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⚠️ Chapter 207 Spoilers for GSGW ⚠️

Goodnight Braun

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forever thinking about how braun is canonically fucking enormous

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Hmm waist 🤔

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Qin Jiu: your voice sounds like the system's

You Huo:

qqgk

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"Don't close your eyes at me, Big Invigilator" One of my favorite moments (๑ > ᴗ < ๑)

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922: What’s worse than a heartbreak?

154: waking up in the morning and your phone wasn’t charging

Qin Jiu: waking up in the morning

You Huo: waking up

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Gao Qi: What did you two do?! Jiuhuo: We did what you told us to, we tackled our problems head on instead of running away. Gao Qi: I meant emotionally, not arson?!

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I've been thinking about JiuHuo rescently, specifically about the infamous Qin Jiu line:

"I'm not here to save you, I'm here to love you."

I just think it's such a beautiful way to sum up their relationship and what they mean to each other.

You Huo didn't need saving, he had it all figured out. He wasn't buying the System's bullshit, he and Chu Yue were already planning a way out and how to take it down. Even if Qin Jiu didn't appear, You Huo would have tried many times to escape and destroy the System. That's not what Qin Jiu was for.

Qin Jiu also wasn't someone who is supposed to save You Huo from loneliness or his bad childhood. You Huo had friends, he was never truly alone. The bond that he and Chu Yue share is so deep and so special to him (him and Qin Jiu literally ran to her room after waking up and seeing each other when everything was over, because they were so worried for her). And he has put his childhood behind. Of course there are memories that still hurt him and affect him but he knew when to seperate the past and move on. He doesn't let that hurt affect him much in his day to day life (besides his eyes).

No Qin Jiu's role is neither of those. He's there to simply love You Huo. To love him in an unconditional way, in an unexpected way, in a meaningless way. There was no reason for Qin Jiu to fall for him or vice versa, it simply happened. They didn't need to have a big understanding of each other or some life changing event for that love to blossom, their souls just simply found each other and they never let go. They were each other's missing piece. You Huo just needed his love and to give that love back in return. And that's exactly what Qin Jiu offers.

He supports him, he joins him in his madness, shares his madness, all of that simply because he loves him.

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Unwanted feelings

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I was wondering, what is the real life expectancy in alien stage? As far as I know we have never seen an old character, even among the NPCs. So can Luka be considered old already? Do parents like io get to see their adult children? We can imagine from the comic of till's mother and from what we see in wiege that there must be some kind of farm for humans. Are women kept there until they no longer ovulate? Or they are abandoned after giving birth a certain amount of times. Am I still alive? Did she see her little boy die on a big screen? Does she know it's him? This has been on my mind for a while lol. And

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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When Xiaolan is Maomao's lady-in-waiting and the Jinmao babies arrive, protocol will insist that Xiaolan be seen strictly as a servant. Good thing Maomao's the type to say "to hell with how it's done or not, she's my kids' auntie."

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Fanfiction is great because you can see so clearly how people learn to write.

Some people, it's clear, learned almost entirely through absorbing the world around them. Grammar and punctuation will be all over the place, spellings are approximate, but the voice of the narration will come through so clearly. You can hear the dialect of the people around them as of they're telling the story. It's not a written story, it's a transcription of how they talk in their day to day life.

Some people learned through reading a gazillion books as a kid. Grammer and spelling will be rock solid, formatting occasionally based on the single tab of physical books rather than the double tab of online scrolling, but dialogue is often stilted and overly formal. You might notice a lack of contractions and very rigid rules they made for consistency that actually have a lot more flexibility than they think. They tend to have a fantastic grasp of sentence flow, though.

And other people formally learned how to write. This could be anywhere from taking school classes seriously because they enjoyed writing stories as a kid to literal certifications and jobs in the field. Grammer is flawless. Punctuation is triple checked. Foreign words are in italics. Characters have distinct voices. But their self indulgence is tempered by perfectionism. They know precisely what they want from a fic. Authors notes often feature mutterings about their happiness with the chapter. Kaomojis often appear! They seek a style to their writing, and it makes for some wonderfully clever plots! These are the ones most likely to get fun with formatting!

And some people.... Some people examined it all. They dissect dialogue, people watch, cross reference behaviours and compare characters to people irl. You can tell almost immediately who had formative experiences with Terry pratchett and/or ghibli, because it's these people. While others see writing as fun, expression, craft, they see it as art. Plain and simple. Sure, the grammar is occasionally sacrificed on the altar of creative freedom, and the occasional sentence might miss a full stop, but these people seem to self reflect on themselves as part of the art making process. On occasion, these people have the most masterful grasp of dialogue and invocation and hand sewn characterisations. Formatting is pretty standard because all the focus is on the actual words. These fics can be edited to the moon and back!

All of these can vary wildly in forethought and quality, and betas can often catch individual problems before they hit post, but just. Isn't it so cool? What's that one Oscar Wilde quote about every mask just being another fragment of yourself?

Did you recognise yourself?

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Obsessed with villainous displays of affection.

violence on their beloved's behalf.

deranged compliments and praising bad deeds.

stealing nice things for their beloved.

jealousy and possessiveness.

encouraging their beloved to be worse.

crimes together.

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I will always love fanworks that have Ivan opening up to Till about his feelings and letting him a small glimpse into how he sees the world because he'll just be saying the most codependent, deranged, and concerning things, and Till is just:

"I just thought you were kinda weird man. I didn't know I was the only thing that made you believe life was worth living."

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the entire La Clan basically 😅