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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · Nov 2
where else you can find me/my stuff

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guoldu.bsky.social
may the year of the fire horse bring you resilience, forward momentum and the strength in community to enact change 🎇❤️‍🔥

(a few weeks early🤫)
#马年 #万马奔腾 #guolduart
painting of a black horse jumping towards the viewer through a snow covered plain with a trail of dragon-like flames behind it. from its eye a streak of light as it swings its head. off in the rear distance, cold blue mountains
January 26, 2026 at 7:35 PM
douqi.bsky.social
if any baihe comm members would be interested in a read-along of the beauty's blade, please comment here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/78534.html
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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struttonpigeon.bsky.social
every discussion about genAI "translations" that involves people justifying/normalising the use of it makes me so fucking mad. i have spent four hours editing ONE PAGE of a novella. 🫠🫠🫠
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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douqi.bsky.social
Chapter 33 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(in which Li Si gets to shoot a really really big gun)

🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/01/21/t...
Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return Extract from the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Li Si stood atop a table outside an eatery some twenty-five feet behind Dou Xuanji, carrying a Gatling gun bigger than she was. Its barrels revolved at high speed, firing out several hundred bullets each second. A pair of sunglasses perched on the high bridge of her nose, and her cheek bulged with the lollipop she was sucking on. The roar of the Gatling gun was deafening. Li Si planted her feet firmly where she stood, bending her knees slightly against the recoil, and did not move an inch. She fired off tens of thousands of rounds without a pause. Gunpowder smoke choked the air; casing after spent casing tinkled onto the ground, until the street was littered with them. Li Si was drenched in sweat from the exertion.
January 21, 2026 at 11:10 PM
douqi.bsky.social
i would commit quite a lot of minor crimes to have art of this scene
douqi.bsky.social douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 5d
Chapter 33 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(in which Li Si gets to shoot a really really big gun)

🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/01/21/t...
Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return Extract from the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Li Si stood atop a table outside an eatery some twenty-five feet behind Dou Xuanji, carrying a Gatling gun bigger than she was. Its barrels revolved at high speed, firing out several hundred bullets each second. A pair of sunglasses perched on the high bridge of her nose, and her cheek bulged with the lollipop she was sucking on. The roar of the Gatling gun was deafening. Li Si planted her feet firmly where she stood, bending her knees slightly against the recoil, and did not move an inch. She fired off tens of thousands of rounds without a pause. Gunpowder smoke choked the air; casing after spent casing tinkled onto the ground, until the street was littered with them. Li Si was drenched in sweat from the exertion.
January 21, 2026 at 11:17 PM
douqi.bsky.social
Chapter 33 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(in which Li Si gets to shoot a really really big gun)

🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/01/21/t...
Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return Extract from the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Li Si stood atop a table outside an eatery some twenty-five feet behind Dou Xuanji, carrying a Gatling gun bigger than she was. Its barrels revolved at high speed, firing out several hundred bullets each second. A pair of sunglasses perched on the high bridge of her nose, and her cheek bulged with the lollipop she was sucking on. The roar of the Gatling gun was deafening. Li Si planted her feet firmly where she stood, bending her knees slightly against the recoil, and did not move an inch. She fired off tens of thousands of rounds without a pause. Gunpowder smoke choked the air; casing after spent casing tinkled onto the ground, until the street was littered with them. Li Si was drenched in sweat from the exertion.
January 21, 2026 at 11:10 PM
douqi.bsky.social
Pre-orders now open for volume three of the manhua adaptation of Her Mountain, Her Sea
Cover art for volume three of the manhua adaptation of Her Mountain, Her Sea. The main characters Chi Tang and You Yu lie next to each other on snowy ground. They're both dressed in winter clothing
January 19, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
The indie Filipino short film "The Lovers" (Studio Heartbreak) is now complete, and will be released this summer on Youtube.
In the meantime, here's a nice official poster illustrated by Ami Thompson.
www.studioheartbreak.com
www.catsuka.com/news/2023-05...
January 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
douqi.bsky.social
Pre-orders now open for The Guest (嘉宾, published in print as 别时茫茫) by Yu Shuang (鱼霜)
Promotional image for the presale of the print edition of The Guest, showing a woman in a bridal gown and veil overlaid with suspiciously bloodstain-like rose petals
January 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
douqi.bsky.social
Promotional art for both seasons of the audio drama adaptation of Shrine, based on the novel by Qi Xiao Huang Shu
Two pieces of promotional art for the audio drama Shrine. Art by 指居为马
January 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douqi.bsky.social
update: there are now NINE of these things
douqi.bsky.social douqi @douqi.bsky.social · Dec 27
how are there SIX mini-dramas on the theme of 'two sisters get engaged to two brothers for vague corporate dynastic reasons and end up fucking the wrong guy on their wedding night'
January 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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guoldu.bsky.social
you're all gonna have to be more neutral (or positive even! but at least neutral) towards people you perceive as men if you want butches, mascs and trans people to trust you
January 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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dojae.bsky.social
i finished writing my "books i read in 2025" post yuerstruly.dreamwidth.org/6018.html
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January 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
douqi.bsky.social
i'd have the same question tbh if i were a guest at this wedding
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
pour one out to an icon

