#orange pops

[orange-sora]

Mr. Impassive Aloof Poker face

Mr. Definitely into Girls

[bestrecipebox]

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[orange-sora]

It's just better with art

[orange-sora]

I think we can all agree that the most interesting well-written character in MDZS is Jin Ling's uncle.

[orange-sora]

I give Luo Binghe a lot of shit for being a crybaby but tbh if you think about it, it makes him really desirable. He's a hot guy with high enough emotional intelligence to know what he wants and the desperation and confidence to beg for it. That rarely happens. He doesn't let toxic masculinity tenets of emotional suppression and idealistic images of bland aloof men get in the way of his goals of passionately wooing the love of his life. He's just a poor little woof woof asking for pats and praises.

[orange-sora]

Luo Binghe designed by the Creator of this universe (airplane) to be a badass man of everyone's dream acts like a pathetic cry baby loser for his beloved's attention while Shen Yuan an actual pathetic troll pretends to be a badass untouchable tsundere to artificially create coolness he'd never have. They create a perfect loop of mutually beneficial deception and that's why I think bingqiu are perfect for each other. Truly a superior ship.

[orange-sora]

I'm fascinated by the ouroboros of fandom sexualisation. Fanon shizun is often portrayed as some elegant beauty, a sexy ethereal being whose every breath is slutty. Meanwhile, in reality he was a big weirdo with decent principles (like being against child abuse), an inherent social awkwardness and a strong sense of modesty. He wasn't sexy, just kind.

It's basically exactly what Shen Yuan did to HIS Luo Binghe. To him, Lbh was a peerless beauty who can (and will) charm every woman in vicinity, with his perfect body and honey sweet words, a typical power hungry sexy demon lord. Even though everything in his reality pointed to the contrary! Luo Binghe was hungry only for love and acceptance, he had the ability to charm others but was truly uninterested in any sort of conquering, only wanting to care and be cared for. Any power he wanted was to protect and to be an equal, not to lord it over others. And above all else, he had NO GAME. He wasn't sexy, just desperate (and sincere).

Truly one of my favourite things about Svsss is how accurately it captured the nature of fandom and fan interpretation. We are all Shen Yuans in some way. Unfortunately.

EDIT: FURTHER THOUGHTS AND CLARIFICATION HERE

[orange-sora]

Earlier, to me, Shen Yuan being hell bent on believing Binghe to be manipulative and deceptive when they met in Jinlan City, was a result of his preconceived notions thanks to his PIDW knowledge. But, I do wonder, if a part of it was because, he himself has been lying all this time.

Ever since he transmigrated, he's been deceiving everyone. Partly because of the System and partly because he had decided even before dying that that'd be his plan of action if he ever transmigrated. To him, it had felt like the only sensible option. The only way to survive, to be accepted. But he can't fathom, that maybe, in some sense, that is also true for Luo Binghe.

When Luo Binghe met his shizun after the abyss, Shen Yuan read every emotion on his face as a calculated move. He believed Binghe's acting skills were so good, that he appeared genuine. Like Shen Yuan chose to lie and trick to survive, Binghe does the same for power and revenge. Shen Yuan may have consciously chosen this path but it was under duress. Luo Binghe, however, must be a mastermind for the exact same choices. That's how he was written, after all. How could the OP Protagonist ever be forced to act in a way he never wanted??? Impossible!

I wonder if, like Shen Jiu self-projected a beast onto Binghe, Shen Yuan self-projected a deceiver.

EDIT: part 2