I was having writers block and so I took a break and soon enough it was 3 in the morning and I had impulsively sewn together a tiny mouse you’re welcome
I see people reblogging this with “to buy” but this pattern is free??? Someone even asked me “why don’t you charge money for it, it took you forever to put the document together” and I said “Not a lot of people have money and if they have some fabric scraps and a couple of buttons lying around they can make themselves a little mouse friend for free and that might make them happy and that makes me happier than receiving money???” Make yourself a liddol creacher! Heals the Soul!
Svsss where SY tries to get out of being a QDP disciple through the use of weaponized incompetence but at the same time he also HATES incompetent people.
Like he’s messing up arrays, ruining talismans, losing his sword… but then he sees another disciple do a half assed job and he gets so miffed by it that he does the entire job for them. He needs to stop doing it but he can’t help it because at least he’s failing difficult tasks, why are other disciples so… trash?!
It cannot be that hard to be cordial in communications? Why do you guys SUCK at keeping the library clean? He’s using advanced QI techniques to get the tasks done easier without batting an eye, forgetting his incompetence whenever he needs to clean up after his loser martial siblings. This of course means that Shen Qingqiu has his eye on the cheeky little disciple that claims ineptitude yet keeps up with his teachings with relative ease.
I have seen a few fics where Shen Jiu!Shen Qingqiu gets pollened into having kitty ears which gets him thoroughly embarrassed for a bit but I have yet to see one where it gets him straight up exposed
So he gets pollened and the other perk lord expect something like this:
24/7 just more obviously an asshole than usual
Meanwhile Shen Qingqiu actually:
Shen Qingqiu still keeps up his usual act, which has the other perk lords quite confused. Sick? Ok. He got pollened. But wdym scared? Scared of what?? And all the time???
Meanwhile Shen Qingqiu has no idea his new body parts are betraying him like that. His mask is perfect after all, nothing has changed. Except the damn ears refuse to participate in the performance.
Shower thought:
So if SJ is the scum villain, and SY is the one with the self saving system. If they kiss and make out whatever, would that technically make "the Scum Villain's Self Saving System" lmao
this shot of the joker pulling up his pants leg seems to imply that the white part of his feet is actually just bare skin, not fabric spats over a pair of dress shoes, as i had always assumed?? which means that the animated series joker has actually been wearing, like, kitten heeled pumps this entire time
I’ve been thinking about this for forever but mostly in bed on my way to sleep so I had to piece together the idea from sleepy fragments and I think I finally have it. An alternate way Shen Yuan and Liu Qingge “meet” inside the Lingxi Caves.
First, Let’s make an assumption here that I’m too tired to check the canon to confirm:
Before encountering the War God in the Lingxi Caves himself, Shen Yuan doesn’t know about Liu Qingge’s Qi Deviation. He knows Shen Qingqiu killed him in the Lingxi Caves but nothing else surrounding the War God’s death. He doesn’t know Liu Qingge was Qi Deviating, that Shen Qingqiu was trying to help, that Liu Qingge may or may not have turned the blade onto himself to prevent himself from killing Shen Qingqiu.
So let’s tweak something:
What if Shen Yuan was feeling a little more helpless, was a little less sure that being kind to Luo Binghe would save him in the end, was a little more certain the whole world would find a way to punish the body he was in, and in general, was a little more pessimistic about his whole situation. Maybe someone - Mu Qingfang or Yue Qingyuan - accidentally mentioned in his hearing that if Shen Qingqiu would stop getting into situations, it would be easier on everyone. Maybe Shen Yuan took that as it would be easier on everyone if Shen Qingqiu was removed from the picture entirely. And since this Shen Yuan is more jaded by his circumstances, he doesn’t consider anything like running away in disguise but something more … extreme.
