Progress Report: In Truth No Beauty, In Lies No Refuge

After watching CQL, I feel the need to write a fanfic. Because of course I do. Now I just need to finish my current project and then read the books.

Until I have, my ability to predict what it'll be like is limited, but I do know that it'll be a Xiyao fic. I know from my friend that things end a bit differently in the books, but I don't know how. She thinks I can work with it. 😅 She did not word this in a promising manner.

Oh, and there is one more thing. Jin Guangyao is going to have a huge, HUGE praise kink. I'm prepared to die on that hill.

The title might be 'No Bonds Can Hold Me', but that might very well change.

Oh and the friend I mentioned is the same one who asked me to write beefleaf. There is a tendency there, but this time no persuasion was necessary.

Adding that if anyone needs an example of a character that acts VERY feminine and uses ore, I'd like them to take a good, hard look at Jakotsu, who also uses 俺.

Do you know this queer character?

Victor is MLM and uses he/him pronouns!

Avenge the Living, Heal the Dead

New Chapter:

The best laid plans don't always work out. And Shi Qingxuan's plan was never all that good to begin with.

ok now I need to subscribe to you on Ao3, who are you?

Haha, same as here pretty much: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Pre_Reform_Voice

Thanks a lot!

Avenge the Living, Heal the Dead

New chapter:

Shi Qingxuan finds himself in an unfamiliar place and in the care of the same woman that came to the beggars' temple.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race

Sometimes, the biggest questions have to wait.

Cackles in "my mom has a lower jaw bone she snatched from a graveyard (!) because she reckons it's her grandfather's (!?) and it's on broad display with some pretty seashells (!!!)."

This German native speaker is currently howling with laughter. :D

so this European clothing retailer decided to advertise their jean cuts on youtube and it's unintentionally the funniest shit I've seen today. why? well.

now important context here: in German, die (pronounced 'dee') is just a feminine article, it literally means "the".

but if an ad gets placed in the middle of an English video and doesn't use a single explicitly German word for most of the ad, even a native speaker is gonna think "they want me to die how?" it keeps getting funnier.

I mean, holy shit

i will use these as reaction images until i die

I want the golden dice. I haven't tried Tactician and I don't have a guide. Yes, I know this is a bad idea and I'll need one eventually.

ANYWAY, meet Black Water, borrowed from Heaven Official's Blessing because Honour Mode needs a) pragmatic character and b) someone who can die and come back because I want to do this with one person.

In that vein, the first autosave is secured elsewhere. This is the only time I'm doing it, I just don't want to go back to character creation.

Let's see how this goes.

This is so beautiful! If you make a calendar, I’ll be needing one, that much I know already. They look so very happy and they both deserve it. <3

I said I'll give Yuuri dimples and I'm very happy I did.

This is cropped, the full painting is here on Patreon. (Payments currently paused until I can paint reliably again.)

I got lucky for being able to finish this, most of my art is on a hard drive I can't access until I find somewhere that carries the right cable. This painting was on a different folder on my desktop, because it's with pieces I'm planning to print.

I'm years late with the calendar I wanted to make, but I still want to do it. I'm making the month pages and definitely adding YOI character birthdays.