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"Very clever."

Ruan Nanzhu replied, "oh please — bronze medal, at best. Won't you give me a prize?"

Lin Qiushi, "what kind of prize?"

Ruan Nanzhu, "a kiss or something?"

Ruan Nanzhu, again, (i finished this art and then the story am i okay? haha no) (i wrote three essay-long rants on this novel today)

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Also in the same arc I really felt that to the rest of the group, Lin Quishi in all that "closed door/fake death" scene was like a nuclear power plant that would go KABOOM at a slight touch. Why are u so scary my mannn...

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"Main characters always find their way out the last second" the 10th door arc analysis (spoilers)

That trope is what we're pretty used to when it comes to danmei novels, or novels in particular. It's just what the reader likes, but we can talk abt it later.

So in Kaleidoscope of death that scenario happens almost every arc. They get in trouble => the time limit is almost up => they find a last second option to save themselves. Just as usual.

This time around it seems they're trying to do the same.

Qiushi is running around to find an urgent solution, and you, with your "main couple won't die" attitude, are patiently waiting for that to happen.

Maybe a tool or a clue will fall out from under the floor.

But instead you watch a man running back and forth, trying to figure out how to find a loophole or a help item, and fail. The mind starts to wander to the most unhinged plans it can come up with, but they're not possible.

And so he falls on his knees at the door saying, "You're so smart, please think of something."

NOTHING WORKS.

And you know Nanzhu is not gonna die, and you're still on your toes waiting for a last-second solution.

But no clue fell out of the sky, no brilliant idea came to either of them, and no crazy suicide plan is gonna come to fruition.

In other time he could have covered his loved one from the attack with his own body or thrown that punch to anyone else, but rn, he can't.

RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST A LOCKED ROOM WITH A BOMB. He can't sacrifice himself even if he tried to.

I'm blown away by how natural Qiushi's thought process is under stress, from trying to solve it with artifacts that are useless, to just emotionally trying to break down the door, to the risky gamble of opening all the drawers at once, to the "I'd rather be eaten before he is so i don't have to experience this" thought, to "what if i kill everyone so the door world would protect you" which JUST came out of desperation and even if he decided to, he couldn't.

And yet the other people?? They are standing there and they don't give a fuck? Kinda.

It's your own personal tragedy to deal with, that they will just watch and sometimes try to sympathise with. "Oh oh, how unfortunate, anyway"

Just like us, when minor characters lose someone, we've watched their grief with pity or indifference. You know it feels different when you're on the other side of a tragedy, even if it is common in door world.

Quichi knew that and tried to sell them the "if she dies, there's no key and no way out" but i personally didn't felt like anybody gave a fuck anyways for some reason?

The clock is ticking, time is running out, but there is no solution, and you can feel that sense of helplessness: you can't really do anything else.

"I thought we had plenty of time."

Go on and try to accept that you knew something like this was going to happen and you said "I don't care, I want to live today and be with you" and then it really happened.

Lastly, it ended in SILENCE, no effects to show that the fucker used the ability, the room didn't venture into a black hole or anything, it just went silent.

Yeah, of course you've known all along that he wasn't dead, that would be stupid. And yeah, he's not dead, obviously. And Qiushi wasn't really grieving in part.

But still emotions for this scene are staged SO WELL it plays gorgeously the "we can't fuck around and find out our way out of this one" idea and personally this sequence left me traumatized about this very thing.

I guess I just really really relate to Lin Qiushi at this point.

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You know, Ruan Nanzhu was always like this. (spoilers)

that one scene from the very first arc still lives rent free in my head.

RN, 1 arc, in a death trap: hey. just chilling here. Yeah, don't come near btw.

RN, 10th door arc, in a death trap: hey. just chilling here. wdym the door is locked not it's not i mean i locked it myself.

And if i got a coin every time Ruan Nanzhu makes surprise pikachu face when Lin Quishi says he won't leave him, I would be able to buy a chewing gum.

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I figured you might notice i have a kaleidoscope of death hyperfixation

I am doing art therapy with it 🥴 I love ruan nanzhu. I might post my feelings abt that one arc later today, as I'll translate it

BTW THE RIGHT CORNER IS LIKE: LYING TO ANYONE 😈 vs LYING TO LINGLING🥺

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Lin Qiushi about anyone else: she was a girl. Kinda short.

Lin Qiushi about Ruan Nanzhu: Ruan Nanzhu’s divine beauty could rival that of a great god, but the diabolic aura he radiated was far from that of a benevolent saint. He was practically the living embodiment of despotism and antagonism. Like a bewitching flower hidden within the depths of the jungle, he was a gorgeous existence that warned others not to draw too close unless they wished to be pricked by its poisonous thorns.

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I really don't get how to post and communicate in tumblr( Tho it's my project's one year anniversary today and nobody came to party(0 likes) on my main, so I'll just leave them here

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Today is a rom-com day

And rom-com i bring. Please proceed here to take your daily dose of cute gay ppl

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Swarm Disaster - Elation I

Whoo this took forever, but it was a ton of fun interpreting the dialogue into comic form! The first time I got this encounter, I was nothing short of ecstatic. When Aha acknowledged us as "Fake Akivili"? Chills. Pacing around the room giggling screaming

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Part 1 | Part 2

Anyways, I hope you enjoy my interpretation of this encounter!

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U know when you like a character so much that you just, well, want to squeeze him till his ribs crunch? No? Only me?

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Do this novel even have a fandom? Alright so there's that danmei novel Game Loading

So I've been reading it for some time and i REALLY liked the Atlantis arc (?? Is that how you call it ??)

The plot basically is for mc to get six princes to love him at the same time (for plot reasons) and OH BOY how entertaining and heart breaking that was

I really wanted to draw all of them with the designs that i imagined them with (although?? They're basically the same person?? Don't ask me abt that) and to share my headcanons

I present to you six Jiang Xie in a box

And a sketch redraws of them i made... Today

Sirius (SIX) with his heterochromia eyes. He definitely has a high af ponytail, blue/blue-black long hair and looks like a beaten puppy (he's my favourite 😭😭)

THE VEST it suits him so much???

FIVE is blond(or red?) and curly, with long hair, he has a slightly elongated face shape??

In general, I was also thinking about a more antique/Greek appearance, but at the same time something aristocratically lazy

The FOURTH looks older than all of them at sight, although he is not the eldest. I remembered well at the beginning that he was pale, looked sick and that he had gray eyes

I think he has dark hair and a short haircut, i really enjoyed drawing him again actually

The THIRD looks like a strawberry LOL (by colors: green manga hair and red uniform)

Honestly, that's just Gars in the manga, with a low tail

The SECOND looks like Pantalone (and don't even try to object), and a vampire from the manga at the same time, with the same huge coat, eyes and glasses, but, like, with silver hair

The FIRST is the toughest to design because?? He feels like Black Butler Sebastian to me?? That's all?? He looks like a butler, (although he is a prince), has circles under his eyes (as the novel states) And that creepy gaze he gave the MC one time??

So... i figured the creepy psychopath look will suit him the most (and i ate his hair when redrawing)

I think that Five and Second are taller than the others, and Third is probably the shortest lol

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Sometime your aesthetic collage just becomes a character. That is canon event.

I GUess I haVe HIm NoW

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You hurriedly took your brushes and did a stroke. Then, you started to draw. Draw draw draw draw and draw day and night, losing blood with each line, losing all sanity while ending up with, once again, a pure white page. All that for what?

Just for a single glimpse of hope to remember his face once again.

"Do you... still remember what he looked like?

Your imaginary friend."