Bullturd Bromance Brainrot

What up, I'm Mollusc, she/her, and I never duckin learned how to finish a wip. (Artist, Fic Writer, Rock enthusiast aka fandom trash in stem)

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BYF!!

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anyone ever notice that tiansu and 79 are lowkey the same storyline

im gonna be thinking about that

conspiracy hat time

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wait ok so yeah alr i like that one tag i had about how bingge got revenge for his birth parents or at least his dad after all and i also like the idea of tiansu being a straight couple 79 dupe to wink wink nudge nudge their gayness in a stallion series but ACTUALLY. WAY MORE IMPORTANT

if 79 are a narrative dupe of tiansu. does that make bingge their OPM 💀

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I need 79/qijiu enjoyers to go listen to ursa vulpine and annacas cover of wicked game and think about 79 for me its important

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anyone ever notice that tiansu and 79 are lowkey the same storyline

im gonna be thinking about that

conspiracy hat time

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how come there arent reverse transmigration aus where airplane's protagonist son shows up at his doorstep feat. xyz plot device to prevent binghe from instakilling airplane. underrated dynamic imo. airplane and luo binghe as roommates forced to suffer in each others' presence. airplane tiredly watching as his protagonist son finds out about peerless cucumber online and his presumably rapid descent into cyberstalking. airplane probably not doing anything abt bc hes!!!!! not getting involved!!! his neck! OFF the chopping block thank you!!

luo binghe and his weird godcreatordad who he hates and who is also younger than him. the chaotic duo i personally long for.

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for someone who made this acc to post art i sure do a lot of au posting and not that much art. crazy how that happens maybe one day ill do smth about it

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does anybody else think about wei qingwei and shang qinghua or is that just me. swordplane anyone???????????????

something about the dynamic of 'gregarious guy glad to find wayward junior safe, however:

1. wayward junior kinda weird tbh. seems okay though sooo cool? ig?

2. wayward junior was actually not safe or okay,

3. 1 million nasty rumours about wayward junior no one likes him, wayward junior isolated and ostracized,

4. WAYWARD JUNIOR WAS NOT SAFE OR OKAY WAYWARD JUNIOR WAS A TRAITOR,

5. WAYWARD JUNIOR NOT SAFE AND NOT OKAY. HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY THREATENED BY ACTUAL DEMONIC ROYALTY EVER SINCE THE DAY HE WAS FOUND AND WQW THOUGHT IT WAS OVER AND HE WAS SAFE

(meanwhile sqh shitting himself paranoid af anytime they bump into each other)

idk theres just smth about wqw not really knowing what to make of sqh, but deciding to be friendly when they cross paths anyway as he seems like a kind of odd but generally alright dude. but generally not thinking too deeply beyond generally being glad he was able to help bring him back to the sect after that one mission incident.

wqw who was glad that he found sqh in one piece and thought the situation was over when they got back to cqms: his shidi was safe, if seeming a little shaken, and hes glad he was at that market that day. Only to find out it was never over, that his shidi has not been safe a single day since, dealing with it alone, as he was isolated in the wake of the attack and because he (for good reason) assumed no one who could have helped him, would have.

even if u dont look at it romantically i still think theres a lot of potential for an interesting dynamic here, even while theyre not crossing paths bc that 1 event must have caused *some* impression to be made on part of both of them that would shape how they think of each other even if theyre not close afterward.

also could be interesting w either og sqh or airplane tbh imo

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who was the last person to touch mobei jun in a non hostile way before shang qinghua. *when* was the last person to touch mbj in a nonhostile manner. i hope it wasnt his father or uncle. it was probably his father or uncle.

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Have to rec this fic: Favourite by Prim the Amazing, Baby Mobei has a lovely day with his favourite uncle.

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who was the last person to touch mobei jun in a non hostile way before shang qinghua. *when* was the last person to touch mbj in a nonhostile manner. i hope it wasnt his father or uncle. it was probably his father or uncle.

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Imagine it's why he likes SQH hugging his tighs ? Because all his others followers kneel before him, but SQH is the only one to touch him, nice and strong.

Touch starved MBJ who keeps his pet human because he gives him "hugs". And being contraried everytimes SQH go back to CQMS because it means no hugs this weak >:(

The audacity !!!

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guh thats sooo cute ur so correct

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who was the last person to touch mobei jun in a non hostile way before shang qinghua. *when* was the last person to touch mbj in a nonhostile manner. i hope it wasnt his father or uncle. it was probably his father or uncle.

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Flowers for a weary traveller

when I tell you this fucking destroyed me it was supposed to be a cute doodle it was supposed to be a cute doodle it was supposed to be a cute doodle it was supposed to be a cute doodle

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MY FIRST EVAR STICKER SHEET DESIGN DONEZO AAAAAAAAA

TRASHBOY REAL!!!

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Ahhahahaha I love this!!! Here's my teen as Trashlian a few years ago (short video here). I will have to buy this sheet for them...

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NAUUR THIS IS SO CUTE 🥺

currently the stickers are only available at conventions im attending in my area 😔

BUT if i do decide to print off a few extra to mail out to ppl I will make sure to post abt it, and keep the window of time for ordering them open as long as possible as ive had a few ppl express interest. ive been considering it but am currently too busy to organise anything like that for another little while unfortunately.

