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[missmists]

First bookbinding project a success. I think that my cat approves because he would not stay out of my photos. Five months in the making, but I couldn't be more pleased with the results.

I started with @armoredsuperheavy's amazing fanbinding tutorial to create a typeset of each work in @erisenyo's Burning Bright AU published on Ao3. Then had to reread the works in the new format and edit as I went to make sure everything was formatted correctly, (combined word count somewhere around 1.3 million) that took over a month all by itself.

I picked up a copy of Introduction to Bookbinding & Custom Cases by Tom and Cindy Hollander from my local library, to look at some detailed how to images and get multiple perspectives on construction methods. Excellent book, I do recommend.

My hunt for materials included a trip to Detroit with a side stop at Blick to look at decorative papers in person. Blick and the fine people at Hollander’s ended up having everything I needed to make covers. So between my brother kindly 3d printing me a punch cradle, making a DIY sewing frame of my own invention (courtesy of scrap lumber and a trip to the Lowe's hardware department), and three reams of late night printing, I managed to amass all my supplies.

Folding three reams of paper into signatures (the little bundles you sew together) takes about five days if you don't want to lose your mind or your place, and longer if you discover you need to fix things because that definitely happened. Then you get to unfold them to stab holes in them which is as terrifying at first and therapeutic by the end as it sounds.

Next came weeks of sewing books together, a magical process. I learned three new knots, repeatedly stabbed myself (because all forms of creation forcibly demand blood sacrifice) , and felt like I was roleplaying a monastic librarian from the time of Gutenburg. That's 600 years ago, 24ish generations, over 8million ancestors since then (by geometric progression, which excludes the possibility that any of my peasant ancestry is from small towns which is you know likely but I digress) and here I sat sewing pages together in a basement because story is the most sacred of human arts as it binds communities together and shapes perceptions of the self and our brethren, of outsiders allies and enemies, of the world as we know it and as it may come to be. Did I mention sewing books felt magical.

Then came the glue. So much glue. Multiple types of glue. All sticky. all stuck to me. I smeared glue with my fingers like a child.

At last it was time for the covers. Choosing combinations of the decorative papers and bookcloth and making sure I could get enough out of each material for what I needed. Precise cutting so many thanks to the architecture school professors who showed me how to properly cut chipboard. Then measuring and gluing, and more measuring, and more gluing. At last press a little groove by the spine and repeat eleven times.

Then I get to impress all my people with my latest and possibly coolest maker skill unlock, I am a book binder.

Bottom to top in the stack or left to right at the bottom are: These Things Written  These Things Unsaid with Without Consent These Things Known with A Third Chance (or a First) Oh, The Way Your Makeup Stains My Pillowcase That Love You've Been Looking For  All I Need Is To Be Struck (By Your Electric Love) To Open Every Door to Night, To Meet Each Rising Sun (my favorite) Love Is In the Hair (fanart of this one originally lead me to read the series, thanks @ash-and-starlight) Lessons in Proper Asset Management Tangled Up With You  To Be Named, To Be Known (To Be Loved)

[ladyprophet]

Second fth done! This time for @herbofthyme, who wanted some genderbent bingliushen. Check it out at ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/89405426

Or under the cut

[jonathankai]

(This is part 2 of my headcanons about food in bingliushen's relationship. I wanted to split the whole thing in two, but this baddie takes way more time and effort than anticipated, so part 1 was about Liu Qingge settling at the same dining table with bingqiu, this part is about Liu Qingge catering to his lovers via food, and part 3 will be about Liu Qingge and Luo Binghe developing a common culinary hobby that Shen Qingqiu is not allowed to participate in. I hope you'll like it!)

Liu Qingge loves to provide for his family, but providing for Shen Qingqiu proves to be a challenge. He still whines about that short-haired monster! Well, who even keeps food alive?! You are supposed to eat it, not let it eat the forest on your peak!

Thankfully, Liu Qingge never runs into this problem with Luo Binghe. This guy is always happy to accept meat, and even if it's alive, it won't be by dinner time.

Knowing that Luo Binghe will personally take in Liu Qingge's efforts and cook wonderful meals for him and Shen Qingqiu is a pleasure of its' own. Liu Qingge experiences some sort of guttural satisfaction when he drags a beast five times his own size right into imperial palace of demon realm and throws at Luo Binghe's feet.

Liu Qingge comes and goes and can be gone for weeks, so they never time it, but Luo Bighe loooooves when it happens during meetings. Sometimes he would have these not-quite-allies or allies-with-a-knife-hidden-and-ready demon lords over, and then the door slams open and the most deadly of Cang Qiong Mountain, Bai Zhan Peak Lord will bring him game. If's very illustrative.

