sampling tragic characters like they're fine wines

坠星落尘 / Zhuixing, adult, author, he/him mostly genshin/hsr and danmei with a sprinkling of mythology. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME ASKS SOLICITING DONATIONS

[stardust-falling]

坠星落尘 / Zhuixing | He/Him | Adult™

Bluesky | AO3 | Patreon

Official Twitter | Fandom Twitter

writer, artist, musician, and connoisseur of tragic little men

*****

I post and reblog everything on this blog, from fandom to art and writing projects to general life things. By following me you accept the risk of getting infected with whatever new fandom or hobby I end up collapsing into.

Shy and anxious around people, but very passionate about my interests. Discord is also available if we've been chatting for a bit, but I can't promise I'm very consistent with that.

I'm basically in a constant financial struggle, so if you enjoy my writing/art/posts/general nonsense, any sort of support is always appreciated.

ENG/中文/ESP OK!

Due to my mental health, I can't reblog donation or fundraising posts right now.

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CURRENT WRITING PROJECTS

Ghosts of the Heart Original Novel | On Hiatus, July 2026 Tentative Return

More Details Read the first part free on Patreon or AO3 Buy the second part on Patreon

The Scum Villain's Loss-Prevention Opportunity SVSSS | On Hiatus, June 2026 Tentative Return

Read on AO3

Equivalent Exchange Genshin | No Set Posting Schedule

Read on AO3

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Main fandoms are Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and SVSSS, but this is always subject to change, and others may appear from time to time.

Though I enjoy debating characterization and literature, I don't really like to mess around with any sort of discourse/shipcourse/anything like that where there's implications being made about real-life people and their real-life morality. HOWEVER, if you're someone with "pro-ship dni" in your bio, I'll probably block you because I don't want anything to do with anti rhetoric, thanks.

I tag all ships with the most common ship tag when they appear on my blog. If you don't like a ship but still want to follow me, feel free to just block whatever tags you feel like. Same with fandoms/characters, though I'm not always as consistent with that. If you need a post of mine to be tagged, please let me know!

More tags and such below the cut!!

my creations:

zhuixing writing: my fics & original stories-- including update posts, behind-the-scenes posts, etc. — ※ ghosts of the heart: posts about my original danmei novel

zhuixing art: my artwork

my original fandom posts or substantial additions:

zhuixing svsss

zhuixing epic

zhuixing genshin

zhuixing hsr

catalog:

library: reference & educational reblogs-- go here if you want to learn something new!

wardrobe: clothing information & images. mostly hanfu

art gallery: reblogged art

cool rocks: rock collection

pretty moths: moth image, gif, & video collection

good news: record of good things that have happened in the world, to combat the pessimism

blocklist:

zhuixing cuts onions -- tag for vent/traumaposting/etc

zhuixing adds chili peppers -- tag for ns/fw or suggestive posts

zhuixing stirs the soup -- tag for any discourse-related posts

zhuixing reads the news -- tag for any kind of current-events related posts

zhuixing’s empty wallet — tag for my mutual aid posts when I need money badly

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[grayintogreen]

Sometimes it feels like nobody wants The Character to get hit so hard they cough up blood anymore.

[luna-azzurra]

A writer will live through something devastating and their first thought is unfortunately oh this is good material

[sviteer]

Please, face your fears!

[darkcomedies]

reading a “there was only one bed fic” and the characters have decided to share the bed as long as they stay on their sides. i’m really glad they figured that whole mess out and am excited to read about them staying on their sides of the bed until morning^-^

[stardust-falling]

This pride month, I'm trying to raise some money for my partner's top surgery, so I'm opening up $5 doodle and ficlet requests on ko-fi until the end of June.

Doodles can be one or two characters, sketches or flat colored.

Ficlets will be ~1-2k words

The following fandoms are available to request:

Genshin Impact

Honkai: Star Rail

SVSSS

MDZS

ORV

Ghosts of the Heart (my novel)

Original Character Doodles

Many thanks for sharing and donating, it is so so very appreciated!! =^.^=

[depsidase]

[wheelzyx]

That phrase means absolutely nothing. Not a goddamn thing. "History will judge them." Just like thoughts & prayers, it doesn't do anything to help.

[stardust-falling]

[SUBMISSIONS OPEN] People's Choice Shortfic - Summer 2026 | 坠星落尘 - Zhuixing Luochen

[SUBMISSIONS OPEN] People's Choice Shortfic - Summer 2026 by 坠星落尘 - Zhuixing Luochen on Patreon. Join 坠星落尘 - Zhuixing Luochen's community fo

It's my patreon shortfic prompt submission time again! If you're in my $5 tier or higher, you should be able to access the prompt submission form now. If you have an idea you'd like to see added to the prompt pool, please consider joining, even if you downgrade or cancel your subscription afterwards. My financial state isn't very great and I could really use more patreon income for stability's sake-- besides prompt submission, you'll also be able to read new chapters of my original novel, and any other writing I post, with any tier of membership.

Many thanks to all my readers for support!

If you'd like to read some past People's Choice shortfics, all but the latest have now posted on my AO3:

Summer 2024 - Maybe We Can Just Pretend - After Yue Qingyuan rescues Shen Qingqiu from the water prison, both of them struggle with the aftermath, and their fears for the future. Sometimes, comfort can be had even if it seems impossible to find.

Autumn 2024 - Watching from a Distance, Longing to Approach - Shen Qingqiu is dead, but his body is inhabited by another soul that cannot be uprooted-- realizing that this impostor has everyone fooled, he makes a deal with the underworld officials so that he can return to tell Yue Qingyuan of the deception-- but it won't be as easy as he had hoped.

