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iveoy

some warm ups !! haven’t drawn in like 5 days i need to get back into game man

michaelnordeman

Värmland, Sweden (4 June 2019).

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Pruvotfolia pselliotes

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irishkae

mxtxfanatic

Hua Cheng being portrayed as stalking and always sticking to an indifferent Xie Lian in fandom is such an offensively bad portrayal when you read the novel and see Xie Lian sticking to him like glue at every encounter. Xie Lian’s the one who wanted to take Honghong’er along and keep him in the temple. Xie Lian’s the one who wanted to promote the young soldier to working directly under him. Xie Lian’s the one who saves the ghost flame and doesn spurn its presence. Xie Lian’s the one who asks San-lang to stay. Xie Lian’s the one who asks Hua Cheng to come to him. Xie Lian’s the one who confesses. Their entire relationship is Xie Lian looking at Hua Cheng at every stage of life and death and going, “Him. The one I want by my side is him.”

baiwu-jinji

Still at the beginning of my tgcf reread and I’m loving mxtx’s attention to the details of Xie Lian’s body language, because those are proof that Xie Lian really has shed his former identities of prince and martial god and lived like any other ordinary human who earned a living through back-breaking hard work during those 800 years.

For example this line in chapter 2:

一个人蹲在仙京大街边头痛了半天…

translation (by me): “He squatted by the broad street of the Heavenly Capital alone and stressed over it for a long while…”

I doubt you can find another heavenly official squatting because it’d be considered uncouth and undignified for gods and royalty, yet Xie Lian is apparently used to it because he did it out of habit. The people used to squatting would belong to the working class - you wouldn’t have chairs to sit on when you’re having a break during work, and you don’t want to soil your clothes by sitting on the ground either, so squatting is the next best thing to sitting.

Another example is from chapter 8:

越思量越觉奇怪，谢怜把若邪绫往肩上一甩，心想…

from the official translation: “The more he pondered, the stranger this was. But then Xie Lian tossed Ruoye over his shoulder and thought…”

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orcaking

Wishing you all a get more hairy and naked summer <3

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Ghostcity Pride

michaelnordeman

Jacob's Ladder/Polemonium caeruleum/blågull AKA Jakobs stege; Siberian Iris/Iris sibirica/strandiris; and Rhododendron/Rhododendron, not sure which species/rododendron. Värmland, Sweden (1 June 2024).