Just let me lie here on the tile

I painted this for mumblemumble's fandomtrees post at the very last minute - the deadline for this gifting challenge always gets extended and it was helpful for me this time.

"fanart of beach concert fun times" was a great prompt and I love Zhu Yilong's whole look during this event. Though I did make up most of the blue in his hair, to reference his role in the Land of Broken Hearts movie.

Side note: taking pictures of fanart in a sketchbook and then trying to get the colors in the photo to match what you're actually seeing is quite a ride. I did already know that the camera is never as good as the human eye (especially not a smartphone camera) but it's weird. I would welcome tips on how to photograph art stuff on your phone.



(fountain pen, brush pen, watercolor)

Earlier, for guardian_wishlist, I asked for Zhu Yilong pics and moodboards and all that, as well as Guardian fanfic, and I got many fabulous things that you should check out:

- beautiful pictures and a few clips/gifs from the Land of Broken Hearts premiere in Beijing, the beach concert, and the roadshows, carefully curated by mumblemumble. And I used one of those photographs as reference for this fanart, so it's a full circle of fannish joy.

- a fabulous Zhu Yilong slideshow (and download link) created by sakana17. I keep this slideshow open in a tab in my browser, for fannish joy and inspiration.

- a lovely evocative short fic by nnozomi about Shen Wei riding the trams in Dragon City, which is so relevant to my interests as I take trams every day and adore them very nearly as much as I adore Shen Wei. (I'm going to a sketch outing in a dutch train museum next weekend and I can't wait.)

- a Zhu Yilong/Ocean moodboard by yue_ix that is pure art. He really is a sea creature, and the fic inspiration is lying in wait for me every time I look at this. It's so gorgeous and brings so many ideas into life.

fandomtrees just went live after a week's delay, and there are 8 Guardian stories!

I had too little oomph to sign up, but I was treated extremely generously last year, so I can only pay it forward. What I really needed this year was a deadline, to get anything done at all, and it worked!

For laireshi, who always has the best hurt/comfort prompts, I wrote:

Snowmelt (2790 words)
(Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)

Shen Wei felt heavier when he was unconscious. The idea was ridiculous, of course. Or maybe it wasn’t. If anyone could find a way to make himself less of a burden, it would be Shen Wei.

fandomtrees gifts are going live, and I am wondering if the mod has to unscreen each comment by hand? (I really hope not, that sounds like a huge pain for them, but I've been away from DW so long that I have no clue how anything works anymore.)

Mine are unscreened now, and I got some amazing cookie recipes from different countries, a gorgeous Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan embrace from grayswandir, and a fantastic "Leave Me And Go" story by nightwalker, go check them out!! And there are some other tantalizing treats that I can't access on AO3 yet.

This is the BEST mood. ❤