Bing(qiu/jiu) end, sy=sj, yandere yqy au where yqy atticwifes sqq after he gets injured critically at the IAC… he cuts sqq’s achilles so he can’t escape, restores the memories lost in his qi deviation all those years ago, keeps him in “seclusion” in a well-appointed cage on qdp
@winxclubshow
Why are movie and TV producers so allergic to color? This joint should have looked like The Fifth Element, and could have been just as popular if they didn’t homogenize it with the rest of the shit that comes out these days by trying to be “dark” and “gritty.”
@winxclubshow
Shit, A Wrinkle in Time (2018) looked fucking MAGICAL and I’ve seen cosplayers remake those costumes on a shoestring budget. There is no excuse for this
Shen Jiu’s past was exposed near the end of SVSSS after a whole book of SY bashing him not to make ppl feel bad or to excuse his actions, but to demonstrate that SJ and LBH are narrative foils & imply that LBH would have turned out just like SJ if SY never transmigrated.
I swear some of yall need to reread SVSSS. Fandom osmosis and popular fanon interpretations of characters have corroded your memories of what’s actually happened in the book.
Since
@gomanga
has decided to waste our money on a union buster, here is a thread for foreign publications not by 7Seas. If u want to spend on MXTX or Meatbun but don’t want to give money to a sleazy company like 7Seas, you can buy from one of the licensed publishers below.
Thinking abt scumcum where wandering cultivator SY encounters escaped slave SJ, bloodsoaked and qi-deviating. Feral little Xiao Jiu who sways like he might faint, who hisses & flinches from the touch of a man, who has the brightest, clearest qi sy has ever seen, a natural prodigy
Every peak lord should get to have their own insatiable demonic lover. One by one, peak by peak, all of cqms is taken over by demons—not by force, but by marriage 😌
For every cute p4p project i see that calls itself “mxtx merch” but excludes SVSSS, I’m adding another SVSSS exclusive merch item to my list of things to produce
Shang Qinghua sadly thinking he’s only in a marriage of convenience, all while Mobei Jun is head over heels in love with his human accountant-wife. the demons in MBJ’s court watch him profess his love every day. SQH gains a reputation as an ice queen & MBJ as a hopeless simp
Bingyuan chobits (kind of) au where SY finds android LBH thrown over a trash heap and brings him home, fixes him up, and remains extremely oblivious to LBH obviously being a sexbot and propositioning him at every turn
I feel like if SY transmigrated into a body that didn’t have cultivation, bro would not sit down and cultivate. Cultivation requires hours of meditation (aka emptying your mind) and self-reflection, which I feel are both antithetical to SY’s character.
Thinking about Peak Lord Shen recalling his childhood of spurring tears to his eyes to con rich ppl out of coins while he and qi-ge were living on the streets… and wondering abruptly if it would still work today on a Certain Someone.
Hey fellow fanfic writers just a tip from ur local textiles expert, silk isn’t flammable—in fact, animal fibers like silk and wool are the OPPOSITE of flammable & will self-extinguish if they catch fire. To get them to burn u need to use a fuel/accelerant to keep the flame going
Mother of dragons au for shen jiu. Xiao jiu freshly escaped from qiu manor and indentured to wyz. Wyz hunts and kills a young adult jade dragon to eat its heart. SJ finds the jade eggs a ways away and squirrels them away in his robes
And it isn’t the focus of SVSSS so we don’t see much of it, but Bingge DID turn out like SJ. They both fell into a cycle of abuse too strong to break in the end. Whether it continued bc they weren’t equipped or simply weren’t willing, we can’t know. That’s what fanfic is for.
Sy: pspspspspspspspsps
Xiao jiu: you think im stupid? im not falling for that 😾😾😾
Sy: *feeds sj, lets him bathe ALONE in an inn room, bundles him up in soft new robes, refuses to touch him without consent*
Xiao jiu: wtf??????¿¿¿????????
Of course sy needs to take this bright star under his wing before some unsavory demonic cultivator gets his hands on him. he’s been in this world long enough that he knows what happens to kids like this boy.
