"I promise, you won't find another person more sincere than me in this world."

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SV AU where Shen Qingqiu manages to convey to Luo Binghe, before sending him into the Abyss, that he's not rejecting Binghe it's just that his Heavenly Demon heritage means that he absolutely MUST go into the Abyss and do something (not particularly defined) because Binghe is the only person who could possibly do it and it is related to his destiny and the fate of the whole entire world, somehow.

So naturally Luo Binghe takes this to mean that there is an Extremely Important Mission that he must accomplish in the Abyss, and that he can't come back until he figures out what it is and does it.

It can't just be Binghe's own trial-by-fire training, because how could that be important to the fate of the rest of the world? (Binghe does not know he is the protagonist of a novel.) So it also can't just be making it to Xin Mo and then getting back out again, even though leaving and going home is what Binghe personally desires most, because how could there be any purpose to him going if he just rushes through and does nothing except try to leave?

End result: Binghe takes longer to leave the Abyss because he concludes that his reason for being there is to end the eternal suffering of its inhabitants by changing the nature of the domain to be less rampantly hostile. Which, it turns out, is harder than just escaping.

Imagining a scenario where Shen Qingqiu clocks some of the lingering tension between the peak lords and Luo Binghe after they get married, and so looks up what all the rights & privileges of a peak lord's spouse are (because really only the ascetic peak has restrictions against marriage), and then just like. Heaps them onto Binghe.

Fine robes and ornaments in Qing Jing's style. A title. Appropriate authority over Shen Qingqiu's disciples and junior sect siblings. Technically Binghe is also entitled to use of his own residence, and there's a building on the peak that is at least nominally reserved for the peak lord's wife, but it hasn't been used in a long time and Binghe would cry if Shen Qingqiu even suggested living in separate buildings (and Shen Qingqiu would also not like it but shhh). So he doesn't get that, exactly, but Shen Qingqiu does have the building freshened up and aired out as a place where Binghe can house guests from the demon realms, or potentially his own personal disciples (should he desire to take any on one day).

Binghe accompanies Shen Qingqiu to peak lord meetings in his capacity as husband, rather than disciple, which means Binghe also gets to sit at the table instead of standing behind Shen Qingqiu's seat.

But really just, Shen Qingqiu making a point of doing everything extremely officially to really drive home that he married Binghe, and he expects Binghe to be treated with respect and not suspicion or derision or any of the other bad habits that his fellow peak lords have displayed. Not just with Binghe, but also towards the original goods in the past (SJ might have been a piece of work, but the fact also remains that most of what his sect siblings thought of him was inaccurate). SQQ scraping up every bit of political acumen he can find from all the books he read and PIDW itself and his own history as the son of a wealthy family, and being like, "if I don't want Binghe to be bullied, I must make it clear that he has my favor!"

Meanwhile everyone already knows Luo Binghe is Shen Qingqiu's favorite, like man they know it so much already, more than they'd like to, but it's not like they can SAY anything because actually putting the right hair ornament onto Luo Binghe's head and making the disciples address him as Shimu is in fact more appropriate than all the other ways Shen Qingqiu displayed his favoritism so far. It's just driving several of the other peak lords slowly insane because it's backwards! The order of things is all messed up! Shen Qingqiu can't truly expect them to start respecting this disgraceful mess of a relationship now, can he?!

Of course he can. Also Yue Qingyuan is backing him up. (Yue Qingyuan actually finds this kind of amusing, because it's very on-brand for both versions of Shen Qingqiu to get embroiled in a controversial mess only to retroactively go "oh yeah, respectability politics are a thing" and then just try and brazenly bluff his way through it.)

Meanwhile Binghe is very much enjoying himself. Could he stop anyone in the sect from actually mistreating him in a heartbeat? Of course. He could kill any of them, they all know it, and Binghe is not unaware of how to leverage that kind of fear into compliance, if not respect. But then he'd have to go stalking around being tyrannical all the time, and he does that enough as the demon emperor.

It's far more enriching to let people be rude to him and then hang his head and "nobly endure" the mistreatment, just to watch Shen Qingqiu's eyes narrow and his fan snap shut before he lets out some cutting remark and then lavishes another sign of his favor onto Luo Binghe. Binghe's wildest teenage fantasies were made of this stuff! He's living the dream!

I feel there should be more post Bingge vs. Bingmei fanfics from Bingmei’s point of view.

He came upon another version of himself that, apparently, Shizun has met before???

The same Shizun who inexplicably threw Binghe into the Abyss only to mourn him immediately afterwards. Who was absolutely terrified of him in Jinlan City, and kept blaming him for everything. Who died for him only to pop up later in a replacement body Shang Qinghua helped him make. Who just so happened to know a great many things he really shouldn’t about the Holy Mausoleum.

I’m not sure what Binghe would conclude from all this (I doubt he’d come up with transmigration exactly) but you can’t tell me his Protagonist IQ didn’t come up with some very interesting, and fairly plausible, scenarios.

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Robin x Boothill is the funniest fucking thing this community has come up with.

like, I’m sure it’s a result of them coming out in the same patch, but honestly it’s crackship gold. their dynamic is so fucking funny. intergalactic angel superstar x cyborg space cowboy is hilarious.

all my damage dealing characters died in the second phase so i ended up fighting him with my sole survivor fu xuan and they had a preservation-off

sorry.. sorry.... i am the reason they nerfed aventurine boss fight

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Note from Anon:

“Please say your opinion in the tags! I’m asking cuz I have two oc ships and I’m afraid that the age differences might be a problem, the first is a 28 year old x a 31 year old the other is a 41 year old x a 46 year old.”

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I swear, Dan Heng's harem of men just keeps growing.

ANOK YAI at the 2024 Met Gala (May 6, 2024)

Honestly thank you for being such a mood, I am so tired of everyone being obsessed with Ruan Mei and Jade and whoever else is meta (no judgement to those who do! Just a personal opinion) when I really don't want to pull for them, because I also don't find them that interesting/dislike (in RM's case)

with both ruan mei and jade they fumbled their designs so bad. ruan mei is a batshit scientist that wont stop playing with genetic code like it’s string and jade is straight up based on the devil in the garden of eden. and what do they do with these designs?

woman wearing a light blue version of the outfit every xianzhou woman wears and plays a little instrument and woman wearing a dress made of credits with no unique face/hair features (and seems to exist only for femdom fanservice??).

LIKE IT DRIVES ME NUTS. i have a jade redesign draft that i’m kind of satisfied with and i havent started ruan mei’s much yet, but i can appreciate at least that she has the double helixes on her outfit. the only devil-like design ive been able to find on jade at all is the bottom of her shoe??? come on. give me something here. i like her big hat but shes so NOTHING… what a waste of a devil/fruit inspired character….

draft of my jade outfit redesign if u want to see :3

i added purple because of Lavender Jade, and the red is for the fruit juice/bloodstained look. snakes of course. white gloves bc she would Never get her hands dirty oh certainly not! pearls cuz i think they look good on her. big eyelashes and hair tied in a low bun just to give her some distinctness. one eye covered due to her insincerity and underhanded tactics…

ruan mei’s isnt ready like i said, but i will be leaving her helix patterns in place while incorporating some designs inspired by yaoshi, tayzzyronth, and plum blossoms. i’m thinking she’ll have a jacket of some kind, possibly glasses, definitely gloves. her hair can probably stay the same… she might even get pants. would make sense for her i think.

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