Winter 2025 -Taste of Beginnings- After an unexpected reconciliation, Yue Qingyuan decides to make good on another promise he'd once made to Shen Qingqiu, back when becoming renowned cultivators was nothing but a distant dream.

Spring 2025 - Three's a Crowd - When thirteen-year-old Shen Jiu is suddenly rescued from Qiu Manor by a strange young cultivator, he escapes a grim fate and gains a second big brother instead. Shen Jiu doesn't really know how to feel about this.

Summer 2025 - How to Train Your Feral Cat - When he finds the cub of a Frost-Spitting Flying Leopard left behind after its mother was killed in a hunt, Yue Qingyuan decides to take the little beast in to raise as his own. Shen Qingqiu is absolutely not okay with any of this… but he finds it hard to pin down exactly why.

Autumn 2025 - The Show Must Go On! - When Zhongli was gifted a backstage pass to Lady Furina's new touring show, the last thing he expected was to be placed in a starring role-- and it seems that even a six-thousand-year-old god is not immune to a little stage fright.

Winter 2026 - A Sprout Yet to Blossom - After Xiao is rescued from the clutches of his former master, he begins to integrate into the Adepti of Jueyun. Zhongli takes him to the Guili Plains on the night of Lantern Rite to experience the human world he will soon be tasked with protecting.

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[kritzenkriegen]

*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

[stardust-falling]

This pride month, I'm trying to raise some money for my partner's top surgery, so I'm opening up $5 doodle and ficlet requests on ko-fi until the end of June.

Doodles can be one or two characters, sketches or flat colored.

Ficlets will be ~1-2k words

The following fandoms are available to request:

Genshin Impact

Honkai: Star Rail

SVSSS

MDZS

ORV

Ghosts of the Heart (my novel)

Original Character Doodles

Many thanks for sharing and donating, it is so so very appreciated!! =^.^=

[stardust-falling]

[SUBMISSIONS OPEN] People's Choice Shortfic - Summer 2026 | 坠星落尘 - Zhuixing Luochen

[SUBMISSIONS OPEN] People's Choice Shortfic - Summer 2026 by 坠星落尘 - Zhuixing Luochen on Patreon. Join 坠星落尘 - Zhuixing Luochen's community fo

It's my patreon shortfic prompt submission time again! If you're in my $5 tier or higher, you should be able to access the prompt submission form now. If you have an idea you'd like to see added to the prompt pool, please consider joining, even if you downgrade or cancel your subscription afterwards. My financial state isn't very great and I could really use more patreon income for stability's sake-- besides prompt submission, you'll also be able to read new chapters of my original novel, and any other writing I post, with any tier of membership.

Many thanks to all my readers for support!

If you'd like to read some past People's Choice shortfics, all but the latest have now posted on my AO3:

Summer 2024 - Maybe We Can Just Pretend - After Yue Qingyuan rescues Shen Qingqiu from the water prison, both of them struggle with the aftermath, and their fears for the future. Sometimes, comfort can be had even if it seems impossible to find.

Autumn 2024 - Watching from a Distance, Longing to Approach - Shen Qingqiu is dead, but his body is inhabited by another soul that cannot be uprooted-- realizing that this impostor has everyone fooled, he makes a deal with the underworld officials so that he can return to tell Yue Qingyuan of the deception-- but it won't be as easy as he had hoped.

Winter 2025 -Taste of Beginnings- After an unexpected reconciliation, Yue Qingyuan decides to make good on another promise he'd once made to Shen Qingqiu, back when becoming renowned cultivators was nothing but a distant dream.

Spring 2025 - Three's a Crowd - When thirteen-year-old Shen Jiu is suddenly rescued from Qiu Manor by a strange young cultivator, he escapes a grim fate and gains a second big brother instead. Shen Jiu doesn't really know how to feel about this.

Summer 2025 - How to Train Your Feral Cat - When he finds the cub of a Frost-Spitting Flying Leopard left behind after its mother was killed in a hunt, Yue Qingyuan decides to take the little beast in to raise as his own. Shen Qingqiu is absolutely not okay with any of this… but he finds it hard to pin down exactly why.

Autumn 2025 - The Show Must Go On! - When Zhongli was gifted a backstage pass to Lady Furina's new touring show, the last thing he expected was to be placed in a starring role-- and it seems that even a six-thousand-year-old god is not immune to a little stage fright.

Winter 2026 - A Sprout Yet to Blossom - After Xiao is rescued from the clutches of his former master, he begins to integrate into the Adepti of Jueyun. Zhongli takes him to the Guili Plains on the night of Lantern Rite to experience the human world he will soon be tasked with protecting.

[konoko]

[stardust-falling]

This pride month, I'm trying to raise some money for my partner's top surgery, so I'm opening up $5 doodle and ficlet requests on ko-fi until the end of June.

Doodles can be one or two characters, sketches or flat colored.

Ficlets will be ~1-2k words

The following fandoms are available to request:

Genshin Impact

Honkai: Star Rail

SVSSS

MDZS

ORV

Ghosts of the Heart (my novel)

Original Character Doodles

Many thanks for sharing and donating, it is so so very appreciated!! =^.^=

[mengyaosevilpussy]

tragedy enjoyers when a character upholds the system that they themselves were a victim of

[rockshitty]

Yearning for what you can never have is beginner level. Real yearners know the good shit is what you could freely have if you allowed yourself to, but never will.