#guardian bingo fest

[avaantares]

For @guardianbingo prompt "Black Cloak Envoy."

#guardian #zhen hun #guardian bingo fest #hei pao shi #shen wei #digital art #also known as: fun with photoshop brushes! #ava's art #i am so close to card blackout! Just two more pieces of art to do and one fic to post!

[yilian0203]

Yayyy I finally finish this fic!!!

Both fulfill for my Red Pocket claim "Celebration" and Guardian bingo square "Flower tribe"!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44151337

#redpocketpromptfest2023 #Red Pocket Fest #Guardian bingo #guardian #zhen hun #镇魂 guardian #shen wei #镇魂 #zhao yunlan #zhenhun #weilan #guardian fanfic #GuardianRedPockets2023

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

Walk Alone - Pvris

Dark Energy fill for Guardian Bingo Fest

#guardianbingofest #guardian #twabbbiih's edit #shen wei #zhao yunlan #zhenhun #zhen hun #weilan #did anyone order some angst pain misery and more pain? because I have tried to deliver #to be fair this caused me pain in the process of being made so we're all suffering here #some of the lyrics are slightly less relevant to the whole shen-wei-letting-zyl's-light-energy-kill-him but eh #admittedly if zyl was less of a 'if youre dead its not worth me living' type then this would work better

[guardianbingo]

Fest Recap

It's hard to believe it's been TWO YEARS since Guardian Bingo launched. In that time, we issued 138 cards and more than 100 badges. There are 456 works in the AO3 collection and many other posts on tumblr with art, edits, meta, fanARTifacts, and other creations. While it's now time to say goodbye (at least for this fest - the story will keep on going), I didn't want to leave without recognizing the people who made this fest so amazing. First, a HUGE thanks to @highlynerdy, who created all of the gorgeous fest graphics (banner, icon, cards, and badges) and @sasamelons, who provided invaluable help with initial prompts and then supplied each month's bonus prompt. Without them, this fest wouldn't have happened. They have been awesome co-mods!!! Second, a massive thank you to everyone who participated!!!! It's been so great to see all the amazing creations that the prompts inspired. Guardian fandom, you are truly talented!!! To celebrate everyone's creations, I'm loading the queue with reblogs of fills from the past two years.

Below the cut, I've posted a list of badges claimed. (Not everyone who participated claimed a badge.) I'm only tagging people once with the highest badge they earned. (So if you earned a Lit Guardian Lantern, your name will only appear in that list since earning that badge means you also earned the others.) Users that aren't tagged aren't on tumblr. I think I have everyone, but many apologies if I missed you.

I hope you've all enjoyed this fest and that it was fun and low-stress. In a week or so, I plan to post a few cards in case anyone is looking for inspiration. While we won't be issuing more badges or posting new bonus prompts, I am leaving the AO3 collection open and will periodically check the fest account. If you create something based on a card prompt, @ us in your post and we'll reblog it. Guardian Bingo, it has been a BLAST!!! Thank you all for making this a fabulous fest!!!! mod @tehfanglyfish

First Fill @unforth Lit Guardian Lantern (Blackout)

@tinypinkmouse @miss-ingno @the-marron @stupid-lemon-eater @buriedbybooks @theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome @flamingwell velithya @forerussake @jayswing101 @bladedweaponsandswishycoats @programmedradly @avaantares @tehfanglyfish Unlit Lantern (Two Lines) @elenothar Mountain-River (One Line) @mimosaeyes @sasamelons @justacoyote

Longevity Dial (One Fill) @yaaurens @missfangirll @crystalinn @true-unicorn-queen jade @spicymayoblandketchup @presumenothing @drjezdzany samarium @dancing-out-in-space @evnissyn @lacommunarde @silvandar

#guardianbingofest

[jayswing101]

Summary: One day, a mountain god finds a little ghost king. From then on, the little ghost king follows the mountain god, like he's the god's little shadow. (Novel-verse, Implied weilan, in all its various forms.)

Specific warnings for this include: canonical temperorary character death, and a brief one-life mention of suicidal ideation on the part of one sad Shen Wei.

Written for the Red Pocket Prompt Fest 2023, for the Qingming secret prompt. Also fills the September bonus prompt "Trying Something New" for @guardianbingo which I'm using to fill square O1 on my bingo card.

