as Zelda was getting healed and woke up as the amnesiac? What if Shen Yuan transmigrates into a freshly woken up Zelda?
6) Or what if the Link and Zelda roles stayed the same, so Liu Qingge was the one with amnesia? What if a Calamity or secret-stone-wielding Ganon version of Luo Binghe reverts to being an unconscious human once phase one of the boss fight is over? Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu don't have the energy to keep fighting, so they keep him in their custody until they figure out what to do with him. Binghe wakes up with most of his power depleted and hazy memories of his raging bloodlust and carnage. This leads to the eventual Bingmeification of Bingge.
huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while
[Image IDs: two screenshots of tumblr tags. The first one reads "#not usually my ship but. i can appreciate the hull.". The second one reads "#not usually my circus but. I'm kinda vibing with the monkeys". / End IDs]
You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.
not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life
if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes
'“Is Lin-shidi causing difficulties for Shishu?” Binghe asks, pleasant and polite enough that an outsider would be fooled. He is, however, using the same tone he uses when speaking to Ming Fan and Shen Qingqiu, so Shen Yuan is not fooled. “
Neither is Shen Qingqiu; the man looks like he is considering whether he should punish or mercifully let it slide, as the faux politeness is aimed at someone else this one time.
“The boy is stubborn,” Liu Qingge says, which is yes.
Oh fuck, did Lin Jie bite Liu Qingge? Did he bite the war god???'
My piece for the Parallel Worlds BingQiu/BinggeYuan Zine ! I'm deeply honoured to have been part of this project, thank you SO much for having me!!
I made this comic in 2024 and I'm so happy to be able to share it now! The theme was Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe in different timelines, AUs etc - I went with lesbian demons because that's what I enjoy :)
[ID: A four panel comic of a scene from chapter 41 of @grubus's Scum Villain fanfic Shen Yuan of No Relation.
Panel 1: Shen Qingqiu bursts into the bamboo house, framed by the doorway and the falling snow outside. "What," he says, "are you cretins doing?"
Panel 2: Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe are sitting at a low table with tea and several bowls of food laid out. Shen Yuan stares at Shen Qingqiu's inelegant arrival, while Binghe is holding a morsel of food with a pair of chop sticks. "Feeding Shixiong," he says.
Panel 3: Luo Binghe presses the food to Shen Yuan's mouth- he opens automatically, still staring at Shen Qingqiu
Panel 4: in the background, Shen Yuan is blushing furiously at his automatic response; Lou Binghe, pleased, continues eating with the same pait of chopsticks. In the foreground, Shen Qingqiu is drawn in a comically sketchier style, shaking in rage.
End ID.]
Yes it is once again a comic for Shen Yuan of No Relation but have you considered. It's very good.
Sooo ya know that little gif I posted? This whole thing stemmed from me letting things get too out of hand while drawing up the dream scene that was only going to be that tiny little image....I have no regrets.
Just in case here's the rant
WHAT THE FUCK! I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO KISS MY HUSBAND? WHAT A SHITTY DREAM! MENG MO COULD DO BETTER. WAIT, THE ORIGINAL NING YINGYING DIDN'T DREAM OF-OF THAT RIGHT? I WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED. I THINK I WOULD REMEMBER? FUCK. IT'S BEEN SO MANY YEARS. DID SHE? AM I GASLIGHTING MYSELF? DOES THIS COUNT AS GASLIGHTING? REGARDLESS, WHY THE FUCK WOULD MENG MO SHOW ME THAT? WAS IT BECAUSE I WAS PUT IN A WIFE PLOT? SO HE JUST...JUST AUTOMATICALLY DID THAT? LIKE A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM OR SOMETHING? OMG! WAIT! DID BINGHE SEE THE WEDDING? FUCK! WAS THAT HIM THERE AND NOT JUST SOME FAKE? FUCK! WAIT! NO. HE WOULD STILL BE TALKING TO MENG MO... RIGHT? BESIDES, I’M A GUY! SO BINGHE WOULD NEVER WANT TO-TO...SYSTEM! DID BINGHE SEE THAT? WAS THAT HIM? SYSTEM! WHAT THE FUCK! WILL I BE PUT IN FUTURE WIFE PLOTS JUST BECAUSE I'M BINGHE'S BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD...
The urban fantasy show I actually want to see is a hospital drama with a dedicated wing for supernatural illnesses.
Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.
Someone somewhere out there is having their perception of the world irreparably shattered by the knowledge that magic is real, and at the other side is a team of doctors who have to roll their eyes and pull out Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales because some high school kid tried to go Carrie with a cheap spellbook and turn all the kids at prom into frogs, and the doctors have to wrangle a couple dozen teenagers into admitting if they have a true love who can break the spell.
I want the hospital director to be some dark entity that feeds on human misery but figured out that if you successfully treat the source of the misery then instead of hunting you down as an abomination the humans start bringing more miserable people to your house en masse and things kinda got out of hand from there.
So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.
Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.
The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.
They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.
The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.
The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.
The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.
Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.
Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.
The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.
When I was a professor I fucking LOVED teaching this comic. You can read the full thing here (and please read the letters to the editor at the bottom as well—including a message from Ray Bradbury).
