sirius || 猫迷 (Previously Project Eidolon)

local disaster gamedev! I like cats 😺 my banner is by Svetlana Petrova - Irises, Fat Cat Art, a reimagining of Van Gogh's classics (but with her cat!)

[sirius-maomi]

Youxian and Youan doodles from school that I liked. Tried out a new pen!

[sirius-maomi]

Liu sibling doodles in celebration of me finding a writer AND a title for my new game project!

"The Neglected Royal Wants To Become Sovereign" is officially in production!!

[sirius-maomi]

Marker doodles of the three Liu siblings! Youxian has only One Doodle because they're hard to draw (ironically enough, they used to be the easiest to draw)...

[bauhin]

Liu sibling bonding hours

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[xiuyawn]

deathbed

alt vers 🔽

[junesfool]

sharing these on here too cuz I love them

[starchazion-deactivated20251005]

I maintain my stance that everyone on An Ding is ripped💪💪From the Shang Qinghua to the smallest shimei. They're all ripped from the physical labour. An Ding's Bizzare Adventure.

[chayssakharom]

A Couple of Helpful Resources for making Scum Villain Fanworks All in one Spot

Disclaimers - If your resource is here and you would like for me to remove it or change something related to it, just lmk and I will do so as soon as possible! I did as well as I could to make sure these resources are reliable, but if you notice something is off, please lmk! Feel free to add other resources in the reblogs :)

1. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System Timeline by VagabondDawn on ao3

2. svsss canon log by allpiesforourown on Tumblr/Google Doc

3. [Guide] The Scum Villain's Self Saving System by Jin_Mitel on ao3

(^^ An Index of Jin_Mitel's other guides, many look useful for this purpose/others are scum villain focused! Find them at A Guide to Fictions)

4. Guide of Locations in Scum Villain Self-Saving System by misfitmonarchy and stardust_falling on ao3

5. A Partial Beastiary for Chinese Mythology and Folklore by PyrrhaIphis on ao3

6. Guide to Writing Scum Villain (or XianXia and XuanHuan in general) by velveteentuzhi on ao3

7. Stallion Novels: A Guide by ibex_ascendant on ao3

8. Chinese Names + Naming Resources by lingxhr on Tumblr (Useful for OCs!)

9. Chinese Naming Basics for Fanfiction Writers by miqqumi on ao3 (Danmei/SVSSS Specific! Useful for honorifics! Contains a long list of resources for this subject)

10. How to Name your Chinese Characters by drwcn on Tumblr (Useful for OCs!)

11. ziseviolet on Tumblr (For hanfu fashion history, explanations, and inspo! A lot of helpful history and cultural information/resources as well! Extremely helpful, see their masterposts on their blog to start)

Ziseviolet's masterposts one and two

12. peekofhistory on Tumblr (Really incredible history/arts/crafts/guqin making and lessons(!!)/culture resource! Highly recommend to check them out!)

(Guqin Masterpost from peekofhistory)

[kelenia]

Recent SVSSS character design sheets I’ve done!

[xaquizzle]

Oh so when Luo Binghe channels his trauma into cruelty it's ""cool"" and he's the ""stallion protagonist"" but when I, Shen Jiu—

[theladysunami]

@waitineedaname

#svsss #THAT'S THE POINT!! #it's all about perspective! #it's all about narrative framing! #because binghe is the Protagonist™️ his cruelty is presented as cool and badass which is what pidw's audience wants #and because sqq is the Villain™️ his cruelty is just cruelty #but what scum villain does is it asks us to take a look closer beyond those roles #beyond the baggage attached by their narrative roles and the bias of perspective #in reality... theyre both cruel #strip away the stallion novel tropes and the character archetypes #and just look at who luo binghe and shen jiu really are #and what you find are two cruel angry men who were hurt so horribly #and the only way they know how to cope is to continue to hurt other people just as badly #they are the same. the only thing that divides them is their narrative roles #why is it that i start doing character analysis at midnight i need to go to BED

[black-water-lagoon]

genuinely curious to see public opinion on this: who do you think is the main villain of scum villain?

