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I love this two stupids so much, god i wish I could read the New extras already
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Ahaha, we’re gonna be hit by Hurricane Milton, and instead of focusing on that my brain went “SQH HC’s?” So here we go!
• SQH is charismatic. He’s a Peak Lord and no one suspects him as a spy! He’s well-liked and socially competent and comes across as trustworthy
• He’s a ball of anxiety inside but externally? Confident, funny, handsome! You’d never guess he was shitting his pants 90% of the time
• He has dimples
• He tells dry and dirty jokes under his breath a lot, but Mu Qingfang is the only one who catches them
• He talks to himself ALL THE TIME, people now ignore him when he’s working and muttering
• His second family is dead, and his situation was similar to Shen Jiu’s until he managed to run away
• He began to cultivate as soon as he got his memories back
• He comes across as the “weakest Peak Lord” but SQH’s golden core is on par with Yue Qingyuan, except that he’s never experienced qi deviations
• He can probably take Liu Qingge on in a fight if he were angry enough
• Just because SQH knows how to fight doesn’t mean he does. He’s a lover not a fighter and he’d rather not risk his life like that, thanks
• Mobei-Jun pretty much lets him do whatever he wants. Yeah, SQH is his spy, but he’s also kinda his bestie? They don’t talk about that though
• He gets hit on a LOT. He’s handsome and has a great public personality, a lot of people he trades with try to marry their daughters/sisters/nieces/etc off to him all the time
• SQQ hates how much he likes SQH because Airplane was his favorite the writer he read out of spite and he wanted SQH to be someone he could continue to hate but he can’t!
• SQH tried to rescue LBH as a baby but was punished by The System for it (his punishment was electrocution)
• He’s scared of lightning storms
• He’s fallen asleep in the same bed as MBJ dozens of time since they were teens, but neither talk about it
• SQH is the only person who’s made MBJ laugh (and it scared the shit out of him the first time it’s happened)
• MBJ and SQH lost their virginities to each other when they were 18, and it was The Worst ™️. They don’t talk about it either, and neither bother to try again until decades later.
• SQH has a handful of safe houses
• He’s actually a self-made rich man, he’s made a lot of personal investments over the years and they’ve always paid off
• He has a permanent limp from an injury he received as a disciple that he can’t seem to heal with his cultivation
• He can drink most people under the table
• He writes and sells yellow books
• He’s one of the fastest flyers on the peak
• He practices inedia waaay too often
• He falls asleep easily in random places
• His leisure houses main room looks like a library
• SQH is an excellent singer, but he only ever does it when he’s alone or with MBJ—and usually he forgets MBJ is there when he does it. He likes singing power ballads, which confuses MBJ but he also really likes it?
• MBJ fell in love with SQH almost at first sight
dungeon meshi is the ultimate manga for a lot of reasons but some of my top favorites are that
- never any “omg pervert!!!” jokes that are so insanely prevalent in fantasy manga for some reason
- only “ship tease” is between falin and marcille
- completely and well fleshed out female characters who have their own motivations character and arcs just as equally as the male characters
- catgirl who actually is a cat girl (inscrutable, a little rude, pushes shit off tables, a little unsettling) and not just a cutesy moe girl with cat ears
- ultimate autism protagonist (thank you laois for your service)
- “this elf is actually 5000 years old but looks like a young adult/teenager for some reason” but ryoko kui actually pulled off making it heartbreaking and a significant part of marcille’s character
- chilchuk divorce
- the most insane worldbuilding ever
- only fanservice is senshi #SENSHISWEEP
svsss fanfic is fantastic to write in as a Western author because the setting is purposefully not accurate to Chinese cultivation stories. Any mistakes made and anachronisms used are airplane's fault. Like you write in someone eating a potato, someone says why would there be potatoes in ancient China, but you can just reply that there's a chance that in the original PIDW luo binghe hunted down potatoes to make fries in order to woo a harem girl. There's no rebuttal. Airplane's writing defied all.
With moshang I think I'm equally fond of the possibilities/concepts where either Shang Qinghua is ludicrously attractive to demons in a broad sense (but doesn't realize it), or, where Shang Qinghua is just some weird little gremlin and everyone else cannot wrap their head around why THE Mobei Jun is so smug about seducing this man.
Or a combination, where no demon in their right mind would ordinarily look at Shang Qinghua and perceive a sex icon, but because such a high-ranking demon has clearly done so, they go "well there must be SOMETHING going on there" and then look closer and before they know it they're on the slippery slope to being horny about a guy who could help file their taxes or arrange to have their clan base's faulty plumbing fixed.
Basically it's all good. Demons en mass going "yeah yeah big scary dudes who punch good are a dime a fucking dozen around here, but do you know how hot someone who can skillfully use an abacus is?" vs demons going "the ice king is a respectable ruler but he has garbage taste in men, we all just smile and politely nod while he insists the weird rat guy he fixated on as a teenager is a catch" vs demons going "I really don't see the appeal -- wait he did what? he killed how many guys at once with 1 trick? he betrayed WHOMST? and lived?! and he knows how to get my door to stop making horrible squeaky noises?! okay yeah figures the king would marry him" but every option is a winner.
