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pls excuse any inaccuracies and wierd proportions

i love him very much⭐

(im not able to attach images if the ask is anonymous)

[Image Description: Zhu Yunxun of “Dream Before Daybreak by VermillionCrown” sits playing a guzheng. They are in navy and teal with robes with their hair down. They have a neutral expression. Above their head is DES~PA~CITO written messily. To one side is a branch of simplified Chinese Azaleas. The image references the scene in Ch4.]

Hello Verm. I recently realised I never actually sent this your way despite finishing it last year so uh... Behold some fanart of an early scene from dbd I enjoyed. I am once again reminded that being able to picture something based on descriptions and vibes does not translate to being able to draw it. Thank you for sharing your writing and creative ideas - they’ve been a consistent source of joy to me throughout the year(s). Much love to dbd and its spinoffs, as well as your newer works. I'd have been anonymous but that's illegal now it seems lol.

Good luck with your application.

so i did you a solid: i'm putting it in a separate post and immediately wiping your username from my memory, Out Of Respect

(like believe me when i explicitly say i wipe something out, i do)

(also i checked my settings and i should have anons enabled--you're just not allowed to select 'anonymous' if you're not logged in/don't have an account)

(unless you can't send photos anon anymore...i think that's what changed. photos and links cannot be anon anymore)

love the art, thank you!!! i'm super stoked with any fanstuff because it's just mind boggling to think about

you did just fine with translating vibes to art, i appreciate the embroidery-eqsue (like, you know those circles?) composition, which is kinda fitting for the chapter being set in gusu (gusu/suzhou embroidery is a big thing)

and lol *plink plink plink*, yep when they Do Not Want to be a performing monkey, that's what you get

Why does that look so lonely, help—

(it's really pretty tho omg. also how does this work, should I also send this to you as a submission or ??? does this count as fanart lmao)

(lmao I put 捱夜 as the title but it just became two boxes on top kasksjsj oh well)

loneliness isn't so removed from dbd

alien feeling

a hint of daybreak but the figure exists on the side of a bright night, fitting since as i was writing i realized that all the big emotional upheavals and truths seem to be set during night time scenes

daytime is when you exist for others. night time is when you don't need to perform. something like that.

“mme jin found this one at a brothel”

“wwx has been running his mouth”

[zyx + working girl] “wrong!”

“wwx needs to be taught a lesson”

[fight between wwx & zyx, zyx flipping him off] “die, you *******!”

“wwx has a weak right hook”

“he’s the head disciple of yunmeng jiang, and the fourth ranked young master of the cultivation realm”

“all the young masters of the northern cultivation realm can’t brawl”

“dashaoye has quite a bit of money on him”

left: shuangfeng travel uniform (c5, c6, c7) (there's a variant of the veil hat that covers the ponytail nub, but annoying to wear unless raining)

mid: formal robes (c4, c8, c9, c10)