#just two villians villianizing

[cavesalamander]

Scum Villain fic where Shen Yuan wakes up out of a coma and realizes that he just had a very, very vibrant dream about his boy and that web novel he hatereads.

When he gets back home after observation it's so... surreal. He feels so much older now. He's practically lived a lifetime in that dream, even if only a few months have passed.

His room is so... cringe is the word he wants to use, but he can't help but find his past self endearing about it all. Except that line of thought makes... no sense at all. His past self is just him from a couple months ago.

He decides to check up on the story he'd been dreaming about and finds out that, though there were a dozen more chapters, they had stopped updating completely without warning just a few weeks after his own coma.

(The comments after his coma, a few mention him, calling him out or cheering for him finally giving up on the story. Some people even speculate he might have died.)

His old comments were so embarrassing to read, but there's a part of him that... sees his love for Luo Binghe even in these.

Wait, why is he suddenly okay being gay for this protag??

He thinks he probably shouldn't be quite so chill about it.

He wonders what happened to Airplane. He stops himself from thinking too hard on the possibility it could all have been real. That was ridiculous!!

Meanwhile in the world of the system....

Luo Binghe is flipping OUT. His husband his shizun his beloved just up and went POOF. No trace of him, no clue left behind.

(Or is it worse if he dies? The original goods died that night he qi deviated and was replaced by Shen Yuan, so there's no soul there to replace him. Luo Binghe has had to deal with dead Shizun before but this time it's... different.)

Either way, after a whole lot of everyone flipping out, Shang Qinghua seems to know a little too much about... something.

The truth comes out. Luo Binghe admits he's suspected something like that for a while now, but thats not important. He needs his shizun back, so how..?

Cue dimension hopping shenanigans.

[yeyayeya]

Cumplane will forever be the best ship name

Nothing will ever top it

[limel0ser]

@partoftinystar 's design for magic mountain fusion, Magical Bloodstone. I love this guy so much

[movedtodykedvonte]

Special Spiderverse generic short where its like Miguel and the teens watching over Mayday and repeatedly losing her while Peter B is off doing multiverse stuff and them desperately trying to keep her from getting hurt while simultaneously getting the snot beat out of them due to shenanigans.

Bonus if Peter B repeatedly calls and talks about how great they are with her and how much he and Mary Jane trust them every time they are about to get fed up.

[backpackingspace]

I fully believe that if xie lian had been allowed the space to just fully cry it out he wouldn't have gone off the deep end

[kreamlycakes]

What an odd way to laugh.

[bl00dw1tch]

Watching someone play afop and im so. Oh my god. Oh my GOD. It's literally just a fucking showcase of all the Exact type of shit that has been happening to indigenous people and people of color have been dealing with for Centuries at the hands of white supremacy and imperialism. Like its literally just Showing all that Shit from the perspective of a Na'vi in universe. So it "demonizes" the RDA accordingly. And uet so many fucking reviewers are joshing on it and calling it Boring and Slow and Uninspired and that it makes human's 'cartoonishly evil' LIKE YOU PEOPLE HAVENT LOOKED AT A SINGLE FUCKING CURRENT EVENT IN YOUR LIVES. Oh my god im so mad at all these fucking reviewers now. The fucking AUDACITY to look at something this fucking Honest about the cruelty humans are capable of, while living during the fucking day and age with all this Knowledge we have at our fingertips -- the fucking audacity to look at this game and what the character goes through and not being able to muster up ANY other fucking emotion besides "ubisoft never was great at story anyway so idc lol" fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. Like actually. You can't even fucking ATTEMPT to connect to this story emotionally? Not even a fucking Smidge? Jesus fucking christ people need everything to be spoon fed to them these days. God forbid a piece of media actually ask you to meet it in the middle for once.

[esprinesso]

Saw this and it made me realize how much luo binghe and shen yuan mirrors patroculus and achilles so much. I think if shen yuan wasnt transmigrated into shen jius body. He wouldve definitely have had a friends to lovers arc with luo binghe and share the same grievances patroculus had as he watched achilles become a more cold hearted person to reach his destiny.

[onejellyfishplease]

soooooooo

i was going over my plan for the next arc... and remember when i said this fic would be around 40 chapters until the reveal.

uhhhh

that will definitely not be the case :/

ALSO

i just ranted in the tags. APPARENTLY THERES A LIMIT TO THE NO OF TAGS!?

ive never done that before lol

[remosdeerica]

*in the event Jay Nakamura is outed as a secret villian*

Jon: *heartbroken*

Damian [an asshole]: Thank fuck.

Jon [crying]: What?

Damian: Oh, come on. You and Drake both got civilian boyfriends within a couple of months of each other. By our track record, statistically one of them was going to be a villain.

Damian: I'm just glad it wasn't Dowd. He actually makes being around Drake tolerable.

[raddestrose]

Dang, those kids got the story mad twisted

[spottedgardeneelstan]

formal apology to the yue qingyuan stans

[movedtodykedvonte]

Weird overlap I’m seeing with people who completely miss that Jess and Miguel are flawed characters who just believe they have good reasoning with evidence for their actions and the people who keep infantilizing the teens (especially Miles and Pavitr)

[yandere-wishes]

PRAYING that tomorrow I can finally have my girlie aesthetic "answering Star Wars asks and being a total simp on main" night!!😭😭.

[sunnibits]

Thinking once again about how Izzy’s character is set up in a way that almost makes him seem like a Scar Lion King kind of guy (stereotypical power-hungry second in command who wants to steal their boss’s position of power) but then it turns out no actually he does want to serve under his boss. More than anything. Because he’s a fucked up little freak with a gay little crush who worships his boss like a god and wants to get stepped on by him. Like that is literally Thee character twist ever, imagine not finding that narratively delicious.

[wonkyjaw]

Okay but as horrid as Riko is… if he’d ever been met with an ounce of kindness he would have gotten a redemption arc. The whole point of the Foxes is that people deserve and should receive second, third, fourth, as many chances as they need. I mean, just look at Seth. In a story like that I think it’s a disservice to dismiss the fact that Riko deserved those chances too. He had all the privilege in the world so long as it stayed within his gilded cage. He was just as stuck as Neil and Kevin and Jean. That didn’t give him the right to do what he did, but he had his own abusers and his own neglect and Kevin was likely the only person in his life to ever even try to be nice to him and view him as a person and Kevin is Kevin (meaning if it was not exy, then it likely did not matter). I just think that if Riko was treated with kindness in the face of all his nastiness he might have found his way eventually.

I just see so much of Akito (Fruits Basket) in his character. He was told he was king, pressured to be the best or else, and ignored by the people he craved the attention and love of the most and beneath all that pressure he became cruel and reactive. The only real difference between Riko and Akito is Akito was given that unconditional acceptance and forgiveness (no matter how ‘undeserved’) and was forced to confront how wrong past actions had been. Akito got a redemption arc.