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A drawing that my lovely friend @seertale stayed up til 3:30 am to help me finish and motivate me
Lin Ling my beloved come back I miss you
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tried out apothecary diaries the other day, got inspired to do a study, redrew jinmao as Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss", died

ive been sick for a while so excuse the messiness
#Iāve been adoring apothecary diaries lately!#the apothecary diaries#jinshi#maomao#mao mao#jinmao#they are so!!!#reblog#art reblog
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ā ā ā ā
ā ā ā ā I think a lot about the theme of Nice and Lin Ling, this intimate, anguished tone and obsessive focus on Lin Lingās fractured identity.
Lin Ling took on his image, his role, that cursed mantle of responsibility. In Donghua, Lin Ling came to a good ending, but what if it was a bad ending? What if Ling Ling had not resisted but allowed the process to continue? Where he loses himself completely. Where his "I" is just rubble. And to feel anything, to even exist, he starts scavenging for pieces of Nice. Like a junkie chasing a fix.
Find an old record of Niceās mission? Nice. Catch a flicker of that ice-gaze in his own eyes in the mirror? Nice. Someone mentions an old stunt Nice pulled, and he nods like *he* did it? Nice. Temporary fullness. Temporary wholeness, even if itās fake. "Pleasant"? "Good"? Fck yes, in that moment - yes! Like one sip of water in a desert. But it's nice. Capital N.
At first he was a fucked-up hybrid. His own personality? Smudged out. Dissolved under the weight of Niceās mask. But he didnāt become the real Nice either. Couldn't. Doesn't know him. Didn't live his past, doesn't breathe his thoughts. He's performing. Squeezing out a parody, terrified someone will see the cracks. See the emptiness beneath.
And that emptiness... Thatās whatās killing him. That monstrous, gaping void in-between. He's not Lin Ling. But and Not Nice. Heās No One in a Ghostās costume. And that void? You can't fill it. It just is. Gnawing him hollow. Exhausting him. Try being someone you arenāt ā someone you canāt become ā every damn second. Terrifying? Worse. It's existential hell.
The sickest part? It never ends. No final dose makes him fully Nice and plugs the void. Itās an endless cycle: Withdrawal -> hunt for a shard -> brief high -> worse withdrawal, worse void. Real Nice is unavailable. Heās cursed to forever scavenge crumbs from a dead manās table, shoving them into a bottomless pit.
His own past? Fading. Feels unreal. Like a dream. But Nice's memories? Nice's pain? They're becoming his memories. Brighter. True. He believes them more than his own. They're his opioids. His only compass in the chaos. Who is he? The one who lived what Nice lived. Even if he didnāt.
And the name... God, that name. Nice. It's everywhere now. A torture device. His name? A stolen name? Both. Neither. Every time he hears it casually ā and you hear it a hundred times a day ā itās a knife on nerves:
"Have a nice day!" on the radio? Not a wish.
"That's a nice choice!" in a store? Mockery: "Good choice? Like choosing this fate?"
"Nice to meet you!"? A threat: "Pleasure to meet you? Pleasure to start erasing you?"*
"Nice and easy..."? A lie: "Nothing about Nice is easy."
"Everything's going to be nice!"? A sentence: "Everything will be Nice. Only Nice."
"Nice one!"? Confirmation: Yeah. One Nice. Soon you'll be nothing else."
"You look nice today!"? An inspection: "Do I look like. Him now? Is the mask fusing?"
He physically even canāt hear āniceā as just āpleasant.ā His brain auto-translates it to NICE. The name. Every "nice" is a drop of water eroding stone. Slow. Relentless. Daily torture by the most mundane word alive.
That's it. He's trapped. Between sky and ground. Between himself and a shadow. Forever starving. Forever hollow. Forever assembling a dead manās puzzle. And his torturerās name blares from every speaker. Nice. Ironic. Cruel. Perfect.
#Iām so sane about Lin ling#I could read a million word fic about him and his story of identity loss#Lin ling#reblog#to be hero x#tbhx
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I HAVE A VISION
Lin ling as furina


