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The one thing I hope as a writer, more than anything in the world, is that something in my own writing will impact one of my readers at least a fraction as hard as the line "Garlic and sapphires in the mud" from Four Quarters by T.S. Eliot impacted me. That line hit me directly between the eyes at least seventeen years ago, and I've never recovered from it. That was the day I learned one should never read poetry unless you are willing to emerge from it irrevocably changed.

#my life #my writing #poetry

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@ketch0up : its me!! the ao3 user :DDD im happy to see this actually become sqh’s god title! also, shangdi-di does work as a pun, since i believe (once again, take this with a grain of salt) di 弟 (used in didi 弟弟) can be used singularly alone or as a suffix :)

It's you! :D Was gonna leave it as a surprise for when I archived it on AO3, except you follow me here, so my plan was flawed! >_>U <3 Also yay, excellent, I love it when a pun comes together! ^U^

(Also, I need everyone to take a moment to stop and be impressed at how. Phenomenally. Bad I am at this sort of research. Like no, I should not be this bad at researching other cultures, I minored in anthropology, I have no excuse (other than that my formal research skills were formed around books and scholarly journals, not the whims of Google's search bar, but I digress).)

@ketch0up: also also, i love the fight over what an airplane is XD

Thanks! Shen Yuan is the angriest person in Heaven whenever it comes up, and Airplane has learned not to give him any manuscripts to read or edit if he's been involved in that fight recently!

The second-angriest person in Heaven in Precious Blossom, because, as mentioned, she loves the description Shangdi gave of what an airplane is. Also because it was on sight between her and Shen Yuan, because, frankly, that's really the only thing it ever could have been.

He's here for everything except the smut, and she's the smut goddess.

Peace was never an option.

He does get along quite well with Bean Counter, however, because he's always loved the world-building from PIDW, and getting to see how all the different pieces fit together on a fundamental level is fascinating for him. Bean Counter, as well as being flattered over this open admiration for his work, is rather impressed that Shen Yuan is able to critique Shangdi's work so confidently. As the Heavenly Official editor, he sometimes feels he's a little lacking in his own ability to do so, and it's nice to have an example to potentially work off of.

(Airplane is all for Bean Counter getting a little more confident, but is adamant that doesn't have to be as, ah, hardcore, shall we say, as Cucumber-bro.)

A blessed soul on AO3 has made several Chinese universal deity terms known to me, and thus it is with absolute delight that I announce that I finally have a term that's used in-universe to describe Shang Qinghua by people who don't know his 'proper' celestial name (ie, Airplane).

It's 上帝, "Highest Deity."

Because it's pronounced 'shangdi.'

And like.

Shangdi Qinghua.

You know that I'm legally required to use this term as a result of all this, right? Like, the other options may as well not exist, I am obligation bound to use the term Shangdi for him.

...

...oh my gosh, the Heavenly Officials are totally going to call him 'Airplane Shangdi-di' while he's in his mortal incarnation, he's so small and didi-shaped at the moment-!!!

(Unless I'm using all this wrong, in which case please gently inform me of how to use it right, please, I want to be able to use this term for god!Airplane so bad-!!!)

#svsss #great god airplane #scum villian self saving system #heavenly officials #shen yuan #ketch0up

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@cullen-blue23: Wait… do the heavenly officials know what an Airplane is? Or did I miss something

Good question! In terms of 'do they know what an airplane is in the way that someone from our world knows what it is?', then the answer is no, they don't. While Airplane Shangdi snuck plenty of non-xianxia concepts into his world (like coffee, nice pillows, and more homosexual acceptance and encouragement than is by any means period-appropriate (no I don't care how much was actually happening in the era xianxia is roughly based on, I know in my heart that Airplane looked at that number and said 'Bet.'), the majority of things we would use engineering for, they use things like talismans and cultivation. Even the Heavenly Officials themselves can't conceptualize the mechanics necessary to even picture such a thing.

That said, they do have their own idea of an 'airplane,' gained when one of them actually went and asked Airplane Shangdi what his name meant. The answer he gave them, after some consideration, was a caravan of many, many carriages connected together to carry people through the sky, as a dragon might carry treasure. So to them, an 'airplane' looks something like that, and that is what Shangdi's name means.

