#how cucumber works

[whos-the-seme]

"You promised!" Shang Qinghua, despite his efforts, couldn't stop the gasping sobs. "You said you wouldn't leave me behind again! And then you died then and you're dying now and you promised!"

Shen Yuan reached for the other, fighting through the darkness and blurriness encroaching his vision. He managed to grasp his best friend's cheek, weak fingers brushing away the falling tears. "I'm sorry--"

"No! You don't get to be sorry," Shang Qinghua tried to sneer but his face crumpled instead. He didn't shake off Shen Yuan's hand. "This is the second time you're leaving. That's all you know how to do, isn't it? All you do is run away!"

"Qinghua--" Shen Yuan tried to say, but began to cough, hand falling away. The pain was unbearable and it was making it difficult to take in air. Shang Qinghua immediately reached out to steady him as Shen Yuan hacked out his lungs. In between each new flare of pain that swam along with every cough, Shen Yuan could make out the mumbles of his best friend.

"I didn't mean it, please, I didn't mean it, please not now, I didn't mean to say that, I'm sorry, please, please..."

This was familiar. The pain, the loss of breath, even his best friend beside him, keeping him upright. All that was missing was the hospital bed and the frantic beeping of machines. No nurses coming to save his ass now in this forest.

Shen Yuan briefly lost consciousness and when he came back to himself, vision clearing a little, he found Shang Qinghua holding his wrist, pouring more qi into him. As if they hadn't already discovered that qi transfers didn't work when the thing taking all of his was the poison of a Soul-Sucking Bewildered-beest. Shang Qinghua could've tried to get him back to the sect but Shen Qingqiu would have been long drained of qi and, most importantly, dead by then. He couldn't fly and transfer qi at the same time.

It only prolonged the inevitable.

"S-stop," he said, weakly pushing at Shang Qinghua's hand. The other ignored him. "You're gonna d-drain yourself. And then you won't be able to get back at all."

"I don't care," Shang Qinghua said. Shen Yuan wondered how long he had lost consciousness for, as the tear tracks on Shang Qinghua's face were now mostly dry. "You promised."

"I know," Shen Yuan didn't apologize again. "But you know it's not gonna work. And I'd rather you return, at least." He could feel his eyelids getting heavy.

Shang Qinghua let go of him only to throw up his hands in anger. Fresh tears were starting to spill down his cheeks again. "So what? I just leave you here to die without even trying?" He balled up his fists. "Typical. You always think that your actions won't affect other people."

Shen Yuan got the sense that Shang Qinghua was referring to something else, but his mind was starting to get too muddy to think of what. Breathing was getting a little harder. A lot harder.

"Qinghua. A-Hua, please listen to me. C-could you come kneel down next to me? Right here." He waited until Shang Qinghua lowered himself a bit, still frowning, before gently placing his forehead against the other peak lord's. "Listen to me, okay? I know I broke my promise again. But you've found me before and I trust you'll find me again." He said between gasps of air.

"A-Yuan--"

"We've met again and again... and we'll keep meeting. I k-know it." Gasp. Cough. "Beyond all ideas of... right and wrong, there's a field." Vision dimming. Grasp slackening. "I'll be... waiting for you... there."

"A-Yuan?"

"..."

"A-Yuan!?"

"..."

A wail broke through the serenity of the forest.

[wyyvoren]

plant body gone wrong!!! peerless cucumber real!!!!!

[missb0at]

Picture me this:

The system puts cumplane, SQH and SQQ into the same room after they died. All four do not like each other. They hate each others' fucking guts.

The system? Kind of busy prepping their new bodies and missions so it put them into waiting room limbo.

Problem: Bingge keeps breaking into said waiting room so then everyone (that includes the system) is forced to work together because who knows what will happen if this fucker gets his hands on their souls

Eventually the system panics because it got damaged from Bingge slicing reality up like it's döner and throws the four into the living world. There are problems with memories and time stuff. Like cumplane waking up as disciples or SQQ not remembering who LBH is or SQH waking up as a toddler. At some point the system recovers enough to give them a chat function and they start planning Bingge's demise

They're also gossiping about everyone and their fucking mother

[jade-len]

i adore how mxtx sorta flipped the idea on the whole top/bottom thing with svsss, and just BL relationships in general.

making bingqiu very open to switching, not making the "bottom" super feminine and actually leaning more to the handsome side compared to the "top", how luo binghe is manipulative sensitive and cries easily, etc. one of the main themes in svsss is literally about sexuality (and possibly even about gender roles).

