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thegoldenavenger · 2 years ago
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i got tired so fast drawing this :( anyways, for The Grand Unified Theory of Shěn Qīngqiū for one of the beginning chapters.
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rhiangalaxy · 3 months ago
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Look, look- *falling and sliding out of the ask boxxxxxxxx* *grabs hold of words* *hoists self up* look! I know you have a poll going for which peak lord Shen Yuan gets to interact with, and I know SQH is winning (I do love him) BUT. I think I've seen A-Yuan and his other father (YQY) interact maybe once in the history of the Plant Baby AU, and my heart is breaking for that sad, sad man.
Please, if you find the time and mind in your merciful heart to spare a crumb of family time, I would be ever more grateful to youuuuuuuu ahhhhhhhhh *lets go of text and hurtles off your ask box*
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Who am I to say no to more family time :3c
[ID: A Scum Villain Doodle Comic. Panel one has Plant!Shen Yuan at ~10-12 yrs old grabbing onto Yue Qingyuan's sleeve as SY looks down at a piece of paper and says "Baba can you help me with-" It then shows SY look up at YQY questioningly. The next panel has YQY with a very happy flushed and crying closed eye expression with hearts surrounding him thinking "He called me Baba!!!" Whilst a mini-YQY slightly faded behind him clutching his chest and crying with the caption "*sobbing* Xiao Yuan...." It then shows SY with a questioning :< face tilting his head and thinking "Does he still not realize???" End ID]
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10thmusemoon · 4 months ago
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Rotating yueyuan where the light bulb goes off In SY’s brain first and he’s like, “wait DO you have feelings for yqy??”
SJ, being himself, immediately denies it in the most insulting way possible. To which SY’s response is to be pissed on YQY’s behalf and defend him until SJ snipes “sounds like YOU’RE the one with a crush.”
Hahaha what a gotcha moment!! Shen on Shen petty violence ensues!!
Except….this little argument is what has SY’s self reflection system booting up.
YQY is a reasonably handsome and nice guy! There’s no reason he should be single! Even he, a certified straight man, has noticed how certain fabrics cling to YQY’s form or the way he bites his lips when concentrating. Objectively! He’s a hot man! The kind that anyone would have wet dreams about at least once during a formative point in their lives! SY sure did!
But does that mean he likes YQY Like That? It doesn’t! It shouldn’t!
Except, well, shouldn’t someone? But no…thinking about yqy with someone else doesn’t quite sit right either. It would make the most sense for it to be SJ, after all he was YQY’s friend first. But after their mysterious little friend break up that neither seems too keen to talk about, and might not even be That Serious since yqy still helps SJ when called, it’s highly unlikely to be a thing. Which, rude! YQY is a dependable guy! Even if SJ is ‘mad’ at him, it’s normal to feel some affectionate for a guy like that!! Right??
Maybe he asks LQG about it, phrases it some kind of way that sounds like he’s asking if it’s normal to crush on an older male friend.
Lqg, who has crushed on yqy, sy, and now reluctantly LBH to the point that he possibly believes it to be a normal stage of friendship. “Yeah, doesn’t everyone?”
He rephrases the question again, thinking LQG didn’t hear the “male friend” part and gives up when the answer doesn’t change.
If he goes to airplane about it, SQH would be mean mugging from across the table, muttering something about how the heavens give everything to those least deserving. SY is pretty, rich, and has a line of hot babes trying to dick him down. The last thing SQH wants to do is make life easier on him. Suffering builds character.
“Idk bro, go ask Binghe, or better yet, Shen Jiu.”
Binghe is all on board, enthusiastically agreeing that yes it is SO normal to develop feelings for an older brother figure, perhaps even someone seen as a mentor. It DEFINITELY WOULDNT BE WEIRD for those feelings to be reciprocated, and they wouldn’t know until some one makes the first move, RIGHT!??
Binghe is practically crawling into his lap with how excited he is about this, it’s all very cute and actually makes SY feel a little better about the whole thing. Luo Binghe is leagues smarter than SQH and better at reading people than LQG. If a normal, hot blooded, young man like him seems to think this, then it must be true.
He gives binghe a head pat and delivers the final blow, “well if binghe seems to think so, maybe there’s something to it after all. I’ll let you know what he says after I confess.”
LBH’s inconsolable wailing is heard from down the street.
I think SY would try to check in with SJ one last time, just to be sure.
“You really don’t want to be with Qi-ge like that?”
