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[hakobore]

Cowardly Jenny, my 16pg comic about a cowardly girl trying to escape an arranged marriage is now available through Nib & Ink Fest for the month of May!

[bob-artist]

The Cartoonist Cooperative's Oops All Comics! zine is out now, and I have a Canada goose comic in it!!

The theme was "colorful," and I decided to write a tragic love story.

Oops All Comics! includes over 50 minicomics and is sold as part of Nib & Ink Fest, a free online comics fair that starts TODAY! 100% of proceeds from the zine support the co-op, and you can also check out the marketplace and buy additional comics from individual creators!

Cover art by Robyn Victa

Get the Oops All Comics! zine (and my goose comic) here!!

Check out the rest of NIF here!

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Nirvana In Fire is sooooo crazy. Prince Jing will show up at Mei Changsu’s house and say I dont usually do this… if my dead wife I mean! Childhood best friend! Lin Shu could see me now… he’d never forgive me for seeing a SCHEMER, a PLOTTER, a DASTARDLY and DECEITFUL ADVISOR… 👉👈😗 and Mei Changsu goes wow that’s so sad dianxia… anyways here’s a very insightful point about the military that only Lin Shu would have known. and Prince Jing goes 🤨🥺 is that you Lin Shu?? and Mei Changsu says whaaaaattttt?????? Nooooooo…. And then someone asks Mei Changsu why he won’t fess up to being Lin Shu and he’s like You Don’t Understand It’s Better This Way… After all, Prince Jing could NEVER develop an unhealthy attachment to a scheming dastardly advisor like Mei Changsu, and he’s got a history of reckless behavior in defense of people he’s attached to. *sad, sad coughing* Meanwhile Prince Jing goes home and tells his mom about this hot advisor guy he’s about to start a rebellion for

[baoshan-sanren]

《 琅琊榜 》Nirvana in Fire (2015)

[sandu-zidian]

Jiang-er-guniang

[speremint]

🎂It's my birthday!!🥳

Wish me a happy birthday by reading my comic of a disaster bisexual trying to romance a demon! The series is completely finished and free to read on WEBTOON, it's called Brimstone and Roses!

[zhoudadudugongjin]

[renshengs]

hmm i do think that danmei and dangai (censored danmei cdrama adaptations) being many non-chinese fandom people's first impression of chinese media has given them some misconceptions about mainstream chinese media, and it shows in a way that i find very frustrating when seeing discussions about cdramas on here. dangai dramas aside, even if government censorship didn't exist, the chances of your favorite cdrama gay ship becoming canon is about as high as the chances of any of those iconic homoerotic male friendships in a western TV show becoming canon. which is to say: extremely low.

what i think is that internationally huge danmei fandoms like mdzs and tgcf and drama adaptations like cql and shl have really fucked with people's conceptualization of danmei, in that they're using it as this reference point when analyzing relationships in all other forms of cn media, including cdramas and chinese games, which then manifests into people making very bold, very dubious claims about "queercoding" because 2 characters from a random cdrama reminds them of the one or two danmeis they'd encountered that shaped their entire perception of chinese media. basically it's this meme:

many people here need to understand that cdramas and chinese films are obviously mainstream forms of fictional media in china, just like how the mcu or the doctor who franchise is mainstream in the US and UK, or like shonen is mainstream in japan. not to burst your bubble of happy ignorance, but homoromantic relationships such as qingming/boya from the ying yang master are—for lack of a better term—fujobait. they are fujobait. bromances, because those sell well and everyone knows it. popular ships like bakudeku were not actually made canon in mha because shonen is mainstream, and in most industries geared toward maximizing capital, having full-on gay people front and center is considered a monetarily risky move. which sucks, of course, but china is absolutely no different. i promise you that if the govt removed their censorship laws for TV broadcasts, your favorite gay ship from mysterious lotus casebook or the blood of youth or fangs of fortune still wouldn't be canon. they might be allowed a bit more intimacy due to the lack of restrictive filtering, but they are not going to be sucking face for the same reason that gojo and geto from jjk didn't suck face.

danmei is still widely considered niche and risky in china, and if you haven't seen the recent news, authors are still getting arrested for writing it. assuming that chinese fiction, mainstream chinese fiction in particular, operate like dangais where the two guys with the most gay tension would be made explicitly canon were the censors to be lifted, is frankly pretty ridiculous. dangai dramas are adapted from danmeis, which are stories centered on a gay romance and narratively depend on the two guys falling in love. non-dangai dramas are very much... not that, hence why people shouldn't watch them expecting a censored danmei and then forcing assumptions of "my ship would be canon if only it weren't for censorship" on them.

it's very clear when someone who knows absolutely nothing about the actual situation with danmei and queer existence and mainstream TV censorship in china is trying to push their, if i put it crudely, "boss baby meme" perspective onto cmedia. fandom is all about poking at interactions between your favorite characters and giggling and speculating, but i think lots of fandom people (many of them safe in the pockets of their more progressive areas) view govt censorship as this big abstract dam that, if broken, would result in the canonization of all their favorite ships, which is not only an incredibly naive belief but also one that shows how much they view TV censorship as more of a personal inconvenience that's preventing their favorite ships from kissing on screen instead of the looming, deep-rooted issue depriving mainland chinese people of creative freedom it actually is. with cmedia fandoms there's a specific widely popularized "they're so gay omg how did censorship not notice" gag when there's any perceived homoromantic undertones in a story that's both rather insensitive and also ignorant, and many dangai and cdrama fandoms in particular (donghua fans too, link click shippers i'm looking directly at you) could really use some more education and sensitivity regarding this.

i've been in danmei & cdrama fandom spaces for years and post-pandemic this kind of nonsense has definitely gotten worse, especially when you compare shipping discussions here to shipping discussions in cn fandoms. here every 2 seconds someone makes an off-color censorship joke about tgcf donghua and over on douyin they are straight up commenting under the nezha sequel announcement post if there's going to be an oubing kissing scene. granted i obviously cannot see or know everything going on in cn fandom spaces because they are incomprehensibly enormous, but in all the spaces i've been in i've never seen a single censorship joke from anyone. why do people here absolutely insist on making them?

anyway. fandom be normal about chinese media challenge!

[xiaobaosnoona]

[marquisguyun]

Nirvana in Fire + Hands [1/?]

Su-xiansheng, when you think about things, you also subconsiously rub at things.

[langya-hall]

So fucked up for Nirvana in Fire to mostly be a show about people sitting around and just talking while simultaneously being one of the most compelling, heart-wrenching, complex, character-driven shows to ever exist. Fucked up. They're just sitting or standing and talking about policies and rituals half the time. Why is every single character fully fleshed out. There's like fifty of them. Genius

[bob-artist]

Nib & Ink Fest is Live!!

And I'm so excited!

This is the first year of the Cartoonist Cooperative's new comic fair! There's a ton of stuff to check out!

✨ Check out the marketplace for a collection of great comics to buy

✨ Pick up the FREE Sampler to discover new webcomics!

✨ Buy the Oops All Comics! charity zine to support the cooperative and read over 50 minicomics on the theme "colorful"!

✨ Check out the list of free events and panels and add them to your calendar! The opening ceremony is today!

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Nirvana in Fire’s such a fun show. Here’s an episode for you. Plot A: can our heroes get relief money to starving peasants???? plot B: Prince Yu can no longer ignore the fact that he’s been played by a man he acted silly for. Plot C: SNACK BOXES!!!! Plot D: soooooo many spies (basically, check-in with some spinning plates) And yes they are all important

[baoshan-sanren]

《 琅琊榜 》Nirvana in Fire (2015)

[cardboardcheese]

coupris motorcorp’s new poster boy

+bonus kims 👇🏽

heehee

[minjaefreedom]

it's so funny how yujin is like my dad doesn't even care i'm at this stupid revenge birthday party and then it immediately cuts to marquis yan showing up outside ready to cause an international incident just to pull him out of there