The Earth Is Online Audio Drama || Theme Song, "Ravens in the Dark"

they should invent drawing that's easy

lineart done !! really happy with it

Global Examination (QQGK) - Duke arc | audio drama

sichuan, october 2024

I'm back from my ~2 weeks trip! there were so many people but I'm already looking forward to going back, especially to 川西. now to catch up with all my shows and tumblr posts and gifs and translations (and work) 🥲

【二公·舞蹈纯享】#徐海乔 #黄潇《#国王与乞丐》每一次对视都能感觉到情感喷发｜Call Me By Fire S4 EP4｜MangoTV

They’ve got a Dance Focused Vid now. Which is great cuz you get to see more of what Xu Hai Qiao is doing. Yes, I AM completely bias.

Heaven Official's Blessing Audio Drama S2 || Insert Song, "Vice (Ballad Version)"

^ quick and unpolished translation of 冥凰 Ming Huang's incredible lyrics — both the lyrics to the original version of 《辜》 and this version are written in this lovely literary/operatic, almost classical cadence. the 双玄副本/black water arc is, from beginning to end, characterized by spectacle/spectatorship: not only do we witness the dead-knot entanglement of He Xuan and the Shi brothers from the outsider perspective of Xie Lian, but we learn the tragedy of He Xuan the mortal from the 血社火, the grim parade that progresses along the street outside the teahouse, which performs the misfortunes and sufferings of He Xuan's life, his resentful end. so it's fitting that both versions of 《辜》 are written from a distant, neutral perspective, the song's narrator observing and commenting in impersonal judgment

just so everyone's clear on this front: dream town IS in fact about the sweeping apocalyptic romance between a label maker and an octopus

I mean it's also about the way faith can give you strength when you need it, but render you blind when you don't suspect it. it's about the paper-thin line between loyalty and worship, and the follies of deification. it's about sacrifice and survival, and what it means to bear witness to the end of your world. it's about selfhood, and the intense courage and commitment it takes to remain true to yourself when the world around you has gone mad. it's about the seductive siren song of entropy and the futility of the fight against the heat-death of the universe. it's about how absolute power absolutely corrupts, but without power you cannot protect the people you love. it's about how, in your desperation to protect people, you turn into a monster yourself. it's about how placing someone on a pedestal fundamentally dehumanizes them, yes, even if you worship them as a god. it's about how excising all of your emotions can make you a better warrior and protector; it's also about the necessity of emotion because energy literally comes from emotion, powered by the human soul. it's about the inevitability of fate and the cruelty of the law of conservation of matter; it's about defying destiny and your roommate's bizarre luck. it's about the graveyard moon and the undreaming ocean, the ravenous earth and the sightless sky. it's about how love will grow again and again, even if it's cut away; it's about humanity's inherent yearning for hope as its most fundamental instinct

it is also — and I cannot stress this enough — about how being the chosen one does not pay the bills or run your little apocalypse dream town for you, so behind every world-saving college student is a squad composed of a lady knight who can turn into metal at will, an easily-brainwashed roommate, a near-sighted computer programmer, a lady from HR, a few retirement-age college professors, an ex-bartender, a whole host of government bureaucrats, a sassy system, a (mostly) dead god, and a guy who's literally a pile of ashes but doesn't let that stop him from judging you and your squad.

and of course an emotional support rationality octopus. gotta have that emotional support rationality octopus

chinese fire art huoyandao火焰刀(fire blade) by 李卿尘li qingchen

feeling frisky, might start a p大 protagonist handshake chain

Zhou Zishu 🤝 Chang Geng: chronic sleep deprivation

Sheng Lingyuan 🤝 Gu Yun: migraines

Wen Kexing 🤝 Chang Geng: biting 

Luo Wenzhou 🤝 Gu Yun: “surely this infant can’t be flirting with me”

Gan Qing 🤝 Zhou Zishu: just trying to live life on the dl, forcibly adopted by happenstance acquaintances

Jing Beiyuan 🤝 Sheng Lingyuan: would simply like to go back to sleep

Luo Wenzhou 🤝 Yu Lanchuan: will lecture on self-care and also obeying the law at the slightest provocation

Wen Kexing 🤝 Chang Geng: being struck dumb by the magnificence of their love interests going on murder sprees

Luo Wenzhou 🤝 Gu Yun: having a straight best friend/subordinate voiced by 郭浩然 who nags them

Yu Lanchuan 🤝 Gu Yun: just because I wear glasses doesn’t mean I can’t kick your ass

Jing Beiyuan 🤝 Chang Geng: coming out of the closet for political reasons

Xuan Ji 🤝 Lu Bixing 🤝 Chang Geng: simply wants to be a housewife, forced to be a head of state

Yu Lanchuan 🤝 Fei Du: what if we applied money to the problem

Wu Xi  🤝 Sheng Lingyuan: what if we applied murder to the problem

Yu Lanchuan 🤝 Chang Geng: what if we were passive aggressive about the problem

Sheng Lingyuan 🤝 Lin Jingheng: stone cold bastards

Xuan Ji 🤝 Lu Bixing: the only two who would actually be fun to be friends with

this is a semi-sentient pickaxe appreciation post

"BUT THE PICKAXE WAS A CULTURED PICKAXE" PLEASE AUTHOR I'M YELLING

if they ever make a dream town AD (probably not, it's so long skdjsksjd) I am hoping that they cast 金弦 as 沈霁月 because. well if anyone exists in the intersection of these two things, you know I'm right

yeah of course he fei would be voiced by 谷江山, next question

NOW THAT I KNOW WHO XU HAIQIAO IS, I AM OFFICIALLY DEEMING THIS MAN THE FACECAST OF SHEN JIYUE