#hwdtw

[spiderthread]

I needed to practice hands, so I did gay fanart about it

[3cosmicfrogs]

Spring hunt.

[annie-handholder]

bro literally said:

[creechur-docx]

Spoilers for hwdtw!

can we talk about zhu's genderfuckery. she's a girl when girl-on-girl violence is thematically relevant, and he's a dude mostly to piss ouyang off and be best bros with xu da. she's a dude because the alternative is a peasant girl, and he makes his final stand as a peasant girl because fate is funny like that. zhu's gender is a giant gleeful raspberry blown at the world, while simultaneously being a vehicle for themes of gendered violence and discrimination and toxic masculinity and girlhood. i am so normal about this duology btw

[sketchyandsketches]

Did Xu Da for @durgeteriormotives since she started She Who Became the Sun and bc I had to repay some kindness ;)

HAD TO GUESS FOR THE HAIR BC I COULD SWEAR HE'S GOT A TOPKNOT IN THE SECOND BOOK BUT I DIDN'T FIND ANY OTHER DESCRIPTION SO IF ANYONE'S WISER THAN ME, LET ME KNOW

[imethirdperson]

"I can fix him" "I can make him worse" I can embody the ultimate authoritarian masculinity that he craves to simultaneously surpass and submit to, in order to reflect the contradictions of both our selves in an endless funhouse mirror of enmeshment to justify our continued struggle for meaning inside the rotting corpse of patriarchy

[tumblerislovetumblerislife]

the radiant emperor series may be a buddy comedy, but it is also the worst group project ever. zhu and ouyang spend most of both books working towards the same goal in very different ways. a fraction of this is actually spent working together. ouyang fucks off halfway through hwdtw to do the thing they agreed to HIS way. they attempt to kill each other several times.

[erisenyo]

Radiant Emperor Fans...

Would you be interested in a Radiant Emperor/She Who Became the Sun/He Who Drowned the World week? Think prompts, fics, art, gifsets, meta, whatever we want to create?

Tagging @the-impala-is-my-home @ash-and-starlight @3cosmicfrogs to help get this some reach!

[radiantemperorweek]

READY YOUR DERANGED BLORBOS

You all voted and we heard you--Radiant Emperor Week will be happening this summer!

Prompt submission and voting to come ASAP to give all our wonderful creators as much time as possible to work, and all of us as much time to get the word out as possible. Keep an eye here for rules as well!

But in the meantime...

[thelonghairedone]

Uh HWDTW spoilers

He Who Drowned the World: In which Zhu and Ouyang do the less popular cousin of the "Enemies to Lovers" trope: "Enemies to Allies with some sort of S&M arrangement going on"

[spiderthread]

The contrast between his exquisite exterior and the horror within put Ma in mind of a pearlescent cocoon of silk thread: a coffin for the worm that had been boiled alive.

[3cosmicfrogs]

oh 12.65 litres of blood clinging to the outside of my body, we're really in it now

[annie-handholder]

[vro0m-but-not-cars]

"Perhaps in your next lives, or the ones after those, or in a thousand years, you'll find each other again, and the world will be different."

[deanmarywinchester]

when zhu asked ouyang to dress up as a woman and he said “don’t ask me to do it, make me do it” vs when zhu asked ma to help her kill the emperor and ma said “don’t ask me to do it, let me choose to do it for you”……….

[marnz]

so is anyone gonna start talking about the ouyang/zhu sex scenes and the gender of it all or do I have to do everything myself around here