I'm also a big fan of both Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua being not very attractive to demons in general, but it also being really common for demons to get super weird about first crushes and fixate hard on them, so in that sense they are completely normal choices for a couple of high-level demons to marry. Like the demon populace can appreciate the emperor actually landing his hot teacher and the king successfully marrying his teenage sweetheart. It's an idealized fantasy in terms of the scenarios, even if the actual guys are just weird humans. Nearly every average demon has lifelong daydreams about successfully seducing their first crush, so regardless of who those crushes turned out to be it's still a power move for LBH and MBJ to actually succeed.
Bonus if the fact that both SQQ and SQH are peak lords from the same sect leads to a bunch of demon kids developing crushes on the other remaining, unattached peak lords, and chaos ensuing. Especially for Liu Qingge. I think it would be funny for him to gain a flock of teenage demons with crushes, whom he keeps trying to fight off, only to discover that beating them up does NOT discourage them at all (actually makes the crushes worse). Or Yue Qingyuan getting mobbed like he's a pop star any time he makes a diplomatic visit to the demon realms. Sha Hualing deciding that she's just waiting for Liu Mingyan to become a peak lord before they make things official, since That's Obviously How It's Done, or Qi Qingqi doing a head count one day and realizing she suddenly has a bunch of unfamiliar "guest" disciples who sigh at her a lot and have funny-colored eyes...
yes yes luo binghe from PIDW traversing dimensions in search of his own shen yuan, love it, 10/10 no notes, but what about mobei jun from PIDW?
imagine seeing a version of reality where the rat bastard snitch minion you killed after he'd outlived his usefulness is your husband
imagine this is the only version of reality where you actually seem to be enjoying your life, too
the luo binghe of that world is too busy making congee for his shizun to be an overbearing tyrant, so you're mostly still in charge of your own kingdom. somehow this version of shang qinghua is even more outwardly pathetic but also a thousand times more fuckable. your evil uncle isn't dead but also utterly failed to supplant you, somehow instead of being one of the biggest points of trauma for you he's become just kind of annoying and unremarkable. your house is full of your actual servants and hasn't been renovated to provide harem space for you boss's five billion annoying wives. your lands are still intact rather than being a twisted conglomeration of merged realms
yeah y'know I think PIDW mobei jun would be an even bigger risk than bingge for trying to murder his alternate universe self so he can steal his life, or failing that, embarking on a quest to find another version of airplane and just moving in with him
Look, tgcf is my fav book of the three but scum system has my fav fandom. There's almost no fights, everything is a shitpost or the longest analysis you'll ever see in your life, we're never going to get a second season, the commercial in the donghua has sqq create pads with his inmortal powers, you could make a fic where the sects got into a football tournament because of sqq and no one would bat an eye.
It's amazing.
Okay I take it back the actual funniest thing about how many people performatively hate on scum villain because they think it’s bad and trashy and irredeemable and Problematic is that they are unwittingly re-enacting an almost perfect impression of the main character, a young terminally online guy who hate read a trashy porn novel and got in so many internet fights about how bad and irredeemable and garbage it was that he died choking on his rage and was transported to suffer the role of expendable backstory villain in the world of this trashy porn novel he hated so much.
And that’s fucking hilarious.
Some very good tags on this post so far.
Literally this woman launched her webnovel career by writing a genre parody deconstruction of webnovels and tropes and the people who write them and read them. And people hear only the detail that the romance is student teacher or the death via bad sex to save the world or any of the other weird kink bits and they’re like: Burn the whole thing down. My friends it’s about being isekai’d into a world ruled by harem porn novel logic and trying to survive, the weird kink bits are the Point.
Art imitates life imitates art.
Okay I made myself wait more than 12 hours before responding to this because I would have just been a snarky asshole about it last night at 3am.
I have to say I do think it’s a Bit silly to say ‘I didn’t finish the book but I disagree with your reading of it’ but I shall assume you are asking this in good faith and respond appropriately. Some of this I and others have already said in other reblogs but I will try to sum it all up.
I’m not saying that mxtx said in an interview that scum villain is meta, I’m saying that this is clear from the text itself.
Svsss is very different from mdzs and tgcf. Mdzs and tgcf are both one part political intrigue dramas about a main character who is very powerful but cast out of society because they put their personal morals over falling in line with general opinion, and who despite trying to save people unintentionally cause massive harm, and the repercussions and ripple effects of that story, and the other part fun kinky romcom hijinks and mystery solving. They are both webnovels using genre conventions and tropes to tell very multi layered stories.
Svsss is a story about webnovels. It’s a genre deconstruction, taking the tropes common in webnovels and turning them on their heads and inside out.
It is about an anti fan who kept reading a book he hated because he had a psychosexual obsession with the main character (but he’s totally straight though. He definitely never had a bingge body pillow). Shen yuan is Not a reliable narrator, he is perhaps the most Unreliable narrator of any danmei novel I can think of. His entire arc is about going from seeing the people around him as basically video game npcs to seeing them as real people, and his written perspective on events is never particularly accurate.
