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Hindsight 20/20 (23202 words) by dustmemoriam Chapters: 5/? Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu & Everyone, Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū/Happiness Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Shu Fen (OC), Lots of OCs Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse, POV Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu Deserves Better, BAMF Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Self-Worth Issues, self indulgent fic, May be OOC but I don't care let him have a bit of OOC as a treat, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, More Chapters Will Be Added, No Beta we die like Shen Jiu, Major Original Character(s), Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu Deserves Happiness, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu Deserves to be Spoiled, Occasional Art Summary: Shen Qingqiu is visited by a mysterious woman while rotting away in the water prison. She offers him a chance to turn back time. Now, he's a small child in his mother's arms with the world dead set on ruining this for him. Can he protect her? Can he change his fate? What do you mean she also has memories of the past life? Does she know how much of a scum her child turned out to be? If she did, she'd get rid of him, right? Or Shen Jiu gets a mother willing to burn down the world for him.

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Chapter 5 is up! I had fun drawing for it too. Next chapter it all comes together.

[dustykneed]

the rough childhood trio with their childhood pets. (each of these gets a couple sentences of variably cryptic context-- all up for interpretation, of course. in my head these are all bittersweet ^^)

i-chaya wasn't supposed to be at school, technically, but amanda had a talk with the teachers, and they concluded that it was logical to allow i-chaya to continue to accompany spock to school, when his performance showed such marked improvement when she was around.

sometimes, during intervals between lessons, which were always timed precisely for optimal development of social skills, spock would sit cross-legged in a corner of the schoolyard, and i-chaya would sink down onto the red sand beside him and nudge at his cheek with her damp nose, and spock would reach up into her coarse, thick coat and press his forehead into the safety of her fur until the stinging remarks of the other children would melt and fall away in the harsh vulcan sun.

"he's up there in the stars, jamie. whenever you feel like you're on your own, just look up at the night sky and count the stars. he would've been so proud of you."

james tiberius kirk read, once, that pigs were unable to look up at the sky. from then on, he made sure to prop all of the pigs on the farm up every so often, so that they could look at the stars with him. for his birthday, his mother knit him two matching sweaters with stars on the chest-- one for him, and the other for wilbur (the grandpiglet of the sow she tripped over a decade ago).

bones was raised, essentially, by the large, calico barncat who lived on the mccoys' farm. she had not been named, and she wouldn't let anyone else touch her-- only bones.

when he was a baby, she curled up beside him in his crib with her tail around his ankle to stop him from crawling out and hurting himself.

when he got older, on difficult days, she would grab him by the sock and drag him to the old rocking chair in the attic and curl up on his lap and bite at his fingers until he could bring himself to pet her, and then she would purr and purr as he stroked through her warm, soft fur and rocked himself better in the big rocking chair. if anyone tried to drag bones away, she would hiss and yowl and bat vehemently at the intruding hands until he could be left alone.

[madeofstardust17]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I MADE IT!! I HAD TO SPLIT IT INTO TWO CHAPTER BUT I MADE IT!!

The ao3 curse got to me but honestly the support I've gotten for this fic is better that anything I could've dreamed, so thank you all for reading.

In this chapter, Tim deals with his body's betrayal, and the family coming in clutch to support him. He gets a teeny tiny break from the horrors, good for him honestly.

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Chapter 8 of Hindsight 20/20 is up!

Extra art (that I'm sure would get flagged on tumblr >-> ) In the fic.

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Chapter 9 of Hindsight 20/20 is up!

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Drawings for chapter 6 of Hindsight 20/20

[madeofstardust17]

Trying not to rip my hair out writing a THIRD version of the newest chapter in Recovery bc I cant seem to get the scene to work ughhhhh

[madeofstardust17]

Me: I have a little time to keep working on my chapter!! Let's see if I can move this along!!

Me: *proceeds to add an entire conversation that adds nothing to the plot, goes nowhere, and is only funny to me*

Me: *writes nothing else for the rest of them afternoon*