NAH CAUSE I WILL DEMATERIALIZE

These are adorable, but not the tragic beefleaf 😭

Tgcf chibis :)

The red thread heart 🥹 and my god the way they’re looking at each other

Let's go home, Your Highness. @oryunart

STOP this is too cute 😭😭😭

Image they were dancing at Barcelona before Yuuri take Victor to pick rings

Stunning art, I adore Bam’s s3 look but his long hair will always be iconic, and ofc Khun’s always looking good 💅🏻

travel~

I find it hilarious how in tgcf book 8, FengQing’s opinion of Hualian does a complete 180 turnaround from the cave of ten thousand gods, not because they like Hua Cheng any better but because Xie Lian is having the gayest moment of his life.

Straight up went from “Xie Lian don’t go near him he’s a psycho stalker!” to “somebody get this man his husband or he’s going to burn this entire world to the ground with us in it”

“Only since meeting you have I rediscovered how simple it is to be happy”

Quick Hualian sketch, it has been a tgcf summer reading all the books and it is a crime I haven’t drawn them yet

Can we talk about Ruoye for a second.

Like, it’s a sweet, wholesome, playful little spirit that loves Xie Lian to pieces, yet its backstory is so fucked up. It only came to life because of the horrible evil acts it was used to commit, and I’m just thinking that poor baby Ruoye has got to be just as traumatized as Xie Lian. The book notes that in its very first moments, it doesn’t understand the suffering that birthed it, but I hardly think that means Ruoye wasn’t aware of what caused it to gain consciousness. It was a lil baby spirit, so it just didn’t understand the implications yet.

And Ruoye had the misfortune of coming to life during Xie Lian’s worst moments. Of course it wasn’t XL’s fault, but it still hurts that Ruoye, innocent little spirit that it was, just wanted love from the person it saw as its creator and wasn’t able to get it. My guess is Ruoye probably quickly understood the circumstances surrounding its birth because of XL’s initial attitude towards it. I almost imagine it had to feel some sort of guilt for its part, albeit involuntary, in XL’s suffering.

However. As we know, no matter what mistakes Xie Lian made in the past, he ultimately chose kindness. I cannot imagine how painful it must have been for him to see Ruoye for a while, given what it must have reminded him of, yet he welcomed and cared for it regardless. He gave it the love that it so desperately wanted. And I can’t get over that. He realized that no matter how much pain Ruoye had caused him, it wasn’t the little spirit’s fault. In a way, I can draw parallels between that and Xie Lian’s treatment of Hong Hong’er, who he always took care of no matter how much others warned him that he would cause misfortune. Xie Lian ignored the warnings because Hong Hong’er didn’t deserve to be punished for something he had no control over. He deserved to be loved like anyone else.

Now, the scene that really got me thinking about all this? When Jun Wu uses Ruoye to tie up Xie Lian in Quan Yizhen’s palace, Ruoye is distraught. I don’t think that is purely because it has been tied into knots, as is explained in the book, but also because of the resurfacing trauma of again being used to hurt Xie Lian, whom it loves so much. And again, like little ghost fire Hua Cheng, it can do nothing about it.

All this to say, I love precious little Ruoye and I love the relationship it has with Xie Lian even more. Despite the trauma and pain, they found companionship in each other, choosing to love. It’s like, one of, if not the main theme, of TGCF, and I never realized how much Ruoye, with all its parallels to Hua Cheng, embodies that.

This is so cute to imagine, Xie Lian is definitely a Stardewer. He convinces Hua Cheng to play with him and Hua Cheng is chopping down trees and making upgrades and taking care of the crops, meanwhile Xie Lian is wandering around collecting random shit and giving out the weirdest gifts to the villagers.

Every time Xie Lian is short on something he needs, Hua Cheng just magically pulls out a secret stash of that material, and Xie Lian happily goes on with his day of mining or fishing or foraging or more likely all of the above

stardewlian

It's been more than a week and I can't this image out of my head.

I'm 100% sure Xie Lian would love to play Stardew Valley. It would be his favorite game. It has so many things he would love, specially the combat in the mines. But he would have so much fun fishing, and farming, and collecting things that he finds around, and raising animals. He would yap nonstop to Hua Cheng about every little thing he'd do too. I can see him spending hours lost in the game.

My beloved anemo archon relaxing in the sun 🩵

Realized I hadn’t actually drawn Venti yet, and I needed to remedy that cause he’s my favorite alcoholic bean and I love him and no I don’t have a problem 🍃🍺🪽🌌