As a result, they picture his name's meaning as a long, long string of carriages linked end-to-end and decorated with scale patterns via carving and painting, with the one at the front stylized to look a bit like a dragon's head, and the last one trailing a long, triangular streamer like a tail.

There have been debates among the Heavenly Officials over whether the carriages in this caravan have wheels like normal carriages or legs like a dragon, and Airplane refuses to answer either way because he thinks it's a cute argument.

(Also Precious Blossom found the whole concept so romantic and whimsical that she ended up inventing six new variants of sex pollen over it (Precious Blossom has a romantic soul and is also, as the Official in charge of all things PWP, the source of many, many of this world's problems (she also works with Eternal Candle Flame a lot, they have a potent and terrifying alliance (Airplane's logic for her design and personality is that, generally, it takes a pure, innocent-hearted sister from the forums to create proper unspeakably horny content))).)

And that's the way it is for all of time, right up until Shen Yuan gets to Heaven, and sees the art and poetry that the Heavenly Officials have done trying to describe Shangdi's name. His reaction is to instantly sit down, do a quick doodle with the nearest brush and paper, and go, "There. Airplane."

Heavenly Officials: ...

The argument now has three sides, and Shen Yuan's the angriest, most dedicated participant on the grounds that he is, in fact, correct, and no one believes him and Airplane Shangdi still won't weigh in on things to settle it. (And thus the lore of the evil, adversarial god Shen Yuan grows to include him fighting all the Heavenly Officials at once without giving ground.)

A blessed soul on AO3 has made several Chinese universal deity terms known to me, and thus it is with absolute delight that I announce that I finally have a term that's used in-universe to describe Shang Qinghua by people who don't know his 'proper' celestial name (ie, Airplane).

It's 上帝, "Highest Deity."

Because it's pronounced 'shangdi.'

And like.

Shangdi Qinghua.

You know that I'm legally required to use this term as a result of all this, right? Like, the other options may as well not exist, I am obligation bound to use the term Shangdi for him.

...

...oh my gosh, the Heavenly Officials are totally going to call him 'Airplane Shangdi-di' while he's in his mortal incarnation, he's so small and didi-shaped at the moment-!!!

(Unless I'm using all this wrong, in which case please gently inform me of how to use it right, please, I want to be able to use this term for god!Airplane so bad-!!!)

#svsss #great god airplane #scum villian self saving system #shang qinghua #heavenly officials #cullen blue23

[greentrickster]

A blessed soul on AO3 has made several Chinese universal deity terms known to me, and thus it is with absolute delight that I announce that I finally have a term that's used in-universe to describe Shang Qinghua by people who don't know his 'proper' celestial name (ie, Airplane).

It's 上帝, "Highest Deity."

Because it's pronounced 'shangdi.'

And like.

Shangdi Qinghua.

You know that I'm legally required to use this term as a result of all this, right? Like, the other options may as well not exist, I am obligation bound to use the term Shangdi for him.

...

...oh my gosh, the Heavenly Officials are totally going to call him 'Airplane Shangdi-di' while he's in his mortal incarnation, he's so small and didi-shaped at the moment-!!!

(Unless I'm using all this wrong, in which case please gently inform me of how to use it right, please, I want to be able to use this term for god!Airplane so bad-!!!)

#great god airplane #svsss #scum villian self saving system #shang qinghua

[greentrickster]

I continue on my crafting journey even in the face of adversity, and Maya talks about ghosts.

#aa saturation #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #maya fey #franziska von karma #adrian andrews #fanfiction

[greentrickster]

Once Shen Yuan's finished acting as karmic justice on Shang Qinghua for the whole system (and especially punishment protocol) thing, they do actually talk about it some. Including Shen Yuan going, "So, you made this world we're in."

"Yup."

"What was it like?"

"What was what like?"

(rolled eyes) "What was making a world like, dumbass."

Shang Qinghua actually goes quiet for a moment at this, like he's thinking about what he wants to say, or possibly how to say it.

"It was like," he finally begins, "It was a bit like sitting at my computer, typing up notes for a story. Except I was... making everything I wrote at the same time. Like, I remember writing 'the northern ocean,' but I also remember scooping the earth aside to form the ocean bed with my hands, the way to rub my thumb against my fingertips and how hard to pull so that water flowed behind them, and grabbing pinches of that water to pull up and then let sink down again as icebergs. I remember making the Cang Qiong mountains, describing and placing each rock and plant where they needed to be so they'd be in the places they are now by the time we got here.

