The Tao and the Carbon-Based Monkey's Guide to Care
道与碳基猴子饲养守则
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The Four Heavenly Kings of the Silent Ship!
I'm planning to do fan art, so I'll start by creating some character illustrations. Updates will be sporadic.
This is the ugliest novel cover I've ever seen in the four or five years I've been reading.
Even just writing the title and author's name on a blank sheet of paper would look better than this. At first glance, it looks like the opening of an old movie from the last century, or maybe an Ultraman intro. The five-cent special effects—a deep blue mess where the text is barely legible—and the somber background color, while striking, is jarring.
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His gaze followed the musician into the flower grove. Parting the intertwined red and white branches, a young man in red robes with flowing hair appeared in the desolate valley.
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