“Stop calling him that,” SJ uses finger quotes derisively, “like that? What are you, a child?”
Without missing a beat, SJ goes back to the heavy book in his lap, pointedly turning a page. “Of course not, who would?”
A pause.
“Me.”
Somehow, SY doesn’t hear the kill bill sirens suddenly going off. He does, fortunately, dodge the book.
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andhumanslovedstories · 7 months ago
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chapter eleven of what feels like the most soap opera ass fic I've ever written and then just a bunch of thoughts about writing it, which contains vague spoilers for my plans:
The inception of the fic basically went like this:
haha lol i'd be fun if sqq got real mad at the state of education
what would need to happen in this fic that doesn't happen in canon to motivate him to do something about it
oh shit he didn't unlock OOC so he has to figure out how to be his coddling indulgent self (which he's in denial about) while also being shen jiu
But the thing that really made the story get so much bigger in scope was when I was reading a fic with yqy coming clean to sj, and sj being like, "GASP. I forgive you." And I was "I simply do not believe that this is how it would happen." And I would have moved on with my life, but then I thought, "but like how would it happen." And more importantly, how could this conversation happen within the canon timeline but still involve Shen Jiu, the person this information affects.
The OOC idea and the need for Shen Jiu to be present in this fight scene came together to be like "what if sqq got sj's memories so he could rules-lawyer his characterization more accurately, and ends up being furious on sj's behalf?"
(This, btw, is why I knew I had to get much fonder of YQY and get a much better understanding of his character. When a pillar of your fic idea is a character getting ripped into for his choices, it is sooooooo easy to for it to come off as the author yelling their personal opinions or for it to be completely flat character bashing. Neither are interesting to read or write! Hence the crash-course in YQY appreciation, so now he gets his own emotional arc too. Everyone gets a goddamn plotline.)
Meanwhile I was also thinking about the implications of downloading another person's life into your head. If you have their memories and their body, are you them? What makes you not them? I didn't know! I sort of just kept writing and posting with the assumption that I'd figure something out, which I've finally nailed down btw. That's a relief! Also kinda the fun of WIPs where you're building the railroad track as you're on the train. I end up fanficing my own fanfic. Once stuff is posted, that's the canon, and I look at it and think, "if this was a book I was reading, what is the way I would extrapolate what's there to make a new but coherent story?"
That's why my outline becomes pretty useless after a while. The big picture doesn't change too much--I know roughly where all the major characters are going to be emotionally by the end of the story--but I discover the path I'm going to take there. Which usually means adding stuff. Liu Qingge wasn't going to get a POV, and now every chapter I'm like "fuck am I building a throuple". Ming Fan will have waaaay more a story line than I originally conceived. Early on, I was like "eh I'm not going to go too far into the brothel stuff," and can you guess what is going to be coming up prominently in the next few chapters? God help me.
Actually, there's only one major part of the outline that I cut: Shang Qinghua. He was originally very prominent early on, but turns out having the literal Word of God in a story about slowly discovering backstory is difficult to reconcile. So sadly, he doesn't get a real role. If you're curious, the original plan for him was that SQQ would realize he's a transmigrator much earlier in the canon, but the System would be like [shen jiu would not tell shang qinghua he is a transmigrator. ooc] which would lead to this series of SQQ trying to figure out how he can communicate around this. SQQ at a peak meeting being like, "do you think these DEMONS are PROUD of having made their WAY to us IMMORTALS?" while SQH is like, "AM I HAVING A STROKE?"
What's some other stuff about this fic? I've got a lot of thoughts bottled up, in part because I'm kinda snobby tbh in how I post. I'm like "*pushes glasses up my nose* the author's takes on the story should not be unavoidably present when reading the text" so I don't like to use ao3's author's notes. It's ridiculous and not a standard I hold anyone else too, but whenever I find myself wanting to address something in the notes, I know I must feel insecure about that part of the story. So either fix it or don't draw attention to it. But this is fine, you have to come here for this. This is DVD commentary.
My favorite part of writing this fic has been balancing Shen Jiu's character. As I'm fleshing out his sad backstory, I've been wary of essentially woobifying him. Reducing him to just someone who greatly suffered is so boring and flat. He NEEDS to suck. Or more accurately, he needs to be a very imperfect victim. Exasperating at his mildest, despicable at his worst. (Truthfully, I do think I can and should make him worse. Luckily this story is nothing but flashbacks to him at his worst so there's plenty of opportunities.)
This whole mental breakdown section has been an interesting balancing act because it's explicitly about how bad Shen Jiu's life was and now how bad Shen Qingqiu's is. It's the point at which I had to decide how torturous his time at the Qiu manor had been (me and Shen Qingqiu really discovered that together). On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the absolute worst saddest brutalist ideas I had for this era in his life, I'd say I settled on about a 7. Most of it is backstage in my head, but once I locked that down, I could start figuring out how much was bleeding through.
Anyway, it's been fun writing the angstfest of the last few chapters, but oh my god am I ready for a tone shift. There's usually jokes in my works, even the saddest bits, but jokes relieve tension which is the opposite of what I was going for. I didn't want any humor in the YQY conversation, then you have to keep not joking for a while to get the point across. There's still a lot of planned emotional shit, but I'm happy to not be wallowing for a while.
AND GOD AS MY WITNESS THIS STORY WILL NOT BE LONGER THAN 20 CHAPTERS. MAYBE IT'LL EVEN BE LESS!! IT IS DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO BE A WHOLE CANON REWRITE. PROBABLY!! IF TIANLANG JUN HAS ANY SIGNIFICANT SCREEN TIME, PLEASE KNOW THAT I HAVE FAILED.
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m0owu · 9 days ago
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I’m not going to say which fanfic this is. I just want to talk about a situation that upset me, because I need to let out my emotions.
A large number of people in the SVSSS fandom, at the very least, dislike Yue Qingyuan. But that doesn’t mean he deserves unfair treatment. The fact that he doesn’t explain his reason isn’t because he wants to keep it from others, but because he thinks that staying silent is the better choice. Maybe that’s foolish, but it’s not a reason to treat him badly. He wanted to do what he thought was best. If you don't think so, then let’s blame a child who accidentally killed someone out of ignorance, indirectly?
And then sj's partner made a decision on behalf of sj without even asking him? Isn’t that the same “I know what’s best for you” attitude that yqy is being condemned for? yqy just needs to be shown what’s right. You can compare yqy to a parent who wants the best for their child, but does it in their own way. That doesn’t mean we should cut ties with them. We should show them how we need to be treated so we can feel better. If they still refuse to listen, then it’s okay to walk away—but not without even giving a chance for them to fix things.
When sj wasn’t feeling well, another character (sj's partner) forbade informing yqy about Shen Qingqiu’s condition, even though yqy was the one who caused it, even though yqy cared deeply. I can understand not letting him visit Shen Qingqiu, but why forbid simply informing him? yqy was concerned, sincerely cared, felt guilty—and this other character wouldn’t even let him know, which only increased his guilt. There was no point in hiding it. Just prohibit physical access if you're afraid it’ll worsen Shen Qingqiu’s state.
Then sj says he doesn’t understand yqy, and another side character asks if he wants to understand him. sj replies no. (Right. We believe sj, ignoring his past desire to know the reason, his hidden curiosity. If he actually learned the reason, he would have wanted his past self to know it too.) And the side character says that in that case, there’s no need—some people don’t deserve the effort it takes to reach them. And yet it’s sj who “deserves” it, and yqy who doesn’t? Are we just not going to help people who are deeply ill or in pain, physically or mentally, because it “won’t change anything”?
Toward the end, another character tells yqy that sj may never forgive him and that he doesn’t have to (which is true). But why not at least try? They were close to each other. They still cared after everything. And this other character just says sometimes it’s better to walk away. That some things are broken beyond repair. But why not try to make them even a little better? If this person truly wants to help sj heal, why not address the core wound—one that will remain horrible if ignored? And healing doesn’t always mean “go find new people and abandon the one who hurt you.” yqy will continue to carry unbearable guilt. sj will have an even deeper sense that people can abandon him—worse than it would’ve been if they’d tried to resolve things. People with PTSD, for example, don’t get better just because things around them are “good” now. They’ll still expect the worst.
Another character tells yqy to go make new friends. Then changes their mind and tells him to get a pet. “Not a person, an animal. Find something else to be gentle to.” Instead of showing him how to treat people right, instead of working through human relationships after realizing his mistakes, Yqy —who now has no close friends, no one to talk to emotionally, not just professionally, and who is hated and feared by his entire sect—is told that he “pierced his heart while having the best intentions,” meaning he traumatizes everyone. And now he’s basically being isolated from society. But humans need other humans to have meaningful conversations. It’s a real psychological need.