#guardian #weilan #jay writes #guardianbingofest #GuardianRedPockets2023 #i woke up this morning and my brain was like what a wonderful day for knives! so this is a bit angsty but the end is happy at least

[kokoskwark]

hi evy!

10, 16, 17, and 19 for the end of year asks! <3

hi morgan! <3

10. shortest wip of the year uhh, yeah I only have one (1) wip right now, for the jeonglix fic fest and it's 7k as of now! My shortest wip that is finished now is Our new home and that is just my shortest fic all time, only 3.4k

16. fic(s) you completed this year I wrote many fics this year! More than last year (but last year were more chaptered fics and I only started late april) I posted a total of 13 fics: Two's company, three's even better (minchansung fake dating) I guess it goes both ways (seungjin connected dream) Does anyone of you have any service? (minbin time loop) Open up each other's world (chansung introvert vs. extrovert) Opposites are not contradictory but complementary (seungjin opposites attract) I will always be there for you (chansung jisung guardian + chan kindergarten teacher) I can't sleep (5+1 chansung getting chan to sleep) You have no idea how much I like you (seungjin misunderstanding) This might sound cheesy, but I think you're really grate (minbin cooking) Our new home (seungjin domesticness) Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide (seungjin, minbin, chansung, jeonglix, magic academy) Love feels better off-screen (seungjin actor x hairstylist) Cold hands, a warm heart (seungjin vampire x prince) and I also finished/am finishing 3 fics for the jeonglix fest this year, but they'll only be revealed next year!

17. fics you’ll continue next year None, I think? kjdgkjf I am quite certain that my third jeonglix fest fic will be finished this year, so then I don't have any wips anymore, but I still have the seungjin bingo to write some fics for (namely a high school au and a hybrid/omegaverse au (pray for me)), so I guess that!

19. any new fics to start next year Ah! Well, as I said in the last question, I don't have any wips as of yet, but I am planning to write at least 2 more seungjin bingo fics (the high school and omegaverse), but I also really want to write a story I told to liz before: minchansung love spell & seungjin connected dream witch vs. non-witch au!! That, and next year February the jeonglix fest fics will be revealed and I am Attached to my first fest fic so I'm excited for that to be revealed! :D

#thank you morgan!!! <33 #nettlestingsoup #evelyn talks #ask game

[faejilly]

I was tagged by @la-muerta​ & @facialteeth​ & @thedivinemissema​ for the WIP/Title Game

rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and i’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

AND THEN  by @shadoedseptmbr​ @msviolacea​ & @ravenclawnerd​ for the “stories you want to write... but for some reason haven’t yet”

so this will be a mish-mash of both? The WIPs will mostly have blurbs in this case (to fit the second meme) but you are still welcome to ask follow-up questions, if you’d like ;) Assuming you make it through the list, it is uh. Not Short.

Anyone who would like to play with their WIPs, please consider yourself tagged in either or both of these. :D

Misc Fic Folder:

“untitled document” - where I’m working on fictober fills so I have word-counts for my GYWO tracker. I am not working on these because Brains Are Dumb and also Going Back To Work Is Exhausting

I made a file called “YULETIDE!” which has nothing in it but I’m determined to finish this year so that is definitely technically a thing in the Unending WIP List of Doom worth mentioning. (Tho obviously that’s all I could say even if I had started, because anonymous.)

“coda-fics, rewatch!” -yes, that exclamation mark is important! it’s to keep me motivated! (it didn’t work). Much like untitled, this is for putting stuff so I can do word count tracking even if I don’t know what I’m doing. Currently I think it just says “MARYSE” because I was working on my SH 1x6 coda-fic and then got distracted and haven’t typed anything up yet. (Yay notebooks? Boo notebooks? Not even sure at this point.)