Not to mention that Shizun can be a little discreet in showing affection, so when his other husband shows off for everyone to see, it fills Luo Binghe with a special guttural satisfaction too.

But this is a very basic standard gesture for Liu Qingge, and now that he's in relationship he wants to do more, he wants to do something truly special, give his lovers special gifts.

Liu Qingge is not very good at it, but he gets a hang of things pretty quickly. For Shen Qingqiu it's books or accessories: belts, hairpins, sometimes fabric for clothes. Liu Qingge might need a little bit of advice from anyone he could reach to (not from Luo Binghe unfortunately, because he would give him advice and then immediately steal the idea), but eventually his gifts make Shen Qingqiu very happy. He would be charmed by elaborate hairpin and immediately ask Liu Qingge to help him put in his hair. Shen Qingqiu is brimming with pleasure when he wears Liu Qingge's gifts and looks more and more beautiful each time. Everyone is happy.

But this strategy doesn't work with Luo Binghe. He would love any gift he gets, but these things are just not for him, they wouldn't make him thrilled. So Liu Qingge applies patience, studies his enemy for a bit and finally comes up with a winning strategy.

Normally Luo Binghe isn't very experimental with his cooking. He's always learning new things, but mostly goes for wholesome, all-time classic home meals. That doesn't mean he wouldn't love to try new things, so Liu Qingge gathers intel, which spices and ingredients are exceptional, rare and hard to obtain and goes for another kind of hunt.

It might not be as exciting, but Liu Qingge treats it as a building of a character. He's gone for more than a month and then shows up battered and dirty, outstretches his fist to Luo Binghe, unclenches his fingers and proudly demonstrates three small roots on his palm, which he dug out on far-away mountains.

Liu Qingge looks so proud for obtaining this treasure, and it's very hard, but Luo Binghe manages not to laugh in his face.

Pretty soon it turns out there is nothing to laugh about. Normally Luo Binghe goes into kitchen and doesn't comes out until food is ready, this time however he comes to the dining room - where Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu are waiting - several times and stands in the doorway. He gives Liu Qingge a long serious look like he's about to say something, but then turns around and goes back into the kitchen.

Turns out Luo Binghe prepared congee - definitely the very first dish he learnt how to cook. But the thing is, until Luo Binghe puts the pot on the table, Shen Qingqiu and Liu Qingge can't recognize it by smell. The aroma is alluring, mouth-watering, but it's nothing they've experienced before. Upon first spoon Shen Qingqiu can't help but exclaim, that's when Luo Binghe turns to Liu Qingge and it's like the dam breaks: how did you learn about it, where did you get them, was it hard, can you bring more of those? When Liu Qingge tries it himself, even someone as far from exquisite cooking as him, can tell that the taste is brand new, bold, fresh and can hardly be compared to anything else.

Bad news: finding even three plants made both of Liu Qingge's eyes twitch. Good news: there are plenty of other rare ingredients in this world, so Bai Zhan Peak Lord spends his days looking for berries, seeds, leaves, herbs, bark. He could be a remarkable culinary herbalist if he wanted,

Now this type of gifts proves to be an arrow straight to Luo Binghe's heart. Previously, the thing that Liu Qingge kind of had to come to terms with was contradiction in this lover's behavior.

Liu Qingge gets up before sunrise - Luo Binghe gets up even earlier to make him breakfast. He quietly gets ready and then gives his husbands light kisses and tucks them in blankets. Luo Binghe fills their plates with seconds before they even think about it. Luo Binghe even offered to scrub Liu Qingge's back in the bathroom (Shen Qingqiu told him this one was a trap. Shen Qingqiu WARNED him and yet!--)

Anyway, when it comes to Liu Qingge, Luo Binghe goes from sweet to cocky in the blink of an eye. He's bantering, riling up, making fun of Liu Qingge right after he's done something nice to him. He's even capable of doing both at the same!

But when Liu Qingge starts bringing him these beautifully curated gifts - Luo Binghe runs to him excitedly like a happy child who know he's about to receive a sweet treat. Every little stem has the magical power to bring out Luo Binghe's most charming side.

And for the first time in his life Liu Qingge feels like he won over demon emperor.

[tiloopadoo]

Writing a truth spore bingliushen fic and I can't believe I am using the amazing idea of 'Truth drug that targets the brain's reward system like actual drugs when telling the truth so it not only stops them from lying, but encourages them to keep speaking' on a smut fic.