In the comments, people were saying that yqy finally got what he deserved. Deserved for what? For sincere motives, for trying his best to make things right as quickly as possible, for showing concern for sj? There were a few moments that maybe made yqy “deserve” what he got (like yelling), but to me that was pure OOC every single time. And if the author doesn’t think it’s OOC, then their interpretation of the character is just… wrong.
To help clarify, here’s a parallel situation involving another character:
Someone told the entire Cang Qiong that sj had been a slave and used to go to a brothel just to get some sleep. And instead of helping sj restore his relationships with the peak lords, they said, “You’ve done enough damage. Leave this mountain (and preferably never return, either directly or indirectly).”
Explanations:
Yes, the author has full rights to delete or block my comment and to not want any criticism. I even checked before writing whether she mentioned anything about that. I clearly stated at the beginning that this was a critique, and to read it only if interested. So calling it “unsolicited” criticism when it’s clearly optional to read feels wrong.
I wasn’t demanding that anything in the fanfic be changed. I just thought the author was trying to help the main characters resolve their problems in a healthy way—so why not yqy too?
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mediocretosubpar-soup · 11 months ago
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I think one of the reasons why SVSSS works better for me is that Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu are two different people. YQY remaining behind while SY heads off into his new life is sad for him but any other response from SY would feel manipulative and disingenious in a bad way. SY has no past he shares with YQY. But WWX shares a past with JC. They have that connenction. Furthermore, WWX's past is an integral part of the story unlike SY of whose past we learn next to nothing. Therefore, when he walks away, it feels bad. Not just on JC's behalf but also like WWX is cutting off a part of himself.
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wugblogs · 4 months ago
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once again I am annoyed that people hate on yqy on sj's behalf like he did not also have a incredibly terrible and traumatizing childhood that contributed to their communication problems. and also always sided with him and died trying to save him. oh and only one of them canonically beat children but sure yqy is the real villain, no double standards here.
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tk-duveraun · 3 months ago
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More peach tree sy AU
Yqy is extremely normal about both SJ and his tree. Despite being the qjpl, SJ is constantly draped in and given gifts with peach flowers and made of peach wood.
SJ's reputation is better than in PIDW because of his connection to a peach tree spirit so people are more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm sitting to xiu ya he carries a wood sword sy made from one of his branches
SJ was furious bc sy is still recovering from his burns and sy only barely manages to placate him with the fact that that branch was already damaged and pruning it was for the best.
Sy only lets SJ and yqy have his peaches - the rest sj buries to be reabsorbed.
Until one day when LQG is there and injured (by SJ) and sy offers one as an apology (sy has no idea the fight was because LQG wants to court him).
This, of course, means SJ is now limited in how he keeps the brute off his peak lest SY give him more favor.
Yqy begins trying to court the tree on SJ's behalf.
Then LBH joins the peak and SJ is furious that HIS TREE is spoiling the already spoiled little beast!
Sy: jiuge please, I'm doing this to save your scummy life!
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the-s1lly-corner · 9 months ago
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Pspspsp
Okay so
Funny story, admin doesn't actually have a bank account. In fact he doesnt even have his ID. Literally for the short duration hes been an adult hes stayed at home tending to the house- hence why any commissions I do has the money going straight to what it's for (IE. A fundraiser, someone else if I'm doing comms on their behalf, ect)
I dont... actually know how to handle money (and taxes are a whole different beast, which I am terrified of)
I do want to open commissions to get money for myself, not NOW but eventually sometime in the future. My brother has offered to help me set things up, so that's going to make the process easier. So! YQY! I'm nervous, more so than usual since now its finally getting done after having it put off for so long
"Admin why are you talking about this-"
Because I dont know what route to go when it comes to handling comissions 💔
I know theres different stuff- venmo, PayPal, cashapp, evt.. theres also patreon and ko fi
And uhuh
I don't know what the differences are
So uhuh
If anyone can help shed some light and explain like I'm 5 that would be... greatly appreciated...