"And the Heavenly Officials, I remember writing their names with a brush and ink, then telling them to wake up, and then there they were! Because I needed to think about and do so many things at once that, even as a god, I couldn't do it on my own, and- and I had been alone for long enough, and I was ready to- to not be alone anymore.

"And for all this I was- I was there, but I also wasn't, I was typing at my computer, I was writing with a pencil, with a brush, I was molding every individual piece of this world by hand from nothing like it was clay, but it was all the same thing, all of those things at the same time! I remember- I remember when I first, um, got here, I went for a walk and I kicked up a mountain by mistake! And then I kicked up six more on purpose, and then I shoved my arm so far down the tallest one that it became a volcano, just because I wanted to, because I knew it would look cool - that's where the Crown of Fire range in the Eastern Demon Tribe's territory came from, it wasn't in the original story, but it's here now, and- and I just... did that. For hundreds of years, until the world was ready for people and I stopped wandering around so much and started focusing more on keeping it all running smoothly.

"Heck, the only thing I didn't spend at least ten hours on was myself! I just sort of... was. Like, I was person-shaped, and I was me-shaped, but a me that didn't have any details or descriptors? Exactly as much as I needed to write and to interact with my Heavenly Officials. This," he puts his hands to his face, "Incarnating as Shang Qinghua is the first time I've had a proper everything since my first life. I just couldn't be bothered before, and it didn't matter? It's a little hard to remember now, even compared to everything else. ...probably just gonna stay like this for the most part when I go back to being god!Airplane again. My Officials'll probably like it, I think I'm probably easier to hug like this, and they're really affectionate. Oh! And we could do a proper family portrait, that'd be cool!

"But, um. Yeah." he halts and scratches the back of his head with an embarrassed grin. "That's- that's what it was like, bro. As best I can describe it while I'm, you know. Mostly human again. Less human than I was before Jin Hengfu showed up, but still most of the way there. Enough to count."

"...damn." There's not a lot else Shen Yuan can say to that (and he's certainly not going to mention how partway through Airplane started- not glowing exactly, but not not glowing? 'Illuminated' might be a better descriptor, with light in his eyes. Whatever, he's stopped now, and if he didn't notice then Shen Yuan's not gonna bring it up).

"Yeah," Shang Qinghua agrees, laughing in an embarrassed but also wistful sort of way, the way you do over fond memories that are hard to explain sometimes.

There's also the matter of, "Seriously, you became a god, and you picked 'Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky' as your divine name?! Everything you could have chosen, and you stuck with that?"

"Ah, no?" Shang Qinghua flusters, then hastily adds before Shen Yuan can say more, "I mean, like, not entirely? It's- um. It's just 'Airplane.' My first life, my stories were mostly just- well, you know, you read them, so the joke was appropriate, but- ...this time? This time I just- I wanted to fly."

And that is, frankly, too much sincere emotional honesty for Shen Yuan to handle, so he does as is his wont in such situations: calls Shang Qinghua an idiot while also getting out the good snacks and feeding him some.

(And if that isn't just Cucumber-bro all over, emotional IQ of 2 (and dropping steadily), but doing his best with it.)

Real talk, at some point post-great god Airplane revelation, Shen Yuan's going to be dragging Shang Qinghua off for some proper bro talk, not to mention,

Shen Yuan: Okay, but for real, if you actually became a god and made this world and everything, why the hell were we stuck dealing with those shitty systems?!

Shang Qinghua: ...

Shang Qinghua: Okay, first off, I know I fucked up, and second I screwed myself over as much as you, so you have to promise not to be mad.

Shen Yuan: ...fine.

Shang Qinghua: Okay, so- you're going to laugh so hard, really, but, um.

Shang Qinghua: I thought it would be fun.

Shen Yuan: You what.

Shang Qinghua: Come on, bro, think about it! Transmigration stories are so cool, doesn't everyone have at least one fantasy in their life about transmigrating to another world and having adventures?! So I figured, hey, I'm going to seal off my memories and powers and shit anyway, so why not take the opportunity and have some fun with it...?

Shen Yuan: FUN-?!?