[lorewritesstuff]

BingLiu Sleeping Beauty Au

5 Years of fighting over Shen Qingqiu's corpse timeline - some 4 years into SQQ Snow White era

Liu Qingge and Luo Binghe are having another one of their near daily fights and it had taken them a bit farther away from HHP and towards Bai Lu forest

During the fight LQG's leg injury makes him stumble and fall down a hill into a path of Sleeping Beauties—pink and blue flowers which release a golden mist (pollen) that settles all over LQG.

He tries to get back up to fight LBH but falls unconscious in the middle of the flowers. LBH catches up and is suspicious of it being a trick but seeing how he isn't getting up decides to pick him up and move him away from the flowers (Shizun made sure they all knew 'Suspicious flowers 101' rules very well after all) before trying to wake him up.

After LQG still remains asleep no matter what he does (Shizun can't be mad at him for slapping an unconscious LQG or poking him with a stick if he's trying to help him, can he?), LBH starting to feel a bit panicked takes him back to HHP to have their healers look him over. Unsatisfied with their lack of progress he calls upon MBJ to bring SQH (Shizun always did say he knew too much).

Shang Qinghua takes some time—as well as being dragged all the way back into the forest to see the flowers for himself—but recognises the flowers as something he added for a Sleeping Beauty plot wife (don't ask him the number, only Cucumber-bro can keep a track of that).

The 'curse' that these flowers bring is a little different than the original story, whereas the victim doesn't fall into a 100 year slumber or needs a 'true love's kiss' (as if such a thing would ever be allowed by his fans!) but instead simply needs a kiss from a person they care about and who loves them back.

Sounds simple right? Wrong. Everyone and their mother knew (or heavily suspected by now) that the only person the famed War God is in love with is... well, a 'Sleeping Beauty' from another tale.

(SQH does wonder when did his stallion novel change a genre to a Grimm fairytale.)

LBG—who is dealing perfectly well with another constant of his life being in an unending 'sleep' because of him—decided to keep in the HHP as well. In the same room as SQQ. Same exact bed as his Shizun too even.

(Having them both in the same room makes it easier to guard them both from threats. And staring at both of his greatest regrets in life just might make it easier to bear the guilt.)

(It doesn't.)

CQM, likewise, always have a very normal reaction to all of this, and spend the remaining time trying to apply to have both of their peak Lords return so they may be cured or put to rest.

(Yue Qingyuan spends a little too long each evening staring at his sword and wondering in the following months. It is only due to MQF's daily visits that those thoughts don't bear fruit.)

SVSSS plot continues as normal—more or less—from there on, though at one point ZZL almost grabs the wrong person because no one told him there would be TWO Beauties being guarded in the bedroom. TLJ finds that intriguing and hilarious and almost makes him come back for LQG as well. (The plot twists! The intrigue! Forbidden love triangle! He must know how that 2nd corpse got there and how that story ends!)

Big fight with TLJ etc etc happily every after... But. But LQG is still asleep.

SQQ asks LBH where LQG is because it is not like him to sit out all the action and Luo Binghe b r e a k s.

He leads SQQ back to the isolated bedroom in HHP, where he remains unmoved after all this time. LBH tells him about the Sleeping Beauty' flower's 'curse' and visibly hesitates before admitting SQQ is probably the only person who can wake him up. He hadn't wanted to do it but he knew that such a thought would never occur to SQQ unless directly said to his face.

(Meanwhile, SQQ is cursing SQH in his head for putting them both in this novel and this situation specifically. Him!? Kiss Liu Qingge!??? Well. If he musts. For the plot. And to help his Shidi, of course. No other reason. Yeah.)

And so SQQ bends down to kiss LQG and wait for him to wake up. And waits. And waits. And yet LQG stays asleep.

No one expected this to happen and it shows. SQQ and LBH share a helpless glance because if SQQ kissing him couldn't wake him up, who could?

Just as LBH is about to talk himself into a depressive spiral about causing the 'death' of those he cares about once again, Shen Qingqiu's jolts in place and turns towards LBH. Of course! The original wife (Eife #100, because of course he Airplane made a Sleeping Beauty Au for the 100th wife, the hack) only woke up after being kissed by the Protagonist! That's it! That's the cure!

And so he tells his theory to LBH, blabbing something about fate and their close connection and him being there during the 'cursing' being the reason why he is the only one able to lift the curse.

LBH clearly doesn't believe him but faced with no other options—and a little ball of hope resting in his chest, hoping that he can fix it all for once—he bends down and places a chaste kiss on Liu Qingge's lips.

At first nothing happens and his eyes dimm as he starts to lose hope but then he hears LQG take a deep breath while his eyes flutter open.