WNIP (works not in progress) Folder:

“TOG” - I had one vivid mental image of how Nicky & Joe met (blood-stained evil smiles?) but then no idea for a follow-up story and also the fandom is insane and I’m not sure I want to deal with all of *gestures vaguely* all that

“Shan Xia Notes” -for a TTRPG that never quite got off the ground; she was a semi-tragic selkie who was still in love with the evil queen/lady who stole her skin and I got to play her for like one session and she was surprisingly chaotic neutral, which wasn’t at all what I’d been expecting. But the game never really got off the ground, so I never had enough info to really delve into writing backstory fic

“post-Kruschev” -Kruschev��s List was the last episode of Scarecrow & Mrs King, and I was debating writing an epilogue in place of the s5 we never got, to try and tie up some loose ends, but the fandom’s three old-ladies in trench coats and I never quite worked up the gumption to get it anywhere

“Code Realize warm as silk sequel” -there is literally nothing in this file except “SEX! Only a little angst” because I wanted to write some “we can’t actually touch each other” smut but never actually did. 🤷‍♀️

BioWare (also all Not-In-Progress Anymore)

“seb/adelaide”, “Theia” & “DAI Erana” -these WIP folders were cannibalized for ficlets for the last few times I did fictober, and while originally I had ideas for longer epilogues for all three of them, at this point I don’t think any of the remaining bits could support a story any longer.

”whispers in the dark” -Maia Ryder never really got much fic at all; the cancellation of any further Andromeda stuff was really disheartening, and at this point I’d have to play the game again, and I don’t think I’m gonna manage that any time soon

”TSP” -a Mass Effect 3 Shepard AU collab project that kind of went off the rails, and our mutual brains/lives never quite seem to line up so we can try and rebuild it ”Ngaio & Tane” -my one truly ruthless Shepard (Alliance background, who romanced Traynor) whose father Tane Shepard was, I think, in PsyOps, and I wanted to figure out their complicated relationship but never really did know where I was going with it

”JE Zu & Yaling” -so I’ve rambled about my Tragic Sagacious Zu Romance Thoughts regarding Jade Empire more than once (#Icy Yaling should have most of it) but apparently I want to yell about it more than I want to actually write it? Whoops.

”CI sequel: 5 times fic?” -Cruel Intentions is a kinkmeme fill that I started and then it sat for like five years before I actually finished it, and I liked the ending, but it does leave a giant fucking question mark in terms of how those people got from there to where they are after the game, and I kind of wanted to write a proper h/c fic rather than just... leaving them wallowing in all that trauma?

But I didn’t. I don’t even remember for sure how I wanted to frame the 5/1 of it all, besides it being something sad about allowing people to see you or touch you in some way. (Prayers maybe, since I think there was definitely some Sebastian & Fenris & faith stuff going on in there.)

“candles” -Merribela prompt fill that I never was happy with? Not sure what I might do with it at this point, so it’s just sitting there all sad and lonely and neglected-like.

Shadowhunters

pt1: WIP LIST ONLY

“Persuasion” -so I keep trying to write Persuasion AUs in many fandoms because it’s my favorite Austen, but I think I like it too much, I have no real solid concept of how I’d transform it, and if I don’t have anything else to say about different characters within that framework, I have no push to actually write anything? Also this SH version of it suffered from MASSIVE scope creep when I started outlining and it got too big for me to handle so I like, killed it twice? Whoops. This one is really probably never gonna happen.

“oosdt sequel” -I wanted to write more about the Forest That Eats People and Magnus & Alec as Guardians Between Worlds, and also some background Magnus’ Found Family & Lightwood Family Feels (maybe some clizzy?) and I left a Madzie plot-thread dangling from the first one on purpose even but I think this one had too many ideas and not enough focus so it’s sort of sprawling all over a doc with a lot of “???” in it

“procedural-ish” -this was originally going to be a sex-farce. and then it turned more serious. and then maybe kind of copaganda which was uncomfortable in terms of the Everything That Is The News in 2020, and then maybe it was more a Mafia AU and at that point I had self-inflicted tone whiplash and I wished the voices in my head were a little more forthcoming about their plans so I stopped before I brained myself on my computer monitor in frustration.

“I had rather a rose than live forever” -I started a reverse!verse Malec (Shadowhunter!Magnus, High Warlock!Alec) for bingo last year, and I couldn’t quite get it together in time, so I made a moodboard inspired by the bits I’d started instead. I may see if one of my prompts from Bingo this year help me finish it?

