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Mer!Luka and marine biologist Adrien 💙💚
This was done in July for @upsighttown’s birthday 🥰
Sorry I haven’t posted here in forever totally did not forget tumblr existed kakskakks
Kiss kiss
Redraw of a marichat piece from last year, expand to see the comparisons
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“得君为友 不枉此生 / My life is worthwhile with you as my friend”
WebGL Water is a great water simulator, with a sphere that can interact with the water’s surface. It can be paused which means you can then use it as a reference for lighting, reflections, refractions, etc.
Painting Tutorials:
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Wen Kexing in murderous red eyeshadow appearing with an army of 3000 to save his soulmate is my definition of peak wuxia romance 🗡✨✨
rooftop convos on patrol : o)
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Ok cmiiw but characters calling each other 师弟/师哥 doesn't come off as 'no homo' any more than 哥哥/弟弟, right? I know martial siblings falling in love is a whole trope of it's own and there's nothing incestuous about it, but I've seen a lot of ppl joking that characters calling each other 师弟/师哥 is them "trying to pull a 'no homo' to get around censorship" or something and it's kinda annoying to me because why would it be a 'no homo' when that way of address does not exclude romance any more than something like 哥哥, which is commonly used between romantic partners? But I've started to second guess myself because I've seen it from ppl who are supposedly somewhat familiar with the language/genre... Does that sort of thing come off that way at all to you?
okay so here's my take on it, which of course, comes with the usual disclaimers of being my take, from my particular biased perspective
there is no good analogue for the martial sibling relationship. they're like classmates, but more intimate; they're like colleagues, but more familial; they're like siblings, but not as close (or sometimes, even closer). there is as much variation in martial sibling relationship as there are martial siblings in wuxia literature. sometimes these relationships turn romantic. sometimes they are mortal enemies. sometimes they are platonic life partners. sometimes they stab each other in the back. sometimes one teaches the other everything they know. sometimes one poisons another and pushes them off a cliff.
are we getting a feel for this?
the point here is that martial sibling relationships can be romantic. they can be platonic. they can be hateful. they can be intensely loyal. there is no inherent assumption of romance, or lack thereof
that being said, there absolutely are precedents in wuxia literature for martial sibling romance, and it's not taboo or incestuous at all (please, please kill this incest discourse with fire). off the top of my head, Linghu Chong in 金庸 Jin Yong's 《笑傲江湖》 Xiao Ao Jianghu / The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (so like, a wuxia classic) is childhood sweethearts with his 师妹 shimei 岳灵珊 Yue Lingshan, who later ends up marrying her 师弟 shidi 林平之 Lin Pingzhi, and it's not like that whole mess isn't a hot dumpster fire, but the point is that the source of the fire isn't really about their martial sibling status (more about them as like, people who are flawed and occasionally dumb)
basically, two characters being martial siblings, regardless of gender, automatically gets a level-up in terms of closeness/intimacy. how that intensity manifests depends on its particular iteration in its particular narrative
I do feel like this ask is lowkey angling towards a discussion of 《山河令》 though, so I guess (sigh) I'll get into this despite this being primarily a CQL blog
他果然是周子舒 He is indeed Zhou Zishu
This scene stuck with me for so long during my first watchthrough, when Wen Kexing can’t stop staring at Zhou Zishu after confirming his identity as ✨that person✨ , while Zhou Zishu thinks WKX is just being an annoying flirt and I just asldkfjasldf
sometimes you gotta doodle some aNGST
Go for it bb don’t be afraid uwu
WORD OF HONOR: PRESENTING THE ROMANCE THROUGH TRADITIONAL WUXIA TROPES.
There is a reason why to the Chinese audience, WenZhou's relationship is indisputably romantic. It's because there are very specific visual cues used to show romance in wuxia, and WOH uses the exact same visual language on WenZhou. These tropes are blatantly recognizable from the wuxia/guzhuang dramas we all grew up watching.
1. Fated meeting in a peach blossom forest.
Although in this case, fate has a name and it is Wen Kexing.
2. Sucking poison from the other's shoulder.
Worth mentioning that in the book, the wound was on Zhou Zishu's arm. The drama deliberately took it up a notch and chose the more tropey version.