The two stay there for a moment, keeping eye contact as SQQ hides behind his fan in the background.

Now you, dear reader, know very well that while the rules of this world do bend towards LBH naturally, rules are rules for a reason.

While guilt is a powerful emotion, not many would put the same level of care into taking care of what might as well be a corpse of a loathed enemy for a year just as tenderly as they would for their loved one.

And just the same one cannot spent years of daily fighting with a person so very like them, doing their all to keep their loved one safe—through pain and sorrow, and dark thoughts that make it hard to leave the bed each morning—without developing a sense of understanding and maybe even care towards the one person who understands you the most.

Yes, the world does bend towards the Protagonist, but so does, it seems, the heart of the resident War God.

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Now this was going to be a proper lil ficlet thingy, and I had actually written half of it down in the tumblr post editor and was very happy with it. And then I accidentally clicked a tumblr notif and my whole post was gone :')

[jonathankai]

(I want to share some headcanons about love & food in bingliushen, but they are somewhat lengthy, so today I'm going to write about how a pride cultivator who doesn't need food got lured into family dinners, and some other time, maybe tomorrow I will write about Liu Qingge - the gift-giver, the breadwinner, the adventurous eater. Enjoy!)

Before Liu Qingge got into relationship with Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe, he barely ate. Obviously, his cultivation level allows him to avoid meals and he's never in his life had enough interest in food to eat for pleasure. He knows that Luo Binghe cooks every day, but this is what he stresses to his new partners: no need to include him at the table. But next time Luo Qingge gets to stay with them, he is informed that there is a portion for him as well.

He agrees to eat mainly because can't let food get wasted, if it's for him - he will eat it. The dish smells very nice and by the first bite Liu Qingge is captivated. The taste is so good - he doesn't remember when was the last time he ate anything as good as this!

Lio Qingge practically freezes, wide-eyed, contemplating his new experience. Shen Qingqiu is stifling laughter, not wanting to startle shidi in his moment of pure epiphany.

When Liu Qingge returns to this realm, he sees that Luo Binghe is looking at him with the widest, most shit-eating grin ever.

"Say it to me", he demands.

"No".

"Shidi, don't be like that. Say it".

"The taste is alright".

So Liu Qingge finds his long forgotten taste for food. He becomes interested in eating, gluttonous even - for the first time in his life! He starts asking what's for dinner. He starts asking for specific dishes. Luo Binghe is always ready to cook on request. He knows all shizun's preferences by hand, and he's happy to learn Liu Qingge's as well. It doesn't bother him to cook two set of dishes to match everyone's specific tastes. Pretty soon Liu Qingge discovers that Luo Binghe can cook anything.

But there's also another major reason why Liu Qingge very quickly becomes fond of meals with his lovers. Because it's not just about food: it's about sitting at the table all together, chatting and laughing and enjoying the warmth and coziness of it all. It's about special little rituals, reserved for meal times only. The first time Shen Qingqiu attempts to feed him from his chopsticks, Liu Qingge becomes all shy and fussy. This doesn't upset Shen Qingqiu in the slightest as he just turns and offers the tasty bit to Binghe, who gladly accepts. Liu Qingge learns his lesson about competition and never turns down an offering again.

[naiad-r]

Do you wish your parents gave you someone else's name?

[soyouddancewme]

(a sweeter continuation of my last post about nezha meeting his brothers)

[naiad-r]

POV: you work at the fire nation royal palace and you just cockblocked your boss.

[naiad-r]

A young Earth couple in their honeymoon phase. Definitely not the Fire Lord Zuko and his close friend Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe.

[naiad-r]

Sokka constantly joke-flirting with Zuko has consequences. He does not mind them.

[soursoppi]

what's better than one kitty in a box...two kitties in a box...? or three kitties haha! 

got a liucheng suggestion and decided to try my hand at the trapped in a box thing (bonus kitty mu qing)

edit: added a little extra with their tsuntsunheads

also a link to a zip of the psd files of their poses if you want to try your hand at drawing this (it's free)

[lunnitavaldez]

The fact I absolutely love all the tropes in foxxian and dragonji fanfics, marriage contract, childhood friends, emperor and concubine, etc..

[nolsdoods]

concept art zukka doodle they scratch my brain. specially sokka

[archerdepartures116]

that one wip that almost got deleted, I now gained motivation to finish it🙏🙏

[naiad-r]

AU: Sokka died too young.

[erlie]

Reposting these because tumblr in fact DID NOT like them. Or shame on who ever reported me.

Uncropped and uncensored on my BlueSky!