Astramarin

Watercolour painting of dark pink quince blossoms on a light blue background



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    There is a boy digging a hole.

    There should be nothing special about him. He is one of many children digging holes, each and every one eager to get a spot on Cang Qiong Mountain. At a distance, there was black hair and shabby clothes.

    Yue Qingyuan could not look away from him.

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    In a world where they are the same age, Shen Yuan is going to try his very best to become the best friend of his favorite protagonist and prevent the blackening of Luo Binghe! Only, there is a problem.

    Shen Yuan looks way too much like the scum villain himself, Shen Qingqiu.

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    30 May 2024

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    “All right. I’m in Proud Immortal Demon Way," he says, once he's had a chance to compose himself again. He sits back up, tossing his stupidly long hair back over his shoulders where it belongs; he is totally calm and ready to grill the System for more information.  "Who am I supposed to be?"

    Please please please don't let it be someone who Bingge violently murders.

    Though given the fact that he's a man in PIDW, his chances are already skewed, and not in his favor. Ugh.

    [Bound Role: Shen Yuan, Rogue Cultivator. Weapon: the sword Heng Li. Starting B-points: 100.]

    or: Shen Yuan transmigrates as a rogue cultivator, one completely unconnected to any canon characters or events. Right, System? Right?

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    08 Oct 2024

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    Deep in the heart of the city of ghosts, a chisel breaks stone. Alone in the candlelit studio, Hua Cheng bows over the remaining boot and chips away slivers of veined marble. The sculpture is nearly finished, has been for weeks. The details he cuts into the lower foot now are so fine as to be invisible if viewed from any further away than a single step.

    Above it, ornate robes are swept back on a frozen wind and a sword halfway from its sheath cuts across the sculpture’s waist. With its weight perched on the front foot as if a breath away from leaping and the candelight rosy across its cheeks and brow, the sculpture looks as if it is only a heartbeat from life. Except—

    Hua Cheng takes a step back, tilting his head to survey his creation from toe to brow.

    A blank face stares down.

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    Hua Cheng emerges from Mt. Tong’lu looking for someone he cannot name, cannot place, cannot picture. For centuries, he chases fragments of memory—until he stumbles upon a cultivator in white who might be the answer to the questions he has carried for eight hundred years.

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    08 Dec 2024

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    Hua Cheng has issued a wave of fresh challenges to so many heavenly officials, his rampage may well wipe out the heavens. Ling Wen is sent to ask the calamity what could get him to stay his hand this time, and receives an impossible request - the hand of the Crown Prince of Xianle, long since disappeared from the realms.

    Xie Lian was minding his own business six hundred years post-banishment when the bun he salvaged was knocked from his hands into the dirt. Swept up to the heavenly court, he's asked if he is willing to put himself on the line for the sake of peace between heaven and ghost realms.

    Faced with a situation neither of them could have expected in their lifetimes, what are a ghost king and twice-banished god to make of their most implausible arrangement?

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    “Sizhui, go to the kitchen,” the Yiling Patriarch orders. His charge – Sizhui, Lan Wangji presumes – hesitates but obeys, looking back over his shoulder as he disappears. Apprentice out of the blast zone, the Patriarch storms up to Lan Wangji, eyes flashing red. “Three words: I. Am. Retired.”

     

    Lan Wangji is sent by the Institute to do two things: become the Yiling Patriarch's familiar, and report back his every movement. It does not go how any of them planned.

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    16 Apr 2024