Thus spake the Author God: Shit, she can't fly! (Acts 5:3)
Illustration for the fantastic fanfic "The Acts of Shang Qinghua and Mobei Jun" by @mycatwantstoeatpins . The fic turns the messy and bumbling events of Moshang's life into a religious narrative of "the Author God and the one she loved" through omission and stylization, so I tried to do the same visually and drew 2 versions of the scene where MBJ falls down and SQH jumps after her to save her.
How, hundreds of years later, the holy texts depict the Author God saving the one she loved VS how it really happened, with all the desperation, flailing and sweat:
Their poses remain basically the same, just like in the fanfic, the facts remain the same. What changes is the stylization, interpretation and the smoothing out of inconvenient details.
Image description: A feminine (big busted, narrow waisted, with some stomach rolls and a happy trail) Luo Binghe, twirling her hair and smiling at the camera, wearing an open sheer frilly robe, lace-print thigh highs, jewelry and a bad pink bra edit. Here's the actual drawing without the bra:
A close-up and a version with a dreamy filter on it:
It's so hot and Binghe's single robe is so sheer, and honestly there's a limit to how much even an old man like Shen Qingqiu can take before he forgets his dignity and puts his hands all over his unfairly beautiful husband!
Image description: Fanart of Shen Qingqiu pulling Luo Binghe in for a kiss by pulling on his belt. Because Binghe deserves to be surprised and delighted by Shizun's forwardness for once :3 It's a hot summer day in the Bamboo House and they're both wearing single layer sheet robes. Also there's close-ups of Binghe's and SQQ's faces. I tried to give SQQ a particularly seductive smile.
Now that I think about it, I already drew backlit Bingqiu with SQQ being forward and wearing an open-front sheer robe once... Well, it's a good topic. Maybe I'll draw more and call it the "Softdom Shizun Summer" Series :D ... Oh dang, actually, now I want to run a "Softdom Shizun Summer" event, would anyone be interested?
[Fic and art] Bingqiu week 2025 prompt "Gender Play": SY transmigrates into Madam Meiyin and teaches Binghe to use his demon powers. Binghe learns how to be a succubus instead.
How can Binghe be so good at makeup but still need Madam Meiyin to fix his smudged lipstick every time? She almost has an out of body experience watching her fingers gently wipe excessive lipstick off of the protagonist's peerlessly kissable lips.
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Rating: General Audiences | Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply |Category: F/M | Additional Tags: Gender Roles, Crossdressing, Succubi & Incubi, Oblivious Shen Yuan, Fluff, Luo Binghe Has a Crush on Shen Yuan, Shen Yuan transmigrates into a wife
Binghe has accepted his demon heritage due to SY's good example and made it his own by drawing flower petals around his zuiyin and turning it into a huadian.
I hope Binghe's chest looks like succulent pecs and not saggy flat breasts ..😭🙏
Madam Meiyin's mole is supposed to be that Chinese makeup where you draw a dot where your dimples would be.
Hope Binghe's outfit is not too weird? I wanted it to look fresh, girlish, but also resemble his various shoulderpad outfits as demon emperor, so I used this outfit from "Empress of China" for inspo. Binghe would absolutely wear this ridiculous decollete!
For Binghe's face I looked for references where the model is most obviously trying to seduce the makeup artist and found this gem:
Fic illustration for "Sweet Dreams" by @allpiesforourown : Bingge's porn-inspired dream of "sexy teacher" SY sexily perching on a desk and saying "Come here, Bing-er".
Fic link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/75893466 I recommend the whole "Bingy's Self-Insertverse" series, it's so much fun!).
Thank you for the thorough and helpful art betaing (how is that not a thing?) to @lavendrya , @kamikazeworld and @herbofthyme .
This one is a Homestuck AU: Binghe is planning to overthrow the old Empress who has reigned for 1000s of years and become Empress himself, because he sees no other way to protect his beloved SY. Binghe is an aquatic species and SY is a nerd, so their dates mostly happen in pools. SY's hobby is defending Binghe online and here he's telling Binghe about how he took down a particularly egregious attack.
This is my take on @donnadonera 's Homestuck Bingqiu designs! Crossover details:
Binghe:
Raised to think he was a burgundy blood (lowest class), discovered he's actually secretly a fuchsia blood (highest class). He's a mutant, he looks burgundy on land but turns fuchsia when in water, probably because of like, oxygenation or something. He has the superpowers of both classes (burgundy telekinesis + fuchsia immense physical strength/durability) to parallel his "unscientific" dual cultivation systems in SVSSS, and that's how he wins a fight against an immensely old and powerful Empress. He has covered himself in jewelry in SY's color as soon as he gained access to funds!
He's a Peixes, Prince of Blood, Derse dreamer.
SY:
A jadeblood (social class tasked with taking care of children) who was secluded in the breeding caverns with the Internet being his only outlet for as long as he could, but finally left to meet Binghe after befriending him online. It's good that he's a rainbow drinker (vampire), cause he'd have died several times otherwise...