Shang Qinghua: (arms already up to block the incoming fan) I ALREADY ADMITTED I SCREWED UP, I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE THEM SUCH BULLIES, I'M NOT THE OMNISCIENT INFALLIBLE SORT-!!!

Shen Yuan: NO FUCKING SHIT, I'LL SHOW YOU 'FALLIBLE' LITTLE-!!!

Shang Qinghua: BRO, COME ON, I MADE THE WHOLE WORLD AND IT TURNED OUT MOSTLY OKAY, BE NICE, YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T BE MAD-!!!

Shen Yuan: I'M NOT MAD, I'M FURIOUS, IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT YOU HACK AUTHOR!!!

Shang Qinghua: BROOOOOOOO-!!! TT_TT

#shen yuan #svsss #scum villain's self saving system #great god airplane #shang qinghua #shen qingqiu

[greentrickster]

No, it's Walnut's site now, go dig somewhere else.

Seriously, you have a cat, you know how this works, and I'm frankly a little embarrassed for you that you're having to have this conversation in the first place.

Could you please move, Walnut? It’s very hard to dig up buried technology when you’re standing in the middle of the excavation site.

#no man's sky #where’d i park that spaceship? #malkere agent malkere

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Just got back from dropping off three new mages at the shop, was feeling pretty good because I was replacing three that had sold in about the past week... until I looked over the inventory and realized that there weren't as many mages in-stock as there should still be, and after conferring with the owner we've come to the sad conclusion that they were shoplifted.

Meaning, since I sell consignment and don't get money until my stuff sells, I'm out $84 worth of time, effort, and materials.

The owner lost out too, he also doesn't get money from my merch unless it sells. I'm not mad at him, he's an incredibly nice guy, first-time store owner who's been doing this less than a year, and he was distraught to discover this had happened and is already trying to figure out ways to prevent it again, and has apologized to me personally. No ill wishes towards him, he's lovely.

Just... fuck. Eighty-four dollars. That's more than half of my monthly budget at the moment, and I'm never going to get that time or money back. And I spend so much time and care making these plushies so they'll be the best they can be, with the intention that they'll go to good, loving homes that will value them, and someone stealing them feels like it undermines all that horribly. It hurts almost as much as the lost money does.

#my life #shop lifting #I've been robbed

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Also, for anyone wondering, yes, Shen Yuan is going to be getting a very special job once he ascends with the rest of the Cang Qiong Qing generation. Heavenly Editor. Which is less prestigious than it sounds, because Bean Counter is already the Heavenly Official version of an editor for the SVSSS world, and that's not what Shen Yuan's doing.

No, Shen Yuan's editing job involves the fact that, god or not, Airplane's still a writer and, as mentioned in another post, once you've hit the levels of content creation that he hit even in his first life, it becomes physically impossible to stop writing (trust me on this one). Meaning that, amongst everything else, he's still writing new stories that aren't new worlds or destinies or anything (Eternal Candle Flame's actually the one in charge of that stuff, his jurisdiction is anything that takes an extremely long time to play out, including fate, destiny, and certain relationships (is he the god of slow burns? yes, yes he is, and yes that is what his name is referencing)), just regular stories.

Those are what Shen Yuan's in charge of editing when they both eventually gets there, same as he does now while they're still peak lords. Being an actual, literally god does not protect Airplane from his criticism or bullying either. Which sounds kinda bad, but he's also the only one with the stones on him to be this critical with Airplane's writing anymore by the time this happens, so it is weirdly helpful to have him around.

(He's also going to eventually get a reputation among mortals for being an evil god and the creator-god's greatest adversary, which makes it all the more hilarious when future generations of cultivators ascend and get to see the two of them hanging out and being bros and the truth of what Shen Yuan's an 'adversary' about.)

Real talk, at some point post-great god Airplane revelation, Shen Yuan's going to be dragging Shang Qinghua off for some proper bro talk, not to mention,

Shen Yuan: Okay, but for real, if you actually became a god and made this world and everything, why the hell were we stuck dealing with those shitty systems?!

Shang Qinghua: ...

Shang Qinghua: Okay, first off, I know I fucked up, and second I screwed myself over as much as you, so you have to promise not to be mad.

Shen Yuan: ...fine.

Shang Qinghua: Okay, so- you're going to laugh so hard, really, but, um.

Shang Qinghua: I thought it would be fun.

Shen Yuan: You what.

