How good it is to live tonight

I do art and I say odd shit | Currently drawing Regis (The Witcher) | In archive: Disco Elysium, FAITH, The Exorcist(1973), also old Depeche, GTA5, AC stuff

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Making a pinned post 🐀

Hi I'm Shu (鼠，老中人), I love drawing messed up little men and potentially covering them in blood and I kinda like scary stuff, but I also have love for other wholesome things (sometimes).

Besides this insanity here I'm an illustrator and tattooer. Occasionally I also post those here, but mostly just rants and fanarts. Currently it's a lot Regis, and mostly on the wholesome side.

I don't plan to ever sell fanart products. So if you like something feel free to use it for profile/wallpaper/print for yourself whatever. As long as you credit me/don't repost without permission/don't sell them.

Tumblr is the place for me to meet new friends, so feel free to leave comments or send msg or so, I'm happy to chat :)

In the tags is a list of fandoms and characters I've drawn for easy navigation, enjoy!

Attached a photo of me:

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Just realized I've never posted these!! They were gifts for my dear @hanzajesthanza :) Using their designs of Regis and Geralt... So yummy

Again I don't profit from fanart so if you want to have them made yourself you can DM me for the files (if you already have the link of the previous ones I also just uploaded them there!) (Ofc don't sell them you can only make them for personal use!! I'm only giving the permission bc I know how rare book merches are)

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draakul

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Sometimes I have the urge to abandon everything and just devote myself to horror stuff

[hanzajesthanza]

i love emiel regis because this character is an addict and victim of reckless suicide who, by the rules of fantasy, can come back and say “it wasn’t worth it”. an impossible situation which could only happen in this genre, where nothing is beyond the limits of possibility. it’s a beautiful use of a fantasy creature, to not tell a made-up story, but to tell the stories of real people who can’t.

then his story becomes not only about redemption, but about inward reflection and understanding of your own limitations in perspective and challenging yourself to. not only doing better, being better. because he then doesn’t just start doing good to make up for the people he hurt, he commits himself to deep interpersonal work to improve himself, to change his attitude and build empathy for others which he never had, recognizing that it wasn’t only external factors but internal flaws which thrust him into despair.

in media res, the story we find him in, his individual story as a side character is about finding friends who he devotes himself to and who wholly accept him for all that he is. that acceptance, which is all he ever wanted, pure and true love that is the final piece of his puzzle. where he is given a further chance to learn, change, and become a better person through the love and acceptance that he shares with them. extremely based and hopepilled

[hanzajesthanza]

regis posting this in beauclair

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Hi Shu! I miss you! I hope your absence mean you're having a good time. And question: if Regis had a tattoo, what kind or tattoo it would be?

Hi!!! I'm doing great, I hope you're doing well too :) and thank you for the ask! Sorry for my sudden disappearance... I've been thinking maybe I should post an update here, now your ask prompted me to do so!

So here's the update: I've met the most wonderful, the most beautiful person, @hanzajesthanza :) And we've been spending a lot time together... They've made my life a lot a lot more lovable... And that's the entire reason I've been away from Tumblr.

But worry not, we'll still make Geregis works lol! I may be taking a break for now but I'll come around. Oh! As proof, here's a piece I made for them, with their Geregis designs :)

About the tattoo question... I'm always so down to give tattoos to any character I like lol, but it's such an uncertain topic how vampires could have tattoos lol since it requires very specific human body functions and vampires in the witcher world don't even seem to follow the same set of physics rules...

But well, in an ideal world, I would picture him with silly reckless tattoos from his youth, gotten when intoxicated (don't be like him!). Embarrassing and vulnerable secrets (secrets only very few... Or one could share)... And a great contrast to how he presents himself to the outside would.

Or I'd also like vampiric symbols! I'm actually quite fond of the symbols and what they did with the unseen elder in tw3. I'd like to imagine if the vampires have tattoos, they'd be very different from human aesthetics. It's something interesting to think about.

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It never occurred to me that the mechanism for tattooing wouldn't necessarily work on a vampire! Would you mind explaining why that is (or pointing me to somewhere I can learn about it myself)? I'm super curious!!