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CONCEPT:

PERCEPTION CHECK BY TOM CARDY BUT THE ENTIRE ANIMATIC IS JUST THE PART AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NOVEL WHERE WEI WUXIAN VERBALLY EVISCERATES FAMOUSLY ORPHANED JIN LING

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so a while ago i saw this post

Post by @kelenia · 3 images

💬 7  🔁 3177  ❤️ 6171 · He’s living My dream

where airplane replies to a comment from cucumber with 'lbg isnt gonna fuck you, dude' and that shit bounced around in my head for good long while and personally i think the canonically existing PIDW green jj meimeis wouldnt take a comment like that lying down:

so anyway now i have an au living rent fucking free in my brain where this goes viral overnight and everyones drawing memes and ship content of luo bingge and a sentient cucumber, until shen yuan's canonically bl-enjoying sister gets involved with a semi-private group of PIDW green jj meimeis and is like no you dont understand he really is gay. he just doesnt know hes gay. but hes definitely gay and he has like no friends and no self awareness. so they double down and with vague descriptions of what cucumber-bro looks like, they start making not only memes but obscure and highly specific fanmerch of new rarepair bingcumber

this may or may not devolve into a potentially criminal series of actions in which shen yuans sister collaborates with random online danmei-enjoying PIDW readers to get her brother a boyfriend, ideally one as similar as possible to luo binghe. who better than the man who understands binghe most in the world? who better than the man who is clearly self inserting when writing binghe? who better than the man somehow managing to give an E-rated harem stallion novel gayass vibes? who better than the man who MADE cucumber-bro's perfect match?

so now its eventual endgame cumplane feat. viral bingcumber memes and stalking by third party stakeholders

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MY FIRST EVAR STICKER SHEET DESIGN DONEZO AAAAAAAAA

TRASHBOY REAL!!!

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I really love MXTX's narrative decision to have a character that is vital to the plot and then tell us NOTHING about him.

Who was the real Mo Xuan Yu?

An insane cutsleeve, we might say. But we don't actually know that. Most of what we're told about MXY is from other character's opinions and "common knowledge" but the main moral of the novel is that you can't trust either because public opinion is very easy to manipulate.

And we know Mo Xuanyu was at odds with an expert manipulator.

So, how much of it was true and how much was JGY ruining Mo Xuanyu's reputation to get him out of the way once he wasn't useful?

We can't know.

The only thing we have proof of is that, when he died, he was definitely mentally ill; it was evident from what he did and the writings he left. But, was he always like this? Or maybe the mistreatment at the hands of his family, or his contact with demonic cultivation (we don't know whether he practiced it before the ritual) eroded his mental health. Hell, by this point Jin Guangyao already knew how to use the songs of turmoil, who's to say he didn't do that to MXY for knowing too much.

Of him being a cutsleeve, there's no hard proof. Maybe the makeup, but that might be him just being theatrical. We don't know, it's Wei Wuxian who takes the rumors and runs with them full throttle. Though it is worth noting that the characters who knew MXY before don't seem to bat an eye when WWX is playing up the gayness, so there's that.

Him harrassing JGY is a complicated one. Because, again, no proof but the opinions of the people in Jinlintai, who may have been manipulated by Jiggy into believing that. We have seen the guy do worse, he's the king of Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss. And if Mo Xuanyu was becoming an obstacle for knowing too much and refusing to cooperate... maybe it would look too suspicious for his newfound half-brother to mysteriously die, maybe he couldn't find a good excuse or scapegoat in time, or maybe JGY was planning to finish the job later, where MXY's death couldn't be connected to him. Either way, depriving him of any sympathy or credibility ensured no one would come asking questions if he disappeared. I wouldn't put it past him.

So, we really don't know anything concrete about him.

Which, if you ask me, is pretty harsh on him considering that without him the plot would be one paragraph long. "Good news! The Yiling Parriarch is dead!" And dead he stayed. The End.

Of course, from a meta perspective, why waste pages developing a character who is only there as a human McGuffin? Too complicated, let's just allude to his gayness to move the BL plot along and scrub any worldly connection he had. There, no loose threads. On with the story!

I mean, I get it.

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I hope it's okay if i add on my thoughts bc im FERAL about this mystery man for these exact reasons.

Mo Xuanyu is my favourite character for being the complete unknown that he is, for everything about him being second- or third-hand info, because imo he also represents the most complete annihilation of truth by hearsay in the novel; in a novel series that is specifically thematically *about* truth vs. rumour and misrepresentations of truth in a high pressure society, and the way we collectively assume the beliefs of the majority (a la groupthink). in that way i think he forms probably one of the most enigmatic but also interesting collections of unknown truths in the novel and is a really good thematic foil - in a sense hes the wei wuxian who didnt win, who never got the chance to clear his name in the face of a society willing to believe whatever is easiest.

If it weren't for Wei Wuxian being Wei Wuxian, then *thematically* speaking one could argue he'd probably be The Perfect MDZS character. the whole book!! is about Mo Xuanyu's exact kind of scenario and similar!!! no one really knows anything about him and we can't trust 90% of whats said about him to be true! and as a result he definitely suffered and was potentially victimised in relation to this! the nail that sticks up gets hammered down!

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how come ive never seen anyone ship qi rong with guzi biodad??? is it cuz he was gonna eat him?? i think thats sad. give guzi 2 dads. like yes i love the hate-hate ship dynamic of qr and lqq but!!! guzis dad!!!