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Part 2 of 夏天陪你遇见浪漫 (LLD Bang 2023)
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2023-02-17
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Accompanying graphics for 'met love with you in the summer'

Summary:

Accompanying graphics for Sundermount's 'met love with you in the summer', as part of LLD Bang 2023.

Notes:

This post contains all the photos/manips made for Sundermount's fic 'met love with you in the summer', including a few that haven't been included within the fic itself as that would have resulted in the fic loading very slowly. You can see how some of the photos look in social media format in Sunder's fic!

Firstly, thank you, Sunder, for writing such an interesting story, being an awesome collaborator and for sending me encouragement! It's been an interesting and fun experience being on the other side of LLD Bang, creating art instead of fic. I had many moments of Doubt where I wondered what the hell I was doing, but your comments helped alleviate my nerves significantly, which I really, really appreciate. And the story had so many good moments that it inspired me to produce maybe too many photos! 😅

Secondly, thank you, Risey, for being my art beta! You might have thought you could escape being my beta reader since I wasn't writing this time round, but little did you know, you probably had to weigh in even more than ever with this, so here's my eternal gratitude for your artistic vision and guidance. Much of this would not be possible without your advice or the occasional literal helping hand when it came to doll-holding. Your advice was ultimately only limited by my execution ability!

Thirdly, to all the readers/viewers, thank you for checking this out. If you want to see the photos in full size, you can right click on the photos and open the image in a new tab.

Hope you enjoy the fic and photos!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Icons of their public Weibo accounts


Icons of their private Wechat


@King_温温 / King_WenWen:
Ready or not?
[Picture of Wen Kexing posing before a waterfall, dressed in a dark blue blazer, baseball cap and jeans paired with a white shirt and sneakers.]


@寒谷春生_1007 / HanGuChunSheng_1007:
XX0528 HGH
Happy filming, Zhou-laoshi!
[Zhou Zishu walking through the airport. He’s dressed in a blue t-shirt with jeans and wheeling a large, silver-coloured suitcase along.]  


Gong Jun stares out across the divide. There’s a guy among the shucais —the only guy amongst them.


Daidai:
hey
your jie-fu is actually kinda good looking
[picture of Zhou Zishu in guzhuang costume]  


The post is of the Divinity actors, dressed in the characters’ signature black and white and pressed up shoulder to shoulder as they’re walking together. That wouldn’t be a problem, except the accompanying caption goes as follows:
you can tell when actors actually get along


Right at the very top of the comments section is a photo of Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing turned away from each other as they’re in the middle of filming a scene. It’s captioned with a “?”.


Qiao Xin calls him while he’s on the toilet that night, doing a sheet mask as he answers the call of nature and sees to his video game dailies. Gong Jun hits “receive” on reflex, then pauses briefly to thank the heavens he’s not in public.


[Picture of Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing on a bridge. It’s clear that they’re not filming yet, just in position as they get ready to film. Zhou Zishu is smiling from ear to ear as he looks at Wen Kexing, and Wen Kexing is smiling as he speaks to the director, his arm wrapped around Zhou Zishu’s waist]



Gong Jun sees as NotYourHanGe looks at the newcomer in surprise, and that weird weight in his chest lightens when he sees NotYourHanGe shake his head.


—this guy is smiling from cheek to cheek as he bites down on a sunflower seed, cracking it open as he maintains eye contact with Xiao-Wen, then hand-feeding that sunflower seed to Xiao-Wen as he tosses the shell to the ground.


@WorkingHardEveryDay:
For sale, pictures from the Shan He Gu Ren set, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing discussing something with each other and being very flirty, you lean down and smile at me, I put my mouth to your ear and whisper into it while you look very happy, does anyone catch my drift? #ShanHeGuRen# #WenZhou# #ZhouZishu# #WenKexing#


Zhang Zhehan is sitting at the microscopically small dining table with his laptop before him when Gong Jun returns, rice now in a bowl and reheated when he realised most of it was still cold and Zhang Zhehan knew nothing about the existence of microwave temperature settings.


zzh:
call me a laundry goddess
[picture of laundry hung up to dry]


@King_WenWen:
A home-cooked meal!
[Wen Kexing with a noodle dish before him. You can see the edge of another bowl in a corner of the frame.]


