A year post abyss, Peak lords Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua cuddle puddle havers. With or without the privacy barriers, in SQQ's bamboo house or in SQH's office.
Who cares ommgggg who cares we're dead meat anyway or so they think.
Did ask, very much care because people are losing their minds. Rumors are flying. The Sect Leader tactfully (read, tearfully) extracted himself from Master Shen's house after Peak Lord Shang answered the door, telling him that, no Qingqiu is not available and is resting (So was he by the state of his hair and robes). Peak Lord Liu Qingge nearly deviated this one time when he burst into SQH's office for an update on something trivial only to find SQQ curled up on top of SQH who was snoring into SQQ's hair, scrolls abandoned.
It's getting out of hand. They've been spotted casually leaning into each others touch around their peaks. Master Shen insists they need sunlight (it's nearly dusk) as he fills in Peak Lord Shang's official reports (signed SQQ), Peak Lord Qinghua sleepily agrees against Master Shen's side.
Jaws are on the floor with tongues still wagging, the rumor mill is frenzied, enough that the matter has reached the borderlands near the rifts and by extension, the demons and the abyss and one young heavenly demon who is as jealous as he is confused.
Somewhere under Master Shen, Peak Lord Shang shivers awake.
"That won't help you," A voice said from behind him, thin and lilting.
Shen Yuan nearly screamed in frustration and threw down the talismans he had been trying to activate with the drops of qi he had left. He had known that it wouldn't work, especially when the characters on them were barely even legible anymore, but he couldn't help but try. His blood had smeared them when he had collapsed onto the ground earlier, exhausted of everything he had and then some.
He had managed to crawl to a copse of trees and sat up against a tree trunk to figure something out, but it was futile.
"You're scared."
Shen Yuan shook his head desperately as if to rid his head of the voice that seemed to pierce his ears, tears spilling down his cheeks, before nodding just as furiously. "Of course I'm scared! I'm terrified. Don't you know how your story ends?"
"I do know. This one has lived it, again and again," The ghost of Shen Jiu said, tilting his head, face eerily blank. He didn't blink. He never did. "This one was due to relive it, for as long as it takes. That is, until you took my place. But it doesn't matter anymore."
"It doesn't matter anymore? You would say that," Shen Yuan said. He was beginning to feel a numbness overtake him, and thumped his head against the tree trunk behind him to try to snap back to himself. He couldn't float away now. Shen Jiu wouldn't be able to take over for him. It was too close to the finale. "You're already dead! And I'm still here. So what do you fucking know? "
"Not much, I admit." Shen Jiu floated closer, reaching out to him. "But I know that you can no longer run. And I was right, wasn't I?"
"What are you even talking about?" Shen Yuan picked up the sounds of movement in the far distance. It sounded like the footsteps of a person. Of multiple people. They were looking for him. And he had left an entire trail of blood, leading right to him.
"I told you, in the beginning, to make sure you knew what you were doing. And I told you that even if you hide"—an icy hand sunk into his chest—"it doesn't go away."
headcanon: victor tries to send a ‘top ten pics’ of his ass to yuuri but ends up sending it to everyone lmao
a lil sketchy cumplane comic i drew for an art trade event on the bingyuan server!
Cumplane AU: SQH being married to SY by accident. No transmigration.
After the end of PIDW, SY decided to track down Airplane through very very definitely very LEGAL ways.
He yelled at him when he trapped sqh in a grocery store where sqh just wanted to buy more noodles. Then, SY offered him a place to live and paid him to fix and rewrite PIDW.
After SY's parents nagged him about getting married and finding a partner. sy find himself thinking that he should just marry SQH for the tax benefits and also to stop his parents from nagging. He didn't have anyone else to marry, so why not. One day SY complained about the inaccurate marriage procedures in PIDW and dragged sqh to the courthouse for a 'fake marriage'.
SQH didn't find out until SY's sister asked how it was like to be married to her hermit of a brother.
"Married??? What are you talking about?" SY's sister quickly sends sqh the very real marriage certificate and license with his name on it.
"WTF, haha, no way. It was fake. He only took me there to improve the wedding scenes in my story. Ahaha... fuck."
Okay okay okay.. but listen. What if Shen Yuan had a harsher System and was forced to convincingly play Shen Qingqiu, making Luo Binghe detest his existence, but when Luo Binghe returns from the abyss to enact his revenge and has Shen Qingqiu on trial at Huan Hua, unfortunately for everyone (and fortunately for us), they drug Shen Qingqiu with truth serum and accidentally spiral Shen Yuan into fanboy rampage of epic proportions about how great Luo Binghe is.
By now I’m so used to conventions I forget what it was like the first time. I went to J-popcon last weekend with my sister and law, her 11 years old son and his best friend. None of them had ever been to a con before and they all had a great time but also got a culture shock or two.
My sister in law at one point said “It’s amazing how these things you never really see out on the street gets to blossom here. People just being unapologetically themselves, girls dressed as boys, boys dressed as girls, trans people. Everyone is welcome here. I love it!”
And the two boys looked up at her and then at the people around them like it never crossed their minds. It legit never bothered or confused them and it only occurred to them that oh yeah people are indeed dressing however they want here. They just thought of it as a lot of cool costumes.
My very polite nephew had to cross a small comfort zone when he realized the only bathroom available was a women’s bathroom that had been turned into a unisex bathroom for the day (the men’s bathroom had been turned unisex for the staff). He went in and immediately came back out and said “There are girls in there” and his mom had to tell him “That’s okay. That’s how it is here” so I went in with him and showed him that some of the girls were boys cosplaying as girls and pointed out a big tall guy with a full beard who was waiting in line. My nephew got over it real quick after that. Turned out he just didn’t want to be the only boy in there.
My sister in law has already decided on her costume for next year and my brother has dropped some pretty big hints that he wants to come too.
weird fic idea: A weird ass cult devoted to the Creator somehow decide that Shen Qingqiu is that Creator and, thus, kidnaps him. They feed him some truth serum and wait, hoping that he spills divine secrets and cosmic wisdom.
Shen Qingqiu, completely confused: "I have no idea why you think I’m some kind of god."
Cultists, gasping: "My Creator, you're so humble!"
Shen Qingqiu: "No, seriously. This is a mistake. Let me go."
Cultists, knowing he's under truth serum: "...?"
The peak lords break in to rescue him just in time for them to hear him accidentally insinuate that, while he was involved in helping form the world, he's not the Creator, Shang Qinghua is.
Cumplane doodles! Pretty sure I made all of these last year so have them in one post :P
Shen Qingqiu is kinda proficient at guqin now right? I dont remember how but muscle memory or something??
Do you think he could... recreate modern songs that he knows? 🤔
Yeah so anyways, contrary to popular misconceptions and fear mongering spread by bigots, post op trans women's vaginas are amazing actually. 💛