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prompts are open for art and writing. I welcome anything, just be warned that I won’t always fill prompts because I’m mostly doing this for fun
I’m fine with translations/podfics/fanart/anything inspired by my fics. More than fine, I’m vibrating with excitement that anyone would take the time to do that. My only request is to share it on sites where I’m present (preferably tumblr or AO3), to link to the original work, and if possible to let me know about it so I can enjoy and hype it ;)
And a small selection of what I have to offer (there’s a lot more on AO3)
A collection of most of my short prompt fills
I am what I am, I know what I know: Xisang + mentions of Nielan, arranged marriage. Lan Xichen is engaged to Nie Mingjue. When his fiancé dies of a Qi deviation, the engagement is transferred to Nie Huaisang. They learn to make the best of it.
Love of my life, I hate you : Xisang, slow burn, arranged engagement. Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen are engaged since childhood and while they both initially hate it, feelings eventually start to emerge
We can light a match and burn it down: Wangxian, Xisang, arranged marriage. After the death of Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji is forced into a political marriage with Nie Huaisang. Neither of them is happy with that, but they’re used to not getting what they want.
Brotherly Concern : Wangxian. Lan Xichen wants to help his brother with his complicated romantic situation but makes a very wrong assumption about the situation
Mirrors : Xisang, A/B/O. Lan Xichen finds a magic mirror that lets him chat with Nie Huaisang from a different world, leading to them falling in love
Just the sight of you (is getting the best out of me): Zhuiling. ABO, underage. Jin Ling is caught having sex with Lan Sizhui and must now prove he’s more than a horny teenager so he can marry the boy he’s desperately in love with.
A Lamb in wolf’s clothing: Xisang. Nie Huaisang did not orchestrate the fall of Jin Guangyao, but must deal with everyone thinking he did.
Second Chances For First Time Villains : WIP, Xisang, post canon. After it is revealed Jin Rusong did not actually die, Nie Huaisang finds himself in charge of the little boy and tries his best to care for him
Heart and Soul : WIP. GEN, angst, daemon AU. Nie Huaisang has a daemon who never settled, Jiang Cheng’s settled on the wrong shape, and Wei Wuxian misses his when he returns from the dead.
”I’ll just get to the point; the dragon that terrorizes our farms isn’t evil, she’s lonely. Solve that and I’ll give you whatever you want within reason. Please.”
The knight paused in thought. “Alright, it's a tall order, but I don't mind a challenge.” He snapped his fingers. “Bring me a fireproof suit, all the olive oil you can find and five— no, make it six— bottles of whisky. Tomorrow I ride out to the dragon's lair alone, and NOBODY is to follow me.”
A few hours later, the villagers watched him riding off in his fireproof suit, his oil and whisky in a cart behind him.
“Do you think he's really going to…”
“Surely not.”
“I mean the oil…”
“At least he's considerate.”
“At least he needs whisky.”
For the rest of the day, the villagers went about their chores in the shadow of the mountain where the dragon made her lair, trying not to think about what might be happening up there. At one point there was a sudden rise of smoke, as if a great fire had been lit. Followed by a draconic roar.
At the end of the day, the knight rode down again. The cart was empty. His suit was blackened. He looked exhausted, and was sheened with sweat.
“Job done,” he said as he got down from his horse.
The villagers stared.
“Poor girl is barely out of her first shed. Poor thing. Never been in heat before, didn't know what to do.”
The villagers kept staring.
“Should be alright now.”
The head man of the village felt like he should probably say something. “Are you… are you alright?”
The knight looked down at his suit. “This? Oh yeah, she sent out a few warning shots. Didn't like me getting too close to her lair.”
“So you…” the head man's sentence was cut off by another roar, and the sound of wings flapping overhead. The villagers ducked as one, the knight simply looked up, grinning.
“Olive oil and whisky, never fails.” He looked around at their confused faces. “See, normally the female is meant to build a fire herself to draw the males to her. She produces an oil from her cheek glands that lets them know she's in heat. Burning olive oil and whisky mixed smells the same— at least to a dragon— so you can use it in a pinch.” He pointed upwards. “That'll be the male.”
The villagers were silent. The knight began to feel rather unnerved. “Hey, why are you all looking at me like that?”
