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i know what mxtx said but i refuse to believe hualian is the freakiest couple

#i think hualian wins purely bc they cant die #meaning theres less limits and they literally have all the time in the world #mxtx

snoopyoftheday

snoopy of the day

doechiisource

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thesadisticsiren

OKAY so, Au where Shen Qingqiu's plan to escape Binghe's wrath is instead to ascend to godhood as fast as feasibly possible before Binghe returns. Of course eventually Binghe will have so much power he could also reach the heavens (at least a couple of his wives had been gods in PIDW) BUT!!! At the very least he'll have several more years, if not decades, to figure out a more permanent solution. And maybe even by the time Binghe reaches the heavens some of his rage will have mellowed out! Maybe! Shen Qingqiu's banking on it! He spends hours meditating at the sword mound, and when he's not suffering too terribly from the weird melancholy he's had lately he goes on night-hunts with Liu Qingge, especially for monsters with cultivation boosting properties. He also knows of plenty artifacts to help cultivation damage, and sure they're meant to help one of Binghe's wives or another, but surely Binghe won't miss one or ten of them? Maybe even a rare meridian cleansing plant or whatever that would allow for some isolated cultivation? The mentor figure has to get out of the picture, and if this doesn't work out his only other real option is dying again! No thanks!

I don't know what's the worse option; Binghe crawling his way out of the abyss, fighting and defeating Mobei Jun, only to find out from Shang Qinghua that his Shizun has secluded himself in depressed isolated cultivation off by himself and only The sect leader and Liu Qingge know exactly where, or him finally escaping hell back into the human realm only to learn that Shen Qingqiu already succeeded.

thesadisticsiren

@wizardinrhyme Oh that's fair. Also all i could think of was this. Shen Qingqiu, during a peak-lords meeting: I am considering cultivating to ascension. The other peaklords: ... yeah I think that's the idea?? Shen Qingqiu: No, I intend to ascend soon. Within the next few years. Yue Qingyuan, minimal hesitation: Well, as you are our strategist, we will follow your advice to accelerate our generations ascension.

Liu Qingge: Wait, why do you suddenly want to rush this? Shang 'a paperwork-less life on the horizon' Qinghua: I agree with Shen-Shixiong. If we work hard to ascend within the next five years, I suspect we would be the fastest generation to achieve ascension. Liu 'cultivates through fighting' Qingge: ... I'm in.

That said, though I like the idea of them doing this like, properly, I think aside from Shang Qinghua, nobody knows exactly WHY Shen Qingqiu's going so hard on his cultivation lately. Maybe Shen Qingqiu theorizes stronger spiritual veins will be less susceptible to WithoutACure flareups? Is he throwing himself into this in his grief over his lost student? So either Binghe shows up panicked at Cang Qiong, tearing through it looking for his Shizun and no one knows what to think, OR Shen Qingqiu ascENDS ON HIS OWN and everyone else is losing their shit because THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN

thesadisticsiren

#shen qingqiu ascends and luo binghe tentatively attempts praying at him#and because it's luo binghe sqq's god radio really fixates on him every time he does it#but binghe still thinks his shizun spurns him as a monster so he doesn't know if he'd even listen to his prayers#sqq after the fifth time binghe tearfully pleads at a shrine he built to him: I may have misjudged the situation somewhat

(@sunderwight) Oh my GOD and the care Binghe would put into making a shrine to Shen Qingqiu. It'd never be up to Binghe's standards for what Shen Qingqiu deserves. I don't know where exactly he makes the shrine. Maybe he makes several. Every place he stays he makes them a shrine. Or maybe it's a shrine in some sort of collapsible mobile artifact Binghe found. So only he can use the shrine to his Shizun. Maybe Binghe can't be Shizun's favorite disciple anymore, but maybe if Shizun is willing to look past his heritage, Binghe can be his first and most devote follower? Shen Qingqiu up in his new digs in the heavens after getting his literature god tour, listening to his first prayers. Congratulations with shock and awe from his disciples, confusion and congratulations from his fellow peak-lords, irritation for his recklessness from Liu Qingge. And then he gets one from Luo Binghe. Congratulations Shizun. I hope you're well. I miss you. Please forgive me. I love you. I'm sorry.

skeren

via @sunderwight

#heaven: yeah you're a new god so you won't be going back down to earth until you've mastered the proper non-interference clauses#sqq hearing lbh pitifully praying again: I understand but have you considered--*just fuckin leaps off the balcony of the celestial palace*

It would be a mess because if the other gods from Cang Qiong of prior generations didn't catch him before he escaped, there might be a mass exodus of old Cang Qiong Gods going down because they have to collect their wayward student.

Cue Binghe getting to do battle against the jerkiest jerks of prior generations to keep his Shizun and the god who chose him.

sunderwight

Bet the System is thrilled to get some major big guns fights for the protagonist, absolutely raining down rewards as Binghe battles the old sect masters for the right to keep his shizun.