3. When the disguise (usually the female lead disguised as a man) is removed, the love interest can't stop staring.
Later on (ep 13) there is a scene where Zhou Zishu is trying on a fake beard that looks exactly like the ones female leads use to disguise themselves.
4. Spinning together in mid-air during a fight, the love interest's hands on the other's waist. Slow motion. Eyes firmly locked together.
Usually male lead saving the female lead. For example, there is a very similar scene between Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv from Condor Heroes. In fact, if you've seen it, you'll recognize similarities between the visual cues used for the two couples.
5. Martial siblings falling in love.
Yes, this is a common thing in wuxia. And no, it is not incest, nor does it make the dynamic any less romantic. What the hell. Martial siblings are often coded as romantic in wuxia, and there are actual examples in the show itself: Wen Kexing's parents were shixiong/shimei and Gao Xiaolian eventually married her shixiong, Deng Kuan.
6. One of them getting kidnapped (usually the female lead) by their sect/family and the love interest swooping in dramatically to save them.
And yes, riding on the same horse.
7. One of them is from an evil/unorthodox sect and it causes problems for the couple. The person is hailed as a villain and the other one challenges all of jianghu to stand by their beloved.
Their confrontation with Ye Baiyi is also a good example: Zhou Zishu defending Wen Kexing despite him being the Ghost Valley Master and choosing to die with him instead letting Ye Baiyi kill him alone. Going against the jianghu is a common trial for lovers in wuxia. Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv went through something similar as well.
8. The male lead fixing the female lead's hair and putting a hairpin on it. Then she looks at her reflection on bronze mirror. This usually happens the morning after the wedding night
This is a very blatant romance trope in guzhuang, so much that I instinctively went "they got married??" when I first saw it. A lot of us were surprised this even made it in. They even had a lingering shot of Zhou Zishu smiling at a bronze mirror!
9. Falling off a cliff together, or one falling and the other jumping in immediately to save them.
WOH gave us both versions. The first one was before they found Senior Long (which also gave us another common trope: the couple spending time in a cave while the other is injured/knocked out) and the cliff scene in the latter episodes where Zhou Zishu jumps in after Wen Kexing.
10. Dual Cultivation to save/heal the other.
Know who else cultivated in a cold place and also ended up as immortal lovers after going through trials and tribulations for each other? Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv again! (Yes, I am a big fan of Condor Heroes) arguably the most famous couple in wuxia. If you've seen the wucai bros reaction series, they all clapped and said "It's just like in Condor Heroes! They are immortal lovers!"
There is honestly a lot more, depending on how detailed you want to get. The point is that it wasn't just the flirting, the hugs, or the poetry. Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu's relationship itself was presented in the visual language of traditional wuxia romance, but this time in a love story between two men. WenZhou was written in the language of love.
The team really went “fuck censorship we’re romancing the heck out of wenzhou” and I’m here for that 😭❤️
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good morning cnovel readers you are not immune to anti northern/central asian racism
I'm a xinjiang chinese-kyrgyz that's very active in both the en and cn speaking cnovel fandom and yall need to understand that as much as that was phrased as a meme, you are truly not immune to it. racism, colourism, and xenophobia against ethnic groups in/from central and northern asia are entrenched in every single aspect of the han media that has been popularised in western fandom. the books and adaptations of them use racism that can be as subtle as the eye colours of villains to making the xiongnu an alien species of violent beasts. cnovels, regardless of their morality or status as problematic/unproblematic, such as mdzs, fgep, cql, tgcf, 2ha, woh/shl and spl, all of them engage in and encourage the racism, xenophobia, colourism, classism, and sexism that form anti-central/northern asian stereotypes this isn't me saying don't read cnovels or to completely disengage with fandom. rather, I'm asking you to think critically about the media you consume and what prejudices it might encourage. think about how this impacts your views of these ethnic groups; even if we don't actively realise it, we are conditioned by media to view these groups as barbaric, savage, and uncivilized. think about how your ingrained prejudices might impact those around you. if you see a character coded as mongolian, then maybe consider how they've been coded. why do you interpret them as mongolian? how does this represent your view of real, living mongolian people? many people honestly don't know about us either! the struggles we face are unrepresented and heavily suppressed by eastern media, making western understanding of northern nomads and similar groups very stunted. the number of people I've met who have never even heard of my people is innumerable. however, being uninformed does not negate the harm you do by engaging in racist habits, no matter how good your intentions