They’ll squat on the edge of the pavement, eating their cheap popsicles while talking about nothing and everything, like ridiculing Gong Jun’s sock washing machine, jointly reminiscing about participating in the online fight between Jay Chou fans and the ones of some young idol, and how Zhehan missed out on being a basketball player because he was too short.


@WorkingHardEveryDay:
Selling pictures from the Shan He Gu Ren set, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing roll down a hill, Wen Kexing almost rolls on top of Zhou Zishu and Zhou Zishu doesn’t mind, mm, these photos were almost too much, I almost didn’t capture this as well because my hands were shaking so much???
#ShanHeGuRen# #WenZhou# #ZhouZishu# #WenKexing#


Simon:
Being a good person means getting a home-cooked breakfast
[image of soft boiled eggs with bits of shell in them]



Zhehan takes Gong Jun’s face between his hands. The choked laugh Zhehan makes is half-incredulous, half-relieved. “If I’m somehow reading this wrong, push me away,” he says, and kisses him.


Gong Jun lies in bed. Next to him, sleeping on his arm that’s slowly starting to go numb, is Zhehan.


@ZhouZishuActor:
Thank you for the hospitality.
[Photo of Zhou Zishu in a dimly-lit trailer, a bottle of hawthorn drink before him.]


Zhehan bursts out into laughter when he finally deigns to look at Gong Jun, who’s standing under the tree, looking as pitiful as he can as he holds up a comically large plastic bag.


@ZhouZishuActor:
Good night, Hengdian
[Zhou Zishu on stage.]



When he reaches the set, he wanders around dazedly for a minute or two as he looks around, then notices the person in a tree.


Simon:
apple thief!!!
[picture of zzh munching on an apple in a tree]


@ZhouZishuActor:
Afternoon break
[Zhou Zishu in his trailer reading a script. Before him is a bowl of walnuts.]


@HanGuChunSheng_1007:
0810 PEK
In Beijing!
[Zhou Zishu in a pink hoodie walking through the airport]


@ZhouZishuActor:
The mist of a pool whirls and dissipate / the forest moon drops low behind
[A lake by a bamboo forest. In it, you can see filming and lighting equipment]


@King_Wenwen:
Work's been tiring, I'd rather be an old fisherman.
[Artistic shot of a bamboo hat on a rock]


Gong Jun still feels a little like he can’t breathe. Zhehan remains calm, steady before him. Gong Jun focuses on the sound of his breaths; after a moment, he nods. Zhehan stands, and extends a hand to Gong Jun.


Then, with a wildly beating heart and a cold, nervous hand, he takes the hand Zhehan had just dropped, walking over to where Da-xiong, Xiao-chen, Qiuqiu and Si-jie are waiting.


@HanGuChunFeng_1007:
Happy shaqing, Zhou-laoshi!
[Four pictures of Zhou Zishu in costume]


@WenWenRuYu:
1005 #WenKexing PEK ✈️ PVG
[Wen Kexing entering the airport, followed by two airport staff pushing a stack of luggage behind him]


“Hi, Junjun,” Zhehan says, from where he’s standing in the doorway.



So Zhehan says, all smiles, “Hi.”
“Hi,” Gong Jun says back, and kisses him.

Notes:

I just want to talk a little bit about my experience here because it's been so novel for me. This alternative art attempt has been fun but also, a lot harder than I expected. I'm not terribly artistic, but I do enjoy taking photos casually (especially of dolls) so I thought this would be up my alley as alternative art. But it ended up stretching my photoshop skills more than I expected. At one point, I considered getting myself to an airport to take photos instead of photoshopping it. 😅

Some photos that I thought would be easy took more effort than I expected (for example, can you tell that the 'laundry' photo has been extremely photoshopped? Because I don't have doll sized pegs!). And I didn't expect to end up making doll sized face masks (the breathing sort) and facial masks (the skincare sort). But it really was interesting to stretch my limited creativity in a whole different direction than what I'm used to. It was also fun to put the dolls through all these different situations based on Sunder's story, and I'm glad to have participated in LLD Bang. So I guess I have to say: Thank you, Laura, for popping into my DMs and getting me to join! XD

The fic and photos are retweetable here!

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