#wushuang

[spockandawe]

And finally, the big conclusion! When I was planning to not really binderary, getting copies of these books was my big goal. And then when I did binderary after all, I, uh, ended up with two sets of two books. And let's not even talk about how late these are in the grand scheme of things, these have been in my plans for literal years, and I originally intended to get them done well before official translations started releasing (I'm doing great!!). But here they are! Thousand Autumns and Peerless! TWICE!!!!

Okay. Okay. So here's the thing. These books are long. Thousand Autumns is something like 450k, and Peerless is closer to 550k. I hate splitting cnovels. I didn't want to sand instead of trimming. I wanted to keep these books as pairs (because Peerless has my favorite danmei ship of all time, but doesn't hit as hard without the Thousand Autumns context, and EVERYTHING hits less hard without knowing that yan wushi is out there. existing.)

These goals are not terribly well aligned with the facts! The facts are that those are awfully big books to fit into a single volume, if I want to use my guillotine! This is another driving force behind my small text theme of the month. It made the typesets a goddamn nightmare, and my initial copies of the books were done on half-legal paper, which I've never done before and may never do again. I finished those, and those are... big, heavy books. Not super portable. Time to see if my eyes are good for four point georgia, and spoilers, they ARE.

Set one, the large set, I wanted to use more of my snake leather. I had this GORGEOUS purple and green and black iridescent hide that i was determined to use, and fortunately I had just enough of the perfect fabric to pair with it.

But.... meanwhile, I've been buying peacock fabrics since 2021 for the sake of Feng Xiao. I had to use at least ONE of them! Fortunately, I've hoarded enough fabric that I was able to find a nice harmonious floral fabric to cover thousand autumns, and then had a nice duo bookcloth to make spines for them both! These books are quarter-legal, and the font is genuinely SO small, but still, pleasantly readable for me, my favorite customer 😂

These books were SO MUCH work to typeset snd bind, but I'm still so excited about how both sets came out! Because of my own impatience with repeating myself like, literally two days later, i redid a number of decorative elements in the typeset as well as the binding. Different chapter headers, different dividers, totally different vibes for the endpapers! This was a big project to ask from myself in such short order, especially when I was starting to flirt with burnout, but I genuinely couldn't be happier with the results :D

[ugukun]

I started reading peerless >:3c

[helenkordart]

Summary of Peerless by Meng Xishi

[unforth]

Another cover reveal!

[toaster-fire-art]

happy gay month this crashed my computer and i had to back up all my files externally :)

I saw a few people doing a colorwheel challenge thing with their art/drawing things in a colorwheel and I lowkey think thats adorable and so I wanted to do something similar.

I basically pulled out some things that were already themselves mostly one color or another (like the yunmeng jiang trio for purple obv) only to discover I litterally have not drawn anything with yellow like intentionally so. yeah. I just sort of scroundged together anthing beige lmao. also there's a lot there thats just sneak peaks at things that aren't done yet or in a current rework and it also made me dig through old art that I just sort of stopped working on that I now want to go back to working on. Sort of helping my own art block with it.

Too bad it turned out massive as per usual. Not even going to bother trying to redeem the quality it won't work. So :))

[zazhah]

feng-er's hair growth diary

[luminouslumity]

Ooh, I really like the colors for this one!

[qiulangjun]

*gasp* two carrds in one day??

also i made this because i was having a hard time finding these, and i wanted to help my fellow qian qiu enthusiasts

[beholding-moth]

Ququ, is that a blush I see?

these sillies are on my brain 24/7 and you can thank @tedkordisanasshole for that :']

[drawulan]

“Shutting you up” kiss 😘

[bellaroles]

Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu. Well, if they stop digging holes for each other temporarily it’s because they’re both digging holes for other people to fall into lol.

[spockandawe]

If i had a nickel for every time someone in this book hid politically significant porn in their secret basement, i would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[chicshinm]

fengcui and yanshen my beloved

everyone read wushuang and thousand autumns to experience meng xi shi’s beautiful boys

[helenkordart]

"Helena what is this" only the most accurate Peerless fanart ever wdym? 🤨

(redraw of this meme)

[yuziyou]

FengCui | Wushuang (无双) audio drama

[toaster-fire-art]