I have too much to say to simply just have it as a reply on the post, so bear with me...Anyway you said you'd love to hear my ideas and, my dear, that was the key to open the floodgates. Also, I wanted to link to the specific pieces of yours that inspired each of the following ideas, so I'll be doing that. Get Ready. :D (also I need you to know I opened your blog to grab the links and immediately got distracted scrolling through your art again and may or may not have gotten More Ideas)
Let us start with your CXS Elbows-Touching-Boob-comic. Pretty self-explanatory. I want to write out a scenario that leads into your comic, write the comic scenario, spend a little time on LG's inner thoughts as he dies internally of The Horny, and then maybe follow it up with an accidental confession and kisses. Many kisses.
2. Then, there's the CXS Flower Fairy; and let me tell you that fuels TWO streams of thought for me, so we get 2a. and 2b.
2a. Wholesome. I'm thinking Young Lu Guang meets a flower fairy and is absolutely enamoured with it. Fairies age outside of human time, so by the time he grows, the fairy is still there. Lu Guang loves his fairy very much and has, throughout his life, been doing his best to show that love because they don't speak the same language (Size Difference With Language Barrier, my fucking beloved) and, one night, Fairy Cheng Xiaoshi finally gives him a kiss.
2b. Suffering. LG comes across a beautiful flower fairy CXS and, at first, everything is amazing. They're both curious about each other and they like spending time together. But, flower fairies hibernate through the colder months. LG is distraught when he learns this and he can't stand the thought of not seeing CXS for so long, when he feels his entire life before meeting CXS was nothing but cold and grey. But CXS won't come to stay with him willingly. So, he takes matters into his own hands and creates a little biome within a large glass tank and kidnaps CXS to keep him inside. (oh, Lu Guang, don't you know nature needs its seasons to rest and start anew in the spring? if you take away his rest cycle, his natural rhythm, he won't flourish. he'll wither)
3. Now there's the Crying and Kissing image; which I adore. Picture this: CXS finally finding out about LG's time travel. The fighting. The arguments. The "I did this for you!" "You hypocrite!" that must fly between them. The desperation that would occur. They're miserable. They're not talking. Maybe LG even moves out for a little. Until, one day, they both just crack. Neither of them wants to be upset anymore. Both of them wish they could just go back to living together. It's a slow start, but one of them texts the other. Gradually, they start talking again. About anything except time travel and the past. Then, a couple weeks later, they see each other again for the first time. It's an emotionally charged meeting, and even though it would be soooo tempting to just slip into Not Talking About It; they both can't stop thinking about the elephant in the room. But, this time, they're both calmer. They talk things out. And maybe things get a little tense and a confession or two slips out ("I did it because I love you"/"I don't want you to suffer like that on your own ever again. I love you too much."). And then, they both just stare at each other. That's when the crying starts. Neither of them can tell who started crying first, or who kissed who; all that matters is they both instinctively tried to comfort the other and they love each other and it hurts, it will always hurt, but they can't stop their love for each other. (This is one of the ones I'm not sure I'll get to, because it will require a lot of planning and prep work and I don't know if I have that in me but we shall see)
4. Let's talk about CXS Draped in Gold! Ohhhhh my god this one. This one has given me serious brain worms. Ok, so my immediate thought upon seeing that image was "bride CXS draped in gold" because YES. And then, of course, looking at the roman numerals on his arms triggered the thought of "bride to the Time God". So, we've got Time God LG who sends a message down through his temple that he's chosen CXS as his bride. So, naturally his followers adorn CXS and lead him to the mountain that contains the door to the Time God's realm (a door which mortals cannot find on their own) and LG comes to collect him. CXS is confused and nervous but not unwilling. He does his best, learning the role he is to fill and how to help LG with maintaining time and various timelines and realms. It's nothing to sneeze at. Especially since time is Different in the realm of the Time God. Then, one day, someone shatters the planes of time and makes everything go awry. CXS is thrown into a time past, and meets LG before LG even knew of his existence. He's gotta convince his husband that they are, in fact, married, and then he's gotta get him to help him get back to his appropriate time and also maybe stop the person who is messing everything up.
I looked up time theories for this. Your art made me look up time theories to find the one that fit with what I wanted. Time theories. My brain hurt after. (I'm leaning toward Eternalism for the fic, in case you were wondering; and thinking about each slice of time as a still image in a plane; therefore if you shatter the planes you could enter images of the past and future but, by the gods, I am still not sure that entirely makes sense.)
5. Most recently, the Cupcake Kisses. Very cute. Very wholesome. Makes me wanna write a oneshot where they get distracted with kisses and forget all about decorating until much later and when they go back to it the icing is all dried and hard and they are both just very sheepish about it, and decide eh, what the hell, and go back to kissing. Ehe.
So. Um. Yeah, there's some of the many ways your art inspires me. Hope you enjoyed reading about them 😅😅😅😅 Thank you for your patience with my rambles. And, as always, thank you for your art. You are truly amazing!
oh my goodness what a FEAST this is!!!
I am so amazed that my silly drawings inspired you so much ;w;
I really love all of the ideas you shared!! I am a silly fluff lover at heart, so #5 and #1 would be such fun oneshots to read! (Also I love #1 because I love reading about LG thirsting over LG because, same tbh).
Both fairy AUs would also make incredible fics aaaaaa I am a little partial to the first idea because I am a softy, but I also was so pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed your Angel CXS fic (its not something I would usually read!) that I would be fascinated to read the darker version too!
I am a little Emo (positive) over #3 ohhhhhhh the angst... how they can't live without each other... they are so codependent AUGH
as for #4... I am so sorry to have made you look up time theories fkvhjfkghbjfkghbjkg but the idea... WOW. Here I was drawing CXS in gold jewelry just because I wanted to draw his back muscles and tiny waist and you went and made a whole world from it! Its amazing!!! It sounds so cool to have CXS try to convince a past version of LG to love him. Its a little "back to the future" esque which is so fun.
man. MAN. It was so cool to read all of this, thank you for sharing and thank you for your lovely fics!!! If you ever end up writing any of these I will 100% be rolling around on my floor with glee ;w;
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