So let’s set the scene:
Shen Qingqiu / Shen Yuan enters the Lingxi Caves as directed by the plot and the System. He is theoretically making his way deeper inside the cave system to find a spot to cultivate. He - in practice - is actually listening. And when Shen Qingqiu / Shen Yuan hears someone else in the caves, he puts the only plan he’s been able to come up with to remove Shen Qingqiu from the equation into practice.
Shen Qingqiu / Yuan rushes into the cave where Liu Qingge is cultivating normally and definitely not Qi Deviating inside with Xiu Ya raised in an attack.
See, Shen Yuan didn’t realize that his attack on Liu Qingge was supposed to happen on schedule, specifically when the War God was Qi Deviating. And this time, the System isn’t strong enough (or mean enough?) to force the Qi Deviation. So this Shen Qingqiu / Yuan faces the full force of Liu Qingge’s might.
As he planned.
And he isn’t planning to get out alive.
See, Shen Yuan decided the best way to remove himself from the situation is to have Liu Qingge kill him in the caves, instead of the other way around. This would remove the weak, hated, corrupt link and strengthen the sect by keeping the War God alive.
(There also may be some notes left in his bamboo house with instructions for what to do on Qing Jing if / when he’s gone that include sending Luo Binghe to train under someone who had previously shown he wanted the boy - Liu Qingge - to give the protagonist a chance to experience a real teacher - disciple relationship and hopefully lessening the little lotus’ hatred of the sect)
Liu Qingge is definitely surprised by the attack but it’s not unexpected in his opinion for Shen Qingqiu to attack him. He is, however, started than some people give him credit for and knows losing the second ranked Peak Lord would weaken the sect. So while Shen Qingqiu in front of him is silently and furiously attacking with Xiu Ya with what appears to be intent to kill, Liu Qingge is looking to demobilize his Shixiong.
Liu Qingge soon realizes something odd about Shen Qingqiu’s fighting style. First of all, the older man isn’t using his leaf technique or even any of his underhanded trick to get the upper hand. Second, it almost appears the Qing Jing Peak Lord is moving himself in the way of Cheng Luan instead of out of its path. He IS moving himself in the way of Cheng Luan.
When Liu Qingge pulls his sword out of Shen Qingqiu’s shoulder - his glancing sword strike almost became a strike to the heart when the other moved right into the sword’s path and even the War God couldn’t completely avoid the resulting hit - Shen Qingqiu / Yuan finally breaks his silence.
“Just stab me already,” he babbles, half drunk on the feelings of adrenaline and pain and blood loss. “Just kill me already and finally get rid of your evil Shixiong. Put the sect out of its misery of having a lecher, a scum, and make the world a better place.”
Liu Qingge just stands there stunned as he watches his cool, aloof Shixiong fall to his knees, blood trailing down the wall a sign of his movement, eyes wide and frantic and turning red with tears.
“Kill me, end me. Make sure my horrible reputation and evil deeds don’t spell the end of Cang Qiong. Do your duty as the War God and protector of the sect to get rid of its doom. Those who claimed I’m an evil star are right and if I stay,” here Shen Qingqiu chokes, “… stay alive then everyone on the mountains will die.”
He stands, shakily and bloodied, sword in his hand and aiming at Liu Qingge.
Liu Qingge tries to distrust the string of words but only manages “what…” before they are trading blows again, this time one side far more frantic.
“They’ve called me a lecher for seeking comfort from the only people who never sought to hurt me. They called me a lazy student for first being beaten instead of allowed to train then taught methods to harm myself by the man who called himself my teacher. They called my attitude a sign of my rich and idle upbringing instead of seeing the mask of a terrified fake, trying to fit in.”
Maybe it was the ghost of the original who could finally spill his mind that allowed the second Shen Qingqiu to reveal secrets he should have never known. Maybe it was the System putting words in the delirious man’s mouth to move the plot into a new direction. In any case, Liu Qingge was fighting against the distracted craze of a man preventing the War God from helping the Qing Jing Peak Lord’s sudden Qi Deviation.