His current (self-assigned) job is Binghe's social media manager, which for him means defending Binghe's personality, mutant blood, right to rule etc online. Very passionately and angrily.
His symbol is "Virus", the sign of the adaptable. He's an Heir of Breath, Prospit dreamer.
And also, bonus: Binggeyuan. They're the Beforus version of these characters!
- Beforus SY grows up to be an adult and gains the title The Peerless Cucumber (HOW is that the perfect adult troll title???).
- Binghe is a hapless little grub (baby/toddler) who's being taken care of by the washerwoman, his lusus (animal with a child-rearing instinct) (maybe she's some kind of raccoon, because they also wash things?). But she's weak and sickly, and dies while he was still too little to survive on his own.
- That's when The Peerless Cucumber accidently stumbles upon this incredibly pitiful mutated little rustblood grub. At first he takes an interest because of the mutation - what a weird little creature! As a jadeblood with researcher tendencies, he thought he had catalogued all sorts of weird types of grubs, but this one's new! So he picks it up and starts to observe it, or at least that's what he tells himself, while in fact he very quickly starts treating this little grub as his baby and not as a research project.
- The grub grows up to become Bingmei. The Peerless Cucumber helps him discover his fuchsia blood (maybe it looks rust when he's on land but turns fuchsia when he's underwater, due to like, oxygenation or something?), and devises a strategy to survive being found out as a mutant, namely, to kill the empress and become empress instead.
- And Binghe's reign is comparatively merciful, for example, they outlaw killing mutant grubs. But fell apart when The Peerless Cucumber died? Which, I guess, even rainbow drinkers might die from old age?
- Do you think SY/The Peerless Cucumber is quadromantic? I think at least on Beforus, with the Freudian backstory, they'd definitely end up in some kind of "their love transcended the quadrants" situation. But even in the post-scratch session I think believing all of his relationships nust nearly fall into quadrants would be a good parallel to his comphet. More on SY's quadrant vacillation and comphet!
I just finished (re)reading Bingy's Self-Insertverse (fic rec link in case anyone else is reading this post, it's such a fun series!) and I loved it! And the image of SY in Bingge's "sexy teacher" dream sexily perching on the desk in a miniskirt haunts me so I want to draw it. Is this what you were thinking of or did I get any details wrong? Like should SY have a different haircut, or maybe a different kind of collared shirt, or a more sultry expression? You didn't mention stockings but I figured they're an essential part of the "teacher" look. Oh yeah and you describe the glasses Bingge gets him IRL later but I thought he'd still be wearing his thick black frames in the dream, right?
Other concrit welcome! Like, is his head too big? orz
Bingqiu week prompt "bridenapping": Illustration for @kamikazeworld's AU: What if TLJ and ZZL didn't steal SQQ's soul from the plant body as LBH was assaulting him?
AU description: "I think he would never be able to go through with it. Fighting and forcing sqq isn't what he want. I think he'd just... Get worked up. Stop. Hunch over and hide his face in his chest, fists clutching at the fabric of sqq's robes, and he'd let out a hoarse "why...? Why can't you just love me...?" wondering why he ruins everything he touches... That he only wanted shizun to love him..... And he's shaking with the emotional agony he feels, the rejection and pent up grief. It's so obviously *real* nd despite everything he's done, what can sqq do but tentatively raise his hand to pet his head and hold him close until he's done crying? I think Shen Qingqiu would realize at that point that he really fucked up. Binghe fucked up too, but isn't it because Shen Qingqiu drove him to it?? Has he really hurt him so badly that he'd resort to all this...? It's not okay, what Binghe has done, but... God, he can't just leave him like that. He can't."
Image description: 1st image: Binghe and SQQ fighting angrily. 2nd image: SQQ is shocked to see Binghe break down and sob, resting his head on his robes. 3rd image: SQQ's face softens as he raises his hands to hug Binghe, who's crying harder now. 4th image: SQQ hugs Binghe tightly, making him rest his head on SQQ's shoulder as SQQ hides his face in Binghe's hair. 5th image: same scene but darker to suggest they sat like that for a long while.
Bingqiu Week Day 6: Reunion. In a Steven Universe crossover AU, human/diamond LBH is finally freed from her fusion with the corrupted Xin Mo and reunited with pearl SQQ. Fusion design and image description under cut!
image description:
LBH, huge because she's a diamond, shaped like Rose Quartz and with hair as big as Rose Quartz. She has Steven Universe style star eyes because SQQ so often speaks of LBH's "star-filled eyes". Her gem is over her heart, like LBH's scar. It's shaped like a perfect polished teardrop/blood drop outside but inside it's a zuiyin-shaped cut that's all jagged edges and kinda looks broken, like shards. So we have tears, blood powers, zuiyin and broken glass heart.
