And speaking of CMS, there's stil time for securing end of the year 20% off slot on rendered and sketches art at my v.gen ! Ocs, fic based, fanart, you name it! You can also see my portfolio examples of past CMS. #vgen #commission

I'm already trying to think of who to cosplay for next year's convention. The only danmei I've read so far are MDZS and Fish...

And then I perished from loving art too much. I am actually writing this from my grave. This moment appears only as a brief dream in the fic, but it's so compelling and amazing now thanks to this gorgeous work!! Hypnotic Meng Yao and longing Lan Xichen - so beautiful!! #xiyao #mdzs #theuntamed

I went as Mo Xuanyu from MDZS. It was fun.

I spent the day robe-steaming, wig-detangling, and doing other tasks for a danmei meetup tomorrow that I'm not sure I'm brave enough to actually attend. Feeling pretty crap about myself rn. :/

I was walking my cat - who is normally fine with cars - when a Tesla approached. Her eyes got big, her ears went back, and she trotted back to the apartment, as far from THE EBIL TESLA as possible. I'm very proud of her.

My curiosity is piqued, after seeing some interesting people I know posting links of their own! Ask me anything. No topic is off-limits. ngl.link/astrinde

Watching and proud. 🐸

Some of my favourite signs from Seattle No Kings: "Not being paid, I hate Trump for free"; "Trump is a faux-king joke"; "Chinga tu MAGA"; "All of my outrage won't fit on one sign." Kudos also to the "LICE" in bug costumes, and the brass band who faded "Hail to the Chief" into "The Imperial March."

archiveofourown.org/series/5269631 Delighted that our XiYao fic project is complete! Seven stories, 18,544 words total, all fics T-rated except for the fourth (M-rated). Each fic can stand alone or be read as part of the sequence. We even made the seven story titles form a poem. :) #xiyao #mdzs

I have been rabid over this piece since I first saw it, and the passage of time has not chilled me out one bit. So! Very! Beautiful! #xiyao #xiyaobirthday2025 #mdzs #lanxichen #jinguangyao

Could he be any lovelier? Absolutely not. 💙 (Though he certainly could be happier. 💛 )

What’s even better than XiYao art: gorgeous NSFW commissioned XiYao art, framed on my office wall. I adore @nokiazuzhilang.bsky.social’s creation *so much*!!

I am one of three mods for this event. <3

He is just about to spot Lan Xichen. 😭

happy #yaoiday to #xiyao fans and all!yao enjoyers #mdzs #dranart

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

And then I wept until all of the water left my body.

Tattoo cover-up project complete, with two small neck tattoos engulfed by a much larger back piece over four sessions, totaling 20 hours. I selected peonies and gentians (*waves to MDZS*), and the artist worked them into a gorgeous, Art Nouveau-inspired design. I adore the result.

Oh, this is a fun list to make! 10 writers by whom I've read 5+ books: N.K. Jemisin, Scott Cunningham, David Frawley (Vāmadeva Śāstrī), Anne Rice, Zora Neale Hurston, Mercedes Lackey, Susan Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, Brandon Sanderson, and Gabrielle Lord.

"Ask anything you will, except the life of Jin Guangyao." A post-canon story, in which a mysterious figure comes to guide Jin Guangyao on his final journey - and leads Lan Xichen to some difficult realisations. archiveofourown.org/works/65692159 #TheUntamed #xiyao #lanxichen #jinguangyao #fanfic

Wen Qing is the only one who can help a cultivator whom she has good reason to despise. What would her father do? And what will she do? "The Healer's Burden": 3,961 words, gen rating, no warnings. archiveofourown.org/works/65714221 #TheUntamed #wenqing #wenzhuliu #fanfiction

All of these are great, but BIRD 3ZUN. :D Delighted, serene LXC cuddling contented, snuggly JGY and poofy, irritated NMJ - all avian - is the MDZS content I didn't know I needed.

This is so beautiful I may actually perish.

The person who snapped this photo deserves a prize.

The tragic moment when he understands, "...that Lan Xichen, despite knowing the whole truth in the end, still loves and cares about Jin Guangyao the most. Jin Guangyao realizes, before he dies, his life was still worth it after all." (The quote comes from an interview with the actor.)

This is one of my favourite scenes. #MengYao / #JinGuangyao #LanHuan / #LanXichen #Xiyao

Lianfang-zun, my other love!

Zewu-jun, my love!

SPARK contacted me yesterday to offer opportunities for "maximal participation in autism research." While I'm quite sure that the letter was sent before the whole "autism registry" news, the timing of the letter's arrival was *amazing*. I think I'll be declining this generous opportunity. :P

Large cover-up back tattoo, three hours in, and starting to run low on endorphins. Eating chocolate to compensate.

archiveofourown.org/works/64681696 I just posted "faint glimmer of a distant star," another Chen Qing Ling/The Untamed fic. It's a character study of Lan Wangji, which originated with a humorous premise but grew melancholic. (And honestly, "started funny, got broody" is my whole personality, so.)

archiveofourown.org/works/64376470 My first-ever work for Chen Qing Ling/The Untamed is an epistolary fic, based on a quote from Wei Wuxian: "On the way back from Qinghe, I kept sending messages to Lan Zhan but never got his response."

#WangXian 💙❤️ #mdzs #officialart #mxtx

Today's activities: making Indivisible phone calls, getting a haircut, eating sweets in a futile effort to process feelings about "The Untamed" (a drama which is causing my soul to leave my body). Whether or not you know the show, tell me your result on this quiz? www.buzzfeed.com/shellezbelle...

At this rate, the next EO will ban all Latin Masses because of the "Agnus Dei."

Please join me in calling your reps - Resistbot if you can't get through on the phone - and attending a protest this week. The fury that this shit provokes is exhausting, but I'm trying to use that anger instead of being ground down by it. indivisible.org/resource/how...

A recurring plot line of the next few years is going to be Trump DOJ lawyers filing a deeply stupid legal brief that sometimes, as today, gets them publicly chewed out by an octogenarian federal judge who tells them to their faces that they should be embarrassed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A virtual high-five to the person who created and posted this flyer. Spotted in Portland, OR.

Some of my favourite signs from the Portland People's March today: "Canada, please annex us!" "If I wanted the government in my uterus, I'd Venmo Matt Gaetz." "So bad, the introverts are here." "The government stopped TikTok before they stopped school shootings."

Nothing I can write could make this purchase any better than it already is.

Seeing a cybertruck being towed, with its dumb little alarm going HONK HONK HONK all the way, was an early Yuletide present. It was even nicer for being shared with someone we passed on the sidewalk, who met our gazes and started laughing along with us as we watched the stupidity getting carted off.