Xielian - Tumblr Posts
Some HuaLian because I AM SOFT and I love them They deserve the world /!\ Do Not Repost /!\
First Post on Tumblr!!! I want to actually make a series of P4P pins on MXTX's works. So far, I've finished mockups of wangxian and hulian. I have so much fun working on pin designs and I hope you all appreciate my cute chibis. I've been working very hard to get as much detail on these bad boys. Hopefully, I can show you the bingqiu and moshang pins I'm working on soon! To celebrate making my new tumblr, this art is going to be posted here first! My twitter and instagram don't know I am cheating on them. <3
Art Dump and Pin Announcements!
Just wanted to show off some pretty art I've made recently! I did a poll on twitter and instagram asking which palette for Hua Cheng they liked more. I really like how everyone voted for the one where he looks like a neon zombie it's so fitting for the ghost king. If you're at all interested in pins or getting the pins I designed, please fill out my google form. I'm at about a 3rd of minimum required for me to put the order in. I'm getting proofs/samples of the pins from the manufacturer however it'll be around 2-ish weeks from now because from October 1st-7th it's a national holiday in China and I want to respect that and allow for them to enjoy their holiday and break.
Here's the art and pin designs!
Depending on how many join the form I might turn these drawings into tall holo stickers they might end up being 3-4 inches tall!!! Please spread the word so my pins and art can be made real. form link here
Please let me know about any other donghua or manhua or danmei you recommend.
made a schwingy schwing animation and I love the sparkly warkly tinkgly of the metal.
Fang Xin Guoshi 🦋
He's still beautiful
Yeeeeeesss look at that, gimme all the great quotes
I do think there is a balance in the message though. These people who ascend or fall are human, but how much of their humanity do they lose? Over hundreds of years, how much do they change, try to leave behind - or remember, or vow to never, ever forget, to never let go of?
Just the ability to choose to hold onto or let go of things, of beliefs or obsessions, that's so human of them - but humans aren't supposed to be eternal. Xie Lian has to suffer things that regular humans never do, to live through death (or fatal injuries), through generations of change, through the rise and fall of kingdoms, through his own strengths but also his very many weaknesses.
Jun Wu and Hua Cheng have held onto and lived consumed by their resentment and devotion respectively, having to actively fight off anything that would contradict these things. A single lifetime of living with betrayal and heartbreak can break a person, but Jun Wu's resentment is so powerful that it essentially reshapes the entire world because of how it grew and amassed and never stopped tormenting him. Hua Cheng's devotion was so powerful that he gained an actual foothold to reshape the world almost as effectively as Jun Wu - enough to oppose his reign. These kinds of devotion are impressive specifically because they lasted so long, enduring so much, enduring things that shouldn't be human.
Xie Lian, Hua Cheng, Jun Wu, and many of the other gods have held onto who they are without any desire to change - regardless of the right or wrongess of these beliefs they refuse to change. It takes a great deal of effort, but in the end Jun Wu is the one who has to stop, who has to change after 2000 years of obsession. Even after he remade the heavens and got revenge on everyone, he still went this far.
It's natural to want to stay a certain way out of habit, because staying the same is comforting, but even so the world moves on without you and you inevitably change despite your efforts. But these gods spend hundreds and thousands of years without change. Jun Wu got everything he wanted but he continued hating even when there was no one left to hate - in fact he seemed to foster another round of gods to continue hating, just now they're under his thumb.
These people are fundamentally human at heart, but how much of that humanity remains once they've lived lives that can't be called fully human anymore? They are human, but they also can't be, but they can choose to try to stay human, or they can choose to be warped into something else.
And when they find out they chose wrong, they can choose again - but only if they remember that they are human, and humans have the power to keep chosing and changing.
Totally random but, as much as I generally love the TGCF fandom, I’ve noticed that it always mildly annoys me when people refer to, say, Hua Cheng or Xie Lian as not being human, when it’s kind of a major thing that they are still human. Maybe I’m being annoying here but, there’s a reason one of my favourite quotes from TGCF is ‘When humans ascend, they are still human; when they fall, they are still human’. I kinda feel especially strongly about this in regard to some of the ghosts because, well, you wouldn’t look at a human corpse and say “No! That’s not a human! It’s a corpse!”, yeah, obviously it’s a corpse, but it doesn’t cease to be human just because it’s dead, it’s just a dead human.