Shen Qingqiu’s face is covered in tears and blood and he still keeps talking. “Let the Old Palace Master know he’s right to put me in the Water Prison like he’s long since wanted to do. Let the demons have my body to rend apart and feast on my severed limbs as payment for failing to help their leader. Let the boy…” he chokes again, this time on blood after Chen Luan’s hilt strikes his abdomen, but also on his grief and regret regarding the one he speaks about, “the poor boy, let him know his revenge is satisfied, his tormentor is gone and received the punishment deserved for horrible acts upon a child…”
Shen Qingqiu collapses now, a combination of blood loss and fatigue and Liu Qingge’s own actions to disable his Shixiong. The War God now leans over the smaller, older man who slumps against the cave wall, restraining his arms a preparing to something - inject qi to stop the deviation, knock him out so a healer can look at him, hug him… - when Shen Qingqiu looks Liu Qingge in the eyes with an unexpected clarity from a man speaking madness moments before.
“I never wanted to kill you. Please let me die before I have to. ”
And Shen Qingqiu slumps, unconscious and bleeding out his eyes and ears and mouth and the numerous cuts and wounds he received and Liu Qingge can finally contemplate the paradigm shift his worldview is experiencing.
Though not for long, his Shixiong’s Qi Deviation inexplicably ended but he’s still left with unsettled Qi and losing blood. Liu Qingge needs to take him to Mu Qingfang as soon as possible. He needs to have a serious conversation with the Sect Leader to discuss the safety of Cang Qiong if anything Shen Qingqiu said might be true. He needs to find his Shidi in charge of the artefacts to get permission to borrow the Talented Visionary’s Memory Viewer so his words cannot be doubted. And he needs to gather the Peak Lords so they can discuss what their Strategist believes - about himself, about how others see him, and about what to do with the tidbits of past and future he claimed. Especially since they’d likely need to work together to convince their apparently (and how long had this been the case) suicidal Second in Command that he is not disposable even in for the safety of the Sect.
Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu are twins that got seperated, Shen Yuan ends up in Huan Hua
Okay consider they're both two halves of one spider demon and can merge to make the demon again, but when seperated they're both entirely human due to whatever seperated them (artifact maybe?)
But they're like a bIG spider demon they're twice their height with six arms and I think they should be very flexible and I think they should be big enough to just grab someone with one of their hands and not really have trouble with it
Oh my god that visual is fucking helarious and also that idea of then yearning to be one again is so slay....
My thought was more or less as one they have a single concious mind that gets split apart into Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu, Shen Yuan retaining all the meta knowledge for PIDW and the like while Shen Jiu retains. Probably all of their street smarts honestly.
The demon form was fully grown and just sorta realized the plot was coming up soon and split apart to check out the human world and see how long until it was time, and would become seperated so they both have horrible childhoods they can't do anything about it since they're seperated and have no way of fusing again
Hmmm why would their demon form be fully grown and not the human halves? Perhaps the artifact/curse turns a demon into humans, AND de ages them. Make ur enemies as defenseless as possible. Maybe no one even knew you could "grow up again" bc they usually killed the twinsies.
The idea of them being literally half a guy each who learned how to be a whole guy is great.
Baby SJ telling Qi-ge he has a twin brother and when he finds him it's SPIDER TIME and all these adults would regret treating him this way. Except that they'll be too dead to have regrets. And Qi-ge is like of course Xiao Jiu tell me abt this brother you definitely have.
Shen Jiu doesn't remember why, but just knows he HAS to get to a cultivation sect. Which turns into he must become a cultivator. His general desire to learn things becomes an obsessive need to KNOW. He's searching for something and it goes deeper than his missing twin who's probably dead by now. There's something missing and he HAS to find it. He doesn't know what it is but he'll know it when he sees it. (woah look at that parallel to bing-ge's eternal search for satisfaction/love).