And it’s about an author who wanted to make art that he cared about but was railroaded by what fans wanted to see and his own need to survive and make a living, and left the bones of a more interesting story buried under the final fanservice power fantasy product.
The core concept of svsss is being forced to live in a world where every single part of the worldbuilding is designed to facilitate ridiculous kinky sex for a male power fantasy harem setting. It’s about taking the tropes of such a setting and saying ‘no actually this is awful’ and making something new. The protag changes the genre of the webnovel he is living through just by trying to be a good person (and also trying to avoid his character role’s prewritten death). The book also has some very interesting things to say about toxic masculinity given the whole reveal that actually this badass male power fantasy protagonist is deep down still a sad little boy who just needed someone anyone to be kind to him and who sought validation the only way he could (through endless meaningless sex) Also of course shen yuan’s hilariously stubborn denial of his own sexuality. And the cycles of abuse and trauma in the original relationships between PIDW sqq and luo bingge.
Through the characters of shen qingqiu and shang qinghua Scum Villain explores the relationship between authors and readers.
Moshang is a particularly fascinating dynamic because it’s about the relationship between author and character and to some degree the text itself.
And the main pairing, bingqiu, literally explores the relationship between a reader and their favorite character.
When I say the kink bits are the point I mean the book is using them to talk about how horrible it would be to actually live the reality of these fanservice driven worlds. Take the death via bad sex to save the world bit, as someone pointed out in tags very early on, that part is about taking this common trope ‘sex to save the world’ and exploring how living through that in reality would be horrific and traumatizing and might get you killed. The kink in scum villain isn’t just there for the sake of kink, it’s usually being used for trauma or comedy. Or both.
Mxtx is a master of blending horrific tragic elements seamlessly with comedy, it’s why I like her novels so much. But SVSSS in particular is a meta genre satire masterpiece that also manages to be extremely sincere.
The borderline necrophilia bit is I would say straight up just an sqq’s fear brain misinterpretation. I think the actual truth of binghe keeping his body from rotting is one of the most deliciously sad and horrific moments of poor binghe’s life. Because the empty shell of the person he loved most was right next to him keeping him company in his grief for five terrible terrible years. I think binghe would agree the experience was far far worse than three years spent trapped in a hell dimension and not sexy at all.
Also I think it’s super funny that an obviously gay man (shang qinghua) wrote a harem novel full of nothing but terrible ridiculously exaggerated het sex. He was out to get paid and he did what he had to do. Respect. 🫡
Oh also to address the mdzs point as well, canonically according to word of god wwx and lwj have really bad sex the first time because neither of them have ever had anything approaching good sex ed. which is similar to why moshang also have terrible sex the first time, because dumbass bad smut writing author sqh was thinking with just his horny brain and forgot to account for the consequences of writing demons to have absurdly huge dicks. Rip all of them, someone get these idiots some lube and a safer sex pamphlet.
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saw a one piece live action character impressions post that pegged luffy as having daddy issues which is hilarious to me because luffy has, like, the opposite of daddy issues. he has daddy solutions. if you hang out with luffy long enough, your father-related angst starts to resolve. this has happened to multiple characters.
VIVA ONE PIECE LIVE ACTION!!!
usopp's job on the crew is to be the favourite
here's are some of my favorite little things from the OP:LA
the fact that they let Iñaki Godoy keep his lil accent even when playing Luffy like i love that so much
THE BOUNTY INTROS!!! i love how they get interacted with, Arlong's one is my favorite so far
Coby's huge bug-like glasses
Zoro's three little earrings – they look so NICEEEE I WANT THEM
Nojiko. [⬅️ Completely Infatuated]
Sanji being so sweet & kind with Luffy especially
Iñaki's acting oh my god he's so fun to watch and he has such youthful energy that's perfect for Luffy
THE ENTIRE SCENE WHERE ZORO WAKES FROM HIS COMA AND LUFFY CLIMBS ON HIM
Usopp and Nami holding hands for comfort...
The Outfits – everybody fucking thank the costume department RIGHT NOW AND ON YOUR KNEES
Garp throwing the cannon ball
Mihawk's little head tilts that remind me so much of an actual hawk surveying their surroundings
also Mihawk's speech pattern; i never knew someone could speak cursive
Zeff saying "little eggplant" (derogatory/affectionate)
Garp and Zeff's dinner feeling like old ex-lovers reuniting bitter-sweetly like what the fuck was that vibe and can we get more of that please
Gum Gum Gatling
SANJI CALLING ZORO "MOSSHEAD"
just Sanji's temper in general, he's so funny bc he's genuinely sweet but gets riled up so fast
Usopp accidentally meeting Mihawk 😭
Luffy's casual touches and complete disregard for personal space
KAYA BEING READY TO SHANK KURO LIKE YOOOO
everyone's genuine confusion/horror/exasperation when it comes to Luffy's antics
I ain't got no money I ain't like those other guys you hang around And it's kinda funny But they always seem to let you down
POV you’re LQG walking in on SQQ and SQH’s super important do not disturb sect management meeting (they’re doing a system screen share and watching the Barbie movie. You cannot see it)