SQQ is smaller than her, the size that yellow and blue pearls are compared to their diamonds. So Binghe has to lift her up in her hands so she can pat Binghe's head.
SQQ's design is: long soft flowy fabric draped over a pointy, angular, stick-like body, to kind of represent the way SQQ puts on the polite lofty immortal persona over a foul-mouthed gremlin personality, and also to fit the canon Pearl designs. Her gem is on her hand, the hand that always puts SQQ into trouble, and that she's now using to pat Binghe.
And here's my thoughts on their fusion: LBH's round eyes and SQQ's pointy eyes forming a nearly-perfect circle. I wanna draw their fusion holding the hand with SQQ's gem protectively over LBH's gem, I think they'd love doing that💖
Somewhat inspired by this beautiful SVSSS/SU crossover fic: "Love Like You"
Anyway, I also have Thoughs on Blue Diamond SY, Yellow Diamond SQH and Red Diamond TLJ under the yoke of White Diamond System! If you have any SU crossover thoughts feel free to share! 💖💖💖
Bingqiu Week 2025 Day 3: Hobbies.
SQQ's hobby: playing with Binghe's hair.
Binghe's hobby: Finding ways to be smaller than Shizun. Currently they're sitting on stairs and Binghe has sat 1 stair lower than SQQ so that he can rest his head on Shizun's shoulder more effectively.
Happy Bingqiu Week Day 1! Prompt: White Lotus💖 I think I'll manage to do at least 2 more days!
I accidentally stumbled into a fun new coloring style that kinda looks like, hm, pastels maybe? Here's the "pastel" layer applied to the lineart on the "soft light" setting, and then the coloring goes over that on "Multiply":
Do you think Binghe's have are too big? I referenced my own hands but perspective will forever stump me. I'm hoping if they are too big at least it can pass as an adolescent"puppy with paws too big for his body" thing..?
From now on, this master will follow you whether you go.
The other 7 scenes
Since SQQ talks so much about Binghe's star-filled eyes I figured I'd try drawing them, and why not add some hair sparkles while I'm at it? Does this work?
Also does this coloring style work, only coloring the hair and skin while leaving the clothes transparent?
7 times Shen Qingqiu reached out to Binghe and 1 time their hands touched
Or: You keep pretending you're playing a first-person videogame but you can't stop reaching out to Binghe and breaking your imaginary 4th wall.
3 more under cut (NSFW). Would love concrit since I also want to properly color some of these. Also: does the cycle of colors look good/make sense?
"VIII. Vers" is a post-canon scene: SQQ finally letting Binghe bottom. It's the end of the cycle because at the end of SVSSS Bingqiu have defeated the narrative of the stallion novel but SQQ had mentally replaced it with the BL narrative and kept acting out the role of shou, and he is only just beginning to fight against that new narrative in the extras. (See essay for details.) Only when he finally accepts that both he and Binghe don't have to follow those rules will the main themes of SVSSS be resolved. That's the only one where I colored in their skin and hair, because SQQ finally fully sees both of them as real people with full agency beyond their narrative roles.
"VII. Dream": This is the moment in the Deep Dream extra where SQQ sees Binghe's memory of caring for SQQ's corpse and saying "Shizun, if you don't wake up soon, I don't think I can hold on for much longer."
But Luo Binghe would hold that ice-cold, lifeless corpse and hold on for almost two thousand more of these days and nights. His heart ached with an overwhelming pain, so much so that it exploded within his chest. Shen Qingqiu saw a hand stretching forward, futilely trying to touch that stark-white face of Luo Binghe’s. He watched that hand as it trembled, unable to touch anything, then suddenly realized, with a shock, that it was his own.
Acknowledgements
Thanks for the super helpful art tips to @lavendrya, @kamikazeworld, @herbofthyme and @cumplanecrash, to @fothetinyotter for the initial idea and encouragement, to @folding-fan for drawing the Hua Yue City scene because I literally couldn't see it in my head before that art, and to everyone who voted on the sketch poll!
Why this?
I think "SQQ reaching out to Binghe" is a good way to chronicle their relationship
because he does it at so many pivotal moments.
because he kinda treats his transmigrated life as a 1st person videogame
because he doesn't realize he's also part of the world, not actually separated from it by the 4th wall, not hidden behind the camera - but he can't stop reaching out towards Binghe anyway!!
because him reaching out towards Binghe is the most important part of SVSSS! That's what changes the narrative!
Will there be more?
I'd love to add a #0: SY reading PIDW. Visually, I think him opening a physical book would be prettiest. But realistically it should be him reading on a phone or angrily typing on a keyboard, right? But like I have NO idea how to make that visually appealing?
I might draw some suggestive post-canon scenes in this format and might accept suggestions...
Did I miss any important canon scenes? Feel free to remind me!
I'm also working on a Bingqiu Tarot series, any Tarot nerds wanna talk about that?
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