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
douqi.bsky.social
Review: Memories of a Shanghai Summer (沪夏往事) by Shi Ci (是辞), Republican Era tragedy which did not quite work for me

🔗 read here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/77548.html
Promotional art for season one of the Memories of a Shanghai Summer audiobook, showing Xie Wanjun in a grey-green qipao and fur coat against a backdrop of a period-appropriate newspaper's front page Promotional art for season two of the Memories of a Shanghai Summer audiobook, showing Qin Shuining in a qipao holding a ruler against a backdrop of a period-appropriate newspaper's front page
December 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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guoldu.bsky.social
minguo's your wangxian

(doodle for @francowitch.bsky.social who won the pact challenge for fall :))

#mdzs
sketch by guoldu of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji in contrasting republican era fashions, both of them holding cigarettes and looking down upon the viewer
December 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
douqi.bsky.social
Chapter 32 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(in which Bian Jin continues to find herself extremely turned on despite even more blood and even more eldritch horrors)

🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2025/12/27/t...
Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return Extract from Chapter 32 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Blood was seeping out of the half-healed cut across Bian Jin’s palm. Shen Ni had stitched it up for her perfectly, but it had split open again under the stress of battle. The sight of it made Shen Ni’s heart ache. ‘This is such a deep wound. Didn’t you feel it?’ she asked. Why else would Bian Jin have claimed that it wasn’t her own blood? Bian Jin had never been particularly good at lying. And now Shen Ni was finally confronting her about the secret she’d kept hidden for so long, and she was holding Bian Jin’s hand as well. That delicious, tingling sensation she both feared yet — in some deep part of herself — yearned for was beginning to spread slowly up her arm, towards her heart. Bian Jin did not speak for fear that she would make some unseemly noise. Instead, she bit her lip and nodded silently.
December 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
douqi.bsky.social
how are there SIX mini-dramas on the theme of 'two sisters get engaged to two brothers for vague corporate dynastic reasons and end up fucking the wrong guy on their wedding night'
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
douqi.bsky.social
suddenly reminded of the time i was earnestly explaining the appeal of the takarazuka revue to a very proper, very elderly british lady and she stops me and says sweetly, 'i know, dear. i went to a girls' school'
aliciahaddick.com Alicia Haddick/アリシア@🇨🇳 @aliciahaddick.com · Dec 25
Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally

Please see it if you’re curious
Takarazuka Revue “Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight" Worldwide streaming／『悪魔城ドラキュラ』全世界 動画配信実施
YouTube video by 宝塚歌劇 公式チャンネル Takarazuka Revue Company
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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guoldu.bsky.social
My 2026 commission waitlist is officially open! This will remain open on a rolling basis unless I get really overwhelmed by responses 😂 so save the link!

Pricing Guide, including sliding scale definitions:
guoldu.com/pricing-guide

Commission Form:
guoldu.fillout.com/commission

#commissionsopen
Pricing Guide — guoldu art
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December 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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aliciahaddick.com
Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally

Please see it if you’re curious
Takarazuka Revue “Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight" Worldwide streaming／『悪魔城ドラキュラ』全世界 動画配信実施
YouTube video by 宝塚歌劇 公式チャンネル Takarazuka Revue Company
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
douqi.bsky.social
Review: Home for the Funeral (奔丧) by Nan Hu Tang (南胡唐), folk horror which (at least for me) did not quite live up to the hype around its author

🔗 review here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/77284.html
Cover of the JJWXC version of Home for the Funeral
December 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
douqi.bsky.social
first up is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6I...
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
douqi.bsky.social
am i the only person in international 焚情 fandom (i.e. about five other people) whose favoured if 线 revolves around bian jin rather than shen ni
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM