#scum of the universe

[hussyknee]

TERFs with Discworld usernames make me snort. What the fuck kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to believe that the man, who invented Cheery Littlebottom and wrote Monstrous Regiment while the cultural zeitgeist was still cracking "hot girl used to be a dude" jokes, would be anything but a staunch advocate of trans people? Man whose entire body of work reiterates "telling people how they should be is stupid and trying to force them to conform to your ideas is evil"? Hello??

[catpriciousmarjara]

Every single day I'm grateful for that time I stumbled on the SVSSS headcanon that while Bingqiu is considered highkey confusing and lowkey cringe in the demon realm, Moshang is known as the Power Couple™. They're the demonic love story. The 'It Couple'.

Just generations of demons sighing over the dramatic and bloody love story of the Northern King and his right hand man plus spymaster, yearning for one of their own filled with such glorious violence and betrayal! A classic childhood friends to lovers narrative filled with ups and downs and copious murder and gore! Love at first sight! The story of the loyal spy who rose up the ranks of the brutal Northern Court, culling his competition while providing vital intel to his liege, all the while infiltrating the most powerful cultivation sect in the world and eventually even becoming a Peak Lord! The slow burn of all slow burns! All kinds of spicy complicated power imbalances! Sexy, unexpected age gaps! Years of heavy plot! Decades of passionate courting! The pinnacle of inter-species forbidden romance! The tale of a man who swore eternal loyalty after falling violently in love at the very first meeting, calling a mere Prince His King in his desire and determination to see his beloved's ascension to the throne that was his birthright, and the Demon Prince who was unexpectedly presented with fierce loyalty in a life that had until then been rife with treachery and grabbed it with both hands and never looked back!

...and there's Junshan and the weird human he keeps around. Somewhat interesting if you're into that teacher-student thing I guess. There were very few deaths. Some bland murders. The trial arc and the self destruct thing plus corpse hoarding was interesting but overall very vanilla. Unseasoned. Not even a proper decade of drama. Kinda boring. And Junshan's half human so they're like Walmart version inter-species romance. But whatever the Emperor's into I guess. His dad was kinda weird too but at least his relationship with that human woman had some kick to it. The new generation just doesn't appreciate a long drawn out painful romance tsk tsk...

Like infinitely grateful to whoever first spawned that headcanon. Never fails to make me laugh. Honestly the most hilarious thing I've ever seen in this fandom. Hope your pillow is always cold and you never stub your toe.

[lost-sheep]

Be as harsh as you want I won't believe a word you say

[turtiowo]

Everything went wrong AU 2

(Other)

[greeniegaes]

Back at it agains with another svsss au im pulling out of my (slightly) sleep deprived brain

Basically yada yada everything happens as normal UP UNTIL the immortal alliance arc. SQQ gets this searing headache and the system just keeps popping up with errors, so while they are all fighting the spider hoard the system just kinda snaps and breaks. SQQ suddenly feels like he’s hit by a truck, his body starting to act like his sickly Shen Yuan body and his cultivation is tying itself into dead knots and every bone in his body feels like it’s locking up. There’s no system to blame for things as he and LBH confront MBJ and he just has to do his hardest to survive with just his spiritual sword.

And then the worse thing happens, Xiu Ya shatters.

SQQ panics at this, continuing to try his best fighting people off and eventually MBJ leaves *hooray* except not really because all the system errors are getting louder and louder in his head, and everything is blue and blaring and he might be bleeding and he can’t understand what LBH is saying even though he is right there, shaking his body and crying.

And then the abyss opens. He suddenly has the choice. He can send LBH, his white little sheep, down there to continue on with the PIDW plot, or he can… not do that.

So he pushes LBH.

Away from him. Away from the abyssal rift, only for him to be the one that falls though. He had prepared various lesson plans, life advice, what skills people to work on and so much more once he got without-a-cure, just incase he slipped up one day and couldn’t protect himself. So SQQ was satisfied as he knew his peak would be taken care of if LBH opened a specific drawer, everyone could still be taught by the hall masters and also have some future help prepared for each of them.