frankly, I do not want to be responsible for educating an online space that has firmly entrenched racism, it makes me upset to have these conversations in the first place. I would much rather you educate yourself and think critically, but I also know that topics like these can be difficult for western audiences to understand and I know a lot of people truly mean the best and want to support minorities. so, just as a general guide, here are some things that are the most prevalent in anti central/northern asian racism: eye/hair colour: lighter hair and eye colours, especially when paired with darker skin, are common in our genetic clines, while han culture views those combinations as unsightly, creepy, dangerous, sinister, etc. often you will see villains given bright blue or green eyes, such as xue yang in many mdzs adaptations, to signify that they are murderous and untrustworthy. this directly stems from interactions between central asians(casians) and central plains people. our features are labelled as demonic, freakish, and evil broad features and large stature: often you see the quote "back of a tiger, waist of a bear". the ban yue desert people in tgcf are a good example of this, described as being many feet taller than the average person, broader, and in general much more physically strong powerful voice and coarse language: describing our languages as guttural, barbaric, harsh, rough, simplistic, or lacking nuance is an attempt to paint us as uncivilized, uncultured, and intellectually inferior to other peoples. similarly, giving us voices that are booming, loud, coarse, and rough attempts to do the same sparse clothing and animal furs: think of "caveman attire". having characters wear strips of fur, have bare chests, clothing considered barbaric or caveman-like, etc. this is a pretty self-explanatory one exotic customs/dance/looks: while central/northern asian people often do have different appearances and customs than han people, the portrayal of evidently fabricated, uneducated, exaggerated versions of our culture is offensive, othering, and often fetishistic. our hair styles are also incredibly important, and many times are religiously significant. using them as "exotic braids" or similar intricate styles is offensive and rips away all their cultural significance. these cultures and customs are an important part of life to millions of people, they are not a costume or flashy dance that is there to make a character seem exotic and enticing geographical racism and fantasization: to many casian groups, our lands are extremely important to us, such as the northern steppes. if this is portrayed respectfully, then great! but most media shows our lands as the mystical, faraway, dangerous grass plains filled with roaming wolves and venomous snakes. for the love of everything holy, you can have a fantasy world WITHOUT fantasizing a certain region in an offensive manner. this is an ecological region, similar to every region in the world. if you want to write mystic lands filled with dangers, then have all the regions included in that. do not single out the northern steppes to be some fantastical mountainscape. while this might seem odd to western viewers, this kind of prejudice is linked to thousands of years of casian lands being portrayed as demonic and dangerous in han culture religious racism: again, othering and fantasizing a strong cultural component. having characters practice blood sacrifices, use corpses for "evil religious rituals", cast curses with bones, etc. this is really any uneducated and exaggerated portrayal of casian religion (especially tengriism or any paganistic variant), making it look exotic or dangerous medical racism: this is closely tied with religious racism, but normally manifests through offensive portrayals of shamans or priests. having shamans be anything outside of their traditional roles of religious leaders and healers in most communities is offensive! having shamans or priests be demonic practitioners that make blood curses, raise poisonous beasts, and breed venomous beetles is offensive! innate connection with beasts/animals: making this a trait associated with specific groups of people, especially tribal societies, is just racist and dehumanizing. this one is self-explanatory Brutal Strong Girlboss Female General: large, strong, domineering, women are considered unattractive and disgraceful in han culture. the strong female warrior stereotype is 99% of the time not some feminist girlboss statement, its a racist stereotype to make our people look brutish and unattractive, especially considering that another strong stereotype against us is that casian men are all brutal, womanizing, harem-masters sinicizing/civilizing us: the western equivalent of this is christianizing various ethnic minorities. having casian characters be "civilized" through introduction to han culture is just blatantly racist. similarly, describing mixed han-casian people as "more delicate" than their casian family, being finer-featured, etc is also just plain racism a lot of these overlap with anti-indigenous and anti-black racism too! while the struggles our groups face are not the same, we have many mutual experiences that mean this conversation also extends to these groups. with that being said, if you are not central/northern asian, indigenous, or black, if you clown on or derail this post I'm going to start swinging
this also goes for people watching cdramas, donghua, reading manhua, etc. you are not immune just because the racism has been repackaged