as a queer asian man myself, i absolutely despise the "yaoi archetype" and it was one of the reasons why i avoided consuming BL media. hell, years ago when i first saw heavens official blessing, i mentally groaned and went, "ugh, let me guess, the bottom is super feminine and innocent, while the top is masculine and experienced." of course, that's not the case now, but it's disappointing how that thought was there purely because of the god awful way fetish-y media portrays homosexual people and couples. because, believe it or not, we are not assigned male/female typical gender roles just because one likes to top/bottom (and even then, it's not even like that! some people have preferences, sure, but it's not so strictly "i'm top/bottom")

so, while i absolutely LOVE the english novel designs (especially luo binghe's cute curly hair, gongyi xiao, etc, and personally believe a lot of the takes from the western artist on the designs are an improvement), i am greatly saddened by people subconsciously assigning shen qingqiu as someone more delicate and feminine and luo binghe as someone super masculine and muscly. like, if you're going to have luo binghe depicted as the western design (i believe this stems from binghe being applied to more western ideals for men, and, admittedly, i actually really love his design), at least don't make shen qingqiu feminine and delicate? don't have his appearance play into the stupid yaoi thing?

i get that people have different takes on svsss, especially how the western version depicts it. but, people just... seem to very over exaggerate the top/bottom roles when it comes to bingqiu (again, these two are, canonically, VERY open to switching).

it's weird, it's uncomfortable, and it comes across as, "so, who wears the pants in the relationship?"

so, can we please have more canonically handsome shen qingqiu? canonically beautiful and pretty boy luo binghe (they literallly state that binghe looks EXACTLY like his mom, su xiyan! while a more handsome woman, is still very beautiful!! plus it is stated several times that binghe is slim, and that shang qinghua made him that way!) or at the very least, a BL couple who actually look like normal people (ok thats a little hard considering binghe is literally supposed to be perfect) and not just a stupid fetishized version of themselves.

and no, i'm not saying that queer men shouldn't be feminine or men who are feminine shouldn't be in a relationship with guys who are masculine, etc.

TLDR: please stop twinkifying shen qingqiu and going against what mxtx defied for us queer men (the stupid yaoi roles). and for the love of whoever you believe in, do NOT think that i hate the english design or people's personal interpretation of characters, i just hate the subconscious assigning of gender roles to bingqiu and how media portrays and fetishizes LGBTQ+ relationships in general.

edit: also i love teardrew's (check them out on twitter!) interpretation of shang qinghua. while i do really like the the eng novel design's tiny scared hamster vibes, teardrew's version just radiates "up to no good, paranoid but suspicious looking bitch" rat man and i love it so so so much. i'm not gonna repost their art bc i don't know how they feel about that but perhaps you can search up "svsss designs" on here, you'll see it pop up eventually lol.

edit 2 (1/16): i just saw someone reblog a post (that im pretty sure was referring to this one because, well, if you saw it i think it'd be a little clear kahxj) that was about how bingqiu switching and completely eschewing traditional top/bottom dynamics was a fandom idea or smth? so now i'm wondering, since i swear i remember that they were open to switching, but it's just that sqq preferred to bottom and/or was just a little too lazy to top. plus, sqq is a pretty unreliable narrator who says he doesn't want something one moment and then he does. how could he say no to bingbing? esp if he seems to wanna try bottoming too. perhaps i'm mixing things up though, idk? so if anyone can find that passage that says he only and strictly wants to bottom or whatever please show me! but i think the point of this post still stands haha (i wanted to ask about it, actually, but when i clicked on the og post's user it turned out that they blocked me ? so that was a little surprising oops. hey if ur somehow reading this, im... sorry for making you want to block me bc of this post? akdhxjj)

[huntersapprentice]

I really like referring to LB: Cartoon Adventures for sketching stuff, because wow this is the first time in a while I've had a productive sketching run

[rosiegardenlove]

So. I've been struggling the majority of the month to draw something, so last night I forced myself to start something and to not quit it til done.

Accidentally made a 'draw this in your style' with one of Gigi's pieces. Obviously the character, og piece and comic are theirs

I'm very proud of how it turned out but how the hell did I manage to make this around 1am???

[ma-tsu-the-male-goddess]

Look what I made! The Driver’s name is Cornelius

And some progress photos:

[koishua]

how do y'all grocery shop???

[wangbotam]

new kakao cookie?????????? already i guess???????????????????????????????????