Shang Qinghua: Come on, bro, think about it! Transmigration stories are so cool, doesn't everyone have at least one fantasy in their life about transmigrating to another world and having adventures?! So I figured, hey, I'm going to seal off my memories and powers and shit anyway, so why not take the opportunity and have some fun with it...?

Shen Yuan: FUN-?!?

Shang Qinghua: (arms already up to block the incoming fan) I ALREADY ADMITTED I SCREWED UP, I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE THEM SUCH BULLIES, I'M NOT THE OMNISCIENT INFALLIBLE SORT-!!!

Shen Yuan: NO FUCKING SHIT, I'LL SHOW YOU 'FALLIBLE' LITTLE-!!!

Shang Qinghua: BRO, COME ON, I MADE THE WHOLE WORLD AND IT TURNED OUT MOSTLY OKAY, BE NICE, YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T BE MAD-!!!

Shen Yuan: I'M NOT MAD, I'M FURIOUS, IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT YOU HACK AUTHOR!!!

Shang Qinghua: BROOOOOOOO-!!! TT_TT

#shen yuan #svsss #scum villain's self saving system #great god airplane #shang qinghua #shen qingqiu

[greentrickster]

Okay, is anyone else on desktop/computer suddenly not able to click tag prompts and have them auto-fill when making a post? Because that just happened for me and I'm not a fan.

#tumblr is a functioning website

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Real talk, at some point post-great god Airplane revelation, Shen Yuan's going to be dragging Shang Qinghua off for some proper bro talk, not to mention,

Shen Yuan: Okay, but for real, if you actually became a god and made this world and everything, why the hell were we stuck dealing with those shitty systems?!

Shang Qinghua: ...

Shang Qinghua: Okay, first off, I know I fucked up, and second I screwed myself over as much as you, so you have to promise not to be mad.

Shen Yuan: ...fine.

Shang Qinghua: Okay, so- you're going to laugh so hard, really, but, um.

Shang Qinghua: I thought it would be fun.

Shen Yuan: You what.

Shang Qinghua: Come on, bro, think about it! Transmigration stories are so cool, doesn't everyone have at least one fantasy in their life about transmigrating to another world and having adventures?! So I figured, hey, I'm going to seal off my memories and powers and shit anyway, so why not take the opportunity and have some fun with it...?

Shen Yuan: FUN-?!?

Shang Qinghua: (arms already up to block the incoming fan) I ALREADY ADMITTED I SCREWED UP, I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE THEM SUCH BULLIES, I'M NOT THE OMNISCIENT INFALLIBLE SORT-!!!

Shen Yuan: NO FUCKING SHIT, I'LL SHOW YOU 'FALLIBLE' LITTLE-!!!

Shang Qinghua: BRO, COME ON, I MADE THE WHOLE WORLD AND IT TURNED OUT MOSTLY OKAY, BE NICE, YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T BE MAD-!!!

Shen Yuan: I'M NOT MAD, I'M FURIOUS, IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT YOU HACK AUTHOR!!!

Shang Qinghua: BROOOOOOOO-!!! TT_TT

#shen qingqiu #shen yuan #svsss #scum villain's self saving system #great god airplane #shang qinghua

[greentrickster]

I have decided to be the chaos I want to see in the world.

My fiancé and I discovered that when you’re in the Anomaly/Nexus of No Man’s Sky (aka the online multiplayer area) you can transfer items to any other player who happens to be close enough even if you aren’t partied up with them. You can also get your pets to lay eggs. So now I’m running around the Anomaly playing Easter Bunny and hiding adorable critter eggs in other people’s backpacks.

Why? Because right now someone out there is looking at their inventory and going, “Where the fuck did this egg come from?!” And that makes me happy.

#no man's sky #where’d i park that spaceship? #malkere agent malkere

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The God of the Ninth Road is expecting a new supplicant, he knew someone was coming (he always knows), but he was not expecting this.

He was not expecting him.

And certainly not like this. Not dressed for a day going through paperwork as opposed to a night hunt or a trip off the mountain, not covered in dust with mud splashed to his knees, flushed and panting as if he ran all nine roads without bothering to draw on or circulate his qi once.

Not with a familiar fan clutched in one hand, tears in his eyes, and a smile on his face like his heart has just broken and mended both at once. Meaning the God of the Ninth Road's rote and instinctive response is shocked right out of his head, leaving only the question,

"Why are you here?"