SJ meanwhile is like a feral cat getting its first taste of kindness
Also, please throw your support to other English danmei publishing houses like
@PFH_Blossom
! Don’t let the execs at
@gomanga
try to blame their impending drop in sales on the act of publishing queer media, because they will if they think they’ll get away with it.
@xlmantou
@kittenwanning
One of my friends is a guild leader in WOW. They pretend to hate the leader of a rival guild for the sake of their guildmates, but the two of them are actually married in real life
i know bingjiu is a hot button topic for a lotta people but SJ values people who keep their promises and if there is one (1) person in all of PIDW/SVSSS who does that it’s good old reliable luo binghe
Thinking abt historical AU young hero General Yue starting a harem and never saying it but making it SO obvious to all of his spouses that he is mourning his one true love who died long ago and none of them will ever capture his heart
Did you know some orb weaver spiders will forcefully feminize captured male fireflies before they eat them to lure more male fireflies into their webs?
I think spider demon sj should get to do this to bingge. As a treat
@Esqueer_
Just like Nixon’s administration admitted it out loud on the record that their anti-drug laws weren’t designed to prevent drug abuse, but to put brown people, black people, and anti-war protesters into jail.
But arguing about which of them had it worse or which had it better? It’s a pointless endeavor. The honest truth is that they had it about the same by nature of the narrative.
LBH was a homeless child bound to the sect by filial piety, who was mistreated by those who should have protected and taught him. SJ was a beaten & SA’d child slave who couldn’t run away even if he wanted bc his only family would likely never be able to find him again if he left.
But they both lived on the streets before, and likely could and would have run away and done it again if they didn’t hold out hope—hope that one’s treatment would change, hope that the other would one day reunite with his loved one and be saved.
And for both of them, that hope was crushed cruelly and mercilessly.
Ultimately, the fine differences between their respective childhoods don’t change the fact that they both started with nothing and they both ended with nothing.
Bingqiu/meijiu sy=sj au cont’d:
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When YQY was away from the sect, a silent, young qiong ding disciple would deliver food to SQQ’s cage twice a day. It was always the same boy.
Bing(qiu/jiu) end, sy=sj, yandere yqy au where yqy atticwifes sqq after he gets injured critically at the IAC… he cuts sqq’s achilles so he can’t escape, restores the memories lost in his qi deviation all those years ago, keeps him in “seclusion” in a well-appointed cage on qdp
As children, they both had a familial figure who left them. Both had an oblivious little girl treating them as a pet. Both had physically (& implied sexually, for sj) abusive masters and other men who tormented & mistreated them (in a place that should have been a home, for lbh).
Love when svsss fics jave a plotline of sy discovering sj’s past like an archeologist searching for fragments of the fuckin dead sea scrolls or something. Treasure hunting! But the Treasure is Trauma ☺️
Shen Yuan choosing to be kind for various reasons is a major THEME and VEHICLE driving the book forward, but it is not the major character arc of the story. In the end, he didn’t learn that “it’s okay to be nice;” he learned not to judge others based on what he thinks is true.
& in adulthood, they both learned not to rely upon or trust anyone other than themselves. Both took comfort in the presence of women (if not in women’s beds for SJ). Both burned down their abusive masters’ homes and slaughtered those who hurt them there.
Shen Yuan was scared and desperate at the beginning of the novel, repeatedly using others to prevent the terrible demise he sees for himself and justifying it with “oh he has the protagonist halo,” “oh he’s the only character who might have rivaled the protagonist,” etc
This is not someone whose major struggle is with toxic masculinity making him see kidnness as a weakness, this is someone who struggles to divorce his preconceived notions about characters in a book from the living breathing people before him.
Instead of walking away from his next fight with yqy, SJ escalates and escalates until the time comes.
The tears come too easily. qi-ge always said he cried pretty.
I imagine rare flowers in PIDW are a lot like cicadas—individual breeds only show up once every 2 years, 7 years, 14 years, 100 years, 1000 years, etc etc but because there are SO FUCKING MANY of them, a “rare bloom” happens like once a month in reality
When the prodigious Shen Jiu is named Qingqiu and made succeeding disciple at sixteen years old, only two months after joining qing jing, his qing jing shixiongs decide they have had enough of tolerating him. They hatch a plan—several plans, really—to get rid of that upstart.
