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Welcome to Top Chef Tural!

Another piece for my wonderful friend @thesecondbatgirl, who requested Zoraal Ja and Bakool Ja Ja in aprons and following the level 94 Dawntrail MSQ quest "The Feat of Repast." I've never drawn mamool ja before, nor do I have much experience drawing anything remotely anthro, so I'm touched that I was trusted with this work. It was also a really fun anatomical challenge!

If you want to get the same font for Eorzean script that I used here, I used karaipsum on GitHub's "Augmented Neo-Eorzean" typeface.

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[Image ID: A digital drawing of Zoraal Ja an Bakool Ja Ja from FFXIV: Dawntrail wearing green aprons. Zoraal Ja, a purple mamool ja, stands to the left with a dour expression. He is wearing a simplified version of his in-game armor, sans the crown and rings. His apron reads "The Resilient Chef" in Eorzean typeface. His hands are in fists at his sides. Bakool Ja Ja, a two-headed mamool ja, stands to the right with his hands on his hips. His apron reads "Ba-Kiss the Cook" in Eorzean typeface. Bakool Ja Ja the Mighty (left head) looks peeved, while Bakool Ja Ja the Mystic (right head) looks smug.

They are set against a rectangular teal background with their shadows cast in a darker teal. Above Zoraal Ja's head is text reading "Top Chef TURAL" in Eorzean typeface. The text also has a shadow.

A square, stamp style logo reading “Alex Tir Zeng” in red watermarks the image in the lower right corner. /End ID]

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It is a lovely day in Garlemald, and you are a horrible goose....

Many thanks to a wonderful friend of mine for asking me to draw her not her own Warrior of Light as a goose, but my (the purple and grey goose) and a mutual friend of ours (the black goose)'s Warriors of Light as geese, ready to attack Zenos, Untitled Goose Game style. This was an absolute delight to do, and I'm so happy I could deliver

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[Image ID: A drawing of two geese and a man done in a lineless style inspired by that of Untitled Goose Game. The first goose is grey and purple, standing upright wearing a teal wizard hat, and holding a sword. The second goose, slightly behind the first, is black, lunging forward, and holding a wizard staff with a crescent and purple orb at one end. Both geese have an anime-style glint in their eyes indicating they’re on the offensive. The head of a man, Zenos, is partially visible in the lower left corner of the image. He has long blond hair and pale skin, though much of it is obscured by a faded blue overlay over where his eyes would be to indicate dread. While his eyes themselves are not visible, his Garlean eye (a pale, smooth protrusion in the center of his forehead) is. The background consists of a grey stone pathway in snow, with the brown roots of a tree visible in the upper right corner. There are some small tufts of pale green grass visible through the snow, particularly near the tree roots. A square, stamp style logo reading “Alex Tir Zeng” in red watermarks the image in the lower right corner. /End ID]

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“Come to America,

Where the streets are paved with gold”

My father tells me not to take the subway

Fitting, that he warns me away from

Down beneath the gilding

Where ours were not the only people

They have tried to bury, as if

“Give me your tired, your poor”

Was not a parasite’s siren call

And we were not it’s meal

Gluttonous still after gorging itself

Of everything it had stolen

He does not want to see my throat slit

Dead on the tracks in the company

Of the ghosts of my unnamed ancestors

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“Gravesite for the Railworker’s Daughter”

by Alex Tir Zeng

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Pick a Star on the Dark Horizon (Follow the Light) [Ao3] [FF.N]

Rating: T

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV

Summary: After facing what should have been certain death and loosing his purpose, Foulques of the Mist is at a loss as to how to move forward. Fortunately, the Warrior of Light has some ideas.

Content Warnings: Fantasy racism, Xenophobia

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All Things It Devours [Ao3] [FF.N]

Rating: G

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV

Summary: After the business with the elpis flower, Hermes and the Warrior of Light have another talk. Unfortunately, one more conversation isn't enough to change anything.

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I have a Ko-Fi!

If you like my work and have some spare change, please consider buying me a ko-fi! It'd be much appreciated.

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I am not accepting commissions or requests at this time

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Deus Ex Manderville [Ao3] [FF.N]

Rating: G

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV

Summary: Following her adventures with Hildibrand in Ishgard, the Warrior of Light asks Godbert Manderville for a favor.

