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pov you're mq at some trial and the witness just said something entirely scandalous yet wholly irrelevant
quan yizhen's canonically dummy thick ass
I am literally being eaten alive by the capitalist death machine but xianle3 indulgence finds a way. crawling past reverie 6 and into ch23 now [spoilers below!!!]
there is a slight comedy to this scene that doesn't belong to act iv shenanigans but again i can't bring myself to take it out. sorry for sacrificing the flow for the gag
"how do you write fengqing so well" i want everyone to know that i ripped this conversation directly from my parents' daily bickerings
(for context my parents were talking about i think a costco card? here mqfx are talking about the tally)
also for the record just so the people know that i'm actually alive and working on these yuri extras TTwTT TWO excerpts below
reverie 2 / reverie 3
exclusive director's commentary since we're not getting an update tomorrow (sniffle.... the hiatus is real and it's hurting me)
this is from the current draft of a convo in ch12:
but it was slightly different in the earlier versions. the way i write mq, he only curses at his most emotional moments when he feels the least in control, so what he said before was, "what part of letting you fuck me was not clear?" which i think highlights the gap between his desires and how he presents it outwardly. it's vulgar because on some level he thinks it's dirty, yes (yay issues), but it's also kind of an overcompensation; if he makes it sound rude, if he says it forcefully, then he might be able to hide the real weight of it in his heart. if he hardens the words it might hide his vulnerability
but then i decided i liked the strategy of "so repressed he can't even say it in his thoughts" better in this case so the logic of it is left to subtext (well, also Word of God posting but mais oui)
critically, in both cases he's putting agency/action in feng xin's hands and disavows himself from it. there's a tension between the outward submission ("letting" someone take your reins, basically) and inward protection (of his purity/innocence) (yay celibacy). kinda like, "YOU are the one doing this, i'm not the one who's weak-willed! i'm blameless and also generous!" there's more i can say as to this kind of thinking in general being the root of.... certain erotic literary tropes..... but i don't wanna make too long-winded a post on this
lastly i want to point out, since it might have been too early in the game but remember in ch4, that bit with the cherries? fu yao feeds nan feng the cherry, nan feng spits the seed, and it makes a stain on fu yao's collar which he immediately cleans up? remember what i said cherries symbolized? mhm, think about that and connect it to the larger picture here
shit i'll also be saying to myself when [redacted] soon.