But my point is, I don’t think any kind of “redemption arc” that involves trying to point out LBH’s circumstances to SJ would actually work. For SJ, he needs to learn that LBH ISN’T him and that the treatment he himself suffered shouldn’t be passed on if he ever wants it to end.
SY has never had a personal android before, maybe they’re ALL equipped with vibrating fingers and—and *weapons* like LBH has between his legs! It’s probably normal, it would be super rude to stare or ask about it!
—an anti-climactic fade-out, I think it’s safe to assume his life ended just as wretchedly as SJ’s did, at the hands of his mistreated wives & concubines and their superpowered children.
More specifically… “Shen yuan was a kind saintess all along, he was mean to people to COPE” Look I like Shen Yuan awkwardly bumbling his way through friendships with grand courting gestures he doesn’t think twice about as much as the next guy, but that is just untrue
Both ascended to powerful positions to make sure they’d never be hurt again while simultaneously hurting those under their care—SJ his disciple, and LBH the unnamed women he r*ped into being his wives. And while we cannot know for sure how Bingge ended up since PIDW ended in—
But personally, idt showing Shen Jiu that LBH “has it worse”—whether that’s true or false—would help. Not even showing him the similarities between them would help. He KNOWS. He saw the similarities the second he laid eyes on LBH in the bamboo house and heard about LBH’s mother.
Self-hatred is a powerful drug to someone from wretched beginnings who, despite everything he’s achieved, still cannot seem to shake the wretchness from his soul. Seeing too much of himself in LBH, imo, was likely one of the catalysts for targeting him in the first place.
"Two predators, sizing each other up in the night."
it was an absolute treat working with
@vespertinius8
on a Binggeyuan fic for the
@mxtxbb
this winter, especially with such a fun concept as Demon SY. We both worked super hard~ check out details & the fic in the thread below!!!
The canonical character arc, which we can trace through the way he responds to every single major plot point involving Luo Binghe, is him coming to care about the people in this crazy world he’s found himself in. It IS him learning that he’s not just in some fictional novel
@femqiu
The plot twist is that sj has latent prophetic abilities that only come thru in artwork so he keeps coincidentally painting obscure future events and sqh ALSO thinks he’s going insane because there’s NO WAY anyone who didn’t read pidw would know this
I think atonement arcs are much more narratively interesting than redemption arcs, but to redeem either of them, we would need to know WHY they did what they did both to each other and to outsiders. And there is a lot of speculation out there for both of them.
It doesn’t matter. In two weeks, there will be no trial; sqq will be dead by then.
Whether lbh kills him or he throws himself into the acid, at least there will be no body left for yqy to defile.
@sunstung_
I love this premise tho ngl like as long as SJ doesn’t find out about pidw until after he uses SY’s rich second gen money to get therapy. Imagining useless NEET Shen Yuan having a brush with death and waking up as a savant of traditional and classical Chinese culture is so fun
Maybe, if he had seen the street child scratching and biting and doing everything to protect himself and those he cared about, he wouldn’t have. But instead he saw the hopeful little boy who naïvely thought everything would be okay as long as he worked hard, did as he was told,
And I’m sure yall have seen my headcanon/meta thread that Shen Jiu may have targeted LBH even more after YQY expressed interest/concern in him because he WANTED YQY to step in, but i’ll try to find that later
And although iirc it’s only Shen Yuan’s interpretation, I think it’s fair to say that SJ was jealous of LBH—not of LBH’s potential, but of the fact that he has the opportunity to hone it. Of the fact that LBH’s mother didn’t go willingly.
and waited for things to change, and the sight disgusted him.
Of course his name wouldn’t help. Of course the fact that this boy’s mother *died* for him while Qi-ge abandoned Xiao Jiu wouldn’t help either. These were factors too.
+ if you do, then leave your interpretations & headcanons at the door and actually read what’s written, or your rose-colored lenses will have you jumping through hoops to morph the canon to fit your fanon.
