sideblog shame

if reposting ganqing art please credit my bsky @ganqinghaver and not this account! ART PRINTS 4 SALE @ https://inprnt.com/gallery/monprint/

[nicotachi]

hi guys! twitter umm i mean X. has recently made some shitty changes that are actually making people move for real (modified block, AI clauses that screw over artists) so i will try to be on bsky more than “X”! and nothing changes for tumblr of course :)

here is my linktree

[llucico]

Yearning of what might have been

[nicotachi]

iris is so hard to draw.....

bsky

[nicotachi]

if shipping is important to you then just get a girlfriend who ships the same niche ship as you and you’re guaranteed to like the exact same ships in the exact same way for the next 10+ years. and you get to talk about AUs every day which sometimes translates to free fanfic

[nicotachi]

idk why it wasn't obvious to me before but realizing a lot of iris' pre-epilogue popularity came from how sexy and unhinged her bad ending was and not bc she's a fun and incredibly complex character who's felt justified disgust and resentment towards the main character.....I must do something about this

i actually had a whole ass essay about why i prefer HE to BE that i started a few months ago but i got so distracted LMAO

[nicotachi]

the dlc for love curse: find your soulmate dropped last night and i couldn’t be happier with iris’ epilogue!!

to celebrate, i’m doing another g*veaw*y on bsky for a free copy. like last time, it’s open to existing bsky + tumblr followers—anyone who has been following me before i made this post. if u have a bsky acc please comment there but if u don’t, reply here and i’ll count that as an entry!

rules and info are on the bweet!

[nicotachi]

i posted this to bsky but i figured why not also post this to tumblr, the site that loves useless info

anyways this is my iris and selene affection chart with minimal spoilers and the gap actually makes me go insane

[nicotachi]

divine in(ter)vention

my submission for the 2025 (2026?) ganqing zine by @ganqingzine! i had a lot of fun drawing this :)

[nicotachi]

read your comic in the ganqing zine and I just want to say that your facial expressions are absolutely phenomenal and i was laughing so hard. Ganyu's "MASTER!!!!!" face on the last page was so funny

the entire project looks amazing and it was nice to see familiar names in it. i just wanted to tell you that it was loved 👍

thank you for taking the time to send me a message!! that's really nice of you to say 🥺 since the zine is a physical book without an obvious like or comment section, i'd literally had no idea how my work was received until you told me

my goal for this zine was to make literally at least one person laugh. i had a lot of fun planning and drawing the comic (with a lot of ??? in between) and i'm glad if you were able to enjoy :)

velvet and all the contributors did an awesome job!! i can say with confidence that this was 100% a passion project and it was cool to see all the old and new ganqingers rally to bring some more food to the table. perhaps bias but just proves that ganqing is a timeless and versatile ship and it's attracted so many fans and artists for a reason 😊

[1hpslime]

happy global ayabe day 🌟ティコが昇るまで

[ganqingzine]

We are closing in on the end of production, (60 of 85 book have been made!) so I figure it's about time to share some of the process.

But first, why a handbound zine? and why stab-binding in particular?

Well, I'll admit I thought it would be more cost effective to bind by hand. It was not, for the record, but with all the uncertainty around tariffs and things, it felt simpler to try to do the brunt of the work myself. Looking back, I think I could have done things in a more cost effective way, but it would not have given the same result, and since I had a crystal clear vision of what I wanted to create, I was (and still am) prepared to take a financial hit to make this zine a reality.

As for choosing stab-binding, it was just meant to be, lol! But seriously, it turned out to be pretty much the perfect choice. At first I was gonna try to do a simple pamphlet type binding (like what a regular magazine is, with the staples along the spine), But the thing with those is you are severely limited as to page count, and this zine was going to have a big page count. So I thought about my other options, and had pretty much resigned myself to figuring out how to make a whole bunch of stab-bound books. But then it was pointed out to me that the books in game from Liyue look like this:

That's a stab-binding! Well. See what I mean by meant to be?

Stab-binding, general called Japanese Stab-Binding, is the traditional style of book binding in several Asian countries (including Japan, Korea, and China) until the adoption of modern Western methods of book production. There are traditional styles for the spine stitching (our zine uses a variation on the Hemp Leaf Pattern), but there are also tons of design options and space for creativity, too. And you can literally make the book as thick as you like, you'll just need more thread to do the stitching.

Our zine has simplified some of the more traditional elements of a stab-bound book, and altered others, but we'll get into those changes, and why I opted for them another time :)

[autochroma]

[autochroma]

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[1hpslime]

[ganqingzine]

At the time of this post, there is a little over 24 hours left in our pre-order period. Quantities of the physical zines are limited and getting limited-er!

Pre-orders will close on October 10 at 22:00 UTC-6

https://gqzine.bigcartel.com/

[1hpslime]

mihorice practice. i think it's pretty funny they gave bourbon side boob in the anime

[autochroma]

kiss for good luck (you'll need it)