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Silvy
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Fandom old. Artist and writer. Yi City main. Always low on spoons, zero tolerance for fandom drama, but otherwise very friendly! 💚
I post a lot about #songxuexiao and my beast of a fix-it fic #heavenhasaroad
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Since I've discussed finally getting to try real tanghulu in China with several different fic authors now, I'll just post a PSA here! 😂

1. It's sticky, and often coated with thin, edible rice "paper"
2. They're white inside!
3. The taste is somewhere between tart baked apple and rosehips
A photo of dozens of skewers of tanghulu displayed on a cake stand in a vendor's window in Shanghai A close-up of glazed tanghulu sprinkled with sesame seeds, glistening in the sun. A traditional Chinese street can be seen in the background. The same skewer as in the previous photo, but half the haws are missing and the topmost remaining one has a bite taken out of it. The mushy flesh of the fruit is a pale yellow-white with a slightly darker center. A stick of tanghulu made with one huge grape and a cherry tomato. A performance with people in traditional costumes as well as a table set with several intricate little dishes can be seen in the background
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Update from the manufacturer: the misprinted covers are being replaced and we've finally got a proper look at the finished version of Book 3! 🎉
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art!

(Door with carved herons, lotus and magnolias)
Door with carved herons, lotus and magnolias, painted in muted shades of teal and turquoise
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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It's pretty here, guys... 🥹💚
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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This is... not a happy file 😅
Screengrab of the picture op posted, it's severely distorted with horizontal lines of wite and colour, probably because of a corrupted file
September 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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In more productive news, I'm aaalmost done resizing the illustrations for book 2, only 2 more to go.
It's songxiao month now or something, isn't it? So I suppose sharing this is fitting 💚
A picture in soft pastel tones of Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen lying facing each other on a bed. They're leaning their foreheads together, and Song Lan's hand is gently holding Xiao Xingchen's waist, while Xiao Xingchen is brushing his fingers along Song Lan's jaw. Song Lan is fully dressed and Xiao Xingchen is in his innermost robes, half covered by a blanket like he just woke up. Sheer billowing curtains frame the the scene, and rays of sunlight shine from the upper left corner.
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Some of the adjusted illustrations even look good! 😂
But thank you. 💚
So far I'm more less on schedule - I have 21 out of 66 illustrations left to fix, 2/3rds of the text to edit and three covers to draw, and a bit more than a month to do it.
Piece o cake...! 🥲👍
A painting of a mountainous landscape with a Chinese fantasy inspired temple among the clouds. It's in portrait format to fit a book page. A painting of a mountainous landscape with a Chinese fantasy inspired temple among the clouds. It's in a square format, lacking a lot of the background that's been added to the other picture.
August 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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One of the hardest things about adjusting the Heaven illustrations to print size if to be able to match the new parts seamlessly to the style and feel of the original art. It can take a lot of patience and precision!
A very simple ugly sketch drawing of chibi Xiao Xingchen and chibi Song Lan sitting next to each other, holding hands and crying. The background is extremely styled bamboo drawn mostly as scribbly lines with some scruffy bundles of leaves here and there. The image is book page format, the scribbly lines more less lining up between the original sketch and the newly added background on top. The foreground is tufts of grass just drawn as jagged lines here and there. The same simple ugly sketch drawing of chibi Xiao Xingchen and chibi Song Lan sitting next to each other, holding hands and crying. This image is in landscape format, much smaller than the other one, making you realize with awe how masterfully the other one had been expanded and added to to fit a whole page.
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Nakimochiku wrote a fic for the second (and most out of left field) of my MDSZ RBB prompts! Jiang Cheng and Xue Yang... cyberpunk... detective noir? 😅👍

