The Tomb Raiders' Guild

• Art and fic must be rated no higher than T (nothing 18+). This applies for any suggestive pose/clothing/etc. and also for blood/whump.


• Art should be mostly gen, featuring your chosen character, but you can hint at a pairing if you want to.


• Fic can include a ship, but please make your character the focus still!


• Art and fic for one month do not need to be a collab between the two creators - you can definitely make them match if you want to, but it is not a requirement.


• No AUs please! Please stick to depicting your character doing something that fits with your favorite novel or drama canon (no animal-shifters, school AUs, magic, etc. - just straight-up weird DMBJ)


• The only AU exception is if you’d like to depict a character who died as still alive, since we have too many fridged ladies and dead Zhangs as it is!
  But if you have any questions about what counts as an AU, definitely let Mekare or Vergoftowels know and we can help out.

• Image ratio: month pages 5:4 (landscape), seasons pages 4:5 (portrait)


• dimensions for traditional art: month pages: 17,9 cm x 14,3 cm or 7.1 inch x 5.6 inch (or a multiple thereof)


• season pages: 17,9 cm x 22,3 cm or 7.1 inch x 8.6 inch


• digital art dimensions: month pages: 2180 x 1744 pixels, season pages: 2180 x 2725 pixels


• 300 ppi (minimum 150, maximum 600),
  Colour profiles: cmyk


• Recommended file formats: .jpg . png . psd (ONLY if image has been flattened) .pdf (ONLY if no digital text is included in artwork)

• Choose a quote from the fic to put on the calendar page next to the QR code


• quote should be gen like the art (the rest of the fic can include shippy content)

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• The Mystic Nine: Qing Shan Hai Tang [老九门之青山海棠] (2022)


• The Mystic Nine Side Story: Tiger Bones Plum Blossom [老九门番外之虎骨梅花] (2016)


• The Mystic Nine Side Story: Ganges Killing the Trees [老九门番外之恒河杀树] (2016)


• The Mystic Nine Side Story: Flowers Bloom in February [老九门番外之二月花开](2016)


• The Mystic Nine Side Story: Four Belongs to Abelmoschus [老九门番外之四屠黄葵](2016)

• Tomb of the Sea: Bang Ren [蚌人] (2018)


• Tomb of the Sea: Hua Mei [画媒] (2018)


• Tomb of the Sea: Ran Gu [燃骨] (2019)

• The Sound of the Providence Side Story: Ping Yao Wang Shi [[平妖往事] (2020)


• The Sound of the Providence Side Story: Moonfall Echo [月陨回声] (2021)

BAOLING VILLAGE, China — One day last November, Yang Mingzhen received a tip: Construction workers digging on his family’s land had discovered an ancient tomb.

That night, Mr. Yang and his father and uncle sneaked down to the tomb, in a barren dirt field just outside the entrance of Baoling Village, on a dusty hilltop in Shaanxi Province.

Early the next morning, a worker found the bodies of Mr. Yang and the two other men. Sometime in the night the centuries-old tomb had collapsed, and they had been buried alive.

Village residents were shocked. “He wouldn’t have even dared to steal his neighbor’s carrots,” said Yang Yuansheng, 62, the village accountant, referring to Mr. Yang. “Who would have thought he would risk his reputation to go rob a tomb?”
Such are the extreme allures — and perils — of grave robbing, an ancient practice that has made a roaring comeback as the global demand for Chinese antiquities has surged. With prices for some Chinese antiquities reaching into the tens of millions of dollars, a flood of amateur and professional thieves looking to get rich quick has hit China’s countryside.[…]

But there is little romance to the grave-looting life. In China, most grave robbers are migrant workers and farmers. Some are like Yang Mingzhen — amateur thieves equipped with only basic tools. Others, however, are part of professional trafficking networks that make use of everything from high-tech probing devices to traditional feng shui masters.
The task is dirty and dangerous, requiring workers to crawl into small tunnels, handle explosives and inhale stale air — all while evading detection. When raids are successful, the objects are often passed through a shadowy, cross-border network of middlemen, smugglers and dealers before reaching the display cases of wealthy collectors and museums in China and abroad.

Even so, tomb robbing has become a pop culture phenomenon. The online fiction series “Grave Robbers’ Chronicles” by Nanpai Sanshu, about a young man’s tomb-robbing adventures, became a sensation after it first appeared in 2006. Since then, numerous television shows and movies have also been made about tomb robbing, including Wuershan’s “Mojin: The Lost Legend” and Lu Chuan’s “Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe.”