#third option: sqq and sqh use an elaborate series of artifacts and lore to fake sqq's ascension #so hes cultivating alone and only only sqh and yqy know where he is #and then sqh is like 'no i went to go check in and he ascended before all of us Trust Me Bro'#its like a reverse weekend at bernies. like no guys hes really gone haha #svsss

bidet-of-evil

another interesting tidbit of narration in mdzs. what makes it so fun is that it’s presented as omniscient narration fact, but it’s obviously positioned unfavorably toward jiang cheng. and as we keep reading, we can see how wei wuxian specifically would hold this opinion of jc—jc doesn’t want to break rules in cloud recesses, he doesn’t want to resist wen chao as a teenager, he doesn’t want to go against the cultivation clans after the war.

but the thing is, barely adult jc, alone, traumatized, inexperienced, was one of the renowned leaders of the sunshot campaign, when they were at a distinct disadvantage. he diverted the attention of the wen soldiers to save wwx, knowing he would get captured. he never stopped looking for wwx during his 3 months in the burial mounds, even after everyone else except for lwj had given up. he rebuilt lotus pier from nothing. he steps into guanyin temple at the end knowing very little of the situation inside to protect jin ling, and it’s clear that he couldn’t have won that fight alone. again and again, he has proven that when it’s time to fight, he will risk everything and give it his all even when victory is unlikely.

and that’s what i really enjoy about the narration style—it’s intentionally misleading the reader right from the start, and it’s not telling you that it’s coming from an unreliable narrator, but it shows you. and so many people just. insist on only reading what’s being told instead of seeing what’s shown.

qiu-yan

you are very correct and i'm also just reminded of how jiang cheng acted during the second siege after his spiritual powers disappeared, the fierce corpses started closing in, and other people started evacuating into wei wuxian's demon-subduing cave.

“Jiujiu, come inside!” Jin Ling beckoned. Jiang Cheng lunged at the horde with Sandu, which had completely lost its glare. “Shut up!” he snapped at him ferociously. As he yelled, more blood poured from his nose and mouth. Jin Ling rushed down the steps, seized him, and started dragging him toward the Demon-Quelling Cave. Jiang Cheng’s spiritual powers were completely gone by now, and he was physically drained from grappling with the enemy for half a day, so Jin Ling was able to haul him over just like that. The Jiang Clan’s cultivators hurried to follow their sect leader.

MDZS Seven Seas translation, vol. 4, Core of the Truehearted

WWX: yeah jiang cheng hates fighting at a disadvantage lol JC, spiritual power sealed, facing an entire army of fierce corpses: SQUARE UP. SQUARE THE FUCK UP. I'M GOING TO FUCKING PASTE YOU ALL JIN LING LET GO OF ME I'LL FIGHT A BILLION ZOMBIES BEFORE I GO INTO WEI WUXIAN'S STUPID CAVE

#im really curious about how this works in terms of being translated #because we see lying omniscient narration in svsss and tgcf as well #its obvious who hau cheng is but the reader doesnt know that xie lian knows until he says it out loud #my first thought is that its a writing choice on mxtx's part and i kinda hope thats the case bc its genius and not something id seen before #(with some exceptions like tazmuir)#but i dont wanna jump to conclusions #like is it intentional but an established/commin thing in chinese books? has it been established or is it a current style?#is the 'omniscient narration lying to you' thing an issue of translating the speakers voice or is it like that in the original?#idk im just Intrigued #mxtx

mikkeneko

In various places -- here, the bird app, even YouTube comments -- I keep running into people with some variation of the same question:

"Does Scum Villain have a teacher/student romance?" And every time I want to answer with: No, But Also Yes, But Also Not Really, It's Complicated (And That's On Purpose.)

Which is an answer that's too long to fit in a tweet or a YT comment, but fortunately tumblr has no (effective) post limit! So here I go.

1 - No

In the very straight forward porn cliche sense of "oh but professor, I really ~need~ to pass this class or my life will be ruined, can't I do ~anything~ to get you to change my grade?" *bats lashes* and "Hoho, my pretty young teen student, I've got your good grade right here in my pants, if you ~apply~ yourself..." then no.

No sex or romance between a teacher and their student in the bounds of a teacher-student relationship happens in this book. No deliberate grooming of an underage student on the part of a teacher occurs in this book. No sex or a romance between an adult character and an underage character occurs in this book, nor is the adult 'waiting' for the minor to reach adulthood to initiate one.

2 - But Also Yes

No sex or romance between a teacher and their student in the bounds of that relationship happens in this book. Two people who were formerly in a teacher and student relationship do enter into a sexual and romantic relationship by the end of the book. Also the nature of the society they're in further means that even though they are no longer in the schooling environment, it is socially assumed that the deference owed by a student to their teacher lasts forever, even after the student leaves that environment, and they continue to regard themselves and refer to themselves in those roles even though the teacher no longer strictly speaking has authority over the student.