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touchmycoat · 3 years ago
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You mentioned happy qijiuliu in a post, so I thought I would share the random half awake dream I had that was defo inspired by your fic. Premise: after finding the Qiu mansion burned down, YQY got very drunk one (1) time, naturally with his reliable bro, LQG. And of course, he poured out his whole broken heart, and then LQG was a good enough bro to never ever bring it up again, so YQY let himself forget it happened. (1/3)
But LQG has it all rattling around in his head, this tragedy over YGY's Shen Jiu, his Xiao Jiu, so when he first meets the actual grown up Shen Jiu his reaction is more of 'ugh, YGY was all torn up over you??' And then Shen Jiu gets to know that YQY did try, he did care, he was just too late. Cue reconciliation speedrun, any percent, bonus trophy LQG (since the cure for SJ feeling insecurely jealous is to have a claim too). (2/3)
Sorry it was so light on the details, the rest of it was really hazy, but I hope it sparks some joy in your day! Thank you for always writing and sharing, I always look forward to it (3/3)
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ANY% MAJOR GLITCHES RECONCILIATION SPEEDRUN, WE LOVE THIS SHIT. yes please ;; that makes so much sense!! drunken mess YQY mad at the world and mad at himself. Maybe he even gets reckless with Xuan Su ("what use is all this power if I can't protect anyone who matters?!") and that's how LQG finds out. YQY mourns for SJ in LQG's company and LQG hears all about SJ's resourcefulness and intense protective streak. how SJ is YQ's dearest person in the whole wide world and now he's gone.
except he's not. SJ comes back to life and LQG rushes to YQY's side the moment he hears that Yue-shixiong's brought back a strange rogue cultivator. LQG meets SJ in the depths of his betrayed fury and shame that he's ever trusted Qi-ge to come back for him. LQG proves a hyper-effective catalyst and sets the record straight, because YQY hasn't exactly sworn to go to his grave with this secret (his silence is built out of habit and repeated silent self-confirmation more than anything). SJ is flabbergasted and disbelieving. Is this just some excuse YQY's new friend is making up for him? SJ pulls Xuan Su in a sudden motion (that YQY fully could have stopped) and finds out LQG's telling the truth.
"—why wouldn't you tell me?!" "I didn't want to make excuses—" "That's not an excuse, they screwed you over and left you for dead, heaven's sake Qi-ge, what—you, get out!"
This last bit's directed at LQG when SJ abruptly remembers they still have company. All of LQG's alarm bells are ringing about SJ though so he ignores SJ and looks to YQY instead. YQY looks between them both and nicely sends LQG away, and in that moment SJ sees the depths of LQG's loyalty to YQY. Oh, this cocky swaggering rich boy wants his Qi-ge, huh?
So as LQG's walking away, SJ grabs and kisses YQY. It's reckless it's messy it's a dirty tactic to drag YQY down with him it's a genuine display of his own feelings. YQY is shocked but shyly so. LQG's scandalized/furious at first (because you definitely did not do these sorts of things so crassly and openly! and with Yue-shixiong nonetheless!!) but when he sees YQY's flushed response he storms away, very much not comprehending why he's so angry when he should be happy YQY, or something.
Anyways yeah, disciple era young lovebirds shenanigans. SQQ's training goes smoother than in the original once he's accepted YQY's help. SQQ and LQG are still very much rivals who despise each other's guts except it gets more effectively tempered by YQY's mediation and also thanks to their mutual attachment to YQY. SQQ loves dangling YQY in front of LQG to the point where he kind of gets affronted "on YQY's behalf" when he spots LQG training/getting along with other people.
There needs to be some plot in that forces SQQ to confess to LQG that the only reason he's such a dick about being YQY's cultivation partner to LQG is because he's so insecure about not being as good as LQG. In turn LQG gets to confess that yeah he's totally been jealous but has confirmed that SQQ is every good thing YQY has said he was, and LQG's actually glad that SQQ's around to watch YQY's back especially in the political arena. Nobody else has as silver a tongue, especially not LQG, so good for all of them that SQQ is here at Cang Qiong, actually.
Talking through their misunderstandings leaves a good but awkward aftertaste lmfao, so in a hurry to get back to normal, SQQ resumes his prior behavior of dangling YQY in front of LQG, getting extra intimate when LQG is around, deliberately making eye contact while his hand's slipping into YQY's robes, etc. Except now...LQG's less going puce with outrage and more just rolling his eyes, and SQQ is less "hah see Qi-ge is mine mine mine" and more "look over here, hey why aren't you looking, aren't you always supposed to be looking."
YQY very much notices and is like, "um. So. Hey dear :) It seems that recently you've been really wanting Liu-shidi's attention." SQQ pulls a whole how dare you detective diaz-- monologue but ends up succumbing to YQY's bright idea of having LQG over for tea, and the three of them going on missions together, and going out to local festivals and attractions and such all three of them wouldn't that be lovely? Xiao Jiu and Liu-shidi getting along? Wouldn't that be nice~?