"Because I love you," says Yue Qi, as simple and straightforward as he's never been able to before, "I've always loved you, more than anything, more than I should sometimes, because I forget to use sense and it makes things worse. It's why I came too late before, because I got myself trapped in seclusion for so long that the Qiu household had burned by the time I got free again, and I thought you were dead. And then when you found me, I let my own guilt convince me that any explanation would be no better than an excuse, when all you ever asked for were answers, and I'm sorry. I'm stupid and slow and always too late, but please, just one more time, please let me walk with you. It's been so long, and I've missed you so much. Please, just once more."

And God of the Ninth Road stares at him.

Blinks.

Grabs him by the wrist and drags him over to a large rock situated conveniently in the bamboo and forces Yue Qingyuan to sit down. "Say all that again, but slower, with more details. Start with the part where you actually came back for me."

"You didn't know?"

"How could I know?! I wasn't there and you never answered my questions, I thought you didn't-!!!" he looks away sharply, face flushed and angry and hurt.

The leader of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect is very quiet for a moment.

Then he kneels in the dirt, amongst fallen bamboo leaves, and takes the hand of a god in his own.

"I have always loved you, but I think I have also always given up on you too easily. So now I swear, on my sword and on my soul, I will never give up on you again. And I will always come for you. I will always find you. As long as there is breath in my body, I will never stop looking for you ever again."

He gets a derisive sniff for this. "You can only find the ninth road once; no do-overs, no exceptions."

"Then I'll stay here with you."

"What? And leave all your important duties as sect leader behind?"

"Nothing is more important than Xiao- than you."

"...idiot. You have-" Ninth Road swallows hard, but manages to maintain his scowl (he has both practice and spite enough), "You have responsibilities to the sect before anyone else. And don't dare say you don't care, you don't get to take your responsibilities so lightly, I don't care if you'd leave it all behind for me, I won't let you walk my road just to run away from it all! And," he swallows hard, but still maintains his scowl, even as his face turns red, "Besides. You've already proven plenty that you're no good at finding me, so don't bother looking. It- it will work better if. If I find you. Instead." he hides his painfully thin face behind his returned fan, unable to stand the brilliant smile being directed at him. "And the other Heavenly Officials like me for some reason, so I- I could probably get away with finding you. Whenever I like."

"Xiao-!"

"Do! Not! Call! Me! That! Name! Or there will be no finding of anyone ever again!"

"Ah, Qing-?"

"Not that one either! I hate it! I hate both of them! I hate all the names from my first life, they were the things I was happiest to let get rid of, they're not mine anymore, don't call me by them!"

"Then..." Yue Qingyuan hesitates, "Then what may I call you?"

Now the Heavenly Official hesitates, then says, "...Ninth Road. I'm God of the Ninth Road now, you may call me Ninth Road. Sometimes," and again he hesitates before pressing on, cheeks pink, "Sometimes my celestial siblings call me 'Jiu-er.' I suppose it would be all right for you to use it too."

And he finds himself pulled into a hug.

"Ninth Road. Jiu-er," the names are murmured into his ear, a warm promise. "This Yue Qi is foolish and forgetful at times, but he will do his best to remember."

"Hmf. See that you do."

God and cultivator stay this way, seated together, in each others' arms, until the mist is slowly burnt away with red, then rose, then gentle gold. The sun has risen in the bamboo forest, shooing away the troubled night with its arrival. It is time to part, for the ninth road may stretch long, but no road may be walked forever, and both have places they are needed, people they must attend to.

But sometimes, dear reader, in the coming days, and months, and years, those people they need to attend to will be each other.

And the ninth road may be walked by mortal feet once, it is true, but a god? A god is much easier to find, on the tip a burning incense stick, at the end of a prayer, seated on your windowsill just as the tea is done and the snacks are ready to eat.

No, my dear reader, a god can be quite easy to find, especially if he wishes to find you first, if he himself wishes to be found...

Been thinking about Shang Qinghua, Yue Qingyuan, and Shen Jiu in the Great God Airplane AU again, and how Yue Qingyuan is going to handle these revelations.