“fall fright fest (practical magic  au)” -exactly what it says on the tin! almost exactly a year old & neglected! IDEK ANYMORE (I talked about this one with the WIP meme last time tho: here)

“priest!kink theology?” -I thought it was gonna be smut? I like priest!kink. I have made other people like it and yell at me even! But then I kept diverging into demon!Magnus thinking about Priest!Alec’s faith and as usual, IDEK ANYMORE *laughs*

(If they’re remotely canon-adjacent or divergent, a bunch of these are in here because I need to rewatch the show to get the pacing/timing/tone right and I haven’t, and I don’t know why, because I enjoy the show, but BRAINS! Are Dumb! So I guess that’s it?)

“I do” -I have tried to write this damnable Malec arranged marriage fic like six different times. I have signed up for fic exchanges and bangs with it, I have rewritten massive sections, trying to change tone or structure or POV or whatever, and it basically comes down to they like each other too fast and I keep not gutting it enough to get back to a useful pace, but by the time I realized that I was on take six and kind of sick of it. I may get back to it eventually

“wing!fic” -canon divergent in early s1, trying to deal with the consequences of Simon’s kidnapping as the Truly Serious Event that it should have been. It uh. Got heavier than I expected with those consequences (considering it was originally just supposed to be Alec’s wings flirting with Magnus) and also see above re: rewatching for pacing.

“2x20 aftermath/date night/pandemonium porn“ -yes that is the actual wip title. It used to be “spite fic” because I was originally inspired by fighting against a lot of fic!Alec characterization that was clearly based more on the books and ATG syndrome than the Alec in the show, which is the Alec I know and like and want to read about. BUT, pacing and etc. again, I think. Also I have somehow entirely lost my knack for writing porn, which makes it difficult to finish something originally intended to be smut!fic. Or even teasing almost!smut.

“rubbish heap” -so this is about three different fics that I realized complemented each other really well so they’re now all in the same file as I try to turn them into the sequel of “with an if in its soul”. It includes amnesia, parabatai lore shenanigans, a s3 rewrite, and some truly awful Owl adjustments that make me wince in horrified authorly delight and pain. BUT, as with the other ones in this file, the scope is large and I normally write short-fic and I kind of just threw up my hands in exasperation. I may have to break it back up into the three different fics instead, if I ever actually want to write it. Them? But also I need to take better notes on s3 to make sure I have what I need in here.

SH Pt 2: Started posting or not yet in hiatus because it’s actually almost ready to be a thing in the real world! maybe!?

“kisses (firsts)” -I actually started publishing this one, a “series of firsts” that was supposed to be kind of relationship milestones and kind of an excuse for smut, and then there wasn’t that much smut and I lost momentum and also dear lords & ladies the timeline is stupid, wtf. I may not ever add to this one, tbqh. It doesn’t stop in a terrible place, and they’re all ficlets so they stand alone all right.

“clizzy epilogue” -this is blank atm, it’s more a reminder for me to keep poking away at my “girls who can’t breathe air, only fire” collection BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO ACTUALLY GET TO THE CLIZZY AT SOME POINT

"mer!alec" -pts 2-4 of a series, but apparently having an actual plan gets in the way of me *writing* the thing, and I haven't managed to throw the half an outline far enough away from my brain to be able to write again. Or something like that.

"ibhww" -if broken hearts were whole is a soulmate fic I started a million years ago, and purposefully set aside to finish some other WIPs because I thought they'd be quick, and now it's just buried under two and a half years of regret and shame so it's hard to get back to it

"iafy" -i am for you is a delightful & frothy semi-epistolary fluff piece that also just lost momentum because Life & 2020 & etc. It's far and away the most popular thing I've ever posted on AO3, which also makes me feel weird sometimes, and I feel like the fact that there's no grand conclusion planned, just a bit more fluff and settling in, might end up being disappointing? Basically, it's the first time I think I've psyched myself out about reader expectations, and until I get over that I'm going to have trouble finishing the last couple chapters. (There really are probably only two more chapters though. IT’S SO CLOSE, I wish I could just... write it. And yet?)

“fake-hating” -I do not like fake dating as a trope that much, I just do not get it, but I love outside POVs and arranged marriages and there’s this delighful tumblr post about how they wished there was more fic about people who were together but had to pretend they werent’, and uh. This may be that? Eventually? I’m not exhausted by my failure to finish it yet, so it’s still in the regular folder rather than the hiatus folder, even though nothing’s been posted for it.