Nice as focalors


#Furina and Lin ling my beloved#when I tell you focalors death scene haunted me omg#divinity vs humanity but itās the humanity that achieves perfection my beloved#to be hero x#tbhx#genshin impact#furina#focalors#Lin ling#nice#reblog
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damn, ghostblade and lil johnnie are older than i thought
Edit: https://t.co/scZmkO7hMF (Promotional video source, éå”社 on Weibo)
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What I think tbhx characters would smell like
(because I need an excuse to not post my tbhx oc)
X - Paper & febreze
Nice - vanilla and a slight scent of Old spice
Wreck - Old spice
Moon - Rituals Sakura
Lin Ling - melon deodorant
Lucky cyan - drugstore
Ahu - Wet dog and slightly like wine
Queen - Chanel N°5
The Johnnies - maple & orange
Loli - Strawberry
Ghost blade - snow
Dragon boy - Opaque white
E-soul - Carpet
Enlighter - old carpet and paper
(I physically can't remember more names so sorry about that š)
#e soul smelling like carpet is hilarious and I love it#also pls post ur oc i love ocs so much#they are filled with so much passion and love and joy!!!#reblog
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Decided to go back to my roots and do ibisPaint art on my phone āļø
Au where child Lin Ling is put into the future around episode 3-4 where āniceā is still trying to pretend heās the real Nice so he has to deal with the crushing weight of pretending to be someone heās not while taking care of a younger him
No background version under the cut
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How do I caption this
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I forgot how fun yet time consuming drawing on a phone is
#to be fair over an hour of it was spent on āniceāsā stupid pose#wip#my stuff#tbhx#tbhx nice#lin ling#tbhx lin ling
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tbhx made me conscious of how i talk
i say nice alot
so now everytime i say nice my brain goes
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Concept idea: time travel shenanigans and young Lin Ling meets older Lin Ling except heās still in his imposter Nice arc
#my stuff#wip#idk whether itās bby L0 gets transported to the present or itās older L0 going to the past#it would be an interesting idea if all the top 10 or something had this happen to them so the rest of them are meeting their younger self#and meanwhile Lin ling is just panicking cus uh oh heās supposed to be Nice not Lin ling#or it would be even funnier if Lin Ling met younger nice instead and had to keep that facade up#āāyeah Iām totally you from the future haha whatās my name again?āā#tbhx#to be hero x#tbhx lin ling#Lin ling#I JUST NEED MORE TBHX CONTENT#lin ling my beloved#except we are probably not gonna see him agai :((#I have incredible passion and no direction to put it in#so Iām trying to come up with different auās or other ideas about L0 to keep my mind occupied
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more ghost!nice au! aka this is how I cope after episode 4

more info about the au


#I LOVE THIS RAHHH#misogynist nice canon?1!?2!2?2?2!2!11!???#Lin ling my beloved#did tree man still orchestrate his death to the public? does he not exist legally anymore?#can only L0 see nice now?#me when I planned on jumping off a building then a guy with my dream job does it before I can#so then I get kidnapped to do my dream job but said newly dead guy comes back to life and tells me hell nah donāt do it#do the public know that nice is dead?#apologies op if u see this#I love Lin ling so much but heās not gonna appear much anymore probably :(((#I need more content/brainworms/concepts of these two Iām so sane about them#to be hero x#tbhx#tbhx nice#lin ling#nice#tbhx lin ling#reblog#art reblog
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āIf it's the mask you want, then it's the mask that you will get
But when I take it off, remember that you asked for this
I tore myself apart to give you all that I could give
Don't think that I will let it go, don't think that I'll forget
I thought I wanted legacy, I thought I wanted fame
I didn't know I'd lose all my loved ones in exchangeā
-Kingdom of Cards by Bad Omens
Black and white doomed yaoi part ??? In every universe the black and white duo can never catch a break can they š
#I drew this just bc I was like⦠hmmm this song is mildly nicewreck themed#also I couldnāt find any clear refs of this bro so I kinda just did whatever for his design and then gave up#I donāt even care really about wreck or nice#but man is it funny seeing another yin yang doomed lovers#the ones Iām really invested are Lin ling and Moon#unfortunately Lin lingās arc is over and moon isā¦#wreck#tbhx wreck#amarald art#my art#to be hero x#tbhx#my stuff
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Nice lives au where Lin Ling grabs his cape before he falls. Miss J decides for mental health reasons, they're gonna have 2 Nices.
They have to move in together. They switch off on superhero jobs/publicity stunts. Nice can be nearly at twice as many places as long as he's not in 2 places at once. His trust SKYROCKETS.
The Enlighter tries to expose that there's 2 of them, to which people tell him he's insane, but it spawns the 'Twice as Nice' theory. The people RUN with it. The ship is born. Ao3 does what it does and suddenly, Nice and Lin Ling start catching feelings (like they weren't already.)
Enlighter cries.
#CAPITAL N SHAPED POLY#I LOVE IT#reblog#to be hero x#tbhx nice#tbhx lin ling#tbhx moon#tbhx wreck#nice#lin ling#moon#wreck
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I just want him to be as annoying as possible. oh og nice the man you could have been and probably were. at some point. *head in hands screaming*
#BOTH OF THEM WANT ME DEAD I ALSO WANT ME DEAD ITS A HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP#HAS ME CACKLING LMAO#reblog#to be hero x#just watched all 4 episodes and am very intrigued#I do enjoy the loss and gaining of identity. outside perspectives. and mild body horror in the media I consume yes#art reblog#tbhx nice#nice
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Because, for all the places theyāre touching, the distance between them has never felt so wide, and the truth hovers there in the empty spaces between Dabiās words:
I know youāre here for me.
But itās not enough.
«These Furious Passions, These Chances» by @amidststars
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Ponychako
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