*at the icecream shop that doesn’t have chocolate*
Strawberry lover: oh wow, the strawberry is so good today!
Chocolate lover: mmm it’s pretty good, but I wish they had chocolate sometimes.
Strawberry lover: Excuse me? We’re at the ice cream store that doesn’t serve chocolate, why are you trying to force them to make chocolate?
Chocolate lover: It would just be nice if the only ice cream shop in town had my favorite flavor sometimes, I’m not trying to force anything on anyone. Honestly it’s kinda weird they don’t serve any chocolate. Maybe that says something about the ice cream store.
Strawberry lover: I don’t like your tone! You are aggressively trying to force me to enjoy chocolate and this store to make chocolate, how could you?! Why do you want to ruin this thing I love?! Are you stupid? What did you expect coming here? Honestly your fault for wanting ice cream at all. I hope you die in a car accident.
(These are real photos from the Florida caverns, we were sadly not allowed to bring the Yue Qingyuan plushy into the caves. Here is him in a less cool cave.)
My official propaganda to go visit Floridas state parks
He also visited Torreya state park— the cite of a battle in the American Civil War, and home to a very specific type of tree (Torreya taxifolia or Florida Nutmeg) that only grows in this area. They are critically endangered, only around 700 trees known as of 2022, and their population continues to decline. They are one of the rarest conifers in the world. Yue Qingyuan was greatly saddened by the slow decline of biodiversity. He asks that you also visit Torreya state park so that the state government pays it more attention and funding to support conservation efforts. (Just not in the summer. So sweaty….)
Liu qingge has many careless shixiongs, shiejies and shidis. Because of this, his big brother instincts activate very often.
When he sees Wei Qingwei’s hands with ugly looking burn marks during a meeting he gives the man a special ointment he personally made that is cooling and speeds up healing. WQW is a skilled cultivator and burns like this heal in no time, but he still finds it cute that his shidi cares for him and his discomfort.
Mu Qingfang often forgets to rest, going, at times, weeks without sleep. LQG is pissed off one day when he brings one of his disciples for treatment and he sees the dark bags under his shidi’s eyes. Immediately he drags him to his room to rest. Of course, MQF gets angry and tells him there’s no need to rest, patients need to be seen first. LQG assures him he will help and work alongside Qian Cao disciples to take care of patients, insists that MQF needs rest.
He assures him further by saying that if anything he cannot handle happens, he will wake MQF up. MQF reluctantly goes to sleep, his shixiong has good medical knowledge thanks to his peak handling dangerous things everyday. When he wakes up he does so 2 days later. He thanks and also apologises to LQG for sleeping for so long. Surprisingly, his peak is not in flames, the patients are treated well and the disciples are doing okay. He’s glad his shixiong cares for his wellbeing just as much as MQF cares for his. It feels nice to be worried about.
Qi Qingqi often has to deal with rich and entitled men asking for her hand. She is a strong lady, from a good family and with an unblemished reputation. However, some men do not take a “No” for an answer. And while she can handle them herself, LQG feels more than happy to kick those nobles out of his martial sister’s peak. Literally. He kicks them so hard they go tumbling down the mountain’s stairs. He and QQQ have tea afterwards and she tells him all the gossip she hears from her girls.
Shen Qingqiu is very careful when accepting drinks or food from people, he always checks if there’s poison or if the food and drink are laced with something else. However, one time during a gathering with many other cultivation sects he fails to detect his drink was tampered with. Immediately, he rushes and enters what he believes was his room.
He ends up entering LQG’s room. LQG sits on the floor while polishing Cheng Luan, when he sees SQQ looking pale and delirious he panics and asks what’s wrong, grabbing SQQ’s hand so that he cannot escape. SQQ tells him his drink was laced with a poison, he cries and begs LQG not to touch him.
Seeing SQQ’s strange behaviour LQG lets go of his hand and assures he will not touch him. He even leaves Chang Luan on the floor before informing SQQ that he will stay outside and guard the room. SQQ stays awake for many hours but eventually manages to fall asleep.