Also, the student was really hot for his teacher even when he was still a student. (The teacher was oblivious to this fact.)

3 - But Also Not Really

By the time sex and romance is even on the horizon for these characters, their relationship has so drastically changed from that of a "teacher and student" that it is barely recognizeable as such. The power/authority dynamic between a teacher and their student is subsumed pretty much entirely by the facts that:

A. The 'student' has become a medeival fantasy warlord of such unsurpassable magic and might that literally no other person in this world can stand up against him, 'teacher' included, and the 'teacher' is well aware of that.

B. Also, the 'student' is metaphysically endowed (heh) with the Protagonist Halo, a literally active force within the setting they're part of, which means that not only can he not be defeated, he ontologically cannot be denied anything that he desires; what he wants, he gets, and what he doesn't want, cannot be forced on him.

C. ...But also, the teacher in this setting is a metaphysical outsider to the world order the student is part of, which means that he is aware of all of the above, and can and does manipulate it to suit his own agenda, which may or may not align with giving the student what he wants at any point in time. Assuming that the teacher has the correct understanding of what the student wants. (He doesn't.)

D. ........But also also, for all his power, one harsh word from him can destroy him. For all his knowledge, one tear can devastate him. (Which one? Both.)

4 - It's Complicated (On Purpose)

*throws the chalk against the wall*

Between a teacher and their student, who has the power? Between an emperor and a scholar, who has the power? Between a hero and the villain he is predestined to destroy, who has the power? Between a character and the reader who's read ahead to the end of the story, who has the power? Do we find some of these power imbalances more acceptable than others? And if so, why do we?

Trying to track Who Has The Power or Who Has An Unfair Advantage socially, physically, and metaphysically between this particular pair of characters is damn near impossible and that's on purpose.

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System is a lot of things, but one thing that absolutely defines it is that it is a parody. It's a parody and a deconstruction of a lot of things -- the 'stallion' genre, the 'isekai' genre, the 'pay-per-chapter webnovel' genre, the 'gay drama' genre and, most relevant to this conversation, it is a deconstruction of teacher-student romance.

What kind of a teacher-student romance has a clueless, fish-out-of water NEET in the role of the Wise Old Mentor? What kind of a teacher-student romance has a black-hearted, demonic, domineering feudal warlord in the role of the Blushing Virginal Student? What kind of a teacher-student romance has the two principals so close in age -- by the end of the book, they may be as little as a year apart -- that they're more like peers than teacher and student? What kind of audience are we, going into a story like this one and finding ourselves cheering for the teacher to fall in love and lust with his student, only to be disappointed when that doesn't happen because the teacher fails for three books straight to recognize love and lust when it's literally looking him in the face and crying?

Asking "does Scum Villain have a teacher-student romance?" is sort of like asking "does Galaxy Quest have a lot of high science fiction concepts?" No, but also yes, but also not really. It's complicated, and that's on purpose.

dirtyreusablehandkerchief

oh hey, this is that fandom that had that trend of drawing the characters as flesh creatures that 1 time! :D

#svsss #svsss explained

shitpostingkats

The strange relationship Wei Wuxian has with Mo Xuanyu absolutely kills me. Wakes up in a confusing place and the very first thing he does is go through every scrap of paper he can find and learn the story of the man who gave up his body for him. Puts everything on pause so he can mentally curse out the people who did this to him. The instant sympathy. It's about the human connection and the grief felt for the very person whose death is the very reason he has a second chance. Never forget that the reason Wei Wuxian snapped back to Jin Ling was because he felt he had to defend Mo Xuanyu's honor. It's never an angst Wei Wuxian feels, but instead a reaching across to the afterlife he just came from and saying "I see you. If no one else in your shitty life ever spoke up for you, then I will." The series doesn't spend too much time lingering on it because we have places to go and people to see, but the fact that before he did any of that, the first thing Wei Wuxian wanted to do was wash their face and simply acknowledge the life of a man who died too young.

#wwx #wei wuxain

rip shang qinghua, you wouldve loved wuvvy acofaf

#shang qinghua #svsss #wuvvy #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers

mintybasilcake

Gotta love tgcf, because no other novel would ever be able to convince me that Xie Lian's reaction to the Cave of 10000 gods was normal. But here? We know, Xie Lian has seen shit. We know he has the tolerance level of a rock and we also know he trusts Hua Cheng deeply.

So while HC is nervously sweating and slowly bursting into panic and Mu Qing and Feng Xin are desperately trying to plan their flight from the obviously insane and obsessive ghost king, Xie Lian is just like "Oh wow, that's sure a lot of statues of me. Well done. Should we move on?"

#tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng

mossy-rat

oh it's a reasonable sacrifice!

happy birthday loml

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#oh fuck yeah #wei wuixan

chthonicillness

i’m so sick of people today not understanding what halloween is REALLY about. it’s not about costumes or candy or partying with your friends. it’s about wei wuxian

#wei wuxian #wwx #mxtx