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+20s. i read svsss thought it was mid and then got a shen jiu addiction so bad I've been unable to think of anything else ever since 🤡🔫 I use this blog to hash out my thoughts so if I contradict myself its the research process 🔬🕵♂️
Overheard a so something conversation: "If you're married & in an open relationship you know yr wife is getting cracked like an egg by other dudes-" "let her run the whole team bro" "they weren't even married for a month! She saved herself for the marriage & gave it to some random dude"
trying out a new colored pencil brush on this one. it's hard to use but kind of a blast
#whumptober 2026 - Day 8 - Sibling Caretaker The streets are a brutal place for little kids. All they have is each other.
Sometimes I self-analyze like wow do you only like antagonists surely this says smth abt you. But then I drop to my knees & scream WYLL RAVENGARD 😭 🛐 & it's like oh no you just like characters that get majorly shafted by the writers my bad
Wahoo my 3rd job paid big money for my last month's work. No ice soup for me this October. Udon time.
Saw a thing that HCed the baizhan raids as SJ's fault via him ambushing LQG as a disciple > BZ members reactively take it out on QJ > it becomes a tradition SJ does nothing abt. & on one hand genuinely interesting idea but on the other feels like yet another Blame Everything Structurally Wrong Or--
Anyway this+[redacted]+the mxtx series of retcons/rewrites/new extras that're completely tonedeaf to the original feels like we're past the decade of soulless remakes/sequels that are blind to what was good abt the original into the decade of soulless It Was Always This Way (read: worse) IDK--
Haven't heard much else on the topic but the stupid novel retconning Astarion's racism... as if taking the racism out of an elf isn't like taking the wings off an angel that's just some twink now.
we literally root for charlie brown every step of the way, he is the main character the show has told us to love. he is who we want to see win. and then when lucy pulls the football away, the show is telling us it does not respect our time as a viewer.
Damn work might be drafting me to out-of-state for up to a month??? Rip my other job and my other other job <- guy w/ 3-5 PT jobs at any given time 🤪
#whumptober 2026 - Day 3 - Magical affliction / Struggling to breath just another Qi-Deviation. what's new?
#whumptober 2026 - DAy 2 - Pulled Underwater Liu Qingge, Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua on a mission. What can possibly go wrong.
Qijiu domestic bliss headcanons 1. They can’t fall asleep without facing each other, once asleep SJ might kick yqy away for being too hot or they shift position but for Their peace of mind they need to see and touch each other to be certain this is real
why did I cook so hard for the most random crossover that like 2 people are gonna get😭 anywayy my favorite fucked up green bois #dreamfanart #svsss #shenjiu #sqq
& Another Thing now ofc this says smth abt me as a person bit maybe I just enjoy when characters are discontent & live with a soul deep misalignment & inability to accept the unfairness & hypocrisy of their circumstances. & ofc bonus pts when this anger is then misdirected & futile & isolating--
OK & one more SJ thought I do think his disciple years are fr the most vague/intentionally hand wavily ambiguous bc fr regardless of what kind of godly OOP talent SJ must've had to become QJ head disciple as a late comer, illiterate til 13 no formal education until he got there rly, chafes against--
I get why in an SJ vs LBH discomfort ppl are more put off by SJ's grounded child abuse crimes than LBH's genocidal mass murderer stuff but when it comes to like core character motivations/rationale for behavior I do find LBH to be 1000% more annoying lol. So fork in fork drawer taste is often--
Day 6: Troublesome disciple "Shizun, Shizun!" Ning Yingying gripped Shen Jiu's sleeve tightly, full of affection. #沈九 #ShenJiuWeek2026 #shenjiu #svsss
i feel like the fandom obsession with things being Canon™ has led to so many people having no idea how to handle something being Implied but not outright stated. which leads to picking up on clues intentionally left by the author being given the same weight as headcanons pulled out of thin air
Still slowly eeking thru PWOTR but ngl Areelu Vorlesh is both very SJ & LBH. Half-demon, narrator/story impetus, antagonist, intentionally puts a soul into another guy's body for selfish reasons, said soul is the Protagonist, last words if you kill her are "I regret nothing & would do it again"
Idea I did not manage to fully conceptualize before #topsjweek26 but one of those "everyone realizing they were Wrong abt sj & he suddenly becomes attractive" set-ups but iteration but turned on its head. Other CQMS PLs getting into wifeplots with him & SJ getting to dombeam them