Shen Yuan doesn't remember much of his childhood or his family. He had many siblings and a twin, but he can't remember any of their names. He's been at Huan Hua for as long as he can remember but he knows he wasn't always here. He needs to stay at Huan Hua. He's waiting for something. Or someone? Something bigger than just Shen Yuan.
Really curious as to when/how they reunite?
Is it a classic "SY is out and about doing steve irwin shit and LQG mistakes SY for SQQ" kind of deal?
SY is a hermit who lives in the library and pops out when he hears that Shen Qingqiu is on trial and wants to see what the bastard looks like, only for him to disrupt the whole thing bc there's TWO "Shen Qingqius"??
Bing-ge finds SY in HH before he can entrap SQQ. OOooh Bing-ge finds SY AFTER he's imprisoned SQQ. Bingge discovering via one or the other that via blood mites that the shens aren't quite human??
Pre sealing of TLJ? He's Su Xiyan's shidi that she's taken a personal interest in? TLJ is like hey kiddo how do you get humans to like u so much i'm trying to seduce ur shixiong u see. Also i see ur cursed by that one artifact where's ur other half at? And shen yuan is just pissed that he's a demon apparently but he doesn't have cool claws or anything. And also he's missing his literal other half this just stinks of bullshit plot tropes.
"that's like doing drugs probably!" Made me snort I'm gonna be so fr
And I definetly totally wasn't thinking about Miss Muffet, Sardonyx, and Spiral when I was thinking about them... Totally not...
I was thinking it being something that they could just... Do, but honestly the idea of it being a curse is interesting since yeah Shen Zhizhu was really powerful it'd make sense someone'd want to take him down (not to mention very beeg whoever gets with them gets beeg wife)
And I was thinking about Shen Yuan and Shen Qingqiu meeting again at The Immortal Alliance Conference but like when it's too late to fix anything, but also.. The idea of Liu Qingge meeting Shen Zhizhu? Absolutely yes please
Why? Because Shen Zhizhu is unfairly hot by design of course, he's catnip to like. Everyone ever. He definitely had a ton of demon suitors he ignored.
So Liu Qingge finding Shen Yuan and dragging him back to his sect like 'Hey I think Shen Qingqiu got amnesia and stole Huan Hua robes'
Meanwhile the suspiciously Shen Qingqiu shaped Shen Qingqiu that's right there when he bursts in
So they just have two Shen's staring at each other from across the room, one being dangled like a cat and the other holding his fan so tight the wood snapped.
I don't think they'd go spider time until later though because well obvious reasons. Maybe they have to use it for an emergency thing though because I specifically think Liu Qingge should see them fuse to save him and maybe disciples because idk Liu Qingge is affected by a paralysis plant? And they go apeshit on whatever was attacking...
Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu are twins that got seperated, Shen Yuan ends up in Huan Hua
Okay consider they're both two halves of one spider demon and can merge to make the demon again, but when seperated they're both entirely human due to whatever seperated them (artifact maybe?)
But they're like a bIG spider demon they're twice their height with six arms and I think they should be very flexible and I think they should be big enough to just grab someone with one of their hands and not really have trouble with it
Oh my god that visual is fucking helarious and also that idea of then yearning to be one again is so slay....
My thought was more or less as one they have a single concious mind that gets split apart into Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu, Shen Yuan retaining all the meta knowledge for PIDW and the like while Shen Jiu retains. Probably all of their street smarts honestly.
The demon form was fully grown and just sorta realized the plot was coming up soon and split apart to check out the human world and see how long until it was time, and would become seperated so they both have horrible childhoods they can't do anything about it since they're seperated and have no way of fusing again
Does anyone else know that those two together are that one big spider demon? Like for example Tianlang-jun or Zhuzhi-lang since they've been around for awhile? Or do others only know of the spider demon, without ever meeting them?
