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Fuck me the way SJ’s hand is trembling this is so elite

I’m so obsessed with them

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New favourite genre of YQY (looking at you with empty eyes while blatantly lying)

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"He was aware of Anharion watching him. He knew Anharion sometimes watched him like this, though he had taken vows, and it was forbidden."

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MASSIVE THANK YOU TO PRIM (@primtheamazing) FOR DONATING TO FTH 2025!!!

I’m really happy to be able to work with you on this, so thank you very much!!

Once again big thank you to Prim!!

I absolutely love the prompt you gave me, I literally screamed when I first saw it!!! It was incredibly fun to work on this!!!

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This kind of au has such a special place in my heart

Scum Villain Self-Saving System.

A 7/9 Recovery AU where Shen Qingqiu is saved and rehabilitated with Yue Qingyuan… I want good things for them.

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Oh fuck just kill me atp

On Qijiu and core wounds

For a few weeks I've been mulling over Yue Qingyuan's and Shen Qingqiu's core wounds: Yue Qi, as the eldest in a group of child slaves, had to internalize the lesson: You are the one who comes and saves. There is no one else who can do that. With it, a second, implied lesson came: No one is coming for you. Except that's where Shen Jiu enters the equation, and he, in fact, does come for Yue Qi. Does save him from being trampled by a horse. Does save him from being killed by Wu Yanzi, therefore softening the lesson, but also, with time, tying a boulder of guilt to it.

Then we have Shen Jiu, who at first has a fragile trust inside of him, that of course, Qi-ge will come. Qi-ge will try and come and save him. This trust gets broken, and Shen Jiu is left internalizing a lesson that was already almost internalized: No one is coming for you. You need to save yourself. Through shared trauma, they shaped each other more and more into mirrors of one another and it's wild!!!! like!!!! sir!!! what do you mean!!!!!!

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Akutagawa, minutes away from death, not thinking about Dazai but about Atsushi. Is genuinely so insane. I was never delusional!

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One thing that kinda frustrates me about Shen Jiu fics is that they so often try to sanitize him. Make him nicer/more misunderstood than he actually is.

Like, he was definitely very misunderstood in source material, but he also was straight up a terrible person too, y'know? Both things can be true at once.

The biggest thing is his treatment of Luo Binghe, playing on the idea that it wasn't *as* bad as the characters thought it was. Now, this is just plain wrong cause we know from the extras that SJ gave Binghe the fake cultivation manual with the intent that it would literally explode him. He really wanted to murder that kid, yall. Loony toonz ass villain. Keep this man away from children

And he was definitely a total asshole to all his coworkers, even during disciple days. The other Peak Lords are under no expectation to like him nor tolerate his behavior, especially since they (except Yue Qingyuan) don't know about his backstory (very intentional on SJs part)! SJ very deliberately ostracized himself. His nasty reputation didn't just spring up out of nowhere. He has agency even in other people's opinions of him.

This is particularly notable in his interactions with Liu Qingge. It wasn't "LQG bullies poor SJ and spreads nasty rumors about him." It was a rivalry, a give and take between the both of them. They were both assholes to each other, but clearly, despite the animosity, there was some deeper feeling (SJ being so affected after LQG's murder accusations and then later death). Again, agency is key here.

He's also completely unrepentant until the very end! He will never apologize ever, so no sudden "oh god, what have I done?" heel-turns for him, buddy. If it was that easy, then he wouldn't have gotten human sticked in the first place.

SJ is tragic and sympathetic. SJ is also an awful person and a complete asshole. He's allowed to be both, and both of these sides of him are what makes him an interesting and engaging character.

Edit: holy shit stop interacting with this post everytime I open my notifications I think I’m getting reactions to my more recent shit and instead it’s just this bs. Anyways thanks for 1k notes

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Sorry! 😭

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I literally cannot recommend this fic enough, I’m serious. It’s genuinely one of the best fics I’ve read. I don’t want to say anything because it will be a spoiler, but if you need me to explain what it is I love so much here in order to be convinced to read it, just comment and I’ll give a few details because there are some genuinely incredible plot/character choices in this work. Like please please please read it.

airplane view of the self - Nonymos - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù - [Archive Of Our Own]

Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky gets a do-over. Aha, that first go was pretty traumatic, but surely everything will be much easier this time! Surely the System won't mess it up for him! Right? Right?

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New favourite genre of YQY (looking at you with empty eyes while blatantly lying)

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I took a nap so my body got stolen and now I'm stuck in my childhood sweethearts Life-Draining Sword (Part 2)

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Drawing post-canon cottage life is free therapy

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Some sskk doodles

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shin soukoku are so imperfect and that is what makes them so good. what do you mean you hate this guy because he’s like looking in a mirror, but you can only see what you deemed as the flawed parts of yourself. what do you mean you are always putting up some kind of front around other people but you can show your enemy the worst and truest version of yourself. what do you mean you are so far into your rivalry that even dying for each other becomes a competition.

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hi guys