#cucumber bro

[sunnysidesuppppp]

start blaming that hack author

[neo--queen--serenity]

not Airplane-bro reading Peerless Cucumber’s hate comments and going "yesss it's like we're in a toxic marriage together uwu how does it feel not knowing how to quit me," like how can I NOT ship them after reading that

[ineffectualdemon]

I know the new extra has the system revealing what it really is....but also it's not a far cry to decide that the system is just lying

Like Binghe was about to KILL THE SYSTEM

And the system knew the only way to save itself was to get Shen Yuan onside

First it shows him a document that it knows that he isn't going to read and then gives a summary which is *checks notes*

1. The system was made by an even sadder Luo Binghe who was just so sad and lonely yet badass and cool

2. Airplane isn't actually a god!

3. Please don't kill me I am a CEO like you and need to pay my employees

That's the systems story to convince Shen Yuan

Shen Yuan who happens to be:

1. Luo Binghe's number one fan boy

2. Airplane's number 1 hater

3. A CEO who needs to pay employees

4. A soft fucking touch

...

Writing it out it actually makes the system sound even more like Airplane going "I'm just a little guy! And it's my birthday! I'm just a little birthday boy!" And lying it's ass off to Shen Yuan

Like you can certainly play with it if you want but there is no proof to me that the system isn't desperately lying

[lambiesvault]

Might color later but here, it's okay, okay? Have some silly cumplane<3

[kokymuu]

This came to me in a dream.

[my-plot-thots]

Airplain gets tired of all of the hate messages from cucumber. After all, he also wishes he could write the long, drawn out epic he had planned in his head! It just isn’t possible with how he also needs to put food on the table in order to keep writing, and annoyingly CUCUMBER is the only one who wants quality story telling and not a smutty harem story!

He tells Cucumber so in a drunken, late night anger response post to a comment with nothing but cheep booze and ramen fueling his rage.

Cucumber almost immediately replies and states that he would pay him. Quite a lot, actually. To write a better plot if he could, which he mockingly doubts.

Airplane takes him up on that offer while still drunk. They exchange contact information and bad, rage-drunk choices are made. He wakes up to someone pounding on his door in time with the pounding in his head. He quickly finds himself becoming a rich guy’s sponsored starved artist pet.

[marzennya]

The Northern Consort used to be a spy, don't you know? A good one, too...only the heavens know how far that particular web goes, but it benefits the Emperor's reign, and the Empress is found of him, so who are we to judge, eh?

[+200 Better Lore points!]

Empress Shen is finally here, my God! How difficult was this particular beast, eh? It took me, like, five or six redesigns! The balance between feminine and masculine really kicked my ass here...I think I did pretty well, if you take in account everything. I'm proud of myself, so all of you must be nice to me.

The drama is set during the warring states period, my inspiration was mostly from how they costumed the Queen of Zhao, the dowager Queen of Qin and Haolan when she finally becomes the Queen of Qin. They are all gorgeously dressed, I recommend watching it PURELY for the costuming and also the scheming women.

The design was immensely inspired by the Chinese drama The Legend of Haolan. The main character just has this impeccable Shen Qingqiu face-card, every time I see her I just think 'Yes, Shen Qingqiu, for sure.' Here's her, for reference:

For Shang Qinghua, things were so much easier, though; I watched some episodes of Story of Yanxi Palace and was struck by inspiration™. He was so easy to draw! It's all very Qing dynasty inspired, it just fits him, I think.

It took me so very long to draw the jewellery and the embroidery in both of them...I admire the people who actually do metal and needlework. Heroes, all of them.

The pearl makeup is one of my favourite ancient Chinese makeup trends; I just had to put it in. It's a very fancy form of Huadian, which is where you draw forms, mostly flowers and other pretty things on your face using paints, powders, pearls, gems and glued flowers, and it was popular from the Tang dynasty onwards. The ICONIC pearl Huadian was popularized in the Song dynasty because it (shockingly) represented modesty and elegance.

Shen Qingqiu's greenest ornaments are made out of imperial jade, which is characterized by this vibrant emerald green colour and great translucency. It's also the most expensive type of jade ever.

The! Nail! Guards! Make! A! Comeback!

Shang Qinghua's ornaments are, in the other hand, made out of pearls - for elegance, wisdom, and wealth, and blue jade, for serenity, peace of mind and self-reflection. Mobei-jun buys all of his husband's jewellery with intention, for sure.

They're such big gossips omg, nobody is safe.

[isaosoichiro]

If Shang Qinghua instead used modern slang to communicate with Shen Qingqiu secretly - a doodle

I had to get this out of my head quickly

I could not stop thinking about this. Idky.