Tianlang-jun

Luo Binghe

The System

The vague concept of miscommunication

The vague concept of the cycle of violence

There is no villain, idiot

Other (please elaborate in notes)

Voting ended onMay 31, 2023

[zykamiliah]

#the villain is the reader#more specifically#the expectations of the genre that the readers have#this is true both in world (with sqh's readers driving his plot choices)#and on a meta level of our reader expectations driving the system's criteria for storytelling#the system outright says it 🤷‍♀️#lol yeah also sqq's reader expectations of the genre driving his blindness to actual people and events#svsss

(via @takethesword)

this is the only correct answer

[ben-wisehart]

This feels relevant

[mxtxfanatic]

Also wanna add to this how the system changes punishments when the original punishments stated no longer effectively coerce sqq. Oh, taking away this amount of points still makes you hesitate in throwing your disciple into the abyss? Let’s multiply that by 100. Oh, losing all your points means certain death? Oops, I meant that it means you get A Punishment, instead! Even when sqq wanted to talk to lbh in the water prison, it took away his ability to say what he wanted and instead gave him ANSWER CHOICES!!! Whatever it has to do to get shen yuan to fulfill his role as sqq in the juiciest, most convoluted way possible to net as many readers as possible.

[ben-wisehart]

Yes!!! Like, I hesitate to call the System sentient, but it’s clearly capable of adaptive problem solving and can be reasoned with with to some degree, which makes it so much creepier when you think too hard about the implications of its existence!

[strobelune]

dehumanization is a whole narrative thing in Shen Jiu's character, starting with the structural denial of "human" status as a slave, then going into the explicit verbal denial of "human" status from Qiu Jianluo, and occasionally I will see this discussed in the framing of "not a person but an object" but in the series and even by Shen Jiu's himself it's very much characterized as "subhuman like an animal." beast; rat. and an interesting thing is that this then arguably can be tied into his attachment to cultivation, because it is actually possible for animals to cultivate to "human-like" status. and for Shen Jiu in a way this is very much true in his life! cultivation frees him from captivity and allows him to elevate himself out of "subhuman" standing to the status of a respected cultivator and Peak Lord. cultivation gave him the dignity of humanity that he did not get from being born as a human. but he also probably feels that this is tenuous, that, like Sun Wukong, no matter how high he climbs people may still look at him and go "why is a monkey here."

Shen Jiu "humanizes" himself by way of dehumanizing others; he can be human if he can look down on someone else as subhuman. this starts with the verbal reversal of roles with Qiu Jianluo ("I'm a human. Why should I be grateful towards a beast?") but of course more importantly carries on by imparting his damage with dehumanization onto Luo Binghe, who literally is not fully human even if neither of them knew that at the time it started. (funnily enough lbh is also the other male character heavily implied to have been in some way sexually abused, mostly by the Old Palace Master but there's also potentially something to be said here with Bingge about his first time with Qin Wanyue and how most of his positive relationships hinged on sex in some way. coincidence? relevant? just other unrelated parallels between sj and lbh because sj hit copy+paste on himself?) and unlike Shen Jiu, Luo Binghe DOESN'T rise up through human society. instead he rises up as a demon. this is perhaps another reason why Bingge is ultimately unhappy and unfulfilled, because he gains power and respect, but not by way of acknowledgment of his humanity. he becomes emperor because people respect his fangs (and his dick). Bingmei's humanity is very much affirmed by Shen Yuan, while Bingge never actually breaks the self-perception as a "beast" Shen Jiu imposed on him.

as far as "dehumanized" as in "objectified," we have Yue Qingyuan, who also started life "subhuman" as a slave and then is literally tied and equated to his sword. his body is not his own; it was literally dismantled and remade at someone else's hand. he doesn't have a voice; his screaming didn't reach anyone who would listen to it. a lot of characters are sometimes referred to with the name of their sword as a title in svsss, but probably none as primarily as Yue Qingyuan. it is literally his life. it tangibly limits his choices and freedom to act. and in disciple era especially, he had to use his life at the behest of the person above him. according to Tianlang-jun, the previous sect leader was actually fairly weak, which means that being a strong cultivator wasn't a priority when appointing Qiong Ding's head disciple or Cang Qiong's future sect leader in the past. but the sect leader appoints Yue Qingyuan as head disciple and brings him to the battle against Tianlang-jun because Xuan Su is exceptionally strong, so long as Yue Qingyuan gives up his life to use it. it paints an interesting dynamic that does feel a bit like the previous sect leader wielding Yue Qingyuan as a weapon.

[strobelune]

of course in this framing Shen Jiu views his damaged cultivation as an obstacle that hampers his ability to truly and completely transcend "subhuman" status while thinking that Yue Qingyuan has already successfully and easily transcended because his cultivation is whole and peerless. meanwhile Yue Qingyuan is experiencing the horrors

[darekasama]

@waitineedaname you are not hiding your take in the tags

[starsnores]

bullies

[turtle-brownie]

smile for the camera!

[strategypillar]

Messing with her design a bit, seeing what sticks