One of my favorite things about loving someone or developing a closeness or fondness towards someone is also loving and developing a fondness for the things they care about. When you learn to see the world in a new way, or you learn to appreciate the things you’ve previously overlooked, or they become your excuse to get into an interest you always thought was cool but thought you didn’t have time for. When a connection makes your world bigger and warmer and fuller and more beautiful.
Love of the Half-Eaten Peach presents an enchanting retelling of a timeless tale from ancient China.
Yuan is destined to rule a region of ancient China called Wei, circa 500 BCE.
When told by wise elders that to be an effective ruler, he must understand and strive for perfection, Yuan is baffled.
After all, nothing is perfect.
Yuan's friend Mi Zi Xia tries to help by finding something in the world that is truly perfect.
He eventually finds a peach that, upon eating some of it, he believes fits the bill.
Mi Zi Xia delivers the peach to Yuan, who does indeed find perfection - in the love he feels for the person who brought him the half-eaten fruit.
Yuan and Mi Zi Xia's story gained such fame that over the centuries, it inspired generations of people to use the expression "love of the half-eaten peach" in Chinese to describe romantic love between two men.
Love of the Half-Eaten Peach is an acclaimed, heartwarming picture book that reimagines an ancient folktale based on a true story.
The book emphasizes: History and Culture: Travel more than 2,500 years back in time to ancient China and learn about some of the people and customs of that era.
Duty and Responsibility: Watch lead character Yuan struggle with the expectations placed upon him as the future ruler of the region called Wei.
Friendship and Love: Follow Mi Zi Xia on his quest to support Yuan and watch the two friends discover how much they truly care about each other.
Folktales: See how an ancient tale inspired by actual historical events is reinterpreted for modern audiences with respect, care, and celebration.
This is how the system of white supremacy operates. The media is used 2 create stereotypes like blk on blk crime.They need black men to fill jail cells for the Prison Indstrial complex
You know what? I’m tired of this.
I do not know what exactly they are waiting for. I mean our government comes up with “reasons” to invade other countries, such as Syria, like their government is allegedly violating human rights or something like that. but… I mean for other countries, they do not even have to go deep to bomb the fuck out of this place, they can just look at our media. And this has been happening to people of color since the media has existed.
Did a research project on this in undergrad and the results are extremely alarming because it’s not just in imagery, it’s in language used even in the law making process and within our own communities in a completely different way than expected.
Spent some time reflecting on the second post here, and I think I understand why fandom folks behave like that. In general, when people see things in the world that make us uncomfortable, we often automatically assume that those things are “bad”, and that it is our duty to try to fix those things to make the “bad” go away. This is itself not a negative trait to have — after all, discomfort helps encourage us to stay physically clean, and a core goal of society is to collectively achieve a reasonable degree of comfort — but it’s also a trait that must be utilized carefully, because sometimes things that make you uncomfortable exist for more complicated reasons than you may think.
When it comes to fandom culture specifically, I think that the recent online vitriol towards indie creators stems from both the desire to “fix” the things that make us uncomfortable, as well as the anxiety that develops when we feel powerless to enact real change. On the surface, it seems weird for internet lefties to spend more effort bullying small creators than large corporations, because those small creators are often making art that is more personal (and oftentimes politically-progressive) than mass-produced corporate media. Peel away the top layers, though, and you’ll find that it’s about a desire for control. The mega-corporations won’t bother to create art that will speak to you on a personal level* because that will NEVER be cost-effective, so trying to pressure them to change feels as useless as an ant vowing to crush a mountain beneath its feet; the indie creators, however, are individuals and small groups, and an ant COULD theoretically annoy them into “making better decisions”.
It sounds logical, at least at first; the problem, of course, is that it isn’t sound logic. The indie creators are small enough that you could theoretically bully them into changing their ways, yes, but this strategy forgets that the creators are trying to realize something personal to them, not to you, and that they only have a limited amount of effort and resources they can apply to the project before they lose that passion to work on it. Oftentimes, the perceived flaws in the work are completely reasonable when you consider the context around them: for context about the two creators mentioned in the original post:
Toby Fox (creator of Undertale and Deltarune) was asked about the lack of official localization for his games into other languages besides English and Japanese, and he explained that he currently has no plans to translate his games at this time. The process of localizing a script is an amount of work equivalent to writing a full new game, which is time-consuming for a largely-independent creator. The games are available in English and Japanese because Fox is fluent in those languages, so he can write the English script himself, hire someone to write the Japanese localization, and then edit the Japanese script himself to maintain accuracy. In response to this, some fans insisted Fox was discriminating against fans from Latin America and China by not producing an official translation in Spanish, Portuguese or Chinese, which ended up growing into accusations of Fox being outright racist.
