could you elaborate abt scum villain, im nosy 🙏
what, you mean being SO mad at it? hdhdhsh
i just have a set of QUIBBLES ok, some of which are extreme hollers of WHY (not only is the sex canonically horrible, it Does Not Improve thru repeat performance and is textually out loud acknowledged as Horrible, which.... why........ what purpose does this serve..), and others that are crotchety grumbling (luo binghe should be a bear, why is that huge indomitable legendary puppy monster idiot of a man SKINNY????)
and then it winds down to, like. sqq's homophobia & partnered denial were funny at first, but it really becomes exhausting by the time he's willingly subjecting himself to binghe's fuck-or-die and still framing it narratively as "i'm doing this to save the world and binghe's life in general, not bc i care deeply desperately obsessively about him to the exclusion of all else and want him to be free of all this pain and misery"—and even MORESO when he's literally MARRYING him and still half-going "this is.. for binghe.... not me......" like. i wanted it to end in an earnest and heartfelt place, and it had so much room to do so, but instead we just get this unmoving, unchanging sqq and it's framed as goofy when in all honesty i'm over here like wow binghe deserves BETTER than this repressed guy who's too far up his own ass to tell him how he wants to be loved, when all binghe wants is to love him right, just,, ghdhhd,,,
i love the world and the characters and the overarching plot—i just wanted so much more out of sqq than we were given, and it doesnt feel to me like there wasn't space for growth in him? it feels like his emotional core became less important than the narrative, which would be fine if it was a drama. but it's a love story. there should be love in it somewhere.
