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#OubingzhaWeek25 "Here come the birthday boys!"

I had ingredients I needed to use up, so I attempted to make a cake. It's a purple sweet potato cake with cream cheese frosting, fondant, and sprinkles.

As you can probably tell, I've never decorated a cake before, but also WHY DID IT TURN GRAY. PURPLE SWEET POTATO WHERE. THE BATTER WAS PURPLE WHEN I PUT IT IN THE OVEN. It tasted good though.

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#OubingzhaWeek25 day 4: All Dressed Up

I decided to draw a companion piece to the Ao Bing one of him waiting for his date

He's waiting for his date

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A part 2 to this previous post—

Ao Guang was also a symbiote that managed to escape with the many others, and in search of his son, decided to take Li Jing as his host.

His power is similar to Ao Bing’s regarding hardening, but rather than forming strong scales, Ao Guang can harden his claws to use as his weapon.

His hair can also be hardened and be used as a makeshift weapon if he pleases to.

I find it funny asf that all of the Li boys in this household all has gotten a symbiote living rent free inside of them 😭 poor lady yin meanwhile is totally oblivious to it all (mainly because none of them wanted her to be concerned-).

*And yes, Jinzha and Muzha both also have symbiote s attached to them (being Ao Jie and Ao Yi).

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Oubingzha Week Day 3: Role Swap!

You've heard of Pearlswap AU, but how about... Species swap AU!

In which most things are the same, but the dragons are humans and the humans are dragons.

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🪷🔥Oubingzha Week: Day 2🔥🪷

🌊🐉PROMPT: "I'll find you in the next life"🐉🌊

They say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die.

What happens then, if the life you see isn't yours, but is instead what it could've been?

Anyways, doomed Shangmei oubing my beloved 🫶 I definitely like to sprinkle some psychological horror as much as the next shangmei enjoyer, but I definitely lean more towards them being doomed,,, they're like Jinx and Ekko in the way that I see their world as one where everyone picked the worst possible option they could've taken,,,

So uhh,,, I hope u heard Waymond's theme when u read the last line haha 🫶

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Day 3- Role Swap

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Woke up one day and decided to make Oubing more monstrous cause why not (hope you enjoy my rambling; very long post)

Nezha, nobody was willing to accept him. Although his parents do love and support him, over the years he built up a the mentality that he IS the monster.

He haunts the neighborhood by terrorizing local houses and set thing on fire regularly. Everybody fears him which only ever worsens his bottled up frustrations.

AoBing, the beautiful spirit that lives in the waters of the ocean. Occasionally you'd spot him lying near the rocky surfaces near the shore. His majestic beauty is irresistible to anyone that so happens to glaze at him.

Once one has met upon those eyes are hypnotized as if staring at celestial beauty. They'd be drawn into moving towards the creature just to never return again.

One day, Nezha met aobing while strolling at the coast. Though his demonic powers prevented him from getting possessed by those luring eyes, he was still charmed by what he's seeing.

AoBing noticed that nezha isn't as easy to manipulate than others of which it intrigues him. Unknowingly, this interest turned into excitement everytime aobing rises to hunt. Sometimes just imagining him coming by makes him forget he was ever hungry.

(+bonus art) simple drawing of them being sappy

And... ... oh god.

OH GOD WHAT IN THE LIVING HELL HAVE I CREATED WITY MY BARRE HANDSsS

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See, I told you I got something for you

Hhshs this is basically just an excuse for me to draw Nezha in a Formal Attire since I saw my moots done the trend already soooo

Design by me, hshshshs anddddd I'll post the reference sheet later 😉

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Your honour I love them so much 😩

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"This town's big enough for one cool guy,"

"There's something different about you,"

WAGH, THE MAFIAxGANGLEADER AU PIECE IS FINALLY DONE GOOD GOD, DESIGNING NEZHA AND AO BING PUT ME THROUGH THE WRINGER

Anyways! Hope you guys like these designs! Might draw more of the other characters (The rest of the Loong family + SGB, or the rest of Nezha's gang) one of these days lmao

Some design notes:

Ao Bing

The thing over his shoulders is a hanfu-styled jacket, with it's inner having a dragon pattern in the style of those blue porcelain pieces