So SQQ let’s himself fall into the abyss, watching his student’s horrified expression as he plummets. He hears the system disconnect from LBH as he falls, all of the glowing blue error messages and pop ups instantly go away and he’s left in the dark as he sinks further and further into the abyss.

Surprisingly, he wakes up. He landed in the same field of flowers that are the reason LBH didn’t die in the original, they are filled with celestial qi in a place meant to be horrible and deadly. The one good thing about this place. He lays there for awhile and lets the plants essence fix up his meridians.

Then he has to experience the same horrifying things the protagonist did in person, fighting off each beast and trying his damn hardest to survive. It takes him a while, fighting and walking his way through what’s practically hell on earth, slaying beasts ten times his size, making sure not to fall into the trappings of demonic plants. He cuts his long hair, he thinks he will never see his peak again, so what do filial ties matter when you’re barely surviving. Sometimes the worse thing is his own mind, he feels a heavy layer of guilt to himself for so willing going along with the system. He sometimes forgets it’s not his fault too, that he was threatened to return to a dead body if he didn’t do as he was supposed to. But he’s happy sometimes too, he goes back to that field of flowers, laying in them and basking in his memories of a happier LBH, a LQG that isn’t dead, a Qing Jing peak full of song and happy healthy students.

He ascends from the abyss that day. He doesn’t know how or why but he wakes up in the same field of flowers, the sky above him no longer a damning black with red cracks seeping light in. it’s blue, soft, it hurts his eyes almost to look at it. It hurts so much but he can’t look away. He picks himself up, looking at all the grime and blood on himself and weeps in relief that he can go home. He hides his face and asks people where he is, somewhere in HHP territories, and begins to make his way back to his sect. Once he gets to his peak he sits down softly at the gate, it’s night time and there haven’t been many people about. He basks in the feeling of being home, leaning his head against the tall bamboo pole as he falls asleep.

He’s glad tomorrow is a new day, when he can see his family and just go back to his life.

(in the years he’s been gone all of CQS has been in some kind of mourning. LBH found all the letters from his shizun and they made all the disciples of QJP weep. Some of them took the advice given and left, some of them stayed and took care of a lordless peak. None of the hall masters or disciples were qualified to step up, and when the issue was raised even the peak lords agreed he shouldn’t be replaced. It was LQG who found him at the gate, going to visit the sword shrine in the bamboo house after an expedition, going to leave another fan to rot at the shrine’s foot. instead he heaved up his shixiong, hair not even reaching his shoulders, hands callused and dirty, and brought him back to the bamboo house, waking LBH in the process. Once morning light came everyone would know that their lost peak lord came home, but first they had to get the doctor to make sure he actually got through the night)

[mikkeneko]

watching Jiang antis go, as a Scum Villain reader, never ceases to be kind of wild

[shrimpchipsss]

LET THEM FIGHT

[oh-wow-im-still-here]

Im so sorry but I just cannot understand people that read the entirety of scum villain and then say they don't like binghe. He's awful, toxic, overbearing, ect. Like?? Yes, but also no??? Did you not read the book? Or even looked past the unreliable narration?

Like, I get it, you're reading it in the moment and sqq is a super fun and imaginative narrator, he easily traps you in the same mindset that he has. Trapping you in the world of genres, tropes, character archetypes, what makes a story a story. So it's easy to get clouded like sqq and just scratch your head and try to figure out what type of character archtype luo binghe will turn out to be. If he's not the stallion protagonist harem master anymore, than what is he? So you read book 2 and the start of book 3 and you think, "oh! If he's not gonna be the toxic male power fantasy anymore, than he's gonna be the toxic male love interest fantasy you see in BL!"

You know the ones. They're incredibly sexy, incredibly tall, needs an incredibly in depth course on the meaning of consent and boundaries, and the narrative never punishes them for doing weird and out of line shit, but actively romanticize it. Which fits binghe in some respects, but not all of them, same as the stallion protag box. So I can understand you and sqq's apprehension throughout the story. Waiting for the hat to drop already. Is binghe a cute wholesome wife or a possessive bloodthirsty demon lord?