He sleeps the poison off, letting his cultivation do all the work. He is pleasantly shocked when he finds Cheng Luan still on the ground. A glass of water and a few sweets on the night stand. When he exits the room LQG is still standing guard with his back straight, glaring at anyone passing by the room.
Shang Qinghua often has colds. He is an outstanding cultivator, he shouldn’t get sick. However, that ice demon doesn’t seem to understand that humans cannot tolerate the cold of the demon realm, cultivator or not. LQG finds this out when he visits SQH’s office to, for once, give his paperwork on time so that he can leave as soon as possible for a mission.
It is then that he finds SQH on the ground, panting and with a high fever. SQH gives up and lets his shidi care for him. He watches as LQG takes off his robes and dresses him in more comfortable inner robes that are not soaked in sweat, watches as LQG brings a bucket of water and takes the handkerchief in his pocket before submerging it in water and squeezing, gently wiping SQH’s face and neck every half a shichen. He thinks he’s hallucinating when he awakes from his slumber only to hear LQG sing a common lullaby, a calloused hand carefully petting sweaty hair.
Yue Qingyuan often experiences chronic pain due to what happened in the caves when he was a disciple. It can get very bad at times, to the point that just lifting one arm feels like he’s being brutally stabbed. LQG notices when he sees a flicker of pain that comes and goes just as quickly on his shixiong’s face during a meeting. He also notices his shixiong’s hair looks a bit messier than usual, it’s a small detail, but something the observant LQQ notices immediately.
When he asks YQY about his expression earlier the other tenses and insists everything is fine. When LQG refuses to give up questioning him, he finally blurts out what’s happening. He confesses he cannot wash or brush his hair properly because of the pain he feels. At that, LQG offers his assistance.
Later that night, YQY is very embarrassed at being exposed, his scars out for his shidi to see. They’re ugly, raised and messy things on his skin, the slave brand having been cut repeatedly by his teacher when he was just a boy. It was unbecoming of a leader, he had said. Unconsciously, he sinks further in the bath LQG had prepared for him.
The eucalyptus and mint oils LQG had added to the water make him relax. He tenses back up briefly when he feels hands begin to gently scrub his scalp clean. The rose scented soap LQG had personally brought making him relax once again.
He sits there and closes his eyes, letting LQG do whatever he wants. Once his hair and body are scrubbed clean, he gets dressed and LQG orders him to sit down. He feels hands in his hair again. Gently massaging in oil and brushing it without any rush, braiding it nicely. YQY thinks they’re done for today, after all, LQG only offered to help with his hair. However, his shidi, like always, goes above and beyond and starts to massage his sore shoulders. YQY appreciates that his shidi is willing to take such good care of him.
The Zui Xian peak lord is very often found passed out somewhere on the mountain after testing a new batch of alcohol. LQG ensures he is safe before carrying him back to his home, where he tucks the man in and prepares a hang-over tea for when the man wakes up. The zui xian lord appreciates not having to deal with intense headaches thanks to the tea.
To LQG’s delight, the other lords are more responsible and give him no trouble at all.
i feel like it isn't stressed enough that shen jiu and yue qingyuan are fucking goats. they started out as slaves where the practice of slavery was in its peak of brutality considering that pidw/svsss (when luo binghe was born) are approximately set to have happened in the late moments of the shang dynasty transitioning into the earliest moments of the ching dynasty (though my history might be wrong so feel free to correct me on that<3), which means that shen jiu and yue qingyuan were born into the shang dynasty, which, historically, is noted to be one of the two dynasties which had the most extreme practices regarding labor and human life (slavery). the two literally had two years and a half (?) to go from the bottom of the hierarchy to being not just disciples but head disciples of one of the biggest and influential four sects....