You can read it here
archiveofourown.org/works/69515676
An image in comic style, mostly black and white with some grungy greyscale textures. Xue Yang and Jiang stand back to back and look at the viewer as if in challenge, Xue Yang wearing a hoodie and brandishing a small sharp knife, Jiang Cheng in a trenchcoat, holding a gun. The background is a city skyline of skyscrapers, with skylights and a crescent moon illuminating the sky.
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The final chapter of Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It is up!
archiveofourown.org/works/26028973…#TheUntamede#MDZSZ#xueyangn#songlana#xiaoxingchene#songxuexiaoa#heavenhasaroadad
A picture in light and airy colours. Song Lan, Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang are walking into frame from the bottom left, wearing their new outfits. They're holding hands. In front of them is an ornate gatehouse with thick wooden pillars carved with magnolias, white stone walls and grey roof tiles on a roof with curved edges. Beyond the approaching trio, the gate can be glimpsed to be open, sunlight shining through it from inside, and beside it waits a woman in white and pale blue robes. Beside the gatehouse is a high white garden wall with grey stone lattice windows, and behind the wall and gatehouse can be seen the branches and foliage of a huge green tree. Beams of sunlight shine down on the whole scene from behind the tree, and in the sky to the left, three birds are flying wing to wing.
July 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Clarifying that when I say "resize", I don't mean cropping the illustrations, but actually adding in about 1/3rd's worth of extra art to each one to make them work in a standing book format. 🥲
That's why it's taking a while. 😅
A picture of Song Lan, Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen fighting demon snakes. It's in portrait format, higher than it is wide. A picture of Song Lan, Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen fighting demon snakes. It's lamentably square.
July 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Chapter 65 of Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It is up!
archiveofourown.org/works/260289...

#TheUntamed #MDZS #xueyang #songlan #xiaoxingchen #songxuexiao #heavenhasaroad
Song Lan, Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen stand in the middle of the image, and a house in Cloud Recesses can be seen behind them, the sign above the door sporting a four-character idiom framed by icy blue tassles. They are all wearing their new robes, Song Lan's are black brocade, with wide shoulders, tied with a wide green belt with a thinner white belt over it, and a silver hairpin shaped like a plum branch with red flowers is in his topknot. Xue Yang wears his jade green robes with a shimmery hematite overcoat, textured with reptile skin. He wears a black wide belt with a thinner white one on top and the tiger hairpiece in his high ponytail. Xiao Xingchen's robes are pure white with gossamer frost patterns, tied with a wide green belt with a thinner black one on top, and he's wearing his silver hairpiece shaped like a mountain with a white jade disc moon rising behind it. His eyes are luminous white jade, looking slightly eerie. Both daoshi carry their fuchen, their swords on their backs. Song Lan looks troubled, Xiao Xingchen calm but determined, and Xue Yang grins a lopsided, wide-eyed grin, his hand raised as if to snap his fingers.
July 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Big day for the boys tomorrow... 👀
Cropped art of Xiao Xingchen, that only shows bust and head. He has a scar across his throat, and eerie luminous white jade eyes. He wears a hairpiece in the shape of a stylized silver mountain with a white jade moon disc rising behind it. Cropped art of Xue Yang, that only shows bust and head. He wears graphite grey and green robes, and has a hairpiece in the shape of a bronze tiger on his high ponytail. He's smiling a deranged, lopsided smile, his eyes wide and challenging. Cropped art of Song Lan, that only shows bust and head. He's wearing black brocade robes with wide shoulders and Fuxue can be glimpsed on his back. His hair is up in a high, stylized bun decorated with a hairpin in the shape of a silver branch with red plum blossoms. He wears a beaded rosary with two red tassles, and on his cheek is an X of tiny silver stitches.
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I just found another behind the scenes Yi City video to screengrab, and their expressions made me think of the eggplant conversation/s in chapter 63 of Heaven Has A Road. 🥰
A screenshot of Xue Yang and Wei Wuxian from a behind the scenes video. Xue Yang is smiling, with the text "So, the most important thing to consider when you pick out the perfect eggplant... not actually length!" as a speech bubble. Wei Wuxian looks very doubtful and uncomfortable, with a speech bubble reading "Uh-huh. Mm-hm. I didn't actually ask..." A following screengrab with Wei Wuxian hiding his face in his hands and Xue Yang looking smug. Xue Yang says GIRTH in italics surrounded by sparkles. Wei Wuxian says "I need an adult"
June 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Chapter 64 of Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It is up!
archiveofourown.org/works/260289...