Write whatever you want in fanfics, but stop calling it meta when it’s not
“The Fall” enamel pin set concept 👀
If there is any interest, this would prob happen after the rose pool lqg pin and the resentment of chunshan pin set!
#svsss
#mxtx
I am SURE this has been done before but i’m Thinking about sickly shut-in Shen Yuan saving a little black “puppy” from a gutter, adopting it, and raising it until adulthood—at which point he figures out that it is most definitely not a dog, as he’d first assumed, but a bear
Nobody is quite sure of the truth, for the new disciple is defensive and the dragonets dislike anyone who tries to come close. But still, nobody is very surprised when he becomes the head disciple
@ghostclowning
@todesesser
I esp think about this a lot wrt how SY canonically pulled away from any teaching or discipline on his peak such that the disciples went from thesis-level scholars to a “senseless pack of ADHD children,” and loyal-to-sqq-to-the-end Ming Fan defers to LQG instead of SQQ by the end
anymore; that these are real people who can change and grow based on the actions of others, and that despite what outside forces might want, he can still make a positive difference in the world.
Of course what he cant know is sy comes from a time and place where children are coddled and protected. The thought of taking advantage of this scared, battered 13 year old makes sy’s stomach turn
B9🧵 fic! Started this on discord and expanding it here ✨
Thinkin about no cultivation, no demons, imperial harem au where SJ and SY are identical twins who were adopted by a noblewoman as children. As teens, they traveled with their yimu to the palace once in a while.
Like. This mans spent three years agonizing about how “it doesn’t matter what i’ve changed in this timeline for Binghe, how well i’ve treated him, etc etc because it was written that the Protagonist of This Novel would rip me limb from limb, so naturally that’s what he’ll do.”
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Was going thru and deleting old screenshots and I’m never gonna get over the fact that MXTX describes Shen Jiu/Original Shen Qingqiu as an “exotic flower”
@shotagorou
@pseudomint
These mfers really be like “hey 😉 I just went to this tag of a ship i 😉 don’t 😉 like 😉 and read the fics there 😉 they’re so bad 😉 and problematic 😉😉 posting this video tooootally won’t encourage others to go and consume that ultra problamatic terribad content too 😉😉😉”
@femqiu
Maybe lqg draws attention to it like “hey… shen qingqiu—” and sj flinches farther behind his sleeve bc suddenly the whole room is looking at him
@whenasinsilks
@bingheluvr69
Bingbing cutting himself a portal and challenging the green haired goddess Hatsune Miku to a battle for his shizun’s honor
The rumor on cqms is that the new qing jing peak disciple, the one head disciple yue personally vouched for, has three spiritual beasts—three hatchling jade dragons who answer only to him, whose cultivation bases are linked to his own only as a mother’s links with her children’s
Some people say he’s a run away scion of the reclusive jade dragon breeder employed by the emperor. Others say he’s a jade dragon himself, one that cultivated a mortal form, and that he bore the three dragonets from his own body
Like I just feel he would be so bad at it lmao.
Nah if he needed to cultivate from scratch, he might try meditating, but after a long time of failed attempts he’d simply use his PIDW knowledge to hunt down some secret 1000-year plant that grows you a golden core or something
Bingqiu/meijiu sy=sj au part 3!
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After the palace mistress finally leaves, sqq inches himself back onto his knees.
His robes are slick with blood down his back.
Bingqiu/meijiu sy=sj au cont’d:
—
When YQY was away from the sect, a silent, young qiong ding disciple would deliver food to SQQ’s cage twice a day. It was always the same boy.
When my wife came to me with a phone full of open svsss fics and asked why people liked binghe so much when the pretty scholar/meathead warrior who’s dedicated to him ship is right there……………….. 💀
Mutual who has never read svsss is starting to read svsss and doesn't like BingQiu. It's a canon event you can't prevent. You're screaming Binghe is an awesome character but they can't hear you. They stare at you through the glass in horror as they get to the 5 year time skip.
Like can u really imagine SY trying to self reflect? Sitting down and opening up all those corked bottles in the back of his mind containing every single thing he’s done or that’s been done to him that’s caused him embarrassment or anxiety or whatever? Bro would literally combust