And I think, unfortunately for everyone... he's going to be incredibly himself about it. Which is to say, he'll accept that things are as they are, assume that he's messed up beyond all forgiveness again (because he knew something was just too too different about Shen Qingqiu, but he never pursued it, he never dug deeper, and it turns out he's failed to come for Xiao Jiu again-), and continue to take it all on the chin with a smile while playing the part of the perfect sect leader.

You know, business as usual.

But this, my dear reader, is where Shang Qinghua finally, finally gets to be the one to spark change himself. Because after several months of watching his sect leader mope around the peaks, and with the benefit of his newly-recovered self-confidence, Shang Qinghua borrows one of Shen Qingqiu's old fans (one of the old old ones that Shen Yuan never really cared for but Shen Jiu was fond of), and sweeps his way into Yue Qingyuan's office.

It's not uncommon for one of his martial siblings to storm into his office and alert him to their presence by slamming their hands on his desk, but never, never, has the martial sibling doing so been Shang Qinghua, meaning that Yue Qingyuan's rote and good-natured response is shocked right out of his head as he looks up into the intense gaze of his meekest shidi.

"I," Shang Qinghua announces, with the knowledge of Airplane but the full fury of An Ding fury, "Have had! Enough! Of this goddamned tragedy! You know where he is! You know what he is! You know what you want to tell him! Go do it! You stupid idiot!!!"

Yue Qingyuan gapes (as is the only available response to a hamster that has decided it's tired of being nice and is going apeshit), "I- I doubt I could find-"

He gets smacked in the cheek with Shen Jiu's fan for his trouble. "Of course you can find him! You're willing to give up everything and everyone for him, you always have been, that's how I wrote you! All you need to do is tell him the things you wanted to say and never did!"

And Shang Qinghua grabs Yue Qingyuan's wrist, slaps Shen Jiu's fan into his palm hard enough that his fingers instinctively curl around it.

"The plot is done, the greater destiny of the world is finished, you have a chance to write your own story now, and if I can grow a spine then so can you! He's waiting for you at the end of the ninth road! Go!"

And there's really not much you can say when the creator himself storms into your office and tells you, in no uncertain terms, to go get your man, so Yue Qingyuan does the only thing he can do.

He goes.

#qijiu #svsss #scum villian self saving system #yue qingyuan #shen jiu #yuejiu #great god airplane #chap when

[greentrickster]

...my entire playlist is on the repeat loop, so here it is organized by number of plays and then the top ten... >_>

Stronger - the Score

HandClap - Fitz and the Tantrums

All the Rowboats - Regina Spektor

Shiver My Timbers - Muppet Treasure Island

The Call - Regina Spektor

Glitter & Gold - Barns Country

The Horror and the Wild - The Amazing Devil

Butterfly - BUMP OF CHICKEN

Crabbuckit - the Good Lovelies

Collide - Howie Day

As for tagging... um, @fullbattleregalia, @caspertheloudassghost, @carrinth, @shadow-pixelle, @damnsmartblueboxes, @someoddmix, and anyone else who wishes to play?

I was tagged by @itconsumes you ✌️💕 thanks so much!

shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people:

Rain - Sleep Token

Hell - The Home Team

Porcelain: Ricky Motion Picture Collection - Motionless in White

Dethrone - Bad Omens

COLORS - HEALTH & The Soft Moon

Throat - Salem

Monster - MILCK

Easier Than Lying - Halsey

Burn - Too Close To Touch

Blood - In This Moment

tagging (no pressure or skip if ya got it already!) @circle-with-me @darksigns.exe @viofcrows @kava-kitty @broken0mens @ofthe-abyss @rumoured-whispers @familiarscarsxelectrichearts @tearallpixie @nerdraging4point0

#tag game

[greentrickster]

I live across the hallway from this person and use a backpack, send help.

I have decided to be the chaos I want to see in the world.

My fiancé and I discovered that when you’re in the Anomaly/Nexus of No Man’s Sky (aka the online multiplayer area) you can transfer items to any other player who happens to be close enough even if you aren’t partied up with them. You can also get your pets to lay eggs. So now I’m running around the Anomaly playing Easter Bunny and hiding adorable critter eggs in other people’s backpacks.

Why? Because right now someone out there is looking at their inventory and going, “Where the fuck did this egg come from?!” And that makes me happy.

