Latest Posts by yabancreations - Page 6

ABCDMXTX - Day 20: Tianlang-Jun.

When not even your decaying body can prevent you from reading RPF of your own son (?)

Tianlang-Jun is so absurd, I adore him.

List of prompts.

El nombre "Zoila" es bien chistoso. ¿Soy la qué?

the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what

I wanted to make something for Xie Lian's birthday but couldn't figure out what. Then I read the newest update of "At Night I Rose And Fell" by PaidSubFics at like 4:30am of July 16th and this image got branded into my brain.

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

ABCDMXTX - Day 19: Shen Qingqiu.

Let's pretend it hasn't been three months since the day I was supposed to finish this. A classic case of better done than perfect.

List of prompts.

"Hyah Hyah Hyah" by Link and the koroks, representing the summary of the best and most epic weekend of 2023.

Consider: TGCF… but metal.

Heavenly Damnation is a metal music modern AU fic series based on the novel Heaven Official's Blessing by MXTX.

Written by: Yabanned. Art by: Tiiracotta.

It counts with a Spotify playlist.

---

Part 1: Withering Lotus

Xie Lian is a talented multi-instrumentalist who had a meteoric rise as a metal star when his band, White Lotus, released their first EP and got the attention of the prestigious label Immortal Records. When he became the youngest artist to sign with them at the age of 17, he felt that he had the world in the palm of his hand. Three years later, though, a song he wrote tore everything down: he lost his contract, his career, his friends and his family. Vetoed and blacklisted, he was forced to live on the move, as far away from the offices of his old record label as possible, picking little odd jobs related to music in order to survive.

After eight years, a bureaucratic nightmare forces Xie Lian to come back to the capital. He tries his best to go unnoticed, yet he receives two unsettling requests upon arrival: a man in red wants his permission to cover a song he wrote, and a man in white wants him to inherit his mask.

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42649482

---

Part 2: Rotting Waters

The story of Heavenly Damnation continues!

During the mid-autumn festival, a fateful encounter allowed Hua Cheng to take his all-time idol Xie Lian away from the grasp of Immortal Records —the most important label for rock and metal music in the country— who were trying to coerce him into signing up for a nightmare. Retreating with him and some members of his own band to a vacation home away from the Capital, Hua Cheng now must make the best out of the couple days they’ll spend together to gather what he needs in order to save Xie Lian’s music. The task isn’t easy: Hua Cheng can’t tell Xie Lian about his plans without breaking his trust and scaring him away, there are more interests at play, and back in the Capital, Jun Wu loses no time summoning Feng Xin and Mu Qing, Xie Lian’s former band mates and friends, to set a snare in which he can catch Xie Lian as soon as he returns. Dishonest debts, broken feelings and stolen songs start to surface in the muddled waters.

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46928263

Happy 23th anniversary, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask! This game introduced me to the series and it remains my favourite. The world of Termina is just so intriguing!

Photo by bunkatz.photography (Instagram) and edition by me.

GetBackers headshots since I finished rewatching the anime a bit ago with a friend. Some of these men were impossible to draw!! Had to redraw Akabane 3 times and I'm still not sure if I captured him well.

“Our culture suffers from terminal brainworms when it comes to artistic expression. We are under the impression that art is something ‘special people’ do, and to do it well makes you a genius and to do it poorly is embarrassing. This sectioning-off of ‘the art world, for artists,’ from regular life and regular people is completely artificial and it is bad for the soul of your society.

You see, for most of history and in current cultures that do not have this psychological disorder, you do not sing because you’re a singer, you sing because you’re a person—it’s fucking singing! Religious institutions are one of the last places that we still understand that singing is an innately human participatory social act, not the exclusive domain of fuckin’…Ariana Grande.

The result of removing this stigma and arbitrary qualification required to do something as simple as draw or dance isn’t just less self-hatred, less insecurity, less anxiety, better community, better connection to your body, more holistic communion with others and the world around you, and simple indulgence in your fundamental humanity—it also results in categorically better artists.”

CJ the X, 7 Deadly Art Sins

I have the opposite problem. The task of picking a quote to put on the summary section fills me with indescribable horror. Suddenly, nothing I wrote feels impactful enough to stand on its own or catch people's attention, or if it does, it's something I adamantly refuse to let people read without context. On the other hand, summarizing comes easily to me, though I've been told multiple times that I tend to make things sound better than they are with my pitches, which is rather unfortunate. I guess that, as OP said, summarizing is an acquired skill, and when you built it up too much or faster than your other skills, you condemn your work to always fall short.

Lot of posts circulating about AO3 summaries, both of the “begging people to please write them” variety and the “helpful summary tips” variety, but I haven’t seen a lot that bring up the positive meta-implications of summaries.

See, summarizing something effectively is a specific writing skill, one that has to be practiced and honed intentionally. It’s hard to pick up really good summarizing skills passively the way one might pick up say, dialogue flow. And that means that a fic with a good summary indicates a writer with at least some intention behind their craft. Off the top of my head, a good summary usually indicates that the fic will also have solid editing, proofreading, pacing, and structure, which is why the mere existence of a decent summary is as much of a draw as the contents of that summary.

ABCDMXTX - Day 18: Ruoye.

From all spiritual devices, Ruoye is the one that feels the most like an extension of its owner. In a way, it's Xie Lian main and last line of defense.

I used this photo reference.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 17: Quan Yizhen.

Cardinal martial god of the West, the bravest of them all (and the one with the best hair!)

List of prompts.

Tfw your shapeshifter friend forgets how to turn back into a human and has a crisis

ABCDMXTX - Day 16: Pei Ming.

This one is based on the fic No Paths Are Bound by Evie.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 15: Ouyang Zizhen.

"As disciples of cultivation, your number one goals are to become braver!"

Following WWX's advice, Ouyang Zizhen realized that ghosts like A-Qing are humans with stories, and that they can be cute!

List of prompts.

(x)

ABCDMXTX - Day 14: Nie Huaisang.

The man, the legend.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 13: Mu Qing.

I read somewhere that Mu Qing uses a zhanmadao (horse-slicing curved sword) and I never looked back.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 12: Lan Zhan.

A friend gave me the idea of drawing Lan Zhan right after his punishment, and I ended up going a bit experimental and trying many new brushes.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 11: Koi Tower.

I am aware of the fact the place is usually called "Golden Carp Tower", but listen, when you're making an alphabet prompt list, some letters are difficult to fill!

List of prompts.

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

ABCDMXTX - Day 10: Jiang Yanli.

Yes, you're going into the lotus root and pork rib soup.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 9: Items.

"What's on my sleeve?" post-timeskip Wei Ying edition.

List of prompts.

ABCDMXTX - Day 8: Hua Cheng.

He's thinking about gege~

List of prompts.

An action sequence from the Chinese opera 白蛇传·情/Tale of the White Snake, which showcases Chinese opera water sleeves (水袖) and spear kicking (踢枪)

ABCDMXTX - Day 7: Guoshi.

Guoshi Fang Xin's mask and sword. I almost always stick to the default brushes, but I wanted to experiment with textures this time, and here's the result.

List of prompts.