#TheUntamed #MDZS #xueyang #songlan #xiaoxingchen #songxuexiao #heavenhasaroad
A mountain landscape with clouds drifting between the sharp, towering peaks. A few pines cling to a nearby mountain side and a gnarled pine branch snakes into the image from the top left corner. Some of the green foliage is turning yellow. Song Lan, Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang can be glimpsed as small figures climbing a mountain path to the left. Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan wear green sashes, and Xue Yang's is black and white.
June 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Chapter 63 of Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It is up!
archiveofourown.org/works/260289...

#TheUntamed #MDZS #xueyang #songlan #xiaoxingchen #weiwuxian #lanwangji #songxuexiao #heavenhasaroad
An image in soft blue tones, showing a sky speckled with stars and a huge full moon illuminating distant mountains and a glittering lake. In the foreground, the silhouettes of five people can be made out against the moonlight, from left to right Song Lan, Xue Yang, Xiao Xingchen, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, all haloed by the pale moonlight. Wei Wuxian is casually holding a wine bottle in one hand and Chenqing in the other. Lan Wangji holds Bichen in his left hand, and his large hairpiece sparkles in the moonlight. Wei Wuxian's red hair ribbons, and the ribbons of Lan Wangji's forehead ribbon flutter in the wind - notably, Xiao Xingchen isn't wearing his blindfold. Trees and branches frame the edges and top of the image.
May 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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That brief moment when our respective seasons 🤝
A weather forecast screen grab that shows 14°C for May 13th
May 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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For when you want to draw canon-accurate spice 😌
Screenshot of Song Lan making a funny face when fighting Screenshot of Song Lan making a funny face when fighting Screenshot of Song Lan making a funny face when fighting Screenshot of Song Lan making a funny face when fighting
April 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I drew that inspired by a tumblr post about a guy and his wife who had a game where they'd hide bags of oreos from each other around the house. 😂

The rebel here is Osprey, another character from the same story, and he and the pretty (antagonist) princess have an enemies-to-lovers arc going on. 😁
Original character Osprey, a cranky-looking man of indeterminate age with mouse-brown hair streaked with dirty blonde hanging in droopy spikes around his face, and hazel-coloured eyes. There are some small scars on his face, a hint of stubble, and he looks at the viewer with a scowl. His cloak is held together with a round bronze brooch. Portrait of original character Aiyasha, a beautiful woman with Asian features. She has copper-coloured eyes with dark lashes and smoky makeup, giving the viewer a sweet but sinister smile with plum-painted lips. She's wearing lots of gold and rose-gold coloured jewelry, including dangling earrings, hairpins, and a circlet across her forehead. Her clothes and decorative fan are burgundy purple-red.
April 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I found the oreos sketch! 😂

Her moths have a toxic wing pollen that sends people into frenzied delirium - she uses them for torture/interrogation. Hence why she's brandishing one so threateningly in this sketch. 🥰
April 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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#OC lore train! Explain your oc's lore in the shittiest way possible

Career plans interrupted by annoying cousin
A beautiful woman with somewhat east Asian features sitting on a stylized throne with one leg crossed over the other. She wears multiple hairpins and a decorative circlet, and her clothes are edged with gold. She is surrounded by large red moths with eyes on their wings, and her billowing cloak mimics their wings. One of moths perches on her raised hand as she makes eye-contact with the viewer. Between the fingers of her other closed hand, needle-sharp hairpins protrude like claws. The image is coloured in faded monochrome reds.
April 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Chapter 62 of Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It is up!
archiveofourown.org/works/260289...

#TheUntamed #MDZS #xueyang #songlan #xiaoxingchen #wenning #lansizhui
#songxuexiao #heavenhasaroad
An image in soft, hazy afternoon colours, with sunlight filtering through green trees in the background. Song Lan, Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang stand to the left of the image, with their backs toward the viewer. Facing them are Wen Wing and Lan Sizhui, looking rather surprised to see them. Behind them is a stone bridge covered in green vines, spanning the nearby canal
April 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Sometimes bigger IS better... 😌
A screenshot from The Untamed showing Xue Yang grinning an absolutely manic grin with Nie Mingjue's Baxia hovering an inch from his face.
March 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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😂
Maybe this?
Three men embracing, one on the side kissing the middle one's cheek
February 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM