Kestrius

[kestrius]

I don't think we focus enough on Luo Binghe sending Yue Qingyuan Shen Jiu's legs specifically. That man either discovered their history in explicit detail or hit on the most sensitive part of their relationship like a lightning rod. Who's to say Yue Qingyuan even registered what the blood letter said when his Xiao Jiu's legs are broken and he thinks he'll only slow Yue Qingyuan down.

[kestrius]

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Yes, Kalim and Jamil are in 2/2 of my contribution for the @twstfairytales Zine. Don't worry about them. Vargas is more important and he's right where he belongs, the center of attention. Don't be afraid to print photo card, I hear he signs the ones sent to NRC.

It was surprisingly hard to mix Paul Bunyan and Professor Vargas. I didn't want him to look too much like himself or Paul Bunyan, but they're practically a switch flip from each other.

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💬 0  🔁 8  ❤️ 38 · click for better quality I had the great privilege of working as a merch artist for the @twstfairytales Zine! In classi

[kestrius]

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I had the great privilege of working as a merch artist for the @twstfairytales Zine! In classic fashion we start with 1/2, a desktop wallpaper based on Of the Vicissitude of Everything Good, and Especially of a Right Judgment. Though more obscure I couldn't resist making our favorite snake boy into even more of a snake. I promise the next one is a more familiar tale. A rather tall one at that.

Happy anniversary Twisted Wonderland! And to another full year of exciting, slightly behind the JP Server, events!

[sadbugbois]

I was gonna draw a quick silly quijiu valentines thing but it got away from me

[kestrius]

This is so good?!

[hesperious-sands]

the interest check for hesperious sands is still open, and contributor applications open tomorrow (feb 01)! this is an open-call zine, as in, ideally, unless you have some content (racist, queerphobic, etc.) that deems you not a good fit, you'll be accepted!

interest check form

[twstfairytales]

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆ 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 - 𝐊𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐬 ⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

Come get a snake-eyed view at @kestrius ' wallpaper! Their detailed brushstrokes and textures are on a whole new world! .

Preorder the zine here!

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Have any questions? Feel free to ask us in the comments or in the Question Forum! Please read our Carrd before asking as well!

[conesoldstobers]

don’t jokeship with me because 2 hours later i’ll have feels for the pairing.

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

​first rule of crackshipping is have fun qnd be yourself. second rule of crackshipping is look out!

[exuberantocean]

“You know what would be really funny/messed up” is dangerous.

[tiagems]

@blanq @thybirbman @kestrius @sperenox

[kestrius]

It's only 170 pages, @tiagems . I don't know what you mean.

[nikito0x]

You know, I've seen a lot of fics where Shen Yuan takes young Shen Jiu in, or they are the same age and SY is being super nice and SJ decides to take pity on him until feelings spark. Or a siblings one where SJ is "the mean one" but super overprotective over SY who is the innocent fool.

I have never seen SY not give a crap what "the scum villain" thinks of him. Not one where his troll persona is utilized and still ends with SJ and SY on good terms.

Like, why would he care if the villain hates his guts? Binghe will take care of him in the end anyhow. And SY has a plan to become a useful acquaintance to Binghe with his knowledge of everything PIDW if it comes down to them meeting.

So yeah SY bullies SJ when he is bullying someone else. And SJ actually responds better to that than any flowery words and niceties he will never truly believe or appreciate.

Imagine: both of them are street kids, and SY is actually an adult so he has some idea of ways to survive on his own. And then he sees SJ and YQY being kind of desperate and offhandedly tosses some of his own food to them while making fun of SJ about his lack of basic life skills. SJ hates this guy on the spot.

Or SY and SJ are peak lords in the same generation. SJ throws scathing remarks at everyone and then gets to SY. SY gives as good as he gets. They banter and they don't even know it, they think they're arguing. They are not.

Or SY is reincarnated as a demon and decides to make it his life's goal to annoy the hell out of SJ. Ironically, he succeeds in annoying the hellish parts of SJ out of him. SJ doesn't know who keeps on pranking him but he is going to wring their neck once he finds out. But the person is too cleaver by half and that can be useful to him in the future... He finds all his robes turned pink and decides to go back to his dismemberment plan.

[kestrius]

I want to see this completely backfire on SY. He replaces SJ's clothes with women's clothes thinking that SJ is the exact type to take offense to it. He's not. Not only does he gift them to his Jie Jies, but he is very comfortable once convinced to wear them.

[mxtxfoodzine]

MXTX Food Zine 2026: Creator Sign-ups Open!

Hi everyone! Creator sign-ups for the fifth edition of the MXTX food zine are now live at this link, so please make sure to fill out the form and join the zine discord (linked in the sign-up form) by January 15 if you want to join. Recipe sign-ups will open on January 16.

Event info and FAQs can be found here. For future updates, follow this account!

The tentative production schedule is as follows:

January 16: Recipe claims open.

February 4: Recipe claims close. Everyone needs to have picked a dish by this date, but the recipe itself does not need to be finalized until May 5. If you need to change your dish/recipe later, you can do this by editing your row on the claims spreadsheet.

March 10: First check-in.

May 5: Second check-in. Recipes must be tested and submitted by this date.

June 10: Last day for recipe confirmations.

July 5: Final check-in

August 5: All final works due.

August to September: Editing phase. All participants are required to have their work beta read as many times as necessary.

September: Design stage. Anyone with emergency extensions may keep working during this time. Participants can also edit their completed works.

September to October: Design team completes zine. Be ready to check your entries for typos at any point during this time.

October 31: RELEASE DATE

[twstfairytales]

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆ 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 - 𝐊𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐬 ⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

"I do like a tasty stone soup. Of course, stone soup with cabbage is even better." -The Soldier, Stone Soup @kestrius

. Have any questions? Feel free to ask us in the comments or in the Question Forum! Please read our Carrd before asking as well!,

[twstfairytales]

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆ 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞! ⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

We are delighted to welcome these wonderful creators as contributors for our zine! Here is our contributor lineup:

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Cover Artist:

☾ Haixindhua

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Page Artists:

☾ Dicenete @dicenete

☾ Artjiayi @artjiayi

☾ Gummi Bunnie

☾ Jush Mochiru

☾ HitoshiPon @hitoshi-p0n

☾ Yue

☾ AnhnieDraw @anhniedraw

☾ RainbowCheshire @rainbow-cheshire

☾ Zetsubobu @zetsubobu

☾ cozymochi @cozymochi

☾ Depper @drdepper

☾ Bridgoetta @bridgoetta

☾ Maximax-x @maximax-x

☾ Magical Beleni

☾ Kallisto

☾ Dogma @ephrain

☾ cathpalugs @cathpalugs

☾ Bleu @tacc0yak1

☾ Valor

☾ Hyena @minccinoocappuccino

☾ Frannie

☾ AliceofWonders @aliceofwonders11

☾ Brenn

☾ Rzuu @kuhuhukun

☾ Tania

☾ Eldritch

☾ Noru @norunoru03

☾ Roe @rareroe27

☾ Aradia

☾ Catríona @suntails

☾ luxubar

☾ illustratemuse @illustratemuse

☾ Becs @shrimpbolism

☾ Ubaepeach

☾ deadstar

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Writers:

☾ Ames @chernabogs

☾ Takoazul @rolloollor

☾ Mikey @rateelism

☾ munchmuffins

☾ Audrey @oddberryshortcake 

☾ The Writing Raven @raven-at-the-writing-desk

☾ Midnight @the-midnight-post

☾ Seren

☾ Mavis @unpredictable-probabilities

☾ Biv @mamarosehearts

☾ Vonne @loveveil

☾ Court

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Merch Artists:

☾ PilloTalkin @pillotalkin

☾ yakeisoda

☾ chimkenteriyaki @tartppola

☾ Ari

☾ Creamy Rainbow

☾ Kestrius @kestrius

☾ rainbowpopcorn9

☾ BijutsuRyuu

☾ Zeph

☾ Tuxia @teavich

☾ Veevz @veevz-drawz

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Cosplayers:

☾ Dex

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Nui Photographer:

☾ Ikram

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Have any questions? Feel free to ask us in the comments or in the Question Forum! Please read our Carrd before asking as well!

[twstfairytales]

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆ 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰! ⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

Only one day left to submit your application! This is your last chance to join the zine, make sure your submissions have followed all of our application guidelines! .

Page artist Writer Merch Artist

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Have any questions? Feel free to ask us in the comments or in the Question Forum! Please read our Carrd before asking as well!

[kestrius]

It has been great to work on and for the @technobladecookbook ! Everyone did great work on it, and handled the bumps in the road far more gracefully than we deserved. You all should check it out!

[sorus-zine-bazaar]

The Valley of Dreams Digital Merchandise

© kestrius (@kestrius) feel free to download and use for discord/pfp/chat reaction pics! there are sticker sheets, postcards, bookmarks, etc. and are also intended to be printed out for personal use. please either credit our merch artist/link to their socials whenever possible. do not feed this to AI. do not print these for resale.

[kestrius]

It's been super cool to work on this zine and see everyone's work come together! Thank you to Soru for constantly being on the grind, none of these would happen without them. Make sure to show some love to everyone involved!

2x7s below the cut

[kestrius]

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For part two of @hesperious-sands we switch from kites to lanterns! It was almost more kites but I was convinced that lanterns were super cool too. This was probably where the style started embracing the brush strokes in both of them.

[kestrius]

Here's one of the pieces I made for the @hesperious-sands zine! I'll post the second one a bit later if The Great Soru doesn't mind :p

We love getting a little out of our element. If I'm talking about drawing Twisted Wonderland characters or the water you'll never know. Anyway, this was a blast. You all should go download it so we can do more ;)

[kestrius]

It has been great to work on and for the @technobladecookbook ! Everyone did great work on it, and handled the bumps in the road far more gracefully than we deserved. You all should check it out!