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Of course!! There's this video I like that explains how tattoo works:

In short, your tattoos could stay in place because your immune system is working (in a not exactly perfect way) to keep the ink from getting into your system. For vampires, no matter in a traditional "undead" way or in the witcher world, it seems uncertain whether it'd work the same way for them... And they're often described as having better healing abilities too lol I would guess their bodies may just reject tattoos entirely.

Or?? Tattoos without pain or month long healing process or aging concerns? I guess it's up to your interpretation!

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Hi Shu! I miss you! I hope your absence mean you're having a good time. And question: if Regis had a tattoo, what kind or tattoo it would be?

Hi!!! I'm doing great, I hope you're doing well too :) and thank you for the ask! Sorry for my sudden disappearance... I've been thinking maybe I should post an update here, now your ask prompted me to do so!

So here's the update: I've met the most wonderful, the most beautiful person, @hanzajesthanza :) And we've been spending a lot time together... They've made my life a lot a lot more lovable... And that's the entire reason I've been away from Tumblr.

But worry not, we'll still make Geregis works lol! I may be taking a break for now but I'll come around. Oh! As proof, here's a piece I made for them, with their Geregis designs :)

About the tattoo question... I'm always so down to give tattoos to any character I like lol, but it's such an uncertain topic how vampires could have tattoos lol since it requires very specific human body functions and vampires in the witcher world don't even seem to follow the same set of physics rules...

But well, in an ideal world, I would picture him with silly reckless tattoos from his youth, gotten when intoxicated (don't be like him!). Embarrassing and vulnerable secrets (secrets only very few... Or one could share)... And a great contrast to how he presents himself to the outside would.

Or I'd also like vampiric symbols! I'm actually quite fond of the symbols and what they did with the unseen elder in tw3. I'd like to imagine if the vampires have tattoos, they'd be very different from human aesthetics. It's something interesting to think about.

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Holy shit myojo_8989 drew John Ward

[hanzajesthanza]

guidance for a foolish young noblewoman

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I just realized me being a northern chinese + artist + tattooer is a triple combo that desensitized me for seeing naked bodies...

[hanzajesthanza]

just was randomly thinking that the version of regis in my fics is slightly different than canon :)

canon regis is more of a chad ahaha, more masculine, has less need to explain himself. my headcanoned regis is more insecure and never managed to heal his inner wounds from his past

i don’t deny anything from canon but i just attribute different explanations to it

basically we have ‘succubus pleaser’ vs ‘i hope geralt wants to talk in the gardens later…’

ALSO disclaimer that i love them both and think about them kind of equally :D but of course i have a personal headcanon just like everybody else :)

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Leaving Comments

[posted in a Discord but decided to open the discussion up here]

Authors, do you reply to comments? 

I have read a couple really great fanfics lately, and when I go to excitedly leave a comment, I notice the author has either replied to NONE of the previous comments or USED to reply to comments and clearly has stopped. 

It always kills my urge to leave my own thoughts then. I can’t help thinking to myself, I guess the author doesn’t really care what I think? Maybe they don’t care if they get comments at all. Leaving a comment isn’t easy; it takes a lot of effort to think about how you’re feeling and put that into words in a way that is encouraging towards the author. So I wonder why I should even bother if the author clearly doesn’t care about what I have to say. 

As an author, I always reply to comments b/c I am so honored that someone would take the time to read my story AND talk to me about it. So I’m shocked that this isn’t universally done. What do you guys think?

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The Alchemist

The baber-surgeon. The vampire. The epitome of humanity...

Kind of originated from this post... Close-ups, sketch & process under the cut

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Why is this happening to me I literally thought I got too old for it

But it's still good to have, I guess

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Ok but I am so weak...

This is going to be hard

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From the fight with the bruxa in A Grain of Truth

Also from the same story: Geralt devouring magic food from a monster he just met 10 minutes ago

Dude just came here to eat...

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My roommate is literally the polar opposite with me in a lot ways. Except for we are both pretty punctual and organized people. So we've been literally perfect roommates for more than 3 years now, without developing a really deep friendship or anything (as in, I don't think he'll contact me once we don't live together anymore)

It's basically he doesn't understand me and I don't understand him. (We would try to ask and explain a lot though) But thinking about it, I think I should really be grateful to have the chance to live with him these years. I got to learn a lot about different worlds and see a different way of thinking from him. (Even though it's still so hard for me to actually understand/imagine lol)