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shinebrightlikeanarwhal · 4 years ago
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XSPL SJ: MBJ giving SJ an ornate & overpowered battle fan as one of the courting gifts since SJ likes them so much. Maybe he adds some demonic elements to make it powerful? Or he orders SQH to make one? Or SQH commissions Wan Jian Peak to make a battle fan on behalf of his smitten king? Wei QingWei knows what's up and doesn't care because he gets to try something new! Maybe MBJ adds a little ice power to the fan? Or he adds his clan sigil in a possessive gesture to warn others from coveting SJ?
YES!!!!
MBJ would be very blatant with his courting. Shameless in battle when he clearly favors fighting anyone trying to be close to SJ. Giving SQH the signal to get SJ away from the situation or lest he watch MBJ maul a man for daring to lay hands on HIS future wife.
SJ has become rather bountiful in weapons and core strengthening material. His disciples are blossoming day by day. Even LbH has to admit, MBJs care has helped him grow. SQH is even allowed to share with his disciples to help ease them from the stress of their peak. It’s a nice reprieve when LqG does nothing but fight him and his disciples. YQY does nothing but smile and try to appease everyone but the victims.
Often times YQY will barge into the bamboo hut and find the bed empty. SJ has never slept more peacefully than at MbJs. With all female staff attending to him, a room far away from anyone else’s. He refuses to use his hut unless MBJ is humoring another demon guest. He must protect his dear SJ, even though they all know this stronger SJ was a menace to the cultivation world now.
More bitter YQY wondering who has SJ smiling so sweetly when he reads letters. He never gets to find out because SQH is very sneaky, he’s not. Everyone but SJ has the IQ of a blade of grass-
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10thmusemoon · 6 months ago
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Ooh I saw your title game! A song I've been listening to a lot recently has a line that needs to be a title, but I haven't had a home for it so it's just lived in my brain - "You Can Catch A Star If The Sky Is Falling Down"
Oh this immediately gives me XiYao or ChengXian wibes. Maybe some canon introspective where JGY or JC know that the closeness that they are experiencing now, this amped up level of devotion, is only possible because of the current war. Everyone is suffering, including the person that they’re interested in, but they’re able to steal away these moments of extreme inter reliance and easy affection as catharsis. I don’t think JGY would feel any guilt, just be appreciative of this opportunity that brought LXC to him but JC would be fucked up thinking about how the only way he could have WWX finally at his side, looking at JC like something precious, was to have everything burn down around them.
Alternatively qijiu where yqy is put in a bad situation on behalf on CQMS and SJ swoops in to take advantage. The difference between this and MDZS is that yqy would delight in it to. Or LiuShen where during the three years of SQQ grieving they see finally able to cross that threshold into a relationship.
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delicioussshame · 4 years ago
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Notes for the trash AU I posted on twitter, because I’m not writing TLJ/SY vs LBH/SY.
Okay, so we’re starting with a complete subplot that gets very irrelevant later: SJ is SY’s distant cousin or something. There’s a family resemblance, but it’s mostly chance. They don’t really know each other. The resemblance is blatant enough that YQY, who, in all universes, isn’t over SJ, decides hey, good enough, and starts courting SY. Who is much younger (legal, but younger) and flustered by the kind of attention he’s not used to. He has no defenses against that kind of behavior and they end up together, in a relationship where YQY pampers and spoils SY like he would have wanted to when SJ was younger, and that’s fun while it lasts but he ends up meeting SJ again, possibly via SY himself because they’re family, and drops him like a hot potato as soon as SJ signals he might be open to making up.
So SY finds himself single, with too much free time and uninterested in dating someone his age. He tries, but he feels a general disinterest and lack of attraction.
Enters the pretentious dating website. SY is from a rich family, probably somewhat notable, so he decides he’d better pony up and buy a subscription to the kind of dating website that caters to a more “exclusive” clientele, especially since he’s looking for an older man. That’s how he meets TLJ.
I feel TLJ is probably like LBH in that the love of his life was SXY and he’s not actually interested in a serious relationship with anyone else, but the man has needs. As in canon, SXY died giving birth to LBH, who was raised by a stranger. Anyway, TLJ is probably higher profile that SY and the scandal of him looking for a younger man would be much worse for him, so he’s also going the discreet route, browsing profiles and ignoring anyone who looks like he’d be vying for his wealth. SY fits the bill, so they meet and hit it off. They’re both pretty easygoing people when they want to, so I think they could get along well when they’re on the same page.