AND I THINK THAT’S IT?

Not as terrible as it could be, but still. MANY WORDS THAT MAY NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. Posting the equivalent of one’s old ratty sketchbook is always a weird feeling. :D

#on writing #writing memery #unending WIP List Of Doom

[rotgbingo]

Rules

PLEASE READ THE RULES BEFORE SIGNING UP, if only to save us from having to answer questions that have already been answered here.

The challenge is open to Writers, Artists, Playlist or Mood/Aesthetic Board Creators

Each round lasts twelve months.

A unique Bingo Card will be issued within one week of sign-up. If you do not receive a card within 1 week of signing up for a round, please contact the mod(s) via email at [email protected].

Minors cannot create NSFW works, nor will explicit stories written by minors be shared on the blog. We cannot stop you from creating explicit content for your card, but for legal reasons, the blog cannot promote it.

Each participant may request changes to their card, but only once per person per round, so make sure to include all square changes at once. 

Rise of the Guardians/Guardians of Childhood should be the main focus for all works (Obviously! What are you doing here if you don’t want to create for the fandom??)

Complete squares in whichever order you wish!

Minimum Word Count: 100, No Maximum

All pieces should:

Be complete 

Represent a single square on your Bingo Card

Able to be read/viewed as a stand alone piece

What counts as BINGO: 

5 squares straight across vertically or horizontally in any row 

5 squares diagonally in either direction. 

No 4 corners

No combining squares

Each piece should stand alone, but pieces can be linked together into a series if desired

No Pay Walls Please—side hustles might be important, but this event is supposed to be for fun. Please keep all pieces freely available to everyone for the duration of the fest.

If you Black Out your card before the round is over, you may request a second card.

Free Space can be whatever you want it to be.

Read the Rules? Good job! The safe word is: Baby Tooth

There should be some indication of which square the piece is filling wherever the art or story is posted, be it in the notes field (on AO3) or post description/tags (tumblr, twitter, pillowfort, instagram, deviantart, etc). 

To be promoted on the blog, you will have to either tag @rotgbingo OR submit a post to the RotG Bingo blog

Questions? Concerns? Want to yell at me? Send an Ask to the blog or send me an email at [email protected]

#rotgbingo #announcements #rules

[avaantares]

Now that it's been gifted, I can share the horrible thing I included in @iamtheshriekingguineapig's Christmas gift. 🤣

I was picking up some last-minute items at Menards when I saw these ugly little plastic lantern ornaments on clearance:

(retail site image, they don't look that good in real life)

So I bought one, painted it gold (ultimately had to use a paint Sharpie because nothing else would stick to the PVC), then made burning Zhao Yunlan art in Photoshop, printed it, and stuck it inside. Assembled the whole thing the night before our gift exchange. Put it inside her gift box. Waited for the outraged screaming when she found it.

(I was not disappointed.)

If anyone else wants to make themselves a cursed Guardian Lantern ornament, here's the art:

The specific ornament I used is here, but I'm sure there are better quality ones out there.

And even though this whole thing is extremely cursed, I'm still claiming it for my @guardianbingo square "holiday," because it IS technically a Christmas ornament. 🎄

#guardian #zhen hun #Zhao Yunlantern #guardian bingo fest #guardian lantern #poor zyl. he deserved better (than this terrible plastic ornament lol) #christmas ornament #cursed objects

[avaantares]

Emotion-wrecking scenes? In my Guardian?

(It's more likely than you may think!)

When it comes to scenes that gut us, I feel like we (the fandom, collectively) tend to fixate on the tragedy of Weilan -- and, I mean, fair -- but in terms of sheer emotional impact, this scene, in which Chu Shuzhi learns that Guo Changcheng did not return to Haixing with him, is one of the most brutal in the entire series. Possibly because it's part of a bait-and-switch that spans multiple episodes and is engineered to pull the rug out from under you. Maybe because it involves characters who have been largely treated as one-dimensional and/or comic relief for most of the series, so it's an unexpected turn. Or perhaps it's so powerful simply because it's a completely terrestrial bit of drama -- there's no CGI, no greenscreening, no fake blood, no suspension of disbelief required. And it's something we've all experienced, at some level: Coming out of a situation where you think everything is okay, only to be blindsided with the worst news possible. We all know what that feels like, to some degree. Many of us know firsthand how devastating it is to wake from a dream in which a loved one is still alive, only to remember seconds later that they aren't.