It has...unexpected side effects

Content Warnings: Discussion of Canonical Character Death

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High Republic Bookmark

Happy Pride Everyone!

I had the absolute pleasure of being commissioned by Pride Squadron to design a bookmark to be handed out at this year’s Star Wars Celebration! Now that Celebration has passed, I’ve been given the green light to post my work online for you all to see!

All of the characters featured here are canonically queer characters from Star Wars: the High Republic. It was an absolute pleasure to draw them, and an absolute pleasure to work with the folks at Pride Squadron

Star Wars: the High Republic and characters © Lucasfilm LFL

Art © Me

[Image ID: the front and back designs of a two-inch by eight-inch bookmark, displayed side by side. The back of the bookmark (right) is a rainbow gradient overlaid with the text “We are all the Republic” in the font classic of Star Wars. These words are bracketed above and below by the High Republic logo. Between the words “we are all” and “the Republic” is the Pride Squadron logo – which itself is composed a central circle (one half of which featuring the Rebel insignia and the other half featuring the imperial insignia) with rainbow wings.

Beneath this is a square logo reading "Alex Tir Zeng" with my business contact information (AlexTirZeng@gmail.com, https://ko-fi.com/AlexTirZeng). At the very bottom of the bookmark is a the notation ©LFL.

The front of the bookmark (left) is composed of four panels of character head shots, made to resemble a photobooth strip. The first panel features Vernestra Rwoh (a purple haired, green skinned, and blue eyed Mirialan girl) and Leox Gyasi (a blonde, pale skinned, blue eyed human man) standing shoulder to shoulder at a three-quarter view.

The second panel features Kantam Sy (a black haired, brown skinned nonbinary human with facial hair), their padawan Lula Talisola (a human girl with dark, voluminous brown hair that is partially in locs and brown skin of a slightly lighter shade), and Zeen Mrala (a pink skinned Mikkian girl with red eyes whose head-tentacles fade into purple). Lula and Zeen are seen cheek to cheek, with Kantam above them.

The third panel features Ty Yorrick (a brown skinned Tholothian woman with a gold head piece and blue-white head tentacles) and Ceret and Terec (a pair of nonbinary Kotabi twins with white skin and pale eyes surrounded by dark makeup. The twins are identical). Ty, standing behind the twins, is rolling her eyes, while the twins goof around in front of her. Ceret (left) is winking and sticking their tongue out, giving bunny ears to their twin, while Terec is cross-eyed.

The fourth panel features Jordanna Sparkburn (left) and Sylvestri Yarrow (right), Jordanna is a human woman with pale brown skin and wavy brown hair – the bits of which that frame her face bound in silver clasps. She is wearing something that resembles a brown poncho. Sylvestri is also a human woman, though with darker brown skin and 4C hair in an afro. She is wearing a red turtleneck and a blue jacket with gold detailing. The two are standing shoulder to shoulder, rather awkwardly looking away from each other. The background for all four panels is a pastel version of the same rainbow gradient featured on the back of the bookmark. End ID]

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What We Owe Each Other [Ao3] [FF.N]

Rating: T

Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Summary: …And more importantly, what we don’t owe each other.

Obi-Wan and Satine don’t have the kind of relationship the galaxy seems to expect them to have. Post-Voyage of Temptation and after twenty years out of communication, the two of them have a conversation about why.

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Voide by Tigrette-of-Fire

In which I actually fulfill my intentions to complete a series of something, have a knee-cut of Voide, other liege-lady of my heart, to accompany Darkstar’s. Voide fights with a short-staffed guandao in addition to her fists (Voide is the heaviest hitter on Star Force when it comes to hand-to-hand combat), and is dressed in a Chinese hanfu as well. If I’m honest, I think this one turned out better than Darkstar’s - namely because I have more practice and I wasn’t an idiot who put in three light sources this time around.

Wanna buy this piece? Go here to my redbubble!

[Star Force Character Refs] [Darkstar]

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EDIT 11/20/17: Her skin was too grey, so I fixed it EDIT 12/04/17: More glow to the hair

So remember those superheroes I drew a while back? Have a fullbody (or, well, a ¾ body) of Darkstar, liege-lady of my heart, featuring costume and weapons designs. I’m pretty sure I died trying to shade this (why the fuck I thought it was a good idea to put three goddamn light sources in this is beyond me atm), but regardless of any inevitable fuck-ups, I’m actually really happy with how this came out. This piece is also posted on my deviantART here.