Gooseworx (creator of The Amazing Digital Circus) has wound up embroiled in two recent online controversies. In the first, she responded to a question about the finale by saying that the show’s central characters are Pomni and Jax, which resulted in fans getting outraged at her alleged “favoritism” towards certain characters in her own show. In the second, she responded to news of the finale leaking with a post that said “Eh, who cares?”, prompting accusations of her devaluing the work of the animators. After this, she wrote a post indicating that she had lost her enthusiasm for TADC, which prompted further discourse over whether or not she was attempting to “guilt-trip” the rabid factions of the fanbase.
We’ve also seen similar things occur with other popular indie projects: Dana Terrace (Knights of Guinevere) was accused of transphobia for confirming that a character on the show was not transgender, for example, and I’ve seen some efforts to spark discourse against indie successes such as Dropout.tv (“they’re just trying to scam their fans!”) and Markiplier’s Iron Lung (“not a real indie movie because he spent $2 million on it!”). In some of these cases, the problem is an understandable frustration that the creator simply can’t resolve on their own, while in others the problem lies in the fans themselves. Meanwhile, megacorporations do have the resources to improve and diversify their work, but often choose not to do so for financial or political reasons: Paramount and WB have been quietly killing their animation divisions, for instance, and Disney’s begun winding down their pride-themed Marvel Voices comics out of fear of conservative backlash**.
In many ways, I think that the logic that’s on display here is the same mindset that’s been causing the American left to cannibalize itself for years now: we’re so desperate to feel like we’re fighting for a righteous cause that we start throwing punches at anyone within reach, rather than waiting to throw down with a real enemy that seems unassailable. “The conservatives are a monolith, and too far gone to be reasoned with,” we rationalize, “so we must make our voices heard to those allies that will listen!” And then, if those allies aren’t with us all the way, they’re recast as enemies in disguise that must be destroyed to keep our movement pure. We’re left to rip each other to pieces in the glorified shadow of that conservative monolith, a monument unassailed by hands brave enough to learn just how fragile it really is.
Elaborate metaphors aside, there is a simple solution to this: shut up, listen, then think. If someone’s decisions make you uncomfortable, think long and hard about why that is before you start writing callout posts and organizing a pitchfork brigade. Sometimes, you’ll find that the decisions are reasonable; other times, you’ll find that they’re not. Either way, nobody’s forcing you to like an indie creator, and you’re free to choose whether or not you still want to engage with their work.
Whatever you do, remember that the work in question isn’t really made for you, it’s being made to share with you. Art isn’t a restaurant, it’s a potluck: creators bring the stuff they’ve made to the table, and you are welcome to eat what you’d like of it. If there’s bits of stuff you don’t like in the dish, you’re allowed to pick those out and not eat ‘em, and you’re even free to express your personal distaste for that. Maybe your comments will even be taken into consideration! But if you choose to instead throw your plate across the room, yell at the creator for not making the recipe to your tastes, and try to rally others to do the same… well, you’ll just look like an asshole, there’s a strong chance that the creator might not bring anything next time, and you’re still gonna wind up hungry. And where’s the comfort in that?
Footnotes:
*corporations would dearly love to find a way to sell art that both speaks to you on a personal level and doesn’t have to actually be made at all, which is one of the reasons they’re investing so heavily in the failing generative AI sector
**this year’s pride comic did not release during Pride Month and is centered around Scarlet Witch and Vision, who are straight parents to queer children. I can only assume there won’t be a pride issue at all next year
Hello! I made a dress from scratch for the Renaissance Faire. It took me six months to make the chemise, hoop skirt, under skirt, over skirts, French knot embroidered bodice, crown and jewelry. I am very excited to wear it this year despite how serious I look in the photos!
art block is your brain telling you to do studies.
draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.
art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard
As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time. Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you. So, when you get back to that big/important piece? You’ll know what to do and how to do it.
Nothing in nature blooms all year round. Rest, and take care of yourself.
Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.
Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.
I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.
Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.
I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…
Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
