ab antiquo: divine love and other tales
「 won't you come rest and hear a story, beloved?」
a zhongvenzhong story book
background image courtesy of @hasharakl
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ab antiquo: divine love and other tales
a zhongvenzhong story book
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background image courtesy of @hasharakl
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✧ info ✧
Ab Antiquo is an invite-only, ZhongVenZhong story-book style zine, where we write/illustrate stories about Zhongli and Venti from an in-universe perspective, as if we are artists and writers in the Genshin universe writing about our own gods!The zine will be divided into two sections; the Mondstadt section, with a German/Grimm’s fairy tales aesthetic, and the Liyue section, with a more traditional folklore aesthetic.Section names:Mondstadt section: Nähe des Geliebten: Nearness of the beloved one; a short German poem about pining and missing one’s lover.Liyue section: 风花雪月 (fēnghuā xuěyuè): Literal meaning wind, flower, snow, moon, a type of literary works about sentimental and romantic love.
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background image courtesy of @hasharakl