always fucks me up how every major male SVSSS character barring liu qingge (dead for all of PIDW) and shen yuan (literal transmigrator) have some variation of airplane bro's personality, insecurity, and shitty coping mechanisms. like.
shen jiu!qingqiu lashing out, letting people assume terrible shit about him because it's easier than trying to clarify his intentions only for his actions and words to be misinterpreted anyway?
yue qingyuan being politely vacant, aimless and self-deprecative, believing himself a failure who deserves to be hated?
og!shang qinghua being a cannon fodder "cowardly traitor", cut off from protection and money and killed by his former liege?
mobei-jun having deeper set issues with trust and loyalty, especially from family members and personal servants?
tianlang-jun's naivete and emotional attachment leading indirectly to his being sealed under a mountain miserable and alone for years?
zhuzhi-lang's excessive degree of loyalty to people who show him sincere kindness, since most people find him ugly and unapproachable?
PIDW!luo binghe's emotional apathy and detachment after all he suffered; him being rewritten into an overpowered, intelligent, revenge-driven, manipulative man so good in bed he can force anyone to join his harem?
SVSSS!luo binghe being similar to the above, but otherwise being clingy, deeply insecure, clumsy and inefficient in bed and in love?
SVSSS!luo binghe being desperate to maintain emotional connections and terrified of the perception that he's being abandoned by someone he loves and looks up to?
SVSSS!luo binghe being willing to go to concerning extremes to find out WHY that person changed their mind and chose to hurt him, abandon him, and what he can do to fix things?
SVSSS!luo binghe's most bitter anguish being the thought that they despise him and are throwing him away for unchangeable aspects of who he is, for being himself?
PIDW was originally a romanceless web novel driven by its unique fantasy setting and lore. it was stripped down of those elements to make way for cliche heterosexual porn tropes until it became an inconsistent male power fantasy harem novel that fickle readers-- whose money pay airplane's bills now that his parents both remarried and started new families, cutting off basically all money and contact with him-- would keep reading.
everything about PIDW (and SVSSS) reflects part of airplane. not only the characters' personalities and experiences, but the original story as a whole, considering how much of it (of himself) airplane ended up sacrificing and shuttering away to present a different image that would be more easily accepted.
Yohajiβs dead Seimei has me screaming internally at all times because he can be so many things but weβre not exactly sure whatβs what yet????
Was he doomed by the narrative? Did he doom himself narratively due to his clairvoyance? Is he a divine eldritch horror? Is he a human eldritch horror that the divine wanted to get rid of? Is he all of that? Is he none of that? Was he lonely and hopeless about his own situation to the point he could only hope to vicariously live a semi-normal life through his descendant/reincarnation? Did he have no choice but to play out events so the people around him could have happier futures? Was he just always built different? Is this version of him really connected to kitsune? What exactly made him shed a tear in that one Ranmaru flashback? What is his curse doing on Douman? What really killed him?
How is he the Horror, the ghost of Christmas past, and the missed dead wife simultaneously at all times?
I need more brainrot for this guy!!!
I am so normal about Abe no Seimei, promise.
Hair care pt. 2 !! Returning the favor
Part 1 here
Haruaki and Sano attend a wedding! (Not theirs lol)
Lots of stuff happening next month! Let's see:
Yohaji getting a color page!
Karma Karma getting a newly drawn special chapter!
Volume 18 (JP) and Karma Karma tankobon release on January 27, 2025!
The anime will be in its 2nd cour!
Man, what is this, christmas? Oh shit it is
(Also on mangadex)
aggressively average king
bingqiu fighting the gender norms in their relationship through binghe embodying all the genders and being the money-making, providing house-wife while his spouse does absolutely nothing gender-typical because he does absolutely nothing
This is what yugi and bakura look like to me.
His suspicion, the wild idea that had grown in his mind based on a hunch: Ming Fan wants to be kind to him. Itβs just that he has to be alone to do it.Β
"By Hook or by Crook" Chapter 3 by @primtheamazing and @grubus
is out! :D
get MIND CRUSHED π₯π₯