not to mention that both are probably also cultivation geniuses. not only did yue qingyuan suffer being literally broken inside-out to fix his cultivation to reforge it the way you fix your weapon, but he somehow recovered and fully linked his soul with xuan su for only one year before he was sent to the battlefield to fight tianlang-jun, a literal heavenly demon, and defeated him with a sword that has his soul (a literal human's soul vs a deity from heaven that couldn't get away from past traumas, developed heart demons, and 'fell from grace', but is still considered to be 'out of this world'-powerful where, even if he got ambushed, still took a lot of lives...do you know how drastic that comparison is). then we have shen jiu, whos cultivation was literally beyond saving but he still somehow got an unadulterated sword like xiu ya, surpassed his peers (like qi-ge, like xiao-jiu) even though he entered severely late, and literally managed to put up a good fight against liu qingge, who is the definition of prodigy.
and the only reason all of their ambitions weren't done is because they just weren't the main character...
if binghe had just been an angry crier then jinlan city would have been resolved so fast. he tries to threaten sqq but his voice cracks on a sob and sqq crumples like a wet napkin at lightspeed
image description: screenshot of tags. #xin mo: oooooo ur so mad. youve never been this mad in your entire life. ur entire being is filled with rage oooooo #LBH: (starts tearing up) #xin mo: what the fuck are you doing /end description
thinking. Shen yuan who is never in his own body, never himself-Shen qingqiu, the plant body, transmigrating into a billion things across the fandom. And Bingge, binghe, and bingzu, unable to be anyone but themselves. Bingge who is defined by his body, his sex appeal. Binghe who is trapped in a body with the demonic qualities he believed made him rancid. Bingzu unable to do anything but watch his other selves. Hm.
Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”
Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”
Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”
Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”
State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”
The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.
BING! Hello user! Due to an unforseen error user's new identity is unavailable!
"So I'm transmigrating into... No one?"
Thank you for your understanding!
"I didn't -"
Please hold while a suitable destination identity is found for you!
"What do you mean hold? Hold where??"
_-_-_
So that was how Shen Yuan wound up in Luo Binghe's dreams.
It wasn't so bad actually. Luo Binghe's dream realm was his Underground Palace, plenty of space for Shen Yuan to hang out and avoid Binghe as much as possible.
He never got thirsty or hungry ...he was a little bored though. He didn't dare poke around too much. He watched any memories that happened to play out but he was worried he'd be caught if he went looking for more. (Also he was already trespassing in Binghe's head, he didn't want to be any more rude!)
That's also why he avoided Binghe directly. A master of the dream world like him could reorder everything, every puppet and scene whenever he liked. Shen Yuan was fixed, unchangeable and surely Binghe would notice if he got a good look at him.
He had no idea how long he'd been here, wandering the paths of Binghe's mental palace. Hopefully the system that had dumped him here was quick about coming back.
_-_-_
Of course he couldn't hide forever.
He walked right into a party one day. A wedding maybe? It was raucous with people everywhere drinking and eating and laughing.
There wasn't a dining hall here before which meant ... there's Luo Binghe, across the room holding hands with a woman the both of them in red, her face still veiled. Definitely a wedding.
He tried to leave- but the door is gone from the wall behind him. It's suddenly very quiet, and when Shen Yuan turned around the party was gone. It was just him and Luo Binghe.
The Demon Emperor closed the distance between them in a heartbeat.
"So," he said casually. "Who, or what, are you?"
_-_-_
Shen Yuan told him everything. The System hadn't said he couldn't. And it wasn't like he had any desire to lie to Luo Binghe.
"So you're a spirit from another world who was supposed to be moved to this one." Binghe summarized. "But something went wrong and the thing that was moving you just dumped you in my head?"
"Exactly." Shen Yuan said. "Didn't even tell me where I was either! I'm very sorry if I disturbed you."
"You didn't... I just noticed you recently. You look like...someone I didn't expect to see."
"Really?" Shen Yuan looked down at himself. "This is just my normal body- well, my old one I guess."
"Mm," Binghe said. "Any idea why it's my head you've been stuck in?"