#where’d i park that spaceship? #no man’s sky #be the chaos #my life #malkere agent malkere

[greentrickster]

something I really admire about your writing is that I feel a deep wellspring of kindness behind it. Even if you're kicking a metaphorical chair out from under a character there will be a hand outstretched to pull them back up again, even if they take a very long time to choose to take it.

^///^ Thank-you so much! And yeah, I- ... I write partially with the mindset that every cannon character I write about (and even some of my OCs) is someone's fav, and I try to treat them as well as the story allows in this regard.

I also... this may be a little weird, but I saw the movie Stranger Than Fiction when it came out in 2006. In a very rough description, it's about a writer trying to finish a novel, and also about the man who is both real and the main character of her novel. It's a weird, rather fun kind of meta, and it had the effect on my writing that there's now this little spot in the back of my mind constantly asking, "If you met this character, the version of them from the story you've written... could you justify it? Could you look them in the eye and tell them why it was all for the best?"

So now one of my secondary roles is my stories is hugging the characters I write from behind and whispering in their ear, "It's for the best, I promise it's for the best, I love you so much and you're going to be so happy before it's all over..."

(You know, even as I'm winding up to hit them with a baseball bat.)

It makes me kinda pants at long-form original fiction, because I have a hard time writing original antagonists and flat-out can't write real original villains, because I can't love them properly, not if I have to make them from scratch. But that's okay, because I adore writing fanfiction, and getting to share how much I love these worlds and characters with my readers that also love them. :)

Thanks for the ask!

#ask #anon #my writing #my thoughts #apologies if this sounds overly pompous or uwu or anything #this just really is stuff I think about while I'm writing and why I think it #and also why I primarily write fanfic instead of original stuff

[greentrickster]

Been thinking about Shang Qinghua, Yue Qingyuan, and Shen Jiu in the Great God Airplane AU again, and how Yue Qingyuan is going to handle these revelations.

And I think, unfortunately for everyone... he's going to be incredibly himself about it. Which is to say, he'll accept that things are as they are, assume that he's messed up beyond all forgiveness again (because he knew something was just too too different about Shen Qingqiu, but he never pursued it, he never dug deeper, and it turns out he's failed to come for Xiao Jiu again-), and continue to take it all on the chin with a smile while playing the part of the perfect sect leader.

You know, business as usual.

But this, my dear reader, is where Shang Qinghua finally, finally gets to be the one to spark change himself. Because after several months of watching his sect leader mope around the peaks, and with the benefit of his newly-recovered self-confidence, Shang Qinghua borrows one of Shen Qingqiu's old fans (one of the old old ones that Shen Yuan never really cared for but Shen Jiu was fond of), and sweeps his way into Yue Qingyuan's office.

It's not uncommon for one of his martial siblings to storm into his office and alert him to their presence by slamming their hands on his desk, but never, never, has the martial sibling doing so been Shang Qinghua, meaning that Yue Qingyuan's rote and good-natured response is shocked right out of his head as he looks up into the intense gaze of his meekest shidi.

"I," Shang Qinghua announces, with the knowledge of Airplane but the full fury of An Ding fury, "Have had! Enough! Of this goddamned tragedy! You know where he is! You know what he is! You know what you want to tell him! Go do it! You stupid idiot!!!"

Yue Qingyuan gapes (as is the only available response to a hamster that has decided it's tired of being nice and is going apeshit), "I- I doubt I could find-"

He gets smacked in the cheek with Shen Jiu's fan for his trouble. "Of course you can find him! You're willing to give up everything and everyone for him, you always have been, that's how I wrote you! All you need to do is tell him the things you wanted to say and never did!"

And Shang Qinghua grabs Yue Qingyuan's wrist, slaps Shen Jiu's fan into his palm hard enough that his fingers instinctively curl around it.

"The plot is done, the greater destiny of the world is finished, you have a chance to write your own story now, and if I can grow a spine then so can you! He's waiting for you at the end of the ninth road! Go!"

And there's really not much you can say when the creator himself storms into your office and tells you, in no uncertain terms, to go get your man, so Yue Qingyuan does the only thing he can do.

He goes.

#svsss #scum villian self saving system #yue qingyuan #shen jiu #shang qinghua #great god airplane #Airplane gets to go a little feral on his own creations for once #as a treat #even if the bullshit he's calling them on is technically all his fault #yuejiu