[blorboresidue]

feeling kinda lightheaded but the world is okay I have only a few simple Night Chores ahead of me and, most importantly, I have so many leftovers in my fridge that it's almost stressful (👍)

[berryblu-soda]

yall hello!!!! anyone else love cucumber lime? please dont tell me its a mexico thing imma cry-

made a lime jello but added about 1/3 cucumber (blended and strained) + some lime and it´s fr getting me through this neverending heat wave, 10/10 would make again 👍

[blu-razz-roses]

Gangsta PruHun is such a power couple honestly. Both are pleasant and charming at first, but if angered they will become scary as hell, and they're downright terrifying when pissed off together. They compete with each other all the time but can work surprisingly well together to get what they want. It's a... business arrangement. ...With benefits. (That's what they tell themselves, anyway.)

[huntersapprentice]

weird janitors

[elodieunderglass]

Oh I’ve THOUGHT about this for real, though!

But it depends on how much you view my decisions in stupidly overthought Weasel Heart in Defiance as logical and canon-compliant.

WHiD is about seven separate (affectionate) fights with Tolkien, tied together in a canvas bag and chucked into a river. WHiD is about burdening a 2D cartoon character with the full weight of the Silmarillion, and him stubbornly not learning from any of it. WHiD seeks to set up the tension of Chilchuck’s character by looking at the difference between what he says and does with regard to his “duty for others,” and building a whole tiny little world in the gap.

In WHiD, I posit that Chilchuck has a core sense of duty to others paired with resentment of being forced to do things. He is a leader of his people, but ferociously insists on his right to define “his people” as the people he chooses. Among a people who inherently value social cohesion, Chilchuck is positioned as a necessary challenger. He uses a framework of professional standards to obscure that he does actually sometimes make choices based on honour and courage. He is NOT your dad, he is NOT your Thain, and he will NOT be backed into a corner -

Upon which Bee, being a weasel heart of more than ordinary defiance, but also a hell of a heavy conscience for something that weighs as much as an egg, would be like, “…boss?”

“It’s his choice.”

“Informed choice, is it? One of those choices, eh?”

“It’ll teach him to read the fine print.”

“You really going to let him walk off not even knowing what he’s really doing?”

“Oh, give it a rest, Bee. Have some class consciousness! That’s an aristocrat. He’s - he’s - he’s bourgeois.”

“He’s just a young fool.”

“Yeah? So? Guy’s got a gardener. Name one half-foot who ever had a gardener - Dan! DANDAN, come on, we’re going.”

“Chil, listen, these guys don’t play wickets!”

“Hear that, Bee? They’re not even remotely the same species as us. Weird feet, elf ears, they don’t speak the tongue and they don’t even play wickets. That all sounds exactly like not our problem.”

To which Bee would respond, “Hast-u-val” - nevertheless.

But I do not think it would go much further than a conversation about the Facts of Life.

"Chilchuck would hate Frodo" bullshit, Chilchuck would be super fucking intensely protective of Frodo Baggins.

The ring you got for your inheritance turned out to be CURSED? And you VOLUNTEERED to WALK HUNDREDS of MILES to destroy it!? And when you got stabbed by a monster blade, the ELVES TOOK YOU AWAY FOR MONTHS and you THANKED THEM!?

No. No, I'm your father now, kid. You're joining a union, I'm negotiating your back pay for that trip. And your ongoing medical treatment, and I'm getting you EXTRA for mental anguish. Oh, the elves are offering to take you to some mysterious continent off in the West as recompense? Let's find out how many of these obscure cuss words they can decipher.

[voxartemis]

Finally got the veggie garden of my dreams this year! Had to put up a fence cause we currently have a plague of rabbits (they are welcome to eat as much clover in the yard as they want, but my sunflower seedlings and tomato plants (of all things, tomatoes??) are off limits to the nibblers)

But things are actually growing! It’s gonna be a year of seeing what works and hopefully I get something to eat once in a while.

I’ve got carrots in the pots (which I’ve done before but this is a new variety mix)

The right bed from the carrot pot forward is mystery broccoli from a coworker, two types of shelling beans, a purple and yellow cherry tomato (so excited about this one), and two mystery tomato’s from the same coworker.

The left bed from the carrot pots forward are mystery celery from the coworker, two variety of string beans (ones purple!!) and cucumber.

Gotta cover the soil around the beans soon as I think that’s all that’s gonna be germinating.

[theboredhooman]

enemies to lovers modern au bingqiu where lbh loves pidw and valiantly defends it against cucumber in the comments anyone?

people tend to forget the fact that bingqiu has a lot in common with each other, and something that I think we would all benefit to remember is that binghe also canonically reads shitty porn for fun.