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the white prophet and the catalyst! rather name them as they are, the fool and the idiot

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F is for (the) Fool

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‘what, rationally, was my best course of action? kill them all.’

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SISYPHUS GETS A 9 TO 5

[spoilers for all of severance season 1. words by northernlion, brain worms by me]

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this one part from harrow the ninth always made me really upset. so i made a four page comic out of it!

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His nose was broken, and his lips and chin were wet with gore. There was blood in his eyes and under his hair, and his expression was one of cold and perfect murder. It was as though losing the rapier had snapped some invisible shackle. He didn't even look angry; he looked like an ending given human form.

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Going full byzantine with this piece because what's the locked tomb without drama?

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Matthias Nonius, the greatest swordsman of the Ninth, vs the Sleeper

Inprnt store here!

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thinking bout their childhood..... the babies are fightingggg

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rendition of my favourite scene

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little beloved with his sister again....waaa.....

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´"Beloved, I have missed your company."

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Every time i get a post notification from you i start vibrating thinking about potential new Beloved art

here's a tiny fool i just finished...the silly...

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Enemies to Lovers: Cezhou's Defeats & Victories

Enemies to lovers. Such a popular trope, and such a well-used one in Qiang Jin Jiu. But, as I said here, the ultimate enemy Shen Zechuan and Xiao Chiye each face is not each other, nor is it the corrupt dynasty or the Biansha Tribe.

It’s themselves. 

Shen Zechuan said leisurely, “I can just admire myself in the mirror; there’s no need for another person.”

“You still don’t know how to have fun.” Xiao Chiye said. “How can self-admiration be as delightful as being admired by me? Both of us have to be reflected in the mirror for it to be aesthetically rousing.”

With glistening eyes rippling with desires, Shen Zechuan asked, “So what’s considered aesthetically rousing?”

“Seeing is believing.” Xiao Chiye checked Shen Zechuan’s temperature. “Try it with me one of these days, and you’ll find out.”

Shen Zechuan is wrong in this passage. He needs to see others around him–especially, of course, Xiao Chiye. Xiao Chiye, too, needs to have Shen Zechuan there to not just be fully alive, but to be fully himself. This begins even before the novel proper begins: Shen Zechuan was saved from the Chashi Sinkhole  by his elder martial brother, Ji Mu, and was then immediately captured by Xiao Jiming, the elder brother of his future other-half. What Shen Zechuan lacks, he finds in Xiao Chiye, and vice versa.

What does it mean to lose yourself, and what does it mean to find yourself? Well, let’s look at Cezhou’s losses and victories, shall we? Specifically, their first major military losses operating on their own: to Huo Lingyun and to Hasen, and then their final military victories on their own: over Qudu and over Hasen.

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The hardest carry of Duanzhou