Erinaeris

The Fandom Sideblog. Because some of us have day jobs.

[fl0ffly]

You guys eat first 🤤❤

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[disgracefulthings]

Shen Qingqiu: It's so weird that you're looking for a Shen Yuan of your own, especially since you've never been with a guy before

Luo Bingge: Yes I have? I've fucked my general plenty of times

Shen Qingqiu: WHAT?!

Shen Qingqiu, to Shang Qinghua: WHAT?!?!

Shang Qinghua: Oh yeah, I wrote an extra where Bing-ge and my king got down and dirty. I didn't post it obviously, my homophobic fans would riot

Shen Qingqiu: Are you telling me that there is a piece of PIDW THAT I DIDN'T READ?!

Shang Qinghua: THAT IS WHERE YOUR PRIORITIES ARE AT?!

[skeren]

You just know that SQQ after a moment of crisis would double down and demand to know if there was anything ELSE he perhaps failed to publish. The uneasy laughter, the intensity. The TEARS.

SQH: The goal wasn't to have to rewrite several chapters of things I already wrote bro!

LBG: Should I perhaps mention-

SQQ: Make a list.

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[minilamma]

HEY GUYS. SO I drew these a while ago and posted them on instagram. IDK why I thought I also uploaded these to Tumblr, but apparently I was highly delusional. So here are the SV x Witch Hat Atelier cross over doodles I made the past month! My two favorite fandoms :)

Also look at the chiropracting spell Binghe found in his special little book!!! This will sure help shizun with his back pain!!!!!

[lodgerlodger]

One interesting thing about old Chinese society was that merchants/businessmen were basically considered the bottom feeders of society (nobody likes the middlemen!) They were pretty much beneath everyone except for professions such as entertainers, barbers, and sex workers. Basically, trading was not considered “honest work,” which is why you don’t often see fantasy stories that heavily feature merchants unless if it’s one of those “I transmigrated into 800 ad and created magic taobao and became a zillionaire” light novels. I don’t think historically, there was a strong concept of a middle class. Tradespeople and farmers were much higher on the official social hierarchy than merchants, despite being poorer, and this kind of thinking is sometimes reflected in historical fantasy narratives despite the 21st century turning all this on its head.

Historically, a merchant clan could get very wealthy but still be stuck with extremely low social standing. The suppression of the merchant class was a pretty common theme throughout Chinese history, since they were for the most part regarded as societal leeches and potential threats to the Confucian social order. Merchants were often forbidden from entering into civil service and getting any kind of foothold among the ruling class (made up of the scholar caste and the aristocracy), and their influence and wealth was kept in check this way.

It’d shock nobody if even the most destitute of scholar clans looked down their noses at merchant families. Some would probably rather starve to death than have anything to do with them. You see a lot of historical narratives where a wealthy merchant would sponsor some poor peasant boy so he could study and sit in the imperial examinations, hopefully scoring high and gaining some kind of political office, transforming the fate his entire family (which would of course include one of the merchant’s daughters). You also see some stories where the peasant boys do a bit too well and go, actually I have better options now, thanks but bye 😅

I mostly bring all of this up because if sj were to craft a fake backstory for himself at cqm, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me that he’d go for any kind of mercantile background. Like this is probably the worst possible option for him lol. One there’s no way he can fake being rich when he’s got absolutely nothing, and two it wouldn’t even help him. I don’t think the og text shows any meaningful discernment when it comes to this sort of thing, but a lot of it is implicit in the setting. For pure posermaxxing purposes, you’re probably better off being the homeless descendent of some old clan or even an extremely gifted peasant than the son of some random rich merchant

[airplanebroo]

Today’s class is so exciting. Teacher Shen teaches us so well and the live model seemed very eager to be there.

[pinkbuttercreame]

Members of the Cang Qiong sect by Moutai

[swagglessmoth]

Let’s do laundry with mama <3

This was painful to colour. Beatus ille or whatever

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For fandom kombat

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Some SVSSS fan art by Moutai

[pinkbuttercreame]

Members of the Huan Hua Palace + Yang Yingxuan and Qiu Haitang by Moutai

[sunderwight]

Came back wrong but the wrongness is that you're no longer as awful as you used to be. You're not mean anymore. You don't lose your temper as quickly, you don't say awful things, lash out, or hurt people on purpose just to prove that you can, not since you came back. It's the same face, the same voice, the same superficial tendencies, but all the rough edges have been smoothed away so thoroughly that it feels like something else is wearing you as a mask. Yet it's impossible to get anyone else to see the problem, because you're less of a problem than you've ever been before.

[sunderwight]

this is getting notes again so just to say, it IS about Scum Villain, but also people who found it resonating with other stuff are cool by me👍

[allpiesforourown]

Shen Yuan: Yue Qingyuan is the person i respect and admire most in the entire world because he's an upright person who cares for his sect and everyone in it

Svsss fans for some reason: here's my fic where YQY is either completely useless and parhetic OR an abusive scumbag

[mikkeneko]

#im so bewildered by yqy hate fics#especially ones where sqq suddenly hates yqy after learning about the sj backstory stuff??#where are y'all getting this. he canonically cares about him and pities him for his backstory - via @waitineedaname

[thatoldbooksmellsstuff]

@inknnovation_art on instagram @inknnovation on twitter

[mikkeneko]

Nobody save him

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[mxvendetta]

oh brother