appreciative drawings of @monhiio 's fenglian AU (here and here pls check out his gorgeous art) where they find baby binghe!! training while carrying him turns out to be not so difficult (he also finds it v entertaining)

bonus mq embroidering a dudou for bingy:

Isn't it soooo sick and fucking twisted that like...

Sj hated binghe a lot for being similar to himself and yet having all the things he craved the most (meaning a loving mother, starting cultivation at the right age etc), right?

But like. If he saw bingmei, wouldn't he lose his fucking mind??

The same kid, getting spoiled rotten by a version of himself that never faced any troubles, reaping only the benefits that someone else fought and literally died for???? That little beast, coddled into shamelessness and remaining just as feral after spending so many years on his Qing Jing Peak???? And despite how absolutely unbecoming it is, in the end it gets everything it wants: all the power, the world at its feet, and worst of all it gets his obsession reciprocated. The entitled impostor that took over sj's body loves that thing back and keeps giving in and in and in, giving it everything it wants.

And oh, if he ever noticed the parallels between what him and yqy went through vs. how the story unfolded for bingqiu..... Maybe he won't notice. After all, those pampered fools have nothing in common with him and yue qi. But if he ever were to notice how the same story beats repeat. The betrayal, the separation, the misunderstanding, the guilt, the reunion. If he were ever forced to see his body play yqy's role in his own story. Piloted by some clueless young master who never worked a day in his life, using all he has to over indulge some lost, snarling animal. And then get a happy ending. Crushing everything he ever stood for so decisively. Would he not prefer his original fate after all?

Maimed, humiliated, used as a play thing of a man-child god emperor for who knows how long. But in the end he never truly succumbed to him, did he? And yes, yqy's horrible, stupid death did crumble anything human that was left in him at that point. Still going against his wishes, always too late, never listening, same old same old. But perhaps at least in death he repaid his broken promise. Instead of wasting away, faced every day with a stranger he was supposed to know. And oh isn't it all the more horrible that sy got to finally hear yqy's explanation from his own mouth? Another mercy sj never got. Another thing stolen from him.

As horrible and violent as pidw is to sj. Svsss doesn't seem to be any kinder. We as readers get a better perspective on him and can finally understand him and his motives. But he would not want our pity. I know it in my bones that he would spit on our pity. If he wanted his story known, he could have explained and exposed himself at any point in the original storyline, but he did not want the world to pity him and to look down on him. He could have opened up his heart to other people, make some new friends, it shouldn't have been impossible. But he weighed his options and chose to keep his cards close to his chest. And even if that's very much the source of his tragedy, it was his choice to make. And it would be kind for any narrative he's taking part of to honour that choice.

Im afraid that despite it all, sj might just choose to stick to his original fate. Wronged and misunderstood, at least he went out on his own terms, without being perverted into something beyond recognition.

As much as he is willing to bite and scratch and kill and maim, no matter how much mud he drags himself through, i do think that there are some things that he is not willing to compromise on. I think even as a street rat, doing anything to survive, he still had a certain sense of integrity. Even in shamelessness, no matter how bad things got. And the older he became, the more he achieved, this sense only heightened. To the point where when sy takes over, he has a perfect hold on the mask of the lofty immortal, despite all the rumours. Seeing his hard work ripped from his so callously, appropriated casually and then used for the most inane purposes.....

Idk where im going with this but it does break my heart to think about how even in the new and improved version of the original plot, sj (and yqy for that matter) is treated as an acceptable sacrifice, never knowing peace, never getting closure. And we're supposed to just accept that and move on? As if his life doesn't shape the entire story?

In pidw, it was his cruelty that made binghe who he is. He's the main reason for the unification of the three realms under one rule. His petty, personal motivations indirectly shape the entire world. And in svsss, he is actually the titular scum villain. The main character wears him as a suit over the course of 4 books. He refers to himself as shen qingqiu exclusively throughout the novel. He may be dead for the entirety of svsss, but he haunts the narrative tenaciously. He is not one to be ignored.

More specifically, it is his suffering that shapes the world he's in. I think all mxtx novels have worlds that are explicitly unkind. And for svsss, sj is very much the embodiment of that pervasive cruelty. Both victim and abuser, the cycle of violence wearing human skin. Load bearing world building element, rather than chatacter. What am i saying. Take my phone away.

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

semiaquatic secret agent

long time no hualian

Calamity!Xie Lian: I don't trust you. Don't hide your true emotions anymore, that's an order.

Wuming: Yes, Your Highness. (Oh no, I’m afraid to I can’t show Dianxia my unworthy ugly face! But how will I show my true emotions then?)

Wuming after an hour of reflection:

His inventiveness and cruelty amaze the imagination, the blade of his scimitar is stained with the blood of hundreds of enemies. Don't mess with him...