The lapels of his vest and the hem of his pants have the same print as the fabric of his hanfu and robes in his canon design

The hairpin that keeps his hair up is supposed to mimic his horns in canon, though I don't know how clear that is 😭

His hair is incredibly well-maintained, especially since he dyes it often

It's not pictured, but he has ice burn scars that crawl up from his palms to a little above his wrists

This is what he wears on the job/when going outside. Otherwise, he dresses pretty casually, defaulting to a light sweater vest, sweater, or cardigan over a white button-up (like the one fit his irl mascot wore lmao)

Again, unseen, but he has a large tattoo of his dragon form from the original movies! I still haven't decided if I want it on his arm or on his back yet tho lmao

That uniform has been through a lot. A lot of his wardrobe comes in white or light blues, which is a biiiit of problem when you're the son of a mafia kingpin and you're occasionally tasked with "helping" people "swim with the fishes".

Nezha

All of his clothes are thrifted. All of them. Especially the red cropped jacket

Speaking of which, has lots of lotus motifs (inspired by this design by snowscapism) and the yellow lining the lapels calls back to the vest lil Nezha has in canon

That crop top used to be a normal, black crop top before Nezha absolutely shredded it (probably in some accident) and painted over it to make it "cooler". He also painted over the cargo pants he's wearing.

ANOTHER jacket tied to his waist as another callback to the yellow ribbon in Nezha's canon design

A lot of his jewelry were gifted to him by mama Yin when she saw he took interest in some of her own pieces when he was younger. The only ones that weren't were his helix piercings which he got without telling anyone in his family lmao

He also does his own makeup and face paint. The red, flame-like markings are a symbol of their gang, and every member has the mark, often done by Nezha himself

HENNNAAAAA!!! I GAVE HIM HENNA ON HIS HANDS :))) I LOVE HENNAAAAAAA!! They have a lotus design on them, but they aren't exactly that noticeable 😭

Rollerblades....

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Still thinking about them

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Something that I was talking about with a friend another day was how Nezha defies social rules, but AoBing defies social roles.

NeZha obviously breaks social rules, with his constant casual manners and he doesn’t seem to be courteous at all. However, from my perspective as a western audience, I felt like NeZha’s fear of showing weakness is indicative of his relationship with his own identity of being a boy, or being masculine. The way that he was afraid to show affection for his mother at the beginning of NeZha 2 because he’s embarrassed by what onlookers might think might also stem from his want to appear strong. He bit his lip hard enough to draw blood in while flying to Lady ShiJi’s mountain because he was so hurt by the destruction he saw in Chengtang Pass that he masks it with anger.

AoBing on the other hand adheres to social rules, and he’s known for being a gentle, well-mannered figure who’s much more respectful compared to NeZha. However, something I’d like to mention is that he doesn’t care as much to present himself as strong or masculine as NeZha does, and he expresses his moments of weakness much more honestly than NeZha. He’s not afraid to cry, and he willingly expresses his love to his father, in comparison to how NeZha tries to act tough all the time, even around his own parents at the beginning of the film.

Whenever I read fanfiction of them, I usually like when they’re written with this contrast: where NeZha might be egotistical, he’s actually quite insecure in himself, and where AoBing seems more gentle and humble, he’s actually more confident in his own identity. Just because AoBing seems less masculine compared to NeZha, does not actually make him more meek or unconfident.

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HENRY DARGER

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Ne Zha is already kind of hamster shaped, sooo

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The Blessing of Saint Catmeme, 2025 (Unframed)

Now on display in the Virtual Gallery's Cat collection [link].

Click the read more for some hi-res close-ups and details on its construction.

The background of the painting is hand-marbled paper (by me!), the painting was made in ClipStudio Paint (by me! using my two favorite brushes!), and the frame in the promotional video was sculpted in blender (by me!). I'm sure you can recognize some tumblr-famous meme animals in the composition:

Lapine cherubs: Fat fuck friday [link]

The Divine Face: Dave [link]

The Holy lamb: Rickybabyboy [link]

The Mewling Choir: Bigfoot Jinx [link]

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I had a random idea: cowboy Nezha. The huntianling is his lasso 🤠

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He's waiting for his date