They end up in a kinky friends with benefits arrangement. They both get what they want from it, they enjoy each other's company even outside the bedroom, they have zero expectation that their relationship will ever become public. It is, however, a strictly monogamous arrangement. TLJ does not share.
Enter LBH. I find it hard to believe that in modern days, SXY could 1) have a child and 2) die in childbirth without TLJ knowing, so here, he does. It just hit him so hard, since it was completely unexpected, that he disconnected completely from LBH. The child was given to an old woman to raise. TLJ financed her, so LBH wasn’t poor here, but he didn’t know about TLJ until he became an adult. It gave TLJ the time to process and move on. And feel guilty for having abandoned SXY’s legacy that way. So they try to create a relationship. It’s... going. LBH isn’t exactly a fan of the father who gave him up, and TLJ just isn’t very paternal. But LBH visits from time to time, and they’re both trying.
Turns out SY is there sometimes. SY and TLJ don’t live together, but SY is over often, if not most of the week. At first, LBH thought his father’s lover would be a spoiled pretty thing with no brains. He was wrong.
This is quite awkward for SY because LBH is closer to his age than TLJ. He makes it very, very clear that he has zero desire to get between LBH and TLJ’s relationship, or be any form of parental figure to him. He tries to remain generally friendly, maybe helps him out with whatever school thing he can help with, things like that. They get to know each other and find they enjoy each other’s company. TLJ approves; SY can act as lubricant between LBH and himself.
Obviously, as LBH gets closer to SY, he starts getting insulted on his behalf, because he doesn’t see what SY gets from his relationship with his father. He’s pretty much TLJ’s dirty little secret. It’s obvious they’re never going to start a family or get serious. He deserves better.
He confronts TLJ about it, who laughs it off until he gets why LBH is asking. He doesn’t say anything, just waves him away, but he starts thinking about LBH’s crush and ends up deciding to wait for it to pass, because LBH and SY wouldn’t be sexually compatible, considering SY’s kink. It’ll never happen.
It doesn’t pass. TLJ starts questioning himself. He likes SY, he cares about him, but they’re not in love and will never be. Would it be better to give him up and let LBH have him? It would be a better match for him. LBH could make SY his life partner more publicly. It would still be a scandal, but a more manageable one. LBH is his sole heir, so he could provide SY with a carefree, happy life.
He decides against it. SY is independently wealthy, it’s not like he needs to be supported, and TLJ himself is already providing the occasional luxury when he feels like spoiling him. Plus, it doesn’t make LBH and SY himself more compatible. SY is happy with his current arrangement; why change things?
LBH gets bolder, flirting with SY who, even when much more aware of all things romantic, cannot imagine his partner’s son as a potential love interest and thus is completely unaware.
TLJ, though, notices. And gets annoyed. And tells SY what is happening in the most faux casual way possible, saying how children grow up so fast and that LBH’s crush on him is cute.
SY doesn’t believe him, because usual SY reasons: LBH could have anyone, why would he condescend to consider his father’s boy toy? So he ignores TLJ.
But he’s been made aware, and now that he knows, yeah, it’s kind of oblivious? But, again the idea of ditching his partner for his son is just not something SY is willing to consider, so he tries to let LBH down easy.
It backfires, because of course it does. Now that SY knows, LBh has no reason to demure and amps up the courting, which has the side effect of putting SY in a bad position and angering TLJ. He wasn’t bothered when it was harmless, but now LBH is being downright rude. Meanwhile, SY is starting to think he has overstayed his welcome. He’s obviously worsening the relationship between father and son in a way he never meant to. Maybe it’d be better for everyone if he skipped out of town for a while.
So he does that. Goes on a foreign vacation or something to give them all time to cool down. And obviously, he misses them both.
So he comes back, and.... it could go either way, really. I could plausibly make it that the distance made him realise he missed LBH’s presence much more than TLJ’s affection, or, you know, the reverse. Pick your choice!
Option 1: he realises he cares for LBH much more than he let himself accept, dies a little inside for being scum, returns and breaks up with TLJ, who would be pissed at the moment but would get over it because, again, it’s not like SY is the love of his life and he does want LBH to be happy. I think SY would probably tell LBH to give it some time because he’s not ready to jump in an other relationship just yet, and they’d start slow, but it could work. They would, however, have to deal with the different dynamics SY is unused to, but since, let’s be honest, he was the result of some weird form of grooming (He’s a adult, so it’s not grooming, but you get what I mean), maybe with some therapy he gets over himself and they get their happily ever after. Also possibly YQY apologise for being an asshole.