Of course the characters and their history are a significant part of it, too. Not only do we see the heretofore unbreakable Chu Shuzhi be absolutely destroyed in real time by the realization that he has effectively caused the death of another younger brother (a relationship that Chu Shuzhi only let himself admit during the riverside conversation in his dream), but Zhao Yunlan is the one who has to break the news to him -- Zhao Yunlan, who is already stressed and suffering over Shen Wei's imprisonment and torture and the betrayal of Haixing Inspectorate and everything else that's gone wrong in the past 24 hours, who is no stranger to loss himself, and who can't bring himself to even mention the mistakes Lao Chu made that led to this situation. Despite the fact that he dragged Lao Chu into his office and literally shouted at him the previous day over sending the puppet into Zhu Hong's dream, he knows there is nothing he can say now that will even register as a reprimand. Chu Shuzhi has failed not only Hei Pao Shi, but the SID as well, and lost the person closest to him. Zhao Yunlan doesn't say anything to assuage Lao Chu's guilt, but also can't say anything to make it worse, and defends his silence to Da Qing in the following scene. (And at some level, he's probably thinking about how Xiao Guo is also his responsibility, and he's worried that Shen Wei will be the next to fall on his watch. Layers upon layers.)

But most of that is just background for the scene itself. What really sells the sequence is the phenomenal acting: Jiang Mingyang's emotionally raw breakdown, and a more understated but no less effective performance by Bai Yu.

OOF.

Just more proof that this cast was too good for this show.*

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* I say this while holding deep affection for the drama, but also acknowledging that I've acted in literal class projects that had better production values. Also one Asylum film, which almost certainly had a lower budget than Guardian and still managed to have better special effects -- which is saying something, coming from the studio whose most successful commercial venture was Sharknado.

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(This wasn't at all what I originally had planned for the "Revelations" square on my @guardianbingo card, but I was skimming through the episode looking for a reference for a different prompt, and the power of this bit struck me afresh, so I decided to focus on the unpleasant revelation in this scene instead.)

#guardian #zhen hun #meta #chu shuzhi #zhao yunlan #guardian bingo fest #my gifs as in the peanut butter

[avaantares]

After... *checks calendar* eleven months and three separate scrap-the-entire-design-and-restart-from-scratch events, I have FINALLY finished my Guardian travel posters! (Sorry to the two people who contacted me on Etsy last spring and asked when these would be available, and I said I'd have them up by May... I had no idea how many problems I'd have with these monsters. T_T)

Since some of my other fantasy travel posters ended up reducing to weird sizes, I gave these a native canvas size of 24" x 30", so they print well at any dimension but reduce to a conveniently-framed 8" x 10" for the mini prints (which are the most popular size). The enormous area means there's also a lot of hand-drawn detail -- and a few frankly ridiculous Easter eggs -- buried in them.

These are for two different @guardianbingo prompts ("Dragon City" and "Dixing/Difu"), but I'm posting them together since they're nominally a set.

As usual, if anyone would like these on physical product, they're on Etsy (mini prints, stickers) and TeePublic/Redbubble (everything else).

#guardian #zhen hun #dragon city #dixing #retro travel posters #guardian bingo fest #fanart #ava's art

[avaantares]

Shen Wei's pendant - now for ears!

After nearly a year of trying to source the right components, I finally managed to find all the pieces I needed to put these together!

Everything was chosen to fit Hei Pao Shi's aesthetic: The ear wires are black steel, the faceted black beads are coated so they have a faint silvery sheen, and of course the flame-look sphere is self-explanatory. (The one he wears in the drama is mostly transparent, but I always liked the idea of the novel pendant containing actual flame, so I went with something a bit more fiery instead.) The bail is a bit more dragon-y than the original, but considering how obsessed parts of this fandom are with Tiny Dragon Shen Wei, I figured it wasn't too far off the mark. 😂 (Also smaller ones just don't have enough surface area to support a bead of this size.)