She’s wearing a modified version of the Chinese hanfu (check out the style I modeled hers after) and wields a meteor hammer - though with lanterns instead of the usual weights. I also used this tutorial for the background.

Wanna buy this piece on a number of products? Go here to my redbubble!

[Star Force Character Refs] [Voide]

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An Hourglass in Zero Gravity [Ao3] [FF.N]

Rating: T

Fandom: Star Wars

Summary:

There’s a space between being and nonbeing where time ceases to be an obstacle.

Nineteen years after the rise of the Galactic Empire, Obi-Wan Kenobi is cut down (and yet not) at the hands of his own apprentice. Thirteen years before the genocide of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi wakes up.

Things were never so simple as living and dying linearly.

Content Warnings: None for the prologue, but content warning for sensory overload in chapter 1

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Any time can be gourd time if you aren’t a coward lmao. A baby hat knit by commission using Sassy Street on Ravelry’s “Pumpkin’s Beanie” - with the modification of not doing a garter stitch edge and instead just extending the ribbed portion so a lip can be folded up.

This was a commission done for a family friend, HOWEVER, I am hoping to be able to open up knitting commissions (and maybe even drawing commissions) to folks at large later this year. I’ll keep you posted when that happens!

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[Image ID: a photo of a knit beanie for a baby. It is shaped like a pumpkin, with a large, ribbed, orange base with a folded up lip as a brim. It is topped by a stem and two curling vines of varying length, made in green yarn. The beanie sits on a medium brown wooden table, a wood floor and part of a stair visible in the background. /End ID]

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Two sets of mittens, both as gifts and both knit using LeeLeeKnits’s “Bulky Cable Knit Mittens” pattern! I found this pattern to be really fun, and altogether a quick knit.

Image IDs under the cut!!!

[Image 1 ID: a pair of knit mittens lain with their wrists crossed. Each mitten has a braided cable down the top of it, from wrist to finger tip. This pair of mittens is knitted with variegated yarn, and are striped grey, cyan, navy, and teal. The mittens are resting on a medium-pale wooden countertop, next to an unpainted wooden bird-feeder (which is shaped like a gazebo) and a ceramic vase with a twisted neck drip-glazed green over the brown body glaze of the vase. /End ID 1]

[Image ID 2: a pair of knit mittens lain with their wrists crossed. Each mitten has a braided cable down the top of it, from wrist to finger tip. These mittens are dark grey. They sit on a medium-pale wooden countertop on which a green, white and pink doily lays at the black metal base of a lamp. /End ID 2]

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Cotton-polyester blend

Run between my fingers

Hang upon my needles

Until my love is something solid

Enough to take hold

In the moments where words fail me

So this child is safe and warm

Without remembering my face

And I can keep you safe

When you’ve forgotten my name

—

“Tángjiě, Àyí (Agū)” by Alex Tir Zeng

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Convertible mittens for a kid I knit as a holiday gift!! I used Nancy J. Thomas at Yarnspiration’s “Flip-Top Kids’ Mittens” with a few modifications (namely only using one color instead of two lol)

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[Image ID: a picture of a pair of mittens that are convertible between full mittens and fingerless mittens. This is done by knitting a flap top that can be buttoned back. The mittens are light blue with brown buttons, with the one on the left in the fingerless configuration. The mittens sit on top of a folded cream placemat, which in turn sits on a large silver dish. The dish is sitting on a floral orange tablecloth and has white flowers and part of a clear vase reflected on its surface. /End ID]

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The Trouble with Transporters [Ao3] [FF.N]

Rating: T

Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Wars: the Clone Wars crossover

Summary: Contrary to what Dr. McCoy might say, transporters weren’t actually all that dangerous. Sulu knew the statistics; the odds of death by transporter were about even with those for death by shuttlecraft accident - which while nonzero, certainly weren’t worth putting your day on hold for. The overwhelming majority of transports were perfectly safe. They got you from where you were to where you wanted to be - nothing more, nothing less.

This was not one of those times.

AKA the Anakin and Sulu Swap AU

Content Warnings: surface level discussion of the potential medical consequences of transporter malfunctions, including impaling