But then you and shen qingqiu are supposed to learn the lesson near the end that binghe is a person!! With thoughts and feelings and grievances he wants addressed!!! That ultimately he is in the exact middle of the harem master protag to toxic yaoi male lead scale, but also not on the scale at all!!!

Because, ultimately, he is just a guy that desperately wants to be loved! To be wanted! That's it! And shen qingqiu realizes this and takes this complicated emotional wreck of a man and promises him that love and companionship. Shedding the notions of following some sort of thought out narrative and live out their happy ending. Because scum villain's story does end up happy. Messy, but happy. Shen Qingqiu is not suffering. He does not regret choosing Luo Binghe. They are both happy and in love and they both deserve each other. So like, what more do you want?

[ultfreakme]

And this is how you know that Shen Yuan was a rich, spoiled little young master with no concerns for the world because only rich people would have the audacity to say this kind of work is unimpressive. BRO AN DING'S CARRYING THIS SECT ON IT'S BACK! Shang Qinghua leaves??? YOU'RE DOOMED! An Ding Peak decides they're not going to work one day? Say goodbye to all your comforts and even regular functioning. Bitch ass nepo baby like--

[yuukikoi]

Alternate!PIDW AU Ning Yingying doodle!!

I've been reading a lot of AUs where Yingying is the one to eventually kill Bingge, and I find that concept so profoundly interesting. Rather than favoured disciple Yingying of Qing Jing Peak, I raise you Immortal Master Ning of nowhere at all, First Wife of the Demon Emperor.

This is a version of NYY who marries for survival rather than love, and revenge rather than forgiveness, the man who burnt the only home she's ever known to the ground.

AU NYY is deeply desillusioned with love after watching the man she calls her husband and who she once called her closest friend continuously torture her father (figure) year after year, and bitter with herself for being unable to do anything about it. However, as First Wife, it's up to AU NYY to manage the Harem (yay for historical accuracy!!), so what she CAN do, is ensure with certainty LBG never knows true loyalty within his own palace and Harem. (While he is somewhat aware of her resentment, he still fundamentally believes her to be the same sheltered, sweet little girl who repeatedly extended a kind hand to him. This is ultimately his undoing)

ANYWAY that's maybe too much context ✌️🤠 perhaps I have Too Many Thoughts™ about this Headcanon ngl 🫠

[ryssbelle]

trying to be more active starting by tryna post all the stuff I've been neglecting to ;w; Heres a doodle I did for @sparkspsps of @heroesspirit Ravio!! I've done a lot of heroes spirit art so expect to see a lot of it, its a very good comic so yall better get your eyes on it and your hands reblogging!!

[vothlann]

Basically, I was inspired to draw Shen Yuan from the fanfic called Cultivate: Slow Life on a Monster-Infested Mountain. This was fun and the first time I practiced dramatic lighting. It's not perfect, but I think this has helped me to improve my art skills :P

Also, many thanks to NeonGhostCat for making such an amazing book! I love the details about the scenery and clothing. It was so much fun to interpret that into art xD It also has incredible twists that just casually happen, and I think that's the best and funniest thing ever :3 Hope you all have a nice day!

[talasdoodles]

Really enjoy the idea of the Shen's being brothers. But instead of Shen Yuan being a transmigrator; He's Shen Jiu/sqq's little brother who's cultivating under him. And after seeing Luo Binghe took a fascination in him, wanting to be friends

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AHEAD]

CHRIS BEAN:

ZHUZHI-LANG:

[wumiings]

“airplane created the pidw world from nothing” “airplane is an unwitting prophet recording his visions” airplane is altering a pre-existing world death note style; reality has to keep readjusting itself so that whatever new bullshit aphrodisiac plant he invents has ‘always’ been there. it didn’t use to be like this.

[communistkenobi]

white vegans are some of the least serious people on earth. great job having the radical opinion that factory farms are bad. do you believe human beings should resist colonisation and genocide? no? ok cool thanks man. keep buying $18 veggie sausages from the gentrification supermarket I’m sure that will solve everything