I filled the "soulfire" square on my @guardianbingo card earlier this year, but I just realized I never actually did anything for the "Shen Wei" square (how did that happen?? that's the easiest one on the whole card!), so I'll use these to tick that box.

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(And because I've already had some interest, I do have a few of these up in my Etsy shop. I had to buy the findings in multipacks, so I had enough materials to make several pair. There's also a shorter version if you don't like long earrings.)

#guardian #zhen hun #guardian bingo #guardian bingo fest #fandom jewelry #antares versatile arts #shameless self promotion

[avaantares]

I missed the sun, in the dark beneath the ground

but I missed the moon and stars more

because I once bathed in their gentle light with you.

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For @guardianbingo bonus prompt "Moon."

#guardian #zhen hun #guardian bingo fest #hei pao shi #weilan #ava's art #digital painting #two more prompts to go for the final badge!

[avaantares]

We call them energy bodies.

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For @guardianbingo prompt "Wang Zheng."

#wang zheng #guardian #zhen hun #guardian bingo fest #fanart #ava's art #digital art

[avaantares]

Y'all should not let me sketch when sleep deprived.

So I had ONE prompt remaining to get my @guardianbingo Merit Brush badge, and the one I'd written down in the margin of my bingo card was "Alternate Universe," thinking it would be an easy fill since I have a ton of those floating around in my head. Unfortunately, I hadn't had time to work on it earlier, so I found myself less than 24 hours from the deadline with a shortlist of ideas that were in no way going to be fast enough to flesh out in the time provided -- leaving me to brainstorm something new at the last minute. Creatively drained from several other projects I've had stacked this week, I found myself thinking, "What's the silliest, most absurd AU I can think of that still kind of thematically works with Guardian?"

And oh. I thought of one. Two protagonists, one of whom wears black, uses a polearm, has a unique skill that involves energy swirling in his hand, and shares his face with a villain who impersonates him in order to steal mystical artifacts... A shapeshifting cat familiar who loves to eat... Romantic tension and identity shenanigans between the leads... Ancient magic based loosely on an East Asian culture... It was perfect! I mean, it's practically just Guardian with some names changed, right?

So I present to you my 2 a.m. sketch of a Miraculous Ladybug AU Shen Wei/Chat Hei, who apparently has been accompanied by kwami Da Qing for the past 10K years. Behold! Marvel at the outstanding art quality (look, my eyes aren't even focusing anymore, OK?)! Appreciate the exquisitely fine details, like Da Qing's Scottish Fold ears and collar bells being the only elements of Chat Hei's costume I even bothered drawing! Wonder at the linguistic mangling of an English-language AU of a Chinese drama based on a French cartoon!

Look, giggle amongst yourselves. I got my badges; I'm good. And now... Sleep. /faceplants/

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[avaantares]

I noticed something new (again)...

And I know this will SHOCK you, but it's yet another wardrobe continuity error.

Ye Zun's socks change between his two big scenes in episode 34. When he's in the university classroom, they're navy-and-periwinkle (or possibly black-and-gray, but I'm guessing the former since it would coordinate with the blue shirt) argyle. When he enters the SID later the same day, they're solid navy (or black).

Now, presumably Ye Zun is not just wandering the streets in his Shen Wei guise; since he strangles Jiajia in front of a witness (in the deleted scene), and later the Haixing Inspectorate forces have an arrest warrant for Shen Wei (presumably for Jiajia's murder), it would defeat his entire purpose if the authorities spotted and pursued him instead of the brother he went to such lengths to frame. So it's possible that he detransforms into a different appearance/outfit before retransforming into Shen Wei, but I'm not sure why he would feel the need to change his socks when doing so.

(The more mundane production explanation is that these two scenes were filmed on different days, as one was shot on location and the other in studio. Evidently whoever was managing wardrobe didn't track the socks from one shoot to the next, not realizing that they would be featured in iconic slow-motion closeups by way of character introduction.)

I am a little surprised that I haven't noticed it before, considering the number of times I have watched these scenes (*cough* definitely just for story research and no other reason!), but to be fair there's just so much going on with Ye Zun, I was probably distracted.

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This is my fill for @guardianbingo bonus prompt "disguise," since it's about Ye Zun in his (really not very convincing) Shen Wei lewk.

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