…… is liu qingge/ming fan a thing

i cannot imagine lqg being interested in him shshdhdhd but ming fan having a massive crush on his shishu? sounds believable

Seeing you at death’s door, a beauty fading—ahem, dying so young…

love hurts sometimes

I think one of the keys to non-canon and rarepair relationships for me in fanfiction is that you have to respect the relationships that are already there. Not like in a "you have to do the canon relationships and then break them up first" way, because you can definitely make it so that the canon relationship in question never happened OR was never romantic or sexual if you want. But in a basic characterization issue kind of way.

For example, when I wrote a Shang Qinghua / Yue Qingyuan fic, I was looking at the ways to make that work given the Qijiu and Moshang situations. And I ended up making it so that Qijiu either never had or never fully developed any romantic or sexual feelings in this AU, but they're still inseparable as friends / brothers / platonic soulmates of a kind. You CAN'T write a Yue Qingyuan who doesn't care about Shen Jiu. It's just not on the table in terms of characterization.

(I mean, you could, I suppose, but then it's a case of, "Who the fuck even is this guy anymore? You undid his whole backstory and now he's a completely different person." I do think you can write interesting AU stories focused on character development in which Yue Qingyuan learns to move on after post-canon or in which perhaps Shen Jiu's treatment of Luo Binghe becomes an actual breaking point for their relationship, but even if things somehow get REAL BAD between him and Shen Jiu, I don't really think Yue Qingyuan will ever be able to stop caring completely.)

Likewise, I made it so that Moshang never fell into the master-servant situationship, and ended up as cooperative enemies / distant allies of sorts. But Shang Qinghua still thinks Mobei-Jun is sexy. That's his ideal guy! Airplane Bro still being a little weird about his favorite character is not really negotiable to me, even if he's in love with someone else. He has eyes! He can still look at other men disrespectfully! He just doesn't act on his attraction.

Like, you can totally just sidestep any romantic / sexual feelings never existed, in order to pursue your pairing of choice. But you cannot easily deny, in my opinion, the basic fact of a character caring on a basic level about someone important to them. I think it gives weird "you're only allowed to care about your romantic partner / no friends allowed" vibes to just completely cut off all other relationships. There's not a hard line between "love-triangle-fixing polyamory" and "completely isolated from even friendships because maintaining friendships with exes is cheating somehow monogamy" as options here.

@/SVSSSAction prompt for @/starlit_radiant !!

thank you so much for your donation! just a TLJ down with a cold and looking for some pampering from his favourite peak lord 🤭

idk why i'm so productive today but as promised: here's bunhe with a bonnet to protect his curls hehe

sum binghes

Don't mind how rough and wonky everything looks it was just a color study slash warmup

A time travel story where PIDW Mu Qingfang is the one to go back.

He had lost his entire sect, all of his martial siblings, and it was all he could do to keep his own life and of his closest disciples by being a doctor to the Emperor’s court. And even then, I would imagine that over the years, one by one, he would lose his disciples too- from death, or from them just getting out of there. I imagine that in the end, he would be alone.

And then he wakes up!! In the past!!! As either a disciple, or maybe as a peak lord, post canon? Either way, he has a chance to fix things and stop what happened!

Except he has no idea what happened. He doesn’t know SQQ’s backstory, he doesn’t know LBH’s backstory (before coming to the sect, and even then, I would imagine it’s in broad strokes), he doesn’t know anything! What he does know is that something more is going on with SQQ, so he doesn’t want to just kill him. Also, killing SQQ would send YQY into a spiral, and he also doesn’t want that.

It’s 20 chapters of Mu Qingfang fumbling around, trying to fix something, and end up, idk, becoming everyone’s best friend? He does stop the sect from being burned down, thankfully.

Also, Airplane!SQH is there instead of the one that MQF would have known, so I’m sure that just throws a giant wrench into things. And then I would imagine that SY would show up somewhere, not as SQQ, and MQF would wonder where this kid has been the whole time.

Something, something, Mu Qingfang as a disciple sees constant bruises on SQH from MBJ. He thinks he knows what happening- an abusive relationship, which is technically true? But MQF thinks it’s more romantic than it is.

So he tries to talk to SQH about it. SQH deflects as he’s does, and the result of the conversation is that MQF stops seeing him around his peak! Unacceptable!

So MQF calls in the big guns- the other head disciples/future peak lords. He calls a meeting, makes a big impassioned speech about how they should stick together and help each other out, as martial siblings, and how they needed to be there for SQH!

None of them cares. This generation of peak lords are so disconnected it isn’t funny. MQF sighs, and then precedes to blackmail each and everyone of them with their medical history into helping.

(Except for LQG, who did not have a medical history to be scared of. He just went along with what was happening, part to not be left out, and part because SQQ is doing it and by damn is he being showed up by him)