"Oh probably because Binghe's the protagonist."
"I'm what?"
_-_-_
Luo Binghe opened his eyes. He'd finally gotta a moment to rest after a few busy days and he was taking the opportunity to go to what was quickly becoming his favorite place.
The dream he'd constructed was still holding up perfectly. The cute little house was tucked away in a clearing in a bright cheerful forest. Nothing more dangerous than a housecat stalked those woods. He could see through the cottage window that the floor to ceiling bookshelves were mid-re-organizing. As he came in he saw that his guest had gotten distracted by a bestiary. He had known Shen Yuan would like that one.
Shen Yuan, the little ghost that had been haunting his own mind for a few months now, was sprawled out on the bed reading raptly... Though he looked up and smiled when Luo Binghe entered the cottage.
"Oh Binghe you're back!" he said. He sat up and closed the book. "It feels like it's been a long time, are you alright?"
Luo Binghe put on a sad face and went to sit beside Shen Yuan on the bed. He sighed and was rewarded by Shen Yuan immediately pulling him close so he could pat Binghe's head.
"Tell me about it?"
Luo Binghe spent the next hour complaining about minor inconveniences and slowly rearranging himself and Shen Yuan until the smaller man was held tight in his arms, Luo Binghe curled around him. Shen Yuan never protested the intimacy of these cuddling sessions and though he'd get red in the face he'd keep up his scathing criticisms of everyone who had ever even looked at Luo Binghe funny. Intercut of course with long periods where he waxed poetically about Luo Binghe's best qualities. Luo Binghe had a healthy ego, but sometimes those talks made even him blush.
He had quickly become quite fond of the spirit trapped in his dreams and had no desire to remove him. He had some other types of desires regarding Shen Yuan but he has plenty of time.
It wasn't like Shen Yuan was going anywhere.
Maybe he should press a little though, he thought as he watched Shen Yuan rant. What would his little ghost do if he kissed him right now?
Turn bright red certainly, but besides that?
Luo Binghe leaned in -
Bing! Hello user! Thank you for your patience-
"Oh you asshole!" Shen Yuan snapped. "It's been months!"
Please remember to fill out our satisfaction survey after transfer is completed. Beginning soul transfer in 5, 4-
"Wait right now?" Shen Yuan looked at him with wide eyes. "But I want to say goodbye to-"
The strange voice hadn't stopped counting though. And as it finished with another strange bing! Both it and Shen Yuan disappeared.
He was, for the first time in months. Alone in his head.
Luo Binghe's eyes snapped open in the waking world. Shen Yuan had said this would happen. He had said he would be moved into another body in this world.
Okay in the past I've criticized Yue Qingyuan a lot for allowing Luo Binghe's abuse to happen but I also have to cut him some slack because his own shizun was Child Abuse Georg
this post obviously touches on the fact that the human experience is infinitely variable and there are fantastic aspects of every way of life that are often unique to that experience. and also i think aromanticism is cool as fuck and everyone Should have fomo about it 🙂↕️
I mean yeah I’m definitely missing out an aspects unique to that experience, but I have no feelings of fomo about it. I don’t think, at the end of the day, I want to have lived a life without some kind of romance. It’s something I’ll never really understand, but I guess that comes with the territory of being an allosexual. Like a cis person can never really understand what it’s like to be trans
alloro people will see someone post about a positive experience being aro and immediately go “i would Never want to live like you” as if that’s a normal fucking thing to say to somebody. anyway i love living a life without any kind of romance. and for the record i think cis people are missing out incredibly on being trans as well
THIS!! Victor's costume supposed to represent androgony and Yuuri chooses that same costume!
Yuuri prefering to be the woman the playboy chases instead of the playboy when he's understanding Eros and not choosing to swap the genders, Victor's hair being traditionally feminine early on in his career (ik long hair doesn't have to be feminine but that's whats its associated with), and there's definitely more but these are the biggest ones I can think of at the moment