Okay so Shen Yuan would probably still be disillusioned by Huan Hua Palace Master from his information from the book (Iirc Shen Yuan had no idea he was a creep until later because PIDW wrote him in a favorable light from Bingge's pov? Might be wrong but) and so likely wouldn't be ABLE to help Su Xiyan and Tianglang-Jun because he would be unaware
I absolutely think Shen Zhizhu knew both Tianglang-Jun and Zhuzhi-Lang personally, they probably went to the palace library a lot, but Shen Zhizhu likely disappeared without a trace and these forms don't register as demon at all. If they saw them they'd probably recognize features (but with less eyes and no fangs) but probably not really put it together? I don't think anyone would really realize it despite recognizing the features of the two of them
Tlj recognising their features and coming to the totally wrong conclusion that they are definitely Shen Zhizhu's children.
If nobody really noticed lbh being half demon because of a seal, then those two being sealed and not recognisable as demons would also be a possibility, if it's assumed that Shen Zhizhu maybe got together with a human.
Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu are twins that got seperated, Shen Yuan ends up in Huan Hua
Okay consider they're both two halves of one spider demon and can merge to make the demon again, but when seperated they're both entirely human due to whatever seperated them (artifact maybe?)
But they're like a bIG spider demon they're twice their height with six arms and I think they should be very flexible and I think they should be big enough to just grab someone with one of their hands and not really have trouble with it
Oh my god that visual is fucking helarious and also that idea of then yearning to be one again is so slay....
My thought was more or less as one they have a single concious mind that gets split apart into Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu, Shen Yuan retaining all the meta knowledge for PIDW and the like while Shen Jiu retains. Probably all of their street smarts honestly.
The demon form was fully grown and just sorta realized the plot was coming up soon and split apart to check out the human world and see how long until it was time, and would become seperated so they both have horrible childhoods they can't do anything about it since they're seperated and have no way of fusing again
Does anyone else know that those two together are that one big spider demon? Like for example Tianlang-jun or Zhuzhi-lang since they've been around for awhile? Or do others only know of the spider demon, without ever meeting them?
Okay so Shen Yuan would probably still be disillusioned by Huan Hua Palace Master from his information from the book (Iirc Shen Yuan had no idea he was a creep until later because PIDW wrote him in a favorable light from Bingge's pov? Might be wrong but) and so likely wouldn't be ABLE to help Su Xiyan and Tianglang-Jun because he would be unaware
I absolutely think Shen Zhizhu knew both Tianglang-Jun and Zhuzhi-Lang personally, they probably went to the palace library a lot, but Shen Zhizhu likely disappeared without a trace and these forms don't register as demon at all. If they saw them they'd probably recognize features (but with less eyes and no fangs) but probably not really put it together? I don't think anyone would really realize it despite recognizing the features of the two of them
Tlj recognising their features and coming to the totally wrong conclusion that they are definitely Shen Zhizhu's children.
If nobody really noticed lbh being half demon because of a seal, then those two being sealed and not recognisable as demons would also be a possibility, if it's assumed that Shen Zhizhu maybe got together with a human.
Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu are twins that got seperated, Shen Yuan ends up in Huan Hua
Okay consider they're both two halves of one spider demon and can merge to make the demon again, but when seperated they're both entirely human due to whatever seperated them (artifact maybe?)
But they're like a bIG spider demon they're twice their height with six arms and I think they should be very flexible and I think they should be big enough to just grab someone with one of their hands and not really have trouble with it
Oh my god that visual is fucking helarious and also that idea of then yearning to be one again is so slay....
My thought was more or less as one they have a single concious mind that gets split apart into Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu, Shen Yuan retaining all the meta knowledge for PIDW and the like while Shen Jiu retains. Probably all of their street smarts honestly.
The demon form was fully grown and just sorta realized the plot was coming up soon and split apart to check out the human world and see how long until it was time, and would become seperated so they both have horrible childhoods they can't do anything about it since they're seperated and have no way of fusing again
Does anyone else know that those two together are that one big spider demon? Like for example Tianlang-jun or Zhuzhi-lang since they've been around for awhile? Or do others only know of the spider demon, without ever meeting them?
