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Suddenly really sad that ghost Hunt UK isn't a real show I can binge and that the "stabbed by a ghost" meme will never cross my dash :(

m-e-w-666

Op I tried... hope you like them

red-garden

Baby Bingge deciding to use his sick new dream powers to get into his Shizun’s head and figure out what his deal is after overhearing Shen Jiu berating Yue Qingyuan for not telling him why he didn’t come back. Binghe sees enough of Shen Jiu’s dream to realize he was a slave before Shen Jiu realizes that Binghe is a demon that has invaded his mind. Shen Jiu tears into the woodshed to Jeff the kill Binghe, and out of desperation Binghe tells him he can use his dream powers to find out why the sect leader abandoned him. Thus with mutually assured destruction and a common goal, Shen Jiu and Binghe team up to fuck with Yue Qingyuan. Binghe realizes that his continued survival on the peaks could be ensured by getting his Shizun and the sect leader together so they owe him, leading to a misguided and poorly socialized 15 year old’s deluded attempts at parent trapping Qijiu.

#svsss #pure genius

seiraheron

The third card in the series <3 Yue Qingyuan this time!

nebulations

[ID: Scum Villain fanart stylized as a king of spades playing card featuring Yue Qingyuan holding Xuan Su. The upright Yue Qingyuan has a distant expression and is holding Xuan Su by the blade, making his hand bleed. The reversed Yue Qingyuan has his eye closed peacefully, and the upright Yue Qingyuan's blade is slashing his neck. End ID]

lunnitavaldez

I'm sure after the cheek-pinching extra, Mobei really thinks that Shang Qinghua is now the boss (in China it's accepted that the wife is grumpy, right?)

conflitdecanard

Finally finished this ! It is not the most polished but I'm glad I still finished it despite how busy I was these days ! :'D

You know that scene... SQH protecting MBJ during his ascension... I thought it would be interesting for cat SQH, hehe (*/ω＼*)

lacamorte

i dropped a pot today...

lacamorte

saw this and thought 🫵🫵🫵 bingliushen

nobody tell sqq that he's still clinging to lqg's phone

ratmail

TINYASSLEEM ART BABY

(rendering eachothers art w/ @shamelesscandylight )

pudu ver

evercelle

sexboobomb

Environmental storytelling or something like that

sexboobomb

Interesting how the transfeminine version got marked mature literally *as* I posted it, very clearly hitting some sort of automated filter, while the cis version was untouched by the filter even though it was otherwise identical

piosplayhouse

I was thinking about Maigu ridge yesterday and my controversial opinion that I do genuinely and objectively think it's the best climax of the three mxtx series despite not enjoying reading the scene. I think what makes it so special is that as opposed to the other climaxes, sv builds up a sense of gradual dread towards it from the very beginning. You know it's going to happen. Shen Yuan tells you: luo binghe merges the realms at the end of the story, this is an unavoidable fact of the canon. But as things start to go to shit and the plot signs are pointing towards it actually happening what once was a somewhat reassuring expectation that you know what's going to happen turns into an inevitable dread that you're desperately hoping is shifted off course before it's too late.

And then sv hits you with the second aspect of Maigu ridge that it's been slowly getting you to dread: the story always ends in sex. That's how things are fixed. Whether the characters want it or not, the genre formula says sex crowns all. That's just how both PIDW and romance works. So there's this horrific reversal of expectations as you're watching all of these things go to shit, and a sense of futility connecting you to sqq as you both know there's only one way the story's going to be able to end, no matter how much else has been changed throughout the narrative. And then rather than granting you any kind of reprieve with the scene itself, that maybe somehow it'll all be fixed easily in the last minute, the climax is viscerally horrific and messy and wildly uncomfortable to sit though. It's like it's sitting you down to say here, this is the type of story you buckled in to read, here's how it will happen. You're rewarded this farce of a conclusion that by all accounts should have been satisfying, but all of the illusion has been stripped out of it until there's just a deep unease left.

mikkeneko

Roundup of excellent tags on this one:

#SO much can be said about what it’s doing thematically#but besides the subtext and commentary what it does TONALLY really does blow me away every time#that total dread really is the perfect way to describe it#the way when lbh is revealed to be powering the sword still#the way the bottom drops out even when you could see it coming#the slow slow almsot agonizing build up as sqq wanders the cave in#in the dark#alone (or so he thinks) with this tension building and building#it was hard to get thru the first read but now I appreciate it so much#this book doesn’t flinch away from EVERY aspect of the meta commentary#we are discussing sex and humanity and perspective and common trashy tropes and by god we are going the distance - via @opheliapurple

#it's consistent with the themes across the whole novel#in that svsss is taking these expected genre tropes and revealing just how miserable they actually are#like how it's fun to read a revenge narrative but terrifying and miserable to live through it#maigu ridge is the same#fuck or die plots or narrative climaxes where sex saves the world#they might be fun to read#but to live through? it fucking sucks#it's painful and it strips everyone involved of their agency#and i appreciate that svsss tackles it that way#and that it has lasting impacts on their relationship too since it was deeply traumatic for binghe - via @waitineedaname

#it also really addresses the system#the system could have given sqq the pendant and skipped this whole horror show#but it won't because that's not dramatic#that's not a romance#that's not the story you said you wanted#are you happy now?#we make fun of sqq for treating people like tropes and characters but the climax treats sqq like a character#the author is knocked out but the audience remains and hungers for blood - via @youremysunshine8

#that is sort of the redeeming power of shen qingqiu#he knows that xin mo can only be cleansed through sex or violence#but he offered himself up willingly for that#shen qingqiu of all characters understands when he's being coerced and stripped of his agency#he's spent the entirety of svsss resisting that#every time a wifeplot happens to him he slips sideways and manages to escape#that is inherent to the genreplay that is in svsss. sqq is a shizun he is not a wife#he has been adamant about being treated like a shizun instead of a wife to be conquered#but on this occasion he goes into it willingly. he walks across the ridge to go find the wifeplot and make it happen#horrific as that wife plot is#shen qingqiu's self sacrifice in that scene wasn't just physical and bodily it was also the agency that he prized and protected so adamantl#and he did it because he wanted to save luo binghe#the interesting irony of choosing to have your agency stripped but you chose it. knowing it all. choosing it anyway - via @silversquare

#SVSSS #like idk what to say it's so silly and dumb on the surface #then you lift the lid and it just keeps going in terms of how complex it is