Option 2: SY realises that he can’t see LBH as more than a friend who is the son of the guy’s he’s fucking and that’s a big nope he can’t get over, and he missed his partner more than he’d thought he would considering their relationship has never been serious, so when he comes back he tells them both that, possibly with the asterisk that he’ll leave if he’s the source of too much conflict, because he doesn’t want to destroy their father/son relationship, but he’d rather not because his life is pretty sweet, thanks. It’s a pretty serious talk and LBH has no choice but to accept it, so even if he gets his heart broken that’s what he does. SY and TLJ returns to their status quo, except maybe SY stops by a little less often to give LBH some space, but in the end both TLJ and SY are annoyed by it and decide that enough is enough, they’ve done what they needed to do, and possibly SY moves in and they live in illicit bliss until the end.
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tossawary · 4 years ago
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After a conversation with some fandom friends - and given your skill with an AU - I was struck by an intense curiosity. If you could create a third transmigrator for a SVSSS fanfic - as a narrative resource or just for fun - who would they be? Would you pick an existing character or go full OC? (If it helps, my ideas were a Tianlang-jun transmigrator or a lady OC who was Mobei-jun's aunt figure because there aren't enough women and also baby Mobei-jun.)
Thanks! If I had the time, which I don’t, I would absolutely write some third transmigrator one shots. I like making OCs out of barely canon characters or related to canon characters, so you can play off what little you do know of a name-only character and what you know of the characters adjacent to them. I like having that leaping-off point. (See: Luo Jiahui in pride.) 
Third transmigrators roles which would make fun fics: 
Liu Mingyan (#transmigrator liu mingyan au). 
Mobei-Jun’s mom, caught between MBJ’s father and LGJ, for the fun of making Linguang-Jun briefly sympathetic/likable and also to pay my dues to the Unfridge the Mom Club. More in-laws for SQH! 
Basically any female character, honestly. 
Gongyi Xiao. Poor stressed bun. 
Wei Qingwei, miraculously managing to fix the Qijiu backstory by going for SJ on YQY’s behalf or something, despite Airplane never having published it. 
Pretty much everyone has the potential for fun. I probably wouldn’t do Tianlang-Jun personally because of the 20 years of imprisonment and the fact that TLJ is just such a good threat in fics. This man is so dangerous and very unpredictable when he wants to be. You can fit SO MANY plot devices in this man! 
But the only “unexpected transmigrator” fic I’ve actually wanted to write is for MDZS instead of SVSSS, in which someone transmigrates into Lan Wangji. 1) The humor in LWJ being largely silent but thinking mostly in modern speak and probably curse words. 2) The transmigrator getting the mission “The Eternal Devotion of Lan Wangji” in regards to the Wangxian relationship, except this transmigrator basically bristling with repressed rage has NO INTENTION of falling in love with some DUMBASS MOTHERFUCKER LIKE WWX. 
So much so that, upon meeting WWX after years of Lan rules and Lan disciple and System restraints, the LWJ transmigrator actually attacks WWX out of anger as per canon. And then, despite all their rage and resentment, due to WWX’s overwhelming charisma and liveliness, finds themselves falling head over heels in love with a doomed man anyway (their memory of MDZS would be kind of shaky and without details for angsty reasons). Fuck. 
Surprise second “unexpected transmigrator who becomes apparent a few years into the story” in this fic would be Jiang Yanli. 
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acernor · 5 years ago
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Different anon here. I kinda see potential in SWD/SJ, but not in the way you'd probably think. If SJ was SWD's lover, I feel like he would become a target for HX. And SJ being a potential target for HX would put HX at odds with Bingge. Unless HX hears about Bingge's wife-collecting ways and tries to use his female form to his advantage, but I personally don't think that's very likely.
oooooh i’m listening... what if it put hx at odds with yqy, and then bingge tried to manipulate hx into eliminating yqy for him while he disappeared with sj in the chaos... swd and pei ming go to get him back from lbh’s palace and lqg separately arrives, acting on yqy’s behalf bc him and hx fucked each other up real good and are recovering... uneasy teamup... but who does bingge fall in love with if endgame is swd/sj and pei ming/lqg?????? WHERE ARE THE BINGGE RIGHTS???? like do they all join the harem or (lol rip sj (litearlly rest in pieces))
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